New Horror Releases in Theaters and on DVD: Week of September 7, 2008

This collection gathers three acclaimed thrillers: Misery, The Deep End and Best Laid Plans.

Funny version? You heard right. It seems that human punchline Uwe Boll thinks that his "breakthrough" zombie film House of the Dead could work as a comedy, so he's added new dialogue, alternative takes, pop up commentary and animation from the original video game to enhance the funny. Sounds hilarious. And by "hilarious" I mean "hot-poker-in-the-eye painful." See Boll do to comedy what he's done to horror for the past several years!

They'll slice your kneecaps off! The pint-sized evildoers in this three-pack mean business: Chucky in Child's Play, Damien in The Omen (the pointless remake) and the scariest of all, Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son.

Despite Patricia Arquette's perpetually drowsy performance, Medium manages to provide reliable entertainment with a supernatural twist. Now you can catch up through the 2008 season with this DVD set.

Scream queen Tiffany Shepis stars as an American woman who goes to Italy to become a nun in a strange convent that washes away her sins with torture. If that weren't bad enough, she also sees horrific visions and encounters and dark presence in the convent.

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This Stephen King adaptation about a mystical burial ground that reanimates corpses no doubt wreaked havoc with a generation of spellers.

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Although less celebrated than Child's Play, it's also the 20th anniversary of Pumpkinhead, a demon conjured to avenge the accidental death of a little boy. One of the most fearsome-looking villains in horror movie history, Pumpkinhead was the creation of the late great special effects legend Stan Winston, who made his directorial debut with the film.

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Revenge is the name of the game in this set of three horror films: John Carpenter's The Fog, '80s slasher Terror Train and the Candyman sequel Farewell to the Flesh.

This DVD re-release repackages The Ring, the hit ghost story with a convoluted plot involving a cursed video tape, a creepy phone call, a girl at the bottom of a well and a climactic scene that redefines the term high-definition TV.

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Infamous schlock-master Uwe Boll's Seed tells the tale of a killer who escapes being buried alive by police and goes about seeking revenge.

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