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Review MGM / Asylum [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Benjamin Daniele
  • Carolina Garcia
  • Pete Burris
  • Aaron Blomberg
  • Bridget Gethins
  • David R. Ellis
Release date: 2008-07-15
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Ethan Lawrence
Price: £13.09

Review Asylum [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review DV Classics / Graveyard Series, Episode 1: Terror in the Crypt [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Lee
  • Jose Villasante
  • Audrey Amber
  • Ursula Davis
  • Camillo Mastrocinque
  • Vera Valmont
Release date: 2006-02-28
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Carlo Savina
Price: £4.02

Review Graveyard Series, Episode 1: Terror in the Crypt [1963] / DV Classics:


Review Lions Gate / An American Haunting [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Courtney Solomon
  • Donald Sutherland
  • Matthew Marsh
  • Sissy Spacek
  • James D'Arcy
Release date: 2006-10-24
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Brent Monahan
Price: £5.88

Review An American Haunting [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review MPI Home Video / The Turn of the Screw [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dan Curtis
  • Megs Jenkins
  • Jasper Jacob
  • John Barron
  • Anthony Langdon
  • Eva Griffiths
Release date: 2002-08-27
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: William F. Nolan
Price: £6.83

Review The Turn of the Screw [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MPI Home Video:


Review Geneon / The Locker/The Locker 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Fumina Hara
  • Chisato Morishita
  • Asami Mizukawa
  • Mayuka Suzuki
  • Maki Horikita
  • Kei Horie
Release date: 2005-09-13
Run time: 143 min.
Creator: Osamu Fukutani
Price: £27.99

Review The Locker/The Locker 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Geneon:


Review Paramount / Let's Scare Jessica to Death [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gretchen Corbett
  • Kevin O'Connor
  • Alan Manson
  • Zohra Lampert
  • Barton Heyman
  • John D. Hancock
Release date: 2006-08-29
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Lee Kalcheim
Price: £5.92

Review Let's Scare Jessica to Death [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Stax Entertainment Ltd / House On Haunted Hill [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Carolyn Craig
  • Vincent Price
  • William Castle
Release date: 2005-05-09
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.86

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


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Serpent And The Rainbow / John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars / Stephen King's Sleepwalkers
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Krause
  • Natasha Henstridge
  • Ice Cube
  • Bill Pullman
  • Cathy Tyson
  • Wes Craven
  • John Carpenter
  • Mick Garris
Release date: 2004-09-06
Run time: 273 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.99

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


Review Warner Home Video / The Haunting [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Julie Harris
  • Richard Johnson
  • Claire Bloom
  • Russ Tamblyn
  • Robert Wise
  • Fay Compton
Release date: 2003-08-05
Run time: 112 min.
Creator: Shirley Jackson
Price: £4.98

Review The Haunting [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

Certain to remain one of the greatest haunted-house movies ever made, Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) is antithetical to all the gory horror films of subsequent decades, because its considerable frights remain implicitly rooted in the viewer's sensitivity to abject fear. A classic spook-fest based on Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House (which also inspired the 1999 remake directed by Jan de Bont), the film begins with a prologue that concisely establishes the dark history of Hill House, a massive New England mansion (actually filmed in England) that will play host to four daring guests determined to investigate-and hopefully debunk-the legacy of death and ghostly possession that has given the mansion its terrifying reputation. Consumed by guilt and grief over her mother's recent death and driven to adventure by her belief in the supernatural, Eleanor Vance (Julie Harris) is the most unstable-and therefore the most vulnerable-visitor to Hill House. She's invited there by anthropologist Dr. Markway (Richard Johnson), along with the bohemian lesbian Theodora (Claire Bloom), who has acute extra-sensory abilities, and glib playboy Luke Sanderson (Russ Tamblyn, from Wise's West Side Story), who will gladly inherit Hill House if it proves to be hospitable. Of course, the shadowy mansion is anything but welcoming to its unwanted intruders. Strange noises, from muffled wails to deafening pounding, set the stage for even scarier occurrences, including a door that appears to breathe (with a slowly turning doorknob that's almost unbearably suspenseful), unexplained writing on walls, and a delicate spiral staircase that seems to have a life of its own. The genius of The Haunting lies in the restraint of Wise and screenwriter Nelson Gidding, who elicit almost all of the film's mounting terror from the psychology of its characters-particularly Eleanor, whose grip on sanity grows increasingly tenuous. The presence of lurking spirits relies heavily on the power of suggestion (likewise the cautious handling of Theodora's attraction to Eleanor) and the film's use of sound is more terrifying than anything Wise could have shown with his camera. Like Jack Clayton's 1961 chiller, The Innocents, The Haunting knows the value of planting the seeds of terror in the mind, as opposed to letting them blossom graphically on the screen. [+]
What you don't see is infinitely more frightening than what you do, and with nary a severed head or bloody corpse in sight, The Haunting is guaranteed to chill you to the bone. -Jeff Shannon Made in 1963 The Haunting is one of the best-ever movie ghost stories and was adapted from Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House. Suave ghost-hunter Richard Johnson takes a couple of psychic women-neurotic spinster Julie Harris and elegant lesbian Claire Bloom-to stay in Hill House, which has unsettling architecture (the spiral staircase is especially unnerving) and a bad reputation. Russ Tamblyn is along as a jive-talking sceptic, but he soon shuts up as the eerie phenomena mount up. The scene with a breathing door is a wonderful terror highlight, and the business about whose hand Harris is holding in the dark (she thinks it's Bloom, but Bloom is on the other side of the room) provides a moment of unmatched creepiness. Perhaps director Robert Wise allows too much psychology into the picture, letting you off the hook with the possibility that the twitchy Harris is behind all the spookery, but he fills the widescreen frame with really scary stuff and the cast are perfect. Lois Maxwell, of Miss Moneypenny fame, makes a marvellously chilling sudden appearance from the dark. Forget the remake, this is the real deal. On the DVD: The Haunting comes to DVD with a trailer narrated in character by Johnson, a satisfyingly packed file of stills and an interesting commentary featuring input recorded separately from Wise, screenwriter Nelson Gidding and all four principal cast members. -Kim Newman.

Review MGM / The House Where Evil Dwells [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Connor
  • Edward Albert
  • Susan George
  • Mako Hattori
  • Amy Barrett
  • Doug McClure
Release date: 2005-09-20
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Robert Suhosky
Price: £6.03

Review The House Where Evil Dwells [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Anchor Bay / The Norliss Tapes [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Claude Akins
  • Dan Curtis
  • Michele Carey
  • Don Porter
  • Roy Thinnes
  • Angie Dickinson
Release date: 2006-10-03
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: William F. Nolan
Price: £5.81

Review The Norliss Tapes [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review WGBH Boston / The Masterpiece Theatre: Turn of the Screw [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ben Bolt
  • Joe Sowerbutts
  • Grace Robinson
  • Colin Firth
  • Jodhi May
  • Pam Ferris
Release date: 2004-04-13
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Nick Dear
Price: £7.53

Review The Masterpiece Theatre: Turn of the Screw [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / WGBH Boston:


Review Warner Home Video / Ghost Ship / Eight Legged Freaks / Queen Of The Damned [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Gabriel Byrne
  • Aaliyah
  • Stuart Townsend
  • Steve Beck
  • Michael Rymer
  • Ellory Elkayem
  • Scott Terra
  • Doug E. Doug
Release date: 2004-09-20
Run time: 279 min.
RRP: £20.99
Price: £4.37

Review Ghost Ship / Eight Legged Freaks / Queen Of The Damned [2002] / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM / The Fog (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • John Houseman
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • John Carpenter
  • Janet Leigh
  • Tom Atkins
  • Adrienne Barbeau
Release date: 2002-08-27
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Pegi Brotman
Price: £18.70

Review The Fog (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1979] / MGM:


Review MTI Home Video / Ghost Rig [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Noel Fitzpatrick
  • Kerry Norton
  • Jaason Simmons
  • Bryan Carney
  • Juliet Diamond
  • Julian Kean
Release date: 2003-07-01
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Sally Charlton
Price: £4.19

Review Ghost Rig [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MTI Home Video:


Review Universal Studios / Son of Frankenstein/Ghost of Frankenstein (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lon Chaney Jr.
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Basil Rathbone
  • Erle C. Kenton
  • Boris Karloff
  • Bela Lugosi
  • Rowland V. Lee
Release date: 2007-07-24
Run time: 168 min.
Creator: Wyllis Cooper
Price: £5.58

Review Son of Frankenstein/Ghost of Frankenstein (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Live/Artisan / Stir of Echoes [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Dunn
  • David Koepp
  • Kevin Bacon
  • Kathryn Erbe
  • Illeana Douglas
  • Zachary David Cope
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £3.70

Review Stir of Echoes [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:

The only real problem with Stir of Echoes has nothing to do with the movie itself, but with unlucky coincidence. Adapted from a Richard Matheson novel, this film arrived around the same time as The Sixth Sense. Surface similarities made it suffer by cursory comparison and the competing film's phenomenal success. It's a pity, because this one features one of Kevin Bacon's best performances, in a psychological thriller that makes a lot more right moves than wrong ones. Bacon plays a blue-collar guy who laments his ordinary life, only to learn, when his sister-in-law (Ileanna Douglas) hypnotizes him, that he is a "receiver" capable of seeing spirits and split-second glimpses of past and future events. It's a torturous gift to have-especially since his friendly Chicago neighbourhood possesses a dark secret-and Bacon plays the role with an appropriate mixture of obsession and internalised torment. Similarity to The Sixth Sense applies only to the basic premise and the character of Bacon's young son. Otherwise, this is more of a hard-edged journey of self-discovery, marital crisis, and recovery, with Bacon's wife (played by the highly underrated Kathryn Erbe) involved in an underdeveloped sub-plot about a group of people who share Bacon's gift as paranormal "receivers". Furthering his career as a writer-director of intelligent thrillers, David Koepp makes a few mis-steps in pacing and thematic overkill, but overall Stir of Echoes is a sharp, sensitive thriller that unfolds to reveal a dramatically satisfying solution to its mystery. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. [+]
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Review Lionsgate / Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jean-François Balmer
  • Pierre Aussedat
  • Sophie Marceau
  • Julie Christie
  • Juliette Greco
Release date: 2008-08-05
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Bruno Coulais
Price: £8.75

Review Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review Echo Bridge Home Entertainment / The Willies [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Patrika Darbo
  • Brian Peck
  • Kirk Cameron
  • Dana Ashbrook
  • Sean Astin
  • Michael Bower
Release date: 2005-07-05
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Randy Miller
Price: £2.45

Review The Willies [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment:


Review Columbia TriStar / John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Carpenter
  • Pam Grier
  • Clea DuVall
  • Natasha Henstridge
  • Jason Statham
  • Ice Cube
Release date: 2001-12-04
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Larry Sulkis
Price: £3.75

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.

Models & Brands:
Asylum [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Graveyard Series, Episode 1: Terror in the Crypt [1963], An American Haunting [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Turn of the Screw [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Locker/The Locker 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC), Let's Scare Jessica to Death [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC), House On Haunted Hill [1959], The Serpent And The Rainbow / John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars / Stephen King's Sleepwalkers, The Haunting [1963] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The House Where Evil Dwells [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Norliss Tapes [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Masterpiece Theatre: Turn of the Screw [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ghost Ship / Eight Legged Freaks / Queen Of The Damned [2002], The Fog (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1979], Ghost Rig [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Son of Frankenstein/Ghost of Frankenstein (REGION 1) (NTSC), Stir of Echoes [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Willies [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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