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Review Columbia TriStar / John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Natasha Henstridge
  • Clea DuVall
  • John Carpenter
  • Jason Statham
  • Pam Grier
  • Ice Cube
Release date: 2001-12-04
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £3.12

Review John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars attempts a productive combination of SF elements (a largely terraformed Mars with its long-lost civilisation) and horror (mass possession that turns the victims into rampaging, self-mutilating monsters that kill and burn). A police-force detachment turn up in a mining community to collect a bandit, whose last heist was uncharacteristically violent, and soon find themselves under siege from rampaging hordes who used to be solid citizens. This is a fairly simple set of variations on stock Carpenter elements-a hybrid between Assault on Precinct 13 and In the Mouth of Madness. However, there is some powerful chemistry between Nastasha Henstridge's icy, drug-abusing police lieutenant and Ice Cube's bandit, Desolation Williams, made stronger by the lack of sexual tension. Other characters, such as Pam Grier's tough commander and Clea Duvall's nervous rookie, are more or less defined by plot functions; the mobs never become more than faceless, or facially distorted, anonymous menaces. This is one for die-hard Carpenter fans only. On the DVD: Ghosts of Mars on disc comes with Dolby Digital sound and its original widescreen ratio of 2. 35:1. A sparky commentary by Carpenter and Henstridge is included, which is informative, but otherwise there are uninspiring documentaries on the musical score, the special effects and the difficulties of shooting at night in the Mexican desert, as well as filmographies and the theatrical trailer. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Walt Disney Video / The Haunted Mansion [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rob Minkoff
  • Eddie Murphy
  • Jennifer Tilly
  • Marsha Thomason
  • Terence Stamp
  • Nathaniel Parker
Release date: 2004-04-20
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £4.70

Review The Haunted Mansion [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 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 DreamWorks / What Lies Beneath [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Remar
  • Michelle Pfeiffer
  • Joe Morton
  • Harrison Ford
  • Diana Scarwid
  • Robert Zemeckis
Release date: 2001-01-30
Run time: 130 min.
Price: £2.88

Review What Lies Beneath [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / DreamWorks:

What would Hitchcock have done if he had had modern digital effects? The answer is almost certainly: something very like What Lies Beneath, Robert Zemeckis' technically accomplished supernatural thriller that pays open homage to Suspicion, Rear Window and Psycho, to name but three. Michelle Pfeiffer delivers one of the finest, most nuanced performances of her career as a woman in an ideal relationship whose perfect life begins to unravel with terrifying consequences. Harrison Ford plays sympathetically against type as her husband who may or may not be telling her the truth. Although made in the middle of his filming Cast Away, while the director waited for Tom Hanks to shed some pounds, this is no quickie throwaway picture. Zemeckis loads this character-driven story with genuinely scary suspense, using subtle camera moves, mirrored reflections and red-herrings in a classic Hitchcockian manner-the difference here is that he has access to the most up-to-date digital effects and employs them with characteristic imagination, creating seemingly impossible camera angles that only enhance the tension. The Production Design is equally carefully considered, as even the idyllic household setting with its pristine bathroom is gradually transformed into an object of terror. Composer Alan Silvestri's score winds up the drama several notches further with an appropriate Bernard Herrmann pastiche. On the DVD: The principal attraction of this disc is the pin-sharp anamorphic picture and 5. 1 soundtrack-superb picture and sound quality contribute greatly to the enjoyment here, since Zemeckis is one of the few contemporary directors who remains acutely sensitive to the composition of each and every scene. The brief featurette is a little misleadingly titled, as it's essentially a profile of Zemeckis' career with a few comments about this film thrown in for good measure. [+]
The rather dry and uninvolving commentary is by Zemeckis with producers Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke. -Mark Walker.

Review Genius Products, Inc / Voice [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kim Ok-bin
  • Choi Ik-Hwan
  • Kim Seo-hyeong
  • Seo Ji-hye
  • Im Heon-gyeong
  • Cha Ye-ryeon
Release date: 2008-07-15
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Kim Seon-min
Price: £9.87

Review Voice [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Genius Products, Inc:


Review Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Dark Water [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tim Roth
  • Jennifer Connelly
  • John C. Reilly
  • Dougray Scott
  • Pete Postlethwaite
  • Walter Salles
Release date: 2005-12-26
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £3.86

Review Dark Water [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Buena Vista Home Entertainment:


Review Geneon / The House of Seven Corpses [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Faith Domergue
  • Paul Harrison (XVI)
  • Charles Macaulay
  • Carole Wells
  • John Ireland
  • John Carradine
Release date: 2005-10-04
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £19.99

Review The House of Seven Corpses [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Geneon:


Review DreamWorks / The Haunting [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Liam Neeson
  • Owen Wilson
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • Bruce Dern
  • Jan de Bont
  • Lili Taylor
Release date: 1999-11-23
Run time: 113 min.
Price: £2.80

Review The Haunting [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / DreamWorks:


Review Platinum Disc / The House on Haunted Hill/The Bat/The Last Man on Earth (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Vincent Price
Release date: 2002-05-28
Run time: 243 min.
Price: £1.21

Review The House on Haunted Hill/The Bat/The Last Man on Earth (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Platinum Disc:


Review MTI Home Video / The Bunker [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charley Boorman
  • Christopher Fairbank
  • Jack Davenport
  • Andrew Lee Potts
  • Jason Flemyng
  • Rob Green
Release date: 2004-06-08
Creator: Richard Milward
Price: £3.54

Review The Bunker [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MTI Home Video:


Review Vci Video / Beyond Tomorrow [1940] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Maria Ouspenskaya
  • C. Aubrey Smith
  • Alex Melesh
  • Charles Winninger
  • Harry Carey
  • A. Edward Sutherland
Release date: 2000-11-07
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £3.13

Review Beyond Tomorrow [1940] (NTSC) / Vci Video:


Review Passion River / With You [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Joe O'Rourke
  • Jason Christensen
  • Laurence Skorniak
  • Danny Burke
  • Mike Pish
  • Frank Schutz
Release date: 2007-07-24
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £6.52

Review With You [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Passion River:


Review Warner Home Video / House on Haunted Hill [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Carolyn Craig
  • Richard Long
  • Vincent Price
  • Elisha Cook Jr.
  • William Castle
  • Carol Ohmart
Release date: 1999-10-26
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £4.09

Review House on Haunted Hill [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Sling Shot Entertainment / Haunted Castle [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Harry Shearer
  • Jasper Steverlinck
  • Kyoko Baertsoen
  • Ben Stassen
Release date: 2003-05-26
Run time: 40 min.
Price: £15.99

Review Haunted Castle [2001] / Sling Shot Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Haunted Mansion [Blu-ray] [2004] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Murphy
  • Terence Stamp
  • Jennifer Tilly
  • Marsha Thomason
  • Nathaniel Parker
  • Rob Minkoff
Release date: 2006-10-17
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £10.35

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 Lionsgate / The Eye [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Rade Serbedzija
  • Parker Posey
  • Danny Mora
  • Rachel Ticotin
  • Jessica Alba
Release date: 2008-06-03
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £14.60

Review The Eye [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import] / Lionsgate:


Review Image / Driftwood [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Lelliott
  • Lin Shaye
  • John Walcutt
  • Tim Sullivan
  • David Eigenberg
  • Marc McClure
Release date: 2007-11-13
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: William Ross
Price: £4.78

Review Driftwood [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Serpent And The Rainbow / John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars / Stephen King's Sleepwalkers
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Krause
  • Bill Pullman
  • Natasha Henstridge
  • Ice Cube
  • Cathy Tyson
  • John Carpenter
  • Mick Garris
  • Wes Craven
Release date: 2004-09-06
Run time: 273 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £12.99

Review The Serpent And The Rainbow / John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars / Stephen King's Sleepwalkers / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Lions Gate / The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Craig R. Baxley
  • Lisa Brenner
  • Kate Burton
  • Steven Brand
  • Brad Greenquist
  • Tsidii Leloka
Release date: 2003-10-14
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £3.11

Review The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review 20th Century Fox / Shutter [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Masayuki Ochiai
  • Miyako Yamaguchi
  • David Denman
  • Kei Yamamoto
  • Joshua Jackson
  • Yoshiko Miyazaki
Release date: 2008-07-15
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Nathan Barr
Price: £12.55

Review Shutter [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import] / 20th Century Fox:


Review Stax Entertainment Ltd / House On Haunted Hill [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • William Castle
  • Vincent Price
  • Carolyn Craig
Release date: 2005-05-09
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.05

Review House On Haunted Hill [1959] / Stax Entertainment Ltd:


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John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Haunted Mansion [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), What Lies Beneath [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Voice [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dark Water [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The House of Seven Corpses [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Haunting [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The House on Haunted Hill/The Bat/The Last Man on Earth (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Bunker [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Beyond Tomorrow [1940] (NTSC), With You [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), House on Haunted Hill [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Haunted Castle [2001], The Haunted Mansion [Blu-ray] [2004] [US Import], The Eye [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import], Driftwood [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Serpent And The Rainbow / John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars / Stephen King's Sleepwalkers, The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Shutter [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import], House On Haunted Hill [1959]

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