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DVD Releases: 05/02/2006
By John Marrone
May 1, 2006, 14:28

Local police were called down to Best Buy last night around midnight, when a man dressed in jeans and a "Zombie" t-shirt arrived at the locked doors, demanding entry.  The guard posted that evening described the scene.  "He was insane.  He kept ranting about new DVD's.  Said he was going to kill himself if I didnt let him in - 'peel off and eat' his own skin - something about suicide.  I didn't believe him, but he seemed dangerous - like he was outright crazy.  I left to call 911 and returned to see the man on the ground screaming, eating himself!"  The guard, who asked his name not be released, remembers the man demanding titles and then tearing off strips of his own arm with his teeth.  "He wanted BTK Killer and some ape collection and I said he was going to have to wait for the store to open like everyone else."  Police arrived and hauled off 24 year old Dennis Sammy, who was squirming in a pool of his own blood, barely conscious on the front sidewalk.  Hospital personnel later commented to press officials that approximately three pounds of his own flesh and muscle were pumped from his stomach, and that Sammy had in fact eaten himself into critical condition...

BTK Killer (2005)
- trailer (windows media) -
82 minutes

Rated R for aberrant violent and sexual content, gore and language
Starring Gerard Griesbaum, Ivy Elfstrom, Shyla Fernandes
Directed by Ulli Lommel 

All Movie Guide Plot Description:  This low-budget horror film from genre veteran Ulli Lommel (Boogeyman, Boogeyman II) recounts the true story of Kansas serial killer Dennis Rader. Known as the BTK Killer, which stands for "bind, torture, kill," Rader killed numerous victims in the 1970s and led police on a fruitless chase before dropping out of sight for 30 years. Now, he's back, picking up where he left off and with no sign of relenting.
 
DVD Special Features include:  Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen -
1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Closed Captioned - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish - optional
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access 

IMDB page

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Fiesta of Fear Latin Horror (2006)
175 minutes

Not Rated
Starring Andrea Freund, Katsy Joiner, Alvaro Morales
Directed by various 

CD Universe Plot Description:

ANGEL NEGRO (2000):  A beautiful young student named Angel Cruz (Blanca Lewin) disappears on the night of her high school graduation--but was she killed in a tragic accident that happened that night or did she simply vanish? Ten years later, Angel's former classmates are being murdered one by one, leaving survivors to wonder if she--or her ghost--has returned to haunt the living. Angel Negro is the first horror film made entirely in Chile.
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THE LEGEND OF THE CHUPACABRA (2000):  A mysterious creature kills a herd of goats and the man who owns them and is seen committing the devious deed on videotape. A family member cuts her bereavement short and rounds up some villagers to hunt the killer down, with predictably bloody results.
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DVD Special Features include:  Keep Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
(unspecified) - English
Disc 1: Angel Negro
Disc 2: The Legend of the Chupacabra

IMDB Pages:  Angel Negro/The Legend of the Chupacabra

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King of Kong Island and Other Ape Flicks (2006)
606 minutes

Not Rated
Starring Esmeralda Barros, Raymond Burr, Richard Fraser
Directed by various 

If you collect films of giant monkeys gone mad then round out the collection with this set of movies about killer gorillas, gorilla brides, and half-man, half-monkey creatures - you name the ape freak and its in here.  More sci-fi than horror but hey...  Plot descriptions courtesy of IMDB.com...

KING OF KONG ISLAND (1968):  A group of mad scientists travel to Kong Island where they implant receptors into the brains of gorillas planning to create a gorilla war for world domination.  Out to break a few heads is a descendant of King Kong.

THE APE (1940):  Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing towns people.

THE WHITE GORILLA (1945):  A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After troubling hunters and natives, the white gorilla fights the king of the black gorillas while we are told by a narrator that the fate of Africa hangs in the balance. The movie was made by editing some 1947 acting into footage from a 1927 silent serial, Perils of the Jungle, starring Frank Merrill the fifth screen Tarzan.
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NABONGA GORILLA (1944):  In an effort to clear the name of his deceased father, young Ray Gorman travels to darkest Africa to try to track down the money embezzled from his father's bank years earlier. After a long trek through the jungle Gorman finds the money in the care of beautiful 'white witch' Doreen, daughter of the now long-dead embezzler. Gorman finds his goal difficult to accomplish as not only does Doreen, guarded by a huge, ferocious gorilla, not want to give up the money, but greedy guide Carl Hurst has followed Gorman's trail, intent on getting the money himself by any means necessary.

THE APE MAN (1943):  Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster, aided by his colleague Dr. Randall, has managed to transform himself into a hairy, stooped-over ape-man. Desperately seeking a cure, Brewster believes only an injection of recently-drawn human spinal fluid will prove effective. With Randall refusing to help him, it falls to Brewster and his captive gorilla to find appropriate donors.
- Watch the beginning (flash)

BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (1951):  Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). However, an old native witch witnesses the crime and puts a curse on Barney, who soon after finds himself turning nightly into a rampaging gorilla. But is his transformation real or is it all in his head?
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WHITE PONGO (1945):  Hunters and scientists venture into the jungle to track down a savage albino gorilla, which they believe could be the missing link between man and ape.

SON OF INGAGI (1940):  The film is intriguing with its all black cast (save the doctor and her brother), but ultimately fails as the moment the monster (an ape-like man living in the doctor's office) is revealed destroys any credibility the movie might have had. This monster looks so silly with its black wire hairs (mop-like) hanging over its face which has sunken eyes. It moves around in a pitiful way, and in no way is scary. The film also does not know exactly what it is trying to be. Is it a horror film or a comedy? The ape kills on two occasions with no comedy implied, and then later we see it eat two sandwiches from a scared policeman desperately trying to imitate Mantan Moreland.

PERILS OF THE JUNGLE (1953):  On an African safari with his friend Grant (Staney Farrar), Clyde Beatty (Clyde Beatty) plans to buy some black-maned Numbian lions from Jo Carter (Phyllis Coates) but her animals are wiped out by a fire. Despite interference by rival dealer Gorman (John Doucette), who hopes to ruin Jo, Beatty saves her business by helping her to capture an adult gorilla. (2nd story) When Grant is bitten by a tsetse fly and falls ill, Beatty heads for the nearest hospital through the territory of the dangerous Matabeles tribe. They are captured and condemned to death by Grubbs (Leonard Mudie), a white man living with the tribe and stealing their gold. Using the Matabele Boy King (Shelby Bacon) as a shield, Beatty and Grant make an escape and Grubbs is forced to accompany them, leaving his loot behind.

DVD Special Features include:  Region 0
Keep Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
(unspecified) - English
Disc 1: King of Kong Island/The Ape/White Gorilla
Disc 2: Nabonga Gorilla/The Ape Man/Bride of Gorilla
Disc 3: White Pongo/Son of Ingagi/Perils of the Jungle
 
IMDB Pages:  King of Kong Island/The Ape/White Gorilla/Nabonga Gorilla/The Ape Man/Bride of Gorilla/White Pongo/Son of Ingagi/Perils of the Jungle

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Swarmed (2005)
- trailer (windows media/real media) -
88 minutes

Rated PG-13 for disturbing images
Starring Jonathan Malen, Carol Alt, Maria Brooks
Directed by Paul Ziller  

CD Universe Plot Description:  This effects-laden creature feature presents a worldwide disaster, with two genetically mutated wasps escaping from a lab.  They give birth to swarms of deadly offspring, which terrorize the citizenry of towns across the nation.  As the infestation spreads, an indomitable band of scientists works to find a solution.  Michael Shanks (Stargate SG-1) stars.
 
DVD Special Features include:  Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 16:9
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English
Closed Captioned - English
Subtitles - English, Spanish - optional
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access

IMDB page

CLICK HERE to get it from Amazon.com

Tales from the Crypt - Ritual (2001)
106 minutes

Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality
Starring Jennifer Grey, Craig Sheffer, Daniel Lapaine
Directed by Avi Nesher   

IMDB.com Plot Description:  Dr. Alice Dodgson gets her medical license revoked after the death of one patient. She's facing the possibility of not get any job when she accepts to be the nurse for one young man who suffers of cephallitis called Wesley Claybourne. Aside from the sickness he's suffering Wesley believes he has been "touched" by some voodoo cult. While she stays in Jamaica, Dr. Dodgson will feel uncomfortable as she discovers that voodoo is not only a "state of mind" and could be a real threat to her life and Wesley's. She'll have to discover why she and her patient are targets of the voodoo curse.
 
DVD Special Features include:  Available Subtitles: English, Spanish
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)

IMDB page

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