October 13, 2009 Releases
DRAG ME TO HELL: Universal
Christine Brown is on her way to having it all: a devoted boyfriend, a hard-earned job promotion, and a bright future. But when she’s forced to make a tough decision that evicts an elderly woman from her house, Christine becomes the victim of an evil curse. Now she has only three days to dissuade a dark spirit from stealing her soul before she is dragged to hell for an eternity of unthinkable torment.
GNAW: Dark Sky
According to official statistics, more than 210,000 missing persons reports are filed every year. Some cases are never solved. Now six friends head off to a country estate for a weekend of bonding, bed hopping and home-cooked feasts. But their good times go very bad when they encounter a clan of slaughter-happy psychopaths with expert skills in butchery and a ravenous hunger for teen-meat pies. What follows is a brutal battle for survival, complete with shocking carnage, killer twists, and graphic reasons to avoid UK cuisine forever.
HARDWARE: Severin
It was the movie that stunned audiences, shocked the MPAA and marked the debut of one of the most uncompromising filmmakers in modern horror. Dylan McDermott stars as a post-apocalyptic scavenger who brings home a battered cyborg skull for his metal-sculptor girlfriend. But this steel scrap contains the brain of the M.A.R.K. 13, the military's most ferocious bio-mechanical combat droid. It is cunning, cruel, and knows how to reassemble itself. Tonight, it is reborn...and no flesh shall be spared.
THE HAUNTED AIRMAN: E1 Entertainment
Flight Lieutenant Jugg, confined to a wheelchair after being wounded in action, arrives at a remote mansion in Wales to recuperate. Suffering from terrible nightmares and visions, he suspects the methods of his psychiatrist, Dr. Hal Burns. His beautiful aunt, Julia seems to be the only person he can trust – until circumstances make him doubt even her intentions.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME: Starz/Anchor Bay
Welcome to upscale Crawford Academy, where everyone–especially new student Ginny– wants to be part of the school’s most popular clique. But now somebody has begun butchering the group’s members. Could a deadly accident from Ginny’s past be connected to the brutal killings? And as her 18th birthday approaches, will Ginny be the guest of honor at the most horrific party of all?
HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER: Monterey
Mike Wilson has found the perfect method of getting your life back on track and achieving a meaningful existence. Mike teaches his method in an exciting seminar series: How To Be A Serial Killer. Mike's 10-lesson program includes weaponry, corpse disposal, keeping things from loved ones, and many other pearls. As Mike begins to teach more and more about the ways of successful serial killing, it becomes more and more difficult to hide the truth from his girlfriend Abigail. And when she does inevitably find out, Mike's life as serial killer gets thrown for a serious loop.
THE HUNGER: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON: E1 Entertainment
David Bowie hosts the second season of the erotically-charged horror anthology series from Executive Producers Tony and Ridley Scott, which features a phenomenal cast of familiar faces (including David Bowie, Jennifer Beals, Brad Dourif, Anthony Michael Hall, William Katt, William McNamara, Cathy Moriarty, Lori Petty, Glenn Plummer, Giovanni Ribisi, Eric Roberts, Fisher Stevens and David Warner) as you’ve never seen them before.
iMURDERS: Starz/Anchor Bay
A mysterious love triangle leads to a tragic shooting. Months later, eight members of a Myspace chat room are being gruesomely murdered in the privacy of their own homes. What is the connection? Sandra Wilson is a good place to start. The intelligent, 30-ish professional woman has a haunting past that may hold the key. The chilling truth however is that any one of the Myspace lurkers may hold the answer as to who is responsible for the grizzly killings taking place in this cyber world.
INFESTATION: First Look
Fear takes over a mundane workday when slacker office drone Cooper wakes up in a massive cocoon spun by mutant, flesh-eating insects. One by one, Cooper unwraps those around him, forming a team of strangers to fight off the infestation. The team and other survivors must battle to stay alive and take back the Earth by fighting off gigantic flying bugs and human hybrid mutants.
LEFT BANK: IFC/MPI
In this graphically shocking and internationally acclaimed debut feature by Belgian writer/director Peter Van Hees, Eline Kuppens stars as a dedicated professional runner sidelined by an infection. But when she impulsively decides to move into her new boyfriend s high-rise apartment on the outskirts of Antwerp, she will discover that his perfect home may hold strange powers and even darker secrets: Their sexual passion becomes extreme. Her body undergoes bizarre changes. The previous tenant disappeared under mysterious circumstances. And deep within the building s dark basement lurks an ancient evil that waits to be reborn. Welcome to a neighborhood where obsession meets madness, history is written in blood, and modern horror is alive and well in a place called LEFT BANK.
LOVED ONES: R Squared Films
Gus, a Seattle undercover cop, whose friend goes missing, is forced to track down this Coven of Vampires. Serbia, the leader of the Vampires, has come up with the cure for the blood lust. This does not sit well with some in his Coven for they like the old ways of the hunt, and they are thinking about replacing Serbia. Tim Gardner, a struggling artist, is tired of his meteoric rise to fame and longs to find his true place in the world. Once he is bitten, he finds himself on the fast track to lead this broken Vampire Coven. Three men on a collision course with man kind hanging in the Balance; the battle begins and blood will flow.
THE OBJECTIVE: IFC/MPI
Afghanistan, November 2001: Two months after 9/11, a CIA operative leads a hardcore U.S. Special Forces squad on a classified mission deep into harsh and hostile Taliban territory. Their objective is to locate a Muslim cleric with possible ties to a deadly cache of WMDs. But what they instead discover is a phenomenon beyond anything known to man. You cannot fight what isn't there. You cannot kill what doesn't live. And in a land ravaged by war and ruled by superstition, who or what is the ultimate enemy?
ORAL FIXATION: Lifesize Entertainment
Rachel Marks is obsessed with her dentist. When he refuses to keep treating her, her fragile psyche cracks and she sets out to make herself part of his life by any means necessary.
THE STEPFATHER: Shout Factory
Jerry Blake is a man obsessed with having the perfect American Dream life: including the house with the white picket fence in the suburbs, an adoring wife and loving children. He believes he has found it when he marries Susan Maine and becomes the stepfather to her 16-year-old daughter, Stephanie. But Stephanie gets an uneasy feeling when she is around Jerry with his Father Knows Best attitude: she can see that there is a darker side behind his cheerful exterior. Could she just be going through the typical teenager rebellion against her new stepfather, or is he actually the same man who brutally murdered his family just one year earlier?
UNTIL DEATH: MYA Communications
Linda and her lover Carlo committed a horrible crime: eight years ago they murdered the woman's husband, while she was pregnant with his son. They hid the corpse and since then they are running a small hotel near a popular fishing lake. One rainy night a drifter named Marco arrives to the hotel, but he seems to know too many details about Linda's dead husband.
ZOMBIE DEAREST: Anthem
Unemployed comedy writer Gus Lawton pushes his wife Deborah too far and finds himself chasing her across the country to the run-down house of her childhood. Faced with the choice of losing her or living by her plan, he gets busy fixing up the old place starting with the septic tank. Just when he reaches his limit, Gus digs up the one thing he needs, a zombie who will do anything he says. For now anyway.