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Actors:Masters of Horror
Masters of Horror: Season Two Box Set
by ANCHOR BAY (DVD) (Release Date: 2008-07-29)

Actors:William Atherton, Blanche Baker, Grant Show, Catherine Mary Stewart, ...
The Girl Next Door
by ANCHOR BAY (DVD) (Release Date: 2007-12-04)

Actors:Barbara Cupisti, Rupert Everett, Mickey Knox, Patrizia Punzo, ...
Cemetery Man
by Starz / Anchor Bay (DVD) (Release Date: 2006-06-13)

Actors:William Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll, Kay Lenz, ...
House
by Starz / Anchor Bay (DVD) (Release Date: 2002-06-25)

Actors:Sid Abrams, Josh Becker, Sarah Berry, Denise Bixler, ...
Evil Dead II (Special Edition)
by Starz / Anchor Bay (DVD) (Release Date: 2000-08-29)

Actors:Boris Karloff, Allen Swift, Gale Garnett, Phyllis Diller, ...
Mad Monster Party
by Starz / Anchor Bay (DVD) (Release Date: 2005-08-23)

Love the classic monsters Frankenstein, the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll, the Creature, Dracula, the Werewolf, and the Invisible Man? They're all here in this animated, 90-minute video--and so are the vocal talents of Boris Karloff and Phyllis Diller. After discovering the secret of destruction, Baron von Frankenstein is retiring as head of the World Wide Organization of Monsters. He's handpicked his mortal nephew Felix to be his successor, and his fellow monsters are less than pleased. Even though Felix politely declines to carry on this family tradition, the monsters band together and double-cross one another in comic attempts to expel Felix from the group. The "Rankin/Bass Animagic process" of using stop-motion photography with three-dimensional figures makes this video a visual feast for animation buffs, but it is outdated compared to modern animation techniques. Humorous details, like the count looking into a mirror to comb his hair and seeing only his comb reflected, permeate the ...

Actors:Betsy Baker, Bruce Campbell, Barbara Carey, Richard DeManincor, ...
The Evil Dead
by Starz / Anchor Bay (DVD) (Release Date: 2002-03-05)

In the fall of 1979, Sam Raimi and his merry band headed into the woods of rural Tennessee to make a movie. They emerged with a roller coaster of a film packed with shocks, gore, and wild humor, a film that remains a benchmark for the genre. Ash (cult favorite Bruce Campbell) and four friends arrive at a backwoods cabin for a vacation, where they find a tape recorder containing incantations from an ancient book of the dead. When they play the tape, evil forces are unleashed, and one by one the friends are possessed. Wouldn't you know it, the only way to kill a "deadite" is by total bodily dismemberment, and soon the blood starts to fly. Raimi injects tremendous energy into this simple plot, using the claustrophobic set, disorienting camera angles, and even the graininess of the film stock itself to create an atmosphere of dread, punctuated by a relentless series of jump-out-of-your-seat shocks. The Evil Dead lacks the more highly developed sense of the absurd that distinguish ...

Actors:A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester, ...
Phantasm
by AVCO Embassy Pictures (DVD) (Release Date: 2007-04-10)

Actors:Terry Alexander, John Amplas, Don Brockett, William Cameron, ...
Day of the Dead (Divimax Special Edition)
by Starz / Anchor Bay (DVD) (Release Date: 2003-08-19)

Chapter three of George Romero's mighty zombie trilogy has big footsteps to follow. Night of the Living Dead was a classic that revitalized a certain corner of the cinema, and Dawn of the Dead was nothing short of epic. Day of the Dead, however, has always been regarded as a comedown compared to those twin peaks--and perhaps it is. But on its own terms, this is an awfully effective horror movie, made with Romero's customary social satire and cinematic vigor--when a "retrained" zombie responds to the "Ode to Joy," the film is in genuinely haunting territory. The story is set inside a sunken military complex, where Army and medical staff, supposedly working on a solution to the zombie problem, are going crazy (strongly foreshadowing the final act of 28 Days Later). Tom Savini's makeup effects could make even hardcore gore fans tear off their own heads in amazement. --Robert Horton

Actors:Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings, Susan Clark, ...
Murder by Decree
by Starz / Anchor Bay (DVD) (Release Date: 2003-01-21)

Murder by Decree has the distinction of being not only one of the best Sherlock Holmes films, but one of the best pastiches (i.e., a Holmes fiction created by someone other than author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) featuring the late-Victorian Era detective. Christopher Plummer is very good as Holmes, and James Mason redeems the many mishandled screen portrayals of Dr. John Watson with a rare, insightful performance. The story may not be unique in post-Doyle Holmes adventures--the private investigator pursues Jack the Ripper during the latter's reign of monstrous murders in foggy London--but the script by John Hopkins (Thunderball) is keenly intelligent, developing concentric circles of power and evil with great subtlety. Before losing himself in Porky's, director Bob Clark did a masterful job of surprising audiences with Murder by Decree, convincing viewers they were watching one kind of drama but then unleashing something very different, very unsettling. --Tom Keogh

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