The Mill Creek Sci-Fi from the Vault set has four films: Creature With the Atom Brain, It Came From Beneath the Sea, 20 Million Miles to Earth and The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock. There are commentary tracks for some of the movies and two featurettes, They Came from Beyond and Fantastic Features.

Here’s an overview of each of the films:

Creature With the Atom Brain: From legendary writer Curt Siodmak (The Wolf Man, Donovan’s Brain) and director Edward L. Cahn (It! The Terror From Beyond Space) comes this smash-bang thriller starring Richard Denning (Creature From The Black Lagoon) as a police doctor hot on the trail of a mob boss who’s hired a scientist to re-animate his dead thugs to do his dirty work! This movie has commentary by Phoef Sutton and Mark Jordan Legon.

It Came from Beneath the Sea: In Ray Harryhousen’s vintage sci-fi thriller, a giant, radioactive octopus makes the mistake of attacking a Navy submarine, prompting the commander to pursue the beast. As the military races to develop a torpedo that will penetrate the octopus’s brain and destroy it, the monstrosity discovers how to survive on land, wreaking havoc in San Francisco. You can listen to commentary by Justin Humphreys and C. Courtney Joyner for this one.

20 Million Miles to Earth: On its way home from Venus, a U.S. Army rocket crashes into the sea leaving Colonel Calder the sole survivor. A sealed container is also recovered containing a gelatinous mass that escapes and grows into a giant, horrific monster. Calder calls in the Army to help fight the monster, but it will take more than man’s weapons to fight the creature.

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock: Lou Costello plays Artie Pinsetter, a would-be inventor who needs to create something in a hurry when his girlfriend is mysteriously turned into a giantess. This wacky spoof of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman and other sci-fi “growth” epics of that era is skillfully helmed by veteran actor/director Sidney Mille. This film has commentary by Larry Strothe, Matt Weinhold, Shawn Sheridan and James Goni from The Monster Party Podcast.

It’s great to have two Ray Harryhausen films on this set. I didn’t have The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock as it’s not on the Abbott and Costello sets, so that’s another reason to purchase this.

You can get Mill Creek‘s Sci-Fi from the Vault from Deep Discount.

March 3: Two documentaries from Paul Joyce debut: Dennis Hopper: Some Kind of Genius and Nothing As It Seems: The Films of Nicolas Roeg.

Plus, Seasons with Re-Animated: The Jeffrey Combs Collection features some of Combs’ most memorable roles in films like Castle Freak, Doctor Mordrid and Lurking Fear.

March 10: Nightmare at Noon and .com for Murder are just part of the Nico Mastorakis: Hellas Raiser event. Greek genre film god Nico Mastorakis has been banging out pulpy thrillers jam-packed full of excitement, action and gore since the 1970s. Other movies include Death Has Blue Eyes, Island of Death, Bloodtide and The Wind.

March 13: A trio of documentaries debuts, focusing on cult classics and those who defined them: Barbarella Forever!, Mike Hodges: A Film-Maker’s Life and Fall Breakers: The Making of The Mutilator.

March 17: Death By Stereo is packed with music and audio-based ARROW features, shorts and extras, including the films LFO, Burst City and Hellbent, plus extras like a music video by effects legend Screamin’ Mad George, a singalong Re-animator dance anthem and Goblin’s Claudio Simonetti discussing the score for Dario Argento’s Deep Red.

The hosts of the Horror Movie Survival Guide podcast Julia Marchese and Teri Gamble have been in training to be Final Girls for over 200 episodes, so they know a thing or two about horror. They’ve picked their favorites from the ARROW archive, including The Deeper You Dig, Season of the Witch, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Hills Have Eyes, The Crazies, Blood Feast, Ringu, Things To Come, Blind Beast, Horrors of Malformed Men, Two Witches, The Stylist, Vampyres, Puppet Master, Children of the Corn, The Italian Connection, The Devil’s Rain and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.

March 28: Knockabout

Head over to ARROW to start watching now. Subscriptions are available for $6.99 monthly or $49.99 yearly. ARROW is available in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland on the following Apps/devices: Roku (all Roku sticks, boxes, devices, etc), Apple TV & iOS devices, Samsung TVs, 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.

From United Blade Entertainment, and featuring Michelle Nuñez from TV’s Ruthless, Gray People is now streaming for free on PLEX TV.

Nick, facing mounting pressure from his mother to find a job and desperately trying to own a start-up, enlists the help of his best friend Kyle, a privileged slacker, living his best life. Running out of time and options, the two are presented an opportunity that they can’t refuse.

Director Romello Blade serves up a story that’s one part satire, one part drama and romance, and all types of bizarre fun.

Isaiah Jimenez, Casey Starchak, Michelle Nuñez, Dennis Mallen, Jana Henry, Cherrelle Ariell, Madi Jarrard, Essex O’Brien, Luis Sanchez, Abi Bais, Lj Ugarte, Austin Janowsky, Susanna Matza, Cole Walsh, Rhonda Cusumano, Rajvi Goswami, Steven Hochman, Juliana Herrin, Adrian Tristan, Nico Hicks, and Don Larson star in a Romello Blade film, now streaming for free on PLEX.

Check out the trailer here.

As we start a new year, Shudder is here with an entire month of films and series. Plans start at under $5 a month and you can get the first week free when you visit Shudder.

Click on any of the links to see an in-depth article on the movie. I would assume there’s a new Joe Bob Valentine’s Day special, but none of the Shudder schedules I’ve seen list that.

February 1: My Bloody Valentine 3D, Return of the Living Dead III, Homebodies, Fear No Evil, Queen of Spades, Baby Blood, Malefique, And Soon the Darkness

February 2: Skinamarink

February 6: Stepfather II, Stepfather III, Last & First Men

February 9: Attachment

February 10: Joe Bob’s Vicious Vegas Valentine

February 13: Nekromantik, Nekromantik 2, Lust for a Vampire, The Final Terror

February 16: The Witch: Subversion, The Witch: Part 2. The Other One

February 20: Nomads

February 24: Nocebo

The February 2023 lineup of ARROW Player leads with the exclusive ARROW release of Dima Ballin and Kat Ellinger’s acclaimed documentary Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World Of Jean Rollin, available February 14.

Here’s what else is on ARROW Player:

February 3: Robert Altman Giggle and Give In, Made In the USA

February 10: Road Games

February 14: Jean Rollin: The Fantastique Collection Part IV has Lost In New York, Dracula’s Fiancee, The Living Dead Girl, Two Orphan Vampires and Zombie Lake.

February 24: King of Karate: The Sonny Chiba Collection with The Street Fighter, Return of the Street Fighter, The Street Fighter’s Last Revenge, Wolf Guy and Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Hiroshima Death Match.

February 28: Millionaire’s Express

ARROW Player will also feature collections of Charles Band: The Puppetmaster (Puppet Master, Doctor Mordrid, Trancers), Killer Tech (.com For Murder, Laguna Ave, Edge of the Axe), Cinematic Void Selections (Deadly Games, Deep Red) and The French Hitchcock: Claude Chabrol (Cop au vin, Madame Bovary, The Swindle).

Head over to ARROW to start watching now. Subscriptions are available for $6.99 monthly or $49.99 yearly. ARROW is available in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland on the following Apps/devices: Roku (all Roku sticks, boxes, devices, etc), Apple TV & iOS devices, Samsung TVs, 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.

Get ready for a brand new issue, the first of 2023.

Issue #24 is one of our best ever, we’ve got many great features for you in these pages. First, we have the final interview that George Barry ever gave before his recent passing. Sam Panico talked to George about his phantasmagorical 1977 film Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, as well as the basics of being a monster kid and the appreciation of fantastic films.

1972’s Scream Bloody Murder was an early effort from Floridian filmmaker Robert J. Emery – currently only available via a 1988 VHS release, this disturbing melodrama sticks in the memories of those who saw it due to its bizarre subject matter. Bill Van Ryn speaks to both Emery and his leading lady in the film, Marlena Lustik, for insight about the creation of this unjustly obscure psychological thriller, which was also known as My Brother Has Bad Dreams.

Steve Wilson talked to director Jeff Lieberman at a convention and asked him about his 1977 freaked-out thriller Blue Sunshine – Steve recounts their conversation here, along with his own thoughts regarding this drug-themed shocker.

We’ve also got commentary about monster rally films, the giallo films of Carroll Baker, remembrances about being a projectionist at a small drive-in theater in the 70s, and reviews of Night of the Demon and Revenge of the Cheerleaders. And yes – as usual, this issue is jam packed with the vintage newsprint ads you love!

72 pages with a full color cover and black & white pages inside, some pages printed on colored paper, 5.5 x 8.5 inches in size.

Get it now at the etsy shop!

As we start a new year, Shudder is here with an entire month of films and series. Plans start at under $5 a month and you can get the first week free when you visit Shudder.

Click on any of the links to see an in-depth article on the movie.

January 1: Lake Mungo, a film I’ve wanted to see for some time debuts, as does vampire classic Near Dark.

January 2: Australian shocker Undead and Larry Cohen’s Q: The Winged Serpent come to Shudder.

January 5: The Wolf of Snow Hollow shows up, as does Possession and now you have no excuse to not see it.

January 9: Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes is awesome! Plus, see Countess Dracula and fall in love with Ingrid Pitt.

January 12: The first season of Chucky is now on the streaming horror service.

January 16: Take Back the Night is a challenging film and pairs well with Road Games.

January 19: Shudder original Sorry About the Demon starts.

January 23: Let the Wrong One In and Isolation.

January 26: Shudder original The Lair debuts.

January 30: Talking heads discuss horror during In Search of Darkness 3 and look out! Death Spa is on Shudder!

Cinematic Void, the Los Angeles cult film series based at the American Cinematheque, is back for another round of its famous January Giallo series to kick 2023 off, this year expanding the cinemadness parties to run all January long in nine cities and counting across the nation.

Giallo, a subgenre of Italian cinema popular in the 70s and 80s, are thrillers often characterized by stunning psychedelic cinematography, mystery plots with out of nowhere twists, and over-the-top graphic violence. This year’s programming will also feature American Gialli, films made in the US that were inspired structurally and visually by the Italian genre, and Neo-Gialli  modern films that also fit within the subgenre.

“Once again, we sharpen our straight razors and slip on those black gloves to celebrate my favorite yearly series I host with Cinematic Void, January Giallo,” says Cinematic Void founder and film programmer Jim Branscome. “After expanding outside of Los Angeles in 2022 to work with some of my favorite film programmers across the country, I knew the 2023 edition had to be even bigger and bloodier.”

Here are the movies that will be part of this month:

Cinematic Void Los Angeles at The American Cinematheque’s Los Feliz 3 (All shows presented on 35mm film)

January 2: A Lizard In a Woman’s Skin (Italian Technicolor print!)

January 9: Formula for a Murder

January 16: Autopsy

January 23: Death Laid an Egg

January 30: I Know Who Killed Me

Coolidge After Midnite / Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA

January 7: Torso (uncut Italian language print in 35mm with CV’s Jim Branscome in person)

January 14: A Lizard In a Woman’s Skin (35 mm print)

January 21: What Have You Done With Solange?

January 28: Tenebre (35 mm print)

Music Box of Horrors / Music Box Theatre in Chicago, IL

January 3: All the Colors of the Dark (35 mm print)

January 10: No One Heard the Scream

January 17: So Sweet…So Perverse

Cinematery / Majestic Tempe 7 in Tempe, AZ

January 31: Creepers (35mm print with CV’s Jim Branscome in person)

Denver Film / Sie FilmCenter in Denver, CO 

January 7: The Corruption of Chris Miller and Four Flies On Grey Velvet presented by Scream Screen

January 14: Deadly Games (with CV’s Jim Branscome in person)

January 21: I Know Who Killed Me

January 28: A Lizard In a Woman’s Skin

Knoxville Horror Fest / Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN 

January 4 and 7: Dressed to Kill and I Know Who Killed Me

January 12: The Bird With the Crystal Plumage

January 18: The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh

January 25: The Editor

The Belcourt Theater in Nashville, TN 

January 20: Blood and Black Lace

January 21: Tenebre

To learn more visit the Cinematic Void web site.

Here’s what’s on the Arrow Player in January: 

January 6: Start the new year with the favorites of filmmaker, comic writer and producer Adam Egypt Mortimer. The writer-director of SpectreVision’s Daniel Isn’t Real and Archenemy, these Adam Egypt Mortimer Selects, presented in three parts: Demented Spiritual Quests, Kinetic Masterminds and Fucked Up Monsters. Movies include The Sacred Spirit, Bad Black, The Great Yokai War and Gwilliam. Also available: Teruo Ishii’s The Executioner and The Executioner II: Karate Inferno.

January 13: Reel Women is a vintage program of interviews with women directors working in Hollywood and Europe in the early 1990s, exploring the opportunities and obstacles that face them. Also available: Lady Whirlwind, Lady Kung Fu and Season of Ravenous Cannibals which has Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, Trapped Alive and Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood.

January 20: Experience breakout directorial debuts with The First Time, which includes A Ghost Waits, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage and Donnie Darko. Also available: Look into the six decades of work of one of the most iconic actors of the twentieth century in Marlon Brando: Wild One, an examination of the craft of Marlon Brando, narrated by professionals of the film industry. Plus: Bad Moon and Screamers.

January 27: The Lukas Moodysson Collection: Now Moodysson’s eclectic filmography can now be appreciated as the work of a singular filmmaking voice, as avowedly uncompromising and unabashedly political as it is keenly observed, deeply felt and frequently hilarious. Titles Include: Show Me Love, Together and Mammoth.

Head over to ARROW to start watching now. Subscriptions are available for $6.99 monthly or $49.99 yearly. ARROW is available in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland on the following Apps/devices: Roku (all Roku sticks, boxes, devices, etc), Apple TV & iOS devices, Samsung TVs, 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.

This January, the Kino Cult linear FAST channel streams deep cuts of cult horror titles as thematically-paired “midnight movie” double features throughout the month all free with ads. They play at midnight EST.

Tuesdays remain dedicated to “Tune In, Turn On,” a weekly programming slot for mind-bending and psychedelic cinema; and on Saturday nights Kino Cult introduces “Midnight Mass,” a series of double features showcasing nunsploitation films, religious horror and the occult.

Kino Cult is a free ad-supported streaming destination for genre lovers of horror and cult films, Kino Cult also has hundreds of new and rare theatrically released cult hits, all presented in beautiful high definition. Additionally, Kino Cult offers an ad-free subscription plan for $4.99 per month.

My recommendations:

January 1: Ms. 45 and I Spit On Your Grave

January 3: A Virgin Among the Living Dead and Black Magic Rites

January 8: Angel and Demons

January 19: Shining Sex and Macumba Sexual

January 22: She Freak and Night Tide

January 29: Death Promise and Miami Connection