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Asian Horror Collection
Contains Audition, Dark Water and The Eye - three classics to remind you why the new wave of Asian horror has been ripped off by Hollywood so often! A single man looking for a good time finds terror instead in the notorious Audition, directed by cult auteur Takashi Miike (Ichi The Killer, Visitor Q). The man who kicked off the J-horror wave with Ring, Hideo Nakata, increases the tension, realism and unease in the urban nightmare Dark Water, since remade by Hollywood. Finally, Pan-asian auteurs The Pang Brothers bring their famed editing skills to bear on the horror genre in their tense and terrifying film, The Eye.
Bollywood Workout
Riding the crest of the year 2002's craze for everything Bollywood comes this disc which offers a fitness regime based upon the dance routines of the Indian musicals.
Circus of Horrors
A lurid shocker from 1960 in which a plastic surgeon on the run after disfiguring the face of a patient hides out in a circus, where he transforms the faces of badly scarred women into the the beautiful stars of his show. However, the police and a nosy reporter become interested when the women who want to leave the circus begin dying in freak accidents, and they begin to suspect that the doctor is responsible.
Dr Terror's House of Horrors
This cult horror tale stars Peter Cushing as the mysterious Dr Schreck, who boards a train and offers to tell his five fellow passengers their fortunes using his tarot cards. The deadly tales he tells includes werewolves, voodoo and a severed hand. Who is this sinister Doctor - and where exactly is the train heading?
Ghost School Horror
Collection of four Korean shockers set in girls' high schools. St Trinian's this ain't. In 'Whispering Corridors' (1998), in an exclusive all-girls school, a former pupil returns to start a new job as a teacher and strikes up a friendship with two very different students. But when a teacher is found dead, apparently having committed suicide, circumstances that link the past and the present begin to unveil themselves. As the body count rises, the memories of past deaths begin to call forth a series of ghosts to haunt the corridors of this troubled school. In 'Memento Mori' (2004), Min-ah (Min-sun Kim) discovers a diary belonging to two girls who are friends at school and is shocked to discover that they have a more intense relationship than she suspected. As she becomes more and more obsessed over the diary, Min-ah finds it increasingly difficult to look away, and when one of the diary's authors is found dead from an apparent suicide, she starts to feel a strange presence lurking near her. Before long, the school is transformed into a place of morbid terror. In 'Wishing Stairs' (2005), there is a legend that says anyone who climbs the 28 steps to the school dormitory and counts the steps out loud will stumble across a hidden 29th step. There they will meet a spirit who will grant them a wish, and if their intentions are honourable they will be rewarded with good fortune. But at this school, where paranoia and jealousy run rampant, one girl is about to unleash evil and terror on her classmates. Finally, in 'The Voice' (2005), while training after hours in her high-school, the aspirant singer Young-eon Park (Ok-bin Kim) is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her ghost is invisible and trapped in the school, but her best friend Sun-min Kang (Ji-hye Seo) is able to hear her voice.
Great British Movies: Horror
Contains Nothing But the Night (Sasdy, 1973), Vampire Circus (Young, 1971) and The Man Who Changed His Mind (Stevenson, 1936). Adapted from a novel by John Blackburn, Nothing but the Night is an occult mystery which, in its Scottish setting and centrality of children to the plot, is reminiscent of The Wicker Man. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee - as a pathologist and a policeman respectively - star as the men trying to work out the mystery behind the sudden deaths of trustees of an island castle orphanage. A Hammer horror set in early 19th century Serbia, Vampire Circus sees an itinerant circus arrive in a small village. Initially there is rejoicing at the prospect of entertainment to relieve the burden of years of plague, believed by the superstitious locals to be the result of a vampire's curse - but shortly after the circus's arrival the children of the village start to die in mysterious circumstances. The Man Who Changed His Mind is a rare 1936 British Boris Karloff film. Karloff plays Dr. Laurience, a once-respectable scientist whose research has led him to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The scientific community has rejected him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked - but then he is offered a lifeline - and the use of a laboratory - by the owner of a newspaper looking for a good story. But just whose brains is Dr. Laurience going to experiment on?
Horror Triple Pack
Three modern British horrors that are destined for classic status. Includes Dog Soldiers, The Descent and 28 Days Later.
Horrors of the Black Museum
Michael Gough gives a gloriously overwrought performance in this notorious 1959 shocker. Shot at Merton Park Studios in the relatively new CinemaScope format, Horrors of the Black Museum was the first in what has been dubbed Anglo-Amalgamated’s ‘Sadian trilogy’ (with Circus of Horrors and Peeping Tom), in which the keynote is sensationalistic, sexually charged violence. While a series of grisly, macabre and seemingly motiveless murders leaves Scotland Yard baffled, leading crime writer and journalist Edward Bancroft (Gough) is following events with particular interest. When it is discovered that a young man, Rick, is being motivated to commit the murders under hypnosis, it also becomes clear that his mystery mentor is delighting in the Yard’s embarrassment. An interesting, and somewhat nastier, departure from the period politeness of Hammer films of the time.
Korean Horror Collection
Contains Into the Mirror, Acacia, and The Wig. In 'Into the Mirror' (2003), Ji-Tae Yu stars as Wu Young-Min, a former policeman who quits the force after accidentally causing the death of his partner while trying to save his life. Now working as a security guard at a deserted shopping mall which was closed after a series of murders took place there, Wu becomes increasingly drawn into the web of mystery and terror surrounding the killings, while also reliving the horrific memories that punctuate his own past. In 'Acacia' (2003), when a childless couple decide to adopt a young orphaned boy, they think that their family is complete. When they unexpectedly have a child of their own, however, their adopted son becomes withdrawn and solitary. Eventually he becomes convinced that an acacia tree in the garden is the reincarnation of his real mother. At first his parents see this as another example of his growing fantasy world, but when the boy mysteriously disappears, they begin to fear that the tree in the garden may harbour dark secrets. Finally, 'The Wig' (2005) tells the gruesome tale surrounding two sisters and the demonic wig that comes between them. Each sister, it seems, has suffered a terrible trauma: Chi Hyon (Seon Yu) can no longer speak due to a terrible car accident that damaged her vocal chords, while her younger sibling Su Hyon (Min-seo Chae) has been diagnosed with cancer with little chance of recovery. When Su Hyon loses her hair due to chemotherapy treatment, Chi Hyon decides to give her younger sister a beautiful wig to help her regain her confidence. Immediately, Su Hyon begins to change in ways her elder sister never expected.
Masters Of Horror (Series 2 Volume 2)
The other half of the second series of the show that unites some of the horror genre's most respected filmmakers. Includes 'We All Scream For Ice Cream', 'Sound Like', 'The Washingtonians', 'The Damned Thing', 'Dream Cruise' and 'The V Word'.
Masters Of Horror - Series 1 - Vol.2
Representing a major television event in the US when it began broadcasting on Showtime in October 2005, the Masters of Horror series brings together an astonishing roster of major names from the horror genre, including Dario Argento, Tobe Hooper, Takashi Miike, Larry Cohen, William Malone and John McNaughton to direct a series of original 1-hour films.
The Haunted House of Horror
Frankie Avalon and Jill Haworth head the group of groovy teenagers bored looking for kicks by spending the night in an old and deserted mansion - but their laughter turns to fear when one of them is killed in a frenzied knife attack. Another of them persuades the rest that they should solve the murder themselves rather than go to the police, opening the way to further carnage. The go-go boots and mini-skirts in evidence led the critcs to dub the film 'Haunted House a Go-Go'!
The Horror of Frankenstein
Another Hammer re-telling of the enduring tale, this time with elements of black comedy and a fresh-faced Victor Frankenstein.
The Last Horror Movie
Disturbing film in which wedding photographer Max is determined to direct an intelligent film about murder and confront his audience with an intense exploration of the mind of a maniac. Soon however, he is blurring the line between fiction and reality as he starts to snuff out victims himself. Using a teen horror video rental tape as the master copy of his film to lure his victims, he invites them to watch and then punishes them for their voyeurism.
The Little Shop Of Horrors (1960)
Made on peanuts and shot in one dusty corner of the studio, this has to be seen for Jack Nicholson’s exemplary turn as dental patient Wilbur Force. See the film that made Corman a byword for exploitation.
The Little Shop Of Horrors (1986)
In this dark but goofy and thoroughly fun musical, shy Seymour and bubbly Audrey don't recognize the romance blooming between them, but they do recognize the money-making potential of Seymour's weird plant, discovered after a total eclipse of the sun. Soon money pours in and Seymour becomes a minor celebrity, but behind the glamour and fame lies a secret Seymour can't reveal: this strange and unusual plant's favorite food is blood. As the plant grows taller and taller, its demands for food grow as well, and Seymour starts to suspect that the plant might have an agenda for world domination.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Camp musical sci-fi horror movie spoof The Rocky Horror Picture Show has become - thanks to elaborate audience participation on the midnight movie circuit - the definitive cult film. When bland engaged couple Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) seek shelter after their car breaks down in a storm, they find themselves made welcome in the very weird home of mad scientist Dr Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry), an alien transvestite who is building a monster called Rocky. The film was written by Richard O'Brien, who co-stars as sinister singing butler Riff-Raff, and songs include the immortal 'Time Warp' and 'Sweet Transvestite'. One of the most bizarrely entertaining and satisfying musicals ever made.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Camp musical sci-fi horror movie spoof The Rocky Horror Picture Show has become - thanks to elaborate audience participation on the midnight movie circuit - the definitive cult film. When bland engaged couple Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) seek shelter after their car breaks down in a storm, they find themselves made welcome in the very weird home of mad scientist Dr Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry), an alien transvestite who is building a monster called Rocky. The film was written by Richard O'Brien, who co-stars as sinister singing butler Riff-Raff, and songs include the immortal 'Time Warp' and 'Sweet Transvestite'. One of the most bizarrely entertaining and satisfying musicals ever made.