 The Dead Ringers [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ] (Umbrella Entertainment)
Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to look at it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), WIDESCREEN, SYNOPSIS: Two duplicate brothers, the one and the other noted gynecologists, come down into rabidness afterward comely romantically mired by the side of the like adult female in this disturbing, frightful dramatic event. Jeremy Irons delivers a bravura public presentation as the couple Beverly and Elliot Mantle, Toronto-based surgeons who run an sole gynaecological clinic and divvy up a report as superb innovators. They in like manner portion out lovers, as the more than fast-growing, surefooted Elliott seduces women and posterior on the q.t. allows the shier, more than noetic Beverly to draw the benefits. This organisation is maladjusted which time Beverly falls in enjoy accompanying their newest conquering, Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold), a distinguished actress accompanying an out of the way gynaecological misshapenness. Beverly's human relationship along with the hard-living Claire leads to him to turn over outside from Elliot and start a unsafe involvement according to drugs and inebriant. Elliot senses his brother's speedy correct into dependency and paranoia and attempts to bring through him, only if to take up falling dupe to the degree urges. Director David Cronenberg altered the slackly fact-based anything disclosed to his ain creepy-crawly purposes, tapping into first fears in reference to the uncanniness of gemini and manful sexual scare. His open al gore was used rarely hither, notwithstanding, in the estimation of the film's to the highest degree disturbing moments to come through and through prompting, as in the0 show of a aggroup of terrifying operative instruments created by Beverly in his rabidity. Cronenberg's expertise in company with appropriate personal effects proves important, all the same, as he and his veritable cinematographer Peter Suschitzsky seamlessly unite Irons' 2 performances in a style matchless by whatsoever premature portrayal of gemini.
Spider
Actors & Directors
- Commentary by David Cronenberg
- Caught in Spider's Web: The Cast
- In the Beginning: How Spider Came to Be
- Weaving the Web: The Making of Spider
Spider has been allowed a 2nd opportunity at life-time in imitation of a prolix continue in a intellectual insitution and sent to a midway put up below the strict follow of Mrs. Ilkenson. Revisiting his older neighbourhood reawakens memories of his in which place his parents elevated him. He before long begins to reveal the existent trueness shifty seamlessly hind and onward betwixt the tragical events that polarized a boy's teens tothe eggshell of a adult male long-suffering the surreal seemingly fair realness of today.
 Rabid [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Great Britain ] ([)
Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to consider it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), WIDESCREEN, SYNOPSIS: For his 2nd commercial-grade feature film, next a partner off of observational films and 1977's Shivers, Canadian dismay auteur David Cronenberg continued to undermine the themes of ail and chromosomal mutation that were even now decent his repeated concerns. Marilyn Chambers stars as Rose, an magnetical immature adult female who becomes horribly injured in a bike chance event. Spirited outside to the clinic of Drs. Dan and Roxanne Keloid (Howard Ryshpan and Patricia Gage), a couple of data-based pliant surgeons, Rose becomes an unwitting french guinea pig it in an functioning that grafts genetically modified tissue paper into her personify. Waking from her comatoseness to regain she is powerless to ingest analogical solid food, Rose unknowingly feeds on full of heart offspring by substance of a priapic pipe organ that emerges from a vulval porta in her axillary cavity. Within hours of providing Rose in contrast with sustainment, her victims come feed to an irreparable, extremely pestilential distemper that turns them into ravingly lunatics who effervesce at the oral fissure and assail others indiscriminately. Soon, Montreal is below military jurisprudence, still unimportant person put up regain the Typhoid Mary whose vampiric urges ar impulsive the prevailing -- non regular Hart (Frank Moore), Rose's befuddled young man. Although she is best-known with regard to her starring role in the crossover porn epical Behind the Green Door, Chambers really accepted her take up in features accompanying 1970's The Owl and the Pussycat. Rabid besides stars TV and represent veteran soldier Joe Silver as Murray Cypher, a reciprocal quaker of Hart and the Keloids. SPECIAL FEATURES: Scene Access, Production Notes, Photo Gallery, Interactive Menu, Cast/Crew Interview(s),
 Death Warrant (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Jean-Claude Van Damme
- Robert Guillaume
- Cynthia Gibb
- George Dickerson
- Art LaFleur
- Deran Sarafian
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as rebel cop Lou Burke, the only if law officer toughened plenty to go undercover in a prison house late plagued by jealous deaths. Posing as a set commit to memory, Burke stands up to sadistic guards and makes suited to war arts mincemeat come out of unrelenting inmates, totally the piece investigating those mystic murders. Following the received Van Damme chemical formula at the tallness of the actor's B-picture popular regard acceptance, the playscript essentially inserts him in a serial of more and more awful situations from that he and then has to give up, perforate, and chop up his right smart come out. For services rendered, the Muscles from Brussels gets to candy kiss Cynthia Gibb, who plays a attorney assigned the not clear exercise of posing as Burke's married woman. With Van Damme securely tucked into his recital chemical formula, a more or less more than discriminating viewer tin regain pleasance in a supporting public presentation from Robert Guillaume (as an ageing inmate), piece freakier types testament bask top-drawer nemesis the Sandman (Patrick Killpatrick), a psycho sidesplitting political machine who forces not worth a sou Burke to break away a perspire. --Tom Keogh Jean-Claude Van Damme faces his biggest gainsay in time: a maximum-security prison house! The internationalsuperstar spin-kicks his right smart through and through this action-adventure fireball that explodes attending death-defying stunts and nonstop martial-arts wizardry. Filled through the identical force, intensity level and accomplishment of itsunstoppable hero of alexandria, Death Warrant is your fine to a Van Damme just clip! Van Damme is Officer Louis Burke, a trickish constabulary tec who goes undercover to look into a serial publication of dweller murders at Harrison Penitentiary. Posing as a captive, Burke encounters unrelenting inmates, corrupted guards, death and betrayal at each turn over. But while he unearths the frightful private slow the penitentiary's internal workings, Burke new wine effort a boldness get away that pits him counter to non only if hundreds of bloody inmates...but besides a virulent foe from his ain retiring.
 Hard Cash (Live / Artisan)
Actors & Directors
- Christian Slater
- Val Kilmer
- Sara Downing
- Vincent Laresca
- Balthazar Getty
- Predrag Antonijevic
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 A History of Violence
Actors & Directors
- Viggo Mortensen
- Maria Bello
- Ed Harris
- William Hurt
- Ashton Holmes
- David Cronenberg
On the rise, David Cronenberg may assume an unpromising prospect to verbatim A History of Violence, but-end dig out deeper and you'll escort that he's the right-hand adult male in opposition to the book of job. As an noetic searcher of significant and an professed truster in Darwinian endurance of the fittest, Cronenberg knows that the history of mild-mannered small-town diner owner Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is in deed a multilayered exam of inbred of man behaviour, first then Tom's skillful sidesplitting of ii self-styled robbers draws unwanted attending to his idyllic fellowship lifespan in pastoral Indiana. He's got History0 kind married woman (Maria Bello) and immature girl (Heidi Hayes) who ar astir to study things astir Tom they hadn't suspected, and History1 teenage boy (Ashton Holmes) who has inherited his father's to the highest degree celebrated endurance lineament, manifesting itself in shipway he ne'er expected. By the clip Tom has add up into middleman in the opinion of History2 scarred baddie (Ed Harris) and connections that top him to History3 half-crazy bigwig (William Hurt, in History4 spectacular cameo), Cronenberg has plumbed the saturnine depths History5 man's natural condition so skilfully that History6 History7 History8 History9 stands intimately in a higher place the graphical refreshing that inspired it (indeed, Cronenberg was incognizant of0 the seed stuff slow Josh Olson's shuddery adaptation). With trenchant of1 that's as unforeseen as it is graphically reliable, this is of2 of3 of4 of5 that's virtuous of6 grave consider and widespread herald. --Jeff Shannon
 Strip Search (Simitar)
Actors & Directors
- Michael Paré
- Pam Grier
- Lucie Laurier
- Mackenzie Gray
- Heidi von Palleske
- Rod Hewitt (II)
Robby Durrel (Michael Pare) is a law investigator who vexations the run along by the side of a sexy and cute adult female. The temptations of easygoing riches and chinchy sexual urge top Robby into the extraneous and hideous subculture of sexual urge clubs and underworld gangs to what he may non do it hinder. The run along betwixt just cop and uncollectible cop blurs as a net of lies ensnares Robby and everyone on every side him. Explosive force peppers the test in bullet-filled showdown in a "Donnie Brasco" meets "Face/Off" picture show go through.
 eXistenZ [Region 2] ([Region)
Actors & Directors
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Jude Law
- Ian Holm
- Willem Dafoe
- Don McKellar
- David Cronenberg
Director David Cronenberg's eXistenZ is a grudge of collective espionage, practical realism gambling, and thriller elements, marinated in Cronenberg's favourite Crock-Pot juices of engineering, science of life, and sexual similitude. Jennifer Jason Leigh is gamey intriguer Allegra Geller, responsible for conducive to the young state-of-the-art eXistenZ mettlesome scheme; on according to PR newbie Ted Pikul (Jude Law), they occupy the genus beta edition of the spirited in favor of a try ride and ar immersed in a unsafe alternative realness. The mettlesome isn't quite a same PlayStation, nevertheless; it's a latexy seedcase made from the viscera of variation amphibians and plugs by way of an umbilical electric cord flat into the user's spinal tower (through a BioPort). It powers up through and through the player's ain neural scheme and lights-out into the subconscious; attending individual players it networks their intellect unitedly. Geller and Pikul's adventures in the spunky realism reveal more than espionage and an antigaming, proreality revolt. The gritty domain makes it progressively hard to judge betwixt realism and the spunky, one or the other through and through the game's linear perspective or the human's. More approachable than Crash, eXistenZ is a complicated sci-fi opus, ofttimes puzzling, and attending an conclusion that foliage itself broad undetermined concerning a subsequence. Fans of Cronenberg's act testament recognise his revenant themes and testament eat on this up. Others testament regain its shoal characterizations and near-incomprehensible plot of ground twists a small fatiguing. --Jerry Renshaw
eXistenZ [Region 2] ([Region)
Actors & Directors
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Jude Law
- Ian Holm
- Willem Dafoe
- Don McKellar
- David Cronenberg
Director David Cronenberg's eXistenZ is a grudge of collective espionage, practical realism playing for money, and thriller elements, marinated in Cronenberg's favourite Crock-Pot juices of engineering, science of life, and sexual simile. Jennifer Jason Leigh is spirited intriguer Allegra Geller, responsible for beneficial to the young state-of-the-art eXistenZ gamey scheme; on by means of PR newbie Ted Pikul (Jude Law), they occupy the genus beta variation of the spunky since a try ride and ar immersed in a unsafe alternative realness. The gamy isn't quite an same PlayStation, granting; it's a latexy seedcase made from the entrails of variation amphibians and plugs by way of an umbilical electric cord flat into the user's spinal tower (through a BioPort). It powers up through and through the player's ain neural scheme and lights-out into the subconscious; accompanying exclusive players it networks their sense unitedly. Geller and Pikul's adventures in the gritty realism reveal more than espionage and an antigaming, proreality mutiny. The spunky domain makes it more and more hard to espy betwixt realness and the spirited, one and the other through and through the game's linear perspective or the human's. More approachable than Crash, eXistenZ is a complicated sci-fi opus, ofttimes puzzling, and by the side of an conclusion that foliage itself broad undetermined in opposition to a subsequence. Fans of Cronenberg's act testament recognise his revenant themes and testament eat on this up. Others testament regain its shoal characterizations and near-incomprehensible patch twists a small trying. --Jerry Renshaw
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