Take the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, add a dash of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and a lot more rum. Shake well and you'll have something resembling Dead Man's Chest, a bombastic sequel that's enjoyable as long as you don't think too hard about it. The film opens with the interrupted wedding of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), both of whom are arrested for aiding in the escape of Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in the first film. Their freedom can only be obtained by getting Captain Jack's compass, which is linked to a key that's linked to a chest belonging to Davy Jones, an undead pirate with a tentacle face and in possession of a lot of people's souls. If you're already confused, don't worry--plot is definitely not the... Learn More
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"Die, Monster, Die!" : The typical old dark house, the Witley estate, where all the villagers are afraid to go... a family (whose patriarch is played by Boris Karloff) with a few macabre secrets, most of which emanate from a strange crystal-substance from outer space.
This movie finishes nicely, with a rampaging Karloff, transformed by the poisonous substance into an irridescent green fiend, providing the main monster action. But a few lead-up scares aside, it's very dry, with a lot of talky parts which make it drag on quite unnecessarily.
"The Dunwich Horror" : Dean Stockwell as 'Weird Wilbur' Whateley, whose family (no relation to the other films 'Witleys', btw) has long been the scorn of Dunwich, due to their un-Christian beliefs and worship of the 'Old Ones'. ... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Sandra Dee - Dean Stockwell Director(s): Daniel Haller DVD Release Date: Released the 20 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The Hardy Boys Mysteries and The Nancy Drew Mysteries began in 1977 as separate series alternating in the same time slot on ABC. Early the following year, the casts combined, and in the fall of 1978 the Nancy Drew thread was dropped and The Hardy Boys Mysteries continued on alone. This Season One boxed set captures the twin-series idea at its most ambitious, with adolescent brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, created by author Franklin W. Dixon, sleuthing for clues one week and Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew investigating crimes the next.
Actually, as fans of the books know, Dixon and Keene were both pen names used by Edward Stratemeyer when he created those characters in 1927. Just as the young detectives have been updated in print every so often to accommodate successive... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Alvin Ganzer - Don McDougall - Daniel Haller - Noel Black - Stuart Margolin DVD Release Date: Released the 22 March 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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"The Dunwich Horror" is an improvement over director Daniel Haller's first film adaptation of a H. P. Lovecraft story, "Die, Monster, Die!," but is still only an average horror film at best. The story is of Lavinia Whateley (Joanne Moore Jordan), the crazed daughter of a wizard (San Jaffe), who gives birth to twins. One of the the twins, Wilbur (Dean Stockwell), becomes a wizard who wants to borrow Miskatonic University's copy of the "Necromonicon" to unlock the gates of the other dimension where the Old Ones dwell. The other one is a monstrosity that looks more like its father and is locked down in the family dungeon (let your imagination run wild, it will do much better than the special effects here). Professor Armitage (Ed Begley) refuses to help Wilbur, who charms Nancy Wagner (Sandra... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Sandra Dee - Dean Stockwell Director(s): Daniel Haller DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 Usually ships within 24 hours
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American International Pictures production designer Daniel Haller donned the director's jodhpurs for the studio's second attempt at bringing horror master H.P. Lovecraft to drive-in audiences. The script, adapted from the author's favorite story, "The Colour Out of Space," by science fiction scribe Jerry Sohl (who later adapted another AIP/Lovecraft film, The Curse of the Crimson Altar), moves the location from rural New England to present-day Great Britain, where American Stephen Reinhart (Nick Adams) is visiting the ancestral home of his fiancée (Suzan Farmer from Dracula, Prince of Darkness). The girl's father (Boris Karloff) demands his departure, warning of a curse by his warlock ancestor. Said curse is actually a radioactive meteor, which mutates not only the... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Daniel Haller DVD Release Date: Released the 20 February 2001 Usually ships within 24 hours
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