For a week without any theatrical releases, we’re sure getting the treatment on the DVD front–who knew mid-September was such a hot week for DVD??? We have the long awaited special edition of CHILD’S PLAY and PUMPKINHEAD, not to mention the release of STRIPPERS VS ZOMBIES, and… Uwe Boll’s ‘masterpiece,’ SEED. Kick ass.
CHILD’S PLAY: CHUCKY’S 20th BIRTHDAY EDITION
Rated: R
Starring Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif
Directed by Tom Holland
Run Time: 87 Min.
After 6-year-old Andy Barclay’s (Alex Vincent) babysitter is violently pushed out of a window to her death, nobody believes him when he says that “Chucky,” his new birthday doll, did it! Untilthings start going terribly wrong dead wrong. And when an ensuing rampage of gruesome murders lead a detective (Chris Sarandon) back to the same toy, he discovers that the real terror has just begun’the deranged doll has plans to transfer his evil spirit into a living human beingyoung Andy!
PUMPKINHEAD: COLLECTOR’S EDITION
Rated: R
Starring Lance Hendrickson
Directed by Stan Winston
Run Time: 86 minutes
Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Millenium ) stars in this vivid, stylish, atmospheric (The Hollywood Reporter) and heart-poundingly scary fright fest directed by four-time OscarÂ(r)winner* Stan Winston and written by Mark Patrick Carducci and Gary Gerani. When a group of rambunctious teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley (Henriksen) seeks the magic of a backwoods witch to bring the child back. But when she tells him the child’s death is irrevocable, his grief develops into an all-consuming desire… for revenge! Defying superstition, he and the witch invoke ‘the pumpkinhead a monstrously clawed and fanged demon which, once reborn, answers only to Ed’s bloodlust. But as the invincible creature wreaks its slow, unspeakable tortures on the teens, Ed confronts a horrifying secret about his connection to the beastand realizes that he must find a way tostop its deadly mission before he becomes one with it forever!
ZOMBIE! ZOMBIES! ZOMBIES! STRIPPERS VS ZOMBIES
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Jason M. Murphy
Starring Tiffany Shepis, Lyanna Tumaneng, Jessica Barton
Run Time: 82 Minutes
A drug experiment gone wrong produces a league of blood-thirsty zombies. It is up to a small band of exotic dancers trapped in a gentleman’s club to fight back. Together they must rely on their wits and skills to survive the night, and pray that they don’t become victims of the flesh-eating zombies!
SEED
Rated: UnRated
Directed by Uwe Boll
Starring William Sanderson, Jodelle Ferland, Andrew Jackson
Run Time: 90 Minutes
This story of a supernatural serial killer is reminiscent of Stephen King s finest horror films. Prison guards fail to exorcise the evil in a murderer and inadvertently unleash a malevolent monster. The resulting reign of violence, with its extreme gore and torture, set a new standard for the horror genre.