When a black market antiques deal is botched by a goon and his girlfriend the mummified remains of an alien they were selling is revived by the blood of the murdered dealer Eldridge (Darrow Igus). The blood hungry mummy is on the run and stumbles upon an in-patient psychiatric facility that is home to dozens of beautiful voluptuous nymphomaniacs. Meanwhile the mummy is being tracked by FBI Special Ops agent Buzz York (Roark Critchlow). While the mummy wreaks havoc at the facil
Agent 007 (Roger Moore in his final outing as James Bond) races against time to stop a power-mad industrialist (Christopher Walken) who plots to kill millions in order to corner the world's microchip supply. From the Eiffel Tower to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge James Bond can't be stopped.
A woman goes to desperate measures to meet a successful radio psychologist even if it means killing in order to do so...
A fiery young heiress begins a passionate and destructive relationship with a promising young bullfighter and sets out to ruin his career.
Ariodante makes extraordinary vocal and acting demands, which the English National Opera brilliantly fulfils in a curious combination of baroque music and post-modern production styles. Handel's intensely emotional arias and the surreal staging combine their energies with powerful impact, aided by some imaginative choreography and a remarkable English singing translation of the Italian text. The subject is the painfully complex love entanglements of five characters: pure idealism and raging jealousy, nefarious plots and deceptions, unscrupulous exploitation, and opportunism, hopelessness mounting to the brink of insanity. The plot, as often happens in baroque opera, is riddled with improbabilities, exaggerations, and coincidence, but they matter not at all. It is essentially no more than a framework on which Handel mounts music of tender passion, rage, delirious joy, hope, resignation--nearly three hours of unrestrained emotional intensity and vocal brilliance. Ann Murray and Joan Rodgers are appealing as the young lovers Ariodante and Ginevra, but the show is nearly stolen by countertenor Christopher Robson as the villainous Polinesso, who convinces Ariodante that Ginevra has been unfaithful. Lesley Garrett performs brilliantly as Polinesso's dupe and accomplice, Dalinda, and Ivor Bolton conducts with a fine sense of baroque style. --Joe McLellan, Amazon.com
Peter Sellers's third go-around as the prideful but bumbling Inspector Jacques Clouseau in The Return of the Pink Panther is funny enough, but this 1975 Blake Edwards revival of the Sellers-Clouseau connection is a little weak in comparison to predecessors The Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark (both made in 1964). Co-star Christopher Plummer actually gets some of the most interesting screen time as a retired cat burglar whom Clouseau accuses of getting back into the business. (If it sounds like there might be a To Catch a Thief vibe mixed in here, you're right.) Herbert Lom is hilarious as Clouseau's psychologically eroding boss, and Clouseau's ritualistic collisions with valet Cato (Burt Kwouk) are great examples of Edwards' delicious comic timing. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Anti-vivisection activists make a very bad judgment call and release an experimental monkey infected with "rage". 28 Days Later..., as the title has it, bicycle messenger Cillian Murphy wakes up from a post-traffic accident coma in a deserted London hospital, ventures out to find the city depopulated and the few remaining normal people doing everything to avoid the jittery, savage, zombie-like "infecteds" who attack on sight. Our bewildered hero has to adjust to the loss of his family and the entire world, but hooks up with several others--including a tough black woman (Naomie Harris) and a likable London cabbie (Brendan Gleeson)--on a perilous trip northwards, to seek refuge at army officer Christopher Eccleston's fortified retreat. However, even if they survive the plague, the future of humanity is still in doubt. Directed by Danny Boyle and scripted by novelist Alex Garland, this is a terrific SF/horror hybrid, evoking American and Italian zombie movies but also the very British end-of-the-world tradition of John Wyndham (Day of the Triffids) and Survivors. Shot on digital video, which gives the devastated cityscapes a closed-circuit-camera realism, this grips from the first, with its understandably extreme performances, its terrifyingly swift monster attacks and its underlying melancholy. Deliberately crude, 28 Days Later is also sometimes exceptionally subtle. --Kim Newman
4 Action Adventures (4 Disc)
He's cheeky & he's cruel! When Max Taylor (Benny Young) wins the ancestral home of the mysterious Mr Chance (Christopher Lee) in a hand of Poker he doesn't realise that far from ending the game has just begun. As soon as the Taylor family move into their new home Max's wife (Ingrid Lacey) and two kids are brutally dispatched one-by-one at the hands of the resident demonic jester (Tim James); an evil joker with a varied and imaginative repertoire of homicidal techniques
The Thing (1982): Horror-meister John Carpenter teams Kurt Russell's outstanding performance with incredible visuals to build this chilling version of the classic The Thing. In the winter of 1982 a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100 000 years. Soon unfrozen the shape-shifting alien wreaks havoc creates terror and becomes one of them... John Carpenter's Vampires (1998): In the blood-chilling tradition of Halloween and Village Of The Damned comes John Carpenter's unique vision of the ultimate killing machines vampires. Forget everything you've ever heard about vampires warns Jack Crow (James Woods) the leader of Team Crow a relentless group of mercenary vampire slayers. When master Vampire Valek (Thomas Ian Griffith) decimates Jack's entire team Crow and the sole team survivor Montoya (Daniel Baldwin) set out in pursuit. Breaking all the rules Crow and Montoya take one of Valek's victims hostage. The beautiful prostitute (Sheryl Lee) is their sole psychic link to Valek and through her senses they will track down the leader of the undead. As Valek nears the climax of his 600 year search for the Berziers cross Jack and the new Team Crow do everything humanly possible to prevent him from possessing the only thing that can grant him and all vampires the omnipotent power to walk in the daylight... Village Of The Damned (1995): From the master of suspense John Carpenter comes a chilling new version of the sci-fi classic. Something is terribly wrong in the tiny village of Midwich. After an unseen force invades a quiet coastal town 10 women mysteriously find themselves pregnant. Local physician Dr. Alan Chaffee (Reeve) and government scientist Dr. Susan Verner (Alley) join forces when the women simultaneously give birth...and the reign of terror begins. In what the New York Times calls one scarifying trip the people of Midwich must try to find a way to stop the children in the Village Of The Damned.
Featuring four episodes from the series Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog. Episodes Comprise: 1. High Stakes Sonic 2. Sonic Breakout 3. Trail Of The Missing Tails 4. Close Encounters Of The Sonic Kind
The complete first two series of the hard-hitting military drama starring Ross Kemp as Sergeant Henno Garvie the tough and charismatic leader of Red Troop who with his men puts his life on the line in the name of his country. Episode titles: The Killing House Just A Target Natural Selection Breakout The Killing Of A One-Eyed Bookie Something To Do With Justice Communication Mad Dogs Wannabes The List What In The Name Of God... Dead Is Forever.
Shinnok was banished to the Netherealm by Rayden. Upon entering the realm he found himself immediately under attack by its then ruler Lucifer as well as those soulds he was personally responsible for banishing when he was an elder god. Locked and shackled Shinnok was helpless against his attackers. He would exist tortured and tormented by the dregs of hell for thousands of years until he met Quan Chi...
The last person you want to suspect. The last person you want to trust. Near the suburban home of housewife Anne Marsh and her young family a series of savage sexual murders are being investigated by the police. The killer is known only to them as 'The Hawk' owing to his trade mark of gouging out the eyes of his victims bodies. Gradually certain thingsd begin to trouble Anne about her husband's behavior - his frequent business trips a missing hammer a casual remark - could her Stephen be the killer? Her suspicions turn to cold fear when ore and more occurences seem to link her husband to the murders but Anne can not be sure whilst the shadows of her past continue to haunt her: is her mind playing tricks on her?
The year is 1867 and the Southern United States is an occupied territory. Gun Law rules and corruption flourishes. In control are thieves and murderers like ruthless land baron - Brent Mallick (Corbin Burnsen) backed by corrupt politicians and their State troopers. When Mallick has cattle-owner Jack Neumann (Jurgen Prochnow) murdered by his rogue mercenaries so that can steal his land retired Confederate General Jackson Ole Devil Hardin (Martin Sheen) calls in a group of former soldiers the Floating Outfit to ensure that Neumann's feisty neighbour Frida is not forced to sell her land. But Mallick is willing to use all necessary means to win out and unleashes his sadistic desperados to blaze a trail of torture lynchings and executions that only those that are fastest on the trigger can hope to survive.
Nothing is as it seems behind the well-trimmed hedges of the picturesque cottages in the idyllic English county of Midsomer. Beneath the tranquil surface of sleepy village life exist dark secrets scandals and downright evil. John Nettles stars as the humorous thoughtful and methodical Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. The Smythe-Websters are a rich family whose wealth and power dominate the two local villages of Upper and Lower Warden Manor. The Head of the Manor's nephew Larry i
Steel Dawn
The life of a successful magazine writer is torn apart when her husband is killed by a massive explosion aboard his boat - but little does she know the killer's agenda is only half complete...
Violence begins when a wild bunch of outlaws hit the town. No mortal man can stop them - but what about the man of God?
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