September 25, 2007 releases
ALONE IN THE DARK Director's Cut: Lionsgate
Edward Carnby (Christian Slater) is a private investigator specializing in unexplainable supernatural phenomena. Now, the greatest mystery of his past is about to become the most dangerous case he has ever faced. With the help of his ex-girlfriend, archaeologist Aline Cedrac (Tara Reid), and his bitter rival, government agent Richard Burke (Stephen Dorff), Edward is about to learn that just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it cannot kill you!
BLACK ROSES: Synapse
The sleepy little town of Mill Basin is about to get more than it bargained for. The satanic heavy metal rock band "Black Roses" is coming through to raise hell... literally! After making a deal with the Devil himself, the band's music demonically possesses the kids in the audience, turning them into blood-thirsty demons. The blood flows as they start killing their parents and causing chaos at their local high school. A fiery battle between man and ultimate evil.
BROKEN: Dimension Extreme/Genius
Hope and her young daughter are abducted and brought to a remote forest by a mysterious and nameless man. As Hope is forced to undergo a series of humiliating, violent, and degrading trials, she fights desperately to escape and discover the fate of her missing daughter.
BUG: Lionsgate
Having escaped her abusive ex-husband Goss, recently released from state prison, Agnes, a lonely waitress with a tragic past moves into a sleazy, run-down motel and her lesbian co-worker R.C introduces her to Gulf War veteran Peter, a peculiar, paranoiac drifter and they begin a tentative romance. However, things don't always seem as they appear and Agnes is about to experience a claustrophobic nightmare reality as the bugs begin to arrive.
CAT O'NINE TAILS: Blue Underground
When a simple robbery at a research institute leads to a series of brutal murders, a blind puzzle maker and a tenacious reporter begin their own investigation of the crimes. With nine different clues to follow, they uncover a shocking web of twisted genetics and dark sexual secrets that will finally lead them to a shattering climax of violence and suspense.
COUNT DRACULA: BBC/Warner
For those familiar with Bram Stoker's novel, this adaptation follows the book quite closely in most respects. Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. After Dracula makes his way to England, Harker becomes involved in an effort to track down and destroy the Count, eventually chasing the vampire back to his castle.
CREATURES FROM THE PINK LAGOON: Ariztical
An irreverent mash-up of gay male melodrama and "B" movie madness, Chris Diani's Creatures from the Pink Lagoon imagines what would happen if The Boys in the Band partied on the Night of the Living Dead. With its randy rest stops, monster mosquitoes, deranged dance numbers and campy cannibals, Creatures from the Pink Lagoon plays like an Ed Wood fever dream in a John Waters universe! Filled with quotable quips and crazy characters, this droll zombie movie threatens to become the first cult classic of the new millennium.
CUJO: Lionsgate
In rural Maine, Vic and Donna Trenton struggle to repair their crumbling marriage, while their young son Tad befriends a hulking, lovable, 200-pound St. Bernard named Cujo. With Vic away on business, Donna and Tad take their decrepit car to be fixed at the remote farm of their mechanic. As their aging Pinto sputters to a stop and dies, Cujo appears. But the once docile dog has undergone a hideous transformation - and becomes a slavering, demonic, killer possessed by almost supernatural strength...and unholy cunning.
CURSE OF ALCATRAZ: Lionsgate
A curse borne of torture and isolation comes to life and terrorizes a group of scientists who travel to the Alcatraz Prison to investigate a series of unsolved murders. The very last film ever to be shot on The Rock, prepare to experience the terror yourself inside the prison's haunted and deadly walls!
DEAD BOYZ DON'T SCREAM: Sharpie Films
The country's top male models are turning up naked and dead during a cowboy mountain photo shoot. Who would want to off such flawless, muscular pretty boys? They're a little self-involved and clueless, but that's no reason to take an ax to them.
DEADLY FRIEND: Warner
A terrifying tale about a lonely teenage genius whose overwhelming love for a young girl compels him to use all of his scientific knowledge to keep her with him.
DEMONS: Anchor Bay
A group of people are trapped in a large West Berlin movie theater infected by ravenous demons whom proceed to kill and posses the humans one-by-one thereby multiplying their numbers.
DEMONS 2: Anchor Bay
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
DR. GIGGLES: Warner
When the psychopathic son of a mass-murdering doctor escapes from a mental institution, he seeks revenge on the citizens of the town where his father was finally captured. The giggling new "doctor" uses the surgical skills he picked up from his father and a near-lifetime spent in and around medical facilities to gruesomely do away with his victims while he awaits the chance to perform his ultimate revenge -- giving one of the townsfolk a heart transplant, without anesthesia!
EATEN ALIVE: Dark Sky
The Starlight, a decrepit hotel run by Judd, receives few customers. Perhaps it’s the remote location in the Texas bayous. Perhaps it’s the owner's violent mood swings. Or perhaps it’s the man-eating crocodile in the backyard. But one dark steamy night finds the Starlight visited by a runaway prostitute, a young couple and their child, a dying father and his daughter, and sex-obsessed Buck, all of whom will experience an unforgettable night of terror at the hands of Judd and his pet croc.
ELVIRA'S MOVIE MACABRE:
BLUE SUNSHINE/MONSTROID: Shout! Factory
BLUE SUNSHINE; After a batch of LSD turns his friend into a psychotic killer, Jerry must find the dealer responsible, before he’s wrongfully convicted of the murders. MONSTROID: A small village is attacked by a creature from a nearby lake, and a corrupt chemical company sends a specialist to destroy the beast and cover up its own responsibility.
ELVIRA'S MOVIE MACABRE:
GAMERA, SUPER MONSTER/THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE: Shout! Factory
GAMERA. SUPER MONSTER: The evil alien Zanon is back, and Gamera and the Space women are the world’s only hope against total enslavement. THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE: A meteor shower infects towns people with the "Crimson Plague." Can Dr. Temple rid the Earth of its unwelcome visitors?
ELVIRA'S MOVIE MACABRE:
MANEATERS OF HYDRA/THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED: Shout! Factory
MANEATER OF HYDRA: A group of tourists spends a weekend on a lush island occupied by a demented botanist. Little do they know that carnivorous plants are the welcoming committee! THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED: Students keep disappearing from a French boarding school for troubled girls. Are they running away or are they being kidnapped?
EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2: Other Cinema/Facets
This much anticipated follow-up to the first EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR is a frightful collection of rare horror shows. These low-budget grainy ghoulish classics are perfect for a night of screams. What could be more perfect for Halloween or any other time of year than to enjoy a good scare?
EYES OF A STRANGER: Warner
A reporter protects her disabled sister from a psychopathic killer.
THE FERRYMAN: First Look
Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht. The Greek has been cheating death for countless years—trading broken bodies for new ones over centuries. With him he carries a deadly weapon that allows him to do this. This weapon, the Shifting Blade, gives its possessor an awesome power. But now is the time of reckoning. The Ferryman, the ancient conveyor of death and the path to the afterlife is close and he wants the Greek. There is a payment to be made.
FRACTURED: York Home Video
Val, who has just escaped from a mental institution, awakens in a bathtub full of blood and ice to find that a prostitute has stolen his kidney. A drug-hazed pursuit ensues as he wanders through the realms of sanity, determined to find his kidney before it s sold on the black market. When he finally encounters the prostitute she seduces him and he reluctantly joins her in a hallucinatory journey from the inner-city streets to the countryside to the depths of despair...and murder.
FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE: Warner
Anthology film from Amicus adapted from four short stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes strung together about an antique dealer (Peter Cushing) who owns a shop called Temptations Ltd. and the fate that befalls his customers who try to cheat him. Stories include "The Gate Crasher" with David Warner who frees an evil enity from an antique mirror, "An Act of Kindness" featuring Donald Pleasence, "The Elemental", and "The Door".
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