What do you get you take one killer vagina, two killer monsters, a ghost, a psychopath, and a haunted house? You get this week’s releases, that’s what! And for a January, we’re getting quite the doozy! In theaters, we get the choice between TEETH
(Read Arrow’s Review here) and the uber-anticipated CLOVERFIELD for our hard earned money – and on the DVD side of things, the cheesy monster b-movie MONSTROID, the ghost story GHOST SON, as well as AUTOPSY, and Mary Lambert’s THE ATTIC! And you thought January was going to be boring…
Rated R for disturbing sequences involving sexuality and violence, language and some drug use.
Directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein
Starring John Hensley, Jess Weixler, Hale Appleman, Frank Curcio, Julia Garro
Run Time: 1hr. 34min.
High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group’s most active participant. Her task is made even more difficult by her bad boy stepbrother Brad’s increasingly provocative behavior at home. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.
CLOVERFIELD
Rated PG-13 for violence, terror and disturbing images.
Directed by Matt Reeves
Starring T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel, Lizzy Caplan, Odette Yustman
Run Time: ???
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
MONSTEROID – IT CAME FROM THE DEEP
Rated: R
Starring Philip Carey, John Carradine, Roger Clark, Anthony Eisley, Diane McBain
Directed by Kenneth Hartford, Herbert L. Strock
Run Time: 81 Min.
A chemical company’s pollution of a lake creates a flesh-eating monster with a voracious appetite. None of the villagers are safe from this mutant freak-of-a-beast. The company sends a specialist to destroy the creature, but this sea demon is not so easily killed!
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GHOST SON
Rated: UnRated
Starring Laura Elena Harring, Pete Postlethwaite, John Hannah, Mosa Kaiser br>
Directed by Lamberto Bava
Run Time: 97 minutes
Stacey and Mark have recently married and are deeply in love for each other, living in Mark’s farm in Africa. When Mark has a fatal car accident, the widow Stacey misses him and decides to stay with their orphan teenager maid Thandi in the farm. Later, her friend and doctor Doc finds that Stacey is pregnant of Mark. After a complicated delivery, Stacey notes that her baby in some moments seems to be possessed by the spirit of Mark, trying to kill her to bring her to spend the eternity with Mark.
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AUTOPSY
Rated: R
Directed by Jose Maria Forque
Starring Gloria Grahame, Christian Hay, Christian Hey
Run Time: 91 Minutes
The Game She Played Bordered On Insanity! A beautiful young woman marries a blind old man for his money. She carries on an affair with her husband’s valet, but soon finds herself in the middle of a murder-for-money plot involving the household servants.
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THE ATTIC
Rated: R
Directed by Mary Lambert
Starring John Savage, Catherine Stewart, Elisabeth Moss, Thomas Jay Ryan, Jason Lewis
Run Time: 85 Minutes
About a month after Emma Callan (Elisabeth Moss) and her family move into their seemingly picture-perfect Victorian home, Emma starts to have ghastly visions of a girl who appears to be her twin but is pure evil. Since no one else has seen this doppelganger, Emma is faced with two terrifying prospects: Either she s going insane or she s actually being haunted by a malevolent spirit determined to destroy anyone who dares delve into the dark mysteries of The Attic. Co-starring John Savage and Catherine Mary Stewart, this riveting film from the director of Pet Sematary will fire up your most intense fears while it makes your blood run cold!
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