Movies You Might Not Know Are Coming: October DVDs

October is my favorite DVD month. As a huge horror movie buff I’m always excited for stores to have films on sale and for horror classics to get Special Edition releases. It looks like October 2010 is no different than previous years so let’s get right into it, horror fans!

October 5th

Well; it’s finally here. After months of waiting Human Centipede has finally hit DVD/Blu Ray. However if ass-to-mouth monsters aren’t your cup of tea; worry not!

There are PLENTY of great movies getting the blu-ray treatment today. Disney classic Beauty and the Beast is coming out; along with Humphrey Bogart classics Maltese Falcon & Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Further more sci-fi/horror classics like Mad Max, The Exorcist and the Robocop Trilogy are getting released, but what will truly make the geeks cream their pants will be the COMPLETE Grindhouse featuring all the faux-trailers as well as Planet Terror and Death Proof.

Being that I have no blu-ray player this frustrates me as this is a blu-ray only release. Balls.

However the must have blu-ray this week is of course Troll 2 (would you expect anything less). Get your Troll 2 knowledge prepped so you can enjoy next month’s Best Worst Movie release

 

October 12th

While this week marks Dollhouse Season 2 and The Lost Boys 3 getting their long awaited DVD/ blu-ray releases (they are long awaited right?).

Blu-ray is finally getting the disappointing Red Dragon (which I guess can brag about not being the WORST Hannibal Lecter movie) and Three Kings (the painfully under-appreciated war/heist film from the late 90’s), but DVD is giving us the best releases this week with the COMPLETE series of Angel (which I’m only on Season 2 but I love it’s film noir style so far) but the most have is Season 1 of Dexter’s Laboratory.

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October 19th

I started off quite excited when I saw a blu-ray/DVD release for Night of the Demons. However, it turns out this is just a remake starring Edward Furlong made last year so fuck that shit.

Blu-ray has an impressive group of classic films like Seven Samurai and Psycho coming out, as well as Cult Classics Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet and Rocky Horror Picture Show.

DVD has the release of the Complete Pee Wee’s Playhouse Boxset which contains all 5 seasons of Pee Wee’s Playhouse as well as the incredibly entertaining and bizarre Pee Wee’s Christmas Special.

However, I’d put my money towards the blu-ray release of The Howling Trilogy which contains the greatly underappreciated Howling 3: The Marsupials as well as the awful (as in unwatchable) V: The Rebirth and VI: The Freaks… maybe I won’t be buying this after all.

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October 26th

Blu-ray is giving us Back to the Future and the Alien Anthology which are certain to be on every geeks shopping check list. Meanwhile DVD will be giving us Who is Harry Nilson (and why is everybody talking about him) which was recently reviewed on this site.

Available on both formats is Stanley Kubrick’s infamous Paths of Glory.

This will be an expensive weekend for myself having to decided between Tonight: 4 Decades of Johnny Carson (a collection of the greatest moments of the golden age of the Tonight show), Chaplin at Keystone (a collection of all of Chaplin’s early silent film shorts) or horror-classic Maniac (available in both DVD & Blu-Ray) which has some of Tom Savini’s most impressive make-up work.