New Horror Releases in Theaters and on DVD: Week of March 23, 2008

Using a pseudo-documentary format, this film explores the everyday lives of zombies who live in American society and the struggles they face for social equality and self- identity.

I Know What You Did Last...April Fool's Day? A teenaged prank goes awry, resulting in a death, and a year later, a killer begins bumping the pranksters off one by one.

In this 1973 Spanish shocker, a caretaker's violent dreams start to come true when blue-eyed women begin turning up dead and eyeless...and without decent vision coverage from their employer!

This two-disc set from cult director Del Tenney gathers three films: the campy musical monster movie The Horror of Party Beach, the murder mystery Violent Midnight and the undead tale of revenge Curse of the Living Corpse, starring a very young Roy Scheider.

Two unrelated horror films are forced together in this odd two-pack. In the '90s British slasher Funny Man, a mansion won in a poker match comes with the curse of a demonic clown. In 1985's Future-Kill, college students in a dreary future fight for their lives after wandering onto the turf of savage Road Warrior-like mutants.

All four one-hour episodes of this short-lived '70s Italian TV series, created by Dario Argento, are gathered in this set. Each is a stand-alone story, like The Twilight Zone with some sort of psychosis.

An aging Count Dracula looks for a suitable heir -- Count Chocula? Blacula? Bunnicula? -- in this cheesy 1972 Spanish production.

Fifty years after a group of children die when their school bus is hit by a train, a series of murders shocks a small town. Could the two events be related? I'm betting yes. Kristin Cavallari of Laguna Beach fame stars -- and hopefully dies -- in the film.

A woman -- I think her name is Rebecca Verlaine -- who, as a child, survived a mass murder at a commune is haunted by spirits from her past. This gore-fest comes courtesy of German splatter director Olaf Ittenbach, who could be considered "the rich man's Uwe Boll." Let THAT sink in.

This oddball Spanish production from 1980 follows a criminal who double-crosses his gang and manages to escape, but not before getting shot. He passes out and is taken in by a local doctor and his family but soon discovers that the family might be more dangerous than his vengeful gang.