Hi everyone! This is a feature we’ve been running in every issue of Deadly Horror & Sci-Fi Magazine and I thought this would also be a great resource for our readers here at Daily Dead as it can be often very difficult to keep up with everything arriving on VOD platforms each and every month.
Be sure to check back on the first week of each month to get all the details on what genre films you can look forward to on VOD!
The Voices (Lionsgate)- 2/6
Jerry (Ryan Reynolds) is an affable singleton who works on the factory floor at a bathtub factory, ever eager to get along with his co-workers, especially Fiona, (Gemma Arterton) and Lisa (Anna Kendrick) from accounts. After work Jerry goes home to his pet cat, Mr. Whiskers, and loyal dog Bosco, where the three of them hang out, watch TV and discuss the day’s events. When one night he accidentally kills Fiona Jerry hastily covers his tracks, under the strict advice of the subversive Mr. Whiskers. But Jerry is already beyond the reach of his well-meaning psychiatrist Dr. Warren (Jacki Weaver) and things are also looking bad for Lisa, who has taken a shine to Jerry. Despite Bosco trying to keep Jerry on the straight and narrow, Mr. Whiskers seems to be the loudest voice in Jerry’s head and soon events have spiraled and salvation is all Jerry can hope for.
Directed by the award-winning Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), THE VOICES stars Ryan Reynolds (The Proposal, X Men Origins: Wolverine) as Jerry and the voices of Mr. Whiskers and Bosco. Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect, Into The Woods) and Gemma Arterton (Byzantium, The Duchess Of Malfi) also star alongside Jacki Weaver (The Silver Linings Playbook, Animal Kingdom).
Final Prayer (Lionsgate)- 2/10
A team of Vatican investigators is sent to the British West Country following reports of paranormal activity at a remote church. As the team begins to doubt its judgment, events take a darker turn, and it seems that something deeply sinister has been awakened.
RPG: Real Playing Game (ARC Entertainment)- 2/10
In a future not too far away, Steve Battier (Rutger Hauer), an elderly, terminally ill multi-millionaire, accepts the offer of a company, RPG, that in exchange for a high monetary sum, provides a very select group of clientèle the chance to be young again. For 10 hours, 10 millionaires from around the world, men and women of fame and power, are transferred to attractive and healthy younger bodies, to live in a world of temporary rejuvenation, in a game of real thrills, where every hour someone must die. After returning to the body of a man of 23 years, enjoying the pleasures of sex, and experiencing the adrenaline of violence and power over life and death, Steve is willing to do anything to stay young forever...But what we may have experienced is not always what appears to be.
Crazy Bitches (Gravitas)- 2/13
Seven women – sisters of the Alpha Kappa Pi sorority – and their gay best friend reunite for a weekend to celebrate their pal Alice’s birthday. But at the remote ranch where they settle for leisurely days of gossip, girl time and grub, something soon seems amiss. A number of margaritas into the first night, a dark secret is revealed. The cabin is the site of a gruesome mass murder of teenage girls on a sleepover 15 years earlier. Blood still stains the floor under new carpets and the killer still runs free.
The women take the ghost story for what it seems – a tall tale on a stormy night – and at first, the story only adds to the romance of the ranch. One girl sneaks off with the hired hand. Another seeks to rekindle her old college flame. But after a third turns up - dead – the story no longer seems silly and sex is the last thing on anyone’s mind. One by one they are cut down, victims of the particular vanities they flaunt in each other’s faces. Soon the girls turn on each other, accusing one another of jealousy and murder. As the fun-filled weekend turns into a race against death, they wonder: which Crazy Bitch will make it out alive.
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Gravitas)- 2/13
A Spike Lee Joint, DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS is a new kind of love story, one that centers on an addiction to blood that once doomed a long forgotten ancient African tribe. When Dr. Hess Green (Stephen Tyrone Williams) is introduced to a mysteriously cursed artifact by an art curator, Lafayette Hightower (Elvis Nolasco), he is uncontrollably drawn into a newfound thirst for blood that overwhelms his soul. He however is not a vampire. Lafayette quickly succumbs to the ravenous nature of the infliction but leaves Hess a transformed man. Soon Lafayette’s wife, Ganja Hightower (Zaraah Abrahams), comes looking for her husband and becomes involved in a dangerous romance with Hess that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status in our seemingly sophisticated society.
GirlHouse (eOne Films)- 2/13
Kylie Atkins is a beautiful young co-ed with cover-girl looks, a kind, soft-spoken demeanor, and a desperate need for money to pay her expensive college tuition. Convincing herself that live webcam porn may be the answer to her financial problems, Kylie is recruited to join GirlHouse, a live web-feed broadcasting the sexy antics of a group of stunning young women living in a secluded – and highly-guarded – wooded mansion. While performing her first striptease for enthusiastic online viewers, she earns the attention of two men with the ability to infiltrate her real life: Ben, a longtime friend from her hometown, and “LoverBoy”, a mysterious, deranged GirlHouse fanatic.
One night when Kylie is out on a date with Ben, her GirlHouse crew plans a cruel joke at LoverBoy’s expense, inadvertently setting in motion his murderous plan for revenge! Loverboy uses his technological prowess to find GirlHouse’s secret location and then trap the girls inside, while taking control of the house’s complex system of streaming cameras. Now the online viewers are forced to watch as the unhinged killer, wearing a horrific white mask, moves from room to room, putting on a macabre show of his own, acting out his sick fantasies, and painting the walls of GirlHouse with a fresh coat of blood!
White Rabbit (Breaking Glass Pictures)- 2/13
Harlon (Nick Krause) is a troubled teen who has been tormented by visions since his alcoholic father (Sam Trammell) forced him to kill an innocent rabbit while hunting as a boy. Now that Harlon is a bullied high school student, his undiagnosed mental illness is getting worse. He begins to hear voices, and his imagination encourages him to carry out violent acts. Things begin to look up when Julie (Britt Robertson), a rebellious young girl, moves to town and befriends Harlon. But when she betrays him, the rabbit, along with other imaginary comic book characters, taunt him into committing one final act of revenge.
Digging Up the Marrow (RLJE/Image Entertainment)- 2/20
What if the ghastly images and abominations haunting our collective nightmares actually exist? Writer/director Adam Green (Hatchet) sets out to make a documentary exploring this tantalizing premise after being contacted by a mysterious man named William Dekker (Ray Wise). Dekker claims he can prove that “monsters are real” and insists these grotesque creatures are forgotten, hideously deformed humanoids inhabiting a vast, underground metropolis of the damned. Determined to expose the truth, Green embarks on a bone-chilling odyssey and gets more than he bargains for when he dares to go Digging Up The Marrow.
VANish (Dark Sky Films)- 2/24
Hoping to score a hefty ransom, three thugs viciously kidnap a drug cartel boss' only daughter from her home in broad daylight. The captors imprison the young woman in their van, dictate terms to her notorious father, and then travel to the outskirts of the desert for the exchange.
What the amateurs don't realize is that their victim is a force to be reckoned with on this violent road trip full of murder and mayhem. It's hell on wheels as time ticks away and the pressure mounts. The kidnappers find themselves in increasing danger from the police, hit men and crime bosses, and must find a way to keep their plan in order before all hell breaks loose.
Featuring standout performances from Maiara Walsh (Desperate Housewives, Disney Channel's Cory in the House, The Starving Games) and genre favorites Tony Todd (Candyman, Final Destination, Hatchet II) and Danny Trejo (Machete, From Dusk Till Dawn) and a story that puts a bold new spin on the action thriller, VANISH is a high-octane trip through a no man's land where trouble lurks behind every turn of its twisting plot.
Ejecta (IFC Midnight)- 2/27
Reclusive blogger Bill Cassidy (Julian Richings) claims to be the subject of a horrific alien haunting that has plagued him for a majority of his life. Documentary filmmaker Joe Sullivan (Adam Seybold) receives a mysterious email from Cassidy’s online alias one night with instructions to meet him the following day to discuss the unexplainable possession. As Cassidy tells his story on the eve of a historic solar storm an unidentified flying object crash lands on the property and Joe Sullivan films the entire thing. As the two men fight for their lives while the terrifying life form hunts them an anonymous intelligence group descends on the farm to ensure they are the only ones who can control the information regarding what Bill has witnessed. Lead by the insane and soulless Dr. Tobin (Lisa Houle) this group will stop at nothing to prove to the world that we were never alone in the universe.
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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