You know it’s just about Halloween because another SAW is hitting theaters this week! Finally, the questions as to how a part IV could happen after the events in part III will be revealed! On the DVD side, there are lots of goodies hitting the shelf to keep your holiday spirits up: HOSTEL PART II, one of the scariest movies ever made gets a DVD make-over with THE SHINING, some zomcom action for ya with FIDO, Brad Pitt stretches his 80s slasher skills with CUTTING CLASS, and David Arquette gives the studio system the finger with his campy THE TRIPPER! There should be enough genre fun to keep you occupied and then some, too bad it’s not Halloween all year long!!!
SAW IV
Rated R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture throughout, and for language.
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
Starring Scott Patterson, Tobin Bell, Betsy Russell
Run Time: ???
Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Upon the news of Detective Kerry’s murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive at the depleted police precinct and help veteran Detective Hoffman sift through Jigsaw’s latest grizzly game of victims and piece together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw, is suddenly abducted and thrust into the madman’s harrowing game, the officer has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of interconnected traps…or face the deadly consequences.
Rated: UnRated
Starring Heather Matarazzo, Bijou Phillips, Richard Burgi
Directed by Eli Roth
Run Time: 95 Min.
Three young Americans studying in Rome set off for a weekend trip when they run into a beautiful model from one of their art classes. Also on her way to an exotic destination, the gorgeous European invites the coeds to come along, assuring them they will be able to relax and rejuvenate. Will the girls find the oasis they are looking for? Or are they poised to become victims for hire, pawns in the fantasies of the sick and privileged from around the world who secretly travel here to savor more grisly pursuits?
THE SHINING – 2 DISC SPECIAL EDITION
Rated: R
Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Run Time: 119 Min.
Frustrated writer Jack Torrance takes a job as the winter caretaker at the ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. When he arrives there with his wife and son, they learn that the previous caretaker had gone mad. Slowly Jack becomes possessed by the evil, demonic presence in the hotel…
Rated: R
Directed by Andrew Currie
Starring Henry Czerny, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tim Blake
Run Time: 92 Min.
Welcome to Willard, a small town lost in the idyllic world of the 50s, where the sun shines every day, everybody knows their neighbor, and rotting zombies deliver the mail. Years ago, the earth passed through a cloud of space dust, causing the dead to rise with a craving for human flesh. A war began, pitting the living against the dead. In the ensuing revolution, a corporation was born: ZomCon, who defeated the legions of undead, and domesticated the zombies, making them our industrial workers, our domestic servants–a productive part of society. ZomCon would like the people of Willard to believe they have everything under control–but do they? Timmy Robinson doesn’t think so. At eleven, Timmy already knows the world is phony baloney–Mom and Dad just won’t admit it. Now ZomCon’s head of security has moved in across the street, and Timmy’s Mom refuses to be the only housewife on the block who doesn’t have a zombie of her own. When she brings a zombie servant home, Timmy discovers a new best friend, and names him Fido. And even though Dad has a bad case of zombie-phobia, Timmy is determined to keep Fido, even if he does eat the odd person. Sometimes, it takes a dead man to teach us all what it means to be alive.
CUTTING CLASS
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Rospo Pallenberg, Donald R. Beck
Starring Donovan Leitch, Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt
Run Time: 91 Minutes
When a student who was committed to an asylum returns to the public high school, a few students turn up missing and the despised vice principal is murdered. One student is quick to accuse, but there appears to be a number of suspects.
Rated: UnRated
Directed by , David Arquette
Starring Jaime King, Courteney Cox, Lukas Haas
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Directed by, co-written by and starring David Arquette, this classic horror movie revolves around a group of friends who escape to a modern-day Woodstock concert for a weekend of debauchery, only to be stalked by a homicidal maniac determined to finish what he started years earlier.