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New Horror/Suspense Releases in Theaters and on DVD: Week of September 30, 2012

What's New This Week?

By , About.com Guide

This week, V/H/S and #Holdyourbreath get limited theatrical releases, while home video releases are headed by Dark Shadows, The Hole, Chained, Red Lights and Blu-ray premieres of Pet Sematary and Universal monster movie classics.

#Holdyourbreath

Hold Your Breath poster© The Asylum
Seven friends embarking on a weekend camping trip pass a run-down cemetery and find themselves arguing about the legitimacy of the urban myth that you can breathe in evil spirits when passing cemeteries. When one friend refuses to hold his breath while passing by, he finds himself the unwitting host to a notorious serial killer who jumps from body to body in order to pick off each of the friends one by one.

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V/H/S

'V/H/S' movie poster.© Magnet Releasing
When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a rundown house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn’t going to be as easy as they thought. In the living room, a lifeless body holds court before a hub of old television sets, surrounded by stacks upon stacks of VHS tapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger than the last.

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After Dusk They Come

After Dusk They Come© Lionsgate
A group of friends set out on a luxury yacht for a gorgeous island vacation. But they soon realize that they have veered off-course to a strange uncharted island. After a horrific boat crash shipwrecks them in the dense jungle, it quickly becomes evident that they are not the first to arrive to their new island prison. Instead, an unknown, cannibalistic beast stalks the group from the shadows, picking them off one by one.

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Atomic Brain Invasion

Atomic Brain Invasion© Camp
When a mysterious spacecraft carrying a deadly intergalactic plague crash-lands in a small New England town, it’s up to a group of misfit high schoolers and an alien abductee to stop the army of slime-spewing brain creatures from their one goal: kidnapping Elvis Presley!

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Chained

Chained© Anchor Bay
Coming home from a routine trip to the movies, eight-year-old Tim and his mother Sarah are picked up by a psychopathic cab driver named Bob. It ends up being their last ride together. Bob murders the young boy’s mother and keeps Tim as his unwilling protégée, making him clean up the mess following each murder he commits. After a couple of aborted escape attempts, Bob chains Tim -- now renamed Rabbit -- allowing just enough length to move freely within the house. As the years pass, Bob starts instructing Rabbit, teaching him anatomy and human behavior. Now a teenager, Rabbit is slowly being pressed by Bob to start his own homicidal spree. Slowly but surely, he must soon choose whether to follow in Bob’s serial killer footsteps or make one final, desperate attempt to break free...

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Dark Shadows

'Dark Shadows' movie poster© Warner Bros.
Buried in a tomb for two centuries by a vengeful witch, vampire Barnabas Collins returns to his manor in the 1970s to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. An adaptation of the vampire TV soap opera of the '60s and '70s.

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The Hole

'The Hole' movie poster.© Big Air
From director Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) comes a thriller that explores the fears and secrets buried deep within the human mind. After moving into a new neighborhood, brothers Dane and Lucas, along with their neighbor Julie, discover a bottomless hole in the basement of their home. They find that once the hole is exposed, evil is unleashed. With strange shadows lurking around every corner and nightmares coming to life, they are forced to come face to face with their darkest fears to put an end to the mystery of the hole.

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Hypothermia

Hypothermia© Dark Sky
Ray Pelletier (Michael Rooker) is looking forward to a quiet weekend of ice fishing with his family. Unfortunately for him the obnoxious big city father-son duo of Steve and Stevie Cote has picked the same weekend to spend at the remote frozen lake. But the two families' petty squabbles are soon eclipsed by a much greater enemy: something has awoken under the ice and its prey is human. Miles from civilization and with only a few inches separating them from the freezing water below, the Pelletiers and Cotes must now find a way to work together to fight the vicious creature that’s out to hunt them.

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Killjoy Goes to Hell

Killjoy Goes to Hell© Full Moon
The demon clown Killjoy is on trial in Hell! Having failed in his last outing to claim his victim's soul, he must face the devil himself in Hell's courtroom and prove that he's evil and worthy of a demon. His only hope is the testimony of his last victim and a trial by combat. Killjoy's murderous minions Batty Boop, Punchy, and Freakshow plot a daring rescue attempt, but they have nosy detectives, renegade clowns, and a whole mess of demons in their way. If they fail Killjoy is damned to oblivion, never to return!

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Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary© Paramount
Making its debut on Blu-ray, Pet Sematary was written for the screen by Stephen King, based on his book, and tells the story of Louis and Rachel Creed and their two children, an average family who move into an idyllic home in the countryside to begin what promises to be a perfect new life. Unfortunately, their dream home sits next to a pet cemetery with a horrible and dark secret. When a family tragedy causes Louis to become unhinged with grief, he pays a visit to the cemetery and unleashes an unspeakable evil on the world.

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