Actors & Directors
- Fritz Weaver
- Leslie Nielsen
- Adrienne Barbeau
- George A. Romero
- William Castle
- Hal Holbrook
- Carrie Nye
Release date: 2003-11-18 Run time: 213 min. Price: £29.95
Review Creepshow/House on Haunted Hill (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Dean Haglund
- Tucker Smallwood
- Phil Leirness
- Lauren Birkell
- Marina Sirtis
- Alexis Cruz
Release date: 2005-04-19 Run time: 96 min. Price: £5.85
Review Spectres [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Xenon:
Actors & Directors
- Barnaby Hitzig
- Beth Anne Garrison
- Beth Hilsabeck
Release date: 2004-10-26 Run time: 75 min. Price: £8.15
Review Remmer [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Vanguard Cinema:
Actors & Directors
- Shannon Elizabeth
- Embeth Davidtz
- William Malone
- Matthew Lillard
- Alec Roberts
- Steve Beck
- Tony Shalhoub
- Lawrence Kasdan
Release date: 2005-03-01 Run time: 326 min. Price: £67.95
Review Horror Pack: Dreamcatcher/Thirteen Ghosts/Fear Dot Com [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Richard Griffiths
- Michael Gough
- Michael Gambon
- Johnny Depp
- Alun Armstrong
Release date: 2000-05-23 Run time: 105 min. Creator: Emmanuel Lubezki Price: £13.95
Review Sleepy Hollow [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:The secret to "getting" Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow is appreciating that it's the film he's wanted to make his whole life. After the intimately expressive Edward Scissorhands, this is his most personal venture. Burton's Gothic style-apparent through all his work-stems from a childhood misspent watching the horror movies of Roger Corman, Hammer studios, and anything featuring his idol Vincent Price. For Sleepy Hollow Burton surrounded himself with his usual collaborators and friends; the production was almost entirely shot on location outside London to reunite him with key members of the crew he'd used a decade earlier in Batman, and also to capture the atmosphere of Hammer horror on its own turf. Johnny Depp's Constable Ichabod Crane warmly emulates the mannerisms and enunciation of Peter Cushing. In a prologue scene Burton plays out a long-held fantasy by pitting Depp against Christopher Lee. And it is fantasy that categorises the film throughout, from the mythical fireside telling of the Hessian Horseman's origin (a mesmerising Christopher Walken), to the bright spots of colour saturating Crane's childhood dreams (featuring Burton's real-life love Lisa Marie). These moments literally shine out amid a meticulously crafted look for the film, which underwent a bleaching process to tone things down to an almost monochrome hue. The Scooby Doo-like whodunnit plot, concerning family lineage and petty vengeance, is naturally secondary to what Burton is aiming to achieve through photography and performance, which includes expressive cameos from Michael Gambon, Michael Gough, Jeffrey Jones, and Iain McDiarmid. Yet despite all these subtleties, it's also his best action movie: the swordplay betters anything from his earlier work, while the windmill escape and subsequent coach chase is truly breathtaking in choreography and execution. [+]
If you find a cheesy grin on your face for most of the film, you've "got" it. If not, see Hammer's Dracula at once! -Paul Tonks.
Actors & Directors
- Michael Galvin (II)
- Andrea Washburn
- Don Adams (II)
- Mark Vollmers
- Bob Wilson (XIII)
- Harry James Picardi
- Susan Karsnick
Release date: 2002-04-30 Run time: 162 min. Price: £10.95
Review Vengeance of the Dead [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tempe DVD:
Actors & Directors
- Bela Lugosi
- Joseph H. Lewis
- Polly Ann Young
- Clarence Muse
- John McGuire
- Betty Compson
Release date: 2003-07-07 Run time: 62 min. RRP: £9.99 Price: £0.25
Review The Invisible Ghost [1941] / Instant Vision Ltd:
Actors & Directors
- Jeffrey Combs
- Erik Palladino
- Andrew Lee Potts
- Victor Garcia
- Cerina Vincent
- Steven Pacey
Release date: 2007-10-16 Run time: 81 min. Creator: Robert Malina Price: £26.00
Review Return to House on Haunted Hill [HD DVD] [2007] [US Import] / Warner Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Boris Karloff
- Leo Gordon
- Dick Miller
- Sandra Knight
- Jonathan Haze
Release date: 2004-09-16 Run time: 144 min. Creator: Ronald Stein Price: £1.60
Review The Terror/Scared to Death [1963] / Peter Pan:
Release date: 2005-10-25 Run time: 137 min. Price: £9.95
Review Invisible Ghost/The Gorilla [1941] / Bela Lugosi:
Actors & Directors
- William Castle
- Carolyn Craig
- Leona Anderson
- Jr. Elisha Cook
- Julie Mitchum
- Howard Hoffman
Release date: 2006-11-01 Run time: 75 min. Creator: Von Dexter Price: £5.34
Review House on Haunted Hill [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Legend Films:
Release date: 2004-09-16 Run time: 124 min. Price: £2.73
Review The Corpse Vanishes/The Invisible Ghost / Bela Lugosi:
Release date: 2003-09-09 Run time: 90 min. Price: £7.28
Review Yokai Monsters: Along With Ghosts [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Yokai Monsters:
Release date: 2004-07-27 Run time: 157 min. Price: £3.42
Review Night of the Living Dead/House on Haunted Hill (REGION 1) (NTSC) / DVD Cult Classics:
Release date: 2008-11-18 Run time: 116 min.
Review The Turn of the Screw [2004] / Kultur Video:
Actors & Directors
- Mark Powley
- Suzy Aitchison
- Norman J. Warren
- Catherine Roman
- Colin Heywood
- Nikki Brooks
Release date: 2004-10-05 Run time: 90 min. Price: £87.95
Review Bloody New Year [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Billy Morton
- Drew Lachey
- Ron Silver
- Gavin Wilding
- Siri Baruc
- Liane Balaban
Release date: 2003-07-01 Run time: 86 min. Price: £13.43
Review Spliced [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:
Actors & Directors
- Howard E. Rollins Jr.
- Frances Foster
- Shavar Ross
- Gloria Foster
- Joe Seneca
- Allan A. Goldstein
Release date: 2003-11-25 Run time: 116 min. Price: £28.00
Review The House of Dies Drear [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Bonneville Ent.:
Actors & Directors
- Sandra Knight
- Jonathan Haze
- Leo Gordon
- Boris Karloff
- Dick Miller
Release date: 2005-03-01 Run time: 79 min. Creator: Ronald Stein Price: £4.49
Review The Terror [1963] / Legacy Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Charles S. Dutton
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Bernard Hill
- John Carroll Lynch
- Halle Berry
Release date: 2004-10-12 Run time: 98 min. Price: £9.21
Review Gothika [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:The title of Gothika prepares you for a spooky, atmospheric thriller with an emphasis on supernatural mystery. The best way to appreciate the movie itself is to understand that it's a waking nightmare that needn't make sense in the realm of sanity. Making a flashy Hollywood debut after his superior 2000 thriller The Crimson Rivers, French actor-director Mathieu Kassovitz pours on the dark and stormy atmosphere, trapping a competent psychologist (Halle Berry) in the prison ward where she treated inmates (including Penelope Cruz) until she was committed for killing her husband (Charles S. Dutton), who was also her boss. Did a car crash cause her to suffer ghostly delusions, or is a young girl-dead for four years-sending clues from beyond the grave? Berry has to prove her innocence while Kassovitz keeps everything-including the viewer and costar Robert Downey Jr. (as Berry's colleague)-in the dark about just where the nonsensical plot is leading. There's a better movie in here somewhere, among the catwalks and crannies of the impressive prison-castle setting, and Berry gives 100% in a performance that's consistent with the movie's overwrought tone. Attentive viewers will identify the killer early on, and the ending is anticlimactic, but Gothika serves up a few good shocks for ghost-story connoisseurs. -Jeff Shannon.
| Models & Brands: Creepshow/House on Haunted Hill (REGION 1) (NTSC), Spectres [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Remmer [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Horror Pack: Dreamcatcher/Thirteen Ghosts/Fear Dot Com [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sleepy Hollow [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Vengeance of the Dead [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Invisible Ghost [1941], Return to House on Haunted Hill [HD DVD] [2007] [US Import], The Terror/Scared to Death [1963], Invisible Ghost/The Gorilla [1941], House on Haunted Hill [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Corpse Vanishes/The Invisible Ghost, Yokai Monsters: Along With Ghosts [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Night of the Living Dead/House on Haunted Hill (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Turn of the Screw [2004], Bloody New Year [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Spliced [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The House of Dies Drear [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Terror [1963], Gothika [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) |