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Night of the Demons 4K Uhd from Scream Factory

Night of the Demons will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on October 3 via Scream Factory. The 1988 cult classic has been newly scanned in 4K from the uncut camera negative with Dolby Vision Hdr and DTS-hd Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0.

Celebrating its 35th anniversary, Night of the Demons is directed by Kevin S. Tenney (Witchboard) and written by Joe Augustyn. Cathy Podewell, Amelia Kinkade, Linnea Quigley, Hal Havins, William Gallo, and Alvin Alexis star.

A workprint version of the film, under its original title The Halloween Party, is included. Other special features include two audio commentaries with cast and crew; interviews with Augustyn, Kinkade, and actresses...

Can you believe we’re already less than three weeks until Halloween? What does that mean for horror fans? Well, it means A Whole Lot of brand new releases are headed our way!

In fact, another 14 Brand New Horror Movies are releasing this week alone, including the return of a horror master and the final battle between two iconic horror legends.

Here’s all the new horror releasing October 10 – October 16, 2022!

Another Hulu Original horror movie has arrived for the Halloween season, with Hulu unleashing the meme-based Grimcutty to kick off the week’s new releases just yesterday.

In the new Hulu horror movie, “A suburban teen girl and her little brother must stop a terrifying internet meme brought to life by the hysteria of their parents.”

John Ross (“The Birch”) directed Grimcutty for Hulu’s “Huluween” lineup this year.

Usman Ally (Veep, A Series of Unfortunate Events), Shannyn Sossamon (Wayward Pines,...

Spirit Halloween: The Movie Image: Courtesy Strike Back Studios It’s a perfect pitch. Some kids get locked inside a haunted Halloween store on Halloween, all the rinky-dink costumes become possessed, and they’ve got to fight back with toy weapons. Not bad, right? Wait, there’s more—it...

With Spirit Halloween: The Movie now available on VOD, we have an exclusive clip just for Daily Dead readers!

"When a new Halloween store opens in a deserted strip mall, three middle school friends who think they’ve outgrown trick or treating make a dare to spend the night locked inside the store Halloween night. But they soon find out that the store is haunted by an angry evil spirit who has possessed the creepy animatronic characters. The kids will need to embark on a thrilling and spooky adventure in order to survive the night and avoid becoming possessed themselves. Inspired by the world’s largest Halloween retailer, Spirit Halloween, Spirit Halloween The Movie has the look and feel of the classic tween adventure films of the 70s and 80s – complete with old-school animatronics and set pieces provided by the Spirit Halloween franchise."

Directed by David Poag from a screenplay by Billie Bates,...

Plot: Three friends, thinking they’ve outgrown trick or treating, decide to spend the night locked inside a Halloween store. But their night of spook-filled fun soon turns to outlandish survival.

Review: Given the success of the recent Goosebumps films, it’s no surprise that we got a Spirit Halloween movie. Actually…yeah, it kind of is surprising because Goosebumps was based on a popular books series while Spirit Halloween is just a Halloween store that isn’t even open all year. Not only that, but they make the decision to set it in a Spirit Halloween itself, featuring a ton of the costumes and props that are on sale at the actual store. Oh, commercialism, you bastard.

As you probably suspected, this is a kid’s movie. So don’t go into this expecting some kind of circumvention of the genre. The production isn’t quite as “Straight to...

You have to suspend a hefty amount of disbelief in order to enjoy the kiddy horror pic “Spirit Halloween: The Movie” since, yes, it is a feature-length commercial for the Spirit Halloween chainstore. This lightly likable action-adventure advert rehashes the formulaic story beats that its filmmakers cribbed from a variety of acknowledged influences, including Amblin productions like “Gremlins” and “The Goonies.”

You might also think of Robert Zemeckis’s two Amblin movies, “Back to the Future” and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” given the presence of Christopher Lloyd, who makes a brief appearance as a vengeful ghost who hopes to possess a new human body. (Lloyd otherwise delivers his lines off-camera as a voice actor.)

Unfortunately, screenwriter Billie Bates and first-time director David Poag don’t have a knack for snappy dialogue or a general sensitivity for child and/or amateurish acting, which inadvertently puts way too much strain on the movie’s younger performers.

Growing up, Halloween was a big deal. I mean, I still consider it a big deal. But there was something extra special about it as a kid, where everything seemed so magically spooky and fun. Where there was one night a year when I could wander around in the dark (yes, when I was a kid, we only went trick or treating at night, unlike now, when kids only show up at my house for candy before the sun sets) dressed as someone else. Where anything was possible. Where the sun went down blazing orange in a chilly sky. Where ghosts and monsters were suddenly real.

The Halloweens of my youth were also accompanied by a steady stream of junk-food Halloween specials that would come on TV every year. One of my favorites was the 1980s Disney short film "Mr. Boogedy," about a family that moves into a haunted house...

These next several weeks are going to be absolutely loaded with brand new horror, and this week alone brings 11 new movies to the table as we make our way into the month of October.

This week’s new releases include brand new theatrical horror as well as the sequel to a beloved Halloween favorite and even a new take on a classic TV series from an unlikely source.

Here’s all the new horror arriving September 27-October 2, 2022!

First up, Rob Zombie‘s The Munsters comes to Blu-ray, VOD and Netflix on Tuesday, September 27, a fresh – and colorful – new take on the classic black & white television series.

Jeff Daniel Phillips is playing Herman Munster and Sheri Moon Zombie is playing Lily Munster in Zombie’s movie, with Daniel Roebuck co-starring as Grandpa Munster.

In the brand new movie, “Herman and Lily’s crazy courtship takes The Munsters on a hauntingly hilarious...

Memes continuously riff on the largest Halloween store pop-up rising yearly in the remnants of vacant retail space. That long closed and abandoned Sears? Prime real estate for a Spirit Halloween come September, only to empty once more in November. It’s this precise concept in which Spirit Halloween: The Movie sets its premise, creating a novelty, family-friendly Halloween tale that’s more likely to inspire a shopping trip than anything else.

A prologue in the past explains the town legend of Alex Windsor (Christopher Lloyd), a greedy man turned restless spirit (get it?) in search of a corporal host. Cut to the present, where friends Jake (Donovan Colan), Bo (Jaiden J. Smith), and Carson (Dylan Martin Frankel) make plans for Halloween night. Jake’s mood sours when he realizes that his friends announce that they’ve outgrown their annual trick-or-treating tradition. It gets even worse when mom, Sue (Rachael Leigh Cook...

We just saw a trailer for Spirit Halloween: The Movie last month, but now a second trailer for the movie has already arrived online and can be seen in the embed above. Starring Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) and Rachael Leigh Cook (She’s All That), Spirit Halloween: The Movie – which is indeed based on the retail outlet Spirit Halloween – is set to receive a VOD release on October 11th.

Directed by David Poag from a screenplay by Billie Bates, Spirit Halloween: The Movie tells the following story:

When a Spirit Halloween Store opens in a deserted strip mall, three middle school friends who think they’ve outgrown trick or treating make a dare to spend the night locked inside the store Halloween night. But they soon find out that the store is haunted by an angry evil spirit who has possessed the creepy animatronic characters. The kids will need...

"Three of us. Best holiday of the year. Just like always." Sounds like a good time! We're less than a month from October, which means Halloween season is just around the corner. Another official trailer has debuted for Spirit Halloween: The Movie - which is pretty much just a glorified feature-length ad that will play in theaters this October. It's based on and inspired by those Halloween junk stores that pop up every year. When a new Spirit Halloween store opens in a deserted strip mall, three middle school friends who think they’ve outgrown trick or treating dare to spend the night locked in on Halloween. But they soon find out it's haunted by an angry evil spirit who has possessed all the creepy animatronics. This kid-friendly horror movie stars Christopher Lloyd, Rachael Leigh Cook, with Donavan Colan, Dylan Frankel, Jaiden Smith, and Marissa Reyes. It's pretty much perfect...

The store becomes a movie with Spirit Halloween: The Movie this Halloween season, and today Bloody Disgusting is debuting the second trailer along with some new information.

Bloody Disgusting has learned that the film will have a limited theatrical release beginning September 30, as well as special event screenings taking place that same weekend at the Nashville Film Festival and Popcorn Frights Wicked Weekend in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.

The film will be released on all VOD platforms on October 11 followed by DVD and soundtrack releases later that month.

Watch the Spirit Halloween: The Movie second trailer below.

Spirit Halloween: The Movie is the feature directorial debut of David Poag and stars Christopher Lloyd, Rachael Leigh Cook, Marla Gibbs, and a fantastic cast of up-and-coming talent, including Donovan Colan, Marissa Reyes, Jaiden J. Smith and Dylan Martin Frankel, many of whom are making their big screen debuts.

The film tells the story...

"Pop up Halloween store in a creepy lot?" "Awesome!" File this under "huh?" You know those Halloween stores that pop up in abandoned places and sell costumes and other junk? Spirit Halloween stores, they're called, and you've definitely drive by two or three of them. Maybe even five or six. They've decided to make an entire movie - Spirit Halloween: The Movie - which is pretty much just a glorified feature-length ad that will play in theaters this October. When a new Spirit Halloween store opens in a deserted strip mall, three middle school friends who think they’ve outgrown trick or treating dare to spend the night locked in on Halloween. But they soon find out it's haunted by an angry evil spirit who has possessed all the creepy animatronics. Starring Christopher Lloyd and Rachael Leigh Cook, with Donavan Colan, Dylan Frankel, Jaiden Smith, and Marissa Reyes. This plays...

The spookiest time of the year is just around the corner, and with it comes a new look at “Spirit Halloween: The Movie,” an upcoming film based on the ubiquitous pop-up costume store.

The new teaser trailer chronicles a group of boys, played by Donovan Colan, Dylan Martin Frankel and Jaiden J. Smith, who decide to spend a night at an abandoned Spirit Halloween store, only to find out that its products and animatronic creatures have come alive and set out to haunt them. The boys, along with Kate, played by Marissa Reyes, must work to defeat the spirit trapped inside the store before midnight, or it will possess one of them for all of eternity.

“Spirit Halloween: The Movie” stars Christopher Lloyd in the role of Alec Windsor, a deceased man whose spirit possesses everything in the abandoned store and terrorizes the group of kids. Rachael Leigh Cook also...

Many horror fans (myself included) make it a point to visit their local Spirit Halloween pop-up store every autumn, but what would happen if you spent the night within its creepy confines? That question is answered for three middle school friends in the new teaser trailer for Spirit Halloween: The Movie, a new film from Hideout Pictures and Particular Crowd that co-stars Rachel Leigh Cook and Christopher Lloyd!

Spirit Halloween: The Movie will be released on VOD beginning October 11th, and you can check out the new teaser trailer below!

Directed by David Poag from a screenplay by Billie Bates, Spirit Halloween: The Movie stars Rachel Leigh Cook, Christopher Lloyd, Marla Gibbs, Donovan Colan, Marissa Reyes, Jaiden J. Smith, Dylan Martin Frankel, and Brad Carter. The film was produced by Shannon Houchins, Noor Ahmed, and Mike Hagerty.



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