This week’s Horror In Your House is pretty solid as it carries not only a bunch of new films, but some really solid re-releases that you might want to pick up. While Warner Home Video is re-releasing the Final Destination trilogy, Tokyo Shock has a brand new 3-disc set for the incredible Japanese film Versus, which comes from the director of Midnight Meat Train. Read on to see everything arriving in stores tomorrow.
Horror in Your House
August 17, 2009

DEATH NOTE 3: L, CHANGE THE WORLD: Viz Video

In this prequel, L, the popular main character from the Death Note franchise, travels to America to use his superior intellect and spot on deduction skills to solve crimes.

DEXTER: THE COMPLETE SEASON 3: Paramount/Showtime

TEX SAYS: Everyone’s favorite serial killer returns in the third season of Showtime’s acclaimed series. This season Dexter has lot more to contend with as his relationship with Rita becomes more serious. Jimmy Smits joins the cast as a Miami District Attorney that finds a kindred spirit in Dexter. Could Dexter have found a new friend…or a new foe.

FACES: Mesozoic

If Waiting for Godot had a baby with Dawn of the Dead in the Silent Era this would be that baby. This is a must-see exhibition of strange, sometimes horrific, often silly ghouls, fun for party time, Halloween, or just when you need that something that is totally unlike anything else.

THE FINAL DESTINATION COLLECTION:

TEX SAYS: This 2-disc special edition release contains the first three Final Destination movies–just in time to catch up for THE FINAL DESTINATION 3-D–coming this August to theaters everywhere.

GHOST ADVENTURES: SEASON ONE: Discovery Channel

Afraid of the dark? Now find out why as paranormal investigator Zak Bagans and his crew, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin, travel from Idaho to Scotland, and anywhere in between, to scare up the most unearthly mysteries and ghost sightings imaginable. Their in-depth investigations take the team to notoriously haunted locales where they research the history of paranormal phenomena, interview eye-witnesses and then face off with the spirits themselves in this series that will chill your blood and make you want to sleep with the lights on.

ICONS OF SCI-FI: TOHO COLLECTION: Sony

Toho, the most famous of all Japanese movie studios, first made its name in the West for the extraordinary masterworks of Akira Kurosawa. But they really struck box office gold with the wildly colorful kaiju eiga (monster movies) that began in 1954 with the original Godzilla (Gojira), the creation of director Ishiro Honda and special effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya. Now for the first time on DVD — and in their original Tohoscope aspect ratios–Sony Pictures presents three Honda classics that display the enormous breadth of the Toho magic during its glory years. The H-Man, Battle in Outer Space and Mothra are presented in both their Japanese and U.S. versions. So travel back to the days before CGI, when special effects were real and the results were spectacular!

LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (2009): Universal (TEX’S PICK OF THE WEEK)

Renowned horror director Wes Craven returns to the scene of the most notorious thrillers of all time as the Producer of this darkly disturbing reimagining of his classic film The Last House on the Left. After kidnapping and ruthlessly assaulting two teen girls, a sadistic killer and his gang unknowingly find shelter from a storm at the home of one of the victim’s parents– two ordinary people who will go to increasingly gruesome extremes to get revenge.

TEX SAYS: Despite my apprehension at the idea that this remake could be a good thing, it works in almost every sense as a solid revenge thriller. I say “almost” because despite the final 2-minute epilogue scene in the film being the very apex of poor filmmaking decisions–the movie still totally succeeds.

SURVEILLANCE: Magnolia/Magent

When FBI agents Elizabeth Anderson and Sam Hallaway arrive at a local police station to investigate a series of gruesome murders, there are three witnesses with three different stories of the roadside rampage. However, as the agents begin to expose the fragile little details each witness conceals so carefully with a well practiced lie, they soon discover that uncovering the truth can come at a very big cost.

THE STRANGENESS: Code Red

It is 1980, the price of gold is soaring. Old timers warn would be prospectors to stay away from the Gold Spike Mine. It has stood as a ghastly reminder of the horrors of a century before when the earth violently shook and over twenty miners were killed, their bodies stripped of flesh. The residents of Basin City talked of the grizzly murders only in whispers from which legends of The Strangeness grew. A small group of explorers innocently make their way to the Gold Spike. Only one knows the incredible secret of the mine, and here the nightmare begins…..!

VERSUS (3-Disc Special Edition): Tokyo Shock

Deep within the mysterious Forest of Resurrection, the spectacular battle between good and evil has gone on since the dawn of time. When Prisoner KSC2-303 escapes from a maximum security jail, he enters the forest believing it will lead him to a safe haven. Instead, he finds himself a pawn in an endless struggle played out against an ever-changing background across multiple temporal planes of existence. His opponent: a mysterious man who seemingly cannot be killed. The battle to be waged between these warriors: Good versus Evil in the pursuit of a beautiful woman who holds the power to grant eternal life. But what Prisoner KSC2-303 cannot remember is whether he is the personification of good or the very essence of darkness.

WYVERN: Genius/RHI

Floating toward Beaver Mills, Alaska, is a glacier–an icy tomb for a prehistoric winged creature. Once released, it turns the small community into a feeding ground sending helpless residents into a fight for their lives. With time running out, trucker Jake Suttner sees only one option: steal the creature’s egg from its nest and use it as bait in a trap. But beware – the Wyvern is one angry mother.

TEX SAYS: More “Maneater Series” fun….oh yeah!!!