Many early science fiction films are now, quite inadvertently (and in most cases undeservedly), objects of camp attention: we laugh at the silly makeup, tin-can special effects, and the naive "high-tech" dialogue. Planet of the Apes is no such film. Its intelligent script, frightening costuming, and savagely effective conclusion (which needs no big-budget special effects to augment its impact) remain both potent and relevant. When Colonel George Taylor (the fabulous Charlton Heston) crash lands his spacecraft on what seems to be an unfamiliar planet, he is captured and held prisoner by a dominant race of hyperrational, articulate apes. However, the ape community is riven with internal dissention, centered in no small part on its policy toward humans, who, on this planet, are... Learn More
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The orignial "Fright Night" is a very entertaining movie, but it wasn't scary and neither is "Fright Night 2", but one has to admit that both movies have style, vampire style. "Fright Night 2" does what many sequels don't do and that is that it actually follows up where the original left off, at least relatively speaking. Bringing back Roddy McDowell and William Ragsdale (notwithstanding his mullet) as Peter Vincent and Charlie Brewster was a great idea as the sequel maintains some of the flavor and attitude of the original "Fright Night"
The plot of "Fright Night 2" is quite simple. Charlie Brewster is now in college and is trying to move on with his life...he is seeing a psychiatrist who has convinced him that vampires do not exist and that group hypnosis was to blame... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Roddy McDowall - William Ragsdale Director(s): Tommy Lee Wallace DVD Release Date: Released the 19 August 2003 This item is currently not available.
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Paramount released a first-rate Western, El Dorado, in 1967, and another, True Grit, in 1969. So why was the studio's 1968 oater such a hunk of buzzard bait? You know Five Card Stud's in trouble from the opening credits--they're too short to accommodate the Dean Martin title song, so that it spills awkwardly into the first scene. The timing never does come out right--not in the lethargic pacing, not in the lax editing (which often leaves cast members stranded onscreen at scene's end), and not in the herky-jerky screenplay, which either lurches over intervals of weeks (months?) or piles up enough calamities in one day to stock a sequel. Even the end comes five minutes and two anticlimactic scenes late.
This unofficial remake of the minor film noir classic My Name Is Julia Ross stars Mary Steenburgen as an out-of-work actress lured to the mansion of a crazy millionaire (Roddy McDowall). Once there, she realizes she has been kidnapped and is being groomed to play someone else. While eerie and unsettling, this 1987 film is also wrapped in a thick, anachronistic melodrama, making it hard to see the movie as anything but an instant artifact. The question is, why did director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) have anything to do with it? On the plus side, McDowall is quite creepy as an elegant psychopath. --Tom KeoghMore Info About This DVD Actor(s): Mary Steenburgen - Roddy McDowall Director(s): Arthur Penn DVD Release Date: Released the 03 December 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Four people enter the Belasco Mansion, the so-called "Everest of haunted houses," hired by a dying millionaire to investigate the possibility of life after death. Physicist Clive Revill leads the quartet, which includes his wife Gayle Hunnicut and two mediums. Pamela Franklin, young and impulsive, immediately makes contact with what she perceives as a tortured spirit, while Roddy McDowall, the only survivor from the previous investigation 20 years ago, closes himself off completely, deathly afraid of the malevolent forces that crushed his former comrades in body and spirit. Science fiction and horror legend Richard Matheson, responsible for penning such horror classics as The Devil Rides Out and Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum, brings a literate sensibility and a... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Pamela Franklin - Roddy McDowall - Gayle Hunnicutt Director(s): John Hough DVD Release Date: Released the 04 September 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Many early science fiction films are now, quite inadvertently (and in most cases undeservedly), objects of camp attention: we laugh at the silly makeup, tin-can special effects, and the naive "high-tech" dialogue. Planet of the Apes is no such film. Its intelligent script, frightening costuming, and savagely effective conclusion (which needs no big-budget special effects to augment its impact) remain both potent and relevant. When Colonel George Taylor (the fabulous Charlton Heston) crash lands his spacecraft on what seems to be an unfamiliar planet, he is captured and held prisoner by a dominant race of hyperrational, articulate apes. However, the ape community is riven with internal dissention, centered in no small part on its policy toward humans, who, on this planet, are... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Charlton Heston - Roddy McDowall Director(s): Franklin J. Schaffner DVD Release Date: Released the 01 May 2001 This item is currently not available.
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Places are strange all over might best describe the common element for this trio of episodes on Volume 24 of "The Twilight Zone" DVD series. "People Are Alike All Over," written by Rod Serling and based on the short story "Brothers Beyond the Void" by Paul Fairman, has an American space ship crashing on Mars. Warren Marcusson (Paul Comi), who believes people are alike all over, is killed, while Sam Conrad (Roddy McDowell), who does not share his comrade's optimism, is left to face the Martians. However, when the Martians appear they are human and use their telepathic ability to build Sam a house that looks like the one he had on Earth, he thinks that maybe everything will be all right. In "Valley of the Shadow," an hour-long episode written by Charles Beaumont, has Philip Redfield (Ed... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Twilight Zone - Roddy Mcdowall DVD Release Date: Released the 16 May 2000 Usually ships within 24 hours
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