New DVD Dates: The Happening, Red, Poultrygeist, Mother of Tears and More

Several intriguing new DVD release dates:

September 23:

• Mother of Tears: Dario Argento's final film in the "Three Mothers" trilogy gets released as part of the Dimension Extreme line.

October 7:

• The Happening: M. Night Shyamalan's latest didn't get good reviews, but it did solid business at the box office, earning around $65 million.
• Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer: This little indie showed at Slamdance 2008 and kept building buzz through a limited theatrical release.

October 21:

• Trailer Park of Terror: Another Slamdance '08 entry, this one about six troubled teens on their way back from camp who get stranded in an undead trailer park when their bus breaks down.

October 28:

• Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead: This Troma epic is so big that even the "making of" documentary, Poultry in Motion: Truth is Stranger Than Chicken, is receiving a limited theatrical run -- this weekend at DragonCon and September 5 in New York City at the Pioneer Theater (in a double feature with Poultrygeist).
• Red: This acclaimed thriller and Sundance '08 entry has some of the gritty neo-Western sensibility that made No Country for Old Men so popular.
• Shiver (Eskalofrio): In this Spanish outing, a lonely boy discovers that the woods near his new home contain a monster.