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Here are some newly announced DVD/Blu-ray releases of note for horror/suspense fans:
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Who said the Top 40 is just for songs? Here are my choices for the Top 40 Direct-to-Video/Limited Horror Releases of 2012 — dedicated to all those people who complain that there are no good horror movies anymore. Sure, they’re not all GREAT, but there’s plenty here for a frightfully fun evening…or 40.
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It’s a typically light holiday season for horror/suspense, with this week debuting home video releases of Resident Evil: Retribution, The Frozen and The Millennium Bug.
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The weather outside is frightful…so why not curl up in front of the TV for a snowy horror movie? The latest is The Frozen, starring Brit Morgan (True Blood) and Noah Segan (Deadgirl), about a couple who get lost in the snowy wilderness and discover they’re not alone. Read about it in my review of The Frozen.
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Just three months after it hit DVD, the lighthearted vampire/zombie flick The Revenant is airing on TV, premiering on Saturday, December 22, at 10:00 PM ET/PT on Cinemax.
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A full three and a half years ago, in the summer of 2009, there were plans for a sequel to the haunted house film The Haunting in Connecticut. Entitled The Haunting in Georgia, it was to shoot in the summer of 2010, and there was even talk of a third entry in the series, The Haunting in New York. But a funny thing happened on the way to the multiplex: nothing. Filming didn’t actually occur until 2011, and since then, Georgia apparently hasn’t been on many people’s minds, because there’s been no word on its release. Until now.
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A full three and a half years ago, in the summer of 2009, there were plans for a sequel to the haunted house film The Haunting in Connecticut. Entitled The Haunting in Georgia, it was to shoot in the summer of 2010, and there was even talk of a third entry in the series, The Haunting in New York. But a funny thing happened on the way to the multiplex: nothing. Filming didn’t actually occur until 2011, and since then, Georgia apparently hasn’t been on many people’s minds, because there’s been no word on its release. Until now.
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We may never get a Cloverfield 2, but Pacific Rim could be the next best thing. Unlike Cloverfield‘s single creature, it features multiple giant monsters wreaking havoc on Earth, with humanity responding by creating giant piloted robots to kick their otherworldly butts. And now we have a trailer, and it’s as big and visually striking as you’d expect — although as a horror fan, I would’ve liked to get a better look at the creatures. It will be interesting to see how much of a horror angle veteran genre director Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Mimic, Blade II) incorporates into the film, but if the trailer is any indication, I’d say not much. Still, I’m rooting for Pacific Rim to succeed, if only because it could potentially boost del Toro’s pull in Hollywood to a level that maybe he could finally get his adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness off the ground.
2012 had its share of good wide-release theatrical horror/suspense movies…but that share wasn’t very big. In fact, I had a hard time finding 10 I could legitimately call “good,” but since a “Top 8 or 9” list doesn’t have the ring of a “Top 10” list, I made lemonade. Check out my choices for Top 10 Wide Releases of 2012.
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