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Review Salvation Group/Ryko Distribution / The Slit-Mouthed Woman [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Takuaki Hashiguchi
  • Minami Aoyama
  • May Asada
  • Mikiya Sanada
  • Lemon Hanazawa
Release date: 2007-10-30
Run time: 63 min.
Price: £7.49

Review The Slit-Mouthed Woman [2004] / Salvation Group/Ryko Distribution:


Review Vci Video / The Dark Power [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Lane Tatum
  • Phil Smoot
  • Lash LaRue
Release date: 2004-11-30
Run time: 81 min.
Price: £1.84

Review The Dark Power [1985] / Vci Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Poltergeist [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dominique Dunne
  • JoBeth Williams
  • Craig T. Nelson
  • Beatrice Straight
  • Oliver Robins
  • Tobe Hooper
Release date: 2007-10-09
Run time: 114 min.
Price: £4.09

Review Poltergeist [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:

What a combo! Tobe Hooper, the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, teamed up with family-orientated producer Steven Spielberg to make Poltergeist. The film is about a haunted suburban tract home in a development very much like the one in Arizona in which Spielberg was raised. (Because it came out the same summer as Spielberg's E. T. , it was tempting to see both movies as representing Spielberg's ambivalent feelings about childhood in suburbia. One was a fantasy, the other a nightmare. ) Spielberg also co-wrote the screenplay, which taps into primal, childlike fears of monsters under the bed, monsters in the closet, sinister clown faces, and all manner of things that go bump in the night. At first, some of the odd happenings in the house are kind of funny and amusing, but they grow gradually creepier until the film climaxes in a terrifying special-effects extravaganza when five-year-old Carole Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is kidnapped by the spooks and held hostage in another dimension. Though not nearly as frightening as Hooper's earlier magnum opus, or A Nightmare on Elm Street, which came along two years later, Poltergeist is one of the smartest and most entertaining horror pictures of its time. -Jim Emerson.

Review Alpha Video / The Ghosts of Angela Webb [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • June Marlowe (IV)
  • Karl Petry
  • Deana Enoches
  • Debbie D
  • Duke Snyder
  • Michael R. Thomas
Release date: 2005-03-29
Price: £2.08

Review The Ghosts of Angela Webb [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Alpha Video:


Review Columbia TriStar / The Grudge [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Behr
  • William Mapother
  • Clea DuVall
  • Takashi Shimizu
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • KaDee Strickland
Release date: 2005-02-01
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £2.73

Review The Grudge [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Lions Gate / Rose Red [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • David Dukes
  • Nancy Travis
  • Judith Ivey
  • Kimberly J. Brown
  • Matt Keeslar
  • Craig R. Baxley
Release date: 2002-05-14
Run time: 254 min.
Price: £3.18

Review Rose Red [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Actors & Directors
  • William Katt
  • Nick Stabile
  • Arie Verveen
  • Kermit Christman
  • Del Tenney
  • Jeremy London
  • Katherine Heigl
Release date: 2003-06-17
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £9.35

Review Descendant [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / York Home Video:


Review Dark Sky Films / The Amicus Collection: And Now the Screaming Starts! [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Magee
  • Roy Ward Baker
  • Peter Cushing
  • Stephanie Beacham
  • Herbert Lom
  • Ian Ogilvy
Release date: 2006-07-25
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £5.76

Review The Amicus Collection: And Now the Screaming Starts! [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Dark Sky Films:


Review Warner Home Video / Ghost Ship / Eight Legged Freaks / Queen Of The Damned [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Doug E. Doug
  • Aaliyah
  • Steve Beck
  • Stuart Townsend
  • Gabriel Byrne
  • Ellory Elkayem
  • Scott Terra
  • Michael Rymer
Release date: 2004-09-20
Run time: 279 min.
RRP: £20.99
Price: £3.92

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


Review MTI Home Video / The Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Don Stewart
  • Olaf Ittenbach
  • James Matthews-Pyecka
  • Natacza S. Boon
  • Bela B. Felsenheimer
  • Daryl Jackson
Release date: 2008-03-25
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Eckart Zerzawy
Price: £8.15

Review The Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MTI Home Video:


Review Classic Entertainment / 3 Classic Horrors Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 2 - A Bucket Of Blood / House On Haunted Hill / The Ghoul
Actors & Directors
  • William Castle
  • T. Hayes Hunter
  • Barboura Morris
  • Boris Karloff
  • Roger Corman
  • Vincent Price
  • Dick Miller
Release date: 2004-11-01
Run time: 218 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.98

Review 3 Classic Horrors Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 2 - A Bucket Of Blood / House On Haunted Hill / The Ghoul / Classic Entertainment:


Review Platinum Disc / Hallow's End [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Cloud
  • Jon Keeyes
  • Brandy Little
Release date: 2004-12-07
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Brad Walker
Price: £1.98

Review Hallow's End [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Platinum Disc:


Review Various / Ghosts Among Us
Release date: 2007-09-25
Run time: 180 min.
Price: £4.89

Review Ghosts Among Us / Various:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Fog [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Welling
  • DeRay Davis
  • Kenneth Welsh
  • Rupert Wainwright
  • Maggie Grace
  • Selma Blair
Release date: 2006-01-24
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £5.60

Review The Fog [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Lions Gate / The Off Season [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Don Wood
  • Christina Campanella
  • Angus Scrimm
Release date: 2005-08-16
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £3.69

Review The Off Season [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review Live/Artisan / Stir of Echoes [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kathryn Erbe
  • Kevin Dunn
  • Kevin Bacon
  • David Koepp
  • Zachary David Cope
  • Illeana Douglas
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £3.00

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. [+]
com.

Review Lionsgate / A Dead Calling [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Leslie Easterbrook
  • Alexandra Holden
  • Bill Moseley
  • Sid Haig
  • Michael Feifer
Release date: 2006-12-12
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £5.02

Review A Dead Calling [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review Paramount / Sightings: Heartland Ghost [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Beau Bridges
  • Thea Gill
  • Nia Long
  • Brian Trenchard-Smith
  • Gabriel Olds
  • Miguel Ferrer
Release date: 2004-03-02
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £7.34

Review Sightings: Heartland Ghost [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Trinity Home Entertainment / Near Death [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Perrine Moore
  • Darlene Tygrett
  • Joseph Haggerty
  • Scott Lundsford
  • Ali Willingham
  • Joe Castro
Release date: 2004-10-19
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Paul Mitrisin
Price: £11.85

Review Near Death [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Trinity Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Gothika [HD DVD] [2004] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Halle Berry
  • Mathieu Kassovitz
  • Bernard Hill
  • Robert Downey Jr.
  • John Carroll Lynch
  • Charles S. Dutton
Release date: 2007-09-25
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £12.13

Review Gothika [HD DVD] [2004] [US Import] / 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.

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The Slit-Mouthed Woman [2004], The Dark Power [1985], Poltergeist [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Ghosts of Angela Webb [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Grudge [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Rose Red [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Descendant [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Amicus Collection: And Now the Screaming Starts! [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ghost Ship / Eight Legged Freaks / Queen Of The Damned [2002], The Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 3 Classic Horrors Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 2 - A Bucket Of Blood / House On Haunted Hill / The Ghoul, Hallow's End [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ghosts Among Us, The Fog [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006], The Off Season [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Stir of Echoes [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Dead Calling [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sightings: Heartland Ghost [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Near Death [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Gothika [HD DVD] [2004] [US Import]

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