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Home- March 11, 2021
Inner Sanctum Mysteries: The Complete Film Series Blu-ray Movie
Calling Dr. Death / Weird Woman / Dead Man's Eyes / The Frozen Ghost / Strange Confession / Pillow of Death | Eureka Classics
Eureka Entertainment | 1943-1945 | 6 Movies | 379 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | Jan 18, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Death, dementia, dark arts… it’s just another day in the forbidding and fascinating world of the Inner Sanctum! Based on the popular radio shows of the 1940’s, horror icon Lon Chaney, Jr., gives timeless performances in six spooky feature-length films.
Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Calling Dr. Death Blu-ray Movie
Eureka Entertainment | 1943 | 63 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A distraught doctor is tormented by voices in his head that are urging him to end his unhappy marriage - forever.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Weird Woman Blu-ray Movie
Eureka Entertainment | 1944 | 63 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Professor Norman Reed falls in love with and marries an exotic woman named Paula while on vacation in the South Seas. When they return to his hometown, she is greeted coolly by much of the community, especially Illona, who felt that Reed was hers. Strange things begin to happen, including the death of a colleague, which turns people against her even more, especially as she believes in voodoo and other supernatural phenomena. Reed must work hard to prove her innocence and find the real culprit behind the strange doings. Later remade twice as 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒂𝒈𝒍𝒆 a.k.a. 𝑩𝒖𝒓𝒏, 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉, 𝑩𝒖𝒓𝒏 (1962) and 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔' 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒘 (1980).
Horror / Mystery
Dead Man's Eyes Blu-ray Movie
Eureka Entertainment | 1944 | 64 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Artist Dave Stuart is blinded by a jealous assistant. The father of his fiance offers an operation to restore his sight, but Stuart will have to wait until the man dies. The benefactor dies a premature death and Stuart becomes a suspect.
Horror / Mystery
The Frozen Ghost Blu-ray Movie
Eureka Entertainment | 1945 | 61 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Things are certainly not what they seem when a hypnotist takes refuge in the spectacular mansion of a female friend who made her money from a creepy wax museum.
Horror / Mystery / Romance
Strange Confession Blu-ray Movie
Eureka Entertainment | 1945 | 62 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Jeff Carter (Lon Chaney Jr.) is a scientist who is working on a medicine which would cure the flu. Carter's duplicitous boss Roger Graham (J. Carrol Naish) sends him on a business trip to South America, and uses his absence to steal Carter's uncompleted formula, as well as the affections of his wife Mary (Brenda Joyce). When Carter returns home and discovers what Graham has done, he plots a grisly revenge. Strange Confession was a remake of the 1934 Claude Rains vehicle The Man Who Reclaimed His Head.
Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Pillow of Death Blu-ray Movie
Eureka Entertainment | 1945 | 66 min | Rated BBFC: 12 | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Attorney Wayne Fletcher (Lon Chaney, Jr.) intends to divorce his wife and marry his secretary, Donna Kincaid (Brenda Joyce), who comes from a wealthy family. When the wife is found suffocated to death, he naturally becomes the suspect. As others are killed in the same manner and a phony medium, Julian Julian (J. Edward Bromberg) also claims Fletcher is guilty, Fletcher begins to imagine his dead wife is communicating with him, making it even more difficult for him to prove his innocence.
Crime / Horror / Mystery
- March 10, 2021
Twice Dead Blu-ray Movie
Sold Out/OOP
Shout Factory | 1988 | 87 min | Rated R | Feb 23, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
The Cates family is thrilled to learn they have inherited the old mansion of the deranged, stage actor, Tyler Walker. They arrive to discover that the mansion has turned into a playground for a local street gang. But the gang is not all the Cates children have to worry about as Tyler's ghost makes it known he is not pleased with their intrusion.
Horror / Thriller / Supernatural
Touki Bouki Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1973 | 91 min | Not rated | Mar 09, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical.
Drama / Foreign
The Terror Within / The Terror Within II Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1989-1991 | 173 min | Rated R | May 05, 2026 | Brian Orndorf
No synopsis for this title.
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi
The Terror Within Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1989 | 88 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf
No synopsis for this title.
Horror / Sci-Fi
The Terror Within II Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1991 | 85 min | Rated R | No Release Date | Brian Orndorf
In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when the mutants break inside humanity's final stronghold, the battle for survival pits the human colonists against their deadly invaders miles below the earth's surface.
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi
Dragon Ball Z: Season 8 Blu-ray Movie
FUNimation Entertainment | 1994-1995 | 775 min | Rated TV-PG | Mar 02, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
The evil wizard Babidi will stop at nothing to fulfill his father's thwarted dreams of universal domination. Supreme Kai enlists Goku and the Z-Fighters to stop Babidi and his powerful acolytes before the deadly monster Majin Buu is awakened!
Action / Adventure / Anime / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Martial arts / Comic book / Foreign
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 2 Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / Blu-ray + CD
Aniplex | 2019 | 325 min | Rated 13+ | Nov 24, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
In Taishō-era Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted and intelligent boy who lives with his family. He has become his family's sole source of income after the passing of his father. Everything changes when his family is attacked and slaughtered by a demon. Tanjiro and his sister Nezuko are the sole survivors of the incident, with Nezuko being transformed into a demon, but still surprisingly showing signs of human emotion and thought. After an encounter with Giyū Tomioka, a demon slayer, Tanjiro is recruited by Giyū to also become a demon slayer to help his sister turn human again and avenge the deaths of the rest of his family. Tanjiro keeps training until becoming a demon slayer and this is where his mission starts.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Martial arts / Comic book / Foreign
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 1 Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / Blu-ray + CD
Aniplex | 2019 | 325 min | Rated 13+ | Jun 30, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
In Taishō-era Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted and intelligent boy who lives with his family. He has become his family's sole source of income after the passing of his father. Everything changes when his family is attacked and slaughtered by a demon. Tanjiro and his sister Nezuko are the sole survivors of the incident, with Nezuko being transformed into a demon, but still surprisingly showing signs of human emotion and thought. After an encounter with Giyū Tomioka, a demon slayer, Tanjiro is recruited by Giyū to also become a demon slayer to help his sister turn human again and avenge the deaths of the rest of his family. Tanjiro keeps training until becoming a demon slayer and this is where his mission starts.
Action / Adventure / Anime / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Martial arts / Comic book / Foreign
- March 09, 2021
Breakdown Blu-ray Movie
Imprint #29
Imprint | 1997 | 93 min | Rated ACB: M | Feb 24, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A man searches for his missing wife after his car breaks down in the middle of the desert.
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Psychological thriller
The Deep Blu-ray Movie
Imprint #28
Imprint | 1977 | 124 min | Rated ACB: M | Dec 30, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A couple on a romantic holiday in Bermuda discover a sunken wreck of a WWII freighter. This discovery leads them to have a run-in with local criminals.
Adventure / Mystery / Thriller
My Hero Academia: Season Four: Part Two Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
FUNimation Entertainment | 2020 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Feb 16, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
The Yakuza make their move with a new drug that nullifies quicks, and a little girl is being experimented on to create it! Luckily, she runs into Deku and Mirio while they're out on patrol, launching them on dangerous rescue mission with the pros.
Action / Anime / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Teen / Comic book / Foreign
My Hero Academia: Season Four: Part Two Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition / Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
FUNimation Entertainment | 2020 | 300 min | Rated TV-14 | Feb 16, 2021 | Neil Lumbard
The Yakuza make their move with a new drug that nullifies quicks, and a little girl is being experimented on to create it! Luckily, she runs into Deku and Mirio while they're out on patrol, launching them on dangerous rescue mission with the pros.
Action / Anime / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Teen / Comic book / Foreign
Lust for a Vampire Blu-ray Movie
Shout Factory | 1971 | 96 min | Rated R | Jul 30, 2019 | Dr. Stephen Larson
Through the unholy rites of black magic, the notorious female vampire Carmilla Karnstein is reincarnated as a luscious young debutante (stunning Swedish starlet Yutte Stensgaard). But when the depraved seductress is enrolled at an exclusive girls' school, she begins to inflame the desires of her fellow students as well as her weak-willed teacher (Ralph Bates). Can these perverse hungers be quenched by the mere taste of blood or will an entire village be unwittingly consumed by their LUST FOR A VAMPIRE? Directed by Jimmy Sangster (THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN, DRACULA: PRINCE OF DARKNESS)
Horror / Erotic