A surprisingly kick-ass mid-summer release week in horror, with goodies hitting both theaters and DVD! First up in theaters, Lindsay Lohan as a murdered stripper in I KNOW WHO KILLED ME- you never know, this could be the sleeper hit of the summer! Then on DVD, the long-awaited arrival of THE MONSTER SQUAD slams into stores, along with the dark side of Jim Carrey in THE NUMBER 23, the monster movie to end all monster movies in THE HOST, the Crpytkeeper and his horrorific hijinks in TALES FROM THE CRYPT: SEASON 6, and the hilarious sounding SHADOW PUPPETS! Whew! Say that three times fast! I ‘m off to get in line for THE MONSTER SQUAD! Yo, Wolfman really does have nards!
Rated R for grisly violence including torture and disturbing gory images, and for sexuality, nudity and language.
Directed by Chris Sivertson
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough
Run Time: ?
An idyllic small town is rocked when Aubrey Fleming, a bright and promising young woman, is abducted and tortured by a sadistic serial killer. When she manages to escape, the traumatized girl who regains consciousness in the hospital insists that she is not who they think she is and that the real Aubrey Fleming is still in mortal danger.
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MONSTER SQUAD
Rated: PG-13
Directed by Fred Dekker
Starring: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Duncan Regehr, Tom Noonan
Run Time: 92 Min.
Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes – the Monster Squad are the only ones daring to stand in their way.
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Rated: UnRated
Starring Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Run Time: 101 minutes
Walter Sparrow (Carrey) becomes engrossed in a homespun novel about Detective Fingerling, whose life degrades into mayhem because of his obsession with 23’s esoteric numerical puzzles. Sparrow’s preoccupation with the book follows his botched attempt to catch a nasty dog that bites him, leading one to believe that Sparrow’s contraction of rabies might be the cause for his mental degradation. As the story progresses, Sparrow retreats further into Fingerling’s world, rife with suicidal sexpots and hardboiled detective sleuthing. His wife, Agatha (Virginia Madsen), also plays Fingerling’s girlfriend, sex-crazed Fabrizia, who taunts Fingerling until he stabs her. Back in reality, Walter aims to solve the unresolved crimes in the book, taking it as a murderer’s diary rather than as an imagined work.
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Rated: R
Directed by Joon-ho Bong
Starring Kang-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Hae-il Park
Run Time: 120 Minutes
When a young girl is snatched away from her father by a horrifying giant monster that emerges from the River Han to wreak havoc on Seoul, her entire family sets out to locate the beast and bring their little girl back home to safety in South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s big-budget creature feature.
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TALES FROM THE CRYPT: SEASON 6
Rated: UnRated
Starring Hank Azaria, Isaac Hayes, John Lithgow, Wayne Newton
Run Time: 370 Minutes
It’s that time of fear again! So if you’ve been missing the Crypt Keeper, here’s a chance to improve your aim. But be warned: It’ll be a fright to the finish. The cadaverous cut-up is your host for a 15-episode die-gest based on classic horror comics from back in the day and featuring a parade of characters who are variously merciless, clueless, topless and headless. Hank Azaria, Shelley Hack, Isaac Hayes, Richard Lewis, John Lithgow, Wayne Newton, Isabella Rossellini, Rita Rudner and Humphrey Bogart (you read that right) are among the stars. And vampires, mad doctors, killers, ghosts and adulterers are eager to come out and play. We could tell you more, but that would be wrong. You do know rot from wrong, don’t you?
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SHADOW PUPPETS
Rated: UnRated
Starring Tony Todd, Jolene Blalock, James Marsters
Directed by Michael Winnick
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Eight strangers with no memories find themselves trapped in an abandoned facility. As they desperately try to find answers and escape, their own Shadows attempt to consume them from the darkness.
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