Horror (DVD)
When a group of wayward teens escape from a drug rehab center, they head straight for Rev. Salo, Jr., a psychopathic clergyman who offers the group eternal salvation. A series of bizarre occurrences happen once the group gets settled. They find out that the reverend and his wife, using powerful drugs, have enslaved their own daughter. Fearing for their own lives, the group turns toward Rev. Salo, Sr., a much nicer version of his son. Soon they realize that the father is actually a member of the undead. Lots of gore and bloody violence follow as the group of teens try their best to figure out a way to save themselves.NR"
Director: Dante Tomaselli
Kathy Smith`s New Yoga Basics (DVD)
Fitness expert Kathy Smith leads this introductory class on yoga, utilizing standing and floor postures designed to increase flexibility and firm muscles.NR"
The Hired Hand (DVD)
Peter Fonda`s superb yet little-seen directorial debut subverts the machismo of the Western genre with a quiet, understated tale of relationships and loyalty in the Old West. Fonda stars as Harry Collings, a drifter who has been roaming from town to town with his close friend and fellow wanderer Arch Harris (the splendid Warren Oates). Collings is haunted by memories of the wife (Verna Bloom) and daughter he abandoned and decides to make amends and return to them, offering penance by working on the family farmstead as a hired hand. But his newfound domesticity is threatened when Arch is taken hostage by an enemy they encountered in their travels, and Collings must decide between family responsibility or loyalty to his friend. Beautifully shot by Oscar-winning cinematographer Vilmos Szigmond (DELIVERANCE, MCCABE & MRS. MILLER) and hauntingly scored by acclaimed composer Bruce Langhorne, THE HIRED HAND is a sensitive drama that prompted Jane Fonda to declare that her brother had made the first feminist Western.R"
Director: Peter Fonda
ACTORS: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt, Severn Darden
Beyond Re-Animator (DVD)
The third RE-ANIMATOR film finds Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) getting out of jail after fourteen years for inadvertently killing a young girl as a result of one of his experiments. During his time on the inside, West continued to perfect his methods on rats. When a young doctor who is aware of West`s discoveries, becomes the new prison M.D., he asks West to help him on a project he is working on. Before long, dead bodies are being reanimated left and right, and the prison walls are running red with blood! Director Brian Yuzna brings back copious amounts of the pitch black comedy and bright red splatter that fans of the series have come to expect.R"
Director: Brian Yuzna
ACTORS: Jeffrey Combs, Jason Barry, Elsa Pataky, Simon Andreu, Santiago Segura
Heaven`s Gate (DVD)
An epic post-Vietnam look at the Western genre and the exploitation of immigrant settlers, HEAVENS GATE is based on the historical 1890s Johnson County War incident in Wyoming. Visually remarkable sequences and a haunting score frame the story. Sheriff James Averill (Kris Kristofferson), educated in the east and full of idealism, attempts to protect immigrant farmers when wealthy land barons hire mercenaries to settle their scores. The hired guns, including Nathan Champion (Christopher Walken), plan to kill a number of farmers whose names appear on a death list and whom the farmers believe have been stealing their cattle. Backed by the army and the federal government, the mercenaries prepare to attack the farmers when Averill and Champion clash over the impending massacre and Ella Watson (Isabelle Huppert), a local prostitute and woman they both love. Shot right after Ciminos triumphant DEER HUNTER, the film is a violent, unsentimental look at the American frontier.R"
Director: Michael Cimino
ACTORS: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, John Hurt, Jeff Bridges
