Cirque Du Freak: The Vampires Assistant

This week's 100% horror DVD and Blu-ray releases are very much on the skimpy side so we've included a few items that, while not strictly genre fare, are close enough that we thought they should at least be on the radar of our readers. But first here's a look at the pure horror (in more ways than one).
Both the Blu-ray unrated director's cut of the original Cabin Fever and the DVD of its sequel, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, hit shelves this week. In addition, Rick Schroder's Hellhounds (review here) is bowing this week, as are the lesser known entries 13teen, Freeway Killer, Quiet Nights of Blood and Pain, She's Crushed, and Red Hook. I think you can see why we opted to fill out the list a bit with Law Abiding Citizen, Revanche, and Halo Legends and just could not decide on a pick of the week. (Actually, »
- The Woman In Black

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The September Issue I don't read Vogue and know very little about the fashion world, but I still find it incredibly interesting and while The September Issue doesn't necessarily explore the fashion world to any great extent or even go all that deep into the yearly bible of the industry, it is still wildly fascinating and this DVD is filled with bonuses for those that want more than the 88 minutes R.J. Cutler's doc offers.
In fact it comes with an audio commentary with Cutler and a featurette of behind-the-scenes photos. But the big draw will be the group of deleted scenes on the first disc followed by over an hour of additional footage on the second disc. As the sticker says on the box art to the left, this thing has over 90 minutes of additional footage. Personally it »
- Brad Brevet

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Director Richard Kelly's had a wild ride in Hollywood. His debut film "Donnie Darko" didn't survive long at the box office, but found renewed life and hordes of fans after its release on DVD. The high-concept Jake Gyllenhaal-led pic was breathtakingly original, a dark sci-fi thriller that brought together tangent universes and an evil-looking man in a rabbit costume. But for Kelly, the true measure of his career would be whether the freshman filmmaker could follow up "Darko" with something just as clever and unique.
Five years later we got "Southland Tales," an ambitious, pre-apocalyptic, musical-tinged film narrated by Justin Timberlake and starring everyone from Dwayne Johnson to Mandy Moore. While it opened to dour critical reviews, it showed there was nonetheless still promise buried within the then-32-year-old Kelly. So what would come next? Our answer came with "The Box," Kelly's most mainstream project to date and »
- Brian Jacks

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