For those that missed GRINDHOUSE over the weekend, never fear: you still have a chance to check it out this week, as only the PG-13 teen horror flick DISTURBIA is aiming to cash in at the box office. On DVD, we have not one, but two PHANTASM movies getting the special treatment, and two straight to video features that look fun enough to swing a stick at: BENEATH STILL WATERS, featuring a chick in a bikini on the cover (I always fall for that marketing trick!) and SUCCUBUS: HELL BENT, which not only features ample cleavage, but also stars Gary ‘Substance A’Busey. If you’re a PHANTASM fan (and who isn’t?), then this week is for you!
DISTURBIA
Rated PG-13 for sequences of terror and violence, and some sensuality.
Directed by D.J. Caruso
Starring Shia LaBeouf, Carrie-Anne Moss, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, Aaron Yoo
Run Time: 1 hr. 44 min.
After his father’s death, Kale becomes sullen, withdrawn, and troubled — so much so that he finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with indifference and lethargy. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale. He becomes a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards those of his neighbors, one of which Kale begins to suspect is a serial killer. But, are his suspicions merely the product of cabin fever and his overactive imagination?
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SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
PHANTASM
Rated: R
Directed by Don Coscarelli
Starring A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister
Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, is afraid to lose his brother. This fear causes him to follow his brother to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lift a coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate and discovers a horrible world where the Tall Man, along with his flying spheres, shrink the to half their normal size and reanimate them as slaves. It is then up to Mike, his brother, and Reggie the ice cream man to stop the Tall man.
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PHANTASM III
Rated: R
Directed by Don Coscarellih
Starring Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury
Run Time: 91 minutes
The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of destruction encounter a variety of dangerous situations, friends and enemies. They also must contend with the resurrected dead plus a growing number of the infamous and deadly silver spheres which aid the Tall Man as he sets his sights on indoctrinating Mike and finishing the fight begun so many years ago.
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BENEATH STILL WATERS
Rated: R
Directed by Brian Yuzna
Starring Ricardo Birnbaum, Ricard Borrás, Esperanza De la Vega
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Two boys make a pact to do something brave, crazy and dangerous. They will see their town one last time before a man-made lake floods it forever, burying it under the deep lake. Everyone’s been evacuated – just the church, the homes, the abandoned shops remain. Only the eerie buildings…still hiding secrets that no one suspects. The two boys walk through the doomed ghost town. But the boys discover that the town isn’t quite deserted. And they are trapped as a massive wall of water crashes down on the town. Time passes, and the whispered secrets of the town have been long forgotten. But now, fifty years after vanishing, the sunken town comes alive again. A boy vanishes swimming on a moonlit night while his girlfriend looks on. The very shoreline turns hungry, pulling people into the water. And below-below where it’s incredibly cold and dark, the sunken town waits. Because beneath still waters something ancient now stirs. A forgotten legend lives again. Half a century ago they thought they had buried this horror forever. But you can’t kill what was never really alive. And the massive stone walls of the Dam must soon burst and what was an incredible myth, will become a deadly reality.
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SUCCUBS: HELL BENT
Rated: Not Rated
Directed by Kim Bass
Starring Gary Busey, David Keith, Lorenzo Lamas
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Sometimes what happens at Spring Break doesn’t stay at Spring Break… it follows you home.
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