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Now that we're officially past the 4th of July weekend, it's the start of the spooky season for most avid horror fans. Some stores have already started putting out Halloween decorations and Spirit Halloween is set to open up once again next month around the country. In terms of film franchises, there's no better way to kick off this chilling time of year than with John Carpenter’s Halloween. The slasher series has over a dozen films to its name and now Halloween is getting a new book honoring the night Michael Myers came home.

Written by Wayne Byrne and released by Bloomsbury Publishing, You Can't Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga - 13 Movies and Counting is releasing on August 7th. The book explores Halloween’s impact over the last five decades and its lasting effect on pop culture. There will be a ton of new interviews with the directors,...

You Can’t Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga―13 Movies and Counting will be published in hardcover and e-book on August 7 via Bloomsbury Publishing.

Written by Wayne Byrne (Welcome to Elm Street: Inside the Film and Television Nightmares), the book is a cultural and critical examination of the Halloween franchise, considering the style, themes, and development of the series within temporal and industrial contexts.

Through candid conversations, a variety of directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, composers, and actors from across the 13 Halloween films offer exclusive insights into their careers, their unique aesthetic approaches, and their experiences of working on one of the most celebrated horror franchises of all time.

Interview subjects include: actors Gloria Gifford, Marianne Hagan, and Brad Loree; directors Tommy Lee Wallace, Dwight H. Little, and Dominique Othenin-Girard; writer Daniel Farrands; cinematographers Dean Cundey, Peter Lyons Collister, Rob Draper, Daryn Okada, David Geddes, and Phil Parmet; and composers Alan Howarth,...

Vinegar Syndrome has announced 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray releases of Mac and Me, The Rage: Carrie 2, The Card Player, and Yongary, Monster from the Deep.

Exclusive slipcover editions will ship later this month, while standard retail versions are due out on August 26.

Mac and Me has been newly restored in 4K from the 35mm original camera negative with Dolby Vision Hdr.

The 1988 E.T. knock-off is directed by Stewart Raffill (The Philadelphia Experiment), who co-wrote the script with Steve Feke (When a Stranger Calls). Jade Calegory, Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, and Katrina Caspary star.

Special features:

4K Uhd presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative Brand new commentary track with co-writer/director Stewart Raffill & Jim Branscome of Cinematic Void Brand new commentary track with film historians Wayne Byrne and Paul Farren “Strange Adventure” (12 min) – a brand new interview with co-writer...

Alert Paul Rudd because 1988 gem/E.T. ripoff/McDonald’s spokes-movie Mac and Me is coming to 4K! This summer, Vinegar Syndrome will release Mac and Me in glorious HD courtesy of a newly scanned and restored version via the movie’s original 35 mm negative that will make you want to drive your wheelchair right off a cliff.

Here is Vinegar Syndrome’s official write-up of Mac and Me: “When a family of telekinetic extraterrestrials dying on a parched planet are vacuumed into a NASA rover and transplanted to Earth, they inadvertently become literal illegal aliens, on the run from the United States government! As his sister, mother, and father escape into the strangely familiar world of the surrounding desert, the youngest of the group becomes lost, eventually sneaking into the home of a wheelchair-bound middle schooler named Eric. At first unsure of what to make of the pint-sized space creature,...

Pop culture has lived with Freddy Krueger for so long, it's easy to take him for granted. 

As explained in the many films in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series, Freddy was born to a nun following a group assault in an asylum. He was raised by an abusive adopted father, and regularly tortured and killed animals. He grew up to murder children, and would often lure his victims into a steamy boiler room to torture them with handmade gloves outfitted with knives or nails. For years, he killed the kids in and around the fictional city of Springwood, Ohio. 

Freddy was eventually arrested but was "released on a technicality." Outraged, the parents of Springwood chased Freddy to his torture shack and set it on fire, burning him to death. Freddy, however, was too evil to stay dead, and years later began appearing in the dreams of Springwood's teens.

40 years later, the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street" has more than earned its place in cinema history as a slasher classic. Written and directed by the late (and very much missed) Wes Craven, the 1984 horror film follows a group of teens from Springwood, Ohio -- which looks suspiciously like Los Angeles in several shots, but charmingly so -- as they begin dreaming of the same mysterious figure. This man, whose face is covered in burn marks and wears a glove armed with razor blades, is no shared figment of their imagination. He's Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), the vengeful ghost of a local child murderer who now has the power to kill his victims in their sleep.

Why is he vengeful? Freddy, you see, was eventually arrested but avoided punishment after getting off on a legal technicality. In retaliation, his victims' loved ones hunted him down and burnt him to death,...