Here’s what’s playing on Shudder this month. Click on any title with a hyperlink to see our review.

August 1: Dagon, Dolls, The Dunwich Horror, From Beyond, The Haunted Palace, Manfish, Vampire and Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break

August 7: Tower: A Bright Day and Monument

August 11: The Communion Girl

August 14: Elizabeth Harvest, A Dark Song, American Latina

August 18: Bad Things

August 21: Sea Fever

August 25: Amigo, Time of Moulting and School’s Out

Don’t have Shudder? Plans start at under $5 a month and you can get the first week free when you visit Shudder.

A disgraced, alcoholic surgeon moves with his family to a small town in New Hampshire. Unknown to them, the entire town is populated with werewolves, some good and others very evil. They soon find themselves thrust into an ancient, mystical battle between the wolf packs that will change their family furever. An astoundingly ambitious and riveting example of pure outsider cinema, Lycan Colony’s reputation is well earned as every bizarre creative decision unfolds and you are dropped into its metaphysical alternate reality.

Lycan Colony is coming out October 24 from our friends at Visual Vengeance. And guess what? Bill and I did commentary for it!

A pair of paranormal investigators are making their nightly rounds on the seedy streets of New York City when they encounter a group of party-hopping girls looking for a warehouse rave – who have also just accidentally opened a portal to hell. What follows is a night of practical effects monster mayhem as the group try to save themselves, and the entire planet, from a demonic invasion. The first feature from prolific 1990s Shot-On-Video writer, producer, director Kevin J. Lindenmuth, Vampires and Other Stereotypes delivers both the creatures and characters that perfectly illustrate the kind of homemade, offbeat genre movies that the video store era brought forth.

This comes out October 24 from Visual Vengeance and has 7 hours of bonus content!

The limited edition slipcase includes a new director-supervised SD master from 1-inch tape, three commentary tracks (director Kevin Lindenmuth; actor Mick McCleery and Lindenmuth; Tony Strauss of Weng’s Chop Magazine), interviews with Lindenmuth, Laura McLauchlin, Mick McCleery, Suzanne Turner, Sally Narkis, Ralis Kahn, Scott Sliger, Sung Pak and Joe Mauceri, as well as behind the scenes images, Lindenmuth’s early Super 8 films, a trailer, liner notes by Tony Strauss of Weng’s Chop Magazine, a poster and a sticker set.

Over the next few months, there will be several themes and this is a great way to get started writing for the site. It’s easy to get started. Either respond to this post or email Sam at BandSAboutMovies@gmail.com

Here’s what’s coming up…

September: The movies of USA Up All Night

If a movie was on USA Up All Night, it’s fair game. There are 729 of them and this Letterboxd list will guide you through which movies are eligible. There are no rules other than to have fun — no set word or character counts and you can send me your article in whatever format you want. You can even write about how much you loved the show or the hosts. Please send any articles by September 15, 2023 for inclusion as well as any plugs and a bio.

October: The movies of Chiller Theater

Instead of the traditional slasher month, this year I’ll be featuring movies that “Chilly” Bill Cardille aired in Pittsburgh on the former WIIC (now WPXI) Channel 11. To help you, this Letterboxd list has all 638 movies that were on the show. You can also write about what Chiller Theatre and the people on the show meant to you. Again, no rules, other than please have it to me by October 15, 2023.

November: Mill Creek month

Every November is Mill Creek month. Please have all articles to me by November 15, 2023. This time, there are two sets to choose from:

Sci-Fi Classics: Choose from fifty science fiction movies, which you can find on this Letterboxd or IMDB list. You can get the set from Amazon. There are some used ones for $3.49!

• The Alpha Incident
• The Amazing Transparent Man
• Assignment: Outer Space
• The Astral Factor
• The Atomic Brain
• Attack of the Monsters
• Battle of the Worlds
• Blood Tide
• The Brain Machine
• Bride of the Gorilla
• Colossus and the Amazon Queen
• Cosmos: War of the Planets
• Crash of the Moons
• Destroy All Planets
• Eegah
• First Spaceship on Venus
• The Galaxy Invader
• Gamera the Invincible
• Gamera vs. Guiron
• Gamera vs. Viras
• Giants of Rome
• Hercules Against the Moon Men
• Hercules and the Captive Women
• Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon
• Hercules Unchained
• Horrors of Spider Island
• The Incredible Petrified World
• Killers From Space
• Kong Island
• Laser Mission
• The Lost Jungle
• Menace from Outer Space
• Mesa of Lost Women
• Monstrosity
• Moon of the Wolf
• Phantom From Space
• The Phantom Planet
• Planet Outlaws
• Prehistoric Women
• Queen of the Amazons
• Robot Monster
• She Gods of Shark Reef
• The Snow Creature
• Snowbeast
• Son of Hercules: The Land of Darkness
• Teenagers From Outer Space
• They Came From Beyond Space
• Unknown World
• Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
• Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
• Warning From Space
• The Wasp Woman
• White Pongo
• The Wild Women of Wongo
• Zonar: The Thing from Venus

The Swingin’ Seventies: Choose from fifty movies from the 1970s, which you can find on this Letterboxd or IMDB list. You can get the set from Amazon. There are some used ones for $3.47!

Movies include:

• Against a Crooked Sky
• The Border
• The Borrowers
• C.C. and Company
• Cold Sweat
• Concrete Cowboys
• Congratulations, It’s a Boy!
• The Cop in Blue Jeans 
• Hannah, Queen of the Vampires
• David Copperfield
• The Death of Richie
• The Deadly Trap
• Identikit
• Evel Knievel
• Fair Play
• Firehouse
• The Four Deuces
• Get Christie Love! 
• Good Against Evil
• The Gun and the Pulpit
• The Hanged Man
• How Awful About Allan
• James Dean
• Jane Eyre
• Jory
• Katherine
• The Klansman
• Las Vegas Lady
• F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
• Maybe I’ll Come Home in the Spring
• Rulers of the City
• Mr. Sycamore
• The New Adventures of Heidi
• The Proud and Damned
• A Real American Hero
• The River Niger
• Rogue Male
• Stunts
• The Swiss Conspiracy
• The Squeeze
• They Call It Murder
• To All My Friends On Shore
• The Treasure of Jamaica Reef
• Wacky Taxi
• The Baby Sitter
• The War of the Robots
• Warhead
• The Werewolf of Washington
• The Young Graduates

While I can’t pay for your writing, you’ll get seen by around 50,000+ unique viewers a month, I’ll share your post on our social media and will write something for your site in kind, if you’d like.

Above all else, this should be fun. I hope to meet some new people and get some new writers for the site.

I loved Arrow Video’s Vengeance Trails set and am excited that they have released a second series of movies made in the Italian West. The title Blood Money is one that this set lives up to because each of its heroes has a trail of vengeance and pain to ride down, one littered with the bodies of their enemies and loved ones.

Here are the movies in this set:

$10,000 Blood Money: Django (Gianni Garko) is a bounty killer who doesn’t go after any target until they’re worth $10,000. When he meets his latest bounty, Manuel Vasquez (Claudio Camaso), they decide to work together to make even more money and it costs him more than he can even imagine.

Vengeance Is Mine: John Forest (Gianni Garko) has spent ten years in prison for the death of his father, a murder that his half-brother Clint (Claudio Camaso) committed. Now a bounty hunter, he decides to go after his sibling but promises his dying mother that he will bring him in alive and never take the first shot at him.

Find a Place To Die: Lisa (Pascale Petit) escapes with her life while her geologist husband does not. She hires Collins (Jeffrey Hunter), a former Confederate officer, and another gang to gain revenge. But all that gold that Lisa and her husband had found — plus her beauty — put everyone against each other.

Matalo! (Kill Him): One of the weirdest Italian Westerns, Matalo! is the only one I’ve seen with a boomerang shot from the POV. Claudia Gravy is also an absolute force of savagery in this, an anger-filled monster tougher than any of the men.

As always with Arrow, the quality of these films, the extras and the packaging are at the absolute peak of anything else out there. This is honestly a perfect release for me. Although I may have many of these movies, they’re the exact opposite of the quality here, all packed together on old DVD 50 packs. Seeing them in these new transfers is almost like watching an entirely new set of movies.

The Arrow Blood Money: Four Western Classics Vol. 2 set has 2K restorations of all four films from the original 35mm camera negatives by Arrow Films, original Italian and English front and end titles, restored lossless original Italian and English soundtracks, English subtitles for the Italian soundtracks, brand new introductions to each film by journalist and critic Fabio Melelli, galleries for all four films, an illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing by author and critic Howard Hughes, a fold-out double-sided poster featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx and limited edition packaging with reversible sleeves featuring original artwork and a slipcover featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx.

You can get it from MVD.

All four movies are also available on the ARROW player. Head over to ARROW to start your 30-day free trial (subscriptions are available for $4.99 monthly or $49.99 yearly). ARROW is available in the US, Canada and the UK on the following Apps/devices: Roku (all Roku sticks, boxes, devices, etc), Apple TV & iOS devices, Android TV and mobile devices, Fire TV (all Amazon Fire TV Sticks, boxes, etc), and on all web browsers at https://www.arrow-player.com.

Ed Glaser has posted two new videos and a revised one, too!

You can get Ed’s book, How the World Remade Hollywood, from McFarland Books. To see some of these movies and hear from Ed, check out the entire channel at Deja View: Remakes and Rip-Offs of Your Favorite Films.

3 Dev Adam: An update of a video we just shared a few weeks ago, Ed keeps finding amazing info!

Shocking Dark: One of my favorite movies ever, this combines Terminator and Aliens all in one wonderful concoction.

Our Friend Power 5: Ninja Turtles meet remixed robots in this South Korean movie made to sell toys!

Support Ed and all his amazing work!

Coming up this September at the Riverside Drive-In is the Drive-In Super Monster Rama! plays for two awesome nights! For just $30 ($15 a night), you get eight astounding movies! Make your travel plans now!

Night one: Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs!, Impulse and Shriek of the Mutilated

Night two: Humanoids from the Deep, Grizzly, Piranha and Day of the Animals

You can hang out with some of the biggest movie fans ever, get great food, buy movies, get a drink from me and so much more. See you September 22 and 23!

Now it can finally be said!

Repligator from director Bret McCormick is coming from Visual Vengeance!

The 1998 sci-fi classic has never been on blu ray! It comes with hours of new and archival bonus content, brand new cast and crew interviews, and oh yeah — Bill and I did one of the commentary tracks!

Plus you get a limited edition O card and x-ray glasses!

Get on it!

September 29 is the day!

The Abomination is coming!

The 1986 splatter classic is being released by Visual Vengeance for the first time ever on blu ray!

5 hours of bonus content! Never before seen outtakes! Behind the scenes!

A limited edition o-card! A 15-page comic book!

A feature length interview with director Bret McCormick!

This is THE release for me of 2023. I couldn’t be more excited.