Hate the heat, hate the sun, hate summer? If you answered yes, sad for you, but at least we’ve got you covered on the time-killing front as this week’s Horror In Your House is loaded with small direct-to-disc releases sure to help you waste your summer vacation. Now only is the Crispin Glover horror film Simon Says finally coming out (it’s been what, three years?), but you can also score Legend of the Bog starring Vinnie Jones and Genius Products’ . Read on for the full list.
Horror in Your House
06/23/2009

BACKWOODS (2008): Genius

A group of friends embark on a camping trip for a ten-year high school reunion. Their celebration soon turns into a battle for survival when they realize that the locals, who are not what they seem, are hunting them down. It s a terrifying and white-knuckled experience you won’t ever forget.

HOBGOBLINS: Micro Werks

A group of hobgoblins, who allow you to live out your fantasies but kill you in the process, escape from a studio vault, and a security guard and his friends must stop them before dawn.

HOBGOBLINS 2: Micro Werks

This is the long awaited part 2 for writer/Director Rick Sloane’s campy cult classic Hobgoblins shot in 1987. Old man McCreedy is locked away in a mental hospital when Kevin and his friends are revisited by the nasty creatures.

LEGEND OF THE BOG: Lionsgate

A group of friends embark on a camping trip for a ten-year high school reunion. Their celebration soon turns into a battle for survival when they realize that the locals, who are not what they seem, are hunting them down. It s a terrifying and white-knuckled experience you won t ever forget.

LOVE, MURDER, and DECEIT: Vanguard

After suffering a heart attack, wealthy industrialist Terry O’Quinn hires sexy nurse Rachel Ward to take care of him. The pair eventually marry, and Ward begins a steamy affair with new stepson Joshua Morrow. But when O’Quinn suddenly dies, the secret lovers find themselves the prime suspects.

THE MONSTER SQUAD (1976, TV): THE COMPLETE SERIES 2-DISC: Virgil Films

Bored with his humdrum night watchman’s job at a wax museum, budding criminologist Walter busies himself by building an amazing “Crime Computer” to pass the time. Activating the machine miraculously brings to life the statues of Dracula, Frank N. Stein, and Bruce W. Wolf, who team up with Walter to fight evildoers as the “Monster Squad.” Every episode from the campy, exciting series is presented in a two-disc set.

SIMON SAYS: Lionsgate

Five college friends choose to spend their vacation debauching at the riverside. They find the perfect place to camp out, but end up crossing paths with twin brothers Simon and Stanley, who then begin to knock off the campers in some extremely creative (and extremely gruesome) ways.

TALES OF A TERROR CULT A/A2: Facets

In these two controversial documentaries, filmmaker Tatsuya Mori reveals the inner workings of the notorious Aum Shinrikyo cult, which was accused of releasing deadly poison gas into the Tokyo subway in 1995. Mori benefited from unprecedented access to the sect, resulting in a multi-faceted view of the cult members and the society that fears them.

TRAPPED (1982): Code Red/Navarre

An Innocent camping weekend turns into terror and murder for four young university students! Henry Chatwell tortures, stalks and kills his wife’s lover, all witnessed by the students. Unable to contact the sheriff, the students return to their campsite where they are taken captive by Chatwell. Chatwell’s verdict is that the students must die! Realizing he has gone too far, two villagers release the students who are one by one recaptured, expect for Roger. Chatwell goes after Roger with an axe and the fight is on. When you are trapped like an animal…it’s kill or be killed!

WAR WOLVES: Monarch

Jack Ford leads a Special Forces unit back to the United States to hunt down Jake Gabriel, a soldier who has been infected with the werewolf virus that turns man into wolf. Little does Jack know that three of the female soldiers serving in his unit have also been infected and have already transformed into she-wolves. The she-wolves forces of evil and Ford’s special op forces of good are pitted against each other in the race to save mankind from turning into wolves.

X-CROSS: Tokyo Shock (TEX’S PICK OF THE WEEK)

Friends drive out to a remote hot spring to soothe their broken hearts after a break-up. Little do they know, they’ve stumbled upon a cult of backwater leg fetish maniacs who live to amputate female legs. Split up from each other, they keep in touch via cell phone with the action constantly rewinding to show us what’s happening from multiple points of view.

TEX SAYS: If you don’t count the fact that I saw Hobgoblins like 20 years ago and can’t remember anything about it except that is was amazingly horrid…then… X-CROSS is the only film I’ve seen this week. It’s pretty out there in that campy Asian horror vibe that Tokyo Gore Police and Machine Girl have made so popular lately. The beginning of the film is actually much better than the ending. This one ran as part of last years New York Asian Film Festival.

ZOMBIE HIGH: City Light

A woman goes to previously all-male boarding school on a scholarship. She begins to separate herself from her boyfriend in order to devote more time to her new environment. Over a course of time she notices that more and more students have lost their individuality, and approach their activities in a lifeless and automatic manner. Eventually a diabolical plot fostered by the faculty begins to emerge.