Nothing better than recovering from the Halloween festivities than catching a few horror flicks in theaters–or on DVD. HOUSE (not a remake) and REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA are hitting limited theaters this week, while DVD stores land RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP, BIKINI BLOODBATH CARWASH, and H.P. Lovercraft’s CHILL. Not bad for a post-Halloween release week… but it could be better!
HOUSE
Rated: R for some violence and terror.
Starring JP Davis, Pawel Delag, Heidi Dippold
Directed by Robby Henson
Run Time: ???
A troubled couple, torn over issues about their dead child and their respective careers, blow off a counseling session and, after an accident, wind up in a strange house, where they meet two other guests, as well as the two strange proprietors. As they become aware that they’ve fallen into an evil house where their worst fears and most private secrets are known, the four guests must fight for their sanity and their survival against the terrifying, evil Tin Man.
Rated: R for strong bloody violence and gore, language, some drug and sexual content.
Starring Anthony Head, Alexa Vega, Paris Hilton, Paul Sorvino, Nivek Ogre
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
Run Time: 1 hr. 37 min
In the year 2056–the not so distant future–an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet. Out of the tragedy, a savior emerges: GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants–for a price. Those who miss their payments are scheduled for repossession and hunted by villainous Repo Men. In a world where surgery addicts are hooked on painkilling drugs and murder is sanctioned by law, a sheltered young girl searches for the cure to her own rare disease as well as information about her family’s mysterious history. After being sucked into the haunting world of GeneCo, she is unable to turn back, as all of her questions will be answered at the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera.
RETURN TO SLEEPAWAY CAMP
Rated: R
Starring Vincent Pastore, Jackie Tohn, Isaac Hayes
Directed by Robert Hiltzik
Run Time: 98 Min.
It’s summer camp as usual at Camp Manabe where the kids torment each other for fun while the underpaid camp staff provides as little supervision as possible. Greedy camp owner Frank and junior partner Ronnie do their best to keep everyone in line, but something sinister is about to put a slash in the roster. When campers and staff mysteriously begin disappearing and turning into gruesome corpses, paranoid Ronnie can’t shake the memory of a series of grisly murders that took place at Camp Arawak, where he worked two decades earlier.
BIKINI BLOODBATH CARWASH
Rated:UnRated
Starring Debbie Rochon
Directed by Thomas Edward Seymour, Jon Gorman
Run Time: ??? minutes
Do you really need to know what this is about?
CHILL
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Serge Rodnunsky
Starring Thomas Calabro, Ashley Laurence, James Russo
Run Time: 86 Minutes
Investigators pursuing a bizarre hemorrhagic illness are lead to a strange black painting that they discover is a portal to another dimension.