One week it’s Friday the 13th, the next week it’s poop on a stick. Lame-ass releases this week, with only DVD to throw you some genre love. THE DEAD PIT, ALIVE OR DEAD, and THE SITTER (which actually looks pretty cool). Well, at least summer officially starts on Saturday… now there’s something to look forward to!
SLAUGHTERING STORES THIS WEEK
Rated: UnRated
Starring Cheryl Lawson, Jeremy Slate
Directed by Brett Leonard
Run Time: 101 Min.
Zombies rise up from a terrifying pit beneath a notorious mental asylum to do the bidding of the evil Dr. Ramzi the crazed doctor who twenty years before was walled up alive in the crazy house after someone discovered his horrific experiments involving formaldehyde and illegal lobotomies. Following each experiment the doctor would casually toss the dead victims into the pit. While his captor slowly bricks him up Ramzi swears that he will have revenge. When enigmatic Jane Doe is admitted into the asylum for severe amnesia and she turns out to have amazing subconscious psychic power that wakens Ramzi from his hellish sleep he gets his revenge. Jane and Ramzi seem to be psychically linked and he draws his power from her as he begins to resurrect his former victims. He then sends his small zombie army out into the hospital to find new recruits. Gory creative killing occurs for Ramzi’s zombies are not only quick they are also semi-intelligent. Now only Jane the doctor who originally killed Ramzi a psychotic demolitions expert and a lunatic zombified nun can stop them.
ALIVE OR DEAD
Rated: R
Starring Ann Henson
Directed by Stephen Goetsch
Run Time: 83 minutes
While traveling down a desolate road Maria comes upon an apparently abandoned school bus. A girl has written “HELP ME” in one of the windows and Maria quickly discovers the messy secrets that lie in the back of the bus. As the killer reappears Maria finds herself now hidden and trapped as the killer takes them on the ride of their lives. Their journey leads to a bizarre location in the desert where they’ll quickly learn their enemy is not who they think. The girls must figure out whom to trust if even each other if they hope to return home alive or dead.
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THE SITTER
Rated: UnRated
Starring Gail O’Grady Mariana Klaveno, William R. Moses
Run Time: 85 Minutes
A psycho thriller that slashes away at the fa ade of a perfect family The Sitter is anything but your typical lifetime movie. When prosperous California Couple Carter an Meghan search for the perfect nanny they believe they’ve found their answer in sweet Abby Reed. But no sooner does she arrive than she begins to arouse suspicion in friends and neighbors who one by one start dying. By the time Meghan looks deeper into her past it’s too late. Abby’s work has already begun. Starring Emmy Nominee Gail O’Grady (NYPD Blue) and a haunting performance by Mariana Klaveno (Though None Go with Me) The Sitter does its job to deadly perfection with terrifying suspense as the children sleep!
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