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The unstoppable Arrow Video have announced their Us/UK/CA release line up for June 2019, and it's another set of killers for fans of horror and cult cinema. First up and most exciting is the long awaited second installment of their American Horror Project  (Us/UK/CA) series, a new box set with three new films that have slipped under the radar for years, Dream No Evil, Dark August, and The Child. They also continue excavating the deep mine of Italian horror with Riccardo Freda's Double Face (Us/UK/CA). Arrow also dip into nuclear/biological weapon scare cinema with Robert Wise's adaptation of The Andromeda Strain (Us/UK/CA) and Def-Con 4 (UK). Last up is psychic terror, The Sender (UK). Check out the full details in the gallery below....

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Okay film fans, buy your ticket, settle into your seat, and grab the armrests as you prepare to submerge! Dive, dive, dive into the murky depths of another underwater adventure (and just hope you don’t become “Spam in the can”). This subset of the war film genre has been cruising the cinemas for well over 75 years, longer if you count the movie adaptations of Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo. The gold sub flick standard might have been the two torpedo blasts from 1958’s Run Silent Run Deep and 1961’s Sf-themed Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (which spawned a weekly TV series soon after). Things were quiet beneath the waves (well after The Incredible Mr. Limpet scuttled the U-boat menace) until the Cold War set 1989 smash The Hunt For Red October which began a 13-year wave of ocean thrillers including Crimson Tide, U-571, and K-19: The Widowmaker. After some time away,...

0:00 - Intro 3:30 - Headlines: Oscar Ratings Up Slightly from Last Year, Jason Segel Won’t Return for The Muppets Sequel, Lucy Liu to Play Watson in Elementary, Ed Helms Rumoured for Vacation Reboot 19:50 - Review: Project X 51:00 - Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin 1:19:15 - Trailer Trash: The Avengers, Piranha 3Dd, Frankenweenie, That's My Boy 1:32:22 - Other Stuff We Watched: The Color of Money, The Cable Guy, Beauty Day, Celebrity Apprentice, Wake In Fright, The Captains, Thrillkill, Sky Riders, Def-Con 4, Battle for Brooklyn, Fever Year, Juno, Blue Chips, Terri 2:10:30 - Junk Mail: Inconsistent Fonts, Life Events That Change Your Reaction to Movies, Good Scores to Bad Movies, Blu-ray Digibooks, Lost 2:29:55 - This Week's DVD Releases 2:34:00 - Outro

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Rage

2010 USA 85min

Writer and Director: Chris Witherspoon

Starring: Rick Crawford, Audrey Walker, Chris Witherspoon, Anna Lodej, and M.L. Maltz

Review by J Astro

Rage was handed to me for review with no cover art or explanation, just a plain white disc with red lettering in a clear plastic cover. Within roughly the first ten minutes of watching it, it occurred to that I had actually heard of this movie before, having noticed a few reviews of it on various other individual blogs and sites in the past few weeks. Rage has been getting some solid attention recently, and deservedly so, because it is a standout among indie horror efforts. It’s by no means flawless or my new favorite movie of the year or anything, but it sure beats the hell out of most other “home grown” horror-thriller exploits. And I was happy to go into it “blind...

The Woman In Black

2012 UK 95mins

Director: James Watkins

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ciaràn Hinds, Janet McTeer, Misha Handley, and Liz White

Hammer Film Productions

Review by J Astro

Atmosphere, atmosphere, atmosphere. That is the key to The Woman In Black, legendary English studio Hammer Film Productions’ first original big-screen venture in decades. The Hammer brand, so infamous and beloved from the late Fifties and into the early Seventies for producing titillating tales of the macabre that helped to redefine classic monster icons and to introduce the fright genre en masse to the likes of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Oliver Reed and countless others has returned, after lying dormant for many years. Upon being resurrected by its new backers, Hammer has recently had a hand in unleashing Let Me In on theater-goers, which was the English language remake of the popular Swedish vampire chiller Let The Right One In. Hammer has...

Woah, Upper East Siders: Sure, you always knew that Blair Waldorf’s wedding would be a decadent affair to remember, but not even the newly revealed Gossip Girl could have seen these twists coming. Yet while Blair’s disastrous nuptials were the highlight of Gossip Girl’s 100th episode extravaganza, the long-standing queen bee won’t be the only one drowning in the wake of tonight’s chaos.

EW attended a special screening of the episode in Los Angeles last week, where producers Stephanie Savage and Joshua Safran were on hand to answer reporters’ burning questions. One thing was made...

Born Of Earth

2008 USA 84mins

Director: Tommy Brunswick

Starring: Daniel Baldwin, James Russo, Shannon Zeller, Jennifer Kincer, and Brad Dourif

Entertainment One

Review by J Astro

Here it is, the year 2012, and we’re just getting around to this monstrous offering from back in ’08… not because we’re lazy, but because, from what I understand, it’s only now getting distribution attention. One could be forgiven for not exactly waiting with bated breath for this release. I had never even heard of it before, honestly. And for good reason – it just ain’t that special.

My main issue with throwaway films like Born Of Earth is a matter of simple volume. I honestly feel that too many movies get made nowadays “just because.” The market is over-saturated with knock-offs and cheap copies. Somebody gets themselves a fistful of cash and borrows a camera and decides to churn out some bare-bones semblance of horror flick.

Def-con 4

1985 Canada 88min

Director: Paul Donovan, et al

Starring: Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, Tim Choate, Kate Lynch, Kevin King, and Jeff Pustil

Hell Comes To Frogtown

1988 USA 86min

Director: Donald G. Jackson and R.J. Kizer

Starring: “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, William Smith, Rory Calhoun, Cliff Bemis, Nicholas Worth, and Kristi Somers

Image Entertainment

Review by J Astro

Two cinematic blasts from Hollywood’s not-too-distant Cold War-inspired past are re-packaged together as a post-apocalyptic tag team on this two-for-one offering, which was made available by the folks at Image Entertainment just a few weeks ago (release date December 13, 2011). Each feature on this single-sided disc comes with its own title screen, scene selections, and a theatrical trailer. The DVD itself plays a few other vintage trailers (C.H.U.D., anyone?) before the main film selection menu. Otherwise, it’s all a pretty bare bones affair. But with mega-blockbusters like these,...

A double dose of 80′s cheese is being packaged together for a double feature DVD.

Def-Con 4 and Hell Comes to Frogtown are coming on December 13, 2011.

Two cult classic, post-apocalyptic B-movies in one set. Def-Con 4: The Last Defense. The Last Hope. Howe (Tim Choate), Jordan (Kate Lynch), and Walker (John Walsch) are three astronauts who return to earth two months after a nuclear holocaust and must confront a new and terrifying reality. All the cities and towns have been destroyed. Shanty towns have been constructed from the refuse of the old world. Civilization has given way to barbarism. And the battle for the future of the world has just begun. Hell Comes To Frogtown: Welcome To The Future. A Mutant-Filled Industrial Nightmare. Sam Hell (Roddy Piper) is a muscle-bound combination of wise guy cool and deadly force. It’s up to Hell and the armed and dangerous...

Hellacious Acres is a minimalist post-apocalyptic black comedy self-financed by French Canadian filmmaker Pat Tremblay. He calls it "an anti-epic film about the unsung casualties of war... basic science-fiction concepts & situations filltered through a twisted dark & deadpan humor..."

Synopsis:

John Glass wakes up in a desolate barn from a long cryogenic slumber, to be informed that not only has the planet been devastated by a third world war, but also reduced to little habitability by a subsequent alien invasion.

He learns that in order to help reestablish a livable atmosphere for what's left of humanity, he'll have to go on a solitary mission to retrieve important codes dispersed throughout remote locations. Soon enough he'll encounter more than he bargained for: aliens, crazy survivors, inadequate equipment, Lots of walking and a pretty unhealthy dose of bad luck...

This first trailer for the film certainly shows off the film's interesting look and...