THE GATHERING SETS US DVD DATE

October 3 is becoming a big day for long-delayed horror films to finally arrive via DVD, Fango got the first word that The Weinstein Co. and Genius Products will release the British Christina Ricci-starrer THE GATHERING, lensed in 2002, on the 3rd.

Directed by Brian Gilbert, the film stars Ricci as an American backpacker injured in a car accident in a rural English village. She’s taken in by the family of the woman who hit her and befriends her son (Stephen Dillane), who has been researching a recently unearthed 1st-century church; she soon begins having frightening visions involving the locals. Scripted by Anthony Horowitz, the author and screenwriter behind the upcoming youth actioner STORMBREAKER (which, no doubt completely coincidentally, will be a major Weinstein Co. theatrical release this fall), THE GATHERING will be presented in 16x9-enhanced 2.35:1 widescreen, and the disc will retail for $24.95.