DVD and Blu-Ray Releases for October 12, 2010

Hey Fiends!  This week we have some killer fish (Megapiranha & Psychoshark) as well as a favorite of mine – S&Man.  Beyond the break, see what else is out there.

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As Good As Dead

2010
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Cary Elwes
d. Jonathan Mossek
Rating: R
Format: DVD
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From imdb.com – Seeking revenge for the murder of their religious leader, fundamental loyalists kidnap and torture the man they believe responsible, but the ensuing clash of right vs. left ideologies quickly reveals that they may have the wrong man, which puts them on a path toward a shocking twist.

Carnies

2010
Starring: Doug Jones, Reggie Bannister
d. Brian Corder
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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Having sawdust in the blood is a carnie compliment, but blood in the sawdust is another story! In 1936, during the Great Depression, a traveling sideshow sets up shop to mystify yet another dustbowl town with freaks and illusions. When a sinister force begins taking the carnies’ lives one by one, Detective Ellison (Reggie Bannister) is put on the case. Is it the cryptic carnival owner, Helen (Denise Gosset)? What about the strong man, Virgil (Chris Staviski)? Or how about Ratty, the snake handler (Doug Jones)? Step right up folks … step right up. The show is about to begin.

Coffin Rock

2009
Starring: Sam Parsonson, Lisa Chappell, Robert Taylor
d. Rupert Glasson
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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Be careful what you wish for.
Obsessive thriller classics Fatal Attraction and The Hand That Rocks The Cradle get flipped upside down by the Australian nail-biter Coffin Rock. Instead of a disturbed woman, this time it’s Irish drifter Evan (Sam Parsonson) who becomes madly possessive about a lover and a child. Jess (Lisa Chappell) and Rob (Robert Taylor) are the happily married couple beset by only one nagging problem: they can t get pregnant. After a drunken fight, Jess wanders off and into the arms of the loner Evan. Evan has other plans and suddenly one night of infidelity produces a stranger at the door and perhaps even in her belly — that tests not just their marriage but their ability to survive. From the producer of the smash worldwide hit Wolf Creek, this is smart and substantial suspense about the terrifying effects of one single mistake.

Crucible of Terror

1971
Starring: Mike Raven
d. Ted Hooker
Rated: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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His name was Mike Raven, the popular Pirate Radio DJ and known occultist whose spectacularly failed attempt at 70s horror stardom marked one of the most bizarre careers in British movie history. And in his most infamous role of all, Raven stars as an insane sculptor whose obsession with the perfect female form leads to a nightmare of sex, sorcery and slaughter. Within a year of this film s release, Raven would mysteriously disappear from the entertainment business forever…to become a sculptor. Melissa Stribling (HORROR OF DRACULA), Ronald Lacey (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK) and Me Me Lay (THE MAN FROM DEEP RIVER) co-star in this still-sordid cult shocker transferred in startling HD from the only known uncut 35mm print in existence, loaned to Severin by a Bodmin Moor coven!

Dark Lurking

2010
Starring: Bret Kennedy, Ozzie Devrish, Tonia Renee
d. Gregory Connors
Rating: R
Format: DVD
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At Outpost 320, located one mile beneath the earth, the researchers make a critical error and something has now gone terribly wrong. All communications are gone, all means of escape destroyed and an extremely dangerous horde of ancient creatures is on the loose after a doorway to an unspeakable evil has been opened.

Demeking: The Sea Monster

2009
Starring: Takashi Nadagi, Manami Honjo
d. Kohtaro Terauchi
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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In 1969, a young man finds an anonymous letter in a glass bottle which describes the apocalyptic arrival of a cosmic monster known as Demeking. Since then, he has physically prepared himself in a lone struggle for that fateful day when the monster will arrive.

The Director’s Cut

2010
Starring: Jonathan Patrick Moore, Mollie King, Melanie Munt
d. Paul Komadina
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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Pain Is Temporary. Film Is Forever. A bloody black comedy set in the harsh Australian outback, The Director’s Cut tells the tale of a tyrannical director attempting to shoot his first feature film on a farm in the middle of nowhere. When people start dying, he has to decide which is more important: his crew or his film.

Doghouse

2009
Starring: Danny Dyer, Stephen Graham
d. Jake West
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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On the p*ss. On the pull. On the menu
The latest and most outrageous in a wave of UK comic horror films like Shaun Of The Dead, Doghouse is a raucous, balls-out funny spin on male insecurity over their own masculinity and vengeful women. A group of guys (including Danny Dyer of The Football Factory and Severance and Stephen Graham of Snatch and Public Enemies) head off for a boys weekend to buck up a friend still depressed over a painful divorce. Unfortunately, they end up in an isolated town infected with a bio-weapon that has turned all the women into the man-hating monsters the lads always suspected women were at heart. The guys spend less time bonding and a lot more time fleeing from hairdressers, nurses, schoolgirls and other iconic female figures all looking to snip away with scissors and swords and literally do what the guys have been fearing for years. Deftly satirical, witty and just bloody good fun, Doghouse is the most original battle of the sexes in years.

Four Boxes

2009
Starring: Justin Kirk, Terryn Westbrook, Sam Rosen
d. Wyatt McDill
Rating: R
Format: DVD
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Trevor, Amber and Rob stumble upon a bizarre website featuring Havoc, a man who sleeps in a cage and builds bombs in his basement. After they learn his mass murdering plot may be more than fiction, they debate whether to stop him or to sit back and watch.

Gamera Double Feature

Films include Gamera: Guardian of the Universe and Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion

Starring: Gamera, Miki Mizuno
d. Various
Rated: Not Rated
Format: Blu-Ray
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Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (Japanese Title: Gamera Daikaiju Kuchu Kessen) 1995 Color 103 min Not Rated Bigger. Badder. Turtlier! That giant fire-breathing turtle you loved as a kid is back with a vengeance in GAMERA: GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE. The all-new science fiction spectacular has been hailed by critic and fans alike as one of the best monster movies ever! Under the guidance of acclaimed director Shusuke Kaneko (Necronomicon) and screenwriter Kazunori Itô (Ghost In the Shell), the lean, green fighting machine has been reborn with a whole new set of tricks under his 200-foot shell. Gamera is ready for the new century with stunning state-of-the-art computer animation and dazzling special effects. The super turtle combats both a misguided military and a hideous race of man-eating flying reptiles. Aiding Gamera in his fight are a courageous naval officer, an intrepid ornithologist and a beautiful young psychic. Don t miss the mist incredible slam-bang, knock-down monster slug-fest ever filmed as Gamera turtle-waxes the evil Gyaos through downtown Tokyo in GAMERA: GUARDIAN OF THE UNIVERSE!

Jonah Hex

2010
Starring: Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox
d. Jimmy Hayward
Rated: PG-13
Format: DVD | Blu-Ray
DTB REVIEWED
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Out of the pages of the legendary comics and graphic novels steps Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin), a scarred drifter and bounty hunter of last resort who can track anyone… and anything. Having survived death, Jonah’s violent history is steeped in myth and legend and has left him with one foot in the natural world and one on the “other side.” His one human connection is with Lilah (Megan Fox), whose life in a brothel has left her with scars of her own. But Jonah’s past catches up with him when the U.S. military makes him an offer he can’t refuse: to wipe out the warrants on his head, he must hunt and stop dangerous terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich). But Turnbull, now gathering an army and preparing to unleash Hell, is also Jonah’s oldest enemy and will stop at nothing until Jonah is dead.

Light Blast

1985
Starring: Erik Estrada, Ennio Girolami, Michael Pritchard, Peggy Rowe, Bob Taylor
d. Enzo G. Castellari
Rating: R
Format: DVD
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From imdb.com – A crazed physician invents a death ray and threatens to destroy San Francisco unless he is paid $10 million.

Lost Boys: The Thirst

2010
Starring: Corey Feldman, Tanit Phoenix, Jamison Newlander, Sean Cameron Michael, Casey B. Dolan
d. Dario Piana
Rating: R
Format: DVD | Blu-Ray
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As the lost boys and girls of San Cazador prepare to party under the Blood Moon, an alpha vampire conspires to turn these unsuspecting ravers into an army of undead. The only thing that stands between him and the annihilation of the entire human race is the infamous vampire fighting Frog Brothers. Armed with double-barrel holy water balloon launchers and multi-arrow crossbows, Edgar (Corey Feldman) and Alan Frog (Jamison Newlander) join forces to kick some blood-sucker butt in this latest high-energy, action packed adventure in the Lost Boys franchise.

Magic [Blu-ray]

1978
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter
d. Richard Attenborough
Rating: Not Rated
Format: Blu-Ray
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A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.

The Magician (The Criterion Collection)

1958
Starring: Max Von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand
d. Ingmar Bergman
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD | Blu-Ray
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THE MAGICIAN (Ansiktet), directed by Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Fanny and Alexander), is an engaging, brilliantly conceived tale of deceit from one of cinema’s premier illusionists. Max von Sydow (The Virgin Spring, The Exorcist) stars as Dr. Vogler, a mid-nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions whose magic is put to the test by a small town’s cruel, eminently rational minister of health, Dr. Vergerus (Wild Strawberries’ Gunnar Bjornstrand). The result is a diabolically clever battle of wits that’s both frightening and funny, shot in rich, gorgeously gothic black and white.

Megapiranha

2010
Starring: Tiffany, Paul Logan, Barry Williams
d. Eric Forsberg
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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A mutant strain of giant ferocious piranha escape from the Amazon and eat their way toward Florida.

PsychoShark

2009
Starring: Nonami Takizawa, Airi Nakajima, Mika Inagaki
d. Hijiri John
Rated: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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College students Miki and Mai arrive on a private beach on a tropical island. They can’t find the hotel where they booked their reservations, and have gotten hopelessly lost, until a handsome young man shows up, offering to take them to his lodge. But something is not right about the place. The owner’s fingernails are tainted with blood and Miki feels something sinister lurking nearby.

Sculpture

2009
Starring: Raine Brown, Misty Mundae, Alan Rowe Kelly, Dustin Kerns, Susan Adriensen
d. Pete Jacelone
Rating: Not Rated
Format: DVD
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Haunted by dark images from a repressed past, struggling artist Ashley Steele (Raine Brown) returns to her childhood home following the death of her parents. Accepting a commission from a well-known art dealer (Alan Rowe Kelly), she enlists body-builders as models and enthusiastically embarks upon the project. However, her fragile, new-found confidence cannot withstand her brother’s obsessive behavior or her accelerating visions of childhood trauma. As a childhood friend (Misty Mundae) reaches out to help, Ashley spirals down a path of unspeakable horror, mutilation, and murder.

S&Man (Sandman)

2006
Starring: Carol J. Clover
d. Jt Petty
Rating: R
Format: DVD | Blu-Ray
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Highly Recommended by DTB!

When cult-favorite horror filmmaker JT Petty ventures into the dark world
of underground horror, things don t exactly go as planned. As he examines the comparison between filmmaking and voyeurism within the horror genre, he uncovers a collective of filmmakers, deviants, and self-professed possible murderers. The most notorious underground film series he
discovers is called S&MAN, produced by the unassuming and creepy
Eric Rost. The more Petty digs into his subject, the more Eric
withdraws, claiming a desire to protect his “creative vision.”
But Petty begins to suspect that the real reason may be that Eric’s “actors” are in fact “victims,” placing the filmmaker in dangerous territory and making S&MAN the most unsettling horror experience in years.