DVD Releases - Tuesday 28th September 2004 - Page 4

Part of: New DVDs

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: Seven people secluded in a Pennsylvania farmhouse face relentless attacks by reanimated corpses seeking to eat their flesh. The group, which includes a married couple and their daughter, a pair of young lovers, and an African-American man, try to keep their sanity as the living dead try endlessly to enter the house.

THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE: A boorish doctor who has devised a way to bring the dead back to life gets into a car accident and kills his beautiful fiancee; he takes her severed head back to the lab with him and keeps it alive in a tray of serum. She is unhappy with the situation and begs him to let her die, but he embarks upon a search for the perfect body for his amour, visiting strip clubs and streetwalkers and scouring the city. Meanwhile, the fiancee discovers that a side effect of her current status is telepathy, and she begins to communicate with the doctor's "mistake," which is held captive in a locked room off the lab. With the monster's help, the bodyless woman manages to save the life of the doctor's chosen victim and burn the lab down in the process.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: Jonathan Haze stars as clumsy assistant florist Seymour, who saves his job in Mr. Mushnik's skid-row flower shop when he brings in a unique man-eating plant. The problem is, it's a very hungry plant; every night it opens its huge jaws and demands to be fed, forcing poor Seymour to take to the street in search of victims, lest he disappoint his boss and his adoring girlfriend, Audrey (Jackie Joseph).

CARNIVAL OF SOULS: Made in 1962 in Lawrence, Kansas for very little money, Harvey's CARNIVAL OF SOULS has become legendary for it's ability to create a tensely creepy atmosphere with virtually no special effects. A young woman (Hilligoss) is involved in a car crash when her car 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 in a black suit seems to be following her wherever she goes. The effective organ score enhances the film to great effect.

DEMENTIA 13: Francis Ford Coppola's directorial debut, produced by horror king Roger Corman, is a terror-filled tale of family ties chopped to pieces. Set in a spooky Irish castle, DEMENTIA 13 begins as the Haloran family gathers to memorialize the death of the youngest sister, Kathleen. While various family members plot and connive, an ax murderer is terrorizing the grounds, and Kathleen's body shows up at just the wrong time. Slowly, the family members become increasingly suspicious of each other--as well as of the ghosts that haunt the castle. But when the sinister family doctor is called in to help with the mystery, the expertly planned Coppola chills really take hold.

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  • 1 - Matt Wardlaw

    Sep 27, 2004 at 7:46 pm

    an admirable job filling in

    kudos.

    though I see a mess of titles starting with Live At The Full Throttle Saloon that do not have band names with them. the Throttle one is Jackyl, I believe.

    What do I win?

  • 2 - Jim Carruthers

    Sep 27, 2004 at 8:06 pm

    uhm, lemme look in the odd smelling cigar box the Duke left me (it smells like hippy crossed with solder, coffee grounds and guiness) ... jeez, looks like the square root of fuck all.

    Though, if you can find the easter egg, I might come up with a post card.

  • 3 - Eric Olsen

    Sep 27, 2004 at 8:42 pm

    super job Jim, very much appreciated. It's a ton of relatively thankless work - so thanks!!

  • 4 - Matt Paprocki

    Sep 27, 2004 at 8:49 pm

    Missed 3 Godzilla boxsets. The big guy gets no love. =;)

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002V7OEW/digitalmonste-20/102-8184946-5288908


    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002V7T0Q/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/102-8184946-5288908

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002V7OF6/ref=pd_sxp_elt_l1/102-8184946-5288908

    Godzilla vs. Giagan, Hedorah, and Mechagodzilla are available seperately as well. You did hit the Gamera collection though. Should note that those discs in that set are the same as the previous release from ADV.

  • 5 - Jim Carruthers

    Sep 27, 2004 at 9:22 pm

    Let me look in the cigar box, hey! there's a secret compartment!

    But it's largely empty. No Godzilla DVDs. So until those rubber-suited wearing cos-playing bastards at Toho send me the DVDs, the big guy gets the tiny love (and not the Japanoise school-girl kind either).

  • 6 - Matt Paprocki

    Sep 27, 2004 at 9:51 pm

    It's not Toho's fault! It's the wonderful way Sony manages to promote these movies when they bring them over. Though for the first time, they have actually promoted them in print in a few magazines.

  • 7 - visualsimplicity

    Sep 28, 2004 at 2:45 pm

    I've been waiting on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind forever. Rest assured I'll be at Best Buy right after work. My eyes and brains will get a good feast tonight.

  • 8 - DukeDeMondo

    Oct 01, 2004 at 2:19 pm

    Jim, excellent job! I never even noticed i was gone, to be honest. if you can't cover this tuesday, let me know and il sort something. otherwise, i should be back in time to pick it up one tuesday from now. ie, not the coming tuesday, but next.
    Really, thank you a whole heap. And tales from the crapper will rule.

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