British label 88 Films has revealed that it is preparing a number of new titles for Blu-ray release. Amongst them are David DeCoteau's
Creepozoids, Antonio Margheriti's
The Long Hair of Death, and Danny Draven's
Reel Evil a.k.a.
Ghost Asylum (2012).
Creepozoids
Synopsis: World War III has turned the world into a smoking cinder. The year is 1998, six years after the nuclear apocalypse, and the fallout continues to plague the survivors with periodic bouts of highly toxic acid rain. A group of army deserters, Bianca (Linnea Quigley) and Kate (Kim McKamy), Butch (Ken Abraham), Jesse (Michael Aranda), and Jake (Richard L. Hawkins), take refuge in a seemingly abandoned laboratory complex.
They soon discover that the lab was once a top-secret government research center gone awry. Still lurking in its corridors, a hideous genetically-engineered monster emerges and a mysterious substance transforms one of them into another deadly creature! Now trapped, the four survivors must destroy the blood-thirsty beasts... or die in their dripping jaws.
STREET DATE: JULY 18.
Slaughter Hotel a.k.a. Cold Blooded Beast
Synopsis: From the maestro of mayhem, Fernando Di Leo (Rulers of the City, Manhunt), comes one of the sleaziest and nastiest slasher films ever made! Starring Klaus Kinski (Herzog's Nosferatu), and two of Europe's most sizzling cinematic sex queens, Margaret Lee (Ricardo Freda's Double Face, Jess Franco's Venus in Furs, Psycho Circus) and Rosalba Neri (Lady Frankenstein, Devil's Wedding Night, The Arena with Pam Grier).
An axe-wielding maniac stalks the beautiful, scantily-clad women of an upscale sanitarium, all under the watchful eye of the mysterious Dr. Keller (Klaus Kinski). Equal and excessive doses of slash and skin make for a very European-style of grindhouse entertainment. They just don't make 'em like this anymore!
STREET DATE: JULY 24.
The Long Hair of Death
Synopsis: After the murder of her mother and sister, Elizabeth Karnstein (Halina Zalewska, Date for a Murder) is taken in by the affluent Count Humboldt and his family. She has been married to his twisted son, Kurt (George Ardisson, Clap, You're Dead), and as a plague sweeps their small village; one prophesised by Elizabeth s mother before her death, the spectre of Elizabeth s older sister, Helen (Barbara Steele, Castle of Blood) appears. During one fateful stormy night, anyone with the surname Humboldt starts to perish one-by-one. Antonio Margheriti (Seven Deaths in a Cat s Eye) strikes again, with this brooding gothic chiller that effortlessly re-captures the magic of his acclaimed classic, Castle of Blood.
STREET DATE: JULY 24.
Ghost Asylum a.k.a. Reel Evil
Synopsis: Struggling filmmakers Kennedy, Cory and James finally catch the break they were looking for when they are hired to shoot a 'behind-the scenes' documentary for a major studio production. But their dream job quickly turns into a nightmare when they explore the legendary, haunted location and find something far worse than anything Hollywood could create. Terror becomes reality for the filmmakers as they uncover the malevolent secrets of the asylum, and the sinister doctor who once ran it. Trapped inside the hospital with no apparent way out, our crew is tormented by the evil, unspeakable fear...
STREET DATE: JULY 10.
I Drink Your Blood
Synopsis: A group of hippies wreak havoc on a small town and a young boy, whose grandfather and sister were attacked by them, decides to get even, with deadly results.
STREET DATE JULY 10.
The Oily Maniac
Synopsis: A cripple takes revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero. A Shaw Brothers production.
STREET DATE: JULY 24.
Hide and Go Shriek
Synopsis: Close your eyes, count to ten, and run for your life...
Hisde and Shriek is one game you ll be dying to finish! Eight friends sneak into a furniture store for an all night graduation party. A game of hide-and-seek turns into a grisly nightmare as members of the group are murdered, one by one, leading the others to the chilling realisation that they could be next. In the terrifying tradition of
Friday the 13th and
Halloween comes
Hide and Shriek, a horrifying game of life and death.
STREET DATE: JULY 10.