The only theatrical horror release of the week, Aussie killer croc pic Rogue, receives a limited run, while a trio of major DVD releases attempt to scare up an audience: One Missed Call, Cloverfield and The Orphanage.
Rogue
Third Rail Releasing/The Weinstein Company
From the director of Wolf Creek comes this tale of a group of tourists stranded on a small island in an Australian lake, kept at bay by a gigantic maneating crocodile. Crikey!
Black House
© Genius Products
In this acclaimed Korean film, an insurance agent gets involved in a web of deceit woven by a psychotic client whom he suspects of committing murders to collect insurance money.
British Horror Quadruple Feature
© Media Blasters
Who knew the British could be sleazy? This foursome of '70s films from exploitation director Pete Walker showcases murder and torture and sometimes torturous murder, including House of Whipcord, The Flesh & Blood Show, Die Screaming Marianne and his pièce de résistance, the killer old lady opus Frightmare.
Cloverfield
© Paramount
Ten years after the American Godzilla remake, Hollywood finally gets it right.
Demons and Witches 10 Movie Set
© BCI/Eclipse
This 10-pack of straight-to-video supernatural films revolves around witches, demons, vampires, satanic cults, curses and ritual sacrifices. It includes three editions of the Witchcraft series (the most prolific franchise no one has ever seen) -- Witchcraft X, Witchcraft XI: Sister in Blood and Witchcraft XII: In the Lair of the Serpent -- plus The Strangers, Crystal Force II, Demonsoul, Bloodbath, Evil Sister, The Screaming and Hell Spawn.
Diaries of the Living Dead
© Sub Rosa Studios
No doubt titled to piggyback on the success (?) of George Romero's Diary of the Dead, this is actually a two-pack of low-budget movies: Dead Summer, about a zombie outbreak in Pennsylvania, and Deadhunter: Sevillian Zombies, about zombies in the town of Sevilla, Italy.
One Missed Call
© Warner Bros.
And here you thought the most dangerous things about cell phones was the radiation that will eventually cause your ear to fall off...
Scared to Death
© Retromedia
Thanks to genetic engineering gone awry, a murderous mutant called a Syngenor ("synthesized genetic organism") is set free to terrorize the city in this schlocky 1981 chiller. Thanks a lot, science.
Séance
© Lions Gate
From the writer of Vacancy comes this tale of a college student who thinks that her dorm room is being haunted by the ghost of a little girl. Her roommates decide to hold a séance to get rid of the spirit, but instead, they invite in something much more terrifying: the little girl's killer.
Sick Nurses
© Magnolia
In this Thai shocker, a nurse who objects to a doctor's trade in black-market organs is killed but returns from beyond the grave to seek revenge on the doc and his team of nurses.
