Review, buy Horror: Alien Vs Hunter [2007], Shark Swarm [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bless The Child [2001], Wishmaster 3 - Devil Stone [2001], Bride Of The Monster [1953], Angel: Complete Season 4, The Invisible Man / Phantom Of The Opera, Wishmaster 4 - The Prophecy Fulfilled [2002], Doctor Who - The War Games, Audition [2001], Demons (Special Edition Box Set) [1987], Thinner [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Welcome To The Jungle [Blu-ray] [2007], The Zombie Dead [1980], The Giant Behemoth [1959] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla [1974] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Virgin Witch [1970], Son of Godzilla [1967] (REGION 1) (NTSC), White Slave Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), Doctor Who

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Review Lighthouse DVD Distribution / Alien Vs Hunter [2007]

Alien Vs Hunter [2007] (Lighthouse DVD Distribution)

Actors & Directors

Dedee Pfeiffer
William Katt

Release date: 2008-04-28
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: ~~£19.99~~
Price: £1.99

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Review RHI Entertainment / Shark Swarm [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Shark Swarm [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (RHI Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Heather McComb
Armand Assante
James A. Contner
Alan Fudge
F. Murray Abraham
Roark Critchlow

Release date: 2008-06-03
Run time: 164 min.
Creator: Craig Bassett
Price: £5.95

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Review Icon Home Entertainment / Bless The Child [2001]

Bless The Child [2001] (Icon Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Angela Bettis
Rufus Sewell
Chuck Russell
Jimmy Smits
Kim Basinger
Holliston Coleman

Release date: 2001-07-09
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Thomas Rickman
RRP: ~~£13.99~~
Price: £3.69

Review Bless The Child [2001] / Icon Home Entertainment:

Bless the Child is one of several identikit supernatural thrillers released in the wake of The Sixth Sense. It's another attempt to update 70s satanic-child flicks such as The Omen, although the twist here is that the child is a force for ultimate good. One winter night, nurse Maggie O'Connor (Kim Basinger) arrives home to find her junkie sister Jenna on her doorstep, destitute and in dire straits, holding a newly born baby wrapped in swaddling. She takes them in, but shortly after Jenna absconds leaving the child, Cody, in Maggie's care. Six years later, Jenna returns with her creepy new husband, Eric (Rufus Sewell), in tow to reclaim Cody, who has grown into a quiet but precocious child with a talent for telekinesis. They promptly disappear leaving Maggie distraught and desperate to recover her adopted child. The chief problem with Bless the Child lies in its premise. As the film reaches its denouement and a glowing angelic host attempts to save Cody by snuffing out Sewell's satanic presence, one begins to suspect that this is the Hollywood equivalent of a Christian Rock album, attempting religious conversion by stealth and subversion. That said, the movie rolls along at a cracking pace and features several nice touches: Sewell is suitably creepy as the squint-eyed cult leader; Christina Ricci literally loses her head to the forces of darkness in a blink and you'll miss it cameo; and Cody's horrific waking nightmares put a new twist on what really lies at the end of the bed when the lights go out. On the DVD: An awkward audio commentary pairs director Chuck Russell with visual effects supervisor Joel Hynek. [+]

Russell is keen on spelling out the rather obvious motivations of his characters while Hynek relays the difficulties encountered in realising the film's numerous special effects sequences, but it's hardly the kind of stuff that enhances your viewing of the film. A 10-minute featurette contains the standard enthusiastic cast and crew interviews. The inclusion of a theatrical trailer and seven virtually identical TV spots is simply overkill. The clear picture quality of the main feature shows off Peter Menzies' suitably Gothic cinematography, presented in 2. 35:1 anamorphic format with 5. 1 Dolby Digital sound. -Chris Campion.

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Review Mosaic Movies / Wishmaster 3 - Devil Stone [2001]

Wishmaster 3 - Devil Stone [2001] (Mosaic Movies)

Actors & Directors

Louisette Geiss
John Novak
A.J. Cook
Chris Angel
Jason Connery
Tobias Mehler

Release date: 2003-01-27
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Peter Atkins
RRP: ~~£13.99~~
Price: £6.99

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Review Elstree Hill Entertainment / Bride Of The Monster [1953]

Bride Of The Monster [1953] (Elstree Hill Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Bela Lugosi
Tor Johnson
Tony McCoy
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Loretta King
Harvey B. Dunn

Release date: 2004-05-10
Run time: 68 min.
RRP: ~~£2.99~~
Price: £1.71

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Angel: Complete Season 4

Angel: Complete Season 4 (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

David Boreanaz
Charisma Carpenter

Release date: 2004-10-18
Run time: 990 min.
Creator: Joss Whedon
RRP: ~~£79.99~~
Price: £55.99

Review Angel: Complete Season 4 / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

As the fourth series of Angel starts, everything is still as we left it: Angel has been sunk to the bottom of the sea in an iron box by his inexplicable and vindictive son Connor and Cordelia has been summoned to higher realms to await orders. Gunn and Fred are left in the Hyperion Hotel, unsure about what has happened to their friends, and Lilah is working hard to seduce Wesley to the dark side. In the first few episodes, some of this is resolved but it's almost immediately replaced by far worse crises: prophesies of doom accumulate more rapidly even than usual in this wonderfully gloomy show and a horned rock-like Beast rains fire on Los Angeles. This last year is Angel's most tightly dramatic season yet-with a story arc of surprising intensity punctuated by the show's usual wit and sexiness. On the DVD: Angel, Series 4 is presented on disc in Dolby 2. 0 Surround Sound with a visual aspect ratio of 16:9. It comes with insightful, and often hilarious, commentaries on seven of the 22 episodes as well as featurettes-a series overview, profiles of the characters of Jasmine and the Beast, a farewell to the Hyperion Hotel (the characters' base for three seasons) and a discussion of the apocalypse that Angel has to deal with from episode seven onwards). It has subtitles in English, French, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish and has the option of the soundtrack dubbed into French. -Roz Kaveney.

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Review Universal Pictures UK / The Invisible Man / Phantom Of The Opera

The Invisible Man / Phantom Of The Opera (Universal Pictures UK)

Release date: 2004-10-18
Run time: 176 min.
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £2.02

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Review Mosaic Movies / Wishmaster 4 - The Prophecy Fulfilled [2002]

Wishmaster 4 - The Prophecy Fulfilled [2002] (Mosaic Movies)

Actors & Directors

Tara Spencer-Nairn
Michael Trucco
Chris Angel
John Novak
Jason Thompson
Victor Webster

Release date: 2003-01-27
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Peter Atkins
RRP: ~~£13.99~~
Price: £2.01

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The War Games

Doctor Who - The War Games (2 Entertain Video)

Actors & Directors

Patrick Troughton

Run time: 240 min.
Price: £19.99

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Audition [2001] (Tartan Video)

Actors & Directors

Eihi Shiina
Jun Kunimura
Ryo Ishibashi
Renji Ishibashi
Takashi Miike
Tetsu Sawaki

Release date: 2001-09-24
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Ryû Murakami
RRP: ~~£19.99~~
Price: £14.77

Review Audition [2001] / Tartan Video:

Much of the controversy surrounding Takashi Miike's Audition centres on the disturbing nature of the later part of the film-understandable when you consider the imprint these admittedly horrific images leave on the viewer-but fails to note the intricate social satire of the rest. This is a film that offers insight into the changing culture of Japan and the generation gap between young and old. Shigeharu Aoyama is looking for an obedient and virtuous woman to love and asks, "Where are all the good girls?"-a comment that seals his fate. A fake audition is organised to find Aoyama a wife. Asami Yamazaki is introduced as the virtuous woman he is looking for, dressing for the majority of the film in white and behaving with the courtesy of an angel, especially when juxtaposed against the brash stupidity of the other girls at the audition. Although his friend takes an immediate "chemical" dislike to her, Aoyama begins a love affair to end all love affairs. But as Asami's history unfolds we see her pain and torture and slowly understand that the tortured in this instance holds the power to become the torturer. Aoyama is slowly drawn away from his white, metallic and homely environment into the vivid- red and dirty-dark environment of Asami's sadistic world. Audition can be viewed on a number of levels, with important feminist, social and human rights issues to be drawn from the story. However, the real power of this film is its descent into the subconscious, to a point where reality is blurred and the audience is unable to decide whether the disturbing images on screen are real or surreal. [+]

This refined, hard-hitting and essentially Japanese style of horror is ultimately much more powerful than anything offered by Hollywood. This is a film that will get under your skin and infect your consciousness with a blend of fearless gore and unimaginable torture. It is not for the faint-hearted. -Nikki Disney.

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Review Platinum Media Distribution / Demons (Special Edition Box Set) [1987]

Demons (Special Edition Box Set) [1987] (Platinum Media Distribution)

Actors & Directors

Urbano Barberini
Paola Cozzo
Fiore Argento
Lamberto Bava
Natasha Hovey
Karl Zinny

Release date: 2004-03-01
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Franco Ferrini
RRP: ~~£19.99~~
Price: £23.00

Review Demons (Special Edition Box Set) [1987] / Platinum Media Distribution:

Lamberto Bava, son of the Italian horror legend and giallo godfather Mario Bava, teamed up with modern master Dario Argent (co-writer and producer) for this slick gorefest, a triumph of style and special effects over movie logic. Set in a refurbished German movie palace, our hapless soon-to-be victims arrive for a sneak preview of a horror movie only to see the gore unfold in the audience, as well as onscreen. While the exposition remains murky, one patron finds that an infected cut leads to a gooey transformation, and every one of her victims follows suit until the snaggle-toothed monsters outnumber the humans. The survivors, trapped in the tomb of a cinema, must fend off attacks à la George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Borrowing liberally from films such as Dawn of the Dead and The Tingler, Demons also anticipates Scream in its cinema-savvy references, not to mention its undeniably Neve Campbell-ish heroine. The blaring heavy-metal-hard-rock soundtrack and the carnival horror-house atmosphere helps remind us that this is all just stupid fun. Despite the overwhelming body count, excessive gore and rivers of green demon pus, the cartoonishly grotesque killings avoid the sadistic edge of many Italian horror films. By the climax of the film the premise is long forgotten in a ghoul apocalypse, but who's watching this for the story anyway? -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

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