Kubrick Collection

With the 1957 release of Paths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick confirmed his early promise and joined the ranks of world-class filmmakers. The age of the auteur had arrived, and Kubrick was a prime candidate for inclusion in the pantheon of directors later canonized by critic Andrew Sarris in his influential book The American Cinema. Ironically, this was also the period during which Kubrick left his native soil for permanent residence in England, and from that point forward, the Kubrick mystique inflated to legendary proportions. But if Kubrick was no longer bringing himself to the world, he was certainly bringing the world to his films. From the comfort of his rural England estate and locations never far from London, Kubrick would command cinematic odysseys to isolated Colorado (in The Shining), battle-ravaged Vietnam (Full Metal Jacket), upscale New York City (Eyes Wide Shut), and, of course, Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite (in 2001: A Space Odyssey).

The New Stanley Kubrick Collection includes all eight of Kubrick's films from Lolita on--a quarter-century of brilliant, challenging cinema. This second edition adds Eyes Wide Shut to the previous collection and remastered sound on five of the films plus a new anamorphic edition of 2001. Purists have complained that Kubrick's last three films have been released in full-screen format only; this was in compliance with Kubrick's wishes, and the films do not suffer unduly from full-screen formatting. This set also features a new full-length documentary made by longtime Kubrick assistant Jan Harlan, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures. The diversity of Kubrick's work is truly astonishing, even though the director's technical precision and steely perspective on humanity may strike uninitiated viewers as cold and even misanthropic. His films almost always received mixed (and sometimes scathingly negative) reviews upon their release, only to benefit from glowing reassessment as they grew entrenched in the public consciousness. Here, in all their glory, are the collected films of a genuine master, ripe for study and appreciation for many years to come. --Jeff Shannon

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The new Stanley Kubrick Collection includes eight of the great director's masterpieces in stunning all-new digital transfers, restored picture and new digital audio. Titles include: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket

House Of Wax

NOT THE PARIS HILTON ONE!!!!


House of Wax brought Vincent Price into the horror genre, where he fit as snugly as a scalpel in a mad scientist's hand. A remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum, this entertaining Gothic shocker casts Price as a sculptor of wax figures; his unwilling victims--er, "models"--lend their bodies to his lifelike depictions of Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc. The film was one of the top 10 moneymakers of its year, thanks in part to the 3-D gimmick, which explains why so many things are aimed at the camera (why else would the paddleball man be there?). Footnote to history: director Andre De Toth was blind in one eye, and thus could not see in three dimensions.

Not at all a musty relic of the early-sound era, the original Mystery of the Wax Museum (shot in a soft, trial version of Technicolor) is saucy, pre-Code fun. As corpses disappear from the morgue, Lionel Atwill's wax museum adds to its displays. Coincidence, or the work of the hideously deformed fiend stalking the Manhattan night? Most of the snappy dialogue comes courtesy of reporter Glenda Farrell, a vintage wisecracking dame. --Robert Horton

50 Horror Movies

How about 50 horror movies for one low price? Get tons of classics in one horror movie package of DVDs! Perfect for the horror collector.

Own 50 Of Hollywood’s Greatest Horror Movie Classics On DVD For Just 60 Cents Each! A complete library of classic films captured forever on DVD and yours for what you’d expect to pay for just two or three movies! Get an instant library of some of the greatest horror classics ever to come out of Hollywood on twelve double-sided DVDs. From legendary silent classics such as Phantom of the Opera, Nosferatu and Metropolis, to cult favorites like Night of the Living Dead and House on Haunted Hill, the Horror Classics 50 MoviePack has something for everyone. Never has such a comprehensive collection of great classic horror films been assembled in one exciting package, all for an amazingly low price!

Titles include:
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde starring John Barrymore
Blue Beard starring John Carradine
The Corpse Vanishes starring Bela Lugosi
Night of the Living Dead starring Judith O’Dea
Doomed to Die starring Boris Karloff
The Phantom of the Opera starring Lon Chaney, Sr.
The Indestructible Man starring Lon Chaney, Jr.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Lon Chaney, Sr.
Nosferatu starring Max Schreck
Swamp Women starring Mike Connors
The World Gone Mad starring Pat O’Brien
The Little Shop of Horrors starring Jack Nicholson
Tormented starring Richard Carlson
The Monster Walks starring Rex Lease
Monster from a Prehistoric Planet starring Tamio Kawaji
The Gorilla starring The Ritz Brothers
A Shriek in the Night starring Ginger Rogers
Bloodlust starring Robert Reed
The Amazing Mr. X starring Turhan Bay
Last Woman on Earth starring Robert Towne
The Bat starring Vincent Price
The House on Haunted Hill starring Vincent Price
The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price

Dementia 13 starring William Campbell
Phantom from 10,000 Leagues starring Kent Taylor
Carnival of Souls starring Candace Hilligoss
Atom Age Vampire starring Alberto Lupo
Creature from the Haunted Sea starring Robert Towne
Nightmare Castle starring Barbara Steele
Black Dragons starring Bela Lugosi
Invisible Ghost starring Bela Lugosi
One Body Too Many starring Bela Lugosi
White Zombie starring Bela Lugosi
Attack of the Giant Leeches starring Ken Clark
The Screaming Skull starring John Hudson
Beast of Yucca Flats starring Tor Johnson
The Terror starring Boris Karloff
Revolt of the Zombies starring Dean Jagger
The Giant Gilla Monster starring Don Sullivan
The Fatal Hour starring Boris Karloff
Dead Men Walk starring George Zucco
The Mad Monster starring George Zucco
Maniac starring Bill Woods
Metropolis starring Gustav Frolich
The Vampire Bat starring Fay Wray
The Ape starring Boris Karloff
The Monster Maker starring J. Carol Naish
The Killer Shrews starring James Best
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die starring Jason Evers
King of the Zombies starring Joan Woodbury



Creature Features
Descend to the depths and encounter the Phantom from 10,000 Leagues. Marvel at the primitive special effects in Giant Gila Monster. Rediscover the unlikely terror of The Killer Shrews. Hold your breath to see who will survive the Attack of the Giant Leeches.

Really Mad Madmen
Descend into insanity in Francis Ford Coppola’s Dementia 13. Join Bill Woods in his twisted experiments in Maniac. Wonder at the perversity of Jason Evers as he keeps the severed head of hisfiancée alive in The Brain that Wouldn’t Die.

Cult Classics
Marvel at a plant’s cannibalistic appetite when Audrey cries "feeeed me" in The Little Shop of Horrors. Fear for the fate of humanity as flesh-eating zombies roam the earth in Night of the Living Dead. Find out what it’s like to be The Last Man on Earth…Vincent Price knows!

Silent Horror Classics
Watch the amazing Lon Chaney in Phantom of the Opera, slinking through the cellars of the Paris Opera House. Marvel at the chilling Max Schreck in Nosferatu, giving a truly mesmerizing performance.

Dead Alive

If you're not a connoisseur of graphic horror and gruesome gore, you'd better steer clear of this wicked 1992 horror-comedy from the demented mind and delirious camera of New Zealand-born writer-director Peter Jackson. However, if nonstop mayhem and extreme violence are your idea of great entertainment, you're sure to appreciate Jackson's gleefully inventive approach to a story that can judiciously be described as sick, twisted, and totally outrageous. The movie's central character is a poor schmuck named Lionel who's practically enslaved to his domineering mother. But when ol' Mum gets bitten by a rare and poisonous rat monkey from Skull Island and is turned into a flesh-eating zombie, Lionel has the unfortunate task of keeping Mama happy while fending off all the other zombies that result from her voracious feeding frenzies. If you've read this far, you'll either be crying out for censorship or eagerly awaiting your first viewing (or second, or third...) of this wildly clever and audaciously uninhibited movie. And while director Jackson would later achieve critical success with his fact-based drama Heavenly Creatures, his talent is readily evident in this earlier effort. If you find this kind of thing even remotely appealing, consider Dead Alive a must-see movie. --Jeff Shannon

Three hurt in rush hour crash horror

http://www.expressandstar.com/articles/news/es/article_67318.php
By Catherine Ryan

Movie of the Day - Ichi The Killer

Three passengers were seriously injured today after being trapped in a car following an horrific rush hour crash on a main Walsall road.

Scores of firefighters, paramedics and police officers spent an hour and a half rescuing the injured after the crash at around 9.30am on the Bescot Crescent end of Broadway West.

A silver Peugeot 206 collided with a silver Peugeot 307 estate and ended up in the driveway of a 97-year-old woman's house.

Both drivers were described as walking wounded, while four of the passengers of the Peugeot 206 were stretchered into ambulances and rushed to hospital, three with serious leg injuries.

Emergency services said they were lucky to escape alive.

Paramedics also treated pensioner Lillian Nichols, for shock along with her home help, who had just arrived for a visit at the time of the crash on the pensioner's drive.

Chris Hawkins, station commander at Walsall fire station, said the impact had been so strong that the metal floor had trapped the passengers' legs.

They had to use hydraulic cutting equipment to cut away the floor, panels and seats to free the men, while doctors administered sedatives and paramedic stabilised the patients. "They received serious limb injuries but they were lucky to escape alive," he said.

PC Roger Hearsey, of Walsall Transport Police, said he thought both cars had been travelling towards Bescot crescent, and had collided when one pulled out to the outside lane near the lights. He added: "Speed could have been an issue in the accident."

Trevor Ford, spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service, said the accident had been very serious and that the injuries could have been a lot worse. "I haven't seen anything like this in Walsall for a long time," he said

Traffic chaos resulted from the incident which saw Broadway West closed of for most of the day.

Speaking of "Crash" - This brings me to a video essential.

Have you seen the movie "Crash?"

Check it out - Crash

Adapted from the controversial novel by J.G. Ballard, Crash will either repel or amaze you, with little or no room for a neutral reaction. The film is perfectly matched to the artistic and intellectual proclivities of director David Cronenberg, who has used the inspiration of Ballard's novel to... (Read More)

Fishermen watch in horror as huge shark kills woman

We recently watched a documentary on the shark attacks that soawned the popular movie, Jaws and came across this news article today.

FRED BRIDGLAND IN JOHANNESBURG

A SHARK described as "bigger than a helicopter" killed an elderly woman swimming off the coast of South Africa yesterday as crowds watched in horror from the shore.

Tyna Webb, 77, was swimming off the Cape Peninsula when fishermen spotted the great white shark circling.

"We screamed and shouted ‘shark, shark’ towards her," said a local fisherman, who was standing on rocks with fellow crew members at Sunny Cove, near Fish Hoek, a Cape Town suburb.

"Then it came at her, hit her in the thigh and threw her clean out of the water. Then she was gone. By the time we ran down to warn other bathers to get out of the water it was too late for her."

Friends who gathered on the shore said Ms Webb, a Fish Hoek resident and mother of five, had swum every morning, except Sundays, for the past 17 years at Sunny Cove. They described her as fearless, fit and very independent.

"All that was left was a little red bathing cap," said Paul Bennet, commodore of the False Bay Yacht Club, who witnessed the attack.

National Sea Rescue Institute spokesman Craig Lambinon said a helicopter crew saw what they believed was the shark that attacked Ms Webb. "They said it was huge, more than 20ft long, bigger than their helicopter," he said.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1320432004

Serial Killer - Edmund Kemper III

A story of haunting and eerie stalking leading up to death. The twisted mind of Edmund Kemper III.

Many unknown serial killers are prowling the homes, schools, and streets of this nation. Only a few have been caught.

This book will take you on a terrifying journey inside the mind of one of the first known serial kilers. In the early 70s, Edmund Kemper III stalked young women on the coastline of California. Against these scenic backdrops, he butchered his mother, her friend and six coeds.

Why-The Serial Killer in America

As this book explores the depth of Kemper's madness, it reveals the elements that all serial killers have in common, and why our culture is for them a kind of petri dish.

"A chilling but important journey into the mind of a serial killer...riveting and instructive."

The coed killer

Edmund Kemper Info

When you’re 6’9’’, it’s hard to keep a low profile, and to this rather obvious fact, we may owe much of our insight into the mind of the serial killer. It must have occurred to Edmund Kemper as he drove frantically eastward from the scene of his last two murders that the jig was most definitely up. His six previous murders had been so carefully planned and carried out. He had picked up young female hitchhikers, women with whom he’d had no previous contact and, after he’d killed them, he took great care to conceal their identities and eliminate evidence. But now, he had committed a murder, the circumstances of which would point straight to him—he had killed his mother in her own home. It would only be a matter of time until her body and that of her friend, whom he’d also dispatched, were discovered. - (read more)

Kemper is no Charles Manson though.

In 1969, he became one of history's infamous villains, presented by the media as evil incarnate. CHARLES MANSON SUPERSTAR sets the record straight after years of media disinformation, and features an exclusive interview with Manson which allows him to speak for the first time without being censored or sanitized, as well as rare archival footage, police documents and photos. Filmed on location at San Quentin Prison, Spahn Ranch, Death Valley.



Charles Manson Superstar