It's the second Tuesday in April and, if you're like me, you've already run out of horror DVD's from last week! And if you haven't, then maybe you need to pick up the pace a little bit! Anyway, here's what hits your local DVD shelves on Tuesday, April 14th:

Magnolia Home Entertainment starts us off with SPLINTER, when a young couple out for a romantic weekend in the wilderness are car-jacked by an escaped convict and his girlfriend, it's doesn't become a "couples" weekend! And, once the two couples wind up at an isolated gas station, the horror really begins. Probably because of the high gas prices.


Looking for something from the distant past? Well, Lionsgate is helping out with a trio of "hits" from the late 80s,/early 90s. First is MY BEST FRIEND'S A VAMPIRE from 1988, a young student finds himself becoming a vampire after a night with a cute chick...and I don't believe that's a hickey! Next is SLAUGHTER HIGH: when eight people are invited to an abandoned high school for a 5 year reunion, it's obvious that they'll be stalked by a former student who's been disfigured by a prank gone terribly wrong...this is why I never attend reunions of any sort, it's always a lure into a revenge trap! And finally, there's the Exorcist spoof REPOSSESSED starring Leslie Neilson and Linda Blair, Neilson plays the priest, Blair is possessed and, of course, hilarity ensues!


Ariztical Entertainment brings us NOVEMBER SON this week, three women all dealing with problems and guilt meet two men who can either relieve all their misery...or create more of it. As the truth is revealed, all five are thrown into horrible scenario after scenario, each worse than the last, until we finally learn who the November Son is, what he wants and will he leave the women saved or further scared? I was born in November and I've left a few women scarred...at least mentally...do I smell a lawsuit???


THE TELLING from R.E.D. Distribution is a horror anthology, three girls are pledging a sorority filled with the hottest and meanest chicks out there...just an aside, aren't all the hottest chicks mean? Or is that just to me? Anyway, each of the three pledges must tell the scariest story they know, the first, DOLLFACE, is the tale of an antique doll that wants it's owner dead, the second, CRIMSON ECHO, is an homage to horror movies from the 40s, an actress is forced into doing a film in Central Europe, only to be drugged and made to face her darkest fears. And the third story, PRANK CALL, has three girls stumble onto a murder while making prank calls. And, after all the stories are told, back in our sorority, someone seems to be taking all the tales of murder to heart! They say that sororities are a cut throat group, but I think someone here is taking it all too literally!


In THE UNINVITED from Hannover House, Anna has returned home after some time in the hospital after the death of her mother. Her recovery is threatened when she discovers that her father is engaged to Rachel, her mother's former nurse. Now, Anna and her sister have to convince their father that Rachel isn't who see seems to be and the happy family is torn by a lethal battle between stepdaughters and their stepmother! You know the old saying, 'family, can't live with them, can't bury them in your backyard'!


Lionsgate delivers BLED to shelves today, when a hip young artist living in a downtown warehouse tries an ancient drug, she's made prey to a vampire from another dimension that will attempt to use her to cross into our dimension. This is why we used to say, Just Say No...to drugs and alternate dimensions.


Next Wave Distributors tell us we need to FEAR THE FOREST today. When a 'ghost like creature' that was once worshiped by the Native Americans resurfaces, a multi-million dollar bounty is put out for its capture. Now, with the forest filled with search parties, you just know that whatever's out there won't be happy and will probably have a little hunting party of its own.


Image Entertainment keeps us in the wilderness with FOREST OF DEATH: This thriller from the Pang Brothers has a detective, a paranormal botanist and the botanist's girlfriend investigating a murder that will lead them into the heart of a dark forest known for causing mysterious deaths. When you hear that the forest is known for mysterious deaths, it just makes you long for a nature hike, doesn't it?


ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: THE MOVIE from Collective Studios: When a pair of college roommates head to the bar for a night out, they never count on running into a machete wielding stranger and a horde of zombies...but then, you never know what's going to be in a bar in a college town, do you? Well, with the help of a photographer and a video store clerk, our pair of heroes have to fight their way out of the bar and through the zombies to freedom and safety! Made for a budget of $5000, Zombie Apocalypse: The Movie is sure to delight indie zombie fans everywhere.

HELENA'S CRY from Navarre Corporation is the story of Isabela, who's led a tormented life since the death of her daughter, Helena in a car accident. Now two journalists are trying to get to the bottom of several killings that have happened in the same area to anyone who travels by night. What is the strange apparition that appears to be responsible for the deaths? And what does Helena have to do with it? And are there spectral tissues for her cry?

Osiris Entertainment has us registered for SUMMER SCHOOL starting today. Charlie is a teenaged horror fan, who even runs his own movie review website. On the last night of freedom, before summer school begins, Charlie catches up on all the movies he's been wanting to see, watching well into the night. Now, the next day at school, Charlie finds himself dozing off and having dreams that are all too similar to the movies he watched the night before! Plunging in and out of consciousness, Charlie is beginning to find it hard to tell what's real and what's fantasy. I run a movie review website, I watch movies into the late night and I have trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality...can you smell the law-suit too?!

Well, that should keep that butt-shaped dent in your couch well worn in for another week, so until next week, when I'll be attempting to determine whether or not this column is a fantasy or reality, remember you can always find a movie recommendation over at Bad Movie Guy.com, or you can follow my indie movie reviews over at Rogue Cinema.com, and you can check back here at FearZone.com next week, for all things gore, bloody, oozy and gross that will be sitting on your local video store shelf.