It’s not quite October, where we’re due to get enough horror related items to satisfy a hungry hungry hippo, but with the end of the month coming up, there’s ome very cool releases hitting the shelves this week:
Theatrical Releases
Paranormal Activity This indie ghost story has been a hit on the festival circuit and finally opens in select cities on September 25th (including Boston MA). It’s been hailed as one of the scariest films in a long while. I know I’m excited, here’s hoping it can live up to the advanced billing
Pandorum Opening in much wider release, this looks like the latest Hollywood take on Aliens. Still, the trailers for this make it look like a cut above the many imitators, as there are some genuine moments of tension, and Dennis Quaid is almost always reliable in anything he appears in.
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DVD Releases
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Friday the 13th (The Series) Season 3 Though it had zero to do with Jason, this was a great weekly horror show in the late eighties. Who knew antiquing could so scary. This show boosted a fair amount of gore and a good amount of episodes avoided wrapping up with a neat little bow, leaving the viewer to wonder when certain cursed artifacts would pop up again. Plus, as the hottest practicing Wiccan to ever grace TV, Robey was fun to look when you were a 15 year old dude. (DVD)
Autopsy of the Dead An I depth look back at Night of the Living Dead which includes cast and crew interviews, outtakes, and tours of the original filming locations. This would make for a nice back-to-back viewing with last week’s Beware the Moon. (DVD)
Albino Farm I have the feeling that reading the actual description of the film will upset the image I have in my mind of a Midwestern farm plating Albino seeds then harvesting adorable little Albino babies come fall. (DVD)
Clive Barker’s Book of Blood Based on a pair of stories from Barker’s anthology series, the redband trailer for this film looked outstanding. A young man must help transition souls to the afterlife, and it leaves him scarred physically and mentally. This looks like a must grab for your collection. (Blu-Ray/DVD)
Edges of Darkness After the umptieth zombie apocalypse hits, a family with dark secrets try to stay together and protect one another from hoards of the undead. (DVD)
The Ghosts of Girlfriend’s Past The secret to a man’s perfect tan and six pack abs is revealed: for years e has been bathing in the blood of his ex-girlfriends. Now they have returned in spirit form to torment him from beyond the grave. What? It could be about that. It has the world ‘Ghost’ right in the title! (Blu-Ray/DVD)
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto I don’t really know what to make of this adult cartoon from Rob Zombie. It looks like an X-Rated version of the 1970’s Hanna-Barbera cartoons. One released clip showed Hitler’s reanimated severed head attempting cunnilingus on a character voiced by Zombie’s wife, so it has that going for it. I’m putting the over/under on hillbilly characters at 236. (DVD)
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Comic Book Highlights Releasing 9/23
Lionsgate Films Leprechaun #4 Really? Why? The money that went to creating this could’ve fed many hungry families.
The Goon TB Vol 9 “Calamity of Conscience” Love The Goon. Beautiful art and it’s always hysterical.
Hack Slash #26 SANTA MUERTE is a religious figure revered all over Mexico as a Saint of good luck and love. But sightings of her in Chicago are coinciding with the return of a fierce slasher known as Julian the Mosaic Man, the first slasher Cassie and Vlad ever faced together! (description from comiclist.com)
Zombies That Ate the World (5 of 8) Jerry Frissen and Guy Davis’ zombie epic continues with ‘Pop Pop Art’ Part 1 (of 2) which shows us the darker side of Los Angeles 2064. Zombies, chainsaws, riots and a beheading, all in just the first half of this hilarious story! (description from comiclist.com)
Added Bonus Due to overwhelming demand, the douche nozzle that plays “Jimmy Football”, the obnoxious pitchman in those wretched Bud Light commercials is going to be skinned, then burned alive in a full scale replica of the Wicker Man apparatus and it’s GOING TO BE ON LIVE TV FOR FREE! Nic Cage and Cheri O’Teri host. Check your local cable providers for more info.
Tags: book of blood, clive barker, dennis quaid, friday the 13th the series, pandorum, Paranormal Activity, the goon, week in horror
