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Actors & Directors
  • James Van Der Beek
  • Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Carmen Electra
  • Kurt Fuller
  • Chris Elliott
  • Anna Faris
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 167 min.
Price: £21.99

Review Scary Movie / Scary Movie 2 [2000] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Warner Home Video / The Lost Boys [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Patric
  • Joel Schumacher
  • Corey Haim
  • Dianne Wiest
  • Edward Herrmann
  • Barnard Hughes
Release date: 2004-08-10
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £9.59

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 Sub Rosa Studios / The Bride of Frank [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Frank J. O'Brien
Release date: 2007-01-30
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £11.66

Review The Bride of Frank [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sub Rosa Studios:


Actors & Directors
  • Nick Carter
  • Jack Perez
  • Mary Elizabeth Winstead
  • Carmen Electra
  • Adam West
  • C. Ernst Harth
Release date: 2004-11-02
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Michael Richard Plowman

Review Monster Island [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / DEJ Productions:


Review Image Entertainment / Flesh [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Candy Darling
  • Jackie Curtis
  • Patti D'Arbanville
  • Joe Dallesandro
  • Geraldine Smith
  • Paul Morrissey
Release date: 2005-10-11
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £7.41

Review Flesh [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Anchor Bay / The Evil Dead [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Betsy Baker
  • Theodore Raimi
  • Hal Delrich
  • Ellen Sandweiss
  • Bruce Campbell
Release date: 2002-03-05
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Joseph Lo Duca
Price: £7.59

Review The Evil Dead [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:

In the Autumn of 1979, Sam Raimi and his merry band headed into the woods of rural Tennessee to make a little movie called The Evil Dead. They emerged with a roller coaster of a film packed with shocks, gore and wild humour, a film that remains a benchmark for the genre. Ash (cult favourite Bruce Campbell) and four friends arrive at a backwoods cabin for a vacation, where they find a tape recorder containing incantations from an ancient book of the dead. When they play the tape, evil forces are unleashed, and one by one the friends are possessed. Wouldn't you know it, the only way to kill a "deadite" is by total bodily dismemberment, and soon the blood starts to fly. Raimi injects tremendous energy into this simple plot, using the claustrophobic set, disorientating camera angles and even the graininess of the film stock itself to create an atmosphere of dread, punctuated by a relentless series of jump-out-of-your-seat shocks. Much of the film's energy is supplied by the "Raimi-cam", a gliding, swooping, rushing camera that suggests a dislocated, otherworldly point of view while injecting a lively if spooky fleetness to the pace. Though it's no comedy, Raimi's dry wit and cinematic cleverness pervades the entire film. The Evil Dead lacks the more highly developed sense of the absurd that distinguish later entries in the series-Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness-but it is still much more than a gore movie: it marks the appearance of one of the most original and visually exciting directors of his generation, and it stands as a monument to the triumph of imagination over budget. -Simon Leake, Amazon. [+]
com.

Review 20th Century Fox / Phantom of the Paradise [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • William Finley
  • Gerrit Graham
  • Brian De Palma
  • Paul Williams (III)
  • George Memmoli
  • Jessica Harper
Release date: 2001-09-04
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £3.16

Review Phantom of the Paradise [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Koch Vision / Urban Evil: A Trilogy of Fear (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2005-02-08
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £3.29

Review Urban Evil: A Trilogy of Fear (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Koch Vision:


Actors & Directors
  • Michelle Bauer
  • Fred Olen Ray
  • Linnea Quigley
  • Dawn Wildsmith
  • Jay Richardson
  • Gunnar Hansen (II)
Release date: 2000-07-10
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers / Midnite Movies:


Review Madacy / Vice Academy 3 [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Johanna Grika
  • Elizabeth Kaitan
  • Rick Sloane
  • Julia Parton
  • Ginger Lynn Allen
  • Jay Richardson
Release date: 2002-07-30
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £10.95

Review Vice Academy 3 [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Madacy:


Review Troma / Frostbiter [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Chaney
  • Thom Schuman
  • Kim Fenech
  • Ron Asheton
  • John Bussard
  • Nikki Fite
Release date: 2000-10-31
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £19.95

Review Frostbiter [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Troma:


Review Troma / Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV [2000] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Torgl
  • Dan Snow
  • James Gunn
  • Debbie Rochon
  • Lloyd Kaufman
  • Ron Jeremy
Release date: 2003-03-18
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Brendan Flynt
Price: £7.08

Review Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV [2000] (NTSC) / Troma:


Review Jack Nicholson / Little Shop of Horrors/The Terror/The Wild Ride (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2004-06-15
Run time: 210 min.
Price: £1.67

Review Little Shop of Horrors/The Terror/The Wild Ride (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Jack Nicholson:


Review Troma Inc / The Toxic Avenger [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Jennifer Prichard
  • Michael Herz
  • Robert Prichard
  • Lloyd Kaufman
  • Andree Maranda
  • Cindy Manion
  • Mitch Cohen
Release date: 2000-11-13
Run time: 76 min.
Price: £12.99

Review The Toxic Avenger [1986] / Troma Inc:

The foundation stone of the Troma label's trash-movie empire, The Toxic Avenger introduces the character of nerdy janitor Melvin, who suffers heaps of abuse from local bad-guys and is stuffed into a vat of toxic waste while dressed in a ballerina outfit. He emerges mutated into a Swamp Thing/Hulk-style monster hero who romps around the blighted township of Tromaville, New Jersey, offing the grotesque villains in nastily gruesome ways and mooning over his blind true love. The Troma style is unique, and perhaps predates the anything-gross-for-a-laugh approach of the Farrelly Brothers by a good 10 years, but it sometimes wavers between the good-natured gags and genuinely unpleasant plot images that somewhat spoil the tone. Entry-level filmmaking, but with surprisingly professional head-squashing effects and a degree of enthusiasm that breaks down most resistance. Several sequels have ensued, including The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie. - Kim Newman.

Review Digital Entertainment Ltd / Revenant [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Craig Ferguson
  • Kim Cattrall
  • Casper Van Dien
  • Natasha Wagner
  • Richard Elfman
  • Gabriel Casseus
Release date: 2000-08-07
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.99

Review Revenant [1998] / Digital Entertainment Ltd:


Actors & Directors
  • Vincent Bilancio
Release date: 2002-08-13
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £17.95

Review Deadly Scavengers [2001] (NTSC) / Eclectic DVD Dist.:


Review Warner Home Video / Eight Legged Freaks [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Scarlett Johansson
  • Ellory Elkayem
  • David Arquette
  • Scott Terra
  • Doug E. Doug
  • Kari Wuhrer
Release date: 2002-10-29
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £2.72

Review Eight Legged Freaks [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Not funny enough to be called a spoof, not scary enough to be outright horror, Eight Legged Freaks is a curious effects-filled pastiche of those mutant B-movies of the 1950s and 60s. The plot is of the standard small-town-overrun-by-giant-spiders variety, after the little critters have been exposed to leaking radiation naturally. Local boy made good David Arquette has returned to the town to make amends with the woman he loves (feisty Sheriff Kari Wuhrer) and to stop the dastardly mayor from selling his father's mine. But before he can sort that out, there is a lot of bug squashing to be done as the CGI spiders cause all manner of havoc and mayhem. Eight Legged Freaks is admittedly a lot of fun, and there are some great set-pieces to enjoy, including a gang of teenage dirt bikers escaping a horde of jumping spiders. It's also quite gory in places, though with only a couple of decent shocks it's hardly likely to induce large-scale arachnophobia. The spiders are impressive but the CGI is painfully obvious and it never feels real. However, if you can suspend your disbelief for an hour and a half you will enjoy this pacey, fun and action-filled popcorn flick. It doesn't ever take itself too seriously and is certainly a lot more fun than producer Dean Devlin's other genre entries, Godzilla and Independence Day. On the DVD: Eight Legged Freaks offers some nice, B-movie poster-style menu screens but little in the way of extras. [+]
There's no making-of, no special effects breakdowns (astonishing given how heavily reliant it is on these to tell the story) and not even any spider-related factoids which seem almost a necessity. What we do get, though, is a fun and sprightly commentary, the theatrical trailer and director's Ellory Elkayem original short film Larger than Life, that formed the basis for its feature-length offspring. Compact, creepy and almost silent, it's a shudder-inducing little movie and far more creepy than the main feature. Technically, the picture is sharp and the bright, comic book colours and cinematography look gorgeous, and the squelching soundtrack is wonderfully crisp. -Jon Weir.

Review Universal Studios / Dawn of the Dead/Shaun of the Dead [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2005-08-02
Run time: 210 min.
Creator: Sarah Polley
Price: £20.96

Review Dawn of the Dead/Shaun of the Dead [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Troma / Rabid Grannies [1989] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Cotica
  • Patricia Davia
  • Caroline Braeckman
  • Catherine Aymerie
  • Danielle Daven
  • Emmanuel Kervyn
Release date: 1999-01-27
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £17.49

Review Rabid Grannies [1989] (NTSC) / Troma:


Actors & Directors
  • Grant Taylor
  • Mike Minett
  • Peter Jackson
  • Dean Lawrie
  • Craig Smith
  • Pete O'Herne
Release date: 2001-11-13
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Michelle Scullion
Price: £14.99

Review Peter Jackson's Bad Taste [1987] (NTSC) / Import:


Models & Brands:
Scary Movie / Scary Movie 2 [2000], The Lost Boys [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Bride of Frank [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Monster Island [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Flesh [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Evil Dead [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Phantom of the Paradise [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Urban Evil: A Trilogy of Fear (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Vice Academy 3 [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Frostbiter [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV [2000] (NTSC), Little Shop of Horrors/The Terror/The Wild Ride (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Toxic Avenger [1986], Revenant [1998], Deadly Scavengers [2001] (NTSC), Eight Legged Freaks [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dawn of the Dead/Shaun of the Dead [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Rabid Grannies [1989] (NTSC), Peter Jackson's Bad Taste [1987] (NTSC)

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