DVDs for a bloody good Halloween

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GAYLAND HETHCOAT- Executive Editor If you don’t care much for the classic horror films on TV around Halloween, check out recent DVD releases “Death Proof,” “Planet Terror” and “28 Weeks Later.” Among the three, you’ll find hordes of zombies, enough blood and gore to fill a swimming pool and ample doses of humor to ease some of the thrills.

GAYLAND HETHCOAT- Executive Editor

If you don’t care much for the classic
horror films on TV around Halloween,
check out recent DVD releases “Death
Proof,” “Planet Terror” and “28 Weeks
Later.”

Among the three, you’ll find hordes
of zombies, enough blood and gore to
fill a swimming pool and ample doses
of humor to ease some of the thrills.

‘Death Proof’

Quentin Tarantino’s “Death Proof”
harks back to the sexually fueled,
politically incorrect exploitation fare that
proliferated in the ’70s and ’80s.

Starring Kurt Russell as Stuntman
Mike, a washed-up stunt car driver who
was never more than a B-list act in his
prime, the film debuted theatrically as
the second feature in directors Tarantino
and Robert Rodriguez’s “Grindhouse.”
Despite his folksy demeanor, Stuntman
Mike, as it turns out, has a penchant
for terrorizing pretty, young women
with his souped-up, supposedly “death
proof” stunt car.

After disposing of a group of barhopping
buddies in Austin, Texas, Stuntman
Mike makes his way to the hills of rural
Tennessee, where the film takes a sharp
turn. While there, he sets his sights on
another gang of young beauties, but
these ladies are not the weaklings he
presumes. The four friends are on location
shooting a Hollywood film, and two
of them (Tracie Thomas and Zo

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