Production Year: 1963 - Horror - Director: Roger Corman - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller more
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... more
The Terror
The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of ... more
triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition - as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth - and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal and provisions are running low. Yet the real threat isn't the constantly shifting landscape of white or the flesh-numbing temperatures dwindling supplies or the vessels being slowly crushed by the unyielding grip of the frozen ocean. No the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there that haunts the frigid darkness which stalks the ships snatching one man at a time - mutilating devouring. A nameless thing at once nowhere and everywhere this terror has become the expedition's nemesis. When Franklin meets a terrible death it falls to Captain Francis Crozier of HMS Terror to take command and lead the remaining crew on a last desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Eskimo woman who cannot speak. She may be the key to survival - or the harbinger of their deaths. And as scurvy starvation and madness take their toll as the Terror on the ice become evermore bold Crozier and his men begin to fear there is no escape...
Production Year: 1998 - Horror - Director: Stephen Norrington - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue, Udo Keir, Traci Lords, Udo Kier
Plot: An old witch is determined to drive a Baron to suicide. An officer in Napoleon's army becomes involved after he pursues a young woman to the Baron's castle...
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): Dark Vision; Pinnacle Vision
Release date: 29/07/2002
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: DVD 4522
Barcode: 5030462045221
Languages
Main Language: English
DVD Description
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.
Advantages: Some decent moments, somehow kept me watching until the end Disadvantages: Mostly really bad across the board
...This is a DVD I picked up for £1 a couple of years ago. I suppose the price should have told me something, but I gave it a shot, hoping to have found a bit of a gem.
Face of Terror follows Nick Harper as he tries to find his missing sister in Barcelona. While travelling from the States to Spain without permission from his boss, cop Nick finds himself in even more hot water when he arrives in Europe to find that his sister had fallen in with the wrong crowd. As he trawls through dodgy photographers, drug dealers and terrorists, Nick realises he must have his wits about him if he is to find his sister before he loses his life.
Ultimately, it's distinctly average in nearly every way. with a pretty mundane plot, some terrible acting, and some bad timing in the editing stakes. And yet, strangely, there's something intriguing about it...
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Advantages: Sci-Fi Disadvantages: All been done before
...Galaxy of Terror
Make no mistake this is definitely what was once termed a 'B' movie.
Right from the start you can see you're going to get no more and no less than a low budget, shakily written and poorly edited special effects movie.
I use the word special effect in its broadest sense.
A rescue spaceship is traversing across space in answer to a distress call sent out by another of their fleet when they encounter a strange pyramidical shape.
They begin to see and experience their deepest and darkest fears as horror upon horrors begin to materialise and slowly wear them down and mentally destroy them.
What must discover what is inside the pyramid and destroy it. This becomes their mission but how they achieve it and at what cost to the crew slowly becomes apparent.
Actually surprised me this film and at only...
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Advantages: Hick Accents, Soundtrack Disadvantages: Weak, loose storyline, Lack of zombies and gore
...up - a bit of skin hanging off the face,a bit of fake blood etc)... generally a poor storyline, poor effects, poor zombies. Highly disappointing. The only slightly creepy part of the film is where the main character is telling the messed up story of her childhood, which doesn't make up for the lack of gore at all. She's apparently a zombie too, her face is falling off but she just sticks it back on and pretends to be normal, and seduces a sex addict.
There's not much more I can say about the story, It was that weak. All I can say, is if you like Zombies, this film isn't for you, and even as a regular horror/thriller its pretty bad. The only redeeming feature was the Soundtrack ,which is all done by a singing hick with an electric guitar.
*EDIT* - This DVD was so unmemorable, I forgot it came with a short comic book, where nothing happens...
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