Happy Monday, everyone! We have a fun batch of home media titles heading home this week, led by Zombieland: Double Tap, Countdown, and The Addams Family animated film. For those of you who dig on older horror, Blue Underground has put together a limited edition release of Lucio Fulci’s House By the Cemetery that you’ll undoubtedly want to pick up this Tuesday, and VCI is giving The Phantom of the Creeps the 2K treatment as well.
Other notable releases for January 21st include I See You, Bad CGI Sharks, No Sin Unpunished, and Castle Freak: Remastered on DVD.
The Addams Family (2019) (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Blu/Digital Combo & DVD)
Get ready to snap your fingers! The Addams Family is back in their first animated comedy about the kookiest family on the block. Funny, outlandish, and completely iconic, The Addams Family redefines what it means to be a good neighbor.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Countdown (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Blu/Digital Combo & DVD)
When a young nurse (Elizabeth Lail) downloads an app that claims to predict exactly when a person is going to die, it tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and death closing in, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.
The House By the Cemetery: 3-Disc Limited Edition (Blue Underground, Blu-ray)
A young family moves from their cramped New York City apartment to a spacious new home in New England. But this is no ordinary house in the country: the previous owner was the deranged Dr. Freudstein, whose monstrous human experiments have left a legacy of bloody mayhem. Now, someone - or something - is alive in the basement, and home sweet home is about to become a horrific hell on earth.
Catriona MacColl (THE BEYOND), Paolo Malco (THE NEW YORK RIPPER), Ania Pieroni (TENEBRE), Carlo De Mejo (CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD), and Dagmar Lassander (HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON) star in this outrageous Italian shocker from 'The Godfather of Gore', Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE). Blue Underground is now proud to present THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY in a new 4K restoration from the original uncut and uncensored camera negative, fully loaded with exclusive new and archival Extras!
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- WORLD PREMIERE! New 4K Restoration from the uncensored original camera negative
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) Widescreen 2.40:1 Feature Presentation
- Audio: 5.1 DTS-HD (English); 1.0 DTS-HD (English); 1.0 DTS-HD (Italian)
- Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, English for Italian Audio
- NEW! Audio Commentary with Troy Howarth, Author of Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and His Films
- Deleted Scene
- Theatrical Trailers
- TV Spot
- Poster & Still Galleries
- Meet the Boyles Interviews with Stars Catriona MacColl and Paolo Malco
- Children of the Night Interviews with Stars Giovanni Frezza and Silvia Collatina
- Tales of Laura Gittleson Interview with Star Dagmar Lassander
- My Time With Terror Interview with Star Carlo De Mejo
- A Haunted House Story Interviews with Co-Writers Dardano Sacchetti and Elisa Briganti
- To Build a Better Death Trap Interviews with Cinematographer Sergio Salvati, Special Make-Up Effects Artist Maurizio Trani, Special Effects Artist Gino De Rossi, and Actor Giovanni De Nava
- NEW! House Quake Interview with Co-Writer Giorgio Mariuzzo
- NEW! Catriona MacColl Q&A
- NEW! Calling Dr. Freudstein Interview with Stephen Thrower, Author of Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci
- BONUS! HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD by Walter Rizzati
- BONUS! Collectable Booklet with new essay by Michael Gingold
I See You (Paramount, DVD/Digital)
Helen Hunt stars in the mind-twisting psychological thriller I See You. When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper (Jon Tenney) struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie (Hunt). Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family and slowly gnaws away at Jackie's grip on reality. But after a malicious presence manifests itself in their home and puts their son, Connor (Judah Lewis), in mortal danger, the cold, hard truth about evil in the Harper household is finally uncovered.
The Phantom Creeps: 2K Special Edition (VCI Video, Blu-ray)
Dr. Alex Zorka (Bela Lugosi), an eccentric scientist, carries on mysterious experiments in his secret laboratory with the aid of Monk (Jack C. Smith), an ex-convict. Zorka has invented many strange and powerful weapons of warfare, including a devisualizer belt which allows him to operate without being seen, and a terrifying mechanical robot eight feet tall. He also possesses a deadly meteorite fragment from which he extracts a strange element which can induce suspended animation in an entire army.
Zombieland: Double Tap (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 4K Ultra HD/Blu Combo, Blu/Digital Combo & DVD)
A decade after Zombieland became a hit film and a cult classic, the lead cast (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone) have reunited for Zombieland: Double Tap. In the sequel where the comic mayhem stretches from the White House and through the heartland, these four slayers must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own snarky, makeshift family.
ALSO AVAILABLE THIS WEEK:
Bad CGI Sharks (SRS Cinema, DVD)
Castle Freak: Remastered (Full Moon Pictures, DVD)
Ever After aka Endzeit (Juno Films, Blu-ray & DVD)
Human Persons (Uncork’d Entertainment, DVD)
Mommy/Mommy’s Day: 25th Anniversary Double Feature (VCI Video, Blu-ray)
No Sin Unpunished (Monarch Video, DVD)
Strange Events 3 (Wownow 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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