Kill Your Cash! New Horror DVDs for 12.29.2009

New Horror DVDs making their debut this week are a couple of high profile movies.

First up is the Megan Fox entry that most either really loved or really hated, Jennifer’s Body. Personally I thought it was ‘just ok’. Would I buy it? Well, it wouldn’t be the first thing on the shelf I would grab but I think it’s not a bad addition to the collection. The dialogue mat be little much, but I digress.

The one I’m sure most people are curious to get their hands on is the surprise hit, Paranormal Activity. Either you haven’t seen it yet and wanna see if it lives up to the hype or you really dug it and wanna add it to your collection. There is an alternate ending on the disc which if you have not seen, is pretty cool. For the real fan there is a Limited Collector's Edition which also hooks you up with a T-shirt and an authentic film cell from the movie.

So here ya go. The last DVD releases of 2009 to Kill Your Cash are:

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Jennifer's Body (2009)

Paranormal Activity (2009)

Paranormal Activity Limited Collector's Edition

Carriers (2009)

Vampire Killers (2008)

Diagnosis: Death (2009)

Evil Offspring

Nuns of Saint Archangel (1973)

--Monstar

Kill Your Cash! New Horror DVDs for 10.27.2009

A few titles I wanna add to my collection come out on DVD this week. I have not seen it yet, but a couple of people have been telling me about Orphan. So I think I’ll give it a shot. Night of the Creeps also hits DVD as well as Stan Helsing a fun movie which features the always stunning Diora Baird. I already took a look at the movie and a review will be posted in a bit.

For now, here are the new horror DVD releases for October 27th, 2009:

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Orphan (2009)

Night of the Creeps (1986)

Messiah of Evil: The Second Coming (1974)

Black Devil Doll (2009)

Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet

Stan Helsing (2009)

The Asphyx (1972)

Night of Death! (1980)

Jin Won Kim's The Butcher (2007)

Evil Face (1974)

Sauna (2008)

Breaking Nikki (2009)

Graveyard Disturbance (1987)

Born of Fire (1987)

Late Fee (2009)

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1989)

X-Cross (2007)

Rotkäppchen: The Blood of Red Riding Hood

I Can See You (2008)

42nd Street Forever 5: Alamo Drafthouse Edition (2009)

--Monstar

BLU-MONDAY: New Horror Blu-ray Releases for The Week of 10.27.09

Some nice titles on Blu-ray that arrive just in time for your Halloween viewing. One of which, Night of the Creeps, has been on most fans wish list for years and finally makes its debut on disc. Order quickly and have them ready at the pad for a spooky time this weekend.

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Night of the Creeps (1986)

Stan Helsing (2009)

Orphan (2009)

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)

--Monstar

CABIN FEVER 2 Needs A Flu Shot

I enjoyed the original Cabin Fever, so being the sequel junkie that I am, I ventured to the screening of the Ti West directed film at Screamfest. Alas, Cabin Fever 2 is no Cabin Fever.

Following the events of the first movie, the virus is alive and has found its way into a batch of bottled water that’s being shipped to a local high school. Coincidently it’s the day of the Prom and as the party gets going, the virus kicks in. A military squad of some sort quarantine the school leaving all the prom goers to be ravaged by the virus and mostly die off camera. In the midst of this, one of the students, John (Noah Segan) tries to get out with his romantic interest Cassie (Alexi Wasser).

That’s pretty much the main thrust of the movie. There is also an epilogue set in strip joint for no apparent reason and a cartoon showing the spread of the virus. A nice WTF.

Cabin Fever 2 attempts to be an over the tops comedic shockfest and while it is ripe with gross out moments, it fails to be funny. In this movie things just happen. No build up, no tension, no lead up, nothing. It’s Just presented as though random ideas were filmed and strung together to be called a movie.

Noah Segan as John does have some nice moments and does bring some reality to the movie as man who has been in love with a girl who, of course, is with the resident school douche. But other than that the actors are there just to be the next splatter moment which becomes redundant.

I wasn’t given any reason to care for these characters or what happened to them. Cabin Fever 2 is really disconnecting and I was left watching a bad highlight reel of red corn syrup splattered on actors for an hour and a half.

Note: At this Cabin Fever 2 does not have a release date.

-- Monstar@HorrorOnDvd.com

AMC’s Fear Fest is In Full Swing!

Every year at Halloween the AMC channel devotes itself to horror with its Fear Fest. This year’s annual tradition started on October 23rd and is set to continue for the rest of the month. Slated for showing are horror flix like Halloween (of course), Return of the Living Dead, the Alien quadrilogy and many more. A full schedule can be found on the channel’s website amctv.com/fearfest. Also on the site is random fun like polls, quizzes, tournaments and more.

So settle in for a week of watching horror movies, it’s going to be fun!

SAW VI Slices Up Nice!

The latest entry in the Saw franchise delivers some nice shocks, good story and of course TRAPS! Directed by Kevin Greutert, Saw VI starts off with a bang as the opening prologue sets the pace for a nice ride that flirts with getting over the top gory but chooses not to cross the line. The main thrust of the story revolves around a medical insurance businessman whose history of choosing the bottom line over human life comes back to haunt him. Played by Peter Outerbridge, William Easton is set through a series of traps and games that put him in the position of having to face fatal decisions he was flippantly making, but now with people he knows and works with. One of the last lessons left by the deceased serial (but not really) killer Jigsaw. While Easton is maneuvering through the traps, Jigsaw’s apprentice Lieutenant Hoffman is on the verge of being uncovered by the authorities. A lot of flashbacks are involved as loose ends from the last 3 movies are tied up, putting together many of the puzzle pieces.

The centerpiece of the Saw movies are the traps, and in this one the tradition continues quite well. My favorite was the “pound of flesh” trap from the opening sequence. I’d like a little bit more of the “what would YOU do” type scenarios as one tends to get more involved with it than the “how will this person escape” type. But still, the traps in Saw VI hold up well and are inventive.

One of the chief complaints of the latest entries has been the almost non-existent presence of the commanding Tobin Bell. It seems like he was well missed enough that he has more screen time in this one and it is really noticed. The other actors don’t have too much to do but they dutifully carry their roles well enough to keep the momentum going. Noticeably, Costas Mandylor as Hoffman is there just to set up the traps, not to give reasoning behind them (that is left to Bell). So pretty much the main villain is there without much to do.

Another fault of the last couple of movies were if you were not well versed in all the installments you were pretty much left scratching your head. While Saw VI still needs you to be somewhat familiar with its predecessors, it can work (to a degree) on its own at the same time cleaning up the questions left over from the previous Saws. Though the cliffhanger ending is a pain, it’s expected as Saw VII has already been announced.

Saw VI is a nice Halloween movie that follows through on the promises of scares, tension and lots of blood. Check it out.
--Monstar
Monstar@HorrorOnDvd.com

WILLIAM LUSTIG Presents: The Seventies – Buried Treasures

Press Release:

August 7-13

Ever since William Lustig came to Anthology last summer to present his MANIAC ..COP.. films as part of our New York City Vigilantes series, we’ve been hoping to bring him back in the guise of guest-curator. Undersung filmmaker and founder of the indispensable Home Media label Blue Underground, Lustig is a veritable fountain of wisdom on the subject of the cinema’s unsavory margins. This summer, Lustig will be turning his attention to the subversive genre films of 1970s Hollywood, unearthing a handful of treasures that have been languishing in studio vaults for decades. Unavailable on DVD , and very rarely shown, these films are itching to explode back onto the screen. Homicidal Vietnam vets, escaped convicts, crime syndicates, and a treasure-trove of seventies character actors –Joe Don Baker, Timothy Carey, Karen Black, Rip Torn, Stacy Keach, Angie Dickinson, James Caan, and many more – will be storming Anthology come August. Prepare yourself!

Very special thanks to William Lustig; and to Caitlin Robertson (20th Century Fox), Ross Klein (MGM), Jared Sapolin & Grover Crisp (Sony), Marilee Womack (Warner Brothers), and Adam Lounsbery.

BRONSON & DUVALL VS. THE MOB!
Michael Winner
THE STONE KILLER
1973, 95 minutes, 35mm. With Charles Bronson and Martin Balsam.
In this pre-DEATH WISH collaboration between Charles Bronson and director Michael Winner, Bronson is a pitiless cop who uncovers an unlikely plot by a Mafia don (Balsam) to avenge a decades-old attack by using Vietnam veterans to eliminate the heads of the major mob families. This is Bronson in his prime, and features one of Hollywood’s finest uses of a free-falling dummy (for more information, consult the November 7, 2007 post at www.destructibleman.com).

–Friday, August 7 at 7:00 and Thursday, August 13 at 9:15.



John Flynn
THE OUTFIT
1973, 105 minutes, 35mm. With Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Elisha Cook Jr., and Timothy Carey.
“Excellent adaptation of a novel by Richard Stark (Donald Westlake), who also provided the source material for POINT BLANK…and Godard’s MADE IN USA. A taut, grim thriller, it sees Duvall, just out of prison and with revenge burning in his heart for the murder of his brother, taking on the Syndicate with the help of heavy, Joe Don Baker. [I]t’s a cool, exciting thriller in the Siegel tradition, paying more than passing reference to classic film noir with its host of character actors [including the great Timothy Carey], a cruel performance from Ryan as the mob leader, and its vision of people caught up in a chaotic, confused and treacherous world.” –Geoff Andrew

–Friday, August 7 at 9:30, Sunday, August 9 at 4:00, and Thursday, August 13 at 7:00.



CRIMINALS YOU DON’T WANT TO SCREW WITH!
Jacques Deray
THE OUTSIDE MAN / UN HOMME EST MORT
1972, 104 minutes, 35mm. With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, and Angie Dickinson.

This Melville-inspired thriller stars Trintignant as a French hit man sent to Los Angeles to whack a mob kingpin. Once the job is finished, though, he finds himself trapped in an early-1970s nightmare of strip clubs, Jesus freaks and Star Trek re-runs, chased by muscle-car driving assassin Roy Scheider and helped by friendly go-go girl, Ann-Margret.

–Saturday, August 8 at 2:45 and Monday, August 10 at 7:00.



Douglas Hickox
SITTING TARGET
1972, 93 minutes, 35mm. With Oliver Reed, Jill St. John, and Ian McShane.
Though it wasn’t meant as high praise, the ..NEW.. ..YORK.. TIMES description of this film pretty much sums it up: “This is brutal, garish pulp stuff, with a repulsively sadistic Oliver Reed busting out of prison and snaking into London for the sole purpose of killing his unfaithful wife, played by a bug-eyed Jill St. John.” Brutal, garish, pulp, Oliver Reed? What’s not to like?

–Saturday, August 8 at 5:00 and Monday, August 10 at 9:15.



VIETNAM VETS GONE WILD!
John Flynn
ROLLING THUNDER
1977, 95 minutes, 35mm. With William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, and Dabney Coleman.
Among the very greatest – and most disturbing – revenge flicks, ROLLING THUNDER stars Devane as a Vietnam vet determined to track down the men who killed his wife and child. Written by a young Paul Schrader, it’s a classic of its kind.

“Working from another intelligent script from Schrader, Flynn spins his yarn…with an impossibly steady hand, turning what could have been yet another DEATH WISH knock-off into an authentically understated work of gritty 70s cinema.” –THE FILM FIEND

–Saturday, August 8 at 7:00 and Tuesday, August 11 at 9:00.


Richard Compton
WELCOME HOME, SOLDIER BOYS
1972, 91 minutes, 35mm. Archival print courtesy of 20th Century Fox. With Joe Don Baker.
Four battle-fatigued and well-armed Vietnam vets, driving cross-country, accidentally kill a woman before heading to their hometown. Disillusioned with their homecoming, the four vets unleash their fury in a blood-crazed rampage that has to be seen to be believed. In its down-and-dirty way, this film lays bare the uncomfortable truth of the damaged psyches left in the wake of the Vietnam war.

–Saturday, August 8 at 9:30 and Tuesday, August 11 at 7:00.



WACKY COPS!

Richard Rush
FREEBIE AND THE BEAN
1974, 113 minutes, 35mm. With James Caan and Alan Arkin.
“In retrospect [FREEBIE AND THE BEAN] seems like the missing – and absolutely essential – link between the gritty potboilers of the 1970s, such as THE FRENCH CONNECTION, and the glib, profane thrillers of the 80s and 90s…. [Starring] Alan Arkin as a Hispanic detective (i.e., ‘The Bean’), and James Caan as his determined-to-be-corrupted partner (hence ‘Freebie’)…it’s an amazing, explosive, almost self-destructive exercise in action, comedy, racism, and property damage, not necessarily in that order.” –Todd Gilchrist, CINEMATICAL

–Sunday, August 9 at 6:15 and Wednesday, August 12 at 9:00.



Peter Hyams
BUSTING
1974, 92 minutes, 35mm. With Elliott Gould, Robert Blake, and Allen Garfield.
This archetypal buddy cop movie stars Elliott Gould as a cynical, rebellious cop and Robert Blake as his inexperienced young partner. Tired of toiling away on insignificant small-time busts, they decide to buck their corrupt police force and single-handedly target a protected crime boss, incurring the wrath of their superiors.
–Sunday, August 9 at 8:45 and Wednesday, August 12 at 7:00

Location: 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003

Kill Your Cash! New Horror DVDs for 06.23.2009

Well. This week we have a lot of interesting titles. Most of which I have never heard of before but then again I have lived a sheltered life. Anyway, not much in the way of comments from me, which I’m sure you appreciate. One thing to add though, in trying to expand my horizons I looked up the IMDB of Hobgoblins and first line of the review was “This movie is not just bad, not just corny, it is repulsive.” Winner! Peace out.

Simon Says (2006)

Hobgoblins (1987)

Hobgoblins 2

Legend of the Bog (2008)

Trapped (1982)

Backwoods (2008)

Choke Canyon (1986)

Grindhouse Double Feature: Make Them Die

Grindhouse Double Feature: Lady Revenge

Mutant and The Uninvited

--Monstar

Kill Your Cash! New Horror DVDs for 03.03.2009

Only a few new Horror DVD releases this week, but a couple of interesting titles nonetheless. Dead in 3 Days hits from Dimension Extreme looks like this weeks pick for me even though it's premise sounds kinda "The Ring" meets "I Know What You Did Last Summer" type of way. Cool kids receive calls that they will be dead in the 3 days, and then are killed. There ya go.

Anyway, let's check out the DVDs that are going to kill your cash for this week! ..or in this case, slightly maim.

Dead in 3 Days (2006)

In Search of Lovecraft (2009)

False Face (2009)

Gone The Way Of Flesh

Wet Kiss (2009)

Last Rites (1979)

...And while not a Horror DVD I do wanna give a special shout out to Wonder Woman. It's an all new animated movie from DC. I've seen it and it is actually really well done. A nice addition to the collection.

Wonder Woman 2009 (Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy) (2008)

--Monstar