This is the last week of September for DVD, and the first week of October for theatrical releases, thus kick-staring the Halloween season and plunging deep into the heart of fall. And I couldn’t be happier. Friday brings us the awesome looking ZOMBIELAND, hoping to take the zom-com genre by the balls and then some. On DVD, we have the much talked about THE HILLS RUN RED, the Limited Edition of Richard Stanley’s HARDWARE (sweet!), and the crappy teen slasher flick THE SHORTCUT from producer Adam Sandler.
ZOMBIELAND
Rated: R for zombie horror violence/gore and language.
Starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Amber Heard
Directed by Ruben Fleischer
Run Time: ???
Two men have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies. Columbus is a big wuss — but when you’re afraid of being eaten by zombies, fear can keep you alive. Tallahassee is an AK-totin’, zombie-slayin’ badass whose single determination is to get the last Twinkie on earth. As they join forces with Wichita and Little Rock, who have also found unique ways to survive the zombie mayhem, they will have to determine which is worse: relying on each other or succumbing to the zombies.
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THE HILLS RUN RED
Rated: R
Starring William Sadler, Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrink, Janet Montgomery
Directed by Dave Parker
Run Time: 81 Min.
Trespassers will be slaughtered.
HARDWARE (LIMITED EDITION)
Rated: Not Rated
Starring Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Iggy Pop
Directed by Richard Stanley
Run Time: 93 min.
It was the movie that stunned audiences, shocked the MPAA and marked the debut of one of the most uncompromising filmmakers in modern horror. Golden Globe® winner Dylan McDermott (The Practice, Dark Blue) stars as a post-apocalyptic scavenger who brings home a battered cyborg skull for his metal-sculptor girlfriend. But this steel scrap contains the brain of the M.A.R.K. 13, the military’s most ferocious bio-mechancial combat droid. It is cunning, cruel, and knows how to reassemble itself. Tonight, it is reborn…and no flesh shall be spared. Stacey Travis (GHOSTWORLD) co-stars – along with appearances by Iggy Pop, Lemmy of Motörhead and music by Ministry and Public Image Ltd. – in the kick-ass sci-fi thriller from Richard Stanley (DUST DEVIL) that Fangoria calls “gritty, trippy and frightnening…HARDWARE is one of the best horror movies you’ve never seen!”
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THE SHORTCUT
Rated: PG-13
Starring Shannon Woodward, Dave Franco, Drew Seeley
Directed by Nicholaus Goossen
Run Time: 85 minutes
Just behind the grammar school and past the ‘No Trespassing’ sign is the shortcut through the woods that nobody dares to take: People in town still whisper about the creepy old guy who lives back there and the kids that disappeared near his home a long time ago. Now a group of high school seniors has decided to find out just what the shovel-wielding weirdo may be hiding. But even if they can uncover his shocking secret, will they survive what happens when the truth is finally unleashed?
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