Monday, February 28, 2011

Something to Scream About

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Something to Scream About Overview


Scream Queen Brinke Stevens (Witchouse 3: Demon Fire) is your host for this engaging look at the careers of nine actresses, from their first break to their journey inside an industry where they are often viewed as little more than window dressing – or worse yet, with no dressing at all! The females bare their souls with a focus on the fans, aging, on-screen nudity and the advent of the digital video feature, all revealed with rare footage, photographs and extensive film clips! Spend an hour with the beautiful sirens of B-movie cinema who have screamed their way through the last several decades of your favorite horror and cult films!
























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Sunday, February 27, 2011

The Las Vegas Serial Killer

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The Las Vegas Serial Killer Overview


A killer is stalking the streets of Las Vegas, a merchant of death whose resumé in the field of human slaughter is vast and horrifying. On August 31, 1986 Jonathan Klick was released from the Nevada State Penitentiary on a technicality. He arrived in Las Vegas three days later and is responsible for what came to be known as "The Glamour Gulch Holocaust." This haunting tale is based on a true story and is filmed in the tradition of "The Boston Strangler."
























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Saturday, February 26, 2011

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection Overview


The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection stars Basil Rathbone as the legendary Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as the venerable Dr. John H. Watson. The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection is comprised of all 14 classic films on 5 discs: "THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES: ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES," "SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE VOICE OF TERROR," "SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON," "SHERLOCK HOLMES IN WASHINGTON," "SHERLOCK HOLMES FACES DEATH," "SHERLOCK HOLMES IN THE SPIDER WOMAN," "SHERLOCK HOLMES THE SCARLET CLAW," "SHERLOCK HOLMES IN PEARL OF DEATH," "SHERLOCK HOLMES HOUSE OF FEAR," "SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE WOMAN IN GREEN," "SHERLOCK HOLMES PURSUIT TO ALGIERS," "SHERLOCK HOLMES TERROR BY NIGHT," SHERLOCK HOLMES DRESSED TO KILL."
























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Friday, February 25, 2011

Freeway Killer

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Freeway Killer Overview


For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer easily avoided police at first. But as police closed in and the killer's pattern grew more erratic, the only question was how many more will die? Find out in this chilling true story of one of our most notorious serial killers, William Bonin aka the Freeway Killer, whose poisoned mind struck terror into an entire nation.

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Red Mist

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Red Mist Overview


The medical students at Forthaven General Hospital study hard and party harder, until a cruel prank accidentally puts the facility's creepy janitor into a deep coma. But when one responsible student tries to revive the degenerate loner with an experimental injection, she instead sends his brainwaves berserk. Will a sudden spree of sick kicks now claim the guilty one by one, or has the ultimate out of body experience ushered in a bloodbath of brutal revenge?

SPECIAL FEATURES:
The Making of Red Mist
Extended Interview with Arielle Kebbel
The Red Mist Cast in Northern Ireland



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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Blood Bath - 12 Movie Collection

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Blood Bath - 12 Movie Collection Feature


  • BLOOD BATH (DVD MOVIE)




Blood Bath - 12 Movie Collection Overview


Get ready to face your biggest fears!

12 uniquely terrifying films packaged together in one sublimely horrific movie collection.

This shocking showcase unleashes edgy new horror classics to hungry audiences with a thirst for independent horror. The body count rises and nightmares become reality in these gruesome tales of terror.

Featuring:

  • International Scream: QUEEN FIONA HORSEY
  • Legendary Actor and Author : MARC FIORINI
  • Cult Favorite: JACK ELAM
  • Master of Horror: TOM SAVINI

Over 18 hours of Blood and Gore Galore! Take a Dip With 12 Terrifying Films!

Contents:

  1. Angst
  2. A Brush With Death
  3. The Chambermaid
  4. Death on Demand
  5. Demonic
  6. Hallowed
  7. Harvest of Fear
  8. Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine, The
  9. Red Riding Hood
  10. Shadows of the Dead
  11. The Twisted Sisters
  12. Uninvited

























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Monday, February 21, 2011

Covenant [UMD for PSP]

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Horror Classics 4 Movie Pack Vol. 1

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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Jurassic Park III (Widescreen Collector's Edition)

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Jurassic Park III (Widescreen Collector's Edition) Overview


ADVENTURE RUNS WILD WHEN RENOWNED PALEONTOLOGIST DR. ALAN GRANT AGREES TO ACCOMPANY A WEALTHY ADVENTURER AND HIS WIFE ON AN AERIAL TOUR OF ISLA SORNA, INGEN'S FORMER BREEDING GROUND FOR PREHISTORIC CREATURES. BUT WHEN THEY'RE TERRIFYINGLY STRANDED, DR. GRANT DISCOVERS THAT HIS HOSTS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM.



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Surpassing expectations to qualify as an above-average sequel, Jurassic Park III is nothing more or less than a satisfying popcorn adventure. A little cheesier than the first two Jurassic blockbusters, it's a big B movie with big B-list stars (including Laura Dern, briefly reprising her Jurassic Park role), and eight years of advancing computer-generated-image technology give it a sharp edge over its predecessors. While adopting the jungle spirit of King Kong, the movie refines Michael Crichton's original premise, and its dinosaurs are even more realistic, their behavior more detailed, and their variety--including flying pteranodons and a new villain, the spinosaurus--more dazzling and threatening than ever. These advancements justify the sequel, and its contrived plot is just clever enough to span 90 minutes without wearing out its welcome.

Posing as wealthy tourists, an adventurous couple (William H. Macy, Téa Leoni) convince paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and his protégé (Allesandro Nivola) to act as tour guides on a flyover trip to Isla Sorna, the ill-fated "Site B" where all hell broke loose in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. In truth, they're on a search-and-rescue mission to find their missing son (Trevor Morgan), and their plane crash is just the first of several enjoyably suspenseful sequences. Director Joe Johnston (October Sky) embraces the formulaic plot as a series of atmospheric set pieces, placing new and familiar dinosaurs in misty rainforests, fiery lakes, and mysterious valleys, turning JP3 into a thrill ride with impressive highlights (including a T. rex versus spinosaurus smack-down), adequate doses of wry humor (from the cowriters of Election), and an upbeat ending that's corny but appropriate, proving that the symptoms of sequelitis needn't be fatal. --Jeff Shannon






















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Friday, February 18, 2011

Wake the Witch - Special Edition

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Wake the Witch - Special Edition Overview


Inspired by the masters of Japanese horror, Wake the Witch is a psychological horror/suspense feature... One hundred years ago, an angry mob, intent on justice for their murdered children, hang the woman they believe is the murderer. They brand her a witch, wrap her body in chains and bury it deep in the woods... When Deb and her friends play a childhood game on the witch's wooded grave, they open the door to death. As her friends and family begin to change into something less than human, Deb struggles to stop the witch's curse. But her search for the truth will reveal an evil beyond her imagination. DVD includes: Behind the Scenes making of the movie, cast interviews, make-up and FX featurette, and on the set featurette.
























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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Re-Animator

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Re-Animator Overview


Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 03/20/2007 Rating: Nr



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Stuart Gordon's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Re-Animator puts a Night of the Living Dead spin on the classic Frankenstein story. Jeffrey Combs furrows his brow and bugs his eyes as the preternaturally intense Herbert West, a maverick medical student whose gory, gooey experiments cause bloody corpses and body parts to jerk to life. Bruce Abbot is the studious roommate drawn into his extracurricular experiments, which soon involve the dean's daughter (the frequently naked Barbara Crampton) and the college's cadaverous, calculating star professor (David Gale), who literally loses his head over a battle for West's discovery. In this world, that's only a minor setback. Charged with sick gallows humor and a ghoulish gallery of undead beasties, Re-Animator, like Evil Dead II, is one of the most inspired and inventive--and funniest--horror films of the 1980s. Combs, Abbot, and Gale reunite for the almost-as-entertaining sequel Bride of Re-Animator. --Sean Axmaker






















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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Full Eclipse

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Full Eclipse Feature


  • In Los Angeles, the criminals are one step away from taking over the city. Drugs and guns are all over the streets. It'll take a special kind of cop to put an end to it all. Max Dire (Mario Van Peebles) is a special kind of cop, which is why he's invited to join an elite squad - a secret police unit - authorized to do whatever it takes to put an end to crime. Their leader, Adam Garou (Bruce Payne)




Full Eclipse Overview


Max Dire is invited to join an elite police force. Empowered by a secret serum, they attain the power of werewolves and fight crime with a vengeance.
























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Monday, February 14, 2011

Kitten In A Cage / Girl From Pussycat

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Kitten In A Cage / Girl From Pussycat Overview


Kitty Kats and Krime! "I'm so confused! Everything's really crazy," says Julie, the bewildered heroine of Kitten in a Cage. And you'll be saying the exact same thing as you sit there watching this mind-boggling thriller that dares you to make sense of it. Detailing "the most insane day of Julie's life," the poor girl is pursued by a mysterious stranger in a ski mask who keeps trying to drug her (and who attacks a stripper for... well, no particular reason). Apparently, Julie knows something about something that she really doesn't know anything about, and some very dangerous goons are after her for it. Distributed by Harry Novak (Agony of Love) and featuring nudie-film icon June Roberts as a semi-lesbian stripper who aggressively deals with a heckling drunk, Kitten in a Cage is the kind of cinematic lunacy that can make any home entertainment center feel like a padded cell. Plus: The Girl from Pussycat wants you to join her gang of sex-crazed semi-lesbian sociopathic sex-kittens as they pick up guys, make love to gals, and even rob a bank. And what better way to celebrate stealing a cool 0,000 than to throw the money on the floor, invite some friends over, and have an old-fashioned orgy on top of it. But when one of their dumb boyfriends threatens to call the cops, butch boss Bobbi promptly cooks his fingers in a toaster in this sleazy celebration of sin and skin! Over 3-1/2 Hours of Sex-Krazed Kitties!
























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Sunday, February 13, 2011

House on Haunted Hill

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House on Haunted Hill Overview


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House on Haunted Hill is one of the new breed of waste-no-time thrill machines, like Deep Blue Sea, and a particularly effective example at that. The plot is pure contrivance: For a party stunt, a wealthy amusement-park manufacturer (Geoffrey Rush) offers five people a million dollars if they spend the night in a former insane asylum where the patients murdered the sadistic staff. But it turns out the five people who arrive aren't the five he invited--did his wife (Famke Janssen), who hates him, make the switch? From there events unfold with a smart combination of human and supernatural machinations; spooky jolts are dispensed at regular, but not entirely predictable, intervals. The visual effects owe a considerable debt to Jacob's Ladder, a much more ambitious movie; House on Haunted Hill just wants to get under your skin, and succeeds more than you'd expect. Rush is his entertainingly hammy self; Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, and Bridgette Wilson are attractive and reasonably straight-faced about it all; and Chris Kattan is genuinely funny as the house's neurotic owner. Some elements of the plot seem to have been lost in the editing process, but it hardly matters. More bothersome is that the scares go flat when computer effects take over at the end--the digital images just aren't as creepy as the more suggestive stuff that came before. But that's just the very end; most of the movie has a lot of momentum. Watch until the end of the credits for a final bit of eeriness. --Bret Fetzer






















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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Gorgo - Widescreen Destruction Edition

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Gorgo - Widescreen Destruction Edition Overview


A volcanic eruption in the North Atlantic brings to the surface a 65-foot prehistoric monster. Two treasure divers capture the creature and take him to London where he is put on display in a circus. A scientist is thoughtful enough to point out that the sailors' bonanza is only an infant, and that a full-grown specimen would be over 200 feet in height. Sure enough, Gorgo's mama comes thundering ashore, reclaims her offspring and heads back to sea — but not before she trashes a generous portion of London. The special effects in GORGO, provided by Tom Howard — two-time Academy Award winner, are truly admirable. The monster is quite ferocious — except when he wiggles his ears. Released by MGM in 1961. DVD Bonus: Digitally Remastered, Behind the Scenes Short| Photo Gallery, Scene Selection, Animated Menus, Original Theatrical Trailer|,Widescreen/Letterboxed| DVD-9| Dolby Digital 5.1
























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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Club Dread (Unrated Extended Edition)

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Club Dread (Unrated Extended Edition) Overview


Broken Lizard is back?and this time the crazy comedy troupe that brought you Super Troopers is taking you on a trip so outrageously fun?it?s murder. Welcome to Coconut Pete?s Pleasure Island, a tropical, tequila-soaked vacation resort where high-spirited fun soon takes a deadly turn?leaving the island?s hilariously inept staff to battle a machete-wielding maniac as they fight to survive another day in paradise. Filled with sidesplitting humor, scary slasher scenes, and plenty of bikini-clad babes, Broken Lizard?s Club Dread is a comedy to die for!



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Looking for plenty of sex, violence, and lowbrow comedy? If you are, you could do a lot worse (or is it a lot better?) than to visit Club Dread, a boldly wretched excuse for broad comedy perpetrated by the Broken Lizard troupe--the same guys who brought their potty-mouthed brand of lunacy to bear on 2002's Super Troopers. That alone should serve as ample warning or invitation, depending on your tolerance for way-too-casual sketch comedy, stitched together with an emphasis on big, gross laughs and enough female frontal nudity to give Girls Gone Wild a run for its money. It all takes place on Coconut Pete's Pleasure Island, where Pete (Bill Paxton, slumming it with infectious abandon) holds court while scantily clad vacationers play crazy games (life-size Pac-Man, anyone?) and provide easy prey for a slasher on the loose. Ah, but there's the rub: Is this schizoid movie a comedy or a horror flick? It's both... and neither... and the bloodletting is surprisingly extreme amidst all the poop and fart jokes. Of course, that won't stop Club Dread from finding its audience. We know you're out there…and you know who you are. --Jeff Shannon






















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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Mystery Classics, Vols. 5-8

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Woman Hunted

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Woman Hunted Feature


  • Directed by: Morrie Ruvinsky
  • Written by: Morrie Ruvinsky
  • Cast: Alexandra Paul ("Baywatch", "Melrose Place"), Jonathan Higgins ("The Housesitter")
  • Year: 2003
  • Producers: Jos?e Bernard, Louis A. Massicotte, Neil Bregman, Pierre David, Robert Malenfant




Woman Hunted Overview


Lainie Wheeler has two daughters, but her husband leaves them for a Thai monastery. She completely neglects her job in TV production but finds a new vocation in nursing terminal patients, even after the death of her friend in that home. She also finds a new lover, Matt Harper, who is also great with her kids, but still gets addicted to pills, causes a major accident, looses custody and needs long-term institutionalized therapy. Format: Color, DVD, NTSC. Language: English. Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.). Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1. Number of discs: 1. Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested). Studio: New Concorde. DVD Release Date: February 10, 2004. Run Time: 94 minutes.
























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Monday, February 7, 2011

Chawz [Blu-ray]

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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Snakes on a Plane [Blu-ray]

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Snakes on a Plane [Blu-ray] Feature


  • A red-eye 747 flight out of Hawaii swooshes along at 30,000 feet toward L.A. Suddenly, there s no pilot. Later, there s no co-pilot. There are, however, snakes hissing, slithering, attacking, venomous snakes. A crime boss has subverted security and planted the reptiles in order to bring the plane down, along with a witness slated to testify against the mobster in L.A. Can the FBI agent (Samuel L.




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Snakes on a Plane knows exactly what kind of movie it is, knows exactly what moviegoers expect from a title like Snakes on a Plane, and delivers the exact pleasures of a movie in which poisonous snakes are unleashed on a plane to kill an eyewitness to murder. Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, The Long Kiss Goodnight) knows exactly what he's doing in this movie and knows exactly when to pull out the superbad Samuel L. Jackson stare and deliver the infuriated Samuel L. Jackson bellow. The rest of the cast--including Julianna Margulies (ER), Rachel Blanchard (the TV series Clueless), Kenan Thompson (Fat Albert), David Koechner (Anchorman), Bobby Canavale (The Station Agent), and Sunny Mabrey (One Last Thing...)--play their parts with admirably straight faces and deadpan humor. Director David R. Ellis (Final Destination 2, Cellular) gives the movie the much-needed headlong momentum you would expect from a former stunt coordinator. In summation: A perfect piece of self-aware but not self-conscious high camp entertainment, blending comedy and thrills in perfect proportion. --Bret Fetzer






















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Friday, February 4, 2011

The Omen (Widescreen Edition)

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The Omen (Widescreen Edition) Overview


In this chilling remake of The Omen ? that is even more terrifying than the original ? man's darkest fears are manifested as an unspeakable terror is unleashed on the world! U.S. diplomat Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber) substitutes an orphan for his own stillborn baby in order to spare his unknowing wife (Julia Stiles). But after a series of grotesque murders and dire warnings, the Thorns come to the horrifying realization that their child is the son of Satan!



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If you can overlook its glaring redundancy, The Omen is a faithful and well-crafted remake that does adequate justice to Richard Donner's popular 1976 original. It's a completely unnecessary film, given that David Seltzer's original screenplay wasn't even rewritten (as would normally happen with a Hollywood remake), but when viewed with fresh eyes, or by anyone who's unfamiliar with the original, it retains most of the serious, intelligently plotted chills that made Donner's horror thriller a box-office sensation. It skews to a younger audience (of course), with Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles in the roles originated by Gregory Peck and Lee Remick. As newly-promoted U.S. Ambassador to England Robert Thorn and his troubled wife Katherine, they grow increasingly suspicious that their young son Damien (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) may be the devil incarnate. An anxious Roman priest (Pete Postelthwaite) and a freelance photographer (David Thewlis, in the role memorably originated by David Warner) are equally terrified of this Satanic scenario, and Damien's new and eerily protective nanny (played to perfection by Mia Farrow) adds further evidence of Damien's malevolence, as Vatican prophesies of Armageddon are rapidly fulfilled. Director John Moore (who also remade The Flight of the Phoenix) offers a few minor improvements in suspense and gruesomeness (including a more graphically inventive death for a prominent character), but he's also hampered by the weaker presence of Davey-Fitzpatrick, who's not nearly as creepy as the original film's Damien. Otherwise, this copy of The Omen justifies its existence as a worthwhile diversion for stormy-night viewing.--Jeff Shannon






















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