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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Revenge Of Frankenstein [DVD] [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Francis Matthews
  • Terence Fisher
  • John Welsh
  • Peter Cushing
  • Eunice Gayson
  • Michael Gwynn
Release date: 2002-08-19
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Jimmy Sangster
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.70

Review Revenge Of Frankenstein [DVD] [1958] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

The Revenge of Frankenstein was an inevitability after Hammer Films had made an international star of Peter Cushing in The Curse of this sequel-rich franchise. The plot here is a braver twist on the story than the many follow-ups would take. The Creature doesn't make its presence known until the final reel, up to which point the only sense of lurking menace comes from Cushing's deliciously mannered performance as a disguised Dr Stein. A new name and a new town is a gamble sure to fail, and circumstances almost immediately conspire against the deceit. Also rattling around the brilliantly lit studio sets are Eunice Gayson and Francis Matthews, while Michael Gwynn gives everything he's got in stiff competition to predecessor Christopher Lee in the Creature role. It's subtle and simply screams out for enfranchisement-so of course Hammer dutifully made another five in the series. On the DVD: The Revenge of Frankenstein comes with mono sound (all you're going to get from Hammer and 1958), but the 1. 66:1 ratio is a treat. You also get a trailer (and a surprise additional movie trailer) plus 10 photos. -Paul Tonks.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Dark Water [DVD] [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Dougray Scott
  • Ariel Gade
  • Jennifer Connelly
  • John C. Reilly
  • Pete Postlethwaite
  • Walter Salles
Release date: 2005-11-28
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: John C. Reilly
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.97

Review Dark Water [DVD] [2005] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Omen Trilogy - The Omen/Damien - Omen 2/Omen 3 - The Final Conflict [Blu-ray] [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Billie Whitelaw
  • Graham Baker
  • David Warner
  • Rossano Brazzi
  • Gregory Peck
  • Richard Donner
  • Lee Remick
  • Don Taylor
Release date: 2008-10-20
Run time: 330 min.
Creator: Lee Remick
RRP: £56.99
Price: £26.16

Review The Omen Trilogy - The Omen/Damien - Omen 2/Omen 3 - The Final Conflict [Blu-ray] [1976] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Uca / John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars [DVD] [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • John Carpenter
  • Clea DuVall
  • Jason Statham
  • Natasha Henstridge
  • Ice Cube
  • Pam Grier
Release date: 2004-05-10
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Larry Sulkis
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.84

Review John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars [DVD] [2001] / Uca:

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars attempts a productive combination of SF elements (a largely terraformed Mars with its long-lost civilisation) and horror (mass possession that turns the victims into rampaging, self-mutilating monsters that kill and burn). A police-force detachment turn up in a mining community to collect a bandit, whose last heist was uncharacteristically violent, and soon find themselves under siege from rampaging hordes who used to be solid citizens. This is a fairly simple set of variations on stock Carpenter elements-a hybrid between Assault on Precinct 13 and In the Mouth of Madness. However, there is some powerful chemistry between Nastasha Henstridge's icy, drug-abusing police lieutenant and Ice Cube's bandit, Desolation Williams, made stronger by the lack of sexual tension. Other characters, such as Pam Grier's tough commander and Clea Duvall's nervous rookie, are more or less defined by plot functions; the mobs never become more than faceless, or facially distorted, anonymous menaces. This is one for die-hard Carpenter fans only. On the DVD: Ghosts of Mars on disc comes with Dolby Digital sound and its original widescreen ratio of 2. 35:1. A sparky commentary by Carpenter and Henstridge is included, which is informative, but otherwise there are uninspiring documentaries on the musical score, the special effects and the difficulties of shooting at night in the Mexican desert, as well as filmographies and the theatrical trailer. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Resurrected Edition) [2004] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Milla Jovovich
  • Sienna Guilleroy
  • Oded Fehr
Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Oded Fehr
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.99

Review Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Resurrected Edition) [2004] [DVD] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

2002's popular video-game-derived hit Resident Evil didn't inspire confidence in a sequel, but Resident Evil: Apocalypse defies odds and surpasses expectations. It's a bigger, better, action-packed zombie thriller, and this time Milla Jovovich (as the first film's no-nonsense heroine) is joined by more characters from the popular Capcom video games, including Jill Valentine (played by British hottie Sienna Guillory) and Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr, from 1999's The Mummy). They're armed and ready for a high-caliber encounter with devil dogs, mutant "Lickers," lurching zombies, and the leather-clad monster known only as Nemesis, unleashed by the nefarious Umbrella Corporation responsible for creating the cannibalistic undead horde. Having gained valuable experience as a respected second-unit director on high-profile films like Gladiator and The Bourne Identity, director Alexander Witt elevates this junky material to the level of slick, schlocky entertainment. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Universal Pictures UK / The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Original Uncut Edition [1974] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Gunnar Hansen
  • Tobe Hooper
  • Marilyn Burns
Release date: 2004-03-22
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Gunnar Hansen
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.45

Review The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Original Uncut Edition [1974] [DVD] / Universal Pictures UK:

The 2003 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre adheres to the pure-and-simple slasher-movie formula: introduce a gaggle of sexy young people, make vague gestures to distinguish them-Jessica Biel wants to get married and doesn't like pot, so she's our moral compass-then start hacking them to pieces one by one. The visual palette includes grimy crucified dolls, fly-specked pig carcasses, body parts floating in murky jars, a tobacco-chewing redneck sheriff and many slender beams of sunlight cutting through dank, dusty interiors. The camera lovingly photographs Biel's tank-topped bosom and sculpted abs as she's running in terror from a bloated, chainsaw-wielding, human-skin-wearing maniac. This remake lacks the macabre comedy of the original; it's all about the nauseating sensation of waiting for something to jump out of the dark. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / One Missed Call [2007] [DVD] [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Takashi Miike
  • Shin'ichi Tsutsumi
  • Anna Nagata
  • Goro Kishitani
  • Kou Shibasaki
  • Renji Ishibashi
Release date: 2008-03-24
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Kou Shibasaki
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.46

Review One Missed Call [2007] [DVD] [2008] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review Entertainment in Video / Jason X [DVD] [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • James Isaac
  • Peter Mensah
  • Lexa Doig
  • Lisa Ryder
  • Chuck Campbell
  • Kane Hodder
Release date: 2003-04-28
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Victor Miller
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.28

Review Jason X [DVD] [2002] / Entertainment in Video:


Review Starz Home Entertainment / Phantasm [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Don Coscarelli
Release date: 2005-10-31
Run time: 350 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £9.38

Review Phantasm [DVD] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review Palisades Tartan / The Tale Of Two Sisters [DVD] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Su-jeong Lim
  • Kap-su Kim
  • Seung-bi Lee
  • Jung-ah Yum
  • Ji-woon Kim
  • Geun-Young Moon
Release date: 2004-11-22
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Ki-min Oh
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.20

Review The Tale Of Two Sisters [DVD] [2004] / Palisades Tartan:


Review Warner Home Video / Valentine [DVD] [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Jessica Capshaw
  • Jessica Cauffiel
  • Jamie Blanks
  • Denise Richards
  • David Boreanaz
  • Marley Shelton
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Wayne Powers
RRP: £13.99
Price: £3.68

Review Valentine [DVD] [2001] / Warner Home Video:

A moderately enjoyable by-the-numbers slasherflick, Valentine is more memorable for incidental characters and details than it is for its central plot or the various twists director Jamie Blanks and his large team of writers inflict on us. Years ago, in sixth grade, causal cruelty by a group of girl friends to an outsider boy had, accidentally, terrible consequences for him. and now someone disguised in a cherub mask is killing them, one after another. Most of them have more or less messy relationships-Kate (Marley Shelton) is dating the charming alcoholic Adam (David Boreanaz) and Dorothy (Jessica Capshaw) has attracted the exploitative conman Campbell; as the bitchy bad girl Paige, Denise Richards has a memorable sexual charisma. All of the performances have enough depth to be readable for subtextual clues as to who the killer really is. Some sequences-the pursuit of Lily through a maze on the walls of which highly sexualised advertising images are flickeringly projected-have an impact which, sustained, would have made for a far more interesting film. On the DVD: The DVD has a commentary by Jaime Blanks in which he talks frankly about some of the working constraints, a club reel of the song "Opticon" by Orgy, a short behind-the-scenes documentary and subtitles in English, Arabic, Romanian and Bulgarian. The film is presented in a widescreen 2. [+]
35:1 visual ratio and has excellent Dolby Sound which ensures that the vigorous dance soundtrack never drowns the snappy dialogue. -Roz Kaveney.

Review In2film / Karla [2006] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Joel Bender
  • Leornard Kelly-Young
  • Laura Prepon
  • Tess Harper
  • Misha Collins
  • Alex Boyd
Release date: 2008-11-03
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Misha Collins
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.65

Review Karla [2006] [DVD] / In2film:


Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Hannibal (2 Disc Special Edition) [2001] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray Liotta
  • Ridley Scott
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Frankie Faison
  • Gary Oldman
  • Julianne Moore
Release date: 2001-08-20
Run time: 126 min.
Creator: Thomas Harris
RRP: £24.99
Price: £8.90

Review Hannibal (2 Disc Special Edition) [2001] [DVD] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Yes, he's back. and he's still hungry. Hannibal is set 10 years after The Silence of the Lambs, as Dr Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, reprising his Oscar-winning role) is living the good life in Italy, studying art and sipping espresso. FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore, replacing Jodie Foster), on the other hand, hasn't had it so good-an outsider from the start, she's now a quiet, moody loner who doesn't play bureaucratic games and suffers for it. A botched drug raid results in her demotion-and a request from Lecter's only living victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman, uncredited), for a little Q and A. Little does Clarice realise that the hideously deformed Verger-who, upon suggestion from Dr Lecter, peeled off his own face-is using her as bait to lure Dr Lecter out of hiding, quite certain he'll capture the good doctor. Taking the basic plot contraptions from Thomas Harris's baroque novel, Hannibal is so stylistically different from its predecessor that it forces you to take it on its own terms. Director Ridley Scott gives the film a sleek, almost European look that lets you know that, unlike the first film (which was about the quintessentially American Clarice), this movie is all Hannibal. [+]
Does it work? Yes-but only up to a point. Scott adeptly sets up an atmosphere of foreboding, but it's all a build-up to the anticlimax, as Verger's plot for abducting Hannibal (and feeding him to man-eating wild boars) doesn't really deliver the requisite visceral thrills, and the much-ballyhooed climatic dinner sequence between Clarice, Dr Lecter and a third, unlucky guest wobbles between parody and horror. Hopkins and Moore are both first-rate, but the film contrives to keep them as far apart as possible, when what made Silence of the Lambs so amazing was their interaction. When they do connect it's quite thrilling but it's unfortunately too little too late. -Mark Englehart, Amazon. com On the DVD: The good-looking widescreen (1. 85:1) anamorphic print is accompanied by a directorial commentary on the first disc. Ridley Scott is no stranger to DVD commentaries by now, and keeps up a pretty constant flow of enjoyable story exposition, although provides few specifics about the actual filmmaking process. He's obviously more than happy to talk about this movie, since on the second disc there are also "Ridleygram" interviews with Scott about the process of storyboarding and a huge chunk of deleted or alternate scenes (including the alternate ending) with optional directorial commentary. There's a wealth of other extras to dip into, including five "making-of" featurettes (73 minutes in all), plus two multi-angle "vignettes" of the film's opening sequences (the fish-market shoot-out and opening titles), and a marketing gallery of trailers, stills and artwork. Surround-sound enthusiasts can select either Dolby 5. 1 or DTS soundtracks for the main feature. -Mark Walker.

Review Starz Home Entertainment / Maniac [1980] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Kelly Piper
  • Joe Spinell
  • Caroline Munro
  • William Lustig
  • Gail Lawrence
Release date: 2006-10-23
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Caroline Munro
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.98

Review Maniac [1980] [DVD] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Luigi Bazzoni
  • Klaus Kinski
  • Florinda Bolkan
Release date: 2009-08-29
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Klaus Kinski
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.98

Review Footprints [DVD] [1974] / Shameless:


Review Tartan Video / Versus [DVD] [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Kenji Matsuda
  • Hideo Sakaki
  • Ryûhei Kitamura
  • Yuichiro Arai
  • Tak Sakaguchi
  • Chieko Misaka
Release date: 2003-06-30
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Yûdai Yamaguchi
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.38

Review Versus [DVD] [2000] / Tartan Video:


Review Redemption Films / Let Us Prey - The Nunsploitation Collection [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Sally Tremaine
  • Eileen Daly
  • Nigel Wingrove
  • Chris Boger
  • Moyna Cope
  • Sergio Grieco
  • Martin Potter
  • Koo Stark
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 260 min.
Creator: Martin Potter
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.98

Review Let Us Prey - The Nunsploitation Collection [DVD] / Redemption Films:


Review Entertainment in Video / Saw 2 [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Darren Lynn Bousman
  • Glenn Plummer
  • Beverly Mitchell
  • Tobin Bell
  • Tony Nappo
  • Shawnee Smith
Release date: 2007-02-26
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Beverly Mitchell
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.99

Review Saw 2 [2005] "Unrated Director's cut" / Entertainment in Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Van Helsing (Two Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Roxburgh
  • Kate Beckinsale
  • Hugh Jackman
  • Shuler Hensley
  • Stephen Sommers
  • Will Kemp
Release date: 2004-10-11
Run time: 126 min.
Creator: Sam Mercer
RRP: £24.99
Price: £4.95

Review Van Helsing (Two Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [2004] / Universal Pictures UK:

Like a roller coaster ready to fly off its rails, Van Helsing rockets to maximum velocity and never slows down. Having earned blockbuster clout with The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, writer-director Stephen Sommers once again plunders Universal's monster vault and pulls out all the stops for this mammoth $148-million action-adventure-horror-comedy, which opens (sans credits) with a terrific black-and-white prologue that pays homage to the Universal horror classics that inspired it. The plot pits legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing (Hugh Jackman) against Dracula (the deliciously campy Richard Roxburgh), his deadly blood-sucking brides, and the Wolfman (Will Kemp) in a two-hour parade of outstanding special effects (980 in all) that turn Sommers' juvenile plot into a triple-overtime bonus for CGI animators. In alliance with a Transylvanian princess (Kate Beckinsale) and the Frankenstein monster (Shuler Hensley), Van Helsing must prevent Dracula from hatching his bat-winged progeny, and there's so much good-humored action that you're guaranteed to be thrilled and exhausted by the time the 10-minute end-credits roll. It's loud, obnoxious, filled with revisionist horror folklore, and aimed at addicted gamers and eight-year-olds, but this colossal monster mash (including Mr. Hyde, just for kicks) will never, ever bore you. A sequel is virtually guaranteed. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Entertainment in Video / An American Werewolf In Paris [DVD] [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Phil Buckman
  • Vince Vieluf
  • Tom Everett Scott
  • Anthony Waller
  • Julie Bowen
  • Julie Delpy
Release date: 2001-10-29
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Tom Stern
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.69

Review An American Werewolf In Paris [DVD] [1997] / Entertainment in Video:

On the strength of his Hitchcockian-thriller debut, Mute Witness, writer-director Anthony Waller was hired to direct this belated sequel to the 1981 horror comedyAn American Werewolf in London but lycanthropy in the City of Light just ain't what it used to be. The movie offers plenty of gruesome make-up and special wolf-transformation effects and there are some effectively spooky moments in the plot involving an underground population of hungry Parisian werewolves. One of them is seductively played by Julie Delpy, who is rescued from attempted suicide by an American tourist (Tom Everett Scott, from That Thing You Do!) but ultimately can't hide her dual identity when darkness falls and the full moon shines. The movie begins well but gradually succumbs to nonsense and mayhem, prompting critic Roger Ebert to observe that "here are people we don't care about,doing things they don't understand, in a movie without anyrules". In other words, you'd have to be a die-hard horror buff to give this one the benefit of the doubt. -Jeff Shannon.

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Revenge Of Frankenstein [DVD] [1958], Dark Water [DVD] [2005], The Omen Trilogy - The Omen/Damien - Omen 2/Omen 3 - The Final Conflict [Blu-ray] [1976], John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars [DVD] [2001], Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Resurrected Edition) [2004] [DVD], The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Original Uncut Edition [1974] [DVD], One Missed Call [2007] [DVD] [2008], Jason X [DVD] [2002], Phantasm [DVD], The Tale Of Two Sisters [DVD] [2004], Valentine [DVD] [2001], Karla [2006] [DVD], Hannibal (2 Disc Special Edition) [2001] [DVD], Maniac [1980] [DVD], Footprints [DVD] [1974], Versus [DVD] [2000], Let Us Prey - The Nunsploitation Collection [DVD], Saw 2 [2005] "Unrated Director's cut", Van Helsing (Two Disc Collector's Edition) [DVD] [2004], An American Werewolf In Paris [DVD] [1997]

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