October 06, 2009 Releases
AUDITION: Shout Factory (Special Edition DVD & Blu-ray)
A middle-aged widower is urged by his teenage son & film producer friend to start dating again. They devise a plan to hold a phony film audition to meet new women. The widower falls for a beautiful ballerina with a suspicious past & their courtship veers from polite romance to psycho nightmare!
This DVD and Blu-ray issue of Takashi Miike's masterwork of the bizarre features 90-minutes of supplementary material plus audio commentary from legendary filmmaker. The film touts a new 1080P high-definition transfer from the internegative, with a new 5.0 digital stereo soundtrack mixed from the original audio elements.
BLEED WITH ME: R Squared Films
After a long night tending bar for a bunch of annoying drunks, Laura isn t really feeling up to a long bus-ride home. She hails a cab and settles into the back seat, relieved that her terrible night is over. She doesn't know it yet but her evening is about to get worse. A lot worse.
THE CHILDREN: Lionsgate
You brought them into the world. They will take you out. A family anticipates a Christmas filled with sledding, laughter and hot cocoa as they head to their vacation home in the secluded backcountry…The holiday cheer takes a fast turn for the worse after a mysterious flu-like virus sweeps through the kids. One by one the children become deadly. Amidst the suspicion, mayhem and murder, the parents fight for survival against their own twisted offspring.
CHILDREN OF THE CORN (2009): Anchor Bay
From Donald P. Borchers comes the resurrection of the most unholy shocker of all: It's 1975, and a young married couple - Vietnam vet Burt and preacher's daughter Vicki - are driving cross-country straight into the heartland of Hell. Here in Gatlin, Nebraska, the town's bloodthirsty children - led by the boy preacher Issac and his teen enforcer Malachai - have slaughtered all adults by command of He Who Walks Behind The Rows. Now two new Outlanders have arrived...and The Time of Sacrifice is at hand.
DARK COUNTRY: Sony
Two honeymooners rescue a mysterious car crash survivor in the Las Vegas desert. But their decision to save the man becomes increasingly regrettable when he turns on them, forcing the newlyweds to do the unthinkable. In a blur of paranormal chaos, the couple must take drastic measures to cover up their actions from the local police, ultimately leading each character to an inescapable fate.
A DEADLY LITTLE CHRISTMAS: Razor Digital
On a beautiful California Christmas Day, the Merriman family celebration is interrupted by massacre and eight-year old son Devin walks out of the house with a blood-covered knife. Now, 15 years after little Devin brutally murdered his father and the family housekeeper, he escapes the sanitarium where he has been locked away with only one thing on his mind-- another bloody Christmas! Produced by David Sterling for horror fans that long for the slasher films of the '80 such as Friday the 13th, Silent Night Deadly Night, Don't Open Till X-Mas, or Christmas Evil comes the scariest slasher film of all--Deadly Little Christmas!
THE DESCENDENT: Echo Bridge
As Ann Hedgerow - an indirect descendant of Edgar Allan Poe - begins to explore her family's past, she meets novelist Ethan Poe Ethan, also a distant descendant of Poe, is tormented by visions of his famous ancestor. When Ann and Ethan begin a romance, the dark - and deadly - secrets of Poe's legacy emerge...will Poe's stories inspire a real-life horror-tragedy?
FEEDING GROUNDS: Grizzly Peak Films
A young group of friends head out to a cabin in the desert. Something has landed in the desert and it needs to eat.
THE GATE: Lionsgate
After an old tree is removed from the ground, three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from the hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.
IT'S ALIVE (2008): First Look
When a young woman learns that she is pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the country. The fate of the happy new family takes a gruesome turn when animals and people end up brutally dead – all with a strange connection to their newborn. Could their new child be the monster responsible for the gruesome murders?
IT’S MY PARTY AND I'LL DIE IF I WANT TOO: Scotchworth Productions
Join Sara and her friends as they celebrate her 18th birthday in the notoriously haunted Burkitt Manor. The EVIL in the house is there and it has decided to bring along some uninvited guests.
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