An exciting week of releases coming at ya, with Danny Boyle’s epic SUNSHINE rockin’ it in select theaters, and an array of DVD releases that should get your blood-a-boilin’! First the craptacular HILLS HAVE EYES 2, the vampire flick with good buzz PERFECT CREATURE, another Masters of Horror with Stuart Gordon reteaming with Jeffrey Combs in THE BLACK CAT, and the steaming pile of poo starring Sandra Bullock, PREMONITION. It may be summer, but it looks as though horror isn’t dead by a long shot!
Rated R for violent content and language.
Directed by Danny Boyle
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans
Run Time: 1 hr. 47 min.
Fifty years from now, the sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. But deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel. There is an accident, a fatal mistake, and a distress beacon from a spaceship that disappeared seven years earlier. Soon the crew is fighting not only for their lives, but their sanity.
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SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Martin Weisz
Starring: Cécile Breccia, Michael Bailey Smith, Archie Kao
Run Time: 90 Min.
A team of trainees of the National Guard brings supply to the New Mexico Desert for a group of soldiers and scientists that are installing a monitoring system in Sector 16. They do not find anybody in the camp, and they receive a blurred distress signal from the hills. Their sergeant gathers a rescue team, and they are attacked and trapped by deformed cannibals, having to fight to survive.
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Rated: R
Starring Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows
Directed by Glenn Standring
Run Time: 88 minutes
An action-packed battle against man and beast! Half-man, Half-vampire, Pure Evil! Perfect Creature is set in a world where humans genetically engineer vampires to be the next step in their evolution. Chaos breaks loose when the delicate balance is destroyed by a virus that turns one species against the other. The only way to restore peace is for the two opposing races to work together to end the chaos.
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MOH: THE BLACK CAT
Rated: Not Rated
Directed by Stuart Gordon
Starring Jeffrey Combs
Run Time: 60 Minutes
Based on the story and life of Edgar Allen Poe.
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Rated: PG-13
Directed by Mennan Yapo
Starring Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she gets the devastating news that her husband Jim (Julian McMahon) has died in a car accident. When she wakes up the next morning to find him alive and well, she assumes it as all a dream. Or was it? Suddenly, her perfect life is turned upside down as she begins a desperate scramble to save her family and uncover the truth. Racing against time and fate, Linda will stop at nothing to discover the true meanings of reality and destiny.
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