British agents engage in hazardous duty working together in an attempt to confuse the enemy and further the war effort in this thrilling Ealing adventure!
One of Alfred Hitchcock's finest pre-Hollywood films, the 1936 Secret Agent stars a young John Gielgud as a British spy whose death is faked by his intelligence superiors. Reinvented with a new identity and outfitted with a wife (Madeleine Carroll), Gielgud's character is sent on assignment with a cold-blooded accomplice (Peter Lorre) to assassinate a German agent. En route, the counterfeit couple keeps company with an affable American (Robert Young), who turns out to be more than he seems after the wrong man is murdered by Gielgud and Lorre. Dense with interwoven ideas about false names and real identities, about appearances as lies and the brutality of the hidden, and about the complicity of those who watch the anarchy that others do, Secret Agent declared that Alfred Hitchcock was well along the road to mastery as a filmmaker and, more importantly, knew what it was he wanted to say for the rest of his career. --Tom Keogh
Join Mowgli, Baloo the Bear and friends in the classic Disney adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's children's novel
This 1968 oddity is probably a film only a total Beatlemaniac could love, but it carries both musical and historical resonance. It also gives intimations of what would happen in the next 30 years as artists gained more and more power over how they were presented. The roots of virtually any rock star's vanity project (including Prince's Under the Cherry Moon) can be traced to this little Liverpudlian home movie. Fresh from the success of their films A Hard Day's Night and Help!, and still under the influence of the intoxicants of the era, the Beatles set out to make their own fancifully psychedelic project. What they got out of it was, essentially, a knock-off album with a few good songs and a lot of filler, which is more than can be said for this alternately self-indulgent and mildly amusing British version of Ken Kesey's magic bus tour. Using some of their favourite actors (including Victor Spinetti, who was in their first two movies), the Beatles make an alternative British travelogue, stopping occasionally to sing songs like "I Am the Walrus" and "The Fool on the Hill." Strictly for completists. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical epic starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner is a vintage product of the old Hollywood studio system complete with sweeping scenery and breathtaking effects including the crossing of the Red Sea by thousands of Hebrew slaves. With a dramatic and gripping plot superbly acted by Heston as the Hebrew saviour Moses The Ten Commandments has lost none of the impact and power it held over audiences on its initial release back in 1956.
Having swept the board at the Academy awards Ben Hur achieved an outstanding feat in film history winning eleven oscars in 1959 including Best Picture Best Actor and Best Director. After a ten month production schedule and a then massive million budget this 1950''s epic movie has always represented a cinematographic feat that has rarely been bettered...
Beyond The Door 2: Several years after her first husbands death Dora (Daria Nicolodi) returns to her country home with her son (David Colin Jr) and her second husband (John Steiner). However she finds that the house is occupied by a mysterious evil presence that begins to torment her with terrifying nightmares and strange occurrences. Even her young son Mark is grasped by the evil and undergoes hideous transformation as though possessed by a supernatural force. As Dora is driven closer to the edge of madness the truth behind her first husband's death is revealed. The terror grows as the game of supernatural revenge is played to its chilling conclusion. The final theatrical film from Italian horror maestro Mario Bava. Boggy Creek 2: He stands eight feet tall... weighs over three hundred pounds... and has been seen only one hundred times in the past thirty years. Some call him Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Or Yeti. But in the deep dark woods of Texarkana he's known as the legend of Boggy Creek. Charles B Pierce creator of such classics as The Town That Dreaded Sundown and the original The Legend of Boggy Creek returns with Boggy Creek II: And The Legend Continues! As reported sightings of the feared man-beast increase anthropologist Brian Lockhart (Pierce) and his team of student researchers venture in to the swamps of Texarkana to investigate. Armed with firearms and sophisticated surveillance gear Lockhart's team uncovers such terrifying encounters as a near-fatal aquatic attack on a lone jet skier the brutal slaying of a hapless drunkard on a moonlit lane and a state trooper's lethal battle with the creature in his own backyard. But the investigators soon find that invading the territory of others exacts a price as they come face to face with not one but two primal terrors in a harrowing and unforgettable climactic encounter! Beautifully photographed in the ominous backwards of the South Boggy Creek II is a fascinating adventure into the wild weird realm of the unknown.
Edge Of Terror: Mystery writer Sian Anderson (Meg Foster) leaves her boyfriend John for three weeks of intense writing in the isolated Greek town of Monemvassia. Upon her arrival in the ancient deserted walled-in fortress she is met by Elias Appleby (Robert Morley) the rotund eccentric landlord who guides her through mysterious underground passageways to the house where she will work. He warns her to stay inside at night because of the killer winds that arrive at night. Creepy thriller from Greek director Nico Mastorakis (Island of Death). Tunnel Vision: Patsy Kensit plays detective Kelly Wheatstone who obsessively replays a tape the only clue she has to a bizarre series of rapes and murders. Her partner Frank Yanovitch thinks his wife is having an affair with her boss David De Salvo which is occupying rather more of his mind than their case. When De Salvo is found dead Frank is implicated and a warrant for his arrest is issued. However Kelly is convinced he had nothing to do with it and sets about trying to prove his innocence.
For Creepshow 2, the quickie 1987 sequel to the Stephen King-scripted/George Romero-directed 1982 original, Romero shifted jobs to become the screenwriter, earning King (who also has a goony cameo as a trucker) a "based on stories by" credit. Cinematographer Michael Gornick stepped up to make an uninspiring directorial debut, turning out a conventional TV-look picture unlike the sometimes striking Creepshow. A frame story mixes live action and cartoon as a small boy leafs through the latest issue of his favourite horror comic while plotting revenge against neighbourhood bullies. A pun-dropping host called the Creep (played by Tom Savini when not a cartoon) introduces three anecdotes. In "Old Chief Wooden Head", George Kennedy and Dorothy Lamour are kindly Western shopkeepers killed by tearaways and avenged by the wooden Indian which stands outside the place. In "The Raft", four obnoxious teens are terrorised on a lake by a hungry slime-monster. And in "The Hitch-Hiker", hit-and-run driver Lois Chiles is haunted by her squashed victim, who keeps reappearing in a progressively battered forms. Though King and Romero deliver a good mix of cynical and melodramatic dialogue, the stories are disappointingly thin and predictable, with especially weak punch-lines. Of the performers, only Chiles really works up the hysterical attack needed to play a comic book character. On the DVD: just a trailer. The picture is a fullscreen print that cuts off crucial details in the comic book panels. --Kim Newman
Several years after her first husbands death Dora (Daria Nicolodi) returns to her country home with her son (David Colin Jr) and her second husband (John Steiner). However she finds that the house is occupied by a mysterious evil presence that begins to torment her with terrifying nightmares and strange occurrences. Even her young son Mark is grasped by the evil and undergoes hideous transformation as though possessed by a supernatural force. As Dora is driven closer to the edge of madness the truth behind her first husband's death is revealed. The terror grows as the game of supernatural revenge is played to its chilling conclusion. The final theatrical film from Italian horror maestro Mario Bava.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to camp: here's even more heart-pounding terror! Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake all that remains is the legend of Jason Voorhees and his demented mother who had murdered seven camp counsellors. At a nearby summer camp the new counsellors are unconcerned about the warnings to stay away from the infamous site. Carefree the young people roam the area not sensing the ominous lurking presence. One by one the
Shocker allows Wes Craven to hang onto his title as the master of the horror genre--but only just. Centring once more on a charismatic lead character (Horace Pinker) Shocker continues Craven's penchant for combining fantasy and horror. Pinker (played with zeal by Mitch Pileggi of X-Files fame) is a serial killer--the "family slasher"--terrorising the inhabitants of the city of. Having murdered the foster family and girlfriend of all-American boy Jonathon Parker (Peter Berg), the latter finds he can foresee Pinker's actions in his dreams. The resulting supernatural developments (including ghosts, magic charms and possessed bodies) are more than a little muddled but underpinned by the continuous gruesome hack and slash action. A film with its brain most definitely disengaged, Shocker is still undemanding, wince-inducing fun. On the DVD: Not much to offer from this format. The splendidly dated 1980's American heavy metal soundtrack (including Kiss and Megadeth) comes through loud and clear and the sound effects are certainly horribly audible. Picture quality is fine but not spectacular. Extras are limited to scene selection, the trailer and a selection of storyboards and their cinematic equivalents. --Phil Udell
With this search team... pray you don't get lost. While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him...
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