Review, buy Comedy Horror: Saturday the 14th Strikes Back [1988] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Ghost and the Guest [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics (REGION 1) (NTSC), Child's Play 3 [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mistress Frankenstein [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The League Of Gentlemen : Limited Edition Christmas Special [1999], Ed And His Dead Mother [1993], Lewis & Clark & George, Evil Cult [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Vampire In Brooklyn [1996], Mondo Cane/Mondo Pazzo [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Revenant [1998], The Greenskeeper [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Lexx - Vol. 2.10 - 2.19 Brizon / 2.20 End of the Universe [1999], Tales Of Terror [1982], Fade to Black/Hell Night (REGION 1) (NTSC), Snake Island [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Wicker Man [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers [1987]

A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. With flashes of nudity and surgical gore, and a collection of extreme hairstyles and accents, the show's overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx (designed to look like a dragonfly) are the "Dirty Three-and-a-Half": insufferable coward Stanley H. Tweedle (Brian Downey), the Edward Scissorhands clone and 2000-years-dead Kai (Michael McManus), decapitated and lovestruck robot head 790 (voiced by writer Jeffrey Hirschfield), and the skimpily wardrobed Zev (Eva Habermann), replaced for Season Two by Xev (Xenia Seeberg). A disregard both for genre conventions and good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises: by the time of the third season, the expression "anything goes" had long passed being understatement. On this tape: Desperate to call Mantrid's bluff, the Lexx crew are even prepared momentarily to trust his old tutor the Bio Vizier "Brizon". They know he has some treacherous agenda, but never guess what until it's almost too late. The storyline links straight into "End of the Universe", and the season finale sees every player of Mantrid's game attempting checkmate. 790 builds a counter army of Drone Arms, but it's to be Lyekker's efforts that once again save the day. The show ends with the very definition of a Big Bang, and leaves everything under one enormous question mark. [+]

-Paul Tonks.

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Review Vision Video Ltd. / Tales Of Terror [1982]

Tales Of Terror [1982] (Vision Video Ltd.)

Actors & Directors

Maggie Pierce
Leona Gage
Vincent Price
Peter Lorre
Edmund Cobb
Roger Corman

Release date: 1993-08-02
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Richard Matheson
Price: £10.99

Review Tales Of Terror [1982] / Vision Video Ltd.:

Tales of Terror is a trio of Edgar Allen Poe stories, starring three of horror's greats-Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone and Peter Lorre-and produced and directed by the immortal Roger Corman. The first story, "Morella", involves a girl (Debra Paget) who returns to her isolated, spooky family home to see her estranged father (Price) for the first time in 26 years. He's let the housekeeping slide a bit-cobwebs abound and, oh, yes, his dead wife is still upstairs. Peter Lorre joins the fun for "The Black Cat", a piece with comic flavour that allows Price to show his rarely seen silly side, and then it's Basil Rathbone's turn to be creepy in "The Case of M Valdemar", the tale of a mesmerist who decides to experiment with the unknown (bad idea). The movie is well paced, and makes good use of comedy without undercutting its chills. It's a rare treat to see this many masters of the genre working together and so clearly enjoying themselves. -Ali Davis.

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