Shudder hires THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT (review)

New mortuary assistant Rebecca must take the night shift and encounters unusual demon-infested corpses in this video game adaptation from Shudder and Dread.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (U.K.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH and French Subtitles
• Behind the Scenes
• Shudder Start-up Promo 

Acorn and Shudder peek into THE CREEP TAPES: SEASON TWO (review)

Serial killer Josef and his adorable alter ego Peach Fuzz the wolf lure more unsuspecting filmmakers to their doom in season two of the Shudder series spin-off of CREEP and CREEP 2 starring Mark Duplass with a special appearance by LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL's David Dastmalchian.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (U.K.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE CREEP TAPES - SEASON TWO Blu-ray specs: 

• Six episodes on one Blu-ray disc
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary on all episodes by actor/co-writer Mark Duplass, co-writer/creator/director Patrick Brice, and editor Chris Donlan
• Start-up Promos  

Acorn Media seeks tricks and treats from V/H/S/HALLOWEEN (review)

Learn what happens when you break the rules of trick or treating or take candy from strangers in the gory anthology V/H/S/HALLOWEEN.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

V/H/S/HALLOWEEN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English/Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH and French Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by "Diet Phantasma" director Bryan M. Ferguson, "Coochie Coochie Coo" director Anna Zlokovic, "Fun Size" director Casper Kelly & actors Lawson Greyson, Jenna Hogan, Jake Ellsworth, and Riley Nottingham, and editor Phil Samson, "Kidprint" director Alex Ross Perry, and "Home Haunt" director R.H. Norman and Micheline Pitt-Norman
• "Carbonated Carnage" behind the scenes featurette for "Diet Phantasma"
• Behind the scenes for "Coochie Coochie Coo"
• "Kidprint" deleted scene
• "Diet Phantasma" uninterrupted cut
• "Diet Phantasma" Commercial
• "Diet Phantasma" Image Gallery     

Arrow Video and Shudder unleash HELLBENDER (review)

A young woman sheltered from the world by her mother discovers that growing up is hell when you're not quite human in HELLBENDER from The Adams Family (THE DEEPER YOU DIG).

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video (US/UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

HELLBENDER Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.90:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by filmmakers Toby Poser, John Adams, Zelda Adams, and Lulu Adams
• "From the Forest She Rises" video essay by filmmaker Jen Handorf
• "The Visual FX of Hellbender by Black Magic Tricks" featurette on the visual effects by VFX artist Trey Lindsay
• Behind-the-Scenes Compilation Footage
• "Fort Worden" 2021 short film by Zelda Adams
• Four Music Videos
• Theatrical Trailer
• Trailer for "The Deeper You Dig"
• Comes with a slipcover, reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Beth Morris and original artwork by Sister Hyde, and an illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Natasha Ball and Kat Hughes.

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Shudder unearths THE CREEP TAPES: SEASON ONE (review)

The serial killer from CREEP and CREEP 2 claims more victims from gullible filmmakers in this found footage Shudder series starring Mark Duplass.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE CREEP TAPES: SEASON ONE Blu-ray specs:

• Six Episodes on One Blu-ray Disc
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary on all episodes by actor/co-writer Mark Duplass, co-writer/creator/director Patrick Brice, and executive producer Christopher Donlon
• Q and A with with Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice 

Acorn Media and Shudder venture V/H/S/BEYOND (review)

The V/H/S franchise returns with a sci-fi twist with a faux-documentary on the paranormal, a secret police unit raid on the house of a suspected abductor of infants, the secret of a Bollywood superstar, the sinister operations of a pet groomer, skydivers versus UFOs, and a woman who sets out to prove the existence of aliens armed only with a camcorder.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

V/H/S/BEYOND Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC Multi-Aspect Ratio
• English/Hindi DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Pre-visuals on "Live and Let Dive"
• Libby Letlow "Fur Babies" Audition Tape
• "Do You Want a Selfie?: The Making of Dream Girl"
• Behind the Scenes of "Stork" with IGN"
• Stowaway" Timelapse
• Behind the Scenes Galleries

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Acorn Media is cursed by ODDITY (review)

After her sister is murdered by an escaped maniac, a blind psychic gifts her brother-in-law and his new girlfriend with a strange wooden mannequin that seems to have a life of its own in this Irish horror film from the maker of CAVEAT.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

ODDITY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• English Audio Description DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH and French Subtitles
• Storyboard-to-Screen
• Behind the Scenes
• The Making of the Wooden Mannequin Gallery
  

Acorn Media animates terror in STOPMOTION (review)

Living under the thumb of her stop motion filmmaker mother, Ella feels like little more than a puppet.  When her mother falls into a coma, Ella starts work on her own project but starts to feel like someone or something else is still pulling the strings.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

STOPMOTION Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• English Descriptive Audio DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo
• Interview with actress Aisling Franciosi
• Interview with director Robert Morgan
• Behind the Scenes
   

Acorn Media and Shudder go analog with V/H/S/85 (review)

The latest of Shudder's V/H/S short horror collections features a strange child who is the subject of a scientific experiment gone wrong, an ill-advised visit to an eerie lake by a group of college students, an earthquake that unearths an ancient evil, a performance artist who invokes the "God of Technology" into corporeal form, a strange and deadly family gathering, and a detective who receives videos of murders before they happen.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

V/H/S/85 Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1/1.33:1 Widescreen
• English/Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by producer Josh Goldbloom, directors David Bruckner, Mike P. Nelson, Gigi Saul Guerrero, and Natasha Kermani, and writers Zoe Cooper, Evan Dickson and C. Robert Cargill, moderated by Bloody Disgusting's "Boo Crew" podcast
• Uncut Super 8 "Dreamkill" Footage 
• Uninterrupted "Total Copy" 
• Uninterrupted "No Wake/Ambrosia"
   

Acorn Media strips down CREEPSHOW: SEASON 1 (review)

The talents behind TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE, the CREEPSHOW movies, DAWN OF THE DEAD, and DAY OF THE DEAD bring CREEPSHOW to the small screen with twelve tales of monsters, murderers, and poetic justice.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

CREEPSHOW SEASON 1 Blu-ray specs:

• Twelve tales on two Blu-ray discs
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish Subtitles
• Audio Commentaries on all episodes
  

Acorn Media and Shudder get under the skin of SKINAMARINK (review)

In this house... two young children become convinced that something else lurks in the dark of their home that their parents cannot (or will not) protect them from in the lo-fi viral sensation SKINAMARINK.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SKINAMARINK Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles
• Audio Commentary by writer/director/editor Kyle Edward Ball and cinematographer Jamie McRae
   

Shudder and Acorn Media ring in Y2K with V/H/S/99 (review)

The V/H/S franchise rings in Y2K with a quintet of horror shorts involving haunted underground clubs, creepy game shows, a girl next door with a monstrous secret, a sorority initiation gone wrong, and a trip to hell and back.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

V/H/S/99 Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by directors Maggie Levin, Johannes Roberts, Flying Lotus, Tyler MacIntyre, and Vanessa Winter & Joseph Winter, moderated by Trevor Shand and Leone D'Antonio of The Boo Crew Podcast
• Exclusive Panel from Reedpop's 2022 New York Comic Con
• "Ozzy's Dungeon" extras:
• Deleted Scene 1
• Deleted Scene 2
• "Shredding" extras:
• Deleted Scene
• Bitchcat Music Video
• "The Gawkers" extras:
• Deleted Scene
• Bloopers
• Camera Tests (with audio commentary by director Tyler MacIntyre)
• "The Making of Medusa"
• "To Hell and Back" extras:
• Raw Footage
• Location Scouting
• Storyboards and Blocking Rehearsals
• Gag Reel
  

Acorn and Shudder visit THE AMUSEMENT PARK (review)

An old man in search of diversion discovers the harsh and horrific truths about aging in America in George A. Romero's long lost short film.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE AMUSEMENT PARK Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by actor/assistant cameraman Michael Gornick, moderated by Red Shirt Pictures' Michael Felsher
• "Re-Opening the Park" interview with Suzanne Desrocher-Romero
• "Bill & Bonnie’s Excellent Adventure" interview with uncredited actress Bonnie Hinzman
• "For Your Amusement" interview with artist Ryan Carr
• 2021 Panel Interview
• Official Brochure
• Script
• Behind-the-Scenes Photo Gallery
  

Acorn Media and Shudder see THEY LIVE IN THE GREY (review)

A social worker mourning the loss of her son investigates a case of possible child abuse and begins to suspect that the real perpetrator is a restless and violent spirit in THEY LIVE IN THE GREY.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDCompare)

THEY LIVE IN THE GREY DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles
• Photo Gallery
  

Acorn Media and Shudder mourn THE TWIN (review)

A couple mourning the death of their son move with his surviving twin to the Finnish countryside where pagan rites are still practiced.  When their son starts claiming to be his dead twin, his mother wonders if her son is possessed by his brother's ghost or something evil.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE TWIN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles
• "The Making of THE TWIN" promo
  

Acorn Media and Shudder worship HELLBENDER (review)

A young woman sheltered from the world by her mother discovers that growing up is hell when you're not quite human in HELLBENDER from The Adams Family (THE DEEPER YOU DIG).

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDCompare)

HELLBENDER DVD specs: 

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.90:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• "The Visual FX of Hellbender by Black Magic Tricks" 
• Bloopers
• "Zelda's Alter Ego: Eville Adams"
• Behind the Scenes Footage
• "Travelling with Wonder Wheel"
• Music Videos
  

Acorn Media and Shudder room with SUPERHOST (Review)

A pair of lifestyle vloggers book a stay at a "lifechanging" AirBnB and get the hostess from hell in SUPERHOST.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SUPERHOST Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH and Spanish Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by writer/director Brandon Christensen
• Behind-the-Scenes of SUPERHOST
• "Shooting in a Pandemic"
• Bloopers
• "SUPERHOST Visual FX"
• Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery
• "Scaredycats" shorts
  

Acorn and Shudder discover a CAVEAT (review)

In need of quick money after an accident, Isaac accepts an odd proposal from his landlord: to babysit the man's mentally-unstable niece at the island cottage where her father committed suicide and her mother mysteriously disappeared.  The CAVEAT is that he must wear a chained harness that restricts his movements for the young woman's sense of safety.  While the niece is unstable, it appears that there is something even more dangerous lurking in the cellar in this Irish horror film presented by Shudder.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

CAVEAT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles
• Audio Commentary by writer/director/editor Damian McCarthy
• Audio Commentary by producer Justin Hyne
• "Storyboards" split-screen comparison
  

Acorn Media and Shudder attend a SEANCE (Review)

The new student at Evaldine Academy has more to worry about than mean girls when a seance conjures up a killer.  From the writer of YOU'RE NEXT and BLAIR WITCH.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SEANCE Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles
• Audio Commentary by writer/director Simon Barrett
• Deleted Scenes with optional audio commentary by writer/director Simon Barrett
• Behind the Scenes
• Outtakes
• Decapitation Pre-Viz
• Photo Gallery
• Start-up Trailers
  

Shudder takes on PSYCHO GOREMAN (review)

A ruthless, violent, intergalactic alien warrior is now the plaything of a spunky little girl in PSYCHO GOREMAN.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

PSYCHO GOREMAN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Steven Kostanski
• "One-on-One" interview with director Steven Kostanski
• Interviews with the Cast
• Interview with actor Adam Brooks
• "Kortex: A Konversation"
• "The Music of PG"
• "Fight Choreography"
• "Filming the Paladin Fight"
• "Miniature Magic"
• "Inside the Creature Shop"
• "Fight Pre-Viz"
• "PG vs Pandora"
• Concept Art Gallery
• Trading Cards Gallery
• Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery
• Startup Trailers