Just The Treats You Need For The Season of Tricks

The Pulse: October Cometh

Plenty of Tricks Up Our Sleeve

October is hands down my favorite month of the year. The temperature starts to drop and horror can be found everywhere, in chain stores, on TV,  its everywhere. This time of year its great to be a horror fan (ok, it’s always great to be a horror fan) and there is plenty of horror goodness to be had. This week is thick with awesomeness with lots of treats to feed your horror hunger. My pick of the week is the long delayed and theatrically shafted horror anthology, Trick r’ Treat. Don’t put your wallet away just yet, you’re going to need it for the overabundance of top quality goods that your going to want/need this week. So dig deep and check out these prime cuts for this week and I’ll see you back here next week to dish up another hefty dose.

October 6th

Brandon's DVD Pulse Pick of the Week
Trick 'r Treat : Warner BR
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A creepy, darkly comic celebration of the scariest night of the year from producer Bryan Singer (director of X-Men and Superman Return) and writer-director Michael Dougherty (co-scripter of X2 and Superman Returns). Trick 'R Treat takes the Creepshow/Tales from the Crypt approach to nefarious new depths with four interwoven tales set on Halloween night: a high school principal (Dylan Baker) moonlights as a vicious serial killer; the quest of a young virgin (Anna Paquin) for that special someone takes a gruesome turn; a group of teens carries out a cruel prank with disastrous consequences; and a cantankerous old man (Brian Cos) battles a mischievous trick-or-treating demon.


Audition - Collector's Edition: Shout Factory
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Deceptively innocent at first, Takashi Miikes Audition finds Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi, Suicide Club, The Grudge), a middle-aged widower of many years, urged by his teenage son and his film producer friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura, Ichi The Killer) to get out and start dating again. To help Aoyama meet women, Yoshikawa devises a plan to hold a fake audition for a leading lady. Reluctantly agreeing, Aoyama auditions 30 young hopefuls and falls for the silent beauty of Asami (model/actress Eihi Shiina), a former ballerina with a dark past. Their courtship veers from quiet romance to psycho nightmare, realizing a sadistic breach of contract between filmmaker and audience of which Hitchcock could only dream. (Richard Falcon, Sight And Sound).

Shout! Factory presents this 1999 modern horror classic in a new 1080P high-definition transfer from the internegative, with a new 5.0 digital stereo soundtrack mixed from the original audio elements. This special collectors edition includes 90 minutes of new interviews with the cast and a new audio commentary with director Takashi Miike and screenwriter Daisuke Tengan.


Bleed With Me: R Squared Films
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After a long night tending bar for a bunch of annoying drunks, Laura isn t really feeling up to a long bus-ride home. She hails a cab and settles into the back seat, relieved that her terrible night is over. She doesn't know it yet but her evening is about to get worse. A lot worse.





The Children: Lionsgate
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A family anticipates a Christmas filled with sledding, laughter and hot cocoa as they head to their vacation home in the secluded backcountry... The holiday cheer takes a fast turn for the worse after a mysterious flu-like virus sweeps through the kids. One by one the children become deadly. Amidst the suspicion, mayhem and murder, the parents fight for survival against their own twisted offspring.




Children of the Corn (2009): Anchor Bay
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From Donald P. Borchers comes the resurrection of the most unholy of all: It's 1975, and a young married couple - Vietnam vet Burt (David Anders of Alias and Heroes) and preacher's daughter Vicki (Kandyse McClure of Battlestar Galactica) - are driving cross-country straight into the heartland of Hell. Here in Gatlin, Nebraska, the town's bloodthirsty children - led by the boy preacher Isaac and his teen enforcer Malachai - have slaughtered all adults by command of He Who Walks Behind The Rows. Now two new Outlanders have arrived...and The Time Of Sacrifice is at hand. Preston Bailey (Dexter) and Daniel Newman co-star in this brutal and chilling re-imaging of King's infamous tale, featuring graphic footage not seen in the television broadcast.


Dark Country: Sony
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In his directorial debut, Thomas Jane stars in this suspenseful horror thriller. Also starring Lauren German (Hostel: Part II) and Ron Perlman (Hellboy II: The Golden Army). Two honeymooners rescue a mysterious car crash survivor in the Las Vegas desert. But their decision to save the man becomes increasingly regrettable when he turns on them, forcing the newlyweds to do the unthinkable. In a blur of paranormal chaos, the couple must take drastic measures to cover up their actions from the local police, ultimately leading each character to an inescapable fate.



Feeding Grounds: Brain Damage
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Four guys and four girls meet for a weekend getaway. New friends are made and old flames rekindled. In route to a fantasy weekend at a desert cabin, a glitch in plans forces them to pull over. They pass the time by getting the party started amid the gorgeous scenery until a grisly discovery sets them off running... They soon find themselves stuck, like the abandoned cars that litter the side of the road. Nightfall creeps closer and they're pushed to the limit as one disaster follows another. Will they be able to survive this night and see the dawn?


The Gate: Lionsgate
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After an old tree is removed from the ground, three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from the hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally taking over the Earth.







Ghost Ship: Warner
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Finders keepers. Any abandoned ship floating in international waters can be claimed and towed to port by whoever is fortunate enough to find it. Or, in the case of one team of salvage experts, unfortunate enough. In this stylish, effects-packed chiller from Dark Castle Entertainment, salvagers trained for any situation imaginable come face to horrifying face with the unimaginable after boarding a derelict luxury liner. Julianna Margulies, Gabriel Byrne, Ron Eldard and Isaiah Washington are among the hands on deck who'll confront a seafaring collector of souls. Steve Beck (Thirteen Ghosts) directs this terror-de-force. Bon voyage, fright fans!


I Spit Chew on Your Grave!: Sub Rosa
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LBP's first exploitation parody! What happens when a group of busty whores, pimped out by their mystical magical warlock leader, rapes the wrong man and a load of vengeance is heaped down upon for such a dastardly deed? you must watch this unflinching tale of sheer degradation and baffoonery to find out. Just keep telling yourself its only a shitty b-movie! rape has never been so hilarious!!!




It's Alive (2008): First Look
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IT’S ALIVE is a modern remake of the classic 1970s horror film. When a young woman (Bijou Phillips) learns that she is pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the country. The fate of the happy new family takes a gruesome turn when animals and people end up brutally dead – all with a strange connection to their newborn. Could their new child be the monster responsible for the gruesome murders?





It's My Party And I'll Die If I Want To: Brain Damage
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Join Sara and her friends as they celebrate her 18th birthday in the notoriously haunted burkitt manor. The evil in the house is there and it has decided to bring along some uninvited guests.









Mirageman: Magnolia
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Maco, a young man orphaned after his parents and surviving younger brother were brutally attacked, lives a solitary life as a nightclub security guard. One day, he intervenes in a violent robbery, rescuing a television reporter, who later reports on her masked hero. Hearing of this new superhero, Maco's institutionalized brother's mental health improves. Encouraged by this improvement, Maco takes on the secret life of the superhero known as Mirageman.




Not Quite Hollywood: Magnolia
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Free-wheeling sex romps! Blood-soaked terror tales! High-octane extravaganzas! Welcome to Not Quite Hollywood, the wild, wonderful story of "" films. Join Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dennis Hopper and many others as they take you on an irreverent journey through the '70s and '80s, an era when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the floor action.




The Number 23: New Line Cinema
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Ever notice how phenomena and events tie to the number 23? Walter Sparrow has: 2012 (20+1+2), the end of the Mayan calendar.....23 pairs of chromosomes in the human body....February 3 (2/3), Walter's birthday. Here, there, everywhere, Walter sees connections. And it may be driving him to madness and murder. Jim Carrey puts aside his comedy persona to portray haunted, desperate Walter in an immersive psychological thriller guided by Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys). The connections grow. The mystery deepens. The thrills add up in The Number 23.


Offspring: Lionsgate
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They are back with a vengeance and an insatiable appetite for human flesh... Their Time Has Come Again. Based on the acclaimed novel and adapted for the screen by best-selling author Jack Ketchum, Offspring follows the survivors of a brutal flesh-eating clan that has resurfaced in the once sleepy town of Dead River, Maine. The locals are in for a rude awakening when they realize it's the same pack that the sheriff thought he'd killed off a decade ago. Just when they thought the nightmare was over, they're about to discover that the fight for their lives has only just begun.


The Seamstress: Image
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An ancient curse returns with a vengeance in this harrowing descent into shear terror! While searching for her missing father, pretty young Allie and her friends are dragged kicking and screaming into a living nightmare courtesy of the Seamstress, a local legend spoken of in whispers who still terrorizes the community after her brutal death at the hands of bloodthirsty locals years before. Now armed with her very sharp sewing needles and a diabolical imagination, she won't stop until the last drop of blood is sewn. Lance Henrikson (Pumpkinhead, TV's Millenium) stars in this tailor-made exercise in terror that will rip you to shreds!


Senseless: Well Go USA
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Elliot Gast is quickly climbing the corporate ladder until it's pulled out from underneath him. He's kidnapped and brutally tortured by political extremists for the acts he unwittingly committed. His humiliation is streamed online as part of an ultraviolent reality show. Elliot has no choice but to muster the will to fight back and hope someone on the other side is doing more than just watching.




Seventh Moon: Lionsgate
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According to an ancient Chinese myth on the full moon of the seventh lunar month the gates of hell open and the dead are freed to roam among the living. While honeymooning in China, a young couple takes part in a sacred event that honors these spirits. As night falls, their tour guide abandons them in a desolate field. Now what they thought was a joke is becoming far too real as they fight to survive the night of the Seventh Moon.



Shopping for Fangs (1997): Pathfinder
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Two stories involving Asian-Americans intersect in this feature from co-directors Quentin Lee and Justin Lin (Dir. Fast and Furious, Better Luck Tomorrow). Katherine (Jeanne Chin) is an unhappy young wife who is suffering from blackouts. During one episode she lost her phone and then began receiving suggestive calls from a lesbian. Katherine's husband Jim (Clint Jung) works with Phil (Radmar Jao) who believes that he may be a werewolf. Both Phil and Katherine are on a collision course with revelations about their true natures



Skull Heads: Wizard
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For generations, the strange, inbred Arkoff family has lived in their creepy Italian castle undisturbed by the outside world. Until one night when their sanctuary is invaded by a trio of treacherous art thieves and the Arkoffs must fight for their lives, aided only by the ancient protectors of the castle...the deadly Skull Heads!






Splatter Movie: Sub Rosa
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A surreal and off-beat "documentary" about the making of a slasher movie called Tessaract (which, in turn, is about a group of filmmakers shooting a movie called Splatter Movie) whose cast and crew is being stalked by a killer masquerading as the film's fictional killer. Written by Mike Watt and directed by and starring Amy Lynn Best, Splatter Movie quickly spirals into bizarre territory as the line between film and reality blurs-then disappears entirely!


Staunton Hill: Anchor Bay
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It's the fall of 1969 and winds of a change are blowing across America. But on a remote family farm in the hills of Virginia, a storm of evil has been brewing for years. Now for a group of young people hitchhiking to a rally in D.C., a detour to the nightmare homestead of Staunton's will rip apart their young lives forever. A grisly secret is waiting. The raw terror is growing. And the clan's brutal harvest is about to begin. Kathy Lampkin (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Kiko Ellsworth (Dexter), Cooper Huckabee (The Funhouse), Cristen Coppen and David Rountree star in this extreme shocker from Pittsburgh filmmaker Cameron Robero - son of legendary Night of the Living Dead director Geroge A. Romero - that unleashes a new generation of graphic horror.


Tales from the Cryptkeeper - The Complete First Season: Phase 4 Films
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Get ready fright fans! The cartoon Cryptkeeper opens his vault of tales for your television screams. He'll shock you. He'll scare you. He'll make you laugh, and always leave you with something to think about by teaching you a lesson his way. Each new car-tomb provides thrills, chills, and lessons when you watch!






Tales from the Cryptkeeper - The Complete Second Season: Phase 4 Films
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Get ready fright fans! The cartoon Cryptkeeper opens his vault of tales once again for even more of your television screams. All the SHOCKS, SCARES and LAUGHS continue, and as always leave you with something to think about by teaching you a lesson in his own ghoulish way. Each new car-tomb provides thrills, chills, and lessons when you watch!






The Thaw: Lionsgate
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When a renowned environmental advocate, Dr. David Kruipen (Val Kilmer), discovers the carcass of a woolly mammoth in a polar ice cap, he leads a team of four bright ecology students in a research mission at a remote Arctic station. The group uncovers information beyond their wildest dreams...and nightmares when a prehistoric parasite revives and searches for a new warm-blooded host. Now infected, the unsuspecting students are forced to choose between a quarantine that will result in their death or a global epidemic.

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