Actors & Directors
- Luz Ángeles
- Mary Walter
- Eddie Garcia
- Amalia Fuentes
- Gerardo de Leon
- Romeo Vasquez
Release date: 2001-08-21 Run time: 85 min. Price: £6.99
Review Curse of the Vampires [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Retromedia Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Jack Bender
- LeVar Burton
- Lee Montgomery
- Peter DeLuise
- Shari Belafonte
- Jonelle Allen
Release date: 2000-09-19 Run time: 94 min. Price: £464.63
Review The Midnight Hour [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:
Actors & Directors
- Akira Nakao
- Yukiko Kobayashi
- Kayo Matsuo
- Michio Yamamoto
Release date: 2003-04-21 Run time: 71 min. RRP: £19.99 Price: £5.99
Review Legacy Of Dracula [1970] / Warrior:
Actors & Directors
- Idris Elba
- Colette Brown
- Susannah Harker
- Philip Quast
- Joe Ahearne
- Jack Davenport
Release date: 2001-06-26 Run time: 360 min. Price: £9.92
Review Ultraviolet [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Palm Pictures:
Release date: 2008-04-15 Creator: Olivier André Price: £5.14
Review Fan of the Dead [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Cheezy Flicks Ent.:In the late 1960s and early 70s, a bizarre alliance between the Filippino movie company Hemisphere and the American exploitation outfit Independent International yielded a series of weirdly interconnected horror movies, most of which work the word Blood into the title. The Filippino items are strangely fascinating vampire and mad scientist pictures with oddball colour effects and a mix of naive serial-style thrills and extreme-for-the-era sex and gore; the American efforts, from director Al Adamson, are shoddier, thrown together from offcuts of previous pictures, and are lead-paced but nevertheless curiously appealing. Gaze in awe at mutant killer trees, slobbering hunchbacked servants, faded matinee idols, stripper-turned-actress heroines with concrete blonde hairdos, evil dwarves, John Carradine or Lon Chaney, footage cut in from completely different films, Dracula and Frankenstein meeting hippies and bikers, red filters when the vampires attack, chanting natives! Plus lots of exclamation marks! Plus lurid trailers! "The kings of horror battle to the death" in Dracula vs Frankenstein. The last of the Frankensteins (J Carrol Naish) works in a carnival horror house with his sidekick Groton the Mad Zombie (Lon Chaney Jr). A Frank Zappa-like Dracula (Zandor Vorkov) and a monster with a face like a big mushroom slug it out. The film also features Russ Tamblyn as a beach biker and a Vegas showgirl heroine on LSD. This Region 2 DVD is sadly bereft of the extras found on the US Troma Region 1 disc. -Kim Newman.
Actors & Directors
- Jonny Lee Miller
- Colleen Fitzpatrick
- Russell Mulcahy
- Christopher Plummer
- Gerard Butler
- Patrick Lussier
- Justine Waddell
Release date: 2002-07-02 Run time: 187 min. Price: £10.35
Review Dracula 2000/Tale of the Mummy [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:
Release date: 2004-09-14 Run time: 509 min. Price: £34.95
Review Blood, Guts & Vampires / Razor Digital Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Ami Dolenz
- Karen Black
- Evan MacKenzie
- Tony Randel
- Maya McLaughlin
- Peter DeLuise
Release date: 2003-08-12 Run time: 92 min. Price: £25.95
Review Children of the Night [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:
Release date: 2004-10-19 Run time: 360 min.
Review Nightwalker [1998] / Nightwalker:
Actors & Directors
- Moon Lee
- Ricky Lau
- Siu-hou Chin
- Ricky Hui
- Ching-Ying Lam
- Billy Lau
Release date: 2001-05-01 Run time: 94 min. Price: £10.21
Review Mr. Vampire [1986] (NTSC) / Tai Seng:
Actors & Directors
- Phil Morris
- Brian George
- Franklin Cover
Release date: 2000-05-23 Run time: 100 min. Price: £17.60
Review Hot Vampire Nights [2000] / Ventura Distribution:
Release date: 2005-03-22 Run time: 185 min. Price: £8.53
Review Chills: Carnival of Souls/Atom Age Vampire (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Mill Creek Entertainment:
Actors & Directors
- Wrye Martin
- Norman Moses
- Rick Jacobson
- John Kishline
- Mildred Nierras
- Barry Poltermann
- Tina Ona Paukstelis
- Flora Coker
Release date: 2003-08-26 Run time: 84 min. Price: £19.95
Review The Unborn II [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Concorde:
Release date: 1999-08-31 Run time: 236 min. Price: £7.92
Review Vampires/Mary Shelley's Frankenstein [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia Combo:
Actors & Directors
- John Payne (XI)
- Joe Moller
- Jessica English
- Frank Terranova
- Darien Price
- Paulina Monet
Release date: 2000-01-04 Run time: 140 min.
Review Caress of the Vampire [1996] (NTSC) / E.I. Independent:
Release date: 2003-12-02 Creator: Sarah Michelle Gellar Price: £208.93
Review Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Seasons 1-4 [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 20th Century Fox:
Actors & Directors
- Vonnie Lui
- Lik-Sun Fong
- Miki Yeung
- Clarence Fok Yiu-leung
- King-Tan Yuen
- Matt Chow
Release date: 2006-11-28 Run time: 91 min. Price: £4.75
Review Dating a Vampire [2006] / Tai Seng:
Actors & Directors
- Jude Law
- Elina Löwensohn
- Jack Davenport
- Colin Salmon
- Po-Chih Leong
- Timothy Spall
Release date: 2001-03-13 Run time: 99 min. Price: £3.47
Review Immortality [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Miramax:
Actors & Directors
- Masha Sapron
- Marc Fratto
- Jocasta Bryan
Release date: 2004-09-21 Run time: 135 min.
Review Strange Things Happen At Sundown [2003] / Terror Vision:
Actors & Directors
- Georg H. Schnell
- Alexander Granach
- Gustav von Wangenheim
- F.W. Murnau
- Max Schreck
- Greta Schröder
Release date: 2003-03-04 Run time: 66 min. Price: £1.22
Review Nosferatu [1922] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Madacy:"Nosferatu. the name alone can chill the blood!". F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, released in 1922, was the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nearly 80 years on, it remains among the most potent and disturbing horror films ever made. The sight of Max Schreck's hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire rising creakily from his coffin still has the ability to chill the blood. Nor has the film dated. [+]
Murnau's elision of sex and disease lends it a surprisingly contemporary resonance. The director and his screenwriter Henrik Gaalen are true to the source material, but where most subsequent screen Draculas (whether Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella or Gary Oldman) were portrayed as cultured and aristocratic, Nosferatu is verminous and evil. (Whenever he appears, rats follow in his wake. )The film's full title-Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror)-reveals something of Murnau's intentions. Supremely stylised, it differs from Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) or Ernst Lubitsch's films of the period in that it was not shot entirely in the studio. Murnau went out on location in his native Westphalia. As a counterpoint to the nightmarish world inhabited by Nosferatu, he used imagery of hills, clouds, trees and mountains (it is, after all, sunlight that destroys the vampire). It's not hard to spot the similarity between the gangsters in film noir hugging doorways or creeping up staircases with the image of Schreck's diabolic Nosferatu, bathed in shadow, sidling his way toward a new victim. Heavy chiaroscuro, oblique camera angles and jarring close-ups-the devices that crank up the tension in Val Lewton horror movies and edgy, urban thrillers such as Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice-were all to be found first in Murnau's chilling masterpiece. -Geoffrey Macnab.
| Models & Brands: Curse of the Vampires [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Midnight Hour [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Legacy Of Dracula [1970], Ultraviolet [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fan of the Dead [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dracula 2000/Tale of the Mummy [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Blood, Guts & Vampires, Children of the Night [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Nightwalker [1998], Mr. Vampire [1986] (NTSC), Hot Vampire Nights [2000], Chills: Carnival of Souls/Atom Age Vampire (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Unborn II [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Vampires/Mary Shelley's Frankenstein [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Caress of the Vampire [1996] (NTSC), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Seasons 1-4 [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dating a Vampire [2006], Immortality [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Strange Things Happen At Sundown [2003], Nosferatu [1922] (REGION 1) (NTSC) |