Who knew Kevin Costner would have it in him to be a serial killer? Meh… I still dont buy it, but I guess we’ll see this weekend, when MR. BROOKS hits theaters nationwide. Plus, on DVD, you can check out Lecter’s beginning in HANNBAL RISING, score your very own Blood Pack from ICHI THE KILLER, dine in with the tasty-looking DRIVE THRU, get your Lovecraft groove on with THE CALL OF THE CTHULHU and even John Carradine shows up in LEGACY OF BLOOD. Not a bad way to start June, not bad at all…
MR. BROOKS
Rated: R for strong bloody violence, some graphic sexual content, nudity and language.
Directed by Bruce Evans
Starring Kevin Costner, William Hurt, Demi Moore, Dane Cook
Run Time: 120 minutes
Consider Mr. Brooks: a successful businessman; a generous philanthropist; a loving father and devoted husband. Seemingly, he’s perfect. But Mr. Brooks has a secret–he is an insatiable serial killer, so lethally clever that no one has ever suspected him–until now. Earl Brooks is a man who has managed to keep his two incompatible worlds from intersecting by controlling his cunning, wicked alter ego Marshall. But now, as Mr. Brooks succumbs to one last murderous urge, an amateur photographer witnesses the crime. Suddenly Brooks finds himself entangled in the dark agenda of an opportunistic bystander, as well as hunted by the unorthodox and tenacious detective Tracy Atwood. Can Mr. Brooks outsmart his adversaries and conceal his shocking double life from his wife and daughter–or will someone expose his crimes and his identity once and for all?
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SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
HANNIBAL RISING
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Peter Webber
Starring Helena Lia Tachovska, Richard Leaf, Michele Wade, Martin Hub
Run Time: 117 Min.
Mischa and Hannibal (Gaspard Ulliel), baby brother and sister, are inseparable; it is their love for each other that ties their bond. Their companionship is forever binding, until, with their family, while hiding from the Nazi war machine a twisted set of circumstance sets the pace for a most vicious attack on the future of one Hannibal Lecter for the sworn vengeance for the brutal killing of his baby sister. Years later, we find Hannibal, the teenager, setting up in Paris, and living with his aunt Lady Murasaki Shikibu (Li Gong) and studying at medical school here he finds his forte. Still searching for his sister’s murderers, still bitter and still ever hopeful of satisfying his desire for retribution. This chance arrives, and soon we are to learn that for a pound of flesh lost a pound of flesh must be repaid. This is the horrific tale of justice and honour, a young mans growing pains that will have the guilty paying with more than just flesh and bone. This is the up and rising tale of the young Hannibal, prey you do not meet him, for meat you shall be to him. Taste his wroth.
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ICHI THE KILLER: BLOOD PACK
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Takashi Miike
Starring Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori
Run Time: 124 minutes
Welcome to a world where violence is a virtue and depravity is a way of life. This is the underside of Shinjuku, and the Home of Kakihara, a sadistic Yakuza killer. He relentlessly tears apart the underworld searching for the man who killed his boss. The mastermind behind the plot is Jijii, an ex-cop bent on turning the gangsters of Japan against one another. His trump card is a physically powerful lunatic who is constantly on the verge of snapping. This madman is Ichi, the killer, and between him and Kakihara, the streets will run red with blood.
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DRIVE THRU
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Brendan Cowles, Shane Kuhn, Gretchen Skogerson
Starring Lola Glaudini, Larry Joe Campbell, Leighton Meester, Morgan Spurlock
Run Time: 90 Minutes
High schooler Mackenzie Carpenter thinks her biggest problem is dying of boredom in the bucolic wasteland of Orange County… until her classmates start dying of massive blood loss, and Horny The Clown, the mascot for local burger favorite HELLA-BURGER, begins madly stalking her with cryptic messages hidden in 70’s kitsch toys. It isn’t until Mac discovers her unbelievable connection to Horny and his victims that she realizes, if she’s going to live to see 18, she must come face-to-face with the killer clown in the bloodiest week Blanca Carne, California, has ever known.
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THE CALL OF CTHULHU: THE CELEBRATED STORY OF H.P. LOVECRAFT
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Andrew H. Leman
Starring Matt Foyer, David Mersault, Noah Wagner
Run Time: 72 Minutes
Written in 1926, just before the advent of “talking” pictures, The Call of Cthulhu is one of the most famous and influential tales of H.P. Lovecraft, the father of gothic horror. Now the story is brought richly to life in the style of a classic 1920s silent movie, with a haunting original symphonic score. Using the “Mythoscope” process a mix of modern and vintage techniques, the HPLHS has worked to create the most authentic and faithful screen adaptation of a Lovecraft story yet attempted. From the cultists of the Louisana bayous to the man-eating non-euclidean geometry of R’lyeh, the HPLHS brings Cthulhu to the screen as it was meant to be seen. Eighteen months of production and a cast of more than 50 actors went into making this film a period spectacle that must seen to be believed. The DVD includes The Call of Cthulhu (47 minutes, black and white), the high-fidelity and “Mythophonic” soundtracks, a 25 minute “making-of” documentary featurette, two slide shows, deleted footage, a prop PDF of the Sydney Bulletin and more. To appeal to Lovecraft fans throughout across the globe, this DVD provides intertitles in 24 languages including: Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Euskera, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, Luxmbourgish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh. These aren’t just subtitles either, they are the real title cards rendered tastefully in each language. If you thought the story was scary before, wait until you see it in Welsh!
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LEGACY OF BLOOD
Directed by Carl Monson
Starring Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta, Merry Anders, Norman Bartold, Ivy Bethune, John Carradine
Rated: UnRated
Run Time: 90 Minutes
A group of greedy relatives must spend a week in a haunted mansion to collect their inheritance.
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