October 1: Seasonal offerings kicks off with Shocktober 31. 31 days, 31 movies. This October ARROW is bringing back the infamous Shocktober 31 and highlighting some of our favorite horror titles streaming on ARROW each day, guaranteed to make your Halloween go with a scream. From J-horror to giallo, slashers galore, cannibals, witches and more, this spooky season on ARROW has everything you need to carve a pumpkin to, party with or to make sure that you don’t get a wink of sleep! Titles include: Dark Water, Two Witches, Blood and Black Lace.

October 6: ARROW wishes a belated birthday to Elvira Mistress of the Dark. When her great aunt dies, famed horror hostess Elvira heads for the uptight new England town of Falwell to claim her inheritance of a haunted house, a witch’s cookbook and a punk rock poodle. But once the stuffy locals get an eyeful of the scream queen’s ample assets, all hell busts out & breaks loose.

Don’t Look!: ARROW’s Scariest!: Want a movie to scare the life out of you this Halloween? You’ve come to the right place! Don’t Look! collects together all the scariest films on ARROW that will send shivers down your spine until you’re jumping out of your seat. For a Halloween you’ll never forget – because you were chewing off your fingernails while perched on the edge of your seat – Enjoy… if you dare! Titles include: Two Witches, Edge of the Axe, Dementer.

Also on October 6: Calamity of Snakes

October 11: Ever since his debut was heralded as “a young master’s first masterpiece” by none other than Ingmar Bergman, director Lukas Moodysson has been hailed internationally as one of Sweden’s greatest filmmaking talents, delighting and confounding audiences in equal measure. With his eagerly anticipated new film Together 99 showing at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, ARROW offers a chance to reacquaint yourself with Moodyson’s unique and eclectic oeuvre in No Compromise: The Lukas Moodysson Collection. 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: Fucking Åmål, Together, Mammoth.

October 13: The Initiation, Rewind of Die AKA House of VHS

Jed Shepherd Selects: Jed Shepherd, the co-writer and producer of horror sensations Host and Dashcam, and one of the writers and directors of Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge, picks out his favorite titles from the ARROW catalogue, with a mix of cult chills, iconic sci-fi and out a really out-there documentary. Titles include: The Grand Tour, Gwilliam, Who Killed Captain Alex, The Witch Who Came from the Sea.

October 20: So Funny It’s Frightening allows you to celebrate Halloween in a fun way, not in a give yourself nightmares for weeks way? Then So Funny It’s Frightening is for you. Full of films that feature monsters, the supernatural and maybe even a smidge of gore (maybe more than a smidge…) but also packed full of laughs and silliness to take the sharp edge off and leaving you grinning wider than your jack-o-lantern. Titles include: Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Hotel Poseidon, Crow Hand.

Also on October 20: The Necro Files

October 23: Go back to the beginning of the Hellraiser franchise in glorious 4K with Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II

October 27: C.H.U.D., A Serbian Film

Head over to ARROW to start watching now. Subscriptions are available for $6.99 monthly or $69.99 yearly.

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With a slickly designed and user-friendly interface, and an unparalleled roster of quality content from westerns to giallo to Asian cinema, trailers, Midnight Movies, filmmaker picks and much, much more, ARROW is the place to go for the very best in on-demand entertainment.

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

October 1: Dead End, Lake Mungo, The Gate, May, Lords of Salem, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Evil Dead II

October 2: Spirit Halloween, Hell House LLC: The Director’s Cut, Hell House LLC: The Abaddon Hotel, Hell House LLC III: Lake of Firew

October 6: V/H/S/85

October 9: Dog Soldiers, All Hallows’ Eve, All Hallows’ Eve 2

October 10: The Last Drive-In on a Tuesday at 10 PM showing Halloween (1978)

October 13: The Puppetman, Creepshow season 4

October 16: Lockdown Tower

October 20: Night of the Hunted, Joe Bob’s Helloween

October 23: Kidnapped, The Midnight Man

October 27: What Evil Lurks

October 30: Hell House LLC Origins

October 31: The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula season 5, Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D

Remember when Shudder was the home for Halloween?

Anyways…if you don’t have Shudder, plans start at under $5 a month. You can get the first week free when you visit Shudder.

Tonight at the Riverside Drive-In is the Drive-In Super Monster Rama! For just $30 ($15 a night), you get eight astounding movies!

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

Here are the recipes that I’ll be bringing.

Pleasant Valley Dew

• 4 oz. Mountain Dew
• 2 oz. moonshine
• ,5 oz. triple sec
• 2 oz. pineapple juice
• 2 oz. orange juice
• 2 oz. pomegranate juice

1. Pour it all in a shaker with ice and shake it like it’s a Yankee in a barrel.
2. Pour and savor all that booze.

Yeti

• 1 1/2 oz. gin
• 1/2 oz. blue Curaçao
• 3 oz. lemonade (you can make it yourself or just go off the shelf)
• Club soda
• Lemon wedges

1. Combine gin and the lemonade in a glass with ice.
2. Add blue Curaçao and top with club soda. Stir using a mixing spoon and garnish with lemon wedges.

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

Honey Bear

• 1 oz. bourbon
• 2 oz. apple cider
• 1/2 oz. Cointreau
• 1 oz. honey, orange and sage syrup
• Sliced orange

Pre-work: To make the syrup use the following ingredients:

• 1 cup water
• 1/3 cup honey
• 3 tbsp. sugar
• 1 tsp. ground sage
• 2 orange slices
• 1 tsp. orange zest

1. Heat a small pan on high, then heat up all ingredients to boiling.
2. Simmer for 3 minutes and let cool. Store in refrigerator for up to a week.

To make the drink:

1. Pour bourbon and honey, orange and sage syrup in an ice-filled glass.
2. Top with apple cider.

Tentacle Painkiller

• 2 oz. Kraken spiced rum
• 4 oz. pineapple juice
• 1 oz. orange juice
• 1 oz. cream of coconut
• Dash of nutmeg
• Pinch of salt

1. Pour rum, pineapple juice, orange juice and cream of coconut into a cocktail shaker with ice. Mix it up.
2. Pour into a glass filled with ice. Drop in salt to give it the taste of the ocean and then top with nutmeg.

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 tonight!

SLASH Filmfestival 2023  has five carefully curated programs and various shorts before features bring a total of 48 short films from all corners of the world to Vienna.

With over 34 World, International, European or Austrian premieres the 14th edition of SLASH Filmfestival has its largest short film lineup ever and sees the festival take new initiatives to celebrate the short form in its own right.

In addition to program mainstays Fantastic Shorts Competition Chapters 1 and 2, SLASH is delighted to bring back My First SLASH to continue guiding young viewers and families on their first steps into the diverse world of genre cinema. Fantastic Futures has matured into its own program that celebrates promising film school students while SLASH is also excited to treat viewers to the first-ever Fantastic Flings, a sidebar which will become an annually recurring ‘hook up’ that sees SLASH collaborating with an international film festival for a co-curated program that explores relationships through a genre lens.

For its inaugural edition of Fantastic Flings SLASH is proud to get into bed with Italy’s TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest.

The competitions
With three competitive sections, SLASH continues to reward short film excellence.

A total of 10 shorts make up the Fantastic Shorts competition with what we believe are the freshest and fiercest genre short films from the past year. As always, the winner will be chosen by our most diligent judges – the SLASH audience – and takes home 1,000 € in prize money. Highlights include the Austrian premiere of Liam LoPinto’s The Old Young Crow, a singular ghost story that embraces a hybrid form to celebrate multicultural identity, darkly satirical social comments in the guise of a children’s game gone horribly wrong in Joséphine Darcy Hopkins’ Sweet Tooth, a run in with post-colonial Leatherface in
Bangladesh-set Foreigners Only (Nuhash Humayun), and the Austrian premiere of Hole (Hyein Hwang), the runner up of Cannes’ Cinéfondation competition.

A total of 8 shorts comprise the Fantastic Futures competition, which puts an exclusive spotlight on talented student filmmakers and collectively offers a mouth-watering taste of how fantastic the future of genre cinema is. The program sees the uniquely apocalyptic On the 8th Day taking its world premiere bow in addition to the European premiere of Nathan Ginter’s The Third Ear, a surreal and probing look at self-image. Also in the mix are Austrian premieres of Shengwei Zhou’s nightmarish paper animation Perfect City: The Bravest Kid and the Austrian premiere of homegrown The Hand That Feeds by
Helen Hideko.

Juried by SLASH (the) Industry experts Todd Brown (XYZ Films) and Tania Morissette (Fantasia International Film Festival/ Frontières), the winner will receive 500€ in prize money on top of being awarded a full certificate for Final Draft screenwriting software.

Playing across the aforementioned five programs, SLASH attendees will also discover six Méliès d’argent contenders, which include a colorful clash with inner demons that embody fear of commitment (Amok), a narrow escape from food processing (Remove Hind Legs Before Consumption) and the international premiere of hyper-sensual giallo tribute La Vedova Nera, which has the honor of being the opening night short of SLASH Filmfestival 2023.

All six films are in the running for being crowned best European fantastic short under 25 minutes at SLASH 2023. Doris Bauer (Vienna Shorts) and guest of honor Brandon Cronenberg will decide who wins the Méliès d’argent and is then in the running for the main prize – the Méliès d’or – at Sitges.

The trailer
Our killer short film trailer edited by Joana Gil-Rico should get you in the mood for films that find unique ways of channeling the past, coping with the present and envisioning the future as they take viewers on a surreal, darkly comedic and horrifyingly visceral ride.

To learn more:
SLASH Film festival – general info
SLASH Filmfestival is Austria’s largest event dedicated to Fantastic Cinema. Founded in 2010, it quickly grew in size and scope, attracting close to 15.000 visitors over its 11-day run. Each year’s program is comprised of 50+ Austrian, European or international premieres of highlights from the field of fantastic cinema, ranging from crowd-pleasers to hot docs, from fiercely independent films to heritage revivals.

Hurry and grab issue #25 of Drive-In Asylum on Etsy!

Vivvy got hers!

At long last, the new issue of DIA is ready! Issue 25 features Armand Mastroianni, director of 1980 slasher classic He Knows You’re Alone and also a profile of Stevan Mena’s Malevolence trilogy with comments from the director himself. Film reviews include Starship Invasions, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Race with the Devil, Ghoulies, Pulgasari and Blood and Lace plus profiles of director Renato Polselli — hmm, who wrote that? — and actor Tristan Rogers. Also, AC Nicholas is back with more grindhouse/drive-in memories.

Drive-In Asylum is a 60-page fanzine, 8.5″ x 5.5″ black and white with some colored pages.

If you love movies, old ads and the joy of reading about them, get an issue today.

Maybe Netflix isn’t sending disks any more, but Scarecrow Video is!

Scarecrow Video, the country’s largest publicly accessible, non-profit video archive, has launched their revamped website, making it easier than ever for movie fans nationwide to rent DVDs and blu rays by mail!

Home entertainment distributor Kino Lorber is launching its Kino Cult genre brand as a packaged-media imprint focusing on collector-oriented blu ray and 4K Ultra HD releases.

The Kino Cult imprint will debut as its own label in October 2023 with special Blu-ray editions of Jess Franco’s erotic horror masterpiece Lorna … the Exorcist (1974, featuring Lina Romay).

Plus, there will be 4K restorations of Alien Outlaw (1985) and The Dark Power (1985), two video rental favorites from North Carolina indie Phil Smoot.

Kino Cult’s premiere 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release will be a deluxe edition of Clive Barker’s Underworld (1985), directed by George Pavlou, and featuring Denholm Elliott and Ingrid Pitt. Upcoming 4K releases for 2024 include the exploitation classic Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS (1975) and its sequels, Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976), Ilsa the Tigress of Siberia (1977) and Ilsa, the Wicked Woman (1977).

While focusing mainly on horror and science fiction, Kino Cult will continue to embrace its trademark brand of “unapologetically weird” with such diverse genres as European erotica, grindhouse classics, and cinematic rediscoveries that defy categorization.

“Some of the most exciting rediscoveries are happening in the realm of cult cinema,” said Kino Cult curators Frank Tarzi and Bret Wood. “These strange and twisted movies are so unique that we feel they deserve their own imprint within the Kino Lorber family of labels.”

Kino Cult will expand its partnership with legendary cult label Something Weird, with collector’s edition releases to be announced soon.

Ted Farrell has lived for mysteries and drama his whole life. While a college student he proves to be a sound designer with a knack for audio thrillers – but his life is about to imitate his art. Fate places him at the doorstep of a beautiful young woman who will soon end up murdered and in his car with no explanation. His night and his sanity quickly spiral out of control as he races to avoid becoming the next victim of the killer on the loose. A very rare regional horror thriller from the late 1980s video store era, The Wrong Door enjoys its first time ever on disc and a brand new 2K transfer from the original Super 8 elements.

This Visual Vengeance blu ray has a brand new director-supervised 2K transfer from original Super 8 film elements with extras that include two commentary tracks, one with directors Bill Weiss and Shawn Korby and a second with director James Groetsch and producer John Schonebaum. There’s also a new documentary Men Make Movie, If Not Million$, interviews with Groetsch, Korby, Weiess and actor Matt Felmlee; an interview with Chris Gore; an alternate director’s cut; two Super 8 shorts, Raiders of the Lost Bark and The Pizza Man, an episode of The Gale Whiteman Show; the original unedited Muther Video VHS intros; an image gallery; trailers; storyboards; a limited edition slipcase and door hanger; a reversible sleeve with original VHS art and a “stick your own” VHS sticker set.

Horror star Malicia Tombs (Linnea Quigley) mysteriously dies after leaving the set of her latest, now unfinished, low budget shot-on-video shocker. Soon, an unseen masked killer is chopping and hacking his/ her way through the cast and crew as punishment for Tomb’s death – leaving a bloody trail of revenge. This super obscurity was shot in 1998 by indy horror stalwart Brad Sykes, and finally finished in 2002. Considered a ‘lost’ Linnea Quigley movie, Scream Queen is not only a solid 1990s shot-on-Video slasher that borrows from the Italian Giallo sub-genre, but also takes swift jabs at the U.S. independent horror movie scene of the time.

Available for the first time ever on blu ray, Scream Queen has a new director-approved SD master from original tape elements, as well as commentary with director and writer Brad Sykes, behind the scenes documentary, the producer’s cut of the film, new interview with Linna Quigley and Mark Polonia, imagery galleries, script selects, a trailer, six-page liner notes by Tony Strauss of Weng’s Chop Magazine, a limited edition slipcase by Rick Melton and Series 2 video store rental card, a Linnea Quigley mini-poster, a “stick your own” VHS sticker set and a reversible sleeve with the original art

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

September 1: Perpetrator, seasons 1 and 2 of Fear the Walking Dead

September 4: The Autopsy of Jane Doe and Relic

September 8: Blood Follow and The Last Drive-In: Live from the Jamboree

September 11: Come True and The Harrow

September 13: The Ones You Didn’t Burn

September 15: The Last Drive-In: Daryl Dixon special

September 18: Kill List and The Crescent

September 20: The Devil’s Rain!

September 22: The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster

September 25: The Terror season 1, The Djinn and The Vigil

September 29: Nightmare

There are some good movies coming this month, but it’s kind of sad that there are mostly AMC series showing up and about a fourth of the new movies of the past. There’s also no Sixty Days of Halloween or The Home for Halloween like in the past, as so much of what is on this network is starting to feel like an afterthought for AMC. At least Joe Bob is back.

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