Reckless Video: Maple Leaf's DVD and Blu Ray Video Rentals: Week of October 5th

Kids, Remakes, and Sequels

The Karate Kid
Now & Then

This year's remake of 1984's The Karate Kid stars Jaden Smith as a young boy who moves to Beijing with his mother (Raraji P. Henson). Like the original film, he's beaten up by a group of martial artists to keep him from away from a girl. The boy finds his place in his new home when he teams up with a reluctant mentor (Jackie Chan) who teaches him more than just how to him to defend himself. On DVD and Blu Ray.

A sequel to Space Chimps, Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back tells the story of Comet, the science chimp from the first movie, and grants his wish by sending him into space. Now Comet gets to be the hero, traveling to planet Malgor and battling evil alien conquerors.

Monsters

A Nightmare on Elm St
Now & Then

A reboot of the popular franchise, A Nightmare on Elm Street re-imagines the origin of Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley), who hunts and kills teenagers in their dreams. As Nancy's (Rooney Mara) friends start dying mysteriously, she learns that they all dreamt

about the same man: horribly burned, with knives on his right hand. Cursed with the same killer nightmare, Nancy and her friend (Kyle Gallner) delve into the mystery of why these kids are dying in their dreams, and why they're being hunted. On DVD and Blu Ray.

The sequel to the 2007 film, 30 Days of Night: Dark Days follows Stella (Kiele Sanchez), the lone survivor from the massacre in the first movie, to Los Angeles, where she tries to tell her story: A cabal of vampires wiped out her Alaskan home town. At first it seems that no one will believe her, but a group of vampire hunters (Rhys Coiro, Diora Baird, and Harold Perrineau) seeks her out and asks her to help fight a new threat: a vampire queen (Mia Kirshner) taking a new family of vampires north to demolish another town where they won't have to fear sunlight. On DVD and Blu Ray.

Genetic engineers Elsa (Sarah Polley) and Clive (Adrien Brody) have already combined animal DNA into a pair of new, synthetic animals

in Vincenzo Natali's Splice, but they decide to take the next step: in secret, without anyone to question their motives or morality, they make a new creature that includes human DNA. At first they just want to make an embryo... but they let it come to term, and then let it grow. Now Elsa and Clive have an unconventional daughter, growing at an accelerated rate. They could end up in jail if anyone finds out what they've done, so they have to keep their new family member hidden from everyone, though it's impossible to know what she's capable of. On DVD and Blu Ray.

A drilling team unleashes a killer creature that is stalking the crew of an ocean oil rig run by William Forsythe in The Rig. With a storm raging around them, the crew can't leave or get help, so they have to find what weapons they can and fight off the mysterious creature, but all they know is that it's fast, it's strong, and it's picking them off one by one.

Released for the first time as a complete double feature, Grindhouse recreates the theatrical release that combined Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof and Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror. The complete Grindhouse release includes all of the mock trailers and coming attractions on disc for the first time, but the whole experience is too large to fit on a DVD, so it's only available on Blu Ray.

Martin (Elijah Wood) arrives at Oxford in hopes of learning from Arthur Seldom (John Hurt), a mathematics professor he idolizes, but Seldom immediately rejects him. The when Martin's landlord and

Seldom's old friend is found dead in The Oxford Murders, the two mathematicians try to crack the code left in the killers' clues, but where Martin believes in certainty, Arthur believes in chaos, and the fact that they're the only two who understand the killer's clues isn't lost on the police. With Anna Massey, Julie Cox, and Burn Gorman.

The dramatic tale of an ambitious doctor trying to achieve his goals, The Human Centipede, shows the doctor's attempts to be the first person to perfect a radical new procedure, but he has to overcome the prejudices of unwilling participants and even the law in order to realize his dreams.

In Fade to Black, Orson Welles (Danny Huston) arrives in Italy in 1948, his divorce from Rita Hayworth underway, his star fading, and his ego badly bruised. He's cast in Black Magic, a movie he doesn't really believe in, but his attention is drawn by a murder that happened on set. Enamored of the murdered actor's daughter (Paz Vega), Welles takes an interest in the mystery, but his driver (Diego Luna) warns him that fascism isn't forgotten in Italy, and he's caught in a political mystery where no one's motives or allegiances are clear. With Christopher Walken.

Gianni is deep in debt and living with his mother in the Italian Mid-August Lunch, but his debts will be forgiven if he looks after his landlord's mother during the Pranzo di Ferragosto, Italy's biggest summer holiday... but he shows up with his mother and his aunt. The holiday gets more complicates as a friend also brings his mother, and Gianni has to play host to a wide variety of women.

New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the first season of the Battlestar Galactica prequel spinoff Caprica and season 5 of the procedural Bones. We also have Doctor Who: Dreamland, the last adventure with the 10th doctor (David Tennant) before The End of Time.

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