Upcoming DVD releases

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June 02, 2009 Releases


ANACONDAS: TRAIL OF BLOOD: Sony Pictures

One of the slithering, genetically enhanced anaconda offspring has regenerated to live on in this next action-packed chapter of the Anaconda series. The dying mogul, Murdoch, hires a doctor to harvest a fresh supply of blood orchids and experiment with the regenerative nectar on a baby snake. Overnight, the offspring grows monstrous enough in size and appetite to devour the good doctor whole, before slithering free on a regenerative rampage. The beautiful herpetologist, Amanda, dedicated to destroying the vicious beasts she helped create, leads a team of young scientists against a ruthless pack of Murdoch's armed thugs to get the coveted orchids before the snake hunts both factions down. The bloodthirsty offspring is seemingly invincible, sliding through explosions and gunfire only to regenerate and prey insatiably on anything in its path.


ELSEWHERE: E1

In a small town, girls are mysteriously disappearing and no one seems to care. After revealing to her best friend Sarah that she has been meeting men online, Jillian goes missing. Now, the only clues to her whereabouts are her diary and a cryptic message sent from her cell phone.


THE HUNGER: The Complete First Season (4-disc set): E1



Terence Stamp hosts the complete season one of this Showtime horror anthology series (presented by directors Tony and Ridley Scott), which features a phenomenal cast of familiar faces as you’ve never seen them before. Inspired by leading horror writers (including Brian Lumley and Robert Bloch), each episode will draw you into a mesmerizing world of horrific characters and erotic encounters, where demons feed on the weakness of men and temptation consumes reason.


MONSTURD: Brain Damage

Escaped serial killer Jack Schmidt is on the run from the police and FBI after escaping from jail. They corner him and gun him down in a sewer tunnel, where he falls into a pool of chemicals dumped by the Dutech company. The combination of feces and this chemical transforms him into a half human, half feces creature, who goes on a killing rampage. It's up to a group of local law enforcers to stop him.


RAZORTOOTH: Lionsgate



Deep in the Florida Everglades, something is alive that should have died eons ago. Something is feeding when it should be full. Something is moving, in ways that seem all but impossible to pursuers. It's moving in the dark...under the surface of the waters…with an appetite that makes no distinction between man and beast. Now it's up to an unlikely band of locals, an animal control officer, a small-town sheriff and a scientist’s team of college youth to stop the threat...before it's too late.


RETARDEAD: Midnight Releasing

Evil has come to the Butte County Institute of Special Education, and its students will never be the same. After surviving a ferocious battle with his own monstrous creation, Dr. Stern returns to continue his horrible research in this blood-drenched sequel to the cult hit "Monsturd." Armed with a fatal hyper-intelligence serum, the mad doctor transforms a quiet community into an army of flesh-eating zombies. It's a showdown of limb-chopping, head-bursting proportions as Stern's nemesis, F.B.I. agent Susan Hannigan, and the local sheriff's department take on the zombie plague in the ultimate battle royale.


SILENT VENOM: Fox



Tom Berenger, Luke Perry and Krista Allen face off against a slithering mass of lethal and aggressive snakes in this heart-stopping thrill ride set hundreds of feet below sea level.



June 09, 2009 Releases


CARAMELO: Navarre

Caramelo is a disturbing psychological action thriller about the relationship that forms between a young student and the school s janitor he discovers to be a cold murderer.


GHOSTS OF GOLDFIELD: North American

Five college filmmakers on a mission to explore the haunted town of Goldfield, Nevada unleash a vengeful spirit that stalks them from the shadows. Before this night of terror is over, one of the ghost hunters will take their rightful place among the restless souls of the dead.


GODDESS: Image

A rich and handsome man falls in love with a charming, beautiful woman... but he doesn't realize that she is the snake goddess Devi in disguise. Devi must battle to protect her lover from the vicious, evil snake deity Dantra in this classic Hindu story brought to vibrant life.


THE KISS (2009): Invincible



Young Jeremy's life is a daily slog through teenage hell -- his only shields are his iPod and his sour attitude. He doesn't even know that change is possible, let alone that it is coming... that it is inevitable, that it is... his fate. He's about to stumble into an ancient feud between two warring vampyre clans... Santa Maria, the forgotten Queen of the Clan of the Snake has been imprisoned and left for dead in a shallow grave in the desert of Hell. It has taken centuries, but She has finally mustered enough strength to plead loud enough for the right ear to hear... And as Jeremy's love resurrects Santa Maria's corpse from the wasteland of death, Santa Maria's love for Jeremy raises him from the numbing death of his teenage life. But when Santa Maria needs to move up the food chain to keep her returning strength growing, Jeremy's love is tested... did he really fall in love with a ferocious, predatory monster? Did she ever love him? Is he next on her banquet table? Can love ever really last forever? All it takes is the kiss.


REAPER: Season Two (4-disc set): Lionsgate



Sam is a slacker whose world turns upside down on his 21st birthday when he learns that his parents sold his soul to the Devil. Forced to be Hell's bounty hunter, Sam, with the aid of his goofball friends, must track down evildoers and send them back where they belong.

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October 20th, 2009





- Sixty Minutes of Behind the Scenes featurettes:

- "Birth of Creeps" featuring Dekker talking about the origins of the project,
- "Cast of the Creeps" featuring Jason Lively, Tom Atkins, Steve Marshall and Jill Whitlow,
- "Creating The Creeps" featuring interviews with SFX creators David B. Miller and Robert Kurtzman,
- A special Tom Atkins centric piece called "Tom Atkins: Man of Action",
- "Escape of the Creeps" a detailed look at the post-production.
- Deleted scenes,
- Fred Dekker solo commentary,
- Cast commentary featuring Atkins, Whitlow, Marshall and Lively,
- The original theatrical ending,
- And footage from tonight's Cast and Crew reunion screening at the Alamo Drafthouse."

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September 15th, 2009


John Carpenter Master of Fear Collection - UNIVERSAL
prebook 7-28; DVD $19.98
Horror: Includes The Thing, They Live, Prince of Darkness and Village of the Damned.

Phantasm II - UNIVERSAL
prebook 7-28; DVD $19.98
Horror: The Tall Man is back with a vengeance in Phantasm II, available on DVD for the first time.

The Wes Craven Horror Collection - UNIVERSAL
prebook 7-28; DVD $19.98
Horror: Includes The Serpent and the Rainbow, Shocker and The People Under the Stairs (previously released already).

The Wolf Man (1941) Special Edition - UNIVERSAL
prebook 7-28; DVD $26.98
Horror: The original 1941 version of The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney Jr. is being released as part of the Universal Legacy Series.

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145-minute version of Clive Barker's Nightbreed

Set in the canadian wilderness, a search is on for a serial killer and an ancient tribe of monsters called the night-breed.

"We just finished watching a 145 minute version of the film's mid-1989 workprint!
That's 44 minutes longer than the theatrical release!!
And it's even more significant than that since there are none of the later re-shoots of Decker's murders, so the actual deleted footage is far more than 44 minutes!

Yes, there's (lots) more violence as the Sons of the Free invade Midian, yes there's some deleted stop motion footage, yes, Narcisse gets decapitated, yes Lori stabs herself on a hilltop and Boone bites her... Yes, yes, yes!

Now, this is just a VHS copy so it's not of releasable quality, so... thank you for your continuing messages of support - let's keep working to get a proper DVD release for an extended Nightbreed..."


Nightbreed - Director's Cut/Uncut AND Unrated? Possible.

Check the link :-

http://www.clivebarker.info/morenightbreed.html

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June 16, 2009 Releases


BLACK MAGIC 2: Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters

In this mind-blowing sequel to the Shaw Brother's huge horror hit, it's Zombigeddon! Mysterious zombies run amok while baffled doctors try to find out why. The zombies vomit, melt, spontaneously combust, explode and may be abducting the local lady folk. While the doctors look for a natural cause, the real cause appears to be supernatural.


BORN: Lionsgate



Mary Elizabeth goes to bed alone one night, still a twenty-one-year-old virgin, and wakes up the next morning...pregnant. Possessed by the demon fetus growing within her womb, Mary Elizabeth obeys her homicidal cravings to kill...for the sake of her unborn spawn. Mary Elizabeth’s dark transformation is controlled by her unborn demon child’s deadly evil cravings. Once the child is born, there will be hell on earth. From this apparent immaculate conception comes edge-of-your-seat terror.


THE CELL 2 (Blu-ray): Warner

Imagine a serial killer who flatlines his victims and then brings them back to life over and over again, until they beg to die. Beautiful psychic investigator Maya Casteneda (Tessie Santiago) was his last victim and swore vengeance on her tormentor before she escaped. Now The Cusp is back, and the FBI taps Maya to help capture the elusive monster. Maya soon discovers the only way she can locate The Cusp is to enter his head. The danger: if Maya dies in the killers brain, she dies in real life!


FRIDAY THE 13TH - 2009 - EXTENDED KILLER CUT: Warner



A group of young adults discover a boarded up Camp Crystal Lake, where they soon encounter Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.


FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2 (Blu-ray): Paramount

Now on Blu-Ray - Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake is shut down, but a camp next to the infamous place is stalked by an unknown assailant. Is it Mrs. Voorhees' son Jason who didn't drown in the lake some 30 years before?


FRIDAY THE 13TH PART III (Blu-ray): Paramount

Also on Blu-Ray - Having escaped in the last episode, Jason is back, hockey mask and all, to continue his murderous rampage across Crystal Lake. In 3-D!


FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE FINAL CHAPTER Deluxe Edition: Paramount

Featuring Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover, the film follows Jason after he is resuscitated to kill again. But has Jason met his match in the young Tommy Jarvis? The Deluxe Edition DVD includes a look back 25 years after the film’s premiere, a lost ending, slashed scenes, multiple commentaries and more.


FRIDAY THE 13TH PART V: A NEW BEGINNING Deluxe Edition: Paramount

Jason returns to haunt Tommy Jarvis who now lives at a halfway house for troubled teens. But as the bodies start to pile up, Tommy begins to wonder if he’s become the killer he fears most. The Deluxe Edition DVD includes a making-of featurette, commentary by the director and cast members, the continuation of “Lost Tales from Camp Blood” and more.


FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES Deluxe Edition: Paramount

When Tommy Jarvis attempts to get rid of Jason once and for all, he accidentally brings him back to LIFE.. Now the showdown begins and it’s kill or be killed! The Deluxe Edition DVD includes a making-of featurette, “Meeting Mr. Voorhees”, slashed scenes, commentary by the director and cast members and more.


GHOSTBUSTERS (Blu-ray): Sony Pictures



A trio of university parasychologists lose their research grant and decide to open their own business "Ghostbusters" and almost at once are summoned to investigate the strange happenings in a Central Park West apartment. What they discover is that all Manhattan is being besieged by other worldly demons.


HYDRA: First Look

Former marine Tim Nolan has been kidnapped -- along with three ex-convicts -- and forced to participate in a deadly game. Wealthy men have paid a fortune for the opportunity to hunt down men like him in the perfect place: a deserted island. However, this is no ordinary island -- it is home to Hydra the Beast. As the hunters track down their prey, the Hydra quickly turns hunter into hunted. With the island crumbling beneath him, Nolan finds himself in a race against time to stop the beast and get off the island alive.


KILLING ARIEL: MTI

One night, a female demon attacks Rick, a contentedly married man. Under the spell of the demon, he takes a beautiful young woman, Ariel, off to an isolated house for a weekend fling. There, bizarre and frightening things happen, and accidentally Rick kills Ariel. But she won't stay dead. He soon realizes that she is the demon that first attacked him. He defends himself by killing her again… And again... But no matter how many times he kills her, she keeps coming back. When he finally escapes and returns home, he discovers that his life has disappeared into a nightmare of madness, lust, adultery, and cold-blooded murder.


LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD and Other Stories: Malaprop Productions.



16-year-old Christina Ricci plays the not-so-innocent LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD in an exciting and twisted take on the children's story. Narrated by Quentin Crisp, the film is both provocative and eerie, combining childhood fiction with mature fantasy. Other stories included in the collection are Kaplan's rare award-winning films LITTLE SUCK-A-THUMB and THE FROG KING.


MURDER LOVES KILLERS TOO: Well Go USA

Big Stevie has a sexual problem. Murder is how he has sex. And Big Stevie knows that there is no better way for a repressed killer to blow off steam than killing a bunch of care-free free-spirited teens. After her friends are all chopped, carved and slashed, sweet young Aggie is left alone to face off against this unreasonable psycho. Now she s got a pervert on her hands. A big one. And Big Stevie s problem could become Aggie s problem real fast.


THE PERFECT SLEEP: Magnolia



Set in a unique world of darkness and tragedy, a tortured man with no name returns to the city in which he swore he would never return, in order to save the woman he has always loved yet can never have.


PLATOON OF THE DEAD: Tempe

A Marine platoon is ambushed during a mission, leaving only three soldiers alive to fend off the growing army of the living dead. En route to their pickup point, they come across an abandoned house with three mysterious women hiding out inside. If they can make it through the night, they're home free...or so they think, because someone is hiding a dark secret that may alter the course of this gore-drenched war...


STAGKNIGHT: Osiris

The ultimate stag night turns into the ultimate stag nightmare for a goofball group of lovable losers who plan a bachelor party getaway deep in the English woods - and get a bit more than they bargained for. Its babes, booze - and blood - as a medieval curse descends upon the hapless heroes. The fright-fest begins when the pitiful pals are greeted by a witch-like groundskeeper and her mute brother. The weekend warriors wander into the woods where they become dragged into a satanic ritual designed to raise the dark knight from his 1,500 year slumber.


TERROR AT BLOOD FART LAKE: SRS Cinema

When a group of college head off to their friend's cabin for a little high octane sex weekend, they get more than they bargained for in the form of the evil scarecrow killer, jimmy van Brunt! Seems like nobody is safe at a spooky cabin in the woods these days. Experience characters that will make you want to howl with laughter and constipation! Witness deaths the likes of which you have TOTALLY seen before and better! One part Friday the 13th, One part Ernest goes to camp and 3 parts cream cheese, wonder aloud, Who will survive this terror at blood fart lake?

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August 11th, on Blu-Ray





An early announcement to retailers indicates that Genius Products and The Weinstein Company are set to release Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's 'Grindhouse' on Blu-ray on August 11.

No edition details are available, other than this would be a two-disc set, but it may well be the theatrical Grindhouse double feature.

'Grindhouse' was conceived, edited and shown theatrically (in the US) as a typical exploitation double-feature as one could attend at cheap theaters in the 1970s: it consisted of two features ('Planet Terror', by Robert Rodriguez, and 'Death Proof' by Quentin Tarantino), interspersed with fake trailers and bumpers.

However, the film underperformed theatrically and the films were released separately (in expanded versions) on home video. The Grindhouse double feature wasn't even released theatrically in Europe, and its only DVD release so far is a coveted special edition from Japan.

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July 14, 2009 releases


ASALTO VIOLENCE: Distrimax

Robert Smith is an outstanding doctor, devoted to teaching at a local university in Mexico City. During a trip to Vietnam he suffers a violent assault at the hands of a group of terrorists while he was being intimated with a local girl. After his arrival he discovers that he has contracted an incurable disease; traumatized by the attack and his illness, he will begin a downward spiral into madness; becoming a cold blooded serial killer convinced that each new victim represents another chance for redemption.


THE BLACK TORMENT: Redemption



This genuinely disturbing '60s horror-mystery movie from director Robert Hartford-Davis is hailed as a British gothic masterpiece. The film follows Sir John Fordyce, a nobleman who returns after a long absence to his country estate with a new bride. However, his honeymoon is quickly cut short when he finds himself under suspicion from angry locals for the rape and brutal murder of a young village girl. Despite Sir John's professed innocence, a growing hysteria unfolds as more strange events occur around him.


DOOR INTO SILENCE: Severin



He was called 'The Godfather Of Gore', 'Italy's Splatter King' and 'Il Maestro'. His still-controversial career included such horror classics as ZOMBIE, THE GATES OF HELL and THE PSYCHIC. And for his final film, writer/director Lucio Fulci returned to Louisiana - the location of his masterpiece THE BEYOND - for an eerie psychological tale of the supernatural. John Savage stars as a businessman who encounters a mysterious beauty, a relentless hearse and his own ultimate nightmare while driving the back roads of the desolate bayou.


THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT: Lionsgate



When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to cross over. Now, unspeakable terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the dead, returns to unleash a new kind of horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family.


HORSEMEN: Lionsgate

At home, hardened police detective Aidan Breslin has grown increasingly distant from his two young sons, Alex and Sean, since the death of his wife. At work, he finds himself thrust into an investigation of perverse serial killings rooted in the Biblical prophecy of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The White Horseman, a master of deception and the unexpected leader hell-bent on conquest; The Red Horseman, a sharp-witted warrior intent on turning man against man, with an innocence that hides a burning rage within; The Black Horseman, a manipulative and dark tyrant, unbalanced but always one step ahead; and The Pale Horseman, an executioner with disarming strength, determined to spread death through surgical precision.


THE OBJECTIVE: IFC (Blockbuster Exclusive)



The next nightmare from Daniel Myrick, creator of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT: CIA Agent Benjamin Keynes, three days after 9/11 reconnaissance satellites picked up a radioactive heat signature in a remote, travels to a tribal region of Afghanistan. The Agency fears that Al-Qaida has finally gotten their hands on a nuclear weapon. However, it seems that this threat may be coming from something much more powerful, and definitely not human.


O.C. BABES AND THE SLASHER OF ZOMBIETOWN: Midnight Releasing

Different groups of OC stereotypes are trapped in a bar due to a recent zombie outbreak. Little do they know that the Orange County Slasher who has been killing people all week is trapped inside with them. OC Babes and the Slasher of Zombietown is a horror/comedy that starts off when Sean and Ed (if you caught that one this is right up your alley) go out to a bar for the first time for Sean's 21st birthday. There, they meet Madison (the bitch), Savannah (the slut), Megan (the hot nerd), Lindsey (the hot edgy nerd), Ashley and Michelle (the porn stars) Mike and Bret (the bro jock guys) and a couple of old barfly skanks and some surfer chick. The night seems like any other for Sean and Ed; filled with rejection. That is until a half eaten woman runs into the bar and warns them about zombies outside. Once they lock the bar up they start dropping like flies.


PREY: Redemption

he lives of two lesbians, Jessica and Josephine , living in a deserted English farmhouse is thrown into turmoil upon the arrival of strange man called Anderson, who, unknown to them, is an alien scout on a mission to find food on Earth. Able to transform his appearance to that of a perfectly coifed human man, the alien brings tension to the the girls' relationship as Jessica starts to find him attractive. Much morbid excitement follows as Anderson's animalistic behavior leads to their downfall.


[REC]: Sony



A beautiful TV reporter and her cameraman are doing a routine interview at a local fire station when an emergency call comes in. Accompanying the firefighters to a nearby apartment, the news team begins recording the bloodcurdling screams coming from inside an elderly woman's unit. After authorities seal off the building to contain the threat, the news crew, firefighters and residents are trapped to face a lethal terror inside. With the camera running, nothing may survive but the film itself.

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Just put "Black Torment", "Door Into Silence", and "The Objective" in the Q. Already have "Haunting in Connecticut" and "[rec]" in there.

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I am a bit excited about The Objective.
The Black Torment looks like a good 60s spookfest. Def gonna hunt it down.

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October 20th...






October 13th...



This edition of the film, however, has something missing from the previous DVD release does not – the film’s haunting orchestral score, as composed by Bo Harwood and Lance Rubin, which was NOT included on the first DVD release and which fans have been clamoring for.



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