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Actors & Directors
  • James Badge Dale
  • Chris Furrh
  • Andrew Taft
  • Harry Hook
  • Balthazar Getty
  • Danuel Pipoly
Release date: 1992-08-12
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: William Golding
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.97

Review Lord Of The Flies [1990] / 4 Front Video:

Harry Hook's adaptation is not as faithful to the William Golding novel as you'd wish (they excised the "Lord of the Flies" dialogue with Simon!) and because of it, the movie is less allegorical and less resonant. A group of young men from a military academy are stranded on an island. The group quickly becomes fractious with a passive section led by Ralph, trying to get rescued, and a hunter faction, led by Jack, trying to procure meat and "have fun. " Peter Brook's 1963 filming seemed to get closer to the Darwinist sense of this cultural disintegration. Here, the hunter faction seems more like Peter Pan's Lost Boys than the bloodthirsty murderers they are. The performances, particularly young Getty, don't quite carry the weight of the situation. It's still, however, sobering to slowly watch the school uniforms traded for war paint, and the little boys turn into little savages. -Keith Simanton.

Review Warner Home Video / Mad Max [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Tim Burns
  • Steve Bisley
  • Joanne Samuel
  • Hugh Keays-Byrne
  • George Miller
  • Mel Gibson
Release date: 1995-07-17
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: James McCausland
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.74

Review Mad Max [1979] / Warner Home Video:

The story of Mel Gibson's stately anti-hero begins in Mad Max, George Miller's low-budget debut, in which Max is a "Bronze" (cop) in an unspecified post-apocalyptic future with a buddy-partner and family. But, unlike most films set in the devastated future, Mad Max is notable because it is poised between our industrialised world and total regression to medieval conditions. The scale tips towards disintegration when the Glory Riders burn into town on their bikes like an overcharged cadre of Brando's Wild Ones. Representing the active chaos that will eventually overwhelm the dying vestiges of civil society they take everything dear to Max, who then has to exact due revenge. His flight into the same wilds that created the villains artfully sets up the morally ambiguous character of the subsequent films. -Alan E Rapp, Amazon. com.

Review Vipco / Nightkill [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Ted Post
  • Jaclyn Smith
  • Mike Connors
  • Robert Mitchum
  • James Franciscus
  • Fritz Weaver
Release date: 2001-09-17
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: John Case
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.98

Review Nightkill [1980] / Vipco:


Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / The Spiral Staircase [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Kent Smith
  • George Brent
  • Dorothy McGuire
  • Ethel Barrymore
  • Rhonda Fleming
  • Robert Siodmak
Release date: 2001-08-06
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Mel Dinelli
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.97

Review The Spiral Staircase [1946] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / American Cyborg - Steel Warrior [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Boaz Davidson|Joe Lara|Nicola Hansen|John P. Ryan
Release date: 1994-08-01
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £10.99

Review American Cyborg - Steel Warrior [1992] / Warner Home Video:


Review Touchstone Home Video / Starship Troopers [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Dina Meyer
  • Casper Van Dien
  • Paul Verhoeven
  • Denise Richards
  • Jake Busey
  • Neil Patrick Harris
Run time: 124 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.98

Review Starship Troopers [1998] / Touchstone Home Video:

A gloriously over-the-top treat, Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers takes the militaristic moralising of Robert Heinlein's pulp classic and sets about undermining it mercilessly. Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) desperately wants to join the Mobile Infantry and kill some Earth-threatening alien bugs. He also desperately wants Carmen (Denise Richards), but only gets to fulfil one ambition in the second of Verhoeven's futuristic satires (also cowritten with his RoboCop scriptwriter Ed Neumeier). Set in a fascistic future where kids must do military service to qualify as citizens, own property or even have babies, the film's dark Vietnam and Nazi-era parallels are all the more disturbing given its deceptively sunny Beverly Hills 90210 teenage cast (though scenery-chewing veteran Michael Ironside steals the movie as tough-talking Lt Rasczak). The CGI arachnids are among the most convincing and dangerous-looking creatures ever seen on screen, and with the movie clocking up the highest number of blanks ever fired on a film set, it's also pretty loud! Verhoeven went on to be Executive Producer of the Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles animated TV series a couple of years later. On the DVD: Starship Troopers in this DVD incarnation can now be played continuously on one side of the disc (the original Region 2 release version was that crime against the DVD format, a "flipper"). You'll also feel really spoiled by the extras here: five deleted scenes (approximately six minutes) pad out Carmen's love triangle problems. There are impressive screen tests for Denise Richards and Casper Van Dien (three-and-a-half minutes). An eight-minute featurette zips by with key interviews and fact flinging. And a real treat is three scene developments with layers of FX work explained by Verhoeven. [+]
But what makes this DVD essential is the director's enthusiastic commentary alongside screenwriter Ed Neumeier: dissing astrology, making a stand for feminist issues, saying how he went nude to placate the actors for their shower scene, and drooling with praise for his FX team, Verhoeven makes a fascinating statement that "war makes fascists of us all". After a studio disclaimer, and beginning with his reaction to the film's critique in Time Magazine, this is no-holds-barred fun. -Paul Tonks.

Review Manga Entertainment / Urotsukidoji II - Legend Of The Demon Womb
Actors & Directors
  • Lucy Morales
  • Rose Palmer
  • Rebel Joy
  • Christopher Courage
  • Bill Timoney
  • Hideki Takayama
Release date: 1993-06-14
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Toshio Maeda
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.99

Review Urotsukidoji II - Legend Of The Demon Womb / Manga Entertainment:


Review Entertainment in Video / Jason X [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Chuck Campbell
  • James Isaac
  • Lisa Ryder
  • Peter Mensah
  • Lexa Doig
  • Kane Hodder
Release date: 2003-04-28
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Victor Miller
Price: £5.99

Review Jason X [2002] / Entertainment in Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Invasion Of The Body Snatchers [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Carolyn Jones
  • Dana Wynter
  • Don Siegel
  • Kevin McCarthy
  • Larry Gates
  • King Donovan
Release date: 1997-06-16
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Richard Collins
RRP: £5.99
Price: £19.99

Review Invasion Of The Body Snatchers [1956] / 4 Front Video:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is considered one of the best science fiction films of the 1950s and 1960s. The classic paranoid thriller was widely interpreted as a criticism of the McCarthy era, which was characterised by anti-Communist witch-hunts and fear of the dreaded blacklist. Some hailed it as an attack on the oppressive power of government as Big Brother. However viewers interpret it, this original 1956 version of Invaders of the Body Snatchers (based on Jack Finney's serialised novel The Body Snatchers) remains a milestone movie in its genre, directed by Don Siegel with an inventive intensity that continues to pack an entertaining wallop. Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) is unconcerned when the townsfolk accuse their loved ones of acting like emotionless impostors. But soon the evidence is overwhelming-Santa Mira has been invaded by alien "pods", which are capable of replicating humans and taking possession of their identities. It's up to McCarthy to spread the word of warning, battling the alien invasion at the risk of his own life. Look closely and you'll find future director Sam Peckinpah (an uncredited cowriter of this film) making a cameo appearance as a meter reader! -Jeff Shannon.

Review Digital Video Distribution / Mistress Of Seduction
Actors & Directors
  • Alysabeth Clements
  • Michele Pacitto
  • Thomas Martwick
  • Gentle Fritz
  • Josh Dirmish
  • Justiz Donaldson
Release date: 2000-03-27
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Michael Raso
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.99

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Welcome To The Hellmouth [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • Anthony Head
  • Nicholas Brendon
  • James Marsters
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
Release date: 1999-09-13
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Joss Whedon
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.55

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Welcome To The Hellmouth [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : Series 9 Box Set [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Gillian Anderson
  • Mitch Pileggi
  • Tom Braidwood
  • Robert Patrick
  • David Duchovny
Release date: 2003-05-12
Run time: 860 min.
Creator: Chris Carter
RRP: £59.99
Price: £12.99

Review The X Files : Series 9 Box Set [1994] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

With so many promises to fulfil and questions left unanswered, the ninth and final series of The X-Files was inevitably going to short-change some of its audience. Mulder is missing, Scully is in and out with various baby concerns, Reyes frequently seems like she's only along for the ride and Doggett seems so right in the role that some fans wondered if he should have appeared sooner. Other cult cameos flitted across the screen in an attempt to keep viewers transfixed. Lucy Lawless, Cary Elwes and Robert Patrick's real-life wife were interesting diversions, but when Burt Reynolds appeared to be none other than God himself, it was apparent that nothing at all was sacred in this last year. Standalone episodes (for example, on Satanic possession and a Brady Bunch psycho) proved to be amongst the least interesting of the show's efforts. No doubt because everyone was focussing on the all-important arc story episodes. Was there more than one alien faction? Were they all in collusion? Who had control of the black oil virus? Who had been in charge of the abductions? More importantly, would Mulder and Scully finally get in bed together? Scattered through the 19 episodes (the fewest of any season), were answers to some of these points. Then as much as possible that remained was packed into the two-hour finale. After 200 episodes, it's just possible that The X-Files overstayed its welcome; nonetheless it will always be remembered for being the most influential TV product of the 1990s. And since this is science-fiction, don't assume it's completely dead either. [+]
-Paul Tonks.

Review / Nightmare on Elm Street 4
Release date: 2001-09-17
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.65

Review Nightmare on Elm Street 4:

By this time, A Nightmare on Elm Street series was definitely flagging and no amount of overkill style from promising Finnish director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2) covers for the fact that the screenplay (partially by LA Confidential Oscar winner Brian Helgeland) is a hash of thrown-together scenes and ideas with no coherence whatsoever. The pizza-faced child murderer returns from that limbo he inhabits between sequels and kills off all the characters left over from Part Three (the wonderfully named Tuesday Knight briefly takes over Patricia Arquette's role) before going after a new batch of uncharacterised, blatantly only-in-this-film-to-be-killed teens. The special effects highlight is a girl turning into a giant cockroach, though Harlin also includes more imaginative recurring and repeating nightmares. Lisa Wilcox is the new heroine, and Robert Englund finally gets top billing. -Kim Newman.

Review Vipco / The House On The Edge Of The Park [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • David Hess
  • Ruggero Deodato
  • Annie Belle
  • Giovanni Lombardo Radice
  • Marie Claude Joseph
  • Christian Borromeo
Release date: 2002-09-09
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: Vincenzo Mannino
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.95

Review The House On The Edge Of The Park [1980] / Vipco:


Actors & Directors
  • Rose McGowan
  • Alex McArthur
  • Peg Shirley
  • Julia Nickson
  • Sherrie Rose
Run time: 88 min.

Review Dearly Devoted (a.k.a. Devil In The Flesh) (1998) / High Fliers Video:

a young girl turns psychotic after the death of her mother.

Review MGM Entertainment / Logan's Run [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Jenny Agutter
  • Farrah Fawcett
  • Michael York
  • Michael Anderson
  • Richard Jordan
  • Roscoe Lee Browne
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: William F. Nolan
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.69

Review Logan's Run [1976] / MGM Entertainment:


Review Entertainment in Video / Deep Rising [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin J. O'Connor
  • Treat Williams
  • Wes Studi
  • Stephen Sommers
  • Famke Janssen
  • Anthony Heald
Release date: 1999-06-21
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Mario Iscovich
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.71

Review Deep Rising [1998] / Entertainment in Video:

Following in the reptilian slime trail of Anaconda, this derivative monster movie from early 1998 plays like a cross between Titanic and Tremors, with parts of Aliens tossed in for good measure. Director Stephen Sommers couldn't recognise an original idea if it swallowed him whole-which, by the way, is exactly what happens to a lot of passengers on a luxury ship that is attacked by a giant serpent-like sea creature with a voracious appetite for human flesh. Treat Williams plays the leader of a mercenary crew whose members discover the ravaged ship and wage war on the creature; Famke Janssen joins him as an onboard thief and con artist who just happens to be highly skilled with automatic weapons. Of course, the action grows more intense as the body count rises and along the way the monster is gradually revealed in all of its gruesome glory. A guilty pleasure if ever there was one, Deep Rising arrived in cinemas shortly after another waterlogged thriller, Hard Rain and if nothing else it provides proof that the B-movie monsters of the 1950s are alive and well and as cheesy as ever in the age of digital special effects. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Vipco / The Burning [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Maylam
  • Leah Ayres
  • Brian Matthews
  • Jason Alexander
  • Larry Joshua
  • Brian Backer
Release date: 2000-10-16
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Peter Lawrence
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.95

Review The Burning [1981] / Vipco:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Embrace Of The Vampire [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Rebecca Ferratti
  • Sabrina Allen
  • Glori Gold
  • Seana Ryan
  • Anne Goursaud
  • Martin Kemp
Release date: 1997-12-08
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Rick Bitzelberger
Price: £10.99

Review Embrace Of The Vampire [1994] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Release date: 1998-09-28
Run time: 263 min.
Price: £8.99

Review A Nightmare On Elm Street - Parts 1 To 3 - Box Set [1984] / Entertainment in Video:


Models & Brands:
Lord Of The Flies [1990], Mad Max [1979], Nightkill [1980], The Spiral Staircase [1946], American Cyborg - Steel Warrior [1992], Starship Troopers [1998], Urotsukidoji II - Legend Of The Demon Womb, Jason X [2002], Invasion Of The Body Snatchers [1956], Mistress Of Seduction, Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Welcome To The Hellmouth [1998], The X Files : Series 9 Box Set [1994], Nightmare on Elm Street 4, The House On The Edge Of The Park [1980], Dearly Devoted (a.k.a. Devil In The Flesh) (1998), Logan's Run [1976], Deep Rising [1998], The Burning [1981], Embrace Of The Vampire [1994], A Nightmare On Elm Street - Parts 1 To 3 - Box Set [1984]

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