Wild Eye Releasing’s new sister label Visual Vengeance, a collector’s Blu-ray label dedicated to vintage Shot On Video and micro-budget genre independents from the 1980s through 2000s, is excited to reveal the next blu ray collector edition release for October 2022 to add to its fast-growing catalog of VHS-era genre gems: Moonchild!

In a dystopian future, political prisoner Jacob Stryker is transformed into a werewolf super soldier by government scientists. He escapes captivity and searches for his son, who may be the messiah, and joins an army of karate-kicking rebellion fighters poised to overthrow the United Nations of America. Along the way, Jacob is hunted by a group of cyborg and mutant bounty hunters as he tries to forget the bomb implanted in his stomach that’s set to explode in 72 hours. A mind-boggling, sprawling, Shot On Video horror/ sci-fi/ action/ martial arts epic from SOV fan favorite Todd Sheets (Zombie Bloodbath, Goblin) that is one of the most ambitious and offbeat low budget movies of the VHS era

Moonchild has never been released on blu ray before and has the following extras:

• New director supervised SD master from original tapes
• Bonus audio CD of the movie soundtrack
• Two new director commentary tracks
• Original, alternate VHS cut of Moonchild
• Wolf Moon Rising: The Making of Moonchild documentary
• Archival behind the scenes cast interviews
• Four-page liner notes by Matt Desiderio
• Limited edition slipcase by The Dude Designs
• Collectible mini-poster
• “Stick your own” VHS sticker set

Visual Vengeance, the boutique sister label of genre distributor Wild Eye Releasing, is proud to announce a new partnership with Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg, to present an ongoing monthly theatrical series dedicated to vintage microbudget genre independents from the 1980s through the 2000s. Full info on the series is available here.

The new monthly series will include movies from enduring fan-favorite underground directors like Todd Sheets (Moonchild), Bret McCormick (Repligator), and Kevin Lindenmuth (Vampires and Other Stereotypes), as well as many others. A good selection of the featured movies have been feared “lost” and remained out of print for decades. For many of the films, this will be their very first public screening.

Select events will include an introduction and/or Q&A sessions with the original creators. The screening events will be hosted by Matt Desiderio of Horror Boobs – the infamous VHS supercut creator – and will also feature free giveaways of Blu-rays, DVDs, and collectibles. After each screening the night continues with an after party in the Nitehawk’s VHS-themed Lo-Res lounge where Desiderio will DJ an all-vinyl set. Mingle with like-minded fans of psychotronic films, peruse the Visual Vengeance merch table and meet the minds behind these insane slices of cinema.

The inaugural month will kick off Thursday, September 1^st  with the infamous 1995 Japanese Super-8 gorefest Bloody Muscle Body Builder In Hell by Shinichi Fukazawa. Alternately known as “the Japanese Evil Dead,” Bloody Muscle Body Builder In Hell is a legendary independent Japanese cult film, enjoying a rare North American screening at Nitehawk. The ultraviolent rarity centers on a bodybuilder that must survive a blood-soaked night of insanity to save himself and his friends from a demonic ghost that is hell-bent on revenge.

The series continues on September 29^th with the Hawaiian-lensed curiosity Slaughter Day (1991), one of the rarest VHS releases of the century and a horror action obscurity, which is arguably the most ambitious microbudget horror action movie ever made. A pair of friends must fight an ancient evil force brought to life by an occult book that possesses a group of construction workers. Shot and edited on consumer grade equipment by twin brothers Brent and Blake Cousins, lovingly referred to as the “Cousins Brothers,” Slaughter Day is Evil Dead-inspired insanity from start to finish, packed with kinetic lo-fi action scenes, gonzo camerawork and a truckload of homemade gore.

Tickets and more information can be found at: https://nitehawkcinema.com/williamsburg/film-series/visual-vengeance/

August finds some awesome stuff on Kino Cult, the free ad-supported streaming destination for genre lovers of horror and cult films. These films join a growing list of 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.

August 4

Cosmos (director Andrzej Zulawski): A young novelist visits a French guest-house and finds himself distracted by a strange mystery.

Lokis: A Manuscript of Prof. Wittemback (director Janusz Majewski): A pastor visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs are still followed.

August 11

Seven Beauties (director Lina Wertmülle): The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on an everyman’s life.

3 Beauties (director Carlos Caridad-Montero): A scathing satire of Venezuela’s fixation with beauty and its relation to social status.

August 18

N. Took the Dice (director Alain Robbe-Grillet): A reworking of Eden and After made possible by the roll of a dice.

Max Reload and the Nether Blasters (directors Jeremy Tremp, Scott Conditt): A video game store clerk accidentally unleashes the forces of evil from a cursed video game.

August 25

Alison’s Birthday (director Ian Coughlan): During an Ouija board session, 16-year-old Alison is warned not to go home for her 19th birthday.

OSS 117 Is Unleashed (director Andre Hunebelle): An agent disappears after a scuba diving mission and agent code name OSS 117 is sent to investigate.

Threads (director Mick Jackson): The effects of a nuclear attack on a working-class city as the fabric of society unravels.

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.