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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Peeping Tom - Special Edition [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Maxine Audley
  • Moira Shearer
  • Carl Boehm
  • Anna Massey
  • Michael Powell
  • Michael Powell
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.89

Review Peeping Tom - Special Edition [1959] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Stephen King's Storm Of The Century [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Colm Feore
  • Craig R. Baxley
  • Timothy Daly
  • Debrah Farentino
  • Casey Siemaszko
  • Jeffrey DeMunn
Release date: 2006-09-04
Run time: 255 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £17.59

Review Stephen King's Storm Of The Century [1999] / Warner Home Video:


Review Nucleus Films / Bloodbath at the House of Death [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Don Warrington
  • Vincent Price
  • Gareth Hunt
  • Kenny Everett
  • Pamela Stephenson
Release date: 2008-07-21
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.33

Review Bloodbath at the House of Death [1984] / Nucleus Films:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Shadow [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Boyle
  • Ian McKellen
  • John Lone
  • Russell Mulcahy
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Penelope Ann Miller
Release date: 2003-04-10
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Walter B. Gibson
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.68

Review The Shadow [1994] / Universal Pictures UK:

Another masked avenger is reincarnated as a big budget movie. Idle playboy Lamont Cranston (Alec Baldwin), schooled in Tibetan mysticism, fights crime in late '30s New York while wearing a natty hat and false beak. He finds time to romance telepathic sweetie Margo Lane (Penelope Miller), whose crusty old scientist Dad (Ian McKellen) has just invented an atom bomb which is in danger of falling into the hands of Shiwan Khan (John Lone), conquest-happy last descendent of Genghis Khan. Director Russell Mulcahy turns out the regulation death traps (a locked chamber filling with water, a bomb timer which ticks away during the climax) and the Shadow breezes through via nifty "invisible" effects. It evokes the conventions and charms of 1930s' pulp fiction in rather more nostalgic mode than Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, and adds little of its own attitude, although a sly camp sensibility (notably in the extremely chi-chi Tim Curry and John Lone as the villains) goes for snickering at the expense of tension. A pleasant, eye-pleasing movie but, after the super-heroic likes of Batman, The Crow and The Mask, the merely mysterious Shadow seems somewhat grandfatherly and remote. -Kim Newman.

Review Universal Pictures UK / The Car
Actors & Directors
  • Ronny Cox
  • Jean Marley
  • Elliott Silverstein
  • James Brolin
  • Kathleen Lloyd
Release date: 2005-12-05
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.41

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Sin Eater [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Addy
  • Peter Weller
  • Heath Ledger
  • Benno Furmann
  • Shannyn Sossamon
  • Brian Helgeland
Release date: 2004-02-09
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.83

Review The Sin Eater [2003] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Pathe Distribution / The Descent (2 Disc Special Edition) [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Alex Reid
  • MyAnna Buring
  • Neil Marshall
  • Shauna Macdonald
  • Natalie Jackson Mendoza
  • Saskia Mulder
Release date: 2005-11-07
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Paul Smith
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.33

Review The Descent (2 Disc Special Edition) [2005] / Pathe Distribution:


Review Entertainment in Video / Final Destination 3 [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Texas Battle
  • Ryan Merriman
  • Amanda Crew
  • Mary Elizabeth Winstead
  • Sam Easton
  • James Wong
Release date: 2006-07-24
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.98

Review Final Destination 3 [2006] / Entertainment in Video:

Giddily gruesome and perversely entertaining, Final Destination 3 proves, yet again, that horror franchises will thrive as long as teenagers keep finding spectacular ways to die. A stand-alone sequel to the first two Final Destination thrillers, this one begins when a group of seven high-school graduates luckily escape from a deadly roller-coaster disaster, only to discover that their own deaths have been only temporarily avoided. Cute brunette Wendy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) spots clues of impending doom in digital photos of her soon-to-be-expiring classmates, and an ill wind follows her everywhere, suggesting the presence of a supernatural force that makes her a catalyst for gory events, as each of her friends is dispatched in the order they were meant to die. Returning to give their brainchild a suspenseful, low-budget makeover, franchise creators and former X-Files writers James Wong and Glen Morgan cleverly play on our collective fears (the roller coaster sequence is genuinely terrifying) with a knowing nod to violent urban legends, which explains their inclusion of the '70s hit "Love Roller Coaster" on the soundtrack when two stuck-up girlfriends pay an ill-fated visit to a tanning parlor. And that's just for starters: With Wong as director, FD3 serves up its grisly deaths with tight pacing and humor, and the cathartic carnage is discreetly edited yet gory enough to satisfy hardcore horror buffs. When morbid mayhem is this much fun, it's a safe bet that another sequel is just around the corner. -Jeff Shannon.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Omen [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
  • Mia Farrow
  • Julia Stiles
  • Liev Schreiber
  • David Thewlis
  • John Moore
Release date: 2006-10-23
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.88

Review The Omen [2006] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Quentin Tarantino Presents : Hostel [2005] [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Eythor Gudjonsson
  • Eli Roth
  • Jan Vlasák
  • Barbara Nedeljakova
  • Derek Richardson
  • Jay Hernandez
Release date: 2006-08-07
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Philip Waley
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.98

Review Quentin Tarantino Presents : Hostel [2005] [2006] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Well-made for the genre-the excessive-skin-displayed-before-gruesome-bloody-torture-begins genre-Hostel follows two randy Americans (Jay Hernandez, Friday Night Lights, and Derek Richardson, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd) and an even randier Icelander (Eythor Gudjonsson) as they trek to Slovakia, where they're told beautiful girls will have sex with anyone with an American accent. Unfortunately, the girls will also sell young Americans to a company that offers victims to anyone who will pay to torture and murder. To his credit, writer/director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) takes his time setting things up, laying a realistic foundation that makes the inevitable spilling of much blood all the more gruesome. The sardonic joke, of course, is that Americans are worth the most in this brothel of blood because everyone else in the world wants to take revenge upon them. This dark humor and political subtext help set Hostel above its more brainless sadistic compatriots, like House of Wax or The Devil's Rejects. In general, though, there's something lacking; horror used to suggest some threat to the spirit-today's horror can conceive of nothing more troubling than torturing the flesh. For aficionados, Hostel features a nice cameo by Takashi Miike, director of bloody Japanese flicks like Audition and Ichi the Killer. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Starz Home Entertainment / Jess Franco Collection Vol.2
Actors & Directors
  • José Ferro
  • Ajita Wilson
  • Lina Romay
  • Antonio Mayans
  • Jesus Franco
  • Lorna Green
Release date: 2007-04-23
Run time: 517 min.
Creator: Juan Soler
RRP: £29.99
Price: £8.94

Review Jess Franco Collection Vol.2 / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Dracula 2001
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Lussier
  • Gerard Butler
  • Justine Waddell
  • Christopher Plummer
  • Jonny Lee Miller
  • Colleen Fitzpatrick
Release date: 2006-02-06
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: Joel Soisson
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.34

Review Dracula 2001 / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Stylish, snappy and entirely without a coherent idea in its head, Dracula 2001 is "Presented by Wes Craven" but shows comparatively little sign of his controlling intelligence. This is very much "Dracula-the Rock Video" with some memorable dream sequences and a lot of product placement: the heroine may not be a virgin but she works at Virgin Records. Among its incidental pleasures are a high-tech bank raid which secures the thieves nothing but an ominous silver coffin, Christopher Plummer as an immortal Van Helsing surviving by injections of leeches that feed on the imprisoned Dracula, Johnny Lee Miller as an unusually obtuse servant of good and Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan as a television news reporter turned Bride of Evil. The early scenes make interesting use of London's Eurostar terminal as a sinister backdrop. The climax moves to New Orleans during Mardi Gras giving the film a frenetic edginess and a lot of partially clad people to look at; it also proves to tie into a moderately inventive reconsideration of Dracula's origins. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Ventura / Shikoku [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Toshie Negishi
  • Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Michitaka Tsutsui
  • Ren Osugi
  • Shunichi Nagasaki
  • Yui Natsukawa
Release date: 2005-01-24
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Takenori Sento
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.97

Review Shikoku [1999] / Ventura:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust [2000]
Release date: 2004-10-18
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.79

Review Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust [2000] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Hide And Seek [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Dakota Fanning
  • Stewart Summers
  • Jack Dylan Baumer
  • Famke Janssen
  • John Polson
  • Robert De Niro
Release date: 2005-07-25
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £0.75

Review Hide And Seek [2005] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Dakota Fanning-the elfin star of Uptown Girls, The Cat in the Hat, and Man on Fire-trades in her blond locks for a semi-gothic brunette do in Hide and Seek. Fanning plays Emily, a young girl whose mother commits suicide. To help Emily through the trauma, her father David (Robert DeNiro), a psychologist, takes her to an isolated house in upstate New York. But instead of healing, Emily gets dark circles under her eyes, mutilates her favorite doll, and develops an imaginary friend named Charlie. In no time at all, things get spooky and David suspects this imaginary friend isn't so friendly. Hide and Seek owes a lot to The Shining, but whether the creepiness is borrowed or not, there's a decent dose of it (though the twist at the end is unlikely to surprise many viewers). DeNiro does his job with professional gloss, but Fanning carries the movie; she's got the kind of charisma that goes beyond acting ability-that ineffable glow that makes an audience want to watch her. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Aliens [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • James Cameron
  • Paul Reiser
  • Carrie Henn
  • Sigourney Weaver
  • Lance Henriksen
  • Michael Biehn
Release date: 2000-05-15
Run time: 148 min.
Creator: Walter Hill
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.04

Review Aliens [1986] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

James Cameron's Aliens digests all the virtues of Alien and regurgitates them bigger, louder and brasher than before. By the simple expedient of turning the singular beast of the original into a plural, Cameron transforms the franchise's focus from horror to all-out action. Sigourney Weaver's Ripley-one of the strongest roles for a female lead in mainstream cinema-is centre-stage throughout, more than able to hold her own either among the butch Marines and insectoid aliens. Although the director later revealed that there were only ever six alien costumes in any one shot, rapid-fire editing makes it seem like hundreds. Aliens is one of the most dynamic, viscerally exciting movies of the decade and, as a bug-fest, remained unsurpassed until the glorious Starship Troopers in 1997. On the DVD: The Director's Cut reinstates 17 crucial minutes of footage deleted from the theatrical release. It reveals how the colony on LV-426 encountered the aliens, and more importantly why Ripley's maternal bond with Newt is so strong, which adds an extra dimension to the film's climax. Also included is a short, fairly bland interview with James Cameron, recorded at the time of the cinema release, as well as some background explanation on how specific special effects were created. Unlike the Alien disc, there is no directorial commentary. -Mark Walker Aliens is one of the few cases of a sequel that far surpassed the original. [+]
Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, who awakens on Earth only to discover that she has been hibernating in space so long that everyone she knows is dead. Then she is talked into travelling (along with a squad of Marines) to a planet under assault by the same aliens that nearly killed her. Once she gets there, she finds a lost little girl who triggers her maternal instincts-and she discovers that the company has once again double-crossed her, in hopes of capturing one of the aliens to study as a military weapon. Directed and written by James Cameron, this is one of the most intensely exciting (not to mention intensely frightening) action films ever, with a large ensemble cast that includes Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, and Michael Biehn. Weaver defined the action woman in this film and walked away with an Oscar nomination for her trouble. -Marshall Fine.

Review Revolver Entertainment / Zombies Zombies Zombies - Zombies vs Strippers [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Juliet Reeves
  • Tiffany Shepis
  • Jessica Barton
  • Jason Murphy
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.40

Review Zombies Zombies Zombies - Zombies vs Strippers [2007] / Revolver Entertainment:


Review Dead of Night / Zombie Flesh Eaters [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Johnson
  • Lucio Fulci
  • Al Cliver
  • Tisa Farrow
  • Auretta Gay
  • Ian McCulloch
Release date: 2004-09-27
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Elisa Briganti
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.46

Review Zombie Flesh Eaters [1980] / Dead of Night:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Return [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Adam Scott
  • Sam Shepard
  • Peter O'Brien
  • Kate Beahan
  • Asif Kapadia
Release date: 2007-05-21
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.82

Review The Return [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 Paramount Home Entertainment / Virtuosity - Dvd [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Spinella
  • Russell Crowe
  • Kelly Lynch
  • William Forsythe
  • Denzel Washington
  • Brett Leonard
Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Eric Bernt
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.65

Review Virtuosity - Dvd [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


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Peeping Tom - Special Edition [1959], Stephen King's Storm Of The Century [1999], Bloodbath at the House of Death [1984], The Shadow [1994], The Car, The Sin Eater [2003], The Descent (2 Disc Special Edition) [2005], Final Destination 3 [2006], The Omen [2006], Quentin Tarantino Presents : Hostel [2005] [2006], Jess Franco Collection Vol.2, Dracula 2001, Shikoku [1999], Vampire Hunter D - Bloodlust [2000], Hide And Seek [2005], Aliens [1986], Zombies Zombies Zombies - Zombies vs Strippers [2007], Zombie Flesh Eaters [1980], The Return [2006], Virtuosity - Dvd [1996]

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