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It’s October, so you know what that means… Halloween! And what better way to celebrate the festival of fear than with a whole heap of new movie releases? But with a whole heap of new horror movies on the way this month, we thought we’d take a look at what UK distributors have to offer on DVD later this month:

Toolbox Murders 2

The handyman of horror is back with a new box of tricks in in this terrifying sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 2004 reimagining of the 1978 cult favourite. Picking up directly after the events of Hooper’s film, we follow ‘Coffin Baby’, Hollywood’s most twisted killers, as he plans to put the screws to a new victim – Samantha, the sister of his prey from his previous rampage. Samantha finds herself held captive in a house of horrors and forced to undergo the most unspeakable tortures…

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2011 - 102 mins. - Rated PG-13

D: James Wan

C: Patrick Wilson, Lin Shaye, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, Ty Simpkins, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Andrew Astor, Heather Tocquigny 

A family becomes unraveled after a series of hauntings plagues them that are centered around their son who is in an comatose state of sleep.  

Well made, well acted haunted house thriller knows how to deliver the Boo! moments skillfully. Some funny, though unnecessary, moments and a few of the film's visuals weaken the overall impact just enough so that this is merely a very good film instead of a great one. For most of the film's running time, Insidious has hair raising suspense as viewers are kept on the edge of their seat in anticipation as to what is going to happen. That anticipation is rewarded with effective jump scares. As for the cast, horror veteran Lin Shaye has one of her best roles to date.

Momentum Pictures have released the first clip for upcoming supernatural horror Insidious.

Directed by James Wan, Insidious stars Rose Byrne, Patrick Wilson, Ty Simpkins, Leigh Whannell, Andrew Astor, Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Barbara Hershey, Corbett Tuck and Heather Tocquigny.

A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.

Insidious has already become a box office hit in the Us where it’s grossed $37 in three weeks, and begins its theatrical run in the UK on April 29.

Watch the clip below:

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Chicago – In our latest horror/thriller edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 35 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “Insidious” with Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne from the “Paranormal Activity” and “Saw” makers!

“Insidious” also stars Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Barbara Hershey, Andrew Astor, Corbett Tuck, Heather Tocquigny, Ruben Pla, John Henry Binder and Joseph Bishara from director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell.

To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Insidious” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.

The movie poster for “Insidious” with Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne.

Image credit: FilmDistrict

Here is the plot description for “Insidious”:

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Massify announced this evening that Katherine Pawlak (Lonelygirl15), Josh Davidson, Trey Farley (Bend It Like Beckham) and Heather Tocquigny have all joined the cast of After Dark Films' Perkins' 14, which will be directed by Craig Singer. The film is a killer thriller involving the arrest of a suspected murderer. Perkins' is slated to be released at part of this year's After Dark Horrorfest, which features "8 Films to Die For". In small town Brownsvillle, a boy named Robert Perkins, age 6, becomes mentally unstable when his parents are brutally murdered inside their home. His psychosis has him living the rest of his life convinced that the killers will return in the future to kill him as well. At age 34, Perkins becoming very paranoid, kidnaps 14 people. He is amost the age of his parents when they were killed, and he needs to be prepared.