What can I really say but WOW, there are A LOT of flicks hitting theaters this week! With the limited run of WIND CHILL, David S. Goyer’s long-delayed THE INVISIBLE, and LOST meets THE BATTLE ROYALE with wrestlers in THE CONDEMNED. On the DVD front, it’s time to get Old School, with a few classics that should tickle your bone one way or another. With the nicely titled NAKED YOU DIE, the cowboy western THE LIVING COFFIN, the slasher MACABRE and some nasty weirdo in THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETARY, if you haven’t had your fill on the basics from the past, then this is your week to catch up!
WIND CHILL
Rated R
Directed by Gregory Jacobs
Starring Ashton Holmes, Emily Blunt
Run Time: ???
Two college students are terrorized by ghosts after their car gets stuck in the snow on Christmas eve.
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THE INVISIBLE
Rated PG-13 for violence, criminality, sensuality and language – all involving teens.
Directed by David S. Goyer
Starring Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher Marquette, Michelle Harrison
Run Time: ???
Nick, is a high school senior with a bright future until, in a tragic case of mistaken identity, he is brutally attacked by a troubled girl, Annie, and his body is left for dead. Now in limbo, not quite dead but invisible to the living, his spirit can only watch as his mother and the police search frantically for him, unaware that he is only hours away from truly perishing.
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THE CONDEMNED
Rated R for pervasive strong brutal violence, and for language.
Directed by Scott Wiper (II)
Starring Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Trent Sullivan, Rick Hoffman, Nathan Jones
Run Time: ???
A select group of death row inmates are offered the opportunity to compete in a deadly game on an abandoned island for one week. The winner of the game will have his or her sentence dropped down to life imprisonment and avoid execution.
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SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
NAKED YOU DIE
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Antonio Margheriti
Starring Mark Damon, Eleonora Brown, Michael Rennie
Run Time: 98 Minutes
There’s nobody there to save you from this nightmare!
From the minds of Italian horror kings Mario Bava (Twitch the Death Nerve) and Antonio Margheriti (Cannibal Apocalypse) comes this macabre tale of murder at an all girls school.
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THE LIVING COFFIN
Rated: R
Directed by Fernando Méndez, Manuel San Fernando
Starring Gastón Santos, María Duval, Pedro de Aguillón
Run Time: 75 minutes
In this eerie atmospheric reinvention of a timeless Mexican legend and Edgar Allen Poe’s classic The Premature Burial, a Cowboy (Gastón Santos) and his partner, Crazy Wolf (Pedro de Aguillón), stop at an eerie ranch to learn more of about a stone figure they’ve unearthed that depicts a crying woman. The ranch’s odd, off-kilter residents tell them that the statue, and another just like it, was created by the now-dead Clotilde (Carolina Barrett), whose ghost has been sighted by local villagers … crying.
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MACABRE
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Lamberto Bava
Starring Bernice Stegers, Stanko Molnar
Run Time: 90 Minutes
In this horrific tale of murder, madness and perverse passion, a New Orleans wife and mother carries on a torrid affair behind her family’s back. But when a violent accident leaves her lover dead, the woman returns from a mental institution determined to kill everyone she knows.
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THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETARY
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Starring Paolo Malco, Catriona MacColl
Run Time: 87 Minutes
A young family moves from their cramped New York City apartment to a spacious new home in New England. But this is no ordinary house in the country: the previous owner was the deranged Dr. Freudstein, whose monstrous human experiments have left a legacy of death and destruction.
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