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Review Cleopatra / The Satanic Rites of Dracula [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • John Harvey
  • Michael Coles
  • Peter Cushing
  • William Franklyn
  • Alan Gibson
  • Patrick Barr
Release date: 2006-02-21
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: John Cacavas
Price: £7.05

Review The Satanic Rites of Dracula [1973] / Cleopatra:


Review Warner Home Video / Four Chilling Horrors [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Angelina Jolie
  • George Miller
  • Barry Levinson
  • Sam Neill
  • Jaume Collet-Serra
  • Nicole Kidman
  • Ethan Hawke
  • Olivier Martinez
  • D.J. Caruso
Release date: 2008-10-06
Run time: 435 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £5.94

Review Four Chilling Horrors [1988] / Warner Home Video:


Review Boulevard Entertaiment / Spiders
Actors & Directors
  • Lana Parrilla
  • Josh Green
  • Gary Jones
Release date: 2006-08-14
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £1.97

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Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Welcome To The Jungle [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Callard Harris
  • John Leonetti
  • Sandy Gardiner
  • Jonathan Hensleigh
Release date: 2008-04-14
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.89

Review Welcome To The Jungle [2007] / Optimum Home Entertainment:


Review Starz Home Entertainment / Halloween: The Complete Collection (Eight Disc Box Set)
Actors & Directors
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Tony Moran
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Nancy Kyes
  • John Carpenter
  • P.J. Soles
Release date: 2004-10-11
Run time: 625 min.
Creator: Moustapha Akkad
Price: £59.99

Review Halloween: The Complete Collection (Eight Disc Box Set) / Starz Home Entertainment:

Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin's character in Psycho. In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience-it's one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. ("No! Don't drop that knife!") Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more instalments: 1981's dismal Halloween II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate events, and 1998's occasionally gripping Halloween H20, which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years. -Robert Horton.

Review Severin / The Psychic [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gianni Garko
  • Lucio Fulci
  • Marc Porel
  • Ida Galli
  • Gabriele Ferzetti
  • Jennifer O'Neill
Release date: 2007-12-18
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Roberto Gianviti
Price: £11.07

Review The Psychic [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Severin:


Review 20th Century Fox / Horror Triple ( Amityville Horror, Silent Hill, An American Haunting)
Actors & Directors
  • Ryan Reynolds
  • Sissy Spacek
  • Sean Bean
  • Andrew Douglas
  • Courtney Solomon
  • Christophe Gans
  • Radha Mitchell
  • Melissa George
Release date: 2007-03-12
Run time: 303 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £16.12

Review Horror Triple ( Amityville Horror, Silent Hill, An American Haunting) / 20th Century Fox:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Alien 3 - The Director's Cut (Two Disc Special Edition) [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Glover
  • Sigourney Weaver
  • David Fincher
  • Charles S. Dutton
  • Charles Dance
  • Paul McGann
Release date: 2004-04-12
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Walter Hill
RRP: £22.99
Price: £3.79

Review Alien 3 - The Director's Cut (Two Disc Special Edition) [1992] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Directed by stylemaster David Fincher, who went on to greater things with Seven and Fight Club, Alien 3 was the least successful of the Alien series at the box-office. Ripley, the only survivor of her past mission, awakens on a prison planet in the far corners of the solar system. As she tries to recover, she realises that not only has an alien got loose on the planet, the alien has implanted one of its own within her. As she battles the prison authorities (and is aided by the prisoners) in trying to kill the alien, she must also cope with a distinctly shortened life span that awaits her. But the striking imagery makes for muddled action and the script confuses it further. The ending looks startling but it takes a long time-and a not particularly satisfying journey-to get there. -Marshall Fine, Amazon. com On the DVD: The clarity of the digital picture throws light into some of Fincher's darker recesses, but is unkind to the primitive computer animation (the CGI alien is never convincing). Compared to the Alien DVD there are few extras, although a "making of" featurette that covers all three movies is included.

Review Hanzibar Films / VIY
Actors & Directors
  • Aleksei Glazyrin
  • Natalya Varley
  • Georgi Kropachyov
  • Nikolai Kutuzov
  • Leonid Kuravlyov
  • Konstantin Yershov
  • Vadim Zakharchenko
Release date: 2005-03-28
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Nikolai Gogol
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.93

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Review Lions Gate / High Tension [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alexandre Aja
  • Cécile De France
  • Philippe Nahon
  • Maïwenn Le Besco
  • Franck Khalfoun
  • Andrei Finti
Release date: 2005-10-11
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Grégory Levasseur
Price: £5.82

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Dracula's Daughter [1936]
Actors & Directors
  • Otto Kruger
  • Edward Van Sloan
  • Lambert Hillyer
  • Marguerite Churchill
Release date: 2008-05-05
Run time: 68 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.30

Review Dracula's Daughter [1936] / Universal Pictures UK:

This cut-rate sequel to Dracula, sans Bela Lugosi, turns out to be an unexpectedly sleek and stylish movie. Gloria Holden, tall, dark, and continental, is the aristocratic title character fighting her nature and seeking a cure for her affliction. A sympathetic psychiatrist, Dr. Garth (Otto Kruger), encourages her to "face her fears," but when she lures a pretty young streetwalker to her room to model for a painting, the temptation of her fleshy offering proves too much to overcome. Edward Van Sloan reprises his role as Van Helsing, held by the police for the murder of Count Dracula (the film opens on the final scene from Dracula) but released in the nick of time to help Garth, now at the mercy of the bitter and vindictive vampire. Director Lambert Hillyer makes the most of his low budget, with austere, angular sets and an almost abstract sense of the foggy city night. Holden's mysterious face and tall, willowy body make her an even more striking vampire than Lugosi, and Irving Pichel's offbeat servant is like an American gangster with the breeding of a European aristocrat: thick and thuggish, but always proper. The script falls into the usual rut of Universal's later horror films, losing the mood in the busy plot, but the smooth style and Holden's dignified performance lift Dracula's Daughter above most Universal sequels. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Image Entertainment / The Crawling Eye (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Forrest Tucker
  • Jennifer Jayne
  • Warren Mitchell
  • Quentin Lawrence
  • Janet Munro
  • Laurence Payne
Release date: 2001-12-04
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Peter Key
Price: £2.43

Review The Crawling Eye (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1958] / Image Entertainment:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / Rosemary's Killer [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Goutman
  • Joseph Zito
  • Vicki Dawson
  • Farley Granger
Release date: 2007-10-08
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.20

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Review Vipco / Spookies [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Dan Scott
  • A.J. Lowenthal
  • Maria Pechukas
  • Brendan Faulkner
  • Felix Ward
  • Thomas Doran
  • Alec Nemser
  • Genie Joseph
Release date: 2003-10-13
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Frank M. Farel
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.47

Review Spookies [1985] / Vipco:


Review Paramount / Friday the 13th: The Series - The First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Chris Wiggins
  • Louise Robey
  • Enrico Colantoni
  • Bill Corcoran
  • Barclay Hope
  • Alexander Singer
  • John D. LeMay
  • Allan King
  • Bradford May
  • Atom Egoyan
Release date: 2008-09-23
Run time: 1140 min.
Price: £25.05

Review Friday the 13th: The Series - The First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:


Review Cinema Club / Flowers In The Attic [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Kristy Swanson
  • Louise Fletcher
  • Victoria Tennant
  • Jeb Stuart Adams
  • Ben Ryan Ganger
  • Jeffrey Bloom
Release date: 2004-06-07
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Virginia C. Andrews
RRP: £5.99
Price: £11.97

Review Flowers In The Attic [1987] / Cinema Club:

This screen adaptation of Flowers in the Attic, Virginia Andrews' classic teen novel of adolescent torment and forbidden love, shies away from what made the book so hugely popular, namely the incestuous sex between the two older children, Cathy (Kristy Swanson) and Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams). When the father of four beautiful blond children is suddenly killed, their mother (Victoria Tennant) takes them to the family home she fled 17 years earlier. Their fierce and frightening grandmother (Louise Fletcher) locks them in an upstairs room, from which the only escape is into the cluttered and cobwebbed attic. The children's isolation gets more and more extreme as their mother abandons them, finally even slowly poisoning them to gain her father's inheritance. The movie insinuates but does not make explicit incestuous longing in all directions: Cathy's father brings her special presents before he dies, Chris scrubs Cathy's back in the tub, Chris has a noticeably stronger attachment to their mother than Cathy does-not to mention that the grandmother whips the half-naked mother in front of the grandfather. Fletcher brings a bit of bite to her role, and the movie occasionally rises to absurdly lurid zest. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Lionsgate / Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ernie Barbarash
  • Rob Lowe
  • Marnie McPhail
Release date: 2007-11-20
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Mitchell Lackie
Price: £5.89

Review Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review Entertainment in Video / The Nightmare On Elm Street Collection (Five Disc Box Set)
Release date: 2001-06-25
Run time: 469 min.
RRP: £53.99
Price: £22.99

Review The Nightmare On Elm Street Collection (Five Disc Box Set) / Entertainment in Video:

The flagship horror film series of the second half of the 1980s was the Elm Street cycle, inaugurated in 1984 by Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street. A low-budget, high-imagination effort, the film revived the moribund teenage slasher genre by adding a fantastical premise (just as Craven's Scream would do 10 years later) playing post-modern games. A ghost story about a murdered murderer who can haunt the night terrors of the children of the mob who burned him to death, A Nightmare on Elm Street is the ultimate instance of horror taking its tone from a bad dream. The fact that the monster's powers are irrational is the film's greatest strength rather than a script weakness. Freddy Krueger, who was just plain Fred to start with, is the 80s monster par excellence, a razor-fingered, scarfaced pervert in a hideous jumper and battered hat, lurking in the shadows of the unconscious from which he emerged rather too often in the follow-ups. Craven made him scary, but the directors who followed treated him as the star and he gradually became a ridiculous, comic creation, more tiresome than terrifying. The sequels are what they are: none aspire to the status of the original, though A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors is a rip-roaring fantasy adventure that always pleases, and even the weakest entries (2 and 5) have their moments. From 3 onwards, the dreams become showpieces for the effects men, which makes for sequences at once startling and silly, but sadly bereft of the power to chill. As the 80s recede into the stuff of nostalgia television, other aspects of the series seem more prominent: like a parade of the ghastliest haircuts ever worn by human teenagers (Johnny Depp's cockatoo pompadour or the roach-girl's fluffy perm in 4 as the worst offenders) and several soundtrack album's worth of bland MTV tie-in pop music that never manages to be as memorable as the simple, nursery rhyme theme carried over movies. - Kim Newman DVD extras. [+]
The most desirable add-on feature is a lively, informative commentary track on the original film, with contributions from Wes Craven Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon and cinematographer Jacques Haitkin; this was recorded for a US laserdisc release, and it's a shame that we don't get the outtakes and deleted scenes present on that version. Otherwise, it's the usual trailers, animated menus (all very imaginative) and cast and crew bios (with odd omissions - Nick Corri rates a write-up, but not Johnny Depp), and music videos keyed into sequels three to five, with clips from the films inter-cut with lousy rock and/or rap. A nice gimmick on all the discs is a "jump straight to a nightmare" feature, allowing instant access to the gruesome effects set-piece of your choice. All the discs are good-looking widescreen transfers, with rich sound and optional English sub-titles. Among the most notably absent extras, of course, are the sixth and seventh films, Rachel Talalay's Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare and, most importantly, Wes Craven's New Nightmare. - Kim Newman.

Review Redemption Films / Requiem For A Vampire [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • Louise D'Hour
  • Marie-Pierre Castel
  • Dominique Toussaint
  • Philippe Gaste
  • Mirielle D'Argent
  • Jean Rollin
Release date: 2007-01-27
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.97

Review Requiem For A Vampire [1971] / Redemption Films:


Review Columbia TriStar / Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Miho Yoshioka
  • Masaaki Tezuka
  • Akira Nakao
  • Mitsuki Koga
  • Hiroshi Koizumi
  • Noboru Kaneko
Release date: 2004-12-14
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Masahiro Yokotani
Price: £6.03

Review Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


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The Satanic Rites of Dracula [1973], Four Chilling Horrors [1988], Spiders, Welcome To The Jungle [2007], Halloween: The Complete Collection (Eight Disc Box Set), The Psychic [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Horror Triple ( Amityville Horror, Silent Hill, An American Haunting), Alien 3 - The Director's Cut (Two Disc Special Edition) [1992], VIY, High Tension [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dracula's Daughter [1936], The Crawling Eye (REGION 1) (NTSC) [1958], Rosemary's Killer [1981], Spookies [1985], Friday the 13th: The Series - The First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), Flowers In The Attic [1987], Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Nightmare On Elm Street Collection (Five Disc Box Set), Requiem For A Vampire [1971], Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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