It has been a long time since we’ve seen such a week Horror In Your House. This Tuesday (June 17) there isn’t much arriving in at a retailer near you, but if you’re scratching for something new to watch during the red hot summer you have a few options, such as Code Red’s special edition release of THE DEAD PIT. Read on to see the full list.

Horror in Your House
June 17, 2008
By: Tex Massacre


ALIVE OR DEAD: Lionsgate

While traveling down a desolate road Maria comes upon an apparently abandoned school bus. A girl has written “HELP ME” in one of the windows and Maria quickly discovers the messy secrets that lie in the back of the bus. As the killer reappears Maria finds herself now hidden and trapped as the killer takes them on the ride of their lives. Their journey leads to a bizarre location in the desert where they’ll quickly learn their enemy is not who they think. The girls must figure out whom to trust if even each other if they hope to return home alive or dead.


THE DEAD PIT (special edition): Code Red/BCI (TEX’S PICK OF THE WEEK)

Zombies rise up from a terrifying pit beneath a notorious mental asylum to do the bidding of the evil Dr. Ramzi the crazed doctor who twenty years before was walled up alive in the crazy house after someone discovered his horrific experiments involving formaldehyde and illegal lobotomies. Following each experiment the doctor would casually toss the dead victims into the pit. While his captor slowly bricks him up Ramzi swears that he will have revenge. When enigmatic Jane Doe is admitted into the asylum for severe amnesia and she turns out to have amazing subconscious psychic power that wakens Ramzi from his hellish sleep he gets his revenge. Jane and Ramzi seem to be psychically linked and he draws his power from her as he begins to resurrect his former victims. He then sends his small zombie army out into the hospital to find new recruits. Gory creative killing occurs for Ramzi’s zombies are not only quick they are also semi-intelligent. Now only Jane the doctor who originally killed Ramzi a psychotic demolitions expert and a lunatic zombified nun can stop them.

TEX SAYS: Time to kick that nostalgia back in gear and pick up this late 80’s zombie flick. Too bad the DVD cover box doesn’t have the battery-operated glowing red eyes like to original one did!


THE SITTER (a.k.a. WHILE THE CHILDREN SLEEP): Genius

When prosperous California couple Carter and Meghan search for the perfect nanny they believe they’ve found their answer in sweet Abby Reed. But no sooner does she arrive than she begins to arouse suspicion in friends and neighbors who one by one start dying. By the time Meghan looks deeper into her past it’s too late. Abby’s work has already begun.

TEX SAYS: Beware! If you know going in that this flick premiered on the Lifetime Network, you might be better prepared for the outcome. Not terribly bad, but very HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE!


TOKYO SHOCK TRIPLE FEATURE (JAPANESE HELL, CURSED, SAMURAI CHICKS; 3-disc rerelease): Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters

JAPANESE HELL -is a thoroughly sinister cautionary tale, part horror show, part costumed morality play taken to unforgiving extremes. Evildoers beware: those who do not turn from their wicked ways get their hideous, gory comeuppance in Japanese Hell!

CURSED -the normally cheerful Nao finds herself in a very unhopeful working environment. At the convenience store where she works, every shift is the graveyard shift. As she goes about her duties, a dark and foreboding presence swirls around her. Vengeful spirits have been awakened and are taking over the establishment. With their humanity crushed, the owner and his wife have already gone insane. Now, one by one, the customers are becoming possessed.

SAMURAI CHICKS -on the southern islands of Japan lies the Orion Dancers Academy where girls learn to sing and dance. Or so they’d like you to believe. Actually, the dance academy is a front for a school for female warriors-in-training. Disguised as singers and actresses in Tokyo, these girl-warrior secret agents are out to gain independence from the island. While watching a music video, they are able to unlock secret codes hidden within the popstar’s dance moves that enable them to complete their missions. However, a sinister rival organization is out to thwart their mission at every turn. When the final confrontation arrives, the girls will have to put their exhaustive training to the ultimate test.


UNDEAD HORRORS (5 movies, 4 discs): Fat Cat/Tempe

Fat Cat DVD presents a 4-disc set of gory zombie terror featuring 5 splatter-filled movies: DEADLANDS: THE RISING, THE STINK OF FLESH Special Edition, GHOUL SCHOOL and ZOMBIE COP plus bonus feature MAXIMUM IMPACT!