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October 30, 2007 releases (Halloween Special)


The Abortion: Pathfinder

Eda's doctor warns her against an abortion, since she is over three months pregnant. She decides to have one anyway. Months later, Eda discovers that she is being haunted by her unborn daughter. The ghost desires motherly affection and will not go away until she gets it! Everywhere Eda goes, she sees her little girl. It drives her mad. Her life falls apart. Her friends think it's psychological, but Eda is convinced the ghost is real. It is not long before Eda lands in a mental hospital. The perfect place for the little girl to haunt her more frequently.


Amicus Collection (ASYLUM, AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS, THE BEAST MUST DIE): Dark Sky

ASYLUM: When Dr. Martin arrives at the Dunsmoor Asylum for the incurably insane, he expects to be interviewed by asylum director Dr. Starr. Instead he is met by Dr. Rutherford, who explains that Dr. Starr had suffered a mental breakdown and now is one of the patients. Dr. Rutherford decides that if Martin can deduce which one is really Dr. Starr, then he will be given the position. Is it Bonnie whose affair with a married man turns murderous? Is it Bruno, a hardluck tailor visited by a mysterious stranger with a blueprint and very special fabric for an unusual suit? Is it Barbara, accused of murdering her brother and her nurse but insisting that her friend Lucy was responsible; Or is it Dr. Byron.

AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS: Set in 1795 England, And Now the Screaming Starts! tells the tale of blissful newlyweds Catherine and Charles Fengriffen who move into his ancestral family mansion. On their wedding night, Catherine is raped by a malevolent spirit. She is further plagued by a series of haunting visions involving an eyeless woodsman and a murderous disembodied hand. Can a savage act of depravity and violence committed by one of Charles’ ancestors be to blame? Charles fears that his bride is going insane and calls for Doctor Whittle. Unable to help Catherine overcome her visions, Dr. Whittle calls for assistance from a fellow practitioner, Dr. Pope, who uses reason and logic to combat what he assumes is a mental disorder. In time, Dr. Pope finds himself fighting a losing battle against the forces of the supernatural carrying out a bloody family curse.

THE BEAST MUST DIE: Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf. Tom invites five to his island knowing they all are tied one way or another to unusual circumstances of death… and that one of them is a werewolf.


Angel: Complete Series Collector's Set: Fox

All 5-Seasons of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off are presented on this monster 30-disc box set!


Bacterium: Shock-O-Rama/POPcinema

When a handful of friends stumble upon the abandoned building, they come face to face with a biological weapons experiment gone catastrophically wrong. They also confront a maniacal scientist who predicts life on Earth will end in 48 hours if the accelerated bacterial mutation cannot be halted. As the virulent, flesh-hungry contagion spreads from person to person – rendering each host into a pile of infectious ooze – it begins to multiply and increase in size. A covert military force sent in to contain the spread and destroy the organism discovers the extent of the slithering mutation, but by then it's far too late for conventional tactics. Extreme measures are required…if anyone is left standing in one solid piece to do battle.


Basket Case 2: Synapse

Duane Bradley and his surgically-separated brother Belial return in this frightfully gory follow-up to Frank Henenlotter s original monster movie classic, BASKET CASE. After surviving a fall from a hospital window, the two brothers become a target of the media. Duane s aunt, Granny Ruth (played by world-renowned jazz singer Annie Ross), whisks the duo away to a secluded mansion where other freaks-in-hiding live out their days away from public scrutiny. But when a snooping tabloid reporter finds the location of the mutants, Duane his new family must stand together to keep their freedom a secret... and, in all the chaos, Belial might actually find... true love!


Black Night: Cult Epics

Oscar, a conservator at the Natural Sciences Museum, passes the days exercising his passion for studying insects; if only there still were days. As long as people can remember, the sun only releases a few pathetic rays for fifteen seconds before noon. The rest of the time, the world is plunged into a night without end, a permanent eclipse. Coming home after work, Oscar finds an African woman in his bed. Suffering from a mysterious and incurable disease, she seems to have come to his place to die. Trapped between desire and repulsion, Oscar gradually abandons his life to terrifying phantoms.


A Blade in the Dark: Blue Underground

Bruno is hired to compose the music for a new horror movie and rents an isolated villa to concentrate on his work. But when several beautiful young women are brutally murdered within the house, Bruno becomes obsessed with solving the savage crimes. Is a clue to the killer's identity hidden within the film itself, or is there a more horrifying secret lurking deep in the dark?


The Blood Shed: Heretic

MEET THE BULLIONS…your average, inbred, cannibal family living in the deep woods behind your own back yard! Murder, mayhem and deviant behavior ensue under “house rules” with the notorious “Bullion” clan in this new film by horror maven Alan Rowe Kelly.


Captivity (Unrated): Lionsgate

Top cover girl and fashion model Jennifer Tree has it all - beauty, fame, money and power. Everyone wants her...but some more than others. Alone after a charity event, she is drugged and taken.


The Church: Blue Underground

An old Gothic cathedral, built over a mass grave, develops strange powers which trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon from the bowels of the Earth.

Michele Sovai and Dario Argento’s continuation of the DEMONS films comes back to DVD again this week.


Dark Shadows: The Beginning, Collection 2 (4-disc set): MPI

Collinwood's surly caretaker Mathew Morgan informs Victoria Winters that he believes the ghost of Josette Collins and other spirits inhabit the estate. In an attempt to settle the controversy surrounding the manslaughter case that sent Burke Devlin to prison, Collins Fishing Fleet Manager Bill Malloy sets up a private meeting for himself, Roger Collins, Same Evans and Burke. Elizabeth Collins Stoddard confides to Victoria some of the legends involving Collinwood and Widow s Hill. Carolyn Stoddard and Victoria spot a body floating at the bottom of the cliff and Victoria soon experiences a strange premonition. After Malloy mysteriously disappears, Roger nervously bribes Sam to leave town.


Darkness Surrounds Roberta: Cinema Image

A beautiful, but deeply troubled ex-painter named Roberta fills her days with erotic games and guiltless theft until one dark night when she is kidnapped. It seems a deranged art fan has an offer Roberta can't refuse and before long the beautiful ladies of Florence are slashed, sliced and diced all as part of a frightening plan.


Day Watch: Fox

Only one thing stands between peace and Armageddon: the supernatural agents of Day Watch, who fight to control the armies of light and darkness. When the son of a senior Day Watch officer turns to the darkness, forces beyond the imagination are unleashed and the fate of the world hangs in the balance!


Day Watch/Night Watch: Two-Pack: Fox

Double up on Director Timur Bekmambetov’s first two parts of author Sergei Lukyanenko vampire trilogy.


Five Bloody Graves/Nurse Sherri: Retro Shock-O-Rama/POPcinema

A twin bill of 1970s cult classic exploitation from the legendary ‘B’ movie team of Al Adamson and Sam Sherman. In FIVE BLOODY GRAVES, a renegade tribe of monstrous, murdering, bloodthirsty Indians is on the war path and every settler will pay with his or her scalp. The lone man who can stop them is Ben Thompson, who seeks vengeance on the evil Apache chief who butchered his wife on their wedding day. In NURSE SHERRI, the demonic spirit of an evil necromancer invades the body of sexy nurse Sherri, transforming her into a maniacal killing machine.


Frankenstein (1973) : Dark Sky

Fiercely devoted to the theories of extending and creating human life, scientist Victor Frankenstein and his assistants have secretly assembled an artificial man with human parts stolen from graves. Once he is brought to life, the enormous creature exhibits a child-like innocence. Unaware of his superhuman strength and frightful appearance, the Giant becomes hostile and demands that Victor create him a mate.


Hell of the Living Dead: Blue Underground

An accident at a chemical plant unleashes a horrific virus, and an elite SWAT team is sent to New Guinea to investigate. But when they arrive on the hellish island, they discover a plague of flesh-eating zombies as well as a beautiful female reporter who practices nude anthropology. Can the commandos survive this cannibal rampage, uncover a shocking government secret, and still find time for the occasional cross-dressing before the ravenous hordes of the living dead infect the entire world?


House of the Invisibles: Tai Seng

In this creepy "haunted house" tale, tenants of an old building slated for demolition find themselves in grave danger, after one of them broke an unspoken vow and unwittingly evoked the spirit of a dead tenant.


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