While not a lot of new shite on the DVD front, the reissuing of a couple classics is always a nice refresher, with Mario Bava’s SHOCKER rocking the house, and the zombie classic CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD. If you’re a Terry Gilliam fan, prepare to have a blast with TIDELAND, though be warned: it’s just about as bizarre as Gilliam gets! And finally, the film every David Fincher fan has been waiting for… ZODIAC is hitting theaters tomorrow with a vengeance! Not a bad way to leave February behind, and start March off on the right foot!
SLAUGHTERING THEATERS THIS WEEK
ZODIAC
Rated R for some strong killings, language, drug material and brief sexual images.
Directed by David Fincher
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox
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Based on the actual case files of one of the most intriguing unsolved crimes in the nation’s history, “Zodiac” is a thriller from David Fincher, director of “Seven” and “Fight Club.” As a serial killer terrifies the San Francisco Bay Area and taunts police with his ciphers and letters, investigators in four jurisdictions search for the murderer. The case will become an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.
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SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
TIDELAND
Rated: R
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Starring Jodelle Ferland, Jeff Bridges
Run Time: 121 Min
After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose’s attempts to deal with what’s happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper’s veil.
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CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Starring Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo
Run Time: 93 min.
In the small New England town of Dunwich, a priest commits suicide by hanging himself in the church cemetary which somehow opens the gates of hell allowing the dead to rise. Peter, a New York City reporter, teams up with a young psychic, named Mary, to travel to the town where they team up with another couple, psychiatrist Jerry and patient Sandra, to find a way to close the gates before All Saints Day or the dead all over the world will rise up and kill the living.
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SHOCK
Rated: R
Directed by Mario Bava
Starring Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr.
Run Time: 92 min.
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman’s former husband who processes her young son.
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