Gory greetings! Check out this weeks Brain Hammer approved horror dvd releases, all of which hit stores Tuesday 10/13/09!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME (re-release): Starz/Anchor Bay

Welcome to upscale Crawford Academy, where everyone – especially new student Ginny (Melissa Sue Anderson of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE) – wants to be part of the school’s most popular clique. But now somebody has begun butchering the group’s members. Could a deadly accident from Ginny’s past be connected to the brutal killings? And as her 18th birthday approaches, will Ginny be the guest of honor at the most horrific party of all? This twisted slasher shocker from Oscar®-nominated director J. Lee Thompson (10 TO MIDNIGHT) features – as its infamous poster promised – “six of the most bizarre murders you will ever see!”

*NOTE* This flick can currently be found at Wal Mart for $5!!!

You can check out my review of HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME here.

HARDWARE (2 Disc Limited Edition): Severin/ADA

It was the movie that stunned audiences, shocked the MPAA and marked the debut of one of the most uncompromising filmmakers in modern horror. Golden Globe® winner Dylan McDermott (The Practice, Dark Blue) stars as a post-apocalyptic scavenger who brings home a battered cyborg skull for his metal-sculptor girlfriend. But this steel scrap contains the brain of the M.A.R.K. 13, the military’s most ferocious bio-mechancial combat droid. It is cunning, cruel, and knows how to reassemble itself. Tonight, it is reborn…and no flesh shall be spared. Stacey Travis (GHOSTWORLD) co-stars – along with appearances by Iggy Pop, Lemmy of Motörhead and music by Ministry and Public Image Ltd. – in the kick-ass sci-fi thriller from Richard Stanley (DUST DEVIL).

EXTRAS:

* Audio Commentary with Director Richard Stanley
* No Flesh Shall Be Spared – All-New 60 min Documentary Featuring Interviews with Cast and Crew
* ‘Incidents In An Expanding Universe’ – Early Super 8 Version of HARDWARE
* ‘The Sea of Perdition’ – 2006 Richard Stanley Short Film
* ‘Rites of Passage’ – Early Richard Stanley Short Film
* Richard Stanley on Hardware 2
* Theatrical Trailer
* Deleted, Extended & Behind-the-Scenes Footage

THE STEPFATHER (special edition): Shout! Factory

Jerry Blake (Terry O Quinn, Lost) is a man obsessed with having the perfect American Dream life: including the house with the white picket fence in the suburbs, an adoring wife and loving children. He believes he has found it when he marries Susan Maine and becomes the stepfather to her 16-year-old daughter, Stephanie. But Stephanie (Jill Schoelen) gets an uneasy feeling when she is around Jerry with his Father Knows Best attitude: she can see that there is a darker side behind his cheerful exterior. Could she just be going through the typical teenager rebellion against her new stepfather, or is he actually the same man who brutally murdered his family just one year earlier?

EXTRAS:

*Audio Commentary with director Joseph Ruben
*The Stepfather Chronicles: An all-new retrospective featuring interviews with director Joseph Ruben, producer Jay Benson, actress Jill Schoelen, author Brian Garfield and others on the making of the film and its enduring legacy.

You can check out my review of THE STEPFATHER here.

KEEP THE BLOOD FLOWING!!!