Frogs Dir. George McCowan 1972): Today the pond! Tomorrow the world! Jumping with action suspense revenge and Southern Gothic charm Frogs stars Ray Milland Sam Elliott and Joan Van Ark are constantly a lily away from croaking! Joan Crockett (Milland) is an aging physically disable millionaire who invites this family to his island estate for his birthday party. The old man is more than crotchetyhe's crazy! Hating nature Crockett poisons anything that crawls on his property. But on the night of his shindig it's nature's payback time as thousands of frogs whip up every bug and slimy thing into a toxic frenzy until the entire environment goes environ-mental. Lake Placid (Dir. Steve Miner 1999): Bill Pullman Bridget Fonda and Oliver Platt share an appetite for sheer adventure when a tranquil New England lakefront erupts into an action-packed den of destruction. An investigative team of malcontents (armed with state-of-the-art equipment high-powered weaponry and a biting sense of sarcasm) must work together to defeat Black Lake's most ferocious resident: a 30-foot prehistoric crocodile! Piranha (Dir. Joe Dante 1978): Lost River Lake was a thriving resort - until they discovered... A school of piranha are heading downstream and eating everything in their way... just when you though it was safe to go back in the water! Produced by legendary producer-director Roger Corman Piranha is the film that helped spawn the careers of Joe Dante (director) Jon Davison (producer) John Sayles (writer) Rob Bottin (special effects) and Chris Walas (effects). Starring Kevin McCarthy Keenan Wynn Bradford Dillman and Heather Menzies as well as long time Corman-faves Dick Miller Barbara Steele and Paul Bartel.
Nosferatu ... the name alone can chill the blood!". F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, released in 1922, was the first (albeit unofficial) screen adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Nearly 80 years on, it remains among the most potent and disturbing horror films ever made. The sight of Max Schreck's hollow-eyed, cadaverous vampire rising creakily from his coffin still has the ability to chill the blood. Nor has the film dated. Murnau's elision of sex and disease lends it a surprisingly contemporary resonance. The director and his screenwriter Henrik Gaalen are true to the source material, but where most subsequent screen Draculas (whether Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella or Gary Oldman) were portrayed as cultured and aristocratic, Nosferatu is verminous and evil. (Whenever he appears, rats follow in his wake.)The film's full title--Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror)--reveals something of Murnau's intentions. Supremely stylised, it differs from Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919) or Ernst Lubitsch's films of the period in that it was not shot entirely in the studio. Murnau went out on location in his native Westphalia. As a counterpoint to the nightmarish world inhabited by Nosferatu, he used imagery of hills, clouds, trees and mountains (it is, after all, sunlight that destroys the vampire). It's not hard to spot the similarity between the gangsters in film noir hugging doorways or creeping up staircases with the image of Schreck's diabolic Nosferatu, bathed in shadow, sidling his way toward a new victim. Heavy chiaroscuro, oblique camera angles and jarring close-ups--the devices that crank up the tension in Val Lewton horror movies and edgy, urban thrillers such as Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice--were all to be found first in Murnau's chilling masterpiece. --Geoffrey Macnab
Based on the best-selling novel by Bret Easton Ellis Academy Award-winning writer/director Roger Avary masterfully adapts the darkly funny social satire of life and love among the young and privileged students of Camden College.
The 10 best matches of 2001 as voted by you the fans. Plus the top 5 shocks kisses slaps put-downs & food moments of the year! (Listed in chronological order.) Royal Rumble Intercontinental Championship Ladder Match: Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho No Way Out 2-out-of-3 Falls Match: Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Triple H Wrestlemania X-7 TLC II Match: Edge & Christian vs. Hardy Boyz vs. Dudley Boyz Wrestlemania X-7: Undertaker vs. Triple H Raw May 21 Tag Team Championship Match: Stone Cold Steve Austin & Triple H vs. Chris Jericho & Chris Benoit King of the Ring Street Fight: Kurt Angle vs. Shane McMahon Invasion Hardcore Championship: Jeff Hardy vs. Rob Van Dam No Mercy 1st Ever Lingerie Match: Torrie Wilson vs. Stacy Keibler Survivor Series Winner-Take-All Elimination Match: Team World Wrestling Federation vs. Team Alliance
September 1944 - Nazi Occupied Holland. When her temporary safe house is destroyed the beautiful young Jewish chanteuse Rachel Steinn and her family attempt to reach Allied territory by boat. However tragedy strikes when a Nazi patrol kills everybody onboard leaving Rachel as sole survivor. Desperate for revenge she joins the Resistance charged with infiltrating the German Security Service by seducing senior officer Muntze and soon becomes entangled in a deadly web of double-dealing and betrayal... Twenty years in the making this stunning sexy war film from the acclaimed blockbuster director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct Total Recall Starship Troopers) is an epic and moving tale of courage and emotion - played out against the dying explosive months of WWII.
Mary Poppins - Special Edition: Mary Poppins is one of Disney's most enchanting fantasies and the motion-picture hit that made 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' a household word! Julie Andrews stars as the loveable nanny who soars out of the skies and into the hearts of everyone she encounters. Toting a carpetbag full of magical adventures Mary and her fun-loving sidekick Bert (Dick Van Dyke) deliver endless joy and surprises to a troubled family. Tarzan - Special Edition: The classic tale of Tarzan an orphan who is brought up by apes and believes them to be his family. This changes when on an expedition he rescues Jane and discovers that he is human after all. Now he must decide where he really belongs. 'Tarzan' was the last Disney animated blockbuster for the 20th century and it pulled out all the stops with star studded voice-overs by the likes of Nigel Hawthorne Minnie Driver Glenn Close and Rosie O'Donnell while all the songs are performed by Phil Collins. Lilo And Stitch - Special Edition: Lilo a little girl in Hawaii unknowingly adopts a dog she names Stitch who is actually an evil alien. Stitch is really a criminal whose ship crashed on Earth while he was being transported to an intergalactic prison. He is only taking the form of a dog (thus hiding two of his six legs) to escape detection from alien police who are searching for him. Through her love faith and unwavering belief in ohana (the Hawaiian concept of family) Lilo helps unlock Stitch's heart unexpectedly giving him the one thing he was never designed to have--the ability to care for someone else.
Nine years before his WWII cult classic Inglorious Bastards, Enzo Castellari virtually invented the 'Macaroni Combat' genre with this over-the-top saga of valour, vengeance and machine-gun mayhem. Hollywood legend Van Johnson The Caine Mutiny and Frederick Stafford (Hitchcock's Topaz) star as military officers pursuing a merciless team of Nazi saboteurs through war-ravaged London, featuring Castellari's jaw-dropping recreations of The Siege Of Dunkirk, The Battle Of Bri...
Sean Connery reprises his role as James Bond in a film that he would later re-make as Never Say Never Again under controversial circumstances. The thrills never stop as Agent 007 (Sean Connery) goes above the call of duty - and to the bottom of the ocean - to track down a villainous criminal who's holding millions hostage and threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust!
An eerie and deserted wax museum Slausen’s Lost Oasis is the site for spine-tingling terror where four unsuspecting young travelers (Including Tanya Roberts from “Charlie’s Angels” & “A View to a Kill”) are lured into a very deadly “Tourist Trap”. Slausen (Chuck Conners “Soyelnt Green”) is the reclusive and bizarre owner of this attraction which is actually more like a macabre chamber of horrors. The grotesque and frightening mannequins in this sordid side-show are only the beginning of the murderous mayhem and nightmarish madness to come.. Special Features Include: Anamorphic Widescreen Picture in Original 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio Original Stereo Audio Mix Audio Commentary with Director David Schmoeller Theatrical Trailer Full Moon Trailer Reel Reversible Sleeve Incorporating Original Artwork.
Action mega star Jean-Claude Van Damme is back with a vengeance in Maximum Risk - an exhilarating thrill-packed adventure also starring Natasha Henstridge. Alain Moreau's (Van Damme) investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the south of France to the mean streets of New York City... and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder and expose an international conspiracy. There's only one problem: all traces of his brother's life are rapidly disappearing and the one person who knew him best may not be telling all she knows.
There is only one word that comes close to accurately describing the enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term was coined by the movie itself: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes, Disney's pioneering mixture of live action and animation (based on the books by P.L. Travers) still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won an Oscar as the world's most magically idealized nanny ("practically perfect in every way," and complete with lighter-than-air umbrella), and Dick Van Dyke is her clownishly charming beau, Bert the chimney sweep. The songs are also terrific, ranging from bright and cheery ("A Spoonful of Sugar") to dark and cheery (the Oscar-winning "Chim-Chim Cheree") to touchingly melancholy ("Feed the Birds"). Many consider Mary Poppins to be the crowning achievement of Walt Disney's career--and it was the only one of his features to be nominated for a best picture Academy Award until Beauty and the Beast in 1991. --Jim Emerson
Duane Bradley’s brother is very small very twisted very mad and he lives in a basket… until night comes! After a difficult birth which their mother didn’t survive Duane was born with a monstrously deformed conjoined twin Belial attached to his side. Embittered by the death of his wife and unable to accept his hideous son the boys’ father orders the twins to be separated surgically. Surviving the operation but deeply resentful of his enforced removal from his brother’s side Belial plans to get even with his father and the doctors responsible. Duane normal-looking but sympathetic to his brother’s plight moves to New York carrying with him a large basket in which his grotesque twin hides. Together they seek the surgeons responsible for their violent separation and Belial wreaks his gruesomely bloody revenge…
Frankenstein: Boris Karloff stars as the screen's most memorable monster in what many consider to be the greatest horror film ever made. Director James Whale's adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel blended with Karloff's compassionate portrayal of a creature groping for identity make it a classic to be watched time and time again! Bride Of Frankenstein: One of the most popular horror classics of all time and an acclaimed sequel to the original Frankenstein. Boris Karloff reprises his role as the screen's most misunderstood monster who now longs for a mate of his own.
This four disc collection features all fifteen episodes of the Dick Tracy serial made in 1937 and starring Ralph Byrd as the police detective. Byrd would return as Tracy almost ten years later but by then Morgan Conway had appeared as the detective in two films made by RKO Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy Vs Cueball. These two films can be found on disc four of this collection. Disc 1: The Serial Part 1 Disc 2: The Serial Part 2 Disc 3: The Serial Part 3 Disc 4: Dick Tracy & Dick Tracy V's Cueball
You'd be hard-pressed to find a bigger family film than this chaotic comedy starring Lucille Ball and Academy Award-winner Henry Fonda as the parents of eighteen (Yes eighteen!) children. Based on a true story and co-starring Van Johnson and Tom Bosley Yours Mine And Ours keeps the laughs coming thick and fast! This population explosion occurs when widowed Navy nurse Helen North (Ball) meets handsome Naval officer and widower Frank Beardsley (Fonda). They have much in commo
Based on the Judith Krantz novel which tells the story of a beautiful and spirited daughter of a Russian Prince and an American movie star. This rich and captivating story blends romantic passion with bitter tragedy glittering glamour with dark and dangerous intrigue. The beautiful and elegant Daisy has been scarred by a troubled and traumatic childhood. With a hollywood filmstar mother and exiled Rusian Prince Father her life should have been privileged and perfect but her parents angrily split after her domineering father's refusal to accept Daisy's brain damaged twin sister and the tragedy is made worse by the death of her Mother in a car accident. Arriving penniless in America Daisy enjoys a meteoric rise to stardom as a fashion supermodel. She's desired by men envied by women and tormented by a guilty secret she has gaurded all her life.
Art Garfunkel plays a moody American psychoanalyst whose mounting obsession with a beautiful fun-loving young girl drives her to the brink of death on a drug overdose. As he waits anxiously at the hospital and tries to answer police questions he recalls the details of the complex and tempestuous affair: their meeting their discovery of physical joy marred by mental anguish their constant separations and reconciliations. Yet is he telling the police the whole truth?
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