THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL - Gregory Peck plays Dr Josef Mangele, a man intent on using science ... more
for his own evil means. He gathers a group of former Nazis to work on a secret project where genetic science becomes a new weapon of global horror.THE MEDUSA TOUC...
Action/Adventure - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Jack Ging, Marla Heasley, Lance Legault, Melinda Culea, Mr T, Dwight Schultz, Dirk Benedict, George Peppard, Carl Franklin
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1977 - Action/Adventure - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
Advantages: horror story not seen too often on tv Disadvantages: no high tec special effects
The MedusaTouch is a film about control , regret and unharnassed power. Richard Burtons character is one of tired regret and fatigue.
He wants to end it all but his condition wont let him.Death is all around
him .He controls by death.His phychiatrist played by Lee Remich
can see his sorrow but virtually gives up and takes it out on herself.
The world is full of people who make constant threats. Only in this
case, the threats cannot be undone once started.
In the world of nice endings; this isnt one. It is a thought proking one
about a control freak who wont let go.
This story has no time or place. It could be now or 30 years before.
Help! ...
Advantages: A classic Brit Horror Disadvantages: A little short on extras
There was, for a brief period a time, horror movies that touched upon more than just the visceral terrors of gore that infect so many modern genre films. This period gave us a number of what were to become classic horrors, The Omen, The Exorcist and in my humble opinion The MedusaTouch.
While not as well known or written about as the former, The MedusaTouch sits comfortably in their company, as it deals with more than just the terror of the central story, a man who can will destruction, but in part also addresses issues of guilt and responsibility and the existence of God in a seemingly Godless world. But despite all its nods to worthiness, The MedusaTouch succeeds in being a damn good romp.
Starring Richard Burton (in a tour de force performance) and Lee Remick, the story centres around the attempted murder of John Morlar a writer ...
Advantages: excellant social black/comedy drama Disadvantages: none
Boysfrom the Black stuff,
Written by Alan Bleasdale,
Directed by Philip Saville
This black comedy drama, first hit our screens in the late seventies, I had a few lasting memories of it, so when I saw it for hire from my on line hire company I soon sent for them, three Discs produced by the BBC showing all five episodes.
It's a tale of working class people, struggling to make ends meet in the 80's, the days of strikes, and high unemployment. And Margret Thatcher.
The main characters, are Dixie Deans (the foreman) Pigeon mad Chrissie Todd, Loggo, if it isn't tied down he'll steal it, George Malone the old man of the gang, and who can forget the crazy Gizza job Yosser Hughes, All make up a gang of tarmac laying rogues from Liverpool.
All though they all work for a contractor McKenna, they decide to do a bit of moonlighting ...
In 'The Medusa Touch' novelist John Morlar is a man with the unique power to cause disaster at will. Detective Brunel investigates an assault on Morlar and discovers he possesses these mysterious powers. In 'The Boys from Brazil' children are formed from Hitler's likeness and used to set-up a neo-Nazi take-over.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
ITV DVD; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date
17/03/2003
No of Discs
2
Catalogue No
37115 04723
Barcode
5037115047236
Languages
Main Language
English
Hearing Impaired Language
English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
4:3 Full Frame, 1.85 Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital Mono
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital Mono English
DVD Description
Two thrillers collected onto one disc. THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL: Ira Levin's best-selling novel is the basis for this incredible film about the perpetuation of a new race of Hitlers. When one of his proteges locates the elusive Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele (Peck), famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (a wonderful Olivier) stumbles on Mengele's grand scheme to murder 94 seemingly unconnected men -- a scheme that could somehow launch the Fourth Reich. THE MEDUSA TOUCH: Burton stars as a psycho with supernatural powers which enable him to cause worldwide disasters. Remick is the psychiatrist who attempts to control him.
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