Scorpio Film Releasing DVD, 2008 dir Richard Griffin

Richard Griffin and Scorpio Film Releasing, the low budget, b-movie making gurus from New England responsible for classics like FEEDING THE MASSES (2004), RAVING MANIACS (2005), CREATURE FROM THE HILLBILLY LAGOON (2005), and PRETTY DEAD THINGS (2006), bring us their take on H.P. Lovecraft with BEYOND THE DUNWICH HORROR, a feature done in the style of '70s drive-in horror and classic giallos.

A modern retelling of the old Lovecraft story, Andrew (Jason McCormick) is found washed up on shore in the New England town of Dunwich. His brother Kenny (Michael Reed) goes searching for him and finds out that they admitted him to a psychiatric ... (more…)

FRAT HOUSE MASSACRE (2008 dir Alex Pucci)

Screamkings Productions *Screener Review*

From Alex Pucci and Screamkings Productions, creators of the low budget '80s style slasher CAMP SLAUGHTER (aka CAMP DAZE - 2005) comes another hack 'em up film that gleefully pays tribute to the best slashers of the '80s in the style of Ryan Nicholson's GUTTERBALLS (2008) and the gritty grindhouse sleaze classics of the '70s. Both elements combine resulting in a very entertaining slaughter fest that has serious cult potential.

Set in 1979, FRAT HOUSE MASSACRE tells the story of Delta Iota Epsilon and college brothers Sean (Chris Pangley) and Bobby (Rane Jameson) and their start of life at a fraternity that ... (more…)

INTO THE WOODS (2008 dir Phil Herman)

Falcon Video DVD

Phil Herman and Falcon Video of Rockaway Beach, NY, the indie film company known for such underground, shot-on-video projects like HELL ON EARTH 2: ARENA OF DEATH (1992), BURGLAR FROM HELL (1993), JACKER (1993) and JACKER 2: DESCENT TO HELL (1997), TALES TILL THE END (1996), HORRORTALES.666 (2003), BEFORE I DIE (2003), and the MIDNIGHT trilogy (AROUND MIDNIGHT (2004), AFTER MIDNIGHT (2005), and ALWAYS MIDNIGHT (2007)), bring us their latest outing INTO THE WOODS.

Falcon star Nancy Feliciano stars as Danielle, a woman who is going through a rather troublesome relationship with an already married man (played by director Herman) and is trying ... (more…)

OLD HAG (2007 dir Channing Lowe)

SRS Cinema DVD

A group of workers on the night shift at a storage warehouse are beset by a series of bizarre events after a crate containing the body of a dead serial killer shows up. One worker comes into contact with an unseen presence that puts him in a state of paralysis. After coming out of it, the crew can't figure out if he had too much to drink or if he blacked out or was just hallucinating. Soon members of the crew begin to mysteriously disappear. It becomes apparent that something is a miss. Is somebody just playing a joke on them? Is some supernatural force trying to do away with them all? Or is something far more sinister than they could've ... (more…)

DEAD BODY MAN CHRONICLES (2008 dir Ryan Cavalline)

GMD Films DVD

Ryan Cavalline and 4th Floor Pictures of Kersey, PA have been known in the indie circuit for such micro budget efforts like SERIAL KILLER (2002), DEMON SLAUGHTER (2003), DAY OF THE AX (2004), HOUSE OF CARNAGE (2006), and ASPIRING PSYCHOPATH (2007). Their DEAD BODY MAN series follows the perverse adventures of a psycho named Willie and his chicken fetish, obsession with pornography, and penchant for killing whores to rid the world of its filth. The DEAD BODY MAN series isn't serious at all as it tries to push as many envelopes as possible, be offensive and politically incorrect, and over-the-top. Starting with DEAD BODY MAN (2004)... (more…)

HOUSE OF BEDLAM (2008 dir Paul Gorman)

GMD Films DVD

The year was 1808 when a group of prostitutes at a brothel in the town of Bedlam were chased from the place by religious fanatics from a fundamentalist church and brutally raped, tortured, and executed. Their children weren't spared either. 200 years later, a group of college kids who are on an outing in rural northwestern Pennsylvania as a part of a botony project they had to do for class stumble upon the old "House of Bedlam." The place is long rundown and deserted. What appears to be a harmless piece of land soon turns out to be extremely deadly as the students gradually disappear and the ghosts of the murdered prostitutes show up. ... (more…)

FETUS (2008 dir Brian Paulin)

Morbid Vision Films DVD

In the recent wave of extreme underground horror movies from all over the world, including THE GATEWAY MEAT (2007), PHILOSOPHY OF A KNIFE (2008) and AMICUS MORTIS (2007), comes Brian Paulin and Morbid Vision Films' answer to the extreme Asian gore flicks and cyberpunk films (like the GUINEA PIG series and the films of Shozin Fukui) of the '80s and '90s. In this case, both genres are combined to give us one of the sickest, goriest, most bizarre, and wicked underground efforts to come along as of recently. Brian Paulin and Morbid Vision, known for indie horror classics like AT DAWN THEY SLEEP (2000), DEAD GIRL ON FILM (2001), and the zombie ... (more…)

RETARDEAD (2008 dir Rick Popko and Dan West)

4321 Films DVD

For their follow-up to MONSTURD (2003), Rick Popko and Dan West of 4321 Films bring back the main villain and creator of the "Poop Man" Dr. Stern in RETARDEAD, an outrageous zombie comedy filled to the brim with gore and giggles.

Dr. Stern invents a special serum that he wants to experiment with. Returning to Butte County, the original scene of horror in MONSTURD where the poop monster wreaked havoc, Stern decides to try his serum on the mentally challenged people at the Butte County Institute for Special Education. The serum has some very drastic effects on its subjects. The clients of the Butte Institute start gaining intelligence ... (more…)

GONE THE WAY OF FLESH (2007 dir Jason Martinko)

Cut 'N' Run Productions DVD

Jason Martinko of the Pittsburgh band The Jason Martinko Revue brings us his first film effort with this tasteless, no-budget, shot-on-video epic that promises the viewer to be a spectacle of "graphic violence, nudity, language, drugs, filth and rock 'n' roll."

A mysterious killer is stalking The Jason Martinko Revue band in Pittsburgh. The psycho preys on female groupies, brutally torturing and dismembering them. As the mutilated bodies of young girls keep turning up every time the band performs at nightclubs around the Burgh, the police grow suspicious. Who could this madman be? Is he an obsessed fan? The authorities ... (more…)

IT'S MY PARTY AND I'LL DIE IF I WANT TO (2007 dir Tony Wash)

Scotchworthy Productions DVD

Illinois's Scotchworthy Productions presents us with a one of kind "choose your own adventure" horror flick.

IT'S MY PARTY tells the story of the creepy old Burkitt Manor in Monessen, PA and introduces us to its grisly history from back in the 1930s when Jacob Burkitt brutally butchered his family. In the present, Sara's friends decide to celebrate her 18th birthday by throwing a party in the Manor at Halloween time. Sara and her girlfriends don costumes and get the place ready for the party. Unbeknownst to them, supernatural forces within the haunted old house begin to crawl up from its darkest depths ... (more…)