FANGORIA® - Celebrating 30 Years of Horror 1979-2009 - Horror Movies, Music, Comics, Books, and more. Dedicated to the Preservation of All Things Horror...

DEAD WOOD (special edition): Lionsgate
Anxious to get out of the city, two couples pack up and head out for a long weekend in the woods. Events take a turn for the worse when a girl mysteriously appears at their campsite looking for her missing boyfriend. The nightmare has only just begun, and they soon find themselves lost in an endless wilderness haunted by a dark evil. Slowly, they disappear one by one. What has really happened to those who were taken, and what’s about to happen to the few that remain in DEAD WOOD?




THE DEEP - Sony
Amazon.com Essential Video Says: An obvious attempt to cash in on the success of Jaws, this 1977 thriller was also based on a bestseller by Peter Benchley, and it features a memorable performance by Robert Shaw (the doomed shark hunter in Jaws) in one of the last roles of his career. Looking very tanned and healthy, Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset play a young couple enjoying a tropical vacation who discover a glass ampoule while scuba diving off the coast of Bermuda. It takes a seasoned treasure hunter (Shaw) to identify the ampoule as part of a valuable shipment of World War II morphine lost at sea, coincidentally, atop the even greater treasure of a sunken Spanish galleon. Thus begins a race for drugs and treasure pitting Nolte, Bisset, and Shaw against a ruthless drug lord (Louis Gossett Jr.) who'll do anything--even resort to Haitian voodoo--to get what he wants. It's all rather contrived and exploitative (after all, the movie's best known for Bisset's wet T-shirt scuba-dive), but as escapist entertainment goes it's got some exciting highlights including a moray eel that attacks on cue and... well, uh, Jacqueline Bisset in a wet T-shirt. --Jeff Shannon

EVIL BONG 2: KING BONG (special edition): Full Moon
Tommy Chong is back in King Bong: Evil Bong 2. Eebee takes us on another trip with her new mate, King Bong… and the boys have to watch out for the sexy but dangerous Poontang Tribe!





KNOWING - Summit (DVD & BD)
See the FANGORIA Review of the film here.
Read our Exclusive Interviews with star Rose Byrne and director Alex Proyas.
Read Chris Alexander's IN DEFENSE OF KNOWING.

A college professor (Nicolas Cage) opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son s elementary school. In it are some chilling accurate predictions of disasters... when, where, and how many will die. Most of these events must uncover the details of the next disasters in hopes of preventing them. If he fails, who knows how many will die?



NEAR DARK (new disc): Lionsgate
See the FANGORIA Review of the 2002 Special Edition DVD release here.
Read the FANGO FACE-OFF: NEAR DARK Vs THE LOST BOYS here.

Country boy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) whittles away the quiet rural nights hunting local girls – but when he falls prey to the mysterious and beautiful Mae (Jenny Wright), Caleb unknowingly becomes the hunted. Mae is no ordinary girl, Caleb soon learns; she is part of an outlaw band of vampires, and their love is about to lure him into a terrifying world of bloodlust, mayhem and absolute horror. Will Caleb pay the ultimate price for love and eternal life – or will he find a way to defeat the evil growing inside him each night NEAR DARK?

Question: Why does the new cover look like NEAR DARK is a part of THE TWILIGHT SAGA?

ONE MISSED CALL 3: FINAL (2-disc special edition): Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters
The timid young Asuka is bullied by her classmates. When they embark on a class field trip to Korea, Asuka plans revenge by sending a disturbing photo with the message: 'If you transmit this cursed photo to someone else, your life will be spared.' The students rush to pass the photo on to save their own lives, sparking a deadly fight for survival using cell phones!



THE UNBORN (2009; special edition, BD): Universal
See the FANGORIA review of the film here.
THE UNBORN was our cover story for FANGORIA #279

Enter a world of unrelenting evil as terror finds a new form in The Unborn. From the producers of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the co-writer of The Dark Knight comes this shocking supernatural thriller about a young woman (Odette Yustman) plagued by chilling dreams and tortured by a demonic ghost that haunts her waking hours. Her only hope to break the debilitating paranormal curse is in an exorcism with spiritual advisor Sendak (Gary Oldman). See what lies beyond the doorway of our world in this non-stop nightmare of the undead…

• |2009-07-06 15:09:28 Deadice
  

  The Sad thing is the best movie on this list is from 1987 so what does that say about the current state of horror. Also can a horror film really be pg13? If its watered down to be accompanied by a parent than these stinkers are made for the tweens not real horror fans or people who enjoy some suspense and fear in their lives. I recommend Simon Says from Lionsgate as one of the better horror films of 09.
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• |2009-07-05 22:29:26 Daveyyouthere
  

  Duh, haven't you heard? Like, vampires, are, like, the hottest thing, like, right now. Twilight, like, really made them, like, cool again. LOL. OMG. Where, like, have you been? Robin Pattison is, like, soooo hot!
  This whole thing makes me sick.
  Near Dark is too good of a movie to be lumped in with all those inane teen soaps masquerading as horror films. Let The Right One In is what vampire films should aspire to. Hell, even 30 Days of Night was a decent example of the subgenre. Bring back vicious, evil vamps.
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• |2009-07-05 20:25:05 Mike Fish
  

  Don't know why they can't use the original poster that got me to see NEAR DARK in the theater. The one where Bill Paxton has bullet holes of light shining through him. And making Caleb look like Edward is friggen dumb.
  
  We should have a "Make the Near Dark DVD Cover Contest"
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