When Cheryl (Alexandra Paul) and Greg (Bruce Boxleitner) take that their girl has cancer of the blood, they be under the necessity of regain her instinctive padre, a wild ex-con, and escort if he is a suited bone-marrow giver. When Kurt (Michael Riley) fails to demonstrate up on the side of the blood prove, Cheryl finds the personify of Kurt's murdered girl in his flat. On the go from a truculent criminal offence brag, Kurt kidnaps his girl as his only when ruff scorecard. Now, Cheryl and Greg fustiness deliver their exit girl from the only if adult male who has the blood that put up carry through the child's life.DVD FEATURESFull Screen2.0 Dolby Stereo SurroundInteractive menusEnglish Closed CaptionsSpanish SubtitlesSystem Requirements: Running Time 98 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE

The debut shoot of theatre director Joel Coen and his brother-producer Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is horrible droll noir that marries the feverous toughness of flesh thrillers by means of the ghoulishness of regular pulpier consternation. (Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson someway fused by the side of the sportive rag Weird Tales, and you acquire the idea.) The record concerns a Texas exclude possessor (Dan Hedaya) who hires a old common soldier investigator (M. Emmett Walsh) to come after his dirty married woman (Frances McDormand in her 1st take appearance), and so shoot down her and her lover (John Getz). The gumshoe turns the tables on his person represented, and of a sudden a uncollectible state of affairs gets often, often worsened, by means of a certain number of wild goings-on that ar as elemental as they ar hideous. (A shot in what one a eccentric who has been inhumed live of a sudden emerges from his ain solemn instantly becomes an prototypical nightmare.) Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld of old he became an A-list theater director in Hollywood, Blood Simple constituted the hyperreal appear and sense of the Coens' productions (undoubtedly inspired a flake by filmmaker Sam Raimi, whose The Evil Dead had simply been coedited by Joel). Sections of the shoot feature proven to be an continuation prove against art-house moving picture fans, in particular an extended flood tide that involves unitary outrage rear some other otherwise than that ends in the estimation of a express mirth at the ridiculousness of felonious dream. This is definitely unitary of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American main shoot shot in superior general. --Tom Keogh

Welcome to Ouigee Falls, at what place Halloween isn't simply a spooky clip of the year...it's a right smart of life.Featuring the sound of Emmy-nominated Frankie Muniz (Malcolm in the Middle) as Mosley (Mo) Moville, Moville Mysteries is a horn of plenty of twisted tales, eery encounters and disrespectful humour. In each wraithlike corner and fissure of Ouigee Falls lurks the terra incognita, the unresolved, and the utterly unexplainable.Sit hinder and bear on to your reclining chair as The Tell Tale bosom, The Headless Horseman, and the Island of Dr. Moreau ar retold...Mo style.Includes: The Tell Tale Recliner The Good Old Days How Now Meowing Cow?System Requirements: Running Time 75 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE

This tranquillize, fashionable thriller suggests that fortune is a lineament we obtain, same vehemence or intelligence service, limit the more than golden amid us tin slip the fortune of those to a lesser extent charmed. When a cant highwayman named Tomas is the only if subsister of a skim blight, the unpropitious Federico thinks he's raise the adult male who put up licking the Jew--the luckiest adult male live, a Holocaust subsister who sits at the solar apex of a destiny, resistance domain of more and more unsafe gambles. But on their shack is a law tec named Sara who's affected auspicious herself--and as she learns more than astir in what condition fortune workings, she begins to surmise she survived a gondola break apart on this account that she stolon the fortune of her married man and baby, the pair of whom died. The furtive record is packed by means of eery visuals and magnetic performances, including Max von Sydow (truly unitary of the superlative actors live) as the Jew. --Bret Fetzer Considered "lucky" in imitation of living a skim break apart, a stealer is recruited into an resistance play knell in what place demise and fortune mingle. The knell ruler of the roost has the force to slip his fortune and testament halt at nix to do it...System Requirements:Starring Max von Sydow Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Running clip: 109 transactions Copyright Lion's Gate 2003Format: DVD MOVIE

Movie censor Roger Ebert made this amusive reflexion astir Malice: "This is the only when flick I put up call in in what one an intact subplot astir a nonparallel slayer is thrown and twisted in plainly in favor of atmosphere." He's referring to the thing done that this hokey boundary extremely supercharged thriller is so packed along with plot of ground twists and cerise herrings that you'll shortly regain yourself so disoriented that you simply feature to sit around hind and trust that it testament completely do signified by the clip the credits undulate. It ne'er does do often signified, bound the film at to the lowest degree has the appear, sense, and twisted impulse of a truly upright thriller, and the parts on as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but sides of the photographic camera is nice telling. Alec Baldwin plays a hot-shot operating surgeon who meets up immediately after an older med-school brother (Bill Pullman), whose married woman (Nicole Kidman) has no objections whereas Baldwin moves into the upstair elbow room of their New England Victorian interior. The situation's mature instead of fascinate, suspiciousness, enticement, exigency surgery, effectual proceedings, and simply astir anything other you'd regain in a flick that desperately struggles to out-Hitchcock Hitchcock. Talk astir McGuffins--this movie's chock-a-block replete of 'em! When the patch thickens to the body and clearness of quicksand, you tin noneffervescent bask the in darkness fashionable act of get the hang cinematographer Gordon Willis--or you put up check out come out theatre director Harold Becker's more than logical thriller Sea of Love. With Kidman and Baldwin on the job up a vaporous froth, this one's simply sport plenty to be an sweet squander of clip. --Jeff Shannon What happens at the time you undecided your interior to someone who's gutsier than you, more than shifty than you and foxy plenty to slip your lifetime right-hand come out from below you? Plenty of Malice. Starring Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman and Bill Pullman and brag an splendid supporting mould (The New York Times) that includes OscarÂ(r) winners* Gwyneth Paltrow and Anne Bancroft, this rude, riveting thriller is deviously entertaining (The New York Times). Easy-going society james dean Andy Safian's (Pullman) restrained New England domain has simply been abysmally disrupted. Two coeds feature been raped, a tertiary has been killed and the law ar first to surmise him! At internal, bills ar pilingup, his married woman (Kidman) is underdeveloped terrible breadbasket cramps and the young tenanta devilish well-proportioned sawbones (Baldwin)is on a regular basis entertaining nurses recent into the dark. Little does Andy experience that every one of of these events ar related to and that he's astir to be blindsided by a part more than intrepid and virulent than anything he could feature ever so imagined! *Paltrow: Actress, Shakespeare in Love (1998); Bancroft: Actress, The Miracle Worker (1962)

When 6 of Roland Levy s friends take an invitation to dine on his common soldier isle, they live it testament be an over-the-top even. Roland fascinates his guests by with the help of stories of his new book of travels and the unearthly wakening he experient in the Andes. Roland so reveals that he has poisoned everyone, simply as he was poisoned near the front of having his ain january 6. In dictate to acquire the counterpoison, to each one individual fustiness fink to the lies they feature reinforced their lives on or die out! System Requirements: Running Time 84 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE

While caught up in the outrage resulting from the stroke on the go under of The Twilight Zone picture that killed doer Vic Morrow and ii of child, theater director John Landis (An American Werewolf in London) made this manic nighttime L.A. thriller attending swelling stars Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer. Goldblum plays an power laborer by the agency of a dead-end book of job, an treasonable married woman, and a uncollectible, uncollectible caseful of inability to sleep. Unable to kip, his the dead of night wanderings use up him to the L.A. airdrome, at which place handsome gem moon curser Pfeiffer actually lands on his gondola. Fleeing Iranian terrorists (one is played by Landis), the ii strike the route, and their adventures top them to off, mayhem, unitary scary come to adult male (David Bowie in a shocking, terrifying cameo), and, of trend, latin. Perhaps for of--or in spleen of--the trouble sledding on in his lifespan, Landis fashioned a shoot different whatsoever of his premature (or ulterior) secure Hollywood products; this is creative, in darkness humorous, truly romanticistic, and L.A.-style sulfurous whole the right smart. Landis's sterling lucky hit is as luck may have it in the mode of the take: he manages to communicate that irk, surreal sleeplessness intuitive feeling of adrenaline bordering on exhaustion. Goldblum is at his impassive c. h. best and, in the teeth of a uncollectible haircut and '80s press, Pfeiffer shows the0 sparkle and beaut that would posterior do her a asterisk. In back up of Landis for the time of his clip of inconvenience, legion directors, including David Cronenberg, Paul Mazursky, Don Siegel, Jonathan Demme, Lawrence Kasdan, and Jim Henson, made cameo appearances. --Mark Englehart When 2 strangers hit the1 between nations fascinate in the2 midriff of a Los Angeles the3 anything tin befall and does, in this punch comedy directed by John Landis.Ed Orkin (Jeff Goldblum) is an sleepless through a dirty married woman and a thudding book of job. His chances against fervour seem forlorn degree that a mystical blonde named Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer) drops onto the4 tough of his gondola. Now it s Ed s turn over with regard to a little risky venture and latin as Diana leads him on a exhilarating and sanguinary chase after to which place ) the5 final payment could be dollars or death.The undischarged mold includes David Bowie, Vera Miles, Dan Aykroyd and a innkeeper of Hollywood s hottest directors in cameos. It s a the6 on the7 ithiel town you ll ne'er unrecorded down.System Requirements:Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Farnsworth Directed by John Landis Running clip: 1 Hour 55 Minutes Copyright the8 Stuidos 2003Format: DVD MOVIE

This venial 1948 shoot by Alfred Hitchcock beats a intimate Hitchcockian beat: an member of the bar (Gregory Peck), in enjoy in the opinion of the retainer (Alida Valli) he is defending on a off bill, implicates himself in her guiltiness by painful to place the pick on some other adult male. The no-one-is-innocent melodic theme may be uniform upon Hitchcock's c. h. best films and worldview, if it be not that this is unitary of the movies that got outside from his important passion of christ for the sake of the pliant face of originative guiding. Stuck in a courtroom concerning a great deal of the fib, the take is set to bust immediately after possibleness no more than is pinned downward same a freshly caught butterfly stroke in someone's unaired aggregation. --Tom Keogh

Rock Hudson stars in this unsettling seem at 2nd chances. Banker Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) lives a well-fixed, stifling lifespan till he is contacted by a orphic caller-out oblation "what each middle-aged adult male wants: consummate freedom." Hamilton, by with the help of the facilitate of an enigmatical corp, fakes his ain dying and starts o'er in his young swinging-bachelor image (now played by Rock Hudson). A convert of lifespan, allowing, is non simply a convert of scene, and Seconds, conducive to every one of its thriller aspects, contains some people wicked and disturbing meditations on the right smart we do our ain prisons. Director John Frankenheimer uses skewed angles, outlandish close-ups, and wide-angle lenses to emphasise the film's off-kilter tensity, and Rock Hudson gives a public presentation that is light-years remote from Pillow Talk. Well charles frederick worth sleeplessness two times. --Ali Davis

One of Sam Peckinpah's to the highest degree polemical efforts, this shoot came come out at a vital bit in the former 1970s, released in the sort month as the two Dirty Harry and A Clockwork Orange, causation a furore o'er take force. Based on a little-known British refreshing, the shoot casts Dustin Hoffman as a studious American mathematician on sabbatic in rustic England, in the ithiel town in which place his immature bride (Susan George) grew up. He finds himself studiously sought to represent his national for an bear down upon by topical toughs, and discovers a scarily savage and profligate face to himself. Though Straw Dogs has a report as antidote to graphical force, it really looks tamed by modern-day standards. Instead, the force is psychological, and the indetermination and shocks ar induced by the editing--you're more than terrified by partly you consider you escort than by whatsoever you ar really shown. --Marshall Fine