This week is seriously lacking when it comes to theatrical releases… good thing it delivers in terms of what’s new on DVD! The amazing THE MIST, and the triumphant THEM (aka ILS) hits the small screen (two of th best genre efforts of 2007), as well as the APRIL FOOL’S DAY remake (one week before April Fool’s Day), and the psychedelic horror-show SHROOMS. With a line up like this, who needs to go to the theater?
SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
Rated: R
Starring Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden
Directed by Frank Darabont
Run Time: 126 Min.
A mysterious mist, thick with blood-thirsty creatures, descends on a small town, where a group of people holes up in a grocery store to fight for their lives.
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THEM aka ILS
Rated: R
Starring Olivia Bonamy and Michael Cohen
Directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud
Run Time: 77 minutes
A young couple lead a happy, quiet life in the countryside. But little do they know they’re being surrounded. When night falls, the couple will come face to face with THEM. Who are they? What do they want? The answers will take them to the very limits of fear itself.
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APRIL FOOL’S DAY
Rated: R
Directed by Phil Flores, Mitchell Altieri
Starring Taylor Cole, Mark D. Headen, David Lowe (VIII), Dave Blamy
Run Time: 91 Minutes
Each April Fool’s Day, fabulously wealthy young Desiree Cartier hosts the most killer coming-out parties at her to-die-for southern mansion. And this social event is never complete without one of her patented pranks. But when this year’s joke turns deadly, Desiree, her brother Blaine and five of their friends all become the targets of a twisted killer who begins hunting them down one by one in this chilling tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge.
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Rated: UnRated
Directed by Paddy Breathnach
Starring Sean McGinley, Joe Phelan, Lindsey Haun, Anna Tikhonova
Run Time: 84 minutes
Five American travelers and their friend/guide from Dublin head out into the Irish countryside for a little camping, and to sample the famed local magic mushrooms. But when one of them mistakenly eats the dreaded “Deathshead” mushroom (which of course causes seizures, psychosis and wacky premonitions), their “trip” goes from bad to very, very worse. In the haunted shadow of an old boy’s school and seemingly hunted by the evil spirits of the “Black Brothers” who ran the place.
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