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Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / Flesh Feast: Slave of the Cannibal God/The Severed Arm/I Eat Your Skin/The Undertaker and His (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Claudio Cassinelli
  • Franco Fantasia
  • T.L.P. Swicegood
  • Stacy Keach
  • Del Tenney
  • Ursula Andress
  • Thomas S. Alderman
  • Antonio Marsina
  • Sergio Martino
Release date: 2002-08-06
Run time: 327 min.
Creator: Kelly Estill
Price: £9.63

Review Flesh Feast: Slave of the Cannibal God/The Severed Arm/I Eat Your Skin/The Undertaker and His (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:


Review Icon Home Entertainment / The Little Vampire [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Uli Edel
  • Alice Krige
  • Jonathan Lipnicki
  • Rollo Weeks
  • Richard E. Grant
  • Jim Carter
Release date: 2001-04-02
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Larry Wilson
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.75

Review The Little Vampire [2000] / Icon Home Entertainment:

Fresh from Stuart Little, young Jonathan Lipnicki carries on his pint-sized shoulders his every scene in The Little Vampire as eight-year-old Tony, befriender of vampires. The Scottish setting lends itself nicely to spookiness, too. A continent away from his native California, Tony's having a tough time making new friends when a band of vagabond vampires enters his life through his bedroom window. The encounter seems pure coincidence at first, but then the scary truth surfaces: Tony, though he's not a vampire himself, has "sympathy for our kind", as the dad of the bat-linked brood puts it. Visions of vampire happenings from generations past invade the kid's consciousness, and they hold the key to the clan's current gypsy-like predicament. Through his clairvoyance and, by extension, the discovery of a long-lost amulet, the mostly benevolent bloodsuckers are able to reclaim their rightful status as proper cave-dwellers in their homeland. Clueless-parent predicaments abound-Tony's mum and dad smirk at their son's vampire-obsessed imagination until the cape-draped heads of the clan drop by for a visit-and viewers of around Tony's age will find the gang's adventures eluding a bumbling vampire hunter genuinely chuckle worthy. -Tammy La Gorce.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / The Marsh [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Gabrielle Anwar
  • Brooke Johnson
  • Forest Whitaker
  • Justin Louis
  • Jordan Barker
  • Peter MacNeill
Release date: 2007-04-23
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.76

Review The Marsh [2006] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

The subtler scares work best in the Canadian-made chiller The Marsh, which stars a pre-Oscar Forest Whitaker as an investigator who aids an author in unravelling the mystery behind her terrifying dreams. Gabrielle Anwar plays the troubled writer, whose visions of a young girl in peril lead her to a remote town. There, the secret behind the disappearance of a local girl and boy-and Anwar's dreams-seem to be hidden behind the frightening façade of an abandoned house. Anwar and Whitaker are fine in their lead roles, but the film succeeds in raising the most gooseflesh when it tones down the blaring soundtrack and overwhelming barrage of special effects and concentrates on atmosphere and suspense. As it stands, The Marsh's mix of old-fashioned creeps and computer-generated flash is an uneven offering for horror fans. The DVD includes a behind-the-scenes featurette. - Paul Gaita.

Review Boulevard Entertaiment / Halloween [UMD Mini for PSP] [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Nancy Loomis
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Donald Pleasence
  • John Carpenter
  • P. J. Soles
Release date: 2005-10-17
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £16.24

Review Halloween [UMD Mini for PSP] [1978] / Boulevard Entertaiment:

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 Arrow Films / Day Of The Dead [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Pilato
  • Terry Alexander
  • Jarlath Conroy
  • Lori Cardille
  • Anthony Dileo Jr.
  • George A. Romero
Release date: 2001-04-09
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Salah M. Hassanein
RRP: £19.99
Price: £15.07

Review Day Of The Dead [1986] / Arrow Films:

Day of the Dead, chapter three of George Romero's mighty zombie trilogy, has big footsteps to follow. Night of the Living Dead was a classic that revitalised a certain corner of the cinema, and Dawn of the Dead was nothing short of epic. Day of the Dead, however, has always been regarded as a comedown compared to those twin peaks-and perhaps it is. But on its own terms, this is an awfully effective horror movie, made with Romero's customary social satire and cinematic vigour-when a "retrained" zombie responds to the "Ode to Joy", the film is in genuinely haunting territory. The story is set inside a sunken military complex, where Army and medical staff, supposedly working on a solution to the zombie problem, are going crazy (strongly foreshadowing the final act of 28 Days Later). Tom Savini's make-up effects could make even hardcore gore fans tear off their own heads in amazement. -Robert Horton.

Review St. Clair Entertainment / The Living Dead
Release date: 2005-03-15
Run time: 796 min.
Price: £2.78

Review The Living Dead / St. Clair Entertainment:


Review Image Entertainment / Simple Men [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Sage
  • Robert John Burke
  • Martin Donovan
  • Karen Sillas
  • Hal Hartley
  • Elina Löwensohn
Release date: 2004-01-27
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Jerome Brownstein
Price: £5.85

Review Simple Men [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:

Simple Men opens with small-time hood Bill (Robert Burke from RoboCop 3) asking a bound and blindfolded security guard if he can have the guard's Virgin Mary medallion; "Be good to her and she'll be good to you", says the guard. Immediately after, Bill is double-crossed by his girlfriend and his partner. From there, the plot goes off in a completely different direction: Bill and his younger brother Dennis (William Sage, High Art), a philosophy student, go off in search of their father, a former star shortstop who may have committed a bombing many years ago. Their only clue is a phone number on Long Island; they end up at a cafe run by Kate (Karen Sillas, Female Perversions), which is also the hang-out for Elina Loewensohn (Nadja) and Martin Donovan (Hollow Reed, The Opposite of Sex). Plot is never the point in Hal Hartley movies (Trust, Amateur, Henry Fool); it's just a clothesline on which to hang odd, quirky scenes-moments like Donovan and Sage trying to imitate Loewensohn's dance movements to a Sonic Youth song or a half-drunken conversation about pop music and self-exploitation. Hartley's deliberately stilted dialogue and stylised performances actually play better on video; the movie feels more intimate, making the humour more relaxed and fluid. Hartley is the kind of idiosyncratic filmmaker who provokes love-him-or-hate-him responses, but there's a deep sincerity to his artifices that goes beyond mere posing. Against all commercial wisdom, he's struggling to find his own cinematic poetry. Such an uncommon aspiration is worth checking out. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Synapse Films / Home Sick [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Adam Wingard
  • Forrest Pitts
  • Bill Moseley
  • Tiffany Shepis
  • Will Akers
  • Lindley Evans
Release date: 2008-08-26
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Peter Katz
Price: £8.29

Review Home Sick [2007] / Synapse Films:


Review Stax Entertainment Ltd / Flesh For The Beast [2003]
Release date: 2005-04-11
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.99

Review Flesh For The Beast [2003] / Stax Entertainment Ltd:


Review Tartan Video / The Virgin Spring [1960]
Actors & Directors
  • Birgitta Pettersson
  • Axel Düberg
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Max von Sydow
  • Gunnel Lindblom
  • Birgitta Valberg
Release date: 2002-10-28
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Ulla Isaksson
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.99

Review The Virgin Spring [1960] / Tartan Video:

Made in 1960 and set in mediaeval Sweden, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring is based on a folk ballad. It also examines a society in transition from worshipping the old Norse gods to Christianity. The film starkly contrasts Ingeri-a dark, feral Odin-worshipping brunette, foster daughter to a Christian family headed by Max Von Sydow-and their own daughter, Karin, pretty and blonde but also vain and naive, and resented by Ingeri. They travel out together to a distant church where Karin is to offer votive candles to the Virgin Mary. However, en route, Karin is raped and murdered by two desperate goatherders, accompanied by a 13-year-old boy. By coincidence, the goatherders then seek refuge with Karin's parents and even try to sell them her clothes, which proves to be a mortal error. Bergman was greatly influenced by Kurosawa, the Japanese director of The Seven Samurai, when he made The Virgin Spring, as evinced in its ominous use of dark and shade and lengthy sequences without dialogue. However, this is more than pastiche. Although the Christian ending with which Bergman feels obliged to conclude the film doesn't quite sit well in a movie in which God is as palpably absent as in any Bergman movie, the slow, remorseless pace of the murder and subsequent retribution bring to mind Kieslowki's A Short Film About Killing in their sense of the futility of vengeance. On the DVD: The Virgin Spring arrives on disc in a restoration that vividly enhances the sense of light and shade which is integral to the movie. [+]
Notes from critic Phillip Strick provide background to the movie, including the legend on which the film was based, as well as observing that Bergman was later so embarrassed by the film's debt to Kurosawa that he disowned it, only to be told by Kurosawa himself not to be so silly. -David Stubbs.

Review BBC Warner / Hard Times [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Bates
  • Bill Paterson
  • Harriet Walter
  • Carina Wyeth
  • Alex Jennings
Release date: 2005-09-06
Run time: 104 min.
Price: £6.32

Review Hard Times [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BBC Warner:


Review 20th Century Fox / Devils of Darkness/Witchcraft [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lon Chaney Jr.
  • Don Sharp
  • Diane Clare
  • Lance Comfort
  • David Weston
  • Jill Dixon
  • Jack Hedley
Release date: 2007-09-11
Run time: 203 min.
Creator: Lyn Fairhurst
Price: £6.48

Review Devils of Darkness/Witchcraft [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:


Review Blue Underground / Shock Waves [1977] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Brooke Adams
  • Luke Halpin
  • Ken Wiederhorn
  • Fred Buch
  • Peter Cushing
  • Jack Davidson
Release date: 2003-09-30
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Ken Pare
Price: £7.36

Review Shock Waves [1977] (NTSC) / Blue Underground:


Review MGM Entertainment / The Rage: Carrie 2 [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Emily Bergl
  • Katt Shea
  • Amy Irving
  • Dylan Bruno
  • J. Smith-Cameron
  • Jason London
Release date: 2000-10-23
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Stephen King
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.10

Review The Rage: Carrie 2 [1999] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Momentum Pictures Home Ent / The Fog [HD DVD] [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • John Houseman
  • Janet Leigh
  • Adrienne Barbeau
  • John Carpenter
  • Hal Holbrook
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.00

Review The Fog [HD DVD] [1979] / Momentum Pictures Home Ent:


Review MGM / Voodoo Island/The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Boris Karloff
  • Reginald Le Borg
  • Elisha Cook Jr.
  • Beverly Tyler
  • Rhodes Reason
  • Edward L. Cahn
  • Murvyn Vye
Release date: 2005-09-20
Run time: 148 min.
Creator: Richard H. Landau
Price: £3.68

Review Voodoo Island/The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Review Universal Studios / Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs and Ham and Other Favorites (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Hans Conried
  • Irene Tedrow
  • Gary Shapiro
  • Jack DeLeon
  • Gerard Baldwin
  • Hal Smith
Release date: 2003-10-07
Run time: 30 min.
Creator: Friz Freleng
Price: £3.55

Review Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs and Ham and Other Favorites (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Vipco / Cannibal Ferox [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Walter Lucchini
  • Lorraine De Selle
  • Giovanni Lombardo Radice
  • Zora Kerova
  • Danilo Mattei
  • Umberto Lenzi
Release date: 2001-03-05
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Mino Loy
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.25

Review Cannibal Ferox [1981] / Vipco:


Review Opus Arte Media Productions / Turn Of The Screw - Britten [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Lisa Milne
  • Nicholas Kirby Johnson
  • Diana Montague
  • Mark Padmore
  • Katie Mitchell
  • Catrin Wyn Davies
Release date: 2005-01-31
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Myfanwy Piper
RRP: £24.99
Price: £21.17

Review Turn Of The Screw - Britten [2004] / Opus Arte Media Productions:


Review Adv Films / Nurse Witch Komugi
Release date: 2007-07-16
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.96

Review Nurse Witch Komugi / Adv Films:


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Flesh Feast: Slave of the Cannibal God/The Severed Arm/I Eat Your Skin/The Undertaker and His (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Little Vampire [2000], The Marsh [2006], Halloween [UMD Mini for PSP] [1978], Day Of The Dead [1986], The Living Dead, Simple Men [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Home Sick [2007], Flesh For The Beast [2003], The Virgin Spring [1960], Hard Times [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Devils of Darkness/Witchcraft [1964] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Shock Waves [1977] (NTSC), The Rage: Carrie 2 [1999], The Fog [HD DVD] [1979], Voodoo Island/The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dr. Seuss: Green Eggs and Ham and Other Favorites (REGION 1) (NTSC), Cannibal Ferox [1981], Turn Of The Screw - Britten [2004], Nurse Witch Komugi

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