Turkey week has a little something for everyone. The mucho anticipated THE MIST is finally being unleashed, as is the shoot em’ up video game adaptation HITMAN. Oh the choices the choices! On DVD we have STIR OF ECHOES 2 with our man Rob Lowe, the classic NOSFERATU in a newly restored 2 disc set, THE GODZILLA COLLECTION featuring our favorite man in a monster suite, DRIVE IN MASSACRE (just cause it sounded cool), and the triple feature BLOOD FLOOD featuring the original Morella! Hope this week gave you something to be Thankful for!
THE MIST
Rated R for violence, terror and gore, and language.
Directed by Frank Darabont
Starring Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden
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Following a violent thunderstorm, artist David Drayton and a small town community come under vicious attack from creatures prowling in a thick and unnatural mist. Local rumors point to an experiment called the ‘The Arrowhead Project’ conducted at a nearby top-secret military base, but questions as to the origins of the deadly vapor are secondary to the group’s overall chances for survival. Retreating to a local supermarket, Drayton and the survivors must face-off against each other before taking a united stand against an enemy they cannot even see.
HITMAN
Rated R.
Directed by Xavier Genst
Starring Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko
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The “Hitman” is a genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47. His hallmarks are lethal grace, unwavering precision, and resolute pride in his work. But even 47 couldn’t anticipate a “random equation” in his life exactitude: the unexpected stirrings of his conscience and the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a mysterious Russian woman.
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STIR OF ECHOES 2: THE HOMECOMING
Rated: R
Starring Rob Lowe
Directed by Ernie Barbarash
Run Time: 89 min.
A U.S. Army soldier returns home from Operation Iraqi Freedom and begins experiencing what at first looks like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; he begins seeing the civilians that he had seen killed while overseas in spirit form.
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NOSFERATU: THE ULTIMATE TWO DISC EDITION
Rated: UnRated
Starring Max Schreck
Directed by F.W. Murnau
Run Time: 94 Min.
A cornerstone of the horror film, F.W. Murnau s NOSFERATU is triumphantly reborn in this breathtaking new restoration by the F.W. Murnau Foundation. Backed by an orchestral performance of Hans Erdmann s 1922 score (recorded in 5.1 stereo surround), Kino International edition presents Murnau s masterpiece in this all-new restored HD transfer with unprecedented clarity and faithfulness to the original release version. This double-disc collection presents the film with the original German intertitles as well as with newly-translated English intertitles.
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THE GODZILLA COLLECTION
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Various
Starring Various
Run Time: 583 Min.
This is the ultimate Godzilla Movie Collection. Includes 7 Movies and over 20 Hours of content and bonus features!
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DRIVE IN MASSACRE
Rated: R
Directed by Stu Segall
Starring Bruce Kimball, Adam Lawrence, Douglas Gudbye
Run Time: 69 min.
WARNING This movie has been deemed too terrifying for those with emotional disorders or coronary dysfunction! – A restless crowd and a cheezy double feature lead to two brutal killings at a drive-in! Detective Koch and OLeary assemble a mixed cast of suspects that would make even Charlie Chan cringe. Is it the deranged knife-thrower, the foul-mouthed bigot, the projectionist, the janitor or the pathetic voyeur? Cold razor-sharp steel slices through warm flesh and hot blood squirts over the screen as patrons are splattered across the hoods of cars and even dismembered at the concession stand!
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BLOOD FLOOD
Rated: R
Directed by Various
Starring Morella, William Smith, Boris Karloff, Andy Milligan
Run Time:226 minutes
Join your horror hostess Morella as she reveals her All-Night Spooktacular Dusk-to-Dawn Horror-thon! First, Grave of the Vampire stars William Smith and Michael Pataki in one of the strangest vampire films ever as a mother impregnated by a vampire cuts herself in order to feed her newborn son, who grows up to hunt down his bloodsucking dad! Presented widescreen, 1.85:1.
Then Boris Karloff heads south of the border to Mexico for House of Evil, where he plays the patriarch of a dysfunctional family killed off one at a time by murderous toys! Karloff works the old pipe organ for all its worth as the place burns to the ground. Rarely seen in the U.S., this is the only gothic horror Karloff appeared in among his four Mexican “epics.”
Finally, what’s a creepy night at the movies without something from schlockmeister par excellence, Andy Milligan? Here Morella unveils Guru, the Mad Monk, the only Millian opus filmed in 35mm. Marvel at the bad acting and threadbare historical costuming (reportedly created by the director himself!) and cringe at the blood and gore in an assault on the senses that will leave you reeling!
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