Bloody Murder 2 (DVD)
Legend has it that a man named Trevor Moorehouse has a chainsaw in place of his left arm and wears a hockey mask as he lurks deep in the forest and viciously murders teenagers from Placid Pines, the nearby summer camp. He has killed before and now it looks like he may have returned.R"
Director: Robert Spera
Soul Survivors/Jacob`s Ladder - 2 Pack (DVD)
A disturbing, intense double feature including SOUL SURVIVORS: After surviving a car crash that killed her boyfriend (Casey Affleck), Cassandra (Melissa Sagemiller) finds herself haunted by his ghost. A priest (Luke Wilson) tries to exorcize these frightful visions from Cassandra`s mind, but her college friends see her vulnerability as the perfect outlet for their malicious plans. She tries to carry on her life like all the other college freshmen, but it unravels when she begins to believe she is being stalked. Then Cassandra has horrifying hallucinations; during a midterm, she bleeds profusely all over her desk, and the drain in her shower explodes with blood. Gradually, Cassandra understands what is happening to her, but will she be able to survive? Also included is Adrian Lyne`s JACOBS LADDER, which moves in time and space between Vietnam and New York with hallucinatory force. Something bad happened on the Mekong Delta, on October 6, 1971, and it is still affecting war veteran Jacob (Tim Robbins) in Brooklyn as he attempts to live a normal life with coworker and girlfriend Jezzie (Elizabeth Peqa). Louis (Danny Aiello), an understanding chiropractor, tries to help him cope with his nightmarish visions--some of which occur at night, while others intrude into his daily life. When Jacob gets a call from Paul (Pruitt Taylor Vince), who was with him in Vietnam, it seems that Jacob is not alone in his visions. The film offers impressive and compelling performances by Peqa, Aiello (no ordinary chiropractor), and Ving Rhames and Eriq La Salle (the latter of ER) as Jacobs comrades from Vietnam. Macaulay Culkin appears uncredited as Jacob`s young son, Gabe. Director Lyne also guides an unerring interpretation of Bruce Joel Rubin`s screenplay in Robbins`s powerfully restless, searingly searching performance as Jacob; brilliant editing additionally rounds out this engrossing, disturbing film. JACOBS LADDER is a jolting experience that is not easily forgotten.R"
Director: Adrian Lyne|Steve Carpenter
ACTORS: Melissa Sagemiller, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley, Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peqa
Thirteen Ghosts (DVD) Widescreen 13 GHOSTS, Steve Beck`s feature debut, is the second recent remake (following THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL) of a film by 1950s and 60s camp horror king, William Castle. Arthur Kriticos (Tony Shalhoub) is a financially strapped ...
13 GHOSTS, Steve Beck`s feature debut, is the second recent remake (following THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL) of a film by 1950s and 60s camp horror king, William Castle. Arthur Kriticos (Tony Shalhoub) is a financially strapped widower struggling to raise two children, Kathy (Shannon Elizabeth) and Bobby (Alec Roberts), after losing his wife in a house fire. A stroke of apparent luck arrives when Arthur learns he has inherited a mansion from his mysterious Uncle Cyrus (F. Murray Abraham). Ecstatic, Arthur whisks the kids and nanny, Maggie (Rah Digga) off to their new home, a bizarre glass and steel structure with strange Latin inscriptions carved on the walls. The family is thrilled, until a psychic and former employee of Cyrus`, Rafkin (Matthew Lillard), reveals that Arthur`s departed uncle was a power hungry ghost collector who captured twelve spirits in the house. Arthur is skeptical. But when his children disappear, and Rafkin gives him a pair of special glasses that allow him to view the house`s gruesome inhabitants, he believes. In Beck`s special effects-laden gore-fest, the two men race against time to find the children as the house`s strange internal mechanism begins sealing off the exits and freeing the angry ghosts.
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Director: Steve Beck
ACTORS: F. Murray Abraham, Tony Shalhoub, Shannon Elizabeth, Kathryn Anderson, J.R. Bourne
From Dusk Till Dawn (DVD) Special Edition 2-Disc Set A notorious pair of criminal siblings on the run from the Texas Rangers kidnap an R.V.-driving minister and his kids to get into Mexico in this schizophrenic thriller. Once across the border the unlikely cara...
A notorious pair of criminal siblings on the run from the Texas Rangers kidnap an R.V.-driving minister and his kids to get into Mexico in this schizophrenic thriller. Once across the border the unlikely caravan heads for a seedy bar that promises refuge but offers something entirely different--a horde of bloodsucking vampires! Written with flair by Quentin Tarantino.
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Director: Robert Rodriguez
Great Horror Classics - Vol. 1 (DVD)
Bela Lugosi stars in these five horror classics collected on one disc: THE GORILLA (1939), THE DEVIL BAT (1942), THE HUMAN MONSTER (1939), THE INVISIBLE GHOST (1941), and THE APE MAN (1943). See individual titles for details.NR"
