January 2008 Horror Releases

Here is the list of DVD and Theatrical release dates for Horror/Sci-Fi/Thillers in January 2008

Released January 1st 2008:

DVD RELEASE: Resident Evil: Extinction: Milla Jovovich is back in the third chapter of the hugely successful Resident Evil franchise! This action-packed horror film is set in the Nevada desert and filled with intense special effects and more zombie terror! Las Vegas means fun in the sun. Well, at least the sun is still there. Except for a few rusting landmarks, it looks pretty much like the rest of the desert - or the whole country, for that matter. The crowds are now flesh-eating zombies: the mass undead, the oozing, terrifying sludge of what remains. Here, the newly upgraded Alice, along with her crew (Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Ali Larter, Ashanti) will make a final stand against evil - with one goal: to turn the undead dead again.

DVD RELEASE: Solstice: From the director of The Blair Witch Project comes another frightening tale of the supernatural. Less than a year after losing her twin sister to suicide, Megan (Elisabeth Harnois, Point Pleasant) and her college-bound friends take one last road trip to the family home out on the Louisiana bayou. When a handsome local (Tyler Hoechlin, 7th Heaven) teaches them the Creole spell of the summer solstice, the group tries to resurrect the sister’s spirit – with deadly results. Also starring Shawn Ashmore (X-Men series), Amanda Seyfried (Big Love) and Hilarie Burton (One Tree Hill), Solstice will scare you all the way to its shocking end.

Released January 4th 2008:

THEATRICAL RELEASE: One Missed Call: In this remake of the Japanese horror film "Chakushin Ari" (2003), several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.

Released January 8th 2008:

DVD RELEASE: Dragon Wars: Meet Buraki, the vicious, 200-meter long Imoogi serpent from ancient Korea. His army includes giant lizards with missile launchers, flying dragons, soldiers bred for evil and mega-intelligent dinosaurs. Together, they will destroy Los Angeles and possibly the world unless reincarnated warriors Ethan and Sarah can outrun them and resurrect the Good Imoogi, Buraki's ancient nemesis. Dragon Wars reveals every last detail of Earth's greatest battle, a war you'll only believe when you see it for yourself.

DVD RELEASE: Joshua: The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua (Kogan), an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.

DVD RELEASE: White Noise 2: Enter a terrifying new dimension in communication with the dead: The Near-Death Experience.What would you do if you could tell who was about to die? Would you try to save innocent lives? After barely escaping a near-death experience, Abe Dale (Nathan Fillion) discovers that he has been granted a mysterious ability. But using this dark gift means interfering with the natural order of life and death, a choice that comes with a heavy price. Also starring Katee Sackhoff, White Noise 2 explores an unthinkable and evil dimension in communication with the dead.

DVD RELEASE: Sunshine: The Sun is being destroyed from inside out by a type of highly stable form of matter that renders nuclear fusion impossible, by turning common matter on its own kind. The only hope is to send a team of astronauts to detonate a massive, highly energetic bomb, able to destroy this strange matter and restore Sun's natural state.

DVD RELEASE: Mammoth: On a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater, Louisiana, locals exiting a retro-fitted theater excitedly watch as a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes through the roof of the local Natural History Museum. No one realizes that the meteor is actually a spaceship containing a shape-shifting life form. In order to adapt to Earth's atmosphere, the life form latches on to the first organism it comes in contact with - a partially frozen Woolly Mammoth found in the historic exhibit for which the town is famous. As a series of uncanny disasters unfold, the town quickly finds itself overrun by the alien-possessed mammoth. Local authorities and Government Investigators join forces with Frank Abernathy, the Museum Curator, and his father Simon, a B-Movie enthusiast to bring down the mighty mammoth, thus saving the town (and the world) in a wild adventure that blends the 50's alien-invasion flick, and the 70's revenge-of-nature opus into a marauding monster mash!

DVD RELEASE: Days of Darkness: In the film, The world is watching as a huge comet looms over the earth for days. News coverage leads people to believe that there is nothing to worry about and life goes on uninterrupted – until the comet falls from the sky and sets the planet ablaze. Not only is the planet burning, it is also being overrun by ruthless zombies.Trapped between flesh eating zombies and a firestorm, an unlikely group comes together to battle the uprising of the undead. In a story of ultimate survival, they know they must stay alive to save the fate of mankind.

DVD RELEASE: The Killing Floor: Horror novel agent David Lamont (Marc Blucas) moves into a lavish penthouse apartment to celebrate his new-found success. But as he settles in, mysterious events occur; violent and bloody crime scene photos taken in his apartment show up at the front door, videotapes of him sleeping arrive in his mail and the strange sensation that he is being followed haunt his every step. No longer able to work or sleep, paranoia distorts his mind and takes over his life, yet he refuses to move out. Obsessed with tracking down his stalker, David unravels, falling prey to a deadly game. The only question that remains is: How far will he go to end this real life horror story?

DVD RELEASE: Maneater: The hunter becomes the hunted when the forested shadows of the Appalachian Trail are stalked by a wild animal out of its element, hungry and born to ravage. After Sheriff Grady (Gary Busey) finds a dismembered body in the area, he quickly discovers a print near the scene that identifies the predator as a Bengal tiger. Six hundred pounds, twelve feet from nose to tail, it’s one of the most powerful cats on Earth. Now it’s loose—and there’s no man on the Appalachian Trail with the skill, or the courage, to take it down.

DVD RELEASE: Boogyman 2 centers on a young woman with a long-term phobia of the boogeyman, who voluntarily checks herself into a mental health facility with the hope of conquering her overwhelming fears. However, much to her horror, she discovers that some things are terrifying on purpose, and confronting her demons was not the best course of action.

Released January 15th 2008:

DVD RELEASE: It Came From Beneath the Sea was the first collaboration between special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen and producer Charles H. Schneer back in 1955. Directed by Robert Gordon (Tarzan and The Jungle Boy), the newly colorized film, depicting a giant octopus attacking San Francisco.

DVD RELEASE: The Attic: About a month after Emma Callan and her family move into their seemingly picture-perfect Victorian home, Emma starts to have ghastly visions of a girl who appears to be her twin but is pure evil. Since no one else has seen this doppelganger, Emma is faced with two terrifying prospects: Either she s going insane or she s actually being haunted by a malevolent spirit determined to destroy anyone who dares delve into the dark mysteries of The Attic.

Released January 18th 2008:

THEATRICAL RELEASE: Cloverfield revolves around a monster attack in New York City as told from the point of view of a small group of people.

Released January 22nd 2008:

DVD RELEASE: SAW 4: Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences.

DVD RELEASE: When Evil Calls: Centers around the mysterious appearance of a text message that grants the students at Willburn Hall their wildest desires. A-cup Alice wants bigger breasts, until her cup runneth over in an explosive mathematics class.
Hilary would give her right arm to lose weight – and the blades of a kitchen waste disposal unit oblige. One by one, Willburn’s students learn a lethal lesson: be careful what you wish for.

DVD RELEASE: Swamp Thing-The Series: When an attempt on Dr. Alec Holland’s life leaves him consumed by deadly chemicals and fire, the swamps of Louisiana transform him into a superhuman creature hell bent on ridding the swamp and the world of the evil that men do, beginning with his arch nemesis, Dr. Anton Arcane, the mad scientist responsible for Holland’s monstrous new incarnation as Swamp Thing. Includes all 22 episodes of the series

Released January 25th 2008:

THEATRICAL RELEASE: Untracable is about a secret service agent, Jennifer Marsh, played by Best Actress Oscar nominee Diane Lane who gets caught in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer who knows that people (being what they are - both curious and drawn to the dark side of things) will log onto an "untraceable" website where he conducts violent and painful murders live on the net. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently the victim dies. Suspenseful, intense and action oriented, UNTRACEABLE also has a relevant and accurate message about todays society. Why are we drawn to "evil" in our media etc. Just look at the news or read a newspaper... it's all bad news and often murder, yet we are drawn to it and read about it. This film explores that but not in a preachy way but in a way that is both intense, entertaining and thought-provoking.

Released January 29th 2008:

DVD RELEASE: Lake Placid 2: Years after two 30 foot prehistoric crocodiles are captured and killed in Maine, the local sheriff teams up with an EPA agent, a female Fish and Wildlife agent and a big game hunter, to kill four blood-thirsty offspring of the original killer crocs.

I caught this piece of crap on the Sci-Fi channel when it originally aired. This movie sucks!!!

DVD RELEASE: Right At Your Door: When four dirty bombs detonate all over Los Angeles, a frantic husband desperately tries to get in touch with his wife. Unable to locate her, he seals up the family home to stop it from being contaminated by toxins in the air. But has he also just sealed his wife's fate to suffer the horrors outside?

DVD RELEASE: Black Mass was a truly satanic nightclub that existed for just over a year and which was banned from two venues before it even began. It opened its doors on the last Sunday of each month when its eclectic members would be treated to a range of performances that were sometimes bloody, often blasphemous, very sexual and occasionally dangerous but never dull. Performed by members of the all female collective known as the Satanic Sluts for the delectation of Satan each night was a true evocation of Hell.Shown here are edited highlights from each Black Mass, including scenes of crucifixion, defiled nuns, sacrifice, voodoo, cannibalism, Nazi Go Go dancers, vampirism, satanic cheerleaders and a real Black Mass!