Today's one of those days when it pays to have saved your pennies. Instead of buying your fourth edition of Friday the 13th, you could be spending today knee-deep in new movies. Or you can always go the rental route. But there are definitely a few keepers among today's releases:

The dark horse of the week would be Ben Rock's Alien Raiders, which has the dubious distinction of being the best Raw Feed production so far. But it's better than than compliment makes it sound, Check out FEARnet's review of Alien Raiders and our exclusive chat with director Ben Rock. And be aware that the DVD comes with about a half-dozen behind-the-scenes featurettes. Plus the flick is a lot of fun, and that's kind of important.

After that we have a few heavy hitters:

Lionsgate unleashes the extra-gory uncut edition of The Midnight Meat Train. Take it from a guy who saw the flick at Comic-Con and then again on FEARnet: The DVD version has a LOT of extra splatter. Even better, I think this is one of the best horror movies of the past several years. I could ramble more, but you could just read all about this excellently nasty chiller all over this website. Extras include a surprisingly candid audio commentary with producer Clive Barker and director Ryhuei Kitamura, which covers everything from good times on set to nightmares in post-production. Also included are three fine featurettes that should keep the gorehounds happy. (This one will probably stand as one of the best horror DVDs of the year ... and uh, not just because I'm quoted on the DVD cover.)

Then we have Quarantine, which would be a DAMN fine horror movie -- if 90% of its awesomeness hadn't been cribbed from another film. But we're not here to discuss [REC], which should hit R1 DVD later this year, and so I have no problem admitting that, for a piggy-baker, Quarantine is a pretty astute one. Check out FEARnet's review of Quarantine. Serious horror fans will want to explore both films, of course, and the hardcore faction will want to make all sorts of comparisons. I can say that this "first-person found footage" horror tale is pretty damn solid, and the DVD is no suckhole either: I haven't gotten into the three featurettes or the Dowdle Brothers commentary, but I definitely look forward to the whole package.

Sequel-lovers should have a good time at the shelves this week: Dimension Extreme's Feast 3: The Happy Finish looks to close (?) the trilogy in exceedingly sloppy fashion (full review coming soon!), while the rest of us are left scratching our heads at the DVD cover for Screamers: The Hunting. Yeah, someone actually brought up the Peter Weller sci-fi flick Screamers up as a good video-sequel candidate, and here we are: Screamers 2. It's got Netflix written all over it.

Oh, and to those who've been DYING for the Blu-Ray releases of Freddy vs. Jason and / or Seed of Chucky, I have some good news. Your DVDs are in.