It’s not every week where so many great films are released on home video on the same day, and it looks like for UK residents, the next big epic date is May 10, 2010, when MUTANTS and LOCKJAW both hit DVD shelves everywhere.
What more can be said than what is displayed on the cover art (scroll below to behold their epic glory)? Not much, really. And while the covers are cool, the special features aren’t all that special for either one of the discs. MUTANTS is equipped with a trailer, and LOCKJAW isn’t equipped with anything. Nothing, nada, zilch. Just DMX and a big-ass snake.
Not that you’d probably want more than just the film for either of these films, but a little something is always nice, right? But what the heck are these films, you say? Glad you asked. MUTANTS goes like this: The greedy Braylon owns the Just Rite Sugar Company and has hired the unethical scientist Sergei to conduct an experiment to make an addictive sugar stronger than heroin or nicotine to increase his sales. Sergei uses invisible people as test subjects, like beggars, addicted junkies and illegals, in the clandestine Shadow Rock Mill. When Braylon’s men mistakenly kidnap Ryan, who is the brother of his secretary Erin and son of his security chief Griff, and Hannah, the youngster becomes an important non-contaminated subject. However, Erin receives some mysterious e-mails from the unknown Cinderella with a picture of Ryan and a hint that he might be in Shadow Rock and together with her father, they decide to seek out Ryan.
And if that wasn’t long enough, LOCKJAW goes a little something like this: In the countryside, the boy Alan and his friend Becky steal a creepy wooden box with a powerful voodoo stick inside from his voodooistic neighbor. When the boy draws with the stick, his drunken father is attacked by a snake and vanishes. Years later, Alan and Becky are married to each other; while planting some flowers to celebrate the death of Alan’s mother, Becky finds the box buried in the garden and she keeps the stick in her pocket. Meanwhile, five friends are traveling in a monster truck, drinking beer. The driver accidentally runs over Becky, but believes he had hit an animal. When Alan witnesses the hit-and-run and sees his wife dead, he uses the stick seeking revenge against the youngsters.
Enjoy the cover art below, and be sure to pick up LOCKJAW and MUTANTS on DVD in the UK May 10, 2010!