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Review Entertainment in Video / Final Destination 1 And 2 [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Ali Larter
  • Daniel Roebuck
  • Kerr Smith
  • Kristen Cloke
  • James Wong
  • David R. Ellis
  • Devon Sawa
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 179 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £19.00

Review Final Destination 1 And 2 [2000] / Entertainment in Video:

Let's be realistic. No one is ever going to make the case that either of the Final Destination films should be laden with awards and awash with critical acclaim. Yet in their own ways, both punch above their weight. This welcome double pack, released to coincide with the theatrical release of Final Destination 3, offers ample evidence why. The first is the better of the two, and it sets the premise up well. After a dramatic near-death experience, correctly foreseen by one of their number, a group of young friends soon find that not all is as it seems. Death, it seems, is coming back for them one at a time, and that's an excuse for some intricate set pieces as the group find themselves in immense danger, as they try to puzzle out how to alter death's plans. The second works surprisingly well too. Okay, it does little more than photocopy a winning formula, but its set pieces are that bit more over-the-top to compensate, and while it barely has an original moment in its running time, it is a genuine hoot. Both films have a handy selection of shock moments, and both motor through at enough speed to paper over any cracks. [+]
And the end result in both cases is an enjoyable, sprightly ride, best enjoyed with the brain switched to neutral. -Simon Brew.

Review Entertainment in Video / The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 - Leatherface [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeff Burr
  • Kate Hodge
  • William Butler
  • R.A. Mihailoff
Release date: 2004-04-26
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £0.32

Review The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 - Leatherface [1990] / Entertainment in Video:


Review Weinstein Company / Black Christmas [HD DVD] [2006] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Glen Morgan
  • Lacey Chabert
  • Kristen Cloke
  • Katie Cassidy
  • Mary Elizabeth Winstead
  • Michelle Trachtenberg
Release date: 2007-06-12
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £4.41

Review Black Christmas [HD DVD] [2006] [US Import] / Weinstein Company:


Review Prism Leisure / Halloween II [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Lance Guest
  • Rick Rosenthal
  • Charles Cyphers
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Jeffrey Kramer
Release date: 1999-09-20
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £19.95

Review Halloween II [1981] / Prism Leisure:

"You can't kill the boogeyman", explained John Carpenter in the original Halloween, and to prove it Michael Myers returns in the handsome but grisly sequel Halloween 2. Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as Laurie Strode but spends most of her time cowering in a hospital gown, and Donald Pleasance runs around like a maniac as the panicky doctor desperate to hunt down Myers before he kills again. Carpenter writes and produces with partner Debra Hill and together they replace the mystery and uncertainty of the original with an exponentially bigger body count, some strange tales about the Druids and Pagan ceremonies, and the now-familiar family ties between Michael and Laurie. First-time director Rick Rosenthal (Bad Boys) paces the film at a brisk jog and directs it with a clean, crisp style, taking the murders out of the dark to display them in all their nasty detail. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Lions Gate / Murder Set Pieces [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Cerina Vincent
  • Nick Palumbo
  • Gunnar Hansen (II)
  • Tony Todd
  • Sven Garrett
  • Edwin Neal
Release date: 2007-01-09
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £5.02

Review Murder Set Pieces [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review Anchor Bay / Silent Night, Deadly Night [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Charles E. Sellier, Jr.
  • Charles Dierkop
  • Tara Buckman
  • Lilyan Chauvin
  • Jonathan Best
  • Leo Geter
Release date: 2007-12-11
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Jr. Perry Botkin
Price: £5.43

Review Silent Night, Deadly Night [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Entertainment in Video / A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Englund
  • Patricia Arquette
  • Charles Russell
  • John Saxon
  • Heather Langenkamp
  • Craig Wasson
Release date: 2001-06-25
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.55

Review A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors [1987] / Entertainment in Video:

Wes Craven was tempted back to the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, in partnership with writers Bruce Wagner (Wild Palms) and Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), to script this fun, action-oriented sequel directed by Chuck Russell (The Mask). Langenkamp (as the world's only teenage psychiatrist) and Saxon return, but the heroine is debuting Patricia Arquette, who has the power to pull her friends into her dreams and thus assemble an army to take on Freddy, who begins here to spout those post-death witticisms that became a trademark. A nun reveals the villain's backstory as "the bastard son of a hundred maniacs". It's full of wild images and effects, such as the sleepwalker turned into a puppet strung on his ripped-out veins, and pays homage to Ray Harryhausen with not only an animated Freddy puppet but also his evil, walking skeleton. -Kim Newman.

Review Universal Studios / Halloween II [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lance Guest
  • Charles Cyphers
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Rick Rosenthal
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Jeffrey Kramer
Release date: 2001-09-18
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £2.81

Review Halloween II [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

"You can't kill the boogeyman", explained John Carpenter in the original Halloween, and to prove it Michael Myers returns in the handsome but grisly sequel Halloween 2. Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as Laurie Strode but spends most of her time cowering in a hospital gown, and Donald Pleasance runs around like a maniac as the panicky doctor desperate to hunt down Myers before he kills again. Carpenter writes and produces with partner Debra Hill and together they replace the mystery and uncertainty of the original with an exponentially bigger body count, some strange tales about the Druids and Pagan ceremonies, and the now-familiar family ties between Michael and Laurie. First-time director Rick Rosenthal (Bad Boys) paces the film at a brisk jog and directs it with a clean, crisp style, taking the murders out of the dark to display them in all their nasty detail. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Friday The 13th Part V A New Beginning [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • John Shepherd
  • Danny Steinmann
  • Richard Young
  • Corey Feldman
  • Shavar Ross
  • Melanie Kinnaman
Release date: 2002-03-18
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.98

Review Friday The 13th Part V A New Beginning [1985] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Lions Gate / High Tension [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Philippe Nahon
  • Andrei Finti
  • Franck Khalfoun
  • Cécile De France
  • Maïwenn Le Besco
  • Alexandre Aja
Release date: 2005-10-11
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £5.10

Review High Tension [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review Blue Underground / Mountain of the Cannibal God [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Ursula Andress
  • Antonio Marsina
  • Franco Fantasia
  • Sergio Martino
  • Stacy Keach
  • Claudio Cassinelli
Release date: 2007-11-13
Run time: 103 min.
Price: £3.11

Review Mountain of the Cannibal God [1978] / Blue Underground:


Review Starz Entertainment / Halloween (2 Disc Special Edition) [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Donald Pleasence
  • P.J. Soles
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Kyle Richards
  • Nancy Loomis
  • John Carpenter
Release date: 2001-10-01
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £16.99

Review Halloween (2 Disc Special Edition) [1978] / Starz 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 Paramount Home Entertainment / Friday The 13th Part VII The New Blood [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • John Carl Buechler
  • Lar Parc-Lincoln
  • Terry Kiser
  • Susan Blu
  • Kevin Blair
Release date: 2002-12-02
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.40

Review Friday The 13th Part VII The New Blood [1988] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Starz Home Entertainment / Sleepaway Camp [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Felissa Rose
  • Jonathan Tiersten
  • Christopher Collet
  • Mike Kellin
  • Robert Hiltzik
  • Karen Fields (II)
Release date: 2004-05-31
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.97

Review Sleepaway Camp [1983] / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Friday The 13th (Part IV) The Final Chapter [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Kimberly Beck
  • Corey Feldman
  • Barbara Howard
  • Joseph Zito
  • Crispin Glover
  • Lawrence Monoson
Release date: 2002-03-18
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.46

Review Friday The 13th (Part IV) The Final Chapter [1984] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Trinity Home Entertainment / The Final Terror [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Akosua Busia
  • Cindy Harrel
  • Tony Maccario
  • Ernest Harden Jr.
  • John Friedrich
  • Andrew Davis
Release date: 2005-11-22
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: Susan Justin
Price: £2.38

Review The Final Terror [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Trinity Home Entertainment:


Review Echo Bridge Home Entertainment / Prom Night [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dean Bosacki
  • Beth Amos
  • Eddie Benton
  • Antoinette Bower
  • David Bolt
Release date: 2007-10-02
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Paul Zaza
Price: £2.02

Review Prom Night [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Echo Bridge Home Entertainment:


Review Blue Underground, Inc. / The New York Ripper [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Andrea Occhipinti
  • Lucio Fulci
  • Fred Williamson
  • Howard Ross
  • Jack Hedley
  • Paolo Malco
Release date: 2008-04-29
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Francesco de Masi
Price: £4.81

Review The New York Ripper [1982] / Blue Underground, Inc.:


Review The Nightmare on Elm Street / The Nightmare On Elm Street 1-6 Collection (Six Disc Box Set)
Release date: 2004-06-28
RRP: £39.99
Price: £7.98

Review The Nightmare On Elm Street 1-6 Collection (Six Disc Box Set) / The Nightmare on Elm Street:


Review Weinstein Company / Storm Warning [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • David Lyons (IX)
  • Jamie Blanks
  • John Brumpton
  • Nadia Farès
  • Robert Taylor (VII)
  • Mathew Wilkinson
Release date: 2008-02-05
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £4.98

Review Storm Warning [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Weinstein Company:


Models & Brands:
Final Destination 1 And 2 [2000], The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 - Leatherface [1990], Black Christmas [HD DVD] [2006] [US Import], Halloween II [1981], Murder Set Pieces [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Silent Night, Deadly Night [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors [1987], Halloween II [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Friday The 13th Part V A New Beginning [1985], High Tension [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mountain of the Cannibal God [1978], Halloween (2 Disc Special Edition) [1978], Friday The 13th Part VII The New Blood [1988], Sleepaway Camp [1983], Friday The 13th (Part IV) The Final Chapter [1984], The Final Terror [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Prom Night [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The New York Ripper [1982], The Nightmare On Elm Street 1-6 Collection (Six Disc Box Set), Storm Warning [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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