New Horror/Suspense Releases in Theaters and on DVD: Week of August 12, 2012

Author Florence Cathcart has devoted her career to exposing claims of the supernatural as nothing but hoaxes. Haunted by the recent death of her fiancé, she is approached by Robert Mallory to investigate the recent death of a student at the all-boys boarding school where he teaches. When students at the school report sightings of the young boy's ghost, she decides to take on the case. Initially, the mystery surrounding the ghost appears nothing more than a schoolboy prank, but as Florence continues to investigate events at the school, she begins to believe that her reliance on science may not be enough to explain the strange phenomenon going on around her.

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This SyFy movie of the week features '70s stars Danny Bonaduce, Barry Williams, Howard Hessman and...Alice Cooper (?) as individuals in harm's way when a rampaging Bigfoot attacks a music festival taking place in his wilderness stomping ground.

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Man scientists conduct human experimentation in this collection of six vintage midnight movies from the '50s and '60s: The Brain That Wouldn't Die, The Head, The Atomic Brain, The Indestructible Man, The Amazing Transparent Man and The Manster.

Kevin Sorbo finds himself "buried" alive in a coffin with his lover, a woman whose husband must engage in a game of cat-and-mouse with the masked stranger in order to save her life.

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Season 6 of Dexter picks up a year after last season's shocking and heartbreaking conclusion, and serial killer Dexter Morgan has come to terms with who he is. But his existence is shattered when he crosses paths with an enemy unlike any he's faced before. A delusional religious zealot with unflinching convictions, this new adversary soon draws Dexter into a dangerous game that could well end in disaster.

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This eight-film serial killer set includes a bunch of stuff you probably have never heard of: Methodic, Jingles the Clown, Butterfly, The Directors Cut, Carnies, A Four Course Meal, Eden Iowa and Monstrosity.

More obscure low-budget serial killer fare packaged in one set, including: Long Pigs, Mental Scars, Silo Killer I & II, Raymond Did It, The Man and the Maze, Underground Lizard People, Earth Day and Hide.

In this 1973 monster-on-monster fare from Japan, an undersea kingdom sends its giant protector, Megalon, to attack Tokyo, which in turn gets its own giant protector, Godzilla, to defend the city. Jet Jaguar and Gigan jump in and make it a tag-team affair.

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A body disposal team called in to clean up a crime scene bites off more than they can chew when the corpses rise and attack.

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Re-released for Universal Studios' 100th anniversary, Steven Spielberg's classic killer shark film gets its first Blu-ray release, including remastered picture and an all-new feature-length documentary.

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