DreamWorks issued a press release this morning stating that all prints of THE RUINS were accidentally shipped to theaters in it’s heavily edited PG-13 form–instead of shipping out all new R rated versions, they’re just letting it go, in hopes the PG-13 rating will increase its potential box office. That said, THE RUINS hits theaters this week; on DVD, expect some good times with Tim Burton and friends in SWEENEY TODD, independent horror in FEAR HOUSE, James Van Der Beek in EYE OF THE BEAST, and some seriously hot sorority-house hoochies in THE COOK. All this in the first week of April… it’s gonna be a good month!
THE RUINS
Rated R for strong violence and gruesome images, language, some sexuality and nudity.
Directed by Carter Smith
Starring Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey, Jena Malone, Shawn Ashmore
Run Time: ???
Four American friends on vacation in Cancún, Mexico, meet a German tourist that persuades them to join his hunt for his younger brother, who was last seen with his girlfriend near some mysterious ruins.
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SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
Rated: R
Starring Johnny Depp,Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman
Directed by Tim Burton
Run Time: 116 Min.
After years of rumors, it turns out that Tim Burton was the perfect visionary to film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway masterpiece, and the result is a macabre and moving musical movie as enthralling as anything Burton has ever done. The show’s mix of gothic horror, Grand Guignol, very dark humor, and witty and beautiful music never was the stuff of traditional musical comedy, but it’s a powerful work, and perhaps the richest of the late 20th century. In the movie, Burton’s frequent collaborator, Johnny Depp, plays Todd, a wronged man whose lust for revenge drives him to murder (an 19th-century legend who has been traced to a real-life barber). Helena Bonham Carter, another Burton mainstay, is Mrs. Lovett, the barber’s partner-in-unspeakable-crime.
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FEAR HOUSE
Rated: UnRated
Starring Aleece Jones, Matthew Stiller
Directed by Michael R. Morris
Run Time: 85 minutes
Relatives and colleagues of reclusive writer Samantha Ballard track her to an isolated house in the California desert where they discover a traumatized Samantha. She greets them with the grim announcement that they will die if they attempt to leave the house. After Samantha’s ex-husband and his girlfriend suffer horrible deaths while trying to escape, the others realize that she was serious.
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EYE OF THE BEAST
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Gary Yates
Starring James Van Der Beek, Ryan Black, Alexandra Castillo
Run Time: 90 Minutes
The fifth installment in the “Maneater Series” from Genius Products, Eye of the Beastwill be available for the first time on DVD! In a small fishing village, panic and fear are spreading as the legend of a giant killer squid grows. When government scientist Dan Leland (James Van Der Beek) is sent to investigate the murky waters, he soon uncovers a sea monster beyond anything he could have ever imagined. A terrifying, pulse-pounding thriller, Eye of the Beastdelivers the most ravenous beast of them all – complete with massive tentacles, angry red eyes…and a taste for human flesh!
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THE COOK
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Gregg Simon
Starring Penny Drake, Mark Hengst, Makinna Ridgway
Run Time: 82 minutes
It s a long holiday weekend at the Lambda Epsilon Zeta sorority house, and a handful of girls stay behind to indulge in three days of partying, sex games and strangely delicious meals prepared by the weird new chef. But as the sisters begin to disappear one-by-one, the remaining coeds The Slut, The Stoner, The Bible Beater, The Dumb Hot Blonde, The Predatory Lesbian, The Tease, The Dominatrix and The Good Girl will find themselves trapped in a nightmare of graphic slaughter, involuntary cannibalism and heaping helpings of gourmet nudity. Mark Hengst, Makinna Ridgway and Kit Paquin star in this bloodspattered black comedy that cuts like a knife, tastes like chicken and serves up a scrumptious feast of carnage courtesy of THE COOK.
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