Get ready for the latest Blu-Ray and DVD releases horror fans!  This week brings a gigantic crop of delightful horror films. We have the Wes Craven classic, The Serpent and the Rainbow staring Bill Puhlman.  Yes, finally we have a good transfer of this 80’s horror flick.  Don’t forget the first film by director Bob Clark (Black Christmas, Porky’s, A Christmas Story), Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things.  What a fun movie that one is.

Here is your full listing of horror releases on Blu-Ray and DVD this week.

Blu-Ray / DVD

 

The Bees – Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: PG

Evil corporations have smuggled a deadly strain of South American killer bees into the United States and now the entire world may be on the brink of imminent destruction! As cities tumble, body counts rise, and mass hysteria ensues, scientist John Norman (John Saxon) thinks he might have discovered the secret strategy to stop THE BEES!

Directed by Alfredo Zacarias (DEMONOID) and co-starring Angel Tompkins, John Carradine, and Claudio Brook, THE BEES is an epic disaster film and drive-in classic, chock full of outrageous action and jaw-dropping plot twists. Vinegar Syndrome brings THE BEES into your living room, newly restored in 2k in its previously unavailable Director’s Cut, and guaranteed to give you stingingly good entertainment.

Bonus Features:
1. New 2K Restoration from the 35mm Negative!
2. Video Interview with Director Alfredo Zacarias
3. Original Theatrical Trailer
4. Reversible Cover Artwork
5. English SDH Subtitles

 

Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 23 min.
Directed By: Alfredo Zacarías
Written By: Alfredo Zacarías

 

Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things
– Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: PG

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Led by a mean-spirited director, Alan (Alan Ormsby), a theater troupe travels by boat to a small island graveyard for buried criminals. Using a grimoire, Alan begins a séance to raise the dead. The group finds more than they bargained for when the dead return from their graves, forcing the troupe to take refuge in an old abandoned caretaker s house. Can they stay put until daylight against the undead onslaught, or do they flee into the pitch black night? Will anyone survive? ….Muhah hahahh!

Genre: 1 hr. 27min.
Directed By: Bob Clark
 Written By: Bob ClarkAlan Ormsby

 

Demonoid – Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: R

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At a dig in rural Mexico, a British industrialist accidentally unleashes an ancient evil: a severed hand, possessed by a vengeful demon, that attacks, kills and takes over the hand and mind of anyone who interferes with its ruthless quest for violence. Determined to stop the bloodshed, the wife of the industrialist (Samantha Eggar) joins forces with a renegade priest (Stuart Whitman), but will they be able to conquer the evil hand before the forces of hell overtake them?DEMONOID is a classic slice of early 80s horror sleaze, full of outrageous and violent deaths, ludicrous plot twists and a pounding musical score

Bonus Features:
1. New 2K Restoration from the Original 35mm Negative!
2. Video Interview with Director Alfredo Zacarias
3. 2K Restoration of the Alternate International Version, MACABRA
4. Theatrical Trailer
5. Plus More!

Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 24 min.
Directed By: Alfredo Zacarías
Written By: David Lee FeinF. Amos PowellAlfredo Zacarías

 

Frankenstein – Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: R

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Set in present day Los Angeles, Frankenstein is told entirely from the perspective of the Monster. After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him. This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity.

 

Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 29 min.
Directed By: Bernard Rose
  Written By: Bernard Rose

 

The Serpent and the Rainbow – Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: PG-13

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An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.

Special Features Include:

-2015 HD transfer from the inter-positive film element
-Audio commentary with actor Bill Pullman
-“The Making of The Serpent and the Rainbow,” featuring new interviews with actor Bill Pullman, author Wade Davis, director of photography John Lindley, and special makeup effects artists Lance Anderson and David Anderson
-Original Theatrical Trailer and TV Spot
-Still Gallery

Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 38min.
Directed By: Wes Craven
 Written By: Wade DavisRichard MaxwellAdam Rodman,

 

Tenebre – Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: R

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An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 41min.
Directed By: Dario Argento
 Written By: Dario Argento

 

Victor Frankenstein – Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: PG-13

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Told from Igor’s perspective, we see the troubled young assistant’s dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man – and the legend – we know today.

Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 38min.
Directed By: Paul McGuigan
 Written By: Max Landis

 

Bigfoot Vs. Zombies – Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: UR

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A scientist creates a toxic cocktail that slowly leaks into the local population, creating flesh-eating zombies – and only one crature of legend can stop the growing hoards of the undead.

Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 38min.
Directed By: Mark Polonia
 Written By: Mark Polonia

 

Cassidy – Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: UR

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When a film student and her two friends go to Kern County to shoot a documentary, they stumble upon a mysterious family and learn why Pandora’s box should never have been opened.

Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 38min.
Directed By: Harvey Lowry
 Written By:  Ken Sax,  Neil Blakemore

 

The Eve – Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: UR

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Friends head off to the remote island of Martha’s Vineyard to celebrate New Year’s Eve and reconnect. As tensions rise, an unforeseen presence halts celebrations and instead turns their holiday into a fight to live through to the new year.

Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 38min.
Directed By: Ritchie Steven Filippi
 Written By: Evan Bass

 

House Of Afflictions – Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: UR

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Kate Beckley was once a best selling crime author, but it’s been years since her last novel following the disappearance of her daughter, Julia. While attempting to write again in a new home, Kate finds herself haunted by strange visions and paranormal occurrences – which become worse each night. Has Julia returned, or is something more sinister preying on this grieving mother’

Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 38min.
Directed By: Anthony M. Winson
 Written By: Anthony M. Winson

 

Voices From The Grave – Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: UR

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This Anthology film deals with deadly spirits, back from the grave with vengeance in mind. Myles Brandt is a horror fan that wanders into a mysterious bookstore in search of something different. He finds a book and in the corner of this bookstore begins to read three tales of supernatural horror. Three tales of terror, including one story adapted from the work of master horror writer Gary Brandner author of The Howling, to make your flesh creep and your heart race!

Genre: Horror
Runtime: 1 hr. 38min.
Directed By: Laurence Holloway,  Richard Stoudt
 Written By: Richard Stoudt,  Gary Brandner

 

Whore – Blu Ray/DVD (Feb 23rd)
RATING: UR

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Author Ricki visits her family’s secluded cabin to start writing he new novel – but along the way she catches the eye of a group of local criminals, who turn her visit into a living nightmare of violence… and violation. Though left for dead, Ricki’s ultimate revenge has just begun as she hunts, traps and kills each of her captors one by one. In the tradition of the I Spit on Your Grave series.

Genre: Horror

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About the Author

Norman Gidney is a nearly lifelong horror fan. Beginning his love for the scare at the age of 5 by watching John Carpenter's Halloween, he set out on a quest to share his passion for all things spooky with the rest of the world.