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DVD Releases: 10/17/2006
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John Marrone

Blackwater Valley Exorcism (2006)

- trailer (windows media)

Plot Synopsis:  An already troubled priest finds himself in mortal danger when called to an isolated ranch to help his old flame, whose younger sister is exhibiting signs of diabolic possession. Father Jacob's feelings for his ex are rekindled, but too late he realizes that his love is the one possessed--not her sister. ~ VideoUniverse.com

DVD Features:  Region 1 Keep Case
Widescreen - (unspecified)
Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English
Closed Captioned - English
Subtitles - Spanish - optional
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus

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Bram Stoker: To Die For (1989)

Plot Synopsis:  Vlad Tepish, the legendary Prince of Darkness, has resurfaced in L.A. With a new look, a new life, and a new love. But with his new life comes an old enemy...  An enemy who has waited his eternal life to finally even the score. ~ VideoUniverse.com

DVD Features:  Region 1 Keep Case
Widescreen - 16.9
Audio: (unspecified) - English

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The Complete Omen Collection (The Omen - 1976/ The Omen - 2006/ Damien: The Omen II/ The Omen III: The Final Conflict/ The Omen IV: The Awakening)

Plot Synopsis: 

The Omen (1976) - (trailer/review) - The first film in classic, four-part legacy of terror stars Gregory Peck as an ambassador who is talked into switching his wife's (Lee Remick) stillborn baby with an orphaned infant. When young Damien is Five, the horror begins with his nanny's dramatic suicide. As the death toll escalates, Damien's father, realizing his son is the antichrist, decides that he must kill the boy and rid the world of the evil. 

The Omen (2006) - (trailer/review) - A remake of the 1976 horror classic The Omen, where an American official realizes that his young son may literally be the devil incarnate.

Damien: The Omen II - (watch the reporter get her eyes pecked out) - Seven years later, 13-year-old Damien is just discovering who he really is, and what he is destined to do. Now living with his Aunt, Uncle, and cousin in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, Damien is anxious to inherit everything. Can Richard Thorn finish the job that Damien's father (Ambassador Thorn) started? 

The Omen III: The Final Conflict - (trailer/review) - Now come into his full knowledge and power, the Anti-Christ in the body of Damien Thorne is about to strike his final blow. The Christ-child has been born again, on the Angel Isle, England. The plan is simple, find the male children born on the specified day, and kill them all.

The Omen IV: The Awakening - Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys, Gene & Karen York. When Karen realizes her baby was born under suspicious circumstances, she hires a private investigator to find Delia's real parents. A series of bizarre accidents occur, and Karen begins to suspect everyone of conspiring against her as she unravels the truth about her baby. ~ Amazon.com

DVD Features:  6 Discs
Including The Omen 1976 2-disc collectors edition
Audio: English
Standard Scene Selection
info on extras N/A

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Cutting Room (2005)

- trailer (quicktime)

Plot Synopsis:  Things go from bad to worse when life imitates (bad) art on the set of Curse of the Killer , a new film by B-movie extraordinaire, Charles Drake (Weetus Cren). The movie about a serial killer falls into full disarray when people involved in the production start getting killed one by one in nasty ways. Desperately trying to keep the production afloat along with his cranky casting director (E.G. Daily) and inexperienced writer/director (Mark Elias), paranoia and utter confusion sets in with Charles and crew. A stubborn the show must go on mentality drives the situation into further pandemonium. ~ Amazon.com

- Official Site

DVD Features:  Region 0
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio: Stereo - English
Additional Release Materials:
Outtakes - Deleted Scenes
Trailers

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Dark Reality (2006)

- trailer (quicktime)

Plot Synopsis:  Backpacking across Europe was supposed to be an adventure of a lifetime for Carey. But a different journey begins when she awakes in a cold, dark basement. A nightmarish journey filled with psychological terror and physical torture. Not alone, Carey desperately bonds with other captives in hopes of surviving a madman's sadistic, demented game. But their tormentor has an insatiable bloodthirst... ~ VideoUniverse.com

DVD Features:  Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Text/Photo Gallery:
Audio Commentary
Behind the Screams Featurette
Still Gallery

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Evil Grave: Curse of the Maya (2006)

Plot Synopsis:  When a young couple moves into an abandoned house in the mountains, they discover it's infected by an ancient curse brought on by the murder of an innocent Mayan Indian family. Whoever murdered them did not bury them properly… now the dead are walking… and they are very hungry. If you're warm… and breathing… you're surely to fall prey to the "Curse of the Maya". ~ ActionCatEntertainment.com

- Official Site

DVD Features:  Region 0 Keep Case
Audio: Dolby Digital (unspecified) - English
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access

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Feast (2006)

- trailer
- review

Plot Synopsis:  In the tradition of Shaun of the Dead, this tongue-in-cheek horror film features a cast of reluctant monster-vanquishers trapped in a bar. The making of the film was the focus of the third season of HBO's Project Greenlight.  ~ VideoUniverse.com

- Official Site

DVD Features:  Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Commentary by the filmmakers
"Horror Under the Spotlight: Making Feast" featurette
"The Blood and Guts of Gary Tunnicliffe" featurette
Deleted scenes
Outtakes

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Frankenhooker (1990)

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Plot Synopsis:  When his pretty fiancee goes to pieces under the blades of a runaway lawnmower, aspiring mad scientist Jeffrey Franken hatches an unorthodox scheme to bring his beloved back to life. He reassembles her using body parts of New York prostitutes. Gory and exploitative, but worth seeing for some New Jersey color, as well as giant pimp Zorro and some murderous "Supercrack." ~ VideoUniverse.com

DVD Features:  Region 1
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio: Stereo - English
Additional Release Materials:
Audio Commentary - Frank Henlotter - Director; Gabe Bartolos
Behind The Scenes - Making Of
Interviews - Patty Mullen - Star; Jennifer Delora - Star
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills/Photos

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Future Worlds (1956)

Plot Synopsis:  This collection boasts over 12 hours of futuristic fun.  Films include...
Prisoners of the Lost Universe
Warriors of the Wasteland
Cosmos: War of the Planets
Star Odyssey
Menace From Outer Space
War of the Robots
Crash of the Moons (Mystery Science Theater intro)
Evil Brain From Outer Space ~ VideoUniverse.com

DVD Features:  Keep Case
3-Disc Set
Audio: (unspecified) - English

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Grotesqueries (2006)

Plot Synopsis:  Before the classic monsters were immortalized on the silver screen there were Grotesqueries; a devilish collection of chilling short reel features both animated and live-action from the dawn of cinema through the 1930s, Interred here are the eerie telling of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, the Germanic conjuring of Dukas’ famed and frightful The Wizard’s Apprentice and the ghoulish, graveyard merrymaking tale, The Ghosts’ High Noon. Also featured are more macabre tales of ghouls, ghosts, goblins and mummies in classic animation shorts from the likes of the legendary Felix the Cat and Tom & Jerry. So prepare to journey into the beginnings of cinema’s netherworld with this collection of things that go bump in the dark of the theater and the confines of nickelodeon.  ~ Amazon.com

DVD Features:  Bonus Features...
1. Haunted Melodies
2. Crypt Tickle
3. Trick or Treat
4. Grotesqueries Who's Who
5. Art 'Ghoullery'

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House of Blood (2005)

- trailer (flash)

Plot Synopsis:  Dr. Douglas Madsen is on his way home from work one day when his car collides with a prison bus, setting off a horrific chain of events in this independent horror film. The four surviving prisoners, one of whom is severely injured, take the doctor hostage and flee into Canada. There, the group finds refuge in a mysterious, isolated house inhabited by a very strange family.... ~ VideoUniverse.com

DVD Features:  Region 1 Keep Case
Widescreen - (unspecified)
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English
Closed Captioned - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish - optional
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus

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Icons of Horror - Boris Karloff (The Boogie Man Will Get You/The Black Room/The Man They Could Not Hang/Before I Hang) (1935)

Plot Synopsis:  Boris Karloff was to the Horror Movie what Fred Astaire was to the Musical: the epitome of class and style. No matter how grisly the circumstances, he'd rise above them with talent, poise and even charm. And here, for the first time on DVD, are four of his finest chillers from his peak years in the 1930s and 1940s, all demonstrating his amazing range. In The Black Room, he plays twin brothers -- one good, one evil, naturally -- in a small country where beautiful women seem to turn up missing. The Man They Could Not Hang and Before I Hang present him in his classic "Mad Doctor" persona as forward-thinking scientists who run afoul of the law and become crazed killers. And in The Boogie Man Will Get You, he sends up that image in a delightful farce that also stars Peter Lorre (M) and Larry Parks (The Jolson Story). It's a collection all fervent classic-horror fans have been eagerly waiting for!

The Boogie Man Will Get You:  Crazy professor Nathaniel Billings is working on creating a race of supermen in the basement of a New England house. He sells the building to a naive woman and her ex-boyfriend to run as a hotel. Billings then teams up with equally crazy Dr. Lawrence and uses the guests as a source for their experiments.

The Black Room:  Prophecy has it that younger twin Anton will kill brother Gregor in the castle's Black Room. Anton returns to the castle after a 10 year hiatus. Gregor, a Baron, has many attempts on his life as his subjects detest his tyranny. However, good natured Anton earns the subjects' respect, and the admiration of Col.Hassel, uncle of the beautiful Thea. When Gregor kills young servant Mashka, his subjects storm the castle to remove him. Devious Gregor renounces his title in favour of brother Anton to appease them. He then kills Anton to assume his identity and the Baronship again. He is free to pursue Thea with Col.Hassel's blessing. When Col.Hassel discovers Gregor's impersonation, he also meets death. With Thea's true love, Lt. Lussan, wrongfully convicted of Hassel's murder, it appears nothing can stop evil Gregor from ambushing her into marriage. But what of that prophecy?

The Man They Could Not Hang:  Mad Scientist, Dr. Henryk Savaard, is obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. The police are alerted of Savaard's activities by his assistant's girlfriend. Savaard is arrested, convicted and sentenced to hang. He vows revenge on the judge, jury and district attorney. After the hanging, his assistant claims Savaard's body and uses Savaard's technique on it. Savaard is brought back to life. Now he can seek sweet revenge on his prosecutors.

Before I Hang:  A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde. ~ Amazon.com

DVD Features:  Available Subtitles: French
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)

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Incredible Monsters (2006)

Plot Synopsis:  Horror fans are in for a treat with this collection of vintage monster classics. Films include...
The Beast of Yucca Flats (WATCH THE WHOLE MOVIE)
The Beast From Haunted Cave
She Demons
Monster Maker
She Beast
Night Fright
Attack of the Giant Leeches (trailer)
Secret of the Loch
The Snow Creature (sample clip)
Track of the Moon Beast (trailer)
Jesse James Meets Frankestein's Daughter ~ VideoUniverse.com

DVD Features:  Keep Case
3-Disc Set
Audio: (unspecified) - English

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Kitty Killers (2001)

Plot Synopsis:  Mr. Hill is a "tough as nails" businessman. He believes in making deals by any means necessary and if it means a person gets killed...so be it. The men who work for Mr. Hill are loyal, but if any of them decide to oppose him, they're dead. This is a journey of the dangerous lives these criminals lead, and the Zen that awaits the most fearless survivors. ~ VideoUniverse.com

DVD Features:  Region 0 Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English
Additional Release Material:
Featurette - Behind The Scenes
Outtakes
DVD-ROM: Weblink

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Living a Zombie Dream (1996)

Plot Synopsis:  When a young man discovers his brother horning in on his girlfriend, he exacts the sort of punishment common to siblings: he strands him in the wrong part of town. But the prank turns deadly when the brother has a run-in with a deranged psychopath, and the guilt-ridden cuckold vows revenge. Trouble is, the psycho rises from the grave and decides to exact his own vengeance on his killer. Bloody mayhem ensues in this graphic gore-fest nominated for six B-Movie Theater Awards. ~ VideoUniverse.com

DVD Features:  Region 0 Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English
Additional Release Material:
DVD-ROM: Web Link

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Masters of Horror: Larry Cohen - Pick Me Up (2005)

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Plot Synopsis:  Larry Cohen's chapter in the Masters of Horror series begins on a deserted road in the middle of nowhere. When a crazed hitchhiker gets accidentally offered a ride by an equally insane truck driver, a young woman (Fairuza Balk) has the bad luck to become the victim of each. In order to make it out alive, she will have to outsmart both men by beating each at his own game. ~ VideoUniverse.com

DVD Features:  Commentary by director Larry Cohen
"Working With a Master: Larry Cohen " featurette on the director and his work
"Death on the Highway: An Interview with Larry Cohen"
"Behind The Scenes: The Making of Pick Me Up" featurette
"Fantasy Film Festival: Mick Garris Interviews Larry Cohen"
"On Set: An Interview with Michael Moriarty"
"On Set: An Interview with Fairuza Balk"
"On Set: An Interview with Warren Cole"
Script To Screen: "Pick Me Up"
Larry Cohen Bio
Still Gallery
DVD-ROM: Original Screenplay and screen saver

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The Omen (2006) (review)

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Plot Synopsis:  If you can overlook its glaring redundancy, The Omen is a faithful and well-crafted remake that does adequate justice to Richard Donner's popular 1976 original. It's a completely unnecessary film, given that David Seltzer's original screenplay wasn't even rewritten (as would normally happen with a Hollywood remake), but when viewed with fresh eyes, or by anyone who's unfamiliar with the original, it retains most of the serious, intelligently plotted chills that made Donner's horror thriller a box-office sensation. It skews to a younger audience (of course), with Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles in the roles originated by Gregory Peck and Lee Remick. As newly-promoted U.S. Ambassador to England Robert Thorn and his troubled wife Katherine, they grow increasingly suspicious that their young son Damien (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) may be the devil incarnate. An anxious Roman priest (Pete Postelthwaite) and a freelance photographer (David Thewlis, in the role memorably originated by David Warner) are equally terrified of this Satanic scenario, and Damien's new and eerily protective nanny (played to perfection by Mia Farrow) adds further evidence of Damien's malevolence, as Vatican prophesies of Armageddon are rapidly fulfilled. Director John Moore (who also remade The Flight of the Phoenix) offers a few minor improvements in suspense and gruesomeness (including a more graphically inventive death for a prominent character), but he's also hampered by the weaker presence of Davey-Fitzpatrick, who's not nearly as creepy as the original film's Damien. Otherwise, this copy of The Omen justifies its existence as a worthwhile diversion for stormy-night viewing. ~ Amazon.com

- Official Site

DVD Features:  Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Commentary by director John Moore, producer Glenn Williamson and editor Dan Zimmerman
"Revelation 666" featurette
Unrated extended sequences
Unrated alternate ending
Omenisms
Abby Road Sessions
Trailers 

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The Other (1972)

- trailer (flash)

Plot Synopsis:  Chilling and eerie, this supernatural tale of good versus evil coils around twin brothers living with their grandmother in a sleepy rural area during the summer of 1935. After his grandmother encourages Niles to develop what seem to be psychic gifts, Niles starts to suspect that his twin may be involved in recent fatal accidents. Surprising twist after twist heightens the sense that a horrifying climax lurks at the edge of the viewer’s vision--and the stark finale will have suspense and thriller lovers starting the film again to savor its intricate, disturbingly memorable moments. ~ VideoUniverse.com

DVD Features:  Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio: Stereo - English
Mono - English, French, Spanish
Subtitles - Spanish - Optional 

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Psycho Weene (2006)

Plot Synopsis:  I couldn't find a synopsis on this film.  Whats funny is that if you type this title into Google and search, it comes back and asks you if you meant "psycho weenie"...

DVD Features:  Region 0 Keep Case
Audio: Dolby Digital (unspecified) - English
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access

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Rest Stop (2006)

- trailer (windows media)
- review

Plot Synopsis:  Jess is at the wheel. Nicole rides shotgun. And at the end of the road stretching before them is glittering, glamorous Hollywood. They're on a road trip, all right...straight to hell. When the runaway lovers pause at an abandoned rest stop, Jess disappears. And someone else appears - someone with his own demented sense of fun. With drills. Staple guns. Box cutters. All the tearing, grinding, ripping tools you need to hew wood. Or metal. Or people. Especially young, pretty people just like Nicole. Raw fear rules in Rest Stop, the first film from Raw Feed, the newest brand name in horror, sci-fi and thrillers. Director John Shiban, writer and executive producer of The X-Files and Supernatural, keeps the terrors and twists coming, each out-shocking the last. Stop. Stay awhile. But don't expect to rest. ~ Amazon.com

- Official Site

DVD Features:  Keep Case
Additional Release Material:
Alternate Endings - 3 Alternate Endings
Featurette -
1. "Scotty's Blog Expose"
Theatrical Trailer
Text/Photo Gallery:
Photo Gallery - On the Bus: Photos Taken on the Torture Buss

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Salvage (widescreen) (2005)

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Plot Synopsis:  College student Claire Parker is stalked and killed by a serial murderer. Awaking alive and well, she assumes the whole affair to have been a grisly nightmare. When the awful scenario repeats itself a second and then a third time, she is forced to conclude that something supernatural is afoot. Enlisting the aid of her best friend, the local detective, and her reluctant boyfriend Jimmy, Claire must somehow break the cycle and piece together the truth -- a truth too horrible to imagine. ~ Amazon.com

- Official Site

DVD Features:  Keep Case
Widescreen
Audio: Dolby Digital - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailer - Theatrical Trailer

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The Virgin of Juarez (2005)

- trailer (flash)

Plot Synopsis:  In the border town of Ciudad Juarez hundreds of young women have been brutally murdered with no arrests. Investigating these serial killings, reporter Karina Danes (Minnie Driver) meets Mariela (Ana Claudia Talancon) a rare survivor of one of these vicious attackes with an ethereal and charismatic personality. During her recovery, Mariela sees visions of the Virgin Mary and experiences the phenomenon of stigmata. She soon gathers a cult following of people looking for hope. When she moves to East L.A. Mariela’s transformation is complete. She becomes a Joan of Arc figure for a neo-Christian Latino gang in Los Angeles. Karina follows this incredible story and becomes involved in it as she tries to understand how this attack could have transformed this young woman. In the end she becomes too involved as the gang implodes in violence and tragedy. Based on the ongoing unsolved murders in Cuidad Juarez, the film connects issues of politics, fanaticism and religion with murder and violence in Mexico and East L.A. ~ VideoUniverse.com

DVD Features:  Color
Subtitled
Standard Screen
Soundtrack English

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Went the Day Well? (1942)

- trailer (windows media)

Plot Synopsis:  Of all the propaganda films produced by Britain during the war, no motion picture was as shattering as this fictional — yet frighteningly real — story of heroes, traitors and graphic homeland terror. In the spring of 1942, the quaint rural village of Bramley End is occupied by a German platoon expertly disguised as friendly British troops. In the days that follow, the men, women and children of the isolated town must single-handedly outsmart and destroy the Nazi force before their invasion can spread to the rest of an unsuspecting nation. Leslie Banks, Thora Hird, Mervyn Johns and Basil Sydney star in this chilling thriller adapted from a short story by Graham Greene and produced by the legendary Ealing Studios that would later inspire both The Eagle Has Landed and Red Dawn. Rarely seen in America — where it received limited release under the title 48 Hours — it remains as explicit and shocking a movie experience today as it was to wartime audiences more than 60 years ago. ~ Amazon.com

DVD Features:  Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio: (unspecified) - English

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ALSO BEING RELEASED ON DVD:

La Reunion
Laguna Films
Spanish - Unrated - Probably about a reunion
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