Upcoming DVD releases

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June 10, 2008 Releases


BIZARRE AND DEADLY PERVERSIONS (CHINA WHITE SERPENTINE, BIZARRE LUST OF A SEXUAL DEVIANT): SRS Cinema

CHINA WHITE SERPENTINE - Struggling writer Dave Croninch is investigating the mysterious death of his younger brother Trent. Trent was enticed by dark forces and entrapped in a lair of sin. Trent was under the control of Tracey, a drug-dealing seductress who had spun this web of wrongdoing. Theirs was a world of erotic indulgence, frequent drug use, and dangerous mind games. This was Tracey’s world, and it eventually killed Trent. Another junkie named Beth, who was also seduced and killed by Tracey, appears to Dave. Beth begins to pull Dave into the nightmare that killed his brother Trent. Dave’s sanity spirals out of control as he is assaulted by realizations of Trent’s dark past. The prick of needles, the pain of violence, the pleasures of naked flesh. This tempest of desire and agony engulfs Dave. It is his task to unlock the dark, seedy mysteries of Trent’s murky past while surviving the journey himself.

BIZARRE LUST OF A SEXUAL DEVIANT - Extended Director's Version! A prowler is on the loose in the city. He stalks women, chloroforms them, and then molests their unconscious naked bodies. Only Angie knows the secrets behind the masked intruder. But she has some secrets of her own that could end this terror. Can Angie stop this deviant from attacking more women? Or will Angie herself become this madman's next slumbering victim? A throwback to 70's sleaze/exploitation!


BLACK WINE: Indican

What makes us snap? Find out what happens in this noir thriller that blends classic Hitchcock with modern chills! Under the spell of the City lights, young lovers Trevor and Ashley have just become engaged - But their lovely moment turns into a dreadful nightmare as they are assaulted. The unlucky couple turns the tables on their assailant leading them down a dark and twisted path, where the hunted become the hunters, friends become enemies and your lover may kill you. Now the hunt is on - pitting them against each other and driving them to the point of no return....


CURSE OF THE DEVIL: Deimos/BCI



Legendary Spanish horror star Paul Naschy returns as Waldemar Daninsky marked for all eternity with the ancestral curse of the werewolf. But when Daninsky s arrogance triggers the wrath of a satanic coven they summon a nightmare of homicidal madmen and lusty maidens to plague the tormented nobleman. As the full moon rises and the horror takes hold is the rage of the werewolf any match for the damnations of the devil himself?


EROTIC HORROR DOUBLE FEATURE (EROTIC RITES OF COUNTESS DRACULA, MUMMY'S KISS): Secret Key/POPcinema



EROTIC RITES OF COUNTESS DRACULA: Scarlet Brooks’ big break as a rock star is cut short in 1966 when bitten by Count Dracula. It is now thirty-five years later. Weary of her vampire existence, Scarlet orders her servant Renfield to drive a stake through her heart. Unable to destroy this gorgeous creature of the night, Renfield discovers a tempting solution: get three beautiful young virgins to willingly sacrifice their bodies and blood in a single night, and a vampire can become human again.

MUMMY’S KISS: 3,000 years ago, an Egyptian sorceress named Hor-Shep-Sut was buried alive for indulging forbidden pleasures of the flesh…with the Pharaoh’s beautiful daughter! Now Hor-Shep-Sut’s recently excavated mummy has arrived in modern-day Los Angeles, and the removal of an Osiris death mask jolts her body and desires back to life. With the help of a zombie servant, Hor-Shep-Sut must track down the reincarnation of her ancient lost love whose spirit resides in a luscious archaeology student. Nothing will stop this lumbering mummy-turned-lesbo yummy from getting her girl.


FUNNY GAMES (2008): Warner



In this provocative and brutal thriller from director Michael Haneke, a vacationing family gets an unexpected visit from two deeply disturbed young men. Their idyllic holiday turns nightmarish as they are subjected to unimaginable terrors and struggle to stay alive.


HOUSE ON BLOODBATH HILL (HOUSEBOUND, THE SEEKERS): SRS Cinema

HOUSEBOUND - Creepy CGI blended with heaping helpings of good old fashioned blood and slime! It's a winner! -Dr. Squid's Smorgasbord of Terror. Heidi has agoraphobia and can't leave the house, forcing her resentful younger sister, Nancy to take care of her. Their relationship becomes strained and Nancy appears near her breaking point with Heidi. Only professional help can cure her, but that is easier said then done. Then one fateful summer day their friend Terry, seeing that the sister's holidays weren't all that great, surprises them with freshly cut pine tree and plans to celebrate "Christmas in July". What they don't know that something is asleep in the Christmas tree... Something vicious and evil... a creature who knows no mercy, only death. Trapped in a psychological prison of fear, can Heidi overcome her phobia or will they all succumb to a painful fate at the hands of the beast?

THE SEEKERS - What if the opportunity arose for the answers to all of life's questions were to be laid at your feet? What value would you place on the ability to know what to say or what to do in any situation? What would it be worth? What would you give? What price would be too high? Would any? Scott is about to be given that opportunity. What will Scott be willing to sacrifice for those answers? What starts out as a run in with a strange blind woman turns into a terrifying experience for unsuspecting people, family and friends. Join Scott and he rides the rollercoaster of terror in The Seekers.


HUMAN LANTERNS: Image



Swordplay savagery and blood-chilling thrills reign supreme in this outrageous mixture of martial arts and the macabre from Shaw Brothers! Two rivals one rich and the other poor enter an unholy pact to win an annual lantern-creating contest in their village; however the terrifying secret behind their remarkable creations lies within the supple flesh of local maidens who are disappearing at the hands of a demonic assailant! Now featuring shocking scenes too extreme for its Asian DVD release this unflinching action-horror masterpiece is now finally available to American audiences to enjoy full strength and full throttle!


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ORGANIZM (a.k.a. LIVING HELL): Image

Mysterious scars on his body lead Frank Sears' to the terrifying truth behind a top secret Cold War biological experiment buried deep below a derelict Army base. Awakened and unleashed on an unsuspecting world the Organizm absorbs light and energy feeds on the living and is growing at an unstoppable rate. Sears and Army hazmat specialist Carrie Freeborn only have a few hours to unlock the entity's genetic code before mankind is extinguished.


OTIS: Warner



OTIS is a story of suburban America gone haywire. In the midst of a serial abductor/killer’s rampage a beautiful young teen Riley Lawson goes missing. When her desperate parents Will and Kate are contacted by her kidnapper an insufferable FBI Special Agent takes charge of the case. But from deep within the psychopathic subterranean world created by Otis Riley turns the tables on her tormentor manages to escape and to contact her parents. Fed up with the tragi- comic inability of the FBI to find their girl Will Kate and Riley’s brother Reed decide to take matters - and justice - into their own hands. But when Otis brother Elmo shows up unexpectedly the Lawsons find themselves mired in one of the more unusual and macabre consequences of vigilantism. Far from proclaiming “Mission Accomplished” the backed-in-a-corner Lawsons will further complicate their already deadly predicament with a surprising unfortunate and frankly hilarious final choice.


THE PLANET: MTI

A group of mercenaries are forced to evacuate their dying spacecraft and find themselves stranded on a desolate barren world Soon they discover that they are not alone as they battle to survive they begin to fall prey to a malevolent force - a force that turns the souls of their fallen comrades against them.


RAZOR EATERS: Echo Bridge



In a week-long anarchistic rampage of violence, death, and destruction, the RAZOR EATERS take suburbia prisoner, gaining a cult following by taping their attacks on all who deserve punishment: corrupt politicians, arrogant sports stars, filthy drug dealers and more. Following their trail of looted stores, torched cars, blown up houses and bullet-ridden bodies, Detective Danny Berdan relentlessly tracks the gang until the ultimate bloody confrontation explodes in a mind-blowing, twist climax.


RECON 2022: THE MEZZO INCIDENT: Terra

Two years after the events of RECON 2022: The Caprini Massacre, Sharp has been promoted to lieutenant and leads a brand new unit of tough, witty and trigger happy space marines through the perils of Mezzo, an hostile ice planet in order to destroy an underground Ma'har facility. What they will encounter will defy their imaginations as they tackle giant man eating snow worms, an underground city of Cyborgs, a slew of murderous alien entities and maybe, finally, the ever elusive Ma'hars...


SALVATION: York

On October 13, 1307 the protectors of the Christian Pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land, the Knights Templar, were sentenced to death by the Catholic Church for heresy. The souls of two of the Knights burned at the stake; Malchezidek and Gabriel were condemned to continue the heavenly battle between good and evil, fighting for the souls of men. Seeking to end her existence in Purgatory and find Redemption, Gabriel saves murdered 8 year old Michaela and hides her away in a small Midwest town run by Sheriff Dade. Several years pass when Michaela finally confronts the Biker Gang that killed her led by Billy Bedlam. Sheriff Dade suddenly has a string of unexplained murders that all lead to Michaela as the killer. Michaela must choose sides in the heavenly battle between Malchezidek and Gabriel and her own existence in Purgatory forever.


SHAOLIN VS. VAMPIRE: BCI



A lost Gordon Liu film is finally found! The eighties saw a tremendous popularity in kung fu films in Japan.Bruce Lee Jackie Chan and Jet Li brought popularity to Shaolin themed films and the Japanese wanted more.The release of Shaw Bros. epic 36th Chamber of Shaolin' made Gordon Liu an instant star.It wasn t long before all his films were playing in Japan and soon after was approached to make a film.Using the latest rage of kung fu' and the Mr. Vampire' themed films Shaolin vs. Vampire' is a unique feature in the martial arts movie history books.


THE SIGNAL: Magnet/Magnolia



It s New Year s Eve in the city of Terminus and chaos is this year s resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by an enigmatic transmission that preys on fear and desire driving everyone in the city to murder and madness. In a place once marked by conformity but now sent into complete anarchy the rebellious Ben must save the woman he loves from the bedlam in the streets as well as her crazed sadistic husband. But the only way he can tell who to trust or who has given in to violence is by uncovering the true nature of The Signal.


WEREWOLF'S SHADOW: Deimos/BCI



International horror star Paul Naschy stars as the immortal Waldemar Daninsky a man cursed for eternity with the mark of the werewolf. But when he rescues two young women researching the legend of a vampire queen they unleash a ferocious rampage of bloodlust lycanthropy and lesbianism. In the final battle to the death can a werewolf in love destroy the depraved desires of the undead?


WHEN DARKNESS FALLS: Wolfe

A new pair of films inspired by "The Twilight Zone" from gay filmmaker Jeff London.
When Darkness Falls -- Kevin invites a potential new boyfriend up to his mountain cabin for the weekend. But can Kevin be trusted? Does his new boyfriend really know anything about him? They're way up in the hills and no one else is around. Is the old story of the local cemetery true or folklore? When other friends show up the guys are confronted by something they could never have imagined. Something is out there...and darkness is falling.
The Best of Care -- Something isn't right with Billy. He's been taking care of his ailing boyfriend too long and the pressure is getting to him. Longing for a life outside the stuffy house he does his best to take care of Donny...very good care indeed. One dark night things change and Billy finds himself in a situation. But can Donny accept that?


YOU BELONG TO ME: Wolfe

Jeffrey has met the man of his dreams hunky Frenchman Ren but he s an elusive lover. When Jeffrey discovers where Ren lives he impulsively moves into the same building. But the move backfires as Ren becomes cold and distant. Instead the landlady Gladys lavishes attention on her new tenant. Soon Jeffrey realizes that there s something strange going on especially when he hears mysterious moans beneath his floorboards and learns that he s not the first Jeffrey to live in the apartment. When he stumbles on Gladys dark secret will it cost him his life?

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- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment revealed that they will release Quentin Tarantino's ultra-revenge flick Kill Bill Volume 1 and Kill Bill Volume 2 on Blu-ray come September 9.

There are no special features revealed yet, but expect a full announcement with art in the coming weeks.

In the film, which were broken into two movies, The Bride takes a vengeance quest against her ex-partners, and her ex-boss Bill.

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June 17, 2008 Releases


ALIVE OR DEAD: Lionsgate



While traveling down a desolate road Maria comes upon an apparently abandoned school bus. A girl has written "HELP ME" in one of the windows and Maria quickly discovers the messy secrets that lie in the back of the bus. As the killer reappears Maria finds herself now hidden and trapped as the killer takes them on the ride of their lives. Their journey leads to a bizarre location in the desert where they'll quickly learn their enemy is not who they think. The girls must figure out whom to trust if even each other if they hope to return home alive or dead.


THE DEAD PIT (special edition): Code Red/BCI



Zombies rise up from a terrifying pit beneath a notorious mental asylum to do the bidding of the evil Dr. Ramzi the crazed doctor who twenty years before was walled up alive in the crazy house after someone discovered his horrific experiments involving formaldehyde and illegal lobotomies. Following each experiment the doctor would casually toss the dead victims into the pit. While his captor slowly bricks him up Ramzi swears that he will have revenge. When enigmatic Jane Doe is admitted into the asylum for severe amnesia and she turns out to have amazing subconscious psychic power that wakens Ramzi from his hellish sleep he gets his revenge. Jane and Ramzi seem to be psychically linked and he draws his power from her as he begins to resurrect his former victims. He then sends his small zombie army out into the hospital to find new recruits. Gory creative killing occurs for Ramzi's zombies are not only quick they are also semi-intelligent. Now only Jane the doctor who originally killed Ramzi a psychotic demolitions expert and a lunatic zombified nun can stop them.


THE SITTER (a.k.a. WHILE THE CHILDREN SLEEP): Genius



When prosperous California couple Carter and Meghan search for the perfect nanny they believe they've found their answer in sweet Abby Reed. But no sooner does she arrive than she begins to arouse suspicion in friends and neighbors who one by one start dying. By the time Meghan looks deeper into her past it's too late. Abby's work has already begun.


TOKYO SHOCK TRIPLE FEATURE (JAPANESE HELL, CURSED, SAMURAI CHICKS; 3-disc rerelease): Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters



JAPANESE HELL - is a thoroughly sinister cautionary tale, part horror show, part costumed morality play taken to unforgiving extremes. Evildoers beware: those who do not turn from their wicked ways get their hideous, gory comeuppance in Japanese Hell!
CURSED - the normally cheerful Nao finds herself in a very unhopeful working environment. At the convenience store where she works, every shift is the graveyard shift. As she goes about her duties, a dark and foreboding presence swirls around her. Vengeful spirits have been awakened and are taking over the establishment. With their humanity crushed, the owner and his wife have already gone insane. Now, one by one, the customers are becoming possessed.
SAMURAI CHICKS - on the southern islands of Japan lies the Orion Dancers Academy where girls learn to sing and dance. Or so they'd like you to believe. Actually, the dance academy is a front for a school for female warriors-in-training. Disguised as singers and actresses in Tokyo, these girl-warrior secret agents are out to gain independence from the island. While watching a music video, they are able to unlock secret codes hidden within the popstar's dance moves that enable them to complete their missions. However, a sinister rival organization is out to thwart their mission at every turn. When the final confrontation arrives, the girls will have to put their exhaustive training to the ultimate test.


UNDEAD HORRORS (5 movies, 4 discs): Fat Cat/Tempe



Fat Cat DVD presents a 4-disc set of gory zombie terror featuring 5 splatter-filled movies: DEADLANDS: THE RISING, THE STINK OF FLESH Special Edition, GHOUL SCHOOL and ZOMBIE COP plus bonus feature MAXIMUM IMPACT!

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- The short films from Nacho Cerda - THE AWAKENING, AFTERMATH and GENESIS - got a DVD release a few years back.

Today Twitch Film posted some news that will make the last release completely irrelevant.

Due for release June 25th, TRILOGIE DE LA MUERTA is a new Spanish special edition release of Cerda’s three short films that comes packed to the gills with special features - over three hundred minutes worth! Yes, there really is that much to say about these films and, yes, every last feature is English friendly.




- Unearthed from the vaults, three of Hollywood’s finest and scariest movies are unleashed for the first time on DVD from Fox Home Entertainment on September 9th as part of the lauded Fox Cinema Classics Collection.

Featuring performances from menacing horror icons Bela Lugosi and Vincent Price, plus the smoldering Gene Tierney, among others, the Fox Horror Classics Volume Two three-disc DVD set includes three terrifying films – CHANDU THE MAGICIAN, DR. RENAULT'S SECRET and DRAGONWYCK.

Each of these horror classics has been restored and remastered and features in-depth bonus materials including behind-the-scenes featurettes, restoration comparisons, trailers and more.

The spine-tingling Fox Horror Classics Volume Two DVD collection will be available for the suggested retail price of $19.98 U.S. / $21.98 Canada.

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June 23, 2008 Releases


THE CHILLING: Shriek Show/Media Blasters

Universal Cryogenics is doing a booming business in freezing the bodies of the recently dead in the hopes of defrosting them later when science has discovered a way to cure what ails them. Things are going well until the storage facility loses its power during a storm, threatening their frozen clients. To make matters worse, a lightning strike causes the bodies to revive as homicidal zombies. What has the cryogenic lab been doing to its customers to cause this kind of change, and can they stop the zombies before their rampage goes out of control?


CURSE OF THE WEEPING WOMAN: J-OK'EL: Maverick

The terrifying legend of J-ok el just might be true! While searching for his missing sister George learns the haunting details of the J-ok el legend (La Llorona); a woman who drowned her own babies centuries ago and whose spirit has returned to claim more children as her own.


THE DEMONS AMONG US: Troma

Joe Melton moves to the country for some peace and quiet. But shortly after arriving he discovers a dark presence so disturbing that it could mean the end of the world as we know it. The Demons are among us. As the small town of Miranda Falls is slaughtered like cattle the devil rises from his prison deep below the earth s surface. Only Joe and his talking axe can save us but he’s completely lost his marbles! When the horror reaches its bloody climax you better pray there is a God!


DESERT OF BLOOD: Rivercoast



For thirty-five years, something evil lay buried beneath the sands of Mexico--until a hapless treasure hunter digs up more than he expects, releasing the mysterious, handsome, and deadly Luis Diego from his desert tomb. Finally free, Diego seeks to exact vengeance on those who nearly destroyed him all those years ago, including the woman he once loved, Sarita. Diego's revenge, however, is unexpectedly interrupted when he falls for Sarita's niece, Maricela. He sees in her a second chance--a chance to defeat the darkness inside him and to lead a normal life. But torn between the love in his heart and the evil in his soul, Diego soon discovers that his thirst for blood cannot be denied. With a growing rage, Diego succumbs to his wicked hunger and resumes his quest for vengeance, determined to leave nothing in Mexico but a desert of blood.


DRAINIAC: Shock-O-Rama/POPcinema



Julie Ashbrook and a group of friends have taken up residence in a deserted old house while they clean it up for a planned restoration. Strange and inexplicable occurrences involving water is just the beginning as gruesome death-by-plumbing takes its toll on the terrified inhabitants. Drip by steady drip the fleshless entity begins to take shape and Julie and her friends soon come face to face with the bloodthirsty monster in all its aqueous evil - an ancient water demon that wants to tear them apart!


EASTERN HORROR (10 movies, 5 discs): BCI

• ROBO VAMPIRE—A dead narcotics agent is brought back to life by an experimental procedure that transforms him into a human-android hybrid.
  
• DEVIL’S DYNAMITE—The Androidbot returns to battle an army of bloodthirsty vampires out to protect the evil empire of a ruthless drug lord.
  
• MAGIC OF THE UNIVERSE—A circus magician journeys through a nightmarish netherworld in order to rescue his kidnapped daughter from the clutches of supernatural forces angry over his dabbling in the magical arts.
  
• COUNTER DESTROYER—Working on a film script in an old haunted house, a screenwriter accidentally unleashes an army of the undead, including a robot-vampire and a Freddy Kruger-like creature with deadly scissor-hands.
  
• SATAN’S SLAVE—Infused with Islamic iconography, this is a tale of a family curse that raises the dead.
  
• CORPSE MASTER—An evil sorcerer fights against a Taoist priest, who uses a baby vampire to battle the undead.
  
• VAMPIRE RESURRECTION—A group of tourists on holiday at a remote island discover their night time entertainment hosts are unholy bloodsuckers. It s safe to say that this vacation package sucks! Thrills, chills, and laughs come in the tradition of Mr. Vampire.
  
• DEVIL SHADOW—A thriller to rival the giallo greats! Wan Di is a cartoonist whose two characters, Ugly Kid and Big Devil , are inspired by his childhood past. As a youngster, he lived in a slum and was beaten and abused by his mother. Then one day, she is found brutally murdered. Now the killer is contacting Wan and letting him know her murder was about him.
  
• CALAMITY OF SNAKES—A construction team discovers a massive nest of snakes and kills most of them, despite warnings from the foreman s wife. Led by a giant boa constrictor, the surviving reptiles take revenge on everybody in the building! This is one of the most gruesome films ever! Sam Jackson is safer on the plane!
  
• DEVIL’S BOX—Filmmaker Tang, played by Simon Yam, is experiencing bizarre accidents on his film set with scaffolding falling and people getting hurt. Then, when trouble follows him home, it becomes apparent that he s haunted by ghosts. Things go too far and Tang decides to fight back. A Hong Kong giallo style film!

AN EROTIC WEREWOLF IN LONDON: Seduction Cinema/POPcinema

Get ready for a hot hair-raising adventure as Misty Mundae and her delicious co-stars Julian Wells Darian Caine Anoushka Ruby LaRocca and Zoe Moonshine transform An Erotic Werewolf in London into a lycanthropic ultra-erotic epic. Anoushka plays a luscious blonde werewolf living in London who a la An Interview with a Vampire meets up with a reporter to relate her tragic tale and tell her story once and for all to the world. Anoushka’s bite has recently turned doe-eyed American beauty Misty Mundae into a fellow female werewolf whose metamorphosis into sexual predator is triggered by arousal and ultimately orgasm.


THE EYE 3: Lionsgate



Some believe that our world is one of many that our existence is merely an intersection between countless dimensions - known and unknown. We run into strangers we don't see hear tunes we don't hear. Most of us remain ignorant but there are always those who are a little different they would risk everything to find the truth if not the thrill - that is to see the other side - just once in their lives. In the world of psychics despite widely different rites and practices there exists a single mutual; void - the Rite of Eight - the last and most powerful resort to make contact with the spiritual world. No one seems to know its origin but no one doubts its authenticity because just like any other unsolvable myth those who go there have never returned to testify.


GINGERDEAD MAN 2: THE PASSION OF THE CRUST: Full Moon

Young Kelvin Cheatam has just inherited his father's fledgling movie studio. After a string of unsuccessful box office bombs the passionate young producer has been struggling to keep the place from closing down for good. Desperate for another hit movie he quickly puts several outrageous genre films into production. Little does he know...that Cheatam Studios is about to get more action than he ever imagined as the deranged cookie murderer known as The Gingerbread Man is about to crash the studio lot and leave behind a trail of bloody murder and hilarious mayhem. Terror still has never tasted so good!


HELL'S GROUND: TLA

Pakistan s first splatter flick in the tradition of Friday the 13th and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre delivers spine-tingling thrills when an attractive group of teens pile into a van that runs out of gas in the middle of a dark mysterious forest. Their ghoulish nightmare begins when rotting fresh-eating zombies and a decapitated head-toting screaming banshee-like hitchhiker begin to terrorize them at every turn. But when a mysterious figure dressed in a blood-drenched burqa appears sporting a medieval weapon dripping in gore even the teens prayers won t save them from a night of savage demented horror.


KILLER'S MOON: Redemption USA



Killer's Moon is Britain's answer to I Spit On Your Grave...only sleazier. Produced in the late seventies it mixes lurid scenes of rape with Clockwork Orange Droog style menace drugs and dollops of ultra violence all of which combined make this a true 'video nasty'. Centered on four drugged-up escaped prisoners whose only purpose in life is to 'loot kill and rape' and who in true exploitation style seek refuge in the nearest girls school Killer's Moon starts off mired in sleaze and stays there. Full of gratuitous sexual violence a three-legged dog and some truly repellent dialogue this film is not to be missed.




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THE LODGE: Monarch

A young couple's weekend getaway at a secluded mountain ranch becomes an unfathomable nightmare when they discover the truth about the caretaker.


LONG DREAM: Tidepoint/Facets



In this surreal horror flick by director Higuchinsky an ambitious doctor is perplexed by a patient who comes to him with grave fears of going to sleep. Each night his dreams grow longer and longer eventually taking a toll on his body. Believing these "long dreams" are linked to immortality the doctor begins a series of experiments on his patient and himself. Based on the manga Nagai Yume by Junji Ito Long Dream is a nightmarish descent into madness.


MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES: Universal



Academy Award winner James Cagney gives an unforgettable performance as Lon Chaney in this fascinating true story that follows the life of one of the most iconic and mysterious stars in Hollywood history!Known as the "Man of a Thousand Faces" silent film star Lon Chaney captured the imagination of the world through his incredibly expressive and transformative roles such as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Phantom from the original Phantom of the Opera. Behind the scenes however this long-suffering talented genius' life was filled with trials and tribulations that helped shape some of his most groundbreaking roles.


NOBODY LOVES ALICE: Indie-Pictures.com

Some little girls grow up bad but some are just born that way. Alice came into the world unloved. Bouncing from foster home to foster home she never experienced love, even in the most basic of ways. As Alice changed from child into a woman she still failed to receive that fairytale romance she so desperately needed. Try as she may to find that love it seems to be just out of reach. As those poor misfortunate souls that fail to requite her love they pay for it with a world of pain and torture. Alice s story collides with one of her co-workers Abigail. Abigail and her boyfriend Alex have that fairytale romance that Alice is so desperately trying to find. As Abigail catches onto her boyfriend s plan to propose she comes up with a scheme to test her soon-to-be fiancés fidelity. And who better to play the bait in the scenario... Alice. Now Alice finds herself face-to-face with the one thing she s always wanted-True love. As Alice becomes more disillusioned in her make believe world of true love she’ll stop at nothing to ensure nobody takes Alex from her.


PAPAYA: LOVE GODDESS OF THE CANNIBALS: Severin

Her name was Sirpa Lane the succulent Finnish beauty who became an international sex symbol in Roger Vadim’s CHARLOTTE then shocked the world with her inhuman degradation in Walerian Borowczyk’s THE BEAST. But perhaps her ultimate cinematic destiny was to star in this tropical sleaze-fest from the notorious Joe D’Amato, director of EMANUELLE AND THE WHITE SLAVE TRADE and ANTHROPOPHAGUS, as a woman who hungrily surrenders to perverse trysts native vengeance graphic carnal carnage and much more.


RAISING JEFFREY DAHMER: Lionsgate



After Jeffrey's arrest their lives upended by rumors innuendo and intrusive media attention the members of Jeffrey Dahmer's family painfully try to piece together what led to Jeffrey's cold-blooded crimes.


SERIAL KILLER COLLECTION (ZODIAC KILLER, BLACK DAHLIA, GREEN RIVER KILLER; 3-disc): Lionsgate

• ZODIAC KILLER: The infamous Zodiac Killer returns through a string of copycat murders in this terrifying thriller - a gruesome serial killer who was never caught and remains one of the most mesmerizing killers in American crime.
  
• BLACK DAHLIA: A rookie cop is after the serial killer who is copying the brutal massacre of the 1940s Hollywood starlet Betty Short - The Black Dahlia.
  
• GREEN RIVER KILLER: The Green River Killer one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history was arrested in 2001 for the murder of 48 women. Prepare to enter the mind of a killer - and come out alive.

SIMON, KING OF THE WITCHES: Dark Sky

Simon Sinestrari is a warlock. Though he lives in a storm drain and sometimes talks to trees he's the real deal no smoke and mirrors. Deadly serious about his craft he despises falsehoods and misconceptions toward his witchy profession. And as for those who don t believe...After being picked up for vagrancy Simon spends a night in jail with Turk a young hustler with connections to powerful people in powerful places. One such character is Hercules a skeptical philanthropist who hires Simon to work a party of hipsters and the well-to-do among whom is beautiful Linda the pill-popping daughter of the local district attorney. In-between romantic dalliances and colorful sex-magik ceremonies with Linda Simon must contend with those who dare to challenge his magical prowess eventually forcing him to summon dark forces of revenge and murder.


THE TATTOOIST: Sony Pictures



A tattooist unwittingly unleashes a forcible deadly spirit through an ancient Samoan tattoo tool. Now marked for death, he will need to uncover the source of the evil in order to save his new love, and recover his own soul.


THE WIG: Genius



A young woman is struggling against cancer and her sister decides that she should take her home so that she really can enjoy what little time she has left rather than to spend it in a hospital. She buys a wig for her so that she can go out without having to feel ashamed of herself what she doesn't know is that the wig is cursed.

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- It was revealed today that John Gulager's Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds will be arriving at a retailer near you on October 21.

No word on if a Blu-ray will hit the same day.

Synopsis : It is the morning after, and we pick up with the survivors of FEAST's terrifying night before. There are more monsters and they are even angrier/hungrier. The monsters have made it into the small neighboring town in the middle of nowhere and the surviving locals have to band together to figure out how to survive.

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July 1, 2008 Releases


DEAD AND GONE: Lionsgate



Jack Wade, struggling actor and trophy husband, kidnaps his comatose wife Frankie, ex-Hollywood studio exec, from the hospital and takes her to an isolated cabin in the Nevada Mountains. This cabin is Jack's only asset which he won in a poker game—the same place where a man murdered his entire family decades earlier. Jack plots to kill Frankie in order to collect on her life insurance. Jack becomes delusional and has visions of the rude and crude Frankie relentlessly taunting him. As he unravels and can't decipher paranoia from derangement he decides to smother his wife. Frankie dies but does not disappear. Is her ghost haunting Jack or is he insane?


HELLBOY Limited Edition 2-Pack (SWORD OF STORMS, BLOOD AND IRON; 2-disc): Anchor Bay



This 2-pack includes both Animated features HELLBOY SWORD OF STORMS and HELLBOY BLOOD AND IRON plus a 7-inch Hellboy Smoking Cigar Figurine with Exclusive Sword.


PUPPET SHOW: Midnight Releasing

Ringmaster Rick rose to success with his children's show, Circus Town, by making a deal with a demon to bring his marionette, Charlie Chowderhead, to life! As tends to happen when people make a deal with an evil specter, Rick mysteriously turns up dead. The doll gets passed down to his granddaughter, Casey, who has no idea the doll is alive, let alone a killer. The show may be over, but Charlie s not done with his murderous performance and he’s dead set on pulling the strings in his final act of KILLER ENTERTAINMENT!


THE SUMMER OF THE MASSACRE: Midnight Releasing



What four teenagers thought would be a quick shortcut across the English countryside led them to a strange place called Black Wood. Instead of finding a quick route home they encountered Ed Craven; a legendary serial killer known as Hammer Head by the locals. His weapon of choice: A hammer! With the smell of fresh meat in the air, Hammer Head goes on a murderous rampage which includes hunting, killing and eating humans. The group discovers that some legends do exist but will anyone be left alive to tell the tale?


TRILOQUIST: Genius

When two teen orphans--Norbert, a ventriloquist mute who talks through his dummy, and Angelica, his psychotic sister-hit the road for Vegas, Norbert's dummy develops a murderous life of his own. With the cops on their trail and the corpses piling up, this homicidal trio can't be stopped as they cut a path of death and destruction across the country. Creepy, gruesome and hilariously twisted, Triloquist is campy horror at its perverse best.


UNBORN SINS: Burning Moo/Grey Ghost Films



Thousands of abortions are committed around the world every day. But when Theresa schedules her procedure, she has no idea that she has become the target of an assassin more terrifying than she could ever imagine... the very child she aborts! With the help of Stone and Damon, the three try to reverse a demonic spell that gave flesh and blood to a twisted, murderous version of the child she once carried.


THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE COLLECTION: Under the Bed Films



Zombie Apocalypse Collection Vol. 1 - From Hundreds of submissions via a worldwide search on Myspace and Fangoria.com, Under the Bed Films has put together a box set that will leave fans begging for more. Featuring: SCREAM FARM, IN THE EVENT OF A ZOMBIE ATTACK, GHOULS GONE WILD, WHITE ZOMBI & BRAINZ W/ THE LIVING DEAD GIRLZ. Over 4 hrs of monsters, mayhem and hot women!