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Review Screen Edge / The Dead Next Door [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Kokai
  • J.R. Bookwalter
  • Bogdan Pecic
  • Jolie Jakunas
  • Peter Ferry
Release date: 1997-03-17
Run time: 82 min.
Price: £12.99

Review The Dead Next Door [1989] / Screen Edge:


Review Vipco / Spookies [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Eugenie Joseph
  • Maria Pechukas
  • Felix Ward
  • Dan Scott
  • A.J. Lowenthal
  • Brendan Faulkner
  • Thomas Doran
  • Alec Nemser
Release date: 2001-07-09
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.49

Review Spookies [1985] / Vipco:


Review 4 Front Video / Snow White - A Tale Of Terror [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Monica Keena
  • Gil Bellows
  • Sam Neill
  • Michael Cohn
  • Sigourney Weaver
Release date: 2001-09-17
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £18.37

Review Snow White - A Tale Of Terror [1996] / 4 Front Video:


Review Lumiere Pictures / Dracula Prince Of Darkness [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Terence Fisher
  • Christopher Lee
  • Andrew Keir
  • Barbara Shelley
  • Francis Matthews
  • Suzan Farmer
Release date: 1995-02-27
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.08

Review Dracula Prince Of Darkness [1966] / Lumiere Pictures:

As the third in what became a series of eight, Prince of Darkness was distinguished among the Hammer Dracula movies for several reasons. It was the third and last directed by Terence Fisher and his familiarity with the mythos and studio practices meant the rushed production still came out looking spectacular in places. Moving into the tail end of the 1960s, Hammer looked for ways of cost cutting: the film's dramatic finale on a frozen river takes place on a two-for-one set being used simultaneously for another shoot. This was also the series entry that included a substitute for the Renfield character missing from the first movie. Thorley Walters as Ludwig is a colourful cameo and that's also all that can be said of Christopher Lee. Despite top billing, the mute monster occupies but a fraction of the overall on-screen time. The real frights come from gaunt butler Klove who scares the life (literally) out of hapless travellers Alan, Charles, Helen and Diana. Surely their fate would ensure no-one else took the mountain pass to Carlsbad? But only two years later, audiences discovered Dracula Has Risen from the Grave. On the DVD: apart from scene access there's nothing making use of the DVD format here. The 2. [+]
55:1 presentation is certainly welcome, and the mono audio somehow feels appropriate. -Paul Tonks.

Release date: 1999-06-28
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Tenchi Muyo - The Movie 2 / Pioneer Entertainment Europe Ltd:


Review electric pictures / Henry
Price: £1.98

Review Henry / electric pictures:

Most horror films exist in a fantasy movie-world safely removed from our existence, populated by zombie-like killers and psychopathic madmen. The power of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is its chilling placement in the mundane existence of everyday life. Michael Rooker plays Henry not as a raving psychopath but as the frumpy guy next door, a drifter who takes out his frustrations on random victims and escalates his body count after teaming up with the violent ex-con Otis (Tom Towles). Though not exceedingly gory in light of the excesses of such fantasy horrors as the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street series, director John McNaughton's straightforward presentation and documentary-like style creates a chilling realism that many viewers will find hard to watch. McNaughton neither comments on nor flinches at the brutal violence, which reaches its apex in a disturbing camcorder-eye view of a particularly sadistic murder of a middle-class couple, with Henry and Otis smiling through the deed as they record it for their continued pleasure. Henry straddles the line between True Crime (though fictional, the story was inspired by the confessions of real-life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas) and horror, a bleak, brutal kind of terror for a generation deadened by the escalating outrageousness of movie murders and nightly news crime scene clips. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Actors & Directors
  • Stan Kirsch
  • Adrian Paul
  • Alexandra Vandernoot
Release date: 1994-10-12
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.75

Review Highlander: The Beast Below / Entertainment in Video:


Review Vipco / Thirst - The Taste For Blood [1979] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Henry Silva
  • Rod Hardy
  • David Hemmings
  • Chantal Contouri
Release date: 1993-05-24
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.49

Review Thirst - The Taste For Blood [1979] [2004] / Vipco:


Review Bmg Video / King Kong [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • John Guillermin|Jeff Bridges|Charles Grodin|Jessica Lange
Release date: 1999-01-04
Run time: 128 min.
Price: £5.99

Review King Kong [1976] / Bmg Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Wes Craven
  • Drew Barrymore
  • Neve Campbell
  • Courteney Cox
  • Skeet Ulrich
  • David Arquette
Release date: 1998-04-20
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.98

Review Scream [1997] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) revived the mouldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted clichés and then turning them inside out. Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly deconstructs horror films, then reassembles the dead tissue, and (like Frankenstein's monster) creates new life. When a serial killer starts hacking up their fellow teens, the media-savvy youngsters of Scream realise that the smartest way of sticking around for the sequel is to avoid the terminal behaviours that inevitably doom supporting players in the movies. They've seen all the movies, and the rules of the genre are like second nature to them. One of the scariest and funniest setups features a kid watching John Carpenter's seminal Halloween on video. As Jamie Lee Curtis is shadowed by Michael Meyers and the kid on the couch yells at her to turn around, Craven reverses his camera and we see that the kid should be taking his own advice. The fresh-faced young cast (including Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette) is fun to watch, and their tart dialogue is sprinkled with enough archly self-conscious pop-culture references to make Quentin Tarantino blush. -Jim Emerson.

Review Bfi Video / The Phantom Of The Opera [1925]
Actors & Directors
  • Rupert Julian
  • Mary Philbin
  • Arthur Edmund Carewe
  • Lon Chaney
  • Norman Kerry
Release date: 1998-09-07
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £13.99

Review The Phantom Of The Opera [1925] / Bfi Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Teri Garr
  • Melinda Dillon
  • Steven Spielberg
  • Bob Balaban
  • Richard Dreyfuss
  • François Truffaut
Release date: 1997-09-22
Run time: 127 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.01

Review Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - The Special Edition [1978] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Released in 1977, Close Encounters of the Third Kind was that year's cerebral alternative to Star Wars. It's arguably the archetypal Spielberg film, featuring a fantasy-meets-reality storyline (to be developed further in E. T. ), a misunderstood Everyman character (Richard Dreyfuss), apparently hostile government agents (long before The X-Files), a sense of childlike awe in the face of the otherworldly, and a sweeping feel for epic film-making learned from the classic school of David Lean. Contributing to the film's overall success are the Oscar-winning cinematography from Vilmos Zsigmond, Douglas Trumbull's lavish effects and an extraordinary score from John Williams that develops from eerie atonality à la Ligeti to the gorgeous sentiment of "When You Wish Upon a Star" over the end credits. Not content with the final result, Spielberg tinkered with the editing and inserted some new scenes to make a "Special Edition" in 1980 which ran three minutes shorter than the original, then made further revisions to create a slightly longer "Collector's Edition" in 1998. This later version deletes the mothership interior scenes that were inserted in the "Special Edition" and restores the original ending. On the DVD: CE3K is packaged here with confusing documentation that fails to make clear any differences between earlier versions of the film and this "Collector's Edition"-worse, the back cover blurb misleadingly implies that this disc is the 1980 "Special Edition" edit. It is not. A gorgeous anamorphic widescreen print of Spielberg's 1998 "Collector's Edition" edit occupies the first disc: this is the version with the original theatrical ending restored but new scenes from the "Special Edition" retained. [+]
The second disc rounds up sundry deleted scenes that were either dropped from the original version or never made it into the film at all-fans of the "Special Edition" can find the mothership interior sequence here. The excellent "making-of" documentary dates from 1997 and has interviews with almost everyone involved, including the director speaking from the set of Saving Private Ryan. Thankfully the superb picture and sound of the feature make this set entirely compelling and more than compensate for the inadequate packaging. -Mark Walker.

Review Cinema Club / Children Of The Corn 2 - The Final Sacrifice [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Ryan Bollman
  • Rosalind Allen
  • Christie Clark
  • David F. Price
  • Paul Scherrer
  • Terence Knox
Release date: 2000-09-25
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.01

Review Children Of The Corn 2 - The Final Sacrifice [1992] / Cinema Club:


Review Entertainment in Video / Highlander: Innocent Man
Actors & Directors
  • Adrian Paul
  • Stan Kirsch
  • Alexandra Vandernoot
Release date: 1994-02-02
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.99

Review Highlander: Innocent Man / Entertainment in Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Jeffrey Combs
  • Michael J. Fox
  • Peter Dobson
  • John Astin
  • Trini Alvarado
Release date: 1999-07-01
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.86

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.

Review Synergy / Basket Case 2 [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Van Hentenryck
  • Annie Ross
  • Chad Brown
  • Frank Henenlotter
  • Heather Rattray
  • Judy Grafe
Release date: 2000-07-24
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.95

Review Basket Case 2 [1990] / Synergy:


Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / The Seventh Curse
Actors & Directors
  • Tung-Shing Yee
  • Ngai Kai Lam
  • Lung Wei Wang
  • Yasuaki Kurata
  • Kuang Ni
  • Jing Wong
Release date: 1998-07-20
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.26

Review The Seventh Curse / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:

A standout "midnight movie" thrill-fest from Hong Kong circa 1986. Everything under the sun comes rushing at us at 90 miles an hour. It begins as a cop action film but quickly becomes a globetrotting supernatural adventure set in jungle Thailand. A travelling scientist witnesses a savage native ritual and receives an icky curse for his pains: he is forced to swallow a bolus of bloody goo that causes periodic cork-popping spurts of fluid from his limbs: the Zits from Hell. Splatterific production numbers include flying killer alien-baby monsters, a spinal-cord-eating walking skeleton (a. k. a. "The Old Ancestor"), a huge stone-block Baby Press (don't ask), and a troupe of Ninja monks who fight on ropes dangling from a giant Buddha. Chow Yun-fat has a virtual cameo as the pipe-puffing occultist Wisely (the smarty-pants Peter Cushing figure), who offs the scariest monster with a handy rocket launcher. The original Chinese title, Dr. [+]
Yuen and Wisely, names the heroes of two long-running series of pulp novels by Ai Hong (aka Ni Kuang), who also wrote every other major kung fu movie of the 1970s, from One-Armed Swordsman to Fist of Fury. (The writer appears as himself in a framing cocktail party sequence, introducing his two heroes to each other. ) There are several other Wisely films, including the glorious Legend of Wisely (with Sam Huim in the title role) and the lamentable Bury Me High. Director Lan Wei-tsang also helmed the much less satisfying Phoenix King and Saga of the Phoenix, with Yuen Biao. -David Chute.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / Lexx - Vol. 2.5 - 2.09 791 / 2.10 Wake The Dead [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce McDonald
  • Stephen Manuel
  • Stefan Ronowicz
Release date: 2000-02-21
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.99

Review Lexx - Vol. 2.5 - 2.09 791 / 2.10 Wake The Dead [1999] / Contender Entertainment Group:

A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. With flashes of nudity and surgical gore, and a collection of extreme hairstyles and accents, the show's overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx (designed to look like a dragonfly) are the "Dirty Three-and-a-Half": insufferable coward Stanley H. Tweedle (Brian Downey), the Edward Scissorhands clone and 2000-years-dead Kai (Michael McManus), decapitated and lovestruck robot head 790 (voiced by writer Jeffrey Hirschfield), and the skimpily wardrobed Zev (Eva Habermann), replaced for Season Two by Xev (Xenia Seeberg). A disregard both for genre conventions and good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises: by the time of the third season, the expression "anything goes" had long passed being understatement. On this tape: Lyekker is woken by a distress signal since she's hungry again. On the crashed ship the cyborg pilot has been decapitated, which gives 790 an idea. While Kai and Xev find a hold full of prisoners with their hearts removed, "791" is born-with more than just a little personality re-programming. This homage to Alien ends with Xev's immortal line: "You may still only be a head 790. But you're the best head I ever had". [+]
Then we're back into spoof territory as "Wake the Dead" enjoys turning The Lexx into the stomping ground for a crazed teen killer. Still asleep from a joyride begun 287 years before, the group of "deserving" kids are despatched with glee in a great performance by Michael McManus. There's even a shower murder with a musical wink to Psycho from composer Marty Simon. And we finally see a Lexx toilet-and its tongue! A preview of Season Three's first episode ("Fire and Water") ends the volume. -Paul Tonks END.

Review Clear Vision Ltd / Bugs - Series One - Episodes 5 And 6 [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Gallagher|Ken Grieve|Craig McLachlan|Jaye Griffiths
Release date: 1999-05-03
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Bugs - Series One - Episodes 5 And 6 [1995] / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Troma Inc / The Toxic Avenger Part 2 [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Phoebe Legere
  • Lloyd Kaufman
  • Michael Herz
  • John Altamura
  • Ron Fazio
Release date: 1996-09-30
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.99

Review The Toxic Avenger Part 2 [1989] / Troma Inc:


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The Dead Next Door [1989], Spookies [1985], Snow White - A Tale Of Terror [1996], Dracula Prince Of Darkness [1966], Tenchi Muyo - The Movie 2, Henry, Highlander: The Beast Below, Thirst - The Taste For Blood [1979] [2004], King Kong [1976], Scream [1997], The Phantom Of The Opera [1925], Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - The Special Edition [1978], Children Of The Corn 2 - The Final Sacrifice [1992], Highlander: Innocent Man, The Frighteners [1997], Basket Case 2 [1990], The Seventh Curse, Lexx - Vol. 2.5 - 2.09 791 / 2.10 Wake The Dead [1999], Bugs - Series One - Episodes 5 And 6 [1995], The Toxic Avenger Part 2 [1989]

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