New Horror/Suspense Releases in Theaters and on DVD: Week of June 28, 2009

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In this 1964 British film, an 18th-century nobleman finds himself framed for raping a village woman and for killing his first wife, whose ghost locals claim to have seen riding through town on a horse. Sounds like a job for Law & Order: Poltergeist Equestrian Unit.

The last film directed by Italian gore legend Lucio Fulci (Zombie, The Beyond), Door into Silence (1991) is a supernatural tale about a businessman driving through the remote Louisiana bayou who encounters mysterious figures, vehicles and events.

This low-budget double feature contains The Risen, about a rogue CIA agent who plans on using a secret government spaceship and an alien being for his evil purposes, and The Unknown, about a group of friends seeking help for a car accident who end up in a deserted house that contains an "unknown" entity.

Two of legendary Italian director Lucio Fulci's films for the price of one (or maybe two): in The Psychic, a woman begins foreseeing the deaths of people she knows -- including herself -- and in Perversion Story, a philandering doctor is suspected in the murder of his wife.

This collection gathers vintage scares from TV shows of the '50s and '60s -- such as The Twilight Zone, Four Star Playhouse, Lights Out and The Veil -- and features acting icons like David Niven, Natalie Wood, Boris Karloff, Ronald Reagan and Cloris Leachman.

Based on a novella by cult writer Edward Lee, Header revolves around an ATF agent who begins running drugs amidst a backdrop of violent West Virginia backwoods family feuds -- and not the kind with Richard Dawson.

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In this Korean film, a mother and young daughter move into an apartment building in which the tenants behave strangely, complaining about nonexistent noises. When the daughter begins to behave strangely and people begin to turn up dead, the mother has to solve the mystery before it's too late. Or at least before the director yells cut.

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Notorious Italian exploitation schlock master Joe D'Amato directed this sequel to his infamous cannibal flick Anthropophagous, in which the monstrous cannibal stalks victims in a hospital. AKA Anthropophagous 2 AKA Grim Reaper 2 AKA Absurd AKA Monster Hunter AKA [insert random title here].

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In this Australian horror spoof, a vengeful cricketer (that is, someone who plays cricket, not someone who collects crickets) stalks his former teammates. Knowledge of cricket terminology likely needed to get some of the puns.

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This 1979 Italian variation on The Island of Dr. Moreau (retitled Screamers in the US) finds a group of convicts shipwrecked on an island ruled by a mad scientist who's turning the inhabitants into fish men.

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