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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Thirteen Ghosts [Blu-ray] [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Embeth Davidtz
  • F. Murray Abraham
  • Shannon Elizabeth
  • Tony Shalhoub
  • Steve Beck
  • Matthew Lillard
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.99

Review Thirteen Ghosts [Blu-ray] [2001] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Cool sets, gory make-up and frantic energy are given high priority in this glossy remake of William Castle's 1960 haunted-house chiller. The original boasted its "Illusion-O" ghost-viewing gimmick, so this remake's producers-as they did with 1999's The House on Haunted Hill -up the ante on Castle's showmanship by spilling ample amounts of blood, guts and ghoulish glory. The plot's essentially the same: An impoverished family inherits a luxurious haunted mansion, only this time it's an elaborate, maze-like mechanism of glass, gears, and Latin incantations-"designed by the devil and powered by the dead"-with a cellar full of tormented, undead souls. As the family (including Tony Shalhoub and American Pie's Shannon Elizabeth) enlists the aid of a psychic (Scream alumnus Matthew Lillard) and a ghost-busting paranormal (Embeth Davidtz), this updated 13 Ghosts grows loud and ludicrous, trading shocks for yuks and nuance for nonsense. It's fun, to a point, after which it's just exhausting. -Jeff Shannon Product Description A family inherits an elegant steel-and-glass mansion from a deceased relative. The catch is that along with the house comes a slew of ghosts that can be seen only through special goggles.

Review Paramount / Cloverfield [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • T.J. Miller
  • Matt Reeves
  • Jessica Lucas (II)
  • Lizzy Caplan
  • Mike Vogel
  • Michael Stahl-David
Release date: 2008-06-03
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £14.58

Review Cloverfield [Blu-ray] [2008] [US Import] / Paramount:


Review Pathe Distribution / The Descent (2 Disc Special Edition) [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Saskia Mulder
  • MyAnna Buring
  • Natalie Jackson Mendoza
  • Neil Marshall
  • Alex Reid (III)
  • Shauna Macdonald
Release date: 2005-11-07
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.60

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


Review MGM Entertainment / Return Of The Living Dead [1985]
Release date: 2002-10-21
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £11.00

Review Return Of The Living Dead [1985] / MGM Entertainment:

Return of the Living Dead is a parody-cum-sequel spin-off from George Romero's superior Night of the Living Dead films. A corpse-containing canister gets breached and releases an oily, loose-limbed, brain-eating zombie tatterdemalion and a gas that revives anything dead in the vicinity, even a bisected dog preserved as a vet's teaching specimen and a case of pinned butterflies. The dim-bulb leading characters-earnest Clu Gulager, goofy James Karen and Thom Matthews-burn up a mess of surplus living body parts, but the rains wash the ashes into the earth of a nearby cemetery and a whole crowd of brain-eating zombies claw their way out to terrorise a group of teens who sport the kind of 1985 fashions, hairdos, slang preferences and musical tastes that will never feature in a TV nostalgia programme. There are plenty of in-jokes at the expense of the Living Dead films (learning that shooting 'em in the brain doesn't work, the appalled Matthews gasps, "You mean the movie lied?"), and director Dan O'Bannon, the writer of Dark Star and Alien, hurries things along through some gruesome action and terror-by-zombie bits until the surprisingly cynical anti-government conclusion. It's not as wittily outrageous as Re-Animator or Braindead, but it has an amiable, drive-in-cum-home video grunge about it. Frequently naked exploitation regular Linnea Quigley makes an impression as the punkette zombie who goes on the rampage wearing nothing but leg-warmers and body make-up. The frill-free DVD is full-screen (boo hiss!) except for the titles, offers only the trailer and inadequate cast and crew notes as extras, but it looks okay. -Kim Newman.

Review Momentum Pictures / Boo [2005]
Release date: 2006-10-23
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.99

Review Boo [2005] / Momentum Pictures:


Review Starz Home Entertainment / Scanners [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick McGoohan
  • Stephen Lack
  • David Cronenberg
  • Lawrence Dane
  • Michael Ironside
  • Jennifer O'Neill
Release date: 2006-09-25
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.31

Review Scanners [1981] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review Entertainment in Video / The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 - Leatherface [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Kate Hodge
  • R.A. Mihailoff
  • Jeff Burr
  • William Butler
Release date: 2004-04-26
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £0.36

Review The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 - Leatherface [1990] / Entertainment in Video:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Host [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Du-Na Bae
  • Joon-Ho Bong
  • Kang-Ho Song
Release date: 2007-05-21
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.16

Review The Host [2006] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Marcia Gay Harden
  • Thomas Jane
  • Laurie Holden
  • Toby Jones
  • Andre Braugher
  • Frank Darabont
Release date: 2008-11-10
Run time: 122 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.98

Review The Mist [2007] / Momentum Pictures:

Writer-director Frank Darabont, who showcased the softer side of Stephen King in his film adaptations of The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, turns to darker material for The Mist, his latest King adaptation about a group of ordinary townspeople trapped in a supermarket by a mysterious fogbank. Thomas Jane is top-billed as a Maine illustrator who attempts to calm the frightened shoppers, but his job is cut out for him from the get-go, first by the discovery of malevolent creatures lurking in the mist, and then by the mad mutterings of Mrs. Carmody (Marcia Gay Harden), a local eccentric who calls for Old Testament-style sacrifices to appease the supernatural forces. Darabont delivers monster movie thrills and understated social commentary with equal skill, and he's well supported by his cast (which includes Andre Braugher, Toby Jones, William Sadler and Jeffrey DeMunn) and the vivid special effects by KNB EFX, which effectively mix CGI with models and stop-motion animation (the terrific monsters were designed by legendary comic book artist Bernie Wrightson). And for those curious about how the novella's downbeat ending has translated to film, suffice it to say that Darabont's conclusion is at once different and more unsettling than King's. -Paul Gaita.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Devour [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Jensen Ackles
  • David Winkler
  • Dominique Swain
  • Shannyn Sossamon
  • Martin Cummins
  • William Sadler
Release date: 2005-08-22
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.93

Review Devour [2005] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Network / Armchair Thriller Vol. 3 - Dying Day [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Tronson
  • Ian McKellen
  • Michael Troughton
  • Patrick Malahide
Release date: 2008-05-05
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.94

Review Armchair Thriller Vol. 3 - Dying Day [1967] / Network:


Review Echo Bridge Home Entertainment / She Wolves of the Wasteland [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kathleen Kinmont
  • James H. Emery
  • Peggy Sands
  • Robert Hayes
  • Sheila Howard
  • Persis Khambatta
Release date: 2007-11-06
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Brian Evans
Price: £2.42

Review She Wolves of the Wasteland [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling (2001)
Actors & Directors
  • Michelle Trachtenberg
  • Nicholas Brendon
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Joss Whedon
  • Emma Caulfield
  • James Marsters
Release date: 2003-04-14
Run time: 48 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.98

Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling (2001) / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

"Once More With Feeling", a much needed shaft of lightness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's dark sixth series, demonstrates that a "special" episode can be genuinely special. It preserves the show's continuity for its regular watchers and also delights people who have never experienced it before. This is creator Joss Whedon's tribute to all the masters of the stage musical whom he admires-most obviously Stephen Sondheim-and a chance for his talented cast to display their usual tight ensemble and sing and dance while doing it. The premise is typical Buffy both in its whimsy and its emotional truth-a demon forces the inhabitants of Sunnydale to express their emotions truthfully and uncovers a variety of embarrassing secrets. The actual musical ability of the Buffy cast is variable-Amber Benson as Tara and Anthony Stewart Head as Giles are perhaps the only ones with enough musical talent to carry purely lyrical tunes, but Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy is a game little trooper who delivers her various patter songs with her usual efficiency and charm. Emma Caulfield as the ex-demon Anya is the big surprise, her short paranoid riff on the subject of that ultimate evil, bunny rabbits is quite extraordinary; Broadway hoofer Hinton Battle is fabulous as Sweet: "I can bring whole cities to ruin and find time to get some soft shoe in. " -Roz Kaveney.

Review Showbox Home Entertainment / Absolution [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Billy Connolly
  • Andrew Keir
  • Anthony Page
  • Richard Burton
Release date: 2007-05-07
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.78

Review Absolution [2007] / Showbox Home Entertainment:


Review Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd / Fragile
Actors & Directors
  • Elena Anaya
  • Richard Roxburgh
  • Gemma Jones
  • Calista Flockhart
  • Richard Flockhart
  • Jaume Balaguero
Release date: 2007-09-10
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.95

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Review Pathe Distribution / Reeker [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Ironside
  • Derek Richardson
  • Dave Payne
  • Arielle Kebbel
  • Devon Gummersall
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.99

Review Reeker [2006] / Pathe Distribution:


Review Momentum Pictures / The Dark [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • John Fawcett
  • Sophie Stuckey
  • Sean Bean
  • Abigail Stone
  • Maria Bello
Release date: 2006-09-11
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £2.52

Review The Dark [2005] / Momentum Pictures:


Review Network / The Shout [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • John Hurt
  • Alan Bates
  • Robert Stephens
  • Jerzy Skolimowski
  • Tim Curry
  • Susannah York
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.11

Review The Shout [1978] / Network:


Review Starz Home Entertainment / Magic [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Ann-Margret
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Ed Lauter
  • Burgess Meredith
Release date: 2007-02-19
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.97

Review Magic [1978] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 1
Actors & Directors
  • Joss Whedon
  • Stephen L. Posey
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Nicholas Brendon
  • Charisma Carpenter
  • Anthony Stewart Head
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • Bruce Seth Green
Release date: 2004-10-18
Run time: 528 min.
RRP: £44.99
Price: £29.99

Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 1 / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Vampire-slayer Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, a Californian community located above the "Hellmouth", a phenomenon which explains the local graveyard's overpopulation of vampires and other supernatural beings. Angel, a mysterious loiterer, starts flirting with Buffy and gives her helpful tips on how to cope with the local nasties. However, he turns out to be a vampire, which complicates the future of their relationship. Buffy makes friends with school outcasts Willow, a computer nerd, and geeky Xander. But she excites the enmity of high-school princess Cordelia. The season's prime villain is the Master, a Nosferatu-looking vampire lurking under the town. Giles, Buffy's mentor, looks things up in books and demonstrates the exact same look of puzzlement actor Anthony Head used to demonstrate in those horrifying instant coffee ads. -Kim Newman.

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