New Horror Releases in Theaters and on DVD: Week of Feb. 17, 2008

From Shinya Tsukamoto, director of the supremely odd Tetsuo: The Iron Man, comes this Japanese tale of a detective tracking down a serial killer who murders peoples in their dreams. Some say he wears a striped sweater and a fedora.

In this thriller, a young filmmaker (Wes Bentley from P2) captures a serial killer's crimes on camera and then blackmails him into being his subject for a documentary. Things don't go well.

A businessman is turned into a vampire but soon realizes that it's not all it's cracked up to be when he's caught between a gang of nightwalkers hell-bent on destroying all humans and a gang of human vampire hunters hell-bent on destroying all vamps.

Hatchet director Adam Green and star Joel David Moore reunite for a decidedly less campy affair about a loner (Moore) who befriends a new coworker (Amber Tamblyn), but discovers that the friendship opens up old wounds that send him teetering close to the brink of sanity.

Classics and semi-classics abound in this set of oldies starring the likes of Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney, Jr. Included are: House on Haunted Hill, Carnival of Souls, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Human Monster, The Indestructible Man, Invisible Ghost, The Last Man on Earth, The Phantom Creeps, Nightmare Castle and Unnatural.

This budget set gathers nine vintage zombie flicks, from classics like Night of the Living Dead and The Last Man on Earth to rarities like Messiah of Evil and Thirsty Dead (the latter slightly more scary than Parched Dead). Also: The House By the Cemetery, The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, Fangs of the Living Dead, King of the Zombies and I Eat Your Skin.