August 5: Three great giallo films start today: The Weapon, The Hour, The Motive; The Killer Reserved Nine Seats and Smile Before Death. You can also buy these movies in Arrow’s Giallo Essentials: Black Edition.

FIIIGHT! series will have movies with lots of violent action such as Versus, The Sword and the Claw, Sister Street Fighter and BFF Girls.

August 12: Bliss debuts, as well as The Subspecies Collection: Subspecies, Bloodstone: Subspecies II, Bloodlust: Subspecies III and Vampire Journals.

August 19: Ben, Willard, Night of the Bloody Apes, The Beast in Heat and Meridian are ready to make August a wild month of animal films. Plus, there’s the Tooth and Claw Collection: Sting of Death, Mighty Peking Man and Reptile House.

August 26: Running Out of Time, The Corpse of Anna Fritz and Dead Kids all start on ARROW Player today, as well as a collection of movies from Vinegar Syndrome, including The Witch Who Came from the Sea, The Child, Toys are Not for Children and The Baby.

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.

Don’t have Shudder? Maybe June’s line-up will convince you. 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.

August 1: Allegoria: This Shudder exclusive is all about how a group of artists’ lives become unwittingly entangled as their obsessions and insecurities manifest monsters, demons and death.

There are also collections of Stephen King (Carrie, Firestarter, Firestarter: Rekindled, Cat’s Eye, Creepshow, Misery, Needful Things and Salem’s Lot) and George Romero (Monkey Shines, Land of the Dead, The Crazies and Season of the Witch).

August 3: Did you know how much I love Amityville movies? Oh, I wrote a whole thing about it?   Today Shudder puts up Amityville: The Evil Escapes, Amityville: A New Generation and Amityville: Dollhouse.

August 4: What Josiah Saw: A damaged family reunites at their remote farmhouse and confronts long-buried secrets and sins of the past.

August 8: The Oracle and Freeway

August 9: Motherfly and Marionette

August 11: The third season of A Discovery of Witches debuts.

August 12: NYX 2022 13 Minutes of Horror:  A 60-second film challenge showcasing woman-identifying horror filmmakers, inclusive of BIPOC women, LGBTQ+ women, disabled women and non-binary creators.

August 16: Alone With You, Achoura and Bloody Oranges.

August 18: Two Shudder originals start today: Glorious has J.K. Simmons as an evil entity on the other side of a hole terrorizing Ryan Kwanten in a public bathroom. The Innocents is a Norweigan horror movie with children in danger.

August 22: I love the Yokai Monsters series and Shudder will be adding 100 Monsters, Spook Warfare and Along with Ghosts today, along with the astounding Snake Girl and the Silver Haired Witch.

August 23: So Vam is a Shudder original that I really liked when I saw it in festivals.

August 26: Watcher is another Shudder original about an American in Bucharest who believes that the stranger who watches her across the street is a serial killer.

The new issue of Drive-In Asylum is now available!

The sixth DIA special issue — the 1981 Yearbook Special — celebrates our faves of this stellar year in fantastic films – Scanners, Halloween II, Strange Behavior, Dead & Buried, Wolfen, Scared to Death, The Hand and many more.

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 — packed with reviews and ad galleries, all dedicated to movies birthed in 1981, including a gallery of films that were reissued that year with different names. Plus Big Bad Daddy Wolf and Unkle Spooky both give us countdowns of their fave 1981 screamers.

72 pages In this issue, I wrote a way too long breakdown — with painted art — of the movie that introduced America to ninjas, Enter the Ninja! Plus, there’s even more art from me inside this issue!

Order yours now! www.etsy.com/shop/GroovyDoom

I was sent some information on a Kickstarter that I think that fans of the site may be interested in.

Ridley Mortis has a new book of horror poems and limericks to delight and disgust your whole skeleton crew of fiendish friends or rotten relatives. The book is called Poems of Grave Importance and it’s chock full of horror poems in the spirit of ghastly greats like Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Addams, H.P. Lovecraft, and Edward Gorey.

He’s even recruited some of the best artists around to contribute their dark and disturbing drawings to accompany these ghastly tales of the morbid and macabre including Mitch O’Connell, Jeff Carlson, IB Trav, Jeff Lassiter, Rosita Perez, Teresa Simmons, Eric Rot, Anothony J. Lombardini, Angela Grant, Hilary Barta, Tom Kelly and Marcos Caldas.

During the Poems of Grave Importance fundraising campaign, there will be a monstrous amount of incentives including digital, paperback, and hardback versions of Poems of Grave Importance, related stickers, postcards, t-shirts, tote bags and autographed posters by horror celebrities including Brinke Stevens (Slumber Party Massacre), Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast), John Waters (Pink Flamingos), Lynn Lowry (The Crazies), Gary Sherman (Dead and Buried), Ari Lehman (Friday The 13th) and more. You can even get a poem read to you by one of those celebrities for your contribution!

The plan is to print 1,000 hardcover 6 X 8 books and ship them to your door and independent book stores, comic shops and to anyone with deviously discerning tastes.

How do you get involved?

Check out the Kickstarter or visit Ridley’s Facebook page.

Kino Cult is giving away 5 Kino Cult Prize Packs:

• Mondocane blu ray
• A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night Graphic Novel
• Two DVDs or blu rays of your choice
• Kino Cult T-Shirt
• Kino Cult Tote Bag

All you have to do is enter here!

Don’t have Shudder? Maybe June’s line-up will convince you. 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.

July 1: The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs Season 4 Finale: This has been a great season for films, but I’m exhausted by the gimmick of people cutting off Joe Bob when he goes on a rant or the director talks over him. I’m a huge fan of Joe Bob and watch the show for these rants and even if this is a scripted moment on the show, it encourages rudeness from a fanbase that refuses to appreciate anything challenging, such as SOV, black and white movies and The Baby.

Other movies added include The Burning, Return of the Living Dead, God Told Me To and 1BR

July 2: We Have Always Lived In the Castle

July 5: The Long Walk, Meatcleaver Massacre and Mansion of the Doomed

July 6: The Deadly Spawn

July 7: On the 3rd Day: Three days after a car accident, Cecilia searches for her missing son.

July 11: Some awesome giallo gets added today, including Who Saw Her Die?, Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, Suspicious Death of a Minor and Watch Me When I Kill.

July 12: The Convent and The House on Sorority Row.

July 14: Good Madam: Tisdi has been estranged from her mother, who has spent the majority of her life with the home of Madam — Diane — and even raised her son Stuart alongside the rich white children. Now forced to live in the same house, everything gets strange quickly.

July 15: Bloody Hell.

July 18: Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge, Blue Sunshine, The Forbidden Door and Santa Sangre.

July 19: Tombs of the Blind Dead and Mosquito.

July 21: Moloch — a Netherlands-based supernatural film — and This is Gwar debut today.

July 25: One sleazy day, just the way I love it, with Hard Rock Zombies, Slaughterhouse Rock, Uninvited, Hard Rock Nightmare and The Toolbox Murders.

July 29: The Reef: Stalked

The Alien Encounters Collection: To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Roswell, Shudder will be airing They Live, The Thing, Invaders from Mars, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Planet of the Vampires, Dark Angel and Without Warning.

John Carpenter Collection: In addition to They Live and The Thing, Shudder will have Prince of Darkness, Escape from New York, Halloween, Body Bags and In the Mouth of Madness.

July 1: The King Hu Collection, a quartet of films from the library of director/actor King Hu, debuts on Arrow Player: The Fate of Lee Kahn, A Touch of Zen, Raining in the Mountain, Legend of the Mountain and Come Drink With Me.

July 8: ARROW invites audiences to Lovecraftian season of films such as Castle Freak, Lake Michigan Monster, Lurking Fear and Bride of Re-animator.

July 15: Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama and Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death

July 18:  Bodies of Water, a season of aquatic horror that will give you second thoughts about escaping the summer heat by taking a dip like Island of Death, Lake of Dracula, Dark Water and Blood Tide.

July 22: Satan’s Brew, Mother Kuster’s Trip to Heaven, The Niklasuasen Journey, Gods of the Plague, The American Soldier, Rio das Mortes and Fear of Fear.

July 28: It’s time for Camp ARROW! Enjoy such summer favorites as The Prey, The Hills Have Eyes, Girls Nite Out and Trapped Alive.

July 29: Nightwish and Doctor Mordrid.

I’m always looking for more writers to be part of the site. Sure, it doesn’t pay, but I’m willing to let you write about just about any movie that you want to, at any length and in any style or format. The site gets around 1,200 visitors a day and I share the reviews on Letterboxd, IMDB, Amazon, Rotten Tomatoes, Facebook and Twitter, so your work will get an audience.

For the rest of June, the following theme weeks will appear:

• June 26-July 2: Animals attack

July 2022

• July 3-9: Superheroes (and please go for the weirdest ones you can!)
• July 10-16: Movies with tough and empowered heroines
• July 17-23: The movies of Jose Larraz
• July 24-30: Arnold Schwarzenegger birthday week

August 2022 and up to September 10 (and maybe longer) 

All Cannon, all month long, concentrating on the Assonitis-Globus-Pearce, pre-Golan and Globus, Dewey-Friedland and 21st Century eras. Need some help? Check out this list.

You can always send your pitch my way and I’ll see if it fits the site.

If you want to be part of the site, just email me at bandsaboutmovies@gmail.com. I look forward to having you write for us and am easy on deadlines, have no limit on word count and am really excited to help you either get a new audience for your site or write about movies for the first time.

Releasing September 27 from Visual Vengeance, a double feature release of director Jonathan Mumm’s shot on video Crypto Creature Features Blood of the Chupacabras and its sequel Revenge of the Chupacabras. Both SOV features include a healthy amount of new and archival bonus material.

Blood of the Chupacabras (2003):  A group of local townsfolk are led by a treasure hunter into a nearby mine in search of gold but encounter a vampiric Chupacabras monster and the townsfolk that the beast has turned into murderous slaves.

Revenge of the Chupacabras (2005): A detective in search of a missing college student is lured by a madman into the lair of the fabled Chupacabras monster and he and several locals must face off against this early CGI monstrosity.

Bonus features include:

• Both available for the first time ever available on blu ray, scanned from the archival SD masters from original Betacam tapes
• New audio commentaries on both films with director Jonathan Mumm
• Archival behind the scenes features
• Blooper reels
• Archive video from premiere and festival appearances
• Limited Edition Slipcase by Earl Kessler — FIRST PRESSING ONLY
• Collectible Mini-poster
• Stick your own VHS sticker set and more

For more details on the label and updates on new releases – as well as news on upcoming releases – follow Visual Vengeance on social media – IG, Facebook or twitter

TWITTER @VisualVenVideo

INSTAGRAM visualvenvideo

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/visualvenvideo

On September 13, Visual Vengeance is unleashing the 1991 shot on video action horror spectacle Slaughter Day!

A rarely seen super obscurity of the shot on video era, and arguably the most insane and ambitious micro budget horror action movie ever made! In the rural recesses of Hawaii, a pair of friends must fight an ancient evil force brought to life by an occult book that possesses a group of construction workers, turning them into murderous maniacs. Shot and edited on consumer grade equipment by twin brothers Brent and Blake Cousins, Slaughter Day is packed from start to finish with kinetic lo-fi action scenes, gonzo camerawork and a truckload of homemade gore.

The blu ray is the first time this movie has ever been released on any disc format! Made from an archival 1991 SD master from original tapes, it also has:

• New audio commentary with Brent and Blake Cousins
• Interview: The Cousins Brothers Today
• Limited Edition Slipcase by The Dude Designs — FIRST PRESSING ONLY
• Early short films
• Liner notes
• Collectible Mini-poster
• Stick your own VHS sticker set

For more details on the label and updates on new releases – as well as news on upcoming releases – follow Visual Vengeance on social media:

TWITTER @VisualVenVideo

INSTAGRAM visualvenvideo

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/visualvenvideo