Halloween. Yup: time to sift through the seasonal flurry of straight-to-dvd horror, flip through some old favorites, fire up the scary, cue the gore, put on the mask. Yeah.

I gather Takashi Miike’s utterly, grimly compelling Audition has a sweet new two-disc release. And Raimi’s praised Drag Me To Hell will show up in a week or two, and demands some love. (I did indeed love it–a great deal of fun.) But on to the unfamiliar.
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