Visual Vengeance investigates THE PARANORMAL (review)

A parapsychologist and a skeptical physicist investigate strange activity at an old movie theater and become trapped with the owner and the projectionist with a zombie film on the screen that is becoming increasingly interactive in this regional Missouri nineties shot-on-video horror flick.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE PARANORMAL Blu-ray specs:

• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director/co-writer/editor Todd Norris
• Audio Commentary by dierctor/co-writer/editor Todd Norris and composer Paul Roberts
• Cast and Crew Interviews
• "The Two Todds" interview with filmmakers Todd Norris and Todd Sheets
• "The Paranormal" Channel 5 TV Ad Bumpers
• Bloopers
• Deleted Scenes
• Original Script Excerpts
• Storyboard Gallery
• Todd Norris Short Films:
• "The Closet"
• "L..."
• "Night of the Growling"
• "Parallax" 
• Visual Vengeance Trailer for "The Paranormal"
• Comes with a folded mini-poster with art by Giorgio Credaro, a reversible sleeve featuring original VHS art, and a "Stick Your Own" VHS sticker set.

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Visual Vengeance has a BLOOD CRAVING on a DATE WITH A VAMPIRE (review)

A one night stand could become something intimate if a lonely vampire can stop playing with her food in this SOV erotic vampire flick from the director of NIGHT OWL.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

DATE WITH A VAMPIRE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Jeffrey Arsenault
• Interview with director Jeffrey Arsenault
• Interview with screenwriter Kevin J. Lindenmuth
• Interview with actress Cynthia Polakovich
• Interview with ‘Basement Vampire’ actor Joe Zaso
• "Location Manager Nathan Thompson: DATE WITH A VAMPIRE Memories"
• Buckingham Manor Location Video with Nathan Thompson
• Image Gallery
• Video Trailer
• Visual Vengeance Trailer
• Bonus Film BLOOD CRAVING:
• Audio Commentary by director Jeffrey Arsenault
• Interview with director Jeffrey Arsenault
• Image Gallery
• Original First Draft Trailers
• Video Trailer
• Visual Vengeance Trailer 
• After Midnight Trailer Reel
• Comes with a reversible cover and foldout miniposter.
• The first pressing includes an O-ring slipcover designed by Rick Melton.

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Wild Eye Releasing and Visual Vengeance give voice to SCREAM QUEEN (review)

When scream queen Malicia Tombs (Linnea Quigley) perishes in a car explosion, the crew of her latest film - and the suspects in her death - are invited to a remote mansion to finish her film by a mysterious host and a killer stalking the halls.  From the director of CAMP BLOOD.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SCREAM QUEEN Blu-ray specs: 

• Director's Cut (74 minutes):
• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen 
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English SDH Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by writer/director Brad Sykes
• Producer's Cut (79 minutes):
• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen 
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono 
• "Once Upon a Time in Horrorwood" interview with writer/director Brad Sykes 
• Interviews: 
• actress Linnea Quigley 
• editor Mark Polonia 
• Behind the Scenes Image Gallery 
• Linnea Quigley Image Gallery 
• Original Script Excerpts 
• Original Trailer 
• Visual Vengeance Trailer 
• Comes with a slipcover, reversible cover, video rental store card, sheet of twelve stickers, and foldout poster.

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Wild Eye Releasing and Visual Vengeance knock on THE WRONG DOOR (review)

When a radio mystery drama student and part-time singing telegram knock on THE WRONG DOOR, he becomes entangled in a murder and may just be the next victim in this Super 8-lensed regional thriller.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE WRONG DOOR Blu-ray specs: 

• Original Cut (74 minutes):
  
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary on the original cut by co-directors Bill Weiss and Shawn Kerby 
• Audio Commentary on the original cut by co-director James Groetsch and producer John Schonebaum
  
• Director's Cut (67 minutes):
• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• "Men Make Movie, If Not Million$: The Making of THE WRONG DOOR" documentary 
• Interviews with co-directors James Groetsch, Shawn Korby, and Bill Weiss, and actor Matt Felmlee 
• "Distributing THE WRONG DOOR" interview with "Film Threat" magazine writer Chris Gore 
• Super 8 Short Films: 
• "Raiders of the Lost Bark" (1983) 
• "The Pizza Man" (1988) 
• "The Gale Whitman Show" TV episode 
• Original MUTHER Video VHS Intro 
• Image Gallery 
• Original Storyboards Gallery 
• Film Threat Review 
• "Now Hiring" Trailer 
• Visual Vengeance Trailer 
• Comes in a slipcover with a reversible sleeve, "The Wrong Door" door tag, foldout poster, and a sheet of twelve stickers.

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Wild Eye Releasing enters THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS (Review)

An old man and a young woman enter Portugal's Forest of Lost Souls to commit suicide.  Only one of them will leave, but the ones they leave behind are not long for this world either.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

FOREST OF LOST SOULS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• Portuguese Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director José Pedro Lopes
• "Fight Rehearsal"
• Deleted Scenes
• Short Film "St. John"
• Teaser
• Start-up Trailers

Wild Eye Releasing digs up the ABANDONED DEAD (review)

Rachael Burke has lived in fear of the dark since childhood.  She works as a security guard and only takes day shifts.  When she is forced to take an night shift during the Memorial Day weekend at an addiciton clinic in a bad part of town, she starts to wonder whether she is going crazy or being haunted by something related to her childhood trauma.  Sarah Nicklin and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD's Judith O'Dea star.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

ABANDONED DEAD DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Previews

Wild Eye Releasing plays with HEIDI (review)

Two teenage video pranksters learn what happens when you mess with a possessed doll in the found footage chiller HEIDI.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

HEIDI DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Deleted Scenes
• Behind the Scenes Gallery
• Trailer
• Previews

Wild Eye Releasing investigates WOLF HOUSE (review)

When six former high school friends take a weekend trip to the woods, they bring back the carcass of what they think is bigfoot.  The creature isn't dead, however, and it is far from the only supernatural force they have to worry about when a suburban home becomes the WOLF HOUSE.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

WOLF HOUSE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Audio Commentary by actor/director Ken Cosentino and actors Elizabeth Houlihan and Marcus Ganci-Rotella
• Behind the Scenes
• "Making the Monster" (85 mins)
• Trailer
• Previews

Wild Eye Releasing resurrects JONAH LIVES as THE OUIJA POSSESSION (review)

Bored teenagers hanging out in their parents basement disrespect the rules of the spirit board and inadvertently summon back to life the body and vengeful spirit of Jonah who pursues them and his murderers in a gory night of slaughter.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

THE OUIJA POSSESSION DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Trailer
• Previews

Wild Eye Releasing tunes into THE HORROR NETWORK (review)

"It's prime time for evil" when Wild Eye Releasing tunes into THE HORROR NETWORK.  Five stories of ultimate horror include a woman on an isolated farm tormented by strange phone calls and things that go bump in the night, a patient who tries to convince his psychiatrist that his sleepwalking is something far more sinister, a deaf girl stalked through the countryside by a mysterious van driver, a mother and daughter's legacy of brutal abuse, and a suburban psycho who could be your next door neighbor (or worse).  From the creators of TRASHOLOGY.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

THE HORROR NETWORK DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic widescreen (multiple aspect ratios from 1.76:1 to 2.98:1)
• English/Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
• Burnt-in English subtitles (for the Spanish dialogue)
• Alternate cut of "The Deviant One"
• Image Gallery
• Trailer
• Previews

Wild Eye Releasing feeds FRANKENSTEIN'S HUNGRY DEAD (review)

When a misfit group of obnoxious high school students sneak into the local wax museum for sex and drugs, they provide the perfect donors for owner Dr. Carl Frank(enstein)'s experiments to create a race of superior beings.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC (DVDCompare)

FRANKENSTEIN'S HUNGRY DEAD DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Audio Commentary by director Richard Griffin and actors Michael Thurber, Jamie Lyn Bagley, Ryan Hanley, Shannon Hartman, Johnny Sederquist, Jesse Dufault, and Nat Sylva
• Previews

Wild Eye Releasing confronts an ALL AMERICAN BULLY (review)

FRIDAY THE 13TH's Adrienne King co-stars in this portrait of modern day high school bullying.  When gamer Devon tries to fight back against drop-out John and his cocaine-addled friends, he is beaten and the event becomes a viral sensation.  His friends suggest turning the tables on his tormentor with a little blackmail, but no one is prepared for the deadly consequences of the actions of the bullies and the victims.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

ALL AMERICAN BULLY DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Cast/Crew Interviews (72 minutes) 
• Trailer
• Previews

Wild Eye Releasing resurrects JONAH LIVES (review)

In this slasher throwback, six kids spending a Friday night in a basement decide to have some fun with a genuine Ouija board.  Making contact with the ghost of a murdered man named Jonah, they call him back from the grave as a zombie who stalks them one by one.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

JONAH LIVES DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Behind the Scenes
• Behind the Scenes with Brinke Stevens
• Teaser
• Trailer
• Wild Eye Releasing Trailers

Wild Eye Releasing goes analogue with HI-8 [HORROR INDEPENDENT 8] (review)

DIY filmmakers Ron Bonk, Donald Farmer, Marcus Koch, Tony Masiello, Tim Ritter, Chris Seaver, Todd Sheets, and Brad Sykes get back to their analogue roots with this cheap and gory anthology film in eight shorts featuring slashers, rapists, zombies, serial killers, aliens, ghosts, monsters, and various sick psychos.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

HI-8 (HORROR INDEPENDENT 8) DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Audio Commentary by producers Brad Sykes and Josephina Sykes
• Behind the Scenes
• Promo Clips
• Teaser Trailer
• Trailer
• Wild Eye Releasing Trailers

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Wild Eye Releasing and Pollygrind PLAY HOOKY (review)

Five high school kids learn the worst that could happen when they PLAY HOOKY at an abandoned mental hospital in this "found footage" horror film.  An old hospital rumored to be the site of grotesque experiments, Satanic rituals, and ghost sitings following a tragic fire seems to be the perfect place for a bit of pot-smoking and casual sex, but something else lurks in the dark corridors wanting to play a deadly game with the young quintet.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

PLAY HOOKY DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Audio Commentary by director Frank S Petrilli, cinematographer Jason Chester, co-writer/actor Vincent Kulish, editor Peter Jay Gould, and Pollygrind Film Festival's Chad Freeman
• Pollygrind Introduction
• Promo
• Alternate Ending
• Dickerson's Interview
• Heather's Interview
• "The Sister's Interview
• Pollygrind Presents Short Films:
• "The Bet"
• "Kuriosity Killz"
• Trailer
• Wild Eye Releasing Trailers

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Wild Eye Releasing presents ADJUST YOUR TRACKING

The untold story of the world of VHS collectors is finally revealed in the documentary ADJUST YOUR TRACKING.  Collectors scour thrift shops, moldy attics, closed down video stores, and the net in search of the rarest tapes from Jess Franco, Paul Naschy, to shot-on-video American slasher films to TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE and BLACK DEVIL DOLL FROM HELL.

REVIEW LINK: VHShitfest/Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

ADJUST YOUR TRACKING DVD specs:

• Disc One:
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Audio Commentary by directors Dan Kimen and Levi Peretic
• Audio Commentary by producers Josh Schafer and Matt Desiderio
• Short Films:
• "Video Shelf"
• "It Wasn't in Vain, It Was in Staten Island"
• "The Ballad of Chester Novell Turner"
• Teaser and Theatrical Trailers
• Disc Two:
• Behind the Scenes:
• "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
• "Alamo Drafthouse Q&A"
• "Back Alley Film Series Q&A"
• Extended Interviews (134 minutes)
• Deleted Scenes (26 minutes)
• Insert booklet by producer Josh Schafer

Wild Eye Releasing gets BLOOD SOAKED (review)

It's lesbians vs Nazis vs zombies in the brutal BLOOD SOAKED when college students Piper and Ashley hang out in the desert after a kegger to get to know each other better only to wind up in the sights of the daughters of a Nazi scientist who bring victims back to their bunker to feed to their zombie minions!

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

BLOOD SOAKED DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Audio Commentary by writer/director Peter Grendle and cinematographer/editor Tyler King
• Audio Commentary by actors Laina Grendle and Heather Wilder
• Audience Track from the Polygrind Film Festival
• Short film inspiration for BLOOD SOAKED "This Side of Nightmare"
• Two Drunk Girls Introduction
• Introduction Outtake
• Two Trailers for the Film
  Other Trailers

Wild Eye Releasing moves into THE PERFECT HOUSE (review)

SLEEPAWAY CAMP's Felissa Rose and Jonathan Tiersten, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD's John Philbin, TENDER FLESH's Monique Parent, and VIVA LA BAM's Chris Raab get more than they bargained for when they move into THE PERFECT HOUSE, a three story anthology film that reveals the bloody and brutal history of the house's previous owners and its plans for the new buyers!

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE PERFECT HOUSE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.40:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Behind the Scenes:
• Meet the Crew
• Meet the Crew 2
• Meet Monique Parent
• Meet Chris Raab
• Meet John Philbin
• Featurettes:
• Tour Teaser
• Creation of THE PERFECT HOUSE RV
• On the Road
• Basement Walkthrough
• Buffalo: Countdown to Facebook Premiere
• Buffalo: TV Press
• Q&A Highlight Reel (103 minutes)
• Alternate Ending
• Release Trailer
• Original Spec Trailer
• Audience Trailer
• Other Trailers

Wild Eye Releasing faces the INVASION OF THE SCREAM QUEENS (review)

Donald Farmer's 1991 documentary INVASION OF THE SCREAM QUEENS hasn't aged well, but it's now an interesting and amusing time capsule on the current crop of B-movie horror hopefuls from the legendary Mary Waranov, Michelle Bauer, Brinke Stevens, and Martine Beswick to the lovely Elizabeth Kaitan, Melissa Moore, and Monique Gabrielle, to the intriguing Vivian Schilling, Ruth Collins, Veronica Carothers, and Deborah Stern among others.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

INVASION OF THE SCREAM QUEENS DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Introduction by director Donald Farmer
• 2013 Interview with Donald Farmer
• Deleted Scenes (47 mins)
• Behind the Scenes Still Gallery
• Linnea Quigley Excerpt from the INVASION OF THE SCREAM QUEENS book

Wild Eye visits the SCREAM PARK (review)

The teens celebrating the closure of Frightland Park with night of underage drinking, pot-smoking, and sex have their party crashed by a pair of psychopathic killers in this slasher throwback featuring a cameo by HELLRAISER's Doug Bradley.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

SCREAM PARK DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.73:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Audio Commentary by writer/producer/director Cary Hill
• Bloopers
• Trailer
• Wild Eye Releasing Trailers