 On Sale! BUY IT NOW for only USD 4.99. Genre: Horror Bumbling busboy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) works at a beatnik coffeehouse populated by artists and musicians, poets, and dope addicts. He longs to belong and, inspired by the poetry around him, tries his hand at sculpting. When he accidentally kills a cat and covers it with clay, it becomes a celebrated work of art. Soon Walter has moved on to killing people and is the hit of the local art scene. Roger Corman regulars Barboura Morris and Anthony Carbone are the couple running the coffeehouse who are first exalted by Walter's success and then rather worried. Director Corman shot this little gem of black comedy in an unbelievable five days for $50,000. It's since become a true cult classic, practically inventing its own genre and perfectly satirizing the self-righteousness of the then-burgeoning beatnik movement, not to mention the whole world of contemporary art. Miller lends pathos as Walter, and the rest of the cast is just hilarious, particularly Julian Burton as the pretentious and portly poet whose recitation on the 'artist' (accompanied by jazz sax solo) opens the film. Corman reused the same general tone and story for THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS the following year.  On Sale! BUY IT NOW for only USD 6.99. Genre: Horror In this thriller from Dutch director Jan Verheyen, a chance occurrence makes life spiral out of control for two friends. Eva (Hilde De Baedermaeker) and Patti (Veerle Dobbelaere) are at the wrong place at the wrong time when they capture the suicide of a girl on videotape. Not long after this traumatic incident, they are about to be robbed when the handsome Dieter (Geert Hunaerts) comes to their rescue. While Eva finds herself falling in love with Dieter, she also discovers that she is caught up in a very dangerous web of events. Verheyen's film is a tense, moody thriller.  On Sale! BUY IT NOW for only USD 4.99. Genre: Horror An American treasure hunter (James Earl Jones) awakens an ancient sea creature who has been resting for centuries near the shores of a Greek island. It's up to the island's lifelong residence to stop the creature from executing it's wrath on humanity. One man in particular (Jose Ferrer) has been studying the history of the monster, and now his knowledge is nothing less than imperative to the villager's survival.  On Sale! BUY IT NOW for only USD 3.99. Genre: Horror Made in 1962 on an extremely low budget, Herk Harvey's classic CARNIVAL OF SOULS has become legendary for its ability to create a tensely creepy atmosphere with virtually no special effects. A young woman (Candace Hilligoss) is involved in a vehicle crash when her vehicle falls off a bridge while drag racing with some friends. After she pulls herself from the river, she moves to a new town to take a job as a church organist. Meanwhile, a distinctly eerie and hollow-faced man seems to be following her wherever she goes, while an abandoned lakeside amusement park beckons her with an almost gravitational pull. The effective organ score enhances the film to great effect, as do the bleak landscapes of Utah's salt flats. Reviews USA Today 05/19/1990 '...This black-belt cult item feels a lot like a vintage Twilight Zone episode...'Los Angeles Times 04/20/1990 '...A genuinely creepy movie....In its own quietly lurid way, CARNIVAL OF SOULS is a sophisticated piece of character psychology...'New York Times 07/19/1989 '...Cult horror....Carries an eerie chill...' Synopsis The first feature from Harvey, who had previously made industrial and promotional films for the Centron Corporation in Lawrence, Kansas, CARNIVAL OF SOULS developed a cultlike following despite being rarely screened for nearly thirty years. The TWILIGHT ZONE-esque tale of a woman who is in a vehicle crash, only to find herself being pursued by spirits, the film's strength is its ability to sustain a very disturbing atmosphere with little more than some makeup, an eerie organ score and spare black-and-white photography. Harvey achieved his stated mission: for the film to have the 'look of a Bergman' and the 'feel of a Cocteau.'  On Sale! BUY IT NOW for only USD 8.99. Genre: Horror Description: Brian De Palma's commercial breakout, based on a novel by Stephen King, helped launch a whole slew of teen-based horror films, and Carrie the blood-spattered prom queen has taken her throne in the pantheon of modern American myth. High school girls played by Amy Irving (in her film debut), P.J. Soles, and Nancy Allen plot to avenge themselves on ostracized fellow student and budding telekinetic Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) after they get in trouble for pelting her with tampons. When they get popular boy Tommy Ross (William Katz) to be her date for the prom, the stage is set for some heart-rending cruelty and fiery retribution. De Palma masterfully uses split screens, slow motion, color filters, and tracking shots to imbue the proceedings with a haunting, allegorical elegance. Piper Laurie plays CarrieA,??Ts mentally ill, devoutly Christian mom; sheA,??Ts brilliant, as is Spacek. John Travolta has a memorable pre-SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER role as one of the girls' beer-guzzling boyfriends. There was finally a sequel in 1999, as well as a short-lived Broadway musical. Reviews Premiere 04/01/2004 '[A] masterful mix of horror and adolescent angst...'Total Film 01/01/2004 'Brian De Palma's best movie, his virtuoso technique meeting its match in Sissy Spacek's touching performance.'Sight and Sound 02/01/2001 '...The opening sequence is an uncanny tour de force...'USA Today 12/02/1991 '...[The film] may be Brian De Palma's best....It's a definitive revenge piece...' Synopsis Carrie, a shy teenager with a fiercely religious and oppressive mother, struggles to come to terms with her burgeoning sexuality and unusually peculiar telekinetic powers. Just as she's beginning to enjoy a sudden change in her life, a cruel practical joke drives her to a monstrous act of revenge and destruction.  On Sale! BUY IT NOW for only USD 5.99. Genre: Horror Spanish horror star Paul Naschy headlines once again as Waldemar Daninsky, the nobleman werewolf from his previous three films. Resurrected at the beginning of the film after a silver bullet is removed from his corpse, Daninsky returns to his castle where the two vampires who murdered him are buried. When two students wander into the castle and accidentally revive them, history begins to repeat itself. Suspenseful and filled with the gothic atmosphere that became his trademark, CURSE OF THE DEVIL was Naschy's most popular film.  On Sale! BUY IT NOW for only USD 5.99. Genre: Horror Big Game Hunter Mike Stacey leads a safari in the African jungle. After shooting and killing a lion, a tribe of lion worshippers place a curse on Stacey, vowing to kill him by witchcraft. The curse follows Mike back to London where it begins to take a terrible toll. After speaking with an expert Mike is told that only the death of the witch doctor can lift the curse. On Sale! BUY IT NOW for only USD 5.99. Genre: Horror An attractive attorney falls for her client who is charged with conspiracy in a pornography case and finds her life in jeopardy. He then turns up murdered and she discovers her old college roommate was married to him who is now charged with his murder. She must defend her and in the process, each discovers disturbing secrets about the other. Reviews New York Times 08/23/1991 '... [A] slick, efficient thriller.... [The cast brings] fullness to the characters...'Rolling Stone 09/19/1991 '...A surprisingly entertaining thriller...'  On Sale! BUY IT NOW for only USD 8.99. Genre: Horror Paul Jones headlines in this offbeat Hammer production as Count Zorn, a deranged baron who believes that his family line is infected with a hereditary curse. Hoping to cure the curse once and for all, Zorn locks his two adult children in his castle and subjects them to a series of bleedings, hoping to let out the disease. Meanwhile, the Count's town becomes enraged when a number of peasant women are found raped and murdered on Zorn's estate. Atmospheric and creepy, DEMONS OF THE MIND is a thoughtful thriller that features a chilling and grisly finale. |
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