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Review Sovereign Multimedia Ltd / The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [1923]
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Kerry
  • Wallace Worsley
  • Patsy Ruth Miller
  • Lon Chaney
  • Winifred Bryson
  • Kate Lester
Release date: 1998-07-06
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Victor Hugo
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.99

Review The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [1923] / Sovereign Multimedia Ltd:

Lon Chaney, the man of a thousand faces, was best known for playing Quasimodo and the Phantom of the Opera. But the former role in The Hunchback of Notre Dame was clearly the most ambitious of his illustrious career, full of such longing and anguish. It's as though his entire being was consumed by this ugly outcast with a heart as big and beautiful as Notre Dame itself. And the makeup is still astonishing. The rest of this unrequited love story is pretty effective as well, with the re-creation of medieval Paris a standout for its lavishness. Like all great silent films, it delivers a poetry of life that is abstract and tangible at the same time. -Bill Desowitz.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Episodes 31-32 - Metamorphosis / Friday's Child [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Joseph Pevney
  • William Shatner
  • Ralph Senensky
  • Julie Newmar
  • DeForest Kelley
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • Glenn Corbett
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.98

Review Star Trek : Episodes 31-32 - Metamorphosis / Friday's Child [1967] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Exploited Films / Roadkill / My Sweet Satan [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Van Bebber
  • Tamara Bell
  • Sherri Rickman
  • Terek Puckett
  • Jim Van Bebber
  • Alydra Kelly
Release date: 1999-10-25
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Mark Gillespie
Price: £12.99

Review Roadkill / My Sweet Satan [1999] / Exploited Films:


Actors & Directors
  • David Hartman
  • Clancy Brown
  • Elizabeth Daily
  • David De Luise
Release date: 2002-08-19
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.99

Review Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles - Vol. 3 - The Hydora Campaign [2001] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Episodes 25-26 - This Side Of Paradise / The Devil In The Dark [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Ralph Senensky
  • DeForest Kelley
  • William Shatner
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • Frank Overton
  • Joseph Pevney
  • Jill Ireland
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.54

Review Star Trek : Episodes 25-26 - This Side Of Paradise / The Devil In The Dark [1967] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Night Of The Eagle [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Sidney Hayers
  • Margaret Johnston
  • Anthony Nicholls
  • Colin Gordon
  • Janet Blair
  • Peter Wyngarde
Release date: 2000-05-01
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Richard Matheson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.30

Review Night Of The Eagle [1962] / Warner Home Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 25 : Evolution / The Ensigns Of Command [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Cliff Bole
  • Ken Jenkins
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Wil Wheaton
  • Marina Sirtis
Release date: 1991-10-21
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.25

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 25 : Evolution / The Ensigns Of Command [1989] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Cinema Club / Teaching Mrs Tingle [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Katie Holmes
  • Barry Watson
  • Helen Mirren
  • Kevin Williamson
  • Jeffrey Tambor
  • Marisa Coughlan
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Harvey Weinstein
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.49

Review Teaching Mrs Tingle [1999] / Cinema Club:

The artwork for Teaching Mrs Tingle may feature young cuties Katie Holmes, Marisa Coughlin and Barry Watson, but the real star is the actress playing the title character: Helen Mirren. Mirren is the bitter, tyrannical teacher who, due to circumstantial evidence, believes goody two-shoes Holmes is guilty of cheating on her history final. Holmes, Coughlin and Watson go to Mirren's home to convince her that there's been a misunderstanding, but Mirren refuses to listen. Terrified that this will ruin her chances to go to college, Holmes and her compatriots knock Mirren out and tie her to her bed. Unfortunately, they haven't any idea what to do next; when Mirren awakes, the situation becomes a battle of wits in which the teenagers are hopelessly outmatched. Coughlin and Watson are pretty to look at and Holmes has some genuine talent and a lot of charm, but Mirren-who's played in Shakespeare productions on the stage and been in movies ranging from lurid and trashy (Caligula) to eerie and arty (The Comfort of Strangers) to lurid, trashy, eerie, and arty (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover)-combines the cutting intelligence of Vanessa Redgrave, the steely will of Judi Dench and a sensual energy that any young starlet would kill for. This teen comedy-thriller is just an amusing footnote in Mirren's career, but if you've never been transfixed by this actress's mischievous sidelong glances, Teaching Mrs. Tingle might provide a good start. -Bret Fetzer, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 5.07 - The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is Father / Meditations On The Abyss [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Jerry Doyle
  • Bruce Boxleitner
  • Richard Biggs
  • Peter Jurasik
  • Mira Furlan
Release date: 1999-07-19
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: J. Michael Straczynski
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.26

Review Babylon 5 - Vol. 5.07 - The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is Father / Meditations On The Abyss [1994] / Warner Home Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Thaddeus Golas
  • Roxanna Augesen
  • Al Millan
  • Michael St. Michaels
  • Douglas Bell
  • Robert Scott
Release date: 1991-06-10
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: William S. Weiner
Price: £9.99

Review Video Dead [1986] / Medusa Comms. and Mktg. Ltd.:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Jaws 2 [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeffrey Kramer
  • Jeannot Szwarc
  • Roy Scheider
  • Joseph Mascolo
  • Murray Hamilton
  • Lorraine Gary
Release date: 2000-06-19
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Peter Benchley
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.37

Review Jaws 2 [1978] / Universal Pictures UK:

Judged entirely on its own merits, Jaws 2 isn't a bad film. It even has some passably scary moments (Brody discovering a charred body in the waves; the swimming boy racing the shark back to his dinghy). But it's absolutely impossible to judge this movie on its own merits. Despite being given a great big Panavision camera to play with director Jeannot Szwarc can't hide his TV-movie origins, nor can the script, both of which spend far too long landlocked with the bickering inhabitants of Amity Island. Where the original film boldly set out to sea with Robert Shaw's Ahab-like Quint, in a misplaced desire to attract a teenage audience this movie dwells at interminable length on the courting rituals of the local youth; where Spielberg's original is a masterpiece of pacing and carefully timed tension-building, Jaws 2 sags terribly whenever the plastic shark swims out of sight. Roy Scheider comes off best, reprising his role as Chief Brody, while Lorraine Gary's role as his wife is expanded (she must be a glutton for punishment: she also starred in Jaws 4: The Revenge). Taken as a sequel Jaws 2 is inferior in every way; taken as an unassuming TV movie it's a respectable, workmanlike effort; but looking forward at what was to follow, it begins to look like a minor masterpiece. -Mark Walker.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : File 3 - Abduction [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Gillian Anderson
  • David Duchovny
Release date: 1996-06-03
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Chris Carter
RRP: £13.99
Price: £1.88

Review The X Files : File 3 - Abduction [1994] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Stephen King's Thinner [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert John Burke
  • Joe Mantegna
  • Lucinda Jenney
  • Kari Wuhrer
  • Michael Constantine
  • Tom Holland
Release date: 1998-06-08
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Stephen King
Price: £5.99

Review Stephen King's Thinner [1997] / Warner Home Video:


Review Eastern Heroes Ltd. / Holy Virgin vs The Evil Dead [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Sibelle Hu
  • Pauline Wong
  • Hui Hoi Chung
  • Lam Wei Lan
  • Chun-Yeung Wong
  • Donnie Yen
Release date: 1998-02-09
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Holy Virgin vs The Evil Dead [1990] / Eastern Heroes Ltd.:


Review Tartan Video / Pumpkinhead [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Lance Henriksen
  • Jeff East
  • Joel Hoffman
  • Stan Winston
  • Kimberly Ross
  • John D'Aquino
Release date: 2002-10-28
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Richard Weinman
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.88

Review Pumpkinhead [1987] / Tartan Video:


Review Sovereign Multimedia Ltd / Satan's Slave [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Martin Potter
  • Barbara Kellerman
  • Candace Glendenning
  • Michael Gough
  • Norman J. Warren
  • Michael Craze
Release date: 1997-12-08
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Moira Young
Price: £12.99

Review Satan's Slave [1976] / Sovereign Multimedia Ltd:


Review 4 Front Video / The Mummy's Tomb [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • Harold Young
  • Elyse Knox
  • Lon Chaney Jr.
  • George Zucco
  • John Hubbard
  • Dick Foran
Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 58 min.
Creator: Neil P. Varnick
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.95

Review The Mummy's Tomb [1942] / 4 Front Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 2 - Episodes 12 to 15 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • James Marsters
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Anthony Head
  • Nicholas Brendon
Release date: 2000-04-24
Run time: 172 min.
Creator: Joss Whedon
RRP: £14.99
Price: £16.98

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 2 - Episodes 12 to 15 [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Event Horizon [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Joely Richardson
  • Paul W.S. Anderson
  • Sam Neill
  • Richard T. Jones
  • Kathleen Quinlan
  • Laurence Fishburne
Release date: 2000-02-07
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Philip Eisner
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.95

Review Event Horizon [1997] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Drawing from Andrei Tarkovsky's heady science fiction meditation Solaris by way of Alien and Hellraiser, this visually splendid but pulpy piece of science fiction schlock concerns a mission in the year 2047 to investigate the experimental American spaceship Event Horizon, which disappeared seven years previously and suddenly, out of nowhere, reappeared in the orbit of Neptune. Laurence Fishburne stars as mission commander Captain Miller and Sam Neill is Dr Weir, the scientist who designed the mystery ship. Miller's T-shirt-and army-green-clad crew of smart-talking pros finds a ship dead and deserted, but further investigations turn up blood, corpses, dismembered body parts, and a decidedly unearthly presence. It turns out that the ship is really a space-age haunted house where spooky (and obviously impossible) visions lure each of the crew members into situations they should know better than to enter. The ship is gorgeously designed, borrowing from the dark, organic look of Alien and adding the menacing touch of teeth sprouting from bulwark doors and clawlike spikes inexplicably shooting out of the engine room floor. Unfortunately the film is not nearly as inventive as the production design-it turns into a woefully inconsistent psychic monster movie that sacrifices mood for tepid shocks-but the special effects are topnotch, and ultimately the movie has a trashy B movie charm about it. -Sean Axmaker.

Review 4 Front Video / Tremors [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Ron Underwood
  • Finn Carter
  • Fred Ward
  • Michael Gross
  • Reba McEntire
  • Kevin Bacon
Release date: 1999-11-08
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: S.S. Wilson
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.95

Review Tremors [1990] / 4 Front Video:

Tremors didn't actually break any new ground (even though its tunnelling worm monsters certainly did), but it revved up the classic monster-movie formulas of the 1950s with such energetic enthusiasm and humour that it made everything old seem new again. It's also got a cast full of enjoyable actors who clearly had a lot of fun making the film, and director Ron Underwood strikes just the right balance of comedy and terror as a band of small-town rednecks battles a lot of really nasty-looking giant worms. The special effects are great, the one-liners fly fast and furious between heroes Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward (and yes, that's country star Reba McEntire packin' awesome firepower), and it's all done with the kind of flair one rarely associates with goofy monster flicks like this. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame [1923], Star Trek : Episodes 31-32 - Metamorphosis / Friday's Child [1967], Roadkill / My Sweet Satan [1999], Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles - Vol. 3 - The Hydora Campaign [2001], Star Trek : Episodes 25-26 - This Side Of Paradise / The Devil In The Dark [1967], Night Of The Eagle [1962], Star Trek The Next Generation 25 : Evolution / The Ensigns Of Command [1989], Teaching Mrs Tingle [1999], Babylon 5 - Vol. 5.07 - The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is Father / Meditations On The Abyss [1994], Video Dead [1986], Jaws 2 [1978], The X Files : File 3 - Abduction [1994], Stephen King's Thinner [1997], Holy Virgin vs The Evil Dead [1990], Pumpkinhead [1987], Satan's Slave [1976], The Mummy's Tomb [1942], Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 2 - Episodes 12 to 15 [1998], Event Horizon [1997], Tremors [1990]

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