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WEEKLY SLAUGHTER #10





If you can’t wait to check out an even longer version of KING KONG, snag the sweet tin-container edition of OLDBOY, watch the latest MASTER OF HORROR and own one Bruce Cambpell in a remastered MANIAC COP, then this week is your week when it comes to new DVD releases. If you’re not into any of the above… better luck next time.




ARROW IN THE HEAD’S DVD PICKS
SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK


KING KONG – 3 DISC DELUX EXTENDED EDITION




Rated: PG-13 for frightening adventure violence and some disturbing images.

Directed by Peter Jackson

Starring Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody.

Run Time: 200 min.






Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.






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OLDBOY – 3 DISC COLLECTOR’S EDITION




Rated: R for strong violence including scenes of torture, sexuality and pervasive language.

Directed by Park Chan-wook

Starring Choi Min-Sik, Yu Ji-tae, Gang Hye-jung, Ji Dae-han, Oh Dal-su.

Run Time: 1hr 59min.







OH Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is locked up in a strange, private “prison” for 15 years. No one will tell him why he is there and whom his jailer is, but he is kept in reasonably comfortable quarters and has a TV to keep him company. While watching TV, he discovers that he has been framed for his wife’s murder and realizes that, during one of the occasions in which he was knocked out with gas, someone has drawn blood from him and left it at the scene of the crime. The imprisonment lasts for fifteen years until Dae-su finds himself unexpectedly deposited on a grass-covered high-rise rooftop. OH Dae-su is determined to discover who his mysterious enemy is. He gets his first clue when a homeless man hands him a cell phone and a wallet full of cash. Later, while Dae-su is eating in a Japanese restaurant, the phone rings and a voice challenges him to find the reason for his imprisonment. Dae-su blacks out only to awaken in the apartment of the restaurant’s pretty, young waitress, Mido. Mido helps him search for his hidden prison, but one night, Dae-su finds Mido exchanging emails with a mysterious stranger who seems to know all about him. Convinced Mido has betrayed him, he continues the search on his own. Dae-su locates his former prison and beats up the gangsters who served as his captors. A tape offers clues as to his enemy’s motives, but not his identity. Dae-su blacks out on the street and after being helped into a cab by his mysterious, but still unnamed foe, he ends up back at Mido’s. An old friend who owns a cyber café helps Dae-su discover that Mido’s emailer, “Evergreen,” is indeed the man who had him locked up. Dae-su is enraged by Mido’s apparent betrayal, but a face-to-face confrontation with his smooth-talking adversary ends with Dae-Su’s conviction that she is innocent. The man gives Dae-su five days to discover who he is and why he imprisoned him. He is told that if he succeeds, the man will kill himself; if he does not, he will kill Mido.





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MASTERS OF HORROR – JOHN MCNAUGHTON – HAEKEL’S TALE



Rated: UnRated

Directed by: John McNaughton

Starring Gerard Plunkett.


Run Time: 1 hr.







While on his way to see his sick father, a man takes shelter with an elderly man and his young wife but soon discovers their horrible secret.




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MANIAC COP




Rated: R

Directed by William B. Lustig.

Starring: Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon.

Run Time: 1 hr. 32 min.







Innocent people are being brutally murdered on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. As the death toll rises and City Hall attempts a cover-up, Frank McCrae heads the investigation. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself under arrest as the chief suspect, having been the victim of a set-up by the real killer and a mysterious woman phone-caller. Forrest, his girlfriend Theresa, and McCrae set out to solve the puzzle before the Maniac Cop can strike again.




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