Friday the 13th hits but once or twice a year; therefore, it’s smart that studios are releasing not one, but two genre efforts in theaters this week. The long awaited mean, green, fighting machine in THE INCREDIBLE HULK, and the confirmation that M. Night Shyamalan is the millennium’s next Ed Wood with THE HAPPENING. DVD is offering some decent releases as well, including THE SIGNAL, OTIS, and the John Fallon aka The Arrow co-scripted RECON 2022 (he also plays the bad guy in the film). Happy Friday the 13th!
SLAUGHTERING THEATERS THIS WEEK
THE INCREDIBLE HULK
Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action violence, some frightening sci-fi images and brief suggestive content.
Starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt
Directed by Louis Leterrier
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Scientist Bruce Banner desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk. Living in the shadows–cut off from a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross–Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross, and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power. As all three grapple with the secrets that led to The Hulk’s creation, they are confronted with a monstrous new adversary known as The Abomination, whose destructive strength exceeds even The Hulk’s own. To stop it, one scientist must make an agonizing final choice: accept a peaceful life as Bruce Banner or find heroism in the creature he holds inside–The Incredible Hulk.
THE HAPPENING
Rated R for violent and disturbing images.
Starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
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A family is on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind–but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.
SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
Rated: R
Starring Chad McKnight, Jim Parsons
Directed by David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, and Dan Bush
Run Time: 103 Min.
It s New Year s Eve in the city of Terminus and chaos is this year s resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by an enigmatic transmission that preys on fear and desire driving everyone in the city to murder and madness. In a place once marked by conformity but now sent into complete anarchy the rebellious Ben must save the woman he loves from the bedlam in the streets as well as her crazed sadistic husband. But the only way he can tell who to trust or who has given in to violence is by uncovering the true nature of The Signal.Told in three parts from three unique perspectives by three visionary directors The Signal was originally conceived as an experimental film project called Exquisite Corpse where one filmmaker would begin a story then hand it off to another filmmaker to continue and then to another and so on until the movie was complete. The story eventually took shape and evolved into a scifi/ horror/thriller that imagines a world where everyday anxieties become the catalyst for inhuman terror. The Signal is a horrific journey towards discovering that the most brutal monster might actually be within all of us.
OTIS
Rated: UnRated
Starring Kevin Pollak, Daniel Stern
Directed by Tony Krantz
Run Time: 100 minutes
OTIS is a story of suburban America gone haywire. In the midst of a serial abductor/killer?s rampage a beautiful young teen Riley Lawson (Ashley Johnson) goes missing. When her desperate parents Will and Kate (Daniel Stern and Illeana Douglas) are contacted by her kidnapper an insufferable FBI Special Agent (Jere Burns) takes charge of the case. But from deep within the psychopathic subterranean world created by Otis (Bostin Christopher) Riley turns the tables on her tormentor manages to escape and to contact her parents. Fed up with the tragi- comic inability of the FBI to find their girl Will Kate and Riley?s brother Reed (Jared Kusnitz) decide to take matters – and justice – into their own hands. But when Otis brother Elmo (Kevin Pollak) shows up unexpectedly the Lawsons find themselves mired in one of the more unusual and macabre consequences of vigilantism. Far from proclaiming ?Mission Accomplished? the backed-in-a-corner Lawsons will further complicate their already deadly predicament with a surprising unfortunate and frankly hilarious final choice.
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RECON 2022: MEZZO INCIDENT
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Christian Viel
Starring Deke Richards, John Fallon, Carmen Echeverria
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Directed by Christian Viel, this film features Sharp, a tough as nails lieutenant that accompanies his unit of space marines to the ice planet of Mezzos to fight Cyborgs, snow worms, aliens, and more.
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