Horror in your House
September 25, 2007
By: Tex Massacre
ALONE IN THE DARK Director's Cut: Lionsgate
Edward Carnby (Christian Slater) is a private investigator specializing in unexplainable supernatural phenomena. His cases delve into the dark corners of the world, searching for truth in the occult remnants of ancient civilizations. Now, the greatest mystery of his past is about to become the most dangerous case he has ever faced. With the help of his ex-girlfriend, archaeologist Aline Cedrac (Tara Reid), and his bitter rival, government agent Richard Burke (Stephen Dorff), Edward is about to learn that just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it cannot kill you!
BLACK ROSES: Synapse
The sleepy little town of Mill Basin is about to get more than it bargained for. The satanic heavy metal rock band "Black Roses" is coming through to raise hell... literally! After making a deal with the Devil himself, the band s music demonically possesses the kids in the audience, turning them into blood-thirsty demons. The blood flows as they start killing their parents and causing chaos at their local high school. Culminating in a fiery battle between man and ultimate evil.
BROKEN: Dimension Extreme/Genius
Hope and her young daughter are abducted and brought to a remote forest by a mysterious and nameless man. As Hope is forced to undergo a series of humiliating, violent, and degrading trials, she fights desperately to escape and discover the fate of her missing daughter.
BUG: Lionsgate (TEX’S PICK OF THE WEEK)
Having escaped her abusive ex-husband Goss, recently released from state prison, Agnes, a lonely waitress with a tragic past moves into a sleazy, run-down motel and her lesbian co-worker R.C introduces her to Gulf War veteran Peter, a peculiar, paranoiac drifter and they begin a tentative romance. However, things don't always seem as they appear and Agnes is about to experience a claustrophobic nightmare reality as the bugs begin to arrive.
CAT O'NINE TAILS: Blue Underground
When a simple robbery at a research institute leads to a series of brutal murders, a blind puzzle maker and a tenacious reporter begin their own investigation of the crimes. With nine different clues to follow, they uncover a shocking web of twisted genetics and dark sexual secrets that will finally lead them to a shattering climax of violence and suspense.
COUNT DRACULA: BBC/Warner
For those familiar with Bram Stoker's novel, this adaptation follows the book quite closely in most respects. Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. After Dracula makes his way to England, Harker becomes involved in an effort to track down and destroy the Count, eventually chasing the vampire back to his castle.
CREATURES FROM THE PINK LAGOON: Ariztical
An irreverent mash-up of gay male melodrama and "B" movie madness, Chris Diani's Creatures from the Pink Lagoon imagines what would happen if The Boys in the Band partied on the Night of the Living Dead. With its randy rest stops, monster mosquitoes, deranged dance numbers and campy cannibals, Creatures from the Pink Lagoon plays like an Ed Wood fever dream in a John Waters universe! Filled with quotable quips and crazy characters, this droll zombie movie threatens to become the first cult classic of the new millennium. Pink is the new black!
CUJO: Lionsgate
In rural Maine, Vic and Donna Trenton struggle to repair their crumbling marriage, while their young son Tad befriends a hulking, lovable, 200-pound St. Bernard named Cujo. With Vic away on business, Donna and Tad take their decrepit car to be fixed at the remote farm of their mechanic As their aging Pinto sputters to a stop and dies, Cujo appears. But the once docile dog has undergone a hideous transformation - and becomes a slavering, demonic, killer possessed by almost supernatural strength...and unholy cunning.
CURSE OF ALCATRAZ: Lionsgate
A curse borne of torture and isolation comes to life and terrorizes a group of scientists who travel to the Alcatraz Prison to investigate a series of unsolved murders. The very last film ever to be shot on The Rock, prepare to experience the terror yourself inside the prison's haunted and deadly walls!
DEAD BOYZ DON'T SCREAM: Sharpie Films
The country's top male models are turning up naked and dead during a cowboy mountain photo shoot. Who would want to off such flawless, muscular pretty boys? They're a little self-involved and clueless, but that's no reason to take an ax to them.
DEADLY FRIEND: Warner
A terrifying tale about a lonely teenage genius whose overwhelming love for a young girl compels him to use all of his scientific knowledge to keep her with him.
DEMONS: Anchor Bay
A group of people are trapped in a large West Berlin movie theater infected by ravenous demons whom proceed to kill and posses the humans one-by-one thereby multiplying their numbers.
DEMONS 2: Anchor Bay
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
DR. GIGGLES: Warner
When the psychopathic son of a mass-murdering doctor escapes from a mental institution, he seeks revenge on the citizens of the town where his father was finally captured. The giggling new "doctor" uses the surgical skills he picked up from his father and a near-lifetime spent in and around medical facilities to gruesomely do away with his victims while he awaits the chance to perform his ultimate revenge -- giving one of the townsfolk a heart transplant, without anesthesia!
EATEN ALIVE: Dark Sky
The Starlight, a decrepit hotel run by Judd, receives few customers. Perhaps it’s the remote location in the Texas bayous. Perhaps it’s the owner's violent mood swings. Or perhaps it’s the man-eating crocodile in the backyard. But one dark steamy night finds the Starlight visited by a runaway prostitute, a young couple and their child, a dying father and his daughter, and sex-obsessed Buck, all of whom will experience an unforgettable night of terror at the hands of Judd and his pet croc.
ELVIRA'S MOVIE MACABRE: BLUE SUNSHINE/MONSTROID: Shout! Factory
BLUE SUNSHINE; After a batch of LSD turns his friend into a psychotic killer, Jerry must find the dealer responsible, before he’s wrongfully convicted of the murders. MONSTROID: A small village is attacked by a creature from a nearby lake, and a corrupt chemical company sends a specialist to destroy the beast and cover up its own responsibility.
ELVIRA'S MOVIE MACABRE: GAMERA, SUPER MONSTER/THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE: Shout! Factory
GAMERA. SUPER MONSTER: The evil alien Zanon is back, and Gamera and the Space women are the world’s only hope against total enslavement. THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE: A meteor shower infects towns people with the "Crimson Plague." Can Dr. Temple rid the Earth of its unwelcome visitors?
ELVIRA'S MOVIE MACABRE: MANEATERS OF HYDRA/THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED: Shout! Factory
MANEATER OF HYDRA: A group of tourists spends a weekend on a lush island occupied by a demented botanist. Little do they know that carnivorous plants are the welcoming committee! THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED: Students keep disappearing from a French boarding school for troubled girls. Are they running away or are they being kidnapped?
EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2: Other Cinema/Facets
This much anticipated follow-up to the first EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR is a frightful collection of rare horror shows. These low-budget grainy ghoulish classics are perfect for a night of screams. What could be more perfect for Halloween or any other time of year than to enjoy a good scare?
EYES OF A STRANGER: Warner
A reporter protects her disabled sister from a psychopathic killer.
THE FERRYMAN: First Look
Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht. The Greek has been cheating death for countless years—trading broken bodies for new ones over centuries. With him he carries a deadly weapon that allows him to do this. This weapon, the Shifting Blade, gives its possessor an awesome power. But now is the time of reckoning. The Ferryman, the ancient conveyor of death and the path to the afterlife is close and he wants the Greek. There is a payment to be made.
FRACTURED: York Home Video
Val, who has just escaped from a mental institution, awakens in a bathtub full of blood and ice to find that a prostitute has stolen his kidney. A drug-hazed pursuit ensues as he wanders through the realms of sanity, determined to find his kidney before it s sold on the black market. When he finally encounters the prostitute she seduces him and he reluctantly joins her in a hallucinatory journey from the inner-city streets to the countryside to the depths of despair.. and murder.
FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE: Warner
Anthology film from Amicus adapted from four short stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes strung together about an antique dealer (Peter Cushing) who owns a shop called Temptations Ltd. and the fate that befalls his customers who try to cheat him. Stories include "The Gate Crasher" with David Warner who frees an evil enity from an antique mirror, "An Act of Kindness" featuring Donald Pleasence, "The Elemental", and "The Door".
FROSTBITTEN: Genius
Annika, a medical doctor and her 17-year old daughter Saga have just moved to a small cold town far up north, as Annika is going to work at the hospital there. At her new school Saga meets a bizarre Goth-girl named Vega who knows more about this sleepy town that she lets on. Fear strikes, and daylight is a lifetime away.
THE HAND: Warner
A successful cartoonist loses his hand in a car wreck, and the hand eventually comes back on a murderous rampage.
HURT: Redemption USA
A savage and disquieting tale of a serial killer who sees his dedication to inflicting pain and suffering as akin to art and like all artists he wants and craves recognition. When a reporter meets him a strange relationship develops which sees the 'artist' captivating and growing in stature as he begins to justify murder as art.
IN THE DARK: Sovereign
For five years a hidden crime festered as a deep, dark secret among friends. One Halloween the secret got out. Here is the actual footage of that horrific night when the group returned to the scene of the crime and came face-to-face with their wicked past.
THE IRON ROSE: Redemption USA
THE IRON ROSE is one of Jean Rollin's rarest and most poetic titles and centers on a pair of young lovers who, after a romantic day out together, end up fooling around in an old and highly gothic cemetery. They explore ancient crypts and make love amongst the graves before they accidentally get locked in for the night, from here on their romantic frolic turns into a dark and surreal nightmare.
KISS DADDY GOODBYE: SRS Cinema
Teen-aged twins resurrect their dead father to exact revenge on the biker gang who killed him
THE LAST COFFIN: Laguna
A young girl is abused by her parents. Years later she cannot get over the trauma, causing her to become a disturbing serial killer out for revenge.
THE LIVING HEAD: CasaNegra
A terrifying, adventure-filled shocker straight from the Aztec ruins of Mexico. A group of archaeologists uncover the tomb of an ancient Aztec Indian warlord Acatl, awakening the dead warrior’s head and sending his undead servant out to take revenge on them. Will the curse of The Living Head be broken or will all those who crossed the ancient path of Acatl perish?
MALABIMBA: Severin
A teenage temptress plunges her entire family - including her widowed father, wanton aunt, invalid uncle and even a beloved nun - into the depths of sexual depravity. Is she possessed by demonic lust or just going through a really freaky puberty?
NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2: Lionsgate
The teenagers from St. Rita's Academy think it would be killer to party at a haunted house - and they're right! Bad girl Shirley and her boyfriend have some special party games planned, but when Angela, the Hostess from Hell, unleashes her own brand of trick-or-treat, teen lust quickly turns to sheer terror. When the kids escape to a church dance, they think they've got it made, but the real battle is just beginning.
OPERA: Blue Underground
When a young opera singer takes over the leading role in an avant-garde presentation of Verdi's Macbeth, she triggers the madness of a crazed fan who repeatedly forces the diva to watch the brutal murders of her friends. Will the woman's recurring nightmare hold the key to the identity of this psychopath or does an even more horrific evil lay waiting in the wings?
PLANET OF DINOSAURS: Retromedia/Infinity
Handcrafted in the tradition of Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen, PLANET OF THE DINOSAURS exhibits a plethora of prehistoric beasties on a far-off planet where space travelers battle for their very existence.
REEKER: Paramount
When a desolate highway is inextricably closed, five students—sharing a ride to a party in the desert—find themselves trapped in a deserted travel oasis. The students are determined to have a good time but their fun is interrupted with horrifying visions of mutilated travelers. They discover that the oasis is something of a conduit between the living and the dead. Led by a blind grad student with heightened senses, they must survive the night and confront what appears to be a terrifying abyss between the living and the dead.
SATAN'S BABY DOLL: Severin
A tasty teen becomes possessed by the kinky spirit of her murdered mother and triggers a family frenzy of sexual corruption. Deep within the dungeon of the depraved, who will surrender to the ultimate acts of perversion? Beware the promise of profane seduction. Behold the unspeakable hungers of SATAN'S BABY DOLL!
SOMEONE'S WATCHING ME! : Warner
A woman is slowly stalked to the brink of madness by a man watching her from the opposite tower block. Her attempts to get the police to take her seriously leave her with no option but to track him down herself.
SPIDER BABY: Dark Sky
The Merrye children live in an old family mansion, and though under the cautious guardianship of chauffeur Bruno, they manage to terrorize anyone or anything which passes through the gates. So when the family is visited by a pair of distant relatives and their greedy lawyer, a wild night of murderous thrills ensues.
THE STENDHAL SYNDROME: Blue Underground
When beautiful police detective Anna Manni follows the bloody trail of a sophisticated serial murderer/rapist through the streets of Italy, the young woman falls victim to the bizarre "Stendhal Syndrome" - a hallucinatory phenomenon which causes her to lose her mind and memory in the presence of powerful works of art. Trapped in this twilight realm, Anna plunges deeper and deeper into sexual psychosis, until she comes to know the killer's madness more intimately than she ever imagined.
STUPID TEENAGERS MUST DIE! : Vanguard
It’s the 1980’s and a group of teenagers are getting together to hold an séance in a haunted house. All the typical 80’s horror movie characters are there: The Cool Hero, The Innocent Girlfriend, The Goth Chick, The Tough Guy, The Beautiful Blonde, The Shy Guy in love with the Beautiful Blonde, a couple of Lipstick Lesbians and Two Big Geeks! In a true low budget 80’s horror movie fashion, weird things start happening around the house. One dimensional characters are dying preposterously bloody deaths, girls are getting naked for no apparent reason and people walk into dangerous, pitch black rooms saying classic lines like, “Is someone in here?” As the poor, hapless kids are sliced and diced, it’s up to our hero to lead the remaining survivors to safety before the house is filled with stupid dead teenagers.
SUSPIRIA: Blue Underground
A young American ballet dancer arrives at a prestigious European dance academy run by the mysterious Madame Blanc and Miss Tanner. But when a series of bizarre incidents and horrific crimes turn the school into a waking nightmare of the damned, Suzy must escape the academy's unspeakable secret of supernatural evil.
THREE ON A MEATHOOK: Televista
THREE ON A MEATHOOK is an exciting horror movie extensively based on the gruesome deeds of real-life killer Ed Gein. Four girls on their way home from a weekend at the lake find themselves stranded when their car stalls. A nice local boy offers them accommodations at the farm house he shares with his father.
THRILLED BY DEATH: Televista
Cliff Baxter has found the perfect setting for murder. A marginally successful writer of a paperback detective series, Cliff is using an adult club for swingers as a backdrop for his questionable characters to commit their lurid crimes. While reluctantly researching the seedy swing scene, he and his cosmopolitan wife Elaine meet Daryll and Nancy; an outgoing, unusually charming couple who make a point of winning their easy confidence and becoming their fast friends. But maybe too fast. For Cliff and Elaine are unknowingly being conned by professionals. And like characters from one of Cliffs cheap novelettes, they are being framed for a sinister, elaborate crime
WINGRAVE: Fat Cat/Tempe
The dead never rest, as young parapsychologist Henry Wingrave knows too well. As he struggles with the decision of holding a forbidden form of a séance, he thinks back on three of his most challenging and life altering experiences of dealing with the restless dead. But in dealing with haunted minds for too long, Wingrave eventually becomes haunted himself, by the ghost of loss.
WORLD OF VAMPIRES: CasaNegra
Wonderfully atmospheric and gothically charged, WORLD OF VAMPIRES is a subterranean world dripping in unbridled evil. As the dreaded vampire, Count Subotai, plays his pipe organ of human bones, summoning an army of the undead, a band of intrepid adventures must confront the Count and his terrifying minions.
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