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Review Anchor Bay / Halloween [1978] (Region 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • John Carpenter
  • John Michael Graham
  • Charles Cyphers
  • Brian Andrews
  • Sandy Johnson
Release date: 1999-09-28
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: John Carpenter
Price: £5.36

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.

Review Anchor Bay / Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • George P. Wilbur
  • Ellie Cornell
  • Beau Starr
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Danielle Harris
  • Dwight H. Little
Release date: 2001-10-09
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £17.95

Review Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:

"You can't kill the bogeyman", the children insist to a terrorised Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the original Halloween. How right they are. Laurie is gone, but guess who's back in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers? Acting as if the third entry never existed, this instalment picks up 10 years after the original, with mad maniac Myers in a coma and moved to a new facility. But wouldn't you know it that as soon as a loose-lipped orderly lets slip that Myers has a surviving niece he springs back into action, leaving a bloody trail of corpses on the road to Haddonfield. Donald Pleasance returns as Dr Loomis, scarred and crippled from his last encounter with Myers and seething with a fanatical zeal to stop the freak from repeating his previous rampage. Pleasance is the best thing about the film as an ageing hero seemingly on the verge of madness who drags a bum leg in his manic rush to save little orphan Jamie (Danielle Harris), the 10-year-old waif terrorised by her homicidal uncle. Director Dwight Little has managed a generic if professional slasher picture, rife with improbabilities and dominated by a killer whose superhuman powers reach near-mystical dimensions, but he delivers the goods: shocks, stabs and cold, cruel killings. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Unapix/A-pix / Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman [2000] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Chip Heller
  • Scott MacDonald
  • Michael Cooney
  • Eileen Seeley
  • Christopher Allport
  • Marsha Clark
Release date: 2000-12-12
Run time: 91 min.
Price: £47.43

Review Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman [2000] (NTSC) / Unapix/A-pix:


Review Panik House Entertainment / Tokyo Psycho [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Ataru Oikawa
  • Sachiko Kokubu
  • Mizuho Nakamura
  • Seiji Chihara
  • Yuka Hayashi
  • Masashi Taniguchi
Release date: 2006-02-28
Run time: 79 min.
Price: £6.44

Review Tokyo Psycho [2004] / Panik House Entertainment:


Review Platinum Disc / Slave of the Cannibal God [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Claudio Cassinelli
  • Antonio Marsina
  • Ursula Andress
  • Franco Fantasia
  • Stacy Keach
  • Sergio Martino
Release date: 2003-04-01
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £1.09

Review Slave of the Cannibal God [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Platinum Disc:


Review MGM / The Hannibal Lecter Anthology 1990-2001 [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Hopkins
  • Jodie Foster
  • Ridley Scott
  • Anthony Heald
  • Jonathan Demme
  • Scott Glenn
  • Ted Levine
Release date: 2002-08-27
Run time: 249 min.
Price: £16.95

Review The Hannibal Lecter Anthology 1990-2001 [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:


Actors & Directors
  • Courteney Cox Arquette
  • David Arquette
  • Lewis Arquette
  • Wes Craven
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Omar Epps
Release date: 1998-07-22
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Marco Beltrami
Price: £6.65

Review Scream 2 [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Fully aware of its status as the sequel to the surprise hit thriller of 1996, this lively follow-up trades freshness for familiarity, playing on our affection for returning characters while obeying-and then subverting-the "rules" of sequels. Once again, movie references are cleverly employed to draw us into the story, which takes place two years after the events of Scream, at a small Ohio college, where the Scream survivors reunite when another series of mysterious killings begins. Capitalising on the guesswork involving a host of potential suspects, director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson have crafted a thriller that's more of a Scream clone than a genuinely inventive new story. But the shocks are just as effective, and escalating tension leads to a tautly staged climax that's simultaneously logical and giddily over the top. Background information for trivia buffs: to preserve the secrecy of plot twists, copies of the screenplay were heavily guarded during production and restricted to only the most crucial personnel. When an early draft was circulated on the Internet, screenwriter Kevin Williamson did rewrites, and subsequent drafts were printed with red ink on brown paper, eliminating the threat of photocopying. None of the cast members knew who the killer was until the final scenes were filmed. - Jeff Shannon.

Review Brain Damage / Toe Tags [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marc Page
  • Darla Enlow
  • Darla Enlow
Release date: 2007-03-06
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Sheldon Clark
Price: £4.76

Review Toe Tags [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Brain Damage:


Review Ardustry Home Entertainment / The Surgeon [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Francis J. Grandon
  • Clara Williams
  • Bernard Siegel
  • Edgar Jones
Release date: 2004-08-10
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £3.85

Review The Surgeon [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Ardustry Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Holly Ilyne Sari
  • Charles T. Perry
  • Branden Scala
  • Erin Broling
  • Robyn Unell
  • Marc Selz
Release date: 2003-12-30
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £9.95

Review Short Cut Road [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sub Rosa Studios:


Actors & Directors
  • Amy Lynn Best
  • Robyn Griggs
  • Lilith Stabs
  • Charlie Fleming
  • Bill Homan
Release date: 2004-12-28
Run time: 70 min.
Price: £6.76

Review Severe Injuries (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sub Rosa Studios:


Review New Line Home Video / Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lisa Zane
  • Shon Greenblatt
  • Robert Englund
  • Lezlie Deane
  • Ricky Dean Logan
  • Rachel Talalay
Release date: 2000-08-22
Run time: 96 min.
Price: £2.64

Review Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Video:


Review Geneon / The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Allen Danziger
  • Tobe Hooper
  • William Vail
  • Teri McMinn
  • Marilyn Burns
  • Paul A. Partain
Release date: 2003-10-14
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £14.95

Review The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Geneon:

This sensational, extremely influential, 1974 low-budget horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, Salem's Lot), may be notorious for its title, but it's also a damn fine piece of moviemaking. And it's blood-curdling scary, too. Loosely based on the true crimes of Ed Gein (also a partial inspiration for Psycho), the original Jeffrey Dahmer, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of teenagers who pick up a hitchhiker and wind up in a backwoods horror chamber where they're held captive, tortured, chopped up, and impaled on meat hooks by a demented cannibalistic family, including a character known as Leatherface who maniacally wields one helluva chainsaw. The movie's powerful sense of dread is heightened by its grainy, semi-documentary style-but it also has a wicked sense of humour (and not that camp, self-referential variety that became so tiresome in subsequent horror films of the 70s, 80s and 90s). OK, in case you couldn't tell, it's "not for everyone", but as a landmark in the development of the horror/slasher genre, it ranks with Psycho, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. -Jim Emerson.

Review Hart Sharp Video / The Last Horror Movie [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Julian Richards
  • Mark Stevenson
  • Jonathan Coote
  • Kevin Howarth
  • Rita Davies
  • Antonia Beamish
Release date: 2004-12-07
Creator: Simon Lambros
Price: £2.99

Review The Last Horror Movie [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Hart Sharp Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Jennifer Ritchkoff
  • Betheny Zolt
  • Michael Taylor (VIII)
  • Courtney Taylor
  • Brad Sykes
  • Tim Young
Release date: 2002-08-20
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £7.33

Review Camp Blood [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sling Shot:


Review Crystal Entertainment/MediaLink / The Curse of the Black Dahlia [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Harvey Shane
  • Dan Goldman
  • Roy Werner
  • Meena Kumari
  • Michelle Dominique
  • Laura Penn
Release date: 2007-09-11
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Dan Olderman
Price: £4.10

Review The Curse of the Black Dahlia [2006] / Crystal Entertainment/MediaLink:


Review E.I. Independent / Freak [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Amy Paliganoff
  • Tyler Tharpe
  • Travis Patton
  • Andrea Johnson
  • Tyler Tharpe
Release date: 2003-01-14
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £11.62

Review Freak [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / E.I. Independent:


Review Highland Ent. / The Curse of the Black Dahlia [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Harvey Shane
  • Meena Kumari
  • Roy Werner
  • Dan Goldman
  • Michelle Dominique
  • Laura Penn
Release date: 2007-01-23
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Dan Olderman
Price: £3.54

Review The Curse of the Black Dahlia [2006] / Highland Ent.:


Review Live/Artisan / Bloody Murder [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Crystalle Ford
  • Michael Stone (VI)
  • Ralph E. Portillo
  • Peter Guillemette
  • Jessica Morris
  • Patrick Cavanaugh
Release date: 2000-09-12
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £14.77

Review Bloody Murder [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Live/Artisan:


Review Columbia TriStar / I Know What You Did Last Summer/I Still Know What You Did Last Summer [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Fulford
  • David MacKay (II)
  • Stevie Hannan
  • Danny Cannon
  • Jim Gillespie
  • Carolyn Bonnyman
  • Frank Gallagher (II)
Release date: 2003-09-23
Run time: 201 min.
Price: £44.95

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


Models & Brands:
Halloween [1978] (Region 1) (NTSC), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman [2000] (NTSC), Tokyo Psycho [2004], Slave of the Cannibal God [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Hannibal Lecter Anthology 1990-2001 [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Scream 2 [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Toe Tags [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Surgeon [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Short Cut Road [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Severe Injuries (REGION 1) (NTSC), Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Last Horror Movie [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Camp Blood [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Curse of the Black Dahlia [2006], Freak [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Curse of the Black Dahlia [2006], Bloody Murder [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), I Know What You Did Last Summer/I Still Know What You Did Last Summer [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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