New Release Tuesday! Spooky season begins with horror classics in 4K, tons of rarities from Vinegar Syndrome and associates, and a whole lot more.

AMITYVILLE HORROR (1979) 

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses. Fearing for their sanity, they consult with Father Delaney who realizes a dark supernatural presence has consumed the home and is attempting to propel the Lutz family into becoming its latest victims of unspeakable acts of violence… (BLU-RAY + 4KULTRAHD)

APE (2012)

Trevor Newandyke is a struggling comedian and a pyromaniac. Not only does his act bomb on stage, but he bombs at everyday life, too. Fed up with threats from the cable company, Slurpee price hikes and all the jerks who think they can push him around, all Trevor wants is a break. But instead of getting himself together or channeling his anger for his act, he turns inward, to the loud din of his headphones and the crackling glow of fire to ease his mind. Chicago Reader summed up the film perfectly: “It’s like a Descendents song mixed with late Bunuel mixed with bum fight videos…And it’s fucking brilliant.”
(BLU-RAY)

ARMY OF DARKNESS (1992) 

Bound in human flesh and inked in blood, the ancient “Necronomicon” – the Book of the Dead – unleashes unspeakable evil upon mankind in director Sam Raimi’s (Darkman, Drag Me to Hell) outrageously hilarious third chapter in his Evil Dead Trilogy. Bruce Campbell returns as Ash, the handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk who is time warped backwards into England’s Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead. Can Ash save the living from the evil dead, rescue his girlfriend, and get back to his own time?(BLU-RAY + 4KULTRAHD)

BLOOD, GUTS & SUNSHINE (2022)

Snakes, sunshine, summer heat and HORROR! Explore the independent horror film scene that Florida has been vigorously pumping out since the invention of film. This blu-ray is jam packed with Interviews, exploitation, never-before-seen footage and cinema madness! Watch and learn about films new and old in this exclusive documentary made for cult horror fans! Featuring exclusive interviews from: Herschell Gordon Lewis, John Waters John Landis, William Grefe, Sean Donohue, Chris Woods, Marcus Koch, Steve Biro, Tim Ritter, Joel D. Wynkoop and more! (BLU-RAY)

BURIED ALIVE (1989)

From acclaimed director and editor Gérard Kikoïne (Edge of Sanity, Entrechattes) comes Buried Alive, a macabre contemporary reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale, The Black Cat. Starring Robert Vaughn (Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff), Donald Pleasence (Halloween), horror film legend John Carradine (The Boogey Man), erotic and cult film superstar Ginger Allen (Trashy Lady), and featuring arresting visuals from Kikoïne’s regular cinematographer, Gérard Loubeau (Love Circles), Vinegar Syndrome is excited to debut this under-seen piece of French/South African slasher cinema on Blu-ray, newly restored in 2K and featuring an array of interviews with its cast. (BLU-RAY)

DC LEAGUE OF SUPER PETS (2022)

Krypto the Super-Dog (Dwayne Johnson) and Superman (John Krasinski) are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime in Metropolis side by side. When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto must convince a rag-tag shelter pack—Ace the hound (Kevin Hart), PB the potbellied pig (Vanessa Bayer), Merton the turtle (Natasha Lyonne) and Chip the squirrel (Diego Luna)—to master their own newfound powers and help him rescue the superheroes. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

DEVIL RIDER (1991)

Yuppie Tom (Rick Groat) brings his investor buddies out to a dude ranch, hoping they’ll want to help him turn it into a high-end resort. Tom has a connection with the place… his family’s blood is in the soil. For a century, the Devil Rider (Tag Groat) has roamed the land, killing all who try to claim it as their own, awakening whenever it is trespassed upon. Tom and his friends will surely die, unless they figure out how to kill the Devil Rider! (BLU-RAY)

FRIGHT NIGHT (1985)

Meet Jerry Dandrige. He’s sweet, sexy, and he likes to sleep in late. You might think he’s the perfect neighbor. But before inviting Jerry in for a nightcap, there’s just one thing you should know. Jerry prefers his drinks warm, red, and straight from the jugular! It’s FRIGHT NIGHT, a horrific howl starring Chris Sarandon as the seductive vampire and William Ragsdale as the frantic teenager struggling to keep Jerry’s deadly fangs out of his neck. Only 17-year-old Charley Brewster (Ragsdale) knows Jerry’s bloodcurdling secret. When Charley can’t get anybody to believe him, he turns to TV horror host Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall), who used to be the “Great Vampire Killer” of the movies. Can these mortals save Charley and his sweetheart Amy (Amanda Bearse) from the wrathful bloodsucker’s toothy embrace? If you love being scared, FRIGHT NIGHT…will give you the nightmare of your life. (BLU-RAY + 4KULTRAHD)

F**K THE DEVIL/F**K THE DEVIL 2: RETURN OF THE F**KER (1991)

Exploding out of the German horror underground, F*CK THE DEVIL (1990) + F*CK THE DEVIL 2: RETURN OF THE F*CKER (1991) are cinematic equivalents of DIY comic books that were made by a teenage stoner while experimenting with bootleg acid. And there’s nothing else like them. The films tell the story of The F*cker—a phantasmagorical death machine who materializes from haunted VHS tapes of EVIL DEAD 2 and A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET to wreak havoc on unsuspecting parents, teens, and babies. Fueled by subversive violence, experimental techniques, and an unconditional love for the horror genre, these Casiocore-driven miracles teleport us into a dream-like panic state where Rambo posters, 8-bit sound barfs, and Nightmare Feddys rule our subconsciousness. AGFA + Bleeding Skull! are overjoyed to welcome The F*cker to home video for the first time ever—complete with new 2022 director’s cuts, the original cuts, and a f*ck-ton of extras.(BLU-RAY)

HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN WORKING CLASS (2020)

The working class played an essential part in European history. It has shaped revolutions and wars, powered progressive social movements, and helped fashion the conditions of our contemporary work life. Documentarian Stan Neumann tells this sensational and vital story in four remarkable episodes, depicting various and powerful workers’ movements’ struggles, defeats, victories, and the lasting legacies we all live with today. Whether it’s universal suffrage or the five-day work week, our working lives and a great deal of our popular culture owe much to this history. Through the clever use of archival footage, animations and contemporary testimonies from leading historians, and philosophers, as well as modern day factory workers, this surprising and informative series weaves the threads of this important story and sheds new light on modern workers’ movements today. (DVD)

ICEMAN COMETH (1989) 

Fong Sau Ching is the Chief Royal Guard during the Ming Dynasty, whose job is to protect the Emperor at all costs, including with his own life. One day, Ching discovers that one of his men, Fung San, is a sadistic rapist with a penchant for murdering his victims by breaking their limbs. After Fung San attacks the Princess and several other women, Ching is tasked by the Emperor with hunting down and killing him in order to restore his own honor. However, things take an unexpected turn when the two men come face-to-face for a duel to the death, only to become literally frozen in time by a mystical device known as the “Wheel of Life and Death.” 300 years later, in modern Hong Kong, Ching and Fung San are accidentally thawed out. Unfamiliar with his surroundings, Ching struggles to adapt to his strange new environment and soon finds himself at the mercy of an obnoxious call girl named Polly while attempting to continue to search for Fung San, but little does he know that Fung San is adapting quite nicely to both the weapons and crime ridden modern world and is beginning to resume his murderous ways. (BLU-RAY)

IN BRUGES (2007) 

After a particularly difficult job, hit men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) head to Belgium to hide out until things cool down. Ray hates the medieval city they land in, but Ken finds its beauty and peacefulness enchanting. Their experiences become increasingly surreal and possibly life-changing as they encounter tourists, locals, an American dwarf and a potential romance for Ray. (BLU-RAY + 4KULTRAHD)

INTO THE DEEP (2022)

KFC (2012)

Talk about out-of-left-field. This omnibus of strange and harrowing stories connected by vagabond characters at various levels of moral bankruptcy revolves around the same KFC location. A sick doctor and his twisted cohorts attack random people and ultimately cannibalize them. The doctor’s own rotund young son has grown accustomed to the taste of human flesh and gleefully tries to share it with street kids, who have already run afoul of an assortment of evil creeps. ‘Bizarre’ would be an understatement for this out-of-control orgy of revenge, featuring cryptic dialogue and plastic, almost detached depictions of deliberate torment and the squashy sucking, splattering and dull thudding of abused flesh. Debut filmmaker Lê Bình Giang takes the body-horror genre to new heights, combining an ethereal ennui and anomie with raw, visceral savagery. Not for the faint-hearted. (BLU-RAY)

MARRIED TO THE MOB (1988)

“Everybody loves Angela…but Angela’s married to da mob!” In a star-making performance, Michelle Pfeiffer (Scarface and The Age of Innocence) is suburban mafia housewife Angela de Marco in Jonathan Demme’s hit comedy Married to the Mob. When her unfaithful husband Frank “The Cucumber” (Alec Baldwin, Miami Blues and Beetlejuice) is iced by his boss Tony “The Tiger” Russo (Dean Stockwell, Blue Velvet and Paris, Texas), Angela flees her cloistered existence on Long Island for the big city, with several interested parties in hot pursuit: Tony, who’s smitten with Angela, Tony’s insanely jealous wife Connie (Mercedes Ruehl, The Fisher King and The Warriors) and FBI Agent Mike Downey (Matthew Modine, Full Metal Jacket and TV’s Stranger Things), who believes Angela is the key to locking Tony up for a very long time. (BLU-RAY)

MARTYRS (2008)

Fifteen years after a horrifying experience of abduction and prolonged torture, Lucie embarks on a bloody quest for revenge against her oppressors. Along with her childhood friend, Anna, who also suffered abuse, she quickly descends, without hope, into madness and her own delusions. Anna, left on her own begins to re-experience what Lucie did when she was only twelve years old. (BLU-RAY)

MASK (1985) (DIRECTOR’S CUT)

Based on a true story, a boy with a massive facial deformity and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances. Two cuts of this film exist: the original theatrical version runs 120 minutes, was rated R and features songs performed by Bob Seger; the extended director’s cut runs 127 minutes, is unrated, and includes an alternate soundtrack by Bruce Springsteen.(BLU-RAY)

MR. MAYOR (2021) (COMPLETE SERIES)

Mayor Neil Bremer (Ted Danson) serves the great city of Los Angeles in Mr. Mayor, the hit workplace comedy from executive producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. In this complete series set, Mayor Bremer has his work cut out for him at city hall as he tries to do right by the city that elected him and be a good father to his teenage daughter Orly (Kyla Kenedy). Luckily for Neil, he has a dedicated team of witty civil servants to keep him on track, including Deputy Mayor Arpi Meskimen (Holly Hunter), Chief of Staff Mikaela Shaw (Vella Lovell), Chief Strategist Tommy Tomás (Mike Cabellon) and Communications Director Jayden Kwapis (Bobby Moynihan). (DVD)

MUTANT HUNT (1987)

In the near future of 1992, robots have become a facet of everyday life. Dr. Z, the diabolical head of one of the country’s top robotics firms, has developed a solution named “Euphoron” which, when injected into his cyborgs, transforms them from man’s servant into impossibly strong and powerful killing machines in an attempt by Dr. Z to take absolute power. Realizing the implications of Z’s actions, chief robotics engineer Paul Haynes attempts to stop the robot takeover, only to be kidnapped along with his sister, Darla. After achieving a dangerous escape, Darla then enlists the help of tough-as-grit bounty hunter Matt Riker and the two begin a quest to destroy the murderous machines. (BLU-RAY)

MY DONKEY, MY LOVER & I (2020)

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) (CRITERION)

Shot outside Pittsburgh on a shoestring budget, by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, Night of the Living Dead, directed by horror master George A. Romero, is a great story of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most influential films of all time. A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combining gruesome gore with acute social commentary and quietly breaking ground by casting a Black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role. (BLU-RAY + 4KULTRAHD)

NOBODY WAVED GOODBYE (1963)

Teenager Peter Mark (Peter Kastner) has it all: supportive parents (Charmion King, Claude Rae), a loving girlfriend (Julie Biggs), and a comfortable middle-class existence. But on the brink of finishing high school, he feels emboldened by his impending freedom, and decides to pursue a rebellious new path. After his parents make their disapproval known, Peter decides to move out on his own, confident he’ll conquer the working world with his insight and sophistication. When the reality turns out to be far less glamorous, he settles for a shady new job – that continues his criminal evolution. (BLU-RAY)

ORDERS TO KILL (1959) (INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION)

Starring Paul Massie (The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll), James Robertson Justice (The Face of Fu Manchu), and Lillian Gish (Intolerance), Orders to Kill is a brilliant, bruising wartime espionage drama.

Based on a story by real-life spy Donald Downes, and co-scripted by another former spy, Paul Dehn (The Deadly Affair, Fragment of Fear), Anthony Asquith’s film follows an American airman sent into occupied France with orders to kill a suspected double agent… but the mission does not go according to plan. (BLU-RAY)

PAPER, THE (1994)

Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton) is an editor at the New York Sun, a tabloid paper facing financial cuts. His pregnant wife, Martha (Marisa Tomei), pleads with him to get a more respectable job so he can spend more time with his family. Hackett is considering an offer from another paper, with fewer hours and higher pay, when he gets his hottest story in years. When this scoop leads to a burst of violence and a conflict with his new boss, Alicia (Glenn Close), he faces a startling moment of truth. (BLU-RAY)

RED SUN RISING (1994)

When his partner is killed by the Yakuza, Tokyo detective Thomas Hoshino (Don “The Dragon” Wilson) travels to Los Angeles to pursue the men responsible. After confronting one of the Yakuza leaders in an LAPD elevator, Hoshino witnesses the gangster die in a mysterious fashion. Skeptical of Hoshino, Police Captain Meisler (Michael Ironside) assigns Det. Karen Ryder (Terry Farrell) to watch over Hoshino and make sure he doesn’t interfere with the case. Putting aside their cultural differences, the two detectives begin working together and soon uncover evidence of an international gun smuggling ring involving the Yakuza, crooked cops, and local gang members. All the while, a mysterious assassin with the ability to kill with a single touch is after Hoshino and his new partner. (BLU-RAY)

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE BATHS (1975)

Newly restored in 4K, David Buckley’s landmark excursion into bisexuality, 70s relationship politics, and the historical importance of gay bathhouse culture is celebrated in his 1975 film Saturday Night at the Baths. When struggling pianist Michael (Robert Aberdeen) lands a job at the legendary Continental Baths in NYC, his wife Tracy (Ellen Sheppard) encourages him, even emphasizes how special this institution is. Michael however struggles with his own homophobia yet at the same time starts developing feelings for his confident and sexually free co-worker Scotti (Don Scotti). Shot on-location inside the famous Continental Baths and featuring an unforgettable 12-minute scene of the actual entertainment, both musical and sensual alike, Saturday Night at the Baths is a sublime example of the compelling and sensual queer cinema of one of the most groundbreaking periods in gay and bisexual film history. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

SIXTEEN TONGUES (1999)

Adrian Torque is a renegade cop who has lost more than half of his skin in a terrorist explosion. His missing flesh has been replaced with the tongue meat recovered from the sixteen victims that died during the tragedy. Ginny Chin-Chin is a genetically engineered prostitute / assassin chasing down the scientist who implanted her sex organs under the folds of her eyelids. Alik Silens is a wearied computer hacker hunting through the pornographic abyss of cyberspace for the identity of her brother’s killer. At a run-down, S&M hotel purgatory where even the strangest desires can be met for a price, the trajectories of this star-crossed trio intersect in a claustrophobic collision of sex, blood, bullets, and personal apocalypse. (BLU-RAY)

STAR TREK: PICARD SEASON 2 (2020)

Patrick Stewart is again back to reprise his iconic role. Captain Jean-Luc Picard is once again confronted by Q and must repair the timeline and restore Starfleet as a benevolent force in the galaxy. With the aid of old friends such as Seven of nine, Guinan, Elnor, Christobal Rios and Raffi Musiker. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

THEY CRAWL BENEATH (2022)

‘TIL KINGDOM COME (2020)

Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. Among them are the Binghams, a dynasty of Kentucky pastors, and their Evangelical congregants in an impoverished coal mining town. They donate sacrificially to Israel’s foremost philanthropic organization, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, because they fervently believe the Jews are crucial to Jesus’s return. This film traces this unusual relationship, from rural Kentucky to the halls of government in Washington and to the moving of the American Embassy in Jerusalem. With unparalleled access, the film exposes a stunning backstory of the Trump and Netanyahu administrations, where financial, political and messianic motivations intersect with the apocalyptic worldview that is insistently reshaping American foreign policy toward Israel and the Middle East. (DVD)

THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST (2022)

WATCHER (2022)

WE ARE THE THOUSAND (2020)

In 2015, Fabio, a marine biologist with a huge passion for rock music, convinced 1,000 musicians from all over Italy to gather in the small town of Cesena to play “Learn to Fly”, the famous Foo Fighters’ hit. His aim was to convince Dave Grohl, the leader of the band, to come and play in his town. A video clip of the performance together with Fabio’s speech was published on YouTube, where it was viewed more than 50 million times. Soon afterward, Dave Grohl got the message and he decided to make the dream of the thousand come true by bringing the Foo Fighters to play in the village of Cesena. That was the beginning of an incredible adventure that created the largest community of rock music lovers, and changed the lives of many people. Forever. (DVD)

WINNING TIME: THE RISE OF THE LAKERS DYNASTY: S.1 (2022)

A fast-break series chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined an era, both on and off the court. (DVD)