Halloween is only a few weeks away and this is one of the best DVD/Blu-ray release years to date. This week's Horror In Your House is sure to send you to financial "Hell" as Sam Raimi's Dram Me to Hell arrives at a retailer near you, along with Severin's remarkable release of Hardware (a must-see), Anchor Bay's re-release of Happy Birthday to Me (one of my personal favorite 80's horror movies), Shout Factory's re-release of The Stepfather and many, many more. Read on for Tex's list and get your checking card ready.
Christine Brown is on her way to having it all: a devoted boyfriend, a hard-earned job promotion, and a bright future. But when she’s forced to make a tough decision that evicts an elderly woman from her house, Christine becomes the victim of an evil curse. Now she has only three days to dissuade a dark spirit from stealing her soul before she is dragged to hell for an eternity of unthinkable torment.
TEX SAYS: Sam Rami's triumphant return to horror is just as "Three Stooges-inspired" as his last madcap shot at the genre.
GNAW: Dark Sky
According to official statistics, more than 210,000 missing persons reports are filed every year. Some cases are never solved. Now six friends head off to a country estate for a weekend of bonding, bed hopping and home-cooked feasts. But their good times go very bad when they encounter a clan of slaughter-happy psychopaths with expert skills in butchery and a ravenous hunger for teen-meat pies. What follows is a brutal battle for survival, complete with shocking carnage, killer twists, and graphic reasons to avoid UK cuisine forever.
It was the movie that stunned audiences, shocked the MPAA and marked the debut of one of the most uncompromising filmmakers in modern horror. Dylan McDermott stars as a post-apocalyptic scavenger who brings home a battered cyborg skull for his metal-sculptor girlfriend. But this steel scrap contains the brain of the M.A.R.K. 13, the military's most ferocious bio-mechanical combat droid. It is cunning, cruel, and knows how to reassemble itself. Tonight, it is reborn...and no flesh shall be spared.
TEX SAYS: If like me, you haven't seen this cult flick in decades, it's time to take a fresh look at one of the wildest sci-fi/horror flicks ever.
THE HAUNTED AIRMAN: E1 Entertainment
Flight Lieutenant Jugg, confined to a wheelchair after being wounded in action, arrives at a remote mansion in Wales to recuperate. Suffering from terrible nightmares and visions, he suspects the methods of his psychiatrist, Dr. Hal Burns. His beautiful aunt, Julia seems to be the only person he can trust – until circumstances make him doubt even her intentions.
Welcome to upscale Crawford Academy, where everyone–especially new student Ginny– wants to be part of the school’s most popular clique. But now somebody has begun butchering the group’s members. Could a deadly accident from Ginny’s past be connected to the brutal killings? And as her 18th birthday approaches, will Ginny be the guest of honor at the most horrific party of all?
TEX SAYS: Canuxploitation fans that were doing back flips when My Bloody Valentine got an uncut release earlier will be thrilled to see this camp classic restored with its original artwork and score.
Mike Wilson has found the perfect method of getting your life back on track and achieving a meaningful existence. Mike teaches his method in an exciting seminar series: How To Be A Serial Killer. Mike's 10-lesson program includes weaponry, corpse disposal, keeping things from loved ones, and many other pearls. As Mike begins to teach more and more about the ways of successful serial killing, it becomes more and more difficult to hide the truth from his girlfriend Abigail. And when she does inevitably find out, Mike's life as serial killer gets thrown for a serious loop.
THE HUNGER: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON: E1 Entertainment
David Bowie hosts the second season of the erotically-charged horror anthology series from Executive Producers Tony and Ridley Scott, which features a phenomenal cast of familiar faces (including David Bowie, Jennifer Beals, Brad Dourif, Anthony Michael Hall, William Katt, William McNamara, Cathy Moriarty, Lori Petty, Glenn Plummer, Giovanni Ribisi, Eric Roberts, Fisher Stevens and David Warner) as you’ve never seen them before.
iMURDERS: Starz/Anchor Bay
A mysterious love triangle leads to a tragic shooting. Months later, eight members of a Myspace chat room are being gruesomely murdered in the privacy of their own homes. What is the connection? Sandra Wilson is a good place to start. The intelligent, 30-ish professional woman has a haunting past that may hold the key. The chilling truth however is that any one of the Myspace lurkers may hold the answer as to who is responsible for the grizzly killings taking place in this cyber world.
Fear takes over a mundane workday when slacker office drone Cooper wakes up in a massive cocoon spun by mutant, flesh-eating insects. One by one, Cooper unwraps those around him, forming a team of strangers to fight off the infestation. The team and other survivors must battle to stay alive and take back the Earth by fighting off gigantic flying bugs and human hybrid mutants.
LEFT BANK: IFC/MPI
In this graphically shocking and internationally acclaimed debut feature by Belgian writer/director Peter Van Hees, Eline Kuppens stars as a dedicated professional runner sidelined by an infection. But when she impulsively decides to move into her new boyfriend s high-rise apartment on the outskirts of Antwerp, she will discover that his perfect home may hold strange powers and even darker secrets: Their sexual passion becomes extreme. Her body undergoes bizarre changes. The previous tenant disappeared under mysterious circumstances. And deep within the building s dark basement lurks an ancient evil that waits to be reborn. Welcome to a neighborhood where obsession meets madness, history is written in blood, and modern horror is alive and well in a place called LEFT BANK.
LOVED ONES: R Squared Films
Gus, a Seattle undercover cop, whose friend goes missing, is forced to track down this Coven of Vampires. Serbia, the leader of the Vampires, has come up with the cure for the blood lust. This does not sit well with some in his Coven for they like the old ways of the hunt, and they are thinking about replacing Serbia. Tim Gardner, a struggling artist, is tired of his meteoric rise to fame and longs to find his true place in the world. Once he is bitten, he finds himself on the fast track to lead this broken Vampire Coven. Three men on a collision course with man kind hanging in the Balance; the battle begins and blood will flow.
Afghanistan, November 2001: Two months after 9/11, a CIA operative leads a hardcore U.S. Special Forces squad on a classified mission deep into harsh and hostile Taliban territory. Their objective is to locate a Muslim cleric with possible ties to a deadly cache of WMDs. But what they instead discover is a phenomenon beyond anything known to man. You cannot fight what isn't there. You cannot kill what doesn't live. And in a land ravaged by war and ruled by superstition, who or what is the ultimate enemy?
ORAL FIXATION: Lifesize Entertainment
Rachel Marks is obsessed with her dentist. When he refuses to keep treating her, her fragile psyche cracks and she sets out to make herself part of his life by any means necessary.
Jerry Blake is a man obsessed with having the perfect American Dream life: including the house with the white picket fence in the suburbs, an adoring wife and loving children. He believes he has found it when he marries Susan Maine and becomes the stepfather to her 16-year-old daughter, Stephanie. But Stephanie gets an uneasy feeling when she is around Jerry with his Father Knows Best attitude: she can see that there is a darker side behind his cheerful exterior. Could she just be going through the typical teenager rebellion against her new stepfather, or is he actually the same man who brutally murdered his family just one year earlier?
TEX SAYS: A great re-release of the classic "daddy dearest" film arrives just in time for the remake. Grab one!
UNTIL DEATH: MYA Communications
Linda and her lover Carlo committed a horrible crime: eight years ago they murdered the woman's husband, while she was pregnant with his son. They hid the corpse and since then they are running a small hotel near a popular fishing lake. One rainy night a drifter named Marco arrives to the hotel, but he seems to know too many details about Linda's dead husband.
ZOMBIE DEAREST: Anthem
Unemployed comedy writer Gus Lawton pushes his wife Deborah too far and finds himself chasing her across the country to the run-down house of her childhood. Faced with the choice of losing her or living by her plan, he gets busy fixing up the old place starting with the septic tank. Just when he reaches his limit, Gus digs up the one thing he needs, a zombie who will do anything he says. For now anyway.
There seems to be some confusion over this HARDWARE release. I just want to tell you all that, as of this moment, Amazon.com has both the DVD and the Blu-ray "In Stock" and shipping today.
hmm alot of good flicks.....must get drag me to tell since i havent seen it.....hardwar and gnaw sound good....wouldnt mind getting stepfather since i aint seein the made for lifetime remake.
yeah, I dont know if hardware is available in stores yet....only amazon has it. I picked up The Stepfather and Drag Me to Hell, and may pick up How To Be a Serial Killer
navyblues! Dude...so many. Beside the obvious. All the Prom Night movies (Part II is the best), and Terror Train. You've got...Funeral Home, American Nightmare, Curtains, Visiting Hours. Even later films like The Gate and Rock n' Roll Nightmare are Canadian films (although they aren't typically recognized as such)
sweet. thanks tex. definitely haven't seen some of those. my bloody valentine was actually shot in my home town. i was able to catch a screening in toronto with a bunch of cast and crew present. couple interesting things came to light: 1) they had to make the working title of the movie "the secret" because they wanted to be sensitive to the people in the town who'd lost family members and friends down in the mines (i.e. they didn't want people to know they were shooting a slasher). and 2) when the town found out there was actually a movie going to be made there in their mines, they spend thousands cleaning and re-painting everything to make things look "nice" for the movie shoot...the crew came back and had to spend twice as much griming the place up again..true story...
Will definitely be getting Happy Birthday to Me (One of my all-time favorite horror films as well) and The Stepfather. But why do you say re-release? This is the first time The Stepfather has been released onto DVD. Canadian horror is my favorite btw. If only we could get someone to release Curtains now! It has to be one of the last classic horror films not to have a DVD release yet!
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Christine Brown is on her way to having it all: a devoted boyfriend, a hard-earned job promotion, and a bright future. But when she’s forced to make a tough decision that evicts an elderly woman from her house, Christine becomes the victim of an evil curse. Now she has only three days to dissuade a dark spirit from stealing her soul before she is dragged to hell for an eternity of unthinkable torment.
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