At long last, Cloverfield arrives to give New York City a whuppin'! Elsewhere Teeth aims to bite you where it counts, and on DVD, a bunch of straight-to-video oddities from Asia, Italy and Spain land in the good ol' USA.
Cloverfield
© Paramount Pictures
The major theatrical release of the week is, at long last, Cloverfield. Thanks to ingenious marketing, mystery surrounds this giant-monster-attacks-New York film, shot on digital video from the point of view of the survivors. Won't we all be surprised when it turns out to be Dragon Wars 2?
Teeth
© Roadside Attractions
Opening in limited release this week is Teeth, an old-fashioned story about a boy, a girl and a girl's man-eating vagina. That's right; a young lady discovers that her vagina sprouts teeth when she feels threatened -- sort of like The Incredible Hulk meets Little Shop of Horrors.
The Attic
© Allumination FilmWorks
From Mary Lambert, who directed Pet Sematary (and to a lesser extent, Pet Sematary Two), comes this ghost story of a teenaged girl who encounters a doppelganger in her new home. Who you gonna call?
Autopsy
© Jef Films
A blind millionaire gets bumped off in this Spanish murder mystery from 1973. Whodunit?
Ghost Son
© Lions Gate Entertainment
Prolific Italian horror director Lamberto Bava (Demons) tells the tale of a woman in South Africa who believes that her son was conceived by her late husband from beyond the grave. Just don't call her a spirit skank.
Land of Death
© Jef Films
Italian schlock-meister Bruno Mattei apparently didn't get the message that cannibal movies burned out in the early '80s. This 2003 entry finds soldiers sent deep into the Amazon to retrieve a bigwig's daughter who's been captured by cannibals.
Matrimony
© Tartan Video
In this Chinese period piece, the ghost of a dead woman possesses her ex-boyfriend's new wife. Not exactly the ménage à trois he'd hoped for.
Monstroid: It Came From the Lake
© Jef Films
One of those cautionary pollution tales from the '70s, Monstroid finds a Loch Ness Monster-styled creature being risen by industrial pollution. And it's not as friendly as Woodsy the Owl.
Red Eye
© Tokyo Shock
Not to be confused with the Wes Craven thriller from 2005, this is a South Korean horror story about a stewardess who works the night shift on a haunted train.
Skullduggery
© Jef Films
A man is cursed with the desire to commit murder. His name is OJ Simpson.
Track of the Moon Beast
© Jef Films
A man mutates into a hideous beast after being hit in the head by a meteor -- presumably a small, non-fatal one.
