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Review Lions Gate / Beyond Re-Animator [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bárbara Elorrieta
  • Jeffrey Combs
  • Brian Yuzna
  • Jason Barry
  • Ángel Plana
  • Tommy Dean Musset
Release date: 2003-12-30
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £5.03

Review Beyond Re-Animator [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review Murray / Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters 2 [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 215 min.

Review Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters 2 [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Murray:


Review Warner Home Video / Innerspace [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Blumenfeld
  • Christine Avila
  • Joe Flaherty
  • Orson Bean
  • Charles Aidman
Release date: 2002-07-09
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Jerry Goldsmith
Price: £4.05

Review Innerspace [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Innerspace is assured a place in the Hollywood history books as the movie which brought Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan together as one of cinema's most famous couples. The film itself belongs among a series of feelgood fantasies presented by Steven Spielberg in the 1980s, including Back to the Future (1984) and from the same director, Joe Dante, Gremlins (1983). Innerspace offers Dante's usual mixture of comedy, exciting action and fantasy, the plot being a variation on Fantastic Voyage (1966). Test pilot Quaid is miniaturised and as a result of a bungled attempt to steal the new experimental technology, accidentally injected into the body of a deeply stressed and insecure Martin Short. Quaid is charismatic and commanding, Ryan gives an early demonstration of her patent romantic comedy persona, but it's Short's picture as he delivers a perfectly nuanced performance pitched between slapstick and paranoia. The Oscar-winning special effects enhance rather than dominate the story, which, though it gets a bit too silly in places, is generally inventive and sufficiently action packed to sustain the almost two-hour running time. Jerry Goldsmith's muscular score is a major asset, while in-joke spotters will have fun picking out everyone from Chuck Jones to William Schallert (the doctor in The Incredible Shrinking Man (1! 957)). On the DVD: Innerspace on disc has a group commentary with director Joe Dante, producer Michael Finnell, visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren and actor Kevin McCarthy. This is engaging if far from riveting. The original trailer is anamorphically enhanced and there are two perfunctory pages listing cast, crew and the film's Oscar for special effects. [+]
The original Dolby Spectral soundtrack has been remixed into Dolby Digital 5. 1 and is bold, clear and powerful. The picture is presented at 1. 78:1 and is a virtually flawless transfer: colours are rich, detail levels are high and the only trace of grain is in a few particularly high contrast shots. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / Legends of Hollywood: The Kings of Horror [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bela Lugosi
  • Boris Karloff
Release date: 2008-04-08
Run time: 1040 min.
Price: £5.23

Review Legends of Hollywood: The Kings of Horror [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:


Review Fantoma / Revengers Tragedy [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Derek Jacobi
  • Christopher Eccleston
  • Eddie Izzard
  • Alex Cox
  • Alex Cox
Release date: 2004-07-20
Run time: 109 min.
Price: £7.19

Review Revengers Tragedy [2003] / Fantoma:


Review Starz/Anchor Bay / The Cook [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gregg Simon
  • Nina Fehren
  • Kit Paquin
  • Mark Hengst
  • Penny Drake
  • Makinna Ridgway
Release date: 2008-04-01
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Nick Bonomo
Price: £10.32

Review The Cook [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Starz/Anchor Bay:


Review Image Entertainment / Color Me Blood Red [1964] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jerome Eden
  • Herschell Gordon Lewis
  • Gordon Oas-Heim
  • Pat Lee
  • Elyn Warner
  • Candi Conder
Release date: 2000-02-22
Run time: 79 min.
Price: £3.64

Review Color Me Blood Red [1964] (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Genius Products, Inc / The Hogfather [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Robinson
  • Michelle Dockery
  • Marc Warren
  • David Jason
  • David Warner
  • Vadim Jean
Release date: 2008-03-04
Run time: 189 min.
Price: £5.06

Review The Hogfather [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Genius Products, Inc:


Review www.a2zcds.com / Spooks Run Wild (1941) DVD [Remastered Edition]   [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Phil Rosen
  • Bela Lugosi;Huntz Hall;Leo Gorcey;Bobby Jordan
Release date: 2007-07-01
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.95

Review Spooks Run Wild (1941) DVD [Remastered Edition]   [2007] / www.a2zcds.com:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Haunted Mansion [Blu-ray] [2004] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Murphy
  • Rob Minkoff
  • Nathaniel Parker
  • Marsha Thomason
  • Terence Stamp
  • Jennifer Tilly
Release date: 2006-10-17
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £12.53

Review The Haunted Mansion [Blu-ray] [2004] [US Import] / Walt Disney Video:

Lush production design and sparkling special effects make The Haunted Mansion pretty to look at. Terence Stamp, as a malevolent ghost of a butler, provides a suitable air of menace as he dematerialises to and fro. Marsha Thomason is lovely as a real estate agent hired to sell a haunted mansion, but in truth the ghostly owner of the mansion believes she is the reincarnation of his lost love. Wallace Shawn and Dina Waters make a modestly amusing comic pair as a ghostly husband and wife who bustle about. Jennifer Tilly, as a green disembodied head in a crystal ball, glitters appropriately. The movie also features endless clichés, futile attempts at humour, and Eddie Murphy. If you're looking for a movie based on a Disneyland ride, try the very clever Pirates of the Caribbean instead. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Anchor Bay / Return of the Killer Tomatoes! [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charles "Buck" Jones
  • John Astin
  • C.J. Dillon
  • George Clooney
  • Frances Davis
Release date: 2002-04-02
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Rick Patterson
Price: £3.30

Review Return of the Killer Tomatoes! [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Troma / Troma's War [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Carolyn Beauchamp
  • Michael Herz
  • Patrick Weathers
  • Jessica Dublin
  • Sean Bowen
  • Rick Washburn
  • Lloyd Kaufman
Release date: 1998-08-25
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £4.80

Review Troma's War [1988] / Troma:


Review New Line Home Video / Critters 4 [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Terrence Mann
  • Rupert Harvey
  • Angela Bassett
  • Anders Hove
  • Paul Whitthorne
  • Don Keith Opper
Release date: 2003-08-05
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £5.12

Review Critters 4 [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Video:


Review Plexi Film UK / Sun Ra - Space Is The Place [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Barbara Deloney
  • Erika Leder
  • John Coney
  • Raymond Johnson
  • La Shaa Stallings
  • Sun Ra
Release date: 2005-01-10
Run time: 63 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £17.99

Review Sun Ra - Space Is The Place [1972] / Plexi Film UK:


Review MGM / The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tobe Hooper
  • Caroline Williams
  • Jim Siedow
  • Bill Moseley
  • Bill Johnson (XI)
  • Dennis Hopper
Release date: 2000-08-01
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £5.14

Review The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

Opinion is mixed as to whether Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a worthy successor to Tobe Hooper's seminal slasher flick. The story picks up 14 years after the events of the first film, which have long since passed into local legend. On a relentless search for the maniacs who murdered his wheelchair-bound nephew Franklin, Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright (Dennis Hopper) is drawn to the scene of a brutal roadside killing in Red River, Texas. He soon forms an alliance with Stretch (Caroline Williams), a feisty female radio DJ who inadvertently broadcasts the chainsaw murder of two drunken frat boys live on her late-night phone-in request show. At Lefty's request she replays the tape on air and soon after receives a terrifying visit from two deranged fans, Leatherface and Chop Top, who are intent on killing her. Stretch escapes, and together with Lefty follows the trail of the gruesome twosome into the bowels of the deserted San Jacinto historical theme park, which hides a Leatherface house of horrors. In contrast to the chilling, snuff movie scenario of the original, Hooper whoops it up with this 1986 sequel brimming with gruesome humour, without welching on the thrills. Writer LM Kit Carson (Paris, Texas) reworks Leatherface into a tragic, almost naïve figure trapped beneath a horrific façade and fleshes out his thoroughly dysfunctional family with the introduction of baby brother ChopTop-a steel-plated Vietnam vet. Leatherface's old man (now called Drayton Sawyer) and Grandpa are carried over from the first film. Dennis Hopper is clean cut but dead-eyed in a typically manic performance as the cowboy detective driven by revenge-think of an embryonic Frank Booth from Blue Velvet with a fetish for power tools. [+]
TCM2 is a wildly imaginative experiment in terror that stays true to its trashy exploitation roots. On the DVD: The lack of extra features on this disc (apart from the standard theatrical trailer) is a major oversight given that TCM2 has had no previous theatrical or video release in the UK. A director's commentary would have been especially welcome, as well as the addition of the deleted scenes featured on the US laserdisc and special edition VHS versions of this film. Static menus provide options to watch the film with English, Spanish or Italian dialogue and subtitles in Danish, Norweigian and Swedish. The main feature is of more than adequate picture quality and presented in 16:9 anamorphic format. -Chris Campion.

Review Tai Seng / The Dead and the Deadly [1982] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Yuen Biao
  • Cherie Chung
  • Lam Ching-Ying
  • Sammo Hung
  • Wu Ma
  • Lam Ching Ying
Release date: 2003-03-18
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £19.94

Review The Dead and the Deadly [1982] (NTSC) / Tai Seng:


Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / Graveyard Tramps [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Denis Sanders
  • Anitra Ford
  • Cliff Osmond
  • William Smith
  • Wright King
  • Victoria Vetri
Release date: 2004-03-09
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £24.97

Review Graveyard Tramps [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:


Actors & Directors
  • Charles Fleischer
  • Carrie Stevens
  • David DeFalco
  • Corey Haim
  • Priscilla Barnes
  • Brian Gaskill
Release date: 2002-04-09
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £3.67

Review The Backlot Murders [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Razor Digital Entertainment:


Review Anthem Pictures / Frankenhooker [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lia Chang
  • Vicki Darnell
  • Sandy Colisimo
  • Beverly Bonner
  • Carissa Channing
Release date: 2006-10-17
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Joe Renzetti
Price: £6.70

Review Frankenhooker [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anthem Pictures:


Review Lightyear Video / Sidekick [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • David Ingram
  • Perry Mucci
  • Mackenzie Lush
  • Blake Van de Graaf
  • Daniel Baldwin
  • Julian Osen
Release date: 2008-06-10
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £7.12

Review Sidekick [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lightyear Video:


Models & Brands:
Beyond Re-Animator [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters 2 [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Innerspace [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Legends of Hollywood: The Kings of Horror [1940] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Revengers Tragedy [2003], The Cook [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Color Me Blood Red [1964] (NTSC), The Hogfather [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Spooks Run Wild (1941) DVD [Remastered Edition]   [2007], The Haunted Mansion [Blu-ray] [2004] [US Import], Return of the Killer Tomatoes! [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Troma's War [1988], Critters 4 [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sun Ra - Space Is The Place [1972], The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Dead and the Deadly [1982] (NTSC), Graveyard Tramps [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Backlot Murders [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Frankenhooker [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sidekick [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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