Mill Creek Entertainment expanded its post-Labor Day release
calendar this past week with the addition of two new priced-to-own ten-film
collections on DVD … the street date is Sept. 6. And the SRP for each of these double-disc
collections is an eye-popping $9.98 each — that’s just a buck a film, and
that’s before any discounts being offered up at retail.
10 Horror Films: Pretty Dead features writer/director Benjamin
Wilkins’ ultra creepy tale titled Pretty Dead, starring Carly Oates as
a medical student who has developed a taste for human flesh. Her uncontrollable “munchies,” as it turns
out, are the results of her exposure to the newly-found Cordyceps fungus … will
she be the first of many flesh-eating zombies or will a cure be found before
the apocalypse is upon us!
Other chillers in this ten-title, double-disc horror
collection are writer/director Carl Lindbergh’s 2011 film release of Bunnyman,
which a group of college-age kids (aka: victim pool) being stalked in the
desert by a crazed killer dressed as a rabbit; and, speaking of “victim pools,”
that’s what writer/director DeShon Hardy has in store for genre fans with The
Lake on Clinton Road — a half dozen college friends who have an
end-of-the-semester celebration at a remote cabin (by a lake) only to be
stalked and murdered one … by one … by one!!!
The Lights, directed by John Sjogren, is another “victim pool”
thriller featuring four friends who head out to the remote backwoods — away
from city lights — so that they can see one of those “once-in-a-lifetime”
meteor showers. Their arrival just
happens to coincide with Jack Carter (Kerry Wallum) going off his rocker when
his trophy bride tells him bye-bye … kill, kill, kill, that’s all that he has
on his mind this particular night!
Writer/director Jason Horton’s Monsters in the Woods
serves up a filmmaking nightmare as a filmmaker named Jayson (Glenn Plummer)
has the film of his dreams rejected for distribution — not sexy enough, not
violent enough, etc. — so he decides to re-shoot some extra footage in the
nearby mountains.
So he throws together a student crew and wannabe actors
(he’s out of money) to film the “inserts,” but soon discovers that it’s a
devious trap laid by his producer, who needs “12 souls” to satiate the appetite
of a demon who has unleashed creatures from hell to gather the souls (aka: film
crew).
Other films in the 10 Horror Films: Pretty Dead
collection are: The Sacred (2009, directed by Jose Zambrano Cassella — the
swamps of Florida hide deadly secrets), Backwater (2013, writer/director Christopher
Schrack — a couple get more than they bargain for on a camping trip), Pelt
(2010, writer/director Richard Swindell — Ashley Watkins and Amber Bollinger star
as “babes in the woods” who are stalked by a demented local) Sparrow
(2010, directed by Shaun Troke — Cindy (Faye Sewell) and five of her friends
defy the “urban legend” of Ranger Sparrow, a crazed killer who stalks the
nearby woods … the problem is: the legend is true) and Occupied (2011, written
and directed by Mollie Binkley — Sarah (Liza Binkley) is off to babysit her
younger cousin in a cabin in the woods … what could possibly go wrong?).
10 Killer Thrillers: Dangerous Attractions is headlined by
director Michael Lohmann’s true-life chiller, Dangerous Attraction
(aka: Shadow of Fear), which stars Amanda Righetti (as Madeline in
the Colony
television series and as Grace in The Mentalist series) as a woman who
is stalked incessantly by an unbalanced co-worker (Will Estes — Blue
Bloods).
Other thrillers in this ten-title mix includes director John
Stimpson’s hostage siege drama, A Deadly Obsession, starring Katee
Sackhoff (perhaps best known as Victoria Moretti in the Longmire TV series) as a
college professor who is trapped in a deadly siege when one of her former
students begins shooting up the campus … and she’s the target of his rage!
Writer/director Raj Reddy’s No One Will Know, is a
twisted suspense thriller, starring Ben Bledsoe and Jesse Draper as a seemingly
“perfect” couple — at their own engagement party — who have to hold it together
or be found out for a murder that they are involved in.
Absolute Fear teams Stephanie Lemelin (voice actress in one her
infrequent live screen appearances) as Jessie with Matthew Alan (Red
Tales) as Dale, a young couple who venture off to the remote reaches of
the Philippines to search for Dale’s father.
As it turns out, he doesn’t want to be found … and he’s involved in
deadly research for the CIA that will likely see both Jessie and Dale in a
shallow grave by film’s end.
Director Clint Lien’s Behind Your Eyes is a taut
hostage/kidnapping horror tale that finds Erika (Frida Farrell) and Steven (Tom
Sandoval) on their way to the mountains to meet his parents, but are carjacked
at a remote gas station by a sadistic creep.
Nothing is at it seems … even when Erika escapes, she ends up running
from the “frying pan to the fire!”
Rounding the selections in 10 Killer Thrillers: Dangerous
Attractions are Suspicion (2012, writer/director David
Dilley, starring Brad Blaisdell and Suzanne May), Bad Behavior (2013, from the
writing and directing team of Nicholas Brandt and Lisa Hamil; starring Hallee
Hirsh), A Thousand Kisses Deep (2011, directed by Dana Lustig; starring
Jodie Whittaker, David Warner and Dougray Scott), Wages of Sin (2011,
directed by Doug Burch and starring Katharine Everett, Lauren Martin and Travis
Quentin Young) and Murder in Miami (2014, written and directed by Will Vázquez …
beautiful models are being stalked and murdered by a crazed killer).
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