This week offers a trio of semi-large releases on DVD, more so than we’ve seen in a while. The mid-summer rush? Maybe. A random occurrence? Most likely. The crapfest known as THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT hits DVD, as well as the cool looking HORSEMEN and the Region 1 U.S. release of the original [REC], the film QUARANTINE was based on. A crappy attempt at Hollywood horror, some straight to DVD madness with Dennis Quaid, and some Spanish horror that’s actually scary. If you can’t find something you like out of these, I honestly don’t know what to tell you.
SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
Rated: PG-13
Starring Kyle Gallner, Amanda Crew, Virginia Madsen
Directed by Peter Cornwell
Run Time: 92 Min.
Based on a chilling true story, Lionsgate’s The Haunting in Connecticut charts one family’s terrifying, real-life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner’s clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to cross over. Now, unspeakable terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the dead, returns to unleash a new kind of horror on the innocent and unsuspecting family.
HORSEMEN
Rated: R
Starring Dennis Quaid, Ziyi Zhang, Lou Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins Jr.
Directed Jonas Åkerlund
Run Time: 110 minutes
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife’s death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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Rated: NotRated
Starring Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge Serrano
Directed by Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
Run Time: 75 minutes
From Executive Producers who brought you Quarantine, comes the movie that inspired the terror. A beautiful TV reporter (Manuela Velasco, Law of Desire) and her cameraman are doing a routine interview at a local fire station when an emergency call comes in. Accompanying the firefighters to a nearby apartment, the news team begins recording the bloodcurdling screams coming from inside an elderly woman’s unit. After authorities seal off the building to contain the threat, the news crew, firefighters and residents are trapped to face a lethal terror inside. With the camera running, nothing may survive but the film itself.
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