This week, The Strangers and Stuck break the theatrical horror drought (the latter in a limited release), while an array of international DVDs from Italy, Japan, Sweden, Great Britain, Canada, Chile and Indonesia hit the video shelves.
Drive-In Madness
© Sub Rosa
This 1987 documentary traces the evolution of exploitation films and cheesy horror and science fiction movies of yesteryear, featuring vintage trailers and interviews with the likes of George Romero, Tom Savini and Forrest J. Ackerman.
Grindhouse Experience: Eye on Horror
© VideoAsia
This is a repackage of 10 cheap, cheesy Asian films from the '70s and '80s previously released in the series Tales of Voodoo, including: Devil's Express, A Dog Called Vengeance, Hell Hole, Primitives, Virgin Jungle Force, Temple of Hell, Ghost Ninja, Diamond Ninja Force, Cannibal Curse, Scorpion Thunderbolt and The Rapist.
Grizzly Park
© Allumination
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 maneating grizzly bear with a taste for tender, juicy adolescents. Teens: the other white meat.
The H.P. Lovecraft Collection Volume 1: Cool Air
© Microcinema
This 1998 black-and-white adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name follows a horror writer who moves into a boarding house and discovers that the doctor living upstairs has been experimenting with the line between life and death.
The H.P. Lovecraft Collection Volume 2: Dreams of Cthulhu
© Microcinema
This Lovecraft collection gathers the 40-minite British film Rough Magik -- dealing with the battle against a cult of the ancient Lovecraftian god Cthulhu -- plus several other shorts based on the influential horror author's writings.
The H.P. Lovecraft Collection Volume 3: Out of Mind
© Microcinema
This Canadian production journeys into the mind of H.P. Lovecraft by following a young man who becomes obsessed with the author after being given a mysterious book.
The H.P. Lovecraft Collection Volume 4: Pickman's Model
© Microcinema
From Chile comes this adaptation of the famed H.P. Lovecraft story about a painter whose works recreate horrific visions that may or may not be based in reality.
Masters of Murder Collection
© First Look
This collection gathers four 21st century biopics of perhaps the four most notorious serial killers in American history: Ed Gein, Gacy, Dahmer and Ted Bundy. Watch 'em in the basement with your collection of doll heads.
Noriko's Dinner Table
© Facets
This sequel to the cult Japanese film Suicide Club attempts to explain the weirdness of the first movie...with even more weirdness about a website that recruits girls into a cult that rents them out as pretend family members.
Phenomena: Special Edition
© Anchor Bay
A young Jennifer Connelly stars in this 1984 Dario Argento film about an American girl at a Swiss boarding school whose telepathic ability not only helps her communicate with insects, but it might also help solve a series of murders. Twist ending: the killer is Jiminy Cricket.
