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Review Bmg Video / Fear No Evil [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Birney
  • Frank LaLoggia
  • Roslyn Gugino
  • Richard Jay Silverthorn
Release date: 1997-03-10
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Fear No Evil [1980] / Bmg Video:


Review Digital Entertainment Ltd / Revenant [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Craig Ferguson
  • Kim Cattrall
  • Casper Van Dien
  • Gabriel Casseus
  • Richard Elfman
  • Natasha Wagner
Release date: 2000-08-07
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.99

Review Revenant [1998] / Digital Entertainment Ltd:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episodes 16 to 19 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • James A. Contner
  • David Semel
  • Nicholas Brendon
  • Anthony Head
  • James Marsters
  • David Solomon
  • David Grossman
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • David Greenwalt
Release date: 2000-08-21
Run time: 176 min.
Price: £14.99

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episodes 16 to 19 [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Kiseki Films / M.D. Geist - Death Force
Actors & Directors
  • Koichi Ohata
  • Jason Beck
  • Dave Couch
  • Hayato Ikeda
  • Joan Baker
  • Matthew Black
  • Barry Banner
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 44 min.
Creator: Riku Sanjyo
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.10

Review M.D. Geist - Death Force / Kiseki Films:


Review Warner Home Video / The Vengeance Of She [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Judd
  • Colin Blakely
  • Jill Melford
  • John Richardson
  • Olga Schoberová
  • Cliff Owen
Release date: 1999-05-17
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Peter O'Donnell
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.32

Review The Vengeance Of She [1968] / Warner Home Video:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Lexx - Vol. 2.2 - 2.03 Lyekka / 2.04 Luvliner [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Michael McManus
  • Xenia Seeberg
  • Nigel Bennett
  • Stephen Manuel
  • Stefan Ronowicz
  • Brian Downey
  • Jeffrey Hirschfield
Release date: 1999-10-04
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Paul Donovan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.75

Review Lexx - Vol. 2.2 - 2.03 Lyekka / 2.04 Luvliner [1999] / Contender Entertainment Group:


Review Medusa Comms. and Mktg. Ltd. / Re-Animator 2
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Abbott
  • Brian Yuzna
  • David Gale
  • Jeffrey Combs
  • Fabiana Udenio
  • Claude Earl Jones
Release date: 1999-10-04
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Woody Keith
Price: £12.99

Review Re-Animator 2 / Medusa Comms. and Mktg. Ltd.:

Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1990) was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum-now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first. Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements-the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun. On the DVD: Bride of Re-Animator is presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1. 85:1, and its Dolby 2. 0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. [+]
-Roz Kaveney.

Release date: 2000-10-16
Run time: 798 min.
Price: £59.99

Review The Ray Harryhausen Collection / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

The Ray Harryhausen Collection is a limited edition video box set of eight movies featuring classic stop-motion animation by the man who single-handedly turned the technique into an art. Though not his feature debut, the earliest film here is It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955). Made at the height of the 1950s monster movie boom, the "it" of the title is a giant octopus or-given that budget restrictions means the creature has six rather than eight limbs-perhaps "hexopus" would be a better word for the creature. Whatever "it" is, as his beast destroys San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Harryhausen pays homage to his own inspiration, King Kong (1933). Next is the much more spectacular Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), one of the most underrated of all 1950s sci-fi B pictures. Obviously inspired by The War of the Worlds (1953), and essentially remade as Independence Day (1996), Harryhausen delivers a tremendous amount of bang per buck, zealously trashing Washington's most famous landmarks in a fashion still gratifying today. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) proved a major turning point in Harryhausen's career, for not only was this big budget Technicolor feature a huge hit, but it proved that the animator's true talents were better served by fantasy than science fiction. Not only a true classic, this is essentially the movie which invented the modern special effects blockbuster. Though not in the same class, Mysterious Island (1961) is still good entertainment. [+]
Based on the novel by Jules Verne, it unofficially continues the story of Captain Nemo beyond the end of Disney's 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). More importantly, it delivers some splendid battles with the various giant creatures on Nemo's titular island. Jason And The Argonauts (1963) is Harryhausen's masterpiece. An exhilarating reworking of Greek mythology, the film is a succession of great set-pieces, including an iron Colossus coming to life, and a final battle with a troop of skeleton warriors. The Mummy (1999) paid homage to this sequence recently but Harryhausen did it first, and without a single computer. Not only that, but Jason and the two previous films come complete with fabulous Bernard Herrmann musical scores. The First Men in the Moon (1964) marked a rare return to sci-fi, Harryhausen adapting HG Wells' classic adventure about a Victorian lunar expedition. The result was an entertaining movie, one much better than its unfairly tarnished reputation suggests. With later projects proving less successful, Harryhausen eventually returned to the Sinbad mythology in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). The films aren't as good as his earlier ventures into fable, though both contain several highly accomplished action sequences. The Harryhausen Collection is completed by a genuinely fascinating 87-minute documentary, "The Harryhausen Chronicles" (re-edited from material included on the Seventh Voyage and Jason DVDs) and a specially filmed greeting from Ray Harryhausen himself. For any fantasy or animation fan this release is an essential slice of cinema history, while just about anyone who loves the movies can revel in the unique craftsmanship and artistry of Ray Harryhausen, one of cinema's most distinctive creative talents. -Gary S. Dalkin.

Review Contender Entertainment Group / Farscape Vol. 1.6 - 1.13 Rhapsody In Blue / 1.14 Jeremiah Crichton [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Tilse
  • Ian Watson
  • Geoff Bennett
Release date: 2000-07-24
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Rockne S. O'Bannon
Price: £12.99

Review Farscape Vol. 1.6 - 1.13 Rhapsody In Blue / 1.14 Jeremiah Crichton [1999] / Contender Entertainment Group:

An international co-production of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Australia's Channel 9 and Hallmark Entertainment, Farscape is genre television at its most ambitious, inspired both by the cult appeal of Babylon 5 and the continuing success of the Star Trek franchise. Making extensive use of CGI, prosthetics and state-of-the-art puppetry, Farscape takes a visual leap beyond previous shows. Admittedly, the basic premise may be borrowed from Buck Rogers (American astronaut catapulted to far-flung galaxy populated by strange aliens), while the crew have something of Blake's 7 about them (a motley bunch of escaped convicts pursued by a relentless foe), and ideas like the living ship are borrowed from Babylon 5, but the Farscape concept has a freshness that makes it look and feel completely original. The production design is all bio-mechanical curves and the script never takes itself too seriously (fart jokes and double-entendres pop up when you least expect them). It must have been expensive to make, but it certainly looks (and sounds-in Dolby Digital 5. 1) like every penny made it to the screen. In true Buck Rogers style, Ben Browder plays leading man John Crichton as an all-American astronaut, although with a more believable sense of bewilderment; the supporting cast is a mixture of Australian and British actors, mostly disguised under heavy make-up. Two more episodes from Season One appear on this sixth volume. Blue-skinned Delvian priestess Zhaan meets more of her kind in "Rhapsody in Blue", but madness is the result; "Jeremiah Crichton" finds our human hero stranded on an earthly paradise where no machines will function-falling in love is just the beginning of his troubles. There's also a bonus star profile of Anthony Simcoe's Luxan warrior character, D'Argo -Mark Walker.

Review Playback / Battlestar Galactica - Vol. 6
Actors & Directors
  • Vince Edwards
  • Anne Lockhart
  • Lorne Greene
  • Lloyd Bridges
  • Richard Hatch
  • Christian I. Nyby
  • Dirk Benedict
Release date: 2000-07-24
Run time: 140 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.24

Review Battlestar Galactica - Vol. 6 / Playback:


Review Orbit Media Ltd. / Voodoo Woman [1956]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Conway
  • Mike Connors
  • Edward L. Cahn
  • Mary Ellen Kay
  • Marla English
  • Lance Fuller
Release date: 1999-05-03
Run time: 68 min.
Creator: V.I. Voss
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.98

Review Voodoo Woman [1956] / Orbit Media Ltd.:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Planet Of The Apes [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Franklin J. Schaffner|Charlton Heston|Roddy McDowall|Kim Hunter
Release date: 1999-01-25
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.99

Review Planet Of The Apes [1967] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The original Planet of the Apes is that rarity of the genre: a science fiction film that has dated not one bit: its intelligent script, frightening costuming, and savagely effective conclusion (which needs no big-budget special effects to augment its impact) remain both potent and relevant. When Colonel George Taylor (the fabulous Charlton Heston) crash lands his spacecraft on what seems to be an unfamiliar planet, he is captured and held prisoner by a dominant race of rational, articulate apes. However, the ape community is riven with internal dissension, centred in no small part on its policy toward humans, who, on this planet, are treated as mindless animals. Befriended and ultimately assisted by the more liberal simians, Taylor escapes-only to find a more terrifying obstacle confronting his return home. Heavy-handed object lessons abound-the ubiquity of generational warfare, the inflexibility of dogma, the cruelty of prejudice-and the didactic finger prints of The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling are very much in evidence here. But director Franklin Schaffner has a dark, pop-apocalyptic sci-fi vision all of his own, helped along by Jerry Goldsmith's terrifyingly avant-garde score. And time has not dulled the monumental emotional imp act of the film's climactic payoff shot. -Miles Bethany, Amazon. com.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episodes 20 to 22 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
Release date: 2000-08-21
Run time: 132 min.
Creator: Joss Whedon
Price: £14.99

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episodes 20 to 22 [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episodes 12 to 15 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • David Solomon
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • Nicholas Brendon
  • David Grossman
  • David Semel
  • Anthony Head
  • James Marsters
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • James A. Contner
  • David Greenwalt
Release date: 2000-08-21
Run time: 176 min.
Price: £14.99

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episodes 12 to 15 [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • Paul Anderson (III)|Laurence Fishburne|Sam Neill|Kathleen Quinlan
Release date: 1998-09-07
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.88

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 claw-like 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 top-notch and ultimately the movie has a trashy B-movie charm about it. -Sean Axmaker.

Review Pagan Films Ltd / The Vampires' Night Orgy [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Jose Guardiola
  • Dyanik Zurakowska
  • Leon Klimovsky
  • Helga Line
  • Jack Taylor
Release date: 2000-06-26
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.93

Review The Vampires' Night Orgy [1972] / Pagan Films Ltd:


Review Digital Entertainment Ltd / Haunting Fear [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Karen Black
  • Jan-Michael Vincent
  • Michael Berryman
  • Brinke Stevens
  • Fred Olen Ray
  • Delia Sheppard
Release date: 1999-07-26
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Haunting Fear [1989] / Digital Entertainment Ltd:


Review Contender Entertainment Group / Lexx - Vol. 2.1 - 2.01 Mantrid / 2.02 Terminal [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Manuel
  • Michael McManus
  • Nigel Bennett
  • Jeffrey Hirschfield
  • Brian Downey
  • Xenia Seeberg
  • Stefan Ronowicz
Release date: 1999-10-04
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Paul Donovan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.85

Review Lexx - Vol. 2.1 - 2.01 Mantrid / 2.02 Terminal [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: "Mantrid" doesn't so much re-cap as offer a fuller explanation of what was going on in the pilot season. We discover that the Giga Shadow was the last remaining insect after the war, and in a cruel ironic twist had all of humanity enslaved to its worst enemy. Still under the "influence", Kai leads them to Mantrid-the Giga Shadow's greatest Bio Vizier (an outstanding design of a floating torso and fleets of attendant arms). This season opener introduces a darker suit for Stan, new sets, new hair for Zev, and a new (yet old) enemy. In "Terminal", Kai accidentally injures Stan, so they take him to a Medical Centre overseen by the suspicious Dr Kazzan. [+]
In a battle for the key to The Lexx the full extent of Zev's fusion with a Cluster Lizard is revealed, with shocking results. To emphasise the double meaning of the title, the production design is glaringly bland and bare-in stark contrast to rest of the universe. This volume also includes a 10-minute documentary in which creator Paul Donovan admits he felt the pilots were only 50 per cent successful. -Paul Tonks.

Run time: 25 min.
Price: £5.99

Review The Adventure Duo / Kiseki Films:


Review Metrodome Distribution / The Convent [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Liam Kyle Sullivan
  • Joanna Canton
  • Dax Miller
  • Renée Graham
  • Richard Trapp
  • Mike Mendez
Release date: 2000-11-27
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: Jeremy Rubin
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.50

Review The Convent [2000] / Metrodome Distribution:

With tongue firmly in cheek throughout, The Convent piles on the gross-out gore. A group of college kids take a midnight trip to a deserted convent school which 40 years earlier was the scene of a massacre by a wayward convent schoolgirl called Christine. What they don't know is that the long dead and mightily peeved souls of the murdered nuns are still stalking the premises. The demonic nuns liquidate a succession of dumb and dumber teens in order to steal their souls. Among the potential victims are a virgin Goth, a jive-talkin' jock and a pair of effeminate, flouncing Satanists. Coolio cameos as a likeably corrupt cop whose bark is worse than his bite. The humour fluctuates between goofy and just plain stupid. But director Mike Mendez thankfully bypasses the Scream blueprint for slasher flicks. The Convent provides strictly irony-free screams, harking back instead to classics like Halloween and Nightmare On Elm Street. Horror veteran Adrienne Barbeau shows up as the adult Christine, strapped with an arsenal that would make even Charlton Heston blush and ready to wreak revenge on her convent school education all over again. [+]
On The DVD: The DVD features static menus and extras are limited to a theatrical trailer and cast and crew filmographies. The main feature is presented as a clear transfer in 4:3 full frame format with Dolby Digital 2. 0 sound. -Chris Campion.

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Fear No Evil [1980], Revenant [1998], Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episodes 16 to 19 [1998], M.D. Geist - Death Force, The Vengeance Of She [1968], Lexx - Vol. 2.2 - 2.03 Lyekka / 2.04 Luvliner [1999], Re-Animator 2, The Ray Harryhausen Collection, Farscape Vol. 1.6 - 1.13 Rhapsody In Blue / 1.14 Jeremiah Crichton [1999], Battlestar Galactica - Vol. 6, Voodoo Woman [1956], Planet Of The Apes [1967], Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episodes 20 to 22 [1998], Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 3 - Episodes 12 to 15 [1998], Event Horizon [1997], The Vampires' Night Orgy [1972], Haunting Fear [1989], Lexx - Vol. 2.1 - 2.01 Mantrid / 2.02 Terminal [1999], The Adventure Duo, The Convent [2000]

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