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Stars: Noyes J. Lawton, Ken Van Sant, Titus Himmelberger, Jeff Kirkendall, Natalie Himmelberge, Mark Polonia | Written by Mark Polonia, Aaron Drake | Directed by Mark Polonia

Director Mark Polonia and co-writer Aaron Drake, the guys who gave us Amityville in Space, are back and taking everyone’s favourite franchise to a new frontier in the western horror hybrid Once Upon a Time in Amityville. It’s 1846 and Mathias Black is putting some distance between himself and the bank he robbed. And he was doing a good job of it until something kills his horse and chases him to the nearest town, a place called Amityville.

That creature isn’t the only thing on Mathias’ trail, however. There’s a pair of bounty hunters, Carson Weaver and Miles Oakley on his trail. And that brings them to Amityville, where despite the sign saying there’s a population of thirty-seven, they can barely find a handful of inhabitants.

Stars: Titus Himmelberger, Brice Kennedy, Jeff Kirkendall, Marie DeLorenzo, Ken Van Sant | Written by Tyger Torrez | Directed by Mark Polonia

Mark Polonia is back with Cocaine Werewolf. But after Cocaine Bear, Cocaine Cougar, Cocaine Roach and Polonia’s own Cocaine Shark, is there anything new that can be done with the creatures on cocaine genre?

The film opens with a lycanthrope on the prowl in the backwoods of Pennsylvania, first interrupting a Little Red Riding Hood-themed photoshoot then, and more importantly, turning up at the scene of a drug deal gone bad and killing the surviving courier

As this is happening, Jack is on his way to New York via Uber, something that seems a little odd for a rich stockbroker like himself. In any case, he finds himself stuck at a familiar-looking garage with a dead driver, a still-hungry werewolf and a fortune in cocaine. Unfortunately every time he does some,...

In the wake of Cocaine Bear and Cocaine Shark, Cocaine Werewolf is howling our way soon, and we’ve learned this week that the film is getting a Blu-ray release on August 13.

But first, Cleopatra Entertainment is bringing Cocaine Werewolf to the historic Arcadia Theatre in Wellsboro, Pa on Friday, July 5, with a second engagement on Saturday, July 6.

After the DVD and Blu-ray release on August 13, its coming to VOD in November 2024.

Here’s the synopsis from Cleopatra Entertainment: “Cocaine, cash and a crew filming a low-budget horror movie in the eerie woods of northern Pennsylvania clash when an unexpected visit from a bloodthirsty werewolf literally enters the picture–with deadly results.”

Blu-ray Special Features include:

Director’s Commentary Trailers & Slide Show

Cocaine Werewolf was written by Tyger Torrez and directed by cult film master Mark Polonia. The film stars Marie DeLorenzo, Jeff Kirkendall, Titus Himmelberger, Ken Van Sant, Brice Kennedy,...

Exclusive: First came Cocaine Bear and Cocaine Shark. Now meet Cocaine Werewolf.

Ireland’s Tarf Media has secured worldwide sales rights (excluding North America) to the indie comedy-horror film, which is written by Ford Austin and Tyger Torrez. Mark Polonia, who directed Cocaine Shark, is directing. David Sterling and Tim Yasui are producing for Cleopatra Entertainment.

Starring are Marie DeLorenzo, Jeff Kirkendall, Titus Himmelberger, Ken Van Sant, Brice Kennedy, Yolie Canales and Noyes Lawton.

Synopsis reads: “Cocaine, cash and a crew filming a low-budget horror movie in the eerie woods of northern Pennsylvania clash when an unexpected visit from a bloodthirsty werewolf literally enters the picture–with deadly results.”

Sales are launching at the Cannes Market, with Eoghan Burke, Managing Director at Tarf Media, saying: “It’s very exciting for us to have Cocaine Werewolf at this year’s Marché for our international clients. Horror continues to perform incredibly well,...

Last year’s Cocaine Bear managed to spawn a trend even if it wasn’t a huge hit at the box office, with Cocaine Shark following and now Cocaine Werewolf howling our way soon.

Amityville Coke Den isn’t far behind, we assume…

Our friends over at Rue Morgue have provided us with a first look at the upcoming Cocaine Werewolf, which they reveal will be directed by Mark Polonia (director of Cocaine Shark!).

Here’s the synopsis from Cleopatra Entertainment: “Cocaine, cash and a crew filming a low-budget horror movie in the eerie woods of northern Pennsylvania clash when an unexpected visit from a bloodthirsty werewolf literally enters the picture–with deadly results.”

Marie DeLorenzo, Jeff Kirkendall, Titus Himmelberger, Ken Van Sant, Brice Kennedy, Yolie Canales and Noyes Lawton star in Cocaine Werewolf. Tyger Torrez wrote the screenplay.

Expect this one on VOD later this year and find the poster art below.

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”

After an “in name only” outing with Amityville Prison (aka Against The Night), there’s something reassuring about Amityville Exorcism, which delivers exactly what the title suggests.

This is the second outing for director Mark Polonia after Amityville Death House, who swaps out writer John Oak Dalton for “franchise” newcomer Billy D’Amato. Alas, what made Death House an entertaining, albeit uneven, watch – ie: a pair of gonzo sequences – is mostly absent in this film.

Exorcism begins with a typical Amityville set piece in which father Charles Humes (Ken Van Sant) murders his wife and daughters in their home. Polonia and cinematographer Lukas K. Reynolds shoot this sequence in a dream-like fashion: partially in slow motion, with an accentuated heartbeat pounding on the soundtrack.

This week brings along with it brand new original horror movies from both Screambox and Shudder, while a hit horror movie over at Netflix gets a fresh new spinoff installment.

Here’s all the new horror releasing July 11– July 16, 2023!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting’s throwback slasher We Might Hurt Each Other (formerly Pensive) is Now Streaming on our Screambox platform beginning today!

The bloody Lithuanian teen horror film was directed by Jonas Trukanas and stars Gabija Bargailaite (Pilgrims), and calls back to slasher classics like Friday the 13th.

In fact, this is Lithuania’s very first slasher movie!

Inspired by local legends, We Might Hurt Each Other follows a group of privileged high school classmates. After these classmates destroy a set of life-size wooden statues during a wild graduation party, a mysterious masked killer begins picking the group off one by one.

A couple months ago – soon after the successful theatrical release of director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear (read our review Here) – we saw the trailer for Cocaine Shark, the latest movie from prolific low budget filmmaker Mark Polonia. We already knew at that time that the movie had secured a distribution deal with Wild Eye Releasing, and now we know when Wild Eye is going to be sending Cocaine Shark out into the world. The film is set to receive a DVD and VOD release on July 11th!

July 11th also happens to be the start of the Shark Week marathon on the Discovery Channel, so this is some perfect timing.

Scripted by Bando Glutz, Polonia’s Cocaine Shark has the following synopsis: A mafia drug lord has unleashed a new, highly addictive stimulant on the streets called HT25, derived from sharks held captive in a secret lab, and which causes monstrous side effects.

A “mockbuster” take on this year’s big screen horror-comedy Cocaine Bear, Wild Eye Releasing will be unleashing their Cocaine Shark this summer, Bd has learned today.

Cocaine Shark snorts its way onto DVD and VOD on July 11, 2023.

Watch the official trailer below.

In director Mark Polonia‘s film, “A mafia drug lord has unleashed a new, highly addictive stimulant on the streets called HT25, derived from sharks held captive in a secret lab, and which causes monstrous side effects. After an explosion and leak at the lab, an army of mutated, bloodthirsty sharks and other creatures are set loose on the world.”

Samantha Coolidge, Ryan Dalton, Natalie Himmelberger, Titus Himmelberger, Jeff Kirkendall, Noyes J. Lawton, Kyle Rappaport, and Ken Van Sant star in the upcoming mockbuster.

Cocaine Shark is directed by Mark Polonia and written by Bando Glutz.

DVD Bonus features include Trailers, Animation Out-Takes, and a Director’s Commentary.

Twice a month Joe Lipsett will dissect a new Amityville Horror film to explore how the “franchise” has evolved in increasingly ludicrous directions. This is “The Amityville IP.”

I feel lied to.

While yes, technically Eric Roberts is in 2015’s Amityville Death House, he’s basically hidden under a mask and appears solo for his whole one minute of screen time (Clearly this cameo was filmed separately from the rest of the production and took approximately one hour to complete).

Barring the slightly misleading advertising, the twelfth Amityville film remains weirdly entertaining. It’s not good at all, but there’s something admirable about its “everything-but-the-kitchen-sink” approach to storytelling, which helps to offset the truly terrible acting. Because let’s be real: you can forgive amateur actors if there’s a spider woman in your film’s climax.

Death House marks the first of four Amityville films we’ll discuss from director Mark Polonia,...

Who knew movie-goers had such a hunger for movies about animals on cocaine-fuelled rampages? In less than two weeks of release, director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear (read our review Here) has racked up over $50 million at the box office. In the build-up to the release of that film, a news report about New Zealand police recovering more than three tons of cocaine that was found floating in the Pacific Ocean got people talking about the possibility of a Cocaine Shark movie… and the idea was even passed along to Banks, who said, “Jaws with cocaine, I don’t see how that loses.” But as it turns out, Banks has been beaten to the Cocaine Shark idea by prolific low budget filmmaker Mark Polonia, whose own Cocaine Shark movie is so far along that it has already secured a distribution deal with Wild Eye Releasing, and a trailer is already online!

In the wake of the Elizabeth Banks-directed Cocaine Bear, which has now snorted up $53 million, the low-budget indie horror scene is hard at work in their attempts to capitalize on the film’s success. Coming soon, The Asylum will be unleashing Attack of the Meth Gator, and Bloody Disgusting has learned that Wild Eye Releasing has their own mockbuster on the way.

Coming soon from Wild Eye Releasing? Cocaine Shark, of course!

We don’t yet have a release date for Cocaine Shark at this time, but the official trailer has been unleashed this week. It looks, well, let’s just say it’s about what you’d expect…

In director Mark Polonia‘s film, “A mafia drug lord has unleashed a new, highly addictive stimulant on the streets called HT25, derived from sharks held captive in a secret lab, and which causes monstrous side effects. After an explosion and leak at the lab,...

Stars: James Carolus, Steve Diasparra, Danielle Donahue, Jamie Morgan, Ken Van Sant, Sarah Duterte | Written by Aaron Drake | Directed by Mark Polonia

I think I’ve watched more films by Mark Polonia during this past year in lockdown than I have in the rest of my life. Which is apt given this, his latest film, deals with a global viral pandemic… Though unlike the current one we’re experiencing here in the real world, the virus in Virus Shark comes from a shark. As if I needed to explain that given the title!

Dubbed Shvid-1, the virus has decimated the globe, with millions dying, riots and violence in the streets, martial law declared everywhere. Basically the world has turned to shit. The only thing standing between humanity and what looks to be the end of the world are a group of scientists working 800 metres under the sea, trying to find...

Stars: Jeff Kirkendall, Danielle Donahue, Melissa Heflin, Marie DeLorenzo, James Kelly, Ken Van Sant, Tim Hatch, James Carolus, Niko Bryant | Written by Jeff Kirkendall | Directed by Mark Polonia, Jeff Kirkendall

Thirty years after the infamous ‘Death Farm’ murders in rural Pennsylvania, serial killing is in season once more. A young woman and her friends descend upon the farm to party after discovering that she has inherited the land. But soon after, the strange occurrences and brutal murders begin again…

Who would have thought that over thirty years after the shot-on-video original debuted – made by a group of teenagers out to totally shock and gross out the audience – that we’d be seeing a direct sequel, made with the involvement of one of Splatter Farm‘s original directors? I didn’t. But I’m certainly glad we have!

Penned by frequent Polonia collaborator Jeff Kirkendall, who also appears in the recently...

Stars: Danielle Donahue, Jeff Kirkendall, Bob Dennis, James Carolus, Steve Diasparra, Ken Van Sant, Todd Carpenter, Austin Dragovich, Laurie Smith, Frank Humes, Houston Baker | Written by John Oak Dalton | Directed by Mark Polonia

I’m not going to lie, the oeuvre of the Polonia Brothers is somewhat of an acquired taste. Always low budget, often made with recurring cast and crew, very much what you’d call Diy filmmaking – right down to using familiar stock music and stock video footage (tell me you don’t recognise this films blood-drip filled opening credits? I’ve seen it offered as a design from tons of “video editors” on Fiverr). You have been warned… But for those familiar with the Polonia’s work, Jurassic Prey is more of the same cheesy fun that you’ve come to expect!

Jurassic Prey, originally released on Full Moon’s streaming service under the title of Meateaters,...

Stars: Michelle Simone Miller, Kathryn Metz, Rich Lounello, A.J. DeLucia, Steve Diasparra, Danielle Donahue, Ken Van Sant | Written and Directed by Brett Piper

The latest film from cult auteur Brett Piper (They Bite, The Screaming Dead, Raiders of the Living Dead) Queen Crab is – from start to finish – a loving, action-packed tribute to the classic days of practical stop-motion animation, evoking the days of Ray Harryhausen creature features.

The official synopsis reads thus: A meteor crashes into a quiet lake in the remote countryside, awakening a centuries-old beast. She emerges from the deep and tears through a nearby town and its inhabitants. The humans must fight for their lives and stop this Queen Crab before she can hatch an army of babies that will overrun the entire world.

Though to be fair that synopsis exagerates things a little. It’s more a case of girl develops relationship with a crab,...