Horror in your House
August 7, 2007
By: Tex Massacre
Bad Reputation: Maverick Platinum
A pretty but quiet student, who is treated as an outcast at her suburban high school, seeks revenge on her classmates after being sexually assauled at a house party and branded with a "Bad Reputation".
Take a look at BAD REPUTATION an excellent underground film that is garnering a pretty excellent rep of it’s own
Beneath: Paramount
Christy returns to her hometown years after a car accident that disfigured her older sister. Haunted by the accident in which she was the driver, she learns that her worst nightmares have either come true ... or are about to.
MTV films makes horror movies…scary!
Bubba Ho-Tep: MGM/Fox
Mud Creek, Texas, is about to get all shook up. When mysterious deaths plague the Shady Rest retirement home, it's up to an aging, cantankerous "Elvis" (Bruce Campbell) and a decrepit and black "JFK" (Ossie Davis) to defeat a 3,000-year-old-Egyptian mummy with a penchant for sucking human souls! Can the King show the world that he can still take care of business?
…Thank-you-very-much-uh-huh - A sweet special edition of Don Coscarelli’s brilliant cult film.
The Darkman Trilogy (2-disc Set): Universal
Peyton Westlake is a scientist who has discovered a way to produce synthetic skin. This could revolutionize skin grafting, except for one minor glitch; the synthetic skin degrades after 100 minutes of exposure to light. When gangsters attack Peyton, he is horrifically burnt, and assumed dead. In his quest for revenge, Peyton, aka the DARKMAN, is able to take on the appearance of anyone.
A three disc set of the DARKMAN films arrives from Universal…too bad the first flick is the only good one.
Dead Heist: UrbanWorks
Four petty crooks get a tip on a small-town bank job worth millions. Their plan is perfect and every detail is in place, but as the job unfolds, they discover that this little town is overrun with bloodsucking monsters. Trapped inside the bank, the robbers fight to stay alive against the onslaught of mutants hungry for human flesh.
Disturbia: Paramount (Tex’s Pick of the Week)
After his father’s accidental death, Kale remains withdrawn and troubled. When he lashes out at a well-intentioned but insensitive teacher, he finds himself under a court-ordered house arrest. His mother continues to cope, working extra shifts to support herself and her son, as she tries in vain to understand the changes in his personality. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale as he takes chances to extend the boundaries both physical and emotional – of his confinement. His interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home toward those of his neighbors, including a mutual attraction to the new girl next door. Together, they begin to suspect that another neighbor is a serial killer. Are their suspicions merely the product of Kale’s cabin fever and vivid imagination? Or have they unwittingly stumbled across a crime that could cost them their lives?
Sure it’s a teen version of REAR WINDOW but it’s still better than 95% of the other teen trash that packs the multiplexes every summer.
THE FLY I & II Collector Set (2-disc Set): Fox
Includes both FLY movies from the 1980s. In the first, from director David Cronenberg, brilliant scientist Seth Brundle experiments with teleportation and fuses his DNA with that of a housefly and finds himself gradually mutating into something new. In the sequel, Brundle's son Martin tries to find a way to cure himself of his faulty genetics, while a shadowy research agency manipulates his life.
Hands down the grossest transformation sequence ever….go Cronenberg!
The House on Dead End Lane (THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED 1 & 2): SRS Cinema
The old house on Wingate Road has had many tenants over the past hundred years... most of them still live there! Marty Beck, a down on his luck horror novelist, faces terror head on when he rents the house for inspiration to complete his latest lurid book. Hour by hour he is drawn into a nightmare world of ghosts, monsters and gouls. Death will be the only release from a mortgage on his soul as he learns the shocking truth of his final days!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (2-disc special edition): MGM/Fox
In this 1978 remake of the 1956 cult classic, terror slowly and silently strikes San Francisco as the city is mysteriously covered by alien spores that produce strangely beautiful flowers. Unbeknownst to the people, the flowers are the bearers of alien pods that make a spider-like webbing that captures their victims as they sleep and replicates their human form. Although they still look human, the victims are transformed into emotionless creatures by a strange race of aliens out to consume and control humanity--and only four people are left to stop them.
…A pretty superior remake of a film that has seen its fair share of copies. If you dig on this one, check out Abel Ferrara’s 1993 remake as well.
Killer, Killer: York
In the middle of nowhere, there lies a secure facility housing only serial killers. One morning the doors are open and the guards have vanished, but a strange freezing mist surrounds the building, preventing the inmates from leaving. Then, one by one, they are murdered. The survivors bicker, fight and blame each other, but the thing that's killing them looks suspiciously like a traditional 'victim'... A babysitter in a shower, a cheerleader, a camper...
Little Erin Merryweather: Indican
At an idyllic New England college, a red-caped serial killer mercilessly stabs her male victims. With police clueless, three student reporters use the help of a psychology professor to set them on a terrifying trail to the killer. Can they uncover the dark secret of this brutal Little Red Riding Hood before she kills again?
Mustang Sally’s House of Horror: MTI
This is the story of six college friends while planning on fulfilling their desires get a lot more than they bargained for. They decide to visit a “house of ill-repute” where they hear the girls are to die for! The Madam, Mustang Sally, introduces them to the girls of their dreams but some dreams are really nightmares - One by one, each of the guys is lured into a trap that has been unexpectedly prepared for them. Step inside... take a peek! Revenge, as they say, is sweet.
My Wife and My Dead Wife: York
A man in a miserable marriage finds solace in a 19th Century house, haunted by a ghost he sees as his Dead Wife , but is it all a dream or is he really at the brink of insanity?
Rose of Death: Brain Damage
On prom night ten years ago, a group of drunken friends go too far when trying to scare a couple of their fellow classmates. After accidentally killing one of them, they kill the other in order to cover up the crime and protect themselves. Now, ten years later, each member of the group is being picked off one by one by a ghostly killer.
Schizophreniac/Necromaniac: Brain Damage
Get ready for a rusty rollercoaster ride through the dank sewers of an insane man’s hell. Harry Russo, an aggravated writer, killer and drug addict, will stop at nothing to destroy those who stand between him and insanity. Driven by the demonic voices of his ventriloquist dummy, Rubberneck, Harry begins his killing spree. The pair will mutilate, screw, chop, snort and defecate on anything that moves!
Storm of the Dead: Brain Damage
When the Florida Panhandle is hit by a “Category 5” hurricane, the President of the United States has no choice but to reactivate the Florida Militia to restore order in the region. In their quest to restore stability to an unstable area, the Militia is ordered to ‘shoot looters'. When one of the looters tracked down and shot is the grandson of a Voodoo Queen, all hell breaks loose as he seeks revenge on the Militia.
Tales from the Darkside/Graveyard Shift/April Fools Day (3-Disc Set) Paramount
With eerie stories vaguely reminiscent of 'The Twilight Zone,' TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE viewers learn to appreciate that things are often not as they seem. The usual plot formula is comprised of an initial normal, mundane situation that gradually begins to get off-kilter, with suspense building up to the final, chilling, surprise conclusion. GRAVEYARD SHIFT is based on Stephen King's short story about a Maine textile mill, where it's workers come into contact with something far more gruesome than anyone might expect. In APRIL FOOLS DAY, a group of eight college friends gather together at an island mansion belonging to heiress Muffy St. John to celebrate their final year of school. They soon discover that each has a hidden secret from their past which is revealed, and soon after, they turn up dead. Yet, are they really dead? Or is it just part of some very real and cruel April Fool's jokes? The hostess, Muffy, is the only one who apparently knows what's going on. But then again, is it really her doing the killing?
If you don’t already own APRIL FOOLS DAY, then you need to get this film ASAP, think of DARKSIDE and GRAVEYARD SHIFT as bonus discs!
The Traveler: Brain Damage
Deep in the woods of Pennsylvania, a terrible evil is about to be unleashed. Seven people come to an old, ramshackle house with a violent past. Two arrive by accident and the rest are there for thrills. They will all come face to face with a force darker and more horrifying than their worst nightmares; a being of incredible power and malice known only as…The Traveler.
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