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Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 2021 | 192 min | Not rated | Dec 07, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films - Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968), Piers Haggard's Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973) - through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre's revival over the last decade. Touching on over 100 films and featuring over 50 interviewees, WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED investigates the many ways that we alternately celebrate, conceal and manipulate our own histories in an attempt to find spiritual resonance in our surroundings.
Documentary
Eyes of Fire Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1983 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 90 min | Rated R | Dec 07, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A preacher is accused of adultery and he and his followers are chased out of town and become stranded in an isolated forest which is haunted by the spirits of long dead Native Americans.
Horror
Leptirica Blu-ray Movie
Лептирица | The She-Butterfly | Limited Edition
Severin Films | 1973 | 65 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young man wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a landowner who refuses to allow the marriage. To prove his worth, the young man becomes a miller in a vampire-infested local mill.
Drama / Horror / Foreign
Witchhammer Blu-ray Movie
Kladivo na čarodějnice / Witches' Hammer / The Witch Hunt
Severin Films | 1969 | 103 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Otakar Vávra's Witchhammer, co-written by Ester Krumbachová (Daisies, Fruit of Paradise) from Václav Kaplický’s 1963 novel, chronicles the series of notorious 17th Century Czech witch trials, undertaken using the infamous ‘Malleus Maleficarum’ (the ‘Witchhammer’ of the title), the Catholic treatise on witchcraft which endorses the extermination of witches and developed a detailed legal and theological theory for this purpose. Using genuine court transcripts from the forced confessions of those accused of sorcery and collusion with the Devil, it is a powerful and often shocking allegory of life under totalitarian rule.
Drama / History / Horror / Foreign
Viy Blu-ray Movie
Вий / Spirit of Evil
Severin Films | 1967 | 77 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In 19th century Russia, a seminary student is forced to spend three nights with the corpse of a beautiful young witch. But when she rises from the dead to seduce him, it will summon a nightmare of fear, desire and the ultimate demonic mayhem. Based on the classic novella by Nikolai Gogol.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Foreign
Lake of the Dead Blu-ray Movie
De dødes tjern
Severin Films | 1958 | 77 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Six friends travel on holiday together to a cabin in Østerdalen, but when they arrive the owner of the cabin is nowhere to be found. Nearby the cabin lies Blåtjern, a lake where legend has it that at night one can hear the screams of a crazy man.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Foreign
Tilbury Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1987 | 56 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In 1940, when there are British forces in Iceland, a country boy goes to Reykjavik to work for the army and to find what became of his childhood sweetheart. He soon discovers that she's having an affair with a British soldier. Moreover, he starts to suspect that the soldier, instead of being an officer and a gentleman, is in fact a very peculiar kind of monster.
Horror / Mystery / Supernatural / Foreign
The Dreaming Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1988 | 87 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A doctor treats a sick aborigine, who had defied a tribal taboo and visited a sacred cave. The doctor soon finds herself having disturbing dreams and finds herself involved in a 200-year-old mystery.
Drama / Horror / Mystery
Kadaicha Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1988 | 88 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
The residents of a housing development find themselves in trouble after they discover that their development was built on top of a sacred aboriginal graveyard, on which a curse was placed upon anyone who disturbed it.
Horror
Celia: Child of Terror Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1989 | 102 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Coming of age
Alison's Birthday Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1981 | 97 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone.
Horror / Supernatural
Wilczyca Blu-ray Movie
She-wolf
Severin Films | 1983 | 98 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Kacper, an ex-guerrilla soldier chased by a female werewolf, realizes that he is possessed by the spirit of his deceased wife Maryna. He also recognizes the same werewolf symptoms in Julia, a predatory countess who has a relationship with an Austrian officer.
Horror / Foreign
Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1970 | 100 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A pastor studying folklore in remote parts of 19th century Lithuania is invited to stay with a young nobleman whose mother, it is whispered, conceived him with a bear.
Horror / Foreign
Clearcut Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1991 | 100 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
Drama / Thriller / Western
The Demon Blu-ray Movie
Il demonio
Severin Films | 1963 | 98 min | Not rated | Oct 15, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Purif, a young peasant from South Italy, is suspected of being a witch possessed by a demon.
Drama / Horror / Foreign
Dark Waters Blu-ray Movie
Temnye vody
Severin Films | 1993 | 92 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A girl travels to an island after the death of her father to find out why the father funded a monastery on the island.
Horror / Foreign
A Field in England Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 2013 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
During the English Civil War, a group of deserters are captured by a mysterious alchemist named O'Neil, who forces them to search for a treasure that is believed to be hidden in a field. Feeding on the abundant mushrooms in the English countryside, they descend into psychological turmoil and begin to suspect that the treasure they have been seeking may be something else altogether.
Drama / Horror / Psychological thriller / Surreal / Period
Anchoress Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1993 | 108 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest (who lusts after her) suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing the villagers. But when the priest has Christine's mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death...
Drama / Horror / Period
Penda's Fen Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1974 | 90 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality.
Comedy / Drama
Robin Redbreast Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1970 | 76 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
After a long-term relationship ends, Norah moves to a remote house in the country. The locals are friendly., if eccentric. She starts a flirtatious relationship with young gamekeeper, Rob. But events at a festival have her feeling manipulated. Only later, do the consequences of that relationship leave her trapped in a nightmare.
Drama / Horror