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This morning B-D’s Tex Massacre sent us in this week’s Horror In Your House, which features all of the horror DVD release for this week, December 9th, 2009. Although it’s a pretty small list, there are a few indie films that are definitely worth checking out.

Horror in Your House
12.09.2008
By: Tex Massacre

ANAMORPH: Genius (TEX’S PICK OF THE WEEK)

Willem Dafoe stars as a detective drawn into a gruesome case in this intense psychological thriller. Haunted by the killings, he soon finds himself confronting his own deadly past. With each slaying, the investigation takes a different, darker turn. And the nearer he’s drawn to the murders, the closer he could become the ultimate victim – or take the fall for the crimes.

TEX SAYS: This one has a pretty solid cast, including everyone’s favorite scene-chewer Peter Stormare! You might want to give it a go, or just spend your money on THE DARK KNIGHT blu-ray like I am!

BLITZKRIEG: ESCAPE FROM STALAG 69: Wild Eye

Keith Crocker’s sprawling, gore-splattered homage to Nazisploitation movies pits a truckload of USO girls against a band of bloodthirsty Nazi butchers at the most wicked POW camp in the Third Reich, Stalag 69 – where the prisoners band together to leave alive, or on a slab!

CHAMBER OF HORRORS/THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU: Warner

Terror abounds in this 1966 double feature that stars two of the genre’s most sinister villains. Famed for its “Fear Flasher” and “Horror Horn” gimmicks in its theatrical run, CHAMBER OF HORRORS stars Patrick O’Neal as a killer who replaces his hand with set of terrifying tools. As the title villain in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU, Christopher Lee kidnaps the daughters of the world’s foremost scientists and demands that the men build him a death ray.

TEX SAYS: Previously available as a Best Buy exclusive, this twofer along with the other one below, are now available to the masses. Rejoice!

CIRCULATION: Cinema Epoch

Ana is on her way to visit her new boyfriend when her ex-husband attempts a vicious kidnapping resulting in a car accident. Ana crawls out of the wreckage and walks down the highway towards the nearest town. Gene, an American tourist vacationing in Baja, stops to pick her up. Ana soon finds that her world is not the same. The hotel where she was supposed to meet her boyfriend is in ruins and the people that inhabit it seem more animal like than human. Later that night she has a disturbing nightmare that introduces her to her animal self. She dreams of moths and caterpillars intertwined with human limbs and body parts. She wakes up more confused and shaken, but her journey continues until she learns to embrace her animal self.

CRAIG: BrinkDVD

Craig is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from the loss of both his parents in a disastrous fire. Aside from his childhood friend, Cliff, he loses everyone he knows in one devastating blow. And Cliff, isn’t much help, he has his own problems to deal with.

TEX SAYS: Kim Sønderholm directs this new release. The Danish filmmaker previously gave us the excellent compilation DVD: THE HORROR VAULT earlier this year. His two entries in that set were uneven, but perhaps this feature-length film will allow him to shine.

DIE ZOMBIEJAGER/MURDER ISLAND: Regain Records

DIE ZOMBIEJAGER–In a not too distant future Gothenburg Sweden has been invaded by zombies. The Police are powerless and a team of German Zombie Hunters is called in to solve the problem and clean up the city. On their way through the streets of Gothenburg they run into everything from Italian assassins to Swedish reporters on the wrong side of the barricades while trying to figure out what is causing the epidemic.

MURDER ISLAND–Six Teenagers…One Island…Many Ways to Die…It’s summer. A group of teenagers decide to go on a camping trip. They drive far up in the country until they find a small place where they can rent canoes for a cheap price. The group paddle for a long time before they find a perfect island to set up camp on. They have sex do drugs and drink alcohol. The next morning they notice that one of them has disappeared. They split up looking for her but that proves to have horrifying consequences.

THE FALLING: S’More

Amidst the remains of his broken life, police officer Grayson Reed is about to be thrown into a feud between the armies of Heaven and Hell. His closest friend has fallen victim to a drug habit, his sister refuses to acknowledge their relationship and he faces a world mired in chaos. As faith ends in the world around him and he tries to pick up the pieces of his own life, Reed will be faced with a horrible choice that could ultimately decide the fate of the world.

IT!/THE SHUTTERED ROOM: Warner

This double feature of 1960s horror films delivers star power along with the shocks. Gig Young and Carol Lynley are a young couple investigating a sinister secret in their inherited New England home in THE SHUTTERED ROOM (1967), an H.P. Lovecraft adaptation that also stars Oliver Reed. Then, creepy London museum curator Arthur Pimm awakens the golem, a centuries-old demonic clay figure, to do his bidding in 1966’s IT!

100 TEARS: Anthem

Mark and Jennifer are two daring tabloid reporters, seeking out a bigger better story, which leads them into the bizarre world of a serial murderer known only as “The Teardrop Killer”. Hot on his bloody trail, they begin to piece together the things that make him tick, eventually finding themselves fighting for their very lives, deep within his cavernous house of horrors.

TEX SAYS: Writer/Star Joe Davison and Director Marcus Koch give us another killer clown movie…and you all know how I feel about clowns!!!

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Gateway Horror Classic ‘The Gate’ Returns to Life With Blu-ray SteelBook in May

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One of my personal favorite horror movies of all time, 1987’s gateway horror classic The Gate is opening back up on May 14 with a brand new Blu-ray SteelBook release from Lionsgate!

The new release will feature fresh SteelBook artwork from Vance Kelly, seen below.

Special Features, all of which were previously released, include…

  • Audio Commentaries
    • Director Tibor Takacs, Writer Michael Nankin, and Special Effects Designer & Supervisor Randall William Cook
    • Special Effects Designer & Supervisor Randall William Cook, Special Make-Up Effects Artist Craig Reardon, Special Effects Artist Frank Carere, and Matte Photographer Bill Taylor
  • Isolated Score Selections and Audio Interview
  • Featurettes:
    • The Gate: Unlocked
    • Minion Maker
    • From Hell It Came
    • The Workman Speaks!
    • Made in Canada
    • From Hell: The Creatures & Demons of The Gate
    • The Gatekeepers
    • Vintage Featurette: Making of The Gate
  • Teaser Trailer
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • TV Spot
  • Storyboard Gallery
  • Behind-the-Scenes Still Gallery

When best friends Glen (Stephen Dorff) and Terry (Louis Tripp) stumble across a mysterious crystalline rock in Glen’s backyard, they quickly dig up the newly sodden lawn searching for more precious stones. Instead, they unearth The Gate — an underground chamber of terrifying demonic evil. The teenagers soon understand what evil they’ve released as they are overcome with an assortment of horrific experiences. With fiendish followers invading suburbia, it’s now up to the kids to discover the secret that can lock The Gate forever . . . if it’s not too late.

If you’ve never seen The Gate, it’s now streaming on Prime Video and Tubi.

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