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Seven years ago, Lionsgate Home Entertainment revived the defunct Vestron Video label for the Vestron Video Collector’s Series of Blu-ray releases, and over the years that series has turned out to be pretty impressive. The list of Vestron Blu-rays includes Chopping Mall, Blood Diner, the Waxwork movies, Return of the Living Dead ///, The Gate, the Wishmaster films, the Warlock films, Slaughter High, Class of 1999, Beyond Re-Animator, Dagon, Maximum Overdrive, Shivers, Little Monsters, The Wraith, Dementia 13, Steel Dawn, Candyman: Day of the Dead, Dream a Little Dream, Extreme Prejudice, Earth Girls Are Easy, the Dentist movies, the Silent Night, Deadly Night sequels, and more. The thirtieth release from the revived Vestron is a Blu-ray of the 1987 horror comedy My Best Friend Is a Vampire – and the street date is next Tuesday, July 25th! Copies can be pre-ordered at This Link.

Directed by Jimmy Huston from a screenplay written by Tab Murphy,...

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Crimson Peak Vinyl Soundtrack from Waxwork Records

Crimson Peak’s original motion picture soundtrack is available on 2xLP vinyl for $40 via Waxwork Records. The score is composed by Fernando Velázquez.

Between Jérémy Pailler’s ethereal artwork on the gatefold jacket and the “Ice Blue & Red Clay” splatter color vinyl, not to mention Velázquez’s haunting music, this is certain to be one of the most beautiful records in your collection.

My Best Friend Is a Vampire Blu-ray from Lionsgate

My Best Friend Is a Vampire will be released on Blu-ray on July 25 as the 30th installment in Lionsgate’s Vestron Video Collector’s Series. Matthew Therrien designed the cover art for the 1987 horror-comedy.

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Lionsgate’s Vestron Video Collector’s Series has given us brand spankin’ new Blu-ray releases of so many genre gems over the years, including Waxwork, The Gate, Wishmaster, The Dentist, Warlock, Dagon, Little Monsters, and the Silent Night, Deadly Night sequels. Freshly announced today, My Best Friend Is a Vampire will be the label’s 30th release!

The 1987 horror-comedy makes its Blu-ray debut on July 25, 2023.

In My Best Friend Is a Vampire, “After a sexual encounter with a beautiful client, a teenage delivery boy finds himself being turned into a vampire.”

Jimmy Huston directed the ’80s film, which stars Robert Sean Leonard, Cheryl Pollak, Rene Auberjonois, Evan Mirand, Paul Willson, and the late David Warner (Waxwork).

Check out the release art below and expect more details soon.

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For the last couple of years, I've developed something called the "Truth in Advertising" awards, meant to distinguish films whose titles kept their promises from those that did not. Previous winners include Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and There Will Be Blood. Previous losers include March of the Penguins (more like Agonizingly Long Slog of the Penguins) and Man on Fire (more like Nobody On Fire, Ever). All time loser goes to My Life as a Dog. My Best Friend is A Vampire is kind of a draw, because at no point is the lead character's best friend a vampire. However, our lead character does become a vampire, and since he has a best friend, I can't claim that it was totally misleading. Still, kind of a strange choice for this film's plot, which goes as follows:

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