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New Horror/Suspense Releases in Theaters and on DVD: Week of July 29, 2012

What's New This Week?

By , About.com Guide

This week's horror/suspense releases on home video are led by Detention, ATM, Dead Season, Sand Sharks and a host of Asian horror re-releases.

ATM

'ATM' movie poster.© IFC
On a late night visit to an enclosed ATM, three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by a deranged figure lurking in the shadows.

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The Bunny Game

The Bunny Game© Autonomy
In this controversial exploitation flick, a deranged truck driver kidnaps and tortures a prostitute with a series of twisted games -- including the dreaded "bunny game."

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Carnal Innocence

Carnal Innocence© Mandalay
Gabrielle Anwar stars in this made-for-TV movie based on a Nora Roberts novel about a musician who returns to the small town where she spent summers as a child, only to have the peace broken by the discovery of a dead body and the possibility of a serial killer in her midst.

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Dead Season

Dead Season© Image
When a worldwide viral outbreak leads to a plague of zombies, two survivors flee the chaos of America to a remote island, hoping for a chance to start a new life, but they find not only hordes of the flesh-hungry undead, but also a militaristic group of people who've already claimed the island as their own.

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Detention

'Detention' movie poster.© Detention Films
A group of teens struggle to survive their senior year of high school when a slasher-movie killer seemingly comes to life. It becomes a race against time to stop the killer and save the world...if only they can get out of detention.

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Dorm

Dorm© Tartan
In this 2006 Thai ghost story, a lonely young student at a boy's preparatory school encounters the ghost of a boy who died there years earlier.

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Firstborn

Firstborn© Olive
This little-seen 1984 thriller features several soon-to-be-stars -- including Corey Haim, Robert Downey, Jr. and Sarah Jessica Parker -- in the story of a single mother (Teri Garr) whose new boyfriend (Peter Weller) moves in and becomes a menacing force in the lives of her sons.

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Ghosts of War

Ghosts of War© Tartan
Also known as R-Point, this 2004 Korean film set in the Vietnam War era follows a South Korean army unit as they track a distress signal from a patrol that has been missing in action for months and end up encountering a deadly supernatural force.

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The Haunting of Whaley House

The Haunting of Whaley House© The Asylum
The real-life Whaley House in San Diego -- declared "the most haunted" (however that distinction is quantified) in the US -- is the setting for this tale of a tour guide who decides to break into the notorious house for some amateur ghost hunting with her friends.

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The Maid

The Maid© Tartan
In this 2005 spook-fest from Singapore, a naïve young maid from the Philippines breaks the rules that supposedly protect the living from the dead during the seventh month on the Chinese calendar, and she ends up praying the price.

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