Shadow Stalkers DVD

Jan 252018
 

This Shadow Stalkers set is filled with mostly suspense/thriller-horror movies, much not very well known (at least to me) and a couple (Don’t Answer the Phone and Silent Night, Bloody Night) were previously released in another set (“Faces of Horror”) in my own collection.

 

 

Shadow Stalkers
(1965-1988)

Genre(s): Horror, Suspense/Thriller
Mill Creek | R – 900 min. – $14.98 | February 6, 2018

Date Published: 01/25/2018 | Author: The Movieman

 
MOVIE INFO:
Directed by: Various
Writer(s): Various
Cast (alphabetical order): Karen Black, John Carradine, Bud Cort, Divine, Brad Dourif, Faye Dunaway, Abel Ferrara, Glenn Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Raul Julia, Cameron Mitchell, Barry Morse, Patrick O’Neal, James Westmoreland
DISC INFO:
Features: None
Digital Copy: No
Formats Included: DVD
Number of Discs: 1
Audio: English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen
Subtitles: None
Region(s): 1

 

PLOT SYNOPSIS
OUT OF THE DARK
The women who work the lines at a Los Angeles phone-sex service are being brutally murdered, and the perpetrator may be one of the clients. The psychotic killer chooses to hide his identity behind a creepy mask… and it only gets weirder from there.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
High school senior Virginia Wainwright survives a freak accident, but suffers from memory loss and traumatic blackouts. As she resumes a normal life, something terrible is happening – her friends are ruthlessly murdered. Will she be the next victim or is she the killer? The terrifying truth is finally uncovered at Virginia’s 18th birthday party… and you’re invited.

EYES OF LAURA MARS
World renowned for her sensational, erotic portraits of models in settings of urban violence, Laura Mars exhibits a mystifying psychic ability. In her mind’s eye she “witnesses” a series of bizarre murders with terrifying clarity. Police detective John Neville discovers a striking similarity between Laura’s works and classified police photographs of the murders and he attempts to unravel which have taken control of Laura’s mind.

DON’T ANSWER THE PHONE
Maniacal murderer, Kirk Smith, seeks out radio talk show hose, Dr. Lindsay Gale, by brutally killing her parents. Now it’s only a matter of time until Smith’s bloodlust leads him to his ultimate target, Lindsay. All she can hope is that McCabe and Hatcher can get inside mind of the city’s most twisted criminal before he gets her.

NIGHTMARE IN WAX
An ex-make-up man disfigured by a studio accident takes his terrible revenge. Soon the studio’s film stars mysteriously disappear, the reappear in a wax museum, only these wax figures are still alive! Frozen into zombies and doomed to unbearable horrors, they’re all the mercy of a fiendish madman in a chamber of torture.

BLOOD PIT OF HORROR
Seeking a gothic background for a horror photo shoot, five sexy cover girls and a handful of photographers break into what they assume is an uninhabited castle and are soon taking a series of macabre stills in its dungeon. But residing in the castle is demented actor Travis Anderson. Dressed in a bright red executioner’s costume, Travis promptly goes nuts and gleefully subjects the trespassers to a variety of bizarre and elaborately conceived torutures: “The Crimson Executioner cries out for blood!”

SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT
Maniacs have taken over the asylum and they want bloody revenge for crimes committed in the dark and distant past in this brutal small-town tale of terror.

FUNERAL HOME
Heather is called to stay with her grandmother in the hopes of helping her turn an old funeral home into a bed-and-breakfast. But strange happenings and murders around the home quickly makes this vacation spot a “dead-and-breakfast” – with no answers in sight.

DON’T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS
It’s Christmas time in London – the season of good will. This year, it’s also time for a masked maniac to be let loose. His intended victims are chosen at random but they have one thing in common: they are dressed in the white beard and bright red robes of Santa Claus.

THE DRILLER KILLER
An aspiring artist is driven mad by his struggles. Armed with a hand drill and a taste for murder he takes to the streets in a bloody rampage.

 

SPECIAL FEATURES – 0/5
The 10 films are spread across three discs which are stacked on one another in a standard DVD case. No features were included and the menus are basic with the only option is to select the movie you want to view.

 

VIDEO – 3.25/5, AUDIO – 3.0/5
Nothing amazing in either department, but these bargain priced multi-movie sets rarely are but for the most part they do look and sound adequate enough.

OVERALL – 3.0/5
This Shadow Stalkers set is filled with mostly suspense/thriller-horror movies, much not very well known (at least to me) and a couple (Don’t Answer the Phone and Silent Night, Bloody Night) were previously released in another set (“Faces of Horror”) in my own collection. As it is, and since the SRP is only $15, you should be able to grab this for <$10 and if you enjoy some schlocky thrillers, might be worth picking up.
 01/25/2018  DVD Reviews, Quick Hit Reviews Tagged with: , , , , , , , ,

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