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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)

"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)

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)

15 MINUTES THE DVD AND FILM REVIEWED

Advantages: Good acting, good effects, interesting storyline
Disadvantages: Slow storyline, a little lacking in the storyline in places

Introduction ~~ I was attracted to 15 minutes because of the presence of Robert De Niro, he has starred in some of the best films ever made and there were high expectations for his appearance in 15 minutes. 15 Minutes is not your typical action film – it is not merely made up of tough-talking cops, rapid gunfire and big explosions. Unlike many action films it is totally unpredictable and with a twist in the tale you will be kept guessing ...
...end. The story is also remarkably clever and in many ways you could describe 15 Minutes as being a satire. The Story ~~ Robert De Niro plays Eddie Flemming, a cigar smoking famous New York cop, “It’s all about the image” he brags taking a drag on his fat cigar and a swig of whiskey then walking over smiling to give a interview on the latest murder case to hit New York. Media-savvy Flemming is still a fairly likeable character, ...

Disillusioned 18.11.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Fifteen Minutes (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)