Halloween and Horror

A mother makes the tortuous discovery that her cherubic eight year old daughter harbors an innate desire to kill.

A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1931 American pre-Code horror film, directed by Rouben Mamoulian and starring Fredric March, who plays a possessed doctor who tests his new formula that can unleash people's inner demons. The film is an adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a man who takes a potion which turns him from a mild-mannered man of science into a homicidal maniac.

For the first time ever, the original The Invisible Man film comes to DVD in this extraordinary Legacy Collection. Included in the collection is the original classic, starring the renowned Claude Rains, and four timeless sequels, featuring such legendary actors as Vincent Price and John Barrymore. These are the landmark films that inspired an entire genre of movies and continue to be major influences on motion pictures to this day.

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

When a young woman becomes afflicted by stigmata, a priest is sent to investigate her case, which may have severe ramifications for his faith and for the Catholic Church itself.

A wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories.

A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.

A man wakes to find that he is trapped in a space so small he can barely move. Crippled by fear, disoriented, and unable to remember how he came to be in this deadly predicament, the protagonist attempts to find a way out. Forced to navigate over barbed wire and hold on for dear life to a rusty pipe using only his teeth, the man's pain and fear are powerfully played out in this top-notch addition to the Japanese horror tradition. Experimental in its application, this short film promises to make even the most hardened horror connoisseur cringe in suspense. Awards/Festivals: Lyon Asiexpo Film Festival 2005; FilmAsia Festival 2005; Cologne Cineasia Film Festival 2005; Mar del Plata Film Festival 2006; Dead by Dawn Horror Film Festival 2006; Macabro Film Festival 2008; Jeonju International Film Festival.

The haunted become the hunted. In this horror film set in Malaysia, a Japanese-American woman's recurring nightmare drives her to Pontianak on the island of Borneo where she thinks her dead birth mother is calling to her. Charity and three friends, plus a local guide, head for the jungle river but their all-terrain vehicle breaks down on the way and they are forced to trek through the jungle to find the river. Eye, the local guide, fully aware there are ghosts in the jungle, proceeds cautiously, but Charity and her friends have yet to be convinced these things really exist. When a woman mysteriously appears near an abandoned hut, an old man appears as well, and the trekkers helplessly watch as he beats her inside the hut. It is after this that the horror turns on Charity and her party, and the killings begin. The link between Charity's nightmares that sent her to Borneo and the horrors that visit the group is an unsolved mystery but hinted at as part redemption and part revenge.

Masters of horror dinner discussion (36 min.) / featuring John Landis, Mick Garris, Tobe Hooper, Don Coscarelli, Stuart Gordon, Tom Holland, Peter Medak, William Malone, Ernest R. Dickerson, John McNaughton and Larry Cohen - Masters of horror DGA panel (67 min.) / moderated by Clive Barker ; featuring Mick Garris, John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper and Joe Dante - Fantasy film festival: Mick Garris interviews Steven Spielberg (15 min.) - Fantasy film festival: Mick Garris interviews John Boorman (14 min.).

In this program, Ian Nathan, author of “Stephen King at the Movies”; Neil Norman, film critic and writer; Stephen Armstrong, writer and film critic of The Sunday Times; and Bonnie Greer, writer and critic, discuss and review their top 20 horror films of the last 100 years. Films discussed include Nosferatu, Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, The Exorcist, The Omen, Carrie, and more.