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Review Artificial Eye / Les Vampires [1915]
Actors & Directors
  • Louis Feuillade
Release date: 2008-03-24
Run time: 339 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.89

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Tremors - Attack Pack - Tremors/Tremors 2 - Aftershocks/Tremors 3 - Back To Perfection/Tremors 4 - The Legend Begins
Actors & Directors
  • Ron Underwood
  • Brent Maddock
  • Shawn Christian
  • Fred Ward
  • Sara Botsford
  • Michael Gross
  • Kevin Bacon
  • S.S. Wilson
Release date: 2007-03-05
Run time: 383 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £17.97

Review Tremors - Attack Pack - Tremors/Tremors 2 - Aftershocks/Tremors 3 - Back To Perfection/Tremors 4 - The Legend Begins / 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 MGM Entertainment / Lord Of Illusions [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin J. O'Connor
  • Scott Bakula
  • Clive Barker
  • Joseph Latimore
  • Daniel von Bargen
  • J. Trevor Edmond
Release date: 2000-06-19
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Steve Golin
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.77

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Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / The Raven [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Lester Matthews
  • Bela Lugosi
  • Irene Ware
  • Lew Landers
  • Boris Karloff
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 59 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.98

Review The Raven [1935] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Night Gallery - Series 1
Actors & Directors
  • Steven Spielberg
  • Diane Keaton
  • Joan Crawford
  • Larry Hagman
  • Roddy McDowall
Release date: 2006-10-16
Run time: 482 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £10.92

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Review MGM Entertainment / The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Tobe Hooper
  • Jim Siedow
  • Dennis Hopper
  • Bill Johnson
  • Caroline Williams
  • Bill Moseley
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Kim Henkel
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.64

Review The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [1986] / MGM Entertainment:

Opinion is mixed as to whether Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a worthy successor to Tobe Hooper's seminal slasher flick. The story picks up 14 years after the events of the first film, which have long since passed into local legend. On a relentless search for the maniacs who murdered his wheelchair-bound nephew Franklin, Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright (Dennis Hopper) is drawn to the scene of a brutal roadside killing in Red River, Texas. He soon forms an alliance with Stretch (Caroline Williams), a feisty female radio DJ who inadvertently broadcasts the chainsaw murder of two drunken frat boys live on her late-night phone-in request show. At Lefty's request she replays the tape on air and soon after receives a terrifying visit from two deranged fans, Leatherface and Chop Top, who are intent on killing her. Stretch escapes, and together with Lefty follows the trail of the gruesome twosome into the bowels of the deserted San Jacinto historical theme park, which hides a Leatherface house of horrors. In contrast to the chilling, snuff movie scenario of the original, Hooper whoops it up with this 1986 sequel brimming with gruesome humour, without welching on the thrills. Writer LM Kit Carson (Paris, Texas) reworks Leatherface into a tragic, almost naïve figure trapped beneath a horrific façade and fleshes out his thoroughly dysfunctional family with the introduction of baby brother ChopTop-a steel-plated Vietnam vet. Leatherface's old man (now called Drayton Sawyer) and Grandpa are carried over from the first film. Dennis Hopper is clean cut but dead-eyed in a typically manic performance as the cowboy detective driven by revenge-think of an embryonic Frank Booth from Blue Velvet with a fetish for power tools. [+]
TCM2 is a wildly imaginative experiment in terror that stays true to its trashy exploitation roots. On the DVD: The lack of extra features on this disc (apart from the standard theatrical trailer) is a major oversight given that TCM2 has had no previous theatrical or video release in the UK. A director's commentary would have been especially welcome, as well as the addition of the deleted scenes featured on the US laserdisc and special edition VHS versions of this film. Static menus provide options to watch the film with English, Spanish or Italian dialogue and subtitles in Danish, Norweigian and Swedish. The main feature is of more than adequate picture quality and presented in 16:9 anamorphic format. -Chris Campion.

Review Screen Edge / Cannibal! The Musical [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Dan Brother
  • Trey Parker
  • Dian Bachar
  • Stephen Blackpool
  • Trey Parker
  • Stan Brakhage
Release date: 2004-02-02
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Matt Stone
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.28

Review Cannibal! The Musical [1993] / Screen Edge:

Alferd Packer was the only man in the United States ever convicted of cannibalism-what better hero for fellow Coloradan and future South Park creator Trey Parker to celebrate in music? Blue-eyed and boyish Parker was still in college when he wrote, directed, composed the songs for and took the starring role as the innocent young Packer in this film, giving a gee-whiz performance as an ambitious pioneer who joins an ill-fated trek west that ends up stranded in the mountains. At times resembling a perverse community theatre parody of Rodgers and Hammerstein ("My heart's as full as a baked po-ta-to!"), Parker bounces back and forth between cheery production numbers and goony songs ("Let's build a snowman", sings one starving-mad hiker) and grotesque gore (bloody body parts, festering sores, human hors d'oeuvres). It lacks in style and consistency and the juvenile gags and fart jokes wear thin over the course of a feature film, but Parker's sheer energy and inventiveness carry the overlong picture to a rousing conclusion. Regular Parker collaborators Matt Stone and Dian Bachar co-star in this tuneful barbecue. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Weinstein Company / Feast II: Sloppy Seconds [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Martin Klebba
  • Jenny Wade
  • John Gulager
  • Carl Anthony Payne II
  • Diane Goldner
  • Clu Gulager
Release date: 2008-10-07
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Patrick Melton
Price: £9.43

Review Feast II: Sloppy Seconds [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Weinstein Company:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Son Of Frankenstein [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Boris Karloff
  • Rowland V. Lee
  • Bela Lugosi
  • Basil Rathbone
Release date: 2008-05-05
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.30

Review Son Of Frankenstein [1939] / Universal Pictures UK:

Basil Rathbone comes to Transylvania to inherit his father's estate in this second sequel to Frankenstein. The townspeople are suspicious, but young Frankenstein has no interest in reviving his father's work-until he discovers the monster hidden away in the castle, inert but very much intact and watched over by Ygor (Bela Lugosi), a sinister, snaggletoothed peasant with a broken neck. Convinced to revive the creature and vindicate his father's name, Frankenstein toils away in the lab not realising that Ygor plans to use the monster to revenge himself on the jury that sentenced him to hang. Boris Karloff makes his final appearance as the Monster, now little more than a mute, lumbering robot under the hypnotic control of Ygor. Rathbone is a dignified, suave scientist and a marvelous match to Lugosi's mad Ygor, a richly malevolent performance that dominates the film. Lionel Atwill makes a marvelous addition to the Frankenstein gallery as the wooden-armed constable, a legacy of the monster's rampage 25 years before. (Mel Brooks's loving lampoon Young Frankenstein, a veritable remake of this film, features the constable and his lumber limb in a major role. ) Universal abandoned horror films in 1936, but the success of this sequel single-handedly revived the genre. Though lacking the gothic splendor and macabre humor of James Whale's originals, Rowland V. Lee's handsome production remains an intelligent, well-made classic of the genre and Universal's last great horror film. [+]
Lugosi returns as Ygor in The Ghost of Frankenstein. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Uca / John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Ice Cube
  • Pam Grier
  • John Carpenter
  • Jason Statham
  • Natasha Henstridge
  • Clea DuVall
Release date: 2004-05-10
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Larry Sulkis
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.44

Review John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars [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 Universal Pictures UK / Virus [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Joanna Pacula
  • Marshall Bell
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • William Baldwin
  • John Bruno
  • Donald Sutherland
Release date: 2002-06-17
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Dennis Feldman
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.81

Review Virus [1999] / Universal Pictures UK:

In this fast-paced, sci-fi/horror shoot-'em-up based on the Dark Horse comic book, Jamie Lee Curtis plays the navigator of an ocean-going tug. When a typhoon cripples their boat, the crew sails into the eye of the storm, where they discover a high-tech Russian communications and research vessel adrift. Only one Russian crewmember is still alive, raving about "intelligent lightning. " They soon discover that an alien life form has taken over the ship's computers and is churning out biomechanical warriors. With their own boat destroyed, the crew must battle the creature as the ship reenters the storm. If the basic story and characters all sound familiar, it may not surprise you that producer Gale Anne Hurd's other films include The Terminator and Aliens. This movie and its derivative screenplay aren't nearly as good as those were, and director John Bruno (who won an Oscar for best visual effects for The Abyss) seems more skilled at action choreography and special effects than character and story. Curtis plays another variation on her "scream queen" persona, while Donald Sutherland gives a deliciously hammy performance as the tug captain (in his words, "the dominant life form") who smells salvage money if he can claim the Russian ship for his own. For all the picture's flaws, the effects are good (and gory) and it moves at top speed for a brisk 100 minutes. A trivia factoid: at one point on this troubled production, film footage was seized at the airport because the shipping box was prominently marked with the film's title! -Geoff Miller.

Review Entertainment in Video / An American Werewolf In Paris [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Vince Vieluf
  • Tom Everett Scott
  • Julie Bowen
  • Phil Buckman
  • Anthony Waller
  • Julie Delpy
Release date: 2001-10-29
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Tom Stern
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.64

Review An American Werewolf In Paris [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.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Tremors 4: The Legend Begins [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • August Schellenberg
  • Brent Roam
  • Michael Gross
  • S.S. Wilson
  • Billy Drago
  • Sara Botsford
Release date: 2004-04-19
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Scott Buck
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.29

Review Tremors 4: The Legend Begins [2003] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Pathe Distribution / Reeker [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Arielle Kebbel
  • Michael Ironside
  • Dave Payne
  • Devon Gummersall
  • Derek Richardson
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.94

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Review Uca / Stay Alive [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • William Brent Bell
  • Samaire Armstrong
  • Sophia Bush
  • Frankie Muniz
  • James Haven
  • Adam Goldberg
Release date: 2006-11-26
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.34

Review Stay Alive [2006] / Uca:

Straight from the set-'em-up and knock-'em-down school of teen-horror filmmaking, Stay Alive gives literal meaning to the parental lament, "Those games will kill you someday. " Not that you'll find any parents in this gimmicky thriller set in New Orleans; they're conspicuously absent when Hutch (Jon Foster) and his hardcore gamer pals discover "Stay Alive," a mysterious next-generation computer game that has a nasty way of precipitating mayhem, horror, and death. If your character dies in the game, you're doomed to die in identically grisly fashion in real life. So, just don't play the game, right? WRONG. This being a teen horror flick with a screenplay that makes no sense whatsoever, the gamer pals (including victim #2, Hutch's boss, played with game-addicted fervor by Adam Goldberg) obsessively investigate the game and its creepy Ring-like origins in the 17th century murder spree of a woman known as "The Blood Countess. " Because movies like this are best viewed on a steady diet of Pop Tarts and Ritalin, Jimmi Simpson earns top honors as the gamer pal with the creepiest behavior, and Malcolm in the Middle fans will enjoy the presence of Frankie Muniz as a gamer geek whose primary fashion statement consists of grimy T-shirts and green plastic poker-visors. While not nearly as fun or clever as the Final Destination movies, Stay Alive delivers a few good deaths while blatantly stealing most of its horror highlights from Ju-On and other Japanese horror hits. It's junk from start to finish, but its target audience of mallrats and gamers (especially those with attention deficit disorder, which helps to ignore the plot holes) won't mind a bit. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Thirteen Ghosts [Blu-ray] [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • F. Murray Abraham
  • Tony Shalhoub
  • Steve Beck
  • Shannon Elizabeth
  • Embeth Davidtz
  • Matthew Lillard
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.67

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 Nouveaux Pictures / The Beast - (La Bete) [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Pierre Benedetti
  • Lisbeth Hummel
  • Marie Testanière
  • Sirpa Lane
  • Walerian Borowczyk
  • Elisabeth Kaza
Release date: 2001-11-19
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.69

Review The Beast - (La Bete) [2001] / Nouveaux Pictures:


Review Palisades / P2 [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Rachel Nichols
  • Wes Bentley
  • Simon Reynolds
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.35

Review P2 [2007] / Palisades:


Review Warner Home Video / The Lost Boys [Blu-ray] [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Joel Schumacher
  • Corey Feldman
  • Billy Wirth
  • Corey Haim
  • Jami Gertz
  • Kelly Jo Minter
Release date: 2008-09-08
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £14.25

Review The Lost Boys [Blu-ray] [1987] / Warner Home Video:

Corey Feldman, Billy Wirth, Kelly Jo Minter, Jami Gertz, Corey Haim

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Anaconda [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Jennifer Lopez
  • Eric Stoltz
  • Luis Llosa
  • Jon Voight
  • Jonathan Hyde
  • Ice Cube
Release date: 1998-09-14
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Jim Cash
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.49

Review Anaconda [1997] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

This giant-man-eating-snake-in-the-jungle thriller definitely scores points as a guilty pleasure, especially with Jon Voight hamming it up as the monster-poacher. He makes life miserable for a team of documentary filmmakers on the Amazon river. Anaconda is one of those movies that exists for no other reason than to give computer animators a chance to strut their stuff with a new digital beastie, and they don't disappoint. It's a lot of fun to watch the mega-snake scarf down its victims and-in the case of Voight-regurgitate him right back up again, all covered in gooey digestive juices. You might wonder why Eric Stoltz, who plays Dr. Steven Cale, showed up for a role that requires him to be off-screen for most of the movie,but hey-when it comes to big snake movies, you might as well put your brain on hold and sitback for the slimy ride. -Jeff Shannon.

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Les Vampires [1915], Tremors - Attack Pack - Tremors/Tremors 2 - Aftershocks/Tremors 3 - Back To Perfection/Tremors 4 - The Legend Begins, Lord Of Illusions [1995], The Raven [1935], Night Gallery - Series 1, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 [1986], Cannibal! The Musical [1993], Feast II: Sloppy Seconds [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Son Of Frankenstein [1939], John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars [2001], Virus [1999], An American Werewolf In Paris [1997], Tremors 4: The Legend Begins [2003], Reeker [2006], Stay Alive [2006], Thirteen Ghosts [Blu-ray] [2001], The Beast - (La Bete) [2001], P2 [2007], The Lost Boys [Blu-ray] [1987], Anaconda [1997]

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