By Scott Weinberg

You've been stocking up on the horror discs for the last two weeks, haven't you? Well you better get to watchin' em because this Tuesday has even more good stuff in store. Some crap too, but why focus on the negative? The biggie this week has got to be...

Planet Terror -- Also known as the more entertaining of the two Grindhouse features, this flick has Robert Rodriguez working in full-on John Carpenter mode. It's about a colorful gang of loons who have to contend with a nasty outbreak of something ... gooey. The 2-disc release will offer an extended cut of the movie, a commentary by Mr. Rodriguez, an "audience reaction track," and a second platter filled with raucous mayhem. Frankly I'm glad they split Grindhouse into two parts. I really dug Tarantino's Death Proof, but Planet Terror is so much more my speed. It might be one of the year's most entertaining horror flicks, if you ask me.

The Reaping -- And this may be one of the year's lamest horror flicks.
Multi-Oscar-winner Hilary Swank plays a woman who debunks "supernatural"
phenomena -- until she chances upon a town knee-deep in all sorts of biblical plagues. Dry, obvious, boring. Not even a bunch of cool extras would make this disc worth buying.

Return to the House on Haunted Hill -- If you buy the HD version, you can enjoy the "choose your own adventure" gimmickry, but since I like a filmmaker to actually do his JOB, I'll just rent the 'normal' version. Early word is that the flick sucks dry ice, but I felt that way about its predecessor, so color me unsurprised. Additional extras include commentary and featurettes.

Murder Party -- A tiny-budgeted tongue-in-cheek horror tale about an everyday nobody who finds a party invitation -- and REALLLLLY lives to regret it. Leave it to Magnolia to dig this tiny flick out of the festival circuit and give it a big-boy DVD release. Definitely worth at least a rental.

The Invisible -- David S. Goyer's not-half-bad remake of a much superior Dutch thriller. It's about a teenager who gets murdered and, as a ghost, must piece together the facts on who killed him. Well-shot and surprisingly compelling. But I seem to be in the minority on liking this one.

Hollow Man -- OK, who was it that asked for a Hollow Man director's cut? I know it wasn't me. Well anyway, here's Kevin Bacon getting all transparently psychotic -- with extra footage wedged back in! And Sony is doling out a whole bunch of featurettes to help sell the package. Ahh, who am I kidding? I know I'll rent it just for the "new stuff." It's a bad flick, but it sure isn't a boring flick.

Masters of Horror: The Damned Thing -- A second season episode from the notoriously inconsistent Tobe Hooper. I generally like to sit down with the MOH episodes knowing nothing about the episode, so I can't offer much in the way of a plot synopsis. But rest assured that the mini-movie will come complete with audio commentary and a fistful of extra features.

Also this week: The cleverly-titled Experiment in Torture, a triple feature of fairly worthless Amityville sequels, a new Raw Feed offering called Believers, and other flicks like Ice Spiders, War of the Dead, The Woods Have Eyes, and The Stitcher.

Next week: A zombie called Fido, a sequel called Hostel, an early Brad Pitt flick, a recent Kevin Costner chiller, and some re-issues on Kubrick, Pinhead and Jigsaw. Oh, and another movie called Buried Alive.