The warrior Deathstalker is tasked by an old witch lady to obtain and unite the three powers of creation - a chalice an amulet and a sword lest the evil magician Munkar get them and use them for nefarious purposes. After obtaining the sword Deathstalker joins with other travellers going to the Big Tournament to determine the strongest warrior. The false king bolds the true princess in captivity and plots to have deathstalker killed and Deathstalker must fight to free the princess.
Sammo Hung plays Courageous Cheung a cuckolded husband who faces a series of supernatural challenges from his wife's wealthy lover. First Cheung must survive a night in a house haunted by a bloodthirsty vampire. From there things just get worse and more comical. For those unfamiliar with the Chinese horror genre the film is a wild ride through the supernatural mythology and folklore of China: hopping corpses supernatural possession by a monkey god the gratuitous sacrifice of a
After a catastrophic accident at a top secret research lab, a deadly virus is released into the city and all hell breaks loose.Controlled by a local crime lord, District 108 is the one place in the city the police don't want to go on a normal day. But today is not a normal day, and the crack SWAT team ordered to help evacuate the uninfected must do just that. Met with fierce resistance by the local gangs, both sides suffer heavy casualties before realising that the guys with the guns aren't the real enemy: the zombies are!With ammunition running low, the two sides join forces to fight for the only thing worth fighting for: a chance to escape from the city and the zombies currently running loose in it!
Island on Fire is, as the trailer says, "five films in one!". Despite the packaging headlining Jackie Chan this violent modern-day prison drama is an ensemble piece with Chan, a pool-player in prison for accidentally stabbing a man to death, on screen for no more than a quarter of the 92 minutes. Anyone buying this as a Chan movie may be seriously disappointed, for apart from the brevity of his role there is no trademark Chan humour. Also in the brutal and corrupt prison is Andy Lau, an undercover cop searching for the murderer of his professor, and Sammo Hung offering comedy and pathos as an inmate who keeps escaping to visit his son. There are many more characters, together with one subplot involving a mouse which anticipates The Green Mile (1999) and another concerning an assassination conspiracy which parallels Nikita, also released in 1990. Island of Fire is an uneven, always entertaining, sometimes moving film which packs an incredible amount of incident into its running time. However, it should be noted that it is an imitation of, rather than an official entry in, Ringo Lam's Fire series, which includes Prison on Fire (1987) and City on Fire (1987). On the DVD: The anamorphically enhanced 1.77-1 picture is a very good transfer of a rather grainy print, though given the many darkly lit scenes, this grain is probably part of the original film. The mono sound is fine. The film can be watched with the original Mandarin soundtrack and English subtitles, or with a much better than average English dub. The packaging claims there are over 60 minutes of extras. In fact there are nine deleted/extended scenes of variable quality, the best of which give more emotional depth to Sammo Hung's character, together with video interviews with Sammo Hung, Jimmy Wong Yu and director Chu Yen Ping. These total around 20 minutes and are interesting but not specific to the film. Also included is the theatrical trailer, Hong Kong Legends' own "music promo" trailer and eight trailers for further releases. There is also a six-page "animated" biography of Jackie Chan. --Gary S Dalkin
The London Rock And Roll Show was held on Saturday 5th August 1972 at Wembley Stadium. The headliners on that day - Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley and Bill Haley are featured on this DVD, also on the bill were The Houserockers, Billy Fury, Heinz, Screaming Lord Sutch, Roy Wood, The Platters, Linda Gail Lewis, Gary Glitter and The Coasters. The Concert lasted for over eleven hours and was watched by a crowd of 87,000 and it was also the first music event to be held at...
A chaotic time period in which the once Confucian society was threatened by an attempted Japanese invasion. The film is centered on an elite band of imperial guards hired to protect the old ways. Choi Ji-hwan (Choi Min-su) and Yun Gyu-yeob (Jo Jae-hyeon) make the backbone of the group, but unforeseen circumstances cause Yun to turn on Choi, the latter of which disappears from the scene after having been revealed as responsible for several murders. Choi turns up with his own army to confront Yun and prepare for the final brutal Epic battle, which will decide the fate of the whole country.
The most beautiful woman of our time in the most erotic adventure of all time... Leaving behind the England that she loves in 1910 Jane (Bo Derek) heads to Africa on a mission to find her father (Richard Harris). Travelling by steamboat and finally by foot she voyages deep into the heartland of the African contintent. But it's only when her search for her missing father ends that Jane's real adventure begins...
Jia Zhang Ke's ambitious film follows the lives of four friends over a turbulent 10 year period of Chinese history from 1979 to 1989. In the small town of Fenyang in the remote western province of Shanxi the teenage members of a state theatre troupe stage propoganda plays in praise of Mao. But as the country opens up to the free market and implements wide-ranging reform their lives are irrevocably changed as the world around them is transformed by the music fashions and other cul
Howling winds whip through the trees on a stormy night back in the 1940's. An angered man enters the old Victorian house on the banks of Fever Lake. Inside a fearful mother hides her young son in the attic and he soon becomes the only witness to his mother's tragic murder. Years later a group of friends are planning a weekend getaway and are offered the use of the deserted old house on Fever Lake. It started out as a fun filled weekend. But as evil supernatural forces collide with innocent victims the group find themselves in for a terror-filled stay. Nobody knows exactly what evil went on at Fever Lake but what they do know is that something evil happened before and it's happening again. They must destroy the evil... before it destroys them.
Samantha Callen is assigned to pull the plug on Dr. Branson's tornado project an untested machine to track and predict dangerous twisters. In the few days she gives him to finish his research she meets and falls for Jake Thorne a tornado chasing cowboy who along with his friend Tex shows her the devastating effects a twister can have on an entire community. Sam then begins to understand the importance of the doctors work and realizes she wants to help them. It's then that Jake receives word of a real monster tornado heading their way- a deadly gale force maelstrom- an opportunity to test Dr. Branson's machine but at great risk as Sam and Jake enter the vortex and face imminent death.
When a neutron bomb goes missing Director of Covert operations and ex-Navy Seal Jack Thorn (Bo Svenson) is forced to put his retirement on hold and embark on a mission to secure not only the future of international trade but his own into the bargain. Reuniting with old allies including his ever-loyal CIA assistant Kelly Jones (Amy Weber) the band of ex-operatives and trained killers must master the new high-tech world of weaponry and infared motion detectors before they can bring e
Jackie Chan heads an all-star cast in this outrageous crime-caper! Two Hong Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to apprehend an ex-colleague and recover a fortune in stolen diamonds. When one is captured by the Yakuza gang protecting the rogue cop the other enlists the services of his shady orphanage buddies including the irrepressible 'Fastbuck' (Sammo Hung) to help break the case. Not surprisingly all hell breaks loose as the craziest assortment of degenerate misfits ever assembled
A young woman escapes her life in a provincial Chinese village and heads to London to marry an older man only to find her entrapment begins anew.
Exactly as it is billed the Bo Diddley All Star Rock 'n' Roll Jam sees a gathering of all star rock musicians paying tribute to Bo Diddley. Filmed at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in October 1985 Bo Diddley put together a band that included Ron Wood John Mayall Mick Fleetwood Kenney Jones Carmine Appice John Lodge Carl Wilson Mitch Mitchell and many more To run through some rock n roll classics. Another Rock 'n' Roll veteran Chuck Berry also puts in an appearance in one of the all time unrepeatable gigs.
He fed their fears and turned neighbour against neighbour! Arriving in a sleepy southern town on the eve of integration slick charismatic Adam Cramer (William Shatner) is an ominous influence inciting its white citizens into a racial fervor and plunging the once quiet community into a state of chaos. The film features a cameo from the screenwriter - and author of the original novel - Charles Beaumont appearing alongside fellow scribes William F. Nolan and George Clayton
It's 1973 Franco's on his way out and Spain is changing with the times. Alberto Lopez is a failing door-to-door encyclopaedia salesman on the brink of financial disaster until he and his lovely wife Carmen are offered a unique and lucrative opportunity to make their own amateur Super 8 'erotic' movies as part of a phoney ""Scandinavian World Encyclopaedia of Reproduction"". Little do they realize that this will unspool Alberto's passion for Bergmanesque filmmaking launch Carmen as
Le Nozze Di Figaro - Acts 1 - 4: This new, excitingly original production of Mozart's most popular opera was the sensation of the 2006 Salzburg Festival.
The year of 1983 was a fine time to be a slasher fan - with the genre creeping out classics from SLEEPAWAY CAMP through to HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW. And for those who embrace that golden age few knife-play flicks are as beloved as SWEET 16. With a top notch cast that includes Susan Strasberg (THE TRIP), Bo Hopkins (THE WILD BUNCH) and Scream Queen sensation Dana Kimmell (FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3D), this tale of childhood trauma crafts a compelling whodunit mystery around some small town disappearances and a stack of dead bodies. Is the perpetrator male or female? And just what is going on with the boy-baiting Melissa... A mysterious and alluring presence who turns a tiny Texas community upside down with her sudden appearance. A tightly directed terror title SWEET 16 is a perfect addition to the 88 Films library and a slasher classic that will still spawn a few bad dreams!
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