September 11, 2007 releases
The Addams Family Volume 3: MGM/Fox
The Addams Family is not your typical family: they take delight in most of the things that "normal" people would be terrified of. Relive the misadventures of America’s favorite frightfully funny family.
American Cannibal: Koch
Reality television reaches a preposterous extreme in this spoof of the addictive genre. Told through reality-techniques in a sub-documentary style, AMERICAN CANNIBAL captures the journeys that two television writers take in a last-ditch attempt to find success, no matter what the cost.
April Fools: CodeBlack/Vivendi Visual
A year ago, DeAnna played a cruel April Fools' joke on nerdy Melvin that inadvertently ended in murder. Now, DeAnna, her boyfriend and her pals are being stalked by a hooded figure. Is Melvin still alive, or is someone avenging his death? It's up to one of the teens' police detective father and his partner to stop the killer before he strikes again.
Beauty Queen Butcher: Camp Motion Pictures
This CARRIE-esque horror feature centers on Phyllis, a painfully withdrawn teenage girl who has become the subject of merciless ridicule at her high school. The events escalate when Phyllis is persuaded to enter a beauty pageant, forcing her to take bloody and bitter revenge on her tormentors.
Blueprint for Murder/Man in the Attic: Fox
BLUEPRINT FOR MURDER: There's no doubt that Lynne is beautiful, but could she also be deadly? This is the question her devoted brother-in-law Whitney must ask himself when first Lynne's husband (Whitney's brother) then her stepdaughter die mysteriously...
MAN IN THE ATTIC is the third adaptation of the psychological thriller, THE LODGER written by novelist Marie Belloc Lowndes in 1912. A young Jack Palance gives an outstanding rendition as the sinister-looking, secretive soft-spoken pathologist named Slade. His character plays a Jack the Ripper type and rents out a gloomy attic in the heart of London where he conducts odd experiments. All of the sudden, several women are turning up dead, all of them showgirls.
This is the first batch of MGM/Fox Midnight Movies releases.
The Burning: MGM/Fox
Years after a summer camp janitor is severely burned and disfigured as the result of a teenage prank gone awry, he's released from the local insane asylum and returns to the scene of the crime to seek revenge against those who harmed him.
Chosen Survivors/The Earth Dies Screaming: MGM/Fox
CHOSEN SURVIVORS: After being selected at random by a computer to seek safety in an underground bomb shelter on the eve of a nuclear attack, a group of refugees makes a horrible realization: They're sharing the space with a colony of vampire bats. And since going back above ground isn't an option, they're forced to stay and fight for their lives.
THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING: Upon returning home from a mission to outer space, an astronaut realizes that the Earth has been overtaken by a colony of savage alien robots who have reanimated the corpses of the dead to do their dirty work. With few human survivors left, he must mount a counterattack to protect the planet from utter destruction.
Curse of the Black Dahlia: Crystal Entertainment
In 1947, a body—cut in half—is found in an abandoned Hollywood lot. Today, an office building with a marketing firm stands upon the infamous crime scene. When a group of employees are forced to work late to complete a project, terror ensues. Is the building haunted, or is there a new murderer in their midst?
Cursed/Dark Water: Dimension
CURSED:A werewolf loose in Los Angeles changes the lives of three young adults who, after being mauled by the beast, learn that the only way to break the curse put upon them is to kill the one who started it all!
DARK WATER: Life becomes a living nightmare for Dahlia Williams and her daughter when their new apartment begins to take on a life of its own.
Dark Water/The Princess Blade: ADV Films
This two-pack from ADV Films brings together the best thrills and chills from today’s Japanese cinema! DARK WATER is the basis for the Hollywood horror film starring Jennifer Connelly. PRINCESS BLADE is the story of a ruthless warrior princess on a path of revenge against the leader of her ninja clan.
Devils of Darkness/Witchcraft: Fox
DEVILS OF DARKNESS: A writer is at a loss for words when he uncovers a cult of bloodthirsty Satan worshippers led by a charismatic vampire living underneath a cemetery in the French countryside.
WITCHCRAFT: When her grave is disturbed by greedy land developers, a vengeful witch who was burned at the stake some 300 years ago rises again to terrorize the descendants of the family who killed her.
The Evading: York
Depressed and delusional over the death of his wife, Josh Carter imagines that he is being pursued by a haunting caped figure. As this nightmarish chase continues, Josh suspects the monster was involved in his wife's deadly car accident.
The Fly Collection (
THE FLY, RETURN OF THE FLY, CURSE OF THE FLY): Fox
THE FLY: Scientist André Delambre has invented a matter transporter. To perfect his machine, he decides to test the device on a human subject -- himself. He steps into the chamber unaware that an ordinary housefly has accompanied him. His head and arm become horrifically switched with those of the fly.
RETURN OF THE FLY: Years after his scientist father met a unique and gruesome end as a grotesque man-fly hybrid; Philippe Delambre is determined to carry on his dad's dubious work. With the help of his uncle François, Philippe re-creates his father's matter transmission device. But the machine still has a few bugs in it. Philippe soon finds himself sharing his father's fate with horrifying results in this classic sci-fi sequel.
CURSE OF THE FLY: The third installment of the classic Fly series, this sci-fi adventure follows Henri Delambre a man determined to continue his deceased father's experiments to create a teleportation machine. Unfortunately for the scientist, his new daughter-in-law, a woman who secretly escaped from a mental institution, displays a bothersome curiosity about his secret research.
The Food of the Gods: MGM/Fox
On a remote island, a farmer discovers a strange, gooey substance that causes animals to grow rapidly. His problems begin when the creatures get hungry - they prefer human flesh. Based on H.G. Wells' novel of 1904.
From Beyond: MGM/Fox
Out-there scientist Dr. Pretorious and his assistant, Dr. Tillinghast are working towards breaking through earthly perceptions and revealing a new alternate universe. They do this by stimulating the pineal gland of the human brain, which enables people to see the strange creatures that inhabit a parallel dimension. Unfortunately, these creatures can now see humans as well, and they are none too pleased with it...
Gorilla at Large/Mystery on Monster Island: MGM/Fox
GORILLA AT LARGE: After a man turns up dead at a peculiar carnival, police suspect Goliath, the world's largest—and angriest—gorilla. But as more killings ensue, it soon becomes clear that nearly everyone in the carnival has motives for murder.
MYSTERY ON MONSTER ISLAND: A group of shipwreck survivors find themselves stranded on a bizarre remote island in this low-budget offering loosely based on Jules Verne's Mysterious Island. When a young man sets sail for a last adventure around the world before marrying, he and his fellow travelers wind up discovering amazing natural beauty and a fortune in gold -- not to mention prehistoric beasts and cutthroat bandits.
The Haunting of #24: MTI
John Hare has always had bad dreams, but nothing's prepared him for the terror that awaits him when he moves into apartment No. 24, where the horrific noises outside his door are most certainly real. Despite the grim warnings of his cuckoo neighbor, John stays put in his new digs, and his nightmares only grow worse.
The House of Usher: ThinkFilm
In this retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, Izabella Miko plays Jill Michaelson, a woman whose lover and best friend (a pair of brother-sister twins) vanish from her life -- only to reenter it when one of them dies. When Jill travels to their New England town for the funeral, she soon learns that the brother suffers from the same malady that killed his sister, and Jill herself begins to feel the haunting effects of her friend's spirit.
House on Hooter Hill: Secret Key
Glori-Anne Gilbert stars in this flick from the gang that brought you the classic, WITCHES OF BREASTWICK and BREASTFORD WIVES!
The House on Skull Mountain/The Mephisto Waltz: Fox
THE HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN: When the relatives of a recently deceased voodoo priestess gather at her sinister house on Skull Mountain for the reading of the will, they discover a killer in their midst who wants to keep them from collecting their inheritance.
THE MEPHISTO WALTZ: A music journalist scores the interview of a lifetime when a terminally ill piano virtuoso agrees to talk to him. But the opportunity doesn't come cheap—the price is giving up his soul. Although the writer's wife suspects something's wrong, she has no idea her husband's been possessed.
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