In Bud the C.H.U.D. a couple of high-school kids loose the cadaver for the next day's science experiment, then hit on a plan to steal a body from the local hospital to replace it. Unfortunately what they dont know is that the hospital is home to a rather more sinister and dubious military trial, the sole remaining C.H.U.D (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dweller), who has been cryogenically frozen after the experiment went horribly wrong. Unwittingly they thaw Bud the C.H.U.D, who has the rebel-boy charm of James Dean and the personal tastes of Hannibal Lector. Bud then lumbers off on a cannibalistic rampage infecting everyone he munches on (including the family dog) and turning the town into a whole army of C.H.U.Ds. Only the Colonel (played with great melodramatic gusto by Robert "Napoleon Solo" Vaughn) and the kids who unleashed him can save the town from a fate worse than death. This tongue-in-check schlock horror movie is worth watching just for the late-80s nostalgia, the performances are clichéd and the plot wafer thin, but the humour hits the spot and Brian Robbins as the eponymous Bud positively eats his way into your heart. On the DVD: the DVD is unfortunately devoid of any special features other than a filmography and the film stock has a kind of graininess that comes from being low budget (rather than purposefully art house). It wont be to everyones taste but you cant beat the pure entertainment factor of a cannibalistic poodle. --Kristen Bowditch
Based on Anna Quindlen's bestselling novel, this is a mother-daughter and father-daughter story, two for the price of one. But director Carl Franklin also tries to inject a police-mystery angle that it neither needs nor will support. Renee Zellweger plays a young writer on the rise, who has finally got her break for a New York magazine. While home for a birthday party for her nearly famous writer father (William Hurt), she learns that her mother (Meryl Streep) has been diagnosed with cancer. Then her father does the unthinkable: he all but commands her to put her career on hold to take care of her mother and nurse her through her illness. Dad, a popular college professor who has never received the literary acclaim he always believed he deserved, essentially checks out--and daughter must play parent to her mother. Strong performances by Streep and Zellweger give this parent-child relationship the heart--and the anger--of the real thing, while Hurt seems slightly disembodied as the self-involved father whose needs have dominated both women. Still, the detective-story aspect (the film is told in flashback, as the cops try to discover whether someone slipped Mom a fatal dose of morphine) is a construct that could have been done without. --Marshall Fine
After her adventures in 'My Girl' Vada is now thirteen years-old and living with her father and pregnant step-mother. A school project leads to a stay in Los Angeles and a holiday with Uncle Phil. There she discovers a lot about herself the uncertainties of first love and her role in a changing family...
Eureka Entertainment to release USED CARS, Robert Zemeckis' classic 80s screwball comedy starring Kurt Russell and Jack Warden, for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK as part of the Eureka Classics range from 12 August 2019. The first print run will feature a Limited Edition Collector's booklet. A hilarious cult favourite from director Robert Zemeckis (The Back to the Future Trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), Used Cars is a high-octane comic salute to the supersalesmen whose persuasive pitches transformed rattling wrecks into your dream car. Kurt Russell (Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China) is Rudy Russo, the top salesmen at the New Deal used car lot run by Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden). Caught up in a crazy feud between Luke and his brother Roy (also played by Warden) who runs the rival car lot across the street, Rudy must put his grifting skills into overdrive as the battle for sales supremacy escalates into all-out war! Under-appreciated on release, Used Cars is now recognised as one of the funniest comedies of the 1980s. Eureka Classics is delighted to present Used Cars in its UK debut on Blu-ray. Features: 1080p presentation on Blu-ray Uncompressed LPCM (original mono presentation) and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio options Optional English SDH subtitles Audio Commentary with director Robert Zemeckis, producer/co-writer Bob Gale, and star Kurt Russell Isolated Score Track (Patrick Williams score) Isolated Score Track (Unused Ernest Gold score) Would You Buy a Used Car from These Men? Getting Used Cars made with producer Bob Gale [27 mins] Radio Interview with Kurt Russell Outtakes and Gag Reel Kurt Russell Chrysler Commercial Radio Spots Stills Galleries Original Theatrical Trailer Limited Edition Collector's booklet featuring new essays by author Scott Harrison and film writer Phil Hoad [First print run only]
A crime spree called Operation Chaos is plaguing the city. Time to call out our frontline defense. And when that defense is made up of Police Academy alumni it's also time to pray! Bubba Smith Michael Winslow David Graf Marion Ramsey Leslie Easterbrook G.W. Bailey George Gaynes and other returnees strap on laugh-riot gear for Police Academy 6: City Under Siege. A mysterious Mr. Big is the mastermind behind a gang that robs banks and jewelers. Cmdt. Lassard is suspected when it becomes clear that a police department information leak is keeping the bad guys one step ahead. Solving the case won't take a mastermind just an arsenal of gags and goofiness in the fun Police Academy tradition.
An innocent man is targeted for surveillance by the CIA. However the intelligence agency finds it increasingly difficult to liquidate the musician as he continues to be oblivious of the attempts to kill him...
A new chapter in the horrific struggle between a young boy and the demonic doll possessed by the spirit of a mass murderer who attempts to possess his soul: Andy has been placed in a foster home while his mother is temporarily institutionalised. Chucky comes back to cause mischief and Andy gets blamed for it all.
IN VIETNAM THEY FOUGHT FOR THEIR COUNTRY. NOW, THEY RE FIGHTING FOR THEIR FRIENDS. As the 1980s rolled on, a new, bullish attitude to war took hold in America, the weary cynicism of the previous decade giving way to an unabashed celebration of military might. Numerous filmmakers and producers sought to capitalise on the emerging mood... among them New World Pictures, the company founded by the legendary Roger Corman. In The Annihilators, the war comes home as a group of army vets, battle-scarred from their travails in the jungles of Vietnam, are forced to dust off their combat moves once again when one of their own meets his demise at the hands a violent criminal gang. Deciding that enough is enough, the self-styled Annihilators, led by the redoubtable Bill (Christopher Stone, The Howling, Cujo), set out to equip the beleaguered citizens of downtown Atlanta with the skills they need to rid their streets of crime and vice. Directed by Charles E. Sellier Jr. (Silent Night, Deadly Night) and co-starring Gerrit Graham (Phantom of the Paradise) and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (Death Wish), The Annihilators is a brash, no-holds-barred slice of vigilante justice from the golden age of B-movie action. Special Contents: Brand new 2K restoration from the original 35mm interpostive, presented uncut in the UK for the first time High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original lossless mono soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing The New Heat on the Street, a new video interview with actor Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs In Search of Charles E. Sellier Jr., a new video interview with filmmaker David O Malley on the early career of the Annihilators director Comparison between the censored and uncensored UK releases of the film Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
Incredibly, National Lampoon's Class Reunion was the project that launched John Hughes' writing career before he started directing. On some surreal level, the film's premise is actually quite ingenious. It blends together the nudie flick and stalker/slasher genres that became hugely popular in the early 1980s. The group of classmates reuniting 10 years after graduation are nothing like the idiots of Animal House: they're worse! So when they are hunted through the dilapidated halls by misunderstood psycho Walter Baylor (Blackie Dammett), you can expect lots of black humour. Running for their lives are yuppie-in-the-making Bob Spinnaker (a slimily smooth Gerrit Graham), class nobody Gary Nash, slobbish womaniser Hubert (Stephen Furst playing against his usual shy nerd), scary-looking Satanist Delores and two potheads who are oblivious to the goings-on. Hilarious cameos come from Michael Lerner as mysterious Dr Young, Chuck Berry (!) and the late, great Anne Ramsey (Momma in Throw Momma from the Train) as the world's worst school cook. There were more than a dozen theatrical "Lampoon" movies plus many more for TV and video: Class Reunion may not be subtle, and it's certainly not politically correct, but it endearingly remains one of the daftest from the series' early days . On the DVD: The picture and sound are understandably average, but some effort has been put into the menu page at least; a gallery of 20 photos are the only extra. --Paul Tonks
A woman depressed over the recent death of her child and estranged from her scientist husband finds herself stuck in her home with an incredibly sophisticated computer. Unfortunately this machine called the Proteus IV and developed by her husband has become virtually a sentient being with human desires -- including the desire to reproduce. And it has decided that the scientist's wife would make the perfect mother for its offspring...
Their first mistake was stealing a corpse... Their second was waking him up. Meet Bud The CHUD a Cannabilistic Humanoid Undeground Dweller. He has all the charm of Cary Grant the searing sexuality of James Dean the greatest talent discovery since Patrick Swayze. It's Hallowe'en and this CHUD's for you!
Robert De Niro stars in this his second film for director Brian De Palma. 'Greetings' is a satirical comedy focusing on the lives of three New Yorkers each with his own personal fixation ranging from sex and voyeurism to Kennedy assassination theories. Their common interest is discussing the ways to dodge the draft board. De Palma's originalty captures perfectly the spirit of late sixties America. And De Niro even in this early performance displays all the hallmarks that has e
The Phantom Of The Paradise boasts director Brian De Palma's trademark visual inventiveness and is an hilarious send-up of the glam rock era. Paul Williams wrote the acclaimed rock and roll score for this musical horror classic and stars as an evil record tycoon haunted and taunted by a disfigured composer he once wronged.
Used Cars, the 1980 film by director Robert Zemeckis, gives no indication of things to come in his career (Back to the Future, Contact, Forrest Gump), but it is representative of a certain cynical humour he shared early on with writer-partner Bob Gale. Kurt Russell and Jack Warden star in a sketchy comedy about competing used-car salesmen who resort to outrageous tactics to lure customers away from each other. The jokes, like the characters, are intentionally recycled, self-conscious comic fodder from a baby-boomer's lifetime (such as Gale's or Zemeckis') of immersion in pop culture. That makes Used Cars more pastiche than original (the film's title itself suggests that), but as such it has some good, if vaguely familiar, laughs in it. Russell, particularly, is very funny as a practiced con man. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
You are invited to a night of mirth and mayhem with some of the weirdest characters to ever attend a class reunion - brought to you by the same lunatics who gave you 'National Lampoon's Animal House'. Ten years after an incident at the Lizzie Borden High School's Graduation Party turned him into a raving psychopath; Walter Baylor receives an invite to the class reunion. Finally a chance to revenge himself on the entire graduating class! With class president Bob Spinnaker a man desperately in love with himself and stunning Meredith Modess star of pantyhose commericals all the old crowd are back - the oddest collection of human beings ever to gather in a decrepit gymnasium! Be prepared for non-stop laughs as the team from National Lampoon destroy any ideas you may have about getting together for a class reunion!
In 1972 it was the jungles of 'Nam. In 1985 it's the streets of America. Different places same job. Upon his return from Vietnam an ex-soldier finds his neighborhood in Atlanta has deteriorated badly and is being terrorized by a vicious street gang. He calls some of his GI buddies and together they hatch a plan to get rid of the gang.
An introverted TV songwriter inadvertently attracts millions of joke-loving Martians to Earth when his music is accidentally broadcast to the galaxies.
Another coast to coast race adventure where anyone driving anywhere near fifty-five miles an hour most certainly will not win...
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