Halloween is only a few weeks away and you can get a head start on the holiday by picking up one of a handful of highly anticipated films on DVD this Tuesday. Arriving at a retailer near you are films like FEAST II: SLOPPY SECONDS, the Toronto International Film Festival selection THE DEVIL'S CHAIR, the 3-disc set of Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN, Shyamalan's R-rated horror effort THE HAPPENING and even Anchor Bay's JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER. Read on for the full list...
Horror in Your House
October 7, 2008
By: Tex Massacre
20-YEARS AFTER: MTI
Twenty years after the bombs fell and the plagues ran their course the few that remain live in fear and without hope...Azura Skye stars as Sarah in this Post-Apocalyptic tale about a young woman's journey to deliver the first child born in 15 Years. Sarah's refusal to give up is inspired by a lone voice on her radio. Michael (Joshua Leonard) broadcasts dim and distant messages of hope mixed with the music he scavenges from the dead. Forced from her basement home by drought and relentlessly pursued by those who want her baby, Sarah crosses paths with Michael in a cavernous, underground refuge of disparate survivors. It is from Three Caves that Michael and Sarah will embark on a journey beyond the boundaries of the Southern Corridor - and into the unknown future.
BENEATH THE SURFACE: Well Go USA
By uncovering a world thought only to exist in his imagination, Ethan brings the love of his life back from the dead in order to clear her name and expose the truth behind her apparent suicide. However, he did not expect the chaos that would come back with her as well. Now Ethan must walk a find line to prevent all hell from breaking loose.
CORPSE MANIA: Image
A maniac is on the loose, and he's working his way through the shapely employees at an upscale brothel. The stern madam is none too pleased, and soon the crafty Inspector Chang sets traps to uncover this devious defiler of female corpses. A recently-released asylum inmate accused of a similar crime looks like the number one suspect, but there's much more to this twisted tale of macabre desires than meets the eye. Now making its U.S. debut, this deliriously surprising Shaw Brothers chiller from the director of the eye-popping cult classic The Boxer's Omen will leave you speechless!
DEAD COUNTRY: Midnight Releasing
When a space ship containing hazardous material explodes over a small rural town, a deadly virus is unleashed upon the population, turning them into zombies. Only the alien being responsible for the terrible accident and a small group of survivors can stop the epidemic from spreading. DEAD COUNTRY is an exploitation, arthouse, horror, action, zombie-filled spoof set in rural Victoria. It is the FIRST authentic, humor filled "video nasty" of the new millennium. Get ready for the greatest old / new horror movie experience you've ever had.
With a pocketful of drugs, Nick West takes out his girlfriend Sammy, for a shag and a good time. When they explore an abandoned asylum, the discovery of a bizarre device - a cross between an electric chair and sadistic fetish machine - transforms drugged-out bliss into agony and despair.
THE DEVIL'S MERCY: Peace Arch
The Winters move to Connecticut where they meet their new downstairs neighbours Tyler Grant and his niece Kayla. When their 6 year old son Calvin becomes increasingly anxious around the Grants his mother dismisses it as just her son s active imagination but soon has to face the fact that there may be something sinister going on within their perfect house.
EDGAR WALLACE COLLECTION VOLUME 2 (CURSE OF THE YELLOW SNAKE, THE PHANTOM OF SOHO): Retromedia/Infinity
Enter the creepy world of Edgar Wallace, the prolific and hugely popular turn-of-the-century British crime/thriller author, journalist and playwright, whose work was turned into more than 160 films … more than any other novelist. Enjoy a classic double-feature of horror/mystery in Edgar Wallace Collection: Volume 2. Unravel the enigma that is the Curse of the Yellow Snake, in which two brothers are pitted against an Asian cult that is willing to kill anyone standing between it and possession of the Yellow Snake, an ancient talisman possessing great power. Then, haunting the lavish strip clubs of Soho is The Phantom of Soho, who stalks his victims wearing a skull mask and glitter gloves.
FACES OF DEATH: Gorgon/MPI (TEX’S PICK OF THE WEEK)
It began as a graphic exploration of the one destiny we cannot escape. It would soon become the most controversial, critically reviled and fastest selling documentary in home video history. Parents tried to stop it. Video stores had to hide it. Yet across the nation, millions found ways to secretly watch it...if they dared. Renowned pathologist Dr. Frances B. Gröss is your guide to the most bizarre and grisly death scenes ever recorded, from executions, assassinations and mass murder to suicide, disease and disasters. Three decades later, is it hardcore gross-out, elaborate hoax or still the ultimate forbidden movie? One thing is certain: you will never forget the original FACES OF DEATH!
TEX SAYS: Pick of the week or pick of the year, this 30th anniversary set from MPI/Gorgon Video offers an audio commentary track that totally demystifies all the hype surrounding this legendary film. If you’ve been waiting for decades to discover just what is real and what is not…this is your must own DVD.
THE FALL OF NIGHT: Winter Star
Joe Manning, a struggling rock musician, is forced to reexamine his whole life in the course of one night when he is stranded in the California high desert with an eccentric prophet who tells him he has one night left to live.
The monsters have made it into a small neighboring town in the middle of nowhere and the locals have to band with the survivors of the bar' slaughter to figure out how to survive.
TEX SAYS: The bloodthirsty creatures are back and this time they’ve escaped the bar. Hey…it’s gonna be better than PULSE 2 right? Right!???!
GHOST SHIP: Televista
A young couple buy a supposedly haunted ship. After they become troubled with strange noises and visions they hire a paranormal investigator who uncovers the yacht's bloody history.
HALLOWEEN Collector's Edition (3-disc special edition): Dimension Extreme/Genius
Rob Zombie’s take on John Carpenters seminal slasher film monster Michael Myers arrives just in time for it’s namesake holiday with a 3-disc special edition that is highlighted by a 4 ½ hour making of documentary.
TEX SAYS: This is worth getting for the documentary even if you hated the film. I mean who wants to miss the LORD OF THE RINGS of making-of docs!!!
THE HAPPENING follows a group of people on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind… but the most basic human instinct of them all—survival! The film begins with no clear warning, as a series of strange, chilling deaths that defy reason in their shocking destructiveness erupt in major American cities. As the incidents begin to become more and more frequent, their fight for survival will become more and more desperate.
TEX SAYS: Rumor has it this film is rated R. At least that’s what I’ve heard. I say “heard” cause I have an aversion to M. Night Shyamalan films. I’ll rent it though.
HARAKIRI (3-disc special edition): TLA
Attired in their favorite fetish wear, hot-blooded Japanese ultra vixens perform the most masochistic acts of self-sacrifice and submission. The traditional oriental art of Harakiri...Violating their young bodies in ritual self-immolation, they plunge razor-edged blades into their soft, naked flesh. A sea of sweet, red blood cascades as their all too brief lives ebb, and death embraces them.
After witnessing the brutal murder of his family when he was just a young boy, Jack Brooks is left with an unquenchable fury. Now working as a plumber, Jack attempts to fix his Professor s plumbing, only to unknowingly awake an ancient evil. Prof. Crowley becomes possessed and starts a slow, gruesome transformation into the depths of evil. Only then does Jack realize that he can t run from his past, and quickly discovers the true purpose of his inner rage.
TEX SAYS: The closest anyone has gotten to the spirit of the original EVIL DEAD movies. This is one to check out for sure!
When four friends embark on a road trip to Vegas looking for fun and a few cheap thrills, they have no idea that they're about to fall into a blood-drenched charnel house of tension, torture, and the darkest depths of pure primal fear! After their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they must find a way back to civilization. But their plan soon arouses the malice of Rusty Nail-a murderous, vengeful trucker with an insatiable appetite for gruesome mutilation and sadistic pain - and he'll stop at nothing to ensure they pay their toll...one body part at a time!
OVERSEXED RUGSUCKERS FROM MARS: Xenon
Tiny Martians use Earth as a laboratory to try out new life forms. They return after ten million years only to find that the human experiment is a complete failure. They decide to mate a human with a vacuum cleaner to create a species that will be better at cleaning up after itself. But a programming error by a drunken Martian sends the oversexed cleaner on a wild rampage of rape, murder and overall bad manners.
TEX SAYS: This legendarily titled 1989 film finally gets a release. I guess after hearing about it for 20-years I should finally see the fucker!
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945): Warner
Handsome, young, but morally corrupt Dorian Gray has his portrait made. As the years pass, he does not age, but evidence of his sins are apparent in his portrait, which grows uglier with each transgression.
PREY FOR THE BEAST: Midnight Releasing
A group of men travel into the woods to get away from it all. A group of sexy, young women travel to the same woods for a weekend of fun in the sun. Unknown to both groups, a vicious, hulking creature awaits them in the forest - a creature with a taste for human flesh. It s survival of the fittest as Man battles beast and Man is no longer at the top of the food chain!
RAY HARRYHAUSEN COLLECTIBLE GIFT SET (IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA, EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS, 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH; 6-disc rerelease, 4-Blu-ray set with 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD): Sony Pictures
20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH—When an American spaceship crash-lands off the coast of Sicily, a rescue team discovers that the crew has brought back a gelatinous mass that soon hatches and evolves into a strange bi-ped creature which increases in size rapidly. Soon 20-feet tall, the creature rampages through Rome before being destroyed as it seeks refuge in the Colosseum.
THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD—It's an incredible cinematic adventure as the legendary Sinbad sets off on a dangerous journey to the mysterious Island of Colossus. His quest is to break the spell cast over his beloved princess by a diabolical magician. But before he can save her, Sinbad must battle an awesome collection of mythical monsters, the man-eating Cyclops, a saber-wielding skeleton, a ferocious two-headed bird called the Roc and a fire-breathing dragon. Starring Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Torin Thatcher and highlighted by the stunning visual effects mastery of Ray Harryhausen. Now in a pristine, hi-definition transfer that captures the magic of Harryhausen's "eye-popping" special effects in dazzling Technicolor.
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA—A giant stop-motion-animated octopus (with six arms) attacks San Francisco. A pair of scientists and a nuclear sub captain try to stop it before it tears down the Golden Gate Bridge.
EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS—While driving through the desert with his wife Carol Marvin to a military base to send the eleventh rocket to the orbit of Earth for helping the exploration of the outer space in the Operation Sky Hook, Dr. Russell A. Marvin and Carol see a flying saucer and accidentally records a message in their tape recorder. Once in the base, Dr. Russell is informed by his father-in-law and general that the ten first satellites had mysteriously felt on Earth. When Dr. Russell decodes the message, he encounters the aliens that ask him to schedule a meeting with the leaders of Earth in Washington in 56 days with the intention to invade Earth without panicking the population. Dr. Russell develops an anti-magnetic weapon that becomes that last hope of human race against the hostile aliens.
RETURN OF THE CURSE: Midnight Releasing/Dog Byte Video
An evil curse has been passed down from generation to generation. The curse causes those infected to lose their sanity which leads to their horrific demise. Follow along on this dark journey as a pair investigates the reasons why their friends and family members are taking their own lives.
SUPER HELL: Burning Moon
The atmosphere is in shock as strange new dimensions are opening and the dead are coming to life. Satan is walking the Earth and good people have become murderous filth; playing out their perverse and sinful desires. Follow along with Conrad Brooks (Plan 9 from Outer Space) as his depravity steers him toward the most in sane vampire ever to stalk the screen. Welcome to SUPER HELL!
Four beautiful but mysterious girls embark on a road trip for a relaxing weekend getaway in the woods. Unbeknownst to them, two clans of deranged male misfits follow them to their secluded and picturesque lakeside cabin in the mountains. The girls appear to be easy prey for the predatory perverts until the fateful stroke of midnight when all hell, literally , breaks loose and the tables are turned.
That's gotta be like, at least, the 3rd re-release for those Harryhausen films! They are getting a Blu-Ray release though! That is a must own though. This was a tough week to choose just one.
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Twenty years after the bombs fell and the plagues ran their course the few that remain live in fear and without hope...Azura Skye stars as Sarah in this Post-Apocalyptic tale about a young woman's journey to deliver the first child born in 15 Years. Sarah's refusal to give up is inspired by a lone voice on her radio. Michael (Joshua Leonard) broadcasts dim and distant messages of hope mixed with the music he scavenges from the dead. Forced from her basement home by drought and relentlessly pursued by those who want her baby, Sarah crosses paths with Michael in a cavernous, underground refuge of disparate survivors. It is from Three Caves that Michael and Sarah will embark on a journey beyond the boundaries of the Southern Corridor - and into the unknown future.
After witnessing the brutal murder of his family when he was just a young boy, Jack Brooks is left with an unquenchable fury. Now working as a plumber, Jack attempts to fix his Professor s plumbing, only to unknowingly awake an ancient evil. Prof. Crowley becomes possessed and starts a slow, gruesome transformation into the depths of evil. Only then does Jack realize that he can t run from his past, and quickly discovers the true purpose of his inner rage.
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