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COLLECTOR'S CRYPT - GREEN ROOM (SECOND SIGHT FILMS BLU-RAY))

Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room, now with a brand new 4K UHD and Blu-Ray combo from Second Sight Films is such an important release. It balances the delicate weight of showing the two extremes of the punk genre and places it in the realm of pure exploitation. How does the content still hold up in a world where neo-nazis are now a more visible threat than before, and is it still as tense as we remember it?

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COLLECTOR'S CRYPT - SHIVERS (VESTRON BLU RAY / STEELBOOK)

David Cronenberg’s first feature film, Shivers, is a seminal work in its own right that draws parallels to Romero’s film in many ways and has now gotten a sexy new Steelbook release that is exclusive to Walmart. With new artwork featuring the insanely talented Vance Kelly, does “Shivers” deserve a scary slot on your spooky shelves?

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COLLECTOR'S CRYPT - CONTAGION (WARNER BROS 4K UHD)

The world we inhabit and the world we project in our entertainment is not always different, and in some cases, the world we create becomes the world we exist in. This foretelling is what makes Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion such a compelling film in a post-COVID era. We take a look at this 2011 film being released for the first time on 4K UHD from Warner Bros Home Entertainment

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SXSW2024 - HUNTING DAZE (2024)

No stranger to unique genre films is Canada, the country with the nicest people and some of the gnarliest horror. In her first feature-film debut, Hunting Daze, writer/director/producer Annick Blanc seeks to carry that spirit of Candian horror to interesting and isolating lengths while layering on some psychological lucidity. Is this horror hybrid a hunt worth hauling in or leaving behind?

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COLLECTOR'S CRYPT - PEACOCK (POU) INDIEFLIX BLU-RAY

Even if you google recommendations for African horror films, you aren’t likely to find a ton of lists that can give you deep looks into regional horror, especially more independent fare. Thankfully, labels like IndieFlix are working to improve that with their recent Blu-Ray release of Jaco Minnaar’s Peacock. Is this supernatural and psychological South African thriller something unique like the feathers on its titular animal or just another nameless bird in the flock?

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The Sequel We Have Been Waiting For : Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice

The highly anticipated sequel, “Moon of the Turning Leaves”, takes place twelve winters after the lights go out. Evan helped lead the community from their reservation and settled in a prosperous area. Over the last 12 years, the community of fifty settlers have turned back to the ways of their Anishinaabe ancestors out of necessity.

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Will ‘Cellphone’ (2024) Be A Horror Movie That Makes You Want To Pick Up Or Let It Go To Voicemail?

Will ‘Cellphone’ (2024) Be A Horror Movie That Makes You Want To Pick Up Or Let It Go To Voicemail? Check out this new feature from Gravitas Ventures now available on VOD.

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‘They Are Watching’ (2023) Adds More Fear to Found Footage Horror & The Terrors of The Dark Web

‘They Are Watching’ (2023) Adds More Fear to Found Footage Horror & The Terrors of The Dark Web. It will be premiering soon on YouTube and will have a digital release in March.

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VOD of the Dead - MIDNIGHT PEEPSHOW (2023)

When it comes to the dark web, there is as much mystery as there is mischief to leverage for great horror storytelling. That is what Midnight Peepshow, now out on digital VOD platforms from Dark Star Pictures is aiming to illustrate. A detour into the depraved world of the dark web, but is this just another caricature of technology or does this series of stories hit closer to the homepage?

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