British label 88 Films has confirmed that it will add to its Blu-ray catalog a number of new titles. Amongst them are George McCowan's
Frogs, C. Courtney Joyner's
Lurking Fear, and Robert Resnikoff's
The First Power.
Prozzie
A young girl witnesses the murder of her prostitute mother by a client, and later becomes a hooker herself in order to seek revenge. Starring Suzanna Love, Robert Walker Jr., and Jeff Winchester.
Special Features:
- NEW 2K scan supervised by director Ulli Lommel
- Video interview with cinematographer Dave Sperling
- An illustrated booklet featuring an essay by Dr. Caluim Waddell
- Reversible sleeve.
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 12.
The First Power
How do you stop a killer with immortal powers? Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba) stars as a hotshot L.A. homicide detective caught in a harrowing game with a man who lives to kill - and cannot die - in this psychological thriller that transcends mortal terror! After a long, gruesome hunt. Detective Russell Logan (Phillips) finally captures the brutal Pentagram Killer (Jeff Kober), and watches as the murderer is executed at San Quentin. Finally, the terror is over... or is it? Charged with bone-chilling suspense and otherworldly evil, The First Power will scare the devil out of you!
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 10.
Frogs
Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back...
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 24.
Lurking Fear
John Martense (Blake Bailey) has just been released from prison after serving five years for a crime he didn't commit. John wants to stay as far away from the wrong side of the law as he can ... but family ties won't let him. John gets a message to see Specs (Vincent Schiavelli), an old friend and undertaker with a taste for larceny. Specs gives John a map of a cemetery where a corpse stuffed with a half a million dollars has been buried. John's father stole the money with his psychotic partner Bennett (Jon Finch) but hid the body, leaving it as a family legacy for his son to dig up. John reluctantly takes off for Leffertt's Corners, a small town with a terrible secret. For years the Corners have been torn apart - the people devoured by a race of cannibalistic genetic freaks living in the tunnels below the cemetery.
Thunderstorms bring the creatures out - to feed. John finds the cemetery next to an old church. He barely sets foot in the graveyard when he's stopped by Cathryn (Ashley Rae Lauren), a beautiful girl with a .45 automatic in her hand. Cathryn's laced the cemetery with dynamite and armed herself to destroy the creatures' nest once and for all...and tonight John's in the way.
Cathryn John into the church where Dr. Haggis (Jeffrey Combs), Father Poole (Paul Mantee) and Beth (Luana Stoica) ready themselves for bloody battle with the monsters. As a storm approaches, and Cathryn is about to blow up the nest, Bennett arrives with his goons to take the group hostage and reclaim the buried money. Can the two groups band together and overcome "The Lurking Fear" ... or will they be the next victims?
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 17.
Prison
Creedmore Prison becomes a supernatural battleground when the specter of Charlie Forsythe, a man executed for murder, returns seeking vengeance from the brutal guard, Ethan Sharpe, who was aware of his innocence. The lives of the inmates hang in the balance as Forsythe and Sharpe lock in demonic combat. Featuring Viggo Mortensen in an early role.
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 10.
Black Magic
In this outrageous horror hit from Hong Kong's legendary Shaw Brothers, a young couple engaged to be married, Hsu Lo (Ti Lung, Legend of the Drunken Master) and Wang Chu-ying (Lily Li, Shaolin Executioner), are tormented by sexy widow Lo Yin (Tanny Tien Ni, The Magic Blade), who consults a necromancer to cast a love spell on the unwilling object of her affections. Unfortunately, the scheming sorcerer has plans of his own that lead to horrific consequences for everyone involved, with a spellbinding finale that pits two magicians against each other in the ultimate battle between light and darkness!
STREET DATE: OCTOBER 24.