Homicidal

Starring:Wolfe Barzell, Patricia Breslin, Teri Brooks, Alan Bunce, Glenn Corbett, Joseph Forte, Gilbert Green, Eugenie Leontovich, Joan Marshall, Ralph Moody, Richard Rust, Hope Summers, James Westerfield
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

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Cross Alfred Hitchcock with a carnival showman and you might come up with William Castle, the low-budget horror king of the exploitation gimmick. Homicidal is arguably his best film, a devious little Psycho knockoff with all the right ingredients: a sleepy Southern California town, a beautiful blonde with icy eyes and a thing for knives, a mute old woman in a wheelchair, and a deep, dark secret involving a repressed, awkward young man still haunted by the abuses of his dead father. Ever the cinematic carny, Castle pulls a trademark gimmick just before the climax: the clock-countdown "Fright Break," for anyone "too frightened to see the end of the picture." What the film lacks in tension it makes up for in startles and shocks. Castle is no Hitchcock, but he adds an insidious twist that pays off even if you see it coming.

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Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin's character in Psycho. In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience--it's one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. ("No! Don't drop that knife!") Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more installments: 1981's dismal Halloween II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate events, and 1998's occasionally gripping Halloween H20, which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years. --Robert Horton

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Divimax is a High Definition (HD) film transfer process that provides state-of-the-art picture quality--and can be viewed on any home entertainment system.

Customer Reviews:

Halloween.......2007-07-03

John Carpenter's first and best entry in a long series, this movie gives the slasher pic a good name (that is, until you sit through all those pale re-treads). This lean feature works because it's both original and daringly basic: Laurie is a young teenage girl up against a monster, with only her wits and her two feet to protect her from the wrong end of a large butcher knife. Will Laurie and her young charges make it to Thanksgiving? You'll remain on the edge of your seat finding out.

THE NIGHT HE CAME HOME........2007-06-23

I just picked up this movie the other day and i have been a huge fan of the halloween series all my life and just never had the original. I never knew how much I lovede it until yesturday. This movie is awsome and John Carpenter and Debra Hill are genuises. Half the movie is shot in mid day and is still as scary as if was shot in night.This is Jamie lee curtis best film and does a great job in it. I also love Michael is this one the way he walks and such. Anyway pick up this movie it's awsome.

Halloween Movies.......2007-06-20

Oh the good old days of the element of surprise and fear waiting for Michael Meyers to jump out and whack you ! I became a fan in 1978 and still get creeped out when I see Michael.

He Came Home.......2007-06-07

When John Carpenter gave form to "The Shape", aka Michael Myers, he crafted a chilling story of suspense around this murderer. Before the stupid "sister storyline", the attempt at turning Myers into some supernatural bogeyman, or the reboot which only tarnished the original further (Sorry, but Jamie Lee has definitely lost what acting skills she once had), there was the tale of a child who simply was...evil. He came home on Halloween night to relive the horror of his first murder. He was not a man. He was, pure and simply, evil. Now why did we need to know more than that?

Carpenter's Halloween.......2007-05-22

The oldest sister of all psycho-thrillers: a modern revision of the boogeyman's myth shot in 1978 by John Carpenter, probably the only horror movies artisan still in action. Although many of the rudiments of psycho movies can be already find in the first italian giallos and, of course, in Hitchcock's "Psycho", its very calculated prologue contains as if it was a manual all the leit-motives of the genre: the use of the subjective camera and the steadycam for supporting the suspense scenes; atmospherical travellings; obssessive and disturbing sound effects and cold-blood murders. Proving once more that to suggest is more effective than to resort to explicit shots, and looking for a pure horror show without gratuitous violence Carpenter reinvents wisely through the tradition in this very smart and stylised horror classic: for example, the suggestion that colour white can hold a devilish connotation is already in Edgar Poe's " The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket". Donald Pleasance plays the psychiatrist Dr. Loomis, a sort of modern Van Helsing and the man who better knows the evil nature of his patient Michael Myers, recently escaped from the asylum Dr.Loomis rules.

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Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

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Sweeny Todd
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Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Starring: Angela Lansbury , George Hearn , Cris Groenendaal , Sara Woods , and Edmund Lyndeck
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Release Date: 2004-04-20

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Stephen Sondheim's Victorian horror thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is generally considered his greatest work, macabre but darkly humorous with a viscerally powerful score that has found a home both on Broadway and in opera houses. George Hearn (who replaced Len Cariou of the original Broadway cast) plays the title character, a wronged man whose lust for revenge drives him to murder (an 18th-century legend who has been traced to a real-life barber), and Angela Lansbury plays his partner in crime, Mrs. Lovett, who finds a practical business use for Todd's victims. This combination of horror and humor is echoed in Sondheim's score: brooding menace ("The Ballad of Sweeney Todd," "My Friend"), achingly beautiful ballads ("Johanna," "Not While I'm Around"), clever puns ("A Little Priest"), coloratura arias ("Green Finch and Linnet Bird"), and intricate choral and ensemble numbers.

Continuing a fortuitous tradition of capturing the Sondheim legacy on video recordings, this performance was filmed before a live audience in Los Angeles during the 1982 national tour. Almost 20 years later, Hearn returned to the role opposite Patti LuPone in an acclaimed concert production. But Sweeney Todd is an especially compelling experience in this 1982 version, complete with the clever staging tricks (e.g., the barber's chair) and as close to the original cast as we're likely to see. --David Horiuchi

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Times are hard in 1846 London and one must make do. So Nellie Lovett adds something extra to the meat pies she peddles on Fleet Street. The secret ingredient: freshly murdered victims of her partner in crime, barber Sweeney Todd. Composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim refashions a macabre tale into a musical masterwork in this dazzling performance of the 1979 Broadway hit originally staged by Harold Prince. In her Tony-winning role (one of eight the show earned, including Best Musical), Angela Lansbury plays Nellie. George Hearn turns his stage role of twisted Sweeney into an Emmy-winning triumph. The score coils around itself in ever-tightening spirals. The lines ripple with black humor and madness. Enter Sweeney's tonsorial parlor. Attend the tale.

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pefect perfect.......2007-07-05

this is my FAVORITE show ever and im so thankful that the original/much better version is now available!

Film record of the stage production.......2007-02-01

Halfway between movie and stage is the filming of a stage production. It is difficult to capture the intimacy and immediacy of theater on film, difficult to exercise the kind of control that film offers on stage. This is a filming of a live stage presentation. It looks reasonably good and sound quality seems fine. The major selling point is Angela Lansbury's fine performance as the demented Mrs. Lovett. It is a wonderful performance and considering how many wonderful performances on stage are lost forever, it is nice to see this one preserved. A lifetime of playing villainesses seems to free her to approach the part with utter abandon. The musical itself is excellent and beautifully done. The biggest concern I have is that with a price this high, the DVD clearly was made as cheaply as possible with a cheap cardboard container and absolutely no extras of any kind. I do not think that there is anything that would justify the cost and, while I am pleased to have the film, I am disgusted at the inordinately high price charged. It is a crime to make so little effort in simply reproducing a film whose costs were quite limited in the first place, packaging it as cheaply as possible and then charging top dollar for the final product. It is really shameful.

Sweeny Todd.......2007-01-28

Sweeney Todd is a wonderfully dark romp through broadway. It follows the story of Benjamin Barker, a barber who was jilted by the judge and beetle of old time London and soon seeks revenge. A wonderful performance by Angela Lansbury as Nellie Lovett and Len Cariou as Sweeny Todd.

The not-such-a-demon barber of fleet street.......2007-01-11

It is easy to see why Angela Lansbury won a Tony for this peformance. The sets, scenery and costumes are wonderful. The cast is quite effective, but at times it is very hard to distinguish some of the lyrics in the larger production numbers. A must see for anyone that is aware that Tim Burton is going to bring his own unique take on this story to life.

Sweeney Todd.......2007-01-10

Love it! Wonderful recording of this musical. A must for musical libraries.

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Halloween
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Starring: Brian Andrews , Jamie Lee Curtis , Charles Cyphers , John Michael Graham , and Peter Griffith
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ASIN: 6305546789
Release Date: 1999-09-28

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Customer Reviews:

Halloween.......2007-07-03

THE NIGHT HE CAME HOME........2007-06-23

Halloween Movies.......2007-06-20

Oh the good old days of the element of surprise and fear waiting for Michael Meyers to jump out and whack you ! I became a fan in 1978 and still get creeped out when I see Michael.

He Came Home.......2007-06-07

Carpenter's Halloween.......2007-05-22

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Disco hell
Excellent Movie
PROM NIGHT: Everyone is preparing for the prom...If your not back by midnight you won't be coming home!!!
Disco,Jamie Lee Curtis and Rolling Heads..I'm There

Prom Night
Starring: Leslie Nielsen , Jamie Lee Curtis , Casey Stevens , Anne-Marie Martin , and Antoinette Bower
Director: Paul Lynch
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ASIN: B000244G9U
Release Date: 2004-03-04

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When it comes to an expressive set of lungs for horror, it's hard to match Jamie Lee Curtis, who set the standard for nonstop screaming in Halloween. She built her reputation as a scream queen in such subsequent outings as The Fog, Terror Train, and this similarly themed and relatively subpar horror outing. A progenitor of I Know What You Did Last Summer, this film focuses on four high school friends on prom night who are being stalked by a masked maniac seeking revenge for a death that occurred six years earlier. Guess who lives to tell the tale? --Marshall Fine

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Directed by Paul Lynch, this cult horror masterpiece starring Leslie Nielsen and scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis paved the way for future slasher films and inspired such blockbusters as Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. For six long years, Hamilton High School seniors Kelly (Marybeth Rubins), Jude (Joy Thompson), Wendy (Eddie Benton), and Nick (Casey Stevens) have been hiding the truth of what happened to ten-year-old Robin Hammond the day her broken body was discovered near an old abandoned convent. The foursome kept secret how they taunted Robin - backed her into a corner until, frightened, she stood on a window ledge...and fell to her death. Though an accident, the then-twelve-year-olds feared they'd be held responsible and vowed never to tell. But someone else was there that day...watching. And now, that someone is ready to exact murderous revenge - on prom night.

Customer Reviews:

Returned.......2007-05-28

This product was returned due to it not being closed captioned. The movie is great, I have seen it before, but I needed the CC.

Disco hell.......2007-05-14

I read a startling bit of news the other day on one of the horror websites I frequent on a regular basis. According to this article, someone in Hollywood is rolling full steam ahead on a "Prom Night" remake. Oh no! What is going on out there in Tinseltown? Is there no one left with an ounce of creativity? "Prom Night"! Next thing you know, someone's going to start talking about remaking "Black Christmas". Oh wait--that already happened with absolutely devastating consequences. After finally sitting down with the original "Prom Night," I can't imagine why anyone would want to bring this one back to the silver screen. It's not good in any way, shape, or form, and it's extremely unlikely a "reimagining" (That's a new word Hollywood unloads on the anxious suckers worried about a remake that might soil an original classic--sounds better, friendlier, don't you think?) will improve upon the pedestrian qualities of the original. I've seen billions of slasher flicks, many from the heyday of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and "Prom Night" ranks as one of the worst. It's even worse than "Terror Train". Sadly, both films star scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis. No wonder she left the genre.

"Prom Night" starts off with a childhood tragedy that should never have happened. A bunch of kids playing some sort of game in an abandoned house end up killing one of their playmates. How does it happen? The kid does a header out a window and slams into the ground. Why did it happen? The four youngsters taunted the other kid so badly that in the process of trying to escape, she backed up to that window ledge. Ooops. The surviving little ones immediately make some sort of pact, a promise if you will, that no one will tell the adults exactly what took place. After all, they're afraid something bad will happen to them if they tell the truth. What they don't know, what they won't know until their teenage years some years later, is that someone saw what happened that horrible day. And that someone is silently hiding away, biding their time and plotting a nasty vengeance that will rain death and destruction down on this little town. The resulting horror will take place, of course, on PROM NIGHT! Bum, bum, bum! Oh the humanity! Oh the horror! Oh brother! I wish I'd taken the header out the window after viewing this trash!

Six years later, all the kiddie murderers are grown up and planning their prom night. We have Kelly (Marybeth Robbins), Jude (Joy Thompson), Wendy (Eddie Benton), and Nick (Casey Stevens) all going through the motions planning for the big night. Also looking forward to the big event is Kim Hammond (Curtis) and her brother Alex (Michael Tough). It was their sister who took the Nestea plunge all those years ago. It's kind of a bummer for them since their father Raymond (Leslie Nielsen) is the school principal, but you gotta do what you gotta do. As the nighttime party nears, all four of the principals involved in the accident receive a frightening phone call from some wacko who likes to tap a pencil on a pad of paper. Hmmm. The story tries to fill time by introducing us to various tensions involving getting dates for the dance, keeping a date for the dance, hooking up with a ridiculous nerd driving a van, fighting in school, and trying to undermine the prom queen (Curtis, of course). You get the idea. By the time we get to prom night, I'm ready to turn in for the evening. Nothing exciting happens in this film aside from those creepy phone calls.

Actually, that's not quite accurate. A few things of interest do occur, and it's worth mentioning them here. One, "Prom Night" is relatively sauce free. Sure, we get a neat decapitation at one point in the proceedings, but most of the kills in the movie take place in that great unknown land called "Offscreen". That's a big strike against the movie right there. Two, the movie came out in 1980, which meant that filming probably took place a year or two earlier. You know what that means: DISCO! Yep, expect to see plenty of disco dancing in this film. It's painful in the extreme. I'd rather take an axe in the head than watch interminable scenes of Jamie Lee Curtis cutting the rug with her best Travolta dance moves. Feel the energy! Feel the excitement! Why I can't I feel my legs anymore? Yuck. I'm watching the disco fever unfold and preying the psycho sets off a car bomb outside. Anything to make the pain go away. Because that's what we're dealing with in "Prom Night": severe pain from watching such an inept clunker unfurl on the screen. I didn't even care about the identity of the killer in the end. All I wanted was to see the closing credits.

Two interesting notes about "Prom Night" and then we'll call it a night. First, I think the movie is in the public domain because all sorts of inferior prints of the film are circulating out there in movie land. The copy I watched on DVD looked awful and didn't have any extras. Second, the film must have done well at the box office since Hollywood unleashed no less than three sequels on an unsuspecting public. Have I seen any of them? Nope. Would I watch them? Probably. What can I say? I'm a sucker for horror flicks. That, and I'm sure they don't have disco scenes. Looking back over my review, I say go ahead and remake this movie. It can't be any worse. They should keep the disco scenes intact, though. That way if the horror doesn't work, at least the audience will find some entertainment through laughter. One star. Avoid the original "Prom Night" at all costs.

Excellent Movie.......2007-05-14

I had this movie a long time ago but I lost it this is the best movie that I have ever seen I ahve always loved Jamie Lee Curtis she is a really good actor.

PROM NIGHT: Everyone is preparing for the prom...If your not back by midnight you won't be coming home!!!.......2007-02-25

PROM NIGHT is a disco-classic slasher frenzy that will make you watch it over and over

Disco,Jamie Lee Curtis and Rolling Heads..I'm There.......2007-02-10

"Prom Night" Is another of my favorite early Slashers.
I love the disco soundtrack and the whole late 70's feel of the movie. Ever since I saw Halloween I craved more Jamie lee Curtis and this gives you a healthy dose.
The plot is pretty usual but the killer wasn't predictable like a lot of slasher movies.
It's a horror/slasher classic,not much gore but still effective .
Can I say as a woman I would never take a ride from a fat boy in a VAN~!!
Jude~! what were you feelin girl?
And in the 70's and 80's slashers the jocks usually didn't have any muscles
But the girls always had big [...]. go figure. ANYWAY..buy the movie it's slasher royalty.

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Great Thriller
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Scream
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With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) revived the moldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted clichés and then turning them inside out. Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly deconstructs horror films, then reassembles the dead tissue, and (like Frankenstein's monster) creates new life. When a serial killer starts hacking up their fellow teens, the media-savvy youngsters of Scream realize that the smartest way of sticking around for the sequel is to avoid the terminal behaviors that inevitably doom supporting players in the movies. They've seen all the movies, and the rules of the genre are like second nature to them. One of the scariest/funniest setups features a kid watching John Carpenter's seminal Halloween on video. As Jamie Lee Curtis is shadowed by Michael Meyers and the kid on the couch yells at her to turn around, Craven reverses his camera and we see that the kid should be taking his own advice. The fresh-faced young cast (including Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette) is fun to watch, and their tart dialogue is sprinkled with enough archly self-conscious pop-culture references to make Quentin Tarantino blush. --Jim Emerson

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A crowd-pleasing smash hit with a sizzling cast -- critics are calling SCREAM the hippest thriller of the year! Afer a series of mysterious deaths, a seemingly peaceful community becomes a place where no one is safe ... and everyone is suspect! That's when an offbeat group of friends rally to unlock the town's deadly secrets ... and get caught up in a lively mix of thrills, chills, and surprises! With hot stars Drew Barrymore (CHARLIE'S ANGELS), Courteney Cox (TV's FRIENDS), Neve Campbell (54), Skeet Ulrich (AS GOOD AS IT GETS), and David Arquette (BEAUTIFUL GIRLS).

Customer Reviews:

Great Thriller.......2007-06-17

A great thriller, though extremely cheesy. I'm not a very conservative person, but I was surprised by the amount of swear words. As usual, the special "collector's edition" extras are nothing special.

"There are certain RULES that one must abide by in order to survive a horror movie...".......2007-05-23

By the mid-'90s, the teen slasher genre seemed utterly played out. But in 1996, a seemingly unlikely figure helped resurrect the genre. That man was director Wes Craven, the horror maestro who had himself been largely responsible for kickstarting the genre in the '80s with the classic "A Nightmare On Elm Street" (1984). A dozen years later, he directed a new classic called "Scream." Written by Kevin Williamson ("Dawson's Creek"), it's a self-referential horror film/satire that's both terrifying and hilarious.

Craven had actually written and delivered another self-referential, postmodern take on the teen horror genre two years earlier, with "New Nightmare." But since that film was the seventh installment in the left-for-dead Elm Street series, it was largely overlooked. "Scream," on the other hand, boasted a new story line, more laughs and a hot young cast, and it quickly became a hit with critics and audiences.

Neve Campbell plays Sidney Prescott, a teenage girl still coping with the violent death of her mother a year earlier. Now, a deranged killer is offing her classmates and other members of the community. Worse, the murderer's got his eye set on Sidney, terrorizing her with a series of creepy phone calls. A tabloid reporter (Courtney Cox) thinks the current serial killer may be the same person who murdered Sidney's mom.

Sidney's friends try to comfort her by cracking wise about horror films and offering advice on how she can avoid becoming the killer's latest victim. It may not sound helpful, but it's better than leaving herself in the hands of bumbling Deputy Dwight Riley (the perpetually annoying David Arquette). In the end, everyone is a suspect, and Sidney races to find the killer's identity and save her life.

"Scream" succeeds as both a satire and a horror film. Williamson's excellent script tweaks every scary movie cliche and asks the question every horror buff wants to know: Why, when the heroine is being chased by the killer, does she run up the stairs instead of out the front door? It's a blast to watch the film's characters talk horror, even as they're being stalked by the killer.

Of course, the humorous self-referencing wouldn't be nearly as fun if the movie wasn't damn scary in its own right. With a petrifying opening sequence, Craven immediately establishes that he hasn't lost his touch for delivering scares. Ferociously acted by Drew Barrymore -- giving perhaps her finest performance to date -- it's guaranteed to leave you whimpering.

From there, the laughs and scares come fast and furious and don't stop 'till the film's knockout finale. While "Scream" did regrettably spawn a slew of weak imitations (including its own limp sequels), the original is a scary treat you don't want to miss.

pretty scary .......2007-05-07

This movie is so scary. I love drew barrymore and neve campbell. they are great actresses. Too bad drew's character casey is so short-lived in the movie. overall, a great scary movie. I just love slasher movies. Scream 2 is great too.

Scream.......2007-05-03

Scream is the best scary movie I've ever seen.My favorite part of the whole movie was of course the opening seen.I mean, Drew Barrymore did a
really good job in the scene.It was about 12 minutes of her and the killer
playing cat and mouse, it was really cool.And I also like the ending because it's where they have the two killers and Sidney.And it just ended in a real bloodbath.So seriously, watch this movie

Scream DVD.......2007-02-21

I was one of the fortunate to view all three flicks at the cinema. This is definitely the best one of them all. There is just one issue that this DVD is lacking from the rest: WHY ISN'T THIS DVD ENHANCED FOR WIDESCREEN PRESENTATIONS ON 16:9 TELEVISIONS LIKE THE OTHER ONES ARE?

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SUBLIME
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House of the Fulci zombie!
Fulci Lives
My Favorite Fulci FIlm (so Far)

The House By The Cemetery
Starring: Silvia Collatina , Carlo De Mejo , Giovanni De Nava , Daniela Doria , and Ranieri Ferrara
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ASIN: B000059PPN
Release Date: 2001-05-22

Customer Reviews:

SUBLIME.......2007-06-20

THIS IS THE MASTERPIEACE OF LUCIO FULCI EVERYTHING IS MARVELOUS IT IS BLOODY CREEPY SCARY AND DISTURBING AT ALL THE MUSIC IS FANTASTIC WE CAN SEE THIS MOVIE AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN SO GOOD

wasn't disapointed .......2007-05-08

i wasnt expecting a whole lot from this one , already having a few of fulci's other zombie movies . they're all kind of guilty pleasures , i guess. this wasnt bad

House of the Fulci zombie!.......2007-01-29

I am proud to say I have seen about every zombie movie that at least I'm aware of. With over at least a hundred zombie movies to my viewing credit from all over the globe over the last forty years. I can say that this is
one of my more favored picks. I'm not sure why. This movie is not particularly frightening per say. But it does have a beautiful eerie quality that sometimes get's lost with new cinema. Fulci is known as the godfather of gore, and out of all of his several zombie movies, this is my favorite.
I appreciated the asthetic camera angles and the storyline was not bad.
True it can be a bit campy, and somewhat slow. But in the context of the times, and it being a laregly italian film, I thought it stood on it's own. I even bought a t-shirt of the movie. If you enjoy Fulci's brand of zombie gore, I do suggest giving this one a try.
If you do not like slower paced zombie films then I'd avoid it.

But trust me...I have seen alot worse...even from Fulci.

Fulci Lives .......2006-11-06

Lucio Fulci is one of the best Italian directors right next to Argento(my favorite), and the Bavas. Besides gore he has done giallo(New York Ripper), fantasy(Conquest), and action(Contraband). House by the Cemetery is in his top 4 along with City of the Living Dead, Zombie, and The Beyond. He will always be in my heart. Now onto the review.
House by the Cemetery is about a family who moves into a house in New England which used to belong to DR. Fruedstein , who is now using dead peoples cells to stay alive. Many murders occur in the house up until the disturbing ending.
Gore-good amount.the quality is also nice.we have a knife through the back of the head, a decapitation which begins with a brutal throat slashing, a store dummy that has its head cut off and for some reason bleeds?, a woman stabbed repeatedly with a fireplace poker(blood squirts everywhere), a stabbed bat, a throat ripping, a severed hand, a nasty view of dead bodies with organs and dripping blood, and some other things.
plot-good for a fulci film
sound-nothing wrong
picture- have seen better
extras-not loaded but some nice stuff like trailers and stills
overall- a great movie and purchase. just be sure to get the anchor bay version because it is the most uncut. see ya.

My Favorite Fulci FIlm (so Far).......2006-09-18

I have Zombi and then I picked up this flick (House by the Cemetary). I liked House...better than Zombi. It just had a better story and acting, but, like Zombi, had great gore for it's time. It does have an annoying bratty little blond boy in it, but adds it the films campyness. I wasn't really impressed with ZOMBI, but figured I'd give another Fulci flick a try..glad I did=gonna check out more of them in the future..

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That's not a knife... THIS is a knife!
Forgettable
Not as bad as you've been led to believe, but not great.
THIS MOVIE SUCKS!!!
Low-budget, yes. But still really good.

Wolf Creek (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Starring: John Jarratt , Gordon Poole , Nathan Phillips , Kestie Morassi , and Cassandra Magrath
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ASIN: B000EOTVU2
Release Date: 2006-04-11

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Wolf Creek, written and directed by Greg McClean, is the Blair Witch Project of the Australian outback. Capitalizing on the human fear of becoming lost in the wilderness, in this case a desert crater called Wolf Creek National Park, this graphic horror film exploits the handheld camera to capture the grotesque actions of Mick Taylor (John Janatt), a sadistic serial killer. When a hip twenty-something guy, Ben Mitchell (Nathan Phillips), and two hippie-ish girls, Cassandra (Liz Hunter) and Kristy (Kestie Morassi), take a road trip and their car breaks down, they have no choice but to accept help from Mick, an eccentric rural Aussie, who, like a spider, tows them into his nightmarish lair. Mick hunts kangaroos and hates tourists, translating his fetish for knives, shotguns, and other torture devices into a need to kill humans as if they're vermin infesting his majestic landscape. Ample blood and gore leave the viewer feeling nearly as sick as the girls who are forced to watch each other die. Like Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs, Mick Taylor is a savvy, calculating killer, despicable but psychologically fascinating. --Trinie Dalton

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Welcome to Wolf Creek, where the suspense of The Blair Witch Project meets the horror of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Inspired by Australia's "Backpacker Killer" who murdered seven backpackers in the `90s, Wolf Creek won wide acclaim from critics, filmmakers and audience members alike at the Sundance Film Festival. Three unsuspecting hikers take off for a drive across Australia. When the trio returns from a four-hour hike to Wolf Creek National Park, they find their car is dead. Help comes in the form of big, back-slapping bushman Mick (John Jarratt). Since Mick appears to be more Crocodile Dundee than Freddy Krueger, the trio trusts him…which proves to be a grave mistake. Quentin Tarantino said, "Jarratt delivers a performance that's destined to go down as one of the greatest film heavies of the last 25 years. "Not since the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre has terror felt so real." Ken Fox, TV Guide

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That's not a knife... THIS is a knife!.......2007-07-03

[Wolf Creek is loosely based off the Outback Killer, who is said to have killed a bunch of hitchhikers and backpackers in Australia.] Three friends are driving through Australia on a road trip and stop to see the worlds largest meteor crater at Wolfe Creek. When they return to their car it is dead and their watches have also stopped. Along comes Mick Taylor, a seemingly nice guy who offers to help them out(This seems so cliche but it's really not.) So without giving too much of the story away, they take this guys help and wind up fighting for their lives.

Wolf Creek was probably the best horror film to come out in a while. I'm a horror buff; I can watch any of them and be entertained. Every so often though, I watch a movie that is flat out scary and done perfectly. That is Wolf Creek.

The begining is all about character build up which you NEVER see in horror movies nowadays. Everyone wants immediate action: more gory and less story. That's why some people I've conversed with about this movie said they didn't like it because the opening dragged. I really think it was important though, you really got to like the characters.

Secondly, I love that there is little to no music and when there is music it is subtle. It doesn't really guide or warn you; you don't know whether Mick Taylor is about to jump out or not. Instead, you just feel nervous and scared the whole time. Which is awesome.

Third, I loved the visual shots. It added this prodigious characteristic to Australia. It made it seem large and endless yet empty and capable of engulfing everyone inside. I guess what I'm trying to say is that Australia was almost a character itself in the movie; a villian.

Lastly, the acting was great.

I really recommend this movie for anyone that loves horror films and has been long awaiting a really good one.

Forgettable.......2007-07-02

Five minutes after you watch this film, you'll forget you saw it. There is a small amount of suspense, but overall, it's just cookie cutter stuff. There is some decent gore, but the main characters are even dumber than your average slasher victims. It holds your interest for about 60% of the movie, then it erupts into a buffet of stupid decisions by two victims. If this is really based on a true story, there was a whole lot of embellishment going on. I think even the LAPD could catch this guy.

I'll give it 3 stars for the slight suspense during the first 45 minutes or so, then it loses 2 for the farse of a conclusion.

Not as bad as you've been led to believe, but not great........2007-06-26

Wolf Creek (Greg McLean, 2005)

Wolf Creek is another of those movies that often gets lumped in with Saw and Hostel, and not to anyone's benefit. Least of all the movie's. Yes, there are a few scenes that might make the squeamish cringe, but the gore factor here is surprisingly low; I'm half-convinced the movie has the rating it does because of the language rather than the violence.

Based on the true story of Ivan Milat, a serial killer who was relatively unknown outside Australia previous to the making of this movie, Wolf Creek follows three kids--Ben (Nathan Phillips of Snakes on a Plane), Kristy (Darkness Falls' Kestie Morassi), and Liz (TV actress Cassandra Magrath)--as they head out to Wolf Creek, a large meteorite crater in the Australian outback, and go hiking. When they get back to their car, they find it dead. A few hours later, a friendly chap named Mick (Picnic at Hanging Rock's John Jarratt) offers to tow them back to his camp and get their car running. That's not what he has in mind, as you know if you've seen any of the trailers.

The acting, with the exception of Jarrett (who has been much-lauded for his efforts), is average, maybe slightly above. The cinematography is wonderful, which you can pretty much automatically expect from any movie that comes from that neck of the woods; there's just something about Australian cinematographers. The pace is, as with most horror movies since, modeled upon that of Alien--do nothing for a long time, and then cut everything loose. It's getting kind of old, to be honest. And that's the movie's biggest problem; it cleaves tightly to horror film convention for being an indie flick. Happy beginning, ominous stories at night, false alarm, car breakdown, scary serial killer. Woo. It's done with some style, to be sure, but it's nothing you haven't seen before. ***

THIS MOVIE SUCKS!!!.......2007-06-19

I hated this movie. I was forced th watch it with my friends one night and was bored out of my life. You minus well just skipp to the last 30 mins because there is no suspenese what so ever until the end. If you like these kind of realistic movies I would recomend to see High Tension. Its avery similar film that has lots of suspense and keeps you entertain. Overall dont waste your time on this movie.

Low-budget, yes. But still really good........2007-06-14

I'm shocked to see that Amazon reviewers have only given this movie 3 stars. The first time I saw this, I was shocked and found myself biting my nails through the last half of the movie.

So what's this movie about? Two girls and a guy go on a trip to visit Wolf Creek. Upon getting there, they find that their car won't start. Hours later, a man finds them and offers to take them to his house where he will fix their car. The three kids fall asleep but when one of the girls wakes up, she finds that her two friends are missing. And it goes on from there.

What's to like about this movie? First of all, the characters are likeable. Nowadays, creators of scary movies throw in unlikeable, unrelatable characters that leave you emotionless when something bad happens to them. These characters are great and you'll feel a huge amount of sympathy for them towards the end of the movie. Second, it's far from predictable. Think you know what's going to happen at the end? Think again. Third, there's really no main character. You know the whole "nothing bad can happen to the main character" stereotype in scary movies? Not true for this film. Fourth, it's scary, gory, and mysterious-three traits that make scary movies really good.

And what's not to like? Not much. The only thing that might be a negative to some people is the gory scenes. I actually don't mind them but it may be a turn off for some.

My rating: 4/5. It's a really good slasher flick and although it's a low-budget, it's far better than most high-budget films in the same genre.

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The first real Dario Argento film....
Jaw Dropping
good horror,classic giallo
Fantastic film... About the Blue Underground Release
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Deep Red
Starring: Daria Nicolodi David Hemmings
Director: Dario Argento
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ASIN: B000KRNG4U
Release Date: 2007-02-27

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Dario Argento's Masterpiece - In It's Full-Length Director's Cut!

An English jazz pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal hatchet murder of a renowned psychic and is quickly drawn into the savage crime. With the help of a tenacious female reporter, the pair track a twisted trail of deranged clues and relentless violence towards a shocking climax that has ripped screams from the throats of audiences for more than 30 years!

DEEP RED stars David Hemmings (BLOW-UP) and Daria Nicolodi (PHENOMENA, TENEBRE), and is widely considered by both fans and critics alike to be Dario Argento's true masterpiece. Now, with the cooperation of the maestro himself, this classic shocker is presented in its full-length Director's Cut - remixed in 5.1 Dolby Digital, uncut and uncensored for the first time ever!

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The first real Dario Argento film...........2007-06-18

To me, this is where Dario Argento's career really started. He had made 4 films prior to this (the "animal" trilogy, and a barely seen Western, The Five Days of Milan), but I never liked his early films (I saw The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Cat o' Nine Tails. Bird is decent, but rather boring. Cat is terrible, especially in its dubbed version). The amazing thing about Profondo Rosso (aka Deep Red...the original Italian title sounds so much better) is that even in its mutilated 98 minute version, it was still amazing (though incoherent) filmmaking. Essentially, the American distributor cut out 28 minutes of really important plot detail, but left most of the violence in the film. Now, Anchor Bay has given you the original film, and in the original Italian with English subtitles. The longer version is much more coherent, explaining the plotline and the motivations of the characters, and giving more of a role to Daria Niccolodi, Dario's girlfriend of 10 years. The music of Goblin (their 1st colloboration with Dario) is magnificent. It's just as good as their Suspiria soundtrack, and the fusion of Dario's cinematic sense and Goblin's music sense is one of the most fruitful colloborations in cinema history. The performances here are above average for a Dario film, with David Hemmings playing the usual English speaking artistic type getting caught up in a murder mystery (typical Argento plot). It's nice to see Argento's work restored, as almost EVERY film he did during his heyday was cut and sometimes renamed (for example, Phenomena was cut by 28 minutes and retitled Creepers, and Tenebrae was cut by 9 minutes and retitled Unsane). This was Dario's first masterpiece, and the beginning of a remarkable run for him up through his last great film, Opera. Many of Dario's films are really artistic and strikingly shot, something he's never really given credit for.

Jaw Dropping.......2007-05-18

This is not a contradiction: While Susperia is in my opinion the best horror film ever made, making it the scariest movie Argento has ever made, I still think that Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) is Argento's masterpiece. Why? While Deep Red is not as scary as Susperia, it is a better movie. Deep Red wins my vote as the best giallo film of all time. Buy this film at once. It demands repeated viewings. In this giallo, a jazz pianist witnesses a murder from the street and, feeling heroic, rushes into the building in attempt to aid the woman in peril. He runs into an apartment decorated with an abundance of paintings, only to find that the women is already dead. What follows hinges mainly on what has become Argento's main plot device in giallo films, namely, a mystery created in the mind of the main character of the film as a result of the fallability of human memory. As one character in the film states, memory is like a cocktail, and sometimes the flavors of past events get mixed up, becoming indistinguishable from one another. The Bird with the Crystal Plummage, Susperia, and Sleepless, to name a few, all contained mysteries pertaining to inaccurate, imperfect, or even blatantly false recollections of events which have come to pass. In Deep Red the main character swears that a painting has been stolen from the apartment he rushed into. He vividly remembers seeing one that is no longer there. The police dismiss his claims, saying he's mistaken. But there his memory is, lingering, haunting him, compelling him to play detective, as he becomes obsessed with jogging his memory. The entire issue in this movie pertaining to what he actually saw in the apartment is handled by the director geniously, for you too also get to see what the main character does, and likely will also miss it. I will say no more on the matter; I do not want to spoil the effect. This film is repleat with Argento's signature touches, the mobile camera, the black-gloved killer, and a brilliant use of color. Critics have often come down on this film, failing to give it the respect it deserves. One reason, I would surmise, is that the film as a whole is a bit tarnished by the corny relationship between David and Argento's once wife, Daria. These brief scenes aside, many of the sequences of this film dazzle the viewer with their technical mastery. The scene when David Hemmings keeps playing the piano with one hand though he hears an intruder on the other side of the door is masterfully executed, as are David's excursions into the creepy house with a hidden room. The editing in the film is nothing short of brilliant, as when the protagonists enter the school toward the end of the film. The picture cuts to various scenes, including the image of a bathroom wall with the graffito 'kill your parents.' The soundtrack to this film is one of Goblin's best. For interested readers, this film is actually a remake of Michelangelo Antonioni's masterpiece Blow Up, which also starred David Hemmings. There Hemmings played a photographer who, after photographing scenes in a park, swears he captured a murder in one of his photos. Though most critics prefer Blow Up to Deep Red, I, like Argento, find Blow Up's surreal conclusion to be a tremendous let down, and personally find Deep Red to be the superior of the two films. (Blow Up was also remade by Brian DePalma as Blow Out.)

good horror,classic giallo.......2007-05-12

excellent horror/giallo by dario argento.superb atmosphere,cinemaphotography,suspense,set piece work,good locations.personally i reckon this to be one of argentos best films along with 'suspiria'.compared to most other examples of the genre-great care and imagination has gone in to this one with great results.dvd quality is excellent with good subtitles(my preference when watching foreign films) and the film is of course completely uncut in widescreen.this is easily the best edition -can't see it being bettered.

Fantastic film... About the Blue Underground Release.......2007-05-11

This has always been one of my favourite Argento's. Stylish and clever with fantastic music, a wonderful atmosphere and some stunning set pieces. It also features (unusually for an Argento film, as he's not known for his patience with actors) a truly convincing performance by the main man, David Hemmings.

The Blue Underground edition is exactly the same print of the film as the Anchor Bay release (now out of print), which means it has sections that drop into Italian dialogue (some sections the English could not be found for, and some it was never recorded for as the scenes were never included in the international versions, only the Italian cut).
Whilst it is great to see the movie complete, it is very distracting to switch randomly and without warning between Italian language with subtitles and English without.. which leads to a temptation to watch the whole movie in Italian. Whilst this is usually a good idea with Argento's films, Hemming's performance in Deep Red is so subtle and nuanced that it is a great shame to diminish it by watching it with Italian dubbing. Dilema!!!

Anyway, the film is worth owning regardless of these frustrations. If you don't have the Anchor Bay version, I highly recommend you get this one (oh, and it has a great cover too!)

Blue underground version.......2007-04-21

Decent film. The anchor bay version had italian audio on the restored scenes. It's kinda wierd because the film randomly breaks from english into italian. Did blue underground fix that on this disc?

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American Gigolo from Amazon
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Emotionless film effectively shows pitfalls of materialsim

American Gigolo
Starring: Richard Gere , Lauren Hutton , Hector Elizondo , Nina Van Pallandt , and Bill Duke
Director: Paul Schrader
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ASIN: 0792160347
Release Date: 2000-05-23

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Writer-director Paul Schrader viewed this as the second part of a trilogy that began with Taxi Driver and concluded with Light Sleeper--each dealing with a lonely man trying to deal with both his own dizzily spinning moral compass and the hypocrisy of the society that's trying to tell him what to do. Richard Gere plays a high-priced prostitute, an immaculately dressed stud for hire who services the bored women of Beverly Hills without ever allowing himself to be touched emotionally. His affair with a politician's wife (Lauren Hutton) changes that, at a point when he is being framed for a murder he didn't commit. Even as he tries to elude the law, he allows himself to become enmeshed with her in unexpected ways. Too cool and distant for some viewers, the film has a distinctive look and deliberate pacing--and about two endings too many. But it will keep you watching in spite of yourself. --Marshall Fine

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Los Angeles: The Movie........2007-06-28

I couldn't agree more with many of the other criticisms regarding the shallowness of the romantic story or essential lack of sympathy for any of the characters. The thing that makes American Gigolo such a gem is that even this aspect of Paul Schrader's attempted New Wave/LA hybrid is corrupted by its material.

And on a purely superficial level, the film perfectly captures just how a Southern California "tragedy" would unfold. Really quite brilliant, although I'm not sure all of it is intentional.

American Gigolo from Amazon.......2007-05-14

I ordered the DVD, and three days later it was on my front porch. Great work! And, of course, the movie is a classic.

Stud Poke Her.......2006-05-03

This is one movie that grew entirely from its failings into one of the most influential movies of the last 20 years.How could the director of "Taxi Driver" blow it? The ingredients were in line: attractive stars: Model of the decade, Lauren Hutton; Richard Gere, Slim Von Wink;supporting cast,Hector Elizondo, Latino on the rise, Bill Duke (future director)and the blond near-actress tied to Howard Hughes, Nina Von whatever.The movie rides entirely on the surface, two wheels instead of four on the ground. Slick, teasing.Innuendos,political smear. The screenwriter could not tie the pieces together into a cohesive drama. You didn't know whether it would be a political thriller or a fashion thriller. The clothes, the glitter and gloss blend with the gross. You had as much concern for Gere's fate as his choice of wardrobe at the end. Let the music play, end of movie.Made you want to shop forever.All wrapping.Strictly beefcake.

i have a question if anyone knows...........2005-03-01

Hi I was just wondering if anyone knows the song that is playing in the backround that he is singing when he's deciding which Armani suit to wear. It's not on the soundtrack so if anyone knows it I'd realllllyyy appreciate it if you e-mailed it to dollface10288@aol.com under the subject AMERICAN GIGOLO...thanks!

Emotionless film effectively shows pitfalls of materialsim.......2005-01-14

American Gigolo is one of my favorite films and yet it is really not one of the greatest films that you might encounter. Shot in rich tones, particularly blues and greys, the director, Paul Schrader, wants us to know that we are not going to be afforded the opportunity to get to know the characters too well. One might be able to argue that American Gigolo was one of the films that literally catapulted the movie going public into the 1980's mindset of materialism.
Richard Gere in one of his earliest films, protrays straight male call boy, Julian, who is tops in his game. Julian is gorgeous and knows many gorgeous women. He sleeps with those who will pay him. He doesn't bother with those who won't. Julian's lifestyle is one of everything "is a means to an end". He is interested in beautiful clothing and looking good, but because it helps him get something that he wants. He enjoys artwork and stylish digs, but not because he loves them, but because they are status symbols for his success. Julian enjoys being a gigolo because he is the best there is. He wouldn't (and doesn't) enjoy it when it isn't on his terms. For someone like me who feels he is too in tune with his emotions, Gere's Julian is cool, calculating and enviable. He goes about life without a care for anyone but himself.
When Julian meets Lauren Hutton, he is actually smitten with her. This is evidenced by the meeting taking place in a bar with deep reds and comfortable upholstered booths instead of the abounding greys, blues, and steel evidenced elsewhere in the film.
When Julian finally becomes intimate with Hutton and allows his emotional wall down for a moment, Schrader pulls us in close, but just afterward he lets us see that Julian can't maintain such intimacy and the camera pulls back for a long shot of him as he gets out of the bed leaving Lauren Hutton alone in the bed.
The story is secondary to the style of the film. It is a thriller, but not an exciting one. The music of Georgio Moroder and Blondie complement the film and give it even more atmosphere. It needs it because the films two false endings drag this picture out longer than needed in trying to show us how emotional involvement can change someone. The message should be left that a lack of emotion can be dangerous.

I rewatch this film every so often. It's a guilty pleasure watching the opening of the film with Julian driving down the PCH in his 450SL. Or when he's laying out different Armani outfits determining which to put on. Or looking at paintings, never deciding where he will hang them.

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Old School Horror
I Begged To See This, Boy Was I Sorry
Boring
Friday the 13th
MRS.VOORHEES IS SOMEHTING!

Friday the 13th
Starring: Betsy Palmer , Adrienne King , Harry Crosby (II) , Laurie Bartram , and Jeannine Taylor
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ASIN: B00001MXXM
Release Date: 1999-10-19

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This splatter flick, along with John Carpenter's Halloween, helped spawn the great horror-movie movement of the '80s, not to mention eight sequels, many of which had nothing to do with the films that preceded them. It also gave birth to Jason Voorhees, one of the three biggest horror-movie psychos of the modern era (the other two being Halloween's Michael Myers and A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger). Forever duplicated, the original Friday the 13th popularized a number of themes and techniques that today are now clichés: the increasingly gory murders, the remote forest location, the anonymous and nubile cast, the murderer as cult hero, and, of course, the moral that if you have sex, you will die, very painfully. Still, if you have to see a Friday the 13th movie, this is the one to check out. A group of eager (and horny) teenagers decide to reopen Camp Crystal Lake, which 20 years earlier was closed after the shocking and mysterious murders of two amorous camp counselors. You can take it from there, as the teens get picked off one by one, during a dark and stormy night; of course, their car won't start and there's no phone. The ending stole shamelessly from Brian De Palma's Carrie, but it still provides a slight if campy shock. Look for a young Kevin Bacon as the requisite stud--you can tell that's what he is because when the cast appears in swimsuits, he's wearing a Speedo--who's the beneficiary of the film's best murder sequence, an arrowhead to the throat. Right after having sex, of course. --Mark Englehart

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Old School Horror.......2007-06-25

Yes Old School Horror, but isn't that the best kind?
Poor Jason drowns while two lusty camp counselers go at it. So now everyone who goes to Camp Crystal Lake is gonna get it, one way or another.
I hold this movie close to my heart because I was an 80's teen, and VHS just let us watch all the movies our parents wouldn't let us watch in the theater.This and Halloween are like the Holy Grail of 80's teen slasher movie's (although technically they were released in the 70's).The VHS just gave them a whole new life in family rooms all over the world.
So get some popcorn (preferably Jiffy Pop, the stove top type not that microwave junk), some soda and a group of friends. Dim the lights and get ready for the screams (it's better to have someone who has never seen it before you'll enjoy it even more)

I Begged To See This, Boy Was I Sorry.......2007-06-15

This film premiered on cable in the early '80's when I was 8 or 9. I begged to watch it and the deal was I could, but I'd have to sleep in my own bed. I agreed, but by the end of it I was begging just to sleep on my parents floor, to no avail, of course. That night, in complete fear, I turned out my light and did a running jump into bed. I was sure the killer was under there like in the movie, and couldn't sleep on my back because of what happens to Kevin Bacon, FOR YEARS.
Eventually the shock and terror wore off from repeated viewings and by the time I was a teen it became hilarious comedy watching Mama Voorhees and her screams are pure comedy.
Now, I just consider it an excellent horror film, thanks in large part to make-up effects artist Tom Savini's excellent work and Harry Manfredini's perfectly creepy and horrifying music score. It did what it set out to do, scare me senseless. I wish today's horror films could do that.

Boring.......2007-05-08

Even though I wasn't allowed to watch either growing up, the idea of Freddy always played bigger in my childhood imagination than Jason. The idea of someone killing you in your dreams? That's scary. Jason was, as far as I could tell, just another slasher. I was never quite sure what distinguished him from say, Michael Myers, or a million other slasher movies.

I also knew, like any child of the 80s, the basic storyline. As I imagine you do. Let's try a simple test. My guess is that even if you haven't seen the movie, you already know that:
*Jason's mother, not Jason himself, is the killer in the first movie
* It takes place on a campground, where Jason's mother is killing off the camp counselors one by one
* Kevin Bacon has a minor part in this movie before he became famous.
* It has low production values, and is pretty tame by today's standards

How did I do? And if you already know all that, no reason to sit through the actual movie, right?

Man, does this movie represent 2 hours of my life that I'll never get back again, or what? Forget all the moral reasons for or against watching these kind of slasher flicks, you've got to have an attention span of steel to even think about getting through this movie. I'd rather be locked in a room with a book of Sylvia Plath Poetry for two hours than have to watch this movie again.

Although this was my first time watching the movie, I did have the feeling of having seen it before. I think that was just because I had seen it spoofed so many times before, or seen clips of it, in other media.

Friday the 13th.......2007-05-03

I thought that this movie was really good because at night it was really
dark and through that whole sequence I had a strange feeling.Part 2,3,and 4 were good to, but when they had the other movies, then it turned stupid.
So people who like scary movies I HIGHLY recommend watching it.

P.S. I prefer that you just watch the first four movies and not the other
movies.

MRS.VOORHEES IS SOMEHTING!.......2007-04-24

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT MOVIE!YOU HAVE TO BUY IT!THIS IS THE BEST HORROR MOVIE-AND IT WILL BE THE BEST IN THE FUTURE!IT'S SCARY,SUSPENSEFUL,AND INTERESTING.THIS IS THE FIRST THRILLER THAT MADE ME JUMP,AND PUT ME IN SUSPENSE.I DON'T JUMP OR SCARE EASILY.IF YOU LIKE THRILLERS-YOU'LL BE GLAD YOU BOUGHT THIS!

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The Abbott & Costello Show: Who's on First?

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Gundam Wing - Vol. 4

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