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Review Eastern Heroes Ltd. / Magic Cop [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Tung Wei|Lam Ching Ying|Billy Chow|Wilson Lam
Release date: 1995-02-27
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.99

Review Magic Cop [1990] / Eastern Heroes Ltd.:


Release date: 1996-03-25
Run time: 40 min.
Price: £13.99

Review The X Files - Forensic Evidence Box [1995] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : File 8 - Tempus Fugit [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • David Duchovny
  • Gillian Anderson
  • Tom Braidwood
  • Mitch Pileggi
  • Robert Patrick
Release date: 1997-05-26
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Chris Carter
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.01

Review The X Files : File 8 - Tempus Fugit [1994] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Salvation Films / Virgin Witch [1970]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray Austin
  • James Chase
  • Vicki Michelle
  • Ann Michelle
  • Patricia Haines
  • Keith Buckley
Release date: 2000-04-03
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Beryl Vertue
RRP: £5.99
Price: £16.99

Review Virgin Witch [1970] / Salvation Films:


Actors & Directors
  • Trini Alvarado
  • John Astin
  • Peter Dobson
  • Jeffrey Combs
  • Michael J. Fox
Release date: 1999-07-01
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.41

Review The Frighteners [1997] / Universal Pictures:

One movie-lover's nightmare is another's raucous joyride, and this special effects-laden horror comedy is bound to split both camps right down the middle. Michael J Fox plays a psychic investigator who can actually see ghosts, and lives with a trio of spirits who scare people to promote Fox's ghost-busting business. In a town infamous for serial killings, a new series of deaths prompts Fox to induce his own out-of-body experience so he can battle death in a spirit-plagued netherworld where evil reigns supreme-or something like that. So much happens in this chaotic film that you might feel like you're watching several movies at once-a slasher pic, a supernatural thriller, and a black comedy all rolled into one non-stop showcase for grisly makeup and a dozen varieties of special effects. It's an odd but wildly inventive film from New Zealand director Peter Jackson, who earned critical acclaim for his previous film Heavenly Creatures and would later create the ingenious pseudo-documentary Forgotten Silver. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Release date: 1998-03-16
Run time: 43 min.
Price: £13.99

Review The X Files - Forensic Box Set 2 / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Cinema Club / Flowers In The Attic [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Victoria Tennant
  • Jeffrey Bloom
  • Kristy Swanson
  • Ben Ryan Ganger
  • Jeb Stuart Adams
  • Louise Fletcher
Release date: 2000-09-25
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Virginia C. Andrews
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.19

Review Flowers In The Attic [1987] / Cinema Club:

This screen adaptation of Flowers in the Attic, Virginia Andrews' classic teen novel of adolescent torment and forbidden love, shies away from what made the book so hugely popular, namely the incestuous sex between the two older children, Cathy (Kristy Swanson) and Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams). When the father of four beautiful blond children is suddenly killed, their mother (Victoria Tennant) takes them to the family home she fled 17 years earlier. Their fierce and frightening grandmother (Louise Fletcher) locks them in an upstairs room, from which the only escape is into the cluttered and cobwebbed attic. The children's isolation gets more and more extreme as their mother abandons them, finally even slowly poisoning them to gain her father's inheritance. The movie insinuates but does not make explicit incestuous longing in all directions: Cathy's father brings her special presents before he dies, Chris scrubs Cathy's back in the tub, Chris has a noticeably stronger attachment to their mother than Cathy does-not to mention that the grandmother whips the half-naked mother in front of the grandfather. Fletcher brings a bit of bite to her role, and the movie occasionally rises to absurdly lurid zest. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Cheh Chang
  • David Chiang
  • Peter Cushing
  • Szu Shih
  • Robin Stewart
  • Roy Ward Baker
  • Julie Ege
Release date: 2000-05-01
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £5.99

Review The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires [1974] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Interview With The Vampire [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Brad Pitt
  • Neil Jordan
  • Tom Cruise
  • John McConnell
  • Christian Slater
  • Virginia McCollam
Release date: 1997-07-21
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Anne Rice
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.00

Review Interview With The Vampire [1995] / Warner Home Video:

When it was announced that Tom Cruise would play the vampire Lestat in this adaptation of Anne Rice's bestselling novel, even Rice chimed in with a highly publicised objection. The author wisely and justifiably recanted her negative opinion when she saw Cruise's excellent performance, which perceptively addresses the pain and chronic melancholy that plagues anyone cursed with immortal bloodlust. Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst are equally good at maintaining the dark and brooding tone of Rice's novel. And in this rare mainstream project for a major studio, director Neil Jordan compensates for a lumbering plot by honouring the literate, Romantic qualities of Rice's screenplay. Considered a disappointment while being embraced by Rice's loyal followers, Interview with the Vampire is too slow to be a satisfying thriller, but it is definitely one of the most lavish, intelligent horror films ever made. -Jeff Shannon When it was announced that Tom Cruise would play the vampire Lestat in Interview with a Vampire, the film adaptation of Anne Rice's bestselling novel, even Rice chimed in with a highly publicised objection. The author wisely and justifiably recanted her negative opinion when she saw Cruise's excellent performance, which perceptively addresses the pain and chronic melancholy that plagues anyone cursed with immortal blood lust. Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst are equally good at maintaining the dark and brooding tone of Rice's novel. And in this rare mainstream project for a major studio, director Neil Jordan compensates for a lumbering plot by honouring the literate, Romantic qualities of Rice's screenplay. Considered a disappointment while being embraced by Rice's loyal followers, Interview is too slow to be a satisfying thriller, but it is definitely one of the most lavish, intelligent horror films ever made. [+]
-Jeff Shannon.

Actors & Directors
  • Trevor Cooper
  • David Calder
  • Graeme Harper
  • Eric Ray Evans
  • Linda Newton
Release date: 1991-07-01
Run time: 156 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Star Cops 2 - Trivial Games And Paranoid Pursuits / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Cinema Club / Men In Black / Bad Boys [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Barry Sonnenfeld|Michael Bay|Will Smith|Tommy Lee Jones
Release date: 2001-11-05
Run time: 208 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.70

Review Men In Black / Bad Boys [1997] / Cinema Club:


Review Uca Catalogue / Vampires [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Maximilian Schell
  • James Woods
  • John Carpenter
  • Sheryl Lee
  • Thomas Ian Griffith
  • Daniel Baldwin
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: John Steakley
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.17

Review Vampires [1999] / Uca Catalogue:

The first few minutes of John Carpenter's Vampires-in which James Woods' vampire killer leads a dawn raid on a New Mexico "goon nest" of bloodsuckers-not only suggests a horror movie that refuses to pull its punches, but even evokes some of the more disturbing dream-memories of American Westerns. Muscular and uncompromising, the sequence suggests a new Carpenter classic unravelling before one's eyes. Things don't quite work out that way, but this is still a film to reckon with. There are a few serious (and surprising) misjudgements on the director's part, particularly a mishandling of Sheryl Lee's role as a prostitute poisoned by the bite of a "master vampire" (who pretty much wiped out Woods' team of goon terminators). But aside from some weaknesses, the action is jolting, the suggested complicity of the Catholic Church in destroying monsters is provocative, and the traces of Howard Hawks' continuing influence on Carpenter's storytelling are in evidence. - Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Jaws [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Steven Spielberg|Roy Scheider|Robert Shaw|Richard Dreyfuss
Release date: 1999-07-01
Run time: 119 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £2.49

Review Jaws [1976] / Universal Pictures UK:

In the vastly overrated 1998 book Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, author Peter Biskind puts the blame for Hollywood's blockbuster mentality at least partially on Steven Spielberg's box-office success with this adaptation of Peter Benchley's bestselling novel. But you can't blame Spielberg for making a terrific film, which Jaws definitely is. The story of a Long Island town whose summer tourist business is suddenly threatened by great white shark attacks on humans bypasses the potboiler trappings of Benchley's book and goes straight for the jugular with beautifully crafted, crowd-pleasing sequences of action and suspense. This is supported by a trio of terrific performances by Roy Scheider (as the local sheriff), Richard Dreyfuss (as a shark specialist), and particularly Robert Shaw (as the old fisherman who offers to hunt the shark down). The sequences on Shaw's boat-as the three of them realise that in fact the shark is hunting them-are what entertaining moviemaking is all about. -Marshall Fine -This text refers to another version of this video. Jaws revolutionised Hollywood, single-handedly invented the summer blockbuster, spawned three increasingly poor sequels, and became the first film to gross more than 100 million dollars. Unlike many recent blockbusters, however, in Jaws the audience really cares about the fate of the men engaged in their duel with the monster. Granted the shark looks fake, but we willingly suspend our disbelief as storytelling and character development count for far more than mere special effects, adding enormously to the movie's suspense, excitement and sheer terror. The cast and screenplay are exemplary, but it was Steven Spielberg who emerged as the film's true star, while John Williams' unforgettable Oscar-winning score made him almost as much of as household name as the young director. [+]
On the DVD: For a Steven Spielberg movie and an all-time classic, this 25th Anniversary Edition release is impressive, but not all it could be. The anamorphically enhanced 2. 35:1 ratio picture is superb, as is the re-mixed Dolby Digital 5. 1 sound (the film was originally released in mono). It is a joy to see the film's picture and sound quality rescued from years of television and VHS screenings, offering a reminder of what all the fuss was about in the first place. The deleted scenes are quite interesting, offering more background on Brody, Hooper and Quint, including the latter's bizarre vocal duel with a boy playing the recorder! The four photo galleries are good, but some captions would have helped enormously. Disappointingly, there's no director's commentary, the best extra being a 50-minute documentary, "The Making of Jaws". This is excellent, and quite different from the BBC television production, "In the Teeth of Jaws". Even if you've seen that, there's much more to learn here. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Hollywood Pictures Home Video / From Dusk Till Dawn [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Juliette Lewis
  • Ernest Liu
  • George Clooney
  • Quentin Tarantino
  • Robert Rodriguez
  • Harvey Keitel
Release date: 1997-06-09
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Robert Kurtzman
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.87

Review From Dusk Till Dawn [1996] / Hollywood Pictures Home Video:

From a match made in heaven comes a movie spawned in hell! Young hotshot director Robert Rodriquez (El Mariachi, Desperado) teamed up with Pulp Fiction auteur Quentin Tarantino (offering his services as writer and co-star) to make this outrageous, no-holds-barred hybrid of high-octane crime and gruesome horror, From Dusk Till Dawn. QT plays Richard Gecko, a borderline psychopath who breaks his career-criminal brother, Seth (George Clooney), out of prison, after which they rob a bank and leave a trail of dead and wounded in their bloody wake. Then they hijack a mobile home driven by a former Baptist minister (Harvey Keitel) who quit the church after his wife's death and hit the road with his two children (played by Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu). Heading to Mexico with their hostages, the infamous Gecko brothers arrive at the Titty Twister bar to rendezvous for a money drop, but they don't realise that they've just entered the nocturnal lair of a bloodthirsty gang of vampires! With not-so-subtle aplomb, Rodriguez and Tarantino shift into high gear with a non-stop parade of gore, gunfire and pointy-fanged mayhem featuring Salma Hayek as a snake-charming dancer whose bite is much worse than her bark. If you're a fan of Tarantino's lyrical dialogue and pop-cultural wit, you'll have fun with the road-movie half of this supernatural horror-comedy, but if your taste runs more to exploding heads and eyeballs, sloppy entrails and morphing monsters, the second half provides a connoisseur's feast of gross-out excess. Bon appétit! -Jeff Shannon.

Review / Head of the Family (Video Tape/PAL) 1996
Actors & Directors
  • Gordon Jennison
  • Robert Talbot
  • Blake Bailey
  • James Jones
  • Jaquiline Lovell
Run time: 78 min.

Review Head of the Family (Video Tape/PAL) 1996:

Lance and Loretta are having a torrid affair behind her husband Howard's back. The problem is that Howard is brutal thug who is bound to catch the cheating pair sooner or later. To solve this problem, the lovers hatch a plan involving the Stackpoole family: a collection of misshapen freaks who waylay unsuspecting travellers and dissect them in gruesome experiments. Unfortunately, things don't go quite according to plan.

Review Reeltime Pictures / Beyond Belief! - Berserk - Hosted By Tom Baker [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Ty Hardin
  • Judy Geeson
  • Jim O'Connolly
  • Joan Crawford
  • Diana Dors
Release date: 1997-11-10
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £25.99

Review Beyond Belief! - Berserk - Hosted By Tom Baker [1967] / Reeltime Pictures:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Alien [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Ridley Scott
  • Sigourney Weaver
  • John Hurt
  • Harry Dean Stanton
  • Veronica Cartwright
  • Tom Skerritt
Release date: 1997-12-29
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Dan O'Bannon
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.48

Review Alien [1979] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

By transplanting the classic haunted house scenario into space, Ridley Scott, together with screenwriters Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, produced a work of genuinely original cinematic sci-fi with Alien that, despite the passage of years and countless inferior imitations, remains shockingly fresh even after repeated viewing. Scott's legendary obsession with detail ensures that the setting is thoroughly conceived, while the Gothic production design and Jerry Goldsmith's wonderfully unsettling score produce a sense of disquiet from the outset: everything about the spaceship Nostromo-from Tupperware to toolboxes-seems oddly familiar yet disconcertingly. well, alien. Nothing much to speak of happens for at least the first 30 minutes, and that in a way is the secret of the film's success: the audience has been nervously peering round every corner for so long that by the time the eponymous beast claims its first victim, the release of pent-up anxiety is all the more effective. Although Sigourney Weaver ultimately takes centre-stage, the ensemble cast is uniformly excellent. The remarkably low-tech effects still look good (better in many places than the CGI of the sequels), while the nightmarish quality of H. R. Giger's bio-mechanical creature and set design is enhanced by camerawork that tantalises by what it doesn't reveal. [+]
On the DVD: The director, audibly pausing to puff on his cigar at regular intervals, provides an insightful commentary which, in tandem with superior sound and picture, sheds light into some previously unexplored dark recesses of this much-analysed, much-discussed movie (why the crew eat muesli, for example, or where the "rain" in the engine room is coming from). Deleted scenes include the famous "cocoon" sequence, the completion of the creature's insect-like life-cycle for which cinema audiences had to wait until 1986 and James Cameron's Aliens. Isolated audio tracks, a picture gallery of production artwork and a "making of" documentary complete a highly attractive DVD package. -Mark Walker.

Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 6 - Survivors / By Any Means Necessary [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Boxleitner
  • Peter Jurasik
  • Richard Biggs
  • Jerry Doyle
  • Mira Furlan
Release date: 1995-09-18
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.25

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 6 - Survivors / By Any Means Necessary [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Phantom Of The Opera [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Nelson Eddy
  • Leo Carrillo
  • Edgar Barrier
  • Susanna Foster
  • Claude Rains
  • Arthur Lubin
Release date: 1999-07-01
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.84

Review The Phantom Of The Opera [1943] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Redemption Films / The Other Hell [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Francesca Carmeno
  • Franca Stoppi
  • Susan Forget
  • Franco Garofalo
  • Carlo De Mejo
  • Bruno Mattei
Release date: 1995-12-11
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Claudio Fragasso
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.98

Review The Other Hell [1981] / Redemption Films:


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Magic Cop [1990], The X Files - Forensic Evidence Box [1995], The X Files : File 8 - Tempus Fugit [1994], Virgin Witch [1970], The Frighteners [1997], The X Files - Forensic Box Set 2, Flowers In The Attic [1987], The Legend Of The Seven Golden Vampires [1974], Interview With The Vampire [1995], Star Cops 2 - Trivial Games And Paranoid Pursuits, Men In Black / Bad Boys [1997], Vampires [1999], Jaws [1976], From Dusk Till Dawn [1996], Head of the Family (Video Tape/PAL) 1996, Beyond Belief! - Berserk - Hosted By Tom Baker [1967], Alien [1979], Babylon 5 - Vol. 6 - Survivors / By Any Means Necessary [1994], The Phantom Of The Opera [1943], The Other Hell [1981]

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