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Buffy tastic! The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Box Set

Advantages: great entertainment
Disadvantages: none

Background: I grew up with Buffy and her trials and tribulations were fairly similar to my own (except I saved the world less and encountered fewer demons). When I saw the complete DVD collection in a shop I just couldn't resist. The box set: The box set includes all 7 seasons, with each season in a separate case. As you'd expect each case also contains a little booklet telling you about each episode and the extras on the discs. The title screens ...
...was to get all the Buffy episodes together! The episodes: The humour and stories are just as good as I remembered them and I would utterly and without reservation recommend this box set to anyone who has fond Buffy memories! **also published on dooyoo under the same name** ...

MarieHHH 13.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Series 1-7 - Complete (DVD)

The Buffy Cult

Advantages: Something for everyone
Disadvantages: It finished :(

BUffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is 15 years old when she finds out that she has been chosen to be the vampire slayer. She is given the responsibilty of fighting demons and vampires. After burning down her school gym in LA, she moves to Sunnydale, which it turns out was built on a hell mouth, and attracts vampires and demons from all over the world. In Sunnydale, she meets her best friends Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander (Nicholas Brendon), who ...
...Throughout the seven seasons, buffy fights against an array of demons and creatures and saves the world from hellish fates on several occasions. Its impossible to get bored of it! It is a brilliant tv programme, filled with horror, drama, comedy, romance and action. There's something in it for everybody - even a musical episode. Sarah Michelle Gellar has also starred in films such as cruel intentions, the grudge and scooby doo. ...

derrangedlowlife 01.09.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Series 1-7 - Complete (Box Set) (DVD)

Guddling for Satanic Trout

Advantages: Stylish, based on a Dennis Wheatley novel, Christopher Lee is magnificent.
Disadvantages: Special effects look primitive today.

..."Hammer had always worried about the Church's reaction to the screening of the Black Mass. But we thought the charge of blasphemy would not stick if we did the thing with due attention to scholarship. I appointed myself black technical adviser, as well as playing a goody, and spent many hours in the British Museum guddling for Satanic trout, and came up with a useful catch, notably the genuine prayer of exorcism we used at the end. It was a new venture ...
...people, to put them off the sinister dangers implicit in dabbling with black magic." ~Lord of Misrule by Christopher Lee~ Published 2003 The film that Christopher Lee was alluding to above was the 1968 Hammer produced The Devil Rides Out, a slight departure from the norm for the studio, in that the 1920's English country setting is quite different to the usual gothic 19th century small European villages Hammer were so fond of. No burgomasters ...

bigcat 03.06.2004 · Read full review
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The end of the Angel era

Advantages: You can't miss Angel as a puppet
Disadvantages: It's all over now

...season 4 the staff of Angel Investigations (Angel, Wesley, Gunn, Fred and Lorne) are given the opportunity to run the supernatural law firm Wolfram and Hart because they averted the apocalypse. With Cordelia in a coma, Connor on a self-destruct path and plenty of angst amongst the crew, they all have their own reasons for accepting. With vast resources at their disposal the guys can go all high-tech in their battle against evil, but first they have ...
...been replaced by Illyria. Angel has a new love interest, but that doesn't stop him and Spike travelling halfway around the world to try and protect Buffy. But in the final days, everyone has to pull together to save the world from an evil that threatens to be more than they can handle. DVD information and special features 6 discs, 22 episodes Disc 1 - Joss Whedon commentary on 'Conviction', featurette for 'Hey Kids! It's Smile Time' Disc ...

ciaofluffymuppet 15.12.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Angel - Series 5 - Complete (DVD)

MR. VAMPIRE (1985)

Advantages: Good balance of Comedy, Horror and Action all roll into one.
Disadvantages: Slightly dated with fuzzy subtitltes.

...culture, I can see why Mr Vampire should be one of the Chinese films to be introduced. Horror films in Western industry tend to be straight-forward horror. If there was comedy in the film, it might be a line said by a character, which might be funny at the situation or event. Or to more present days, there could be the over-the-top comedy horror such as Scary Movies; which in my view is not actually scary at all. I think the British 'Shaun of the ...
...cast quite well before watching Mr Vampire as I have seen them in other movies before. Ching Ying Lam is the main man as an actor and his stock character is the Taoist Priest role. For some reason, he is the icon of Taoist Priest in most for the Chinese movies. He can probably even turn himself as a real one with all the researches and practices he has done. He stars in most of the sequels and even a couple of Chinese TV series based on the Mr. Vampire ...

Moogiekupo 12.02.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Mr Vampire (DVD)