This week, The Uninvited aims to be the fourth straight horror hit (after The Unborn, My Bloody Valentine and Underworld 3) at the theater, while Lakeview Terrace leads a week of otherwise low-budget exploitation fare.
The Uninvited
© DreamWorks
Dark Dreamers Vol.1
© Smash Vision
This set gathers the first two seasons (2000-2001) of this Canadian TV show revolving around interviews with world-renowned horror/fantasy writers, artists, actors and filmmakers, including: Clive Barker, Richard Matheson, John Saxon, Jack Ketchum, Larry Cohen, Charles Band, Wes Craven, William Lustig, Stan Winston, John Landis and Sean Cunningham.
Dead of Night
© Dark Sky
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, hosts this 1977 trilogy of tales written by Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) and directed by Dan Curtis (Trilogy of Terror, Burnt Offerings), including a time-travelling car, a son returning from the grave and a couple who wonder if they're turning into vampires.
Demoniacs
© Redemption
French erotic horror icon Jean Rollin directed this 1974 film about two women who are killed by pirates, then make a deal with the Devil to come back from the dead for revenge.
Door Into Darkness
© Mya Communications
The legendary Dario Argento brought this four-story anthology to Italian TV in 1974 (two of which he directed himself): a couple's new neighbor is a murderer, a woman is killed on a crowded tram, a woman reports a dead body that mysteriously disappears and an escaped mental patient stalks innocent women.
Exploitation Cinema: Horror High/Lurkers
© BCI Eclipse
Double feature time: in Horror High, a bullied high school nerd uses a serum to turn into a monster and get revenge, while in Lurkers, a woman is haunted by her mother's ghost and the spirits who haunted her childhood home.
Exploitation Cinema: Nightmare in Wax/Blood of Dracula's Castle
© BCI Eclipse
Two more for the price of one: in Nightmare in Wax, a wax museum director kidnaps Hollywood actors, coats them in wax and adds them to his collection. In Blood of Dracula's Castle, two vampires in modern-day California kidnap young girls for dinner.
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
© Anchor Bay
This documentary looks into the magic of movie makeup effects, featuring interviews with directors like Quentin Tarantino, Wes Craven and John Carpenter.
Final Remains
© Vanguard
A group of college kids decide to play a prank at the town mortuary, but things get out of hand and they find themselves fighting for their lives as they come face-to-face with the mystery of the disappearances of scores of townsfolk over the past 20 years.
