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Mother, Mother! Blood, Blood!

Advantages: A seemless epic of murderous proportions.
Disadvantages: A lack of content on three discs

...one! But all the original Psycho movies, starring Anthony Perkins. I always get a bit mad when people call a DVD with more than one disc a box set. Yes it's in a box but hardly a box set! This set has nothing out of the ordinary or exceptional about its inner contents, so to call it a box set is an insult. Right that's my moan out of the way, lets get on with the show. Psycho ----------- Marion Crane has been having an affair with shop worker ...
...shot in black and white Psycho is one of the best known horror movies, and it launched the term "Slasher" when referring to a movie of this type. During the film you are constantly told that it's very hot, 1960 was not a hot year in America. However for the movies Director Alfred Hitchcock (A Brit) it was, all his films prior to Psycho had been filmed in the winter. 1960 actually goes on record as being one of the coolest summers of the 60's in America. ...

sghawken 02.01.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Psycho Collection (Box Set) (DVD)

When Mad Max got Rich

Advantages: A glossy and mildly-diverting thriller
Disadvantages: The film is superficial and predictable

In the mid-1990s film-directors Ron Howard and Mel Gibson must have felt quietly satisfied as they sailed along serenely in the same boat. Howard's tribute to all-American pluck, Apollo 13, and Gibson's tribute to all-American fantasy, Braveheart, had both picked up Oscars (the first, understandably; the second, perplexingly) and when the pair teamed up for a new project there was little doubt that fashion and momentum would propel them onward ...
...starring Gibson - was, predictably, a box-office smash and a critical triumph. The film is a reworking of an old 1950s pot-boiler, Ransom! (the latter's scriptwriters get the story credit in this updated remake), and exploits that most fertile of plot devices, the kidnapping. Cue much huddling around telephones, sweating, swearing, tearing out of hair, beating of male chest by hysterical woman, and apple-pie angst. Ransom is a big-budget, slick ...

Templar19 08.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ransom (DVD)

A cryptic Movie

Advantages: Good story, characters
Disadvantages: None

The Da Vinci Code was probably one of the most controversial books of the modern day and so the movie was always going to be eagerly anticipated. The book was written by Dan Brown and was an international bestseller. I've read the book and really really enjoyed it and was excited above the movie. Of course, the subject matter is very controversial and although it is meant to be somewhat fictional I can see elements of truth in it. The film version ...
...follows the story of the book which I like and hasn't strayed too far away from the story which is nice. Tom Hanks stars as Robert Langdon, a professor of Symbology. He is the main character of the movie as it's up to him to solve the riddles and ultimately save himself. I like Tom Hanks in this. There's no doubting that he's a great actor but he definitely brings a fresh approach to this role. When I first heard that he was going to play this part ...

Spottydog11 27.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Da Vinci Code (DVD)

The demon can enter of each one of us.

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THE STORY: John Hobbes is a recognized police officer of the murder squad. Following a long investigation, it apprehended Reese, a killer psychopath. Thus it goes to its execution before being led to the gas chamber, Reese poses a enigma with John in the form of invocation in an old dialect. . In spite of the death of Reese the murders do not stop, nor the anonymous telephone calls which reçoient the police officer. However, all these murders ...
...Its investigation the met into the track of a former colleague suspected of murder in series. John thus contacts his daughter: Gretta Milano. John sees himself embarked in a history where it is not question of rational. John pursues a demon (Azazel) which passes from a person to the other by the touch. The demon seeks to take possession of the body of people to continue its murders. Its rational spirit will be confronted with the evil at the pure ...

kendy86 29.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Fallen (DVD)

"From Hell". Well at least they got the address right.

Advantages: Its a good take on the ripper stories
Disadvantages: ....but the ripper story has been done many times

On the sinister 1888 streets of White Chapel London a killer is on the loose and the case grabs the attention of a opium loving inspector, Inspector Frederick George Abberline(Johnny Depp). The inspector has been known to use his psychic "visions" to help him so when his vison start of the this case then it takes on a personal meaning for him. The ladies of the night are the easy pickings for this villian. One because of their willingness,even if ...
...Chapel streets, to go with any mans company and two because they are easily entised by the simpliest of things like fruit, being poor its not that hard to beleive. One by one the ladies are starting to vanish then turn up brutally carved,with each time Abberline having graphic visions of the gruesome murder. If your a fan of Johnny Depps movies then this film will keep you glued,even if his London accent is a little naff. This is not the most amazing ...

englishtrog 08.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of From Hell (DVD)