Welcome to this week’s edition of Horror in Your House. Adam Green’s splatterfest Hatchet headlines a Blu-ray heavy week of studio releases. Tobe Hooper’s classic horror flick, Poltergeist also gets the Blu-ray treatment along with 2005’s creepy swamp mansion flick, The Skeleton Key. There is even something for the old school horror fans, a collection of Hammer Horror films released by TCM and Turner Home Ent. Anything catch your eye this week?
Horror In Your House
September 6th, 2010
CONVICT 762 – Echo Bridge Entertainment
After a navigational error leads a spaceship off-course into an asteroid field, the all-female crew is forced to stop and re-fuel at a penal colony. But upon landing, it’s clear something isn’t quite right–it’s eerily silent. There’s been an uprising, and no one is alive except for a terrified captain babbling about convict #762. A convict who has managed to slaughter everyone. A convict who is looking for a way off the planet…
DARKNESS (aka TMA) – Vicious Circle Films
Weary of his rock-and-roll lifestyle as a successful musician, Marek (Ivan Franěk) takes time off to live in the country home of his childhood so he can pursue his hobby of painting. After being haunted by strange noises and vivid childhood memories, Marek soon senses he’s living in the midst of a dark presence. From the Czech Republic.
GROWTH – Anchor Bay
In 1989, a breakthrough in Advanced Parasitic Development at the Cuttyhunk Island Research Facility led to a mysterious outbreak that killed most of the center’s staff and the island’s residents. Twenty years later, a young woman who fled the original epidemic has returned with a group of friends to sell her family’s property. But a new breed of parasite may have evolved and survived. They are fast moving. They can slither into, or out of, any orifice in the human body.
HATCHET [Blu-ray] – Starz/Anchor Bay
When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.
MICAH SAYS: The Evil Dead last week, now Hatchet. My Blu-ray collection is growing; my bank account is not.
POLTERGEIST [Blu-ray] – Warner Home Video
A young family are visited by ghosts in their home. At first the ghosts appear friendly, moving objects around the house to the amusement of everyone, then they turn nasty and start to terrorize the family before they “kidnap” the youngest daughter.
PULSE [Blu-ray] – Weinstein Company
Horrifying supernatural events consume the life of Mattie (Kristen Bell) once she receives an e-mail from her friend begging for help from beyond the grave. Her investigation of the mysterious e-mail leads to unexpected answers and terrifying conclusions. Imagine our wireless technologies made a connection to a world beyond our own. Imagine that world used the technology as a doorway into ours. Now, the connection made can’t be shut down. When you turn on your cell phone or log on to your e-mail, they’ll get in. You’ll be infected and they’ll take from you what they don’t have anymore – life.
MICAH SAYS: Remember this one? It was easy to forget. It’s features Kristen Bell’s acting and Wes Craven as a co-writer in a remake of the Japanese film, Kairo. And it’s, uh, not good.
THE SKELETON KEY [Blu-ray] – Universal
Set largely in the dark atmospheric backwoods just outside of New Orleans, The Skeleton Key stars Hudson as Caroline, a live-in nurse hired to care for an elderly woman’s ailing husband in their home… a foreboding and decrepit Gothic mansion in the Louisiana delta. Caroline beings to explore the old mansion, armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door, she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret.
TCM GREATEST CLASSIC FILM COLLECTION: HAMMER HORROR – Turner Home Ent.
Films include: Horror of Dracula, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, The Curse of Frankenstein, and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed.