What do you get when you get one craze-infested signal, a stalking psychopath, nightmares that become reality, raves in the Paris underground, and an angel of death? You get this week’s releases, that’s what! With THE SIGNAL hitting theaters, and SPIRAL, NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE, the long awaited CATACOMBS, and GABRIEL slamming onto DVD. And you thought February was a boring month!
THE SIGNAL
Rated R for strong brutal bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and brief nudity.
Directed by David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, Dan Bush
Starring AJ Bowen, Scott Poythress, Anessa Ramsey
Run Time: 1 hr. 41 min.
It’s New Year’s Eve in the city of Terminus and chaos is this year’s resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by an enigmatic transmission that preys on fear and desire driving everyone in the city to murder and madness. In a place once marked by conformity but now sent into complete anarchy, the rebellious Ben must save the woman he loves from the bedlam in the streets as well as her crazed sadistic husband. But the only way he can tell who to trust or who has given in to violence is by uncovering the true nature of The Signal.
SPIRAL
Rated: PG-13
Starring Amber Tamblyn, Zachary Levi, Tricia Helfer
Directed by Adam Green, Joel Moore
Run Time: 91 Min.
Joel David Moore stars with Zachary Levi (Chuck) and Amber Tamblyn (Joan Of Arcadia and THE GRUDGE 2) in the harrowing story of a shy and possibly disturbed telemarketer/painter, his arrogant longtime friend and boss, and the carefree new co-worker whose love may offer a portrait of normalcy. But in a life scarred by dark secrets, can the truth be the most horrifying pose of all? Tricia Helfer of Battlestar Gallactica co-stars in this acclaimed psychological shocker co-directed by Adam Green and Moore that FrightFest hailed as almost unbearably tense…a Hitchcock-tail of precision direction and startling imagery packing a
NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE
Rated: UnRated
Starring Yoshio Harada, Reiko Hitomi, Shinya Tsukamoto
Directed Shinya Tsukamoto
Run Time: 106 minutes
Terrifying horror film about a man who gets into people’s dreams and causes them to kill themselves in real life.
CATACOMBS
Rated: UnRated
Directed by David Elliot, Tomm Coker
Starring Shannyn Sossamon, Alecia “Pink” Moore
Run Time: 90 Minutes
On her first trip to Paris, a young woman hits a party in the Catacombs, the 200-mile labyrinth of limestone tunnels under the city that’s lined with the remains of 7 million people. Separated from her friends, she becomes convinced that someone or something is chasing her.
GABRIEL
Rated: R
Directed by Shane Abbess
Starring Andy Whitfield, Erika Heynatz
Run Time: 113 Minutes
Gabriel is a dark action/drama that takes place in the realm of Purgatory. It reveals the struggle between Arc and Fallen angels for control over the city and its population of re-born souls. At present, darkness rules and Gabriel, the last of seven Arcs sent to return light, must assume a human form for the first time. In the darkest places of the human soul, this lone arc angel’s battle with his human feelings and emotions will prove as perilous as facing the Fallen. Purgatory’s dangerous and seedy underworld will reveal the human condition as frail and strong, as corruptible and honorable but always undeniably powerful and precious.