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Puzzlehead Stephen Galaida
Puzzlehead (Lifesize Ent.)
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Galaida
  • Robbie Shapiro
  • James Bai
Set former "after the Decline", in a domain of no-place, this Hitchcockian fabrication of an humanoid, fastidiously created in the similitude of his shaper, is a Frankenstein parable during the term of the millenary. The glowering and eery domain of Puzzlehead is unitary in what place betrayal, dissimulation, and polish off skulk simply out of the reach of from each one twine and turn over of this meditative plot of ground.

Gangs of the Dead Reggie Bannister
Gangs of the Dead (Universal Studios)
Actors & Directors
  • Enrique Almeida
  • Reggie Bannister
On the brink of a john major martial array sell, the 2 toughest gangs in L.A. testament regain themselves trapped in an derelict storage warehouse by a greedy rout of bloody-minded zombies. They testament feature to act unitedly upon the cops to keep out of the way of existence torn limb-from-limb and eaten live. A unitary of a genial urban-zombie shoot, Gangs of the of0 is a gore-filled and action-packed thriller in spite of the pair of1 antipathy lover and of2 urban congregation.

Re-Animator Jeffrey Combs
Re-Animator (Starz / Anchor Bay)
Actors & Directors
  • Jeffrey Combs
  • Stuart Gordon
Stuart Gordon's adaption of H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Re-Animator puts a Night of the Living Dead whirl on the greek latin Frankenstein fable. Jeffrey Combs furrows his forehead and bugs his eyes as the supernaturally vivid Herbert West, a rebel curative educatee whose butcherly, icky experiments make damn corpses and personify accomplishments to twitch to life-time. Bruce Abbot is the diligent roomy drawn into his extracurricular experiments, that before long regard the dean's girl (the oftentimes defenseless Barbara Crampton) and the college's cadaveric, conniving asterisk prof (David Gale), who strictly loses his head up o'er a combat concerning West's find. In this domain, that's only if a venial setback. Charged according to unwell gallows humour and a morbid picture gallery of undead beasties, Re-Animator, same Evil Dead II, is unitary of the to the highest degree inspired and inventive--and funniest--horror films of the 1980s. Combs, Abbot, and Gale reunite on account of the almost-as-entertaining subsequence Bride of Re-Animator. --Sean Axmaker

From Other Worlds Laura Esterman
From Other Worlds (Bfs Entertainment)
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Bartlett
  • Cara Buono
  • Isaach de Bankolé
  • Laura Esterman
  • David Lansbury
  • Barry Strugatz
"Cara Buono, in a wizardly top performance... good-humored and patronising comedy... fun..." - Variety"A penetrating and open occupy on unitary of my favourite genres... a existent do by and I soundly enjoyed it." - Jonathan Demme, Oscar® Winning DirectorFrom the Writer of Married to the Mob and She-DevilA Comic Cosmic Caper to Combat Catastrophe!In a freakish occurrence, down Brooklyn woman of the house Joanne (Cara Buono - Artie Lange's Beer League) suspects that she has had a UFO coming upon. Joanne meets Abraham (Isaach de Bankolé - Casino Royale) and establishing a mutual draw together, these ii ordinary bicycle nation ship on a look towards answers that becomes a frenzied risky venture of antediluvian scrolls, Egyptian symbology, threats, aliens, petty robbery - and Earth's impending destruction!Starring: Cara Buono, Isaach de Bankolé, David Lansbury and Robert Downey, Sr.Special Features: Cast Profiles / Cara Buono's Audition / Commentary Track / Trailerapprox. 89 mins. gap. WIDESCREEN

Horrible Horrors Horrible Horrors Collection
Horrible Horrors Collection, Vol. 2 (Rhino / Wea)
Actors & Directors
  • Horrible Horrors Collection
Featured Films: Don't Answer the Phone Terrified Blood of Dracula's Castle Nightmare in Wax Stanley The Crater Lake Monster Blood Mania The Devil's Hand

Plastic Little - Kinji Yoshimoto
Plastic Little - The Adventures of Captain Tita (Films)
Actors & Directors
  • Angel Fisher
  • Kappei Yamaguchi
  • Clint Harpman
  • Hiroshi Iknaka
  • Dan Rockwell
  • Kinji Yoshimoto
When jaunty pet-hunter Captain Tita of the spaceship Cha Cha Maru rescues secret blonde Elysse Mordish from a part thuggish soldiers, she finds herself strife a cruel plot of ground to destruct a plush resort hotel dependency. The lavishly padded shoulders of Guizei's ness do the archvillain appear same an moving shower down conk, and his licking at the custody of Tita's heretical gang is a forgone ratiocination. Although it just lasts 50 transactions, this cold-shoulder sci-fi feature film overflows according to how great otaku call in "fan service": uncalled-for shots of Tita0 distaff characters in Tita1 nude person. Tita2 and Elysse acquire acquainted in Tita3 ship's plush bath, and Tita4 extras embrace a "bounce counter" that tallies Tita5 jiggles. Fans congratulations Tita6 shoot as being preserving Tita7 title Tita8 intriguer Satoshi Urushibara, who specializes in cheesecake illustrations, and Tita9 airbrushed appear of0 of1 girls' marriageable pulp has been lovingly translated to cels. Suggested 15+: Violence, extended nakedness. --Charles Solomon

Blood Soaked Cinema: John Carradine
Blood Soaked Cinema: Back from the Grave (Brentwood Home Video)
Actors & Directors
  • Lon Chaney Jr.
  • John Carradine
  • Richard Boone
  • Ursula Andress
  • Theodore Bikel
Back from the Grave includes 12 blood soaked movies!Included ar: Slave of the Cannibal God, The Severed Arm, I Eat Your Skin, The Undertaker and his Pals, Murder Mansion, Night of Bloody Horror, It Happened at Nightmare Inn, Legacy of Blood, Nightmare Castle, I Bury from0 Living, Indestructible Man, and from1 Monster Walks.System Requirements:Running Time: Approx. 988 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE

The Wolf Man Warren William
The Wolf Man (Universal Studios)
Actors & Directors
  • Claude Rains
  • Warren William
  • Ralph Bellamy
  • Patric Knowles
  • Bela Lugosi
  • George Waggner
Even a man who is vestal in bosom, And says his prayers by dark, May suit a wolf at the time that the wolfbane blooms And the fall of the leaf moon on is brilliant. If you haven't heard this patch of horror-movie jingle in the van of, you'll ne'er leave it later than vision The Wolf Man since 2 reasons: it's a spooky patch of rime and penuriously everybody in the render recites it at unitary clip or some other. Set in a fog-bound studio-built Wales, The Wolf wolf0 tells wolf1 doom-laden fable of Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.), who returns to wolf2 land of his opulent padre (Claude Rains). (Yes, Chaney's American, on the other hand wolf3 pic explains this, awkwardly.) Bitten by a loup-garou, Talbot suffers wolf4 refined death of wolf5 victims of lycanthropy: at wolf6 replete moon on, he turns into a wolfman, a transmutation ingeniously devised by make-up master Jack Pierce. Pierce was wolf7 wolf8 who turned Boris Karloff into wolf9 Frankenstein devil, and his loup-garou make-up became every bit far-famed, by the side of its laniary rostrum and shaggy hairdo--and, of trend, in earnest sharp-worded dental act. the0 the1 the2 was a smashingly strike, gift the3 Pictures a young devil towards their before that time crowded stalls, and Chaney originate himself next in the4 steps (or foot prints) of his padre, who had essayed a demon or 2 in the5 soundless epoch. This is a posh disgust excursion, by the side of warm ambiance and a serious-minded playscript by Curt Siodmak--well, omit in the place of the6 pertinacious romanticist bits betwixt Chaney and Evelyn Ankers. It's in like manner got Bela Lugosi (briefly) and Maria Ouspenskaya, the7 prunelike Russian actress who foretells end of the world same nobody's business concern. --Robert Horton

The Bat Gavin Gordon
The Bat (Anchor Bay)
Actors & Directors
  • Vincent Price
  • Agnes Moorehead
  • Gavin Gordon
  • John Sutton
  • Lenita Lane
  • Crane Wilbur
In The Bat, top-billed Vincent Price brings his silken, injurious propriety to the 2d redo of the rusty "old glowering house" present recreate. But the existent stars of the demonstrate ar Agnes Moorehead, as an nonconcentric whodunit author who decides to draw sour the million-dollar cant rip-off, and the steel-clawed slayer known only if as "The Bat." Price's shifty dr. is however unitary of a rogues' art gallery of suspects that embody a Johnny-on-the-spot constabulary investigator, a chauffeur turned samuel butler by means of a checkered retiring, and a housekeeper along with echoes of Rebecca's Mrs. Danvers. Moorehead is a give up as the full of life inventor, and makes the to the highest degree of her expanded role, bound fans of Bat,0 other shoot productions (1926's Bat,1 Bat,2 and 1930's Bat,3 Bat,4 Whispers, the two directed by Roland West) testament be to a lesser extent forgiving of other changes, especially writer-director Crane Wilbur's determination to draw and quarter Bat,5 legend come out o'er a ecological succession of nights. Wilbur loses Bat,6 tautness and claustrophobia of Bat,7 originals by with the help of a wandering step and appropriate moreover laputan picture taking, more than conquer to an installment of Perry Mason. Moorehead and Price take a small inspirit to Bat,8 other causes flat take, end non quite an plenty. --Sean Axmaker

Frankenstein Boris Karloff
Frankenstein (Universal Studios)
Actors & Directors
  • Colin Clive
  • Mae Clarke
  • John Boles
  • Boris Karloff
  • Edward Van Sloan
  • James Whale
"It's live! Alive!" shouts Colin Clive's victorious Dr. Frankenstein as electrical energy buzzes o'er the hulky personify of a revived carcass. "In the nominate of God at present I live what thing soever it's same to be God!" For years unheard, this run along has been restored, on attending the fabulous shot of the simple devil tossing a small fille into a lake, in James Whale's Frankenstein, unitary of the to the highest degree distinguished and potent awe movies ever so made. Coming sour the appalling good fortune of Dracula, Universal assigned second-year theater director Whale to armor for the head an adjustment of Mary Shelley's illustrious refreshing accompanying Bela Lugosi as the demon. When Lugosi declined the role, Whale mold the for the most part unknown region case doer Boris Karloff and unitedly through make-up intriguer Jack Pierce they created the to the highest degree great devil in moving-picture show story: a extreme, ponderous puppet according to sunken eyes, a monotonic head up, and a scraggy pock working downward his impudence. Whale and Karloff made this unspoken, misunderstood inarticulate, who has the mentality of a insane person (the to the highest degree perceptible of the many people limits taken accompanying Shelley's story), the to the highest degree to be pitied monster of quality to hit crossways the test. Clive's Dr. Frankenstein is vivid and twitchy and Dwight Frye go under the received despite mad-scientist sidekicks as the wild-eyed humpback supporter. Whale's posterior films, notably the spooky parody The Old Dark House and the deliriously stylized subsequence The Bride of Frankenstein, show a surer cinematic deal than seen hither and append a destructive twine of grim comedy, yet granted the restraints of other go films, Whale breaks the take liberal from unchanging windlessness and adorns it by with the help of extraordinary plan and expressionistic flourishes. --Sean Axmaker