Writer-director Sam Raimi's extremely stylized, blood-soaked follow-up to his creepy Evil Dead isn't really a sequel; rather, it's a remake on a better budget. It also isn't really a horror film (though there are plenty of decapitations, zombies, supernatural demons, and gore) as much as it is a hilarious, sophisticated slapstick send-up of the terror genre. Raimi takes every horror convention that exists and exaggerates it with mind-blowing special effects, crossed with mocking Three Stooges humour. The plot alone is a genre cliché right out of any number of horror films. Several teens (including our hero, Ash, played by Bruce Campbell in a manic tour-de-force of physical comedy) visit a broken-down cottage in the woods--miles from civilization--find a copy of the Book of the Dead, and unleash supernatural powers that gut every character in sight. All, that is, except Ash, who takes this very personally and spends much of the of the film getting his head smashed while battling the unseen forces. Raimi uses this bare-bones story as a stage to showcase dazzling special effects and eye-popping visuals, including some of the most spectacular point-of-view Steadicam work ever (done by Peter Deming). Although it went unnoticed in the cinemas, the film has since become an influential cult-video favourite, paving the way for over-the-top comic gross-out films like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive.--Dave McCoy
David Jason is the gritty and dogged Detective Inspector Jack Frost a man who has little time for paperwork or the orthodox approach. Featuring the complete series 6 of A Touch Of Frost. Episodes include: Appendix Man One Man's Meat Private Lives Keys To The Car.
Returning for its fifth season and promising more suspense, more drama and more action than ever before. Burn Notice stars Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen, a blacklisted spy who winds up stranded in blue-sky Miami. While technically still considered a civilian, Michael Westen works with the CIA to investigate and dismantle the secret organization that burned him; all the while Michael searches for answers to the questions that have plagued him ever since his arrival in Miami: Who gave the order to burn him, and why? Six months have passed since he was welcomed back into the fold, and still Michael finds himself no closer to getting the answers he seeks. Beside him, as always, is the beautifully hot tempered, bomb-happy Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar); our favourite Mojito-loving retired Navy Seal, Sam (Bruce Campbell); and the team’s newest addition Jesse (Coby Bell), who’s quickly getting used to his new life in Miami. Sharon Gless stars in her Emmy-nominated role as Michael’s sharp-tongued mother Madeline.
Burn Notice stars Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen a blacklisted spy who finds himself stranded in sun-soaked Miami. The action-packed season four commences with a new counterintelligence expert Jesse Garcia played by Coby Bell (Third Watch) who loves to fight bad guys just as much as Michael does. Heating up the night with our hot undercover agent are Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) the beautiful ex-IRA operative and ex-girlfriend of Michael; Sam (Bruce Campbell) our favorite washed-up military intelligence muscle; and Michael's mother Madeline (Emmy Award winner Sharon Gless) who is one tough cookie herself. This season we will see Michael Westen and his team protect a lawyer against the city's most dangerous biker gang help a port worker threatened by dangerous mobsters and assist another burned spy to clear his name all the while trying to figure out the mystery behind Michael's burn notice. Episodes Comprise: 1. Friends and Enemies 2. Fast Friends 3. Made Man 4. Breach of Faith 5. Neighborhood Watch 6. Entry Point 7. Past & Future Tense 8. Where There's Smoke 9. Center of the Storm 10. Hard Time 11. Blind Spot 12. Guilty as Charged 13. Eyes Open 14. Hot Property 15. Brotherly Love 16. Dead or Alive 17. Out of the Fire 18. TBA
SPIDERMAN TRILOGY ORIGINS COLLECTION Swing into action with the groundbreaking original cinematic SpiderMan trilogy from direction Sam Raimi. Join Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) as he becomes the iconic webslinging SpiderMan, battles supervillains Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Sandman and Venom, wins the heart of Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst), and learns that with great power, comes great responsibility. THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN EVOLUTION COLLECTION The untold story of the legendary webshooter unfolds in the blockbuster Amazing SpiderMan films, directed by Marc Webb. The saga begins in The Amazing Spider Man, as Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) becomes SpiderMan and balances being asuperhero doing battle against the villainous Lizard alongside his developing relationship with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). Then when SpiderMan's new enemies including the powerful Electro unite in The Amazing SpiderMan 2, Peter Parker finds that his greatest battle is about to begin. EXTRAS INCLUDE: SPIDERMAN TRILOGY ORIGINS COLLECTION SpiderMan 3 Editor's Cut All New Alternate Version of the Movie SpiderMan 2.1 Includes both Theatrical & Extended Versions The Stan Lee Legacy: From Comic Book to Homecoming featurette Over 18 Hours of Special Features from all 3 films THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN EVOLUTION COLLECTION The Stan Lee Legacy: From Comic Book to Homecoming featurette 15 Rare Archival featurettes Over 7 Hours of Special Features from both films
Burn Notice stars Jeffrey Donovan (Changeling) as Michael Westen everyone's favorite blacklisted spy. Stranded in sun-soaked Miami he continues to use the only tools he has at his disposal: his wits his charm his special ops training and his friends - Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) a beautiful ex-IRA operative who also happens to be Michael's ex-girlfriend Sam (Bruce Campbell) a washed-up military intelligence contact who works as Michael's sidekick and his mother (Emmy Award winner Sharon Gless) who Michael has spent most of his adult life trying to avoid. This season opens with Michael emerging from the water completely free from interference by the organization that burned him but now under investigation by the police. Michael faces a new foe in Miami Police Detective Michelle Paxson (recurring guest star Moon Bloodgood - Terminator: Salvation) who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about Michael. Also in the upcoming season we see Michael and team help a kidnapped child take on Latin American thugs and deal with some familiar faces while Michael works to get back into the CIA. Ben Shenkman (Grey's Anatomy) also recurs as Stickler a freelance spy broker who makes a living by contracting current and former spies to do work on the side. This season we also see the return of some of the most popular characters from the first two seasons including Jay Karnes as weapons dealer Brennen and Seth Peterson as Michael's brother Nate.
It's hard not to feel there's something wrong when Army of Darkness, the third entry in Sam Raimi's lively Evil Dead series, opens with a 15 certificate. And indeed, this is not quite the non-stop rollercoaster of splat we're entitled to expect. Like Evil Dead II, it opens with a digest-cum-remake of the original movie, taking geeky Ash (Bruce Campbell) back out to that cabin in the woods where he is beset by demons who do away with his girlfriend (blink and you'll miss Bridget Fonda). Blasted back in time to 12th century England, Ash finds himself still battling the Deadites and his own ineptitude in a quest to save the day and get back home. Though it starts zippily, with Campbell's grimly funny clod of a hero commanding the screen, a sort of monotony sets in as magical events pile up. Ash is attacked by Lilliputian versions of himself, one of whom incubates in his stomach and grows out of his shoulder to be his evil twin. After being dismembered and buried, Evil Ash rises from the dead to command a zombie army and at least half the film is a big battle scene in which rotted warriors (nine mouldy extras in masks for every one Harryhausen-style impressive animated skeleton) besiege a cardboard castle. There are lots of action jokes, MAD Magazine-like marginal doodles and a few funny lines, but it lacks the authentic scares of The Evil Dead and the authentic sick comedy of Evil Dead II. On the DVD: Army of Darkness may be the least of the trilogy, but Anchor Bay's super two-disc set is worthy of shelving beside their outstanding editions of the earlier films. Disc 1 contains the 81-minute US theatrical version in widescreen or fullscreen, plus the original "Planet of the Apes" ending, the trailer and a making-of featurette. Disc 2 has the 96-minute director's cut, with extra slapstick and a lively, irreverent commentary track from Raimi, Campbell and co-writer Ivan Raimi, plus yet more deleted scenes and some storyboards. The fact that the film exists in so many versions suggests that none of them satisfied everybody, but fans will want every scrap of Army in this one package. --Kim Newman
Bruce Campbell, B-Movie God and "Evil Dead" star, is back as Bruce Campbell in this postmodern twist on the man, the chin and the legend!
More hack n' slash sword and scorcery action from the warrior princess... Episodes include: God Fearing Child Eternal Bonds Amphipolis Under Siege Married With Fishsticks Life Blood Kindred Spirits Antony and Cleopatra Looking Death in the Eye Livia Eve Motherhood.
It's 10pm the night before Walnut Lakes neighbourhood supermarket closes its doors forever. The owners and night crew have a long shift ahead of them - longer than they think. Weird things start happening. The phone lines are cut, and the night crew start dying, one by one, in the most gruesome ways imaginable.
Eddie Presley (Duane Whitaker). is a security guard who like his lifetime hero is slightly overweight these days. Formerly he occasionally worked as an Elvis impersonator. Recently he has had rather a rough time but his spirits have improved on learning that he will have a chance to revive his impersonation routines for a single evening at a none-too spiffy nightclub. When the club's music equipment chews up his tapes Eddie doesn't simply leave the stage. Instead he delivers a m
My Name Is Bruce: Something evil is stirring in the small mining town of Gold Lick and it's not happy. Guan-di the Chinese protector of the dead with a strange affinity for bean curd has been awakened by reckless teenagers and now his bloody crusade to wipe out the town's entire population can only be stopped by one man - Bruce Campbell (the guy who starred in all three Evil Dead movies and Bubba Ho-tep) B-move star and deadbeat ex-husband extraordinaire who's recruited to be their unwitting savior. Thinking the whole scenario's a publicity prank Bruce is distracted from his mission by a hot mom and fan boys aplenty - but when our hero has to face off against a dark force more fearsome than a Hollywood agent the laughs and screams start flying! Bubba Ho-Tep: When it comes down to the King of Rock n' Roll against the King Of The Dead the little Texas town of Mud Creek is about to get all shook up! When mysterious deaths plague the Shady Rest retirement home it's up to its most sequined senior citizen & a curmudgeon-in-chief to defeat a 3 000-year-old Egyptian mummy with a penchant for sucking the souls from the barely living! Will this Bubba Ho-Tep make sure there's never another Elvis sighting? Or can the King show the world that he can still take care of business? The Man With The Screaming Brain: Man with the Screaming Brain is a story of greed betrayal and revenge in the big bad city. William Cole wealthy industrialist winds up with part of his brain replaced by that of Yegor a Bulgarian street hustler. The two couldn't be more different but they share one thing - both were killed by the same woman. Brought back to life by a mad scientist William and Yegor form an unlikely partnership to track down their common nemesis. Alien Apocalypse: Bruce Campbell stars as Dr. Ivan Hood a cocky astronaut who returns to Earth after a 40-year cryogenic space nap to discover civilization destroyed and the planet enslaved by a race of giant alien termites. But when Hood is captured he begins to plot the impossible: escape his captors track down the long-missing president and build a rebel army to destroy these insect overlords. In a desperate time ruled by head-chomping bugs that spew green crap can one brave hero lead a not-very-bright world to freedom? Ren''e O'Connor (Gabrielle of Xena: Warrior Princess) and Peter Jason (Deadwood) co-star in this Sci-Fi Channel sensation written and directed by Josh Becker (Running Time Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except) that became the highest-rated original movie in network history!
Episodes Comprise: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs: When Flint Lockwood's (Bill Hader) latest contraption accidentally destroys the town square and rockets up into the clouds he thinks his inventing career is over. Then something amazing happens as delicious cheeseburgers start raining from the sky. His machine actually works! But when people greedily ask for more and more food the machine starts to run amok unleashing spaghetti tornadoes and giant meatballs that threaten the world! Now it's up to Flint with the help of weather girl Sam Sparks (Anna Faris) and Steve his talking monkey assistant to find some way to shut down the machine before the world is covered in super-sized meatballs! Open Season: Boog a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot a fast-talking mule deer the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to create a rag-tag army against the hunters. Surf's Up: A stylistically daring CGI feature Surf's Up is based on the groundbreaking revelation that surfing was actually invented by penguins. In the film a documentary crew will take audiences behind the scenes and onto the waves during the most competitive heartbreaking and dangerous display of surfing known to man the Penguin World Surfing Championship.
Two years have passed, and the mildmannered Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) faces new challenges as he struggles to balance his life as the elusive superhero Spider Man. Tormented by his secrets, Peter is in danger of losing all those that he holds dear. His love for MJ (Kirsten Dunst) becomes stronger and his friendship with Harry Osborn (James Franco) is complicated by the young Osborn's bitterness over his father's death. These relationships are now in danger of unravelling when he confronts a new nemesis, the brilliant Otto Octavius (Alfred Molina), who has been reincarnated as the multitentacled 'Doc Ock'.
Bruce Campbell stars in this legendary film that unleashed an army of primitive screwheads upon the world and changed the face of horror forever. Directed by Sam Raimi.
Elvis and JFK are living in a retirement home in LA when an ancient Egyptian monster named Bubba Ho-Tep starts sucking the souls of the residents.
Hailed as the first mainstream film to put a human face on the AIDS epidemic Longtime Companion is a drama that takes an honest unflinching look at how this devastating disease changes everyone it touches. During the summer of 1981 a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumour about a mysterious ""gay cancer"" soon turns into a major crisis as one by one some of the friends begin to fall ill leaving the others
Video Nasties.... For the first time ever 'together' six of the most shocking depraved and corrupt movies which were banned under the Obscene Publication Act 1983/4 - Along with a feature length documentary 'Ban The Sadist Videos' which was a headline for the Daily Mail at the height of the frenzy. Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979): There is something sinister about the sailing-boat drifting slowly in Hudson Bay upon boarding the coast-guard police are confronted with a terrifying sight appearing out of the hatchway - a man covered in blood walks towards them menacingly only after being shot repeatedly does he fall overboard and disappear amid the waves. This news causes a panic in America as the sailing-boat belonged to a famous scientist who mysteriously disappeared in the Caribbean. Ann the scientist's daughter together with a famous journalist Peter West set out to look for him setting sail on a schooner belonging to Brian an American Ethnologist and Susan an underwater photographer they head for the Caribbean. Meanwhile on Mutal Island in the Antilles professor Menard is conducting strange experiments. What follows in the Caribbean and later in New York is truly terrifying - Zombie Flesh Eaters are here! (Dir. Lucio Fulci) I Spit On Your Grave (1978): Jenny (Camille Keaton) a New Yorker who goes to a secluded country retreat to finish work on her novel is one day assaulted raped and left for dead by four men. But she survives to take revenge. She seduces each of her rapists separately and personally performs their painful executions... (Dir. Meir Zarchi) Driller Killer (1979): Reno is struggling artist close to breaking point. The loud punk band in the flat next door practices for 24 hours a day. His debts are mounting. He needs to sell his new painting to pay the overdue rent on the shabby New York apartment he shares with his girlfriend and her spaced-out lesbian lover. Despite the desperate need for cash Reno will not admit that he has completed the painting. It becomes an obsession. In his troubled mind the picture triggers a violence he cannot contain... (Dir. Abel Ferrara) The Last House On The Left (1972): The terrifying story of two teenage girls Mari and Phyllis heading up to the city to celebrate Mari's 17th birthday at concert by the band Bloodlust. Prior to the show the pair are drugged beaten and kidnapped by a group of escaped convicts and taken into the woods where their horrific ordeal ends in rape and murder. When the criminals coincidentally but unknowingly take refuge at the nearby house of one of their victims the girl's parents discover the gruesome fate of their daughter and seek to exact their revenge... (Dir. Wes Craven) Nightmares In A Damaged Brain (1981): Escaped mental patient George (Baird Stafford) repeatedly suffers a graphic nightmare that depicts the axe murders of a couple making love. In Florida a prowler stalks a babysitter - when she is attacked the youngest child she is looking after just sits and laughs... George begins a journey of brutal murder death and destruction until the final moment of truth when his nightmares come to frightening life! (Dir. Romano Scavolini) The Evil Dead (1982): In the literary tradition of Stephen King and the cinematic mode of George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) The Evil Dead is a visual and aural attack on the senses which requires a strong stomach and a healthy sense of humour! Whilst holidaying in the Tennessee woodlands five innocent teenagers unwittingly unleash the spirit of the evil dead. One by one the teenagers fall victim to the frenzied flesh-eating monsters amidst a tour-de-force display of stunning special effects. (Dir. Sam Raimi)
Available uncut for the first time in the UK, The Evil Dead is a classic cult horror film that tells of five college friends who journey to the woods and wake the spirits of demons who want their bodies!
A must for all fans of BAFTA winning David Jason detective series, A Touch of Frost. This 10-disc set features all the episodes from series six to ten.
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