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Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on September 30 as is spine #37 in Kino Lorber’s Kino Cult line.

The controversial 1975 nazisploitation film has been newly restored in 4K with Dolby Vision/Hdr. It includes reversible artwork and a slipcase.

Special features:

Audio Commentary by Actress Dyanne Thorne, Director Don Edmonds, and Producer David F. Friedman, Moderated by Humorist Martin Lewis Audio Commentary by Film Historians Kat Ellinger and Evgueni Mlodik (new) Interview with Director Don Edmonds by Elijah Drenner Theatrical Trailer Stills Gallery

Dyanne Thorne stars as sadistic Nazi warden Ilra, who conducts brutal medical experiments to prove women can withstand more pain than men and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines.

Don Edmonds directs from a script by John C.W. Saxton. David F. Friedman produces.

Despite being condemned by famed critic Gene Siskel as “the most degenerate picture I have seen,...

An X-Men: The Animated Series fan-favorite's underrated horror experience is headed to a new streaming home.

Per Tubi, 1981's Happy Birthday to Me is set to hack its way onto the streaming platform's catalog of free movies and TV shows on January 1. The classic slasher may not be as well known as the likes of Friday the 13th or Halloween, although several of its leading actors, such as Lenore Zann, are sure to be instantly recognizable to audiences.

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The Looney Tunes are getting "Back in Action" with a new streaming home for one of their most underrated feature film experiences.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson from a script written by Timothy Bond, Peter Jobin, John Saxton, and an uncredited John Beaird, 1981's Happy Birthday to Me starred Melissa Sue Anderson as Virginia Wainwright, a high school senior...

The slasher first established itself as the dominant art form of 1980s horror by capitalizing on the calendar. Arguably beginning with Black Christmas (1974) and Halloween (1978), the formula began to solidify by setting brutal killing sprees on the dates of beloved holidays. With the subsequent success of Friday the 13th (1980), directors clamored to claim their own occasion and create a defining slasher film with a series of themed kills highlighting seasonal iconography. It was a win-win for both filmmakers and audiences–an annually rewatchable horror film allowing genre fans to eschew saccharine traditions and celebrate in style.

Lee Thompson’s Happy Birthday to Me (1981) features a slightly more nebulous occasion–after all, every day of the year is someone’s birthday. Rejecting the concept’s seasonality, Thompson and screenwriters John C.W. Saxton, Peter Jobin, and Timothy Bond patterned the mysterious killer’s actions around the idea of a grisly birthday party.

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products released each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Stranger Things: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book from Insight Editions

Insight Editions has released Stranger Things: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book, which will cost you 67.50. It’s illustrated by Stranger Things artist Kyle Lambert, while The Babadook book designer Simon Arizpe handled the paper engineering and Matthew Reinhart (Star Wars: A Pop-Up Guide to the Galaxy) served as creative director.

Happy Birthday to Me Blu-ray from Kino Lorber

Happy Birthday to Me will slash onto Blu-ray on October 18 via Kino Lorber. The 1981 film is presented in high definition with 5.1 Surround & 2.0 Lossless audio.

J. Lee Thompson (Cape Fear) directs from as script by John C.W. Saxton (Class of 1984), Peter Jobin, and Timothy Bond (Friday the 13th: The Series). Melissa Sue Anderson,...

Aging much better than a freezer burnt, half eaten cake, Happy Birthday to Me (1981) stands out as one of the better ones from the golden era of slashers, when the major studios weren’t afraid to throw some blood soaked (Canadian) coin at a B level concept, and in the process giving it some A list icing.

The Canadian ties? Filmed in Montreal when tax credits were still flying fast and furious, Happy was one of Columbia Pictures early ‘80s ventures into the horror world. (Graduation Day, released the same year, was the breadwinner of the two.) Recruiting the Canadian producing juggernaut of Andre Link and John Dunning (David Cronenberg’s cohorts on his mid ‘70s output, Shivers and Rabid), Columbia was guaranteed a good return on their investment. Of course, the Canuck connection doesn’t stop there – the cast includes such faces of Canadiana as Lawrence Dane (Scanners), Jack Blum...

You love the horror, suspense thriller, action and science fiction films that make up the world of Canadian cult cinema affectionately known as Canuxploitation.

You’ve watched the entire David Cronenberg genre filmography (if not, please do so now as The Brood, Scanners and The Fly are three of the greatest horror films ever made).

You’ve seen Black Christmas and The Changeling and watched a slasher-ific marathon of Prom Night, Terror Train, Happy Birthday to Me and My Bloody Valentine.

You caught up with Cube, the Ginger Snaps series, Splice, Hobo with a Shotgun and WolfCop all while keeping close tabs on the works of Astron-6.

Yet your hunger for Canadian genre film productions and co-productions cannot be satiated.

To aid you in your deeper exploration of the field, following is a chronological look at a number of Canadian genre films that simply don’t get enough attention.

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The Groundstar Conspiracy...

In Defence Of: Class Of 1984 (1982, Lester)  In 1982, director Mark L. Lester took a screenplay from Tom Holland and John Saxton about a young, naive Music teacher who comes up against a volatile group of punks in his new teaching position and turned it into a  smart, thrilling and altogether cool film that is severely under-appreciated.  Andrew Norris (Perry King) is a handsome, intelligent man whose about to start his first day at Abraham Lincoln High School. Leaving his job at Nebraska to teach Music here, Andrew and his wife are hoping to start fresh and be happy. But on his first day, he meets the Biology teacher, Terry (Roddy McDowall), who explains to him that teachers at Abraham Lincoln are merely educated security guards and the kids here pretty much engage in whatever they feel like, be it smoking marijuana, dealing drugs, fighting, gambling or "urinating in the hallways...

Some say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. And in the case of Roger Corman and his New World Pictures, they have made some of the biggest names in the film world quite flattered, that is, if this is indeed true.

The king of the cinematic “sample,” Corman has ripped off, or at least borrowed from, countless films. However, none of his pictures sums this up quite as well as the Jimmy T. Murakami picture, Battle Beyond The Stars. Not only drawing inspiration from the sci-fi juggernaut that is Star Wars, but also Akira Kurosawa’s classic masterpiece The Seven Samurai, and while it may not live up to this pedigree, it is quite the entertaining piece of cinema.

Plot wise, the film sounds like a futuristic Kurosawa film right from the beginning. A farm colony is under attack from an evil conqueror, and one of their citizens attempts...