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Sure it's nice to know what's hitting retailers every week, which is why we always posted a list of new releases every Monday... this week we decided to take it a little further with the help of B-D writer Tex Massacre. Read on for a list of DVDs hitting retailers this Tuesday, December 19 and see which film is Tex's pick of the week!

New Releases for December 19, 2006

Altered (Universal) (TEX’S PICK OF THE WEEK)

Fifteen years ago, five men were abducted by aliens. Only four returned. Now, these same four men have managed to capture one of the creatures who killed their friend and ruined their lives. It's time for payback but payback swings both ways.

Blair Witch helmer Eduardo Sanchez takes torture cinema into outer space, as four friends get medieval on some alien ass!

Cannibal (2005): Unearthed Films

Based on the true story of the cannibal in Germany that put an ad on the Internet looking for someone to eat

Unearthed Films is calling this the most graphic film since Pasolini’s Salo. We’ll see about that.

Hideshi Hino’s Theater of Horror (6-disc set): Genius Entertainment

This six-disc set feature six full length features. (The Boy From Hell, Lizard Baby, Dead Girl Walking, Death Train, Ravaged House: Zoroku’s Disease, Occult detective Club: The Doll Cemetery)

Six films from the Japanese master of the macabre—Hideshi Hino (Guinea Pig: Flowers of Flesh and Blood)—are interpreted by six cutting edge directors.

Long Distance: Image

When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.

Monica Keena (Freddy vs. Jason) returns to the genre in what feels like a slightly derivative new thriller.

Nezulla the Rat Monster: Tokyo Shock

A Japanese Company funded by the USA experimenting with anti-bacteriological weapons creates a mutated humanoid rat creature which becomes violent and murders the lab technicians. The lab is condemned and its horrifying experiments kept a secret. However the strange bacteria leak from the lab and spreads to the nearby inhabitants causing a humanoid epidemic! Three people are sent to the lab to uncover the US government conspiracy that unleashed a bloodthirsty monster beyond their wildest imagination.

Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters drops this cheesy 2002 Japanese epic onto our shores with little fanfare.

Scary Movie 4 (HD-DVD): Weinstein Company

Anna Faris and Regina Hall are back as the lovable, dim-witted Cindy Campbell and her self-serving, sex-crazed pal Brenda respectively. They are joined this time around by Craig Bierko as the cute, but utterly clueless, Tom Ryan. Together, they battle to save the world from a ruthless alien invasion. Cindy Campbell moves in next to Tom Ryan because she's taking care of an old lady. She finds out the house is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest in the village to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and Cindy has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.

Any funnier in HD? Probably not.

Spirit Trap (special edition): First Look

When five young students move into an old unoccupied mansion an inexplicable chain of events is set in motion as a mysterious spirit clock begins to tick again. As the story unfolds, revealing each students dark secrets, the boundary between the real world and the afterlife is no longer clear. Will they find a way to escape or will they be trapped with the spirits forever?

UK Director David Smith’s film features Luke Mably (28 Days Later) and Sam Troughton (Alien Vs. Predator) and another assorted moppets of death as fodder for an angry ghost.

The Wicker Man (1973; new 2-disc special edition): Anchor Bay

Sgt. Howie travels to Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. He discovers that the locals are weird and unhelpful, and becomes determined to get to the bottom of the disappearance.

Anchor Bay cashes in on the remake this week by offering the original and special editions of the film in this 2-disc collectors edition.

The Wicker Man (2006; special edition): Warner

A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.

Nic Cage’s 2006 update of the cult classic arrives in an Unrated edition with commentary and an alternate ending.

Wolf Creek (HD-DVD): Weinstein Company

Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive.

Greg McLean’s horrific serial killer film gets the HD treatment. As if John Jarratt wasn’t scary enough in standard resolution!

Zombie Nation: Lionsgate

LAPD officer Joe has a passion for arresting women, handcuffing them and killing them. He's a serial police killer getting away with murder, since his buddies at precinct 707 always cover for him. His killing rampage might have gone on forever, had it not been for 17-year-old Romy, who heard about women disappearing in her neighborhood and asks several Voodoo Priestesses to protect her from Evil. When officer Joe gets a hold of her, his fortunes turn around, and he is suddenly haunted by a violent group of female Zombies seeking revenge.

German director Ulli Lommel caps a prolific year with his 5th DVD release of 2006. This time he drags genre vet David Hess (Last House on the Left) into his creepy world of Direct-to-Video trash.


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