New Release Tuesday! This week we’ve got interdimensional family strife, the struggles of the landed gentry, super-pigs on the run, tons of killer bugs, and lots more!

AMERICAN PICKLE (2020)

ANTS aka IT HAPPENED AT LAKEWOOD MANOR (1977)

A mountain resort is ravaged by a deadly force in this terrifying tale of Mother Nature’s revenge—Ants!, a.k.a. It Happened at Lakewood Manor. Expecting a weekend of luxurious self-indulgence, visitors at the ritzy Lakewood Manor soon discover they’re the entrée of the day for an army of malevolent ants with an appetite for human flesh. When these killer creepy-crawlies eat toxic insecticides, they don’t die—they just get meaner. Vacation is no picnic in this cult eco-horror classic. The delicious cast includes Suzanne Somers (TV’s Three’s Company), Robert Foxworth (The Black Marble), Lynda Day George (TV’s Fear No Evil), Bernie Casey (TV’s The Martian Chronicles), Barry Van Dyke (TV’s Diagnosis Murder), Steve Franken (The Party), Karen Lamm (Trackdown) and Brian Dennehy (F/X) with a special appearance by celluloid great Myrna Loy (Love Me Tonight). Directed by TV veteran Robert Scheerer (TV’s Kolchak: The Night Stalker). (BLU-RAY)

BANQUET (2021)

CLOSE TO ME: SEASON 1 (2021)

DIGGER (2022)

When his estranged son appears with a motorcycle and a grudge, an iconoclastic farmer at war with an encroaching industry must let nature decide the fate of his tumultuous relationship. (DVD)

DOWNTON ABBEY – A NEW ERA (2022)

Welcome back to Downton. With stunning revelations, glamorous journeys, and the arrival of the Jazz Age, DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA will be the Crawleys’ biggest adventure yet as they grapple with their future and new intrigue about the past. (BLU-RAY & DVD)

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022)

HARLEM RISING (2020)

Harlem Rising chronicles the remarkable history and lives transformed by Harlem Children’s Zone – named one of the most ambitious social experiments created to break the cycle of poverty. Using archival footage filmed by Black and Brown youth from the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s, the film captures the transformation of New York City’s Harlem through the unique lens of generations of students. (DVD)

HELLO BOOKSTORE (2022)

In the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore. A landmark in Lenox, Massachusetts, The Bookstore is a magical, beatnik gem thanks to its owner Matt Tannenbaum, whose passion for stories runs deep. This intimate portrait of The Bookstore and the family at its heart offers a journey through good times, hard times, and the stories hidden on the shelves. (DVD)

HUNTED, THE (2003)

LIZA THE FOX-FAIRY (2015)

The Suitors Only Rival is Death. Liza is a lonely nurse whose only company is the ghost of a long-dead Japanese pop-star. Out of Jealousy, he turns her into a Fox Fairy and now everyone that is attracted to Liza dies a horrible death. In order to finally find true love, Liza must overcome the curse and defeat the jealousy of her suave, supernatural suitor. Imagine the candy-coated aesthetic of Amelie crossed with a darkly comic mean streak and you have Liza The Fox Fairy. Although it was released in 2015 and played the US festival circuit, Liza has been unavailable on Blu-ray worldwide… until now! Cauldron Films is here to bring you this utterly charming and playfully vicious gem in a brand new limited special edition! (BLU-RAY)

MEMORY (2022)

An assassin-for-hire finds that he’s become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization. A remake of the 2003 Belgian film ‘The Memory of a Killer’. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD (1973)

Set in the future, the story follows a nurse who tries to bring her own style of relief to people condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery and she may not be quite what she seems. (BLU-RAY)

OKJA (2017) (Criterion Collection)

PARTY AND THE GUESTS (1965)

A group of friends on an afternoon picnic are accosted by mysterious authority figures and compelled to join a lavish banquet in the woods. Jan Němec’s surreal and sinister fable is a barbed satire of authoritarianism and conformity, as each of the ‘guests’ find their place among the revellers, succumbing to the will of their menacing hosts.

Distinguished by being ‘banned forever’ by Czech authorities, Nemec’s disquieting film was considered the most politically dangerous film made during the short flowering of Czechoslovak cinema in the 1960’s. (BLU-RAY)

RYOMA! PRINCE OF TENNIS (2021)

Inspired by his tennis champion father, Ryoma is determined to train in the US after winning a championship in Japan. He runs into his classmate Sakuno right as she is getting into trouble with street gangs, and Ryoma accepts a tennis match against the villains to save her. During the intense tennis battle, the shock of two tennis balls ramming into one another disrupts the flow of time! Ryoma and Sakuno suddenly find themselves transported back into the past, decads, before, when Ryoma’s father challenged his last match at a championship in the US. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

SATOR (2019)

After You Have Suffered, He Will Find You Secluded in a desolate forest, home to little more than the decaying remnants of the past, a broken family is further torn apart by a mysterious death. Adam (Gabriel Nicholson), guided by a pervasive sense of dread, hunts for answers only to learn that they are not alone; an insidious presence by the name of Sator has been observing his family, subtly influencing all of them for years in an attempt to claim them. Shot in the Santa Cruz mountains and drawing from his grandmother’s real life belief in a protective spirit that spoke to her, Sator quietly unspools a story of isolation and dread that fits firmly into the recent wave of unsettling arthouse horror. Cauldron films is honored to release the world-wide Blu-ray debut of Sator, the film Paste magazine named “The best horror film of 2021”. (BLU-RAY)

TARANTULAS – DEADLY CARGO (1977)

A skin-crawling tale of terror begins when two Americans fly down to Ecuador to pick up a load of premium coffee beans. Unbeknownst to them, the cargo contains hundreds of lethal stowaways: gigantic, venomous tarantulas. When the plane crashes in a small California town, the furry fiends escape and wreak havoc on the unsuspecting inhabitants. Beware of the chilling arachno-horror that lurks within Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo. Claude Akins (Tentacles), Charles Frank (The Right Stuff), Deborah Winters (The People Next Door), Bert Remsen (Code of Silence), Pat Hingle (The Falcon and the Snowman), Tom Atkins (Halloween III: Season of the Witch) and Howard Hesseman (Honky Tonk Freeway) are among those victimized by the eight-legged evil. Directed by TV and Film veteran Stuart Hagmann (Believe in Me). (BLU-RAY)

TERROR OUT OF THE SKY aka REVENGE OF SAVAGE BEES (1978)

In this suspense-drenched followup to cult-favorite The Savage Bees, National Bee Center honcho David Martin is horrified to discover that a bloodthirsty swarm has infiltrated the research facility. Knowing that these downright deadly drones will attack relentlessly and unpredictably, he recruits his assistant Jeannie Devereux and her jealous boyfriend to help annihilate the killer bees before they descend upon Smalltown, U.S.A. The stinging menace strikes again in Terror Out of the Sky, a.k.a. The Revenge of the Savage Bees. Leading the counterattack against the invasion are Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (TV’s 77 Sunset Strip), Dan Haggerty (TV’s The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams), Tovah Feldshuh (TV’s Scream, Pretty Peggy), Lonny Chapman (TV’s The Screaming Woman), Ike Eisenmann (Escape to Witch Mountain), Charles Hallahan (Silkwood), Richard Herd (Wolf Lake), Steve Franken (Avalanche) and Philip Baker Hall (Cradle will Rock). Directed by TV and Film veteran Lee H. Katzin (Le Mans). (BLU-RAY)

UFO INCIDENT (1975)

James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope) and Estelle Parsons (Don’t Drink the Water) star as Barney and Betty Hill, husband-and-wife survivors of an alien abduction, in this engrossing look at one of the most controversial and carefully documented cases of an extraterrestrial encounter in U.S. history. The Hills claim that, on the 19th of September, 1961, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, they were taken aboard a saucer-like spacecraft and examined medically by mysterious humanoid beings with grayish skin. The UFO Incident describes with fascinating detail the couple’s crippling anxiety and nightmarish visions following the experience, during which they both suffered from amnesia. Directed by Richard A. Colla (Fuzz, TV’s Battlestar Galactica), this strange-but-true story is based on The Interrupted Journey, John G. Fuller’s bestselling account of the actual testimony made by the Hills while under hypnosis. (BLU-RAY)

VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999) (Criterion Collection)