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Review Uca / The Craft [DVD] [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Fairuza Balk
  • Skeet Ulrich
  • Neve Campbell
  • Andrew Fleming
  • Rachel True
  • Robin Tunney
Release date: 2007-12-10
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Skeet Ulrich
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.19

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Review Momentum Pictures / Skinwalkers [DVD] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Behr
  • James Isaac
  • Rhona Mitra
  • Natassia Malthe
  • Elias Koteas
Release date: 2008-10-13
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Elias Koteas
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.79

Review Skinwalkers [DVD] [2006] / Momentum Pictures:


Review MGM Entertainment / Haunted Honeymoon [DVD] [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Gene Wilder
  • Gilda Radner
  • Gene Wilder
  • Paul L. Smith
  • Jonathan Pryce
  • Dom DeLuise
Release date: 2005-10-17
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Gilda Radner
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.95

Review Haunted Honeymoon [DVD] [1986] / MGM Entertainment:

Gene Wilder's Haunted Honeymoon attempts to re-create the charm of those horror spoofs from the 1940s like Hope and Crosby's My Favourite Brunette. Larry (Wilder) and Vickie (wife Gilda Radner) play radio stars who decide to spend their honeymoon in the spooky old manse where Larry grew up with his Aunt Kate (Dom DeLuise in drag). The setup is a good one and the mostly British supporting cast, including Brazil's Jonathan Pryce, are certainly game. Unfortunately, Wilder elicits more chills-and groans-than chuckles (the dialogue is particularly ghastly). In the end, the results come closer to the George Lucas-penned dud Radioland Murders than to Mel Brooks's brilliant Young Frankenstein (featuring Wilder as the good doctor himself). If the Wizard of Oz-type ending doesn't completely redeem it, Haunted Honeymoon is still entertaining enough and seems positively sophisticated compared to the spoofs of more recent vintage (now that's a scary thought!). -Kathleen C. Fennessy.

Review The Amityville Horror / The Amityville Horror (Box Set) [DVD]
Release date: 2005-10-24
Run time: 200 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £4.75

Review The Amityville Horror (Box Set) [DVD] / The Amityville Horror:


Review Metrodome / Them [DVD] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • David Moreau; Xavier Palud
  • Olivia Bonamy; Michael Cohen
Release date: 2007-07-02
Run time: 74 min.
Creator: Olivia Bonamy; Michael Cohen
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.55

Review Them [DVD] [2006] / Metrodome:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Day Of The Dead [DVD] [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Miner
  • Ving Rhames
  • Nick Cannon
  • Mena Suvari
Release date: 2008-09-01
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Nick Cannon
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.35

Review Day Of The Dead [DVD] [2008] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Return [DVD] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Sam Shepard
  • Asif Kapadia
  • Peter O'Brien
  • Adam Scott
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Kate Beahan
Release date: 2007-05-21
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Peter O'Brien
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.07

Review The Return [DVD] [2006] / Universal Pictures UK:

The Return is a drowsy, mildly creepy and unexpectedly well-crafted supernatural thriller that lays off the cheap thrill and gore factor in favor of the slow build up to fright and a twist ending that, while effective, may hit viewers as mostly out of left field. The Sixth Sense it ain't, but there's enough texture, style and ladled-on art direction to keep the eeriness palpable even through some of the more labored dialogue and plot contrivances. A chocolate-haired Sarah Michelle Gellar (what was wrong with her natural goldilocks?) plays Joanna Mills, some sort of traveling sales rep in a big pickup truck who journeys from her nightmare-disturbed life in St. Louis back to a small town in Texas that she sort-of remembers. Demons from the girlhood she once knew there come fiendishly together in a mishmash of flashbacks and present-day creep-outs involving murder, self-mutilation and spirits that have haunted her more than she knows. Gellar has become a go-to for glossy Hollywood horrorshows like this, thanks to her work in the Grudge franchise and the remnants of our memories from her Buffy glory days. In spite of the handful of slipshod faults in story and directorial force, she holds her own against the vibrantly dilapidated set decorations along with a variety of other equally important characters. There's a creepy ex-boyfriend, a disgusting being stalking a phantom woman she recognises from her psychosis-induced visions, and a hunky guy who's facing down mysteries from his own past. (Do they all intersect? Hmmm. [+]
) She even stands her ground against Sam Shepard, who is all but slumming it in his few scenes as her dad. He talks about an incident that forever changed her when she was 11 years old, but his weird allusions are as enigmatic as the film itself, which desperately wants to be better than it is. But The Return still carries its share of respectable fears that are made scarier by the effectively edited string of spooky noises and images. Together they add up to make a worthy entrant in the genre of understated ghost story. -Ted Fry.

Review Uca Catalogue / Thirteen Ghosts [DVD] [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Matthew Lillard
  • Embeth Davidtz
  • Tony Shalhoub
  • Steve Beck
  • Alec Roberts
  • Shannon Elizabeth
Release date: 2006-09-05
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Robb White
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.50

Review Thirteen Ghosts [DVD] [2002] / Uca Catalogue:

A by-the-numbers haunted house movie, albeit one with some neat twists, a couple of good performances and impressive design work, Thirteen Ghosts is a remake of the 1960 original by exploitation superstar William Castle. When ghost-hunter Cyrus (F Murray Abraham) dies his quietly decent widower nephew Arthur (Tony Shaloub) inherits his house. With almost infinite predictability, he, his teenage daughter (Shannon Elizabeth) and young son, as well as a rival ghost-hunter and Cyrus' untrustworthy tame psychic (Mathew Lillard), are trapped in the house, which is a glass labyrinth of sliding panels and shifting staircases. As the woman ghost-hunter Kalina helpfully explains, the house is "a machine designed by the devil and powered by the dead"-specifically by 12 ghosts, most of them murderously malevolent. Shaloub and Lillard manage to make us care about this farrago and Abraham lends his few scenes his usual malignant authority, but the real star is the inventively designed house itself and the outrageous horror-comic makeup of the ghosts. This is a knowingly trashy film enjoyable on its own level. On the DVD: Thirteen Ghosts comes with a short textual explanation of who Castle was and why he should get this sort of homage, a self-congratulatory making-of documentary and filmographies for cast and crew, as well as odd short featurettes explaining the imagined back-story for each of the ghosts. The disc has Dolby sound and is presented in a 1. 85:1 widescreen ratio. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Anchor Bay Home Entertainment / Bubba Ho-Tep [2002] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Don Coscarelli
  • Bob Ivy
  • Ella Joyce
  • Heidi Marnhout
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Ossie Davis
Release date: 2006-09-25
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Ossie Davis
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.03

Review Bubba Ho-Tep [2002] [DVD] / Anchor Bay Home Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Tremors - Attack Pack - Tremors/Tremors 2 - Aftershocks/Tremors 3 - Back To Perfection/Tremors 4 - The Legend Begins [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Gross
  • Fred Ward
  • Shawn Christian
  • Brent Maddock
  • S.S. Wilson
  • Sara Botsford
  • Ron Underwood
  • Kevin Bacon
Release date: 2007-03-05
Run time: 383 min.
Creator: Fred Ward
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.86

Review Tremors - Attack Pack - Tremors/Tremors 2 - Aftershocks/Tremors 3 - Back To Perfection/Tremors 4 - The Legend Begins [DVD] / Universal Pictures UK:

Tremors didn't actually break any new ground (even though its tunneling worm monsters certainly did), but it revved up the classic monster-movie formulas of the 1950s with such energetic enthusiasm and humour that it made everything old seem new again. It's also got a cast full of enjoyable actors who clearly had a lot of fun making the film, and director Ron Underwood strikes just the right balance of comedy and terror as a band of small-town rednecks battles a lot of really nasty-looking giant worms. The special effects are great, the one-liners fly fast and furious between heroes Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward (and yes, that's country star Reba McEntire packin' awesome firepower), and it's all done with the kind of flair one rarely associates with goofy monster flicks like this. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Hellsing / Hellsing - The Collection [DVD]
Release date: 2007-04-02
Run time: 335 min.
RRP: £50.99
Price: £16.93

Review Hellsing - The Collection [DVD] / Hellsing:


Review Entertainment in Video / Spawn [DVD] [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicol Williamson
  • Martin Sheen
  • Michael Jai White
  • Mark A.Z. Dippé
  • Theresa Randle
  • John Leguizamo
Release date: 1999-06-28
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Todd McFarlane
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.59

Review Spawn [DVD] [1997] / Entertainment in Video:

After being murdered for quitting his role as a ruthless yet moral government assassin, Al Simmons (Michael Jai White) is sent to Hell, where he makes a pact with the demon Malebolgia-if Simmons is allowed to see his lover, Wanda, again, he will agree to lead the demon's armies to storm the gates of Heaven. Transformed into a superhuman entity with shape-shifting powers and quick regeneration capabilities, Simmons (soon to be dubbed "Spawn" by Malebolgia's crony, the Violator) returns to Earth and attempts to reunite with Wanda, not knowing that five years have passed. He also seeks revenge on his former boss and killer, Jason Wynn (Martin Sheen), who has made a deal with the Violator to develop a lethal virus to take over the world, where Wynn is promised to be king. Spawn wages an inner battle between good and evil as he tries to come to terms with selling his soul and what it could mean for humankind. Despite excellent special effects and great potential, Spawn seems to come up short. While White certainly displays verve in his characterisation of the twisted hero, he cannot overcome some forced dialogue. On the flip side, the usually engaging John Leguizamo portrays the sinister Violator-an evil monster masquerading as a rotund, weird-looking clown-as an irritating lackey who spews overbearing sarcasm and incessantly banal one-liners. Admitted, many of Spawn's action sequences are fun, and the transitions effectively brisk, but more could have been done to explore how Simmons grapples with his humanity in these daunting circumstances. But if you want sizzling action sequences and digital effects, this film should keep you happy. -Bryan Reesman.

Review MGM Entertainment / The Raven [DVD] [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Roger Corman
  • Peter Lorre
  • Boris Karloff
  • Hazel Court
  • Olive Sturgess
  • Vincent Price
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Richard Matheson
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.76

Review The Raven [DVD] [1963] / MGM Entertainment:

One of the most sublimely silly products to emanate from Roger Corman's studio, The Raven has the very loosest of connections with the Edgar Allen Poe poem that gives it its title and which Vincent Price intones sepulchrally at the beginning. A retiring magician, Craven (Price) has opted out of the power struggles of peers such as Dr Scarabus (Boris Karloff) to brood on his dead wife and bring up his daughter. The arrival of Bledlo (Peter Lorre), an incompetent drunk whom Scarabus has turned into the raven of the title, involves him in everything he had renounced-life is complicated further by the arrival of Bledlo's son Rexford, played by a staggeringly young Jack Nicholson. The special effects are almost perfunctory, yet the culminating magical duel between Price and Karloff is inventive and charming; this is one of those films that looks as if the actors enjoyed making it; while the script by Richard Matheson has a blithe awareness of its own shortcomings that makes it hard to dislike. On the DVD: The Raven comes to DVD with very boxy remastered mono sound, but is presented in its original widescreen 2. 35:1 ratio, formatted for 16:9 TVs. The only extra is the original theatrical trailer. -Roz Kaveney.

Review EIV / Final Destination 2 [DVD] [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Ali Larter
  • A.J. Cook
  • Tony Todd
  • David Paetkau
  • Michael Landes
  • David R. Ellis
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: J. Mackye Gruber
RRP: £19.99
Price: £0.49

Review Final Destination 2 [DVD] [2003] / EIV:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Grudge, The [DVD] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Clea Duvall
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Kadee Strickland
  • Takashi Shimizu
  • Jason Behr
  • William Mapother
Release date: 2005-02-14
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Jason Behr
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.89

Review Grudge, The [DVD] [2004] / Universal Pictures UK:

It's not the scary hit that The Ring was in 2002, but The Grudge makes a similarly convincing case for American remakes of popular Japanese horror films. Barely a year passed between the release of Takashi Shimizu's creepy ghost story Ju-On: The Grudge and the production of this American remake, set in Tokyo and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar in her first post-Buffy horror film. About the only significant difference between the two films is the importing of a mostly-American cast (including Bill Pullman, Clea DuVall and Grace Zabriskie), but The Grudge was reconfigured (by screenwriter Stephen Susco) to allow Shimizu to refine and improve the spookiest highlights of his earlier version, which enjoyed previous incarnations as a short film and two made-for-Japanese-video features. Surprising box-office analysts with a $40 million opening weekend, The Grudge may disappoint hard-core horror fans because it lacks gore and graphic violence, but as a creepy tale about a very haunted house, it's guaranteed to send a few chills up your spine. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Ghost [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Ha-Neul Kim
  • Kim Tae-Kyung
Release date: 2005-08-29
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Ha-Neul Kim
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.38

Review The Ghost [DVD] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Palisades Tartan / Ring (1998) [DVD] [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Nanako Matsushima
  • Hiroyuki Sanada
  • Hideo Nakata
  • Hitomi Sato
  • Yuko Takeuchi
  • Miki Nakatani
Release date: 2001-03-19
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Kôji Suzuki
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.05

Review Ring (1998) [DVD] [2000] / Palisades Tartan:

A major box office hit in the Far East, Hideo Nakada's Ring is a subtly creepy Japanese ghost story with an urban legend theme, based on a series of popular teen-appeal novels by Susuki Koji. Far less showy than even the restrained chills of The Blair Witch Project or The Sixth Sense, Ring has nevertheless become a mainstream blockbuster and has already been followed by Ring 2 and the prequel Ring 0. A Hollywood remake is in the works. Investigating the inexplicable, near-simultaneous deaths of her young niece and three teenage friends, reporter Asakawa (Nanako Matsushima) learns of a story about a supernaturally cursed video-tape circulating among school kids. As soon as anyone has watched the tape, allegedly recorded by mistake from a dead TV channel, the telephone rings and the viewer has exactly a week to live. Those doomed are invisibly marked, but their images are distorted if photographed. Inevitably, Asakawa gets hold of the tape and watches it. The enigmatic collage of images include a coy woman combing her hair in a mirror, an old newspaper headline about a volcanic eruption, a hooded figure ranting, people crawling and a rural well. When the phone rings (a memorably exaggerated effect), Asakawa is convinced that the curse is active and calls in her scientist ex-husband Ryuji (Hiroyuki Sanada) to help. He watches a copy of the video a day after Asakawa is exposed and willingly submits himself to the curse. [+]
Even more urgency is added to their quest when their young son is unwittingly duped, apparently by the mystery woman from the tape, into watching the video too, joining the queue for a supernatural death. On the DVD: For a film made in the digital era, the letterboxed (16:9) print is in mediocre state, with a noticeable amount of scratching, though the Dolby Digital soundtrack is superb, making this a film that's as scary to listen to as it is to watch (the squeamish might find themselves covering their ears rather than their eyes in some scenes). Otherwise, there are trailers for the first two Ring films and Audition, 10 stills, filmographies for the principals, a review by Mark Kermode, blurb-like extracts from other reviews and the ominous option of playing Sadako's video after a solemn disavowal of responsibility from the distributors! -Kim Newman.

Review Momentum Pictures / Existenz [DVD] [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Don McKellar
  • Ian Holm
  • Jude Law
  • Willem Dafoe
  • David Cronenberg
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh
Release date: 2002-03-25
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Robert Lantos
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.29

Review Existenz [DVD] [1999] / Momentum Pictures:

Director David Cronenberg's eXistenZ is a stew of corporate espionage, virtual reality gaming, and thriller elements, marinated in Cronenberg's favourite Crock-Pot juices of technology, physiology and sexual metaphor. Jennifer Jason Leigh is game designer Allegra Geller, responsible for the new state-of-the-art eXistenZ game system; along with PR newbie Ted Pikul (Jude Law), they take the beta version of the game for a test drive and are immersed in a dangerous alternate reality. The game isn't quite like PlayStation, though; it's a latexy pod made from the guts of mutant amphibians and plugs via an umbilical cord directly into the user's spinal column (through a BioPort). It powers up through the player's own nervous system and taps into the subconscious; with several players it networks their brains together. Geller and Pikul's adventures in the game reality uncover more espionage and an antigaming, proreality insurrection. The game world makes it increasingly difficult to discern between reality and the game, either through the game's perspective or the human's. More accessible than Crash, eXistenZ is a complicated sci-fi opus, often confusing, and with an ending that leaves itself wide open for a sequel. Fans of Cronenberg's work will recognize his recurring themes and will eat this up. Others will find its shallow characterisations and near-incomprehensible plot twists a little tedious. -Jerry Renshaw, Amazon. [+]
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Review Lions Gate Home Entertainment / Babysitter Wanted [DVD] [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Nana Visitor
  • Matt Dallas
  • Bill Moseley
  • Bruce Thomas
  • Michael Manasseri
  • Jonas Barnes
  • Sarah Thompson
Release date: 2009-02-23
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Matt Dallas
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.98

Review Babysitter Wanted [DVD] [2008] / Lions Gate Home Entertainment:


Review 4Digital Media Asia / Death Note: L change the WorLd [2008] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Ken'ichi Matsuyama
  • Hideo Nakata
Release date: 2008-12-29
Run time: 129 min.
Creator: Ken'ichi Matsuyama
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.88

Review Death Note: L change the WorLd [2008] [DVD] / 4Digital Media Asia:


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The Craft [DVD] [1996], Skinwalkers [DVD] [2006], Haunted Honeymoon [DVD] [1986], The Amityville Horror (Box Set) [DVD], Them [DVD] [2006], Day Of The Dead [DVD] [2008], The Return [DVD] [2006], Thirteen Ghosts [DVD] [2002], Bubba Ho-Tep [2002] [DVD], Tremors - Attack Pack - Tremors/Tremors 2 - Aftershocks/Tremors 3 - Back To Perfection/Tremors 4 - The Legend Begins [DVD], Hellsing - The Collection [DVD], Spawn [DVD] [1997], The Raven [DVD] [1963], Final Destination 2 [DVD] [2003], Grudge, The [DVD] [2004], The Ghost [DVD], Ring (1998) [DVD] [2000], Existenz [DVD] [1999], Babysitter Wanted [DVD] [2008], Death Note: L change the WorLd [2008] [DVD]

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