Happy Halloween, everyone! To get you pumped for your weekend festivities of the most glorious day of the year, the DVD release dates aren’t pulling any punches–though theatrically, it’s a bit weak. Ti West’s THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL hits limited theaters over the weekend, while ORPHAN, NIGHT OF THE CREEPS, and LATE FEE all hit DVD in the final Halloween-DVD push! But that’s not all! THE VIDEO DEAD, FEAR(S) OF THE DARK, NIGHT OF DEATH!, GRAVEYARD DISTURBANCE, STAN HELSING, PANDEMIC, THE ASPHYX, and I BOUGHT A VAMPIRE MOTORCYCLE all hit DVD as well.
THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL
Rated:R for some bloody violence.
Starring Jocelin Donahue, Greta Gerwig, Tom Noonan, AJ Bowen
Directed by Ti West
Run Time:1 hr. 33 min.
Sam is a pretty college sophomore, so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby.
NIGHT OF THE CREEPS
Rated: UnRated
Starring Jason Lively, Tom Atkins, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow, Wally Taylor
Directed by Fred Dekker
Run Time: 88 Min.
In this campy chiller, a college couple, in 1959, see an object plummet to Earth like a meteor. The boy accidentally swallows a space-slug that shoots out. In 1986, two freshmen roam the campus and stumble across the corpse of the boy who swallowed the space-slug. Once thawed out, the corpse comes to life.
ORPHAN
Rated: R
Starring Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
Run Time: 123 min.
Tragedy seems to follow nine-year-old Esther. She was orphaned in her native Russia. Her last adoptive family perished in a fire Esther barely escaped. But now the Coleman family has adopted her, and life is good. Until a classmate takes a serious fall from a slide. Until an orphanage nun is battered to death. And until Esther’s new mom wonders if that tragic fire was an accident. From Dark Castle Productions comes Orphan, bringing stunning new twists to the psychological thriller and locking audiences in a tightening vise of mystery, suspicion and terror. You’ll never forget Esther. So sweet. So intelligent. So creative. So disturbed.
LATE FEE
Rated: UnRated
Starring Georgia Kate Haege, Chris Cusano, Sergio Jones
Directed by John Carchietta, Carl Morano
Run Time: 80 minutes
A young couple’s quest to rent the scariest movie on DVD on Halloween eve results in a real life horror show they may live to regret!