January is halfway over and so is most of the excitement that the first month of the new year brought; Years of waiting for an uncut My Bloody Valentine DVD to be delivered are over, and Odette Yustman’s PG-13 panty parade, The Unborn is already becoming a distant memory. That leaves us with Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and as Noel put it, “Even the actors look embarrassed to be in it.” Then the month wraps with a yawn-inducing American remake of Tale of Two Sisters — The Uninvited So while January fizzles out lets see what February has to offer us.

THEATRICAL RELEASES Get ready to go to the video store because there is only one theatrical horror release for this month, however, Sci-Fi fans can check out Push on the 6th. Also remember to bookmark this page and check back for updates as more releases are announced.

February 13: Friday the 13th Young friends Whitney (Amanda Righetti), Mike (Nick Mennell), Richie (Ben Feldman), Amanda (America Olivio), and Wade (Jonathan Sadowski) end up missing in the woods near the abandoned Camp Crystal Lake (made famous by the original 1980 film), after allowing their curiosity to get the better of them and visiting the site where a psychopathic killer resides. Meanwhile Trent (Travis Van Winkle) invites friends Jenna (Danielle Panabaker), Bree (Julianna Guill), Chewie (Aaron Yoo), Chelsea (Willa Ford), Lawrence (Arlen Escarpta), and Nolan (Ryan Hansen) to his cabin on the lake for a weekend of sex, booze, and drugs. However their seemingly fun weekend soon escalates into a nightmare after lone traveler Clay (Jared Padalecki) shows up looking for his missing sister Whitney and the young adults soon find themselves face to face with evil reborn, reimagined, and rebooted, and his name is Jason Vorhees (Derek Mears).

DVD RELEASES All movies marked with * are new movies released directly to DVD.

February 3

Friday the 13th: Uncut DVD and Blu-ray (and other various re-releases) When news first broke about these Friday the 13th “special editions” I thought “How many Friday DVDs can one fan own,”, but then I noticed part 3 is finally being offered in 3D and I already pre-ordered my copy from Amazon.

• Commentary by director Sean Cunningham
• Fresh Cuts: New Tales from Friday the 13th
• Man Behind the Legacy: Sean S. Cunningham
• Friday the 13th – Special Reunion
• Lost Tales from Camp Blood – Part 1
• Trailers: Theatrical Trailer – Used on 2004 release

Buy Friday the 13th [Blu-ray]

Buy Friday the 13th Uncut

Friday the 13th Part II DVD only. No Blu-ray.

• Inside Crystal Lake Memories
• Horror Convention
• Lost Tales from Camp Blood – Part 2
• Slasher Films: Going for the Jugular
• Jason Trivia Track (text)
• Jason Forever (Used on 2004 release/Best Buy bonus disc)
• Theatrical Trailer – Used on 2004 release
Buy Friday the 13th, Part 2

Friday the 13th Part III DVD only. No Blu-ray.
• In 3-D
• Theatrical trailer
Buy Friday the 13th, Part 3 3-D

February 10

*Against the Dark Buy Against the Dark — Katana master Tao (Steven Seagal) leads a special ops squad of ex-military vigilantes on a massacre mission, their target: vampires. On the post apocalyptic globe, sucked dry by bloodthirsty vampires, a few remaining survivors are trapped in an infected hospital. Tao is their only hope and he knows the only cure is execution. Now it’s time for the last stand against the flesh-eating vampires and there’s nothing left to lose but the last of humanity.

February 17

Midnight Meat Train Buy The Midnight Meat Train — MMT follows a NYC photographer who attempts to track down a serial killer dubbed the “Subway Butcher” and discovers more than he bargained for under the city streets.

Quarantine Buy Quarantine — When a news crew decides to trail a brave fire-fighting team, they never suspect that the first call for help they respond to that night may be their last. Now they’re trapped in an apartment complex sealed off by the government. With no way of escape, they find themselves surrounded by frightened residents who are infected with a deadly mutant virus. What happens next is only known because of the footage they left behind.

*Screamers: The Hunting Buy Screamers: The Hunting — A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as “screamers.” Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost, but more important, they discover that the threat of the screamers has become even more insidious, now that they’re able to morph into human form.

*Feast 3: The Happy Finish Buy Feast 3: The Happy Finish — Picking up where this fall’s FEAST II left off, the trilogy capper finds the survivors rescued by the mysterious prophet Shot Bus Gus, who has a strange power over the people-eating beasts. As the motley group tries to make it to the safety of the city via sewer tunnels—receiving help along the way from martial-arts master Jean-Claude Seagal—they learn about “The Hive,” the source of the monster plague, and become determined to wipe them out once and for all.

February 24

Four Flies On Grey Velvet — Roberto (Michael Brandon) is a young handsome drummer playing in a rock band. For the last week he has been stalked by a mysterious guy with dark sunglasses. Roberto decides to put an end to this and follows his stalker in a deserted theatre. He confronts the man and accidentally kills him. At the same time, another mysterious stalker, with a weird mask, appears and takes pictures of the accidental murder. For Roberto and his girlfriend Mina (Mimsy Farmer) it’s the beginning of a nightmare, and more murders will ensue soon.

*Cyclops — The Roman Empire is at its zenith. A time of mighty gladiators, lusty women, abundant wealth – and a ferocious one-eyed monster that slaughters those foolish enough to enter his forest domain. The corrupt Emperor Tiberius (Academy Award-nominee Eric Roberts) has a plan to please the bloodlust of the people: capture the creature and unleash him in the arena against his condemned slaves, including wrongfully imprisoned General Marcus Romulus (Kevin Stapleton, “One Life to Life”). Now, the ultimate battle between man and beast is about to commence…and Rome will taste the full fury of Hell unleashed!

Last House on the Left (Collector’s Edition)

- Audio commentary with actors David Hess, Marc Sheffler and Fred Lincoln
- Wes Craven featurette
- Celluloid Crime of the Century featurette
- Scoring Last House featurette
- Tales that Will Tear Your Heart Out featurette
- Deleted Scene: Mari Dying at the Lake
- Never-before-seen outtakes
- Wes Craven’s annotated shooting scripts
- Photo Gallery

UPDATES:

Tales From the Dark: Season One
Release Date: 2-10-09