New Horror/Suspense Releases in Theaters and on DVD: Week of January 22, 2012
The Grey
A plane carrying an unruly group of oil rig roughnecks crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. Battling mortal injuries and merciless weather, the survivors have only a few days to escape the icy elements –- and a vicious pack of rogue wolves on the hunt –- before their time runs out.
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The Wicker Tree
An unofficial sequel to/reimagining of the 1973 film The Wicker Man in which a pair of fundamentalist Christians travel from America to Scotland to spread the word, only to encounter a group of pagans with ominous plans for the newcomers.
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Always from Darkness
A young man is targeted by his new vampire neighbor, who sees him as the spitting image of her dead love.Cold Creepy Feeling: Paranormal Exorcism
A big-city couple moves to a house in a small town that turns out to be haunted by a demonic presence.
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The Devil's Men/Terror
This double bill features a pair of British B-movies from the '70s: in Devil's Men, AKA Land of the Minotaur, Peter Cushing plays the head of a Greek cult that sacrifices youngsters, and only priest Donald Pleasence can stop him. In Terror, a group of royal ancestors suffer the curse of a witch who was burned at the stake.End Call
In this Japanese film, a group of high school students stressed about exams discover a secret phone number rumored to grant a caller's wish, but a sinister force is on the other side.
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Fascination
Acclaimed erotic horror French director Jean Rollin helmed this 1979 affair about sexy vampire women seeking a man to kill.Godzilla
The classic 1954 Japanese giant monster movie -- and the 1956 American reworking with Raymond Burr -- gets the deluxe Criterion treatment.Trailer
Head Case
This faux documentary purports to show the crime spree of a serial killer and his wife, who aids him in his twisted endeavors.
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Hell on Earth
From cult producer-director Ted Bohus (The Deadly Spawn) comes this story of a teenager who unleashes creatures from Hell that trap him and his family and friends in their house.
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