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NEW ON DVD
Jesse Plemons, Jeremy T. Thomas and Keri Russell in the fi lm “Antlers.” KIMBERLEY FRENCH
Legendary monster haunts small town in ‘Antlers’ A gory horror fi lm about an indigenous myth concerning an ancestral creature tops the DVD releases for the week of Jan. 4. “Antlers”: Keri Russell and Jesse Plemons star as adult siblings living in rural Oregon, a school teacher and sheriff respectively, who become involved with a troubled student harboring a dark secret and unwittingly unleash an ancient evil. Directed by Scott Cooper, the movie “is an adaptation of an indigenous First Nations
myth, the tale of the wendigo, which is described by the former sheriff Warren Stokes (played by Canadian First Nations actor Graham Greene),” writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. “This mythical creature off ers the opportunity for shockingly gory body horror, and in ‘Antlers,’ it’s also used as a metaphor for the social ills that plague this town.”
ALSO NEW ON DVD JAN. 4 “Black
Friday”:
Horror
comedy about toy store employees preparing for an onslaught of holiday shoppers who must confront hordes of a diff erent sort after a meteor strike results in an alien parasite infecting the town’s residents. Stars Devon Sawa, Michael Jai White and Bruce Campbell. “The Superdeep”: In this Shudder original fi lm, a small team is sent to investigate the mysteries of the world’s deepest borehole in Russia, discovering a secret that could imperil the world.
“The Djinn”: A boy who cannot speak, left alone in a new apartment by his father, fi nds a book of spells and summons a djinn to grant one wish, setting in motion a night of terror. “Zeros and Ones”: Abel Ferrara wrote and directed this action thriller starring Ethan Hawke as an American soldier in Rome trying to thwart a terrorist attack. “Ida Red”: Melissa Leo stars as an imprisoned (and terminally ill) crime boss who turns to her son, played by Josh Hart-
nett, to pull off one last heist to regain her freedom, with the FBI complicating matters.
OUT ON DIGITAL HD JAN. 4 “A Mouthful of Air”: Adapting her own novel, Amy Koppelman wrote the screenplay and directed this drama, which stars Amanda Seyfried as a bestselling children’s author who writes about unlocking childhood fears, but hasn’t unlocked her own, an issue brought to the fore when her second child is born.
