You smell that? Yup, it’s October! You know how I know this? Cause the amount of horror hitting DVD seems to have cranked up a notch, as it’s now the season for the mainstream to dig on horror. This summer’s 1408 hits the small screen this week, as well as a Collector’s Edition for both BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA and MISERY, plus a couple of STD gems, including FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, and the much acclaimed EVIL ALIENS. That’s right folks, it doesn’t get any better than this!
SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
Rated: PG-13
Starring John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson
Directed by Mikael Håfström
Run Time: ???
Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man who specializes in debunking the paranormal checks into the infamous room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel, only to discover… the terror is real.
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BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (COLLECTOR’S EDITION)
Rated: R
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves
Run Time: 127 Min.
This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker’s classic novel of the same name. A young lawyer (Jonathan Harker) is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker’s betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina’s closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy’s friends gather together to try to drive Dracula away.
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FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: OUTBREAK ON A PLANE
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Scott Thomas
Starring Erick Avari, Dale Midkiff, Kevin J. O’Connor
Run Time: 94 Min.
Unholy terror is unleashed in the skies when a deadly, genetically engineered virus is released onboard a transatlantic flight to Paris in this heart-stopping thrill-ride of terror! When a scientist on the run from the CIA manages to smuggle a contaminated body onto a commercial overseas flight, the plane becomes an incubator for a quickly growing army of the undead. With a zombie invasion spreading through the cabin, only a handful of passengers remains to fight off their fellow travelers and land the plane before it’s too late.
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MISERY (COLLECTOR’S EDITION)
Rated: R
Directed by Rob Reiner
Starring James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth
Run Time: 107 Minutes
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the “number one fan” of Paul’s heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.
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Rated: UnRated
Directed by Jake West
Starring Christopher Adamson, Samuel Butler, Norman Lovett
Run Time: 89 Minutes
If you thought you’d seen it all, brace yourself for this jaw-dropping slice of sci-fi horror lunacy that has audiences rolling and gagging in the aisles! Gruesome mutilations, inappropriate body probes and pointy weapons ranging from sports gear to chainsaws populate this gore-drenched, splatstick classic of giddy alien mayhem, the successor to Aliens, Phantasm, Bad Taste and The Evil Dead. Looking for a hot new story, struggling Weird Worlde TV reporter Michelle Fox totes her crew to Wales where residents of a small farming town are reporting alien abductions and impregnations. Unfortunately, their dramatic recreation of the suspicious event turns downright nasty when the real interstellar visitors arrive, and they’re hungry for more than a close-up! A no-holds-barred fight for survival ensues, with farmers and TV crew alike falling prey to the ruthless, relentless, unstoppable Evil Aliens!
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