After a long horror drought at the box office, a couple of horror-ish tales look to make some noise this weekend. From Neil Marshall, director of The Descent and Dog Soldiers, comes the less horror-/more action-oriented Doomsday, while in limited release, Naomi Watts and Tim Roth star in a remake of the Austrian torture flick Funny Games. On DVD, an undead wrestler in Wrestlemaniac and undead soldiers in Outpost lead a relatively light slate of releases.
Doomsday
© Rogue Pictures
From director Neil Marshall (The Descent) comes this post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-like tale of a military mission behind the walls of a contaminated, quarantined section of Great Britain to find a cure for a deadly plague. It might not be pure horror, but I'll give Marshall a pass due to his track record.
Funny Games
© Warner Independent Pictures
Michael Haneke (Caché) delivers a shot-for-shot remake of his own Funny Games, this time set in America instead of Austria. The film follows a pair of prim and proper young sociopaths who target families for a deadly game.
Aspiring Psychopath
© Sub Rosa
A woman fascinated with death studies to become a serial killer, then upon "graduation," must kill her teacher. Wouldn't an engraved pewter cup suffice?
Bats: Human Harvest
© Sony
In this sequel that no one asked for, the military seeks a rogue scientist in a Chechnyan forest who's used his knowledge to create a gang of attack bats.
Hunting Creatures
© Unearthed
A rave in an abandoned chemical factory (not smart) leads to the inevitable zombie outbreak in this German gore-fest.
Leprechaun Triple Feature
© Lions Gate
Ever wanted to own the first three Leprechaun films in one box set? You have??? How sad.
Outpost
© Sony
A group of mercenaries encounter an undead army in an abandoned World War II military bunker.
Sands of Oblivion
© Anchor Bay
This Sci-Fi Channel movie hypothesizes that legendary director Cecil B. de Mille destroyed the set of his 1923 epic The Ten Commandments because the props were real -- and were cursed by an Egyptian god. Now, in present day, the cursed artifacts are unearthed, and the vengeful god is brought back from...the sands of oblivion! [Insert evil laugh.]
Sisters
© Image Entertainment
This remake of the Brian De Palma classic about a woman with an evil twin stars Chloë Sevigny as the reporter who suspects that something is amiss.
Wrestlemaniac
© Anchor Bay
A group of amateur porn filmmakers visit a Mexican ghost town for a shoot, but run into the town's lone inhabitant: a homicidal masked wrestler with a penchant for ripping off people's faces.
