DVD and Blu-Ray Releases for September 7, 2010
Hey fiends, we have crites, death, Hammer Horror, and some Hi-Def upgrades along with Halloween classic Charlie Brown. Read on to see what is all in store for you this week and don’t forget that if you are going to purchase any of these to click via the links provided.
All descriptions are from Amazon.com unless otherwise noted.
4 Film Favorites: Critters 1-4 Collection
1986-1992
Starring: Dee Wallace, Scott Grimes, Don Opper, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Dourif
d. Stephen Herek, Mick Garris, Kristine Peterson, Rupert Harvey
Rating: PG-13 (all 4 films)
Format: DVD
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Critters, Critters 2, Critters 3, and Critters 4 EACH MOVIE INCLUDES: • Both Full-Screen and Widescreen [16×9 1.85] Versions • Theatrical Trailer • Plus on Movie #1: Hidden Alternate Ending
Final Destination Collection: 4 Film Favorites
Critters on Netflix
Critters 2: The Main Course on Netflix
Critters 3 on Netflix
Critters 4 on Netflix
2000-2009
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, A.J. Cook, Ali Larter, Tony Todd
d. David R. Ellis, James Wong
Rating: R
Format: DVD
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Final Destination, Final Destination 2, Final Destination 3, and The Final Destination (2009) FINAL DESTINATION INCLUDES: • Widescreen Version [16×9 1.85:1] • Director/Writers/Editor Commentary • Cast Commentary • 5.1 Isolated Score Audio Track with Commentary by Composer Shirley Walker • Additional Scenes and Alternate Endings • 2 Featurettes: Test Screenings and Premonitions • 2 Games: Death Clock and Psychic Test • Theatrical Trailer • Subtitles: English (Main Feature.Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled.). FINAL DESTINATION 2 INCLUDES: • Widescreen Version [16×9 1.85:1] • Director/Producer/Screenwriters Commentary • Deleted/Alternate Scenes • Selectable Fact Track with Intriguing Making-of Factoids – All As You Watch the Movie • 3 Featurettes The Terror Gauge, Cheating Death: Beyond and Back and Bits & Pieces: Bringing Death to Life • Theatrical Trailer • Subtitles: English (Main Feature.Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled.). FINAL DESTINATION 3 INCLUDES: • Widescreen Version [16×9 2.4:1] • Enjoy 2 Editions of the Film: Original Theatrical Movie and the Choose Their Fate! Version Where You Control the Characters’ Outcomes • Director/Writers/Cinematographer Commentary • Subtitles: English & Español (Main Feature.Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled.). THE FINAL DESTINATION INCLUDES: • Widescreen Version [16×9 2.4:1] • Additional Scenes • Subtitles: English & Español (Main Feature. Bonus Material/Trailer May Not Be Subtitled).
Final Destination on Netflix
Final Destination 2 on Netflix
Final Destination 3 on Netflix
The Final Destination on Netflix
Darkness (TMA)
2009
Starring: Ivan Franek
d.Juraj Herz
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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From IMDB.com: A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.
Forbidden Planet
1956
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly
d. Fred M. Wilcox
Rated: G
Format: Blu-Ray
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Forbidden Planet is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his spacecruiser crew to Planet Altair-4, home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), a dutiful robot named Robby…and to a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first all-electronic musical soundscape in film history, Forbidden Planet is in a movie orbit all its own.
Growth
2009
Starring: Richard Riehle, Christopher Shand, Brian Krause
d. Gabriel Cowan
Rated: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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In 1989, a breakthrough in Advanced Parasitic Development at the Cuttyhunk Island Research Facility led to a mysterious outbreak that killed most of the center’s staff and the island’s residents. Twenty years later, a young woman who fled the original epidemic has returned with a group of friends to sell her family’s property. But a new breed of parasite may have evolved and survived. They are fast moving. They can slither into, or out of, any orifice in the human body.
Hatchet
2006
Starring: Kane Hodder, Joel Moore, Deon Richmond
d. Adam Green
Rating: Unrated
Format: Blu-Ray
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From Amazon.com – Adam Green’s Hatchet is a goofy, gory gas that pays tribute to the slasher boom of the 1980s by placing more hapless teens in the path of an indestructible maniac. Said killer is Victor Crowley (Kane Hodder, Jason in many of the later Friday the 13th entries), a deformed Louisiana swamp dweller who returns from an apparent fiery death to lay waste to a mixed bag of tourists and Mardi Gras revelers who’ve wandered into his turf on a “haunted swamp” tour. Hatchet doesn’t exactly surpass the movies it’s spoofing; Green’s characters are dopey ciphers, and Crowley’s indiscriminate killing spree negates his sympathetic origins. But the dialogue is glib and the performances funny (especially Parry Shen as the tour’s unlikely guide and Joel David Moore as the lovelorn hero), and ’80s horror aficionados will appreciate John Carl Buechler’s outrageously gross effects (which get more screen time in this unrated cut). There are also cameos by genre vets Robert Englund and Tony Todd, as well as Joshua Leonard from The Blair Witch Project. — Paul Gaita
Hoboken Hollow
2010
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Jason Connery, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Holton, Robert Carradine
d. Glen Stephens
Rated: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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Kidnapping. Slavery. Torture. Murder. For decades the Broderick family built their brutal dominion with the sweat and blood of their captives. Lured with promises of work and shelter, drifters, hobos and migrants found themselves captive at a modern-day slave ranch instead. Inspired by true, horrific crime stories from Texas and beyond, Hoboken Hollow spins a dark tale of violence, terror and slaughter on the farm.
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
1966
Starring: Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea, Sally Dryer, Kathy Steinberg, Ann Altieri
d. Bill Melendez
Rated: Not Rated
Format: Blu-Ray + DVD
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From Amazon.com: Charlie Brown gets rocks in his trick-or-treat bag, Linus awaits a visitation from the Great Pumpkin in his terribly sincere pumpkin patch (while the adoring little Sally sits tight with him), Snoopy falls asleep, Lucy harasses Schroeder, and Pig-Pen kicks up a dust storm even beneath his costume in this classic television broadcast. Funny stuff, but also graced with Charles Schultz’s more poignant and gently satiric themes from the 1960s on the influence of faith, failure, and hope in our lives. –Tom Keogh
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown on Netflix
Mars Attacks!
1996
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Bening, Glenn Close
d. Tim Burton
Rating: PG-13
Format: Blu-Ray
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AWAKE, EARTHLINGS! It’s later than you think. Don’t miss the hilarious frenzy as Tim Burton directs – and Mars Attacks! SEE! Stars that shine across the galaxy. Jack Nicholson (in a dual role), Glenn close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito and a dozen more! SHRIEK! At mean, green ivaders armed with insta-fry ray guns, endowed with slimy, humongous brains – and enlivened with state-of-the-art special effects. GASP! As the U.S. legislature is overwhelmed. (Don’t fear, we still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for us.) THRILL! As Earth fights back with an unexpected weapon. Take that, Martians!
The Phantom
2010
Starring: Ryan Carnes, Cameron Goodman
d. Paolo Barzman
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD | Blu-Ray
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From Wikipedia: The Phantom is a 2009 miniseries inspired by Lee Falk’s comic strip of the same name, and directed by Paolo Barzman. It first aired on The Movie Network and then on Syfy in June 2010.
Poltergeist
1982
Starring: JoBeth Williams, Heather O’Rourke, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne
d. Tobe Hooper
Rating: PG
Format: Blu-Ray
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“Theyre here,” – seeming almost whimsical at first, playing stack-the- chair games in the Freelings kitchen. Then things turn darker. A storm erupts, a tree attacks and little Carol Anne Freeling is whisked into a spectral void. As her family confronts horrors galore and fights to bring the youngster back, something else is here too: a new benchmark in Hollywood ghost stories. Producers Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall and director Tobe Hooper head the elite scream team of this classic whose nerve-jangling effects include floating phantasms, the fiercest monster ever to pop out of a closet and an entire house collapsing into nothingness. Welcome to Home Sweet Haunted Home.
Supernatural: The Complete Fifth Season
2009
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles
d. Various
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD | Blu-Ray
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Twenty-six years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America … and he taught them how to kill it. This haunting series follows the Winchester brothers as they crisscross the lonely and mysterious back roads of the country in their ’67 Chevy Impala, hunting down every evil supernatural force they encounter along the way. At the end of the fourth season, Sam unwittingly broke the final seal – that held Lucifer captive in Hell. Now, Lucifer is free, the Apocalypse is here and angels prepare for a spectacular final battle. Against a landscape of celestial violence, natural disasters and a rising human death toll, Sam and Dean, with the help of fallen angel Castiel, must find a way to achieve the impossible: Kill the Devil.
Supernatural: Season 5 on Netflix
TCM Greatest Classic Film Collection: Hammer Horror
Various Years
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and more
d. Freddie Francis and more
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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The films include Horror of Dracula / Dracula Has Risen from the Grave / The Curse of Frankenstein / Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Horror of Dracula on Netflix
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave on Netflix
The Curse of Frankenstein on Netflix
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed on Netflix