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Weak Horror In Your House Features ‘Daybreakers’
This week’s Horror In Your House is pretty effin’ weak featuring two big titles: Daybreakers and Legion. While Daybreakers is a refreshing look at the vampire genre, Legion completely rips off the themes (and even sequences) from Terminator 2. See what else arrives in stores this Tuesday by reading below.
Horror in Your House
May 11, 2010
DAYBREAKERS: Lionsgate (TEX’S PICK OF THE WEEK)
Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, when an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out. However, a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery, one which has the power to save the human race.
TEX SAYS: Slim pickings this week, and since Legion was crap, my default pick of the week, comes this vampire films that–almost–gets it right. Anyway…it’s a helluva lot better than Twilight…just sayin’.
FLESH FOR THE BEAST: Shriek Show
Six parapsychologists investigate a reputed haunted mansion and are set upon by three flesh-eating succubus ladies under the control of the sinister warlock owner bent on finding a mysterious amulet to give himself more power. Welcome to Shriek Show’s meat locker of hard-core horror!
LEGION: Sony
In the supernatural action thriller Legion, an out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity’s only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael
ONE DEADLY SUMMER: Widowmaker
Eliane, a beautiful young woman, settles into a small town in the south of France with her introverted mother and physically handicapped father. Traumatized by her knowledge that her mother was raped by three men before she was born, Eliane thinks she’s on a trail of vengeance when she’s courted by a young garage mechanic, whose father has the only clue to the identity of her mother’s aggressors. But as the story unfolds in Rashomon-like flashbacks and narrations, the tale becomes increasingly complex and leads inexorably to a stunning conclusion.
Exclusives
‘Evil Dead Burn’ Heads Home to Digital in August and Physical Media in September [Exclusive]
Billed as “the franchise’s most savage and terrifying ride to date,” director Sébastien Vaniček’s Evil Dead Burn has been blazing up on the big screen for the last few weeks, and Bloody Disgusting has exclusively learned that the film is coming home in one week.
Evil Dead Burn debuts digitally at home in the U.S. and Canada on August 4!
And then on September 22, Evil Dead Burn will be available to own on 4K UHD™, Blu-ray™, and DVD from online and physical retailers. Evil Dead Burn will also continue to be available in high definition and standard definition from participating digital retailers.
Evil Dead Burn Digital, 4K & Blu-ray releases contain the following Special Features:
- Evil Dead: Blazing the Trail
Director Sébastien Vanicek and his crew explore how Evil Dead Burn honors the franchise’s ever evolving legacy while introducing a daring new vision.
- The Hot Shot: Evil Dead Burn’s One-Shot Sequence
Dive into Evil Dead Burn’s most gripping scene as cast and crew detail the intense focus and synergy required to create the complex one-shot sequence.
- This One’s Gonna Burn
Explore the fire-fueled chaos of Evil Dead Burn by witnessing how the stunts and effects teams brought the film’s physical horror to life.
Watch an exclusive sneak peek at “This One’s Gonna Burn” down below.
After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As one by one they are transformed into Deadites—turning the gathering into a family reunion from hell—she comes to discover that the vows she took in life live on… even in death.
Souheila Yacoub, Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Erroll Shand and Maude Davey star in Evil Dead Burn. The film is directed by Sébastien Vaniček and written by Sébastien Vaniček & Florent Bernard. It’s produced by Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi. Executive producers are Bruce Campbell, Romel Adam, Sarah Spurway, Jose Cañas and Lee Cronin.
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