Strangely, we are looking at a week with no art titles. That’s actually unusual in Asheville. Also unusual is that everything is rated R. But perhaps the most unusual thing is that this may well be the second week where the most interesting film might be the horror movie in the batch. That, of course, remains to be seen.

Let me break this to you gently: This is going to be the special bare bones down-and-dirty edition of the “Weekly Reeler.” I am coming to you from the bedroom I grew up calling “my room” in Lake Wales, Fla. I hardly recognize it, which is to say that my old 12-by-12 foot private domain from age six to 18 bears little trace of my presence these days. (In honor of the experience, however, I am “sneaking” cigarettes back here and using a Coke can for an ashtray. I will not have to hide it behind the radio as I did when I was 16, which is a good thing because there’s no radio in sight.) I am also working on a computer that dates back to…well, let’s put it this way — it stops just shy of being hand-cranked.

So with one week of the movie year (and a Chainsaw movie) behind us, we’re looking at two new releases this week — one of which might make Texas Chainsaw look pretty good. The other — who can say? Also in the offing are two expansions with a degree of anticipation attached to them.