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As fall turns into winter, and a chill enters the air, horror fans begin to feast on their favorite holiday horrors. Black Christmas, Gremlins, and Silent Night, Deadly Night are all seasonal staples, and more contemporary offerings, such as Krampus and Better Watch Out, have become new classics. Yet for additional helpings of festive frights, perhaps the following double-feature could be considered; both The Dorm That Dripped Blood and Trapped Alive even hail from the decade where Christmas Horror, as a subgenre, began to take shape and resemble its more modern form.

The Dorm That Dripped Blood also goes by Pranks, The Third Night, and Death Dorm. The later title is what appears on the source print for Synapse Films’ uncut restoration, however, the longer name is what sticks best, even for those who have never seen this 1982 obscurity. And for a lot of folks who have watched the film,...

We have a busy start to this new month of home media releases, as we have more than 20 genre-related titles coming out this Tuesday alone. As far as new films are concerned, horror fans have quite an assortment to look for this week, between Knife+Heart, The Cleaning Lady, and I’ll Take Your Dead from Scream Factory. Arrow Video is giving the cult classic Trapped Alive the Special Edition treatment, and for those of you Stephen King aficionados out there, Children of the Corn is getting its own SteelBook, and there’s also a six-movie collection of King adaptations arriving on Tuesday as well.

All four of the original Batman movies are getting a 4K upgrade this week, courtesy of Warner Bros., and for those of you who are into stop-motion animation, the ever-delightful Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit hits Blu-ray on Tuesday too.

Other notable releases for June 4th include The Convent,...

Cameron Mitchell in Trapped Alive (1988) will be available on Blu-ray June 4th From Arrow Video

Genre regular Cameron Mitchell stars in this thrilling tale of escaped hoodlums and underground-dwelling cannibals from director Leszek Burzynski and Hellraiser producer Christopher Webster.

One wintry night, pals Robin and Monica are making their way to a Christmas party when they re carjacked by a gang of crooks recently escaped from the local penitentiary. With the two young women taken as hostages, things take an even darker turn when their vehicle plummets down an abandoned mine shaft, trapping them underground with the dangerous crooks – and a mutant cannibal.

Filmed in 1988 under the title of Forever Mine but not released until 1993, Trapped Alive was the first film to come out of Wisconsin s now-defunct Windsor Lake Studios, which would go on to produce a number of films under the Fangoria Films label in the early-90s,...