March 18, 2008 Releases
If you don't have Netflix or Blockbuster you're going to be in a world of hurt as this is one of the biggest DVD release weeks since last October.
Arriving at retailers everywhere this Tuesday, March 18 are more horror titles than you could possibly have time for.
AFTER DARK HORRORFEST (8-disc boxed set): Lionsgate
Pick up all 8 After Dark films in one monstrous set!
AMOK TRAIN: Shriek Show/Media Blasters
AMOK TRAIN follows a group of American students to Yugoslavia. They meet up with their professor to bear witness to a sacred pagan ritual. When they realize that they're the ones to be sacrificed, they run for their lives and escape by hopping a train. But there's another problem: this train is possessed and is determined to reunite these kids with their horrifying fates!
BORDERLAND*: Lionsgate
When three Texas University students travel to a Mexican border town on the eve of their graduation, the last thing they expect is to face their own deaths. Without warning, they fall prey to an ancient blood cult hellbent on finding candidates for human sacrifice.
CRAZY EIGHTS*: Lionsgate
Six people are brought together at the funeral of a childhood friend. While settling the estate, they discover a map, which leads them on a search for a long forgotten time capsule, at the request of their dead friend. What they discover reawakens repressed childhood traumas and leads them on a journey through their long abandoned childhood home: a home with a terrible secret and a mysterious dead girl who will lead them to their strange fates.
THE DEATHS OF IAN STONE*: Lionsgate
On an otherwise ordinary night, the young Ian Stone encounters a mysterious creature and is forced into the path of an oncoming train. Rather than facing certain death, Ian finds himself reborn into a new life that feels strangely familiar. After his second death, it becomes apparent that Ian is being hunted by an evil presence, and will be forced to die every day until he can solve the mystery of his own life.
I AM LEGEND: Warner
Robert Neville is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague -- The Infected -- lurk in the shadows... watching Neville's every move... waiting for him to make a fatal mistake.
LAKE DEAD*: Lionsgate
Three beautiful sisters learn of a long-lost grandfather, but only make this discovery upon the news of his grisly death. Enticed to visit grandpa's old home after hearing of an inheritance, the sisters head to the back country with some friends. The psychotic family occupying the inherited property goes on a long-awaited, and much enjoyed killing spree. As the family's twisted motives unravel, the sisters discover a terror worse than death.
THE LOST: Anchor Bay
Once upon a time, a boy named Ray Pye put crushed beer cans in his boots to make himself taller. But this is no fairy tale: For suburban sociopath Ray and his friends, small-town life is a dead-end road of sex, drugs, liars and losers. And what begins with a sudden act of senseless violence will climax in a mind-blowing frenzy of depravity with the worst still yet to come.
MANIAC LOVE (
WHISPERS FROM A SHALLOW GRAVE, CAMP UTOPIA, BLOODLETTING, BENT VOLUME THREE; 4-disc): Fat Cat/Tempe
Fat Cat DVD gathers five of the most gruesome, love-shattering stories ever told, together for the first time on four DVDs for one heart-breaking low price with MANIAC LOVE 5-Pack.
Former L.A. Raiderette Linda Sobek's tragic murder comes to cinematic life from her own lips in WHISPERS FROM A SHALLOW GRAVE (2006).
Former RATT frontman Stephen Pearcy shows that murder runs in the family in CAMP UTOPIA (2005).
A serial killer's victim tracks him down and blackmails him into teaching her how to kill in BLOODLETTING (1997).
And in BENT VOLUME THREE (2002), love reaches a new low with two twisted tales of terror.
MULBERRY STREET*: Lionsgate
he city that never sleeps may shut its eyes for good when a deadly infection turns its residents to savage creatures. There is only hope for a small few, including six recently evicted tenants who must protect their crumbling apartment complex as the city around them is thrown into chaos...
NIGHTMARE MAN*: Lionsgate
After receiving a mysterious mask, Ellen Morris believes she was attacked by an evil being she calls "Nightmare Man." Her husband, Bill, believes she is crazy. On their way to the mental hospital their car breaks down and Bill goes to get gas, leaving Ellen alone. When Nightmare Man appears, Ellen takes off into the woods, unsure whether she is hallucinating or not. She stumbles upon a cabin filled with friends who unknowingly becoming prey the moment Ellen steps inside.
THE SADNESS: York
When an abused child finds that she has special abilities she seeks those that have caused her harm to inflict a torturous murderous wrath of revenge.
7EVENTY5IVE: CodeBlack
The spring semester is coming to a close at a private university in Colorado. A closeknit circle of friends who have dubbed themselves the Crew, tire of studying for finals and engage in a harmless prank calling contest called 75. However in this modern version of an old prank, the calls are crueler and the stakes are higher. The rules are simple: prank call a random person and scare the hell out of them for 75 seconds. If the person laughs or hangs up, you lose. Whoever has the best scare wins.
THE SICKHOUSE: New Line
While excavating the site of a 17th century plague hospital, archaeologist Anna unleashes the malevolent spirit of a plague doctor responsible for a series of gruesome murders 350 years earlier and he’s ready to practice again! Trapped inside the hospital with four trespassing teens and hunted by the murderous spirit, Anna must find a way for the living to escape the building before history repeats itself and one by one they become permanent patients.
SOUL SEARCHER: York
Joe Fallow works nights driving a street sweeper, hangs out in a cafe with his one and only friend, and is helplessly in love with waitress Heather. Then one night an ailing Grim Reaper comes to him with an offer...to be trained as his replacement, dispensing supernatural justice in the afterlife. Now someone is breaking down the walls between our world and Hades, and Joe must prevent the ancient moat of Souls from opening or there truly will be Hell on Earth.
SYNCHRONICITY: SRS Cinema
On one particular morning, John awoke in his bed, covered in blood, unaware of what has happened to him. He tried to speak, but can only regurgitate black thick vomit. In agony he made his way to his feet and into his bathroom, where he discovered lodged in his ear...a Dear John letter... from his brain. This begins John's comedic and tragic journey to find his brain and the reason for its departure. But, in a reality of distrust, rabbits, bears, little girls, demons, lust, corpse sex, and cat murders, how does one derive meaning from the world around them...and how do you find your brain?
TOOTH AND NAIL*: Lionsgate
A small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world take refuge in an empty hospital with plans on rebuilding society. They rescue a young girl who is the victim of a brutal attack, but soon discover that they were followed by a savage band of cannibals known as Rovers. The Rovers begin to kill them one by one, and the trapped survivors must find a way to outwit their stalkers.
TRIGGER MAN: Kino
On 5/20/06 at 7:04am, three old friends traveled from New York City to Wilmington Delaware for a day long hunting excursion. It was planned as a final reunion before one was to be married. The events that transpired that day were more horrific than any of them could have imagined…
UNEARTHED*: Lionsgate
A vicious creature that's been trapped for 900 years, gets unearthed during an archeological dig in the middle of a desolate town. As the carnage escalates, the local sheriff and a group of stranded civilians must find a way to destroy the creature that only has one mission - complete annihilation.
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Bold and marked with asterisk(*) mean they are a part of the After Dark Horrorfest 8-Film Set, which you can buy separately.