We’ve got another busy week of horror and sci-fi home entertainment releases on the horizon as August 11th has a great variety of titles both new and old to get excited about. Scream Factory is releasing their Collector’s Edition Blu-ray for Wes Craven’s The People Under the Stairs and Kino Lorber has dug up another great cult classic, War-Gods of the Deep, and given it an HD overhaul as well. Unfriended is also coming home on Blu and DVD and Universal is finally releasing James Wan’s Dead Silence on Blu-ray, featuring an unrated version of the underrated film. And for all you DC Comics fans out there, get ready for a ton of titles making their debut this week on Blu courtesy of Warner Home Video.
The People Under the Stairs: Collector’s Edition (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)
Wes Craven, the director of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, takes you on a terrifying journey inside the most demented house on the street. Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy is suddenly thrust into a nightmare. The boy quickly learns the true nature of the house’s homicidal inhabitants and the secret creatures hidden deep within the house.
Starring Everett McGill (Twin Peaks, Dune), Wendy Robie (Twin Peaks), Brandon Adams (The Mighty Ducks), Ving Rhames (Piranha 3D, Mission: Impossible), A.J. Langer (Escape From L.A.) and Sean Whalen (Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, Hatchet III), The People Under The Stairs will grab you when you least expect it… and never let go.
Special Features Include Audio Commentary with writer/director Wes Craven, Audio Commentary with actors Brandon Adams, A.J. Langer, Sean Whalen, and Yan Burg, House Mother – an interview with actress Wendy Robie, What Lies Beneath – interviews with special make-up effects Artists Greg Nicotero, Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman, House of Horrors – an interview with director of photography Sandi Sissel, Settling The Score – an interview with composer Don Peake, Behind-The-Scenes Footage, Vintage “Making of” Featurette, Theatrical Trailer, TV Spots and Still Galleries (Original Storyboards and Official Stills).
Unfriended (Universal Studios, Blu/DVD/Digital HD & DVD)
What starts as a seemingly innocent online prank produces a sequence of events that spirals out of control. During a routine group video chat, high-school friends are terrorized by an unseen figure. The anonymous intruder implicates each of them in the death of an acquaintance, revealing damning secrets and transforming trusted allies into wary adversaries. Forced into a sordid “game,” the teens try to figure out who is behind the mysterious threat, but all signs point to a power from beyond the grave. Playing out in real time almost entirely on a computer screen, Unfriended features a rising young cast that includes Shelley Hennig (Ouija, “Teen Wolf”), Moses Storm (“The 4 to 9ers: The Day Crew,” “About a Boy”) and Renee Olstead (“The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” “Still Standing”).
War-Gods of the Deep (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray & DVD)
Newly Re-mastered in HD! They Became Pawns In A War Beneath The Waves! Master of suspense and horror Vincent Price (The Oblong Box) takes on square-jawed Tab Hunter (Damn Yankees!) in this fantastic underwater tale teeming with adventure! Based on an Edgar Allen Poe (Tales of Terror) story and co-starring David Tomlinson (Mary Poppins) and Susan Hart (Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine), this turbulent thriller pits gill-men against he-men, with a sexy woman caught between and surges with excitement from initial fade-in to climatic fadeout. When a slimy, gilled monster from the deep kidnaps the beautiful Jill (Hart) it'll take her boyfriend (Hunter), his sidekick (Tomlinson) and his sidekick's sidekick - a rooster - to get her back! Following her trail into the deep, they are shocked to discover a lost underwater city, ruled by a ruthless captain (Price) and an army of mutated sea creatures, who imprison the hapless landlubbers... while a restless volcano threatens to bury them all! Directed by the great Jacques Tourneur (I Walked with a Zombie).
Special Features Include Interview with co-star Tab Hunter and Original Theatrical Trailer.
ALSO AVAILABLE THIS WEEK:
20 Feature Horror Collection (Echo Bridge Entertainment, DVD)
30 Nightmare Movies (Echo Bridge Entertainment, DVD)
Batman: Gothic Knight (Warner Home Video, Blu-ray)
Batman: Year One (Warner Home Video, Blu-ray)
The Changing of Ben Moore (Bayview Entertainment, DVD)
Dead Silence: Unrated (Universal Studios, Blu-ray)
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (Universal Studios, Blu-ray)
High School Horror Double Feature (Image Entertainment, DVD)
I-Lived (XLRator Media, DVD)
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (Warner Home Video, Blu-ray)
Justice League: War (Warner Home Video, Blu-ray)
The Monster that Challenged the World (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray)
Superman: Doomsday (Warner Home Video, Blu-ray)
Wonder Woman (Warner Home Video, Blu-ray)
Zombie Resurrection (Midnight Releasing, DVD)
Heather A. Wixson was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, until she followed her dreams and moved to Los Angeles in 2009. A 14-year veteran in the world of horror entertainment journalism, Wixson fell in love with genre films at a very early age, and has spent more than a decade as a writer and supporter of preserving the history of horror and science fiction cinema. Throughout her career, Wixson has contributed to several notable websites, including Fangoria, Dread Central, Terror Tube, and FEARnet, and she currently serves as the Managing Editor for Daily Dead, which has been her home since 2013. She's also written for both Fangoria Magazine & ReMind Magazine, and her latest book project, Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Volume One will be released on October 20, 2021.
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