New Horror Releases in Theaters and on DVD: Week of June 22, 2008

This British "video nasty" from 1978 finds a stranded busload of school girls at the mercy of four escaped mental patients.

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A couple on vacation at a remote lodge in the mountains discovers that its caretaker has a demented secret.

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In this trippy Japanese film from the director of Uzumaki, a man experiences increasingly lengthy dreams, living out months and even years in one night's time, and begins to have difficulty discerning reality from dream.

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This 1954 biopic of horror legend Lon Chaney, Sr., starred the equally legendary James Cagney in a role that revealed that Chaney's personal life was at times as scary as the monsters he portrayed on screen. Can you say "baby mama drama"?

Alice, a deluded, love-starved woman, turns psychopathic when she falls for a coworker's fiancé.

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Renowned Italian sleaze purveyor Joe D'Amato directed this 1978 combination of eroticism and cannibalism, which go together like peanut butter and tuna.

Based on the real-life case of convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, this film takes a look at his life from his father's point of view, as he tries to piece together what led to the killings. As Chris Rock once said, "Whatever happened to crazy?"

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A sharp stick to the eye. A paper cut dipped in lemon juice. Waterboarding. These are a few of the things that are probably less painful than the prospect of watching three Ulli Lommel movies in a row. But that's what this thee-pack of the director's The Zodiac Killer, Black Dahlia and The Green River Killer asks you to do. Don't be suckered into thinking that you'll get insightful (or even factually accurate) looks into these true-life crimes. The only thing you'll end up with is deep hurting.

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This psychedelic 1971 offering about a hippy warlock was no doubt filmed under the influence of some sort of heavy medication.

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In this New Zealand production, an American tattoo artist steals an ancient Samoan tattooing tool, unleashing a vengeful spirit. This is why you should stick to butterflies and Tasmanian Devils.

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If you hadn't noticed, Asian horror movies have a thing for ghosts with long, dark hair, so it should come as no surprise that there's a Korean movie about a cursed wig. What sounds like a silly premise, though, actually looks like it could be pretty creepy.

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