Someone at Image Entertainment has a great sense of humor, or my inner perv is working overtime. Either way, the company is releasing The Daisy Chain on DVD, April 13.
Martha (Samantha Morton, Minority Report) and Tomas (Steven Mackintosh, the Underworld series) are a grieving couple who move to a remote Irish village after their daughter’s death. They become charmed by a traumatized, autistic girl named Daisy, whose entire family has perished in tragic accidents. Come on Martha and Tomas, you know how this is going to go down! Strange things start to happen after Martha opens her home to Daisy …read more

Indie DVD outfit, Severin Films, has taken on the rights to James Nguyen’s Birdemic: Shock and Terror and while the trailer is absolutely ridiculous, the screeching noise at the end of it is music to my ears.
Nguyen shot the film over the course of four years and describes it as a “romantic thriller” in the midst of a homicidal bird invasion in Northern California. Apparently Tippi Hedren, lead actress in Hitchcock’s The Birds, has a cameo in the film.
After Nguyen got rejected for an official screening slot at Sundance, he took matters into his own hands and spent eight days …read more

I’m donning a little plaid today (exactly where you’re imagining) and in honor of schoolgirls everywhere I present to you the Schoolgirl Edition of Video Vault . Today’s lesson consists of a few clips from the German sleaze-fest known as Schulmadchen Report (Schoolgirl Report), as well as a few Asian schoolgirl horror trailers.
During the 70’s Walter Boos, Wolf C. Hartwig and Ludwig Spitaler got together to create thirteen, super horny original films which were adapted from a book series written by Gunther Hunold. These vignettes covered themes including: interracial love affairs, male and female masturbation sequences, forced prostitution, rape, voyeurism, …read more

Analog assassins Code Red are in the early stages of prepping a new special edition of the 80’s slasher flick, Madman. Anchor Bay released a DVD in 2001 but this new and improved edition promises some new interviews with the cast as well as a featurette visiting the original locations with one of the coolest names in slasherdom, Madman Marz (Paul Ehlers).
Madman has a Friday the 13th vibe and tells the story of a backwoodsman, Madman Marz. He’s a serial killer who can be summoned by calling his name ‘above a whisper.’ There’s even the prerequisite summer camp as the …read more

I was beyond jealous when I saw Twitter blowing up about the VHS promo copies of Ti West’s The House of the Devil. It seemed that only a few sites were privy to the gorgeous, over sized clamshell that had VHS junkies like myself foaming at the mouth. Well this morning I just about wet myself after picking up this tip at Fear of the Dark–the VHS is now available for purchase in a VHS & DVD bundle!
In case you missed out on the film, get up to speed with my review about Sam (Jocelin Donahue), the college cutie who …read more

Here is part three of my interview with Lance Henriksen.
In case you missed it, part two of the interview discusses Lance’s roles in Near Dark, Pumpkinhead, Tales from the Crypt and Dead Man. He also talks about Western films.
Part one of the interview discusses Lance’s role as Bishop in Aliens and his career as a voice actor. He also talks about James Cameron’s latest film, Avatar.

Alison: My favorite role of yours has always been Frank Black in Chris Carter’s Millennium. The role was quite intense. Can you talk about how you prepared for it? Were there any rituals or special …read more

Today marks the release of Rob Zombie’s Halloween II on DVD and Blu-ray.

“Rob Zombie’s H2 (HALLOWEEN) picks up at the exact moment that 2007’s box-office smash, HALLOWEEN stopped and follows the aftermath of Michael Myers’ (Tyler Mane) murderous rampage through the eyes of heroine Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor Compton). Evil has a new destiny. Michael Myers is back in this terrifying sequel to Rob Zombie’s visionary re-imagining of Halloween. It is that time of year again, and Michael Myers has returned home to sleepy Haddonfield, Illinois to take care of some unfinished family business. Unleashing a trail of terror that …read more

Troma has picked up the Bob Gray’s 2006 Sasquatchploitation flick, Bigfoot. The film will be released on DVD March 30 with a “different, improved upon cut” than one that was screened prior to its release. The distribution comes after a now defunct company left it hanging for several years.
Bigfoot tells the tale of a single dad who returns to his hometown only to find an angry Sasquatch slaughtering everything in its path. You can check out Bob Gray’s acting chops in the film, which actually attempts to explore some serious topics, particularly deforestation.
Check out the trailer for Bigfoot over here …read more

We’re getting closer to the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (January 21-28) and I’m incredibly excited to hear the forthcoming US reviews for Gerard Johnson’s UK horror-thriller Tony. The film has been selected for a special screening at the festival and if you’ve been paying attention to the press around it, you’ll understand why. Check out the trailer below to find out more. Tony will be released in the US on April 6th on DVD
The film stars Peter Ferdinando in the title role as Tony, along with Ricky Grover, George Russo and Francis Pope. From IMDb:
“A week in …read more

The unrated director’s cut of Rob Zombie’s Halloween II will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday, January 12 and I have one copy to giveaway.

Zombie’s follow up to the successful 2007 remake of the original 1978 classic goes a little something like this:
“Rob Zombie’s H2 (HALLOWEEN) picks up at the exact moment that 2007’s box-office smash, HALLOWEEN stopped and follows the aftermath of Michael Myers’ (Tyler Mane) murderous rampage through the eyes of heroine Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor Compton). Evil has a new destiny. Michael Myers is back in this terrifying sequel to Rob Zombie’s visionary re-imagining of Halloween. …read more