Scream Factory and Shout Factory Announce May Releases
HomeScream Factory and Shout Factory Announce May Releases
Posted March 2, 2026 06:49 AM by Webmaster
Scream Factory and Shout Factory have revealed their May batch of releases. Among them are: The Haunting (1963), I Love Maria (1988), Snowpiercer: The Complete Series (2020-2024), and The Legend of Hei 2 (2025).
The Haunting 4K Blu-ray
Description: Dr. John Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, takes two specially selected women to Hill House, a reportedly haunted mansion. Eleanor, a lonely, eccentric woman with a supernatural event in her past, and the bold Theodora, who has ESP, join John and the mansion's heir, cynical Luke. They are immediately overwhelmed by strange sounds and events, and Eleanor comes to believe the house is alive and speaking directly to her.
STREET DATE: MAY 26.
I Love Maria 4K Blu-ray
Description: The Hero Gang, a nasty group of thugs, are terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots. But when one of the robots gets damaged during a mission to kill an outcast, an inventor on the police force takes her and changes her programming. The new code, plus a few injuries to her logic center, transforms the automaton into a robot with a real personality.
STREET DATE: MAY 26.
Snowpiercer: The Complete Series
Description: Set more than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, this series centers on the remaining people, who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe. An eight-disc box set.
STREET DATE: MAY 19.
The Legend of Hei 2
Description: When an attack shatters the fragile peace between the spirit world and humanity, cat spirit Hei teams up with Luye, the last disciple of his Shifu Wuxian, to expose a conspiracy that threatens both realms – and the bond they've sworn to protect.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Alligator 4K Blu-ray SteelBook
Description: It lives 50 feet beneath the city. It's 36 feet long. It weighs 2,000 pounds…and it's about to break out! From director Lewis Teague (Cujo) and screenwriter John Sayles (The Howling) comes an unstoppable thriller with bite. A family returning from Florida decides their pet baby alligator is too much to handle and flushes him down the toilet. Meanwhile, Slade Laboratories is conducting secret experiments with animals and disposing of them in the sewer. The alligator, fending for itself, begins to feed on the dead animals, and grows. Now, twelve years later, after several mysterious murders, David Madison (Robert Forster, Jackie Brown) is on the case to find out who…or what…is killing people.
STREET DATE: MAY 19.
Motel Hell 4K Blu-ray SteelBook
Description: It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters! You really are what you eat with Farmer Vincent's smoked meat in this creepy horror yarn which "packs a punch that goes way beyond mere terror" (Boxoffice). Vincent's popular products contain a special ingredient that the psychotic farmer and his sister would literally kill to keep a secret! Starring Rory Calhoun (Angel), Nancy Parsons (Porky's), Nina Axelrod (Time Walker, Cobra) and John Ratzenberger (Cheers), and directed by Kevin Connor (From Beyond The Grave, At The Earth's Core), this darkly funny flick "just might be your cup of meat" (L.A. Herald Examiner)!
STREET DATE: MAY 12.
School Spirit
Description: The only thing keeping college student Billy Batson (Tom Nolan) from the best night of his life with the woman of his dreams is one quick car ride to pick up some "protection." He soon finds out that speeding won't get him where he wants to beany quicker, as he gets in a head-on collision and dies! But hey, who says death has to get in the way of a good time? Returning to campus as a ghost, Billy discovers that the eternal afterlife can be an eternal afterparty! A wild '80s comedy about a wildly sex-crazed specter, School Spirit frequently haunted late-night cable channels and dusty video store shelves.
STREET DATE: MAY 5.
The Warrior and the Sorceress
Description: Welcome to a distant world of exciting battles, exotic women, mystical secrets and evil wizards. Kain (David Carradine) is the last survivor of a mighty warrior tribe. Once an exalted warrior-priest, Kain now wanders the planet as a mercenary sword-for-hire. In one small village, he finds two vicious clans struggling for power. Kain becomes embroiled in the treachery, the battles, the mighty wizardry, and rampant debauchery.
STREET DATE: MAY 5.
Demon of Paradise
Description: The hunters become the prey when illegal dynamite fishing prematurely ends the hibernation of a mythological carnivorous lizard man in Demon Of Paradise! The owner of a local resort (whose patrons have become the appetizers on this predator's menu) and a herpetologist join forces with the sheriff to save the remaining tourists from succumbing to the feasting of the beast.
STREET DATE: MAY 5.
Deathsport
Description: One thousand years in the future, following the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastelands and isolated city states. Lord Zirpola captures the notorious "death ranger" Kaz (David Carradine) to fight to the death in his game, Deathsport. Now Kaz must face his past, fight for his future and save the city from the war that Lord Zirpola is getting ready to wage. Co-starring with Carradine are Claudia Jennings (The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, 'Gator Bait), Jesse Vint (Forbidden World, Macon County Line) and Richard Lynch (The Sword And The Sorcerer, Bad Dreams).
STREET DATE: MAY 5.
The Terror Within / The Terror Within II
THE TERROR WITHIN
In the aftermath of a chemically induced plague that wipes out most of the world, the only survivors are a small group of scientists trapped in a laboratory 500 feet below the ground in the Mojave Desert. But they are not alone ... The Terror Within stars veteran actor George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke), Andrew Stevens (The Fury) and Terri Treas (The Nest).
THE TERROR WITHIN II
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. Andrew Stevens returns to the sequel as actor, writer and director. R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket, Se7en), Burton Gilliam (Blazing Saddles) and Stella Stevens (The Poseidon Adventure) co-star.
STREET DATE: MAY 5.
Crazy Mama / The Lady in Red
CRAZY MAMA
Academy Award® winner* Cloris Leachman stars in Crazy Mama as Melba Stokes, a middle-aged woman who runs a California beauty parlor with her mother Sheba (Ann Sothern) and teenage daughter Cheryl (Linda Purl). When the shop is repossessed, the three ladies take a road trip which turns into a crime spree from California to the family home in Arkansas.
THE LADY IN RED
Pamela Sue Martin stars as the infamous Lady in Red, Polly Franklin, whose red dress served as an identifying beacon for the FBI's murder of public enemy #1, John Dillinger (Robert Conrad) in Lewis Teague's The Lady In Red. From sweatshop to dime-a-dance hall, from prison to house of prostitution, Polly's journey brings her even closer to the gang-run crime world of the '30s…until that fateful day when she met and fell in love with John Dillinger.
STREET DATE: MAY 5.
The Haunting 4K Blu-ray
Description: Dr. John Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, takes two specially selected women to Hill House, a reportedly haunted mansion. Eleanor, a lonely, eccentric woman with a supernatural event in her past, and the bold Theodora, who has ESP, join John and the mansion's heir, cynical Luke. They are immediately overwhelmed by strange sounds and events, and Eleanor comes to believe the house is alive and speaking directly to her.
STREET DATE: MAY 26.
I Love Maria 4K Blu-ray
Description: The Hero Gang, a nasty group of thugs, are terrorizing Hong Kong with their killer robots. But when one of the robots gets damaged during a mission to kill an outcast, an inventor on the police force takes her and changes her programming. The new code, plus a few injuries to her logic center, transforms the automaton into a robot with a real personality.
STREET DATE: MAY 26.
Snowpiercer: The Complete Series
Description: Set more than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, this series centers on the remaining people, who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe. An eight-disc box set.
STREET DATE: MAY 19.
The Legend of Hei 2
Description: When an attack shatters the fragile peace between the spirit world and humanity, cat spirit Hei teams up with Luye, the last disciple of his Shifu Wuxian, to expose a conspiracy that threatens both realms – and the bond they've sworn to protect.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Behind the Scenes with the Animation Team
- Behind the Scenes with the Voice Cast
- Animation Breakdowns
- Teasers and Trailers
Alligator 4K Blu-ray SteelBook
Description: It lives 50 feet beneath the city. It's 36 feet long. It weighs 2,000 pounds…and it's about to break out! From director Lewis Teague (Cujo) and screenwriter John Sayles (The Howling) comes an unstoppable thriller with bite. A family returning from Florida decides their pet baby alligator is too much to handle and flushes him down the toilet. Meanwhile, Slade Laboratories is conducting secret experiments with animals and disposing of them in the sewer. The alligator, fending for itself, begins to feed on the dead animals, and grows. Now, twelve years later, after several mysterious murders, David Madison (Robert Forster, Jackie Brown) is on the case to find out who…or what…is killing people.
STREET DATE: MAY 19.
Motel Hell 4K Blu-ray SteelBook
Description: It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters! You really are what you eat with Farmer Vincent's smoked meat in this creepy horror yarn which "packs a punch that goes way beyond mere terror" (Boxoffice). Vincent's popular products contain a special ingredient that the psychotic farmer and his sister would literally kill to keep a secret! Starring Rory Calhoun (Angel), Nancy Parsons (Porky's), Nina Axelrod (Time Walker, Cobra) and John Ratzenberger (Cheers), and directed by Kevin Connor (From Beyond The Grave, At The Earth's Core), this darkly funny flick "just might be your cup of meat" (L.A. Herald Examiner)!
STREET DATE: MAY 12.
School Spirit
Description: The only thing keeping college student Billy Batson (Tom Nolan) from the best night of his life with the woman of his dreams is one quick car ride to pick up some "protection." He soon finds out that speeding won't get him where he wants to beany quicker, as he gets in a head-on collision and dies! But hey, who says death has to get in the way of a good time? Returning to campus as a ghost, Billy discovers that the eternal afterlife can be an eternal afterparty! A wild '80s comedy about a wildly sex-crazed specter, School Spirit frequently haunted late-night cable channels and dusty video store shelves.
STREET DATE: MAY 5.
The Warrior and the Sorceress
Description: Welcome to a distant world of exciting battles, exotic women, mystical secrets and evil wizards. Kain (David Carradine) is the last survivor of a mighty warrior tribe. Once an exalted warrior-priest, Kain now wanders the planet as a mercenary sword-for-hire. In one small village, he finds two vicious clans struggling for power. Kain becomes embroiled in the treachery, the battles, the mighty wizardry, and rampant debauchery.
STREET DATE: MAY 5.
Demon of Paradise
Description: The hunters become the prey when illegal dynamite fishing prematurely ends the hibernation of a mythological carnivorous lizard man in Demon Of Paradise! The owner of a local resort (whose patrons have become the appetizers on this predator's menu) and a herpetologist join forces with the sheriff to save the remaining tourists from succumbing to the feasting of the beast.
STREET DATE: MAY 5.
Deathsport
Description: One thousand years in the future, following the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastelands and isolated city states. Lord Zirpola captures the notorious "death ranger" Kaz (David Carradine) to fight to the death in his game, Deathsport. Now Kaz must face his past, fight for his future and save the city from the war that Lord Zirpola is getting ready to wage. Co-starring with Carradine are Claudia Jennings (The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, 'Gator Bait), Jesse Vint (Forbidden World, Macon County Line) and Richard Lynch (The Sword And The Sorcerer, Bad Dreams).
STREET DATE: MAY 5.
The Terror Within / The Terror Within II
THE TERROR WITHIN
In the aftermath of a chemically induced plague that wipes out most of the world, the only survivors are a small group of scientists trapped in a laboratory 500 feet below the ground in the Mojave Desert. But they are not alone ... The Terror Within stars veteran actor George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke), Andrew Stevens (The Fury) and Terri Treas (The Nest).
THE TERROR WITHIN II
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. Andrew Stevens returns to the sequel as actor, writer and director. R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket, Se7en), Burton Gilliam (Blazing Saddles) and Stella Stevens (The Poseidon Adventure) co-star.
STREET DATE: MAY 5.
Crazy Mama / The Lady in Red
CRAZY MAMA
Academy Award® winner* Cloris Leachman stars in Crazy Mama as Melba Stokes, a middle-aged woman who runs a California beauty parlor with her mother Sheba (Ann Sothern) and teenage daughter Cheryl (Linda Purl). When the shop is repossessed, the three ladies take a road trip which turns into a crime spree from California to the family home in Arkansas.
THE LADY IN RED
Pamela Sue Martin stars as the infamous Lady in Red, Polly Franklin, whose red dress served as an identifying beacon for the FBI's murder of public enemy #1, John Dillinger (Robert Conrad) in Lewis Teague's The Lady In Red. From sweatshop to dime-a-dance hall, from prison to house of prostitution, Polly's journey brings her even closer to the gang-run crime world of the '30s…until that fateful day when she met and fell in love with John Dillinger.
STREET DATE: MAY 5.
