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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Episodes 39-40 - Mirror, Mirror / The Deadly Years [VHS] [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • William Shatner
  • Charles Drake
  • Joseph Pevney
  • DeForest Kelley
  • Sarah Marshall
  • Marc Daniels
  • Leonard Nimoy
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Leonard Nimoy
Price: £10.99

Review Star Trek : Episodes 39-40 - Mirror, Mirror / The Deadly Years [VHS] [1967] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review 4 Front Video / The Body Snatcher [1945] [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Wise|Boris Karloff|Bela Lugosi|Henry Daniell
Release date: 1998-06-08
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Robert Wise|Boris Karloff|Bela Lugosi|Henry Daniell
RRP: £5.99
Price: £14.98

Review The Body Snatcher [1945] [VHS] / 4 Front Video:


Review Arrow Films / Les Diaboliques [VHS] [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Meurisse
  • Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • Charles Vanel
  • Véra Clouzot
  • Jean Brochard
  • Simone Signoret
Release date: 1995-01-16
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Thomas Narcejac
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.80

Review Les Diaboliques [VHS] [1954] / Arrow Films:

Legend has it that Henri-Georges Clouzot beat out Alfred Hitchcock to secure the rights to this novel, which proved to be a veritable blueprint for an icy masterpiece of murder, mystery and suspense. Véra Clouzot plays the sickly wife of a callous headmaster of a provincial boarding school going to seed, and the commanding Simone Signoret is the headmaster's mistreated mistress. Together they plot and carry out his murder, a brutal drowning that director Clouzot documents in chilly detail, but the corpse disappears and a nosy detective starts sniffing around the grounds as threatening notes taunt the women. Clouzot's thriller is as precise and accomplished a work as anything in Hitchcock's canon, a film of gruelling suspense and startling shocks in an overcast, grey world of decay, but his icy manipulations lack the human dimension and emotional resonance of the master of suspense. Many critics have accused the film of being misanthropic, and Clouzot's attitude toward his characters is bitter at best, contemptuous at worst. The viewer is left on the outside looking in, but the razor precision and terrifying twists deliver a sleek, bleak spectacle worthy of attention. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Connoisseur Video / Eyes Without A Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) [1960] [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Edith Scob
  • Georges Franju
  • Alida Valli
  • François Guérin
  • Juliette Mayniel
  • Pierre Brasseur
Release date: 1995-09-18
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Thomas Narcejac
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.95

Review Eyes Without A Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) [1960] [VHS] / Connoisseur Video:


Review Encore Entertainment / 13 Ghosts [VHS] [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Herbert
  • Rosemary DeCamp
  • Martin Milner
  • Donald Woods
  • William Castle
  • Jo Morrow
Release date: 1996-11-25
Run time: 79 min.
Creator: Robb White
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.77

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Review 4 Front Video / Night Of The Living Dead (colourised) [1968] [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Karl Hardman
  • Judith O'Dea
  • George A. Romero
  • Duane Jones
  • Marilyn Eastman
  • Keith Wayne
Release date: 1995-01-16
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Russell Streiner
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.49

Review Night Of The Living Dead (colourised) [1968] [VHS] / 4 Front Video:

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.

Review 4 Front Video / Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man [VHS] [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Ilona Massey
  • Bela Lugosi
  • Roy William Neill
  • Patrick Knowles
  • Lon Chaney jr.
  • Lionel Atwill
Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: Patrick Knowles
Price: £9.99

Review Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man [VHS] [1943] / 4 Front Video:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Lost In Space - Vol. 1 [VHS] [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • June Lockhart
  • Angela Cartwright
  • Mark Goddard
  • Bill Mumy
  • Marta Kristen
Release date: 1991-09-17
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Irwin Allen
RRP: £10.99
Price: £24.95

Review Lost In Space - Vol. 1 [VHS] [1965] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek: Episode 16 - The Menagerie - Parts I And II [1966] [VHS] [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • William Shatner
  • Malachi Throne
  • Leonard Nimoy
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Leonard Nimoy
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.98

Review Star Trek: Episode 16 - The Menagerie - Parts I And II [1966] [VHS] [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Encore Entertainment / The Tingler [VHS] [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • William Castle
  • Patricia Cutts
  • Pamela Lincoln
  • Judith Evelyn
  • Vincent Price
  • Darryl Hickman
Release date: 1996-11-25
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Robb White
Price: £12.99

Review The Tingler [VHS] [1959] / Encore Entertainment:


Actors & Directors
  • William Hartnell
  • Richard Martin
Release date: 1990-05-08
Run time: 148 min.
Creator: William Hartnell
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.99

Review Doctor Who - The Dalek Invasion Of Earth - Parts 1 and 2 [VHS] [1964] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Video Gems (Defunct) / Quatermass 2 [VHS] [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Sid James
  • William Franklyn
  • Brian Donlevy
  • Val Guest
  • John Longden
  • Bryan Forbes
Release date: 1994-08-15
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Nigel Kneale
Price: £12.99

Review Quatermass 2 [VHS] [1957] / Video Gems (Defunct):


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Episodes 2-3 - Where No Man Has Gone Before / The Corbomite Manoeuvre [VHS] [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • DeForest Kelley
  • Nichelle Nichols
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • William Shatner
  • James Doohan
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.28

Review Star Trek : Episodes 2-3 - Where No Man Has Gone Before / The Corbomite Manoeuvre [VHS] [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / Carry On Screaming [VHS] [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Kenneth Williams
  • Jim Dale
  • Fenella Fielding
  • Charles Hawtrey
  • Gerald Thomas
  • Harry H. Corbett
Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: Talbot Rothwell
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.14

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Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / The Spiral Staircase [VHS] [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Rhonda Fleming
  • Robert Siodmak
  • Kent Smith
  • Dorothy McGuire
  • Ethel Barrymore
  • George Brent
Release date: 2001-08-06
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Mel Dinelli
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.99

Review The Spiral Staircase [VHS] [1946] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:


Review Encore Entertainment / The Tingler [VHS] [1959]
Actors & Directors
  • Judith Evelyn
  • William Castle
  • Vincent Price
  • Darryl Hickman
  • Patricia Cutts
  • Pamela Lincoln
Release date: 1996-11-25
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Robb White
Price: £12.99

Review The Tingler [VHS] [1959] / Encore Entertainment:


Review Universal Pictures UK / The Mummy [1932] [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Karl Freund
  • Boris Karloff
  • Edward Van Sloan
  • Arthur Byron
  • David Manners
  • Zita Johann
Release date: 2003-05-19
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: Richard Schayer
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.98

Review The Mummy [1932] [VHS] / Universal Pictures UK:

You have to hand it to the walking dead. What they lack in speed and agility, they more than make up for in sheer single-minded determination. Im-Ho-Tep is a case in point. He's an ancient Egyptian priest, cursed for his terrible crimes against the gods. A team of British archaeologists digs up his sarcophagus, along with a box inscribed with a warning that opening it will unleash death and destruction. You'll never guess what they do. Once freed, Im-Ho-Tep takes on the appropriately evil alias Ardath Bey and gets to the task of resurrecting his ancient lover-which will, of course, require a living human surrogate. While the premise may sound formulaic, The Mummy in fact turns out to be bracingly weird, relying on atmospheric creepiness rather than on jump-out-and-scare-you effects. Boris Karloff gives a terrific performance as Im-Ho-Tep. He has all the malevolence the film requires, but also manages subtler touches; the expression in his eyes as he is wrapped in preparation for being buried alive is absolutely chilling. [+]
Instead of forcing him to do all the tedious shambling around that so many mummies resort to, the filmmakers have wisely given Im-Ho-Tep/Ardath Bey a nearly living appearance once he's cleaned up and has a few psychic powers to boot, making him a potent adversary. Stock up on ace bandages and prepare for a good spooky evening. -Ali Davis.

Review Warner Home Video / Freaks [VHS] [1932]
Actors & Directors
  • Tod Browning
  • Wallace Ford
  • Roscoe Ates
  • Leila Hyams
  • Olga Baclanova
  • Henry Victor
Release date: 2000-04-03
Run time: 62 min.
Creator: Willis Goldbeck
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.94

Review Freaks [VHS] [1932] / Warner Home Video:

One of the most famous, most shocking and, for much of its existence, most elusive of cult films, Tod Browning's Freaks remains worthy of its dubious top billing by literary critic Leslie Fiedler as the greatest of all Freak movies. At the centre of the story are two circus midgets, Hans and Frieda (already well known in the 1930s through film and advertising appearances as Harry and Daisy Earles), whose marriage plans are blasted when Hans becomes the target of the aerialist Cleopatra's plot to marry him then kill him off for his money. During what is certainly one of the most notorious scenes in cult film history, the wedding party of freaks ritually embrace Cleopatra as one of us. Through her undisguised horror at this and her gruesome punishment by the freaks, the film bluntly confronts viewers about our awkwardness about different bodies while simultaneously stirring up fear and alarm in familiar horror-movie style. Better known for the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula (1931), Brownings showmanship was equally a product of the circus (he was himself an adolescent contortionist in a travelling show). His meshing of circus and cinema-two dangerous entertainments-produces Freaks' uniquely disquieting effect. Startled and indignant preview audiences forced the producers to add an explanatory foreword to the film but even this crackles with sensationalism as it veers between sideshow-style sympathy and fright warning. None the less, protests and local censorship ensued and the film never reached the mass audience for which it was made. Still, some of the real stars of the midway Ten-in-One shows of the 1920s and 30s (Johnny Eck, Daisy and Violet Hilton the Siamese twins, Prince Randian, the Hindu Living Torso) are showcased here as themselves and it is their undeniably real presence in what is otherwise familiar fictional terrain which is still so provocative. -Helen Stoddart.

Review 4 Front Video / Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein [VHS] [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • Bela Lugosi
  • Charles Barton
  • Glenn Strange
  • Lon Chaney Jr.
  • Bud Abbott
  • Lou Costello
Release date: 2003-01-27
Run time: 79 min.
Creator: Robert Lees
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.95

Review Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein [VHS] [1948] / 4 Front Video:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Episodes 73-74 - The Lights Of Zetar / The Cloud Minders [VHS] [1969]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeff Corey
  • Jud Taylor
  • William Shatner
  • DeForest Kelley
  • Herb Kenwith
  • Jan Shutan
  • Leonard Nimoy
Release date: 1991-02-04
Run time: 98 min.
Creator: Leonard Nimoy
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.50

Review Star Trek : Episodes 73-74 - The Lights Of Zetar / The Cloud Minders [VHS] [1969] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


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Star Trek : Episodes 39-40 - Mirror, Mirror / The Deadly Years [VHS] [1967], The Body Snatcher [1945] [VHS], Les Diaboliques [VHS] [1954], Eyes Without A Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) [1960] [VHS], 13 Ghosts [VHS] [1961], Night Of The Living Dead (colourised) [1968] [VHS], Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man [VHS] [1943], Lost In Space - Vol. 1 [VHS] [1965], Star Trek: Episode 16 - The Menagerie - Parts I And II [1966] [VHS] [1969], The Tingler [VHS] [1959], Doctor Who - The Dalek Invasion Of Earth - Parts 1 and 2 [VHS] [1964], Quatermass 2 [VHS] [1957], Star Trek : Episodes 2-3 - Where No Man Has Gone Before / The Corbomite Manoeuvre [VHS] [1969], Carry On Screaming [VHS] [1966], The Spiral Staircase [VHS] [1946], The Tingler [VHS] [1959], The Mummy [1932] [VHS], Freaks [VHS] [1932], Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein [VHS] [1948], Star Trek : Episodes 73-74 - The Lights Of Zetar / The Cloud Minders [VHS] [1969]

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