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Review New Line Home Video / Pan's Labyrinth [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Guillermo del Toro
  • Sergi López
  • Doug Jones
  • Ivana Baquero
  • Maribel Verdú
  • Ariadna Gil
Release date: 2007-05-15
Run time: 119 min.
Price: £2.90

Review Pan's Labyrinth [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Video:

Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, Jorge Luis Borges, and Guillermo del Toro's own unlimited imagination, Pan's Labyrinth is a fairytale for adults. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) may only be 12, but the worlds she inhabits, both above and below ground, are dark as anything del Toro has conjured. Set in rural Spain, circa 1944, Ofelia and her widowed mother, Carmen (Ariadna Gil, Belle Epoque), have just moved into an abandoned mill with Carmen's new husband, Captain Vidal (Sergi López, With a Friend like Harry). Carmen is pregnant with his son. Other than her sickly mother and kindly housekeeper Mercedes (Maribel Verdú, Y Tu Mamá También), the dreamy Ofelia is on her own. Vidal, an exceedingly cruel man, couldn't be bothered. He has informers to torture. Ofelia soon finds that an entire universe exists below the mill. Her guide is the persuasive Faun (Doug Jones, Mimic). As her mother grows weaker, Ofelia spends more and more time in the satyr's labyrinth. [+]
He offers to help her out of her predicament if she'll complete three treacherous tasks. Ofelia is willing to try, but does this alternate reality really exist or is it all in her head? Del Toro leaves that up to the viewer to decide in a beautiful, yet brutal twin to The Devil's Backbone, which was also haunted by the ghost of Franco. Though it lacks the humour of Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth represents Guillermo Del Toro at the top of his considerable game. -Kathleen C. Fennessy.

Review Mvm / Full Metal Alchemist Vol.7 - Reunion On Rock Island
Actors & Directors
  • Romi Pak
  • Vic Mignogna
  • Tôru Ôkawa
  • Aaron Dismuke
  • Rie Kugimiya
Release date: 2006-06-26
Run time: 30 min.
Creator: Shô Aikawa
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.95

Review Full Metal Alchemist Vol.7 - Reunion On Rock Island / Mvm:


Review Tokyo Shock / Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Akira Kubo
  • Yoshio Tsuchiya
  • Kenji Sahara
  • Hiroshi Koizumi
  • Ishirô Honda
  • Kumi Mizuno
Release date: 2005-03-15
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £8.66

Review Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tokyo Shock:


Review Tokyo Shock / Tales of Terror From Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Keisuke Toyoshima
  • Norio Tsuruta
  • Ichiro Nakayama
  • Takashi Shimizu
  • Shiro Sano
Release date: 2006-07-11
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £8.70

Review Tales of Terror From Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tokyo Shock:


Actors & Directors
  • Andres Garcia
Release date: 2007-08-14
Run time: 134 min.
Price: £15.95

Review Tintorera [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Desert Mountain Media:


Review A.D.V. Films / Destroy All Monsters [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Yukiko Kobayashi
  • Ishirô Honda
  • Akira Kubo
  • Kyôko Ai
  • Jun Tazaki
  • Yoshio Tsuchiya
Release date: 2004-05-18
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £97.95

Review Destroy All Monsters [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / A.D.V. Films:


Review Geneon / Barefoot Gen: The Movies 1 & 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Yoshie Shimamura
  • Issei Miyazaki
  • Takao Inoue
  • Seiko Nakano
  • Mori Masaki
  • Masaki Kôda
Release date: 2006-08-08
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Yasuteru Iwase
Price: £29.94

Review Barefoot Gen: The Movies 1 & 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Geneon:


Review New Line Home Video / Pan's Labyrinth [Blu-ray] [2006] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Maribel Verdú
  • Federico Luppi
  • Eusebio Lazaro
  • Lina Mira
  • Doug Jones
Release date: 2007-12-26
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Cortes Iberica
Price: £11.04

Review Pan's Labyrinth [Blu-ray] [2006] [US Import] / New Line Home Video:

Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, Jorge Luis Borges, and Guillermo del Toro's own unlimited imagination, Pan's Labyrinth is a fairytale for adults. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) may only be 12, but the worlds she inhabits, both above and below ground, are dark as anything del Toro has conjured. Set in rural Spain, circa 1944, Ofelia and her widowed mother, Carmen (Ariadna Gil, Belle Epoque), have just moved into an abandoned mill with Carmen's new husband, Captain Vidal (Sergi López, With a Friend like Harry). Carmen is pregnant with his son. Other than her sickly mother and kindly housekeeper Mercedes (Maribel Verdú, Y Tu Mamá También), the dreamy Ofelia is on her own. Vidal, an exceedingly cruel man, couldn't be bothered. He has informers to torture. Ofelia soon finds that an entire universe exists below the mill. Her guide is the persuasive Faun (Doug Jones, Mimic). As her mother grows weaker, Ofelia spends more and more time in the satyr's labyrinth. [+]
He offers to help her out of her predicament if she'll complete three treacherous tasks. Ofelia is willing to try, but does this alternate reality really exist or is it all in her head? Del Toro leaves that up to the viewer to decide in a beautiful, yet brutal twin to The Devil's Backbone, which was also haunted by the ghost of Franco. Though it lacks the humour of Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth represents Guillermo Del Toro at the top of his considerable game. -Kathleen C. Fennessy.

Review Funimation Prod / Mushi-Shi: Starter Set (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mika Doi
  • Yûji Ueda
  • Yûto Nakano
  • Travis Willingham
  • Hiroshi Nagahama
Release date: 2007-07-31
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: Yuka Yamada
Price: £17.80

Review Mushi-Shi: Starter Set (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Funimation Prod:


Review Warner Home Video / One Missed Call [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Wilbur Fitzgerald
  • Jason Beghe
  • Edward Burns
  • Donna Biscoe
  • Rhoda Griffis
Release date: 2008-04-22
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Johnny Klimek
Price: £6.32

Review One Missed Call [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Vci Video / Santo Contra la Invasion de los Marcianos [1966] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Santo
  • Alfredo B. Crevenna
  • Beny Galán
  • Ham Lee
  • Wolf Ruvinskis
  • El Nazi
Release date: 2002-02-12
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Raphael Garcia Travesi
Price: £4.02

Review Santo Contra la Invasion de los Marcianos [1966] (NTSC) / Vci Video:


Review Funimation Prod / Black Blood Brothers, Vol. 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Takashi Matsuyama
  • Hiroaki Yoshikawa
  • Mami Kosuge
  • Hisao Egawa
  • Jun Fukuyama
  • Motoko Kumai
Release date: 2008-02-26
Run time: 30 min.
Creator: Izumi Yamashita
Price: £12.36

Review Black Blood Brothers, Vol. 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Funimation Prod:


Review Vanguard Cinema / Juego de Ninos [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Alain Rangel
  • Francisco Rey
  • Sheilla Lissette
  • Angélica Consuegra
  • Leopoldo Laborde
  • Rogelio Castillo
Release date: 2007-03-27
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Leopoldo Laborde
Price: £9.29

Review Juego de Ninos [1995] / Vanguard Cinema:


Review A.D.V. Films / Blue Seed, Vol. 1: The Nightmare Begins (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Allison Keith
  • Kenji Takemura
  • Shinya Sadamitsu
  • Marcy Rae
  • Hideaki Kushi
  • Yoshio Katô
  • Rob Mungle
  • Kurt Stoll
  • Jun Kamiya
  • Tiffany Grant
Release date: 2001-01-30
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: Yuzo Takada
Price: £32.05

Review Blue Seed, Vol. 1: The Nightmare Begins (REGION 1) (NTSC) / A.D.V. Films:


Review Salvation Films / Fascination (DVD) (Subtitled) [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean Rollin
  • Jean-Marie Lemaire
  • Muriel Montossé
  • Franca Mai
  • Fanny Magier
  • Brigitte Lahaie
Release date: 2002-02-18
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Dominique Saint-Cyr
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.99

Review Fascination (DVD) (Subtitled) [1979] / Salvation Films:

A pair of society women dressed in all their finery stand in the middle of an abattoir, animal carcasses hanging behind them and blood splashed across the floor. Giggling and fidgeting, they drink their prescribed glass of ox blood. The startling, unreal image of high-society manners in the midst of gore and death pitches Jean Rollin's 1979 feature Fascination into a turn-of-the-century culture come unhinged. When a well-dressed rogue, fleeing from angry partners he double-crossed, takes refuge in a lavish, moat-protected mansion, servant girls Franca Mai and Brigitte Lahaie cajole, tease and seduce him into staying for their night-time soiree. "You have stumbled into Elizabeth and Eva's life, the universe of madness and death", mutters one of them as they await the cabal where he is the guest of honour. Shot on a starvation budget and populated with stiff performers, Rollin's direction is arch and at times sloppy and his story never more than an outline. It's the mix of dreamy and nightmarish imagery that gives Fascination its fascination: blonde Lahaie stalking victims with a scythe, the bourgeois blood cult swarming over a fresh victim like wild animals, alabaster faces streaked in blood. While it lacks the delirious spontaneity of his earlier vampire films Shiver of the Vampires and Requiem for a Vampire, the languid pace and austere beauty creates an often-mesmerising fantasy. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Tartan Video / Sheitan [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Leïla Bekhti
  • Roxane Mesquida
  • Nico Le Phat Tan
  • Kim Chapiron
  • Olivier Bartélémy
  • Vincent Cassel
Release date: 2006-12-26
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Christian Chapiron
Price: £6.12

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


Review Lionsgate / The Substitute [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jonas Wandschneider
  • Emma Juel Justesen
  • Ole Bornedal
  • Paprika Steen
  • Ulrich Thomsen
  • Nikolaj Falkenberg-Klok
Release date: 2008-10-14
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Henrik Prip
Price: £6.65

Review The Substitute [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / Human Beasts [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jacinto Molina
  • Jacinto Molina
  • Ricardo Palacios
  • Rafael Hernandez
  • Luis Ciges
  • Eiko Nagashima
Release date: 2008-03-25
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £8.50

Review Human Beasts [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:


Review Anchor Bay / Nightmare City [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Maria Rosaria Omaggio
  • David Gregory
  • Francisco Rabal
  • Umberto Lenzi
  • Sonia Viviani
  • Hugo Stiglitz
  • Laura Trotter
Release date: 2002-08-06
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Luis María Delgado
Price: £16.95

Review Nightmare City [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Fantoma / At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • José Mojica Marins
  • Valéria Vasquez
  • Nivaldo Lima
  • Magda Mei
  • Ilídio Martins Simões
  • José Mojica Marins
Release date: 2001-04-03
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Waldomiro França

Review At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fantoma:


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Pan's Labyrinth [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Full Metal Alchemist Vol.7 - Reunion On Rock Island, Matango: Attack of the Mushroom People [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tales of Terror From Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tintorera [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Destroy All Monsters [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Barefoot Gen: The Movies 1 & 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pan's Labyrinth [Blu-ray] [2006] [US Import], Mushi-Shi: Starter Set (REGION 1) (NTSC), One Missed Call [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Santo Contra la Invasion de los Marcianos [1966] (NTSC), Black Blood Brothers, Vol. 1 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Juego de Ninos [1995], Blue Seed, Vol. 1: The Nightmare Begins (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fascination (DVD) (Subtitled) [1979], Sheitan [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Substitute [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Human Beasts [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Nightmare City [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC), At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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