With February now officially underway, we have a busy month of VOD and Digital releases ahead of us. Tomorrow, things kick off with two vastly different projects hitting various platforms—Atomic Apocalypse and The Hunt for Vlad the Impaler—and just a few days later, Dogs Don’t Wear Pants arrives exclusively on Shudder.
Ant Timpson’s Come to Daddy hits digital on Friday, February 7th, alongside both Knives Out and the latest installment of the Into the Dark series on Hulu, entitled My Valentine. Then, on February 11th, Takashi Miike fans can enjoy the lastest from the acclaimed director, First Love, which was one of this writer’s favorite films out of last year’s Fantastic Fest.
On Valentine’s Day, get ready for both VFW from Joe Begos and Camp Cold Brook, which is being released from Shout! Studios to hit VOD, and on February 20th, you can enjoy both Jessica Forever, which is another Shudder exclusive, as well as The Night Clerk from Saban Films.
February’s Digital and VOD releases wrap up with Richard Stanley’s Color Out of Space on the 25th, and both Guns Akimbo and Disappearance at Clifton Hill on the 28th.
Happy streaming!
Atomic Apocalypse (High Octane Pictures) – February 4th
In Post Apocalyptic North America, one family fights for survival in this sci-fi road trip of epic proportions in a nightmare world without gasoline, electricity, or humanity.
Sheltered mother Kate (Krista DeMille, Best Actress IIFA, SIFF, BSFFF) loses her injured survivalist husband Sam (Ron Roggé, 13 Reasons Why, Stranger Things) and love struck daughter Suzi (Andrea Sweeney Blanco) in a matter of days after they join handsome loner Joe (Jesus Lloveras) in search of a rumored hidden nuclear bunker full of food and medicine. Suddenly alone and lost, Kate fights to stay alive and reunite with her family. Nature will survive. Would we?
The Hunt for Vlad the Impaler (4Digital Media) – February 4th
In the middle of the 15th century, in the depths of Turkey during the Ottoman Empire, the land is torn apart by horrendous atrocities and bloody murders are inflicted against the terrified people by the cruel and blood-thirsty, Vlad the Impaler.
The ruler, Baba Sultan, orders a group of seven fearless warriors known as Deliler, to hunt down Vlad and end the persecution once and for all. The seven heroes set out on their long journey, stopping at nothing until they find the inhumane Vlad and defeat him in what will be a battle to end all battles…
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (Shudder) – Exclusively on Shudder February 6th
Juha develops an unexpected but powerful connection with a dominatrix named Mona, following a tragic event in his life that has left him emotionally paralyzed. Uncovering his dangerous addiction to suffocation, Mona leads them both down wild, violent path towards emotional enlightenment. Dogs Don’t Wear Pants is a darkly humorous story of loss, love and the sweet pain of being.
Come to Daddy (Saban Films) – February 7th
Norval Greenwood, a privileged man-child arrives at the beautiful and remote coastal cabin of his estranged father. He quickly discovers that not only is dad a jerk, but he also has a shady past that is rushing to catch up with both of them. Now, hundreds of miles from his cushy comfort zone, Norval must battle with demons, both real and perceived, in order to reconnect with a father he barely knows.
Into the Dark: My Valentine (Hulu/Blumhouse) – February 7th
Influenced by some of the biggest pop scandals over the past decade, INTO THE DARK: MY VALENTINE, follows Valentine, whose songs and artistic identity have been stolen by her ex-boyfriend/manager - and shamelessly pasted onto his new girlfriend/protégé, Trezzure.
Writer/director Maggie Levin imagines what happens when the two worlds collide and find themselves face-to-face. Locked together in a small concert venue after hours, the three of them confront the scars of the past...until they take things into their own hands.
Knives Out (Lionsgate) – February 7th
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate, the inquisitive Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
Agramon’s Gate (Midnight Releasing) – February 11th
A psychic reader and Medium is invited to a party. Something goes very wrong and something comes over from the other side to haunt the people from the party. They must solve the mystery before it's too late. Agramon will not be easy to stop.
Alien Outbreak (High Octane Pictures) – February 11th
A small rural community is quarantined by an alien presence. Local police officers Zoe and Patrick battle through the night to take control as they become cut off from the outside world. Residents begin to behave strangely and mass panic spreads throughout. With the help of others, Zoe and Patrick begin unraveling the mystery and soon discover it is not all as it seems. Can they save their community before it's too late?
Cupid (Uncork’d Entertainment) – February 11th
After being horrendously embarrassed by the mean girls at school, Faye, a practicing witch, summons the evil Cupid to take revenge on all those who wronged her. On Valentine’s Day Cupid does in fact rise and will stop at nothing until the walls are covered in blood. The students must figure out a way to stop Cupid and undo the spell before their hearts get broken…very literally.
First Love (Well Go USA) – February 11th
When a duplicitous scheme by the low-level yakuza, Kase (Shota Sometani) goes hilariously wrong, a terminally ill boxer, Leo (Masataka Kubota), and a disturbed drug addicted call girl, Monica (Sakurako Konishi), find themselves innocently caught in the crosshairs of two warring gangs. Over the course of the increasingly ludicrous night, the two fall passionately in love, while the hail of bullets and blood fall quietly in the background. From prolific auteur Takashi Miike, this noir-tinged, violent yakuza film, is Miike at his most fun and anarchic.
Camp Cold Brook (Shout! Studios) – February 14th
Reality TV producer and host Jack Wilson (Chad Michael Murray, House Of Wax, Riverdale) finds himself in a tough spot when his show Haunt Squad is about to be cancelled. In a last-ditch effort to spark ratings, he and his producer Angela (Danielle Harris, Halloween, Halloween II) choose to film their next episode at the legendary Camp Cold Brook, which was host to a horrific incident when the young campers were drowned in a nearby creek 20 years ago. Their arrival begins like any other episode … but when this remote, backwoods camp begins to reveal its secrets, the TV crew find that they’ve gotten more than they bargained for.
VFW (RLJE Films) – February 14th
A typical night for a group of war veterans at their VFW turns into a battle for survival when they come under attack from a gang of punk mutants.
Killer Weekend (Dark Sky Films) – February 18th
When Sam (Sean Verey, The Hot Potato, EastEnders) discovers that his stag weekend not only is a mock zombie survival experience, but that his disapproving father-in-law-to-be has also been invited, he couldn't be more annoyed. But when the bachelor party arrives to find the "zombies" are in fact a bunch of psychotic ex-soldiers, their fantasy weekend quickly starts to look like a nightmare.
After a series of unfortunate mishaps finds the group trapped in a disused nuclear bunker besieged by the bloodthirsty troops, Sam must ask himself: Is it all still just a game, or is it actually game over?
Jessica Forever (Shudder) – Exclusively on Shudder February 20th
In a visually arresting and inventive dystopian future where violent misfits reign supreme, one woman and her makeshift family of rehabilitated marauders fight for peace.
The Night Clerk (Saban Films) – February 20th
While on duty, a young, socially challenged hotel clerk (Tye Sheridan) witnesses a murder in one of the rooms but his suspicious actions land him as the lead detective’s (John Leguizamo) number one suspect.
Color Out of Space (RLJE Films) – February 25th
After a meteorite lands on their farm, Nathan Gardner and his family must battle an extraterrestrial organism as it infects their minds and bodies.
Disappearance at Clifton Hill (IFC Midnight) – February 28th
Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton, The Imitation Game, Downton Abbey), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago?
As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her own inner demons.
Guns Akimbo (Saban Films) – February 28th
Miles’ (Daniel Radcliffe) nerdy existence as a video game developer takes a dramatic turn when he inadvertently gets caught up as the next contestant with SKIZM, an underground gang live-streaming real-life death matches. While Miles excels at running away from everything, that won’t help him outlast Nix (Samara Weaving), a killer at the top of her game.
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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