How many times can you say a remake and an original are released during the same week? How about this week, as THE STEPFATHER remake hits theaters on Friday, while THE STEPFATHER original hits DVD on Tuesday. Cool beans. DVD also offers the awesomeness that is DRAG ME TO HELL, and the wickedly fun 80s classic HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! Halloween’s in the air, can you feel it?
THE STEPFATHER
Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence, disturbing images, mature thematic material and brief sensuality.
Starring Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley, Amber Heard
Directed by Nelson McCormick
Run Time:1 hr. 41 min.
Michael Harding returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend, David. As the two men get to know each other, Michael becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand. Is he really the man of her dreams or could David be hiding a dark side?
DRAG ME TO HELL
Rated: UnRated
Starring Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Ruth Livier, Lorna Raver
Directed by Sam Raimi
Run Time: 99 Min.
Christine Brown (Alison Lohman) is on her way to having it all: a devoted boyfriend (Justin Long), a hard-earned job promotion, and a bright future. But when she’s forced to make a tough decision that evicts an elderly woman from her house, Christine becomes the victim of an evil curse. Now she has only three days to dissuade a dark spirit from stealing her soul before she is dragged to hell for an eternity of unthinkable torment.
THE STEPFATHER
Rated: R
Starring Terry O’Quinn, Shelley Hack
Run Time: 89 min.
Jerry Blake (Terry O Quinn, Lost) is a man obsessed with having the perfect American Dream life: including the house with the white picket fence in the suburbs, an adoring wife and loving children. He believes he has found it when he marries Susan Maine and becomes the stepfather to her 16-year-old daughter, Stephanie. But Stephanie gets an uneasy feeling when she is around Jerry with his Father Knows Best attitude: she can see that there is a darker side behind his cheerful exterior. Could she just be going through the typical teenager rebellion against her new stepfather, or is he actually the same man who brutally murdered his family just one year earlier?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
Rated: R
Starring Melissa Sue Anderson, Sharon Acker, Damir Andrei, Jack Blum, Tracey E. Bregman
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Run Time: 111 minutes
Welcome to upscale Crawford Academy, where everyone – especially new student Ginny (Melissa Sue Anderson of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE) – wants to be part of the school’s most popular clique. But now somebody has begun butchering the group’s members. Could a deadly accident from Ginny’s past be connected to the brutal killings? And as her 18th birthday approaches, will Ginny be the guest of honor at the most horrific party of all? Matt Craven (DISTURBIA), Lawrence Dane (SCANNERS) and Hollywood legend Glenn Ford (THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, 3:10 TO YUMA) co-star in this twisted slasher shocker from Oscar®-nominated director J. Lee Thompson (THE GUNS OF NAVARONE) that features – as its infamous poster promised – “six of the most bizarre murders you will ever see!”