Review, buy General: Slugs [1988], Doctor Who - Spearhead from Space [1970] [1963], Doctor Who - The War Games, The Beyond [1981], Doctor Who - The Dominators [1968], Angel, Series 4 Part 2 [2000], Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 4 (Box Set 1) [1998], Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 2 - Episodes 1 to 11 [1998], Godzilla Vs Gigan, A Nightmare On Elm Street [1984], Doctor Who - The Daemons [1971], Vampire Circus [1972], The Exorcist 3 [1990], Doctor Who - Terminus [1983], Doctor Who - Carnival Of Monsters [1973], Doctor Who Earthshock [1982] [1963], Zombie Flesh Eaters [1980], The X Files : File 14 - Biogenesis, Doctor Who - Terminus [1983], Doctor Who

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Slugs [1988] (2 Entertain Video)

Actors & Directors

Kim Terry
Alicia Moro
Philip MacHale
Michael Garfield
Santiago Álvarez (II)
Juan Piquer Simón

Run time: 85 min.
Price: £6.99

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Review BBC Enterprises Ltd / Doctor Who - Spearhead from Space [1970] [1963]

Doctor Who - Spearhead from Space [1970] [1963] (BBC Enterprises Ltd)

Actors & Directors

Jon Pertwee
Derek Martinus
Nicholas Courtney
Caroline John

Release date: 1997-04-02
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £6.38

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The War Games

Doctor Who - The War Games (2 Entertain Video)

Actors & Directors

Patrick Troughton

Run time: 240 min.
RRP: ~~£19.99~~
Price: £28.99

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The Beyond [1981] (Vipco)

Actors & Directors

Lucio Fulci
Sarah Keller
David Warbeck
Antoine Saint John
Katherine MacColl

Release date: 2001-04-02
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: ~~£13.99~~
Price: £4.24

Review The Beyond [1981] / Vipco:

Lucio "King of the Eyeball Gag" Fulci made his name with a series of gory, gooey horror epics, and The Beyond stands above all as his outré masterpiece. The largely incoherent plot has something to do with a turn-of-the-century curse and a doorway to hell in the cellar of an old New Orleans hotel. Fulci shows his usual sensitivity with wooden acting, clumsy dialogue, and buckets of oozing blood and pus, but don't let that get in the way of enjoying this mad tale of zombies from hell invading Earth and eating their way through a cast of humans: crucified martyrs, blind visionaries, creepy hotel handymen, befuddled cops, and a plucky pair of heroes desperately fleeing a horde of hungry undead. The blood-red art direction is eerily beautiful, and Fulci's relentless long takes, punctuated by jolting shock cuts and eruptions of grotesque violence, create a mood of sheer paranoid horror right down to the final, mind-bending image. And don't forget the Fulci claim to fame: eyes are gouged out, eaten away, melted with acid, and (shudder) popped out by a spike through the back of the skull. Yech! If you dare ignore such piddling details as narrative logic and let yourself get carried away on the creepy visuals, it's a deliciously stylish treat, an edgy bit of Gothic gore pitched in all its bone-crunching, flesh-ripping, organ-splatting glory. This sadistic, sanguinary hell-spawn tale is for gore-hounds only. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Doctor Who - The Dominators [1968]

Doctor Who - The Dominators [1968] (2 Entertain Video)

Actors & Directors

Patrick Troughton
Morris Barry

Run time: 120 min.
Price: £10.99

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Angel, Series 4 Part 2 [2000]

Angel, Series 4 Part 2 [2000] (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Eliza Dushku
Stephanie Romanov
David Boreanaz
Andy Hallett
Alexis Denisof

Release date: 2003-09-08
RRP: ~~£34.99~~
Price: £19.56

Review Angel, Series 4 Part 2 [2000] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The second half of Angel's fourth year is a wild ride with no brakes and few stand-alone episodes. To recap, Los Angeles has fallen into perpetual night; Angel has mislaid his soul again; and something odd is going on with Cordelia, who is uncharacteristically aware of the effect of every word she utters. Wesley and Gunn are fighting over Fred; Lorne's ability to read souls is getting clouded, even when they sing karaoke; and the wounded Lilah is the only survivor of their former nemesis, the law firm of Wolfram and Hart, after a visit from the horned rock-like Beast. Things can only get worse-and, inventively and surprisingly, they do. Angel started off as an anthology show but in this season became so arc-heavy as to be almost impenetrable to the new viewer-but for the initiated it is as tense and suspenseful as 24 and even more prepared to put all of its characters in jeopardy. Things are so bad with the Beast, its hidden master and Angelus, that Faith (Eliza Dushku) breaks out of jail and back into the show to help out and Willow makes a surprise visit from Buffy. Particular praise is due to Gina Torres for her air of whimsical menace as the goddess Jasmine and to David Boreanaz for his silver-tongued devilry as Angelus and his brooding charm as Angel. -Roz Kaveney.

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 4 (Box Set 1) [1998]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 4 (Box Set 1) [1998] (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Sarah Michelle Gellar
Tucker Gates
Anthony Stewart Head
Nicholas Brendon
David Grossman
James Marsters
Alyson Hannigan
Joss Whedon
David Solomon
James A. Contner

Release date: 2000-10-30
Run time: 468 min.
RRP: ~~£34.99~~
Price: £16.98

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 4 (Box Set 1) [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

In Season 4 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sunnydale high school is left behind in smoking ruins and Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) becomes a college freshman at the (fictitious) University of California Sunnydale campus. The major arc of the season involves a semi-sinister Man from U. N. C. L. E. -type government agency known as The Initiative which has its Bond-style HQ under the campus. Their nefarious plans involve capturing vampires and demons, including the now-regular character Spike (James Marsters), and hacking them to pieces for assembly into a Frankensteinian supermonster or fitting them with chips that mute their killing urges. Buffy's plank-like new boyfriend Riley (Mark Blucas) is deadweight, Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) is shoved into new corners of irrelevance (and turns folkie!), Willow (Alyson Hannigan) breaks up with the werewolf (Seth Green) and comes out, Xander (Nicholas Brendon) whines about not being a student but starts dating a former demon (the amusing Emma Caulfield), Angel (David Boreanaz) has his own series but drops in for crossovers (you'll need to buy the Angel box set to find out how some key plotlines pay off) and previously killed or comatose semi-regulars pop in for dreams or revivals. A run of shaky episodes starts off this season, with the show seemingly uncomfortable with the new setting as it treads water with the same old monsters. [+]

This set starts to pick up with a few well-above-average episodes, the stand-out being "hush"!. This is a rare attempt for the show at being truly scary, featuring Nosferatu-like demons who glide around robbing people of their voices and force all the characters who have been evading the truth to open up to each other through non-verbal communication. The big plot, spread over the bulk of the episodes, is less interesting than the major arcs of the last two seasons, perhaps because Buffy's new love interest and new nemesis both fail to make much of an impression. This also tends to leave Sarah Michelle Gellar in the shadows of the show she is supposed to be starring in-her best 42 minutes in this series ("Who Are You", not included in this set) comes when she is possessed by bad girl Faith and can cut loose a bit. Mildly wobbly after the last two years, Buffy is still hanging in there and making its absurd premise pay off. -Kim Newman.

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 2 - Episodes 1 to 11 [1998]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 2 - Episodes 1 to 11 [1998] (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

David Boreanaz
Nicholas Brendon
David Solomon
Charisma Carpenter
John T. Kretchmer
Sarah Michelle Gellar
David Greenwalt
Alyson Hannigan
Bruce Seth Green
Joss Whedon

Release date: 2000-03-06
Run time: 476 min.
RRP: ~~£34.99~~
Price: £3.12

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 2 - Episodes 1 to 11 [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

After the first season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer became a ratings success the show was renewed with a bigger budget and twice as many episodes. Seeds are sown through the early episodes for many of the stunning plot developments later in the season: there's a slow burn for the relationships building between Buffy and Angel (no surprise), Giles and Jenny (nice surprise), and Xander and Cordelia (huge surprise). Most importantly, we're introduced to important semi-regulars Spike and Drusilla ("School Hard"), Oz ("Inca Mummy Girl") and fellow Slayer Kendra ("What's My Line Part 1"). Their appearances tackle youth issues such as sibling rivalry, sexual maturity and rejection. But nothing that came before it prepared audiences for the latter half of season 2. In the extraordinary double act of "Surprise" and "Innocence" every aspect of the show grows up in a big hurry: the result of Buffy sleeping with Angel is a series of tragedies everyone is powerless to predict or prevent, a piece of powerful storytelling conveyed with pared-down dialogue and remarkable performances from the young cast. All of these threads are tied together then torn apart by the two-part finale "Becoming". With a cliffhanger ending to rival The Empire Strikes Back, the second chapter of Buffy The Vampire Slayer closes in tantalising style leaving everything at stake. -Paul Tonks On the DVD: The computer-animated menu opens this gorgeous box set in style with a tour through a dark and oppressive cemetery, a lavish display of graphics that's all the more impressive when compared to the uneventful DVD for the first season. Most of the extra features are concentrated on the last disc, which includes the obligatory biographies, trailers and TV spots that add little value to hardcore fans but serve as a good introduction to the world of Buffy for non-adepts. [+]

The three featurettes are captivating: "Designing Buffy" offers a wealth of information about the set designs, and even includes a walk through of Buffy's home; "A Buffy Bestiary" features every monster from the second season, and "Beauty and the Beats" explores the make-up artistry and special effects. There are also brief cast interviews, in which James Masters ("Spike") reveals his American accent. All in all the extras make a worthy accompaniment to the spectacular season 2 episodes, though one might regret that Joss Whedon did not offer a commentary on the double bill season finale "Becoming". -Celine Martig.

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