Gone Horror Festin'!

Hey Vault Dwellers! Yours truly is heading out for the weekend so there won't be any new content here or over at Vault HQ! I'll be partaking of Exhumed Films' 10th Annual 24-Hour Horrothon, which is my first visit to this highly-touted event!

Fourteen films are going to be screened at the International House in Philadelphia, all in 35mm. The catch? The audience has NO IDEA what is being shown. The only thing we're sure of, is that each film is a Horror flick hailing from the Decade of Decadence!

Prior to the movies, a sheet will be handed out with 14 vague descriptions of the day's features (a contest and yearly tradition) and after introductions, us lucky few (hundred) will try to survive a full 24 hours of 35mm films, trailers, and other fun stuff!

For any of you wondering, yes I will be posting updates about the show on social media, on Twitter, Facebook, and/or Instagram, at least while I'm awake, because this is an endurance run, and only the strong will survive!

Now if you'll excuse me, the open road is calling Vault Dwellers! Destiny beckons! It is time to test my mettle, and see if years of 12-hour film fests, and staying up super late on a daily basis is enough training to sit through 24 hours of awesome!

I hope you all have a Happy and safe Halloweekend my friends! Eat candy, go trick r' treating, watch Horror films and TV shows, hit up a party, and just revel in the coolest holiday of the year! While I'm away, head over to the main site and read dozens of Horror-themed articles from the archives, or listen in to one of our Vault-Cast Halloween episodes!

Also, if you are looking for anything to do this weekend:

Newt Wallen is running some awesome stuff at The Anthony Wayne Theater (in Wayne, PA), over the next few nights, including TALES FROM THE CRYPT, CREEPSHOW, and THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.

The Mahoning Drive-In (in Lehighton, PA) is playing THE SHINING and MISERY tonight, then CRITTERS and both THE GATE movies tomorrow night.

The Palace Theater in Syracuse is running THE CAR, FLASH GORDON, and ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW tomorrow night!

Have fun gang! I'll see you all upon my return on Monday! HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

New DVDs & Blu-rays for 10/25/2016!

This is the last post about new genre discs for the month of October Vault Dwellers, so drink it all in and have yourselves a fantastic Halloween next Monday! But for now, get excited for another decent week of great releases! Scream Factory has put out a wonderful Collector's Edition of THE EXORCIST III, boasting a plethora of extras and two versions of the film!

Blue Underground delivers a Limited Edition 3-Disc set of MANHATTAN BABY, Severin Films gives BURIAL GROUND (aka THE NIGHTS OF TERROR) a superb Blu-ray disc, and Arrow Video conquers all with their 17-disc Limited (to 2,500) HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS FEAST! It's expensive to be sure, but a great way to enjoy the works of the late "Godfather of Gore!"

There's a lot of other cool stuff out now, so scroll down to see what's new!


NEW TO DVD & BLU-RAY
Burial Ground
Lights Out
Nerve
Night of the Grizzly (Olive Signature Series)
Skiptrace
Voodoo Rising
Vampire Ecstasy / Sin You Sinners (Double Feature)
Wolf Lake


NEW TO BLU-RAY
Batman V Superman / Mad Max: Fury Road / San Andreas (4K UHD)
The Curse of Dr. Wolffenstein
Deathrow Gameshow
The Exorcist III (Collector's Edition)
The Id
Mad Max High Octane Anthology Collection (w/ Interceptor)
Manhattan Baby (3-Disc Limited Edition)
The Majorettes
Murder Weapon / Deadly Embrace (Double Feature)
Nightmare Sisters
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie


NEW TO DVD
A Better Place
Bruce Lee: Tracking the Dragon
Feed the Devil
Fight Alley
Girl in Woods
Killbillies
The Lost Films of Bill Zebub
Meathead Goes Hog Wild
The Midnight Swim
Razors: The Return of Jack the Ripper
SIN (Self-Induced Nightmares)
Subterranea
The Trail of Dracula
Up the Academy
Within These Walls


NEW MULTI-FILM COLLECTIONS ON BLU-RAY
The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast (Limited Edition)
Contains: Blood Feast, Scum of the Earth, Two Thousand Maniacs!, Moonshine Mountain, Color Me Blood Red, Something Weird, The Gruesome Twosome, A Taste of Blood, She-Devils on Wheels, Just for the Hell of It, How to Make a Doll, The Wizard of Gore, The Gore Gore Girls, and This Stuff' ll Kill Ya.


NEW MULTI-FILM COLLECTIONS ON DVD
Storefront Theater Collection: Volume #2 - Bizarre Art
Contains: Dr. Sexual and Mr. Hyde, Hotter Than Hell, Come Deadly, Rites of Uranus, House of De Sade, and Mania.

The Anthony Wayne Theater is screening a trio of Horror classics this Halloweekend!

For those of you in the Wayne, PA area and absolutely nothing to do this weekend, Newt Wallen's REEL CULT series has got you covered! This Friday - Sunday, see two of the best Horror anthologies ever made, plus a Universal classic! For a mere $7.00 you may enter the haunted halls of The Anthony Wayne Theater and take in digital screenings of these awesome fright flicks...

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28TH @ 11:30 PM
TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1972)
This is the grand-daddy of all Horror anthologies and should not be missed! Five strangers meet The Crypt Keeper and witness their own deaths, in five brilliant vignettes! A woman gets a scary visit from Santa, an unfaithful husband has a ghastly vision of his future, a kindly Peter Cushing seeks vengeance from the grave, a woman discovers that she should be careful what she wishes for, and a cruel landlord is punished by the tenants of his poorly run home for the blind. TALES FROM THE CRYPT is a brilliant anthology film that balances the laughs and scares perfectly! Don't miss it!



SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29TH @ 11:30 PM
CREEPSHOW (1982)
This awesome anthology maintains the feel of pulp Horror magazines and comics, as it unspools in a series of tales involving zombies, monsters, "meteor shit," and killer cockroaches! Penned by Stephen King (who stars in one of the more lighthearted stories), directed by George A. Romero, with special makeup f/x by Tom Savini, and an awesome cast that includes Adrienne Barbeau, Leslie Nielsen, Hal Holbrook, Ted Danson, Ed Harris, and Tom Atkins, CREEPSHOW has all the makings of a true Horror classic!



SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30TH @ 8:00 PM
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935)
It turns out that Frankenstein's Monster was not destroyed by a mob of torch-wielding peasants in the original film, and is one lonely guy. That's why Victor Frankenstein teams up with another mad scientist (Dr. Pretorious, played by Ernest Thesinger) to create a mate for his invincible creation. Will it be love at first sight, or will The Monster experience heartbreak for the first time?! Watch this fantastic film to find out!

THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN was one of the first Horror sequels to ever be made, and features some truly iconic moments. It's super rare for it to be played in a theater in any format, so treat yourself this Halloweekend and see it!



There's a lot of other cool screenings coming up this year at The Anthony Wayne Theater! Check out the roster below and get excited because they'll be playing great midnight movies every month, featuring the likes of Ed Wood and Sonny Chiba!

New DVDs & Blu-rays for 10/18/2016!

Egads! There's only 12 more days 'til Hall-O-ween! (Sil-ver Sham-rock!) And this week, all of our favorite distributors are cranking out awesome must-own titles that will help us celebrate the greatest of all holidays!

Criterion Collection has released a Guillermo del Toro trilogy set that includes PAN'S LABYRINTH, CHRONOS, and THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE, Kino Lorber debuts FUZZ (think of it as proto-POLICE ACADEMY) and THE PIT, while Scream Factory delivers WHAT WE BECOME, and a fantastic Collector's Edition of CHILD'S PLAY!

Arrow Video leaps into the fray with a 2-disc Special Edition of BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR (a consolation prize for those that missed out on the 3-disc Limited Edition), Lionsgate's Vestron Collector's Series adds WAXWORK & WAXWORK II: LOST IN TIME to their already impressive library, and Olive Films comes out swinging with GAS-S-S-S, THE RETURN OF DRACULA, and SPECIAL EFFECTS.

Also, SALEM'S LOT, STEPHEN KING'S IT, and STEPHEN KING'S CAT'S EYE are all now available EVERYWHERE! If you've missed out on them at Best Buy and other brick & mortar stores, you can now easily obtain them online at Amazon and other e-tailers!

There's plenty of other great stuff out this week, so scroll down to see what's new fellow collectors!


NEW TO DVD & BLU-RAY
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Bates Motel: Season 4
Cobra: The Animation - The Complete Series
Fuzz (1972)
Gas-S-S-S
Independence Day: Resurgence
Pan's Labyrinth (Criterion Collection)
The Pit
The Return of Dracula
Serial Killer 1
Trilogia de Guillermo Del Toro (Criterion Collection)


NEW TO BLU-RAY
Body Snatchers (1993)
Bride of Re-Animator (2-Disc Special Edition)
Child's Play (Collector's Edition)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Supreme Cinema Series Blu & 4K UHD)
Escaflowne: The Movie
Ghost Rider & Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (Double Feature)
Nighthawks (Shout Select)
Legion & Priest (Double Feature)
Salem's Lot
Special Effects
Stephen King's Cat's Eye
Stephen King's IT
The Vision of Escaflowne: The Complete Series and Movie
Waxworks Compilation
What We Become


NEW TO DVD
Black Road
The Caretaker
Dead Men Walk
The Digital Dead - Return of the Zombies
Doctor Who: Weeping Angels
Ghost Team
Hillbilly Bloodbath
The Three Stooges: The Complete Collection
Vampyres
Witches of Breastwick 1 & 2 (Double Feature)

2016's NEW HALLOWEEN VAULT-CAST IS HERE!

Here's an early Halloween treat just for you Vault Dwellers: A new (mobile) Vault-Cast is up on the web for your listening pleasure, and just in time for our favorite holiday!

Recorded on the way to a screening of "Shin Godzilla" (review and podcast coming soon!), we dodged potholes and bad drivers as we waxed nostalgic about our favorite Halloween programming and films, and shared our thoughts on several hidden gems that we recently unearthed (i.e. THE HOUSE WHERE EVIL DWELLS and DESTROYER)!

Admittedly, the audio quality could be better (we didn't realize there would be so much background noise when we recorded it on the open road), but rest assured that we did our best to reduce it in post-production. You can stream or download this new episode now at LibSyn, or listen to it instantly on YouTube below! (Or look for it on iTunes later this week!)

Thanks for listening Vault Dwellers - we hope you enjoy!


Also a really big special thanks to Vault-Cast fan Chuck Connors for supplying us with a new intro! If you like it, check out his other work at Slicely Studios on SoundCloud!

New DVDs & Blu-rays for 10/11/2016!

Only 19 days left 'til Hall-O-ween! Sil-ver Sham-rock! October is rapidly passing us by Vault Dwellers, and this week we are nailed with another huge does of genre titles on DVD & Blu-ray! Brace yourselves!

Scream Factory (who is in the midst of another kick-ass SHOCKTOBER SALE) has finally unveiled their fantastic must-own Collector's Editions of CARRIE and John Carpenter's THE THING, Arrow Video leaps into the fray with a 2-disc Special Edition of DARK WATER, and a great Limited Edition Blu-ray of the original THE HILLS HAVE EYES, and there are now multiple TWILIGHT ZONE releases, so that you can complete your personal collection! Get your favorite episodes, pick up any seasons you might be missing, or go hog wild and buy the complete series at an affordable price!

And this is just the tip of the iceberg this week, so be sure to scroll down to see all the new stuff you can add to your collections this week!


NEW TO DVD & BLU-RAY
Boiling Point
Ghostbusters (2016)
Hannibal: The Complete Series
Insane
The Ip-Man Trilogy
Knight Rider: The Complete Series
The Legend of Tarzan
The Twilight Zone: Season 1
The Twilight Zone: Season 2
The Twilight Zone: Season 3
The Twilight Zone: Season 4
The Twilight Zone: Season 5
Twilight Zone: Fan Favorites
Violent Cop


NEW TO BLU-RAY
The Astro Zombies
Carrie (Collector's Edition)
Dark Water: 2-Disc Special Edition
Ghostheads
The Hills Have Eyes (Limited Edition)
Krampus
Middle-Earth: Complete Limited Collector's Edition
Nurse Jill


NEW MULTI-FILM BLU-RAY COLLECTIONS
Clint Eastwood 4-Movie Thriller Collection
Contains: Coogan's Bluff, The Beguiled, Play Misty for Me, and The Eiger Sanction.

The Old Dark House Mystery Collection Volume 1
Contains: One Frightened Night, House on Haunted Hill (1959), Fog Island, Topper Returns, The bat (1960), Ghost Train, The Monster Walks, Black Abbot, The Phantom, and Thirteenth Guest.


NEW TO DVD
2 Jennifer
555
After School Massacre
American Freakshow
American Slasher
Approaching the Unknown
Atomic Zombies!!!
Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
Bitten: Seasons 1 - 3
Captain Lust
City in Panic
Club Lingerie
The Coffin Footage
The Devil's Forest
Do Unto Others
The Flytrap
Ghosts in the Machine
The Girl in the Photographs
Halloween Party
The Inhabitants
The Invoking 3: Poltergeist Dimensions
Killer Ink
Kolchak - The Night Stalker: The Complete Series \
Krush Groove
The Munsters: A Scary Little Christmas
Out of Print
Pandorica
Paranormal Sexperiments
Phantom of the Theatre
Plan Z
Possessed from Beyond: Horrors of the Paranormal
Punkettes
Rotgut
Sliders: The Complete Series
Slink
Spellbound
Surgikill
Tales of Poe
Trust Your Photographer
Twilight Zone: The 5th Dimension Collector's Set
Twilight Zone: Classic Christmas Episodes
Twilight Zone: The Complete Series
Twilight Zone: The Essential Episodes
Twilight Zone: More Fan Favorites


NEW MULTI-FILM COLLECTIONS ON DVD
3-Munster Laugh Pack:
Contains: Munster Go Home, The Munsters' Revenge, and Munsters - A Family Portrait.

A Werewolf in the Amazon Collection
Contains: A Werewolf in the Amazon, The Scarlet Scorpion, The Seven Vampires, The Secret of the Mummy, and a collection of 16mm short films by director Ivan Cardoso.