Blast off for this outrageously funny space travel in this comedy that spins wildly out of control all the way to Mars! Though he's a whiz with computers accident-prone astro-nut Fred Randall is the last guy on Earth you'd want on the first manned mission to Mars. But as bad luck and poor timing would have it that's exactly what happens and Fred undergoes rigorous if not hilarious training at NASA. After that Fred blasts off with the rest of the space shuttle crew a cocky no-
Doctor Mordrid (Jeffrey Combs; 'Re-Animator' 'From Beyond' 'The 4440') has been guarding the gates to the fourth dimension for over a century and now the signs are clear: his eternal foe Kabal (Brian Thompson; 'Cobra' 'Terminator') has crossed over and is about to carry out his threat to destroy humankind. It's a battle between two sorcerers with boundless powers and only one man will reign in the end...
Dream On: Season 2 (2 Discs)
Stuart Gordon takes you on a pulsepounding rollercoaster ride in Castle Freak... one of the most macabre thrillers you'll ever experience. John Reilly (Jeffrey Combs - Re-Animator) Susan (Barbara Crampton - Young & The Restless) and their daughter come face to face with terror when they travel to Italy to move into a castle they have inherited. They soon discover it is haunted by a relentless bloodthirsty creature. When mutilated bodies start turning up John must uncover the Reilly family's dark secret to save his wife and child from the sadistic being.
Escape To Witch Mountain (Dir. John Hough 1975): Two young orphans with supernatural powers are adopted by a ruthless millionaire who plans to harness use their abilities for his own selfish purposes... Return From Witch Mountain (Dir. John Hough 1978): An entire city teeters on the brink of nuclear disaster when greedy criminals manipulate a young boy's supernatural powers for their own devious gain.
The Power Rangers face a dangerous new enemy in this collection of episodes from the Dino Thunder series. Mesagog and Elsa try once again to stop the Rangers and accidentally create a White Ranger with one of the Dino eggs. The Rangers are in the dark as to the pale one's identity and Dr. O's efforts to find out the answer lead to his fossilization! This leads the multicolored team to find out the answer for themselves but you can bet your life that there'll be a few Dino Zords sta
To avoid the threat of cancellation the team of the once-popular TV ghost hunting show 'Ghost Sightings' enters Freeling State Penitentiary to capture on video the most convincing apparitional footage. It doesn't take long before the team is faced with vengeful spirits that put their lives in true danger. As the night wears on it turns deadly - as the team struggles to survive against the prison ghosts that were once vicious murderers.
Supernatural stars Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki as Dean and Sam Winchester two brothers who travel the country looking for their missing father and battling evil spirits along the way. All the concluding episodes from Season 1.
Childhood memories stay with you forever and for Vanessa Fullerton her mother's tragic murder was a nightmare she'll never forget. Now as a grown woman she gains the emotional strength to recount the story of her mother's remarkable life and the events that led to her untimely death. Born into Italian royalty Serena falls in love and leaves everything behind to marry a US Colonel Brad Fullerton. But when her beloved husband dies suddenly and tragically Serena is left heartbroken and destitute struggling to raise her daughter any way she can. She stumbles into the world of modelling and meets Vasili a renowned photographer. Her career takes off along with their relationship putting Serena back on the road to financial and emotional stability. But all is not as it seems and she soon discovers Vasili has a shocking secret. This secret is so dangerous that it leads Serena to her ultimate fate...
If you're going to steal...Steal big and hope like hell you get away with it! A young hoodlum's rise from a small-time criminal to a powerful crime entrepreneur during the turbulent years before and after the fall of apartheid.
A "Light Universe" and a "Dark Zone" keep good and bad apart for the characters of Lexx, even though it's often hard to tell the difference between the two in this offbeat and unique sci-fi show that delights in its own nastiness. The show's Canadian creators, "Supreme Beans" Paul Donovan, Lex Gigeroff, and Jeffrey Hirschfield--partnered with German money and studio facilities--intended every episode to be, in their words, "a nasty adventure". With flashes of nudity and surgical gore, and a collection of extreme hairstyles and accents, the overall look is often akin to a sci-fi Eurotrash. Aboard the stolen 10-kilometre-long spaceship Lexx (designed to look like a dragonfly) are the "Dirty Three-and-a-Half": insufferable coward Stanley H Tweedle (Brian Downey), the Edward Scissorhands clone and 2000 years-dead Kai (Michael McManus), decapitated and lovestruck robot head 790 (voiced by writer Hirschfield), and the skimpily wardrobed Zev (19-year-old Eva Habermann). It's with the last of these characters that the show generated its main audience and proved itself totally indifferent to regular boundaries of TV formatting. A disregard both for genre conventions and good taste makes the show a constant series of surprises. --Paul Tonks On the DVD: The jam-packed pilot "I Worship His Shadow" is full of startlingly graphic imagery, skimpily clad women, and literally wall-to-wall computer graphics. TV sci-fi has never been introduced so explosively. "Super Nova" has the crew of the Lexx hunting for Kai's homeworld, and drawn to a planet by a holographic message from Poetman (Tim Curry). Essentially, the story has little to do with the overall arc, but is an experiment in format and testing boundaries (the most obvious example being Zev's naked shower scene). There's also a nutty song and dance moment for Kai and Zev, a cameo of the director floating in space, and Curry chewing scenery with gusto. The first movie's disc features a Sci-fi Channel trailer of interviews for the series, a behind-the-scenes documentary introducing the show's creators and their irreverent sense of humour, plus DVD-ROM Screen Saver and Weblinks. The second movie's disc features a gallery of 12 stills, cast biographies, and another documentary which this time looks at the enormous CGI work put into the first season. This is where the digital transfer really pays off, and the FX-heavy show looks gorgeous in crisp definition as opposed to the general murkiness of TV broadcast or the VHS releases. --Paul Tonks
The smallest member of The Little family returns in this blockbusting sequel. Alongside fellow family pet Snowbell the cat he sets of on a journey through the streets of New York in search of a missing friend.
A most extraordinary experience awaits those with a taste for the strange and the bizarrre in the small town of Black River Falls. Rocked by an inexplicable confluence of events in the late 1890s this sleepy Wisconsin town generated some of the most unlikely news reports and stories ever told. Previously harmless residents - including children - commit a series of gruesome violent murders. Sightings of ghosts and reports of haunting and possession run rife. Shocking dreamlike and s
A family are falsley accused of child abuse and find themselves guilty until proven innocent while their lives fall apart around them.
A story of teenage tearing-away in 1950s America, The Young Stranger fails to make a serious, gripping narrative of the events that follow the somewhat innocuous pivotal moment when 16-year-old Harold "Hal" Ditmar (James MacArthur) punches a cinema manager. Adapted from a TV play and released two years after the benchmark for delinquency movies, Rebel Without a Cause, it has none of that film's raw urgency, seeming staid and inconsequential in comparison. The primary problem is that Hal makes an unconvincing hoodlum. His misdemeanour is less an act of rebellion than a brief misunderstanding. Far from articulating the angst of a generation, his angry tirades against his parents (Kim Hunter and James Daly) and the police set him apart from his peers and feel more like the self-pitying whines of a privileged individual. This sensation is further exacerbated by the fact that all of his problems are swiftly resolved in an all-too-neat ending. Still, The Young Stranger is an interesting period piece, not least for an amusingly tame car chase from first-time feature director John Frankenheimer. --Paul Philpott
Because the world is never out of danger three Reefside High students must rise up to meet their destiny head on. While on a fossil-finding field trip Conner Kira and Ethan fall into a sinkhole and discover powerful Dino Gems giving them each awesome super abilities. But alarming evil is afoot as this new crew is confronted by terrifying Tyranodrones Kira's sudden disappearance and Mesogog a reptilian rogue and his robotic wrongdoers. Once Mesogog has unleashed his diabolical
Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1990) was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum--now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first. Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements--the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun. On the DVD: Bride of Re-Animator is presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney
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