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Dakota Fanning and Robert De Niro slug it out for top acting honors in this creepy psychodrama. After his wife is found dead in the bathtub, Manhattan psychologist David Callaway (De Niro) decides to take his traumatized child, Emily (Fanning), to live in a big, gloomy country house upstate. The shadow of the twisty backyard woods--or something darker--soon creeps over the house and Emily finds a weird friend named Charlie, who her father believes is only imaginary. Charlie likes to play games, and is also very jealous of anyone who tries to come between Emily and her dad, like an attractive local divorcee (Elizabeth Shue) and Emily's New York psychiatrist (Famke Jannsen).
Director John Polson takes his time letting the little details of the story accrue in the patently somber tradition of directors like M. Night Shyamalan. John Ottman's score is spooky, the photography is drenched in warm colors, and the mood is relentlessly strange and unsettling. De Niro is fine as a wheezing, aging doctor who can't seem to fathom the extent to which his domestic situation has moved past his control. Of course there's a shocking twist or two, plenty of jolts, red herrings, and sinister woodland explorations (including a dark and foreboding cave), but the spookiest ingredient in this potboiler is the brilliant Fanning. With her jet black hair, pale skin, and wide blue eyes, she enters the realm of instant horror iconhood as the alternately frightened and frightening Emily. Other cast members include Dylan Baker as the local sheriff, and Amy Irving, excellent in her few scenes as Emily's mother.
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THEATER OF BLOOD: With Vincent Price in a lead role, THEATER OF BLOOD follows the fortunes of an actor who draws on the work of Shakespeare to wreak bloody revenge on those who have crossed him.MADHOUSE: Price is joined by Peter Cushing for the second movie in this set, with a thoroughly post-modern plot that predates SCREAM by several decades. A horror movie star can't seem to prevent people from dying all around him whenever he takes on a new role. Even a lengthy 12 year sabbatical from the business doesn't cull the bloodshed on his return. But he'll have to discover who is responsible, otherwise his career faces the chop!DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseMADHOUSEWidescreen - 1.85Audio: Mono - English Closed Captioned - English Subtitles - English, Spanish, FrenchAdditional Release Material: Original Theatrical TrailerTHEATER OF BLOODWidescreen - 1.66Audio: Mono - English Closed Captioned - English Subtitles - Spanish, FrenchAdditional Release Material: Original Theatrical Trailer
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This modern retelling of Oscar Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY tells the story of male model Dorian (Ethan Erickson), who has everything a man could want: fame, wealth, and an endless supply of gorgeous women. But when he begins to worry about losing his looks to old age, his mysterious agent (Malcolm McDowell) offers him the gift of eternal youth. Unfortunately, this unbelievable opportunity--should Dorian choose to accept it--will cost him his soul.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull FrameAudio: Dolby Digital Stereo - English Dolby Digital Stereo - SpanishAdditional Release Material: Trailer
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Horror legend Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson team up in this disjointed but enjoyable Roger Corman quickie. Nicholson plays Lieutenant Andre Duvalier, an officer under Napoleon who finds himself lost along a stretch of beach, where he is seduced by the beautiful Helene (Sandra Knight), who may or may not be a ghost. His obsession leads him to the gloomy castle of Baron Von Leppe (Karloff), a recluse haunted by the ghost of his dead wife, Ilse, who Andre suspects is actually Helene, or vice versa. Longtime Corman regular Dick Miller plays Stefan, Von Leppe's trusty servant, and Dorothy Neumann is a witch who may be using Helene as a tool for revenge. All the characters do lots of skulking around the gloomy sets and outdoors along the beautiful Big Sur coastline, where the exteriors were filmed. Corman shot the interior scenes in two days, on sets left standing from his previous film, THE RAVEN. Though a little short on coherence, it's a lot of fun, and it's great to see Karloff and Nicholson together in a sort of passing of the machiavellian torch. A nicely ominous mood maintains itself with the help of Ronald Stein's robust score.DVD FeaturesRegion 1 EncodingJack Nicholson BiographyTheatrical TrailerSnap Case
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A fiend attacks girls in the streets of Venice, drags them into his sewer-lair, stuffs them and sets them up like classical statuary.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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