It’s another huge week for DVD releases-which is always a good thing (particularly in October), unless you’re a one man film reviewer who’s still trying to see and write about everything that came out last week. I’ll take it though-it’s better to have too many movies to watch and cover than nothing for weeks on end.
The biggest releases this week are undoubtedly Lions Gate’s Ghosthouse Underground flicks. Eight new films, all released in the same week, under the same banner. It’s a lot of eggs to place in one basket, but early reports seem to indicate the gamble has paid off. The eight films featured are: Dance of the Dead (which appears to be the bonafide best of the bunch-I’ll let you know for sure once I see the last two films in the set), No Man’s Land: Rise of Reeker (a sequel to the cult hit Reeker), Room 205, Dark Floors, Last House in the Woods, The Substitute (no, not the one with Tom Berenger), Brotherhood of Blood (which features both Sid Haig and Ken Foree), and Trackman. I’m going to try to review all of these in the very near future, but like I said, I’m a one man show so it’s gonna take a bit of time.
If all that weren’t enough for you, there’s also the director’s cut of the 1983 film Sweet Sixteen. Melissa is the new girl in town and the boys are all dying to meet her…literally.
Stuck is the strangest sounding film to come along in quite some time. Stuart Gordon helms this odd tale wherein Mena Suvari plays an overworked nurse who hits a homeless man on her way home one night. The homeless guy (Stephen Rea) is lodged in her windshield, but Suvari’s character doesn’t want to get him help since it might jeopardize her promotion. So she leaves him stuck there and the two engage in a battle for survival. Trust me, you just have to see it-words can’t really do it justice.
Finally, Cinema Epoch gives us Deadly Game, a slasher flick set in Holland. A group of gamers are invited to check out a hot new title, only they soon discover that they’re trapped inside the building and being stalked by a serial killer. Gamers and horror seem like they should fit together really well, but if we learned anything from Stay Alive it’s that horror movies revolving around gaming and gamers are something to be approached with a great deal of trepidation.
And there you have it, your horror DVD releases for the week of October 14th, 2008.
It’s been a pretty good week for horror comedy flicks. Last Tuesday, genre fans finally got a chance to check out Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (which was well worth the wait). This week sees the release of the equally anticipated (albeit slightly less funny) Dance of the Dead. It’s a good time to be a fan of horror films-particularly if you like some humor mixed in with your blood and guts.
