Moontrap
Blu-ray|DVD
Directed by Robert Dyke
Screenplay by Tex Ragsdale
Starring Walter Koenig, Bruce Campbell, and Leigh Lombardi
Olive Films
Release Date: November 18, 2014

During a routine space shuttle mission astronaut Colonel Jason Grant (Walter Koenig) and his friend and co-pilot Ray Tanner (Bruce Campbell) encounter a derelict alien craft floating among the stars. Upon inspecting the ship Grant discovers a desiccated human corpse and a strange red pod. Back on Earth the body is carbon-dated to be 14,000 years old and the pod contains a small robot that can build itself into a virtually indestructible killing machine with the help of some scrap metal and human appendages. The machine is destroyed after engaging NASA’s finest in a body count-heavy battle and Grant and Tanner are assigned to travel to the moon in an old Apollo spacecraft to investigate the alien’s origins and find out if they have any more surprises in store for mankind.

Oh Moontrap, where have you been all my life? Long have I known of this indie sci-fi thriller’s existence through edited clips on the unjustly cancelled USA Network show Shadow Theater (hosted by Robert Englund) and a passage in co-star Bruce Campbell’s autobiography, but it has been unavailable on home video since the dying days of the VHS era….until now. Directed by Robert Dyke, a visual effects artist and producer and director of commercials making his feature debut as director, from a screenplay by the awesomely-monikered Tex Ragsdale, Moontrap is a pure delight of unpretentious creature feature fun that makes its long-awaited debut on Blu-ray and DVD Stateside.

It’s tradition for many of us to post our top films of the year at this time. Of course the same could be said for filmmakers, actors, writers, and others. And now we are getting our very first look at the year’s best from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright. The director has been known to release his thoughts on the best in film, and this year is no different. What is a bit different is his situation. Wright has been caught up in a bit of controversy with Disney and Marvel parting ways with him over creative differences on Ant-Man. So while we wait to hear what his next project will be, he has released his top ten of the year.

Hit the jump to see them.

Tales From The Crypt
Blu-ray
Director: Freddie Francis
Screenwriter: Milton Subotsky
Cast: Ralph Richardson, Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Roy Dotrice, Richard Greene, Patrick Magee
Scream Factory
Rated PG | 83 Minutes
Release Date: December 2, 2014

Synopsis: “When five unwary travelers with dark hearts stumble into a series of catacombs, they find themselves in a cavern with no way out. But the horror’s only just begun as a mysterious figure appears to reveal to each person the shocking events that will lead to their well-deserved, untimely – and unavoidable – demise. Starring Joan Collins (Empire Of The Ants), Peter Cushing (Horror Of Dracula), Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange) and Sir Ralph Richardson (Rollerball), and directed by Freddie Francis (The Creeping Flesh), Tales from the Crypt is the original, gets-right-under-your-skin creepfest!”

Tales from the Crypt is an anthology film based on stories from EC Comics. Only two of the film’s stories, however, are from EC’s Tales from the Crypt. Three of the film’s segments – “…And All Through the House,” “Poetic Justice,” and “Wish You Were Here” – were adapted from The Vault of Horror and The Haunt of Fear comics.

In case you hadn’t heard yet, some movie called Star Wars: The Force Awakens is coming out. A teaser trailer for this mystery film was released recently, and judging by reactions to said trailer, it might just end up being pretty big. Ahem.

All joking aside, fans have been making their own versions of the trailer, including one inspired by Star Wars creator George Lucas’s previous work on the series. Now comes a new version that takes the trailer and re-wraps it as a trailer for none other than the Mel Brooks classic Spaceballs.

You can watch the video below!

If seeing the first trailer for Telltale’s video game take on Game of Thrones a week or so ago had you too excited to wait for the release of the first episode, fear not, you shall not wait much longer at all.

It’s been announced that episode one of the six-part season, titled “Iron from Ice,” will be out this week. Today, in fact, for PC, Mac, and PlayStation 4 players here in the States. Tomorrow sees it released for Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PS4 players in Europe. If you prefer playing on iOS you can get the game Thursday, with a release on PS3 for both the U.S. and Europe coming on December 9th. An Android release date will be announced soon.

To celebrate the release of the first episode a new launch trailer has been released with new peeks at the game not seen in the first trailer. You can watch it below.