After a brief hiatus last week, PG-13 horror swings back into full effect this Friday with the PROM NIGHT remake. Meanwhile, on DVD, it’s a lackluster week of cleavage-intensive parking lot terror with P2, a remake of George A. Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD, and an independent flick with rave reviews called THE CELLAR DOOR. Let’s hope the rest of April delivers a little better than this!
PROM NIGHT
Rated PG-13 for violence and terror, some sexual material, underage drinking, and language.
Directed by Nelson McCormick
Starring Brittany Snow, Johnathon Schaech, Brianne Davis
Run Time: 1 hr. 28 min.
A dark secret amongst a group of children comes back to haunt them in the form of a vengeful killer on their prom night.
Rated: R
Starring Rachel Nichols, Wes Bentley
Directed by Franck Khalfoun
Run Time: 98 Min.
It’s Christmas Eve, when even the most voracious corporate climbers generally head home by dinner time. But not ANGELA (Rachael Nichols). She’s the last one left at the office, determined to close one more deal before the holiday. The long hours she keeps will have an impact, but not the kind she’s been hoping for.
Rated: R
Starring Ving Rhames, Mena Suvari, Nick Cannon
Directed by Steve Miner
Run Time: 87 minutes
Nick Cannon, Mena Suvari and Ving Rhames star in this horror film based on the George A. Romero classic zombie film. A mysterious virus has infected the small town of Leadville, Colorado, and the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine and stop the spread of the disease. As people perish, survivors realize that the virus is creating the walking dead who crave human flesh. Only a small number of people are immune to the virus, and those few survivors must battle to fend off the infected zombies while trying to make it out of town alive.
THE CELLAR DOOR
Rated: R
Directed by Matt Zettell
Starring James Dumont, Michelle Tomlinson
Run Time: 86 Minutes
Herman has been searching for the perfect girl, but all he s collected are pieces a chunk of hair; a severed finger; a jar of blood until the alluring and beautiful Rudy. Refusing to play along in his twisted game, she is imprisoned in a wooden cage with only her wits against his savage murderous insanity. Will she win the desperate, hallucinatory game of cat and mouse and escape through the Cellar Door, or die trying?