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Review Sony Pictures / The Grudge 2 [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Takashi Shimizu
  • Arielle Kebbel
  • Edison Chen
  • Sarah Roemer
  • Amber Tamblyn
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
Release date: 2007-02-06
Run time: 108 min.
Price: £7.51

Review The Grudge 2 [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006] / Sony Pictures:


Review Film 2000 / Ghostwatcher
Actors & Directors
  • Jennifer Servary
  • Jillian Byrnes
  • David A. Cross
  • Marianne Hayden
Release date: 2005-10-24
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £4.97

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Review Warner Home Video / Gothika [HD DVD] [2004] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Halle Berry
  • Robert Downey Jr.
  • Bernard Hill
  • Mathieu Kassovitz
  • 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.

Review Direct Source / The Haunt [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ric White
  • Doug Moore
  • Stephanie Love
  • Ric White
  • Amber Bland
Release date: 2007-08-28
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Glenn White
Price: £2.01

Review The Haunt [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Direct Source:


Review Trinity Home Entertainment / Near Death [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Perrine Moore
  • Ali Willingham
  • Darlene Tygrett
  • Scott Lundsford
  • Joe Castro
  • Joseph Haggerty
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 Salvation Group/Ryko Distribution / The Slit-Mouthed Woman [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Takuaki Hashiguchi
  • Minami Aoyama
  • Lemon Hanazawa
  • Mikiya Sanada
  • May Asada
Release date: 2007-10-30
Run time: 63 min.
Price: £7.49

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


Review Columbia TriStar / The Grudge [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Takashi Shimizu
  • KaDee Strickland
  • William Mapother
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Jason Behr
  • Clea DuVall
Release date: 2005-02-01
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £5.22

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


Review Various / Ghosts Among Us
Release date: 2007-09-25
Run time: 180 min.
Price: £4.94

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Thirteen Ghosts / Darkness Falls / Night Of The Living Dead [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • George A. Romero
  • Judith O'Dea
  • F. Murray Abraham
  • Gerry Lively
  • Michael Praed
  • Robin McCaffrey
  • Bryan Pringle
  • Steve Beck
Release date: 2004-05-17
Run time: 270 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.97

Review Thirteen Ghosts / Darkness Falls / Night Of The Living Dead [2002] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Alpha Video / The Ghosts of Angela Webb [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael R. Thomas
  • Debbie D
  • June Marlowe (IV)
  • Duke Snyder
  • Deana Enoches
  • Karl Petry
Release date: 2005-03-29
Price: £2.70

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


Review Live/Artisan / Stir of Echoes [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Bacon
  • Illeana Douglas
  • Zachary David Cope
  • David Koepp
  • Kathryn Erbe
  • Kevin Dunn
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 94 min.
Price: £3.09

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 MTI Home Video / Scarred [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Falls
  • David Austin (III)
  • Dave Rock
  • Jon Hoffman (III)
  • Brad Ashten
  • Julian Berlin
  • Maxine Bahns
Release date: 2005-12-06
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £3.78

Review Scarred [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MTI Home Video:


Review First Look Pictures / Spirit Trap [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Emma Catherwood
  • Billie Piper
  • Alsou
  • Luke Mably
  • Sam Troughton
  • David Smith (XXXV)
Release date: 2006-12-19
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £4.81

Review Spirit Trap [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / First Look Pictures:


Review Warner Home Video / Poltergeist [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dominique Dunne
  • JoBeth Williams
  • Beatrice Straight
  • Tobe Hooper
  • Craig T. Nelson
  • Oliver Robins
Release date: 2007-10-09
Run time: 114 min.
Price: £4.27

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 Terra / Vlad [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Popowich
  • Kam Heskin
  • Billy Zane
  • Brad Dourif
  • Francesco Quinn
Release date: 2004-09-21
Creator: Christopher John Fields
Price: £5.33

Review Vlad [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Terra:


Review Columbia TriStar / Urban Legends: Bloody Mary [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ed Marinaro
  • Mary Lambert
  • Kate Mara
  • Tina Lifford
  • Michael Coe
  • Robert Vito
Release date: 2005-07-19
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £3.84

Review Urban Legends: Bloody Mary [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Lionsgate / A Dead Calling [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Feifer
  • Leslie Easterbrook
  • Bill Moseley
  • Alexandra Holden
  • Sid Haig
Release date: 2006-12-12
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £5.32

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


Review Universal Studios / The Frighteners [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Astin
  • Trini Alvarado
  • Jake Busey
  • Jeffrey Combs
  • Peter Dobson
Release date: 1998-08-18
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: John Blick
Price: £4.20

Review The Frighteners [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

One movie-lover's nightmare is another's raucous joyride, and this special effects-laden horror comedy is bound to split both camps right down the middle. Michael J Fox plays a psychic investigator who can actually see ghosts, and lives with a trio of spirits who scare people to promote Fox's ghost-busting business. In a town infamous for serial killings, a new series of deaths prompts Fox to induce his own out-of-body experience so he can battle death in a spirit-plagued netherworld where evil reigns supreme-or something like that. So much happens in this chaotic film that you might feel like you're watching several movies at once-a slasher pic, a supernatural thriller, and a black comedy all rolled into one non-stop showcase for grisly makeup and a dozen varieties of special effects. It's an odd but wildly inventive film from New Zealand director Peter Jackson, who earned critical acclaim for his previous film Heavenly Creatures and would later create the ingenious pseudo-documentary Forgotten Silver. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Sony Pictures / The Marsh [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gabrielle Anwar
  • William Cuddy
  • Forest Whitaker
  • Brooke Johnson
  • Justin Louis
  • Jordan Barker
Release date: 2007-04-17
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £5.07

Review The Marsh [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sony Pictures:


Review First Look Pictures / Lost Voyage [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lance Henriksen
  • Janet Gunn
  • Judd Nelson
Release date: 2005-08-26
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £2.22

Review Lost Voyage [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / First Look Pictures:


Models & Brands:
The Grudge 2 [UMD Mini for PSP] [2006], Ghostwatcher, Gothika [HD DVD] [2004] [US Import], The Haunt [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Near Death [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Slit-Mouthed Woman [2004], The Grudge [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ghosts Among Us, Thirteen Ghosts / Darkness Falls / Night Of The Living Dead [2002], The Ghosts of Angela Webb [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Stir of Echoes [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Scarred [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Spirit Trap [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Poltergeist [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Vlad [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Urban Legends: Bloody Mary [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Dead Calling [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Frighteners [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Marsh [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lost Voyage [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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