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March 31, 2009 Releases
AUTOPSY: Lionsgate  Emily Johnson, her boyfriend Bobby and their friends Clare and Jude are recent college grads driving cross-country, taking a last vacation together before they face the real world. An accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely Louisiana road. When the ambulance arrives, it whisks them to Mercy Hospital. With a minimal staff and many of its floors empty, the hospital is an eerie place… BOLLYWOOD HORROR COLLECTION VOL. 2 (VEERANA, PURANI HAVELI; special edition): Mondo Macabro  Sex, blood, dancing vampires and hairy beasts in an unmissable double bill of wild, Bollywood style entertainment. In Veerana: Vengeance of the Vampire, a local landowner’s daughter is possessed by the spirit of a dead witch. She becomes a bloodsucking seductress. In Purani Haveli: Mansion of Evil, an innocent girl unwittingly releases the ancient curse contained in her family’s old country mansion. Statues come to life, hairy beasts roam the corridors, the bodies pile up. THE BROKEN: Lionsgate The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest friends are somehow involved in, leaving her with no one to trust. THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT 3: REVELATIONS: Lionsgate The third installment in the theatrical franchise...A young man with the power to time travel attempts to solve the mystery of his girlfriend’s death...but in doing so, is he causing the death of many more? CAT IN THE BRAIN: Grindhouse  Acclaimed Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci, director of ZOMBIE and THE BEYOND, stars in this blood-soaked epic as a director being driven insane by his own movies. Fulci is thrust into an ultra-violent nightmare of death and depravity where murder and madness consume his sanity in a vortex of violence. THE CREMATOR: Dark Sky Karl Kopfrkingl works at a stately crematorium in Prague. Obsessed with his duties, he believes he is liberating the souls of the departed. With Nazi forces gathering at the Czech border, Karl descends into a mania that allows him to wholly enact his disturbed beliefs. No one is safe from his quest for salvation, not even his own family. CTHULHU: Liberation  A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reacquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has a long-awaited tryst. Caught in an accelerating series of events, he discovers aspects of his father's New Age cult which take on a dangerous and apocalyptic significance. DYING BREED: Lionsgate On their quest to find a rare tiger, four hikers venture deep into isolated territory of Tasmania and into the small township of "Sarah”. Nestled within the impenetrable forests of Western Tasmania, "Sarah" was the hideout of the infamous cannibal nicknamed "The Pieman” in the 1800s. It needs to stay hidden to survive...but it also needs fresh "stock" to breed. THE ESCAPEES: Redemption USA On the run from an asylum for the insane, a feisty young girl and her forlorn female companion embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers. Wandering from the fantastic to the farcical and back again. EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 3: Microcinema Striking for the third time, it unleashes another hallucinogenic orgy of the uncanny, the dreadful, and the macabre. FROM WITHIN: Lionsgate A rash of suicides hit the small community of Grovetown, causing fear and panic among local residents. As those around 18 year old Lindsay continue to die gruesome deaths, she begins to distrust everyone and suspects she will become the next victim. ISLE OF THE DAMNED: Dire Wit In this loving homage/parody of the Italian cannibal genre of the late 70's and early 80's, private investigator Jack Steele is hired by a mysterious treasure hunter to help find the lost treasure of Marco Polo. Along for the trip is Jack's adopted son, Billy. Their search brings them to an island off the coast of Argentina... and into the clutches of a primitive cannibal tribe, the Yamma Yamma. OGRE: First Look Ogre follows a group of traveling teenagers who stumble upon a small, ageless village. Here they find a paradise of immortality - the residents are free from disease and have an abundance of harvest. However, they soon discover that everlasting life had its price. The town made an ancient pact with the Ogre on the mountain: an annual human offering in exchange for status quo. PERKINS' 14: Lionsgate Ten years after officer Dwayne Hooper’s son disappeared, the final of 14 victims in a string of local unsolved disappearances, his suspicions are aroused by prison inmate Perkins. Dwayne searches Perkins’ house and discovers a collection of torture videos featuring the missing victims from the past. In a fit of rage, Dwayne kills Perkins. But things get complicated when a wave of carnage which sweeps the town, with reports of Dwayne’s own son amongst the psychopaths. THE RAVEN: Liberation A lavish masquerade party in a creepy mansion takes a terrifying turn when a masked killer crashes the party. As the guests get picked off one by one, old grudges and new suspicions threaten everyone's survival. SAINT FRANCIS: Redemption USA In this dark and macabre film, Dita Von Teese plays the sister of Francis, who believes Satan is coming to earth to purge the world of sinners and take his sister's soul with him. His nightmare is made all the more real with lurid visions of his sister's naked corpse fawned over by the minions of Satan. SEDUCTION CINEMA EROTIC HORROR (MISTRESS FRANKENSTEIN, GIRL EXPLORES GIRL, THE EROTIC GHOST; 3-disc Set): Seduction/POPcinema MISTRESS FRANKENSTEIN: Victor Frankenstein brings his deceased wife back to life with hilarious and sexy consequences! GIRL EXPLORES GIRL: From beyond the stars come two aliens - not to destroy our world, but to learn how to reproduce and save their dying planet. Will they succeed? THE EROTIC GHOST: Sexy yet unfulfilled housewife Doris experiences ultimate pleasure with a ghostly lover and two horny demons in this uniquely erotic feature. THE SEDUCTION OF DR. FUGAZZI: Troma Dr. Anna is a young, sexy psychologist, who is provoked by deranged patients into sadomasochistic nightmares. The Seduction of Dr. Fugazzi is a strange, twisted psycho-sexual thriller depicting one woman's depraved descent into madness and mayhem. THE SINFUL DWARF: Severin Diminutive former kiddie-show host Torben Bille - stars as the pint-sized pervert who imprisons drugged teenage sex slaves in the attic of his drunken mother's decrepit rooming house. SLAUGHTER: Lionsgate Faith thinks she is leaving her abusive relationship behind when she moves in with Lola on her family farm. Each night the girls go out, Lola comes home with a man. When Faith realizes these men never make it off the farm, she starts to believe Lola’s family might be killing more than just animals in the slaughterhouse. TERROR CIRCUS: Shriek Show/Media Blasters Three beautiful young women are bound for Las Vegas to become showgirls. And it's not long before their car breaks down and they're stranded in the middle of the Nevada desert. After spending the night in their car, a man named Andre offers them a lift to his place and a tow truck. But the girls quickly learn there's more to Andre than meets the eye and they're soon taken prisoner. TIMECRIMES: 6-Shooter/Magnolia  A man being pursued by a murderer stumbles into a mysterious lab and accidentally travels back in time. A naked girl in the midst of the forest. A cloaked stranger with his face covered in bandages. A disquieting mansion on the top of a hill. All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable sort of crime. VOICES: Lionsgate Based on the best selling comic book series. After witnessing a family member thrown of a balcony by her fiancée on her wedding day and the violent stabbing of her aunt, a young woman comes to realize she may be next in line. She desperately tries to find out why those around her turn on her and why she seems marked for death. XOMBIE: DEAD ON ARRIVAL: Halo-8 XOMBIE is the story of Dirge, a dead man with a mind of his own, who struggles against his posthumous cravings (not to mention legions of the walking dead) to reunite a lost child with her family. With the help of his trusty undead canine Cerberus, our hero treks across the hostile future wastelands, facing zombified creatures of every shape and size.
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Criterion is going to be putting out Roman Polanski's psychosis-masterpiece, Repulsion:
http://www.criterion.com/films/404  From Criterion.com: "Roman Polanski followed up his international breakthrough Knife in the Water with this controversial, chilling tale of psychosis, starring Catherine Deneuve as Carol, a fragile, frigid young beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, Carol is haunted by specters real and imagined, and her insanity grows to a violent pitch. Thanks to its unforgettable attention to disturbing detail and Polanski’s unparalleled adeptness at turning claustrophobic space into an emotional minefield, Repulsion remains one of cinema’s most shocking psychological thrillers." Due out July 28th!
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Anyone else find this one odd?
 http://www.criterion.com/films/1584 I mean, it was a good movie - really good in some respects - but it just doesn't seem like Criterion caliber.
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April 21, 2009 Releases
THE BURROWERS: Lionsgate  The Dakota Territories. 1879. A handful of brave pioneers maintain isolated settlements in the badlands beyond civilization. Irish Immigrant Fergus Coffey is near to winning the hand of his beloved Maryanne when she is suddenly taken from him, her family brutally abducted in a nighttime attack on their homestead. Suspicion falls immediately on hostile Indians. Experienced Indian fighters Will Parcher and John Clay form a posse and set out to rescue the kidnapped settlers, taking along a naïve teenager hoping to prove himself a man, an ex-slave looking for his place, and their ranch-hand, Coffey. But as men vanish in the night, and horrific evidence accumulates with the dead and dying, the group discovers that their prey is far more terrifying than anything human, and their prospects are far more terrible than death. FEAR GIRLS - Volume One: Celebrity WHEN THE SUN SETS AND THE LIGHT OF THE DAY HAS DISAPPEARED, FOUR VIGNETTES OF HORROR AND EROTICA TAKE OVER... Experience the voyeuristic feast of a female vampire claiming her latest victim after an exciting sexual seduction. --Be there for the sexy and bloody climax as a stalker is surprised when the victim turns the tables on their frightening encounter. --Watch breathlessly as a bout of S&M takes a wildly violent and unexpected turn. HELLRAISER Limited Edition Box Set (HELLRAISER, HELLBOUND 20th anni. DVDs, HELLRAISER Blu-ray): Anchor Bay Loaded with nearly 3 hours of bonus material, this 3 disc set comes in a custom made Hellraiser Puzzle Box that slides open to reveal the discs. Disc 1: Hellraiser, Disc 2: Hellbound: Hellraiser II and Disc 3 the Hellraiser Blu Ray. LAID TO REST: Anchor Bay  A terrifying story of a young girl who wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a deranged serial murder and must survive the night and outsmart the technologically inclined killer who is hell bent on finishing what he started. MANIAC ON THE LOOSE: Forbidden Pleasures/SRS Cinema A patient described as extremely dangerous has escaped from the local psychiatric hospital. Fearing he'll lose his job if word gets out, the head of the hospital, Dr. Franklin Grimm, desperately attempts to cover up the escape. Meanwhile, there is a Maniac on the Loose. THE POKER CLUB: Sony Pictures For years, Aaron Tyler has been getting together with his three best friends on Monday nights to play poker. But tonight, everything is about to change forever when the men accidentally kill a burglar who's broken into Aaron's house. Fearing the consequences, Aaron and his friends dispose of the corpse and agree to take the secret to their graves. However, they soon discover that someone knows what they've done and is now playing a murderous game of revenge with them. SAM'S LAKE: Lionsgate As she does every summer, Sam takes a group of friends to accompany her on a retreat to the cottage she grew up in. On this year's trip, Sam and her friends are faced with the terrifying legend of Sam's Lake. April 28, 2009 Releases THE CENTERFOLD GIRLS: Dark Sky  A reedy man wearing saddle shoes and an ill-fitting suit drags the nude body of a young woman her throat slit-- along an otherwise empty beach. Soon a number of other beautiful women turn up dead, their throats also cut open. Nurses, students, stewardesses... what s the common thread? All were centerfold models for a popular men s magazine, prey to a bloodthirsty psychotic with a straight razor! COLD EYES OF FEAR: Redemption USA Motivated by revenge, an ex-con abducts the son of the judge who put him behind bars. The plot thickens as a deeper betrayal is revealed, leading the story to erotic S&M scenes with scantily-clad women and violent trysts in darkened, atmospheric nightclub settings. EMPIRE OF PASSION: Criterion With an arresting mix of eroticism and horror, Oshima plunges the viewer into a nightmarish tale of guilt and retribution in Empire of Passion (Ai no borei). Set in a Japanese village at the end of the nineteenth century, the film details the emotional and physical downfall of a married woman and her younger lover following their decision to murder her husband and dump his body in a well. EXIT 38: S'more Lee Gray and Boyd Parker are members of an elite FBI unit but they never intended on being partners. In fact, these men wanted nothing to do with one another, but when a cunning vampire starts feasting on the blood of innocent girls in a small Nevada town, they have no choice but to go on a mission to track down the dangerous vampire and end his streak of terror. It will take the assets of the FBI and the direction of a Chinese master to find the evil vampire known as Mercer. They find him ensconced off ‘Exit 38’ at his current feeding ground, a “gentlemen’s club” in an unsuspecting town. THE GRAY MAN: Monarch Based on a true story of an obsessive manhunt to identify and capture the most monstrous, yet least known serial killer in the history of true crime in America – Albert Fish. In 1928, a 10 year old, Grace Budd, is abducted by a kindly old grandfather and never seen again. After scouring the country for 6 years, detectives finally arrest Albert Fish for her kidnapping but are unprepared for the horrors they are about to uncover. MARTYRS: Weinstein Company  Lucie, a 10 year old girl, is found wandering in the streets, bruised and bloodied. Unable to say who did this to her, or why, she is placed in a hospital where she meets Anna, another young girl who had been abused. Fifteen years later, with Anna s help, Lucie sets out to get revenge on her attackers. When she believes she has found the couple who abused her, she confronts them ...and that is when the terror truly begins. ONE-EYED MONSTER: Liberation In a comic homage to Alien and The Thing , the cast and crew of an adult film, stranded in a blizzard, must band together against a mysterious and deadly alien, which has possessed the actor with the biggest part Ron Jeremy (naturally). Now, with the monster on a killing spree, the race is on to trap and destroy it before there are more victims of its peculiar skills. THE POSSESSED: Spooked Television The belief in possession by evil spirits plagued the 18th century. Madness and hysteria spread, classifying the crippled and mentally ill as being under the control of the Devil . These misfits became the victims of bizarre exorcisms or casting out rituals . Banished from society they were locked away inside brutal asylums. Angels or Demons they were branded The Possessed! PSYCHOS IN LOVE: Shriek Show/Media Blasters Joe was a lonely psychotic killer. After all, it's tough to find the right woman when you re compelled to murder them after a few dates. When Kate walked into Joe's bar, she seemed perfect. She was gorgeous, she hated grapes. But each of them had a terrible secret: they were killers. Is that the kind of thing you can risk telling the one you love? They shared passion, they shared laughter, they shared a few little murders. But then they met Herman, a local plumber and part-time cannibal, and he wanted bodies. Kate and Joe are two young lovers just trying to make ends meet. And everyone they meet, meets the end pretty quickly. THE SHE-BEAST: Dark Sky A small town in 18th century Transylvania is being terrorized by an evil witch. When a child is brutally attacked, the villagers capture the fiend and sentence her to death by dunking chair, but not before she casts a curse on them and their descendants. Two hundred years later, young newlyweds Veronica and Philip pass through the town on a tour of the Carpathians, only to have their car pulled into a lake by an unseen force. A passing truck driver quickly rescues two bodies from the wreck. One is Philip, battered but alive, and the other is... the witch, back from the dead to wreak havoc on the town once again! SYNESTHESIA: Funimation Mari suffers from synesthesia, a rare disorder that mixes up the senses. She’s lived a sheltered life, but when her adoptive parents die mysteriously, Mari’s condition may hold the key to catching a dangerous serial killer. Now she and Shinsuke, another synesthete, must catch the killer before Mari becomes his next victim. THE UNINVITED: DreamWorks/Paramount  The Uninvited revolves around Anna, who returns home after spending time in the hospital following the tragic death of her mother. Her recovery suffers a setback when she discovers her father has become engaged to her mother’s former nurse, Rachel. That night, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her of Rachel's intentions. Together, Anna and her sister try to convince their father that his current fiancée is not who she pretends to be, and what should have been a happy family reunion becomes a lethal battle of wills between stepdaughters and stepmother. WHILE SHE WAS OUT: Anchor Bay A suburban housewife is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs. What starts off as a quick trip to the mall ends in the woods with a fight for her life. All she has is a toolbox and her will to survive.
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