Horror Highlights: Scream Factory’s 31 Nights of Horror, Boston Underground Film Festival’s BUFF-o-WEEN, HARPOON Blu-ray

As we get closer to the Halloween season, spooky new events seem to be announced left and right, including Scream Factory's 31 Nights of Horror live stream lineup, Boston Underground Film Festival's 1st annual Buff-o-Ween, and the VOD and Blu-ray release of Harpoon.

Scream Factory's 31 Nights of Horror Details: "This October, Shout! Factory TV and Scream Factory proudly present 31 Nights of Horror. Fans can tune in each evening throughout the entire month for a double feature that’s sure to satisfy cravings for all things creepy.

Each night of the stream will feature a genre favorite such as Chopping Mall, Witchboard, The Exorcist III, the original Willard, and many more. And since no skeleton is complete without a funny bone, each movie will be followed by a distinctively eerie episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, including episodes MST3K: Night of the Blood Beast, MST3K: The Slime People and MST3K: The Crawling Eye.

Stream and scream live every evening this October, as 31 Nights of Horror begins Tuesday, October 1 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT and continues at the same time nightly through October 31. The livestream can be viewed on ShoutFactoryTV.com; Shout! Factory TV’s Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, and Android apps; and the following digital streaming platforms: Twitch, Samsung TV Plus, Xumo, and STIRR.

31 Nights of Horror also presents the devilish debut of several new films to Shout! Factory TV, including The Undead, The Horror of Party Beach and The Haunted Strangler, with Boris Karloff. These and all films featured in 31 Nights of Horror will also be available for viewing on-demand beginning October 1 on ShoutFactoryTV.com; Shout! Factory TV’s Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, and Android apps; and on various Shout! Factory TV branded channels including Tubi TV, Amazon Prime Channels, and the Roku Channel.

31 Nights of Horror Films
· Attack of the Crab Monsters
· Bad Moon
· Black Christmas
· Blood of Dracula
· Chopping Mall
· Day the World Ended
· Demon of Paradise
· The Exorcist III
· The Haunted Strangler
· The Horror of Party Beach
· The House That Dripped Blood
· The Howling III: The Marsupials
· The Medusa Touch
· Mermaid: Lake of the Dead
· The Monster Club
· Munchies
· Nightbreed: Director’s Cut
· The Playgirls and the Vampire
· Saturday the 14th
· The She Creature
· Slaughter of the Vampires
· Spawn of the Slithis
· Terror Beneath the Sea
· Timewalker
· The Undead
· Up from the Depths
· Voodoo Woman
· The Wasp Woman
· What A Carve Up!
· Willard
· Witchboard

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films
· MST3K: Attack of the Giant Leeches
· MST3K: Beginning of the End
· MST3K: The Black Scorpion
· MST3K: Blood Waters of Dr. Z
· MST3K: Boggy Creek II
· MST3K: The Brute Man
· MST3K: The Corpse Vanishes
· MST3K: The Crawling Eye
· MST3K: Devil Doll
· MST3K: Devil Fish
· MST3K: The Giant Gila Monster
· MST3K: The Giant Spider Invasion
· MST3K: Horrors of Spider Island
· MST3K: Indestructible Man
· MST3K: The Killer Shrews
· MST3K: Mad Monster
· MST3K: Manos: The Hands of Fate
· MST3K: Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders
· MST3K: Monster A-Go-Go
· MST3K: Night of the Blood Beast
· MST3K: Pod People
· MST3K: Ring of Terror
· MST3K: Samson Vs. The Vampire Women
· MST3K: The Screaming Skull
· MST3K: The Slime People
· MST3K: Tormented
· MST3K: The Touch of Satan
· MST3K: The Unearthly
· MST3K: War of the Colossal Beast
· MST3K: Werewolf
· MST3K: Zombie Nightmare "

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Details on Boston Underground Film Festival's 1st Annual BUFF-o-WEEN: "For the first time in its 22 year history, the Boston Underground Film Festival is launching a mid-year mini-fest to bring a selection of seasonally appropriate thrills and chills to New England cinephiles! Marking the midway point between 2019’s BUFF and the upcoming festival in March 2020, the weirdos behind BUFF are teaming up with the historic Somerville Theatre in Davis Square to bring you the first-ever edition of “BUFF-o-WEEN” this October!

Showcasing six feature films plus an incredible block of short films currently slaying genre audiences around the world, BUFF-o-WEEN seeks to expand on the festival’s annual offerings of bizarre and insane programming into the holiest of New England holiday seasons.

“For a long time we’ve thought about creating space for contemporary horror and genre film in the Boston area in October; the city has incredible repertory programming and marathons this month and we wanted to bring a little something different to film fans in the area to celebrate the Halloween season,” said BUFF’s Artistic Director, Kevin Monahan. “As a programmer, it’s a dream come true to bring even more fantastic films to Boston for some big-screen love from our incredible community of film fans and filmmakers,” said BUFF’s Director of Programming Nicole McControversy.

Opening this inaugural series of spooky and sublime delights is hilarious and charming paranormal comedy Extra Ordinary, by Irish writer/director dynamos Enda Loughman and Mike Ahern. Courtesy of our neighbors to the North, we’re thrilled to present “Born of Woman,” an epic block of international short films helmed by women directors, curated by Fantasia International Film Festival’s head programmer Mitch Davis. Also hot off its recent Fantasia premiere, we have director Matthew Pope’s tense, southern gothic thriller Blood on Her Name while the horrifying story of Germany’s most notorious serial killer is brought to life in Fatih Akin’s The Golden Glove.

Indescribably insane 1994 cult hit Tammy & the T-Rex makes a stop in Boston on its festival tour of brain-smashing destruction, restored to its full gory (and 4K) glory courtesy of Vinegar Syndrome and the American Genre Film Archive. Not to be outdone fellow genre restoration heavy-weights Severin Film will present their required-viewing Al Adamson documentary Blood & Flesh, directed by BUFF alum (and former Bostonian) David Gregory, with ex-Cantabrigian Adam Egypt Mortimer’s chilling Daniel Isn’t Real rounding off a head-spinning weekend.

This special series will run Thursday, October 17th through Sunday, October 20th. Sponsors include The Somerville Theatre and DigBoston. Special thanks to Cranked Up Films, Strand Releasing, Yellow Veil Pictures, Severin Films, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Fantasia International Film Festival, Spectrevision, Vinegar Syndrome, and the American Genre Film Archive.

FULL BUFF-o-WEEN LINEUP:

EXTRA ORDINARY

“A riotously hilarious offbeat comedy that is totally bizarre but utterly engrossing” Ashley Menzel, WE LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

BUFF-o-WEEN kicks things off with this spoopy [sic] tale of a ghostbusting psychic driving instructor—played to pitch-perfect perfection by Maeve Higgins—who tries to save a family from a spirit-conjuring has-been seeking to renew a record deal—and a Faustian bargain. Irish writer/director duo Enda Loughman and Mike Ahern breath new life into the horror-comedy genre with this absolute gem. Think Ghostbusters as if set on Craggy Island; in other words, 100% Pure BUFF. Co-presented by the Irish Film Festival Boston.

BORN OF WOMAN 2019

Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival serves up an annual showcase of intimate, auteur genre visions, this year’s edition featuring eight exceptional short films from an array of international talents that promises to leave you gobsmacked and amazed. BUFF-o-WEEN is honored to screen this incredible collection for Boston-area audiences. Co-presented by the Boston Women's Film Festival and Women in Film and Video of New England (WIFVNE). A portion of the box office from this screening will be donated to Women on Waves and Film Fatales.

THE GOLDEN GLOVE

“Beneath all the horror, there is hope. You just have to look past all the dead bodies to the darker heart within.” Redmond Bacon, CULTURED VULTURES

Critically acclaimed director Fatih Akin (Head-On, The Edge of Heaven, In The Fade) brings to life the harrowing tale of German serial killer Fritz Honka, heinous haunter of 1970s Hamburg’s red-light district.

Booed and rebuffed at its Berlinale premiere earlier this year, The Golden Glove is unflinching in its examination of human brutality and desperation, both of this notorious murderer and of a society that helped birth him. An ugly film about uglier acts, viewer discretion is certainly advised, though the undeterred will be rewarded by a richly characterized, oft empathetic depiction of a sidelined generation that survived the horrors of war only to be forgotten in the grimiest of dives, hustling for pfennigs to drink away their trauma.

TAMMY AND THE T-REX

“Heads are bitten off, people are disemboweled, skulls are crushed, bodies are flattened, all with the kind of gory excess that recalls the splatstick comedies of Peter Jackson.” Patrick Bromley, Bloody Disgusting

Directed by Stewart Raffill (of Mac and Me and Mannequin Two: One the Move fame) and released in 1994, Tammy and the T-Rex stars Denise Richards and Paul Walker in the story of an evil scientist who transplants the brain of a murdered teenager into the body of a Tyrannosaurus. Love, uh, finds a way, in this newly unearthed “gore cut” of the cult classic time forgot. Fully restored to its R-rated, 4K glory by the fiends at Vinegar Syndrome, Tammy destroyed audiences at Chicago’s Cinepocalypse over the summer; after stops at Fantastic Fest and Beyond Fest, BUFF is pleased to bring this epic splatter piece to Somerville. No one will be spared. Courtesy of the cine-heroes of the American Genre Film Archive, this one must be seen to be believed.

BLOOD ON HER NAME

“...unexpected, morally complex, and alive with tension.” Katie Rife, AV Club

Ozark’s Bethany Anne Lind stars in this crime thriller about a woman who digs herself a deeper hole when she lets her conscience get the better of her when she tries to cover up an accidental killing. Much in the same vein of BUFF fan favorite, Blue Ruin, Yellow Veil Pictures picked up this tense, gothic horror flick immediately after it’s world premiere at Fantasia this July, and marks a stunning debut feature for writer/director Matthew Pope.

BLOOD & FLESH: THE REEL LIFE AND GRISLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON

The director of Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau, David Gregory, brings us another true story of a visionary filmmaker. However, instead of focusing on one failed project, Gregory gives us a fascinating overview of the entire life and career of underappreciated auteur Al Adamson. Responsible for such 60s/70s era B-flicks such as Psycho A-Go-Go, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, and Black Samurai, Adamson’s methods and experiences provide a wealth of entertainment and his unfortunate end makes for moving drama in this comprehensive documentary.

DANIEL ISN’T REAL

“A psychological thriller married with cosmic body horror in inventive, original, and exciting ways” - Jonathan Barkan, DREAD CENTRAL

Writer/director Adam Egypt Mortimer’s latest and greatest plays like a dark, twisted version of Drop Dead Fred. After locking up his imaginary childhood friend for years, Luke releases Daniel to wreak havoc on his life, art, studies, and relationships. Newcomers Miles Robbins (2018’s Halloween, My Friend Dahmer) and Patrick Schwarzenegger (yes, Arnold’s son) light up the screen as Luke and Daniel respectively, joined by Sasha Lane (American Honey) and veteran actress Mary Stuart Masterson.

Individual tickets will be available for sale soon at the Somerville Theatre’s box office or online.

BUFF-o-WEEN is the latest venture in BUFF’s year-round programming, which includes Somerville-Theatre-based monthly “Dispatches from the Underground” series, and its annual festival at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge. Visit bostonunderground.org for more details."

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Harpoon Coming to VOD and Blu-ray: Press Release: "Los Angeles, CA, September 13, 2019 – Epic Pictures is thrilled to announce the release of Rob Grant's award-winning feature film, HARPOON, on VOD and Blu-ray on October 8th!

Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean desperate for survival.

HARPOON is written & directed by Rob Grant (Alive), starring Munro Chambers (Turbo Kid), Emily Tyra (Code Black), Christopher Gray (The Society), and narrated by Brett Gelman (Fleabag).

Special Features:
Harpoon Behind the Scenes – 30 min

Deleted Scenes:
-Opening Extended - 2 min
-Engine Won’t Start – 1Min 35sec
-Post Sex Talk – 1 min
B-Roll with Commentary – 6min

Commentary:
-Director’s Psychedelic Commentary
-Crew Commentary
Trailers & more

Disc Material:
Story Trailer – 100 sec
Teaser – 60 Sec

English 5.1 Surround Sound and English Stereo 2.0
English SDH
Spanish Subtitles
Blu-ray is Region Free"