Don’t walk, run! I couldn’t get to Best Buy quick enough this morning as the release list for Tuesday, May 19th is pretty incredible. Not only is Lionsgate Home Entertainment releasing the Blu-ray/DVD of My Bloody Valentine 3-D (with four pairs of glasses), but you can also pick up Magnolia’s slow-born French thriller Eden Log and most importantly, HBO releases the first season of True Blood (don’t miss out on this great show). Read on to see the full release list.
Horror in Your House
May 19, 2009

BANE: Celebrity

Four women awake in an underground cell with amnesia. The women soon discover that they are part of a secret experiment with no obvious purpose. They are visited, one by one, by the SURGEON who cuts a four digit number into each woman s skin…the exact time he will return to kill them. Each woman must quickly piece together the dark secret behind the gruesome experiment and somehow survive the Surgeon s nightly visits of pain, torture and grisly murder. Be prepared for a shocking ending that will leave you breathless!

CALEB’S DOOR: Celebrity

Caleb, an ex-marine, suffers from horrific nightmares. He jumps from one job and city to the next, searching for answers to his problems. He finally moves back to his childhood home to get his life back on track. Unfortunately, he finds that the life he once knew has completely disappeared. His high school sweetheart is engaged and his Parish Priest now doubts his own faith. His nightmares grow even worse than before. During the day he is stuck in a dead-end job. At night he is trying to elude a mysterious cloaked figure in his dreams. Sleep deprived and desperate, he searches for comfort but instead watches as everyone close to him is terrorized by the cloaked creature. Is Caleb losing his mind or is something trying to get his attention?

CHRISTIAN BLAKE: Celebrity

Christian and Steve have been best friends since boyhood. As Steve grows closer to his love interest, Lucy, Christian becomes obsessed. This obsession leads to tragic consequences… Later we find Christian in a mental institution run by a sadistic Psychiatrist. Sandra, a young journalist, is allowed to meet with Christian under the guise of attempting to understand his past indiscretions. In the beginning her motives appear genuine, but once the real reason for her actions becomes evident, a dormant fury is stirred in Christian. Will she be able to handle the monster that she has awakened?

DETECTIVE STORY: Tokyo Shock

Raita, a Japanese businessman, just moved into an apartment building where his next-door neighbor is another guy named Raita. But as a private detective, what that other Raita does couldn’t be more different from a humble businessman’s way of life. One night, in the beginning of a bizarre series of murders, one of the private detective’s clients is killed and has her liver removed. The next victim has her kidneys removed, and the third her lungs. The two Raitas follow the clues and meet an eccentric painter, one whose paints are rumored to be made with human blood and organs.

THE DEVIL’S GROUND: Lightning/Anchor Bay

While driving down a country road, Carrie Mitchell is en route to her new life in Salem, Maine. Suddenly, from out of the woods staggers Amy Singer, injured and scared! Carrie pulls over to help, and her young passenger begins to tell Carrie a horrifying story of what happened to her and her friends in the woods. Through a series of flashbacks we witness the horrific events of Amy and her colleagues, who days earlier were out on an environmental studies trip for college. Camped in the forest excavating what they believed was an ancient Indian burial site, they come across an arm bone, with a Rolex watch still attached around the wrist. It dawns on the group that they have discovered a burial ground, but not the type they were seeking! Carrie soon discovers that Amy carries a deadly secret, and the unspeakable horror that happened in the woods is far from over.

EDEN LOG: Magnolia

A man regains consciousness at the bottom of a cave, with no concept of how he arrived there, nor any idea who the dead man is at his side. Only one thing is certain – he has to escape the menacing creature that s pursuing him. His journey back to the surface takes him through a cemetery – like world that s been abandoned by a mysterious organization called Eden Log.

INFECTED: Genius

en and Lisa, reporters for The Boston Daily, are looking for stories to match their ambitions. They find one when the mayor is assassinated not by a crazed gun nut, but by a terrified man desperate to stop an alien invasion. Starting in the highest echelon of government, the infection is quickly spreading. To stop it, Ben and Lisa must infiltrate its terrifying source, hunted every step of the way like humans.

THE LAST HORROR FILM: Troma

Vinny Durand, a lonesome New York cab driver who lives at home with his mother, has dreams of becoming a famous film director. Consumed by his depraved obsession with beautiful horror actress Jenna Bates and determined to have her star in his first film, Vinny trails her to the Cannes Film Festival. While Vinny’s disturbing fascination grows, a mysterious killer begins slaughtering all people in Jenna’s entourage. Is the obsessed fanatic and the psychotic killer one in the same? Will this be Jenna’s Last Horror Film?

THE LEGEND OF BLOOD CASTLE: Mya Communication

When Countess Erzsebet Bathory is accidentally splattered with some blood drops of one of her nubile maidservants, the Countess finds out that the blood can preserve her skin young and beautiful. Compelled to kill innocent young girls to use their blood, the Countess is helped by her husband Karl, who fakes his own death and pretends to be a vampire to fool the superstitious villagers about the source of the exsanguinations. In the meantime Karl finds himself attracted to Marina, the young daughter of a local innkeeper, perhaps another victim for the Countess.

MARKER: S’more

In an isolated small town in the Pacific Northwest, Sylvia’s teenaged life of juggling two boyfriends and an overprotective father is turned upside down when she discovers she has a bizarre virus which has randomly plagued the women in her community for decades and shamefully forced those afflicted into hiding. Sylvia undergoes a horrifying physical transformation, and she finds herself drawn into a persecuted underworld where she begins an astonishing journey of freakish self-discovery. Marker is a classic coming-of-age tale with a horror twist, which pits its heroine against her oppressors – the town’s non-afflicted – in a battle for self-determination–and survival

MONSTER BEACH PARTY: Indican

This schlocky homage to the beach party/horror scene of the ’60s has the van of the all-girl rock band, The Violas, breaking down in a quaint seaside community. Simultaneously, the Skunk Ape monster (an odorous version of Bigfoot) appears and begins terrorizing the town. The bouffant-tressed band must then team with the locals to end the ordeal, singing and dancing all the way.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3-D: Lionsgate

Ten years ago in the town of Harmony, an inexperienced coal miner caused an accident that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a coma. When Harry awoke, exactly one year later on Valentine’s Day, he wanted revenge and brutally murdered 22 people with a pickax before being killed himself. Now, after years of peace, something from Harmony’s dark past has returned. Wearing a miner’s mask and armed with a pickax, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. As his footsteps come ever closer, the townspeople realize in terror that it just might be Harry Warden who has found his way back.

NIGHTMARE CASTLE: Severin

At the height of her career as the dark goddess of Italian horror, the legendary Barbara Steele delivered two of her most memorable performances in this tale of obsession, madness and depravity. Steele stars as a cheating wife who is chained, whipped and tortured to death by her sadistic scientist husband, and as her unstable blonde stepsister whose fate may be even more ghastly.

SACRED FLESH: Redemption USA

Sacred Flesh toils with themes of repressed sexuality and sin, as the Mother Superior of a medieval convent is tormented by lust and torn on her vows of chastity. Taunted by visions of Mary Magdalene, who reveals the confessions of the younger nuns at the convent, the Mother Superior’s mind is filled with the violent, sexual acts of her fellow sisters masturbating, embroiled in steamy lesbian encounters, molested by priests and even kidnapping and crucifying a rival nun!

SKULL & BONES: Ariztical

Nathan and Justin are united by their fierce and undying passion for slasher, vigilante, zombie, and serial killer films. Bored with their mundane existence as students at an obscure college in impoverished New Haven, Connecticut, they decide to teach their stuck-up classmate, Andy, a lesson by befriending and then raping him. However, when their drug-fuelled plans go awry and Andy dies, they get further turned on and decide to pay a visit to nearby elite Ivy University to wreak even more havoc and terror. Hoping to extort money from an Ivy League jock, they plot to lure one home and photograph him having sex with them. Alighting at the local Ivy bar, they come across four promising Ivies who gloat about their future plans to become world leaders: they have been tapped to join the exclusive secret Ivy society known as Skull and Bones. As the Ivies continue to belittle Nathan and Justin for being total losers, humiliation is now added to their rage. The resentful duo cunningly plots to kidnap the Ivies one by one. What follows is a harrowing tale of bloody “HOMO-cidal” mania leading to a climactic ending that’s certain to startle and shock even the sickest horror fans!

TRUE BLOOD: The Complete First Season: HBO (TEX’S PICK OF THE WEEK)

TRUE BLOOD chronicles the backwoods Louisiana town of Bon Temps… where vampires have emerged from the coffin, and no longer need humans for their fix. Sookie Stackhouse works as a waitress at the rural bar Merlotte’s. Though outwardly a typical young woman, she keeps a dangerous secret: she has the ability to hear the thoughts of others. Her situation is further complicated when the bar gets its first vampire patron – 173-year old Bill Compton – and the two outsiders are immediately drawn to each other.