No theatrically released genre flicks this week, but there’s an assload of speem-worthy DVDs hitting stores, and if it rubs you the right way, you may just be short an entire month’s paycheck to fill your DVD needs… and I’m not even talkin’ about the porn section here! I’m talkin’ classics people, and if this doesn’t make you excited for October, I don’t know what will…
SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE 2 DISC ULTIMATE EDITION
Rated: R
Directed by Tobe Hooper
Starring Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn.
Run Time: 1 hr. 23 min.
En route to visit their grandfather’s grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home… where they’re plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills…
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A NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST.: 2 DISC INFINI FILM SPECIAL EDITION
Rated: R
Directed by Wes Craven
Starring Robert Englund, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp.
Run Time: 1 hr. 32 min.
Nancy is having nightmares about a frightening, badly-scarred figure who wears a glove with razor-sharp “finger knives”. She soon discovers that her friends are having similar dreams. When the kids begin to die, Nancy realizes that she must stay awake to survive. Uncovering the secret identity of the dream killer and his connection with the children of Elm Street, the girl plots to draw him out into the real world.
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DUST DEVIL – THE FINAL CUT
Rated: R
Directed by: Richard Stanley
Starring John Matshikiza, Robert John Burke, Terri Norton, Chelsea Field, Rufus Swart
Run Time: 1 hr. 48 min.
A shape shifter comes from the desert in search of victims, a spirit the locals call the dust devil. He prays on the lonely and the unloved, those that have already lost everything but life itself. Wendy has broken up with her husband and wanders aimlessly in her car. She picks up a stranger and begins having misgivings about picking him up when strange things begin to occur. Meanwhile a local police officer tracks the killer. Aided by a shaman’s admonishments about witchcraft he sets off to try and stop the beast before it can complete its grisly task.
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THE STEPHEN KING COLLECTION: THE DEAD ZONE: SPEICIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION, PET SEMATARY: SPECIAL COLLECTOR’S EDITION, SILVER BULLET, GRAVEYARD SHIFT
Rated: R
Directed by: David Cronenberg, Mary Lambert, Daniel Attias, Ralph S. Singleton
Starring: Christopher Walken, Dale Midkiff, Gary Busey, David Andrews.
A dream come true for any Stephen King fan, as this collection consist of some of his better film adapatations, including 2 killer special editions. Prepare for an evening of seeing the future, bringing back the dead, killer werewolves and deadly rats.
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