No major releases this week, with a host of foreign and cult direct-to-video fare, headed by Sector 7 and Father's Day.
Amok Train
© Shriek Show
In this 1989 Italian chiller (also known as Beyond the Door III) a group of sightseeing American college students in Serbia try to avoid being human sacrifices in an ancient Satanic ceremony by hopping a moving train -- only to discover that the engineer is Satan himself.
Black Cobra Woman
© Apprehensive
Italian sleaze director Joe D'Amato (Anthropophagus and several of the Emanuelle movies) brings us this 1976 erotic thriller starring Jack Palance as a rich recluse in Hong Kong who keeps his apartment filled with deadly snakes and naturally becomes drawn to a snake-dancing stripper whom he pulls into a world of kinky sex, familial jealousy and murder.
Daddy's Home
© Vanguard
A new elementary school teacher investigates the home life of a disturbed student and uncovers a dark family secret.
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Father's Day
© Troma
The latest controversial camp offering from the folks at Troma revolves around a man named Ahab and his relentless pursuit of the man who killed his father -- a dad-centric serial killer and rapist dubbed "The Father's Day Killer."
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The Night of the Grizzly
© Olive
In this 1966 western thriller, a retired sheriff heads to Wyoming to become a rancher, only to find life isn't so relaxing when there's a nearby grizzly bear on a killing spree.
Nina: Crazy Suicide Girl
© Chemical Burn
A satanic cult that sacrifices models in order to gain hellish power meets its match in a sexy bounty hunter who's been tracking its movements.
Parasitic
© Phase 4
A meteor brings a deadly parasite to Earth, spreading an infection through patrons trapped inside a Tampa nightclub.
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Sector 7
© Shout! Factory
Proclaimed to be "Korea's first 3D sci-fi thriller," a deadly underwater creature stalks workers on an oil prospecting platform in the middle of the sea.
Sleeper
© Celebrity Video
A crazed killer escapes from a mental asylum and returns to stalk the object of his obsession, whom he had kidnapped years before.
Tales That Witness Madness
© Olive
Donald Pleasance stars in this 1973 horror anthology from Great Britain that's similar in concept to Amicus Production's classic Asylum, featuring stories that revolve around four patients in a mental hospital and how they came to be the hot messes they are.
