Now that the Halloween season has passed and the Thanksgiving and Christmas season is upon us, the number of horror releases will diminish to lower amounts now. Enjoy some low budget offerings and hope to find a diamond in the rough, outside of Near Dark.

The Echo Format: Blu-Ray, DVD
Jesse Bradford, Amelia Warner

Fear and paranoia seep from every wall in this tense and creepy psychological thriller from the producers of The Ring and Dark Water. Jesse Bradford (W., Bring It On) is Bobby Walker, fresh out of prison and living in his dead mother’s apartment as a condition of his parole. Plagued by eerie echoes of the dead trapped in the building, Bobby’s terror mounts as he begins to suspect his neighbors had a sinister hand in his mother’s death … and could come for him next.

Hurt  Format: DVD
Jackson Rathbone, Melora Walters

There are terrible things happening in the desert…unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable incidents…ever since she arrived.

The Coltrane family’s life has been devastated by an untimely death. Widowed Helen Coltrane (Melora Walters Big Love), along with her teenage son (Jackson Rathbone Twilight) and daughter, are given shelter by her reclusive and quirky gun-loving brother-in-law. As they grapple with the reality of their shattered, altered life and twist of fate, coincidence steps in with a seemingly lovely foster child (Sofia Vassilieva – TV’s Medium) who appears touting a story that Helen s husband had pledged to take her in. And as they do, a macabre story of deception unfolds…

Near Dark  Format: Blu-Ray, DVD
Lance Henriksen, Adrian Pasdar, Bill Paxton

Country boy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) whittles away the quiet rural nights hunting local girls – but when he falls prey to the mysterious and beautiful Mae (Jenny Wright), Caleb unknowingly becomes the hunted. Mae is no ordinary girl, Caleb soon learns; she is part of an outlaw band of vampires, and their love is about to lure him into a terrifying world of bloodlust, mayhem and absolute horror. Will Caleb pay the ultimate price for love and eternal life – or will he find a way to defeat the evil growing inside him each night NEAR DARK?

Livestock  Format: DVD
Fiore Leo, Robert Hines

A mysterious cult has decided to take a new direction in giving Victor, a hard working trusted member, a promotion. However, his cruel minded disciples have decided to take action of their own. Growing tired of their monotonous plans, they begin to take their malevolent acts one step further. In a world seemingly far removed from Victor’s, two young girls, Annabel and Tina, are trying to make changes in their own lives. Annabel prepares for a second date with Jerry, a man she met online, while Tina keeps focused on an important meeting that is sure to open up new doors in her life. Soon these two worlds collide as Annabel and Tina find themselves deep within the belly of the beast, and the long, dark history of a secret organization is revealed.

Summer’s Moon  Format: DVD
 Stephen McHattie, Ashley Greene

Eager to find her estranged father, Summer (TWILIGHT’s Ashley Greene) sets out on a cross-country journey but soon has a slight run-in with the law. Much to her amazement, a local handyman rescues her. It’s an unusual connection, but she is quickly charmed and accepts his invitation to spend the night. The following morning she is in for a rude awakening when he decides to change the rules of attraction by trapping her in his house. Taken prisoner in the demented stranger’s basement, her dream has come to a bitter end and her real-life nightmare has only just begun.

 
Intruder  Format: DVD
Christena Doggrell, Jack Reiling

When Andrew (Jack Reiling) and his troubled girlfriend, Lila (Christena Doggrell), travel to a peaceful country estate for a relaxing getaway, they unwittingly stumble into the clutches of a predatory killer who roams the dark woods near the house. On a stormy Halloween night, the couple and their friends fight of their lives as they try to elude the intruder, a bloodthirsty clown, whose vicious tricks push Lila to the brink of madness.