April 15, 2008 Releases
ALIENS VS. PREDATOR—REQUIEM: Fox
On Earth everyone can hear you scream, especially when a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters-and producing countless Alien offspring-with terrifying efficiency. When a lone Predator arrives to "clean up" the infestation, it's an all-out battle to the death with no rules, no mercy, and hundreds of innocent people caught in the crossfire. As the creature carnage continues, a handful of human survivors attempt a daring escape, but the U.S. government may be hatching a deadly plan of its own...
ATTITUDE FOR DESTRUCTION: Cleopatra
In the tradition of
ROCK AND ROLL NIGHTMARE MONSTER DOGS and
KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM comes the rock horror film
ATTITUDE FOR DESTRUCTION an epic tale of Sunset Strip-era metal murder and mayhem that critics are calling "Freddy Krueger with a Stratocaster...a REAL appetite for destruction!" The GUNS N' ROSES-esque band HOLLYWOOD ROSES fronted by vocalist DRAKE is on the verge of superstardom courting a major record deal with Diamond Star Records. One small problem - the label doesn't want Drake in the band. So the remaining band members do what any fame-hungry performer would do - they kill Drake. But Drake's girlfriend has made a pact with the devil and brings her deceased lover back from the dead. Drake then goes on a slashing spree of blood and guts against all who have crossed him leaving behind a horrific trail of gruesome gory revenge.
THE BACKWOODS: Lionsgate
Two couples decide to spend the summer in a remote vacation house in the north of Spain. Their tranquil summer turns to horror while the men are in the forest hunting and come across an abandoned house with a young girl with horribly deformed hands. Filthy and unable to speak, the terrified girl is chained inside. The men decide to take her to the police to get her help, but the local villagers come looking for her, armed with shotguns.
THE CURSE OF LIZZIE BORDEN II: PROM NIGHT: Razor Digital Entertainment
Five years ago, Cassie Daniels, thinking herself to be Lizzie Borden, savagely murdered six innocent people. Since that time, Cassie has been locked away in a sanitarium where, every night, she is plagued by blood drenched nightmares and haunted by the ghosts of her victims. During a therapy session, Cassie slips back into her Lizzie Borden persona and brutally murders her doctor - setting off a chain-reaction of violence and bloodshed.
FREAKS AND DEVIANTS (6-disc set): Fat Cat/Tempe
Fat Cat DVD presents a 6-disc set of weird, offbeat fun including 7 movies for one mind-shattering low price:
THE RED SKULLS, FILTHY McNASTIEST, FILTHY McNASTIER, THE FERAL MAN, BENT VOLUME TWO, MIDNIGHT SKATER and
DEAD & ROTTING.
INSIDE: Dimension Extreme/Genius
Get ready for the most gruesome, terrifying, and disturbing film you've ever seen. Four months after pregnant Sara loses her husband in a horrific auto accident, she is visited on Christmas Eve by a mysterious madwoman. Alone and desperate to save her unborn child, Sara fights to stay alive as each of her potential rescuers die at the woman's sadistic hands. With scene after scene of shocking carnage and escalating mayhem, INSIDE delivers unbelievably realistic gore that dares you not to look away.
KINKY KILLERS (a.k.a.
POLYCARP): Vivendi Visual
Patients of sexy psychiatrist Dr. Jill Kessey and eccentric attorney Alexander Hathaway are being murdered in bloody, satanic rituals. Law enforcement investigations reveal that sex and mutilation are the signatures of a serial killer, who likes to tattoo each of the victims after they are murdered. Lead detective Barry Harper discovers that some beautiful professional women are the prey...or are they doing the preying?
LOCH NESS TERROR: Sony Pictures
From deep uncharted waters and through cavernous subterranean tunnels emerges into Lake Superior an unknown and menacing species. The gruesome bloodshed to follow doesn't stop at Nessie; she's brought her vicious offspring to help terrorize the innocent townspeople living around the lake. No man on land or water has a chance against this forty-foot bloodthirsty reptile and her spawn - No man except the only one who has ever survived Nessie's wrath. Driven by a deep-seated vengeance, James Murphy hunts down this terrible species with skillful force. Will Murphy save the locals of Lake Superior or end up as one of Nessie's countless casualties?
MALEFIQUE: Deimos/BCI Eclipse
A prison cell. Four prisoners - Carrere, a young company director accused of fraud, 35 year old transsexual in the process of his transformation, Daisy, a 20 year-old mentally challenged idiot savant and Lassalle, a 60 year-old intellectual who murdered his wife. Behind a stone slab in the cell, mysteriously pulled loose, they discovered a book: the diary of a prisoner, Danvers, who occupied the cell at the beginning of the century. The diary contains magic formulas that supposedly enable prisoners to escape…. But since the discovery of the book, strange and troubling phenomena multiply in the prison cell.
THE MINUS MAN: Lionsgate
Vann Siegert is a serial killer who believes he is helping his deeply depressed victims. As he travels up the West Coast, he chooses his victims from a long line of pathetic social misfits, including a haggard junkie and a bickering unhappily married couple. He is steered off his course, when he falls for a postal co-worker but even love can’t distract Vann from his crusade to terminate people’s unhappiness.
QUEEN COBRA: Razor Digital Entertainment
When a deranged college professor meets an over-eager student, terror strikes the science department! Taking advantage of the unsuspecting girl's enthusiasm, the professor runs experiments of a venomous nature. Almost immediately, vicious murders take place around campus at a biting pace! Suddenly, the professor’s creature can no longer be controlled and has an appetite of its own. Revenge against the man who has stolen her humanity is on the menu! How many innocent students will pave the way filling her taste for wrath!
RETRIBUTION: Lionsgate
Detective Yoshioka is investigating the drowning death of a young woman in a red dress. Lying face down in a muddy puddle, her stomach is found to be full of sea water. As the investigation progresses, clues begin to appear that point to him being the murderer – as his fingerprints are found on the body and some of his personal items are found at the murder scene. As more bodies turn up, killed in the same way, even he begins to wonder whether he may be the very murderer that he is pursuing.
SPELLS & SLASHERS (6 disc set): Fat Cat/Tempe
Fat Cat DVD presents a 6-disc set of supernatural, murderous fun including 7 movies for one bone-shattering low price:
WINGRAVE, BONESETTER RETURNS, FINAL CURTAIN, CARNAGE FOR THE DESTROYER, SATANIC YUPPIES, THE BONESETTER and
DEMON SUMMER.
THINGS: Razor Digital Entertainment
In the tradition of Tales from the Darkside and Creepshow comes Things, a horror anthology about the evil created by men. Presenting three weirdly intertwined stories, things begin with the tale of a woman out to get revenge on her husband’s mistress. Then in the second story, an evil mining-town mayor holds its citizens in a grip of fear using a terrifying creature he has found in the mines. Finally in the third story, a young housewife attempts to escape her husband's brutality only to find herself betrayed from all sides, and her revenge must come through the creature from beyond the grave.