DVD Releases: August 19/26

August 19:

American Crime (First Look drama)
Camp Rock (Disney musical)
Deal (MGM drama)
Evil (Asylum thriller)
Fighting With Anger (PeaceArch western)
Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (Disney)
Her Best Move (MGM comedy)
Life Before Her Eyes (Magnolia drama)
Love and Mary (MTI romantic comedy)
Lost Stallions: The Journey Home (Allumination FilmWorks family drama)
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (Universal comedy)
My Faraway Bride (Vivendi Visual comedy
Pacific & Eddy (Westlake Media drama)
Prom Night (Sony horror)
Quid Pro Quo (Magnolia drama)
Recount (HBO drama)
Restraint (Lionsgate thriller)
Riddle, The (Image thriller)
Scorpion King 2: Rise Of A Warrior (Universal action sequel)
Street Kings (Fox action/drama)
Wizard Of Gore (Dimension Extreme horror)


August 26:

Artifacts (Lionsgate horror)
August (First Look drama)
Border Wars (York action)
Call Of The Wild: Foxfire (Allumination FilmWorks family drama)
Chicago 10 (Paramount documentary)
Crusade: A March Through Time (Allumination FilmWorks fantasy)
Fishtales (Universal family comedy)
Judgment Day (York drama)
Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (Disney sequel)
Lords Of The Streets (PeaceArch action)
My Sassy Girl (Fox romantic drama)
Postal (Vivendi Visual comedy)
Purple Violets (Genius Products comedy w/Edward Burns)
Redbelt (Sony drama)
Skinned Alive (Lionsgate horror)
Son Of Rambow (Paramount comedy)
Underground President (Maverick action)
Vampire Diary (Monarch horror)
Virgin Territory (Anchor Bay comedy)
Walker Payne (Image drama)
What Happens In Vegas (Fox comedy)
Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? (Weinstein documentary)


The week of August 19 is highlighted by the long-awaited DVD debut of "An American Crime," the horrific drama starring Catherine Keener as a psychotic woman who locks Ellen Page in the basement and tortures her with the help of the neighborhood kids(!). Also streeting that week is Crispin Glover as the "Wizard of Gore," a remake of Herschell Gordon Lewis' 1970 cult horror favorite. Glover is so strange that he is always fun to watch, if only to see just how odd he gets. The Australian thriller "Restraint" looks worth seeing as well.

August 26 is pretty bare of horror films aside from the gory "Skinned Alive." Also, part of me wants to see Uwe Boll's "Postal" to see just how big of a trainwreck it is. Who knows? Maybe he's brilliant at comedy.