Hitting Shelves This Week…

October 9, 2007

28 Weeks Later

It has been six months and the rage virus that infected Britain has slowly been contained and killed out. There are still cases loose, but the U.S. Army has made their way over to help and contain all the healthy in a makeshift quarantined city. But when someone doesn’t tell the whole truth, everything starts over again.

DVD Features: Audio commentary, theatrical trailers, deleted scenes, making of, “Getting Into The Action” featurette, “28 Days Later: The Aftermath” flash animated graphic novel, and much more

Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season Three

Horror, thrills, drama, fantasy, and so many more topics graced the small screen in episodes presented by the port-bellied man in the window himself. One of the true masters of suspense is back for a third season and is sure to make you as uncomfortable as possible.

DVD Features: All 39 episodes from the third season

CSI NY Season 3

One of the spinoffs from the acclaimed CSI returns for a third season and delivers more of the darker and grittier cases that other units are afraid to touch. See if you can help solve the crime before Mac Taylor and his team figure out all the clues.

DVD Features: All 24 episodes from the third season

Degrassi High The Complete Collection

See high school through the eyes of common everyday teenagers as they deal with some of the biggest problems that trouble all youths their age. The kids at Degrassi High try to make it through issues like rebelling, drugs, drinking, and the normal drama that comes with being in high school.

DVD Features: All 28 episodes from the entire series

Evan Almighty

In the follow-up film to Bruce Almighty, Evan Baxter has everything going for him in his normal life until God (Freeman) shows up and tells him to build an ark (Noah-style) in preparation for a great flood.

DVD Features: Deleted scenes, outtakes, interactive features, games, “Its Easy Being Green” featurette, “Becoming Noah” featurette, and much more

Check out Kubryk’s review here.

Everybody Hates Chris Season 2

Chris Rock didn’t grow up to be the hilarious comedian he is with a great mind of his own by growing up with a silver spoon in his mouth. Witness the recollection this wise-cracking actor’s life in the second season showcasing his childhood.

DVD Features: All 22 episodes from the second season

Family Ties Season 2

The entire Keaton family grew up right before our eyes, but it was always Alex P. Keaton who captivated our TV sets and now the entire second season shows the common troubles and good times that a normal family (and Skippy) had to go through.

DVD Features: All 23 episodes from the second season

Ghost Hunters Season Three Part One

Jason, Grants, Steve, and sometimes Brian are joined by the rest of the TAPS team as they try to switch lives from common Roto-Rooter plumbers by day to paranormal investigators in their free time. The most haunted locations are either debunked by the team or proven to be haunted in some seriously spooky investigations.

DVD Features: 10 episodes from first half of the third season

Night Of The Living Dead 3D

A group of survivors are holed up together in a farmhouse and doing whatever they can to make it through the night, in 3D. Experience this partial re-imagining and partial remake of the legendary haunted classic in full zombified 3D!

DVD Features: Behind the scenes, bloopers, theatrical trailer, TV & radio spots, “Filming In 3D” featurette, Q&A, 3D still gallery

Poltergeist: 25th Anniversary Edition

Twenty-five years have passed but Carol Anne is still sitting in front of the television set and letting her family know that “they’re here.” One of the scariest films of all time is being re-released for new generations to experience it in all its glory and not sleep for weeks.

DVD Features: Deleted scenes, “They Are Here” featurette, and more

Reign Over Me

A man who lost everything due to the incidents of 9-11 is at the end of his rope without any family left, he one day runs into his old college friend Alan Johnson who looks forth to rekindle his old friendship and maybe bring some hope back into his life.

DVD Features: Making of, photo montage, “Extended Jam Session with Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle” featurette

Rise: Blood Hunter

When a female reporter wakes up in the morgue to find herself not hunting down the latest news story, but laying there among the deceased. Now a member of zombie nation, she vows to hunt down her killers and get her revenge.

DVD Features: Rated and unrated versions, behind the scenes, “Sadie Saves Colette” featurette, “Sadie Takes Revenge” featurette, “Chasing Tricia” featurette, “Quenching Her Thirst” featurette

Roots The Complete Collection

The series that captivated the nation is finally complete in a ten-disc set bringing together Roots and Roots: The Next Generations showcasing Alex Haley’s ancestry going all the way back to the times of Kunta Kinte to today.

DVD Features: Audio commentaries, “The Struggle To Make Roots” featurette, “Connecting With The Past” featurette, interviews

Surf’s Up

Follow along a “documentary” crew as they take you behind the scenes to try and prove that surfing was invented by penguins. And also witness the newest up-and-comer in the penguin surfing world, Cody Maverick.

DVD Features: Music videos, storyboards, photo galleries, making of, behind the scenes, and numerous featurettes

Twilight Zone: The Movie

It all started with a classic television show hosted by Rod Serling and in 1983 turned into a feature length film with a handful of stories guaranteed to scare your face clean off of you. Some of the biggest names in Hollywood had joined up and put together a great collection of the scary, the unexplained, and the weird.

DVD Features: Theatrical trailer

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (Unrated)

It just wasn’t enough when the unexplained killings and tales of a mutant family wandering the woods to keep people safely in their own homes. Now a reality competition TV show is being filmed in the same woods that happen to be infested by some territorial mutants looking for a few good meals.

DVD Features: Audio commentaries, theatrical trailer, “Making Gore Look Good” featurette, numerous featurettes

Check out my very own review here.

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