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Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Chiodo|Grant Cramer|Suzanne Snyder|John Allen Nelson
Release date: 2000-07-31
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Killer Klowns From Outer Space [1987] / Entertainment in Video:


Review Connoisseur Video / Weekend [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Jean-Pierre Kalfon
  • Valérie Lagrange
  • Jean-Pierre Léaud
  • Jean Yanne
  • Mireille Darc
  • Jean-Luc Godard
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £14.50

Review Weekend [1968] / Connoisseur Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 84 : Lower Decks / Thine Own Self [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Gates McFadden
  • LeVar Burton
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Michael Dorn
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Gabrielle Beaumont
Release date: 1994-07-25
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.99

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 84 : Lower Decks / Thine Own Self [1994] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Digital Video Distribution / Sorority Babes In The Slime Ball Bowl-O-Rama [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • David DeCoteau
  • Robin Rochelle
  • Hal Havins
  • Andras Jones
  • Linnea Quigley
  • Brinke Stevens
Release date: 1997-08-11
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Sorority Babes In The Slime Ball Bowl-O-Rama [1987] / Digital Video Distribution:


Review Warner Home Video / House Of Wax - Special Collector's Pack [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Phyllis Kirk
  • Carolyn Jones
  • Paul Picerni
  • Vincent Price
  • Frank Lovejoy
  • André De Toth
Release date: 1995-07-17
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Crane Wilbur
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

Review House Of Wax - Special Collector's Pack [1953] / Warner Home Video:


Review Warner Home Video / To the Devil A Daughter [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Sykes
  • Christopher Lee
  • Honor Blackman
  • Michael Goodliffe
  • Denholm Elliott
  • Richard Widmark
Release date: 2000-05-01
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: John Peacock
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.10

Review To the Devil A Daughter [1976] / Warner Home Video:

Hammer's To the Devil a Daughter was the last film made by the once great studio. Clearly ailing, Hammer again adapted a novel by Dennis Wheatley, the author behind one of their greatest successes, The Devil Rides Out (1967). Unfortunately for the studio, films such as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Exorcist (1973) had, in the intervening decade, radically changed horror cinema. With American star Richard Widmark echoing Gregory Peck's role in the far more polished The Omen (1976), the film seemed, rather than setting the pace as Hammer once had, to be very much jumping on the 1970's occult band-wagon. Christopher Lee is the satanic ex-communicated priest whose coven plan to incarnate the ancient demon Ashteroth, while a supernaturally beautiful Nastassja Kinski demonstrates the same willingness to disrobe as in Cat People (1982). Even so, this lacklustre, misogynistic film couldn't compete with Carrie and Suspiria (both also 1976) and Hammer thereafter concentrated on TV productions. Surprisingly, director Peter Sykes' next film, Jesus (1979), as well as being the most seen and internationally distributed film ever (with an audience of over two billion by 2000), is also the most faithful portrayal of Christ yet committed to celluloid. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 38 : The Best Of Both Worlds / Family [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Theodore Bikel
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Cliff Bole
  • Marina Sirtis
  • Les Landau
  • LeVar Burton
Release date: 1992-02-17
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.28

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 38 : The Best Of Both Worlds / Family [1990] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Cinema Club / House 3 - The Horror Show [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • James Isaac|Lance Henriksen|Rita Taggart|Brion James
Release date: 2001-07-02
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.59

Review House 3 - The Horror Show [1989] / Cinema Club:


Review Vipco / Terror Eyes [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Gina Hightower
  • Steve Sommers
  • Lance August
  • Dan Bell
  • Irving Ishkabibble
  • Rebecca McGovern
  • Michael Rissi
  • Eric Parkinson
Release date: 1993-11-29
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Chuck Williams
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.99

Review Terror Eyes [1988] / Vipco:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Alien 3 [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Sigourney Weaver
  • Charles S. Dutton
  • David Fincher
  • Paul McGann
  • Charles Dance
  • Brian Glover
Release date: 1997-12-29
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Walter Hill
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.99

Review Alien 3 [1992] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

Directed by stylemaster David Fincher, who went on to greater things with Seven and Fight Club, Alien 3 was the least successful of the Alien series at the box-office. Ripley, the only survivor of her past mission, awakens on a prison planet in the far corners of the solar system. As she tries to recover, she realises that not only has an alien got loose on the planet, the alien has implanted one of its own within her. As she battles the prison authorities (and is aided by the prisoners) in trying to kill the alien, she must also cope with a distinctly shortened life span that awaits her. But the striking imagery makes for muddled action and the script confuses it further. The ending looks startling but it takes a long time-and a not particularly satisfying journey-to get there. -Marshall Fine, Amazon. com On the DVD: The clarity of the digital picture throws light into some of Fincher's darker recesses, but is unkind to the primitive computer animation (the CGI alien is never convincing). Compared to the Alien DVD there are few extras, although a "making of" featurette that covers all three movies is included.

Review Academy Video / The Atomic Cafe [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Pierce Rafferty
  • W.H.P. Blandy
  • Owen Brewster
  • Frank Gallop
  • Lloyd Bentsen
  • Kevin Rafferty
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Jayne Loader
Release date: 1995-06-26
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £34.90

Review The Atomic Cafe [1982] / Academy Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation 75 : Rightful Heir / Second Chances [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Brent Spiner
  • Michael Dorn
  • LeVar Burton
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Winrich Kolbe
  • Patrick Stewart
Release date: 1994-01-10
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.98

Review Star Trek The Next Generation 75 : Rightful Heir / Second Chances [1993] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / The Howling [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Joe Dante
  • Belinda Balaski
  • Dennis Dugan
  • Dee Wallace
  • Christopher Stone
Release date: 2000-09-11
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Terence H. Winkless
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.92

Review The Howling [1980] / 4 Front Video:

An instant werewolf classic, The Howling was directed by Joe Dante, a graduate of Roger Corman's school of low-budget ingenuity who had gained enough momentum with 1978's Piranha to rise to this bigger challenge. He brought along Piranha screenwriter John Sayles, too, and recruited makeup wizard Rob Bottin to create what was then the wildest on-screen transformation ever seen. With Gary Brandner's novel The Howling as a starting point, Sayles and Dante conceived a werewolf colony on the California coast, posing as a self-help haven led by a seemingly benevolent doctor (Patrick Macnee), and populated by a variety of "patients", from sexy, leather-clad sirens (Elisabeth Brooks) to an old coot (John Carradine) who's quite literally long in the tooth. When a TV reporter (Dee Wallace) arrives at the colony to recover from a recent trauma, the resident lycanthropes prepare for a howlin' good time. Dante handles it all with equal measures of humour, sex, gore, and horror, pulling out all the stops when the ravenous Eddie (Dante favourite Robert Picardo, later known as The Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager) transforms into a towering , bloodthirsty werewolf. (Bottin's mentor Rick Baker would soon raise the make-up ante with An American Werewolf in London. ) As usual in Dante's movies (qv. Gremlins), in-jokes abound, from characters named after werewolf movie directors, amusing cameos (Corman, Sayles, Forrest J Ackerman), and hammy inserts of wolfish cartoons and Allen Ginsberg's "Howl". It's best appreciated now as a quintessential example of early-80s horror, with low-budget limitations evident throughout, but The Howling remains a giddy genre milestone. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. [+]
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Review Vipco / Thirst - The Taste For Blood [1979] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Rod Hardy
  • Henry Silva
  • Chantal Contouri
  • David Hemmings
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 Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Scream 2 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Wes Craven
  • Courteney Cox
  • David Arquette
  • Neve Campbell
  • Jamie Kennedy
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
Release date: 1999-04-12
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Kevin Williamson
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.40

Review Scream 2 [1998] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Fully aware of its status as the sequel to the surprise hit thriller of 1996, this lively follow-up trades freshness for familiarity, playing on our affection for returning characters while obeying-and then subverting-the "rules" of sequels. Once again, movie references are cleverly employed to draw us into the story, which takes place two years after the events of Scream, at a small Ohio college, where the Scream survivors reunite when another series of mysterious killings begins. Capitalising on the guesswork involving a host of potential suspects, director Wes Craven and screenwriter Kevin Williamson have crafted a thriller that's more of a Scream clone than a genuinely inventive new story. But the shocks are just as effective, and escalating tension leads to a tautly staged climax that's simultaneously logical and giddily over the top. Background information for trivia buffs: to preserve the secrecy of plot twists, copies of the screenplay were heavily guarded during production and restricted to only the most crucial personnel. When an early draft was circulated on the Internet, screenwriter Kevin Williamson did rewrites, and subsequent drafts were printed with red ink on brown paper, eliminating the threat of photocopying. None of the cast members knew who the killer was until the final scenes were filmed. - Jeff Shannon.

Review Cinema Club / Halloween 5 - The Revenge Of Michael Myers [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Dominique Othenin-Girard
  • Ellie Cornell
  • Harper Roisman
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Arthur Speer
  • Beau Starr
  • Danielle Harris
Release date: 2002-06-03
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Shem Bitterman
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.90

Review Halloween 5 - The Revenge Of Michael Myers [1989] / Cinema Club:

Starting around Halloween 4, that masked nut Michael Myers stopped chasing his sister (played by Jamie Lee Curtis in the first and second films, as well as Halloween H20) and went after his niece. Now he's chasing her around again in part 5, but it's a lot of other people who die in the process. Donald Pleasence continues his mad-doctor bit from the earlier movies, Danielle Harris is the unfortunate relation, and Donald L. Shanks plays the monster. The film is an improvement on parts 2 and 4 (part 3 having nothing to do with Michael Myers), but it still amounts to routine slaughter with none of John Carpenter's stylistic brilliance from the original movie. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / The X Files : File 6 - Master Plan [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • R.W. Goodwin
  • David Duchovny
  • Mitch Pileggi
  • Gillian Anderson
Release date: 1996-11-04
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.01

Review The X Files : File 6 - Master Plan [1996] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Clare Higgins
  • Tony Randel
  • Ashley Laurence
  • Kenneth Cranham
Release date: 2004-09-13
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £2.85

Review Hellbound - Hellraiser 2 - / Starz Home Entertainment:


Review Vipco / The House By The Cemetery [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Silvia Collatina
  • Ania Pieroni
  • Paolo Malco
  • Lucio Fulci
  • Giovanni Frezza
  • Catriona MacColl
Release date: 2001-05-21
Run time: 81 min.
Creator: H.P. Lovecraft
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.29

Review The House By The Cemetery [1981] / Vipco:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Aliens [1986] - Special Edition
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Reiser
  • Michael Biehn
  • Sigourney Weaver
  • Carrie Henn
  • James Cameron
  • Lance Henriksen
Release date: 1992-04-21
Run time: 154 min.
Creator: Walter Hill
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.49

Review Aliens [1986] - Special Edition / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

James Cameron's Aliens digests all the virtues of Alien and regurgitates them bigger, louder and brasher than before. By the simple expedient of turning the singular beast of the original into a plural, Cameron transforms the franchise's focus from horror to all-out action. Sigourney Weaver's Ripley-one of the strongest roles for a female lead in mainstream cinema-is centre-stage throughout, more than able to hold her own either among the butch Marines and insectoid aliens. Although the director later revealed that there were only ever six alien costumes in any one shot, rapid-fire editing makes it seem like hundreds. Aliens is one of the most dynamic, viscerally exciting movies of the decade and, as a bug-fest, remained unsurpassed until the glorious Starship Troopers in 1997. On the DVD: The Director's Cut reinstates 17 crucial minutes of footage deleted from the theatrical release. It reveals how the colony on LV-426 encountered the aliens, and more importantly why Ripley's maternal bond with Newt is so strong, which adds an extra dimension to the film's climax. Also included is a short, fairly bland interview with James Cameron, recorded at the time of the cinema release, as well as some background explanation on how specific special effects were created. Unlike the Alien disc, there is no directorial commentary. -Mark Walker Aliens is one of the few cases of a sequel that far surpassed the original. [+]
Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, who awakens on Earth only to discover that she has been hibernating in space so long that everyone she knows is dead. Then she is talked into travelling (along with a squad of Marines) to a planet under assault by the same aliens that nearly killed her. Once she gets there, she finds a lost little girl who triggers her maternal instincts-and she discovers that the company has once again double-crossed her, in hopes of capturing one of the aliens to study as a military weapon. Directed and written by James Cameron, this is one of the most intensely exciting (not to mention intensely frightening) action films ever, with a large ensemble cast that includes Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, and Michael Biehn. Weaver defined the action woman in this film and walked away with an Oscar nomination for her trouble. -Marshall Fine.

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Killer Klowns From Outer Space [1987], Weekend [1968], Star Trek The Next Generation 84 : Lower Decks / Thine Own Self [1994], Sorority Babes In The Slime Ball Bowl-O-Rama [1987], House Of Wax - Special Collector's Pack [1953], To the Devil A Daughter [1976], Star Trek The Next Generation 38 : The Best Of Both Worlds / Family [1990], House 3 - The Horror Show [1989], Terror Eyes [1988], Alien 3 [1992], The Atomic Cafe [1982], Star Trek The Next Generation 75 : Rightful Heir / Second Chances [1993], The Howling [1980], Thirst - The Taste For Blood [1979] [2004], Scream 2 [1998], Halloween 5 - The Revenge Of Michael Myers [1989], The X Files : File 6 - Master Plan [1996], Hellbound - Hellraiser 2 -, The House By The Cemetery [1981], Aliens [1986] - Special Edition

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