Horror In Your House: Halloween Boxed Set

Released only three days ago was the 6 disc re-release of the Halloween series which celebrates the 30th anniversary of the whole series. This boxed set includes the original Halloween directed by John Carpenter, as well as Halloween IV, Halloween V, and the Halloween: 25 Years of Terror documentary. Each disc also contains various special features related to the movie, including deleted scenes and commentary. There are only 20,000 units of this boxed set being made, which also includes a latex replica of the famous Michael Myers mask. These movies are available in both standard DVD and Blu-Ray formats, so whatever your taste is in DVD disks, you’ll have Halloween in your house! This isn’t the only release of the Halloween series to date, but it is the first boxed set which features several of the movies together.
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Halloween DVD Release

Rob Zombie wrote and directed the 2007 remake of John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher flick which will be hitting store shelves everywhere on October 21st in both DVD and Blu-ray formats. The movie features Malcolm McDowell in the Donald Pleasance role, along with Scout Taylor Compton taking the role formerly played by Jamie Lee Curtis. Of course, the story is the same. At age 10 Michael Myers murders several people in his home town of Haddonfield Illinois and as a result, he spends several years in a psychiatric institution. On a dark night, he escapes the institution and returns to his hometown where he goes on another killing spree. In contrast with the old film, the new film features more time spent developing Michael’s childhood than the old film.
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Saw V Teaser - Lionsgate Films

The latest edition in the Saw series of movies, Saw V, has just had it’s teaser debuted at the San Diego ComicCon held in late July. The teaser has since made it’s way out of the every popular con and onto the internet for all to see. While this will make the 5^th in the series of Saw movies, there are still plenty of fans dying to see the latest installment. Unfortunately, as this is just a trailer, we don’t get to see nearly as much as one would hope. However, there is at least one trap shown in the teaser that is sure to get you thinking about what else is in store for movie goers later this year.

Continuing the tradition of releasing these movies on Halloween, Saw V is expected to hit theaters October 24^th 2008. Saw V will be production designer David Hackl directorial debut, with the script having been written by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, both of who wrote Feast and Saw IV together.

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Jason Vorhees - Cinema of Fear

When it comes to the masked murderers and psychopaths of the horror genre, no one can raise the hairs on your back quite like Jason Vorhees himself. So when the toy/diorama company Mezco launched their horror specific brand Cinema of Fear, there was no one better suited to mold into a 9-inch model of destruction.

This detailed roto-molded figure stands a good 9-inches tall and offers a fully articulate body allowing for numerous posed positions for Jason to be in. All of the clothing on Jason is removable and made of high quality fabric to give it as life like a feel as possible. Jason’s arsenal of accessories doesn’t end their either considering he comes with a: machete, axe, spear, severed head, skull, and a removable hockey mask. These accessories are as highly crafted and well made as the figure itself, providing that Mezco’s Cinema of Fear brand has brought the same quality into the horror genre of figures that they have in all other avenues that they have explored.

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