February 6th is shaping up to be a busy day for horror and sci-fi fans, as there are a bunch of great films heading home on Tuesday. The highly anticipated Hatchet sequel, Victor Crowley, arrives on Blu-ray and DVD this week courtesy of Dark Sky Films, and Scream Factory and IFC Midnight have the slasher comedy Welcome to Willits on their release slate.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is keeping busy this week with a slew of titles, including House of Demons, Keep Watching, and Family Possessions, and cult film fans will definitely want to pick up the brand new Blu-rays for Grizzly and The Gruesome Twosome.
Other notable releases for February 6th include Day of the Dead: Bloodline, Inoperable, the Friday the 13th: 8-Movie Collection, The Diabolical Dr. Z, and the Stephen King 6-Movie Collection.
Day of the Dead: Bloodline (Lionsgate, Blu-ray & DVD)
In this terrifying retelling of George A. Romero's zombie horror classic, a small group of military personnel and survivalists dwells in an underground bunker as they seek to find a cure in a world overrun by zombies.
Grizzly: Limited Edition (Scorpion Releasing, Blu-ray)
When an eighteen-foot, two-thousand-pound grizzly bear starts mauling campers and hikers at a state park, a park ranger (Christopher George, Day of the Animals, Enter the Ninja) springs into action. But the job is too big to tackle alone, so he enlists the aid of a naturalist (Richard Jaeckel, The Dirty Dozen) and a helicopter pilot (Andrew Prine, They're Playing with Fire) to take this freak of nature down. Meanwhile, the giant grizzly, not content with picnic baskets, continues to kill indiscriminately, leaving pools of blood and piles of body parts in his wake. Can the ranger and his cronies end the grizzly's reign of terror without resorting to excessively extreme measures? This post-Jaws, nature-runs-rampant thriller was directed by William Girdler (The Manitou), and was a box office hit and the top-grossing independent film of 1976.
Special Features:
-New Beverly Screening Q&A with co-star Andrew Prine and Producer David Sheldon
-Featurette: Jaws with Claws - Featuring David Sheldon, Writer Harvey Flaxman, Actors Andrew Prince and Joan McCall
-5.1 Surround Audio
-Fun Facts & Trivia
-Original Theatrical Trailer
The Gruesome Twosome: Special Edition (Arrow Video, Blu-ray)
OH, YES... OUR WIGS ARE MADE FROM GENUINE HUMAN HAIR... AND HOW!
After dabbling in the unlikely world of children s entertainment with the likes of Jimmy, the Boy Wonder and The Magic Land of Mother Goose, in 1967 ''Godfather of Gore'' Herschell Gordon Lewis returned to genre he helped create with the delightfully depraved The Gruesome Twosome!
The young women of a small-town American college have more than just split-ends to worry about... Down at the Little Wig Shop, the batty Mrs. Pringle and her socially-inept son Rodney are procuring only the finest heads of hair by scalping the local co-eds! Can they be stopped before they clear the entire campus of luxuriant-haired ladies?
Also including HG Lewis' Dracula-inspired vampire epic A Taste of Blood as a bonus feature, this is one Gruesome Twosome that's well worth flipping your wig over!
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
Inoperable (Cinedigm, DVD)
With a hurricane approaching, a young woman wakes up in a seemingly evacuated hospital where malevolent forces have awakened. She realizes she must escape the hospital before the hurricane passes, or she will be trapped there forever.
Keep Watching (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD)
A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game. As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted viewers all over the world, who are compelled to KEEP WATCHING...not knowing if what they're seeing is real or staged.
Victor Crowley (Dark Sky Films, Blu/DVD Combo & DVD)
In 2007, over forty people were brutally torn to pieces in Louisiana s Honey Island Swamp. Over the past decade, lone survivor Andrew s (Parry Shen) claims that local legend Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder, Friday the 13th series) was responsible for the horrific massacre have been met with great controversy. But when a twist of fate puts him back at the scene of the tragedy, Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and Andrew must face the bloodthirsty ghost from his past.
Featuring Laura Ortiz (Holliston, The Hills Have Eyes), Dave Sheridan (Scary Movie), and Brian Quinn (truTV s Impractical Jokers), writer/director Adam Green s triumphant return to the helm of his beloved slasher series proudly assures an all-new, horrifying journey into the haunted, blood-drenched bayou.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
-Cast Commentary with Writer/Director Adam Green and Actors Parry Shen, Laura Ortiz, and Dave Sheridan
-Technical Commentary with Writer/Director Adam Green, Cinematographer Jan-Michael Losada, Editor Matt Latham, and Make-Up FX Artist Robert Pendergraft
-Raising the Dead...Again Interview with Adam Green
-Behind the Scenes
-Trailer
Welcome to Willits (Scream Factory/IFC Midnight, Blu-ray & DVD)
Aliens, burnouts, and clueless campers collide in this bloody and bonkers slasher freak-out! Deep in the woods of Northern California lies the off-the-grid town of Willits … a haven for marijuana growers, meth addicts, and conspiracy theorists. When a gaggle of vacationing teens unknowingly set up their campsite on the property of Willits’ most disturbed resident (a psychotic, drug-addled pot farmer who’s convinced that extraterrestrials are out to get him) they’re in for one hell of a bad time. The feature film debut from director Trevor Ryan is a no-holds-barred pileup of carnage, twisted comedy, and pure crazy!
ALSO AVAILABLE THIS WEEK:
100 Years of Horror (Mill Creek Entertainment, DVD/Digital)
Boris Karloff & Bela Lugosi 4-Movie Collection (Universal Studios Home Entertainment, DVD)
The Diabolical Dr. Z (Redemption Films, Blu-ray)
Family Possessions (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD)
Friday the 13th: 8-Movie Collection (Paramount, Blu-ray)
House of Demons (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD)
Living Among Us (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD)
Stephen King 6-Film Collection (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD)
Unhinged (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 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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