This is a pretty damn good week for DVD releases, especially since there's a little bit some something for everyone. You can check out Lionsgate's terrible direct-to-video release of Open Water 2: Adrift, then there's Anchor bay's fun German horror film Night of the Living Dorks, the UK film everyone's talking about - Wilderness and Dead Mary. Whatever you're looking for, it's there. Read on for details on all and to see what else is coming to a store near you this Tuesday, February 20.
Horror in your House – February 20, 2007
By: Tex Massacre
Anna’s Eve: CreepFX/Maverick
A social worker's picture perfect world is turned upside down after she discovers the grisly murder of a child. She struggles to move on with her life even as the child's ghost and another ominous presence haunt her. When bizarre accidents begin to claim the lives of those around her, she is forced to confront her past and something much more sinister
Grayce Wey wrote herself a starring role in this spooky ghost story from 2004.
Barricade: Cinema Image
Three friends decide to take a weekend trip into the woods to escape the stress of their lives and relax for a few days. Unfortunately, the woods are inhabited by a long-forgotten family of cannibalistic mountain people - and these three look like the perfect meal.
Raine Brown (Plasterhead) stars in this latest film from German goremeister Timo Rose.
A group of friends drive to a remote lakeside cabin to relax and reminisce about their college days. When the group decides to play the ghoulish game "Dead Mary", they unleash a vengeful spirit that possesses them one by one. As the demon forces them to turn on one another, each is faced with a choice. Would you hack your best friend to pieces to ensure your own survival?
The sexy Dominique Swain (LOLITA) heads up another cast of twenty-something’s in the forest. Will they ever learn? Let’s hope not.
Delivery: Polychrome Pictures
Everybody orders pizza delivery. But when your pizza arrives, who is it that you're opening your door to? Is it a nice kid looking to make a few bucks...or is it Monty?
Jose Zambrano Cassella, the Cinematographer on the super fun flick ANDRE THE BUTCHER offers up his own killer…a killer pizza man. If it’s half as funny as “ANDRE” It’ll defiantly be worth checking out.
Hard: Westlake
When a series of brutal killings of young male hustlers awaken the police to the threat of a serial killer, rookie detective Raymond Vates and his partner, detective Tom Ellis, must battle an intolerant police department that is indifferent to what it calls “misdemeanor killings.” Jack is a killing machine--a drifter who has come to town on the way to somewhere else--stalking the nighttime streets of L.A. seeking out the runaways and other lost souls who gather around the hot glow of Hollywood’s neon underworld--leaving a wake of bodies behind him. However it seems the killer has his eyes on a bigger prize, Vates himself
In the tradition of SEVEN, the gay horror genre gets it’s very own psychopath.
Kadokawa Horror Collection: Inugami, Isola, Shadow of the wraith, Shikoku (4-disc set): Ronin/BCI Eclipse
Loaded with atmospheric terror and supernatural themes, the four films in the KADOKAWA HORROR COLLECTION exemplify the late-1990s/early-2000s Japanese horror boom: in INUGAMI (2001), a cursed family accidentally unleashes its ancestors' evil spirits; in SHIKOKU (1999), a young girl is haunted by the vengeful ghost of her childhood friend; in SHADOW OF THE WRAITH (2007), two brothers become involved with a pair of unstable women; and in ISOLA (2000), a telepathic woman meets a schizophrenic whose multiple personalities may be triggering earthquakes.
The Mailman: Anchor Bay
A cunning psychopath with more than an axe to grind impersonates the kindly mailman in a small suburban beach town. Terrorizing the locals one by one, he is out to deliver revenge.
As if the killer pizza delivery guy wasn’t enough, now the postal service is out to get you!
When an inept voodoo ceremony by the local Goth clique leads to a fatal car accident, a trio of über-dorks return as indestructible zombies with an insatiable appetite for human flesh, wild parties and gym class revenge. Can Philip now score with the hottest girl in school before he decomposes? Is there any personal dismemberment that can’t be fixed with a stapler? And even if an antidote can be found, will it damper the uninhibited highlife of the undead?
Our second German import of the week delivers comedy and horror in equal measure. This is the one for your next party!
A weekend cruise aboard a luxury yacht goes horribly awry for a group of old high school friends who forget to lower the ladder before they jump into the ocean for a swim.
Like the original, OPEN WATER 2 is purportedly based on a true story. The difference between the two is that this group of “floaters” sound like they really deserved it.
Reign of Fire (Blu-ray): Touchstone
It is twenty years in the future, and the planet has been devastated by vicious fire-breathing dragons. The last vestiges of humanity now struggle for survival in at remote outposts.
Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale star is in video game adaptation that somehow managed to be slightly amusing in its absurdity—the apocalypse arrives again this week in High Definition.
The inmates of a Young Offenders Institution are beyond help: too tough to handle, too far gone to be brought back. Their prison is a dumping ground for the worst in the system…until they are sent to the wilderness. They are dropped into an alien world of dense forests, treacherous rivers and jagged coastline. For one week they have to learn to work as a team, to develop character and maybe even discover a new respect for each other. But there's someone else on the island who wants to teach them a bigger lesson, and they are about to become his prey.
Michael J. Basset director of the World War I horror film DEATHWATCH takes a very different look at young men in harms way with this BATTLE ROYALE styled UK film.
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