Winner of the Best Feature Award at the 2006 New York City Horror Film Festival, Fingerprints is being puished as a unique horror movie – part ghost story, part old-school slasher (actually didn't Su-chang Kong' G.P. 506, aka Guard Post, do pretty much the same thing?) – but apparently one that combines two genre elements to produce a creepy and effective shocker high on suspense. Directed by Harry Basil (Soul's Midnight), the film stars up-and-coming actresses Leah Pipes (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Life Is Wild) and Kristin Cavallari (Wild Cherry; Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County) alongside established stars Lou Diamond Phillips (Che), Sally Kirkland (The Haunted) and Geoffrey Lewis (The Devil's Rejects and a ton of others).

Following a heroin overdose induced near-death experience and a spell in rehab, troubled teenager Melanie (Pipes) returns to live with her father, mother and elder sister, Crystal (Cavallari), in the family's new home in a small town of Emerald, Texas. Shortly after arriving Melanie learns that for fifty years the town has been haunted by the memory of a tragic accident in which a train collided with a school bus on a railway crossing killing all the children on board. From this tragedy has emerged a local urban legend claiming that if a driver stops his or her car on the same stretch of track and switches off the engine, the ghosts of the children will push the car to safety. Some people even claim to have discovered the fingerprints of the children on the backs of their cars.

Returning home from a party one evening, Melanie, Crystal and their dates decide to test the legend for themselves. Nothing out of the ordinary happens except that Melanie believes she has seen a little girl watching them from the trackside. It transpires that this is just the first of several ghostly apparitions she claims to witness over the coming days. Concerned by her strange behaviour, her parents are convinced she is using drugs again. As Melanie struggles to regain her parents' trust and to make sense of what is going on around her, several of her fellow high school students mysteriously disappear and one of her teachers is found brutally murdered.

Fingerprints will be released on UK DVD by Anchor Bay Entertainment on 20th April 2009 at the RRP of £15.99. With optional Dolny stereo 2.0 and surround 5.1 sound options, the extra features will include:

• Behind the scenes featurette;
• Interview with the cast on their personal scary moments in life.