July 29, 2008 Releases
ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR: S'more
Ever since suffering a traumatic incident as a child misfit Jakob Kelser has lived alone and shunned the world around him. But when a gang of teenage hoods makes him a target the years of Jakob's pent-up rage will be unleashed in bloody violence. Now no one in his neighborhood is safe from his unstoppable thirst for vengeance.
DARK CITY: Director's Cut: New Line
The critically-acclaimed triumph from visionary director Alex Proyas is back with a brand new directors cut featuring enhanced picture and sound never-before-seen footage and three commentary tracks that take you deeper than ever before into the world of one of sci-fi’s most exciting and revered tales. When John Murdoch wakes with no memory at the scene of a grisly murder he soon finds himself hunted by the police a woman claiming to be his wife and a mysterious group of pale men who seem to control everything and everyone in the city.
DARK SHADOWS: THE BEGINNING Collection 5 (4-disc set): MPI
With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue
DARK SHADOWS became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. INCLUDES: Episodes 144-178 which aired from January 12 1967 to March 1 1967.
DIMPLES: Laguna
Madeline Zima and Randy Spelling star in this horror feature about a young woman who impulsively drives her four friends to a secluded house. At the house they meet a young girl who lives with a character she refers to as "the doctor," and it's not long before the friends are fighting for their lives after a monster begins stalking them.
DOOMSDAY: Universal
From the director of
The Descent comes an action-packed thrill-ride through the beating heart of hell! To save humanity from an epidemic, an elite fighting unit must battle to find a cure in a post-apocalyptic zone controlled by a society of murderous renegades. Loaded with ferocious fights and high-octane chases, Doomsday grabs you right from the start, and doesn't let go till its explosive end!
THE EROTIC GROTESQUE COLLECTION – ANGEL GUTS:
RED CLASSROOM, MALICE@DOLL, LOVE ZERO=INFINITY (3-disc): Artsmagic
The Japanese have been fascinated by the artistic combination of the erotic with the grotesque since the days of ukiyoe prints and before. An essential part of the Japanese sensibility that has often been ignored Artsmagic now presents three classic examples of this genre one coming from the renowned Roman-pornu library of Nikkatsu and one from the bleak underground film maker Hisayasu Sato together with an amazing CGI animation scripted by Chiaki Konaka.
HAIR EXTENSIONS: EXTE: Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters
Customs agents discover a huge amount of human hair along with the bald corpse of a young girl. This arouses the curiosity of Yamazaki a mortuary employee with a hair fetish particularly since the girl's hair continues to grow. Now a mad hair-peddler with an endless stock of locks Yamazaki hocks his wares to salons to be used for hair extensions. Meanwhile Yuko an up-and-coming hair stylist is entrusted with the care of her timid and frightened niece Mami whose body bares the signs of abuse. It's not long before death surrounds them and their extension-wearing clientele. The hair it seems has a life of its own with lethal vengeful intentions. And Yuko and Mami must untangle the mystery before more deaths occur.
LIPS OF BLOOD (special edition): Redemption USA
LIPS OF BLOOD is one of director Jean Rollin’s more acclaimed and sought after vampire films. In this delirious art-horror film Rollin successfully mixes elements of fairy-tale surrealism with unabashed exploitation images of naked female vampires. The film tells the story of a man haunted by visions of predatory vampyric women who he finds he has a strange connection too. Rollin s ambitious film has become a cult classic due to is macabre gothic settings and beautiful poetic imagery.
LOST BOYS: THE TRIBE: Warner Bros
This sequel takes us to the shady surf city of Luna Bay, California, where vampires quickly dispatch anyone who crosses their path. Into this dark world arrive Chris Emerson and his younger sister, Nicole. Having just lost their parents in a car accident, the siblings move in with their eccentric Aunt Jillian and become new prey for the locals’ way of life. When Nicole unwittingly falls for a local vampire, Chris must locate and destroy the gang’s lifeline before his sister’s transformation is complete; to do this Chris finds himself relying on the expertise of none other than Edgar Frog.
MADAME O: Synapse
At the tender age of sixteen Seiko was sexually abused by three men. This horrifying attack scarred her mentally and resulted in her getting pregnant and infected with syphilis. Now a well-respected doctor in Japan she practices medicine by day and prowls the city streets at night in search of lovers. Possessing a raging desire for revenge against man she destroys them with the one weapon they cannot resist...sex! Finally marrying and settling down Saeko’s life changes for the better. But her new husband may have a dark secret of his own
MADAME O is a classic and controversial tale of revenge from late 1960s Japan.
MASTERS OF HORROR Season Two (11 Discs): Anchor Bay
They are obsessed by the dark. They share an obsession for terror. Now the anthology series that challenged the very limits of cable television delivers a second season of mind-altering fear from 13 visionary directors. Each episode is presented uncut, uncensored and loaded with the award-winning Bonus Features that carved an all-new standard in genre DVDs. They are 13 stunning discs from the foremost filmmakers of fright, entombed in a single Collectors Edition like no other. Feel the evil. Taste the dread. They are the Masters of Horror.
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