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From HouseofHorrors.com Recent Articles - trailer (flash) Plot Synopsis: A rock band sets up a recording studio and production office at an abandoned boarding school. They start to suspect things are amiss when they hear scary voices, see creepy visions, and experience haunting nightmares. Things go horribly wrong when some of them discover an art gallery on the premises filled with pictures of their friends being attacked. Garnering numerous festival awards, 13 Seconds rocked the horror movie scene with its low-budget creativity. The film includes crafty lighting techniques, surreal imagery, and surprising plot twists. ~ VideoUniverse.com - Official Website DVD Features: Standard Screen CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
Plot Synopsis: Five archaeologists discover an ancient egg in 666 Demon Child. When they retain it for further study, the egg hatches into a murderous demon child. The surviving researchers must determine its origins before they are all killed. Among their discoveries are a hidden temple, a burial ground for giants, and other eggs. ~ VideoUniverse.com DVD Features: Standard Screen CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
- trailer (quicktime) Plot Synopsis: Also known as Anubis - Guardian of the Underworld - Five jaded young friends foolishly dabble in the dark arts and unleash Anubis, the Egyptian God of the Dead, on an unsuspecting New England island. As the body count rises, the survivors must figure out a way to defeat the powerful creature as they fight not only for their lives, but for their very souls. ~ DarksideFilms.com - Official Website DVD Features: Standard Screen CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
- trailer (flash) Plot Synopsis: Adapted from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Beowulf, Beowulf & Grendel is a medieval adventure that tells the blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll in this provocative take on the first major work of English literature. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster. The monster, Grendel, is not a creature of mythic powers, but one of flesh and blood - immense flesh and raging blood, driven by a vengeance from being wronged, while Beowulf, a victorious soldier in his own right, has become increasingly troubled by the hero-myth rising up around his exploits. Beowulf's willingness to kill on behalf of Hrothgar wavers when it becomes clear that the King is more responsible for the troll's rampages than was first apparent. As a soldier, Beowulf is unaccustomed to hesitating. His relationship with the mesmerizing witch, Selma, creates deeper confusion. Swinging his sword at a great, stinking beast is no longer such a simple act. The story is set in barbarous Northern Europe where the reign of the many-gods is giving way to one - the southern invader, Christ. Beowulf is a man caught between sides in this great shift, his simple code transforming and falling apart before his eyes. Building toward an inevitable and terrible battle, this is a tale where vengeance, loyalty and mercy powerfully entwine. A story of blood and beer and sweat, Beowulf & Grendel strips away the mask of the hero-myth, leaving a raw and tangled tale that rings true through the centuries. ~ Amazon.com - Official Website DVD Features: Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
Plot Synopsis: Drawn by the lure of fresh air, hiking, and rafting, six city friends escape to the mountains and become prey to a serial killer in Blood Reaper. According to local lore, a blade-wielding psycho appears on a full moon during leap year. These untimely mountaineers must try to outwit a killer intent on slaughtering them all. ~ VideoUniverse.com - Official Website DVD Features: Standard Screen CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
- trailer (windows media) Plot Synopsis: Detective Steve Andrews is investigating the disappearance of a pretty college co-ed when he gets a call that an inmate at the Hagerthy Psychiatric Hospital might know something about the case. The inmate, Charles Parker, has been telling the strange story of a vicious vampire-like beast called the Chupacabras that he claims he trapped in a nearby mine and destroyed after it had savagely killed a number of the local citizenry. Among the missing: a girl who matches the description of the college co-ed. Before Andrews can talk to him, however, the inmate escapes leading the Detective into a maze of horror and the realization that he must find the missing girl before time runs out. ~ IMDB.com - Official Website DVD Features: Standard Screen CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
- Watch the DVD's featurette "Freddie, Jason and... Saamri" Plot Synopsis: Bandh Darwaza (1990): This is the Indian version of Dracula. A childless woman visits the lair of an evil magician in order that she may conceive. When she gives birth to a baby girl, the magician demands she hand her over. She refuses and has the magician killed. Years later he is revived as a fully fledged member of the undead. He comes looking for the now teenage girl, intending to make her his slave! Purana Mandir (1984): Purana Mandir tells of the ancient curse visited on an Indian king 200 years ago. All female members of his family will turn into hideous monsters and die in childbirth. The daughter of one of his descendents decides to put an end to the curse and travels to the temple where it all began. A true classic of Indian horror! ~ Ryko Distribution DVD Features: NTSC 2-Disc Set CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
- trailer (windows media) Plot Synopsis: A small lakeside resort community is beset by roaches. Big killer roaches that reproduce in dark moist places, and can grow to 10 feet long. The local sheriff may or may not be using them as part of his land-grab scheme. The locals eventually call in an over-the-top bug exterminator to relieve themselves of their problem. ~ IMDB.com DVD Features: Standard Screen CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
- trailer (flash) Editorial: After watching "The Last House on the Left" I was left breathless and stunned, blown away by Wes Craven's masterful remake of Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring." It was one of the most gloriously violent, demented, and disturbing movies I had ever seen. I would never have thought that anyone could possibly make "The Last House on the Left" more disturbing. Well, I was wrong. "Chaos" has three times the brutality than Wes Craven could have ever dreamed up for his masterpiece. Necrophilia, over the top violence and gore, as well as some of the best dialogue that I have heard for a while in movies, "Chaos" was one of the most horrific experiences that I have had in movies for a while now. I give accolades to David DeFalco for not attempting to appeal to the masses and gain a greater profit by making a "feel good" movie with a happy ending, but, instead, choosing to push the boundaries of horror to make one of the most gratuitously violent, sick, and disgusting movies I have ever seen. ~ IMDB.com Extremists should seek the director's cut, which contains an extra 3 minutes of the so-called worst footage youve ever witnessed in your life... DVD Features: Director and producer commentary CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
Plot Summary: In the year 2008, a married couple is distraught over losing their 8 year old son in a boating accident. However, when the mother suddenly sees another child who looks identical to her dead child, the Mother investigates the fertility clinic who aided her with her pregnancy and discovers that they cloned her child in an experiment dubbed "Baby 2000". She also discovers that they still have the genes to develop another child for them and faces the question of whether the couple wants another identical child. ~ IMDB.com DVD Features: Standard Screen CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
Plot Synopsis: A pregnant mother is involved in a horrific car accident. She survives long enough to be taken to hospital where the still undeveloped fetus is retrieved and contained within an artificial womb. The womb instigates a rapid growth rate which causes the child to grow into adulthood within a matter of weeks. All is not well though as the child begins to exhibit some horrific tendencies... ~ IMDB.com DVD Features: Standard Screen CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
Plot Synopsis: This volume of the Crypt of Terror collection presents a double feature of horror classics. Genre stalwarts Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance star in Land of the Minotaur (1977), which follows an American priest as he travels to Greece to investigate a cult making human sacrifices to ancient gods. In Terror (1979), a filmmaker awakens an ancestral curse when he shoots a movie about his family's dark history. ~ VideoUniverse.com DVD Features: Keep Case CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
Plot Synopsis: Originally a daytime soap opera, Dark Shadows garnered a huge cult following during its original 1966-1971 run and separated itself from its peers by dealing with increasingly bizarre and daring story lines. The central figure was the tortured vampire Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid), who was part of a family around which strange events seemed to circulate. Volume 26 of Dark Shadows includes episodes 1227-1245 of the series. ~ VideoUniverse.com DVD Features: Text/Photo Galleries: CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
Plot Synopsis: After her father's death a trouble young woman travels to the isolated monastery he had mysteriously funded. Once there she uncovers a strange order of nuns, who turn out to serve a different master. An Argento-style horror movie from Italy. ~ VideoUniverse.com DVD Features: Available Subtitles: English, Italian CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
Plot Synopsis: Darkest Knight III continues an adventure saga set in medieval England. The despised king John controls the throne while the true ruler, King Richard, languishes in prison. The Darkest Knight must used a the Ultimate Sword, a weapon with supernatural power, to fight King John's legion of foes and free the rightful heir to the throne. ~ VideoUniverse.com DVD Features: Text/Photo Galleries: CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
- trailer (flash) Plot Synopsis: David Cronenberg's first foray into mainstream filmmaking is also one of his most satisfying pictures. Adapted from a Stephen King novel, it stars Christopher Walken as Johnny, a man who has been in a coma for five years and wakes up to realize that he can tell a person's fate just by touching them. Realizing that he can change the future as well, Johnny soon gets intervenes in a number of would-be tragedies. Consequently, he soon becomes famous for his gift, but he longs for his former life, when he still had his job, his fiancee, and a normal life. However, when he shakes hands with a future president of the US (Martin Sheen, in a wonderfully hammy performance) who could end up being the biggest mass murderer since Hitler, Johnny wrestles with what seems to be his destiny. Walken's bravura performance forms the soul of this excellent and touching thriller. ~ VideoUniverse.com DVD Features: Available Subtitles: English CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
- trailer (windows media) Plot Synopsis: When Universal Pictures picked up the movie rights to a Broadway adaptation of Dracula, they felt secure in handing the property over to the sinister team of actor Lon Chaney and director Tod Browning. But Chaney died of cancer, and Universal hired the Hungarian who had scored a success in the stage play: Béla Lugosi. The resulting film launched both Lugosi's baroque career and the horror-movie cycle of the 1930s. It gets off to an atmospheric start, as we meet Count Dracula in his shadowy castle in Transylvania, superbly captured by the great cinematographer Karl Freund. Eventually Dracula and his blood-sucking devotee (Dwight Frye, in one of the cinema's truly mad performances) meet their match in a vampire-hunter called Van Helsing (Edward Van Sloan). If the later sections of the film are undeniably stage bound and a tad creaky, Dracula nevertheless casts a spell, thanks to Lugosi's creepily lugubrious manner and the eerie silences of Browning's directing style. (After a mood-enhancing snippet of Swan Lake under the opening titles, there is no music in the film.) Frankenstein, which was released a few months later, confirmed the horror craze, and Universal has been making money (and countless spin-off projects) from its twin titans of terror ever since. Certainly the role left a lasting impression on the increasingly addled and drug-addicted Lugosi, who was never quite able to distance himself from the part that made him a star. He was buried, at his request, in his black vampire cape. The extra features on this 2-disc 75th anniversary edition of a film classic are a mix of previously available extras and some new stuff. But these are trumped by the news about the film itself: as befits one of the legendary titles of Hollywood history, Dracula looks noticeably cleaner and brighter than in its previous DVD releases, and the soundtrack also seems improved. As with previous DVD packages, the Spanish version of Dracula, shot concurrently with the English-language version, is included. It's a cool movie in its own right and essential viewing for vampire-movie fans. Also returning from previous DVDs: the option to watch the film with Philip Glass's fascinating original score (the film had no score except for source music and "Swan Lake" over the titles); this is a one-time-only experience, as nothing could improve on the original's eerie patches of silence. Also back are horror scholar David J. Skal's contributions: a commentary track and a featurette called The Road to Dracula, which gives the history of Bram Stoker's character. New to this edition: a 36-minute documentary, Lugosi: the Dark Prince, a decent career overview with comments from enthusiasts including director Joe Dante; "Monster Tracks," a feature that allows for pop-up onscreen info-bites (a distraction for the short of attention); a feature commentary by Steve Haberman, horror author and a screenwriter on Dracula: Dead and Loving It (lots of context, but Haberman also gives a spirited and rather welcome rebuke to recent conventional wisdom that favors the Spanish film over the Browning version); and Universal Horror, a 95-minute documentary by Kevin Brownlow. As good as Brownlow's work generally is, this 1998 doc, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, is choppy, and ranges far afield from Universal's great run of horror movies. It's worth seeing for clips from very rare films and for interviews with the likes of Fay Wray, Gloria Stuart, Ray Bradbury, and Curt Siodmak. ~ VideoUniverse.com DVD Features: Region 1 CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
Plot Synopsis: When a lonely woman [Chelsea Field (The Last Boy Scout)] leaves her husband and drives off into the desert, she meets up with a handsome drifter named Hitch [Robert John Burke (Simple Men, Robocop 3)]. What she doesn't realize is Hitch is the menacing "Dust Devil," a shape-shifting killer who preys on the weak and the vulnerable. Richard Stanley's legendary thriller about a charming, chameleonesque killer finally arrives in America in a director-approved version. This new final cut restores over 20 minutes of footage previously removed ~ DiabolikDVD.com DVD Features: Disc One: CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
Plot Synopsis: This taut, tough thriller from director Carl Sydney stars Steve Bauer in a memorably gritty performance. ~ VideoUniverse.com DVD Features: Region 0 CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
Plot Synopsis: A group of post-Civil War prostitutes seek alternative housing in Fort Doom. Lacy Everett (Horror favorite Debbie Rochon) and a close-knit family of call girls plan to move into the former Fort McMillian. Locals warn the women of a vicious killer loose in the area and refuse to shuttle them out to the property. When they finally arrive at their destination, they discover that the old fort is inhabited and people have set up homes nearby. It is not long before they learn why their new home is called Fort Doom. ~ VideoUniverse.com DVD Features: Standard Screen CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
- trailer (windows media) Plot Synopsis: James Whale’s trailblazing horror classic is loosely based on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s gothic novel and features Boris Karloff in the role that made him a star. Mad scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) has an insane ambition to create life in his own image. Frankenstein and his hunchbacked assistant, Fritz (Dwight Frye), toil in his foreboding mountaintop laboratory using pillaged human brains and cadavers. With the terrible creation’s success, Frankenstein must shield his fiancée, Elizabeth (Mae Clark), and friends from the Monster’s (Boris Karloff) fiendish wrath. Will Frankenstein pay the ultimate price for playing God? ~ VideoUniverse.com DVD Features: Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
Plot Synopsis: When they say Frankenstein: The True Story, they mean the story as originally related by Mary Shelley in 1818, as opposed to the 1931 Hollywoodization starring Boris Karloff. This time, Dr. Frankenstein's (Leonard Whiting) paste-up job is no monster, but a handsome young man of high intelligence (Michael Sarrazin). In fact, the doctor and his creature are the best of friends until the latter's body begins to deteriorate. This sends the creature over the bend into insanity, prompting Frankenstein--with the help of his evil mentor Dr. Polidori (James Mason), a character not in the Shelley novel--to try, try, again to create a viable synthetic human. The film ends more or less as the novel does, with the outcast Frankenstein and his creature expiring in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. Adapted for television by Christopher Isherwood, Frankenstein: The True Story was originally telecast in two parts on November 30 and December 1, 1973. ~ All Movie Guide DVD Features: Available Subtitles: English CLICK HERE to purchase from Amazon.com
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