Review, buy Slasher Movies: The Hills Have Eyes [UMD Mini for PSP] [1977], Halloween [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), I Know What You Did Last Summer/I Still Know What You Did Last Summer [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The New York Ripper [1982] (NTSC), April Fool's Day [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Delivery [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Evils of the Night [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Pieces [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Urban Legend [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Deadhouse [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Candyman [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Scream [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Camp Slaughter [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bachelor Party Massacre [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), American Psycho [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Living Hell: A Japanese Chainsaw Massacre [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Happy Birthday to Me [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Bushwhacker, Hatchetman [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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Review Anchor Bay Entertainment / The Hills Have Eyes [UMD Mini for PSP] [1977]

The Hills Have Eyes [UMD Mini for PSP] [1977] (Anchor Bay Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Robert Houston
Russ Grieve
Martin Speer
Dee Wallace (II)
Susan Lanier
Wes Craven

Release date: 2006-03-07
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £11.42

Review The Hills Have Eyes [UMD Mini for PSP] [1977] / Anchor Bay Entertainment:

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Review Anchor Bay / Halloween [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Halloween [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Anchor Bay)

Actors & Directors

Brian Andrews
Charles Cyphers
Sandy Johnson
John Michael Graham
Jamie Lee Curtis
John Carpenter

Release date: 2003-08-05
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: John Carpenter
Price: £9.57

Review Halloween [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:

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.

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Review Columbia TriStar / I Know What You Did Last Summer/I Still Know What You Did Last Summer [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

I Know What You Did Last Summer/I Still Know What You Did Last Summer [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Columbia TriStar)

Actors & Directors

Jennifer Love Hewitt
Freddie Prinze Jr.
Danny Cannon
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Jim Gillespie
Ryan Phillippe
Bridgette Wilson

Release date: 2005-09-13
Run time: 202 min.
Price: £8.10

Review I Know What You Did Last Summer/I Still Know What You Did Last Summer [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

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Review Anchor Bay / The New York Ripper [1982] (NTSC)

The New York Ripper [1982] (NTSC) (Anchor Bay)

Actors & Directors

Howard Ross
Fred Williamson
Andrea Occhipinti
Jack Hedley
Lucio Fulci
Paolo Malco

Release date: 1999-08-24
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Francesco de Masi
Price: £8.99

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Review Sony Pictures / April Fool's Day [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

April Fool's Day [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Sony Pictures)

Actors & Directors

Scout Taylor-Compton
Butcher Brothers
Josh Henderson
Jennifer Siebel
Samuel Child
Taylor Cole

Release date: 2008-03-25
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Raul Davalos
Price: £7.70

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Review Warner Home Video/Polychrome / Delivery [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Delivery [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Warner Home Video/Polychrome)

Actors & Directors

Randy Molnar
Jose Zambrano Cassella
Matthew Nelson
Tara Cardinal
Trhea Danae
John Archer Lundgren

Release date: 2007-05-01
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £2.87

Review Delivery [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video/Polychrome:

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Review Shriek Show / Evils of the Night [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Evils of the Night [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Shriek Show)

Actors & Directors

Julie Newmar
Aldo Ray
Tina Louise
Mardi Rustam
John Carradine
Neville Brand

Release date: 2006-04-25
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £7.12

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Review Diamond Entertainment Corp. / Pieces [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Pieces [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Diamond Entertainment Corp.)

Actors & Directors

Javier Cámara
Toni Cantó
Paz Vega
Blanca Portillo
Gonzalo de Castro

Release date: 2000-05-16
Run time: 90 min.

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Review Columbia TriStar / Urban Legend [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Urban Legend [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Columbia TriStar)

Actors & Directors

Alicia Witt
Jared Leto
Michael Rosenbaum
Jamie Blanks
Rebecca Gayheart
Loretta Devine

Release date: 1999-02-23
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £2.67

Review Urban Legend [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

An attractive young woman is driving her car on a dark country road and singing along to the radio. She's running out of gas and so she pulls into a gas station (run by a jittery, stuttering Brad Dourif) but then flees what seems to be an attack, only to find the real threat in her backseat: a hooded killer with an axe who takes her head off with a well-aimed swing. You've heard the story before? Not surprising, given that it's one of the more famous urban legends borrowed for Urban Legend, a post-Scream exercise in self-referential horror. The students at an ivy-covered New England college are turning up dead, the victims of a serial killer who murders in the fashion of the "apocryphal" modern myths. It's all for the benefit of good girl with a dark secret Alicia Witt, the sole witness to most of the killings. Doe-eyed Rebecca Gayheart, as her gullible best friend, and Jared Leto, the ambitious campus journalist who tracks down the secret that hangs over the school, lead a cast of pretty young women, hunky guys and campus characters, notably the suspicious professor Robert Englund, a genre legend in his own right as the star of seven Nightmare on Elm Street films. Take away the cheeky remarks and self-awareness and it's a throwback to the 1970s' rash of teen slasher movies, where sexually active teens are sliced, diced and otherwise slaughtered in elaborate and ingenious ways. The increasingly preposterous film is no Scream but the modestly stylish production has its moments. -Sean Axmaker.

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Review Brain Damage / Deadhouse [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Deadhouse [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Brain Damage)

Actors & Directors

Pablo Maysonet IV
Tracey Dalton
Jeremy Hughes
Anthony Carvalho
Cara Dalton
Jr. Robert Woodward

Release date: 2008-02-05
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: The Rezmen
Price: £3.50

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Review Columbia TriStar / Candyman [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Candyman [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Columbia TriStar)

Actors & Directors

Kenneth A. Brown
Sarina Grant
Stanley de Santis
Michael Culkin
Xander R. Berkeley

Release date: 1998-09-09
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Philip Glass
Price: £35.88

Review Candyman [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Based on a story by Clive Barker and skilfully written and directed by Bernard Rose, Candyman rises above most horror films by eerily suggesting that some urban legends-in this case a particularly frightening one-have a spooky basis in reality. The legend of the Candyman is a potent one around the high-rise tenements of Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing complex, where the residents speak of a dark, ominous figure who appears when his victims say his name five times in front of a mirror, then mercilessly slashes them to death. Upon learning that the Candyman is rumoured to live in one of the vacant tenements, a University of Illinois researcher (Virginia Madsen) investigates a recent murder at Cabrini-Green. She learns that the Candyman (played by Tony Todd) is both unreal and chillingly real-a supernatural force of evil empowered by those who believe in his legend. He is a killer made flesh by the belief of others, and the young researcher's investigation is a threat to his existence. What happens next? We wouldn't dare spoil the chills, but rest assured that writer-director Rose has tapped into a wellspring of urban angst and fear, and Candyman serves up its gruesome frights with a refreshing dose of intelligence. -Jeff Shannon.

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Review Walt Disney Video / Scream [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Scream [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Walt Disney Video)

Actors & Directors

Linda Blair
David Arquette
Wes Craven
Courteney Cox Arquette
Drew Barrymore
Rose McGowan

Release date: 1997-12-03
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Patrick Lussier
Price: £7.23

Review Scream [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) revived the mouldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted clichés and then turning them inside out. Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly deconstructs horror films, then reassembles the dead tissue, and (like Frankenstein's monster) creates new life. When a serial killer starts hacking up their fellow teens, the media-savvy youngsters of Scream realise that the smartest way of sticking around for the sequel is to avoid the terminal behaviours that inevitably doom supporting players in the movies. They've seen all the movies, and the rules of the genre are like second nature to them. One of the scariest and funniest setups features a kid watching John Carpenter's seminal Halloween on video. As Jamie Lee Curtis is shadowed by Michael Meyers and the kid on the couch yells at her to turn around, Craven reverses his camera and we see that the kid should be taking his own advice. The fresh-faced young cast (including Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette) is fun to watch, and their tart dialogue is sprinkled with enough archly self-conscious pop-culture references to make Quentin Tarantino blush. -Jim Emerson.

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