The Happening (Blu-ray) Fox Home Entertainment / 2008 / 91 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: October 07, 2008
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Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Mark Wahlberg
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Plot Synopsis: It begins with no clear warning. It see ms to come out of nowhere. In a matter of minutes, episodes of strange, chilling deaths that defy reason and boggle the mind in their shocking destructiveness, erupt in major American cities. What is causing this sudden, total breakdown of human behavior? Is it some kind of new terrorist attack, an experiment gone wrong, a diabolical toxic weapon, an out-of-control virus? Is it being transmitted by air, by water.. how?
Though he and his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) are in the midst of a marital crisis, they hit the road, first by train, then by car, with Elliot's math teacher friend Julian (John Leguizamo) and his 8 year-old daughter Jess (Ashlyn Sanchez), heading for the Pennsylvania farmlands where they hope they'll be out of reach of the grisly, ever-growing attacks. Yet it soon becomes clear that no one—and nowhere—is safe. This terrifying, invisible killer cannot be outrun. It is only when Elliot begins to discover the true nature of what is lurking out there—and just what has unleashed this force that threatens the future of humanity—that he discovers a sliver of hope that his fragile family might be able to escape what is happening.
You Don't Mess with The Zohan (Blu-ray) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / 2008 / Rated PG-13
Street Date: October 07, 2008
(Buy it at Amazon and save)Genres: Comedy
Starring: Adam Sandler
Director: Denis Dugan
Plot Synopsis: If You Don't Mess with the Zohan feels like an extended and crazed sketch from Saturday Night Live, there are reasons for that. Zohan's star and SNL alumnus Adam Sandler is joined by several fellow cast members (in uncredited cameo roles) from his years on the NBC show.
But Sandler also co-wrote the film's absurdist script with SNL veteran writer and sometime-performer Robert Smigel. Echoes of a few of their classic skits on the show--built around high-strung Israeli characters obsessed with disco and selling junk electronics out of a New York shop--are in revisited in Zohan and are a lot of fun to see again. 
Zohan is unbridled nonsense thrown at the wall, but with a sunny disposition that proves surprisingly persuasive. Sandler stars as an Israeli intelligence operative who fakes his death to reinvent himself in New York City as a hairdresser. Putting the lie to assumptions that any man in that professional field must be gay, Zohan routinely provides raucous sexual favors for all of his older female customers. The sight of bottles of gels and hairsprays falling off shelves while the indefatigable Zohan pleasures randy grannies on the other side of a salon wall is pure SNL, and is funnier than it might sound. The silly story involves an old, Palestinian enemy of Zohan, the Phantom (John Turturro), showing up in Manhattan, but everything is really leading to a Big Apple version of the resolution of Israeli-Palestinian conflicts we'd all like to see on a large scale. The film is almost instantly forgettable, and there are many times it veers toward the dumb, but it also sells itself well as a nutty concept.Disc Features:
• Audio commentary with director Dennis Dugan
• Featurettes: "Laughing is Contagious," "Disco Break," "Shooting Baja for Tel Aviv," "Getting Sticky," "Look Who Stopped By," "Zohan's Doubles," "All American Redneck," "Dugan: The Hand's on Director," "The Stunts of Zohan," "Dugan Espanol?," "Zohan vs. The Phantom," "From Guns to Scissors," "The Robot"
• Deleted Scenes & Alternate Takes
HD Exclusive Content:
• Graphics-in-Picture: "Translating the Zohan" (Bonus View)
Sleeping Beauty (Blu-ray) Walt Disney Home Entertainment / 1959 / 75 Minutes / Rated G
Street Date: October 07, 2008
(Buy it at Amazon and save)Genres: Animation, Family, Romance
Starring: Eleanor Audley, Bill Shirley, Mary Costa
Director: Clyde Geronimi
Plot Synopsis: A snubbed malevolent fairy casts a curse on a princess that only a prince can break, with the help of three good fairies.
Disc Features:
• Original Disneyland Sleeping Beauty Walk-Through Attraction With Walt Disney Imagineering – A fascinating fully-immersive 3-D experience recreating the original Sleeping Beauty Castle Walk-Through that Walt supervised over 50 years ago. Viewers can choose to tour the attraction in “Auto Mode,” where you get to experience it the way it was originally intended, or choose to view the experience with “Commentary” by Disney's famed “Imagineers” and take a look behind the magic of these detailed dioramas.
• Alternate Opening – Recently discovered storyboards from 1952 reveal that the original opening of Sleeping Beauty was planned as a big musical production number. Using all of the existing color storyboard art, this alternate opening is recreated with a new demo recording of the song - “Holiday.”
• All New Documentary “Picture Perfect: The Making of Sleeping Beauty” – an exciting and inspiring behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the final fairy tale to be produced by Walt Disney himself.
• A New DVD Game, “Briar Rose's Enchanted Dance Game” – Relive this magical moment and help Briar Rose's animal friends to dance, and take lessons to learn to waltz.
• Four Deleted Songs – Four new musical numbers that were not used in the final film are presented using original storyboard art and demo recordings.
• Grand Canyon (Featured in HD on Blu-ray) – This Academy Award® winning short accompanied Sleeping Beauty in its release in theatres.
• The Peter Tchaikovsky Story (Featured in HD on Blu-ray) – An episode of Walt Disney's legendary TV series in which Walt previews the Studio's upcoming release of Sleeping Beauty which uses the Tchaikovsky score as the source of its music. Also included is a dramatic re-enactment of how Tchaikovsky came to write his score for the ballet.
• Four Artists Paint One Tree (Featured in HD on Blu-ray) – This featurette looks at one tree interpreted by four distinguished Disney artists, including Eyvind Earle, the well respected American painter who served as stylist for Sleeping Beauty.
• Fun with English Game – Help the 3 fairies prepare for Briar Rose's 16th Birthday and learn English by playing a series of innovative DVD games.
HD Exclusive Content:
• Cine-Explore – An all new Cine-Explore experience with full motion Picture-in-Picture featuring commentary by John Lasseter, Andreas Deja & Leonard Maltin
• Maleficent's Challenge – Go head to head with one of Disney's most infamous villains. Think of anything in the world and Maleficent will read your mind. Keep your wits about you, for that is the only way to defeat her
• Dragon Encounter – The ultimate audio experience utilizing Blu-ray high-definition 7.1 or 5.1 audio quality. Explore Maleficent's dungeon in a fully-immersive audio sensory adventure like you've never experienced before. Deep in the bowels of Maleficent's dungeon a dragon encounter awaits.
• Restoring The Sound Track – This featurette will cover the creation of the all new 7.1 mix of the score of Sleeping Beauty that was done exclusively for this Blu-ray release using the source tapes from the original recording sessions resulting in an audio experience of superior quality with greater detail and fidelity than you have ever heard before
• Customized Living Menu – This menu is exclusive to Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Disc owners only. It is a “real time” virtual castle that magically changes based on the viewer's location, time of day and current weather forecast (requires Live enabled players). If preferred, viewers will also have the ability to manually change the castle's weather to match any of the Magic Kingdom Castles around the world
• Disney BD-Live Network – The Disney BD-Live Network is just one of the many ways movie lovers, families, and loved ones can continue to stay connected and engage in their favorite movies
-- Movie Chat – Communicate with your remote friends on-screen while in a synchronized viewing party using your remote control or any text enabled device such as a laptop, desk top or any PDA device such as a Blackberry, iPhone or most other regular cell phones. Your chat session will appear over the movie and occur in real-time while watching the movie together
-- Movie Mail – Blu-ray owners will be able to record a personalized video message of themselves, superimpose that capture onto one of many pre-selected clips of the movie, and send it off to a friend, colleague, or relative. This specific feature enables the Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray Disc owner to personalize a very special greeting as never before
-- Movie Challenge – Users will be able to test their skills against other players in a synchronized, real-time, online trivia game while watching Sleeping Beauty with anyone online. Movie Challenge is always active no matter what time of the day it is, and there will always be a game in progress
-- Disney Movie Rewards Live – Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray owners will be able to accumulate Disney Movie Reward Points by participating in many Disney BD-Live Network activities. In return, viewers can redeem points for exclusive content such as Avatars, downloadable extras and many more exciting possibilities.
The Visitor (2008) (Blu-ray) Starz Home Entertainment / 2007 / 103 Minutes / Rated PG-13
Street Date: October 07, 2008
(Buy it at Amazon and save)Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Danai Jekesai Gurira, Haaz Sleiman, Richard Jenkins
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Plot Synopsis: A widowed college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple, who turn out to be illegal immigrants, living in his apartment.
Body Heat (Blu-ray) Warner Home Video / 1981 / Rated R
Street Date: October 07, 2008
(Buy it at Amazon and save)Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Ted Danson
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Plot Synopsis: While scoring high-profile credits as a screenwriter (including The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Raiders of the Lost Ark), Lawrence Kasdan made his directorial debut with this steamy, contemporary film noir in the tradition of Double Indemnity and other classics from the 1940s. In one of his most memorable roles, William Hurt plays a Florida lawyer unwittingly drawn into a web of deceit spun by Kathleen Turner (in her screen debut) as a married socialite who plots to kill off her husband with Hurt's assistance. Kasdan's dialogue is a hoot (sometimes it borders on satire), and the sultry atmosphere is a perfect complement to the perspiration-soaked chemistry between Hurt and Turner, whose love scenes caused quite a stir when the film was released in 1981. John Barry's score sets the provocative mood, and both Ted Danson and Mickey Rourke are splendid in memorable supporting roles.
Disc Features:
• 3 Featurettes: "The Plan,' "The Production," "The Post-Production"
• Deleted Scenes
• Vintage Cast & Crew Interviews
Interview With The Vampire (Blu-ray) Warner Home Video / 1994 / Rated PG-13
Street Date: October 07, 2008
(Buy it at Amazon and save)Genres: Horror, fantasy, suspense
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst
Director: Neil Jordan
Plot Synopsis: When it was announced that Tom Cruise would play the vampire Lestat in this adaptation of Anne Rice's bestselling novel, even Rice chimed in with a highly publicized objection. The author wisely and justifiably recanted her negative opinion when she saw Cruise's excellent performance, which perceptively addresses the pain and chronic melancholy that plagues anyone cursed with immortal bloodlust. Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst are equally good at maintaining the dark and brooding tone of Rice's novel. And in this rare mainstream project for a major studio, director Neil Jordan compensates for a lumbering plot by honoring the literate, Romantic qualities of Rice's screenplay. Considered a disappointment while being embraced by Rice's loyal followers, the movie is too slow to be a satisfying thriller, but it is definitely one of the most lavish, intelligent horror films ever made.
Disc Features:
- Director’s Commentary with Neil Jordan -
- “In the Shadow of the Vampire” -
- Introduction by Anne Rice, Neil Jordan and Antonio Banderas -
- Theatrical Trailer
Beetlejuice (Blu-ray)
Warner Home Video / 1988 / Rated PG-13
Street Date: October 07, 2008
(Buy it at Amazon and save)Genres: Comedy, Horror
Starring: Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton, Geena Davis
Director: Tim Burton
Plot Synopsis: In the surreal, wonderfully cartoon-like comedy Beetlejuice, a childless couple, Barbara and Adam (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin), move to the country only to be killed in a car accident while passing over a quaint covered bridge. Their ghosts return to their beloved Victorian home, and find the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, which not only lets them know they're dead, but comes in handy when they learn that they can continue to live in their house, even though a new family—from the land of the living—is moving in. The new owners, fresh from the city, are quite a strange group themselves, and include the overpowering hipster mom Delia (Catherine O'Hara), her pompous SoHo interior designer Otho (Glenn Shadix), her meek husband Charles (Jeffrey Jones), and their morose teenage daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder), who befriends the ghostly couple. Though the threesome attempt to scare Delia from ruining the house with redecoration and her unpleasant personality, their attempts fail. As a last resort, they call upon the services of the demented, terrifying, but hilarious "bioexorcist," "Beetlejuice" (Michael Keaton).
Disc Features:
• 3 Episodes of the 'Beetlejuice' Cartoon: "A-Ha", "Skeletons In The Closet", and "Spooky Boo-tique"
HD Exclusive Content:
• CD Soundtrack Sampler
The Omen: The Collection (Blu-ray) Fox Home Entertainment / 1976 / Rated R
Street Date: October 07, 2008
(Buy it at Amazon and save)Genres: Horror
Starring: Gregory Peck, William Holden, Sam Neill, Liev Schrieber
Directors: Richard Donner, Harvey Bernhard, Graham Baker, John Moore
Plot Synopsis: Contains 'The Omen' (1976), 'Damien: Omen II' (1979), 'The Final Conflict' (1981) and 'The Omen 666' (2006)
The Omen (1976) (Blu-ray) Fox Home Entertainment / 1976 / 115 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: October 07, 2008
(Buy it at Amazon and save)Genres: Horror
Starring: Billie Whitelaw, Lee Remick, Gregory Peck
Director: Richard Donner
Plot Synopsis: Unleash the dark terror of Damien with this spectacular, two-disc Collector's Edition of the "taut" (Variety), "gripping" (Los Angeles Herald Examiner) and Oscar®-winning horror classic! Now with over six hours of special features, including audio commentaries, a deleted scene, documentaries, featurettes and much, much more, The Omen is "just the ticket to scare the devil out of you" (Family Circle)!
When their child is stillborn in Rome - on the 6th day, of the 6th month at the 6th hour - Robert Thorne, an American diplomat (Academy Award®-winner Gregory Peck), and his wife Katherine (Lee Remick) are devastated. In his despair, Thorne exchanges his dead baby for one born at the same time...and unwittingly enters a bargain with the devil that culminates in a series of gruesome 'accidents'...and a child destined to one day destroy the world!
Disc Features:
• Introduction by director Richard Donner
• Audio Commentary by director Richard Donner and editor Stuart Baird
• Audio Commentary by director Richard Donner and screenwriter Brian Helgeland
• "Dog Attack" Deleted Scene with optional commentary by director Richard Donner and screenwriter Brian Helgeland
• Featurettes: "666: The Omen Revealed," "The Omen Legacy," "Curse or Coincidence?", "An Appreciation: Wes Craven On The Omen," "Jerry Goldsmith on The Omen Score," "Screenwriters Notebook
• Still gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
HD Exclusive Content:
• Featurette: "Richard Donner on The Omen"
• "The Omen Revelations" BonusView with Trivia Track (Profile 1.1)
• Audio Commentary by film historians Lem Dobbs, Nick Redman and Jeff Bond
• Isolated score track (Dolby Surround 5.1 audio)
The Amityville Horror (1979) (Blu-ray) MGM Home Entertainment / 1979 / 119 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: October 07, 2008
(Buy it at Amazon and save)Genres: Horror
Starring: Margot Kidder, James Brolin, Rod Steiger
Director: Stanley Rosenberg
Plot Synopsis: There's no place like home...for bloodcurdling horror! James Brolin, Margot Kidder and Academy Award® winner* Rod Steiger fall prey to the powers of darkness in this spine-tingling tale of a house possessed by unspeakable evil. One of the most talked-about haunted-house stories of all time, The Amityville Horror will hit you where you live.
For George and Kathy Lutz, the colonial home on the river's edge seemed ideal: quaint, spacious and amazingly affordable. Of course, six brutal murders had taken place there just a year before, but houses don't have memories...or do they? Soon the Lutz dream house becomes a hellish nightmare, as walls begin to drip blood and satanic forces threaten to destroy them. Now the Lutzes must try to escape or forfeit their lives - and their souls!
Carrie (1976) (Blu-ray) MGM Home Entertainment / 1976 / 90 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: October 07, 2008
(Buy it at Amazon and save)Genres: Horror
Starring: Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Amy Irving, Piper Laurie
Director: Brian De Palma
Plot Synopsis: Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, Carrie "catches the mind, shakes it and refuses to let it go" (Time Magazine)! Starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie (in Oscar-nominated performances), John Travolta and Amy Irving, this ultimate revenge fantasy is "absolutely spellbinding" (Roger Ebert), "outrageously witty" (Los Angeles Times) and one of the all-time great horror classics!
At the center of the terror is Carrie (Spacek), a tortured high-school misfit with no confidence, no friends... and no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. But when her psychotic mother and sadistic classmates finally go too far, the once-shy teen becomes an unrestrained, vengeance-seeking powerhouse who, with the help of her 'special gift,' causes all hell to break loose in a famed cinematic frenzy of blood, fire and brimstone!
Faces of Death (Blu-ray) Gorgon Video / 1978 / Unrated
Street Date: October 07, 2008
(Buy it at Amazon and save)Genres: Documentary
Director: John Alan Schwartz
Plot Synopsis: Called “the ultimate taboo tape” by Entertainment weekly, Faces of Death is the most controversial, critically reviled and fastest selling documentary in home video history. Parents tried to stop it. Video stores had to hide it. Yet across the nation, millions found ways to secretly watch it…if they dared. Renowned pathologist Dr. Frances B. Gröss is your guide to the most bizarre and grisly death scenes ever recorded, from executions, assassinations and mass murder to suicide, disease and disasters. Three decades later, is it hardcore gross-out, elaborate hoax or still the ultimate forbidden movie? One thing is certain - you will never forget the original Faces of Death!
Disc Features:
• Featurettes: "Choice Cuts with editor Glenn Gurner," "The Death Makers with Special
Make-Up FX Creators Allan A. Apone and Douglas J. White"
• Deleted Scenes
• Outtakes
• Theatrical Trailers
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