New Horror Releases in Theaters and on DVD: Week of March 30, 2008

A group of young adults sentenced to community service in a state forest must contend not only with an escaped serial killer, but also a man-eating grizzly bear.

A group of friends vacationing in Mexico stumble upon a Mayan temple cursed by killer vines that infest living beings. Based on the bestselling book by Scott Smith

Teenaged Christie plots revenge -- or didn't you read the title? -- against her uncle, whom she believes caused her father's suicide.

The arrival of a strange new chef at a sorority house coincides with a series of disappearances -- and a strange new flavor of food.

Germans love splatter, and here it comes in the unusual trappings of a gangster film with zombie mobsters. Based on my limited understanding of German, the title loosely translates to The Komabrutale Duell.

A righteous maniac forces people to either join God's army or die for their sins. Oh, and he has a crossbow.

In this fifth DVD in the "Maneater Series" of killer animal films that have aired on the Sci-Fi Channel (following BloodMonkey, Croc, In the Spider's Web and Maneater), a giant squid terrorizes James Van Der Beek.

Friends of a missing author discover her living like a frightened animal in an old house in the desert as she struggles to finish her next book. But when they attempt to get her out of the house, they learn that anyone who tries to leave is killed by their innermost fear.

A journalist guards a "threshold" to prevent a demon from another world from escaping into ours.

A sequel in name only to the Jamie Lee Curtis slasher, this 1987 film is a supernatural tale about the ghost of a teen girl killed in a prank gone awry who returns 30 years later to possess an aspiring prom queen so that she can gain the crown she was denied decades earlier.