Guys, we promise, there will be more horror later on in the year. Yes here we are, January. The no mans land for scare addicts. While things are pretty mellow this time of year we are here to bring you the most noteworthy items to keep the fear alive.
This week we have a new episode of the popular show, Supernatural. Will Lucifer let Sam out of the cage? In Home video we have a few things to be excited about as well. There is William Friedkin’s follow up to The Exorcist, The Guardian. No that is not all. Luther the Geek comes out on BluRay this week along with the descriptively titled Nightmare Weekend.
We also keep thing s educational this week and let you in on a listing of horror movies that came out on this day. Ready for a week of horror?
Television
| Supernatural (Jan 20th) 9pm | ||
| RATING: | TV-MA | 
The Devil in the Details Lucifer offers a Sam a way out of the cage. Meanwhile, Dean and Castiel investigate the angel attack on Amara.
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| Network: | CW | |
| Runtime: | 1 hr | |
Film
| The Guardian – Blu Ray/DVD (Jan 19th) | ||
| RATING: | R |  William Friedkin, the Academy Award winning director of The Exorcist, delivers a new kind of fairy tale for adults.
A handsome young couple finds the perfect live-in babysitter to look after their newborn child. It seems like a fairy tale, until ancient, supernatural forces turn the couples dream into a nightmare. In his first horror film since The Exorcist, Oscar-winning director William Friedkin spins a terrifying tale based on every parent’s worst fear. Jenny Seagrove (Local Hero) portrays the enchanting guardian who enters the home of new parents Dwier Brown (Red Dragon) and Carey Lowell (Licence to Kill) possessing impeccable references and an affinity for children. But as her true intentions are revealed, the battle for the child’s soul begins in this chilling film based on Dan Greenburg’s popular novel, The Nanny. Special Features Include:
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| Hana Dama: The Origin – Blu Ray/DVD (Jan. 19th) | ||
| RATING: | UR |  From the wild imagination of director Sato Hisayasu (Splatter: Naked Blood), one of a group of directors known as the Four Devils (who made their mark in the softcore pink film genre in the late 1980 s), comes a twisted tale of revenge via plant life in the terrifying Hana-Dama: The Origin.
Bullied Japanese high school student Mizuki (Sakuragi Rina, Girl s Blood) has the ultimate revenge on her teenage tormentors in this horror-fest tinged with dark humor. Possessed by a powerful spirit, Mizuki sprouts a mysterious flower from her head which empowers her with deadly skills to exact revenge, with bloody consequences, against the bullying classmates led by mean girl Aya (Nakamura Eriko, August In Tokyo). Hana-Dama: The Origin features supporting performances by Shimamura Maika, Fujiwara Kei and Asada Shun.
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| Genre: | Horror | |
| Runtime: | 1 hr. 44 min. | |
| Directed By: | Hisayasu Satô | |
| Written By: | Hisayasu Satô, Shinji Imaoka | |
| Luther the Geek – Blu Ray/DVD (Jan 19th) | ||
| RATING: | R |  One night, when Luther was a boy, he discovered that there was something different about him – he enjoyed the taste of blood. Following in the footsteps of others like him, Luther became a geek: a deranged man who bites the heads off of live chickens in exchange for booze or money. Now, decades later, Luther is about to be paroled from prison and is ready to return to his home town, fitted with a set of razor sharp, metal teeth, and an unquenchable thirst for human blood… Directed by Carlton Albright (THE CHILDREN), LUTHER THE GEEK is a bloody and bleak rural slasher featuring gruesome gore courtesy of William Purcell (EXORCIST 3) and Mike Tristano (EVIL DEAD 2) in what Fangoria called “the most riveting splatter film since THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.”
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| Genre: | Horror | |
| Runtime: | 1 hr. 20 min. | |
| Directed By: | Carlton J. Albright | |
| Written By: | Carlton J. Albright | |
| Nightmare Weekend – Blu Ray/DVD (Jan 19th) | ||
| RATING: | R |  A brilliant computer scientist has just finished work on his greatest creation: a super computer with the ability to transform the personalities of bad and disobedient people. In anticipation of sharing his work with the scientific community, the scientist invites a fellow expert to test the machine on a group of debauched young women. Little does he know that his colleague intends to use the computer to turn their subjects into bloodthirsty mutants!
NIGHTMARE WEEKEND is a non-stop assault on the senses. Head explosions, gratuitous nudity and softcore sex, bikers, roller-skating, and a telepathic hand puppet named George rank NIGHTMARE WEEKEND among the weirdest and most jaw droppingly absurd horror films of the 1980s. Bonus Features:
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| Genre: | Horror | |
| Runtime: | 1 hr. 25 min. | |
| Directed By: | Henri Sala | |
| Written By: | George Faget-Benard, Robert Seidman | |
| Dead End – Blu Ray/DVD (Jan 19th) | ||
| RATING: | R |  Demons haunt Tina after she begins to open the case of the murderer who claimed the lives of school children in her town. Her devotion to the case manifests frightening paranormal activities and the spirits haunt her day and night. She reaches out to a priest who sheds light on the situation. She soon realizes she must endure terror if she is to find this bloody murderer.
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| Genre: | Horror | |
| Runtime: | 1 hr. 90 min. | |
| Directed By: | Jordan Ghanma | |
This date in Horror History
- Spider Baby 1968
- Eve of Destruction 1991
- The Hangman’s Daughter 2000
- Space Fury 2000
- Teeth 2007
- Cloverfield 2008
- Bikini Frankenstein 2010
- Return To Yucca Flats
- Desert Man-Beast 2010
- Mama 2013
Some pretty good stuff this week to be sure. be sure to return next week for another weekly forecast of horror happenings.
