Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past few years, you’ve most likely noticed that the 80s has been rearing its spandex clad ass back into pop culture, from clothing, to music, and especially movies. If your favorite childhood memories aren’t being remade, they’re being homaged left and right on the big and small screen. The Sleeper falls under the latter category as it pulls a House of the Devil on us by attempting to recreate the tone and look of the films of yesteryear.

Taking place in my personal favorite slasher film year, 1981, The Sleeper sticks to the tried and true story of a psycho killer slaughtering sexy, fornicating sorority girls. And yeah, that’s kind of it for the plot. All the stock characters are in place. The final girl, the slut, the best friend, the housemother, and the would be romantic interest that are all nothing more than fresh, nubile meat for a maniacal, perverted, picture-snapping murderer known simply as The Sleeper.
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iThis new horror film from House Of The Devil director, Ti West, makes its way to DVD/Blu-ray shelves April 24th via Dark Sky Films.  Special features include the following:

• Audio commentary with Writer/Director/Editor Ti West, Producers Peter Phok & Larry Fessenden, and 2nd Unit Director/Sound Designer Graham Reznick
• Audio commentary with Writer/Director/Editor Ti West and Stars Sara Paxton & Pat Healy
• "The Innkeepers: Behind the Scenes" featurette

Click here for FrighT's review of the film

Premise:

Centered around the final two employees working in a haunted hotel before it goes out of business. After over one hundred years in business, The Yankee Pedlar Hotel is about to close its doors for good. The last remaining clerks, Claire (Sara Paxton), a twenty something that has come to terms with her lot in life, and Luke (Pat Healy), a computer-smart loner, are convinced that the hotel is haunted and are determined to prove it.
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I'm not particularly a fan of found-footage/POV films much, so I tend to avoid them. Chronicle, on the other hand, intrigued me from the start. The promise of regular teens gaining supernatural powers and watching their rise and fall unfold before our eyes via camera footage offered an interesting and realistic look to the usual superhero-type sub-genre. Added with the fact that one of the teens would eventually use his newfound gift for nefarious means meant we'd hopefully also see some familiar genre fair as well. I went into the theater hopeful and came out happy to find that the movie didn't disappoint.
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The Woman in Black has a long history in the UK -- before receiving this recent remake from Hammer Films, there was a successful book, which was later adapted into a long-running stage play, which was then turned into a creepy underrated made-for-TV movie in the late 80s. I liked the original film, but also don't deny that it had some room for improvement. This remake does manage to develop certain aspects better than the original, but also falls short in others, making it a good, but not a great remake.

Set in the early 1900s, the story follows a young lawyer sent to a small town to gather documents from a recently deceased woman that would aid his employers into selling the estate. While there he's forced to stay in the woman's secluded mansion home, where he encounters various strange unexplained sounds and visions of a dark figured woman. He soon learns of the town's ghost story of the "Woman in Black". Apparently she's the vengeful spirit of a woman who lost her own child and now she's determined to kill the town's remaining children.
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The following Horror/Horror-related titles hit DVD/Blu-ray shelves today:

Ashes (Osiris Entertainment)



Premise:

The cure is worse than the disease. An earnest young doctor working on a cure for AIDS unwittingly invents an aggressive new bacteria that deteriorates the body and induces a thirst for blood. Now he must stop the infection before it turns him and everyone he loves into the walking dead.

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IMDb Page:
www.imdb.com/title/tt1674769/

Day Of The Dead (2008) (Blu-ray/3D Blu-ray Combo) (Millenium Entertainment)


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Whenever I hear people complain about how there’s no more legit quality genre flicks being made these days, I have to inform them that they’re just not looking in the right place. They may not necessarily be playing in your local multiplex amongst the latest remake or over-budgeted 3D extravaganza, but they do exist. Instead they’re sneaking around your downtown art house theater, being forgotten about within a line up of new on demand titles, or simply being overlooked amongst a slew Netflix Instant Watch schlock. Once in a while, you’ll get lucky and unexpectedly stumble on something you never heard anything about, then instantly fall in love with it. And that’s what happened with The Divide and myself.
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From dirty cops, overzealous hitmen, flying tanks, and now murderous wolves, director Joe Carnahan has had an interesting career the past decade and he really surprised me with The Grey. Not just because I liked it, but also because the film was actually quite different than how it was portrayed in trailers. While all the footage seemed to depict a really ballsy fast-paced survival pic, the movie itself was actually more of a moody survival drama, with brief spurts of action and thriller aspects now and then. It worked in it's favor, in my opinion.
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The following Horror/Horror-related titles hit DVD/Blu-ray shelves this Tuesday:

Dead Hooker In A Trunk (IFC Films/MPI Home Video)



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