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Review 4 Front Video / The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Allen Danziger
  • William Vail
  • Edwin Neal
  • Tobe Hooper
  • Paul A. Partain
  • Marilyn Burns
Release date: 2003-05-05
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Richard Saenz
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.69

Review The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [1999] / 4 Front Video:

This sensational, extremely influential, 1974 low-budget horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, Salem's Lot), may be notorious for its title, but it's also a damn fine piece of moviemaking. And it's blood-curdling scary, too. Loosely based on the true crimes of Ed Gein (also a partial inspiration for Psycho), the original Jeffrey Dahmer, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of teenagers who pick up a hitchhiker and wind up in a backwoods horror chamber where they're held captive, tortured, chopped up, and impaled on meat hooks by a demented cannibalistic family, including a character known as Leatherface who maniacally wields one helluva chainsaw. The movie's powerful sense of dread is heightened by its grainy, semi-documentary style-but it also has a wicked sense of humour (and not that camp, self-referential variety that became so tiresome in subsequent horror films of the 70s, 80s and 90s). OK, in case you couldn't tell, it's "not for everyone", but as a landmark in the development of the horror/slasher genre, it ranks with Psycho, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. -Jim Emerson.

Actors & Directors
  • Dana Ashbrook
  • Richard Beymer
  • Michael Ontkean
  • Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Kyle MacLachlan
Run time: 135 min.
Creator: Mark Frost
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.89

Review Twin Peaks - Episode 010 - Programmes 27, 28 And 29 [1990] / Metrodome Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Third Man [1949]
Actors & Directors
  • Carol Reed|Joseph Cotten|Alida Valli|Orson Welles
Release date: 1997-04-28
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.99

Review The Third Man [1949] / Warner Home Video:

The fractured Europe post-World War II is perfectly captured in Carol Reed's masterpiece thriller, set in a Vienna still shell-shocked from battle. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) is an alcoholic pulp writer come to visit his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). But when Cotton first arrives in Vienna, Lime's funeral is under way. From Lime's girlfriend and an occupying British officer, Martins learns of allegations of Lime's involvement in racketeering, which Martins vows to clear from his friend's reputation. As he is drawn deeper into post-war intrigue, Martins finds layer upon layer of deception, which he desperately tries to sort out. Welles' long-delayed entrance in the film has become one of the hallmarks of modern cinematography and it is just one of dozens of cockeyed camera angles that seem to mirror the off-kilter post-war society. Cotten and Welles give career-making performances and the Anton Karas zither theme will haunt you. -Anne Hurley.

Actors & Directors
  • Barry Gordon
  • Renae Jacobs
  • Rob Paulsen
  • Cam Clarke
  • Jim Cummings
Release date: 1990-10-01
Run time: 43 min.
Creator: Stan Sakai
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99

Review Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles - Return Of The Technodrome / Abbey Home Media:


Review Vipco / Death Trap [1976]
Actors & Directors
  • Tobe Hooper
  • Mel Ferrer
  • Carolyn Jones
  • Neville Brand
  • Marilyn Burns
  • William Finley
Release date: 2001-02-05
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Kim Henkel
RRP: £13.99
Price: £3.75

Review Death Trap [1976] / Vipco:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek : Episodes 27-28 - Errand Of Mercy / The City On The Edge Of Forever [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • John Newland
  • Leonard Nimoy
  • DeForest Kelley
  • William Shatner
  • Joseph Pevney
  • Joan Collins
  • John Colicos
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.00

Review Star Trek : Episodes 27-28 - Errand Of Mercy / The City On The Edge Of Forever [1967] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Channel 5 / Mighty Morph'n Power Rangers - Series 2 - Vol. 3 - Lord Zedd's Monster Mash / A Monster Of Global Proportions [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Schrier
  • Jason Narvy
  • Richard Steven Horvitz
  • Amy Jo Johnson
  • David Yost
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Jack Olesker
Price: £2.99

Review Mighty Morph'n Power Rangers - Series 2 - Vol. 3 - Lord Zedd's Monster Mash / A Monster Of Global Proportions [1995] / Channel 5:


Review Cinema Club / Dumb And Dumber / The Cable Guy [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Matthew Broderick
  • Mike Starr
  • Jim Carrey
  • Jeff Daniels
  • Lauren Holly
  • Ben Stiller
  • Peter Farrelly
  • Bobby Farrelly
Release date: 2000-11-06
Run time: 194 min.
Creator: Lou Holtz Jr.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.44

Review Dumb And Dumber / The Cable Guy [1996] / Cinema Club:

Dumb and Dumber: delivering exactly what its title promises, this celebration of stupidity was Jim Carrey's 1994 follow-up to Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Mask. The film pairs the rubber-faced wacky man with Jeff Daniels as the not-so-dynamic duo of Lloyd and Harry, dunderheads who come into the possession of a briefcase containing ransom money that is intended for Mob-connected kidnappers. Lauren Holly co-stars as the woman who lost the briefcase, and with whom Carrey falls in love (both in real life and as his moronic on-screen character). As Lloyd and Harry make a mad dash to return the briefcase (never aware of its contents), the bumbling buddies attract Mobsters, cops and trouble galore. This lowbrow laugh-a-thon scores some solid hits for hilarity, but with gags involving ill-fated parakeets, buxom bimbos and an overdose of laxatives, be prepared to put your brain-and good taste-on hold. The Cable Guy: if you think Jim Carrey's comedy is an acquired taste, think of The Cable Guy as a potent bottle of bittersweet wine. The film has a lingering aftertaste, but it is just a bit too dark, a bit too extreme to invite another serving. On the other hand, you've got to give Carrey some credit for risking his $20-million pay cheque (and a big chunk of box-office revenue) on this black comedy. A needy, psychologically unbalanced cable-television installer (Carrey) forces his friendship upon an unsuspecting bachelor (Matthew Broderick) who has just broken up with his fiancée. The movie gets edgier and more desperate-and in some respects funnier-as Carrey's cable guy gradually goes crazy. [+]
Director Ben Stiller manages to pack some pointed social commentary into the movie's many humorous detours. Although it was a box-office disappointment, The Cable Guy is nevertheless a daring comedy for those who have had their fill of Ace Ventura. -Jeff Shannon, Amazon. com.

Review Warner Home Video / The Offence [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Vivien Merchant
  • Sidney Lumet
  • Sean Connery
  • Trevor Howard
  • Peter Bowles
  • Ian Bannen
Release date: 1994-11-07
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £17.99

Review The Offence [1972] / Warner Home Video:


Review Tartan Video / Kuroneko [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Nobuko Otowa
  • Kichiemon Nakamura
  • Kaneto Shindô
  • Kei Sato
  • Kiwako Taichi
  • Taiji Tonoyama
Release date: 1995-06-05
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Nichiei Shinsha
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.99

Review Kuroneko [1968] / Tartan Video:

Shindo's stylish black-and-white ghost story forms a companion piece to his earlier film Onibaba. Once again we have a woman and her daughter-in-law preying on a lone samurai. But the mood here is a little gentler and more poignant than we are accustomed to. The two women are victims of a brutal gang of samurai: they are raped and killed and fire is set to their hut. But when their cat licks the blood from their corpses, they are transformed into shape-shifting demons that favour the form of black cats. Waylaying benighted warriors, they wreak their revenge. A champion samurai is sent against them, but he finds the monsters he's hired to destroy are his own wife and mother. Shindo skilfully builds an atmosphere of eerie menace-draperies waving in the wind, Hikaru Hiyashi's score mimicking the desolate caterwauls that precede each killing. Shindo, faithful as ever to his left-wing principles, includes a strong measure of barbed social comment in his portrayal of the arrogant samurai class. -Philip Kemp.

Actors & Directors
  • joe barton
Run time: 80 min.
Price: £10.99

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Review Redemption Films / Bay of Blood [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Claudio Camaso
  • Chris Avram
  • Luigi Pistilli
  • Anna Maria Rosati
  • Claudine Auger
  • Mario Bava
Release date: 1994-03-14
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Franco Barberi
Price: £12.99

Review Bay of Blood [1980] / Redemption Films:


Review Vipco / Zombie Creeping Flesh [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Margit Evelyn Newton
  • José Gras
  • Gaby Renom
  • Selan Karay
  • Bruno Mattei
  • Claudio Fragasso
  • Franco Garofalo
Release date: 2002-04-22
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Rossella Drudi
RRP: £13.99
Price: £13.99

Review Zombie Creeping Flesh [1982] / Vipco:


Review Redemption Films / Tender And Perverse Emmanuelle [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Lina Romay
  • Jack Taylor
  • Norma Castel
  • Jess Franco
Release date: 1994-05-16
Run time: 76 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Tender And Perverse Emmanuelle [1973] / Redemption Films:


Actors & Directors
  • samantha eggar
  • Richard Ciupka
  • john vernon
  • linda thorson
Run time: 88 min.

Review Curtains:

Six beautiful girls, trying to get ahead. when the curtains fall, five will be dead.

Review Vipco / Demons 3 - The Ogre [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Virginia Bryant
  • Lamberto Bava
  • David Flosey
Release date: 2004-01-26
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Demons 3 - The Ogre [1988] / Vipco:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Sherlock Holmes - The Hound Of The Baskervilles [1939]
Actors & Directors
  • Nigel Bruce
  • Wendy Barrie
  • Richard Greene
  • Lionel Atwill
  • Sidney Lanfield
  • Basil Rathbone
Release date: 1990-11-29
Run time: 80 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Sherlock Holmes - The Hound Of The Baskervilles [1939] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 1 - Episodes 9 to 12 [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Anthony Head
  • Nicholas Brendon
  • Alyson Hannigan
  • James Marsters
Release date: 2000-02-28
Run time: 173 min.
Creator: Joss Whedon
Price: £14.99

Review Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 1 - Episodes 9 to 12 [1998] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review / One Tough Bastard
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Bosworth
  • Kurt Wimmer
  • Bruce Payne
  • DeJuan Guy
  • Jeff Kober
  • M.C. Hammer
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Steven Selling

Review One Tough Bastard:


Review Arrow Films / Day Of The Dead [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Lori Cardille
  • George A. Romero
  • Joseph Pilato
  • Richard Liberty
  • Terence Alexander
Release date: 2000-01-24
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.44

Review Day Of The Dead [1986] / Arrow Films:

Day of the Dead, chapter three of George Romero's mighty zombie trilogy, has big footsteps to follow. Night of the Living Dead was a classic that revitalised a certain corner of the cinema, and Dawn of the Dead was nothing short of epic. Day of the Dead, however, has always been regarded as a comedown compared to those twin peaks-and perhaps it is. But on its own terms, this is an awfully effective horror movie, made with Romero's customary social satire and cinematic vigour-when a "retrained" zombie responds to the "Ode to Joy", the film is in genuinely haunting territory. The story is set inside a sunken military complex, where Army and medical staff, supposedly working on a solution to the zombie problem, are going crazy (strongly foreshadowing the final act of 28 Days Later). Tom Savini's make-up effects could make even hardcore gore fans tear off their own heads in amazement. -Robert Horton.

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