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Review Troma Inc / A Nymphoid Barbarian In Dinosaur Hell [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Guzzi
  • Linda Corwin
  • Mark Deshaies
  • Al Hodder
  • Brett Piper
  • Alex Pirnie
Release date: 1996-05-28
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.02

Review A Nymphoid Barbarian In Dinosaur Hell [1991] / Troma Inc:


Review MGM Entertainment / Carrie [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Betty Buckley
  • Piper Laurie
  • Brian De Palma
  • Amy Irving
  • William Katt
  • Sissy Spacek
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.62

Review Carrie [1976] / MGM Entertainment:

This terrifying adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel was directed by shock maestro Brian De Palma for maximum, no-holds-barred effect. Sissy Spacek stars as Carrie White, the beleaguered daughter of a religious kook (Piper Laurie) and a social outcast tormented by her cruel, insensitive classmates. When her rage turns into telekinetic powers, however, school's out in every sense of the word. De Palma's horrific climax in a school gym lingers forever in the memory, though the film is also built upon Spacek's remarkable performance and Piper Laurie's outlandishly creepy one. John Travolta has a small part as a thug, De Palma's future wife, Nancy Allen, is his girlfriend, and Amy Irving makes her screen debut as one of the girls giving Carrie a hard time. -Tom Keogh.

Actors & Directors
  • David Hemmings
  • Macha Méril
  • Eros Pagni
  • Dario Argento
  • Gabriele Lavia
  • Daria Nicolodi
Release date: 1993-11-22
Run time: 121 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.99

Review Deep Red [1975] / Redemption Films:


Review 4 Front Video / The Evil Dead [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Sarah York
  • Sam Raimi
  • Betsy Baker
  • Ellen Sandweiss
  • Hal Delrich
Release date: 1997-06-16
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £19.98

Review The Evil Dead [1982] / 4 Front Video:

In the Autumn of 1979, Sam Raimi and his merry band headed into the woods of rural Tennessee to make a little movie called The Evil Dead. They emerged with a roller coaster of a film packed with shocks, gore and wild humour, a film that remains a benchmark for the genre. Ash (cult favourite Bruce Campbell) and four friends arrive at a backwoods cabin for a vacation, where they find a tape recorder containing incantations from an ancient book of the dead. When they play the tape, evil forces are unleashed, and one by one the friends are possessed. Wouldn't you know it, the only way to kill a "deadite" is by total bodily dismemberment, and soon the blood starts to fly. Raimi injects tremendous energy into this simple plot, using the claustrophobic set, disorientating camera angles and even the graininess of the film stock itself to create an atmosphere of dread, punctuated by a relentless series of jump-out-of-your-seat shocks. Much of the film's energy is supplied by the "Raimi-cam", a gliding, swooping, rushing camera that suggests a dislocated, otherworldly point of view while injecting a lively if spooky fleetness to the pace. Though it's no comedy, Raimi's dry wit and cinematic cleverness pervades the entire film. The Evil Dead lacks the more highly developed sense of the absurd that distinguish later entries in the series-Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness-but it is still much more than a gore movie: it marks the appearance of one of the most original and visually exciting directors of his generation, and it stands as a monument to the triumph of imagination over budget. -Simon Leake, Amazon. [+]
com.

Review Third Millennium / Children Of The Living Dead [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Sam Nicotero
  • Jamie McCoy
  • Marty Schiff
  • Tor Ramsey
  • Tom Savini
  • Damien Luvara
Release date: 2001-11-12
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99

Review Children Of The Living Dead [2001] / Third Millennium:


Review Meridian Entertainment / Doomwatch - The Plastic Eaters / Tomorrow, The Rat
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Oates
  • John Paul
  • Robert Powell
  • Terence Dudley
  • Paul Ciappessoni
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.00

Review Doomwatch - The Plastic Eaters / Tomorrow, The Rat / Meridian Entertainment:


Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / The Refrigerator [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Nicholas Jacobs
  • Jaime Rojo
  • Phil Butard
  • Dave Simonds
  • Julia McNeal
  • Eric Durand Folsom
Release date: 1995-07-10
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.25

Review The Refrigerator [1993] / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:


Actors & Directors
  • Eric Ray Evans
  • David Calder
  • Trevor Cooper
  • Linda Newton
  • Christopher Baker
Release date: 1991-07-01
Run time: 152 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Star Cops 1 - An Instinct For Murder / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Cinema Club / Halloween 4 - The Return Of Michael Myers [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Danielle Harris
  • Ellie Cornell
  • George P. Wilbur
  • Dwight H. Little
  • Beau Starr
Release date: 2002-06-03
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.37

Review Halloween 4 - The Return Of Michael Myers [1989] / Cinema Club:

"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 Cinema Club / Amityville 4 - The Evil Escapes [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Brandy Gold
  • Patty Duke Astin
  • Norman Lloyd
  • Sandor Stern
  • Fredric Lehne
  • Jane Wyatt
Release date: 2002-06-03
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Amityville 4 - The Evil Escapes [1989] / Cinema Club:


Actors & Directors
  • Terry Moore
  • Judy Landers
  • Ray Sharkey
Run time: 86 min.

Review Hellhole [1985] / mgm:

horror slasher from the 1980's

Review 4 Front Video / The Mummy's Hand [1940]
Actors & Directors
  • Wallace Ford
  • Christy Cabanne
  • Peggy Moran
  • George Zucco
  • Eduardo Ciannelli
  • Dick Foran
Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 64 min.
Price: £9.99

Review The Mummy's Hand [1940] / 4 Front Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Twins Of Evil [1971]
Actors & Directors
  • John Hough
  • Peter Cushing
  • Isobel Black
  • Dennis Price
  • Madeleine Collinson
  • Mary Collinson
Release date: 1995-07-03
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £4.99

Review Twins Of Evil [1971] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Itc Home Video (UK) / Space: 1999 - Vol. 15 - New Adam, New Eve / Seed Of Destruction [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Crichton
  • Barbara Bain
  • Martin Landau
  • Kevin Connor
  • Catherine Schell
  • Tony Anholt
Release date: 1993-11-01
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.99

Review Space: 1999 - Vol. 15 - New Adam, New Eve / Seed Of Destruction [1976] / Itc Home Video (UK):


Review Playback / Earth: The Final Conflict - Vol. 4 - Live Free Or Die / Sandoval's Run / The Scarecrow Returns
Actors & Directors
  • Babby Singh
  • Kulbhushan Kharbanda
  • Kitu Gidwani
  • Deepa Mehta
  • Maia Sethna
  • Nandita Das
Release date: 2000-09-04
Run time: 120 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Earth: The Final Conflict - Vol. 4 - Live Free Or Die / Sandoval's Run / The Scarecrow Returns / Playback:


Actors & Directors
  • Carrie Fisher
  • Harrison Ford
  • Billy Dee Williams
  • Mark Hamill
  • Irvin Kershner
  • George Lucas
  • Anthony Daniels
  • Richard Marquand
Release date: 1997-10-06
RRP: £39.99
Price: £4.25

Review Star Wars Trilogy - Special Edition - Platinum Box Set / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / Evil Dead 2 [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Dan Hicks
  • Kassie Wesley
  • Sam Raimi
  • Sarah Berry
Release date: 2000-09-11
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.19

Review Evil Dead 2 [1987] / 4 Front Video:

Writer-director Sam Raimi's extremely stylized, blood-soaked follow-up to his creepy Evil Dead isn't really a sequel; rather, it's a remake on a better budget. It also isn't really a horror film (though there are plenty of decapitations, zombies, supernatural demons, and gore) as much as it is a hilarious, sophisticated slapstick send-up of the terror genre. Raimi takes every horror convention that exists and exaggerates it with mind-blowing special effects, crossed with mocking Three Stooges humour. The plot alone is a genre cliché right out of any number of horror films. Several teens (including our hero, Ash, played by Bruce Campbell in a manic tour-de-force of physical comedy) visit a broken-down cottage in the woods-miles from civilization-find a copy of the Book of the Dead, and unleash supernatural powers that gut every character in sight. All, that is, except Ash, who takes this very personally and spends much of the of the film getting his head smashed while battling the unseen forces. Raimi uses this bare-bones story as a stage to showcase dazzling special effects and eye-popping visuals, including some of the most spectacular point-of-view Steadicam work ever (done by Peter Deming). Although it went unnoticed in the cinemas, the film has since become an influential cult-video favourite, paving the way for over-the-top comic gross-out films like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive. -Dave McCoy.

Review Medusa Comms. and Mktg. Ltd. / The Dark Side Of The Moon [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Turkel
  • John Diehl
  • Robert Sampson
  • Will Bledsoe
  • D.J. Webster
  • Camilla More
Release date: 1999-01-25
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £10.99

Review The Dark Side Of The Moon [1990] / Medusa Comms. and Mktg. Ltd.:


Review Orion Home Video / Blacula [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Gordon Pinsent
  • Vonetta McGee
  • Denise Nicholas
  • William Crain
  • William Marshall
  • Thalmus Rasulala
Release date: 1998-10-26
Run time: 89 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Blacula [1972] / Orion Home Video:


Review Nouveaux Pictures / Suspiria [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Jessica Harper
  • Stefania Casini
  • Alida Valli
  • Joan Bennett
  • Dario Argento
Release date: 1998-05-18
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.84

Review Suspiria [1976] / Nouveaux Pictures:

Outside of devoted cult audiences, many Americans have yet to discover the extremely stylish, relentlessly terrifying Italian horror genre, or the films of its talented virtuoso, Dario Argento. Suspiria, part one of a still-uncompleted trilogy (the luminously empty Inferno was the second), is considered his masterpiece by Argento devotees but also doubles as a perfect starting point for those unfamiliar with the director or his genre. The convoluted plot follows an American dancer (Jessica Harper) from her arrival at a European ballet school to her discovery that it's actually a witches coven; but, really, don't worry about that too much. Argento makes narrative subservient to technique, preferring instead to assault the senses and nervous system with mood, atmosphere, illusory gore, garish set production, a menacing camera, and perhaps the creepiest score ever created for a movie. It's essentially a series of effectively unsettling set pieces-a raging storm that Harper should have taken for an omen, and a blind man attacked by his own dog are just two examples-strung together on a skeleton structure. But once you've seen it, you'll never forget it. -Dave McCoy.

Models & Brands:
A Nymphoid Barbarian In Dinosaur Hell [1991], Carrie [1976], Deep Red [1975], The Evil Dead [1982], Children Of The Living Dead [2001], Doomwatch - The Plastic Eaters / Tomorrow, The Rat, The Refrigerator [1993], Star Cops 1 - An Instinct For Murder, Halloween 4 - The Return Of Michael Myers [1989], Amityville 4 - The Evil Escapes [1989], Hellhole [1985], The Mummy's Hand [1940], Twins Of Evil [1971], Space: 1999 - Vol. 15 - New Adam, New Eve / Seed Of Destruction [1976], Earth: The Final Conflict - Vol. 4 - Live Free Or Die / Sandoval's Run / The Scarecrow Returns, Star Wars Trilogy - Special Edition - Platinum Box Set, Evil Dead 2 [1987], The Dark Side Of The Moon [1990], Blacula [1972], Suspiria [1976]

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