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.
The Strangers
© Rogue Pictures
A couple's romantic evening in their vacation home is shattered when masked "strangers" show up with sadistic intentions. How much "stranger" can things get?
Stuck
© THINKFilm
A woman hits a man with her car one night, sending him hurtling into her windshield. Panicked, she drives home with him embedded in the windshield and leaves him there to die, underestimating his will to survive.
7 Angels in Eden
© Vanguard Cinema
A couple live in a post-apocalyptic world that's uninhabited until the man's dreams somehow manifest themselves in the form of seven rednecks who chase them across the barren landscape. Um...what?
The Chair
© Lionsgate
A young woman discovers that her sister is possessed by the spirit of a child killer. Kind of makes your migraine seem trivial, doesn't it?
Chronicles of an Exorcism
© Singa
The Blair Witch Project meets The Exorcist in this faux "real footage" of an actual exorcism performed on a girl by two priests and a minister over a three-day period. Pea soup or not pea soup? Tune in to find out.
Creature Features
© BCI Eclipse
This 8-movie set features sharks, reptiles, dinosaurs, and other animals -- real or imaginary -- with the capacity to bite your head off. Includes: Night Fright, Snowbeast, Island of the Dinosaur, Mako: Jaws of Death, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, Black Water Gold, The Giant Gila Monster and Night of the Sharks.
The Cult Films of Roger Corman
© BCI Eclipse
This tribute to legendary cult filmmaker Roger Corman collects 10 of his early movies: The Terror, Creature from the Haunted Sea, A Bucket of Blood, Last Woman on Earth, Attack of the Giant Leeches, The Wasp Woman, Ski Troop Attack, The Little Shop of Horrors, Night of the Blood Beast and She Gods of Shark Reef.
The Dario Argento Box Set
© Anchor Bay
Five films spanning the career of iconic Italian horror director Dario Argento are featured in this set. From the '80s, there's Phenomenon and Tenebre; from the '90s, there's Trauma; and from the 21st century, there's Card Player and Do You Like Hitchcock?.
Demons, Vampires & Ghouls
© BCI Eclipse
This set gathers 10 low-budget movies from the past decade featuring supernatural monsters: Bloodletting, Skinned Alive, Demon Summer, Witchouse 3: Demon Fire, Hell Asylum, Dead and Rotting, The Bonesetter, O-Zone, Ghoul School and Demon Under Glass.
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
© RHI
The second adaptation of this Robert Louis Stevenson to hit DVD in as many weeks, this one stars Dougray Scott as the schizophrenic doctor curing patients by day and killing victims by night.
