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The Tuesday before Halloween is bound to have a lot of genre titles. There are some good ones too like Attack the Block, Blue Underground releases Fulci in High-Definition with Zombie and The House by the Cemetery, also Criterion releases The Island of Lost Souls on DVD & Blu-Ray and the most talked about film of last year, A Serbian Film finally hits the shelves. Read below, if you dare, for all your DVD and Blu-Ray releases for this week and if you plan on purchasing any films through Amazon, click on the buttons provided as they help us out with paying the bills around here.

Animal Attack Two Pack (Maneaters Are Loose/ Shark Kill)

Two savage and rare TV movies in the 1970s “Animal Attack” genre that have rarely been seen since their initial release, now back in print and together at last on DVD.

Buy the DVD @ Amazon.

Release Date: Oct. 25, 2011

Price: DVD $24.95

Studio: Wolfe Video

Hunky British TV personality David Paisley (TV’s Holby’s City) stars in the sexy 2010 horror-suspense movie Unhappy Birthday.

The British film tells the tale of a young man and his secret gay lover who conspire to surprise their friend Sadie on her birthday. Arriving for their getaway on the remote isle of Amen, Rick (Paisley), Jonny (Jonathan Keane) and Sadie (Christine De Vallee) meet the mysterious Corinne (Jill Riddiford of Our Friends in the North ), only to realize that things aren’t going quite the way they had planned…

The first movie co-written and co-directed by Mark Harriott and Mike Matthews, Unhappy Birthday is inspired by such classic British horror films as The Wicker Man. It was filmed on location in Northumberland in the North East of England and on the picturesque tidal island of Lindisfarne.

Unhappy Birthday is a familiar...

Birthday parties have long been home to the exact ingredients needed to concoct a recipe for disaster. Especially in horror flicks. The latest murderous import from the UK realizes this and as a result is geared up to celebrate in a different way.

Unhappy Birthday, directed by Mark Harriott and Mike Matthews, stars David Paisley, Christina De Vallee, Jill Riddiford, Jonathan Keane and David McGillivray. It will be having its premiere at the 25th BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival on Friday 1st April - 8.30pm.

For more information check out the official Unhappy Birthday website and then "Like" them on the Unhappy Birthday Facebook page.

Synopsis

A surprise birthday party becomes a living nightmare for city-dwelling couple Sadie and Rick and their friend Jonny. They are invited to visit the remote tidal island of Amen by Corinne, an enigmatic local who hopefully holds answers to long-buried family secrets.

Amen...

We may be a predominantly gay male entertainment site, but we always try to look out for the ladies here at AfterElton.com. We felt bad that we had to ask our female readers to sit out the Hot 100 voting last month (for that list we wanted a fair representation of whom gay men find attractive), so to make up for it we ran a special poll just for the ladies in last week's Best.Gay.Week.Ever!  We wanted to hear from our female readers about which gay men they find hot.

Call it The Ladies' Choice Hot 50. You'll find the results after the break!

If there's one thing women and gay men can agree on it seems to be Neil Patrick Harris, who headlines both the regular Hot 100 and this list. After some further Hot 100 similarities near the top (John Barrowman, Luke MacFarlane, etc.) things start to diverge considerably.

This week’s Gool starts with a look at long running Spanish drama The Heart of the City, which features one of the most romantic and well told gay love stories ever presented on television. I’ve also got some great (and not so great) clips in Gool Theatre, including a pair from All That Matters that you don’t want to miss. Plus there’s dish on the season finale of Desperate Housewives, insane spoilers and big casting news for As The World Turns, some hot pics of Forbidden Love’s Thore Schölermann – and more!

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Feature: Getting To Know...Heart Of The City

Gool Theatre

In My Humble Opinion (Imho)

Scoops & Spoilers

Gool Newsbeat

Bits & Pieces

Ratings & Rankings

Snapshots

Soap Stud Of The Week

Question Of The Week

Getting To Know: The Heart Of The City (El Cor de la Ciutat)

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In The Spotlight – Degrassi: The Next Generation, Clara Sheller, and River City

This week we look at three very different series that hail from three different countries. But all have one thing in common: each tell interesting and intriguing stories about the lives and loves of gay men.

First up, Degrassi: The Next Generation and ‘The Life of Riley’.

Riley Stavros, played by Argiris Karras, is the long running Canadian teen drama’s latest entry in its much-lauded history of depicting the lives of gay characters. But two recent episodes clearly showed Riley is very different from Degrassi’s last gay character, Marco (out actor Adamo Ruggiero). Where Marco was openly gay and never struggled with his sexual identity, it’s been nothing but a constant battle for Riley. In fact, he hates being gay and desperately wishes things were different. But as we see in this first clip, he...

In The Spotlight – River City

When we last took a peek at BBC Scotland drama River City, gay graphic designer Scott Wallace had lost the child he cared about — not to mention the guy he cared about. Since that storyline wrapped up, Scott has pretty much disappeared; however, a few weeks ago, the show introduced an intriguing new gay character in the very nice form of construction worker Nathan Simpson, played by James Daffern.

When Nathan set up shop in River City, he immediately found himself attracted to bartender Rory Murdoch, played by out actor David Paisley. While Rory was flattered by Nathan’s attentions, Rory is straight … or so he says.

David Paisley (Rory) and James Daffern (Nathan)

When Rory arrived in River City for Christmas back in 2007, he found himself clashing with his father, Lenny, the local gangster in town. Rory has never been involved in his father...