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Review Warner Home Video / It's Alive / It's Alive 2 / It's Alive 3 [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Andrew Duggan
  • Larry Cohen
  • Kathleen Lloyd
  • James Dixon
  • John P. Ryan
  • Sharon Farrell
Release date: 2004-10-25
RRP: £25.99
Price: £4.99

Review It's Alive / It's Alive 2 / It's Alive 3 [1974] / Warner Home Video:


Review Pathe Distribution / Godsend [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Rebecca Romijn
  • Robert De Niro
  • Nick Hamm
  • Greg Kinnear
  • Cameron Bright
  • Merwin Mondesir
Release date: 2004-11-08
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Mark Bomback
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.63

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Star Wars Trilogy (Special Edition) [Gold Box Set]
Actors & Directors
  • George Lucas
  • Carrie Fisher
  • Alec Guinness
  • Mark Hamill
  • Harrison Ford
Release date: 1997-10-06
RRP: £34.99
Price: £32.60

Review Star Wars Trilogy (Special Edition) [Gold Box Set] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review MGM Entertainment / Return Of The Living Dead [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Thom Mathews
  • Don Calfa
  • Beverly Randolph
  • James Karen
  • Dan O'Bannon
  • Clu Gulager
Release date: 2002-10-21
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Russell Streiner
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.00

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 / Stephen King's Silver Bullet [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Robin Groves
  • Everett McGill
  • Gary Busey
  • Megan Follows
  • Corey Haim
  • Daniel Attias
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Stephen King
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.49

Review Stephen King's Silver Bullet [1985] / Momentum Pictures:

Silver Bullet is a generic, by-the-numbers Stephen King film with a Stephen King screenplay adapted from an earlier novella. Back in the innocent days of 1976-the age of innocence gets later every year-the town of Tarker's Fall finds itself in the grip of mass hysteria when something starts tearing people apart. Only a crippled child Martie (Corey Haim) works out the truth, which is that the new pastor is a werewolf. Eventually he manages to convince his supercilious sister Janey and his unreliable drunk Uncle Red (Gary Busey) and there is the usual confrontation involving a silver bullet melted down from the children's religious jewellery; the title also refers to the boy's motorised wheelchair. The film neglects interesting possibilities-the lynch-mob mentality that takes over the town fizzles after the major vigilantes are killed, the pastor tries to justify the killings to himself-in favour of stock ultra-violent confrontations and extended metamorphoses; its major strength is a familiar King theme, the helplessness of being a child in a world full of people who will not listen to you. On the DVD: The DVD comes with a director's commentary by Daniel Attias and dubbed versions in German, French and Italian. The soundtrack has Dolby sound which brings out the stylised fairy-tale elements in the score and the widescreen picture is presented in 2. 35:1 anamorphic ratio. The sometimes muddy-looking night-scenes are balanced by brisk pastoral daylight scenes that have their own innocence. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Starz Home Entertainment / Army Of Darkness - Evil Dead 3 [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Embeth Davidtz
  • Marcus Gilbert
  • Sam Raimi
  • Richard Grove
  • Ian Abercrombie
Release date: 2002-11-11
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Ivan Raimi
RRP: £19.99
Price: £19.47

Review Army Of Darkness - Evil Dead 3 [1993] / Starz Home Entertainment:

It's hard not to feel there's something wrong when Army of Darkness, the third entry in Sam Raimi's lively Evil Dead series, opens with a 15 certificate. And indeed, this is not quite the non-stop rollercoaster of splat we're entitled to expect. Like Evil Dead II, it opens with a digest-cum-remake of the original movie, taking geeky Ash (Bruce Campbell) back out to that cabin in the woods where he is beset by demons who do away with his girlfriend (blink and you'll miss Bridget Fonda). Blasted back in time to 12th century England, Ash finds himself still battling the Deadites and his own ineptitude in a quest to save the day and get back home. Though it starts zippily, with Campbell's grimly funny clod of a hero commanding the screen, a sort of monotony sets in as magical events pile up. Ash is attacked by Lilliputian versions of himself, one of whom incubates in his stomach and grows out of his shoulder to be his evil twin. After being dismembered and buried, Evil Ash rises from the dead to command a zombie army and at least half the film is a big battle scene in which rotted warriors (nine mouldy extras in masks for every one Harryhausen-style impressive animated skeleton) besiege a cardboard castle. There are lots of action jokes, MAD Magazine-like marginal doodles and a few funny lines, but it lacks the authentic scares of The Evil Dead and the authentic sick comedy of Evil Dead II. On the DVD: Army of Darkness may be the least of the trilogy, but Anchor Bay's super two-disc set is worthy of shelving beside their outstanding editions of the earlier films. Disc 1 contains the 81-minute US theatrical version in widescreen or fullscreen, plus the original "Planet of the Apes" ending, the trailer and a making-of featurette. [+]
Disc 2 has the 96-minute director's cut, with extra slapstick and a lively, irreverent commentary track from Raimi, Campbell and co-writer Ivan Raimi, plus yet more deleted scenes and some storyboards. The fact that the film exists in so many versions suggests that none of them satisfied everybody, but fans will want every scrap of Army in this one package. -Kim Newman.

Review First Independent Video / Wishmaster [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Kurtzman
  • Tammy Lauren
  • Chris Lemmon
  • Wendy Benson-Landes
  • Robert Englund
  • Andrew Divoff
Release date: 2000-07-03
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Peter Atkins
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.88

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Review Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd / Waxwork [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Anthony Hickox
  • Deborah Foreman
  • Zach Galligan
  • Dana Ashbrook
  • David Warner
Release date: 2007-09-10
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.93

Review Waxwork [1986] / Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Predator 2 [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Peter Hall
  • Stephen Hopkins
  • Danny Glover
  • Rubén Blades
  • Gary Busey
  • Maria Conchita Alonso
Release date: 2004-06-21
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: John Thomas
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.97

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Storm Warning [Blu-ray] [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • John Brumpton
  • Nadia Fares
  • Robert Taylor
  • Jamie Blanks
Release date: 2008-04-21
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.57

Review Storm Warning [Blu-ray] [2007] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Salvation Films / Satanic Sluts - The Black Order Cometh [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Dominik Destruction
  • Nigel Wingrove
  • Kerosene
  • Voluptua
  • Poisoned Venus
  • Dischordia
Release date: 2008-07-28
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.99

Review Satanic Sluts - The Black Order Cometh [2007] / Salvation Films:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The Omen Trilogy - The Omen/Damien - Omen 2/Omen 3 - The Final Conflict [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Billie Whitelaw
  • Rossano Brazzi
  • Don Taylor
  • Lee Remick
  • David Warner
  • Gregory Peck
  • Richard Donner
  • Graham Baker
Release date: 2001-06-04
Run time: 317 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £34.00

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

In 1976 The Omen scored a hit with critics and audiences hungry for more after The Exorcist with its mixture of Gothic horror and mystery and its plot about a young boy suspected of being the personification of the anti-Christ. Directed by Richard Donner (best known for his Superman and Lethal Weapon films), The Omen gained a lot of credibility from the casting of Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as a distinguished American couple living in England, whose young son Damien bears "the mark of the beast". At a time when graphic gore had yet to dominate the horror genre, this film used its violence discreetly and to great effect and the mood of dread and potential death is masterfully maintained. It's all a bit contrived, with a lot of biblical portent and sensational fury but few would deny it's highly entertaining. Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar-winning score works wonders to enhance the movie's creepy atmosphere. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com Damien: Omen II takes place several years after the mysterious events that claimed the life of the US Ambassador and his wife as the now teenaged and militarily enrolled Damien Thorne is slowly being made aware of his unholy heritage and horrific destiny. Woe is he (including anyone in Damien's adoptive family and his classmates) who suspects the truth or gets in his way. While not as unrelentingly frightening as its blockbuster predecessor, this more-than-competent sequel raises some interesting questions about the nature of free will (can the anti-Christ deny his birthright?) before falling into a gory series of increasingly outlandish deaths, the best of which is a terrifyingly protracted scene beneath the ice of a frozen lake. Jerry Goldsmith (who won an Oscar for his work on the first film in the series) contributes another marvellously foreboding score. [+]
-Andrew Wright, Amazon. com The series concludes with The Omen III: The Final Conflict, starring Sam Neill as the adult Damien-aka the son of Satan-in a battle with the heavens for control of mankind. The film ends up depending more heavily on effects and spectacle than on the kind of basic horrors that made the first movie in the series so unsettling but at least this one gives some closure to the seemingly endless saga. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com On the DVDs: On the original movie disc there is an all-new 45-minute documentary, "666: The Omen Revealed", with contributions from all the major behind-the-scenes players, including director, editor, screenwriter (who confesses the movie was only set in England because he wanted a free trip to London!), producer and composer. The latter, Jerry Goldsmith, has his Oscar-winning contribution to the movie recognised with a separate feature in which he talks through four key musical scenes in the score. There's also a thought-provoking short called "Curse or Coincidence?" in which the many bizarre accidents that happened during shooting are related, including the terrible story of what happened to the girlfriend of the man responsible for designing the decapitation scene. Director Richard Donner and editor Stuart Baird provide a chatty audio commentary to the movie. The second and third films lack as many extra features, being content with audio commentaries and theatrical trailers: the commentary for Omen II is by producer Harvey Bernhard, that for Omen III by director Graham Baker. -Mark Walker.

Review Starz Home Entertainment / The Evil Dead--Full Uncut Version [1982] with Special Features
Actors & Directors
  • Betsy Baker
  • Sam Raimi
  • Ellen Sandweiss
  • Hal Delrich
  • Sarah York
  • Bruce Campbell
Release date: 2002-09-30
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.72

Review The Evil Dead--Full Uncut Version [1982] with Special Features / Starz Home Entertainment:

In the Autumn of 1979, Sam Raimi and his merry band headed into the woods of rural Tennessee to make a little film called The Evil Dead. They emerged with a roller coaster of a film packed with shocks, gore and wild humour, a film that remains a benchmark for the genre. Ash (cult favourite Bruce Campbell) and four friends arrive at a backwoods cabin for a vacation, where they find a tape recorder containing incantations from an ancient book of the dead. When they play the tape, evil forces are unleashed and one by one the friends are possessed. Wouldn't you know it, the only way to kill a "deadite" is by total bodily dismemberment and soon the blood starts to fly. Raimi injects tremendous energy into this simple plot, using the claustrophobic set, disorientating camera angles, and even the graininess of the film stock itself to create an atmosphere of dread, punctuated by a relentless series of jump-out-of-your-seat shocks. Much of the film's energy is supplied by the "Raimi-cam," a gliding, swooping, rushing camera that suggests a dislocated, otherworldly point of view while injecting a lively if spooky fleetness to the pace. Though it's no comedy, Raimi's dry wit and cinematic cleverness pervades the entire film. The Evil Dead lacks the more highly developed sense of the absurd that distinguish later entries in the series-Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness-but it is still much more than a gore movie: it marks the appearance of one of the most original and visually exciting directors of his generation, and it stands as a monument to the triumph of imagination over budget. -Simon Leake, Amazon. [+]
com On the DVD: For a film made on the tiniest of budgets and shot in 16 mm, The Evil Dead looks impressive in this widescreen 1. 85:1 anamorphic print, even if the picture quality is never going to rival that of 35 mm. The revelation here is the soundtrack, with optional DTS 6. 1 audio mix, which showcases Sam Raimi's bizarre assembly of sound effects and Joseph LoDuca's minimalist Bernard Herrmann-inspired score. Director Raimi and Producer Robert Tapert chat amiably about making the film on the first commentary track, but the real treat is Bruce Campbell's "alternate" commentary, which is not only extremely informative but laugh-out-loud funny, too. Among other nuggets we learn that: the distinctive moving camera effects were created by strapping the camera to a plank held between two people who had to run very fast through the woods; most of the actors were so worried about appearing in a horror movie that they made up stage names for the credits; and Raimi's 73 Oldsmobile has since reappeared in almost every one of his films. A trailer and stills gallery complete the extras package. -Mark Walker.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / House Of The Dead 2 - Dead Aim [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Sticky Fingaz
  • Emmanuelle Vaugier
  • Sid Haig
Release date: 2006-10-23
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.73

Review House Of The Dead 2 - Dead Aim [2006] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Blue Underground / Suspiria [1977] (Region 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Flavio Bucci
  • Miguel Bose
  • Eva Axen
  • Stefania Casini
  • Joan Bennett
Release date: 2007-09-25
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Dario Argento
Price: £7.36

Review Suspiria [1977] (Region 1) (NTSC) / Blue Underground:

Outside of devoted cult audiences, many Americans have yet to discover the extremely stylish, relentlessly terrifying Italian horror genre, or the films of its talented virtuoso, Dario Argento. Suspiria, part one of a still-uncompleted trilogy (the luminously empty Inferno was the second), is considered his masterpiece by Argento devotees but also doubles as a perfect starting point for those unfamiliar with the director or his genre. The convoluted plot follows an American dancer (Jessica Harper) from her arrival at a European ballet school to her discovery that it's actually a witches coven; but, really, don't worry about that too much. Argento makes narrative subservient to technique, preferring instead to assault the senses and nervous system with mood, atmosphere, illusory gore, garish set production, a menacing camera, and perhaps the creepiest score ever created for a movie. It's essentially a series of effectively unsettling set pieces-a raging storm that Harper should have taken for an omen, and a blind man attacked by his own dog are just two examples-strung together on a skeleton structure. But once you've seen it, you'll never forget it. -Dave McCoy.

Review Various / Horrorlicious
Release date: 2005-09-20
Run time: 784 min.
Price: £3.06

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Review Arrow Films / The Funhouse [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Largo Woodruff
  • Sylvia Miles
  • Cooper Huckabee
  • Elizabeth Berridge
  • Miles Chapin
  • Tobe Hooper
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.88

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Review Tartan Video / The Happiness Of The Katakuris [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Takashi Miike
  • Shinji Takeda
  • Naomi Nishida
  • Kenji Sawada
  • Kiyoshiro Imawano
  • Keiko Matsuzaka
Release date: 2003-09-29
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Kikumi Yamagishi
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.95

Review The Happiness Of The Katakuris [2003] / Tartan Video:


Review Film 2000 / Pieces [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Lynda Day George
  • Christopher George
  • Edmund Purdom
  • Paul Smith
  • J.P. Simon
Release date: 2002-10-21
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.49

Review Pieces [1983] / Film 2000:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Wolf Man [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Ralph Bellamy
  • Warren William
  • Bela Lugosi
  • George Waggner
  • Patric Knowles
  • Claude Rains
Release date: 2005-11-01
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: Curt Siodmak
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.74

Review The Wolf Man [1941] / Universal Pictures UK:

Even a man who is pure in heart, And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright. If you haven't heard this piece of horror-movie doggerel before, you'll never forget it after seeing The Wolf Man for two reasons: it's a spooky piece of rhyme and nearly everybody in the picture recites it at one time or another. Set in a fog-bound studio-built Wales, The Wolf Man tells the doom-laden tale of Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr. ), who returns to the estate of his wealthy father (Claude Rains). (Yes, Chaney's American, but the movie explains this, awkwardly. ) Bitten by a werewolf, Talbot suffers the classic fate of the victims of lycanthropy: at the full moon, he turns into a werewolf, a transformation ingeniously devised by makeup maestro Jack Pierce. Pierce was the man who turned Boris Karloff into the Frankenstein monster, and his werewolf makeup became equally famous, with its canine snout and bushy hairdo-and, of course, seriously sharp dental work. The Wolf Man was a smash hit, giving Universal Pictures a new monster for their already crowded stable, and Chaney found himself following in the footsteps (or paw prints) of his father, who had essayed a monster or two in the silent era. This is a classy horror outing, with strong atmosphere and a thoughtful script by Curt Siodmak-well, except for the stiff romantic bits between Chaney and Evelyn Ankers. It's also got Bela Lugosi (briefly) and Maria Ouspenskaya, the prunelike Russian actress who foretells doom like nobody's business. [+]
-Robert Horton.

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It's Alive / It's Alive 2 / It's Alive 3 [1974], Godsend [2004], Star Wars Trilogy (Special Edition) [Gold Box Set], Return Of The Living Dead [1985], Stephen King's Silver Bullet [1985], Army Of Darkness - Evil Dead 3 [1993], Wishmaster [1998], Waxwork [1986], Predator 2 [1990], Storm Warning [Blu-ray] [2007], Satanic Sluts - The Black Order Cometh [2007], The Omen Trilogy - The Omen/Damien - Omen 2/Omen 3 - The Final Conflict [1976], The Evil Dead--Full Uncut Version [1982] with Special Features, House Of The Dead 2 - Dead Aim [2006], Suspiria [1977] (Region 1) (NTSC), Horrorlicious, The Funhouse [1981], The Happiness Of The Katakuris [2003], Pieces [1983], The Wolf Man [1941]

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