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New Horror/Suspense Releases in Theaters and on DVD: Week of July 22, 2012

This week, Rites of Spring gets a limited theatrical run, while home video releases are headed by Silent House, Brake and Meeting Evil.


Rites of Spring


A group of kidnappers abduct the daughter of a wealthy socialite and hide out in an abandoned school in the middle of the woods. But feelings of guilt soon overtake the kidnappers, dividing the group and putting their entire plan in jeopardy. The evening further spirals out of control when their poorly chosen hideout becomes a hunting ground for a mysterious creature that requires springtime ritualistic sacrifices.

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100th Street Haunting: The Return of Richard Speck


In this "found footage" horror movie, AKA 100 Ghost Street, paranormal investigators trying to film the ghost of mass murderer Richard Speck at the site of his killing spree encounter a frightening supernatural entity.

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Bathory: Countess of Blood

This epic production tells the story of real-life 17th century Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, a sort of female version of Vlad the Impaler who reportedly had hundreds of young women killed and bathed in their blood in order to retain her youthful appearance.
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Brake


Secret Service Agent Jeremy Reins is about to have a very bad day. He wakes up trapped in the dark, cramped trunk of a moving car with no recollection of how or why he’s there. The only light comes from the blood-red digital numbers ticking away above his head that signify one thing...he's running out of time. As the captors reveal themselves and their motives while torturing their hostage mentally and physically, Jeremy realizes he is a pawn in their potentially catastrophic plot. He will not be set free until he gives up information about the President he’s been trained not to reveal.

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Butterfly


A low-budget horror movie director falls prey to an obsessed fan who has decided to make her own film -- except the murders in her flick are real, and the victims are people the director knows.

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The Corridor


A group of longtime friends on a male-bonding trip in the middle of the wilderness encounter a mysterious force that transforms each of them and turns them against one another.

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The Day After Halloween


AKA Snapshot or One More Minute, this 1979 Australian thriller revolves around an aspiring model who finds herself the target of a deranged stalker...driving an ice cream truck?

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Deadtime


A rock band on the verge of a breaking up is locked inside an old warehouse in order to film a make-it-or-break-it music video, but little do they know they're trapped inside with a mad killer.

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Dracula vs. Frankenstein


This Z-grade 1971 shlock from cult director Al Adamson features Lon Chaney Jr. and little else, in a tale that finds Count Dracula teaming with Dr. Frankenstein to revive his monster so that Dracula can take over the world -- or something like that.

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The Hearse/Blood of Dracula's Castle

This double feature includes The Hearse (1980), about a woman who inherits a spooky home and finds herself haunted by a mysterious hearse, and Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969), about Count Dracula and his wife teaming up to kidnap and drain victims of their blood.More »

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