"Actor: Christa"

• Black Magic Rites | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A series of black magic rituals take place in a castle in the hope that they will resurrect a dead witch. Naked virgins are the sacrifice. A rescue attempt by one of the virgin's lovers ends in burnings and torture. A 1972 outing by Italian director Renato Polselli that has now been remasterd from the negatives. A deluxe sordid tale of the Black Magic Rites and secret orgies of the 14th century....

• Death Of A Cheerleader | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When Stacey Lockwood the cheerleader and beauty from Santa Mira High is murdered the chief suspect is another pupil. At the trial the whole community is under scrutiny for the pressure it places on the young. Based on a true story.

• Black Magic Rites | DVD | (28/07/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Black Magic Rites features satanic rituals in an ancient castle's underground vaults which revive a witch who was killed over 400 years ago. The rites involve slaughtering seven naked virgins already dazed by their experiences during a demonic orgy. The ritual is interrupted by one of the women's lovers who tries to save her. There follows a series of frenzied and crazed depictions of torture burnings and SM sex Italian-style in what has to be one of the most bizarre horror films ever made.

• Puccini - Gold | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The ultimate A Night At The Opera collection from the world's most popular opera composer, featuring many o the greatest singers of our time. Eighteen favourite arias and ensembles from the classic operas La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, performed by Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni and many more.

• Tears Of Kali | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-4.08 (-102.30%)   |  RRP £3.99

  In the end of the '70s Poona in India was one of the harbours for those looking for inspiration. In the early '80s several communes and self-experiencing groups where established. From the biggest group the Raijnish-group many smaller groups did split. In their own ways they started to seek a therapy for what they looked upon as a ""sickness of the western world"". One of they groups was the infamous Taylor-Eriksson group who did not accept any limits for their experiments. Althoug

• 13 Going On 30 | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Wagner: Die Walkure -- Metropolitan/Levine | DVD | (12/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The 1990 Metropolitan Opera performance of Die Walkure ("The Valkyrie") with James Levine conducting is a solid, four-square performance with few frills and no gimmicks, just extraordinarily fine singing and orchestral playing. There is no point in this where you find yourself asking why the director did something: this is the sort of production which could be criticised as unimaginative but defended as serving Wagner's intentions for this instalment of his Ring cycle. Levine and his orchestra give the music an emotional intensity that never overwhelms its grandeur, though perhaps in Wotan's farewell to Brunnhilde, we feel him more as father than as god. James Morris as Wotan has real stature, making us feel that he has finally created the free agents he needs to avoid the curse he has unleashed on the world, but he has broken his heart in the process. Jessye Norman is surprisingly good and erotically self-assured as Sieglinde; the Act 1 love duet with Gary Lake as Siegmund has an ardour that makes the incestuous aspect less a matter of perversity than of the conduct of heroes. Kurt Moll makes Sieglinde's rapist and husband Hunding, a three-dimensional sinister villain; and Christa Ludwig almost manages to sell us Fricka's interminable paean to family values. The most impressive performance here, though, is Hildegard Behrens as Brunnhilde, the steely godling who sacrifices everything because she learns to feel and to know what is right. On the DVD Die Walkure on disc comes with menus and subtitles in German, French, English, Spanish and Chinese and with a picture gallery of the production. Awkwardly it is presented in (American) NTSC format not PAL, with a visual aspect of standard TV 4:3. More impressive is the choice of PCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 6.1; the sound is admirably clear and well-balanced. --Roz Kaveney

• Death By Engagement | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ditched at the altar the violent-tempered groom causes his runaway bride s car to crash then proceeds to bash her head with a tire iron until stopped by police bullets. Now with the former bride in coma her large antique engagement ring begins a mysterious and deadly passage from desperate-to-be married young women to another with each ending up brutally murdered. Two police detectives sexy feminist Rikki (Sascha Knopf) and the cocky macho Cade Hamilton are sent to investigate the vicious serial killings. Rikki and Cade find themselves always one step behind the killer who is bent on reclaiming the heirloom engagement ring.

• Ghost Rock | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £14.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (6.67%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A band of merciless outlaws led by the ruthless 'Black' Jack Pickett (Gary Busey - 'Lethal Weapon' - 'Under Siege') has been blazing a trail of murder and destruction through the frontier towns of Arizona.In an attempt to bring justice to the lawless West U.S. Ranger Moses Logan (Jeff Fahey - 'The Lawnmower Man' - 'Wyatt Earp) relentlessly pursues Pickett to the small town of Ghost Rock.This peaceful town has been taken over by Pickett and his gang. Out-manned and out-gunned Logan joins forces with the famed bounty hunter John Slaughter (Michael Worth - 'US Seals' - 'Fists Of Iron') and a mysterious female gunfighter (Jenya Lano - 'Blade') to unleash war on Pickett in the streets of Ghost Rock.

• Schubert: Die Winterreise | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £13.72   |  Saving you £7.53 (60.43%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Christa Ludwig - The Birthday Edition | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £22.18   |  Saving you £2.81 (11.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The intimate auditorium of the magnificent neo-baroque Volkstheater in Vienna was packed with a discerning and enthusiastic audience when Christa Ludwig gave two master classes there.The first master class focuses on Mozart and concludes with a performance extract featuring the young Christa Ludwig as Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte (1970). The second includes pieces by Beethoven, Bizet and Massenet and, at the end, the greatness of her art is recalled as she is seen singing Mistress Quickly in a production of Verdi's Falstaff (1982).

• Ghost Rock | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In 1882 20 years after a forgotten massacre took place the only living witness to the crime John Slaughter returns to the town where it happened. Now finding the town run by the man behind the terrible act Slaughter teams up with the mysterious gunslinger Savannah Starr to try and rid the west of one of its' great evils...

• Day Of The Dead/Night Of The Living Dead | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Titles Comprise: Day Of The Dead (2008): Nick Cannon Mena Suvari and Ving Rhames star in this horror film based on the George A. Romero classic zombie film. A mysterious virus has infected the small town of Leadville Colorado and the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine and stop the spread of the disease. As people perish survivors realize that the virus is creating the walking dead who crave human flesh. Only a small number of people are immune to the virus and those few survivors must battle to fend off the infected zombies while trying to make it out of town alive. Night Of The Living Dead (1968): The story begins casually enough; a brother and sister go to visit the grave of their father in a remote graveyard in the woods. There a strange man grabs at O'Dea and her brother rushes to her defense at which the man bites him and knocks him out. Terrified the girl jumps in the car and speeds to a nearby farm house to get help. She goes inside and the house appears to be deserted and the phone disconnected. She looks out the window and to her horror she sees the man trying to get inside the house! That is just the beginning of the seminal horror movie that is Night Of The Living Dead!

• Lies And Illusions | Blu Ray | (15/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The story revolves around a writer who becomes the target of a spy who believes he is in possession of a fortune in diamonds stolen by the writer's dead fiancee.

• Puccini: Madama Butterfly -- 1974 film version/Von Karajan | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.79

  Of all Puccinis major operas, the intimate tragedy of Madama Butterfly is least in need of elaborate staging and might therefore benefit most from the close scrutiny of film. The story is domestic, the setting Spartan, the incidental characters kept to a minimum. This 1974 version, however, demonstrates that Butterfly still needs a healthy injection of proscenium arch melodrama. Director Jean-Pierre Ponelles production strives for realism but remains unfortunately studio-bound, having neither the benefit of location filming nor the heightened reality of an opera stage. The exterior is a perpetually fog-shrouded heath of indeterminate locale; the interior is cramped and unadorned. The setting is just too prosaic to contain the epic emotions of grand opera. Thankfully, the cast is superb, headed by Placido Domingos rakish Pinkerton and Mirella Frenis rubicund Butterfly. Their singing is incomparable, as is Herbert von Karajans musical direction of the Vienna Phil. The singers mime to pre-recorded music, which is occasionally disconcerting since when film demands close-ups opera provides broad gestures. Musically, this Butterfly is impeccable. Visually it adds nothing that could not be seen to better effect in a stage version. On the DVD: Madama Butterfly is presented disappointingly on disc in a poor NTSC transfer full of distracting graininess that makes every scene, both inside and out, look like it takes place in an omnipresent drizzle. Sound is reasonable stereo and adequate 5.0 surround. There are subtitles in the major European languages as well as Chinese, and the booklet contains a background essay plus synopsis. --Mark Walker

• Die Jungfrau von Orleans | DVD | (28/01/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A