The Criterion Channel celebrates 70’s horror in October

The Criterion Channel has announced a slew of 70’s horror that will be available on the streaming service in October leading up to the Halloween holiday. Check out the trailer below!

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In the 1970s, everything was wilder, weirder, and more far-out—and horror movies were no exception. In North America, a new generation of maverick directors like Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), George A. Romero (The Crazies), Wes Craven (The Hills Have Eyes), Brian De Palma (Sisters), and David Cronenberg (The Brood) responded to the decade’s heightened political anxieties and Vietnam War–era sense of disillusionment by pushing the genre’s psychological intensity and visceral violence to shocking new heights. Across the Atlantic, Britain’s legendary Hammer Films continued to serve up old-school gothic spine-tinglers (The Vampire Lovers), while auteurs like Nicolas Roeg (Don’t Look Now) wedded spellbinding terror to art-house experimentation. Bringing together some of the decade’s most iconic slashers, chillers, and killer thrillers alongside low-budget cult rarities (Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, Deathdream) and camp-tastic oddities (Trog, Theater of Blood), this tour through the 1970s nightmare realm is a veritable blood feast of perverse pleasures from a time when gore, grime, and sleaze found a permanent home in horror.

’70s Horror – Criterion Channel Teaser from Criterion Collection on Vimeo.

Trog, Freddie Francis, 1970
The Vampire Lovers, Roy Ward Baker, 1970
Daughters of Darkness, Harry Kümel, 1971
Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, John D. Hancock, 1971
The Nightcomers, Michael Winner, 1971
Dracula A.D. 1972, Alan Gibson, 1972
Images, Robert Altman, 1972
Death Line, Gary Sherman, 1972
Season of the Witch, George A. Romero, 1972
The Crazies, George A. Romero, 1973
Don’t Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, 1973
Ganja & Hess, Bill Gunn, 1973
Sisters, Brian De Palma, 1973
Theater of Blood, Douglas Hickox, 1973
The Wicker Man, Robin Hardy, 1973
Black Christmas, Bob Clark, 1974
Deathdream, Bob Clark, 1974
It’s Alive, Larry Cohen, 1974
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Tobe Hooper, 1974
Shivers, David Cronenberg, 1975
The Tenant, Roman Polanski, 1976*
The Witch Who Came from the Sea, Matt Cimber, 1976
The Hills Have Eyes, Wes Craven, 1977
Rabid, David Cronenberg, 1977
Coma, Michael Crichton, 1978
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman, 1978
Long Weekend, Colin Eggleston, 1978
The Brood, David Cronenberg, 1979
The Driller Killer, Abel Ferrara, 1979

*Available November 1

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Since 1984, the Criterion Collection has been dedicated to publishing important classic and contemporary films from around the world in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. No matter the medium-from laserdisc to DVD and Blu-ray to streaming on the Criterion Channel-Criterion has maintained its pioneering commitment to presenting each film as its maker would want it seen, in state-of-the-art restorations with special features designed to encourage repeated watching and deepen the viewer’s appreciation of the art of film.

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New Hubie Halloween Teaser & Key Art for Adam Sandler’s Netflix Comedy

Netflix has released a new Halloween teaser for the upcoming comedy-mystery Hubie Halloween starring Adam Sandler, as well as new key art. You can check out the teaser now in the player below and the full key art in the gallery!

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Hubie Dubois (Adam Sandler) thanklessly spends every Halloween making sure the residents of his hometown, Salem, celebrate safely and play by the rules. But this year, an escaped criminal and a mysterious new neighbor have Hubie on high alert. When people start disappearing, it’s up to Hubie to convince the police (Kevin James, Kenan Thompson) and townsfolk that the monsters are real, and only he can stop them.

Hubie Halloween is a hilarious family film about an unlikely hero with an all-star cast including Julie Bowen, Ray Liotta, Noah Schnapp, Steve Buscemi, and Maya Rudolph, produced by Happy Madison. The movie is directed by Steven Brill, written by Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler, and produced by Adam Sandler, Kevin Grady, and Allen Covert.

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Hubie Halloween will arrive on Netflix on October 7, 2020.

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Francis and The Godfather: Oscar Isaac to Play Francis Ford Coppola, Jake Gyllenhaal Set as Robert Evans

Oscar-winner Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Bugsy, Dopesick) is set to direct Francis and The Godfather, an upcoming drama about the “legendary and wild battles” behind the making of the 1972 Oscar-winning crime drama The Godfather, with Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac (Show Me a Hero, Ex Machina, Star Wars franchise) starring as The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola and Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler, Brokeback Mountain, Prisoners) portraying producer Robert Evans (via Deadline).

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Francis and The Godfather is based on a Black List script written by Andrew Farotte, which was redeveloped by Levinson.

“Out of the madness of production, and against all odds, a classic film happened,” said Levison, regarding the difficulties behind the development of The Godfather that the film will be exploring.

“Coppola was 31 at the time, determined to convince Evans and the studio to allow him to film expensively in New York, set in the time period of a novel which would become a big bestseller. This after the original Mario Puzo script was set in contemporary Kansas City. Among the other debates was the idea to gamble on Marlon Brando, an eclectic character who hadn’t been in a hit film in years, to play mob family patriarch Don Corleone (for which he would win the Best Actor prize), and also Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, a character who slowly evolved from a desire to get far away from the family business to taking it over when it was clear his father would be murdered even after a bungled assassination attempt. Evans, who took the top job after a career as an actor, had pressures all his own, as the studio was in danger of closing up shop. There was also the uneasy discussions with real mobsters who were none too pleased to have their dirty business to be aired in a major studio film,” the outlet shares.

Coppola reportedly gave his approval for Francis and the Godfather, saying: “Any move that Barry Levinson makes about anything, will be interesting and worthwhile!”

“Here was a young man who lived outside the system and every step of the way the system was telling him, ‘You can’t do that.’ But Francis never gave up on his vision and the result speaks for itself,” added Echo Lake Entertainment’s Mike Marcus.

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Echo Lake Entertainment’s Mike Marcus, Doug Mankoff, and Andrew Spaulding will produce along with Kevin Turen, Jon Levin, and Baltimore Pictures’ Jason Sosnoff.

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Netflix unveils trailer for Sundance darling His House

After debuting to rave reviews at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in January, Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for the British thriller His House, which is set to debut on the streaming platform in late October. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!

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After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.

The film is written and directed by Remi Weekes as a feature directorial debut and based on a story developed by Felicity Evans and Toby Venables and features a cast that includes Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Gangs of London, His Dark Materials), Wunmi Mosaku (The End of the F***ing World, Lovecraft Country), Matt Smith (Doctor Who, The Crown), Javier Botet (Insidious: The Last Key, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark), Emily Taaffe (Ripper Street, The Borgias) and Cornell John (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, EastEnders).

The thriller is produced by New Regency’s Arnon Milchan, Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee, Starchild Pictures’ Martin Gentles & Edward King and Aidan Elliott, with New Regency’s Yariv Milchan executive producing with Michael Schaefer and Natalie Lehman, BBC Films’ Eva Yates, Stuart Manashil and Steven Schneider.

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His House was acquired by Netflix just prior to its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it received rave reviews from critics and is set to to debut on the streaming platform on October 30.

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Batman: Death in the Family Opening Title Sequence Released

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has released the Batman: Death in the Family opening title sequence for its first-ever venture into interactive storytelling that allows fans to choose where the story goes through innovative navigation guided by the viewer’s remote control. Arriving on October 13, you can check out the clip now in the player below, and pre-order your copy of the Blu-ray here!

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Central to the extended-length short is an adaptation of Batman: A Death in the Family, the 1998 landmark DC event where fans voted by telephone to determine the story’s ending.

The clip features the stylish opening title sequence to the animated short, which was designed by writer/producer/director Brandon Vietti, and executed by Supervising Technical Director Matt Girardi and his team at Warner Bros. Animation.

The interactive component is only available on the Blu-ray. The Digital version of Batman: Death in the Family offers four fully-played out linear versions of the short. You can pre-order the Digital version here!

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Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC, Batman: Death in the Family serves as the anchor for an anthology of 2019-2020 animated shorts, including Sgt. Rock, Adam Strange, Death, and The Phantom Stranger. The set arrives from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Blu-ray and Digital starting October 13, 2020.

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Severin Films’ Tales of the Uncanny to premiere at Wales’ Abertoir Festival

After originally starting out as a bonus feature for Severin Films’ upcoming Special Edition Blu-ray of The Theatre Bizarre, the documentary Tales of the Uncanny — The Ultimate Survey of Anthology Horror expanded into a feature-length project filmed over Zoom and is now coming to Abertoir — The International Horror Festival of Wales for its world premiere!

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Co-hosts/producers David Gregory, director of the award-winning Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau, and Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films, queried a global roster of more than 60 horror writers, directors and scholars that include Eli Roth, Joe Dante, Mark Hartley, Mick Garris, Ernest Dickerson, Joko Anwar, Ramsey Campbell, David DeCoteau, Kim Newman, Jovanka Vuckovic, Luigi Cozzi, Tom Savini, Jenn Wexler, Larry Fessenden, Richard Stanley, Michael Gingold, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Brian Yuzna, Gary Sherman, Rebekah McKendry and Peter Strickland in a candid discussion of such film/TV classics as Dead of Night, Black Sabbath, Kwaidan, Spirits of the Dead, Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors, The House That Dripped Blood, Asylum, Tales From the Crypt, The Twilight Zone, Creepshow, Tales From the Darkside, Trilogy of Terrror, Two Evil Eyes, V/H/S, XX and more.

“We had a lot of fun with our COVID Project, and it gave friends and colleagues a chance to ponder and articulate the enduring appeal of the format,” co-producer Kier-La Janisse said in a statement. “The anthology horror film is an extension of much older traditions of storytelling that are especially valued in the horror community, and though the films are by nature a mixed bag, there’s a reason we keep returning to them again and again.”

“I’ve loved horror anthologies since seeing The Monster Club when I was 9,” director/co-producer David Gregory said in a statement. “And most horror filmmakers and fans love them too, often getting into heated discussions about their favorites. Kier-La and I decided to ask our horror industry colleagues and friends to determine the experts’ Top 5 films and segments that would make the ultimate horror omnibus movie. The results surprised us all.”

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Tales of the Uncanny — The Ultimate Survey of Anthology Horror is set to debut at Abertoir from October 28 – November 1 and will be widely available this November, in tandem with The Theatre Bizarre Special Edition, as a Sever Films’ Limited-Edition Blu-ray featuring special anthology horror archival rarities.

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New to Stream: Starz October 2020 Movie & TV Titles Announced

Starz has unveiled its full calendar for the upcoming month of October, with National Hispanic Heritage Month continuing on the network through October 15 as the eight-episode conclusion of The Spanish Princess limited series, The Spanish Princess Part Two, premieres on Sunday, October 11. You can check out the full list of what’s coming and going next month on Starz and the Starz app below!

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Coming to the Starz App in October 2020

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 1

Arizona Raiders (1965)
Bachelor Party Vegas (2005)
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Bite The Bullet (1975)
Canadians, The (1961)
Carrie (1976)
Carrie (2002)
Cattle Empire (1958)
Christine (1983)
Driven (2018)
Eddie Murphy Raw (1987)
Enough (2002)
Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Free Man, The (2016)
Harlem Nights (1989)
Higher Learning (1995)
I Am Bolt (2016)
I.Q. (1994)
In The Time Of The Butterflies (2001)
Long Rope, The (1961)
Miss Hokusai (2015)
Mrs. Sundance (1974)
My Life As A Zucchini (2017)
Oregon Trail, The (1959)
Phantom Boy (2016)
Private Parts (1997)
Rage: Carrie 2, The (1999)
Ready To Rumble (2000)
Reign Over Me (2007)
Second Time Around, The (1961)
Soapdish (1991)
Soul Plane (2004)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Spy Kids (2001)
Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003)
Stealth (2005)
Stripes (1981)
Stripped: Los Angeles (2020)
Titanic (1997)
Van Helsing (2004)
Witness (1985)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 4

“Power Book II: Ghost” – Episode 105

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 9 

Amour (2012)
Bring It On (2000)
Bring It On Again (2003)
Bring It On: All Or Nothing (2006)
Bring It On: Fight To The Finish (2009)
Bring It On: In It To Win It (2007)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1992)
Death Valley Rangers (1943)
Movie 43 (2013)
Scary Movie 3 (2003)
Vacancy (2007)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 11 

“The Spanish Princess” – Part 2 Season Premiere (Episode 201)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 13 

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 14 

Hotel Transylvania (2012)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 15 

Men In Black 3 (2012)
Raise Your Voice (2004)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 16 

21 & Over (2013)
Along Came Polly (2004)
Bat*21 (1988)
Beneath Us (2020)
Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001)
Cellular (2004)
Days Of Thunder (1990)
Draw! (1984)
Earth To Echo (2014)
Emperor (2020)
Flatliners (1990)
Fog, The (2005)
Lazarus Effect, The (2015)
Light It Up (1999)
Lone Gun, The (1954)
Missing, The (2003)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Riding In Cars With Boys (2001)
Stand By Me (1986)
Three To Tango (1999)
Waitress (2007)
Warren Miller’s Ticket To Ride (2013)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 18 

“The Spanish Princess” Part 2 – Episode 202

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 20 

Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)
Here Comes The Boom (2012)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 23

Guard, The (2011)
Professional, The (1994)

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 25 

“The Spanish Princess” Part 2 – Episode 203
Company Men, The (2011)

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Leaving the Starz App in October 2020

LEAVING OCTOBER 1 

Dazed And Confused (1993)

LEAVING OCTOBER 3 

Colombiana (2011)

LEAVING OCTOBER 10

Babies (2009)

LEAVING OCTOBER 13 

Moneyball (2011)

LEAVING OCTOBER 14 

Land Of The Dead (2005)

LEAVING OCTOBER 15 

Fighting (2009)

LEAVING OCTOBER 16 

O (2001)

LEAVING OCTOBER 22 

McFarland, USA (2014)

LEAVING OCTOBER 26 

Houseboat (1958)

LEAVING OCTOBER 27 

Submission (2017)

LEAVING OCTOBER 29 

Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The (2010)

LEAVING OCTOBER 30 

Small Soldiers (1998)

LEAVING OCTOBER 30 

Small Soldiers (1998)

LEAVING OCTOBER 31 

12 Rounds (2009)
Always (1989)
American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005)
American Pie Presents: Beta House (2007)
American Pie Presents: The Book Of Love (2009)
American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (2006)
Amor Urgente (2018)
Arizona Whirlwind (1944)
Army Of Darkness (1992)
Best Of Times, The (1986)
Brady Bunch Movie, The (1995)
Breakfast Club, The (1985)
Cinderella Man (2005)
Como En El Cine (2015)
Cry-Baby (1990)
Desperate Trails (1939)
Devil In A Blue Dress (1995)
Duel At Silver Creek, The (1952)
Exorcism Of Molly Hartley, The (2015)
Five Heartbeats, The (1991)
For Colored Girls (2010)
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1987)
Game, The (1997)
Gentlemen Broncos (2009)
Ghost Town (1955)
Great Missouri Raid, The (1950)
Guru, The (2002)
Half Baked (1998)
Hallelujah Trail, The (1965)
Hell Bent For Leather (1960)
High Spirits (1988)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
I Come In Peace (1989)
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
Insignis (2016)
Jingle All The Way 2 (2014)
Koala Kid (2012)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
Losing Isaiah (1995)
Masked Rider, The (1944)
Masters Of The Universe (1987)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Milk Money (1994)
Mobile Homes (2017)
My Little Pony Crystal Princess: The Runaway Rainbow (2006)
My Little Pony: A Very Minty Christmas (2005)
My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade (2005)
My Little Pony: Twinkle Wish Adventure 2009)
Mystery Men (1999)
Needful Things (1993)
No Name On The Bullet (1959)
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
Nutty Professor, The (1996)
One More Train To Rob (1971)
Pleasantville (1998)
Pound Of Flesh (2015)
Real Men (1987)
Rio Grande (1950)
RoboCop (1987)
RoboCop 2 (1990)
RoboCop 3 (1992)
Shape Of Things, The (2002)
Sinbad: Where U Been? (2009)
Son Of Roaring Dan (1940)
Stagecoach (1966)
Stagecoach Buckaroo (1941)
Stagecoach To Dancers’ Rock (1962)
Tango & Cash (1989)
Thunderbirds (2004)
Timecop (1994)
Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising (2013)
Tuxedo, The (2002)
Unleashed (2005)
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2007)
Whiteout (2009)
Wood, The (1999)
Wyatt Earp (1994)
Dancing On The Edge – Episodes 101-106
Dinofroz – Episodes 101-226
Minimalitos – Episodes 101-426
Night Train with Wyatt Cenac – Episodes 101-206
Raggs – Episodes 101-140
Robotia – Episodes 101-113
Take My Wife – Episodes 101-208
UCB Show, The – Episodes 101-208

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