It’s the summer of screams on SCREAMBOX!
This June was absolutely jam-packed with several horror gems hitting our SCREAMBOX streaming service, including the hotly anticipated must-see definitive documentary Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story, not to mention Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare on Elm Street, Tobe Hooper’s classic 1995 adaptation of The Mangler (also starring Robert Englund), George A. Romero’s zombie classic Day of the Dead, Marcus Dunstan’s slasher The Collector, the supernatural festival hit Jethica, the SCREAMBOX Original body horror thriller New Religion, and the entire Subspecies franchise!
We’re ending the month with a bang, also dropping both David Cronenberg and the Soska Sisters’ Rabid, which are now streaming on SCREAMBOX.
Interestingly, David Cronenberg’s 1977 masterpiece is actually a Christmas-set horror film. In the film, surgery leaves a Montreal motorcyclist with a bloodsucking appendage in her armpit. Soon she has an insatiable thirst for human blood.
The remake by the Soska Sisters follows aspiring fashion designer Rose Miller (Laura Vandervoort) who has her dreams turned into a nightmarish reality when a freak accident leaves her horribly disfigured. After receiving a miracle procedure involving an experimental skin graft from the mysterious Burroughs Clinic, Rose is transformed into the beauty of her dreams. But nothing comes without a cost and Rose begins to feel terrifying side effects that tear at her last threads of sanity. What price will Rose have to pay to have everything she ever wanted?
It may just cost her her humanity.
Meagan reviewed the Rabid remake, calling it “a love letter to Cronenberg and Canada,” and further adding that the “gore and makeup effects are worth the price of admission, and so is this new iteration of Rose.”
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Oh, and if you’re a new subscriber, don’t forget to check out previous SCREAMBOX Original and Exclusives Project Wolf Hunting, The Barn Part II, Shifted, Living With Chucky, Pennywise: The Story of IT, Family Dinner, Holy Shit!, The Outwaters, Terrifier 2, CreepyPasta, Cube, Welcome to Hell, and much, much more! Subscribe now!
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