General Horror Films & TV Discussion Thread

[Gary]

Haven't don this in a while, so new and upcoming on UHD and Blu

Out now

-Opera (5 disc (!) limited release) (Severin)

July 16th

-Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original) 4K and Blu (Kino Lorber)
-Phantoms 4K/Blu Ray combo pack (Shout! Factory)

July 23rd

-Arcadian (RLJE)
-Jaws sequels on 4k (Universal)
-Cannibal Apocalypse 4K (Kino Lorber)
-The Strangers: Chapter 1 4k and Blu (Lionsgate)
-Nightmare Beach 4K (Kino Lorber)
-Confessions of a Serial Killer (Unearthed Films)
-The Ruins (Paramount)

July 30th

-I Saw the TV Glow (Lionsgate)
-The First Omen 4K and Blu (20th Century Fox/Disney)
-Houses of Doom (a collection of made for TV movies from Lucio Fulci and Umberto Lenzi) (Cauldron)
-Sting (Well Go USA)
-Danza Macabre Vol 3: Spanish Gothic Collection (Severin)
-The Sadness 4K/Blu (Shudder)

August 6th

-Peril and Darkness: And Soon the Darkness and Sudden Terror 4K and Blu (Kino Lorbor)

August 13th

-Demons 1 and 2 4K and Blu (Severin)
-Chucky: Season Three (Universal)

August 20th

-A bunch of Walmart exclusive Steelbooks (including "Sinister", "Wolf Creek" and "Return of the Living Dead")
-Food of the Gods (Kino Lorber)
-Empire of the Ants (Kino Lorber)
-Beetlejuice 4K Steelbook (Warner)

August 27th

-Castle of Blood 4K and Blu (Severin)
-The Watchers 4K and Blu (Warner)
-Squirm (Kino Lorber)
-Kingdome of the Spiders (Kino Lorber)
-Reptilicus 4K/Blu (Vinegar Syndrome)
-The Woman 4K (Arrow)
-Poltergeist 2 and 3 4K (Shout! Factory)
-Chinese Torture Chamber (Vinegar Syndrome)
-Hillbilly's in a Haunted House (VCI)
-Eight Eyes (Vinegar Syndrome)


September 3rd

-Sweeney Todd 4K (Paramount)
-Creepshow 4K Steelbook (Shout! Factory)
-Amityville Horror remake 4K/Blu (Shout! Factory)
-The Boy 4K/Blu (Shout! Factory)

September 10th

-Late Night With the Devil Steelbook (Shudder)
-The Stepfather 4K (Shout! Factory)
-Longlegs 4K and Blu (Decal)
-The Strangers 4K (Shout! Factory)
-Link 4K (Kino Lorber)
-Zoltan, Hound of Dracula 4K (Shout Factory)
-The Antichrist 4K (Kino Lorber)

September 17th

-Torso 4K (Arrow)
-Friday the 13th remake 4K (Arrow)

September 24th

-John Carpenter's Village of the Damed 4K (Shout! Factory)
-The Exorcism (Vertical)

October 8th

-The Convent 4K and Blu (Synapse)
-Killers (Synapse)

October 29th

-Dogora Mora (Radiance)
-Daei Gothic: Japanese Gothic (Radiance)

 

[Gary]

Criterion announced "I Walked With a Zombie" and "The Seventh Victim" for October.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Longlegs did an impressive $8,900+ per theater at just 2,500 theaters. Per The-Numbers, Horror has now done $378 Million for the year off just 26 movies (compared to Drama's $435 Million off 107 movies).

The Numbers - Movie Market Summary for Year 2024

Annual Movie Market Summary for 2024

the-numbers.com

Market Share for Each Genre in 2024​

Rank	Genre	Movies	2024 Gross	Tickets	Share
1	Action	48	$1,383,333,647	128,324,061	34.05%
2	Adventure	31	$1,026,768,556	95,247,531	25.27%
3	Comedy	49	$489,978,745	45,452,547	12.06%
4	Drama	107	$435,155,755	40,366,898	10.71%
5	Horror	26	$378,062,905	35,070,756	9.31%
6	Musical	6	$175,351,803	16,266,399	4.32%
7	Romantic Comedy	6	$74,899,456	6,947,999	1.84%
8	Thriller/Suspense	26	$44,539,133	4,131,632	1.10%
9	Western	3	$27,592,818	2,559,629	0.68%
10	Documentary	36	$11,613,839	1,077,331	0.29%

 

[Gary]

Arrow announced the following for October

-J-Horror Rising, a box set of Japanese horror films from the late 90s and 2000s
-2009s Trick r Treat on UHD
-Hellraiser: Quartet of Torment, a boxset of the first four "Hellraiser" movies

 

[HarleyQuinn]

The Ring is dropping in October on 4K

One of those movies that really relies on the atmosphere/color grading so I'm curious how the 4K improves that vs the Blu-Ray.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Watched Warlock (1989) for the first time and it was a decent, fun watch. Julian Sands is enjoyable playing the villain and Richard E. Grant does a solid job being his counterpoint visually/acting wise in chasing him down into the future. It's one of his earliest movies, which fits as somebody who largely knows him only for his current fare. Lori Singer was fine as the woman caught in the middle having to assist Grant's character.

Some of the effects are dated/corny but there's some decent gore/kills and physical effects. The plot is what it is but this is largely carried on the interplay between the 3 leads and Julian's warlock character.

 

[Brocklock]

Peacock added a bunch of horror movies. Great variety from Get Out to the thing to Saw to Universal monsters, a bunch of Wes Craven movies, and some of the Halloween series. September and October is the only time the movie library is worthwhile.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Finally got around to watching The Babysitter and The Babysitter: Evil Queen on Netflix. Really enjoyed the 1st one (7/10) with a lot of blood splatter, fun characters, and solid acting from all. The sequel was pretty disappointing (5/10) relying too much on the "self-referential" stuff that Scream, etc. was doing by 2019/2020 that the first movie held to more of a minimum in part because it was 2016/2017.

Samara Weaving was so much fun though and I was hoping to get more out of Jenna Ortega in the latter but it almost felt paint-by-numbers with her performance (not bad but not quite the high I was looking for).

 

[tekcop]

As a kid Warlock was the scariest movie in the world to me.

 

[Brocklock]

Looks really interesting. Leigh Whannell is 2 for 2 and his Invisible Man re imagining was really good. Christopher Abbott is also one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood, and he should do a great job here.

 

[Youth N Asia]

In a Violent Nature just hit Shudder.