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Actors & Directors
  • Mary Stavin
  • Cedric Sundstrom
  • Phil Davis
  • Ben Cole
  • Victoria Catlin
Release date: 1992-10-05
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Howling 5 - The Re-Birth [1989] / 2 Entertain Video:


Actors & Directors
  • Courteney Cox
  • Drew Barrymore
  • Wes Craven
  • David Arquette
  • Skeet Ulrich
  • Neve Campbell
Release date: 1998-04-20
Run time: 106 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.92

Review Scream [1997] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) revived the mouldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted clichés and then turning them inside out. Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly deconstructs horror films, then reassembles the dead tissue, and (like Frankenstein's monster) creates new life. When a serial killer starts hacking up their fellow teens, the media-savvy youngsters of Scream realise that the smartest way of sticking around for the sequel is to avoid the terminal behaviours that inevitably doom supporting players in the movies. They've seen all the movies, and the rules of the genre are like second nature to them. One of the scariest and funniest setups features a kid watching John Carpenter's seminal Halloween on video. As Jamie Lee Curtis is shadowed by Michael Meyers and the kid on the couch yells at her to turn around, Craven reverses his camera and we see that the kid should be taking his own advice. The fresh-faced young cast (including Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette) is fun to watch, and their tart dialogue is sprinkled with enough archly self-conscious pop-culture references to make Quentin Tarantino blush. -Jim Emerson.

Actors & Directors
  • John Lafia
  • Gilbert Adler
  • Tom McLoughlin
  • Michael Klein (IV)
  • Jeff Freilich
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.99

Review Freddy's Nightmares - A Nightmare On Elm Street - The Series - Saturday Nightmare Fever [1988] / Entertainment UK Ltd.:


Actors & Directors
  • Mariska Hargitay
  • Ken Wiederhorn
  • Darren Dalton
  • Robert Englund
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Freddy's Nightmares II - A Nightmare On Elm Street - The Series - Sister's Keeper / Freddy's Tricks And Treats [1988] / Entertainment UK Ltd.:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Friday The 13th - Part 6 - Jason Lives [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Tom McLoughlin
  • Kerry Noonan
  • Jennifer Cooke
  • Renée Jones
  • Thom Mathews
  • David Kagen
Release date: 1990-10-01
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Friday The 13th - Part 6 - Jason Lives [1986] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Entertainment in Video / A Nightmare On Elm Street [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Heather Langenkamp
  • Wes Craven
  • John Saxon
  • Ronee Blakley
  • Jsu Garcia
  • Amanda Wyss
Release date: 1998-09-28
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.99

Review A Nightmare On Elm Street [1984] / Entertainment in Video:


Review 4 Front Video / Child's Play 3 [1991]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Sylvers
  • Justin Whalin
  • Travis Fine
  • Dean Jacobson
  • Jack Bender
  • Perrey Reeves
Release date: 2002-09-09
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.89

Review Child's Play 3 [1991] / 4 Front Video:


Review Digital Entertainment Ltd / Halloween 5 - The Revenge Of Michael Myers [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Ellie Cornell
  • Dominique Othenin-Girard
  • Beau Starr
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Danielle Harris
  • Wendy Kaplan
Release date: 1999-11-01
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £11.92

Review Halloween 5 - The Revenge Of Michael Myers [1989] / Digital Entertainment Ltd:

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.

Actors & Directors
  • Gilbert Adler
  • Michael Klein (IV)
  • Tom McLoughlin
  • John Lafia
  • Jeff Freilich
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.79

Review Freddy's Nightmares - A Nightmare On Elm Street - The Series - Safe Sex / Deadline [1988] / Entertainment UK Ltd.:


Actors & Directors
  • Annie McEnroe
  • Christopher Lee
  • Sybil Danning
  • Philippe Mora
  • Marsha Hunt
  • Jimmy Nail
Release date: 1991-03-18
Run time: 87 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Howling 2 [1985] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Halloween 2 [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Rick Rosenthal
Release date: 2000-04-10
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99

Review Halloween 2 [1981] / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Friday The 13th - Part 2 [1981]
Actors & Directors
  • John Furey
  • Adrienne King
  • Stuart Charno
  • Kirsten Baker
  • Amy Steel
  • Steve Miner
Release date: 1996-06-24
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.74

Review Friday The 13th - Part 2 [1981] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Starz Home Entertainment / Halloween [1978]
Actors & Directors
  • John Carpenter
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • P.J. Soles
  • Donald Pleasence
  • Nancy Loomis
Release date: 2001-10-01
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.66

Review Halloween [1978] / Starz Home Entertainment:

Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin's character in Psycho. In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience-it's one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. ("No! Don't drop that knife!") Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more instalments: 1981's dismal Halloween II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate events, and 1998's occasionally gripping Halloween H20, which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years. -Robert Horton.

Review 4 Front Video / Evil Dead 2 [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Campbell
  • Sam Raimi
  • Kassie Wesley
  • Sarah Berry
  • Dan Hicks
Release date: 2000-09-11
Run time: 81 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £6.20

Review Evil Dead 2 [1987] / 4 Front Video:

Writer-director Sam Raimi's extremely stylized, blood-soaked follow-up to his creepy Evil Dead isn't really a sequel; rather, it's a remake on a better budget. It also isn't really a horror film (though there are plenty of decapitations, zombies, supernatural demons, and gore) as much as it is a hilarious, sophisticated slapstick send-up of the terror genre. Raimi takes every horror convention that exists and exaggerates it with mind-blowing special effects, crossed with mocking Three Stooges humour. The plot alone is a genre cliché right out of any number of horror films. Several teens (including our hero, Ash, played by Bruce Campbell in a manic tour-de-force of physical comedy) visit a broken-down cottage in the woods-miles from civilization-find a copy of the Book of the Dead, and unleash supernatural powers that gut every character in sight. All, that is, except Ash, who takes this very personally and spends much of the of the film getting his head smashed while battling the unseen forces. Raimi uses this bare-bones story as a stage to showcase dazzling special effects and eye-popping visuals, including some of the most spectacular point-of-view Steadicam work ever (done by Peter Deming). Although it went unnoticed in the cinemas, the film has since become an influential cult-video favourite, paving the way for over-the-top comic gross-out films like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive. -Dave McCoy.

Review Cinema Club / Children Of The Corn [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Courtney Gains
  • Linda Hamilton
  • John Franklin
  • Fritz Kiersch
  • R.G. Armstrong
  • Peter Horton
Release date: 2000-09-25
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £0.70

Review Children Of The Corn [1984] / Cinema Club:

The murder rate is as high as an elephant's eye in Children of the Corn, a flaccid adaptation of Stephen King's short story. While driving through Nebraska en route to a new job, medico Burt (Peter Horton) and his wife Vicky (a pre-Terminator Linda Hamilton) nearly run over a mutilated boy who staggers from the cornfields. Seeking help, they enter the town of Gatlin, whose under-20 residents have butchered their parents per the decree of junior-grade holy-roller Isaac (John Franklin), who preaches the word of a being called "He Who Walks Behind the Rows". King's original story (from his 1978 collection Night Shift) was a lean and brutal mélange of Southern-Gothic atmosphere and EC Comics-style gore, which scripter Greg Goldsmith effectively neutralises by adding a youthful narrator (a grating Robbie Kiger) and putting an upbeat spin on the story's morbid conclusion. Fritz Kiersch's direction is TV-movie flat, with the sole inspired moment (hideous religious iconography glimpsed during a bloody "service") delivered as a throwaway. Aside from Horton and Courtney Gains (as Isaac's hatchet man Malachai), the performances are dreadful. The depiction of the monster-God as a sort of giant gopher inspires more laughter than terror. Amazingly, the film spawned six sequels; Franklin (Cousin It in the Addams Family films) later appeared in and wrote 1999's Children of the Corn 666. -Paul Gaita, Amazon. com.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Friday The 13th - Part 7 - The New Blood [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Blair
  • Susan Blu
  • Lar Parc-Lincoln
  • Terry Kiser
  • John Carl Buechler
Release date: 1993-09-20
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.89

Review Friday The 13th - Part 7 - The New Blood [1988] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Friday The 13th - Part 4 - The Final Chapter [1984]
Actors & Directors
  • Kimberly Beck
  • Corey Feldman
  • Barbara Howard
  • Peter Barton
  • Erich Anderson
  • Joseph Zito
Release date: 1989-10-02
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.11

Review Friday The 13th - Part 4 - The Final Chapter [1984] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Mia Video Entertainment Ltd / Halloween 3 - Season Of The Witch [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Tommy Lee Wallace
  • Dan O'Herlihy
  • Stacey Nelkin
  • Tom Atkins
Release date: 2000-10-09
Run time: 92 min.
Price: £6.99

Review Halloween 3 - Season Of The Witch [1982] / Mia Video Entertainment Ltd:

Halloween III: Season of the Witch was producer John Carpenter's attempt to get the series away from the original psycho-on-the-loose storyline and turn it into a vehicle for more far-fetched Halloween-themed horror tales. Incredibly, the fans voted for more of the same and Carpenter walked away for others to rehash the Michael Myers plotline in a succession of lookalike movies that are still turning up every few years. Though original screenwriter Nigel Kneale (of the Quatermass series and The Stone Tape) removed his name from the final film after a coarsening rewrite by director Tommy Lee Wallace, his strange touch is evident in the offbeat story. After the mysterious deaths of a toyshop owner, a doctor (Tom Atkins) and the man's daughter (Stacy Nelkin), an investigation takes place in the Irish-dominated Northern California community of Santa Mira, a company town owned by the Silver Shamrock Novelty corporation, whose bestselling Halloween masks are pushed by an amazingly irritating TV jingle you won't ever be able to get out of your head ("Two more days to Halloween, Halloween, Halloween"). Atkins and Nelkin are typical low-rent horror movie protagonists, dim-bulbs who discover an Invasion of the Body Snatchers-style conspiracy involving sharp-suited corporate robots. But guest star Dan O'Herlihy steals the film as a Celtic joke tycoon ("the man who invented sticky toilet paper and the dead dwarf gag") who hates the way American kids are despoiling the religious spirit of Samhain and decides to teach them a nasty lesson. His scheme, which involves a stolen Stonehenge megalith ("sure, you'd never believe how we did it") and a techno-magic spell that turns the heads of TV watchers into writhing masses of snakes and insects, is value for money. O'Herlihy mixes enough serious malice into the charm to come across as a great screen baddie. On the DVD: Halloween III: Season of the Witch is a disappointment on disc. After letterboxed titles, this defaults to full frame throughout, severely cramping Dean Cundey's Panavision cinematography, and it's a grainy, indifferent print that ill-serves the performances or the atmospherics. [+]
However, the severe cuts to the gruesome scenes made to previous video releases (in order to preserve the theatrical 15 rating) seem to have been restored. With an extras-packed Halloween disc on the market, it's a shame the most interesting of the follow-ups rates such a flimsy release-with not so much as a trailer as an extra. -Kim Newman.

Review 4 Front Video / The Howling [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Dante
  • Christopher Stone
  • Dee Wallace (II)
  • Dennis Dugan
  • Patrick Macnee
  • Belinda Balaski
Release date: 2000-09-11
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.98

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. [+]
com.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Friday The 13th - Part 8 - Jason Takes Manhattan [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Kane Hodder
  • Rob Hedden
Release date: 1993-09-20
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £7.95

Review Friday The 13th - Part 8 - Jason Takes Manhattan [1989] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


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