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Paramount Scares Collects Four Horror Hits – And a Mystery Movie

The five-movie Paramount Scares: Volume One collection is available every”scare” this October.
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Do you like scary movies? Scareamount Paramount Pictures is collecting five Paramount scares — Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Pet Sematary (1989), Crawl (2019), Smile (2022), and a “mystery” movie (????) — in a new 4K UHD and Blu-ray collection. Featuring five exclusive slipcover cases, a sticker sheet, a collector’s edition Fangoria magazine, and a collectible “Paramount Scares” logo pin all packaged in a “coffin box,” Paramount Scares: Volume One will be available to own just in time for Halloween on October 24th. Take a closer look at the set below — if you dare.

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The 5-movie, 8-disc box set is currently priced at $111.99 and available for pre-order on Amazon. The official description: 

Paramount Scares digs up a variety of spine-chilling titles,reanimated for the first time in one limited-edition creepy collectionfeaturing a variety of ghoulish greats: The incomparable horroressential ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968); Stephen King’s own adaptation of PETSEMATARY (1989); The nail-biting creature-feature CRAWL (2019); our recentbox-office smash SMILE (2022); a delectable “mystery” fifth feature(making its 4K Ultra HD debut) exclusive to this set. Every movie is packagedin separate amaray cases, with all-new slipcovers. Housed in a carefullycrafted coffin box, we’ve also included some unique stickers and aParamount Scares enamel pin for you, our favorite fiends. Along with themovie mayhem, FANGORIA has resurrected articles from their vault for anexclusive, full-sized issue highlighting the five scream greats, andmore!

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The “mystery movie” is rated R for “graphic bloody violence,” which fits 2007’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Director Tim Burton’s big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical thriller, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, has never before been released on 4K.

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Rosemary’s Baby

Possiblythe best horror film ever made, this brilliant adaptation of IraLevin’s best-selling novel is the story of a loving young New York Citycouple who are expecting their first child. Like most first-timemothers, Rosemary (Mia Farrow) experiences confusion and fear. Herhusband (John Cassavetes), an ambitious but unsuccessful actor, makes apact with the Devil that promises to send his career skyward. DirectorRoman Polanski elicits uniformly extraordinary performances from theall-star cast. Ruth Gordon won an Oscar for her performance as anoversolicitous next-door neighbour in this classic chiller.

Pet Sematary

Aftermoving to an idyllic home in the countryside, life seems perfect forthe Creed family…but not for long. Louis and Rachel Creed and theirtwo young children settle in to a house that sits next door to a petcemetery – built on an ancient Indian burial ground. Their mysteriousnew neighbor, Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne), hides the cemetery’s darkestsecret…until a family tragedy brings the secret to life. Now, anunthinkable evil is about to be resurrected. From Stephen King, theMaster of the Macabre, comes a journey that leads to hell and back.Though not everyone survives the trip. For the Creeds, home is where thehorror is.

Crawl

As a category 5 hurricane tears through Florida, Haley rushes to findher father, who is injured and trapped in the crawl space of their home.With the storm intensifying and water levels rising, the pair face aneven more terrifying threat lurking below the surface. From producer SamRaimi (Evil Dead) and director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes),Crawl is a nail-biting thriller from start to finish.

Smile

Afterwitnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. RoseCotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences thatshe can’t explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over herlife, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive andescape her horrifying new reality.

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