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Deaddash: "Like many struggling actors in Hollywood, Sean makes ends meet by spending his nights driving for a popular food delivery app. After receiving a phone call from his roommate, Sean decides to end his night with one final delivery from a local burger joint, where he is informed by the creepy, but seemingly harmless cashier that his customer has requested he drop the food off inside the house. Brushing this ominous exchange off, Sean arrives at the customer’s house in the Hollywood Hills, where he quickly realizes he’s stumbled right into a trap, and that this delivery may very well be his last."

Crew: Writer/Director - Devan Schoelen Director of Photography - Federico La TonaEditor - Justin JonesComposer - Dan R. HowardSound Design - Oliver Boon and Kofi Baffour

Cast: Devan Schoelen, Maria Olsen, Stef Beaton

Screening Details: After a fantastic festival run, DeadDash will premiere online on Friday,...

This article contains Society of the Snow spoilers.

Newly arrived on Netflix after a brief theatrical run, is director and co-writer J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow. The film recounts the tragic, but incredible, story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed on a remote mountain in the Andes during a routine flight between Uruguay and Chile. The flight was carrying a total of 45 passengers and crew, including the members of Uruguay’s Old Christians rugby club, plus assorted family and friends.

Some 16 people died either in the crash or its initial aftermath while 13 more perished during the more than two months in which the 29 initial survivors tried to stay alive in frigid temperatures with no food and a number of grave injuries. During that time—long after search-and-rescue missions were called off—the survivors resorted to eating the flesh of their dead companions to nourish themselves. Eventually, two...

Jim Knipfel Dec 24, 2018

Rene Cardona's Santa Claus movie from 1959 is so utterly bizarre that it transcends Christmas.

When the conversation rolls around to bad Christmas movies, there’s of course a broad spectrum from which to choose, Santa Claus (1959) being one of them. Given that nearly every Christmas movie ever made is insufferable to some degree, it’s generally easier, I’ve found, to break things down into categories that stretch from the simply godawful (Jingle All the Way) to the agonizingly painful (A Very Brady Christmas or that Marlo Thomas remake of It’s a Wonderful Life) to the merely baffling (the continued string of Home Alone sequels and reboots).

Of course there are some people who think they can bring the conversation to an abrupt end by pulling out Santa Claus Conquers the Martians as the last word on holiday cinema. There’s simply nothing more to say.

It’s Monday, so we all know what that means! Yes, it’s time for another rundown of DVDs and Blu-ray’s hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s a jam-packed week, with plenty of movies waiting to take you money, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, October 8th 2012.

Pick Of The Week

Nash Bridges: The First Season (DVD)

In the first season of this action-packed police drama, Don Johnson stars as Nash Bridges, the charming street-smart inspector for San Francisco’s elite Special nvestigations Unit. Always behind the wheel of his signature yellow ‘Cuda,’ Nash often goes undercover to track down the city s most vile criminals, from drug dealers and smugglers to the Russian mob. Never far behind is Nash’s loyal partner Joe Dominguez (Cheech Marin), a retired cop who’s...

Cinefamily’s upcoming month-long horror celebration is pretty much the raddest thing ever. Presented in partnership with Elijah Wood’s The Woodshed Horror Company, Nightmare City is a 30-day midnight video nasty watch-a-thon to commemorate the 30 year anniversary of the video nasty uproar in the U.K.

Yep. It’s a nightmare come true. 30 days of over-the-top brain smashing, blood-gushing nasty goodness. To sweeten the deal Cinefamily is offering prizes to the fans who sit through the most movies:

3Rd Place: the 3-dvd all-region UK box set Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide

2Nd Place: a vintage large-format French theatrical poster for The Burning + the 3-dvd all-region UK box set Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide

1St Place: the chance to guest-program an upcoming Cinefamily midnight movie screening + the 3-dvd all-region UK box set Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide. In the event of a tie for first place, we will hold a...

New DVD celebrates the 80s heyday of video nasties - a genre that didn't quite corrupt the nation's youth … or its dogs

Hard to believe now, but back in the early 1980s Britain was under attack. A sustained attack from a foe more insidious and corrupting than anything that had assailed our shores before; a demonic force that destroyed our mental health, that could deprave all who came into contact with it. Highly scientific studies proved beyond all doubt the peril we were all in, especially our children and even our pets. This was the menace that came from something called a "Video Nasty".

There are two things you should know about that opening paragraph: firstly, everything in it was at one time believed by our leaders of the day (yes, even the bit about pets). And second, they were completely wrong on every count. It was a shameful period in our recent history,...

As the horror and film communities fell head over heels for 2007’s Grindhouse double-feature, Planet Terror and Death Proof, fans have been reveling in the amount of exploitation material that has been released on disc since then. With cheapie box sets and several lines of DVDs pushing the grindhouse aura and rare uncovered films, this Fangorian was lucky enough to get a chance to view another lost classic, the 1997 eccentric trash-fest The Bloody Ape a.k.a. Son Of Sweetback Vs. Kong.

Not to be confused with the 1969 grindhouse film, Night Of The Bloody Apes, WildEye DVD has now brought this lost super-8 exploitation classic to DVD on a “super simian” special edition disc. A film that seems to throw in everything but the kitchen sink; this movie is an adventure into the obscure mind of a filmmaker that was influenced by the underground ridicule of yester-year and horror films in general.