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From HouseofHorrors.com Recent Articles There weren't any broadcasts on the radio or television saying anything about animals escaping from a nearby zoo - but here he was, trapped in an alleyway beside the apartment building where the garbage was kept, back against the wall, staring into the eyes of a raging mad beast. It had to be about 12 feet tall! Its chest heaving and panting, its eyes fixed and focused as its mouth drooled, lips curling back to expose a set of viscious teeth that made Kurt's flesh go cold. One of the last things he saw outside the opening of the alley was two more of them in the street, gaining quickly on a trio of running children. He thought to himself "This is insane!" as the freakishly large creature pounced. His inferior human frame never stood a chance against this steroidal, genetically amped monster. It pounded on his frame with bear-like fists, cracking ribs and caving in the rear portion of his torso - spraying gore out of his nostrils and mouth in a final exhale. The beast wrapped its vice-like fingers around the base of Kurt's skull, twisting and pulling - even leaning forward to tear away a tough cord of stubborn sinew with its teeth - severing the head with a bite and a twist! It yanked upward in an attempt to remove the head along with the spine. Kurt's head came off with a stretched crack, and from the torn bleeding neck dangled a yellowish-white cord, about a foot long, devoid of any spine. A noodle of nerves. The beast bellowed with a magnanimous roar, as if in disgust - and smashed the head to the alleyway floor. It smacked on the cement and did not bounce, splitting open like a pumpkin full of seeds - oozing instead chunks of brain, black-purple gobs - firey-red with blood... Directed by Peter Jackson IMDB Plot Summary: In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with leading lady Ann Darrow.... This is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny. King Kong is being released in several different editions - the special features of which may vary by disc. The follwing special features were lifted from the fullscreen edition. DVD Special Features include: English audio tracks (Dolby Digital 5.1), subtitles in English, Spanish and French, The Volkswagen Toureg & King Kong and Wish You Were Here Official Site Get KING KONG from Amazon.com in several titles/formats Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner Amazon.com Plot Summary: An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved. ... Charlton Heston and two other astronauts come out of deep hibernation to find that their ship has crashed. Escaping with little more than clothes they find that they have landed on a planet where men are pre-lingual and uncivilized while apes have learned speech and technology. Heston is captured and taken to the city of the apes after damaging his throat so that he is silent and cannot communicate with the apes. DVD Special Features include: Widescreen format, several audio formats including THX Certified Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS, English Mono, and Spanish Dolby Digital Surround, subtitles in English, French and Spanish, audio commentary by Jerry Goldsmith, Roddy McDowell, Natalie Trundy, Kim Hunter, John Chambers and Eric Greene - Planet of the Apes series expert (Text Only) IMDB Page Get PLANET OF THE APES and its sequels from Amazon.com Directed by John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon Amazon.com Plot Summary: Le Fin Absolue du Monde is magic. And in the right hands, it can be a weapon. For on-the-ropes movie programmer Kirby Sweetman (Norman Reedus of The Boondock Saints and Blade II), the holy grail of cinema is Le Fin Absolue du Monde, a legendary lost movie whose sole showing was rumored to have driven its audience to a homicidal frenzy. But as Kirby gets closer to the truth about the film, he’s sucked into a private hell of grisly hallucinations and brutal acts of violence. Now the only surviving print of the film is within his grasp… and the most horrific screening of all is about to begin. Udo Kier (Headpace, Suspiria) co-stars in this gore-drenched mind-blower written by Drew McWeeny & Scott Swan, and directed by horror legend John Carpenter, the creator of The Thing, The Fog, Escape From New York, They Live and Halloween. In Dreams in the Witch House, stressed-out student Walter Gilman (Ezra Godden of Dagon) rents a room in a decrepit old house. His graduate thesis studies begin to take some very strange twists: He suffers nightmares about a voracious rat with a human face. He suspects that a gateway to another dimension may exist behind his wall. And he is seemingly seduced by a luscious she-demon who thirsts for souls of the innocent via a covenant that screams for blood. But when Walter must face the most depraved urge of all, will the line between madness,murder and unholy mayhem be crossed forever? Chelah Horsdal (Hollow Man 2) and Jay Brazeau (Insomnia, They) co-star in this disturbing shocker directed by Stuart Gordon, co-written by Gordon & Dennis Paoli (The Dentist, Castle Freak) and based on the infamous short story by horror master H.P. Lovecraft. Stuart Gordon's Dreams in the Witch House you will not soon forget. John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns is without a doubt the best film of the Masters of Horror season one, and his best work in a long time - Carpenter the way you remember him. Must haves. Masters of Horror Official Site DVD Special Features include: Widescreen format, English audio tracks (unknown), audio commentaries by John Carpenter, Drew McWeeney, Scott Swan, Stuart Gordon, and Ezra Godden, 5 featurettes including "Behind the Scenes: The Making of Cigarette Burns", "Working With a Master: John Carpenter", "The Making of Dreams in the Witch-House", "Working With a Master: Stuart Gordon", and "SFX: Meet Brown Jenkin", production interviews with John Carpenter, Norman Reedus, Stuart Gordon, and Chelah Horsdal, trailers, still photos, storyboards, screenplays and a dvd-rom screensavers (Dreams in the Witch-House by H.P. Lovecraft) Directed by Tim Sullivan IMDB Plot Summary: On their way to Spring Break, college kids take a detour through an old Southern town. The people of Pleasant Valley insist the kids stay for their annual barbecue celebration... but instead of getting a taste of the old South, the old South gets a taste of them! Finally! 2001 Maniacs is available on DVD. Return to the hospitable south for a town celebration that you wont forget for the rest of your life! Robert Englund reprises the role of the "friendly" mayor, as a whole new slew of modern victims pack their car and head for Pleasant Valley in this sequel to Herschell Gordon Lewis' gore classic. DVD Special Features include: English audio tracks (Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0) English and Spanish subtitles, deleted/extended scenes and outtakes, alternate opening with John Landis, audition reel, "Inside the Asylum" - six part making-of featurette, The Grand Finale (featuring "The South Will Rise Again" end credit cast sing-along), audio commentary with co-writer/director Tim Sullivan and actor Robert Englund, audio commentary with co-writer/director Tim Sullivan, co-writer Chris Kobin and producer Chris Tuffin IMDB Page Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Brad Watson IMDB Plot Summary: A Christmas bash to end them all ... When Ellen Cole goes undercover at a mental asylum to rescue her brother, she is unaware that she is about to encounter her worst nightmares, for St. Mariahs Hospital for the criminally insane holds a dark secret. Deep in the dark recesses of the Asylum, Vampires have been caged for experiments and on this festive night the vampires will rise to draw blood again. Whilst in the hospital ballroom the party guests are blissfully unaware of the horror heading straight for them. With only the help of a whimsical police bobby and a pathalogical killer can Ellen escape the insanity of the Asylum? DVD Special Features include: Widescreen format, English audio tracks (Dolby Digital Surround), standard interactive menus and scene selection Official Site Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Paolo Cavara IMDB Plot Summary: Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife, much in the same way tarantulas are killed by the black wasp. As suspects keep dying, Inspector Tellini directs his attention to a spa all the victims had a connection with. DVD Special Features include: Widescreen format, English and Italian audio tracks (Dolby Digital mono), English subtitles, an interview with Lorenzo Danon - Son of Producer ("An Interview with Lorenzo Danon"), theatrical trailer and tv spot IMDB Page Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Jesus Franco IMDB Plot Summary: Blind Target is the story of a young woman who emigrated from the poor tiny Latin American country of San Hermoso only to strike it rich and famous as an author in the United States. When she returns to her homeland to promote her novel "Desperate Letters" - a thinly veiled expose of her native land's political corruption - she is in for a welcome that she could not have imagined in her worst nightmares. DVD Special Features include: English audio tracks (Dolby Digital stereo), behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes with producer's commentary, Spanish language clip with Linnea Quigley Official Site Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Matt Busch IMDB Plot Summary: Finding his high profile illustration career to be less than meaningful, Matt Busch sets out to find a more rewarding personal project. Visiting a nearby graveyard, Matt stumbles upon an old photograph of a South-American castle. Obsessed with the photo, Matt begins to bring the castle to life with a vibrant full-color painting. At the same time, he creates sinister sketches of the tortured souls who he imagines inhabit the gothic dwelling. While Matt creates his cryptic world in his studio, his girlfriend Sarah is confronted with ghostly encounters throughout the rest of the home. Eventually the art becomes so real, that Matt and Sarah find themselves manifested in the actual castle and must confront the demonic spirits conjured from Matt's twisted nightmares... DVD Special Features include: Widescreen format, alternate ending Official Site Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Uli Edel IMDB Plot Summary: Based on the Germanic myth "Das Nibelungenlied" and the Nordic "Volsunga Saga" which also inspired the four-opera cycle by Richard Wagner and J.R.R. Tolkien's epic "The Lord of the Rings", this is the story of the young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon Fafnir. When the reward seems to be a huge treasure, Siegfried ignores the curse that lies on the hoard - which now seems to endanger his love to beautiful Norse warrior queen Brunhild. Also known as "Ring of the Nibelungs", and "Sword of Xanten". DVD Special Features include: Closed captioned, English and French audio tracks (unknown), English subtitles, and 5 "Making of" featurettes Official Site Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Dan Curtis, Pennberry Jones Amazon.com Plot Description: The gothic soap opera continues with its 23rd installment. Fourteen more hours of the strange happenings to the Collins family and their surrounding friends. DVD Special Features include: English audio tracks (Dolby Digital 2.0 mono), bonus interviews with Kate Jackson, writer Sam Hall, video operator Nick Besink and television author/critic Mark Dawidziak, a fold-out episode guide, and a collectable postcard Click here to get it from Amazon.com
Directed by Joel Seria CD Universe Plot Summary: In 1970’s France, two young convent girls become friends and decide to spend the summer together. However, their innocent bicycle rides and walks in the country soon develop a much more sinister side. Influenced by their reading of forbidden books, they decide to explore the world of perversion and cruelty. They find a victim and use their innocent exterior to seduce and destroy him. Once they have stepped over the line, they find it impossible to stop. And soon they are contemplating the ultimate evil act. Hugely controversial, the film was banned for blasphemy and has never been released in the US before. It’s a film that should be viewed only by those with very open minds. DVD Special Features include: Widescreen format, English audio tracks (mono), "Hellish Creatures" featurette, interviews with the star and director Official Page Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by David Lynch CD Universe Plot Summary: Dumbland is a crude, stupid, violent, and absurd series. If it is funny, it is funny because we see the absurdity of it all. 8 animated episodes done entirely by David Lynch and produced over a period of several years. Available for the first time on home video. DVD Special Features include: B&W, full screen format, English audio tracks (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround), standard scene selection and interactive menus Watch Dumbland Online (quicktime) Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Luciano Ercoli Amazon.com Plot Summary: International beauty Dagmar Lassander (Hatchet for the Honeymoon, House by the Cemetery) stars as a repressed young wife whose traumatic sexual assault triggers a depraved obsession with her attacker. But when pornography and perversion lead to blackmail and murder, passion suddenly takes a very deadly turn. For a woman enflamed by her own violent desires, is any crime too extreme? Susan Scott (Penetration, Emanuelle and the Lost Cannibals) and Simon Andreu (The Blood Spattered Bride) co-star in this daringly kinky giallo directed by Luciano Ercoli (Death Walks at Midnight), co-written by Ernesto Gastaldi, and featuring a seductive score by Ennio Morricone (who did the amazing soundtrack to The Thing). DVD Special Features include: Widescreen format, Emglish audio tracks (Dolby Digital mono), interview with Ernesto Gastaldi (co-writer) "Forbidden Screenplays", and the theatrical trailer Official Site Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Roland Emmerich Amazon.com Plot Summary: Following the French atomic bomb tests in the South Pacific, an unknown creature is spotted passing eastward through the Panama Canal. Scientist Niko Tatopolous is called in to investigate the matter, and he quickly arrives at the conclusion that a giant, irradiated lizard has been created by the explosions. Godzilla then makes its way north, landing at Manhattan to begin wreaking havoc in the big city. Even with the combined forces of the U.S. military to fight the monster, will it be enough to save the people of New York? DVD Special Features include: Audio tracks in English (Dolby Digital 5.1) and French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), all new "Best of Godzilla" fight scenes, 3 episodes from the "Godzilla" animated series, production art gallery, special effects supervisor commentary, "Heroes" music video by The Wallflowers, promotional featurette, publicity stills gallery, and "Godzilla Takes New York" with before and after shots IMDB Page Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Leigh Scott The Asylum Plot Summary: The world's most brutal serial killer was born over 400 years ago. Sawney Bean and his family pillaged, slaughtered, and literally devoured thousands of victims. Even today, the inbred clan of cannibals hides in seaside caves feeding on the flesh of those who pass by. DVD Special Features include: Widescreen format, English audio tracks (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround), cast and crew commentaries, a behind the scenes featurette, and trailers Official Site Click here to get it from Amazon.com - trailer (windows media) Directed by Paul Lynch Amazon.com Plot Summary: Lieutenant Krebs (Dennis Hopper) is a model citizen and an upstanding police officer with a exemplary reputation in his town. But when an exotic dancer, Gina (Asia Argento "Land of the Dead"), is viciously attacked one night, his dark side is finally revealed. Gina's worst nightmare begins when Krebs kidnaps her and becomes her Keeper. A deadly battle of wills ensues as Krebs struggles to keep Gina imprisoned in his basement while trying to save her from her depraved past. Can The Keeper teach her the error of her ways or will she be able to out wit him at his own game? DVD Special Features include: Filmographies, photo galleries, standard interactive menu and scene selection IMDB Page Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Flavio Mogherini Blue Underground Plot Summary: When the mutilated corpse of a young woman is found on an Australian beach, retired detective Thompson (Oscar winner Ray Milland of The Lost Weekend and Dial M For Murder) involves himself in the investigation. But before they can find the killer, the police must first identify the victim. Who was this once-beautiful girl found clad only in yellow pyjamas? Why would the authorities put her nude body on public display? What sexual depravity did she endure before her murder? And even if Thompson can crack the baffling case, will he survive to see her killer brought to justice? Mel Ferrer (The Antichrist, Nightmare City), Howard Ross (The New York Ripper) and the luscious Dalila Di Lazzaro (Flesh For Frankenstein, Phenomena) co-star in this unique giallo written and directed by Flavio Mogherini and featuring a pounding score by Riz Ortolani (Mondo Cane). DVD Special Features include: Widescreen format, English audio tracks (Dolby Digital mono), an interview with Richard Evans ("The Pyjama Girl Mystery: A True Story of Murder, Obsesson and Lies"), the theatrical trailer, and an additional pull-out 8-Page Graphic Novel - "The Pyjama Girl" Official Site Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Ji-woon Kim All Movie Guide Plot Summary: Rejecting current trends in mainstream genres and the conventions of commercial cinema, Choyonnghan-Kajok, an experimental black comedy, follows an eccentric story line with some surprise attacks on the audience. Comedy and horror elements are used intermittently to create a thriller in a family setting. The events are seen through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Mi-na, daughter of the Kang family, who decide to run Mt. Lodge in the suburbs of Seoul after the father is dismissed from his company. Contrary to expectations, there are no guests lining up at the door, and the youngest daughter is upset by a strange noise she hears at night. After two weeks, the first guest appears, but he is found dead the next day. The family buries him in a hurry to avoid bad publicity. Then a couple arrives and commits double suicide and they have to bury them, too. By the time they get used to digging, it's announced a road construction will pass beside their property. The set of the film, Mt. Lodge, was created in real size by a set specialist and architect large enough for camera equipment to move around. Although the subtexts are not labored, the sanctity of family solidarity and the capacity for sudden violence in the very conservative Korean society are some of the themes the audience is left to reflect. Choyonnghan-Kajok was screened as part of the International Forum of Young Cinema at the 49th International Berlin Film Festival, 1999. DVD Special Features include: Korean audio tracks (Dolby Digital stereo), standard interactive menu, scene selection, and trailers IMDB Page Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Derek Wan Amazon.com Plot Summary: Horror icon Tony Todd (Clive Barker’s Candyman series) delivers his most powerful and evil performance as Shadow, an executed and resurrected serial killer who invades a women’s prison in search of the girl known only as Solitaire (Carla Greene)! Solitaire senses her impending doom and prepares to single-handedly take on Shadow and his army of zombies in a supernatural martial arts showdown! Shadow: Dead Riot is a unique stylistic fusion of Asian-style action, zombie horror and women’s prison drama. DVD Special Features include: English audio tracks (Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 Stereo), a behind the scenes featurette, still gallery, cast and crew interviews, and Shreik Show trailers Official Site Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Jesus Franco CD Universe Plot Summary: This horror film is set in a small turn-of-the-century English village where a herpetologist is trying to cure his wife's insanity with injections of snake venom. He seems to succeed and soon afterward she gets pregnant and bears him a beautiful little girl with a horrible talent: she can transform herself into a snake whenever she wants to. She soon grows up to become the scourge of the village men. DVD Special Features include: Jess Franco feature, Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell from 1999, and still galleries for both films IMDB Page Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Marc Forster Amazon.com Plot Summary: Between the worlds of the living and the dead there is a place you're not supposed to stay... Standing in for an ill colleague renowned New York psychologist Sam Foster is confronted with disturbed art student Henry Letham. Seemingly inspired by his idol, a painter (in)famous for committing suicide on his 21st birthday, Henry announces he will shoot himself "Saturday at midnight" - the moment he turns 21. Foster, once having saved his suicidal girlfriend Lila, takes the threat seriously, but fails to simply have Henry taken into custody. Instead, while trying to track his patient down, Sam is gradually being drawn into the world of Henry's obsessions. DVD Special Features include: Audio tracks in English (Dolby Digital 5.1) Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.1 Surround) and French (Dolby Digital 2.1 Surround), English and Spanish subtitles, scene specific commentary by director Marc Forster and cast, "Departing Visions" featurette, "The Music of Stay" featurette, and trailers Official Site Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Eduardo Ortíz Amazon.com Plot Summary: Jonathan thought that he had it bad when his girlfriend dumped him... but when his friends take him out to a nightclub to forget her, he finds trouble of a dark and deadly kind! The sultry and mysterious Gloria leads him on a night of passion he won't soon forget, and when he awakens in the morning to find her gone, he's left with an unquenchable desire for human blood! This darkly comic and edgy story follows Jonathan and his friends as they enter the twilight world of vampires in search of Gloria and a cure for insatiable bloodlust. Reggaeton sensation Daddy Yankee and hard-rocking Circo add to the musical mayhem in this film that made its U.S. premiere at the New York International Latino Film Festival. DVD Special Features include: Spanish audio tracks (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English subtitles, behind-the-scenes footage, music videos, still gallery, and trailers Official Site (spanish) Click here to get it from Amazon.com Directed by Richard Hilliard All Movie Guide Plot Summary: This stark but interesting low-budget horror opus features Lee Philips as Freeman, a war veteran who has returned home and is following his muse as a painter. His favorite subjects are nude women and a few brief sequences show him working with live models -- which probably kept this movie out of a few drive-ins in 1963 but doubtless insured bigger attendance at the ones that did screen it. When several female students from a nearby college turn up dead, Freeman is the immediate suspect, so he (with the help of his lawyer, played by Sheppard Strudwick) has to find a way to clear his name. The supporting cast includes future TV icons James Farentino and Dick Van Patten (yes, the one from Eight Is Enough). Also shown under the titles Black Autumn and Psychomania (not to be confused with Don Sharp's amazing 1972 film Psychomania, about a gang of undead bikers!) DVD Special Features include: English audio tracks (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), commentary with Del Tenney, photo gallery and theatrical trailers Official Page Click here to get it from Amazon.com ALSO BEING RELEASED: A Sound of Thunder (Widescreen Edition) (2005) Directed by Peter Hyams CD Universe Plot Summary: Evolve or die! Suspense Thriller based on the famous short story by master of fiction Ray Bradbury. In the year 2055, a technology has been invented that enables people to go back in time to hunt dinosaurs. When one such expedition to the Prehistoric past unwittingly makes a fatal mistake it dramatically impacts the course of evolution, setting off waves of destruction that ripple toward the modern world and unleashing an army of fearsome creatures that never should have existed. Two scientists race against time to fix the catastrophic error while their world collapses around them and every minute brings the human race closer to extinction. DVD Special Features include: Widescreen format, English audio tracks (Dolby 5.1 Surround), standard interactive menu and scene selection Official Site Click here to get it from Amazon.com Sleep-Paralysis (2004) Not Rated CD Universe Plot Summary: Sleep-Paralysis is the real life inspired story of a mysterious and horrifying phenomenon threatening the life of one woman. Valerie Whitmore, a successful writer of children books, moves into an estate by a picturesque lake in the countryside. What seems at first to be the perfect setting for inspiration and creativity, quickly becomes A place of nightmares for Valerie, as the sleep-paralysis visits her with increasing frequency ultimately threatening her life. A horror-thriller in the tradition of Secret Window and Communion. Click here to get it from Amazon.com Tales of the Unexpected, Set 4 Not rated CD Universe Plot Summary: Based on the eerie, blackly comic short stories by Roald Dahl, this fourth collection of chilling episodes from the British 1979 television series is full of macabre images, surprising twists, and entertaining turns, with impressive performances from the likes of John Alderton, Michael Jayston, Pauline Collins, and Cyril Cusak. Click here to get it from Amazon.com DVD/UMD 2 Packs The Grudge DVD / The Grudge UMD (2-Pack) (2004) - get it here © Copyright by HouseofHorrors.com |
