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Review Code Red / Doom Asylum [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Kenny L. Price
  • Patty Mullen
  • William Hay
  • Ruth Collins
  • Richard Friedman
  • Kristin Davis
Release date: 2007-01-09
Run time: 79 min.
Price: £7.78

Review Doom Asylum [1988] / Code Red:


Review Anchor Bay / Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness: The Director's Cut - Official Bootleg Edition [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Embeth Davidtz
  • Deke Anderson
  • Ian Abercrombie
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Andy Bale
Release date: 2001-10-30
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Joseph Lo Duca
Price: £37.05

Review Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness: The Director's Cut - Official Bootleg Edition [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:

It's hard not to feel there's something wrong when Army of Darkness, the third entry in Sam Raimi's lively Evil Dead series, opens with a 15 certificate. And indeed, this is not quite the non-stop rollercoaster of splat we're entitled to expect. Like Evil Dead II, it opens with a digest-cum-remake of the original movie, taking geeky Ash (Bruce Campbell) back out to that cabin in the woods where he is beset by demons who do away with his girlfriend (blink and you'll miss Bridget Fonda). Blasted back in time to 12th century England, Ash finds himself still battling the Deadites and his own ineptitude in a quest to save the day and get back home. Though it starts zippily, with Campbell's grimly funny clod of a hero commanding the screen, a sort of monotony sets in as magical events pile up. Ash is attacked by Lilliputian versions of himself, one of whom incubates in his stomach and grows out of his shoulder to be his evil twin. After being dismembered and buried, Evil Ash rises from the dead to command a zombie army and at least half the film is a big battle scene in which rotted warriors (nine mouldy extras in masks for every one Harryhausen-style impressive animated skeleton) besiege a cardboard castle. There are lots of action jokes, MAD Magazine-like marginal doodles and a few funny lines, but it lacks the authentic scares of The Evil Dead and the authentic sick comedy of Evil Dead II. On the DVD: Army of Darkness may be the least of the trilogy, but Anchor Bay's super two-disc set is worthy of shelving beside their outstanding editions of the earlier films. Disc 1 contains the 81-minute US theatrical version in widescreen or fullscreen, plus the original "Planet of the Apes" ending, the trailer and a making-of featurette. [+]
Disc 2 has the 96-minute director's cut, with extra slapstick and a lively, irreverent commentary track from Raimi, Campbell and co-writer Ivan Raimi, plus yet more deleted scenes and some storyboards. The fact that the film exists in so many versions suggests that none of them satisfied everybody, but fans will want every scrap of Army in this one package. -Kim Newman.

Review Image Entertainment / The English Girls Collection: What's Good For The Goose/Intimate Games/Love Is a Splendid Illusion [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2005-11-29
Run time: 270 min.
Creator: Sally Bazely
Price: £17.95

Review The English Girls Collection: What's Good For The Goose/Intimate Games/Love Is a Splendid Illusion [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review First Look Pictures / A Little Trip to Heaven [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Coyote
  • Baltasar Kormákur
  • Kharl Anton Leigh
  • Juan Carlos Pardo Pardo
  • Forest Whitaker
  • Maria Fernandez Ache
Release date: 2007-03-13
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £2.94

Review A Little Trip to Heaven [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / First Look Pictures:


Review Shriek Show / Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Herschell Gordon Lewis
  • J.P. Delahoussaye
  • John McConnell
  • Melissa Morgan
  • Mark McLachlan
  • Toni Wynne
Release date: 2003-07-29
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £7.25

Review Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Shriek Show:


Review Elite / Horror Hospital [1973] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Gough
  • Kenneth Benda
  • Kurt Christian
  • Skip Martin
  • Anthony Balch
  • Robin Askwith
Release date: 1999-11-02
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Robert Dearberg
Price: £13.18

Review Horror Hospital [1973] (NTSC) / Elite:


Review Tokyo Shock / Gappa: The Triphibian Monsters [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tamio Kawaji
  • Yôko Yamamoto
  • Tatsuya Fuji
  • Haruyasu Noguchi
  • Yuji Okada
  • Koji Wada
Release date: 2000-12-09
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £9.56

Review Gappa: The Triphibian Monsters [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tokyo Shock:


Review Alpha Video / Candy Von Dewd [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • James Patrik
  • Pandemonium
  • Scott Moffett
  • Patrick Fisher
  • Katie Birrell
Release date: 2004-12-21
Creator: Soren Ragsdale
Price: £2.48

Review Candy Von Dewd [2003] / Alpha Video:


Review Arts Alliance Amer / National Lampoon Presents The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Wheatley
  • Jim J. Bullock
  • Richard Riehle
  • Jane Seymour
  • Daniel Baldwin
  • Chandler Adrian Parker
Release date: 2008-07-15
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Russ Howard III
Price: £7.45

Review National Lampoon Presents The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Arts Alliance Amer:


Review Warner Home Video / Gremlins [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Don Steele
  • Susan Burgess
  • Joe Dante
  • Hoyt Axton
  • Keye Luke
  • John Louie
Release date: 2002-08-20
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £4.71

Review Gremlins [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

When his absent-minded father gives young Billy Pelzer (Zach Galligan) a new pet, he warns him to abide by three rules. The rules get broken, of course, and the pet-a cute Mogwai named Gizmo-unwittingly gives birth to the vicious Gremlins who proceed to terrorise the town. Although the long shadow of Producer Steven Spielberg hangs over Joe Dante's 1984 comedy Gremlins almost as much as it did over Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist (1982), Dante doesn't allow it to overwhelm his own quirky style too much. Glimpses of Robbie the Robot and The Time Machine (which promptly disappears) at an inventors' convention reveal his passion for old-movie references (which culminated with Matinee, 1993). Aided and abetted by Spielberg's guidance and a script by Chris Columbus (who would go on to direct and produce the Home Alone franchise) and a music score by Jerry Goldsmith, Dante had all the help he needed to make the biggest hit of his career. Much of the humour derives from Dante's playful handling of the setting in Smallsville, USA, whose inhabitants are as much the target of his satire as they are of the Gremlins' unwanted solicitations. The xenophobic neighbour who warns prophetically of "gremlins" in foreign cars and machinery provides a subtext for the attack on homely American values, as does showing Invasion of the Body Snatchers on TV while the wicked Gremlins hatch. The sight of the little tykes cavorting in a bar, getting drunk and even dancing in pink leggings looks suspiciously like a satirical dig at the whole 1980's culture of selfishness: with their destructive impulses and overindulgences the Gremlins are the ultimate egotistical yuppies. As with many Spielberg projects, the bland hero saves the day for nostalgic, old-fashioned values, but there are plenty of laughs along the way-for example in the now-classic scene when the hero's mother fights off Gremlins in the kitchen by stuffing them in the blender and microwave. Dante's 1990 sequel is even more satirically pointed, and he effectively remade the original with Small Soldiers (1998), replacing Gremlins with toys. [+]
On the DVD: Disappointingly, there are no extra features at all here, aside from subtitles and "interactive menus"-which simply means there is an onscreen menu and it works. -Mark Walker When his absent-minded father gives young Billy Pelzer (Zach Galligan) a new pet, he warns him to abide by three rules. The rules get broken, of course, and the pet-a cute Mogwai named Gizmo-unwittingly gives birth to the vicious Gremlins who proceed to terrorise the town. Although the long shadow of Producer Steven Spielberg hangs over Joe Dante's 1984 comedy Gremlins almost as much as it did over Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist (1982), Dante doesn't allow it to overwhelm his own quirky style too much. Glimpses of Robbie the Robot and The Time Machine (which promptly disappears) at an inventors' convention reveal his passion for old-movie references (which culminated with Matinee, 1993). Aided and abetted by Spielberg's guidance and a script by Chris Columbus (who would go on to direct and produce the Home Alone franchise) and a music score by Jerry Goldsmith, Dante had all the help he needed to make the biggest hit of his career. Much of the humour derives from Dante's playful handling of the setting in Smallsville, USA, whose inhabitants are as much the target of his satire as they are of the Gremlins' unwanted solicitations. The xenophobic neighbour who warns prophetically of "gremlins" in foreign cars and machinery provides a subtext for the attack on homely American values, as does showing Invasion of the Body Snatchers on TV while the wicked Gremlins hatch. The sight of the little tykes cavorting in a bar, getting drunk and even dancing in pink leggings looks suspiciously like a satirical dig at the whole 1980's culture of selfishness: with their destructive impulses and overindulgences the Gremlins are the ultimate egotistical yuppies. As with many Spielberg projects, the bland hero saves the day for nostalgic, old-fashioned values, but there are plenty of laughs along the way-for example in the now-classic scene when the hero's mother fights off Gremlins in the kitchen by stuffing them in the blender and microwave. Dante's 1990 sequel is even more satirically pointed, and he effectively remade the original with Small Soldiers (1998), replacing Gremlins with toys. -Mark Walker.

Review Magnolia / The Host [HD DVD] [2006] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Du-na Bae
  • Hie-bong Byeon
  • Joon-ho Bong
  • Ah-sung Ko
  • Hae-il Park
  • Kang-ho Song
Release date: 2007-07-24
Run time: 119 min.
Price: £7.99

Review The Host [HD DVD] [2006] [US Import] / Magnolia:


Review 20th Century Fox / Club Dread [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Weaver
  • Tony Amendola
  • M.C. Gainey
  • Bill Paxton
  • Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Jay Chandrasekhar
Release date: 2004-09-28
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Nathan Barr
Price: £4.80

Review Club Dread [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Troma / Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy [1990] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Anette Maynard
  • Léon Paul De Bruyn
  • Otto Wald
  • Peter Bowland
  • Charles De Wilder
  • Eva Shubert
Release date: 2000-03-14
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £11.67

Review Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy [1990] (NTSC) / Troma:


Review Warner Home Video / The Lost Boys [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dianne Wiest
  • Joel Schumacher
  • Corey Haim
  • Edward Herrmann
  • Barnard Hughes
  • Jason Patric
Release date: 1998-01-28
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £3.76

Review The Lost Boys [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

This 1987 thriller was a predictable hit with the teen audience it worked overtime to attract. Like most of director Joel Schumacher's films, it's conspicuously designed to push the right marketing and demographic buttons and, granted, there's some pretty cool stuff going on here and there. Take Kiefer Sutherland, for instance. In Stand by Me he played a memorable bully, but here he goes one step further as a memorable bully vampire who leads a tribe of teenage vampires on their nocturnal spree of bloodsucking havoc. Jason Patric plays the new guy in town, who quickly attracts a lovely girlfriend (Jami Gertz), only to find that she might be recruiting him into the vampire fold. The movie gets sillier as it goes along, and resorts to a routine action-movie showdown, but it's a visual knockout (featuring great cinematography by Michael Chapman) and boasts a cast that's eminently able (pardon the pun) to sink their teeth into the best parts of an uneven screenplay. -Jeff Shannon.

Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / Galaxina [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dorothy Stratten
  • Stephen Macht
  • Lionel Mark Smith
  • Avery Schreiber
  • J.D. Hinton
  • William Sachs
Release date: 2006-08-29
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £6.94

Review Galaxina [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:


Review Universal Studios / An American Werewolf in London [HD DVD] [1981] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Jenny Agutter
  • Joe Belcher
  • Brian Glover
  • Michael Carter
  • Sydney Bromley
Release date: 2006-11-28
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Elmer Bernstein
Price: £6.99

Review An American Werewolf in London [HD DVD] [1981] [US Import] / Universal Studios:

With an ingenious script, engaging characters, nerve-shredding suspense, genuinely frightening set-pieces and laugh-out-loud funny bits An American Werewolf in London is a prime candidate for the finest horror-comedy ever made. Americans David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are backpacking in northern England when Jack is killed by a wild beast and David is bitten. Back in London David finds himself falling in love with a nurse, Alex (played with winning charm by Jenny Agutter), and turning into a werewolf. Adding to his problems, an increasingly decomposed Jack keeps coming back from the dead, and he is not a happy corpse. The Oscar winning make-up and transformation scenes still look good and rather than send itself up Werewolf plays its horror seriously, the laughs coming naturally from the surreal situation. Naughton is engagingly confused and disbelieving, desperately coping with the ever more nightmarish world, while Landis delivers one absolutely stunning dream sequence, an unbearably tense hunt on the London Underground and a breathtaking finale. Gory, erotic, shocking and romantic, this unforgettable horror classic has it all. Tom Holland's Fright Night (1985) remixed the formula with vampires, as did Landis himself in Innocent Blood (1992). A disappointing sequel, An American Werewolf in Paris, followed in 1997. -Gary S Dalkin.

Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Zegers
  • JoBeth Williams
  • Yasmine Bleeth
  • Jack Bender
  • John Ritter
  • Christopher Lloyd
Release date: 2002-04-02
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £17.95

Review It Came From the Sky [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Platinum Disc:


Review Sony Pictures / Hostel Part II [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Hewitt
  • Ruggero Deodato
  • Edwige Fenech
  • Luc Merenda
  • Jan Nemejovsky
Release date: 2008-07-29
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £5.14

Review Hostel Part II [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sony Pictures:


Review 20th Century Fox / When Good Ghouls Go Bad [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Lloyd
  • Brittany Byrnes
  • Patrick Read Johnson
  • Roy Billing
  • Jose Element
  • Tom Amandes
Release date: 2001-09-04
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £3.26

Review When Good Ghouls Go Bad [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Universal Studios / The Frighteners [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Trini Alvarado
  • John Astin
  • Peter Dobson
  • Jeffrey Combs
  • Jake Busey
Release date: 1998-08-18
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: John Blick
Price: £4.72

Review The Frighteners [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

One movie-lover's nightmare is another's raucous joyride, and this special effects-laden horror comedy is bound to split both camps right down the middle. Michael J Fox plays a psychic investigator who can actually see ghosts, and lives with a trio of spirits who scare people to promote Fox's ghost-busting business. In a town infamous for serial killings, a new series of deaths prompts Fox to induce his own out-of-body experience so he can battle death in a spirit-plagued netherworld where evil reigns supreme-or something like that. So much happens in this chaotic film that you might feel like you're watching several movies at once-a slasher pic, a supernatural thriller, and a black comedy all rolled into one non-stop showcase for grisly makeup and a dozen varieties of special effects. It's an odd but wildly inventive film from New Zealand director Peter Jackson, who earned critical acclaim for his previous film Heavenly Creatures and would later create the ingenious pseudo-documentary Forgotten Silver. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Models & Brands:
Doom Asylum [1988], Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness: The Director's Cut - Official Bootleg Edition [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The English Girls Collection: What's Good For The Goose/Intimate Games/Love Is a Splendid Illusion [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Little Trip to Heaven [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Horror Hospital [1973] (NTSC), Gappa: The Triphibian Monsters [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Candy Von Dewd [2003], National Lampoon Presents The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gremlins [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Host [HD DVD] [2006] [US Import], Club Dread [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy [1990] (NTSC), The Lost Boys [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Galaxina [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC), An American Werewolf in London [HD DVD] [1981] [US Import], It Came From the Sky [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hostel Part II [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), When Good Ghouls Go Bad [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Frighteners [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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