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New Horror/Suspense Releases in Theaters and on DVD: Week of June 17, 2012

What's New This Week?

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This week, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter gets a wide theatrical release, while Exit Humanity and Witchslayer Gretl lead a crop of direct-to-video fare.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' movie poster.© 20th Century Fox
An adaptation of the "mash-up" novel that postulates that Abraham Lincoln was secretly a vampire slayer whose mother was killed by a creature of the night.

The Awakened

The Awakened© FilmWorks
When an old farmer digs up a dead tree, he unwittingly unearths a malevolent alien creature and finds himself fighting for his life.

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Below Ground: Demon Holocaust

Below Ground: Demon Holocaust© World Wide Multimedia
An amateur horror filmmaker provides shelter to a group of people during an outbreak of demonic infestation, documenting the ordeal through his camera lens.

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The Disco Exorcist

The Disco Exorcist© Wild Eye
In this horror-comedy homage to '70s grindhouse fare, a disco stud beds a woman who turns out to be a black magic priestess with a "devilish" temper.

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Exit Humanity

Exit Humanity© Bloody Disgusting Selects
During a massive zombie outbreak in the Civil War-era United States, an ex-soldier with nothing to lose embarks on a trek and finds himself at odds with a mad general who's hatched an insidious plot.

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Family Demons

Family Demons© MTI
And abused teenage girl kills her alcoholic mother, but is horrified to find the woman's ghost has risen from the grave.

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Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks

Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks© Cheezy Flicks
In this "women in prison" exploitation sequel to Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, the titular character torments sex slaves kidnapped by an Arab sheik.

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Kids Go to the Woods...Kids Get Dead

Kids Go to the Woods...Kids Get Dead© Planetworks
It's the standard slasher movie scenario -- partying kids, a cabin in the woods, a masked killer -- but with the twist of a "slasher book" that reflects their circumstances and could help them escape their fate.

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Mother's Day Evil

Mother's Day Evil© Tempe
An American woman visiting England finds herself at the mercy of a local madman with mommy issues.

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P.O.E.: Poetry of Eerie

P.O.E.: Poetry of Eerie© Elite
For this horror anthology, 15 directors were each given three days to film an adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe tale.

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Treasure Chest of Horrors

Treasure Chest of Horrors© World Wide Multimedia
This anthology contains four stories of vampires, killer mannequins, a gruesome high school killing spree and more.

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Witchslayer Gretl

Witchslayer Gretl© Sony
Shannon Doherty stars in this SyFy fare as the fairy tale character Gretl, whose brother Hansel vows revenge on the witch that tormented them as children -- only to find that his sis has become the witch's protégé.

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