A Bloody Good Collection: Essential Horror Blu-ray Gifts

Note to self - if Tom Noonan ever invites you anywhere - DON'T GO!

This retro '80s horror pic (the hair! the clothes! The Fixx!) is a wonderful period piece right down the limited edition VHS release.  That old time grain looks even better in high-def.

Buy The House of the Devil Now.

Never has an economic downturn been this much fun!

Alison Lohman's hard-hearted banker gets her comeuppance in the form of a gypsy's curse that puts a lot of gross things in her mouth.

The legendary parking garage sequence ranks as one of the finest jump-scare sequences in all of cinema - and if you saw it with a full theater you know how much fun that was.

Buy Drag Me To Hell (Unrated Director's Cut) Now.

George Romero may have invented the modern zombie with Night of the Living Dead, but he perfected what to do with them years later with Dawn of the Dead.

As society breaks down, a band of survivors take unlikely refuge in the sanctuary of a modern shopping mall, allowing for unnerving juxtapositions of violent death and consumer happiness.  This picture's a bloody mess, but it is a work of frenzied genius.

Buy Dawn of the Dead Now.

Ethan Hawke stars in this wonderful "what if?" that presents a world where the vampires have already won.  Decades later, and they've run out of human blood.  Symbolism much?

Willem Dafoe co-stars as a John the Baptist-esque character named Elvis.  Yeah, this movie's kinda all over the place, but it's fun.

Buy Daybreakers Now.

Jessica Alba has the prettiest. . .eyes.

This J-horror remake puts some danger into the windows of the soul, when Alba, a blind violinist, begins seeing visions after a cornea transplant.  These are naturally the horrors of the organs' previous owners, which leads me to think that I'd love to get a fingertip transplant from Hugh Hefner.

Buy The Eye Now.

In my opinion it was with the third film that Friday the 13th got into its groove.  Many purists claim this is where it got stupid, and I don't necessarily disagree.  I like a little fun with my butchery.

This was the first one where Jason put on the goalie mask, the only one released in 3D (yes, we had 3D in the 1980s), and the last one with involvement from Steve Minor.

The Blu-ray comes equiped with those cheap paper glasses, as well as a 2D version for people who don't like headaches.

Buy Friday the 13th Part III in 3D Now.

Viruses, red dresses, getting sliced into cubes by lasers.  This is the joy of Resident Evil, the only financially and (I'll say it) artistically successful game-to-film franchise.

You can sit around and watch Dateline or you can take the matter of sexual predators into your own hands.

Hard Candy launched the careers of Ellen Page and David Slade and made guys go "ahhhhhhhhhh" at all the castration moments.

Buy Hard Candy Now.

Under the big top tonight. . . .bloodsucking, child-murdering vampires!

The violentest show on earth comes to a 17th century Balkan villiage and high definition Blu-ray, up-rezzing this 1970s David Prowse vehicle from 1972.

Buy Vampire Circus Now.