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| 208 | H.G. Wells - Things to Come | William Cameron Menzies | NR | 1936 | Image Entertainment | Science Fiction & Fantasy | |
H.G. Wells - Things to Come William Cameron MenziesRated: NR Date Added: 30/01/2005 Comments: Black and White Summary: I just want to reiterate the comments below that this new Image Entertainment DVD release is by far the finest version of this sci-fi classic that I've ever seen. Though not perfect, it towers above the many public domain versions that have been floating around over the years. Though occasionally a bit pompous, this memorable film is justifiably notable for its striking production design--the futuristic portion may be the part everyone remembers but the design of the post-apocalyptic Everytown by William Cameron Menzies is just as impressive. "Things To Come" is a worthy addition to one's sci-fi DVD collection.
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| 209 | Halloween - Resurrection | R | 2002 | Dimension | Horror | ||
Halloween - ResurrectionRated: R Date Added: 29/11/2008 Languages: English, French Subtitles: Spanish Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Picture Format: Widescreen Summary: Number 8 in the "Halloween" line maintains connections to John Carpenter's original. "Resurrection" picks up the thread of "Halloween: H2O", with poor Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) now in a psychiatric hospital and determined to shut down homicidal Michael Myers once and for all. After this prologue, the story shifts to the old Myers house, where a TV reality show has enticed six teenagers to spend a single night in the spooky home. Needless to say, things are spoiled when Michael barges in: "I "so" did not sign up for this," sighs the young heroine, when the bloodletting begins. The mayhem is being broadcast live on the Internet, which makes the film a bit like "Rear Window" with Instant Messaging. The interesting premise is routinely handled, but that's enough to make this one of the better sequels in the series. Maybe they finally finished off Michael in this one, wink wink. "--Robert Horton"
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| 210 | Halloween Collection (5 Disc Box Set) | R18+ | Force Entertainment | Horror, Box Set | |||
| 211 | Hammer Horror Collection | Terence Fisher | Unrated | 1958 | Warner Home Video | Horror | |
Hammer Horror Collection Terence FisherRated: Unrated Date Added: 11/06/2007 Summary: This collection released by Warner Brothers brings together the three films that established Hammer as the leading purveyors of gothic horror. It is perhaps difficult to appreciate now, but the major innovation that Hammer brought to these tired gothic tales was filming them in colour. In just the same way that Universal used the innovative German expressionist techniques of lighting and set design, Hammer chose the opposite route and celebrated the excesses and transgressions of the gothic strain. They brought to the horror genre a physical and sensual style of filmmaking which covered up the very regressive attitudes to gender and class that bubbled beneath the surface.
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| 212 | Hammer Horror Collection - Vampire Circus, Hands Of The Ripper, Twins Of Evil : Peter Cushing | Robert Young, Peter Sadsy & John Hough | Judson Kinberg, L W Davidson & Tudor Gates | MRA Entertainment / destravision | Horror | ||
Hammer Horror Collection - Vampire Circus, Hands Of The Ripper, Twins Of Evil : Peter Cushing Robert Young, Peter Sadsy & John HoughRated: Writer: Judson Kinberg, L W Davidson & Tudor Gates Date Added: 27/09/2008 Comments: Catalogue Number: DVDBOX015 Summary: Hammer Films - The Best in British Horror |
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| 213 | Hammer House Of Horror - Vol. 1-2 (4 Disc Box Set) | MA15+ | Magna | Horror, Box Set | |||
Hammer House Of Horror - Vol. 1-2 (4 Disc Box Set)Rated: MA15+ Date Added: 09/11/2008 Languages: English Subtitles: English - HI Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 Summary: Hammer House of Horror is one of the best horror series ever broadcast on television. With the master of horror, Peter Cushing, as the star, its finesse was assured from the start. Grotesque and sinister, many episodes curdle the blood. This is not for the faint hearted. From Satanic nightmares to houses literally bleeding to death, Hammer House of Horror has it all and presents us with a vivid picture of real fear. Your worst nightmares come true in each episode. Screen siren Diana Dors complements Peter Cushings demonic demonstrations in the scariest series you are ever likely to see. Hold on to your hearts for this series is bound to make you scream. This collection is presented in full colour. Episodes List: The House That Bled To Death |
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| 214 | Hang 'em High | Ted Post | PG-13 | 1968 | MGM (Video & DVD) | Western | |
Hang 'em High Ted PostRated: PG-13 Date Added: 09/04/2006 Summary: After starring in the now-legendary trilogy of spaghetti Westerns for Italian director Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood became a box-office star and imported the style of those classic shoot-'em-ups for this 1967 Western directed by Ted Post, with whom Eastwood had worked during their days on the television series "Rawhide". Eastwood plays an innocent rancher who is mistaken for a cattle rustler and sentenced to hang by an angry mob. When he is saved from the noose by a passing lawman, he embarks on a renegade campaign of vengeance against the men who attempted to lynch him. "Hang 'Em High" offers a number of memorable moments and stylistic flourishes, and features a superb supporting cast of Western veterans, including Ben Johnson, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, L.Q. Jones, and the "Skipper" himself, Alan Hale Jr. Made just three years before "Dirty Harry", the film marked a turning point for Eastwood, who would soon move into a prolific period of contemporary thrillers. The digital video disc offers standard and widescreen formats and a remastered soundtrack. "--Jeff Shannon" |
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| 215 | Hanzo the Razor | Kenji Misumi, Yasuzo Masumura, Yoshio Inoue | NR | 1975 | Homevision | Asian Cinema | |
Hanzo the Razor Kenji Misumi, Yasuzo Masumura, Yoshio InoueRated: NR Date Added: 09/04/2006 Comments: Box set, Special Edition Summary: Are you a fan of samurai films, but wish they were somehow..."dirtier"? Welcome to the deranged world of "Hanzo the Razor", a weird blend of swordplay and sexploitation. The first "Hanzo" movie, "Sword of Justice", came out a year after "Shaft" and "Dirty Harry" and fuses the influence of both: stout and surly Hanzo (Shintaro Katsu), a rebellious yet obsessively moral samurai, is also enormously well-endowed and provides almost unbearable pleasure to the women he "interrogates"--that is to say, rapes in the name of the law. Hanzo also tortures and blackmails without qualm as he slices through crime, uncovering corruption at higher levels in each progressive film. In "Sword of Justice" he overturns his own craven superiors; in "The Snare", he breaks into a temple used by local magistrates for the sadistic torture of young girls; in "Who's Got the Gold", the shogunate treasury is being looted by its own officials--had there been a fourth film, Hanzo would probably have confronted the shogun himself. But while the movies wallow in Hanzo's ruthless treatment of criminals and women, it also ogles the torture Hanzo inflicts upon himself! "Sword of Justice" will knock you sideways as you struggle to balance Hanzo's puritanical code with his masochism and brutality (as well as the funky '70s soundtrack). "The Snare" and "Who's Got the Gold?", disappointingly repeat many of the same routines (in particular, the "net torture" of female suspects). But while the fight choreography in the first two films is often crude, "Who's Got the Gold" (directed by Yoshio Inoue) has more visual finesse and social commentary--not many movies combine temple orgies and geysers of blood with inflation, unemployment, and high interest rates. (There's a particularly eerie scene in which a samurai in debt is hounded by a pack of blind men.) "Hanzo the Razor" undoubtedly influenced the moral outrage/leering voyeurism mix of "Death Wish" and its ilk, but Shintaro Katsu's gleeful ferocity (in contrast with Charles Bronson's dour, repressed deadpan) makes this trilogy stranger and sleazier. Katsu was also the star of the hugely popular "Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman" series. "--Bret Fetzer" |
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| 216 | Hawaii Five-O - The Complete First Season | Gene Nelson | NR | 1968 | Paramount | Crime & Thriller, Television, Box Set | |
Hawaii Five-O - The Complete First Season Gene NelsonRated: NR Date Added: 23/04/2008 Summary: There's plenty to like about "Hawaii Five-0", the late '60s cop show debuting on DVD by way of this seven-disc set including all episodes from the first season, along with the two-hour pilot that preceded it. Like the music, featuring Morton Stevens' popular theme song. Or the lovely Hawaiian scenery. And let's not forget "Book 'em, Danno," the signature line delivered (although not nearly as frequently as one might expect) by star Jack Lord's Steve McGarrett, not to mention Lord's perfect hair and wrinkle-free slacks. As for everything else, let's just say that "Hawaii Five-0" has not aged well. Some of that is inevitably due to the infinitely more sophisticated production values of the series that have followed in its wake; "Five-0"'s technology, sets, and other practical elements are laughably primitive by current standards. Problem is, the cheese factor extends to pretty much every other aspect of the show as well. Most of the action sequences are utterly tension-free, and the pace is frequently glacial, with interminable scenes bogged down by talky exposition. The dialogue is risible: McGarrett refers to one adversary as "a dirty, double-dealing fink," while the so-called hippies who populate the islands utter the kind of idiocies that could only have been written by cubes whose closest contact with the counterculture came from TV commercials for Hai Karate men's cologne ("Looks like splittin' the scene was real cool, baby" is but one egregious example). Lord does a decent job as the stiff-but-heroic McGarrett, variously described as "a hardhead," "an organizational misfit," "a brilliant operator," and "a rebel," but by and large the acting (including guest shots by Sal Mineo, Ricardo Montalban, Gavin MacLeod, and Yaphet Kotto) is wooden. Story-wise, "Cocoon," the pilot, features an intriguing premise wherein U.S. intelligence agents undergo sensory-deprivation torture before spilling their secrets; elsewhere, the elite Five-0 team deals with jewel thieves, gold smugglers, kidnappers, gamblers, murderers, mobsters, all-purpose "criminal masterminds," and even "Red agents" spreading the bubonic plague. In sum: with its light (if not quite frothy) tone, "Hawaii Five-0" will offer harmless escapism to some viewers, especially those with a nostalgic bent. Others, however, will long for more substantial fare--you know, like "Deal or No Deal". The DVD set includes a single bonus feature: "Emme's Island Moments: Memories of "Hawaii Five-O"," a retrospective with James "Danno" MacArthur and other cast and crew members. "--Sam Graham"
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| 217 | Hawaii Five-O - The Second Season | NR | 1968 | Paramount | Crime & Thriller, Television, Box Set | ||
Hawaii Five-O - The Second SeasonRated: NR Date Added: 23/04/2008 Summary: Solving crimes and putting the perps behind bars is Steve McGarrett's bag. Why, he says so himself, and in so many words, in the very first of the 24 episodes collected in this five-disc set comprising the complete second season (1969-70) of "Hawaii Five-0". Portrayed by Jack Lord, and described by no less an authority than the "New York Times" as "a model of steadfast decency" and "beyond cool but still so square he could have been Lawrence Welk’s cop brother-in-law," McGarrett is the leader of the islands' crack, four-man police unit, and as usual, he has his hands full. Perhaps that's why the man has no discernible sense of humor and only the merest suggestion of a social life. Between keeping his famous hair in order, delivering stern lectures about right and wrong to clueless lowlifes, and, as he puts it in another Second Season episode, constantly worrying "about a world without law and justice… where no one gives a damn about anything," who has time for such trivialities? This season finds McGarrett and cohorts Danno (James McArthur), Kono (Zulu), and Chin Ho (Kam Fong) dealing with the usual complement of sleaze: murderers, gamblers, druggies, prostitutes, insurance scammers, low-rent terrorists, and so on. But "Hawaii Five-0" offers its share of weirdness as well. In "Forty Feet High and It Kills!", Red Chinese uber-criminal Wo Fat (Khigh Dhiegh) and his crew orchestrate a fake tsunami warning so they can kidnap a brilliant scientist (an amusing performance by Will Geer) and force him to conduct genetic-tampering experiments designed to create a master race. In the fairly ridiculous "King Kamehameha Blues," a group of young folks steal the legendary king's robe from a museum, just to show they can; it's a measure of McGarrett's ultra-hardline attitude that the governor's offer of amnesty to the thieves if they'll return the precious garment really sticks in his righteous craw. And in "The Singapore File," McGarrett travels overseas in order to accompany a comely murder witness back to Honolulu; though tempted by her charms, he's far too scrupulous to indulge in any extra-curriculars while on the job (and Steve McGarrett is "always" on the job). "Hawaii Five-0"'s other elements are a mixed bag. As always, the Hawaiian scenery is gorgeous. Morton Stevens' theme song remains one of the best ever, and much of the other music, especially the jazzy stuff, is also terrific. However, the show isn't big on either action or tension; too many scenes are slow and talky. And in the final year of the '60s, when men walked on the moon and Woodstock and Altamont marked the respective high and low points of the hippie movement, its depiction of the counterculture is laughably square; it's as if the entire decade barely happened. The box set includes brief, previous-week promos for each episode, but no other bonus material. "--Sam Graham"
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| 218 | Hawaii Five-O - The Third Season | NR | 1968 | Paramount Home Video | Crime & Thriller, Television, Box Set | ||
Hawaii Five-O - The Third SeasonRated: NR Date Added: 24/05/2008 Summary: The sky is blue, the sea is a brilliant turquoise, the surf is up, the scenery is lush and gorgeous, and Steve McGarrett's hair is as stiff as the breeze blowing in off the Pacific. In other words, all is right with the world as "Hawaii Five-O: The Third Season" arrives in a six-disc, 24-episode (including a pair of two-parters) box set. McGarrett, of course, is the main man in the islands' crack, four-man police unit; played by Jack Lord, he's the guy memorably described by the "New York Times" as "beyond cool but still so square he could have been Lawrence Welk’s cop brother-in-law." Not much has changed in his universe as the series moves into a new decade (these episodes aired in 1970 and '71). McGarrett is still the humorless embodiment of moral rectitude; imperious, often sarcastic (especially when dealing with the fools from other law enforcement agencies who dare challenge his authority), he's one of those guys whose moral superiority is unquestioned, especially by him. Steadfast cohorts Danno (James McArthur), Kono (Zulu), and Chin Ho (Kam Fong) are still on hand, as is the usual assortment of bad guys, most of them risibly stereotypical--including arch-nemesis Wo Fat (Khigh Dhiegh), a kind of cut-rate Bond villain who speaks elaborately formal English as he plots to help Red China overthrow all that is good and righteous in the free world. And as in the first two seasons, "Hawaii Five-O"'s style is notable primarily for the lack of it, especially in the stiff acting (with the exception of a few guest stars--notably Hume Cronyn, who's terrific in the season's most amusing and clever episode, "Over 50? Steal"), lukewarm action sequences, and appalling hair (if bad cuts and silly sideburns were a crime, the streets would be empty and the prisons full). But then, that is precisely the show's charm.
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| 219 | Heartbreak Ridge (Clint Eastwood Collection) | Clint Eastwood | R18+ | 1986 | Warner Bros. | War | |
Heartbreak Ridge (Clint Eastwood Collection) Clint EastwoodRated: R18+ Date Added: 29/08/2008 Languages: English, French, Italian Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Romanian, Bulgarian, English - HI, Italian - HI Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 Picture Format: Widescreen Summary: Clint Eastwood is Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway, career Marine and combat veteran. He is a man whose life has been defined by war. Korea and Vietnam taught him how to survive. He won the Congressional Medal of Honor but found public apathy and military bureaucracy. He is a hard drinking loner but he's trying to reorganise his life and understand the woman he loves. He is a traditionalist who has to shape up his ragtag troops and he'll get the job done. His integrity is unwavering. His past is Heartbreak Ridge. He is ready for another battlefield and his finest hour. It will come.
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| 220 | Heat | Michael Mann | R | 1995 | Crime & Thriller | ||
Heat Michael MannRated: R Date Added: 21/07/2006 Summary: Having developed his skill as a master of contemporary crime drama, writer-director Michael Mann displayed every aspect of that mastery in this intelligent, character-driven thriller from 1995, which also marked the first onscreen pairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. The two great actors had played father and son in the separate time periods of "The Godfather, Part II", but this was the first film in which the pair appeared together, and although their only scene together is brief, it's the riveting fulcrum of this high-tech cops-and-robbers scenario. De Niro plays a master thief with highly skilled partners (Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore) whose latest heist draws the attention of Pacino, playing a seasoned Los Angeles detective whose investigation reveals that cop and criminal lead similar lives. Both are so devoted to their professions that their personal lives are a disaster. Pacino's with a wife (Diane Venora) who cheats to avoid the reality of their desolate marriage; De Niro pays the price for a life with no outside connections; and Kilmer's wife (Ashley Judd) has all but given up hope that her husband will quit his criminal career. These are men obsessed, and as De Niro and Pacino know, they'll both do whatever's necessary to bring the other down. Mann's brilliant screenplay explores these personal obsessions and sacrifices with absorbing insight, and the tension mounts with some of the most riveting action sequences ever filmed--most notably a daylight siege that turns downtown Los Angeles into a virtual war zone of automatic gunfire. At nearly three hours, the film qualifies as a kind of intimate epic, certain to leave some viewers impatiently waiting for more action, but it's all part of Mann's compelling strategy. "Heat" is a true rarity: a crime thriller with equal measures of intense excitement and dramatic depth, giving De Niro and Pacino a prime showcase for their finely matched talents. "--Jeff Shannon" |
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| 221 | Heat (Blu-Ray) | Michael Mann | M | Crime & Thriller | |||
Heat (Blu-Ray) Michael MannRated: M Date Added: 06/11/2010 Summary: In Los Angeles, a gang of armed thieves is hitting serious targets - major banks, vaults, and armored cars. These thieves are led by arch-criminal Neal MacAuley. One of their operations, an armored-car robbery, goes bad and the armored-car guards are murdered by the gunmen - putting LAPD homicide detective Vince Hanna on the trail of the thieves. Hanna knows it will take a lot to bring these dangerous, armed thieves down, and it will end in a horrifying gun battle when the thieves try to rob a major federal bank.
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| 222 | Hellboy | Guillermo del Toro | PG-13 | 2004 | Columbia Tristar Hom | Science Fiction & Fantasy | |
Hellboy Guillermo del ToroRated: PG-13 Date Added: 30/01/2005 Sound: Dolby Summary: Based on the Dark Horse comic, HELLBOY is probably one of the more unusual superhero films around today. In a prologue set in World War II, the U.S. Army foils a Nazi plot to open an other dimensional portal and unleash monster fiends upon the world. However, an infant demon slips through into our world. Taking pity on him, government scientist Professor Broom raises the tyke as his own. 60 years later, we find the demon all grown-up and fighting paranormal menaces for a secret U.S. government agency. However, Hellboy finds himself batting not only the evils of his past, but his own feelings for Liz, a fellow freak with pyrotechnic powers. Ron Perlman is perfectly cast as the demon with a blue-collar attitude towards his job. In many ways, he comes across as your local garbage man or plumber with his world-weary view towards the many monsters he faces. His snappy comebacks are especially amusing. Perlman's costume and make-up also reinforce the image with his floppy raincoat and filed-down horns, which resemble goggles more than anything. Selma Blair is touching as the somewhat sullen object of Hellboy's affections, while John Hurt brings an added amount of warmth as the elder Professor Broom. Rupert Evans is solid as the young FBI agent introduced to this unusual situation. As the evil Rasputin, Karel Rodin somewhat underplays the part, making him a rather bland bad guy. Doug Jones, with the voice of David Hyde Pierce, are delightful as fish-man Abe Sapien. Lending solid support is Jeffrey Tambor as Hellboy's antagonistic boss. Despite having a lower budget than most films of its type, the special effects are definitely better than average with snaky haired monsters providing menace and a complaining zombie half-corpse providing laughs. HELLBOY is a fast-paced, fun film that definitely will draw in fans of the cult comic, while the irreverent attitude will appeal to action fans in general. It doesn't matter if you're familiar to the comic or not, this film is definitely a fun time, and as such, is one that I definitely recommend.
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| 223 | Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II | R | 1987 | MGM (Video & DVD) | Horror | ||
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night IIRated: R Date Added: 29/11/2008 Languages: English, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish Picture Format: Widescreen Summary: When Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge 30 years later. Bill Nordham is now the principle of Hamilton High and his son is about to attend the prom with Vicki Carpenter. However, she is possessed by Mary Lou Maloney after opening a trunk in the school's basement. Now Bill must face the horror he left behind in 1957.
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| 224 | The Hills Have Eyes | Wes Craven | R | 1977 | Anchor Bay | Horror | |
The Hills Have Eyes Wes CravenRated: R Date Added: 13/04/2006 Sound: Dolby Comments: Special Edition Summary: Fans of Wes Craven's more recent major studio work (the "Scream" series) may be put off by the low-budget griminess of his sophomore feature, "The Hills Have Eyes", but the director's longtime supporters and aficionados of '70s horror will be riveted by this unsettling culture clash fable. Originally titled "Blood Relations", Hills strands a suburban family (which includes "E.T."'s Dee Wallace Stone and future documentarian Robert Houston) in the desert and pits them against a clan of inbred cannibals. The resourceful killer brood quickly decimates the outsiders' numbers, forcing the survivors to fight back with equally savage means. Like Craven's debut, "Last House on the Left", "Hills" is a relentlessly tense film which demolishes numerous societal taboos (fratricide and infant kidnapping, for starters), but it also delivers a powerful subtext about family and the fine line between civilization and animal behavior amidst the mayhem. Highly recommended for Craven completists and fans of no-holds-barred horror. "--Paul Gaita" |
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| 225 | The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2 | Wes Craven | R | 1985 | Image Entertainment | Horror | |
The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2 Wes CravenRated: R Date Added: 13/04/2006 Summary: Everyone's favorite desert-dwelling mutant cannibals return in this gruesome sequel to the classic drive-in shocker! Years after the original massacre which pitted a suburban family against a band of cave dwellers, traumatized survivors lead a team of dirt bikers back into the wild for a bus expedition. After their vehicle breaks down, the travelers must fend for their lives when the hungry savages (led by spooky Michael Berryman) emerge from the hills in search of dinner! Directed by horror maestro Wes Craven (Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street), this brutal chiller features shocking highlights from the original film (including the now legendary canine flashback) and an eerie score by "Friday the 13th's" Henry Manfredini. Vicious, delirious, and outrageous! |
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| 226 | Hills Have Eyes, The (Blu-Ray) | Alexandre Aja | Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur | R18+ | 2006 | 20Th Century Fox | Horror |
Hills Have Eyes, The (Blu-Ray) Alexandre AjaRated: R18+ Writer: Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur Date Added: 06/11/2010 Sound: DTS Summary: A new take on Wes Craven's 1977 film of the same name, THE HILLS HAVE EYES is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travellers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carters soon realise the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family.and they are the prey.
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| 227 | The Hitchcock Collection | Alfred Hitchcock | Universal Pictures Video | Crime & Thriller | |||
The Hitchcock Collection Alfred HitchcockRated: Date Added: 27/08/2005 Comments: Box set Summary: This seven-disc box set includes the following titles: |
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| 228 | Hitchcock Collection, The - Vol. 1 (3 Disc Set) | Alfred Hitchcock | PG | Beyond Home Entertainment | Crime & Thriller | ||
Hitchcock Collection, The - Vol. 1 (3 Disc Set) Alfred HitchcockRated: PG Date Added: 09/11/2008 Languages: English Subtitles: None Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 (Black and White) Summary: Enjoy the formative works from the man who was once referred to by The New York Times as The most famous director in movie history. Hitchcock displayed an incredible craftsmanship and originality in his films along with his signature themes, so allow yourself to recapture all the thrills, intrigue and betrayal from the golden age of filmmaking. Includes: |
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| 229 | Hitchcock Collection, The - Vol. 2 (3 Disc Set) | Alfred Hitchcock | PG | Beyond Home Entertainment | Crime & Thriller | ||
Hitchcock Collection, The - Vol. 2 (3 Disc Set) Alfred HitchcockRated: PG Date Added: 09/11/2008 Languages: English Subtitles: None Sound: Dolby Digital Mono Picture Format: 4:3 (Black and White) Summary: Enjoy the formative works from the man who was once referred to by The New York Times as The most famous director in movie history. Hitchcock displayed an incredible craftsmanship and originality in his films along with his signature themes, so allow yourself to recapture all the thrills, intrigue and betrayal from the golden age of filmmaking. Includes: |
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| 230 | The Hitchcock Collection, Volume 2 | 1958 | Universal Pictures Video | Crime & Thriller | |||
The Hitchcock Collection, Volume 2Rated: Date Added: 27/08/2005 Comments: Box set Summary: A welcome second volume of classics from the Master of Suspense, this seven-disc "Hitchcock Collection" box-set consists of the following:
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| 231 | Hits of Miss E... The Videos, Vol. 1 | X (Mature Audiences Only) | 2001 | Elektra / Wea | Music DVDs - Concerts | ||
Hits of Miss E... The Videos, Vol. 1Rated: X (Mature Audiences Only) Date Added: 26/01/2006 Sound: Dolby Summary: Missy the artist is cool, confident. Missy the producer/songwriter is in charge, innovative. This is Missy the video artist--off the wall and off the hook. The "Hits of Miss E...The Videos, Volume 1" DVD and VHS feature four of her groundbreaking videos, all available for purchase for the first time. In addition, the DVD version includes behind-the-scenes footage and Surround Sound. This companion video to Missy's album "Miss E... So Addictive" leaves no doubt that Missy is as far ahead of the game in front of the camera as she is behind the mixing board and the microphone. "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)," "Hit 'Em wit' da Hee," "She's a Bitch," "Get Ur Freak On."
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| 232 | Homicide The Complete Series Seasons 1-7 DVD SET | NR | 1993 | A&E HOME VIDEO | Crime & Thriller, Television, Box Set | ||
Homicide The Complete Series Seasons 1-7 DVD SETRated: NR Date Added: 15/05/2009 Summary: Special configuration - all six Homicide: Life on the Street DVD Sets (Season One & Two 4-pack, Season Three 6-pack, Season Four 6-pack, Season Five 6-pack, Season Six 6-pack, and Season Seven 6-pack)
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| 233 | Honor Among Thieves | Unrated | 1968 | Lions Gate | Crime & Thriller | ||
Honor Among ThievesRated: Unrated Date Added: 30/11/2008 Summary: In this stylish, riveting French thriller, film icons Charles Bronson and Alain Delon team up to create a one-of-a-kind buddy film with a fascinating premise. After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, Franz Propp (Bronson) and Dr. Dino Barran (Delon) go their separate ways only to be reunited by an extraordinary coincidence. Barran is persuaded by a friend to sneak into an underground bank vault and help return stolen bonds. While he is hiding, he comes upon Propp who is actually there to rob the safe. After getting locked inside the vault, the two very different men strike up a powerful friendship that binds them together through a series of shocking developments - from a miraculous escape to being framed for murder.
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| 234 | The Host | Bong Joon-ho | R | 2006 | Magnolia Home Entertainment | Horror | |
The Host Bong Joon-hoRated: R Date Added: 07/08/2009 Languages: Korean, English Subtitles: English, Spanish Sound: Dolby Picture Format: Widescreen Summary: Aficionados of movie monsters will find things in "The Host" that they have been waiting to see all their lives: a monster lazily unfurling itself from the girders beneath a bridge, for instance, or a view from a moving elevated train that frames the monster as it gallops lustily across a park filled with scattering locals. If the realization of a creature were all this movie had going for it, director Bong Joon-ho would have enough to be proud of, but "The Host" offers more food for thought, and plenty of food for the monster. Bong creates both a deeply eccentric comedy about family and a cheeky gloss on political currents. The monster is created when a U.S. military doctor (Scott Wilson in an unnerving cameo) orders a South Korean soldier to discard chemicals into the Han River in Seoul. Sure enough, a toxic monster is born, as we see in an opening reel that is surely the most exhilarating monster intro in years. Our central figure--of the human variety, that is--is played by Song Kang-ho (who also starred in Bong's "Memories of Murder"), as a hilariously lazy slob who must fight to discover what happened to his daughter after she was snatched up by the creature. Along the way, the film makes some pointed cracks at the ease with which governments can exploit public fear for their own purposes, and there's some satire aimed at U.S. intervention in global affairs. The film has some serious lulls, and would have been a tighter, crazier head-rush if it were 90 minutes long instead of two hours. But in general this is a much smarter Godzilla movie than Godzilla movies ever were. "--Robert Horton" |
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| 236 | The Howling | Joe Dante | R | 1981 | Mgm/Ua Studios | Horror | |
The Howling Joe DanteRated: R Date Added: 31/01/2005 Summary: A graduate of Roger Corman's school of low-budget ingenuity, Joe Dante gained enough momentum with 1978's Piranha to rise to the challenge of The Howling, and he brought along Piranha screenwriter John Sayles to cowrite this instant werewolf classic. Makeup wizard Rob Bottin was recruited to create what was then the wildest onscreen 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 (among them 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 humor, sex, gore, and horror, pulling out all the stops when the ravenous Eddie (Dante favorite 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 makeup ante with An American Werewolf in London.) As usual, 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
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| 237 | Human League - The Very Best Of | 2003 | Virgin Records Ltd. | Music DVDs - Concerts | |||
Human League - The Very Best OfRated: Date Added: 31/01/2005 Summary: Digitally remastered and released on DVD for the first time, most of Phil Oakey and pals' greatest hits are included on The Very Best of the Human League. With their heavy eye make-up, bizarre hair-styles and generally dodgy fashion sense, few people could have predicted back in the early 1980s that the group would become long-standing pop and style icons. Opening with the simple promos for experimental tracks "Circus of Death" and "Empire State Human", the videos evolve in budget and sophistication, reflecting the band's growing popular success and the general development of the pop video as a genre. Some of the early promos attempt pastiches of popular film and television productions: "Love Action (I Believe in Love)" is a take on The Graduate, while "Don't You Want Me" appears to have been shot on the set of Jersey-based detective series Bergerac. Heralding the arrival of the Quantel Paintbox--the ground-breaking televisual special effects generator--the "Open Your Heart" promo incorporates a variety of tacky special effects, which may have looked great on Swap Shop in 1981, but now look remarkably ridiculous. The lesser-known video for the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis-produced track "I Need Your Loving" and the retrospective video montage for their 1998 Greatest Hits collection track "Love is All That Matters" also oddly make it on to this compilation. The videos for the non-Virgin Record singles are included, too ("Tell Me When", "One Man in My Heart" and "All I Ever Wanted"), with "One Man in My Heart" providing a step-by-step guide to making a cappuccino. On the DVD: The Very Best of The Human League has been mastered effectively overall, with the visual and audio quality of the 1981 promo for "Love Action" being particularly crisp. The Top of the Pops and Later... performances provide an added perspective on the evolution of the band, and the interview with Phil, Joanne and Susan supplies a further comprehensive and accessible overview of their past and future development. --John Galilee
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