Circus of Horrors (DVD) @ discount dvd online store
Circus of Horrors (DVD)
After being drummed out of the medical profession, the brilliant plastic surgeon Dr. Goethe takes over a small travelling circus. Using his unique skills, the doctor transforms a number of disfigured women with criminal pasts into great beauties, and then blackmails them into performing in his circus. Any woman who attempts to leave meets with a horrible accident, which draws the attention of Scotland Yard and leads to the doctor`s downfall.NR"
Director: Sidney Hayers
ACTORS: Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence
Beijing Bicycle (DVD)
Wang Xiaoshuai`s moving, emotional BEIJING BICYCLE tells the story of a young country boy, Guei (Cui Lin), who comes to the big city determined to make it. He soon finds a job as a bike messenger in which he gets a small percentage of each delivery, working hard to build up enough credit to eventually own the bike for himself. As he grows closer to his goal, the bike is stolen and ultimately winds up in the hands of Jian (Li Bin), a poor city boy who sees the bike as his only way to make friends and impress the girl he loves. With both boys claiming the bike is theirs, a series of fights ensues over what is more than just a bike--it has become a symbol of success, power, and greed in a changing country.
Lin and Bin are excellent as the two boys battling over the bike; it is heartbreaking to watch Lin keep a tight hold of the bike even as Bin and his friends beat him senseless. Cinematographer Lui Jie depicts a very different China, one that is filled with dangerous, meandering alleys and frightening poverty. The film, almost devoid of color save for a young woman`s red dress and shoes, is reminiscent of Vittori De Sica`s BICYCLE THIEF and Peter Yates`s BREAKING AWAY; the freedom the bicycle represents overwhelms both young boys as they risk their lives to hold on to it. The film won a Silver Berlin Bear for its honest, gritty, heartfelt depiction of a Beijing that is not often seen in the West.NR"
Director: Wang Xiaoshuai
ACTORS: Xun Zhou, Lee Bin, Cui Lin
Doctor Blood`s Coffin (VHS)
Robin Hood meets Dr. Frankenstein as Dr. Peter Blood kills the worthless and uses their hearts to save the worthy. His lab is deep inside a mine in Cornwall, England.NR"
Director: Sidney J. Furie
ACTORS: Kieron Moore, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter
I Know What You Did Last Summer/I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (DVD) Deluxe 2-DVD Set Contains both films from the I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER series. See individual titles for contributors and notes.
Contains both films from the I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER series. See individual titles for contributors and notes.
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ACTORS: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze
Lucia, Lucia (DVD)
Mexican director Antonio Serrano fuses comedy and suspense in this tall tale of children`s book author Lucia (Celia Roth, of ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER fame), who becomes the center of a a big mess of intrigue when her husband mysteriously disappears. Coming to her aid are two neighbors in her Mexico City apartment building: Felix (Carlos Alvarez-Novoa), an old man who used to fight alongside Castro, and handsome young Adrian (Kuno Becker) who may be working for the terrorists who kidnapped her husband (if in fact they did). After lots of suspense and snooping, the three become close friends and decide to take an Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN-style trip into the desert. Adrian and Lucia fall in love, though their age difference is a cause for concern. Of course nothing turns out to be as it seems, even Lucia (in her offscreen narration) admits she is not always truthful; outcomes of events are changed--as is her character`s hair color and apartment layout--several times over the course of the film. LUCIA, LUCIA broke opening weekend box office records when it premiered in Mexico, where it`s known as LA HIJA DEL CANIBAL (the Cannibal`s Daughter). Boasting passionate performances from its three actors, this is a very colorful and bouncy entry in the new Mexican cinema.R"
Director: Antonio Serrano
ACTORS: Celia Roth, Kuno Becker, Carlos Alvarez-Novoa
