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For my first Horror Squad Movie Club pick, I wanted to choose a movie that I would invite a huge group of friends over to watch with me. I needed to choose a flick that had all the right things to keep the crowd entertained with gore, humor, violence and lots of un-PC behavior. It was then that I realized that Brian Trenchard-Smith's Night of the Demons 2 could be my only answer.

Yes, I enjoy Kevin Tenney's original Night of the Demons; it has a decent amount of gore, Linnea Quigley and the sexypants dance scene to Bauhaus' Stigmata Martyr, but you get bigger and better gore with Trenchard-Smith's version, better pacing and an abundance of laugh out loud moments. Not only is there a badass, snarky demoness (Amelia Kinkade), but also a kick ass nun (Jennifer Rhodes), a wacky gang of friends including one named Mouse (Merle Kennedy) and a whole lot of naked shenanigans at a Catholic boarding school and at the creepy Hull House. What more do you need people?

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You watch horror movies, right?. That's weird...we also watch horror movies. Hey! We should watch horror movies together!

Allow me to introduce you to the brand spanking new Horror Squad Movie Club. Here's how it will work. Every Friday a HS staffer will make their pick for the weekend's movies, offering up a little guidance on why they like it and why you should too. If you're game, you'll have the weekend to watch it and then on Monday said staffer will be offering up a discussion post of sorts, elaborating on their love (or hate) for the flick.

What's the point of all this, you ask? Well, hopefully you'll get to learn the particular tastes of our writers a little better, but the ultimate goal is to hopefully make you fall in love (or hate) with a film you may otherwise have been indifferent to. Oh, and if you're not particularly in the mood for horror (who are you?), Horror Squad sister site Sci-Fi Squad and papa site Cinematical will both be starting up their own respective movie clubs (and don't forget mothership hub Moviefone has one going on as well at Inside Movies).

So, what's on tap for this weekend? Click on to find out.

Best of the New Releases: Cabin Fever 2
I know I'm in the minority here, but I actually kind of dug Cabin Fever 2 (my review). Let's be clear, though. It is a messy, messy, mess of a movie mess sewn together in crude and thoughtless ways, but I kind of admire it in a strange, I know I shouldn't fashion. I think Gilchrist's guest review earlier today really sold how strong Ti West contributions were, even if they were Frankensteined in the final product.

I wouldn't particularly recommend CF2 to anyone, per se, but the only people I'd actively warn away from its crude, fluid-loving ways are those who'd look down on a straight-to-video Cabin Fever sequel in the first place.

Best of the New Releases: Um...
I apologize if you've spent the last 24 hours curled in the fetal position, shaking like a newborn lamb out of fear that Horror Squad would not be bringing you a list of this week's discs. Don't worry, I'm just a day late. The reason I'm late? Well, there just isn't much of note this week.

The biggest title of the week is The Stepfather remake and I think we all know that's nothing to get excited about. The movie is watchable, but only in "on cable, got nothing else to do" kind of way. I also highly doubt that the Unrated Director's Cut on Blu-ray really has anything particularly eye catching to warrant the unrated label.

Did you see Legion, the dreadful biblical action movie that was hardly biblical and barely an action movie? Don't feel bad, no one else did, either. Word of mouth seems to have effectively (and rightfully) killed Screen Gems' baby with a second weekend drop off at the box office that guarantees it can never be called a hit. But studios have lukewarm flicks all the time, right, no big deal?

Well, apparently it was a pretty big deal at the Sony owned genre arm. In what cannot be a coincidence, four days after Legion's 60% drop at the box office Screen Gems have announced the following release date shuffles:

- The Roommate: Sept. 17, 2010 to Feb. 4, 2011
- Priest: Aug 10, 2010 to Jan. 14, 2011
- Underworld 4: Jan 21, 2011 to Sept. 23, 2011

In addition to the date changes, it is looking like original Underworld helmer Len Wiseman and star Kate Beckinsale will be returning for part 4, though the rumor that it was going to arrive in 3D appears to have dried up. However, it does look like Priest, directed by Legion's Scott Stewart, will now be Priest 3D.

Best of the New Releases: Triangle, The House of the Devil, Zombieland
Okay, so the first Tuesday of February pretty much makes up for every Tuesday in January. First up we have Triangle, the mindbender from Christopher Smith that finds Melissa George attempting to unravel a couple mysteries aboard an ocean liner. I'll be writing a full review of it later in the week, but in short I think this is a twisted little movie that can be enjoyed on a single viewing but may take multiples to fully absorb. Smith is now 3-0 as far as I'm concerned.

Next up is The House of the Devil. It's been mentioned quite a lot here at Horror Squad, so there's really no need to sell you on the quality of the movie at this point. You can pick up Ti West's outstanding Satanic Panic throwback on Blu-ray, DVD, and even VHS.

Best of the New Releases: Saw VI
I should pick Inalienable as the best new release of the week for its kick-ass cover, but I haven't actually seen it. I have seen Saw VI, however, and can attest that it is one of the best entries in the franchise. From my original review, "If Dunstan and Melton are allowed to keep the script as restrained as they've now proven they can, I think SAW VI is going to mark a very welcome turning point for the series. At the very least, it no longer has me dreading the idea of going back to this well 2 or 3 more times."

Best of the New Releases: Pandorum
I was not expecting to like Pandorum. I presumed it would be just another generic sci-fi/horror hybrid with Paul W.S. Anderson's name attached as a producer. Thankfully, it is not. Pandorum is actually a surprisingly effective, worthy entrant to the arena of films about space madness. Dennis Quaid kind of dominated the trailers, but the real star is Ben Foster, a gent I wish I saw in more leading roles, as a man who wakes aboard a massive, barren spaceship wondering where all the crew and passengers have gone.

It's got a lot of enigma to it, and while parts of the ending may not be as unforeseen as director Christian Alvert may have wanted, it still goes out on an impressive bang. Good production design avoids feeling like other claustrophobic spaceship movies where people keep running down narrow corridors; though the creature design is a little reminiscent of the Reavers from Serenity. Still, it's an entertaining, above-average genre hybrid that should satisfy those who typically like such things.

After Dark's 4th annual Horrorfest doesn't start until the 29th of January, but that hasn't stopped the company from unveiling their plans to bring this year's line-up to DVD.

If you can't make it out to a theater to see this year's entries, breathe easy. Video ETA is reporting that the films will make their DVD debut as part of a box set on March 23rd. That's a really short turnaround time on the discs, but since the films only play theatrically for a week, I suppose it works out. I suspect knowing that the films will be on DVD so soon after the theatrical dates might convince some folks to just skip the theater entirely--but I wasn't a business or marketing major so what do I know?

The box set will retail for $159.98 and features Dread, Lake Mungo, The Graves, The Final, Zombies of Mass Destruction, The Reeds, Kill Theory, and Hidden. It seems a given that individual disc versions will also be available in that same time frame.

The fourth annual After Dark Horrorfest runs theatrically from January 29th through February 4th. You can learn more by checking out the official website.

Best of the New Releases: Halloween 2
Oy, what another poor retail showing for horror this week is. The only new horror movie out today is Rob Zombie's Halloween II, which is available on both unrated and theatrical DVDs and an unrated Blu-ray. Now I'm planning on watching this later today, so I'm not going to pass judgment on it quite yet, but the general consensus seems to be that it is mind blowing -- and that's not a compliment.