Upcoming DVD releases

[Posher778]

Originally Posted by The_Return

So, did the Day of the Dead remake go straight to video? Or did I just not hear about a theatrical release?

I remember seeing the trailer awhile back and being baffled by how mindnumbingly horrid it looked...

Well... Nick Cannon is in it...

[The_Return]

Originally Posted by Posher778

Well... Nick Cannon is in it...

...point taken.

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April 15, 2008 Releases


ALIENS VS. PREDATOR—REQUIEM: Fox



On Earth everyone can hear you scream, especially when a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters-and producing countless Alien offspring-with terrifying efficiency. When a lone Predator arrives to "clean up" the infestation, it's an all-out battle to the death with no rules, no mercy, and hundreds of innocent people caught in the crossfire. As the creature carnage continues, a handful of human survivors attempt a daring escape, but the U.S. government may be hatching a deadly plan of its own...


ATTITUDE FOR DESTRUCTION: Cleopatra

In the tradition of ROCK AND ROLL NIGHTMARE MONSTER DOGS and KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM comes the rock horror film ATTITUDE FOR DESTRUCTION an epic tale of Sunset Strip-era metal murder and mayhem that critics are calling "Freddy Krueger with a Stratocaster...a REAL appetite for destruction!" The GUNS N' ROSES-esque band HOLLYWOOD ROSES fronted by vocalist DRAKE is on the verge of superstardom courting a major record deal with Diamond Star Records. One small problem - the label doesn't want Drake in the band. So the remaining band members do what any fame-hungry performer would do - they kill Drake. But Drake's girlfriend has made a pact with the devil and brings her deceased lover back from the dead. Drake then goes on a slashing spree of blood and guts against all who have crossed him leaving behind a horrific trail of gruesome gory revenge.


THE BACKWOODS: Lionsgate



Two couples decide to spend the summer in a remote vacation house in the north of Spain. Their tranquil summer turns to horror while the men are in the forest hunting and come across an abandoned house with a young girl with horribly deformed hands. Filthy and unable to speak, the terrified girl is chained inside. The men decide to take her to the police to get her help, but the local villagers come looking for her, armed with shotguns.


THE CURSE OF LIZZIE BORDEN II: PROM NIGHT: Razor Digital Entertainment

Five years ago, Cassie Daniels, thinking herself to be Lizzie Borden, savagely murdered six innocent people. Since that time, Cassie has been locked away in a sanitarium where, every night, she is plagued by blood drenched nightmares and haunted by the ghosts of her victims. During a therapy session, Cassie slips back into her Lizzie Borden persona and brutally murders her doctor - setting off a chain-reaction of violence and bloodshed.


FREAKS AND DEVIANTS (6-disc set): Fat Cat/Tempe

Fat Cat DVD presents a 6-disc set of weird, offbeat fun including 7 movies for one mind-shattering low price: THE RED SKULLS, FILTHY McNASTIEST, FILTHY McNASTIER, THE FERAL MAN, BENT VOLUME TWO, MIDNIGHT SKATER and DEAD & ROTTING.


INSIDE: Dimension Extreme/Genius



Get ready for the most gruesome, terrifying, and disturbing film you've ever seen. Four months after pregnant Sara loses her husband in a horrific auto accident, she is visited on Christmas Eve by a mysterious madwoman. Alone and desperate to save her unborn child, Sara fights to stay alive as each of her potential rescuers die at the woman's sadistic hands. With scene after scene of shocking carnage and escalating mayhem, INSIDE delivers unbelievably realistic gore that dares you not to look away.


KINKY KILLERS (a.k.a. POLYCARP): Vivendi Visual

Patients of sexy psychiatrist Dr. Jill Kessey and eccentric attorney Alexander Hathaway are being murdered in bloody, satanic rituals. Law enforcement investigations reveal that sex and mutilation are the signatures of a serial killer, who likes to tattoo each of the victims after they are murdered. Lead detective Barry Harper discovers that some beautiful professional women are the prey...or are they doing the preying?


LOCH NESS TERROR: Sony Pictures

From deep uncharted waters and through cavernous subterranean tunnels emerges into Lake Superior an unknown and menacing species. The gruesome bloodshed to follow doesn't stop at Nessie; she's brought her vicious offspring to help terrorize the innocent townspeople living around the lake. No man on land or water has a chance against this forty-foot bloodthirsty reptile and her spawn - No man except the only one who has ever survived Nessie's wrath. Driven by a deep-seated vengeance, James Murphy hunts down this terrible species with skillful force. Will Murphy save the locals of Lake Superior or end up as one of Nessie's countless casualties?


MALEFIQUE: Deimos/BCI Eclipse



A prison cell. Four prisoners - Carrere, a young company director accused of fraud, 35 year old transsexual in the process of his transformation, Daisy, a 20 year-old mentally challenged idiot savant and Lassalle, a 60 year-old intellectual who murdered his wife. Behind a stone slab in the cell, mysteriously pulled loose, they discovered a book: the diary of a prisoner, Danvers, who occupied the cell at the beginning of the century. The diary contains magic formulas that supposedly enable prisoners to escape…. But since the discovery of the book, strange and troubling phenomena multiply in the prison cell.


THE MINUS MAN: Lionsgate

Vann Siegert is a serial killer who believes he is helping his deeply depressed victims. As he travels up the West Coast, he chooses his victims from a long line of pathetic social misfits, including a haggard junkie and a bickering unhappily married couple. He is steered off his course, when he falls for a postal co-worker but even love can’t distract Vann from his crusade to terminate people’s unhappiness.


QUEEN COBRA: Razor Digital Entertainment

When a deranged college professor meets an over-eager student, terror strikes the science department! Taking advantage of the unsuspecting girl's enthusiasm, the professor runs experiments of a venomous nature. Almost immediately, vicious murders take place around campus at a biting pace! Suddenly, the professor’s creature can no longer be controlled and has an appetite of its own. Revenge against the man who has stolen her humanity is on the menu! How many innocent students will pave the way filling her taste for wrath!


RETRIBUTION: Lionsgate



Detective Yoshioka is investigating the drowning death of a young woman in a red dress. Lying face down in a muddy puddle, her stomach is found to be full of sea water. As the investigation progresses, clues begin to appear that point to him being the murderer – as his fingerprints are found on the body and some of his personal items are found at the murder scene. As more bodies turn up, killed in the same way, even he begins to wonder whether he may be the very murderer that he is pursuing.


SPELLS & SLASHERS (6 disc set): Fat Cat/Tempe

Fat Cat DVD presents a 6-disc set of supernatural, murderous fun including 7 movies for one bone-shattering low price: WINGRAVE, BONESETTER RETURNS, FINAL CURTAIN, CARNAGE FOR THE DESTROYER, SATANIC YUPPIES, THE BONESETTER and DEMON SUMMER.


THINGS: Razor Digital Entertainment

In the tradition of Tales from the Darkside and Creepshow comes Things, a horror anthology about the evil created by men. Presenting three weirdly intertwined stories, things begin with the tale of a woman out to get revenge on her husband’s mistress. Then in the second story, an evil mining-town mayor holds its citizens in a grip of fear using a terrifying creature he has found in the mines. Finally in the third story, a young housewife attempts to escape her husband's brutality only to find herself betrayed from all sides, and her revenge must come through the creature from beyond the grave.

[fortunato]

this is very exciting. just announced:

the criterion collection will be releasing carl theodor dreyer's chilling horror classic vampyr in july! check it out, the specs/features look amazing. this is definitely going to be an incredible release!

http://criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=437

[Despare]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

INSIDE: Dimension Extreme/Genius



Get ready for the most gruesome, terrifying, and disturbing film you've ever seen. Four months after pregnant Sara loses her husband in a horrific auto accident, she is visited on Christmas Eve by a mysterious madwoman. Alone and desperate to save her unborn child, Sara fights to stay alive as each of her potential rescuers die at the woman's sadistic hands. With scene after scene of shocking carnage and escalating mayhem, INSIDE delivers unbelievably realistic gore that dares you not to look away.

It's gory, beautiful, and a bit disturbing... watch it.

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April 22, 2008 releases


BLACK HOUSE: Genius Entertainment



When an insurance investigator arrives at the scene of his latest case, a run-down house in the middle of nowhere, he discovers a little boy hanging from the ceiling. The child's father is eager for insurance compensation, while the frail, grieving mother bears signs of physical abuse on her body. The police close the case as suicide, but the insurance investigator suspects foul play and fears that the mother may be the next target. Projecting his own troubled past into the case, he soon discovers the shocking repercussions of digging too deep.


BRITISH HORROR COLLECTION QUADRUPLE FEATURE (4-disc set): Shriek Show/Media Blasters

Make that four-for-gore as the Shriek Show delivers this set of screamers, including: FRIGHTMARE, HOUSE OF WHIPCORD, THE FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW and DIE SCREAMING MARIANNE.


CLOVERFIELD: Paramount



Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal horrifying event of their lives.


DEMONS AND WITCHES (10-disc set): BCI Eclipse



This 10-pack of fright films features: WITCHCRAFT X, WITCHCRAFT XI, WITCHCRAFT XII, THE STRANGERS, CRYSTAL FORCE II, DEMONSOUL, BLOODBATH, EVIL SISTER, THE SCREAMING and HELL SPAWN.


DIARIES OF THE LIVING DEAD: DEAD SUMMER / DEADHUNTER: SRS Cinema

DEAD SUMMER: A small Pennsylvania town has been quarantined from the rest of the world due to an unknown disease that's causing the dead to be re-animated. It's no mystery that these re-animated dead are zombies. Supplies are dropped off by helicopter and the town has adapted to this new way of life. The slow-like walking dead have become nothing more than an annoyance—that all changes when a young group of friends accidentally trigger the zombies into something more ferocious and primal. Now on the run from these increasingly violent creatures, the young group desperately tries to find a way to subdue them and to gain help from the outside world.

DEADHUNTER: 20 Years ago a construction project on the subway in the Spanish city of Sevilla suddenly closed. No explanation. Many workers died. Those who did not were buried alive. Until today, it has remained a mystery. But when work begins anew in that area, it unleashes the victims, now re-animated as zombies, who invade the city and consume the citizens. As the death toll mounts and all hope seems lost, the last hope for the city arrives in the form of a Special Forces group called ""The Deadhunters"". If they can't stop the bloodbath, they will certainly die trying.


LOST MISSION: Vanguard

A psychological thriller, about a training mission deep into the Alpine mountains of northern Italy, and deep into the minds of the soldiers who are about to be tested for life. Five American Soldiers in training are sent deep into the woods of northern Italy, where they encounter a deadly sniper, who seems to be following every move they make. The soldiers, led by a Lieutenant that is in over his head, must escape to their rendez-vous location, before they are all shot down, but will they be able to trust their own eyes and ears, or their fellow soldiers, facing their struggle to survive?


ONE MISSED CALL: Warner Brothers

It happens to one. Then another. And another. College students discover eerie voicemail messages on their cell phones. Each call comes from the near future. Each call has the chilling voice of the student during his or her last moments alive. And each call comes true. Terror is One Missed Call away in this got-your-number shocker based on the hit Japanese thriller.


THE ORPHANAGE: New Line



Returning to her childhood home – a mysterious, seaside orphanage – Laura and her family unknowingly unleash a long-forgotten, evil spirit. Now, thrust into a chilling nightmare that involves the disappearance of her young son, Laura must confront the memories of her past before the ghosts of the orphanage destroy her…and everyone she has ever loved.


SCARED TO DEATH: Retromedia



In this ALIEN clone from 1980—Director William Malone’s (HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL) debut feature—a retired cop, turned novelist, tracks down the Syngenor, a synthesized genetic organism that’s been on a wild killing spree.


SÉANCE: Lionsgate

A college student thinks her dorm room is being haunted by the ghost of a little girl. Though her roommates think she is crazy, they decide to hold a séance during the Thanksgiving break in an attempt to get rid of the troublesome spirit. What they don’t realize is that their séance can’t bring back a ghost that is already present. Instead, they invite in something much more terrifying – the little girl’s killer.


SICK NURSES: Magnet Pictures

Dr. Tah is a charming but devious surgeon who has a profitable side business supplying black market dealers with fresh human organs for transplant. Dr. Tah's staff of alluring nurses help him find a steady source of victims, but one of his aides, Tahwan is shocked to find that her sister Nook is on the doctor's list of upcoming cases, and threatens to turn him in to the police. Dr. Tah puts Tahwan under the knife to keep her quiet, and she conveniently dies during surgery. But a few days later, as Dr. Tah is receiving an award for his work saving lives, the ghost of Tahwan begins stalking the halls of the hospital, and she seeks violent revenge against the doctor and her fellow nurses who failed to come to her rescue.

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- A director’s cut of Alex Proyas‘ cult film Dark City is on its way, reports Home Media Magazine.

The magazine announced an official July 29th release for both the DVD and Blu-ray releases of DARK CITY: DIRECTOR'S CUT, which features new extras, new footage, new score and new special FX!

Directed by Alex Proyas and released in theaters back in 1998, the film follows a man who struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

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April 29, 2008 releases


ALL MONSTERS ATTACK (a.k.a. GODZILLA'S REVENGE): Classic Media



Ichiro is a latch-key kid in the late 1960s Japan, a country drowning in urban blight and big, nasty bullies. He escapes his dreary life by dreaming of Monster Island, a fantasy world where Godzilla rules and Ichiro is befriended by Godzilla’s son, Minilla, who's experiencing his own troubles with a bull monster, Gabara. When Ichiro is kidnapped by crooks, the lessons learned from his monster pals help him stand up for himself and fight back.


THE BEAST IN SPACE: Severin

In 1975, European sex symbol Sirpa Lane shocked the world with her performance as a maiden defiled by a ferociously aroused animal in the erotic classic THE BEAST. Five years later, the beautiful-but-doomed actress would plummet from arthouse to grindhouse in this insanely unofficial outer space 'sequel' packed with rampant sex, cheezy effects, barnyard passions and yet another graphic ravaging by a hugely-endowed man-beast.


BOARDINGHOUSE: Code Red/BCI

A man with telekinetic powers inherits a big house with a horrible past. He opens the house up as a boarding house and very quickly becomes inhabited by a group of gorgeous women. Soon the long sleeping evil supernatural power inhabiting the house starts killing off the tenants one by one.


THE COMPLETE TOXIC AVENGER (7-disc set): Troma



Since its premiere in 1984, The Toxic Avenger has become a world famous icon. Now, Troma has packaged Toxie's greatest films together into The Complete Toxic Avenger! Follow Toxie's entire history in this amazing seven disc set, which includes the unrated Director's cut versions of The Toxic Avenger, The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV! The Complete Toxic Avenger also includes the never-before-released complete series run of the Toxic Crusaders animated series and the feature length behind-the-scenes documentary Apocalypse Soon: The Making of Citizen Toxie!


DARK SHADOWS: THE BEGINNING Collection 4 (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. The character of Barnabas Collins a guilt-ridden 175-year-old vampire brought the show tremendous success. Now for the first time on DVD MPI presents the spooky series rare early episodes before Barnabas. This set contains episodes 106-143 which aired from November 21, 1966 to January 11, 1967.


DELIRIUM: Blue Underground



Criminal psychologist Dr. Herbert Lyutak is a deranged sex maniac who murders young women. His beautiful wife is tormented by visions of medieval torture and lesbian orgies. But as their madness grows more twisted, they will descend even deeper into a nightmare of dementia, depravity and most of all, DELIRIUM!


DOOR INTO DARKNESS (2-disc set): NoShame



In 1973 Dario Argento became widely known in Italy as the Italian Hitchcock, foremost through the broadcasting of this 4 episode TV series. These legendary and much sought-after mysteries are finally available on a 2 disc set!


GUTTERBALLS: Plotdigger Films

A brutally sadistic rape leads to a series of bizarre gory murders during a midnight disco bowl-a-rama at a popular bowling alley. One by one, players of two teams meet blood-drenched gruesome deaths at the hand of a black bowling-gloved masked killer. This alley will run red with blood by sunrise and the shocking twist that reveals the killer will shock even the most jaded viewer!


HARM'S WAY: Peace Arch

Mavis and her daughter Victoria flee the city looking for refuge at an isolated home for abused women. The woman in charge, , immediately takes young Victoria under her wing. Under Bea’s tutelage, Victoria becomes increasingly hostile toward her mother, worrying Mavis that Bea isn’t the kindly woman she appeared to be. As Mavis comes to learn that other women who’ve stayed at the farmhouse are now missing, she confronts Bea. But she’s too late as Bea has convinced Victoria to murder her mother. Locked away in the barn, Mavis must escape and free her daughter from the grasp of a psychotic killer before she loses her forever.


HEADLESS HORSEMAN: First Look



Seven college kids take a shortcut on their way to a party and unfortunately end up in Wormwood – a "lost" town in the middle of nowhere. They find something strange and sinister happening there- bones and weird decorations line Main Street. The cause: local Wormwood legend says on All Hallows Eve one hundred years ago, a crazed man tortured the youngsters in town and then cut off their heads. In retaliation, the townspeople killed him by cutting off his head. Seeking revenge every seven years, he returns and takes seven heads from children in the town. Now the seven visitors find themselves hunted one by one as the Headless Horseman claims his due. Each will do whatever it takes to survive.


HITCH-HIKE: Blue Underground

While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer and his beautiful wife pick up a stranded motorist. But when this hitcher turns out to be a depraved psychopath, their road trip takes a vicious detour into sex and savagery where the miles are marked in mayhem and vengeance is the ultimate rule of thumb.


IN THE BLOOD: TLA

Cassidy is a popular college jock with a secret; he s attracted to men. Testing the waters he makes a date with Victor a sexy Latino hustler. Their initial foreplay instigates strange and disturbing visions of his sister Jessica covered in blood. With a serial killer roaming the campus targeting blonde-haired girls Cassidy becomes panicked. As his visions become more frequent Cassidy realizes that he must completely embrace his gay desires if he is to crack this gory mystery.


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KARAOKE TERROR: Synapse



A satirical tale of two groups of outsiders, who make war on each other, set to a soundtrack of retro karaoke hits. A gang of young slacker guys (the Gakis) idle away their time just hanging out, their sole passion in life being elaborate karaoke recreations of their favorite Showa-era songs (oldies from the 40s to the 80s). Across town, a group of thirty-something divorced women calling themselves the Midoris do much the same thing, until one of the Gakis kills a Midori after he's rejected trying to pick her up. The Midoris retaliate, and the absurdist battle of revenge is on, with weapons escalating from knives to guns and eventually to rocket launchers and beyond.


KILLING CAR: Redemption USA

KILLING CAR is one of Jean Rollin's most unusual films and is a real departure from the vampire theme for which he is best known, though it still maintains Rollin's signature mix of mysterious femme fatales and female flesh. The film centers on a strange Asian woman who steals an American car and then proceeds to shoot and kill anyone who gets in her way for no apparent reason.


KNOCK KNOCK: Lionsgate

You never know what you will find on the other side of the door. A group of popular high school students learn this lesson when they stumble into the path of a vicious killer. The gruesome result leaves the town in horror, as two detectives work to crack the case. Suspicions mount as the school recluse is seen wandering around in the dead of night and the remaining survivors fear the worst: a knock that no lock can withstand.


THE NEW YORK RIPPER: Blue Underground



A blade-wielding psychopath is on the loose, turning The Big Apple bright red with the blood of beautiful young women. As NYPD detectives follow the trail of butchery from the decks of the Staten Island Ferry to the sex shows of Times Square, each brutal murder becomes a sadistic taunt. In the city that never sleeps, he's the killer that can't be stopped!


NIGHTMARE CITY: Blue Underground



When a radioactive spill causes mass contamination, thousands of infected citizens are transformed into bloodthirsty undead fiends. But these are not your standard stumbling gut-munchers; this is an all-out attack by fast-moving, flesh-ripping, ass-kicking maniacs that can only be stopped by a bullet to the brain. Get ready for an all-you-can-eat buffet of gunfire, gore and gratuitous aerobics where zombies run, chaos reigns and heads explode. This is NIGHTMARE CITY!


PARANORMAL STATE: The Complete Season One (3-disc set): A&E

Paranormal State is the very first series that explores paranormal investigations through the eyes and minds of college students. This series follows the dramatic life of Penn State University college student Ryan Buell and the other student members of one of the first university sanctioned Paranormal Research Society (PRS) as they seek to find the truth behind terrifying real life mysteries. Although the members of PRS are your basic college kids - dealing with the problems of school dating and finding their way in the world - they are definitely looking into other worlds as well working on cases that include poltergeists haunting and the darkest areas of the unknown. Each week they are contacted for help by outside parties ranging from The Catholic Church to ordinary families who are terrified by something supernatural happening in their lives.


POT ZOMBIES: Troma

Pot Zombies is the first in a series of releases produced and directed by up-and-coming filmmakers using techniques they learned from Lloyd Kaufman's Make Your Own Damn Movie Box Set! Rockin' soundtrack featuring DOA, Electric Frankenstein, Honky, Blitz, Bottles and Skulls, Damage Case and The Dwarves!


PRISM: Monarch

When a young autistic boy witnesses a traumatizing event and falls into a mysterious catatonic state, a lovely young psychologist takes on the challenge of helping him. But her solitary quest for answers gets more peculiar and unnerving at each turn, leading her in a direction which tests her professionalism, relationships, and her very hold on reality.


SCHIZO: Redemption USA



A young woman, who as a child witnessed the violent murder of her mother, marries and then finds that her close friends are being horrifically murdered one by one and that each death seems to be bringing her closer to the murderer.


TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA: Classic Media

The 15th and final entry in the original Godzilla series, TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA stars Katsuhiko Sasaki (GODZILLA VS. MEGALON) as an altruistic scientist and Tomoko Ai as his love interest, the cyborg Katsura. With Ishiro Honda in the director’s chair for the last time, and a masterful score by Akira Ifukube, this movie returns Godzilla to the all-out spectacle of his heyday


THE TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM/DEATH SMILES ON A MURDERER: Legend House



In THE TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM horror icon Christopher Lee plays a cruel nobleman torn to pieces as punishment for his crimes against innocent local virgins. But terror once again grips the peaceful European countryside when he rises undead from his glass coffin, seeking his own brand of twisted vengeance!

Taking a very different approach to Gothic horror, DEATH SMILES ON A MURDERER tells the tale of mysterious young Greta, a bewitching amnesiac whose beguiling beauty triggers the erotic attentions of everyone she encounters...with gory and murderous results!

[The_Return]

Originally Posted by _____V_____

- A director’s cut of Alex Proyas‘ cult film Dark City is on its way, reports Home Media Magazine.

The magazine announced an official July 29th release for both the DVD and Blu-ray releases of DARK CITY: DIRECTOR'S CUT, which features new extras, new footage, new score and new special FX!

Directed by Alex Proyas and released in theaters back in 1998, the film follows a man who struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

Finally!

This has been rumored for years...nice to get an official release date!

I cant wait :D