There's a certain charm to watching scratchy old horror movies on Halloween, but when the going gets weird you gotta go Blu-ray. Ghosts, monsters, zombies and the rest of the gang want to look their best for the big fright night -- that means razor-sharp high definition images accompanied by blood-curdling lossless audio. Here are some of Screen … [Read more...]
‘Stake Land’: Vampire apocalypse
Draw a triangle. Use "The Road," "I Am Legend" and "28 Days Later" as corners. There, in the shadowy center, we find "Stake Land," a low-budget effort that's probably the best horror film of the year. Post-apocalyptic movies overrun by the undead almost always fail to live up to their incredible premise, but "Stake Land" delivers on multiple … [Read more...]
‘Epitafios’ returns with a new face of evil
"The gates of hell are wide open tonight," says the coroner, the busiest man in Buenos Aires. The soaring body count signals the return of "Epitafios," the brilliant and gruesome crime miniseries from HBO Latin America. The pay channel's video unit just released the sequel in the U.S. as a four-DVD set. "Epitafios: The End Now Has Two Faces" … [Read more...]
Universal horror on Blu-ray
When it comes to Blu-ray, Universal Pictures' classic monster movies remain locked in the digital dungeon. How long must we wait before Dracula, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein and the gang do their worst in high definition? Black and white films can look sensational in high definition, at least as impressive as well-done color releases from decades … [Read more...]
’28 Weeks Later’ infectious at CinemaNow
"28 Weeks Later" quarantined off the No. 1 spot in CinemaNow's download sales at this week, while the studio's hit "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" glided into second place. In rentals, the men of "Wild Hogs" and "300" occupied Nos. 1 and 2 on the video download service's top 10 chart. Download sales: 1. 28 Weeks Later 2. … [Read more...]
