Friday, September 29, 2017

Screenings in the Bay (Friday to Sunday): Stereo Argento, Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse, Suspiria 4K Restoration


Looks like it's going to be a super packed, eventful weekend, and we won't be able to go to any of it... So you guys must go in our stead! 


Tonight the horror movie infused Italio dance party drag show, Stereo Argento, will be at the Stud! And if you still need to be sold on it, check out our interview with co-creator and co-host, Meredeath.
After that, Fantastic Fest will get you through the rest of the weekend. The Alamo Drafthouse has movies lined up today through Sunday ranging in genre and style. And you can follow that up with the double features playing at the Castro.

Happy watching!



Fantastic Fest


Friday 29th @ 12:30pm (1hr 47min)
Biography/ Crime/ Drama (IMDB)
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured and incarcerated. He would become one of America's most infamous serial killers. This is the story before that story. Jeff Dahmer (Disney Channel's Ross Lynch) is an awkward teenager struggling to make it through high school with a family life in ruins. He collects roadkill, fixates on a neighborhood jogger (Vincent Kartheiser, "Mad Men"), and copes with his unstable mother (Anne Heche) and well-intentioned father (Dallas Roberts). He begins to act out at school, and his goofball antics win over a group of band-nerds who form The Dahmer Fan Club, headed by Derf Backderf (Alex Wolff, "Patriots Day"). But this camaraderie can't mask his growing depravity. Approaching graduation, Jeff spirals further out of control, inching ever closer to madness.



Friday 29th @ 3:30pm (1hr 28min)
Documentary/ Horror (IMDB)
Haunters: The Art Of The Scare is a heart-warming and heart-stopping documentary about how family-friendly haunted houses for Halloween have spawned a growing subculture of extreme horror simulations. What kind of person dedicates their life to turning other people's nightmares into reality, and how far is too far? Explore the rise of terror as entertainment, by going behind-the-screams and into the lives of Shar Mayer, legendary scare actor, Donald Julson, a traditional boo-scare maze designer, and the infamous Russ McKamey, as he creates the most controversial full-contact haunt of all time... in his own backyard. Also featuring John Murdy (Universal Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights), Jon Braver (Delusion), Josh Randall (Blackout), Eric Lowther (Haunted Overload), Bruce Stanton (Reign of Terror), Sylvia & Jen Soska (American Mary & GSN's HELLEVATOR), Jessica Cameron (Truth or Dare) and many more talented artists.


AGFA & Something Weird Present

Friday 29th @ 9:45pm (1hr 20min)
Sexploitation/ Comedy
A couple hire a detective to locate their missing daughter. He finds her in a "house of ill-repute."



Saturday 30th @ 12:30pm (1hr 42min)
Horror (IMDB)
HAGAZUSSA follows a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut and intuiting a dark presence in the oppressive woods that surround her. As she grapples with uncertainty, so does the audience. Are these nightmarish visions the product of a deluded mind or a supernatural force of evil?




Saturday 30th @ 3:30pm (1hr 26min)
Horror (IMDB)
A caring mother loses her sanity, setting off a chain of events resulting in tragedy and murder. The story of Casey Pollack unfolds from two very different perspectives when one night in the woods culminates in absolute terror.



Saturday 30th @ 7pm (1hr 33min)
Mystery/ Thriller (IMDB)
A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant (Lola Kirke - MISTRESS AMERICA, MOZART IN THE JUNGLE, GONE GIRL) and her Hollywood starlet boss (Zoƫ Kravitz - MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, DIVERGENT). As the assistant travels across Los Angeles to unravel the mystery, she must stay one step ahead of a determined policeman (John Cho - STAR TREK, HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE) and confront her own understanding of friendship, truth, and celebrity.

4K RESTORATION

Saturday 30th @ 10:15pm (1hr 32min)
Drama/ Fantasy/ Horror (IMDB)
"A newcomer to a fancy ballet academy gradually comes to realize that the school is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of grisly murders."



Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
Sunday October 1st @ 7pm (2hrs 12min)
Action/ Crime/ Thriller (Rotten Tomatoes)
A former boxer named Bradley loses his job as an auto mechanic, and his troubled marriage is about to expire. At this crossroads in his life, he feels that he has no better option than to work for an old buddy as a drug courier. This improves his situation until the terrible day that he finds himself in a gunfight between a group of police officers and his own ruthless allies. When the smoke clears, Bradley is badly hurt and thrown in prison, where his enemies force him to commit acts of violence that turn the place into a savage battleground. From the director of Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99 stars Vince Vaughn (Hacksaw Ridge), Jennifer Carpenter ("Dexter"), Udo Kier (Blade) and Don Johnson ("Miami Vice").





Vertigo (1958)
Friday 29th @ 7pm (2hrs 9min)
Mystery/ Romance/ Thriller (IMDB)
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

-with-


Body Parts (1991)
Friday 29th @ 5:10pm & 9:25pm (1hr 28min)
Horror/ Thriller (IMDB)
After receiving a new arm in a transplant operation, a psychiatrist suddenly grows increasingly violent. He realizes that he has been partly possessed by his arm's previous owner, a psychotic killer. This gory chiller follows the psychiatrist's struggle to regain control of his own body before he kills again.



Vertigo (1958)
Saturday 30th @ 2:15pm & 7pm (2hrs 9min)
Mystery/ Romance/ Thriller (IMDB)
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

-with-


Diabolique (1955)
Saturday 30th @ 4:40pm & 9:25pm (1hr 56min)
Crime/ Drama/ Horror (IMDB)
The greatest film that Alfred Hitchcock never made, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique is set in a provincial boarding school run by headmaster Michel Delasalle (Paul Meurisse). A ruthless lothario, he becomes the target of a murder plot concocted by his long-suffering invalid wife Christina (Vera Clouzot, the director's own spouse) and his latest mistress, an icy teacher played by Simone Signoret. A dark, dank thriller with a much-imitated "shock" ending, Diabolique is a masterpiece of Grand Guignol suspense. The simple murder plot goes haywire, and Michel's corpse disappears, prompting strange rumors of his reappearance which grow more and more substantial as the film careens wildly towards its breathless conclusion. Later remade as a greatly inferior 1996 Hollywood feature with Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi



Vertigo (1958)
Sunday 1st @ 6pm & 8:30pm (2hrs 9min)
Mystery/ Romance/ Thriller (IMDB)
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.





Opens Friday 29th (1hr 40min)
Drama/ Thriller (IMDB)
The exquisite feature film debut of visionary fashion designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy (Rodarte), Woodshock is a hypnotic exploration of isolation, paranoia, and grief that exists in a dream-world all its own. Kirsten Dunst stars as Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, torn between her fractured emotional state and the reality-altering effects of a potent cannabinoid drug. Immersive, spellbinding, and sublime, Woodshock transcends genre to become a singularly thrilling cinematic experience that marks the arrival of the Mulleavy siblings as a major new voice in film.


-Huntress

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Bluray Tuesday: Featuring 47 Meters Down, The Devil's Candy and Transformers The Last Knight


September 26th 2017


The last Bluray Tuesday of September arrives. This week is filled with many different kinds of films from slashers, zombies, sharks, aliens and even killer orgies, I'm sure there is something for everyone released today. First up is 47 Meters Down aka In The Deep which was released on DVD last year but then recalled on the release day so that they could release it in theaters a year later under a new name. Overall it's an interesting take on the survival horror genre with a deadly shark thrown in. 47 Meters Down is definitely a highlight of the week. Scream Factory releases The Devil's Candy finally on Bluray with a few bonus features. The Devil's Candy is a good blind buy as well one of the highlights of 2017 for sure. Severin releases The Devil's Honey for the first time on Bluray, it's an erotic thriller filled with torture. 2:22 is next up from Magnet releasing. I saw this a few months ago and I thoroughly enjoyed it. If you are into mystery thrillers with a touch of sci-fi, I'd give it a go. I'd recommend a rent on this first or Netflix. Zombie thriller It Stains The Sands Red is also a surprise for me. It kept me entertained from beginning to end and featured some cool gore and twists. I'm glad it got a Bluray release and not just DVD only. Flatliners gets a steelbook treatment released today. This is just in time for the remake which also hits theaters this Friday. Perfect time to add to your collection and revisit the original before seeing the remake this weekend. The biggest budget release today is Transformers: The Last Knight. This is the next unnecessary sequel in the Transformers franchise. I haven't seen the fourth one yet but if I find myself bored one day I may try to catch up. Best Buy will carry exclusive steelbooks for its standard and 4K copies. Target's exclusive comes with a Bluray bonus disc. So what will you be buying, renting or just skipping this week? Let us know in the comments.

47 Meters Down: Amazon - $19.99

Young sisters Kate and Lisa and travel to Mexico for a vacation filled with sun, fun and adventure. Lisa needs some extra persuasion when Kate suggests that they go diving in shark-infested waters. Safe in their protective cage, the thrill-seeking siblings come face to face with a group of majestic great whites. Their worst fears soon become a reality when the cage breaks away from their boat, sending them plummeting to the ocean floor with a dwindling supply of oxygen.

47 Meters Down (Blu-ray) 

 The Devil's Candy: Amazon - $12.99

A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his family move into their dream home.

The Devil's Candy (Blu-ray) 

The Devil's Honey: Amazon - $21.99

A young woman abducts and subjects a doctor to various sexual torture acts whom she holds responsible for the death of her boyfriend.

The Devil's Honey (Blu-ray) 

2:22: Amazon - $16.99

A man's life is derailed when an ominous pattern of events repeats itself in exactly the same manner every day, ending at precisely 2:22 p.m.

2:22 (Blu-ray) 

It Stains the Sands Red: Amazon - $14.99

In the throes of a zombie apocalypse, a troubled woman from Las Vegas with a dark past finds herself stranded in the desert with a lone and ravenous zombie on her tail.

It Stains the Sands Red (Blu-ray) 

Killer Barbys: Amazon - $22.99

While driving on tour late night through a lonely road in the countryside of Spain, the van of the punk band "Killer Barbys" has an accident and breaks down. A creepy old man invites the group to spend the night in the castle of Countess Von Fledermaus and presents himself as her secretary Arkan. Arkan explains that the mechanic is located 62 km far from the location and he tells that the Countess loves youths. Flavia, Rafa and Mario accept the invitation but Billy and Sharon stay shagging in the van. When the musicians meet the Countess, they find that she is the ancient artist Olga Luchan and they question how she could keep so young. But sooner they discover that the Countess needs blood of young people to keep her beauty.

Killer Barbys (Blu-ray) 

After Midnight: Amazon - $17.99

Horror anthology about a college professor (Ramy Zada) teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear". He brings his students (including psychic Jillian McWhirter) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a young couple whose car breaks down by an old, abandoned house. The second has four trendy teenage girls getting lost in a bad part of town, and chased by a pack of vicious dogs. Last, we have Marg Helgenberger confronting a stalker at the answering service where she works the night shift.

After Midnight (Blu-ray) 

The Dead Next Door: Amazon - $18.99

The government sets up a Zombie squad after an epidemic has made the world run rampant with living corpses. Raimi, Mercer, Kuller, and others head off to Ohio to try and find a cure to the epidemic but soon run into a crazy cult of zombie lovers who are set on preserving the zombies and letting a new world be born because they believe that it's God's will. When Mercer gets infected with the zombie virus, Raimi and the others must work quickly to find a cure and avoid the cult.

The Dead Next Door (Blu-ray)
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Friday Night Lights (Complete Series): Amazon - $56.99

Football is god in small-town Texas, where the Dillon High School Panthers seem to be a shoo-in for the state championship for the first time in 15 years. So when Eric Taylor signs on as the team's new coach, the pressure to win is enormous. This critically acclaimed drama series follows Taylor's ups and downs with the Panthers -- and with his wife and teenage daughter.

Friday Night Lights: The Complete Series (Blu-ray) 

Flatliners (1990) (Steelbook): Amazon - $19.99

An ambitious, charismatic medical student persuades his classmates to take part in a reckless experiment. To see if there is life after death, they will kill themselves: temporarily shut down ("flatline") their heart and brain functions to briefly experience clinical death. Their horror begins when they realize that although they've come back alive... they haven't come back alone.

Flatliners (Blu-ray) 

Lycan: Amazon - $20.99

Six college kids who are assigned a group project to rediscover a moment in history decide to head into the backwoods of Georgia to investigate the legend of Emily Burt, aka the Talbot County werewolf.

Lycan (Blu-ray)
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Transformers The Last Knight: Amazon - $19.99
4K: Amazon - $26.99

Humans are at war with the Transformers, and Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving the future lies buried in the secrets of the past and the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Now, it's up to the unlikely alliance of inventor Cade Yeager, Bumblebee, an English lord and an Oxford professor to save the world.

Transformers: The Last Knight (Blu-ray) 

Transformers: The Last Knight 4K (Blu-ray) 

Steelbook: Best Buy - $21.99
4K Steelbook: Best Buy - $28.99

Transformers: The Last Knight (Blu-ray) 

Transformers: The Last Knight 4K (Blu-ray)
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Bonus Disc: Target - $19.99

Transformers: The Last Knight (Blu-ray) 

Orgy of the Dead: Amazon - $23.99

John and his girlfriend Shirley go in search of a cemetary in order to inspire John for writing his next horror story. After they crash the car, they wander into the graveyard and encounter the dancing dead, a full moon spectacle overseen by the Ruler of the Dark. Before long the couple is spotted and taken prisoner. Tied to stakes and forced to watch the dancing, they await their fate.

Orgy of the Dead (Blu-ray) 

Trip With The Teacher: Amazon - $23.99

A teacher and her class of female students take a class trip to the desert. Their bus breaks down, and they find themselves terrorized by a gang of psycho bikers.
 

 Trip With The Teacher (Blu-ray) 


  -The Impostor

Monday, September 25, 2017

Screenings in the Bay (Monday to Friday): Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, Fantastic Fest, The Devil Rides Out


There's so much going on this week, I hardly know where to start!
First off, this Terror Tuesday gets into the Halloween spirit with the least popular of the Halloweens (depending on who you ask), Season of the Witch. After that, Fantastic Fest kicks off Thursday night, complete with an opening night party. And Friday is the craziest day yet... Aside from the opening of a reality bending drama at the Embarcadero Theatre, it's also Stereo Argento III at the Stud in San Francisco! 


Get more info about this blood soaked event from our interview with its co-host and co-creator Meredeath here! Oh and on top of all that, this is the week of long awaited sequels, one of which the tickets went on sale for today!


Special Event Screening


Tuesday 26th @ 7pm (1hr 40min)
Horror/ Mystery/ Thriller (IMDB)
Sergeant Tubbs assembles a task force hellbent on destroying The Creeper.





Monday 25th @ 10:15pm (1hr 45min)
Fantasy/ Sci-Fi (IMDB)
In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.


Terror Tuesday

Tuesday 26th @ 10pm (1hr 39min)
Horror/ Mystery. Sci-Fi (IMDB)
In the third Halloween feature--which really has little connection to the previous two--the psychotic killer is a scientist (Dan O'Herlihy) who creates a brand of satanic Halloween masks which kill the children who wear them.


Weird Wednesday

Wednesday 27th @ 10:20pm (1hr 20min)
Action/ Comedy/ Sci-Fi (IMDB)
Cult hero Paul Bartel directed this low-budget satire in which America's passion for cars, violence, and sporting events are finally brought together in one convenient package. In the not-so-distant future, the United States has become a totalitarian regime overseen by the charming but sinister Mr. President (Sandy McCallum), who, in order to satisfy the masses' need for entertainment (and to quench their thirst for violence), has created a new national sport -- the Death Race, a nationwide road rally in which the winner is not determined by who finishes first, but by who scores the most points along the way by running over hapless pedestrians. Aspiring champions Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone), Calamity Jane (Mary Woronov), Nero the Hero (Martin Kove), and Matilda the Hun (Roberta Collins) are all looking to take the top honors away from Frankenstein (David Carradine), a half-man/half-machine who has been built to be the best racer on Earth and can outrun and outkill anyone on the circuit. However, not everyone likes the Death Race, and revolutionary leader Thomasina Paine (Harriet Medin) wants to sabotage the event in the name of restoring democracy; her plan is to foil Frankenstein's expected victory by smuggling her daughter Annie (Simone Griffeth) into Frankenstein's race car as his navigator. Featuring David Carradine at the height of his Kung Fu fame (and Sylvester Stallone a year before Rocky), Death Race 2000 was a major drive-in hit in 1975; Bartel and Carradine teamed up for another road race movie, Cannonball, a year later, and a semi-sequel, Death Sport, appeared in 1978. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi


Fantastic Fest


Friday 29th @ 3:30pm (1hr 28min)
Documentary/ Horror (IMDB)
Haunters: The Art Of The Scare is a heart-warming and heart-stopping documentary about how family-friendly haunted houses for Halloween have spawned a growing subculture of extreme horror simulations. What kind of person dedicates their life to turning other people's nightmares into reality, and how far is too far? Explore the rise of terror as entertainment, by going behind-the-screams and into the lives of Shar Mayer, legendary scare actor, Donald Julson, a traditional boo-scare maze designer, and the infamous Russ McKamey, as he creates the most controversial full-contact haunt of all time... in his own backyard. Also featuring John Murdy (Universal Hollywood Halloween Horror Nights), Jon Braver (Delusion), Josh Randall (Blackout), Eric Lowther (Haunted Overload), Bruce Stanton (Reign of Terror), Sylvia & Jen Soska (American Mary & GSN's HELLEVATOR), Jessica Cameron (Truth or Dare) and many more talented artists.



Friday 29th @ 12:30pm (1hr 47min)
Biography/ Crime/ Drama (IMDB)
Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured and incarcerated. He would become one of America's most infamous serial killers. This is the story before that story. Jeff Dahmer (Disney Channel's Ross Lynch) is an awkward teenager struggling to make it through high school with a family life in ruins. He collects roadkill, fixates on a neighborhood jogger (Vincent Kartheiser, "Mad Men"), and copes with his unstable mother (Anne Heche) and well-intentioned father (Dallas Roberts). He begins to act out at school, and his goofball antics win over a group of band-nerds who form The Dahmer Fan Club, headed by Derf Backderf (Alex Wolff, "Patriots Day"). But this camaraderie can't mask his growing depravity. Approaching graduation, Jeff spirals further out of control, inching ever closer to madness.




Super Shangri-La Show Presents

Wednesday 27th @ 7:30pm (1hr 35min)
Horror (IMDB)
Dennis Wheatley's black magic novel becomes a Hammer horror movie, with Christopher Lee for once in the role of the good guy playing the Duc De Richleau, an authority on the occult who must battle a group of Satanists for the soul of his friend.




Boileau-Narcejac on Film Double Feature

Vertigo (1958)
Thursday 28th @ 7pm (2hrs 9min)
Mystery/ Romance/ Thriller (IMDB)
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

-with-


Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Thursday 28th @ 5:10pm & 9:25pm (1hr 28min)
Drama/ Horror (IMDB)
Dr. GĆ©nessier (Pierre Brasseur) is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane (Edith Scob), who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. GĆ©nessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise (Alida Valli), kidnaps young women and brings them to the GĆ©nessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. GĆ©nessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.



Boileau-Narcejac on Film Double Feature

Vertigo (1958)
Friday 29th @ 7pm (2hrs 9min)
Mystery/ Romance/ Thriller (IMDB)
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

-with-


Body Parts (1991)
Friday 29th @ 5:10pm & 9:25pm (1hr 28min)
Horror/ Thriller (IMDB)
After receiving a new arm in a transplant operation, a psychiatrist suddenly grows increasingly violent. He realizes that he has been partly possessed by his arm's previous owner, a psychotic killer. This gory chiller follows the psychiatrist's struggle to regain control of his own body before he kills again.





Opens Friday 29th (1hr 40min)
Drama/ Thriller (IMDB)
The exquisite feature film debut of visionary fashion designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy (Rodarte), Woodshock is a hypnotic exploration of isolation, paranoia, and grief that exists in a dream-world all its own. Kirsten Dunst stars as Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, torn between her fractured emotional state and the reality-altering effects of a potent cannabinoid drug. Immersive, spellbinding, and sublime, Woodshock transcends genre to become a singularly thrilling cinematic experience that marks the arrival of the Mulleavy siblings as a major new voice in film.


Coming soon to the 


October 3rd @ 7pm (1hr 33min)
Horror/ Slasher
In 2007, forty-nine people were brutally torn to pieces in Louisiana's Honey Island Swamp. Over the past decade, lone survivor Andrew Yong's claims that local legend Victor Crowley was responsible for the horrific massacre have been met with great controversy, but when a twist of fate puts him back at the scene of the tragedy, Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and Yong must face the bloodthirsty ghost from his past.


-Huntress