February 19, 2008 releases
BLACK WATER: Sony Pictures
What begins as a leisurely boat tour down the rivers of Northern Australia becomes a horrifying race for survival when Grace, Adam and Lee become hostages of a man-eating crocodile. When their boat suddenly capsizes in a mangrove swamp they are shocked to find that their guide is missing. Realizing they've been attacked by a crocodile, the only place they can find safety is up a tree. Now, stranded in the flooded swamp, starving and terrified, the three must battle to survive the bloodthirsty beast who sits below - just waiting for one of them to lose their grip.
CATACOMBS: Lionsgate
The City of Lights becomes the City of Frights when American tourist Victoria her sister Carolyn and gets lost at a party in the Catacombs, the vast 200-mile labyrinthine network of tunnels that lies beneath Paris. Confusion soon gives way to terror as Victoria begins to suspect she's being chased—and a swirling rumor about a monster isn't helping matters either.
EYES FRONT: Image
This chilling look into the tormented minds of two killers from completely different walks of life explores the thin line between good and evil. In a hallucinatory adventure of the senses, a crazed murderer wanders the streets on a remorseless hunt for victims. Meanwhile, a distraught family man who accidentally kills his wife desperately searches for redemption.
FOREST PRIMEVAL: Tempe
Skull Mountain is the epicenter of a freak earthquake which unleashes evil demons into the surrounding forest. A pair of amateur treasure hunters and a troubled woman with a psychic link to the evil are the only ones left alive to confront the restless presence that's wreaking havoc and spilling the blood of the innocents in
FOREST PRIMEVAL!
FRANKENSTEIN’S BLOODY NIGHTMARE: Unearthed
Brilliant young Victor Karlstein finds himself in an abyss of personal turmoil and professional stress after the woman he most likely seemed to love dies while under the care of his own mysterious medical facility. Determined to keep her alive, Victor uses his mechanically-enhanced reanimated corpse to murder young women in order to furnish "raw parts" for her new body, among other devious things.
GABRIEL: Sony Pictures
GABRIEL is a dark action/drama that takes place in the realm of Purgatory. It reveals the struggle between Arc and Fallen angels for control over the city and its population of re-born souls. At present, darkness rules and Gabriel, the last of seven Arcs sent to return light, must assume a human form for the first time. In the darkest places of the human soul, this lone arc angel's battle with his human feelings and emotions will prove as perilous as facing the Fallen. Purgatory's dangerous and seedy underworld will reveal the human condition as frail and strong, as corruptible and honorable but always undeniably powerful and precious.
GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM COLLECTION (
THE HANDS OF ORLAC, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, SECRETS OF A SOUL, WARNING SHADOWS; 4-disc set): Kino
CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) The most brilliant example of that dark and twisted film movement known as German expressionism, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI is a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and substance are abstracted, a world in which a demented doctor and a carnival sleepwalker perpetuate a series of murders in a small community.
WARNING SHADOWS (1923) A mysterious traveler and illusionist who performs shadow puppetry arrives to provide some entertainment at an otherwise routine dinner party. The host of the party is already mad with jealousy over the presence of his wife’s four suitors, but when the puppet show begins, passions overtake reason and reality is not what it appears to be.
THE HANDS OF ORLAC (1924) Based on a novel by medical-horror novelist Maurice Renard,
THE HANDS OF ORLAC charts the mental disintegration of a concert pianist whose hands are amputated after a train crash, and replaced with the hands of an executed murderer. When Orlac's father is murdered by the dead man’s hands, Orlac begins a steady descent toward madness.
SECRETS OF A SOUL (1926) In the 1920s, film studios around the world sought to capitalize on the public s curiosity about the newborn science of psychoanalysis. In 1925, Hans Neumann contacted members of Sigmund Freud s inner circle with a plan to make a dramatic film that explores the mystifying process of the interpretation of dreams. With the help of noted psychologists Karl Abraham and Hanns Sachs, and under the direction of G.W. Pabst (Pandora s Box),
SECRETS OF A SOUL was completed. Werner Krauss, who had played the deranged Dr. Caligari six years earlier, stars as a scientist who is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of madness by fantastic nightmares (designed by Ernö Metzner and photographed by Guido Seeber in a brilliant mix of expressionism and surrealism), he encounters a psychoanalyst who offers to treat the perplexing malady.
NAKED BENEATH THE WATER: Phoenix
Pelle's brother has been missing for a month when a mysterious phone call directs him to the top rated reality show, Public Enemy Number One. It's a nasty piece of work where contestants tape their murders and battle it out to be the top killer for that year. When Pelle realizes the brutal chainsaw murder was filmed in his brother's apartment he goes there to see if the footage is real. Little does he know he's stepped into a vicious contest of famous past Public Enemies and those who will take their place.
NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE: Dimension Extreme
Terrifying horror film about a man who gets into people’s dreams and causes them to kill themselves in real life.
REVAMPED: MTI
After a sexy encounter with a beautiful woman named Lilith, successful businessman Richard Clarke soon discovers that the "love bite" he's received has turned him into a vampire. While getting adjusted to his unusual powers, he tries to understand the meaning of his new existence, but hot on Richard's trail is a special force of vampire hunters determined to wipe out all the bloodsuckers they find.
SPIRAL: Anchor Bay
The harrowing story of a shy and possibly disturbed telemarketer/painter, his arrogant longtime friend, and the carefree new co-worker whose love may offer a portrait of normalcy. But, in a life scarred by dark secrets, can the truth be the most horrifying pose of all? Brought to you by the master director of
HATCHET, Adam Green.
ZEBRAMAN: Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters
The year is 2010. Shinichi is a second-rate third-grade teacher who gets no respect from his family and little from his students. It seems that in 1978 he fell in love with a tv super hero named Zebraman that was cancelled shortly after airing. The show was set in 2010 so this year he sews himself a makeshift Zebraman costume and slinks around the city at night.