A somewhat boring week for new releases (especially considering it’s Halloween), as there’s nothing new in theaters, and very little to look for on DVD. Though you can’t go wrong with the Cryptkeeper, 70s erotica featuring vampires, Robert Englund doing what he does best, and Satanists trying to copy THE WICKER MAN. I guess they figured we’d all be horror-movied out by this time… but they were wrong!
SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
TALES FROM THE CRYPT: SEASON 5
Rated: NR
Directed by Various People
Starring Steve Buscemi, Martin Sheen and Billy Zane.
Run Time: 380 minutes
Tomb it may concern. Yes, you. No one else is reading this, right? Besides, you’re the ideal person for this happily haunted collection of scares and silliness ? someone warm and bleeding. Sorry, breathing. The Cryptkeeper delivers more keepers (and terrorific Spookcial Feartures) with this atmosfearic Season 5. Ready to delight your feverishly warped mind are Forever Ambergris, with Steve Buscemi and Roger Daltrey portraying war photographers; Two for the Show, with Traci Lords, David Paymer and Vincent Spano embroiled in a tale of wife and death; Well Cooked Hams, with Martin Sheen and Billy Zane putting hocus pocus in focus as rival magicians; plus 10 more eerie encounters of fate, fiends and flat-out funniness. Lullaby and good fright, kiddies!
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DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS
Rated: R.
Directed by Harry Kümel
Starring John Karlen, Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet.
Run Time: 1hr 27min.
A chic, good-looking and suitably 70’s couple arrive at an extravagant and deserted seaside hotel after eloping. Stefan is wealthy and happily English, with a hidden streak of sadism, while Valarie is intelligent but of inferior (Swedish) blood. To keep her with him at the eerie hotel he lies consistently about his relationship with his mother and his plans to tell her of their marriage. Meanwhile he has mysterious phone conversations with an older, dominant and pampered sissy. Two fresh guests arrive; the Hungarian countess, Elizabeth Bathory and her voluptuous protégé, Ilona. Virgin corpses begin showing up about the city drained of their blood. A wary detective lurks around the hotel taunting his only suspect, the Countess.
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HEART STOPPER
Rated: UnRated
Directed by: Bob Keen
Starring Meredith Henderson, Nathan Stephenson, James Binkley, Michael Cram, Robert Englund.
Run Time: 1 hr. 32 min.
Two hospitalized young people discover that things can get even worse when the dilapidated institution is stranded by a severe storm and a maniac stalks the corridors butchering the patients and staff.
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THE DEVIL’S RAIN
Rated: PG
Directed by: Robert Fuest.
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Tom Skerritt, Joan Prather, Eddie Albert, William Shatner
Run Time: 1hr. 26min.
A bunch of Satanists in the American rural landscape have terrible powers which enable them to melt their victims. However one of the children of an earlier victim vows to destroy them.
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