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I just stumbled across that this was on DVD since last year...silly me!
Well I bought it & thought I would pass along the info!
The Most Dangerous Game [75th Anniversary Edition]
Celebrate the 75th anniversary in vibrant color for the first time under the creative direction of legendary effects master Ray Harryhausen.
Also Includes Original Black-and-White version
Ray Harryhausen on the Importance of a Movie Score
James D'Arc, Creator For Merian C. Cooper Papers
John Morgan, Composer Discussing Max Steiner
Theatrical trailers
Starring: Fay Wray, Joel McCrea
Director: Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
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Director Roman Polanski's "Cul-de-sac" will be shown on Encore Mystery June 01, 2008 @ 07:30am Arizona (PT) Time....Check You local listing!
The cast includes Donald Pleasence, Fran?oise Dorl?ac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran, Iain Quarrier, Geoffrey Sumner, Renee Houston, William Franklyn, Trevor Delaney, Marie Kean. It also features Jacqueline Bisset in a small role, in her second film appearance.
A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals. Quickly, however, the relationships between the criminal, the wife, and the Englishman begin to shift in humorous and bizarre fashion.
Cul-de-Sac was awarded the 1966 Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Trivia:
Has one of the longest continuous sequences in cinematic history (at the time of release) at 7 mins 28 secs (the beach scene)!!
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The Ultimate 80's horror/comedy finally comes to DVD!!!!
Student Bodies (1981)
Starring: Kristen Riter, Matt Golds
Directed by Mickey Rose
This killer comedy is the original teenage parody horror film taken to the extreme! The screams are as frequent as the laughs as a crazed, heavy-breathing murderer terrorizes Lamab High with a series of mysterious deaths. Everyone is a suspect and no one is safe from the hilarious twists and turns as Breather terrorizes and kills sex-starved couples. When the body count rises, one student attempts to solve the mystery and instead finds herself a suspect. Does she survive or become another victim? It's anyone's guess in this satirical romp of horror!
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"30 Days of Night"
You can feel it. That cold ain't the weather - that's death approachin'. ...
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Washington, DC (thanks to Lucas for this DC info):
Gay film festival organizer One in Ten will host a screening of Strait Jacket on June 13, 2008 at sundown. The film will be shown on the lawn at Hillwood Estate; cost $15.
http://www.reelaffirmations.org/
Also,
The National Theatre on Pennsylvania Avenue's All About Bette film festival will conclude on August 11, 2008 with a 6:30pm screening of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" Tickets are free and available a half-hour from show time on a first come, first served basis
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3 Joan Crawford Films in June!!!
June 2008:
June 12
The Women. 12:30pm
June 23
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney. 11:15pm
June 30
Rain. 1:30am
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Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) Comes to DVD June 24, 2008!!!
Director: Joseph Pevney
SYNOPSIS:
Academy Award winner James Cagney gives an unforgettable performance as Lon Chaney in this fascinating true story that follows the life of one of the most iconic and mysterious stars in Hollywood history!
Known as the "Man of a Thousand Faces", silent film star Lon Chaney captured the imagination of the world through his incredibly expressive and transformative roles, such as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Phantom from the original Phantom of the Opera. Behind the scenes, however, this long-suffering talented genius' life was filled with trials and tribulations that helped shape some of his most groundbreaking roles.
The Academy Award -nominated Man of a Thousand Faces captures the dramatic private life of a humble vaudeville clown who rose to become one of the biggest stars the world has ever seen!
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There should be a # to call in the TCM Guide...try 1/800/TCM/1002
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Another actor I really like is Val Kilmer! He is is over-looked for any type of awards.
His Best Films:
The Doors
The Real McCoy
True Romance
Heat
Alexander
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Salton Sea
Wonderland
Tombstone his performance as Doc Holliday blows me away. How he never go an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actor boggles my mind!
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I love Bob Hope ...he was so funny ...
*_My Fav Bob Hope Films:_*
The Big Broadcast of 1938
The Cat and the Canary
Road to Zanzibar
Road to Singapore
Son of Paleface
The Road to Hong Kong
The Muppet Movie
Road to Utopia
My Favorite Brunette..this make me laugh everytime I see it!
Road to Morocco
Road to Rio
The Princess and the Pirate
The Paleface W./Jane Russell
The Lemon Drop Kid
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Alexander "Sandy" Courage, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated arranger, orchestrator and composer who created the otherworldly theme for the classic "Star Trek" TV show, has died. He was 88.
Courage died May 15 at the Sunrise assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, his stepdaughter Renata Pompelli of Los Angeles, said Thursday. He had been in poor health for three years.
Over a decades-long career, Courage collaborated on dozens of movies and orchestrated some of the greatest musicals of the 1950s and 1960s, including "My Fair Lady," "Hello, Dolly!" "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," "Gigi," "Porgy and Bess" and "Fiddler on the Roof."
But his most famous work is undoubtedly the "Star Trek" theme, which he composed, arranged and conducted in a week in 1965.
"I have to confess to the world that I am not a science fiction fan," Courage said in an interview for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation's Archive of American Television in 2000. "Never have been. I think it's just marvelous malarkey. ... So you write some, you hope, marvelous malarkey music that goes with it."
Courage said the tune, with its ringing fanfare, eerie soprano part and swooping orchestration, was inspired by an arrangement of the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon" he heard as a youngster.
"Little did I know when I wrote that first A-flat for the flute that it was going to go down in history, somehow," Courage said. "It's a very strange feeling."
Courage said he also mouthed the "whooshing" sound heard as the starship Enterprise zooms through the opening credits of the TV show.
"Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry later wrote lyrics to the tune, which were never sung on the show but entitled him to half the royalties, Courage said.
Among the many other projects Courage worked on was the 1987 TV special "Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas," for which he won an Emmy for musical direction.
He and Lionel Newman shared Academy Award nominations for their adapted scores for 1964's "The Pleasure Seekers" and 1967's "Doctor Dolittle."
A friend and colleague of movie composers John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith, he also provided the orchestration for such movies as "The Poseidon Adventure," "Jurassic Park," "Basic Instinct" and "The Mummy" and supplied arrangements for the Boston Pops while Williams was conductor in the 1980s and early 1990s.
For "Star Trek" he composed music for only a few episodes, in addition to the theme and the music for the pilot. But that theme was reprised in the TV sequel "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and in the "Star Trek" movies.
Courage was born Dec. 10, 1919, in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey. After graduation from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., in 1941, Courage enlisted in the Army Air Corps.
After the war, he became a composer for CBS radio shows and then became an orchestrator and arranger at MGM.
Beginning in the 1960s he composed music for TV shows, including "The Waltons," "Lost in Space" and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," although the only themes he created were for "Star Trek" and "Judd For the Defense."
By ROBERT JABLON,
Associated Press Writer
Thu May 29, 2008!
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WOW! So Sad! RIP!
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Sooo many!
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Actor and comedian, 81, suffered aortic aneurysm 4 months ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to "The Carol Burnett Show" and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in "Blazing Saddles," died Thursday. He was 81.
Korman died at UCLA Medical Center after suffering complications from the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm four months ago, his family said. He had undergone several major operations.
"He was a brilliant comedian and a brilliant father," daughter Kate Korman said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "He had a very good sense of humor in real life. "
A natural second banana, Korman gained attention on "The Danny Kaye Show," appearing in skits with the star. He joined the show in its second season in 1964 and continued until it was canceled in 1967. That same year he became a cast member in the first season of "The Carol Burnett Show."
His most memorable film role was as the outlandish Hedley Lamarr (who was endlessly exasperated when people called him Hedy) in Mel Brooks' 1974 Western satire, "Blazing Saddles."
"A world without Harvey Korman ? it's a more serious world," Brooks told the AP on Thursday. "It was very dangerous for me to work with him because if our eyes met we'd crash to floor in comic ecstasy. It was comedy heaven to make Harvey Korman laugh."
On television, Burnett and Korman developed into the perfect pair with their burlesques of classic movies such as "Gone With the Wind" and soap operas like "As the World Turns" (their version was called "As the Stomach Turns").
Another recurring skit featured them as "Ed and Eunice," a staid married couple who were constantly at odds with the wife's mother (a young Vickie Lawrence in a gray wig). In "Old Folks at Home," they were a combative married couple bedeviled by Lawrence as Burnett's troublesome young sister.
Korman revealed the secret to the long-running show's success in a 2005 interview: "We were an ensemble, and Carol had the most incredible attitude. I've never worked with a star of that magnitude who was willing to give so much away."
Burnett was devastated by Korman's death, said her assistant, Angie Horejsi.
"She loved Harvey very much," Horejsi said.
After 10 successful seasons, Korman left Burnett's show in 1977 for his own series. Dick Van Dyke took his place, but the chemistry was lacking and the Burnett show was canceled two years later. "The Harvey Korman Show" also failed, as did other series starring the actor.
"It takes a certain type of person to be a television star," he said in that 2005 interview. "I didn't have whatever that is. I come across as kind of snobbish and maybe a little too bright. ... Give me something bizarre to play or put me in a dress and I'm fine."
Brooks tapped Korman's kinetic comic chops often, including roles in "High Anxiety," "The History of the World Part I" and "Dracula: Dead and Loving It."
"I gave him tongue twisters because I knew he was the only one who could wrap his mouth around them," Brooks said. "Harvey was such a good solid actor that he could have done Shakespearean drama just as well and easily as he did comedy."
Brooks described Korman as a "dazzling" comic talent.
"You could get rock-solid comedy out of him. He could lift the material. He always made it real, always made it work, always believed in characters he was doing," he said.
Korman's other films included two "Pink Panther" moves, "Trail of the Pink Panther" in 1982 and "Curse of the Pink Panther" in 1983; "Gypsy," "Huckleberry Finn" (as the King), "Herbie Goes Bananas" and "Bud and Lou" (as legendary straightman Bud Abbott to Buddy Hackett's Lou Costello).
In television, Korman guest-starred in dozens of series including "The Donna Reed Show," "Dr. Kildare," "Perry Mason," "The Wild Wild West," "The Muppet Show," "The Love Boat" and "Burke's Law."
Korman and "Carol Burnett" co-star Tim Conway continued working together into their '70s, touring the country with their show "Tim Conway and Harvey Korman: Together Again." They did 120 shows a year, sometimes as many as six or eight in a weekend.
Korman had an operation in late January on a non-cancerous brain tumor and pulled through "with flying colors," Kate Korman said. Less than a day after coming home, he was re-admitted because of the ruptured aneurysm and was given a few hours to live. But he survived for another four months.
"He fought until the very end. He didn't want to die. He fought for months and months," said Kate Korman.
Harvey Herschel Korman was born Feb. 15, 1927, in Chicago. He left college for service in the U.S. Navy, resuming his studies afterward at the Goodman School of Drama at the Chicago Art Institute. After four years, he decided to try New York.
"For the next 13 years I tried to get on Broadway, on off-Broadway, under or beside Broadway," he told a reporter in 1971.
He had no luck and had to support himself as a restaurant cashier. Finally, in desperation, he and a friend formed a nightclub comedy act.
"We were fired our first night in a club, between the first and second shows," he recalled.
After returning to Chicago, Korman decided to try Hollywood, reasoning that "at least I'd feel warm and comfortable while I failed."
For three years he sold cars and worked as a doorman at a movie theater. Then he landed the job with Kaye.
In 1960 Korman married Donna Elhart and they had two children, Maria and Christopher. They divorced in 1977. Two more children, Katherine and Laura, were born of his 1982 marriage to Deborah Fritz.
In addition to his daughter Kate, he is survived by his wife and the three other children.
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What about "Casablanca" when Rick states..."Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship".???!
or
Captain Renault: [to Rick regarding Ilsa] She was asking about you earlier in a way that made me very jealous...
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ROFL!!!!
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DVD NEWS: The Digital Bits website has announced that Joan Crawford's 1944 WWII patriot-star-fest "Hollywood Canteen" will be released this summer, as part of Warners' "Home Front Collection." The set will also include "This is the Army" and "Thank Your Lucky Stars." (Various DVD sites differ on the release time. Some say "July," some say "summer," others say it might even be beyond summer as Warners tinkers with it............
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LOL!!!! I have to pull this from my DVD shelf and re-look at it! If you thinks that is gay try:
"Red River" directed by Howard Hawks W./ John Wayne & Montgomery Clift!!!
Cherry: There are only two things more beautiful than a gun: a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. Ever had a good... Swiss watch?
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Joseph Pevney, 96; prolific film, TV director worked on original 'Star Trek' series!
Joseph Pevney, a film and television director who directed some of the most popular episodes of the original "Star Trek" TV series in the late 1960s, has died. He was 96.
Pevney, a former Broadway actor who played supporting roles in several notable films noir in the late 1940s before directing movies such as "Man of a Thousand Faces" and "Tammy and the Bachelor," died May 18 of age-related causes at his home in Palm Desert, said his wife, Margo.
Focusing on television from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s, when he retired, Pevney directed episodes of numerous series such as "Wagon Train," "The Munsters," "The Fugitive," "Bonanza," "12 O'Clock High," "The Virginian," "Adam-12," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," "Emergency," "The Incredible Hulk," "Fantasy Island," "Medical Center" and "Trapper John, M.D."
But "Star Trek," the classic science-fiction series that ran on NBC from 1966 to 1969, was Pevney's most enduring television credit as a director and made him a familiar name to Trekkers.
As has been noted on "Star Trek" fan sites since his death, Pevney directed 14 episodes of the original series, tying with the late Marc Daniels as the credited director of the most episodes.
Pevney directed some of the top fan-favorite episodes, including "The City on the Edge of Forever," "Amok Time," "The Trouble With Tribbles" and "Journey to Babel."
"The first half of the second year of the show, when he was alternating with Marc Daniels, is regarded as the best part of the series," said Jeff Bond, author of "The Music of Star Trek" and editor of the magazine Geek Monthly. "That's when it hit its stride. There was more humor, it was more adventurous, and the tone, I think, was lighter."
Bond said Pevney directed "the first real comedy episode of the series, 'The Trouble With Tribbles,' which was a complete, all-out comedy about the ship sort of getting infested with a bunch of furry creatures. And he certainly worked on some of the strongest dramatic episodes."
"The City on the Edge of Forever," from a script by Harlan Ellison and guest-starring Joan Collins, "is considered to be the best episode of the original series," Bond said.
George Takei, who played Sulu on the series, recalled Pevney as being "very organized and authoritarian" as a director.
"He was very precise in what he wanted," Takei told The Times, "but he was very relaxed -- in fact, jovial -- in the way he directed. I enjoyed working with him."
Pevney's son, Jay, said his father "loved the series and enjoyed working with the actors and being part of the beginning of it. He was surprised at the longevity of it because it was not a popular series at the time; it hit its real popularity [in syndication] after it was over."
Born Sept. 15, 1911, in New York City, Pevney launched his more than 60-year show-business career in 1924 as a boy soprano in vaudeville.
After becoming an actor, he appeared on Broadway in the 1930s and '40s in plays such as "Battle Hymn," "The World We Make," "Native Son" and "Home of the Brave."
During World War II, he served in the Army Signal Corps and staged revues for troops in Europe.
After the war, Pevney was part of actor Paul Muni's "Key Largo" troupe when he arrived in Los Angeles. He made his film debut as the piano-playing killer in the 1946 film noir "Nocturne," starring George Raft.
"Joe's acting career when he came to Hollywood was confined exclusively to noir," said Alan K. Rode, a film noir expert who interviewed Pevney several times. "He carved out a kind of temporary niche of being the sidekick."
Pevney appeared in "Thieves' Highway," "The Street With No Name" and "Body and Soul," the classic boxing film in which he played John Garfield's feisty pal Shorty Polaski.
"Joe told me he was more cut out to be a director rather than an actor," Rode said. "He liked staging and working with actors."
Pevney made his debut as a movie director with "Shakedown," a 1950 film noir with Howard Duff, Brian Donlevy and Lawrence Tierney.
"He made a cameo appearance at the end of the film, and that was the last time he appeared on the big screen," Rode said.
Pevney went on to direct more than 35 movies, most of them in the 1950s, including "Meet Danny Wilson," starring Frank Sinatra and Shelley Winters; "3 Ring Circus," starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis; "Female on the Beach," starring Joan Crawford and Jeff Chandler; and "Twilight for the Gods," starring Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse.
At his peak at Universal-International in 1957, Pevney had three movies open simultaneously in Los Angeles theaters: "Man of a Thousand Faces," a biographical drama about silent film star Lon Chaney, starring James Cagney; "Tammy and the Bachelor," a comedy-romance starring Debbie Reynolds; and "The Midnight Story," a crime-drama starring Tony Curtis, & the Joan Crawford film "Female on the Beach".
Pevney retired in 1985 and moved to Palm Desert several years later.
His first wife, actress Mitzi Green, died in 1969; his second wife, Philippa, died in 1996; and his son, David, died in 1998.
In addition to Margo, his wife of six years, and his son Jay, Pevney is survived by his daughter, Jan Pevney Holt; his son, Joel; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
At his request, no services will be held.
Thanks,
Dennis McLellan
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 29, 2008
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"The Big Lebowski" Rolls Out with a 10th Anniversary Edition on September 2008!!
You can re-visit The Dude and all of his crazy friends on DVD. The Big Lebowski will be re-released in a 10th Anniversary Edition on September 9. 2008
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DePalma, other stars I like are more "Cult" actors and actresses...
Willem Dafoe....Wild at Heart, To Live and Die in L.A., Platoon, The Last Temptation of Christ, Shadow of the Vampire....Very interesting actor.
Theresa Russell.. I loved her turn has Marilyn Monroe in "Insignificance"...
Debra Winger..Never got "The" recognition she deserved!
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We have lost soooo many!
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Beetlejuice 20th Anniversary Edition Spooks It Up to DVD and Blu-Ray on September 16th, 2008!
Beetlejuice, the colorful, wildly imaginative family adventure from creative genius Tim Burton, starring Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Winona Ryder returns from the afterlife on DVD September 16, 2008 a newly remastered 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition on DVD and Blu-ray Hi-Def. Packaged in a new eye-popping lenticular o-sleeve, Beetlejuice 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will also include three Beetlejuice cartoons from the successful TV series which was produced by Burton and David Geffen and ran for four successful seasons.
A visual treat in high definition, the Blu-ray Hi-Def version will also include a soundtrack sampler CD and collectible booklet.
Beetlejuice was brought to life from the imaginative mind of Tim Burton who went on to produce and direct some of the most visually stunning films of our time such as Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish and most recently Sweeney Todd. Beetlejuice also received an Academy Award for Best Makeup with renowned makeup artist and three-time Oscar-winner Ve Neill, and went on to be ranked on AFI's Top 100 list of Funniest American Movies.
Beetlejuice 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition which streets in time for back-to-school shopping and Halloween!
What's a couple of stay-at-home ghosts to do when their beloved home is taken over by trendy yuppies? They call on Beetlejuice, the afterlife's freelance bio-exorcist to scare off the family - and everyone gets more than she, he or it bargains for! Tim Burton guides this PG-rated comedy monsterpiece whose stars include Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, and Winona Ryder. And Michael Keaton is Beetlejuice, the ghost with the most who flings one-liners, spins into grotesque forms, gobbles insects, and who just can't leave the ladies (living or dead) alone. Ghoul love it!
Special Features
- Beetlejuice Cartoon Episodes
- A-Ha
- Skeletons In The Closet
- Spooky Boo-tique
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Let's see other's I love...
Kristin Scott Thomas...
Jane Russell...."In bed by nine? That's when life just begins!"...OR....I like a beautiful hunk of man. But I'm no physical culture fan. Ain't there anyone here for love?"....LOVE IT....also loved her in "Macao"...& "The Las Vegas Story"!!
Rod Taylor..
Billie Burke...
Spring Byington..she was so carefree and daffy!!
Fredric March..."Death Takes a Holiday"!
William Holden...."Picnic" & "Sunset Blvd."....
Cate Blanchett....
Elizabeth Taylor....I love "Cleopatra" & "Butterfield 8"!!
Upcoming Releases
in Classic Film DVD Reviews
Posted
Out on Tuesday, June 03, 2008:
Houdini (1953):
Tony Curtis gives a winning performance as the great Houdini, the struggling circus performer who emerged as the world's most captivating magician and escape artist. From his beginnings as a "wild man" carnival act to the internationally famous feat of escaping from a locked trunk in an ice-jammed river, Houdini effectively captures the amazing life and courage of this fascinating man. The film also stars the beautiful Janet Leigh as Houdini's supportive wife, who lovingly stood by his side throughout his legendary career. Details: Color
Dirty Harry Ultimate Collector's Edition:
Includes all five Dirty Harry films: all special features on the Dirty Harry Special Edition and Deluxe Editions, plus additional special features and contents specific to the Ultimate Collector's Edition. Bonus Feature-Length documentary Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows; a 40+ page hardcover book; Wallet w/metal badge and removable laminated I.D. card; Five 5"x 7" Reproduction Lobby Poster Cards plus an exclusive UCE card; Scorpio Portrait of a Killer Poster-Sized (19" x 27") map of San Francisco detailing Harry??s hunt for the killer; Never-Before-Seen Production Correspondence. Details: Color
The Skull (1965)
The Skull teams up horror legends Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in a chilling, supernatural tale of murder from beyond the grave. Based on a short story by Robert Bloch (Psycho), The Skull introduces us to Dr. Christopher Maitland (Cushing), a collector of the occult. When he is given the opportunity to purchase one of the infamous Marquis de Sade, he leaps at the chance. What he doesn't know is that his friend, Matthew Phillips (Lee) is the former owner of the skull - and quite happy to be rid of it. Possession of The Skull leads to a terrifying series of nightmarish events for Dr. Maitland as he tries to keep control of his life, and as the forces of unspeakable evil bear down upon him. Details: Color
Student Bodies (1981)
This killer comedy is the original teenage parody horror film taken to the extreme! The screams are as frequent as the laughs as a crazed, heavy-breathing murderer terrorizes Lamab High with a series of mysterious deaths. Everyone is a suspect and no one is safe from the hilarious twists and turns as Breather terrorizes and kills sex-starved couples. When the body count rises, one student attempts to solve the mystery and instead finds herself a suspect. Does she survive or become another victim? It's anyone's guess in this satirical romp of horror!
80's cult/horror film finally on DVD for the 1st time!
Thanks
DVD Fanatic & other sites!