DVD Releases: October 21/28

October 21:

Anaconda 3: Offspring (Sony horror sequel)
Birds of America (First Look drama)
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Vivendi documentary)
Fiesta Grand (Maverick comedy)
Forfeit (MTI thriller)
Incredible Hulk, The (Universal action)
Lazarus Project, The (Sony thriller)
Linewatch (Sony drama)
Love for Sale (Image comedy)
Robodoc (Arts Alliance comedy)
Strangers, The (Rogue horror)
Stone Angel, The (Image drama)
Sunday School Musical (Asylum musical)
Trailer Park of Terror (Summit horror)
Vice (Genius Products thriller)

October 28:

13 Hours in a Warehouse (Maverick horror)
Bikini Bloodbath Carwash (Eclectic horror-comedy)
Christmas Caper (First Look comedy)
Dead Space: Downfall (Anchor Bay sci-fi)
Dean Teaster's Ghost Town (Lionsgate western)
Death Defying Acts (Weinstein drama)
Hank and Mike (Magnolia comedy)
Hell Ride (Dimension Extreme action)
Jake's Closet (Vanguard thriller)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (New Line adventure)
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (WB comedy/drama)
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (Troma horror-comedy)
Prince & Me: A Royal Honeymoon, The (First Look comedy)
Red (Magnolia drama)
Shiver (Dark Sky horror)
Tinker Bell (Disney animation)
Together Again for the First Time (Porchlight comedy)
Wifey (Monarch comedy)
Zombie Strippers (Sony horror-comedy)

DVD Releases: October 7/14

October 7:

20 Years After (MTI sci-fi)
Beneath The Surface (Well Go USA horror)
Boy A (Weinstein drama)
Cyborg Soldier (First Look action)
Devil's Chair (Sony horror)
Dog Gone (Screen Media family comedy)
Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds (Dimension Extreme horror)
Happening, The (Fox thriller)
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (Anchor Bay horror-comedy)
Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead (Fox horror/thriller)
Kill Switch (First Look thriller)
Memory Keeper's Daughter (Sony drama)
Paranoid Park (IFC drama)
Ripple Effect (Monterey drama)
Trojan Horse (Allumination FilmWorks drama)
Very British Gangster, A (Documentary)
Visitor, The (Anchor Bay drama)
Wicked Lake (Shriek Show horror)
You Don't Mess With The Zohan (Sony comedy)

October 14:

Brotherhood of Blood (Lionsgate horror)
Dance of the Dead (Lionsgate horror)
Dark Floors (Lionsgate horror)
Edge of Heaven (Strand drama)
Exit Speed (PeaceArch action)
Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (Par. action)
Last House in the Woods, The (Lionsgate horror)
Mongol (WB action)
Night of the White Pants (Image comedy)
No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (Lionsgate horror)
Payback (Maverick action)
Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales' Movie (Universal animation)
Room 205 (Lionsgate horror)
Salt (Cinema Epoch thriller)
Saving God (Echo Bridge drama)
Standard Operating Procedure (Sony documentary)
Stuck (Image dark comedy)
Substitute, The (Lionsgate horror)
Tortilla Heaven (Anchor Bay comedy)
Trackman (Lionsgate horror)
Waltzing Anna (PeaceArch drama)
War, Inc. (First Look comedy)
Y.P.F. (ThinkFilm comedy/drama)

The horror movie express has kicked into high gear, with high-profile (well, as high-profile as you can get with DTV releases) films such as Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead, Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds, plus a whole host of releases from the new partnership between Sam Raimi's Ghost House Underground and Lionsgate, all streeting the second week of the month and all looking to be worth a look.

"Blood Wars"

According to Home Media Magazine, MTI Video has announced Blood Wars for a November 11 DVD release.

The plot synopsis is as follows:

Will is a hippie college student who finds himself in the middle of a battle between vampires and a group of warlocks called Sentries; but when he's bitten by a seductive vampire he's forced to come to terms with his new state of being...

Sounds okay aside from the whole cliched seductive vampire thing. Is it just me or is every female vampire portrayed as seductive?

DVD Releases: September 23/30

September 23:

Breathing Room (Anchor Bay horror)
Broken Life (Anchor Bay drama)
Bryan Loves You (Anchor Bay horror)
Copycat (Lionsgate horror)
Deception (Fox thriller)
Far North (Image drama)
Five Across The Eyes (Anchor Bay horror)
Leatherheads (WB comedy)
Mother of Tears (Dimension Extreme horror)
Naked Fear (PeaceArch thriller)
Neighbor, The (First Look comedy)
Pathology (MGM horror)
Re-Cycle (Image horror)
Red Ridge (Vanguard thriller)
Run, Fat Boy, Run (WB comedy)
Sex & the City (New Line comedy)
Unemployed (Lionsgate comedy)
Vipers (Genius Products horror)

September 30:

Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (Magnolia documentary)
Buried Alive (Sony horror)
Devil's Muse (Halo 8 thriller)
Flu Birds (First Look sci-fi)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Universal comedy)
Ghouls (First Look sci-fi)
Iron Man (Paramount action)
Mostly Ghostly (Universal family drama)
Pink Eye (Halo 8 horror)
Pulse 2: Afterlife (Dimension Extreme horror)
Rest Stop: Don't Look Back (WB/Raw Feed horror)
Soccer Mom (Anchor Bay family comedy)
Taxi To The Dark Side (ThinkFilm documentary)
Universal Remote (PeaceArch comedy)
Vanguard, The (Anchor Bay horror)


Now's when the horror DVD releases start getting really plentiful. September 23 offers a few good choices in the claustrophobic Breathing Room, the serial killer thriller Copycat, the latest from Dario Argento, the twisted-looking Pathology, and the cheesiness of Tara Reid getting chased by CGI snakes in Vipers.

The following week is highlighted by the next in the Rest Stop saga, a Pulse sequel, and a few First Look sci-fi/horror films.

"Dead of Winter"

According to Home Media Magazine, Lionsgate has announced the DVD premiere date for Dead of Winter as November 25.

The plot synopsis is as follows:

After leaving a New Year's Eve party, Kevin (Al Santos) and Tiffany (Sandra McCoy) find themselves battling the elements as well as inner demons as they try to make their way out of the deep forest.

That's a very vague synopsis; the artwork is nice though. Hopefully, the movie lives up to it.

"Zombie Diaries"

According to Home Media Magazine, Dimension Extreme has announced Zombie Diaries for a November 18 DVD release.

The synopsis is as follows:

Set in England during a world-wide viral infection, this documentary-style frightfest records the rise of the undead from the videocams of several survivor groups. As each struggles against the flesh-eating hordes, an even more horrifying fate lurks among them.

Color me skeptical. Sounds a little too much like George Romero's "Diary of the Dead," which Dimension Extreme also distributed.

"Red Ridge"

According to Home Media Magazine, Vanguard Cinema has announced Red Ridge for a September 23 release on DVD.

The plot synopsis is as follows:

Chronicles the scandalous true events currently taking place in small towns along the Texas/Mexico border. Innocent young women are being kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery and prostitution.

Not exactly uplifting fare, heh.