Empire Records (Remix! Special Fan Edition)

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This story about a day in the life of an independent record store, truly a threatened species, screeches with the sound of teenagers falling apart emotionally every five minutes. The script, which feels like an old guy's idea of how kids talk and think, concerns the young employees of a Delaware music shop faced with imminent extinction. While the ship is sinking, the staff indulge in tantrums, depressions, and run-ins with low self-esteem. There's a lot of noise in this thing, but not a lot is really said. Rory Cochrane has the best part as a secretive guy who loses the store's proceeds one night while gambling, Anthony LaPaglia is the adult boss and unofficial dad to the others, Renée Zellweger plays a promiscuous girl, and Liv Tyler is OK as a lovestruck sweet thing trying to get up the nerve to express her feelings to a fellow employee. --Tom Keogh

Description

The director of Pump Up the Volume cranks it up another notch with Empire Records Remix! Special Fan Edition, including 16 minutes of never-before-seen footage. A comedy about an eventful day in the lives of the young slackers, doers and dreamers who work at a bustling record store. Stars Renee Zellweger, Liv Tyler, Anthony La Paglia, Ethan Embry and Robin Tunney. Gin Blossoms, the Cranberries, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Cracker, Evan Dando, Better Than Ezra and more hot alternative rock underscores virtually every scene.

Customer Reviews:

One of the best movies!.......2007-05-16

I love this movie. It makes me feel young. Damn the man!

Loved it!.......2007-05-13

This is one of my favorite movies growing up. Very fun, and has a good overall storyline.

Good Movie.......2007-05-06

A little bit crazy. But over all an excellent movie. I have watched it several times.

Classic Teen Movie.......2007-05-02

Empire Records is one of those movies that never gets "played out". It has a fresh, youthful, captivating flow. Set to great music from a mix of genres. This is definitely not just a music video. It deals with a lot of basic life issues, that are part of growing up and growing old. From the little miss perfect, who secretly pops pills to keep up. And is holding onto a teen fantasy of losing her virginity in romance novel style to her heart throb. The weird girl working through depression and thoughts of suicide. A wanna be thug and miserably bad shoplifter that just needs to belong to something. To the washed up old pop star that tries to pathetically hold onto his youth and career. And a wealth of other colorful characters, that are all trying to find themselves, and where they fit into the world. Empire is a great light hearted movie. It doesn't go overboard with drama, romance, or silliness. But it does have a little bit of all those things.

A Movie to Resist Time!!!.......2007-04-28

Fantastic movie that will last through the ages! I can watch this movie any time of the day or night over and over again, I have actually watched it probably about a hundred times. It never gets old and it's one of those movies that you can just put on just to have something to watch. I guess it is more directed at a younger group of people but it can last through the ages.

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Not what I expected.
Cartoon Delight
Great
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Tom and Jerry - Shiver Me Whiskers
Starring: Kathy Najimy , Mark Hamill , Wallace Shawn , Kevin Michael Richardson , and Charles Nelson Reilly
Director: Scott Jeralds
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Release Date: 2006-08-22

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Not what I expected........2007-04-30

The dvd was not the one showing on the box. Totally diferent, very dissapointed!

Cartoon Delight.......2007-03-11

My kids watched this video at least 12 times in the first two weeks. They love it!

Great.......2007-01-04

My son loves Tom & Jerry and this movie is cute... He just loves it.

Great Service!!!.......2006-11-10

I purchased Tom and Jerry-Shiver Me Whiskers for my daughter and she absolutely loved it. It arrived earlier than I thought I was going to get it. Thank you so much.

The Vampire Collection (The Rape of the Vampire / The Shiver of the Vampires / Requiem for a Vampire)

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Painting as Cinema
French Vamp Collection
astoundingly beautiful
Disappointed
introduction to rollin: lesson 1

The Vampire Collection (The Rape of the Vampire / The Shiver of the Vampires / Requiem for a Vampire)
Starring: Letrou , Deville , Castel , and Dargent
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ASIN: B00009Q4VY
Release Date: 2003-07-08

Description

It's terror times three with these bloodsucking classics from Jean Rollin, France's maestro of the macabre. Enter a world filled with gothic castles, nubile beauties in various stages of undress, and predatory vampires, with haunting music and images bound to linger in your nightmares. Bet you can't take just one bite! These adult fairy tales of the monstrous and mysterious represent three of Rollin's finest achievements. Includes his controversial first "banned" film, "Rape of the Vampire," the outrageously colorful "Shiver of the Vampires," and his biggest box office hit, "Requiem for a Vampire," also known as "Caged Virgins" and "Virgins and Vampires."

Customer Reviews:

Painting as Cinema.......2007-07-11

This collection of 3 films will be best enjoyed by those with an understanding of surrealist or symbolist painting. Otherwise if you are not familiar with the motivations behind these movements, you will find yourself bored by the lack of plot and character development, and slow pacing. Even your average 'B' movie fan will be disappointed here - despite the low budgets - there are not enough laughs here to make it a good fun night with your friends. Instead Rollin approaches these films with lofty ambitions and in the main part succeeds in creating some memorable images. The first half of Rape of the Vampire is a great and striking short film. The second half is obviously tacked on and is completely incomprehensible. Shiver of the Vampires in contrast to the black and white of ROTV has impressive use of colour and is probably the strongest of the three films. Requiem for a Vampire, is the slowest paced of the three, building up to some jaw dropping, sadistic torture scenes that evoke the legend of Countess Bathory.

If you can imagine a hammer horror with gallic/new wave/surrealist spices added in to the mix - you'll have an idea of what to expect.

French Vamp Collection.......2007-05-25

Very Arty , & very French , leaves you to fill in the spaces alot .

astoundingly beautiful.......2004-09-18

Picked up this set expecting some typical vampire films and was blown away by the photography and ambiance. This set introduced me to the beauty and strangeness of Rollin's work. It was his later films that really captivated me: Fascination, Two Vampire Orphans, and Fiancee of Dracula. These are hard films to describe but there's something very beautiful about them. You'll either get it or you wont. The films in this set aren't as captivating to me as the three films I mentioned above but they have some amazing moments and I'm very pleased that I discovered this set of films since they introduced me to the work of this visionary director and led me to experience the glory of his later films.

Disappointed.......2004-05-25

I decided to get this collection as it sounded interesting enough. I was hoping for at least something exciting.
Sadly, I found these movies boring for the most part.

The first half hour of the rape of the vampires was perhaps the best for myself/ downhill from there. Redemptions Logo at the start of the dvd's is better then the movies !@#

Anyone know of some good vampire movies !@#

introduction to rollin: lesson 1.......2003-09-16

OH YEAH! it's great & redemption has made this collection available with an amazingly low cost. yes, that's 3 great films of rollin at a small price. for those of us who've wanted to study the maestro's classics or just indulge in some fantastic eurotrash, this is an absolute dream come true. infact, this was my introduction or 1st lesson in my education of jean rollin. of all three films, i'd have to say i love rape of the vampire best. as strange as this might sound, i was initially very confused when i saw this film & wouldn't have rated it so highly had i not given it a second viewing. having said that, i loved the images which are macabre & beautiful almost all at once. needless to say, that 2nd viewing really stole my attention & gave me a deeper appreciation of the film altogether. i was able to piece together the events & characters the 2nd time around & i realized what a genius jean rollin truly is. rape of the vmapire is to jean rollin as eraserhead is to david lynch. a rare landmark film that should be talked about for years & could be deemed an instant cult classic. the next film was equally enjoyable but not as confusing. shiver of the vampire is campy, macabre, and ironically funny. you'll find yourself shivering with delight at the hilarious but philosophical dialogue & shuddering with some of the images of erotic & vampiric activity. i could see this film would probably be more embraced by the mainstream than perhaps some of his earlier. not exceptionally graphic but there is a great deal of implied homoeroticism here. the next film was perhaps one of his most mainstream films (or should i say popular) of all time. released under various names through the years, requiem for a vampire is presented here in all of it's uncut glory. not my favorite of the three but it does have a surreal, child-like fairytale quality to it as many have mentioned. strangely enough, this film is by far the most sexually explicit or graphic film out of the three by far. the dungeon scene alone merits an NC-17 rating easily. had the film's dialogue been 30 lines shorter, this could have been a silent film. if you enjoy these films, thne you might go on to try living dead girl or night of the hunted which are also terrific films. although they are far more depressing than either requiem or shiver, they are indeed undisputed rollin classics. in fact, amazon.com has listed a a zombie collection which should have those titles included & will be released early october. this should save you some money & still provide the same entertaining quality you've come(or will come to expect) with redemption's wonderful catalog.

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One of the best movies!
Loved it!
Good Movie
Classic Teen Movie
A Movie to Resist Time!!!

Empire Records
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia , Maxwell Caulfield , Debi Mazar , Rory Cochrane , and Johnny Whitworth
Director: Allan Moyle
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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Release Date: 2001-04-03

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One of the best movies!.......2007-05-16

I love this movie. It makes me feel young. Damn the man!

Loved it!.......2007-05-13

This is one of my favorite movies growing up. Very fun, and has a good overall storyline.

Good Movie.......2007-05-06

A little bit crazy. But over all an excellent movie. I have watched it several times.

Classic Teen Movie.......2007-05-02

A Movie to Resist Time!!!.......2007-04-28

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Fortress 2
Oh the humanity!
Doesn't add up to the original...
Sequel lacks the budget and performances of the original
great stuff

Fortress 2: Re-entry
Starring: Christopher Lambert , Aidan Rea , David Roberson , Liz May Brice , and Beth Toussaint
Director: Geoff Murphy
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ASIN: B00004REZS
Release Date: 2000-04-25

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Christopher Lambert in a straight-to-video sci-fi film? You know it's gotta be good. Here he reprises his role as John Brennick, former leader of the Resistance and thorn in the side of the MEN-TEL corporation. In the first movie, Brennick escaped from and destroyed MEN-TEL's high-tech "inescapable" prison. In the 10 years since then, he's gotten himself a house in the woods and some horses, and has illegally procreated with his wife. When Resistance members find him and try to recruit him back into the cause, the bad guys are not far behind, and after some two-dollar action scenes he finds himself captured and thrown into MEN-TEL's brand-new prison, which happens to be orbiting the Earth. Surely, nobody could ever escape from this! Except maybe, just maybe John Brennick!

The plot is even more predictable than the placement of the co-ed shower scenes, to the point that you can practically quote the dialogue before it's spoken, with the only surprises being which cliché they're going to use, and when. (By the way, these violent prisoners are actually being used to build and modify the satellite they're imprisoned in!) Pam Grier has an embarrassing cameo as the owner of MEN-TEL, and the dignity she tries to bring to the role is entirely out of place. The only fun to be had is if you watch it as if you're watching a bunch of adults play "action film," making for a strange entertainment, indeed. --Andy Spletzer

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Fortress 2.......2006-02-17

As Fortress was an excellent film I was very disappointed with this sequel. The first one had nice ideas not in a realistic setting but in a nice way. This was just repeated and overdone in the second part so that it became ridiculous, e.g. fighting in outer space for hour without oxygen and in jeans? So I recommend the first part but forget this.

Oh the humanity!.......2004-01-22

The only word you need to know relating to the atrocity that is "Fortress 2: Re-entry" is, quite simply, LAMBERT! That's right, master thespian and international film god Christopher Lambert returns to reprise his role as the persecuted John Brennick, the bane of the powerfully evil Men-Tel corporation. The first film in the series, which arrived on the scene some six years before its sequel, was an enjoyable action/drama film larded with good characters, occasionally intriguing special effects, and lots of shoot 'em up action. The first film was even directed by Stuart Gordon ("Re-Animator," "From Beyond") and employed solid character actors like Jeffrey Combs and Kurtwood Smith to good effect. It got so you didn't even mind Christopher Lambert starred in the movie since the secondary elements made up for his lack of talent. You would think at least a little charm from the original might rub off on its sequel. You would be wrong. "Fortress 2" is a disaster across the board: bad acting, lousy script, slow pacing, and a forgettable supporting cast destroys any chance this movie had at success. "Fortress 2" is to the world of cinema what Linda McCartney was to Wings.

Once again John Brennick and his wife are on the run from the Men-Tel Corporation. At the end of the first movie the couple escaped the clutches of the evil plutocrats and went underground in order to defy the ban on having children. The opening of "Fortress 2" shows the Brennicks safely ensconced in a cabin somewhere far from the overpopulated urban centers run by Men-Tel. A group of rebels from the resistance pay a visit to Brennick so they can convince him to rejoin their efforts to destroy the corporation. Predicatably, Men-Tel thugs clandestinely follow these upstarts out to the cabin and launch a raid. Lots of bullets fly, Brennick and family escape through a tunnel under the house, and Johnny blows a helicopter out of the sky before the soldiers finally capture him. Brennick's spouse and young son escape, so there will be no wife in prison to compromise John's attention this time around. And prison is exactly where he is going, but this time the penitentiary is a floating space station revolving around the earth. It would seem that walking out of this situation will not be as easy as it was last time. C'mon, you know better! This is big, bad John Brennick we are talking about here. Of course he will escape. Our job is to play like good little sheep, shut our mouths, and watch how he does it.

The space prison is pretty much like the institution encountered in the first film with a few minor exceptions. First, the beloved intestinators from the first film are long gone, replaced with a different implant device that causes everyone to fall on the ground and roll around shrieking in pain whenever the guards punch a button. Second, one of Brennick's cellmates is a sexy young woman who takes lots of showers to distract the bulls whenever John and his allies are plotting something. Third, this is a dumb movie. There is a bunch of nonsense about Men-Tel building some huge project and using the prisoners as slave labor, but it is largely uninteresting most of the time. Pam Grier turns up in the role as the head of Men-Tel, perhaps the most egregious crime the film commits because she doesn't have much to do except threaten the prison warden via video screen and show up briefly in the end. Another wasted opportunity arrives in the shape of Yuji Okumoto as the sadistic guard Sato. Viewers will recognize this veteran character actor and loudly lament the inability of the script to put him to better use. By the way, did I mention this movie reeks?

I actually followed the movie for a bit before issuing an increasingly loud series of raspberries at the stupidity unfolding onscreen. A few things were slightly interesting, such as Brennick's turn in "solitary" after a failed escape attempt. The punishment differs slightly from a similar penalty on earth: guards lock Brennick in a transparent bubble on the outer shell of the station, thereby exposing him to extremes of cold and heat as the prison revolves around the earth. Alas, this scene is the only good point in an otherwise useless production. One need only watch one of the characters attach a miniature video camera to a roach to understand the ridiculous depths to which this movie sinks. The absolute worst, and I mean WORST, situation occurs when Brennick, in an effort to reach another part of the rapidly deteriorating space station, holds his breath and flies through space without any sort of protective gear. You heard me right. A man soars through deep space wearing nothing but the clothes on his back--with only a bloody nose to show for it--and survives to fight another day. This scene alone guarantees a one star review. How dare the screenwriters, the director, and the producer attempt to foist off such an idiotic scenario on viewers.

Brennick escapes in time for the inevitable reunion with his loved ones (in front of a picturesque sunset, no less), but the viewer has nowhere to go after watching this piece of crud except perhaps to the local pharmacy to pick up a bottle of Thorazine. Whatever your poison, pray it is strong enough to burn the memory of this film out of your head. The DVD is fortunately sparse, with a trailer for this film, one for a movie called "Resurrection," and a widescreen presentation of the movie. The lack of a commentary surprises me not at all; I wouldn't want to take any responsibility for such a worthless project either if I was associated with it. Good luck with this one, faithful viewers.

Doesn't add up to the original..........2002-10-02

Our story picks up about ten years where the original ended. Brannick is caught and put in a new prison, this time in space orbiting Earth. The characters are plenty fun and the humor is well-placed, but the acting and overall script leave much to be desired. The film is very watchable, but little comes from it. Christopher Lambert is not a good enough actor to make his character as interesting as he was in the first film, but his supporting cast is not all bad. Mostly, I liked the computer effects and some of the action was neat. The star rating can be ignored here. I really give it 2 1/2, but Amazon.com won't let me do halves.

Sequel lacks the budget and performances of the original.......2002-08-01

Although I really enjoyed the original movie, "Fortress 2: Re-entry" is disappointing in comparison. The film offers a promising storyline: John and Karen Brennick are shown 10 years later with their son, hiding from the MenTel Corporation. John is eventually captured and sent to a prison space station to serve his sentence for having another child, while Karen and her son are still being pursued by MenTel. Again, John is driven to escape from this dismal prison. The magic that made the first "Fortress" work is not present in this film. The special effects are of poor quality, and the actors' performances are not very good. This movie may be worth renting just to see what happens to the characters from the first film.

great stuff.......2002-05-04

Action, Sci-fi, nudity, 'behaviour modification' and Christopher Lambert? You know you're in for one hell of a ride!
This movie is at least as good as the original, and looks and sounds great on dvd.
No, it's not one of the most intelligent flicks out there, but who cares? The movie-makers set out to make the movie an exciting romp in space, and in that they certainly succeed.
The only thing that let me down a little was the abrupt ending, something the original suffered from too, but trust me, this is good fun if you're not looking for a masterpiece!

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low budget-vampires from the seventies
Interview With the Foppish Vampire
Recommended, with Reservations
Recommended, with Reservations
Not worth the trouble

Shiver of the Vampires
Starring: Sandra Julien , Jean-Marie Durand , Jacques Robiolles , Michel Delahaye , and Marie-Pierre Castel
Director: Jean Rollin
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ASIN: B00000JWW8
Release Date: 1999-09-21

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Jean Rollin's surreal and strange cult classic is a nutty mix of hippie vampires, lesbian seduction, and moonlight ceremonies in a graveyard bathed in red and blue light. A honeymooning couple stops at a crumbling castle to visit the oddball cousins of bride Isolde, who have supposedly just passed away but mysteriously show up for dinner. Decked out in hep Carnaby Street duds, they entertain their guests with tales of religious research and the worship of Isis, tossing the story back and forth like a game of verbal Ping-Pong. While the groom Antoine discovers their bloodsucking secret as they stake a recent victim in their cellar ("We must not pass on this terrible curse"), Isolde is seduced by a statuesque female vampire who steps out of a grandfather clock and into her bed, the first of many memorable entrances. Even more absurd than most of Rollin's low-budget horror fantasies, The Shiver of the Vampires is one of his most inventive productions, a gorgeously photographed, dreamy look into the erotic lure of vampirism set to a groovy instrumental progressive rock score. Like a skin flick for surrealists, the film is full of passages of naked women wordlessly wandering through the castle hallways and towers, and in true Rollin fashion he can't seem to decide if the gallant groom or the bloodsucking sensualists are the true heroes of this counter-culture vampire tale. The DVD features French and English trailers, a gallery of production stills, and a Rollin filmography. --Sean Axmaker

Description

Teeth, they were like bloody tent pegs! A surreal film featuring gorgeous vampires, Gallic vampire hippies and lashings of lesbian sex. Beautifully macabre, with eerie medieval castles, coffins and a strange woman who emerges from a clock, "The Shiver of the Vampires" is director Jean Rollin's third bloodsuckers fairytale and is remastered from the inter-negative.

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low budget-vampires from the seventies.......2007-02-24

The well-known vampire theme is taken on once again. This time in a French low budget-movie from 1970, featuring actors & actresses who cannot act.

Nevertheless director Jean Rollin cleverly adapted a very seventies setting. Complete with many fashionable elements from those days, such as freedom, female nudity and popmusic. Its mixture makes 'le Frisson des Vampires' (= French for 'the shiver of the vampires') work -- even promotes it to some cult status. Yes indeed, strange things happen at night ...

Interview With the Foppish Vampire.......2006-03-19

I'm wild about Euro-horror from the sixties and seventies. And while France doesn't have the same reputation as Italy, largely thanks to the brilliant giallos of Dario Argento and Mario Bava, France does have the mighty legacy of Louis Feuillade and the Grand Guignol. But those are largely silent-era thrills.

Jean Rollin's 'Shiver of the Vampires,' a title that screams high camp, is a shoestring production that, while possessing little of the directorial innovation of Italy's horror greats, does make much of France's own horror legacy. And as you might suspect, it's very theatrical in its merits.

The budget was minimal, as evidenced by the graffiti marring virtually every wall of the film's 'inhabited' castle (although the exterior photography is outstanding) and that awful strawberry-icing blood. And like an amateurish theatrical production, the viewer is expected to bear with the proceedings in spite of silly continuity errors (and there are some doozies here, especially when an actor who has "left the room" is clearly visible in a mirror for the rest of the scene) and melodramatic acting that would make Nora Desmond blush.

But the film is filled with memorable shots and absolutely unforgettable characters, namely the three vampires who haunt the castle grounds. Isolde is pure Grand Guignol, milking every scene with overwrought posturing and campy menace-- but when she's dealing with scenes involving murder by nipple-spikes, it seems like the only appropriate response. She even looks as though she just stepped out of an Edward Gorey illustration. Five bonus points for her Art Deco wardrobe. The undead brothers, who dress like Austin Powers and speak like Charles Nelson Reilly, are surely worthy of a footnote in contemporary vampire lore for their effeminate-Victorian characterizations. My mouth was literally hanging open in stunned awe every time they were on camera in their Carnaby Street couture delivering their pseudo-intellectual soliloquies. And, as anyone familiar with Rollin's work knows, there are the women. The achingly beautiful women, always on hand to provide a cheap thrill and some gratuitous nudity. One brilliantly laughable scene has two gorgeous young castle servants-- tasked with waking the male protagonist one morning-- decide that hopping into bed with him and teasing him awake through manual stimulation is the only sensible approach. Only to run giggling from the room when he does awaken, of course.

While 'surreal' is an appropriate description, the plot actually makes perfect sense and employs plenty of established 'vampire lore,' in addition to hinting at a tantalizingly-structured vampire society with its own castes and rulers. Having the vampires' servants conceal the cemetery's crucifixes beneath silk scarves at nightfall was a nice touch (even though that, too, is undone by a continuity gap in the film) in that regard, as well as the 'class struggle' between Isolde and the brothers, social superiors she turned to vampirism who begin to wonder why they shouldn't still be upper-crust after death.

And I haven't even mentioned the occasional use of psychedelic guitar-driven rock over the course of the film. All told, it plays out like an over-baked production by a community theater rebel, and 'Shiver of the Vampires' sticks to its guns every campy step of the way. And although the music isn't as good as the legendary 'Vampyros Lesbos' soundtrack, it ain't half bad.

While serious-minded viewers looking to discover another Argento will be sorely disappointed, the campy-yet-sincere aesthetic of this film qualify it for status as a minor classic. Especially since we'll never have the chance to take in a performance at the legendary Parisian theater of the horrific.

On a final note, one has to assume that these films had a tremendous influence on Anne Rice and her (in my opinion dreadful) vampire novels. Homoerotic subtext delivered with a sledgehammer, the blood of animals as an intro for the newly-undead, conflicted & self-hating bloodsuckers and a vampiric class struggle. It's all here. Rollin's films might be too theatrical by half and cheaply-made, but there's no doubt that they deserve a place in the canon of contemporary horror. Particularly because his vampires are the logical followers and forebears in vampire evolution over the twentieth century.

Recommended, with Reservations.......2002-06-15

I an overjoyed that after years of bad bootlegs, Redemption is releasing pristine copies of Jean Rollin's films. However, while the beauty of this transfer cannot be denied (it probably never looked this good when it was originally released) this particular version has 4 scenes that are missing, and that were available on a Something Weird version (which was missing a key scene that Redemption has).
The missing scenes invove a lesbian orgy after the wife is bitten, a heterosexual coupling, a weird rite where the comatose wife drinks a cup of blood (taken from a cut in a breast), and an almost out-of-place scene (that looks suspiciously like an insert) involving two girls being tortured in a dungeon.
Since Redemption claims to work from Rollin's originals, I wonder why these scenes are missing. Well, just one of those mysteries...
Still, despite this, this DVD is well worth owning. It remains one of Rollin's best works, along with Lips of Blood & Fascination.

Recommended, with Reservations.......2002-06-15

Not worth the trouble.......2002-02-22

The first thing that struck me was the picture quality ..it stinks !! ..I really don't know what the fuss is all about with dvd.. but anyway, the movie itself has an average story line however, the heavenly creatures that appear from time to time makes up for it

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Not worth seeing
Lameness
A review from someone who has never been married
When Serial Killers Fall Out of Love...
Well.... at least it's better than Screaming Dead.

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Starring: Brandy Little , Trent Haaga , Hayden Tweedie , Kimberly Grant , and Robert McCollum
Director: Jon Keeyes
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ASIN: B0001XAKNI
Release Date: 2005-11-22

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Not worth seeing.......2007-08-17

My wife and I tried, really tried to watch this movie, and it went nowhere. It was probably the biggest disappointment we've seen in years. Boring, and so s-l-o-w you feel like cutting off your own limbs for entertainment. We give this an all toes down.

Lameness.......2006-06-15

As the movie starts off with stereotypical happy married couple babble that went on for what seemed to be an eternity, I was just about ready to shut the damn movie off and puke. Ugh, annoying! We get the point, you're establishing the married couple like each other to illustrate how dramatically different their love life is later on, move on with the scene already! Do we have to hear all this boring detail? I pretty much thought the same thing about EVERY wordy, generic, long, and bland dialogue scene. This movie is nothing but an ultra-generic "marriage on the rocks" soap opera but with pathetic amature softcore porn looks and a super lame so-called "horror" script that doesn't know when to stop. Real stinker, these new indie horror movies make me cringe like crazy with how bad they are yet how serious they take themselves. The days when the worst horror movies gave you a healthy laugh are over. Now the worst horror movies makes you seriously angry, the only memorable thing about this cliche dramatic indie [...] movie is that I punched myself a couple times for being stupid enough to buy it.

A review from someone who has never been married.......2005-11-20

Since I have never been married, a lot of the marrital bickering that goes on between these two psychpaths is not very interesting to me. I watched this movie for the BDSM aspect only. Since most of the action in this movie involves the husbund and wife stabbing, shooting, and otherwise trying to destroy each other, I was disappointed with the it. I would have loved to have seen more scenes like what happens in chapter 4 where the female lead has a scene where she is dominating a young woman she has kept locked in the torture room for three months. She treats her as if she is a dog that she is instilling disipline in. "Kris, The Pet", is shackled to to a wooden pole in the middle of the room, in the dark with a wash rag in her mouth, wearing only her underwear. Kris isn't allowed to to let go of the rag, and untill the command of "release" is given. There is a bowl of water near her, but she is only allowed to drink when the female lead gives her a handfull of water to drink out of her hand.

The other scence that I liked was near the middle of the movie when the husband ties the wife down to the living room table, and then puts a hot clothes iron on her stomach. To keep her from being able to esacpe the pain by passing out, he injects her with amphethemine before putting the iron on her....I realize the character of the daughter was in the movie the add depth to the characters, but it seemed like the writters didn't really know what to do with her. At the end of the movie I was wondering what happened to her, dead or not? A figment of the killers imagination? The figment idea I got from watching the extras.

When Serial Killers Fall Out of Love..........2005-07-29

In spite of the title, indie director Jon Keeyes' direct-to-video horror opus SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE (2004) is not a sequel to his lesser 2002 splatter flick AMERICAN NIGHTMARE. Instead, SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE is actually a witty, well-written dark satire that takes some pokes at modern matrimony in middle-class America.

The film follows a day in the lives of Charles Rosenblad (Trent Haaga) and his pretty wife Deborah (Brandy Little). The Rosenblads seem to love each other, but as with most suburban American couples, they nonetheless squabble over the little differences of opinion that crop up during the course of any normal long-term relationship. But unlike other young marrieds, the Rosenblads' little spats don't revolve around what color to paint the livingroom, where to eat out, or the like. No, the Rosenblads argue about who gets to kill their next dinner guests or which victim would taste best in tonight's spaghetti. The Rosenblads are serial killers, you see, and their marriage is based on the credo that the family that slays together stays together.

Writer/Director Keeyes generates an unnerving satirical humor in SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE by juxtaposing everyday domestic strife with sadism, violence, and murder. Mature audience members quickly identify with the film's characters because they've all experienced dinner-table arguements such as the Rosenblads are having. But the Rosenblads' nonchalance towards the state of their dinner guests--both of whom are slumped over dead, their heads face-down in the main course--forces viewers to contemplate everyday domestic quarrels from a new perspective and, in turn, spurs the realization of how trivial such things really are in the overall scheme of life.

The direction and camera work in the film are superb. Most of the action takes place inside a relatively small suburban house, and this creates for the viewer a sense of confinement or constriction that only adds to the uneasy juxtaposition of the domestic and the horrifying. There is also skillful use of the split-diopter lens, a device that allows two objects that are in different focal planes, relative to the camera, to both be in perfect focus. At various points during the Rosenblads' feature-length argument, the special lens is used to allow one character to be very close to the camera while, at the same time, the other is some distance away in either an adjoining room or a far corner of the same room. This subtle visual trick creates a surreal sense of space that adds to the audience's perception that there is a widening disparity between Charles and Deborah.

The acting in the film is top-notch. Genre fans and connoisseurs of outrageous films will recognize Trent Haaga from the many flicks he's done for Troma, the studio that has mastered the art of low-budget tastelessness. Troma's cinematic standards often require Haaga to take his performances way over the top, but his performance in SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE is both sympathetic and believable. And in contrast to several of her other genre films, the attractive Brandy Little is more than mere eye candy here. As Deborah Rosenblad, Little proves her wide and flexible range as she convincingly runs the gamut of human emotions from innocent love through raging hate.

Interesting music also punctuates the violence and domestic strife depicted in SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE. As he did for his film AMERICAN NIGHTMARE, Keeyes utilzes the intrinsic creepy, spooky, and sometimes frightening quality of the Industrial, Goth, and Psychobilly (aka, Gothabilly) music genres to enhance the ambiance of his flick. One of the especially notable uses of such music in SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE is a ditty by the Psychobilly band Ghoultown that plays over the film's closing credits. The name of the song is "Killin's a Bitch (And This Bitch Is Killin' Me)," and the lyrics so perfectly suit the subject matter of the film that the song functions as the ultimate auditory exclamation point.

The DVD edition of SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE from Ventura Distribution is well worth the reasonable price of admission. It presents the movie in anamorphic widescreen at the original ratio of 1.85:1, and the transfer is remarkably clear (not surprising, really, considering it was shot in HDTV video using a Panasonic HDTV camera). And the disc is chockfull of cool extras, including a feature commentary with the director and film editor Robert McCollum; several behind-the-scenes and making-of featurettes; three excellent horror shorts from young filmmakers; and several Shock-o-Rama trailers. A worthy addition to the collection of any horror fan.

Well.... at least it's better than Screaming Dead........2005-04-18

Which isn't saying much. This movie could have been called Living Room Nightmare because that's where 90% of the movie takes place. The only outside scene is the backyard for a five minute dialog.

Basiclly this movie boils down to a cannabilistic husband and wife who are in dire need of a marriage counselor. The wife was pretty hot and I thought it unfortunate she didn't get a nude scene. She reminded me of a girl I worked with at McDonald's who I wanted real bad.

Anyway. These two have flashbacks which are pretty uninteresting as they try to figure out where their marriage went bad. They have a daughter who's supposed to be asleep upstairs, but manages to give plenty of lines. The only other cast is another husband and wife who are poisoned at dinner and a couple of cops who show up later at the door.

This movie is good to watch once, but a second time would be rather dull.

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Another Cronenberg classic!!!
"I just know you'll like my daughter..."
Movie Vhs- They Came From Within
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Starring: Paul Hampton , Joe Silver , Lynn Lowry , Allan Kolman , and Susan Petrie
Director: David Cronenberg
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ASIN: 6305090343
Release Date: 1998-09-30

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"If this picture doesn't make you scream and squirm, you should see a psychiatrist--quick!" shouts the film's trailer. This time the hyperbole is right. David Cronenberg's debut feature, and Canada's first domestic horror film, is an ingeniously engineered slasher of thoroughly modern horror that, like George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, charts a social breakdown by tearing through our most intrinsic taboos. A genetically engineered designer parasite--part aphrodisiac, part venereal disease--created by a modern-day mad scientist escapes into a colorless, self-contained apartment complex and goes searching for hosts. This monstrous parasite multiplies and invades the alienated occupants, turning them into a pack of id-driven sex maniacs. Cronenberg's suffocating vision of modern life turns his budgetary limitations--dreary, bland sets, flat lighting, and numb performances--into a severe portrait of society out of touch with its physical and emotional existence. Cronenberg pushed the boundaries of gore in 1974, but more insidious is the way he pushes the boundaries of behavior: under the influence of this invasive disease, families turn to incest and murder, strangers sexually assault the helpless, and finally they band together as a pack of bloodthirsty, libido-driven animals. That taboo-breaking display still has the power to get under your skin. The film has also been released under the titles The Parasite Murders and They Came from Within. Cult horror icon Barbara Steele costars. --Sean Axmaker

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Starliner Towers is just another highrise apartment building until something terrible begins to go wrong. A terrifying parasite has taken hold, infecting everyone. Normal people are becoming deranged, committing uncontrollable acts of mindless violence. There's nowhere to hide and no escape from the terror.

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Another Cronenberg classic!!!.......2007-09-02

I finally picked up this DVD at a Used DVD store and I was very happy that I did. I am an avid Cronenberg fan and loved this movie. It is a very twisted horror fest that has a very dark side. It is a cross with zombie movies and Cronenberg's Rabid. The story is very believable and the gore is over the top for it's time. I can't believe that no one wanted to produce this movie when Cronenberg originally wrote it. This one is a must see for all Cronenberg fans!!!!

"I just know you'll like my daughter...".......2007-02-16

The first feature film to come from visionary director David Cronenberg, Shivers still manages to pack enough shocks and social commentary under it's horiffic story to make it relevant today. When invading parasites begin to infest and turn their human hosts into depraved and violent sexual predators, the few uneffected in a high rise apartment building do what they can to survive. Low budget to it's core and primitive in it's presentation, Shivers packs a punch thanks to Cronenberg's inventive and groundbreaking story. Heavy with metaphor and bearing many resemblances to Night of the Living Dead (particularly the final scenes when all the infected band together as a pack), Shivers ends up proving to be a wildly twisted and blood soaked beginning from one of the most innovative directors to come out of the genre in the past few decades. If you've never seen Shivers and are a Cronenberg fan, try to check it out if you can find it; you won't be disappointed, and you'll get to see one of the true modern masters of the horror genre display some early brilliance.

Movie Vhs- They Came From Within.......2005-09-16

The VHS tape worked fine. Dust cover showed signs of wear. Product came from rental store, so that's to be expected. However the movie I saw was not the original...like it was when I saw it in 1974. Scenes had been edited, or cut out completly. The scenes cut were the 'steamier' ones. Obviously some uptight censor got hold of this film after I had seen the original in 1974. Because of the cuts the movie was hard to follow, and lost the parts of the film that made it 'interesting'. Bad flick!

They're in the Mood for Love..........2005-07-18

Like all ultra-luxury urban high-rises, and every single square inch of Manhattan real estate, the Starliner Towers has a problem: a Bug problem.

Shot on a shoestring budget and in a whirlwind 15 days in Montreal, "Shivers" (also known as "They Came from Within") is Canadian horror visionary and all-around Creepy Guy David Cronenberg's astounding, jaw-dropping little gem about the end of the world, in which humanity doesn't go out with a Bang or a Whimper, but more of a Moan.

But let's get something out of the way right now: David Cronenberg is a genius and, for my money, one of the top 3 horror film directors *ever*. And while it's certainly useful to view "Shivers" as a preview of coming attractions---without a doubt, it's amazing what the young Cronenberg was able to pull off under severe budgetary, time, and talent limitations---the movie stands on its own as a ground-breaking little nugget of unflinching grue that burrows under your skin and truly disturbs.

Things break down quickly in "Shivers", which is about a medical experiment gone horribly wrong, and the terrible toll it takes on the residents of a luxury island apartment complex outside Montreal---and from there the world.

The film's mad scientist (a nice turn by Fred Doederlein, who pops up again as the yoga master in "Scanners") wants to produce designer parasites that can be introduced into a body, devour a failing organ, and 'become' that organ, thus helping its host at the cost of a little blood.

But wouldn't ya know it, his first experiment Annabelle(a fetching Kathy Graham) refuses to play along with the Doc's good intentions, chiefly because the parasite has two complications: 1)within a few hours it turns its victim's mind to mush, and 2)it also has the unfortunate side-effect of making the subject a ravening sexual psychopath.

In the fim's shocking opening sequences, the Good Doctor brutally tries to abort his little extracurricular activity, but Annabelle has been a popular girl around the Starliner apartments, and faster than you can say "sick building syndrome" the little parasites, which look like a phallic combination of extra-large garden slug and Jimmy Dean sausage, are going a-roving through the apartment building in search of victims.

And faster than the tenants can say "the check's in the mail", they've been converted into a legion of slug-infested serial rapists looking for love in all the wrong places.

It may very well have been that Cronenberg's limitations forced him to adopt a style that was so sterile, brutal, and overlit that the film couldn't help being brutal and startling: from an infected old woman groaning from behind her door to a startled delivery man "I'm hungry...for LOVE", to an avid slug crawling up an elderly lady's walker, to the horrible death of Dr. Lenski, to the wicked elevator infection scene, to the part where screen goddess Barbara Steele is infected by one of the nasty parasites *in her bathtub* (ewww!), Cronenberg keeps up the pressure and ratchets the horror level up so high you feel your brain will pop. You haven't seen ghoulishly creepy until you've watched Allan Colman pleading and talking with a nest of parasites that have been setting up shop in his stomach. Grisly stuff.

Technically this is an average DVD. It could very well be that the movie was shot in a 1:33:1 aspect ratio, in which case the full-screen format is appropriate, but the sound here is atrocious. The extras here, including a theatrical trailer and an illuminating, goofy interview with Cronenberg, are pretty spare, so let's hope someone gets around to releasing this creepshow with the quality treatment it deserves.

Yes, "Shivers" foreshadows a deliciously cringe-inducing career---but for sheer skin-crawling nastiness, it has yet to be surpassed.

JSG

Cherries Jubliee!.......2005-04-04

What I feel is one of the strongest points of this film is it's ambiguous use of fear and horror. Though it seems obvious that the parasites are to be feared in the film, what's even more terrifying is that the creatures are not the source of the "sex-plague", they only destroy our own inhibition, letting the hidden monster, that is in us all, free. Add to this, the parasite's conception and you have a great homage to Frankenstein, as well as an interesting spin on the modern Zombie movie. Being Cronenberg's first film, and for its low budget and quick shooting schedule I think the film does a great job of suspending disbelief with interesting "slight of hand" special effects. I also think it's an interesting precursor to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, both of which play off of fears of isolation and self sufficiency. I also feel that the moral of the film sidesteps abstinence, which most sexual horror seems to center on, and goes further to comment on loyalty and self control. My favorite scene by far involves a waiter who is munching down cherries jubilee while lustfully attacking two women.

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what a great flick!

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Starring: Melvin Van Peebles , Maxwell Caulfield , Mark Boone Junior , Coyote Shivers , and Gerald McCullouch
Director: David Wendell
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Release Date: 2006-08-29

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what a great flick!.......2006-11-10

I really enjoyed the story and especially the character development- this is a great film and I would highly recommend it!

Faerie Tale Theatre - The Boy Who Left Home To Find Out About The Shivers

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Loved it!!
Fairie Tale Not Just For Kids
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Faerie Tale Theatre - The Boy Who Left Home To Find Out About The Shivers
Starring: Dana Hill , Christopher Lee , Peter MacNicol , and Vincent Price
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ASIN: B00061UHZ6
Release Date: 2004-11-16

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A cowardly king offers a young man who isn't afraid of anything all the riches in the land if he rid the castle of a ghost.

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Loved it!!.......2006-12-27

I think the title should have been "The Boy Who Got Kicked out of his home to find out about the shivers". Besides this, I loved every minute of this tale! It was my first time checking out this one, and I thought it was fun, especially at the end. It has everything-fun, horror, romance, etc. Peter MacNicol is kind of cute, too. I loved Christopher Lee-he is totally magnetic, with a commanding presence, plus an even powerful voice. All in all, great job!

Fairie Tale Not Just For Kids.......2005-09-01

This is a great little flick. Children and adults alike will enjoy this feature. This scary story with touches of satire doesn't disappoint with good acting, good writing, and set design that's visual appealing considering the budget of the flick.

A young Peter Macnicol as Martin, Christopher Lee as the king, and Vincent Price as the narrator make this a quality show.

I loved this movie when I was a kid, and I ended up buying it as an adult. Watching it again now I enjoyed the jokes and some of the satire that I was too young to understand when I was a kid.

The Shivers.......2005-02-12

Arguably one of the worst of the Faerie Tale Theatre series by Shelly Duvall. I don't see why People are saying this one is scary? this is far from scary. It would be laughable, but it's just to boring. It moves slow, and doesn't really do anything until it's already half way through the flick or more. I like to collect this series so regardless I am happy I got this one. I just got this one quicker than I should of based on certain reviews about it. I should have considered another faerie tale before getting this one. I have it now, had to get it sooner or later anyway I suppose.

A Graveyard Smash!!!.......2005-01-19

Arguably the best of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre series, "The Boy Who Left Home..." is a macabre delight. Dragonslayer's Peter Macnicol is smart as the fearless boy and Christopher Lee is perfect as the son of Vlad the Impaler. An obvious homage to Lee's own British Hammer Horror films of the 50's with the narration of another genre favorite Vincent Price adding to the fun. Growing up in the 80's, I was entralled with the set design, actors and dry humor of this sensational series. Two or three aren't enough; buy all 26 of these priceless gems or buy the 4 disk set coming in January of 2005.

Hillarious, will be your favorite.......2004-11-09

From the antics his family goes through to try to scare him, to the real ghosts of a haunted castle, "the boy who left home to find out about the shivers" is not phased. Granted, this is one of the scarrier faerie tale theatres, so maybe not good for children under 5 or 6, but will quickly become everyone's favorite episode.

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