Stuart Gordon's Castle Freak - You're Throwback Thursday Horror Film

Master of Horror, Stuart Gordon loves his HP Lovecraft and that's what we surely get with "Castle Freaks"!

Based on the short story "The Outsider" this horror fest went straight to DVD back in '95.

John Reilly inherits a 12th Century castle that once belonged to a famed Duchess. John does what anyone would that just inherited a castle: Let's go spend some time there as we try to sell it ! So, as the song says: He scooped the family and moved to Beverly. Except this Beverly was Italy. However, John and family have no idea that there is a horrible monster (of course there is) being kept under lock and key in the basement. Not only is it a horrible beast but it is the Duchess' own son who she imprisoned there as revenge against her husband who left her.

Soon, the disfigured beast has escaped by means of breaking off his own thumb to get out of the manacles which bind him. The only reference to the H.P. Lovecraft story occurs when the monster beholds his hideous reflection in a mirror. He has emerged hungry for blood, leading to a series of unexplained deaths and disappearances including that of a prostitute John has picked up and brought to the castle after being rejected by his wife. The prostitute is sexually mutilated and killed by the monster

As John becomes the prime focus for the murder by the cops he must figure out what it is that is stalking the interior of his castle before it takes out it's aggression next upon his family. As John investigates he learns what other terrible secrets that not only lie inside the castle but in himself as well. Ending in a climatic roof-top battle. 




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Dark House (Trailer)

Tobin Bell is back and creepy as ever in Victor Salva's (Jeepers Creepers) latest horror flick "Dark House" (aka Haunted). Which will be rolling out later this month (March 14th in Limited Release). Fans of Salva's, I'm sure, we be glad to see him back in action and sticking with the genre that he knows best.

DARK HOUSE follows Nick Di Santo (Luke Kleintank), a man with a special gift that allows him to see how people die by touching them. However, the only deaths he sees are the ones where the person dies in a violent manner. After a visit to his mother in a metal asylum, Nick learns that his father may still be alive. She soon dies not long after, and leaves an old mansion to Nick in her will, prompting him to enlist a few friends and sets out to find it. Unfortunately Nick is told that the town the house is supposedly in has long been dead and buried apparently by a flood that swept through the area years before. Not to be deterred, Nick looks for the house him self and comes across the place out in the middle of nowhere. At the discovery of it, Nick realizes that it is the same place that he has been obsessed with his entire life.

Upon exploring his find, Nick stumbles upon someone who is living there. And the more he explores the more questions that Nick finds about the house and its strange resident and more about himself and the darkness that surrounds them all.




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Crawl or Die aka CRAWL BITCH CRAWL TRAILER

Asked to protect the most valuable thing in human history; trapped in a two  foot tunnel chased by an unknown thing, what do you do?  What do you do?  

Set in a world where a virus has not only made the planet Earth uninhabitable but it has also made women infertile, a group of specially trained soldiers are tasked to protect the most valuable thing in the history of human kind: Protect the last fertile woman.

The mission calls for the team to safely deliver her to mankind's new home dubbed the Blue Planet aka Earth 2. The team sets off thinking that not only is their new home unoccupied but that it is safe. They will, however, they find that belief is wrong, dead wrong, as they are forced to head underground after their arrival on Earth 2. Now left with now options they are forced to maneuver through endless tunnels that decrease in size as they go. All the while chased by a seemingly unstoppable creature that appears immune to the teams bullets and efforts.

Who will survive the deadly cat and mouse game that is Crawl or Die?!





Produced, Written & Directed by Oklahoma Ward starring Nicole Alonso, Crawl or Die is set for a July 2014 release, Crawl or Die (as it is entitled now) is also set to a trilogy.

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Road Train Horror 2010 [Full Movie] ENG

This fun little morsel comes form the land down under. Not the down under that has given us the Hobbit films, but pretty damn close.

Originally entitled "Road Train" but more commonly known as "Road Kill" we follow the exploits of Marcus (Xavier Samuel), Craig (Bob Morley),  Nina (Sophie Lowe) and Liz (Georgina Haig) as they have to confront a monstrous vehicle that runs their SUV off the road as they travel through the Aussie Outback. The quartet survives the crash, although, Craig is injured. Their nemesis, the TRAIN TRUCK, however  is stopped not far from their wrecked vehicle. Liz and Marcus Investigate  and find  the truck empty of the driver.

As Craig and Nina arrive they are assaulted by the driver who is wielding a gun and has hidden in the brush along the side road forcing the group to take the truck. As they speed away to what they think is safety the four find themselves at just the beginning of an even more sinister experience.





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Aleister Crowley Documentary MUST SEE!!-The Wickedest Man In the World D...

The name Crowley invokes images of satanic ceremonies and black magic; orgies with young virgins and the occult; hell, even Led Zeppelin. But who really is that man named  Aleister Crowley, what is really fact and what is fiction? And the man that has ushered in a whole new realm of thinking, and putting what was largely taboo on the for front of the minds of the youth. Decades before the 60's disenfranchised hippies found the name Anton Levy.





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Raze (2013) - Zoe Bell, Doug Jones Movie HD

Zoe Bell (Death Proof) returns to the exploitation genre in Josh C. Waller's "RAZE".

First premiering at New York's Tribeca Film Festival, "RAZE" follows the fate of 49 women as they are kidnapped by the sadistic Elizabeth (Sherilyn Fen)  and Joseph (Doug Jones), a married couple whose idea of a good time is a blood thirsty sporting event where two women are placed in room in some part of their mansion and forced to fight to one of them is dead. There is a catch, however, that ensures that the women fight: You back out, and we'll send somebody out to your unsuspecting family harm.

Although, if you are looking for your standard 70's style Women-in-Prison exploitation film you are going to be disappointed as Waller touts "RAZE" more  in  the  vein of a more  serious,  if it were men that were kidnapped and forced to fight to save their loved ones.

In the end there can only be one.




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Fields of the Dead Official Trailer

2014 looks like it might be a banner year in the horror genre with a plethora of new horror coming out this month (January) and in February as well.

Set for release on February 4th, Fields of the Dead looks like it could be a fun ride even though it comes with your standard stock horror cliche in which will find several college students as they venture out an abandoned farm where they are doing research on some evil events that have taken place in and around the farm. Of course things go wrong when one of the college peeps finds an ancient book in which they unwittingly summon demons.

While as I have stated it's your basic horror cliche the newly released trailer makes it look like it might be fun. As long as audiences get past the Evil Dead type storyline.  We shall see. Myself I'll give it a go. While not original in anyway at least it Fields of the Dead isn't another sequel in a long line of sequels and it's not a reboot/remake in WAY too long of a line of such.

Check out Dread Central for newly released artwork for the film.

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