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Plunge into the ocean’s murky depths to find shark hybrids, deadly piranhas, fish-men, and more with Shout! TV’s Killer Fish Weekend, a binge-worthy marathon of cult classics streaming on both Shout! TV and Scream Factory TV on July 12-14.

The marathon includes Piranha (1978 and 1995), Sharktopus Vs. Pteracuda (featuring a cameo from Conan O’Brien), Sharkansas Women’s Prison Massacre (have you ever seen a shark walk on land?), and Lords Of The Deep (co-produced by Roger Corman).

The Killer Fish Weekend marathon can be viewed on Shout! TV and Scream Factory TV; as well as the Shout! TV app on Roku, Android, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV; and the following digital streaming platforms – Samsung TV Plus, Amazon Freevee, Local Now, Plex, Sling Freestream, LG Channels, available on LG Smart TVs, Fubo, Xumo and LiveTVx, available on Google devices. Scream Factory TV is available to stream on The CW.

Los Angeles – Plunge into the ocean’s murky depths to find shark hybrids, deadly piranhas, fishmen, and more with Shout! TV’s Killer Fish Weekend, a binge-worthy marathon of cult classics streaming on Shout! TV and Scream Factory TV on July 12-14.

Sink your teeth into a delicious array of titles on Shout! TV and Scream Factory TV, including Piranha (1978 and 1995), Sharktopus Vs. Pteracuda (featuring a cameo from Conan O’Brien), Sharkansas Women’s Prison Massacre (have you ever seen a shark walk on land?), and Lords Of The Deep (co-produced by Roger Corman). See the full marathon schedule below.

The Killer Fish Weekend marathon can be viewed on Shout! TV and Scream Factory TV; as well as the Shout! TV app on Roku, Android, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV; and the following digital streaming platforms – Samsung TV Plus, Amazon Freevee, Local Now, Plex, Sling Freestream, LG Channels, available on LG Smart TVs,...

Happy Cinco de Mayo / The Shape of Water day, Fiends! There was pretty much no contest when it came to picking a modern Creature movie and we’re here today to wave goodbye to the monster we love by discussing Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water (2017).A movie that, according to Kim, is subtitled: The Fishman Fucketh...

Hello everyone! We’re back to give you the lowdown on another week of home media releases, and while we don’t have a ton of titles on tap, there are still a few key releases genre fans are going to want to pick up this Tuesday.

If you missed it during its run on HBO, you can finally catch up with the first season of Lovecraft Country, as Warner Bros. is bringing it home on both Blu-ray and DVD. Jay Baruchel’s Random Acts of Violence is also headed to both formats this week, or if you’re in the mood for something a little more old school, both The Unseen and Slithis are getting the Blu-ray treatment on Tuesday as well.

Other home media releases for February 16th include Bad Impulse, Butchers, The Leprechaun’s Game and Mask of Thorn.

Lovecraft Country: The Complete First Season

Based on the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff,...

Stars: James Callis, Anne Dudek, Amiah Miller, Natasha Bassett, Michael Bowen | Written by Josh Burnell | Directed by Adam Gierasch

Despite his output being less than prolific, I’ve been a huge fan of director Adam Gierasch for years – ever since I saw Autopsy and his stellar remake of Night of the Demons (one of the “good” remakes, even though the original is a stone-cold classic). House by the Lake is only his third feature since those films, though he was a part of the portmanteau Tales of Halloween in 2015. Surprisingly, unlike the rest of his oeuvre this film is the first Gierasch has directed that he hasn’t written – and it shows. House by the Lake is unlike any of his other films; feeling very much like a low-budget family drama instead of the usual balls to the wall horror Gierasch is associated with.

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“Slithis” is finally on DVD! I’ve been waiting for this day since I was in junior high and stumbled across the already well-worn VHS copy at my local video store. Stephen Traxler’s 1978 film has everything a child of my era could want. Growing up I fully expected to be annihilated by a nuclear holocaust at any given moment, murdered in my sleep by Freddy Krueger, or wiped out by some massive environmental catastrophe, so any movie with a guy dressed in a rubber monster suit, loosely disguised as a cautionary tale about nuclear power and pollution, was right up my alley. To be honest, I remember it not being very good, and decades down the line it doesn’t even hold up to my already under-inflated expectations. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t watch it. Something is killing household pets along the canals of Venice (that’s Venice,...

Code Red DVD, the company who brought us Devil Times Five , Dead Pit and Beyond the Door discs amongst others, is preparing to release Slithis on June 1. Stephen Traxler's 1978 painted the portrait of a terrified Venice, California as it fell victim to a mutated sea creature. Hell hath no fury...like Slithis! So read the poster. Stay tuned for more details as they come in!

Ah, Slithis ... I first saw this little rubber monster ditty when CBS ran it late night back in the Eighties under the alternate title Spawn of the Slithis. Scared the heck out of me as a little kid, not so much as an adult watching it on a horribly murky VHS transfer. Now Code Red is preparing to introduce Slithis to the digital world.

Slithis was writer-director Stephen Traxler’s 1978 homage to monster movies of the Fifties and Sixties. A nuclear leak gives rise to a humanoid reptilian sea creature called Slithis (named such after the radioactive mud from which it spawns and leaves behind). The Slithis emerges from the ocean to terrorize the shores of Venice, California, leaving behind a trail of dead house pets, wino vagrants, fishermen, seaside homeowners, and gigolos that look like Burt Reynolds. I distinctly recall that when it fed on people, it sounded like someone was vigorously slurping soup.