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‘Must Have’ Blu-rays Invade Horror In Your House
MGM is looking to make a ton of horror friends this week by releasing a stack of Blu-Ray/DVD combo packs on Tuesday. The best news, the releases cover several “must have” horror tittles like: Carrie, The Return of the Living Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Misery. New Line Home Video is also getting in on the action by releasing Se7en on Blu-ray for the first time. It’s a good week. A good week indeed.
Horror In Your House
September 14th, 2010
THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (2005) (Blu-ray/DVD) – MGM
A remake of the “The Amityville Horror” which was based on the Jay Anson book. It purported that the residents of a tree-lined home in a Long Island suburb were terrorized by a haunted house. The home had been inhabited previously by a disturbed young man who murdered his family.
CARRIE (Blu-ray/DVD) – MGM
A mousy and abused girl with telekinetic powers gets pushed too far on one special night.
CHILD’S PLAY (Blu-ray/DVD) – MGM
When serial killer Charles Lee Ray is mortally wounded in a police shoot-out, he uses a voodoo spell to transfer his soul into Chucky, a “Good Guys” doll. Andy receives the doll as a birthday gift, and Chucky soon resumes his killing spree. However, Charles doesn’t want to be trapped in the body of a doll forever. His only escape would be to transfer into the first human he revealed his true identity to… which places Andy in mortal danger.
DELICATESSEN (Blu-ray/DVD) – Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasional prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants
FEAST (Blu-ray) – The Weinstein Company
A group of strangers gather in a bar where they’re attacked and systematically killed by monsters. The film was a product of “Project Greenlight”, the program created by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Chris Moore to showcase new talent.
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) (Blu-ray/DVD) – MGM
When filmy spores fall from space and take root in San Francisco, the city is beautifully transformed by spectacular and exotic flowers. But these lovely extraterrestrial blossoms have gruesome plans for their earthly admirers: to slowly clone their bodies and then dispose of the originals!
MICAH SAYS: I know there are a lot of remakes and reimaging of this film, but this Donald Sutherland version is my absolute favorite. Worst one? The Nicole Kidman version, maybe?
JACOB’S LADDER (Blu-ray/DVD) – MGM
Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) thinks he is going insane. Or worse. When his nightmares begin spilling into his waking hours, Jacob believes he is experiencing the aftereffects of a powerful drug tested on him during Vietnam. Or perhaps his post-traumatic stress disorder is worse than most. Whatever is happening to him, it is not good.
MISERY (Blu-ray/DVD) – MGM
Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon’s number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident. The former nurse takes care of him in her remote house, but becomes irate when she discovers that the author has killed Misery off in his latest book.
NECROMENTIA – Image Entertainment
This dark, twisted tale of erotic tortures and shocking torment dares to open the gates of hell for three men desperate to transcend the boundaries of death. One harbors a lingering passion for his dead girlfriend, another is a professional sadist determined to save his troubled brother, and the third hungers for the most brutal kind of revenge.
THE ORDER (Blu-ray) -20th Century Fox
A young priest is sent to Rome to investigate the troubling death of the head of his order.
THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (Blu-ray/DVD) – MGM
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the cemetery, those brain-eating zombies are back and hungry for more tasty mortals. A fiendish mix of outrageous humor and heart-stopping terror, The Return of the Living Dead is a veritable smorgasbord of fun filled with skin-crawling jolts, eye-popping visuals and relentless surprise!
MICAH SAYS: Time to see my first split dog in glorious 1080p. Hopefully my heart can take it, if not, please “send more paramedics.”
SE7EN (Blu-ray) – New Line Home Video
Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Pride. Lust. Envy. Two cops (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) track a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders, each kill targeting a practitioner of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Gwyneth Paltrow also stars in this acclaimed thriller set in a dour, drizzly city sick with pain and blight.
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (Blu-ray/DVD) – MGM
Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist.
SPECIES (Blu-ray/DVD) – MGM
A group of scientists desperately try to track down and trap a killer alien seductress before she successfully mates with a human male.
THE TWILIGHT ZONE (Blu-ray) – Image Entertainment
All 36 episodes of the first season of Rod Serling’s classic, groundbreaking series, now presented in pristine high definition for the first time ever.
After scaring up a strong theatrical run, Oddity director Damian McCarthy’s Hokum heads home to Digital this week.
Settle in for a spooky supernatural chiller as Hokum arrives on all Digital platforms to rent or own beginning June 2, followed by a Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD Combo and DVD release on August 11, 2026.
Adam Scott (“Severance”) stars in Hokum as reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman. When he retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, the staff’s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw Ohm into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past.
Peter Coonan (“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness”), David Wilmot (“Station Eleven”), Florence Ordesh (“Departure”), Michael Patric (“Frontier”), Will O’Connell (“Game of Thrones”), Brendan Conroy (“Bodkin”), and Austin Amelio (“The Walking Dead”) also star.
Get a peek at the upcoming physical media release below, including a few special features.
Spooky Pictures’ Roy Lee (Weapons) & Steven Schneider (Insidious) produce alongside Image Nation’s Derek Dauchy (Late Night with the Devil), Tailored Film’s Ruth Treacy, Julianne Forde, & Mairtín de Barra, and Cweature Features’ Ken Kao & Josh Rosenbaum.
I wrote in my review for Bloody Disgusting, “A quaint Irish hotel with a deeply haunted history awaits an American writer in McCarthy’s third outing, continuing his streak for folkloric tales of supernatural karma and spine-tingling terror with a dark sense of humor.”
What’s next from Damian McCarthy? He’s currently writing a haunted house movie, but recent comments suggest he may be moving into other genres beyond that upcoming project.
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