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Review Stax Entertainment Ltd / Night Of The Living Dead [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Karl Hardman
  • George A. Romero
  • Marilyn Eastman
  • Keith Wayne
  • Judith O'Dea
  • Duane Jones
Release date: 2001-09-17
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: John A. Russo
Price: £10.99

Review Night Of The Living Dead [1968] / Stax Entertainment Ltd:

It's hard to imagine how shocking this film was when it first broke on the film scene in 1968. There's never been anything quite like it, though it's inspired numerous pale imitations. Part of the terror lies in the fact that this one's shot in such a raw, unadorned fashion it feels like a home movie, and all the more authentic for that. Another is that it draws us into its world gradually, content to establish a merely spooky atmosphere before leading us through a horrifically logical progression that we could hardly have anticipated. The story is simple. Radiation from a fallen satellite has caused the dead to walk and hunger for human flesh. Once bitten, you become one of them. And the only way to kill one is by a shot or blow to the head. We follow a group holed up in a small farmhouse to fend off the inevitable onslaught of the dead. And it's the tensions between the members of this unstable, makeshift community that drive the film. [+]
Night of the Living Dead establishes its savagery as a necessary condition of life. Marked by fatality and a grim humour, it gnaws through to the bone, then proceeds on to the marrow. -Jim Gay George Romero's classic 1968 zombie-fest Night of the Living Dead (shot in black and white) offers some disturbing images, even decades later. In a Pittsburgh suburb people are being stalked by zombies ravenous for human flesh. In a house whose occupant has already been slain, two separate groups of people unite and board themselves in, hoping to fend off the advancing ghouls. Through radio and TV reports they learn that radiation from outer space is thought to be responsible for the wave of zombie attacks all over the eastern United States. Once the humans are trapped, Romero shifts the focus to the internal feuding between them as they decide how to handle their dreadful situation. What unfolds is an examination of human nature, and of the fear and selfishness that keep many citizens from getting involved in the world's problems. Appropriately, both the zombies, and the authorities who later hunt them, are equally soulless. This film could also be read as a criticism of white males-it is not merely a coincidence that the film's two most rational, constructive characters are a woman and a black man. It is also no coincidence that the sequel Dawn of the Dead (1978) takes place in a mall infested by the undead-a perfect analogy for consumer culture. -Bryan Reeseman, Amazon. com.

Release date: 1993-10-25
RRP: £10.99
Price: £13.93

Review Psycho 3:


Review Castle Home Video / Birds - The Ultimate Visual Guide [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Veronica Cartwright
  • Jessica Tandy
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Tippi Hedren
  • Rod Taylor
Release date: 2001-09-24
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Evan Hunter
Price: £2.99

Review Birds - The Ultimate Visual Guide [2001] / Castle Home Video:

Vacationing in northern California, Alfred Hitchcock was struck by a story in a Santa Cruz newspaper: "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes". From this peculiar incident, and his memory of a short story by Daphne du Maurier, the master of suspense created one of his strangest and most terrifying films. The Birds follows a chic blonde, Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), as she travels to the coastal town of Bodega Bay to hook up with a rugged fellow (Rod Taylor) she's only just met. Before long the town is attacked by marauding birds, and Hitchcock's skill at staging action is brought to the fore. Beyond the superb effects, however, The Birds is also one of Hitchcock's most psychologically complicated scenarios, a tense study of violence, loneliness, and complacency. What really gets under your skin are not the bird skirmishes but the anxiety and the eerie quiet between attacks. The director elevated an unknown model, Tippi Hedren (mother of Melanie Griffith), to being his latest cool, blond leading lady, an experience that was not always easy on the much-pecked Ms. Hedren. Still, she returned for the next Hitchcock picture, the underrated Marnie. Treated with scant attention by serious critics in 1963, The Birds has grown into a classic and-despite the sci-fi trappings-one of Hitchcock's most serious films. [+]
-Robert Horton.

Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Men In Black [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Will Smith
  • Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Rip Torn
  • Linda Fiorentino
  • Tommy Lee Jones
  • Barry Sonnenfeld
Release date: 1998-04-08
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Lowell Cunningham
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.65

Review Men In Black [1997] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

This imaginative comedy from director Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty) is a lot of fun, largely on the strength of Will Smith's engaging performance as the rookie partner of a secret agent (Tommy Lee Jones) assigned to keep tabs on Earth-dwelling extra-terrestrials. There's lots of comedy to spare in this bright film, some of the funniest stuff found in the margins of the major action (a scene with Smith's character being trounced in the distance by a huge alien while Jones questions a witness is a riot. ) The inventiveness never lets up, and the cast-including Vincent D'Onofrio doing frighteningly convincing work as an alien occupying a decaying human-hold up their end splendidly. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com On the DVD: This Collector's Edition disc contains a "Visual Commentary" that features director Barry Sonenfeld and actor Tommy Lee Jones in an anecdotal conversation, but with the unique twist that they are displayed as silhouettes on your TV screen (imagine you're sitting in the back row of the cinema and they are up front) using a pointer to highlight particular events on screen. If you have a widescreen TV, the menu prompts you to switch to 4:3 mode to see this. There is also a "Visual Effects Scene Deconstruction" in which the tunnel scene and the Edgar Bug fight scene are dissected into their constituent parts; an in-depth documentary, "Metamorphosis of MIB", which charts the progress of the concept from comic book to screen; five "Extended and Alternate" scenes; trailers, including a teaser for MIB II; and Will Smith's "Men in Black" music video. -Mark Walker.

Actors & Directors
  • Tina Turner
  • Mel Gibson
  • George Miller
Release date: 1997-10-20
Run time: 282 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £24.99

Review Mad Max / Mad Max 2 / Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - The Complete Action Set [1979] / Warner Home Video:


Review HIGH FLIERS / Dark Prince - The Legend Of Dracula (2000)
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Brand
  • Jane March
  • Rudolf Martin
  • Roger Daltrey
  • Joe Chappelle
  • Peter Weller
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 88 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Dark Prince - The Legend Of Dracula (2000) / HIGH FLIERS:


Review Metrodome Distribution / Darklands [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Craig Fairbrass
  • Rowena King
  • Jon Finch
  • Dave Duffy
  • Julian Richards
  • Roger Nott
Release date: 1999-02-22
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: David Mitchell
Price: £12.99

Review Darklands [1997] / Metrodome Distribution:


Review Second Sight Films Ltd. / The Projected Man [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Ronald Allen
  • John Croydon
  • Ian Curteis
  • Mary Peach
  • Derek Farr
  • Norman Wooland
  • Bryant Haliday
Release date: 1997-09-08
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Peter Bryan
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.70

Review The Projected Man [1967] / Second Sight Films Ltd.:


Actors & Directors
  • James Whitmore
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Penelope Ann Miller
  • Linda Hunt
  • John Bruno
  • Tom Sizemore
  • Peter Jackson
  • Peter Hyams
Release date: 2001-10-01
Run time: 305 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Virus / The Frighteners / The Relic [1996] / 4 Front Video:


Review Third Millennium / Young Warlocks [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Justin Allen
  • David DeCoteau
  • Jennifer Capo
  • Stacey Scowley
  • Forrest Cochran
  • Sean Faris
Release date: 2002-02-11
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Ryan Carrassi
Price: £9.99

Review Young Warlocks [2001] / Third Millennium:


Review Warner Home Video / Babylon 5 - Vol. 5.07 - The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is Father / Meditations On The Abyss [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Jurasik
  • Jerry Doyle
  • Mira Furlan
  • Bruce Boxleitner
  • Richard Biggs
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:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / The League Of Gentlemen - Live At Drury Lane [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Dyson
  • Paul Hays-Marshall
  • Mark Gatiss
  • Steve Pemberton
  • Reece Shearsmith
Release date: 2001-11-19
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Peter Edwards
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.01

Review The League Of Gentlemen - Live At Drury Lane [1999] / Vision Video Ltd.:

"What do you think this is. Dick Whittington?" shouts Reece Shearsmith in The League of Gentlemen-Live at Drury Lane-the West End version of the BBC2 series-"You'll be wanting to see men dressed as women next!" Reece is, needless to say, dragged-up to the nines at this point. The first half of the production-which Shearsmith, alongside Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton took to Drury Lane in March 2001-sees the trio revisit their Perrier Award winning show of 1997. Clad in tuxedos, the League explore a public schoolboy's love of theatre and smut with sketches that border on post-modern: football fans chant "Ooh-ahh, Ophelia" during Hamlet; a Restoration comedy turns into a Faustian pact; Artic explorers battle repressed homosexuality. The second, and funnier half sees the action move to Royston Vasey, as Tubs looks over the audience and coos "we can't kill them all". The favourite characters transfer to the stage brilliantly, thanks to swift direction and filming that captures every macabre expression. Herr Lipp-looking like Richard Whitely in twin set and pearls-is a scream, and the closing mystery of "Who Shot Pauline?" is heaven for any League fanatic. -Ian WatsonOn the DVD: Not a great many extras here, but a couple of additional scenes are welcome. [+]
We get Benjamin and the Dentons at breakfast, familiar from Series 1 of the TV series, plus demented newsagent owner "Pop" and his dynastic ambitions for his two sons. There's also the "Big Woman" phone message which first appeared in the League's radio series, multi-angle versions of two sketches ("Scott of the Antarctic" and "Go Johnny Go Go Go Go"), Web site links and a screensaver. -Mark Walker.

Actors & Directors
  • Ethan Wiley
  • Eva Mendes
  • Greg Vaughan
  • Alexis Arquette
  • Stacy Galina
  • Angela Jones
Release date: 2001-10-15
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Stephen King
Price: £5.99

Review Children of the Corn V - Fields of Terror [2001] / Cinema Club:


Actors & Directors
  • Catherine Hickland
  • Leslie Cumming
  • Martin Newlin
  • Annie Ross
  • Linda Blair
  • David Hasselhoff
Release date: 2002-03-11
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Witchcraft / Stax Entertainment Ltd:


Review / Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Sholder
  • Bokeem Woodbine
  • Holly Fields
  • Carlos Leon
  • Andrew Divoff
  • Paul Johansson
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Peter Atkins

Review Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies:

Andrew Divoff returns as the evil Djinn bent on world domination in this "too good for cinema" sequel to Wishmaster. Released from his prison gem during a failed museum robbery, Djinn transforms from a gooey blob to a demon in human form after granting his first venom-laced wish and takes the rap for the heist and a couple of murders. Meanwhile Morgana (Holly Fields, looking like a B-movie version of Angelina Jolie, without the lips) is haunted by nightmares of the demon and discovers the meaning behind his command, "Fulfill the prophecy": he needs to bag 1,000 souls and then he's Armageddon-bound. Like its predecessor, Wishmaster 2 twists the classic genie-in-the-lamp legend into a sick joke; every wish is granted in the most literal terms, leaving the recipients victims of their own greed and desire in often gory spectacles. The budgetary constraints are evident in the more ambitious effects, notably a calamity of biblical proportions in a Las Vegas casino with computer-animated locusts and unconvincing dismemberments. Divoff makes a low-rent Freddy Krueger, tossing off pale quips with a tight grin and in a raspy, self-important monotone in this Nightmare on Elm Street knockoff. Best to stick with the real thing. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Medusa Comms. and Mktg. Ltd. / Todd McFarlane's Spawn - Episodes 5 And 6
Actors & Directors
  • Dominique Jennings
  • Michael McShane
  • Chuck Patton
  • Frank Paur
  • Jennifer Yuh
  • James Keane
  • Brad Rader
  • Richard Dysart
  • Eric Radomski
  • Keith David
Release date: 1998-04-06
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.45

Review Todd McFarlane's Spawn - Episodes 5 And 6 / Medusa Comms. and Mktg. Ltd.:


Review Cinema Club / The Prophecy II
Release date: 2001-10-15
RRP: £5.99
Price: £10.95

Review The Prophecy II / Cinema Club:


Release date: 1995-08-21
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.76

Review Dracula-Love Never Dies / Columbia Tristar:


Review Arrow Films / The Awful Doctor Orlof [1962]
Actors & Directors
  • Riccardo Valle
  • Howard Vernon
  • Jess Franco
Release date: 2002-04-22
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £13.03

Review The Awful Doctor Orlof [1962] / Arrow Films:


Review Cinema Club / The Truth About Demons [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Sally Stockwell
  • Jonathon Hendry
  • Glen Standring
  • Karl Urban
  • Katie Wolfe
Release date: 2003-02-03
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £5.99

Review The Truth About Demons [2000] / Cinema Club:


Models & Brands:
Night Of The Living Dead [1968], Psycho 3, Birds - The Ultimate Visual Guide [2001], Men In Black [1997], Mad Max / Mad Max 2 / Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - The Complete Action Set [1979], Dark Prince - The Legend Of Dracula (2000), Darklands [1997], The Projected Man [1967], Virus / The Frighteners / The Relic [1996], Young Warlocks [2001], Babylon 5 - Vol. 5.07 - The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is Father / Meditations On The Abyss [1994], The League Of Gentlemen - Live At Drury Lane [1999], Children of the Corn V - Fields of Terror [2001], Witchcraft, Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies, Todd McFarlane's Spawn - Episodes 5 And 6, The Prophecy II, Dracula-Love Never Dies, The Awful Doctor Orlof [1962], The Truth About Demons [2000]

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