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‘Shutter Island’ Overshadows Horror In Your House
After a few weeks of decent releases, this week’s Horror In Your House is pretty weak. While Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island gets a DVD/Blu-ray release – and who knows if it’s even good on second viewing – there are only a small handful of other genere films arriving at a retailer near you. Read on to see the list.
Horror in your House
June 8, 2010
BLOODLOCK: Midnight Releasing
A secret basement room, a solid titanium door, an intricate locking mechanism never meant to be unlocked An innocent, emotionally wounded wife, her husband in sexual deceit with her sister, an honest, helpful locksmith, an old couple greedy for immortality, an evil entity trapped behind the door.
CREEK: Synergetic
A group of friends on their way to a horror convention are lured into a roadside attraction promising them the opportunity to find gold. They discover that with the gold comes a curse and the ghosts who are haunting the creek are out for vengeance.
METAL MAN: Midnight Releasing
Kyle Finn is just an ordinary college kid. He bites off more than he can chew when he accepts a position working with Dr. Arthur Blake, a bio-mech engineer. Kyle tests the new metal helmet and suit for Blake. But the experiment goes wrong and Blake is murdered by evil weapons dealer, Sebastian Reed. Kyle is locked in the suit and can t get out. Blake appears to him as an A.I. program in the helmet and helps Kyle escape. Now, Reed will stop at nothing to find Kyle and the Metal Suit. He murders Kyle s parents and kidnaps his girlfriend, Julie. Only the beautiful Dr, Marissa Lee, who also wants revenge on Reed for killing her father, can help Kyle. Together, they will learn the awesome powers of the suit, force-fields, invisibility, morphing and more! But they will need them all to fight off Reed s ninja henchman and his ultimate secret weapon, the Mecha Terror robot, programmed for one thing… to destroy Kyle Finn… a.k.a. Metal Man!
SHUTTER ISLAND (DVD & Blu-ray): Paramount (TEX’S PICK OF THE WEEK)
When U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Teddy uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he learns there are some places that never let you go.
TEX SAYS: Well…I guess this is a default PICK OF THE WEEK since basically NOTHING is releasing today. That said, I do think Shutter Island is a worthy film with a pretty killer vibe going for it. So, check it out!
Are you ready to go back?
After a record-breaking box office run and an extended cut re-release, A24 and director Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is heading home to Digital.
Backrooms will be available to rent or buy this Tuesday, July 14.
In the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in Backrooms as the owner of Cap’n Clark’s Ottoman Empire, who discovers a strange doorway in the basement of the furniture showroom. He sets out to explore the mysterious, liminal space, walking headfirst into a creepypasta nightmare.
Renate Reinsve (A Different Man) also stars in Backrooms.
Will Soodik wrote the screenplay.
I wrote in my review, “Backrooms is at once complex and sparse, but never repetitive. It might be set in 1990, but it effectively captures modern anxieties and isolation in a way that frequently makes your skin crawl. While the journey ultimately loses steam by its cryptic end, Parsons’ visual representation of the human psyche disturbs like no other.”
YouTube prodigy Kane Parsons makes his feature directorial debut based on his creepypasta-inspired video series, which debuted in 2022 and has amassed over 190 million views to date.