After Dark Horrorfest Hits DVD March 18

By: Robert T. Trate
Date: Monday, March 03, 2008
Source: Lionsgate Press Release

Following the success of last year’s After Dark Horrorfest, Lionsgate presents a new terrifying collection of DVDs with all eight films from the most recent After Dark Horrorfest 8 Films to Die For event.

The DVDs included are Crazy Eights, Nightmare Man , Tooth and Nail , Unearthed , The Deaths of Ian Stone, Mulberry Street and the unrated versions of Lake Dead and Borderland. These films were released in over 300 theaters nationwide that ran throughout the week of November 9-18. Each film was created by today’s hottest and most groundbreaking filmmakers in horror and is considered to be among the most cutting-edge films to have appeared on the big screen. A true celebration of horror at its most wicked; each film will include special features and is available as single DVDs for $19.98 or all together as a DVD Box Set Collection for $159.84 on March 18, 2008.

Mania’s columnists Robert Trate and Tim Janson have divided up the 8 films and will be bringing Mania’s readers one a day for eight days. Look for the reviews starting Saturday March 15^th.

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Comments/Responses

mckracken • Mar 03, 2008, 12:15am •

well after watching 6 out of 8 After Dark Horror Fest flicks from last year (and buying two of them sight unseen) they dont have me convinced their supposed "horror" flicks are any higher quality than whats been streaming directly onto DVD that passes for below average crap... so MAYBE I'll rent them...some of them...maybe.
oh yeah... if you wait it out long enough, they'll eventually all show up on FEARnet for free.

WISEGUY562 • Mar 03, 2008, 06:33am •

I caught a couple of these from their first time around on dvd and was utterly unimpressed. The title After Dark Horrorfest carries no cachet in my book, I'll see them when they're free. No rental or ppv for me, I'll wait.

almostunbiased • Mar 03, 2008, 02:00pm •

Never heard of any of these, nor do I have any desire to see them. What's this "most groundbreaking filmmakers in horror" crap. Who the hell are they?

irascible • Mar 03, 2008, 03:03pm •

Those first 8 were more like a Horrible-fest than a Horror-fest. The marketing is unique and smart - but once you start watching them (at least the first 8) you'll start thinking "if I actually watch all these will I die from the crappiness of these movies?" I'm still hopeful a gem will come out of these and will give them a chance (damn what a sucker i am - at least I rent through netflix). As far as the "most groundbreaking" almostunbiased - maybe they shoveled more dirt than any other film... other than that its a load of bunk.

Quatchkopf • Mar 03, 2008, 04:13pm •

The first 8 movies to die for were ok except Reincarnation, the Japanese one. That was retarded. These movies were not too scarry for theaters they were straight to dvd quality except Grave Dancers maybe.

mckracken • Mar 03, 2008, 04:52pm •

Grave Dancers was one of two that i bought, along with The Hamiltons sight unseen. Grave Dancers was, well, underwhelming. Abandoned was voted #1 for last year and thusly got a late DVD release and never came to FEARnet or Sci/fi channel (yes FEARnet and Sci/Fi showed 7 of them, skipping Abandoned) I nominally liked Unrest and i thought Reincarnation was "better than the others I'd seen, but too much like The Grudge and The Ring (movies in that style) but still a fun movie, I didnt think it was "retarded" compared to the others but I still wouldnt buy any more of them... I've switched to the Masters Of Horror series, Joe Dante,John Landis, John Carpenter, Mick Garris, Wes Craven - these are "MOST GROUNDBREAKING NAMES OF HORROR" - not some first string director that made a low budget horror flick and got selected for the horror"suck"fest.

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