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Review Lighthouse DVD Distribution / Drainiac [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Alexandra Boylan
  • Ethan Krasnoo
  • Samara Doucette
  • Georgia Hatzis
  • Rob Gorden
  • Brett Piper
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Steven E. Williams
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.45

Review Drainiac [2000] / Lighthouse DVD Distribution:


Review Tartan Video / Basket Case [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Van Hentenryck
  • Beverly Bonner
  • Frank Henenlotter
  • Terri Susan Smith
  • Robert Vogel
  • Diana Browne
Release date: 2002-10-28
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Edgar Ievins
Price: £12.99

Review Basket Case [1982] / Tartan Video:


Review Lionsgate / Holla [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • H.M. Coakley
  • Melissa-Anne Davenport
  • Robbyne Manning
  • Michael Bergin
  • Kimberly Barnett
  • Tommy Morgan Jr.
Release date: 2007-10-09
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Zack Clark
Price: £5.61

Review Holla [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review Tartan Video / Sheitan [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Roxane Mesquida
  • Kim Chapiron
  • Olivier Bartélémy
  • Vincent Cassel
  • Nico Le Phat Tan
  • Leïla Bekhti
Release date: 2006-12-26
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Christian Chapiron
Price: £5.97

Review Sheitan [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tartan Video:


Review Vci Video / Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Filep
  • Bob Clark
  • Paul Cronin
  • Roy Engelman
  • Benjamin Clark
  • Jane Daly
  • Alecs Baird
Release date: 2007-09-18
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Carl Zittrer
Price: £8.50

Review Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things [1972] / Vci Video:


Review Starz/Anchor Bay / The Cook [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kit Paquin
  • Nina Fehren
  • Makinna Ridgway
  • Penny Drake
  • Gregg Simon
  • Mark Hengst
Release date: 2008-04-01
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Francisco Rodriguez
Price: £11.82

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


Review Warner Home Video / Little Shop Of Horrors [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Vincent Gardenia
  • Tichina Arnold
  • Ellen Greene
  • Frank Oz
  • Steve Martin
  • Rick Moranis
Release date: 1999-10-01
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Howard Ashman
RRP: £6.99
Price: £4.98

Review Little Shop Of Horrors [1987] / Warner Home Video:

The off-Broadway comedy-horror-musical hit that ran for years makes a successful transfer to film with a bevy of big-name cameos and two perfectly cast leads. Rick Moranis is the nebbish Seymour, who pines for flower-girl Audrey (Ellen Greene) while living in the basement of florist Mr Mushnik (Vincent Gardenia). Things start turning around for Seymour, though, after he buys a little plant during a solar eclipse, christens it Audrey II, and discovers that it likes to drink blood. Soon enough, though, Seymour finds out that Audrey II, now grown to epic proportions, is in actuality a "mean green mother from outer space" that is hell-bent on world domination. Based on the 1960 Roger Corman cheapie that featured a young Jack Nicholson, Little Shop boasts a hilarious, amazing score by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, who would go on to revitalise Disney's animation arm with The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. Greene, the lone holdover from the original cast, is a ravishing, goofy Audrey, whose awkward demeanour belies a voice that could knock Ethel Merman off her feet. She's ably matched by Moranis, whose lack of a singing voice is perfectly in sync with Seymour's nerdiness. And Levi Stubbs Jr of the Four Tops provides the low-down, nasty-minded voice of Audrey II; his rendition of the Oscar-nominated "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" is a showstopper. As for those celebrity cameos, Steve Martin's sadistic dentist is a masterful creation, as is Bill Murray's masochistic patient; John Candy, James Belushi, and Christopher Guest also pop up. And there was never a lovelier and funkier Greek chorus than the three Motown-fuelled girls (Tichina Arnold, Michelle Weeks and Tisha Campbell) who appear throughout the film. [+]
-Mark Englehart, Amazon. com.

Review Lions Gate / Beyond Re-Animator [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jeffrey Combs
  • Jason Barry
  • Brian Yuzna
  • Tommy Dean Musset
  • Bárbara Elorrieta
  • Elsa Pataky
Release date: 2003-12-30
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Xavier Berraondo
Price: £5.80

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


Review Japanese Import / The Twins Effect [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
  • Donnie Yen
  • Gillian Chung
  • Dante Lam
  • Edison Chen
  • Ekin Cheng
  • Charlene Choi
Release date: 2003-11-25
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: Jack Ng
Price: £10.93

Review The Twins Effect [2004] / Japanese Import:


Review Universal Studios / Seed of Chucky [HD DVD] [2005] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • John Waters
  • Redman
  • Billy Boyd
  • Brad Dourif
  • Don Mancini
  • Jennifer Tilly
Release date: 2007-10-23
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Vlad Paunescu
Price: £5.91

Review Seed of Chucky [HD DVD] [2005] [US Import] / Universal Studios:


Review Turner Home Entertainment / The King Kong Collection: King Kong (1933)/Son of Kong (1933)/Mighty Joe Young (1949) (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Fay Wray
  • Ben Johnson
  • Merian C. Cooper
  • Terry Moore
  • Peter Jackson
  • Robert Armstrong
  • Ernest B. Schoedsack
  • Bruce Cabot
Release date: 2006-03-28
Run time: 276 min.
Creator: Ruth Rose
Price: £24.21

Review The King Kong Collection: King Kong (1933)/Son of Kong (1933)/Mighty Joe Young (1949) (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Turner Home Entertainment:


Review Troma / The Tox Box: The Toxic Avenger 1,2,3 and The Animated Film The Toxic Crusaders (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Herz
  • Phoebe Legere
  • Mitch Cohen
  • John Altamura
  • Andree Maranda
  • Bill Hutten
  • Tony Love
  • Lloyd Kaufman
  • Ron Fazio
Release date: 2002-09-03
Run time: 297 min.
Creator: Joe Ritter
Price: £22.12

Review The Tox Box: The Toxic Avenger 1,2,3 and The Animated Film The Toxic Crusaders (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Troma:


Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / The Refrigerator [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Phil Butard
  • Michelle DeCosta
  • Michael Beltran
  • Angel Caban
  • Eric Durand Folsom
  • Nicholas Jacobs
Release date: 1995-07-10
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Philip Dolin
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.25

Review The Refrigerator [1993] / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:


Review Image Entertainment / Ghost in a Teeny Bikini [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicole Sheridan
Release date: 2006-08-08
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £4.34

Review Ghost in a Teeny Bikini [2006] / Image Entertainment:


Review RCV / Delicatessen [ English subtitles ]
Actors & Directors
  • Dominique Pinon
  • Marie-Laure Dougnac
  • Marc Caro
  • Jean-Claude Dreyfus
  • Karin Viard
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  • Pascal Benezech
Release date: 2003-01-29
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Gilles Adrien
RRP: £14.37
Price: £22.99

Review Delicatessen [ English subtitles ] / RCV:

Delicatessen presents a post-apocalyptic scenario set entirely in a dank and gloomy building where the landlord operates a delicatessen on the ground floor. But this is an altogether meatless world, so the butcher-landlord keeps his customers happy by chopping unsuspecting victims into cutlets, and he's sharpening his knife for the new tenant (French comic actor Dominque Pinon) who's got the hots for the butcher's near-sighted daughter. Delicatessen is a feast (if you will) of hilarious vignettes, slapstick gags, and sweetly eccentric characters, including a man in a swampy room full of frogs, a woman doggedly determined to commit suicide (she never gets it right) and a pair of brothers who make toy sound boxes that "moo" like cows. It doesn't amount to much as a story, but that hardly matters; this is the kind of comedy that leaps from a unique wellspring of imagination and inspiration, and it's handled with such visual virtuosity that you can't help but be mesmerised. French co-directors of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro have wildly inventive imaginations that gravitate to the darker absurdities of human behaviour, and their visual extravagance is matched by impressive technical skill. There's some priceless comedy here, some of which is so inventive that you may feel the urge to stand up and cheer. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com On the DVD: the special features are pretty standard, with a trailer, "making of" featurette and footage of the rehearsal process. The audio commentary is supplied by Jeunet, which, although interesting, is in French and thus necessitates the use of subtitles which then obliterate the movie's own subtitles. Once the commentary is on it is virtually impossible to turn this option off without reloading the disc. [+]
However, the Dolby stereo works wonders for this film, which is rich in sound, and surprisingly the 1. 85:1 letterbox ratio is perfect for a film that is grainy by design. -Nikki Disney.

Review Code Red / Doom Asylum [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Kristin Davis
  • Ruth Collins
  • Kenny L. Price
  • Richard Friedman
  • Patty Mullen
  • William Hay
Release date: 2007-01-09
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Rick Marx
Price: £9.48

Review Doom Asylum [1988] / Code Red:


Review Anchor Bay / Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Dan Hicks
  • Kassie DePaiva
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Ted Raimi
  • Sarah Berry
  • Sam Raimi
Release date: 1998-10-13
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Scott Spiegel
Price: £6.50

Review Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn [1987] / Anchor Bay:

Writer-director Sam Raimi's extremely stylized, blood-soaked follow-up to his creepy Evil Dead isn't really a sequel; rather, it's a remake on a better budget. It also isn't really a horror film (though there are plenty of decapitations, zombies, supernatural demons, and gore) as much as it is a hilarious, sophisticated slapstick send-up of the terror genre. Raimi takes every horror convention that exists and exaggerates it with mind-blowing special effects, crossed with mocking Three Stooges humour. The plot alone is a genre cliché right out of any number of horror films. Several teens (including our hero, Ash, played by Bruce Campbell in a manic tour-de-force of physical comedy) visit a broken-down cottage in the woods-miles from civilization-find a copy of the Book of the Dead, and unleash supernatural powers that gut every character in sight. All, that is, except Ash, who takes this very personally and spends much of the of the film getting his head smashed while battling the unseen forces. Raimi uses this bare-bones story as a stage to showcase dazzling special effects and eye-popping visuals, including some of the most spectacular point-of-view Steadicam work ever (done by Peter Deming). Although it went unnoticed in the cinemas, the film has since become an influential cult-video favourite, paving the way for over-the-top comic gross-out films like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive. -Dave McCoy.

Review E.I. Independent / Kinky Kong [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Darian Caine
  • Alexia Moore
  • A.J. Khan
  • Sabrina Faire
  • John Paul Fedele
  • John Bacchus
Release date: 2006-09-05
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: Michael Raso
Price: £9.52

Review Kinky Kong [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / E.I. Independent:


Review Magnolia / The Host [Blu-ray] [2006] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Du-na Bae
  • Hae-il Park
  • Hie-bong Byeon
  • Kang-ho Song
  • Ah-sung Ko
  • Joon-ho Bong
Release date: 2007-07-24
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Won-jun Ha
Price: £10.99

Review The Host [Blu-ray] [2006] [US Import] / Magnolia:


Review Anchor Bay / Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ted Raimi
  • Dan Hicks
  • Sarah Berry
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Sam Raimi
  • Kassie DePaiva
Release date: 2000-08-29
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Scott Spiegel
Price: £7.78

Review Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:

Writer-director Sam Raimi's extremely stylized, blood-soaked follow-up to his creepy Evil Dead isn't really a sequel; rather, it's a remake on a better budget. It also isn't really a horror film (though there are plenty of decapitations, zombies, supernatural demons, and gore) as much as it is a hilarious, sophisticated slapstick send-up of the terror genre. Raimi takes every horror convention that exists and exaggerates it with mind-blowing special effects, crossed with mocking Three Stooges humour. The plot alone is a genre cliché right out of any number of horror films. Several teens (including our hero, Ash, played by Bruce Campbell in a manic tour-de-force of physical comedy) visit a broken-down cottage in the woods-miles from civilization-find a copy of the Book of the Dead, and unleash supernatural powers that gut every character in sight. All, that is, except Ash, who takes this very personally and spends much of the of the film getting his head smashed while battling the unseen forces. Raimi uses this bare-bones story as a stage to showcase dazzling special effects and eye-popping visuals, including some of the most spectacular point-of-view Steadicam work ever (done by Peter Deming). Although it went unnoticed in the cinemas, the film has since become an influential cult-video favourite, paving the way for over-the-top comic gross-out films like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive. -Dave McCoy.

Models & Brands:
Drainiac [2000], Basket Case [1982], Holla [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sheitan [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things [1972], The Cook [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Little Shop Of Horrors [1987], Beyond Re-Animator [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Twins Effect [2004], Seed of Chucky [HD DVD] [2005] [US Import], The King Kong Collection: King Kong (1933)/Son of Kong (1933)/Mighty Joe Young (1949) (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Tox Box: The Toxic Avenger 1,2,3 and The Animated Film The Toxic Crusaders (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Refrigerator [1993], Ghost in a Teeny Bikini [2006], Delicatessen [ English subtitles ], Doom Asylum [1988], Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn [1987], Kinky Kong [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Host [Blu-ray] [2006] [US Import], Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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