Happy Independence Day, everyone! While most of us in the US are busy with BBQs and enjoying some outdoor fun, that doesn’t mean this week’s Blu-ray and DVD releases are taking any time off, as we have a handful of titles making their debuts on July 4th.
Scream Factory has given the cult psychological thriller Windows something of an HD upgrade this week with their brand new Blu-ray, and we have several indie titles arriving on both formats as well, including Accidental Exorcist, Here Alone, Bethany, and Awakening the Zodiac. Rounding out the July 4th home releases are Peelers and a 9-movie creature feature set on DVD featuring all sorts of murderous beasties.
Accidental Exorcist (Cinedigm, Blu-ray & DVD)
A 30-something, dirt-poor alcoholic (Daniel Falicki) can't hold down a day job or maintain a normal life due to the fact that he is a natural-born exorcist. He soon learns that his power may also come with a cost to his own soul.
Awakening the Zodiac (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD)
A down on their luck couple has just gotten married and purchased a beautiful home to start their new life together. As they get settled and unpack their belongings, they come across a box that does not belong to them. The box is filled with old video tapes. Their interest is piqued, and they begin to play the tapes. What they discover is a horrid sequence of events that will change their lives forever. The tapes are recordings from the Zodiac killer, who used to live in their home and is now haunting them and begins to ruin their lives.
Bethany (Uncork’d Entertainment, Blu-ray & DVD)
After Claire's mother dies, she and her husband move back to her childhood home only to have the abusive and traumatic memories of her mother come back and bring unrest into the house. Claire soon finds herself in a fog of past and present when her imaginary friend from childhood begins haunting her memories. What is this terrifying thing that is trying to reach out to her, and what does it want?
Here Alone (Lionsgate, DVD)
A young woman struggles to survive alone in the woods after a mysterious epidemic decimates society.
Peelers (Uncork’d Entertainment, Blu-ray & DVD)
Former baseball player Blue Jean Douglas is closing down her small-town strip club and leaving for good. But her plans are not so easily attained when a group of coal miners show up and with them a deadly contaminant. What starts out as a last hurrah for the infamous strip club, turns into a blood bath. With time running out, Blue Jean must step up to the plate to try and put a stop to the spread of destruction before it’s too late and she loses everything she holds dear.
The Snow Creature – Plus 8 Bonus Movies (EB Acquisition Group, DVD)
The Snow Creature
One of the greatest scientific discoveries in the world, a Yeti or snow creature, suffers a violent fate when brought from the Himalayas to Los Angeles, California, to be studied.
The She-Beast
Veronica (Barbara Steele) is a beautiful young bride who is possessed by an 18th century Transylvanian witch that was murdered by local villagers and is now bent on getting her revenge.
Chupacabra vs. the Alamo
When murder victims are discovered with every drop of blood siphoned from their bodies, Erik Estrada must take on a deadly pack of Chupacabras loose in the Texas desert.
Blood Predator
Stranded in the mountains, the survivors of a jet crash are forced to fight off a rapidly multiplying extraterrestrial beast.
Curse of the Wolf
Dakota, a young werewolf, has finally learned to control her nighttime transformations and escapes to the city to start a new life. But her pack won't let her go without a final, vicious battle.
House of Mystery Has the deadly Curse of Kali returned for revenge against archeologist John Prendergast (Clay Clement), or is there a more secret and sinister plot at work?
Juggernaut
Teetering on the brink of a breakthrough in his experimental cure for paralysis, Dr. Sartorius (Boris Karloff) turns to the sinful profession of murder-for-hire to fund his research.
Mesa of Lost Women
This tale unfolds with a terrifying and deadly plane crash in the jungle. The survivors, having no idea where they've landed, are forced into the forest, looking for any sign of civilization they can find.
Horrors of Spider Island
After a plane crash in the Pacific, an American dance troupe of bombshell babes and their manager, Gary, are castaway on a deserted island. Then Gary is bitten by a huge spider with venom that transforms him into a murderous monster.
Windows (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)
The withdrawn and recently divorced Emily (Talia Shire, Rocky) lives a lonely existence. But after enduring a bizarre assault at the hands of a stranger, Emily finds both comfort and friendship in her neighbor Andrea (Elizabeth Ashley, The Carpetbaggers.) As Emily contends with the fact that her attacker still stalks the streets, she slowly discovers that there is more to her new acquaintance, Andrea, beyond her helpful façade: something that becomes a window to the dark soul of depraved obsession.
Directed by acclaimed cinematographer Gordon Willis (The Godfather, Annie Hall) and featuring a score by the legendary Ennio Morricone (The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, The Hateful Eight), Windows is a dark and controversial thriller of lust and psychological pain.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
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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