This may be the week you’ve been looking forward to the most this summer, as Eli Roth’s HOSTEL: PART II is finally unleashed upon us. Will it meet the expectations set by the original, or crash and burn like so many sequels often do? On the DVD front, the crappy looking THE MESSENGERS makes it’s debut, along with the werewolf movie BIG BAD WOLF, the 1980s classic TOXIC ZOMBIES (making it’s first appearance on DVD), plus CHICAGO MASSACRE and MEATBALL MACHINE, giving you enough options in horror this week to satisfy the biggest horror fanatic.
HOSTEL: PART II
Rated: R for sadistic scenes of torture and bloody violence, terror, nudity, sexual content, language and some drug content.
Directed by Eli Roth
Starring Lauren German, Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips, Roger Bart, Richard Burgi
Run Time: ???
Three young Americans studying in Rome set off for a weekend trip when they run into a beautiful model from one of their art classes. Also on her way to an exotic destination, the gorgeous European invites the coeds to come along, assuring them they will be able to relax and rejuvenate. Will the girls find the oasis they are looking for? Or are they poised to become victims for hire, pawns in the fantasies of the sick and privileged from around the world who secretly travel here to savor more grisly pursuits?
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SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
THE MESSENGERS
Rated:PG-13
Directed by The Pang Bros.
Starring Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller
Run Time: 90 Min.
It’s been six years since the Rollins family just up and left and now the troubled Solomon family has come from Chicago, to rebuild their lives following their sons hospitalization due to their daughter’s drunk driving accident. But as they start to settle in something odd and strange begins to occur to their son. Could something supernatural be at work, and did the previous family just leave…or are they still here? Trapped in the only place they’ve ever known? And what did cause their deaths? Most of all…is this ‘killer’ still very much alive?
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BIG BAD WOLF
Rated: R
Directed by Lance W. Dreesen
Starring Richard Tyson, Trevor Duke, Kimberly J. Brown
Run Time: 96 minutes
A wild college party in a remote cabin will go horribly wrong when Derek Cowley and his friends find themselves terrorized by a blood thirsty werewolf. While fighting for his life, Derek will discover a shocking and horrifying secret about the monster he must kill to survive. Featuring a clever, cunning, and sadistically funny breed of werewolf unlike you’ve ever seen, Big Bad Wolf is one sexy and terrifying horror film.
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TOXIC ZOMBIES
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Chuck McCrann
Starring John Amplas, Charles Austin, Dennis Helfend
Run Time: 89 Minutes
In a remote and idyllic forest a group of six young men and women are growing an illegal field of marijuana. The forest, under the jurisdiction of a government office, is so vast that surveillance is accomplished only four times a year by the agency field man, Cole. Two agents armed with rifles come across one of the young women farming the marijuana. She tries to flee and they shoot and kill her. Alerted by the noise, and fearful of their own discovery, the other farmers attack and kill the agent. Meanwhile, in Washington, the head of the agency authorizes the forest area to be sprayed by Dromax, a defoliant not fully tested but feared to have bizarre side effects.
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CHICAGO MASSACRE: RICHARD SPECK
Rated: R
Directed by Michael Feifer
Starring Andrew Divoff, Corin Nemec, Tony Todd
Run Time: 91 Minutes
On July 14, 1966, Richard Speck took 9 student nurses hostage. He held the girls, methodically beating, raping and stabbing them to death in one of the bloodiest mass murders in American history. Witness the terrifying story every fan of true crime must see.
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MEATBALL MACHINE
Directed by Yudai Yamaguchi, Junichi Yamamoto
Starring Taro Suwa, Issei Takahashi, Aoba Kawai, Ayano Yamamoto
Rated: UnRated
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Meatball Machine is a wild, splatterific, experimental sci-fi/horror rollercoaster that will have your entire brain and body shaken and stirred. Capable of making biomechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules. Codirectors Junichi Yamamoto and Yudai Yamaguchi (Battlefield Baseball) pull out all the stops and don t let up until the final epic battle. It s a touching testament to young love, blood, and alien ooze that leaves you screaming for more!
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