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Review Universal Pictures UK / Boogeyman [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Emily Deschanel
  • Stephen Kay
  • Lucy Lawless
  • Barry Watson
  • Skye McCole Bartusiak
Release date: 2005-07-04
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.34

Review Boogeyman [2005] / Universal Pictures UK:

Since movies began, thrillers have depended on a door just slightly ajar, with a narrow slit of darkness that promises to hold your worst fears. In the first five minutes of Boogeyman, a young boy's father is violently sucked into a closet, scarring the boy so badly that he grows up to be blank-faced Barry Watson, who plays Tim, an editor at a newspaper. Tim, to impress his girlfriend's parents, wears a coat and tie but doesn't shave his sexy stubble. A premonition of his mother's death drives him back to his childhood home so he can exorcise his phobias. From there. well, there's lots of atmospheric cinematography, regular jolts of loud music, and many quick edits. What actually happens is pretty obscure and, really, not worth unobscuring. The obsession with doors and doorknobs verges on the avant-garde. [+]
Also featuring a brief glimpse of Lucy Lawless, wearing some truly terrible old-age makeup. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 5
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Daniel Attias
  • James A. Contner
  • David Grossman
  • Nicholas Brendon
  • Christopher Hibler
  • Michelle Trachtenberg
  • David Solomon
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • Emma Caulfield
Release date: 2004-10-18
RRP: £79.99
Price: £12.46

Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 5 / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is about illusions and the truth that they often reveal; suddenly Buffy has a younger sister, has always had a younger sister. Michelle Trachtenberg as the moody, gawky Dawn achieves the considerable triumph of walking into an established stock company of well-known characters-Xander, Willow, Giles and so on-with the perfect assurance of a long-term member of the cast. Of course, nothing is as it seems; even Glory, the mad brain-sucking beauty in a red dress who is the villain of the year, turns out to be even more than she seems. Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy manages to convey heartbreak, self-involvement and real heroism as her relationship with her emotionally dense soldier boyfriend Riley hits the shoals and the blonde vampire Spike starts to show an altogether inappropriate interest. This season is also about the hard truth that there are some enemies it is impossible to fight. Even being around Buffy and Dawn is dangerous for their friends, as Glory and her minions proceed by a process of elimination. The eventual confrontation, when it comes, is genuinely shocking. Meanwhile, the vampire Spike's obsessed desire for Buffy takes them both to some very strange places and Willow and Tara have their love tested in the most gruelling of ways. And in the quietly upsetting episode "The Body", the cast produce their most impressive performances yet as they have to deal with another enemy they cannot fight. -Roz Kaveney.

Review Starz Home Entertainment / Razorback [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Gregory Harrison
  • Russell Mulcahy
  • Chris Haywood
  • Bill Kerr
  • Arkie Whiteley
  • David Argue
Release date: 2006-09-25
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.48

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Review Anchor Bay / Cemetery Man [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mickey Knox
  • Fabiana Formica
  • François Hadji-Lazaro
  • Rupert Everett
  • Anna Falchi
  • Michele Soavi
Release date: 2006-06-13
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Tiziano Sclavi
Price: £3.65

Review Cemetery Man [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Zeitgeist Films / Lunacy [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Pavel Liska
  • Jan Triska
  • Jaroslav Dusek
  • Anna Geislerová
  • Jan Svankmajer
  • Martin Huba
Release date: 2007-02-20
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Marquis de Sade
Price: £12.13

Review Lunacy [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Zeitgeist Films:


Review MGM / Tales of Terror/Twice Told Tales [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Maggie Pierce
  • Beverly Garland
  • Vincent Price
  • Roger Corman
  • Brett Halsey
  • Sidney Salkow
  • Sebastian Cabot
Release date: 2005-09-20
Run time: 209 min.
Creator: Richard Matheson
Price: £3.64

Review Tales of Terror/Twice Told Tales [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Anchor Bay Entertainment / The House Collection [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • William Katt
  • Richard Moll
  • Mary Stavin
  • George Wendt
  • Kay Lenz
  • Steve Miner
Release date: 2004-08-16
Run time: 282 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £23.99

Review The House Collection [1986] / Anchor Bay Entertainment:


Review UMBRELLA / Spirits of the Dead [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Brigitte Bardot
  • Terence Stamp
  • Alain Delon
  • Federico Fellini
  • Roger Vadim
  • Louis Malle
  • James Robertson Justice
  • Jane Fonda
Release date: 2004-11-19
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Edgar Allan Poe
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.77

Review Spirits of the Dead [1973] / UMBRELLA:


Review MGM / Love at First Bite [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Arte Johnson
  • George Hamilton
  • Richard Benjamin
  • Stan Dragoti
  • Susan Saint James
  • Dick Shawn
Release date: 2005-07-12
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Robert Kaufman
Price: £6.00

Review Love at First Bite [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Arrow Films / Pervert!
Actors & Directors
  • Mary Carey
Release date: 2007-04-30
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.58

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Review Blackhorse Entertainment / Cannibal Holocaust [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Francesca Ciardi
  • Luca Barbareschi
  • Salvatore Basile
  • Robert Kerman
  • Ruggero Deodato
Release date: 2008-07-28
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.97

Review Cannibal Holocaust [1979] / Blackhorse Entertainment:


Review Starz Home Entertainment / Last House On The Left [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • David Hess
  • Wes Craven
  • Sandra Cassel
  • Lucy Grantham
Release date: 2006-09-25
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.72

Review Last House On The Left [1972] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review Verve Pictures / Bullet Boy [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Saul Dibb
  • Leon Black
  • Ashley Walters
  • Luke Fraser
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.69

Review Bullet Boy [2004] / Verve Pictures:


Review Warner Home Video / Diary Of Ellen Rimbauer [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Kate Burton
  • Steven Brand
  • Brad Greenquist
  • Tsidii Leloka
  • Craig R. Baxley
  • Lisa Brenner
Release date: 2005-04-04
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £2.57

Review Diary Of Ellen Rimbauer [2003] / Warner Home Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 3
Actors & Directors
  • David Boreanaz
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • David Grossman
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • David Solomon
  • Nicholas Brendon
  • Charisma Carpenter
  • David Semel
  • James A. Contner
  • David Greenwalt
Release date: 2004-10-18
Run time: 935 min.
RRP: £79.99
Price: £12.95

Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 3 / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Action-packed Season Three develops major characters and plot lines brewing over the last couple of years. The Mayor, this season's major baddie, wants to become an invincible demon by slaughtering everyone at Sunnydale High's graduation ceremony but he's going to torture them all by giving his speech first. Bad-girl vampire-slayer Faith wants to get one over on Buffy and becomes even more rotten. Angel comes back from hell but isn't sure what to do about his girlfriend. Willow meets her evil gay vampire duplicate from another dimension. Xander loses his virginity but still has to contemplate his essential uselessness. Cordelia gets less whiny and has to work in a dress-shop when her father becomes bankrupt. Giles wears tweed and drinks tea, though it is revealed that he used to be a warlock and in a punk band. Besides the soap opera, there are monsters, curses and vampires (inevitably). -Kim Newman On the DVD: The DVDs are presented in a standard television 4:3 picture ratio and in a clear Dolby sound that does full justice both to the sparkling dialogue and to the always impressive indie-rock and orchestral scores. [+]
Special features include an overview of Season Three by its creator Joss Whedon, and by writers Marti Noxon, David Fury, Doug Petrie and Jane Espenson and documentaries on the weapons, clothes special effects of the show and the speech/verbal tone which makes it what it is-"Buffyspeak". The episodes "Helpless", "Bad Girls", "Consequences" and "Earshot" have commentaries by, Fury, Petrie, director James Gershman and Espenson, in which we find out some fascinating details about the way the scripts mutate and about the particular illuminations added to scripts by actors' performances. After complaints about the Season 2 DVD packaging, the disc envelopes include a protective coating. -Roz Kaveney.

Review The Ultimate Horror DVD Collection / Horror Collection
Release date: 2005-10-24
RRP: £69.99
Price: £19.98

Review Horror Collection / The Ultimate Horror DVD Collection:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Blacula/Scream Blacula Scream
Release date: 2008-09-22
Run time: 181 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.77

Review Blacula/Scream Blacula Scream / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Image Entertainment / Invaders from Mars [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • William Cameron Menzies
  • Jimmy Hunt
  • Arthur Franz
  • Leif Erickson
  • Helena Carter
  • Hillary Brooke
Release date: 2002-12-03
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Richard Blake
Price: £4.39

Review Invaders from Mars [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Exorcist - The Beginning [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Renny Harlin
  • Izabella Scorupco
  • James D'Arcy
  • Stellan Skarsgard
Release date: 2005-04-18
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £0.85

Review Exorcist - The Beginning [2004] / Warner Home Video:


Review Synapse Films / Street Trash [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • J. Michael Muro
  • Jane Arakawa
  • Bill Chepil
  • Mike Lackey
  • Mark Sferrazza
  • Nicole Potter
Release date: 2006-09-26
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Roy Frumkes
Price: £11.08

Review Street Trash [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Synapse Films:

Sure, Street Trash has a convoluted, ridiculous plot, but it also features bums who melt into rainbow sludge upon drinking a fermented relative of Thunderbird, Tenafly Viper. In this '80s B-movie akin to The Toxic Avenger or C. H. U. D. , Fred (Mike Lackey) is the main homeless guy who distributes Viper he's lifted from the local liquor store. Once he discovers the alcohol's lethal potential, he wields it as a weapon, eventually fighting head criminal, Bronson, a psycho-killer Vietnam vet who carries a human femur bone handle knife. Side plots, such as one involving a begrudging policeman who seeks to clean up the Street Trash community housed in a junkyard, or the one featuring Wendy, the hot girl who guards runaways from the junkyard's fat, mean owner, are beside the point. Watch Street Trash for its infamous penis scene, in which a member is chopped off and tossed around in a game of keep away, or watch the film to see a man melt down into a blue pile as he's flushed down a toilet bowl. Street Trash's gore isn't so disturbing as it is comic, as are the bums' New Romantic costumes similar to Dexy's Midnight Runners in the video for their '80s hit, "Come On Eileen. [+]
" Applaud Street Trash for its gaudy, horrendous splendor. Notably, this re-release contains the original Super-8 short of the film, featuring even more homemade special effects and low-grade humor. -Trinie Dalton.

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Boogeyman [2005], Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 5, Razorback [1984], Cemetery Man [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Lunacy [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tales of Terror/Twice Told Tales [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The House Collection [1986], Spirits of the Dead [1973], Love at First Bite [1979] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pervert!, Cannibal Holocaust [1979], Last House On The Left [1972], Bullet Boy [2004], Diary Of Ellen Rimbauer [2003], Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 3, Horror Collection, Blacula/Scream Blacula Scream, Invaders from Mars [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Exorcist - The Beginning [2004], Street Trash [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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