Here we are folks, the moment we’ve all been waiting for: GRINDHOUSE is finally hitting theaters this week, with hopes of slaughtering the competition 24 different ways this Friday. THE REAPING hits theaters a day earlier on Thursday in hopes to stay alive, and the rest of releases are silly kid flicks. Whoever thought it was a good idea to put THE REAPING against GRINDHOUSE should be fired… On the DVD front, we have one silly remake that I have a surprisingly large urge to check out, known as BLACK X-MAS, David Lynch’s 2nd season of TWIN PEAKS, Tom Sizemore battling monsters in BOTTOM FEEDER, and a grindhouse double-feature in it’s own right with THE ACID EATERS & WEED. Can the world handle the thrill machine known as GRINDHOUSE? I guess we’ll have to wait and find out…
SLAUGHTERING THEATERS THIS WEEK
THE REAPING
Rated R for violence, disturbing images and some sexuality.
Directed by Stephen Hopkins
Starring Hilary Swank, AnnaSophia Robb, David Morrissey, Idris Elba, Stephen Rea
Run Time: ???
A supernatural tale that centers on a myth debunker who tries to prove that a small boy is not the supernatural force behind the devastation of a small, religious Texas town.
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GRINDHOUSE
Rated R for strong graphic bloody violence and gore, pervasive language, some sexuality, nudity and drug use.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez
Starring Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey, Kurt Russell, Eli Roth
Run Time: 3hrs 5min.
In Tarantino’s “Death Proof,” Austin’s hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna an Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
In Rodriguez’s “Planet Terror,” two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.
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ARROW IN THE HEAD’S DVD PICKS
SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
BLACK X-MAS
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Glen Morgan
Starring Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Kristen Cloke, Crystal Lowe, Lacey Chabert
Run Time: 94 Min.
A remake of the 1974 horror movie Black Christmas. The movie tells the story about Billy, a young boy who was abused by his mother as a child. While his mother was cheating on Billy’s father, she eventually killed his father and kept Billy in the attic – for good, while she was with her lover and starting a “new” family. As Billy’s mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic after years and brutally murdered his mother and her lover. Cut to present day, a group of eight sorority sisters consisting of Kelli (Katie Cassidy), Dana (Lacey Chabert), Lauren (Crystal Lowe), Megan (Jessica Harmon), Claire (Leela Savasta), Heather (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Megan (Jessica Harmon) and Melissa (Michelle Trachtenberg) and their house mother (Andrea Martin),who now live in Billy’s childhood home, find themselves being harassed by threatening and intimidating mystery phone-calls during Christmas Break and as one of the girls goes missing, the girls begin being murdered one by one by no other than Billy…
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TWIN PEAKS SEASON TWO
Not Rated
Directed by David Lynch
Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Sherilynn Fenn, Lara Flynn Boyle
Run Time: 1081 Minutes
The body of a young girl (Laura Palmer) is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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BOTTOM FEEDER
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Randy Daudlin
Starring Tom Sizemore, Wendy Anderson, Joe Dinicol
Run Time: 86 Minutes
Evil lies beneath the surface in this thrilling, edge-of-your-seat gore and monster-fest! Sizemore stars as a maintenance worker who, along with his crew, is hunted and terrorized by an indestructible creature.
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Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 211 Minutes
Double Feature-Buxom skin-goddess Pat Barrington (Mantis in Lace) is just one of The Acid Eaters, a bunch of 9-to-5 working stiffs who become drug-crazed bikers on the weekend! OR a group of office workers go every Friday afternoon to the White Pyramid, a 50-foot tower of LSD.
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