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Oh, the horror! Not to mention the laughs
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Leslie Nielsen appears in the horror-movie spoof Stan Helsing.
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Published: October 29, 2009
Stan Helsing (Unrated): A hapless video-store clerk runs afoul of cinematic killers, including parodies of Freddy Krueger, Jason, Leatherface and Michael Myers, in this horror spoof from one of the producers of Scary Movie. The cast includes Leslie Nielsen and Kenan Thompson.
Extras include commentary, a featurette, deleted scenes and outtakes.
Battlestar Galactica -- The Plan (Unrated): Galactica completed its four-year run back in the spring, and a new spinoff series, Caprica, will begin on the SyFy channel in 2010. Until then, fans can tide themselves over with this straight-to-video movie, which gives the Cylons' side of their war against humankind. Dean Stockwell, Tricia Helfer, and Grace Park star. Extras include interviews, deleted scenes, and commentary by director Edward James Olmos.
Night of the Creeps: Director's Cut (Unrated): The 1986 cult classic, long out of print, finally comes to DVD and Blu-ray. It tells the story of nerdy college students who battle slug-like aliens that take over peoples' bodies. Extras include an alternate ending and featurettes.
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown (Unrated): This documentary looks at the career of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.
Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (G): The cute little fairy returns in a new straight-to-video computer-animated Disney movie.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (PG): The latest installment in the computer-animated comedy series has our prehistoric pals running into a lost world of dinosaurs. Extras on the two-disc DVD and Blu-ray versions include cartoons with Scrat, a popular character in the films.
The Samuel Fuller Collection (Unrated): This boxed set has seven films from the acclaimed director: It Happened in Hollywood, Adventure in Sahara, Power of the Press, Shockproof, Underworld U.S.A., The Crimson Kimono and Scandal Sheet.
Orphan (R): Alternately creepy and silly, this horror film follows a couple who adopt a troubled young girl (Isabelle Fuhrman) with a dark secret. Extras include additional scenes and an alternate ending.
The Story of Roxy Music -- More Than This (Unrated): The glam rock band is profiled in this documentary, which includes bonus live performances from a 2006 reunion.
Zombies of the Stratosphere (Unrated): This 12-chapter movie serial from 1952, about a heroic rocket-pack-wearing adventurer taking on evil Martians, is most notable for Leonard Nimoy in an early role as one of the alien baddies.
Rick Wakeman: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
(Unrated): Wakeman, best known for his days in the rock band Yes, performs this concert based on his 1973 concept album about the famous English monarch with a full orchestra and choir.
Saturday Morning Cartoons -- The 1960s and The 1970s, Vol. 2: These samplers have nostalgic compilations of cartoons from decades past, in two separate boxed sets. The 1960s set has such characters as Wally Gator, Peter Potamus and Quick Draw McGraw; the 1970s set includes the Banana Splits, Grape Ape, Inch High Private Eye and the Hair Bear Bunch, among others.
New on Blu-Ray: The Craft, the 1999 film about goth girls who learn witchcraft and set out to get revenge on the popular girls who mistreated them; The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, an effective 1974 thriller about zombies roaming the countryside of northern England, with extras including interviews and a visit to the filming sites; Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with Robert DeNiro as the monster and Kenneth Branagh as Dr. Frankenstein; and Wolf, in which Jack Nicholson proves more believable as a werewolf than he does as a nerdy publisher.
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