Index of High Definition (HD) Movies on HD Cinema & Monsters HD

[Sean Mota]

Warriors of Virtue (1997)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0792836294.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> young man, Ryan, suffering from a disability, wishes to join the other kids from his schools football team. During an initiation rite, Ryan is swept away through a whirlpool to the land of Tao. There he is hunted by the evil Lord Komodo, who desires the boy as a key to enter the real world. Ryan is rescued by the protectors of Tao, five humanoid kangaroos, each embued with the five elements and virtues. Ryan learns his valuable lesson while saving the land of Tao. </p>

Starring: Angus Macfadyen, Mario Yedidia Director: Ronny Yu Studio: Mgm/Ua Studios Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Bilodeaumj: I was plesently suprised that this was an entertaining movie harking back to the old Kung Fu super human type fighting scenes with a bit of a "Flash Gordon" plot and "Legend" type mysticism and scenery. The fight scenes were well staged and the evil guy was a pretty good character. It had my kids enthralled. Funny, I never heard of it when it came out...

 

[Sean Mota]

The Last Man on Earth (1964)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6304923104.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif" align="left" hspace="5"> Vincent Price gives an atypically restrained performance as the sole survivor of a worldwide plague that revives its victims as bloodthirsty vampires. During the day, he canvasses his abandoned hometown, tracking down and stalking his former friends and neighbors, always making sure to return before nightfall, when the dead rise to assault his fortified house. Hope arrives in the form of an apparently normal young woman (Franca Bettoia), but her agenda proves to be even more sinister than that of the vampires.
Based on the 1954 novel by coscripter Matheson (whose displeasure with the final product spurred the use of a pseudonym), this Italian-made production is best known for its influence on George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. The similarities between the two films go beyond the presence of shuffling zombies and housebound heroes; both feature taboo-breaking scenes of interfamilial murder, and both end on bleak, dystopian notes. While The Last Man on Earth lacks the political and darkly satirical shadings (and graphic gore) that make Night of the Living Dead a more memorable experience, the combination of Bava-esque Gothic atmosphere and bleak, documentary-style camerawork by directors Ragona and Salkow (the brother of Price's agent Lester Salkow) lend themselves to moments of pure frisson that compare laudably to Romero's film. Matheson's novel also provided the source material for the awkward 1971 Charlton Heston vehicle The Omega Man. A planned third version, helmed by Ridley Scott and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, was shut down in its earliest stages due to skyrocketing budget costs. --Paul Gaita. </p>

Starring: Director: Sidney Salkow, Ubaldo Ragona Studio: Vci Home Video Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.0 stars. Vincent Price in this sci-fi/monsters b/w movie which is very similar to the Omega Man, was very good. Quite a good movie for its time.

 

[Sean Mota]

For A Few Dollars More (1967)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0792839056.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> ringing instance of a sequel far outstripping its predecessor, Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More takes the lethal antihero from A Fistful of Dollars, gives him both a rival and an adversary worthy of sharing a gun-blazing corrida, and ratchets up the stylization to something approaching grandeur. This time the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood) is a bounty hunter whose desert Southwest killing ground is suddenly crowded by the presence of an older, black-clad shootist (Lee Van Cleef). Individually and together, they terminate sundry grotesques while closing in on their biggest quarry, a memorably insane bandit called El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté is brilliant). There's just enough plot to imbue Van Cleef with genuine mystery, a dark avenging angel from a lost past whose pull would supply the emotional core of Leone's later masterworks Once upon a Time in the West and Once upon a Time in America. Leone's bravura widescreen compositions are breathtaking, and Ennio Morricone's music score--tinged with lunatic religiosity--is his first great one. --Richard T. Jameson </p>

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef Director: Sergio Leone Studio: Mgm/Ua Studios Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 stars really liked Eastwood and Lee Van Clief on this one. Not OAR made it less enjoyable but still keeps you laughing and smiling at the acting and the story. Great movie.

 

[Sean Mota]

Blood Simple (1985)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005LC4P.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> The debut film of director Joel Coen and his brother-producer Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. (Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson somehow fused with the comic tabloid Weird Tales, and you get the idea.) The story concerns a Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a seedy private detective (M. Emmett Walsh) to follow his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her first film appearance), and then kill her and her lover (John Getz). The gumshoe turns the tables on his client, and suddenly a bad situation gets much, much worse, with some violent goings-on that are as elemental as they are shocking. (A scene in which a character who has been buried alive suddenly emerges from his own grave instantly becomes an archetypal nightmare.) Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld before he became an A-list director in Hollywood, Blood Simple established the hyperreal look and feel of the Coens' productions (undoubtedly inspired a bit by filmmaker Sam Raimi, whose The Evil Dead had just been coedited by Joel). Sections of the film have proved to be an endurance test for art-house movie fans, particularly an extended climax that involves one shock after another but ends with a laugh at the absurdity of criminal ambition. This is definitely one of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American independent film scene in general. --Tom Keogh --</p>

Starring: John Getz, Frances McDormand Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Studio: Universal Studios Aspect ratio 1.85:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 4.5 stars if you haven't seen this movie, you have to watch it. It stars very simple and sometimes you think let me turn it off. But don't because it will pick up and it has a very amusing story and ending. Don't want to spoil the movie for anyone. Just watch it. BTW, the PQ was excellent!

vinnyv07: Blood Simple a very cool movie...good one VOOm keep up the good work!!! Hey Im watching the CIN 10 now!!!! The movies on VOOM have gotten alot better.

 

[Sean Mota]

The Night of the Generals (1967)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6303451535.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Long (148 minutes) military mystery set among the high command of Nazi Germany in occupied Poland and elsewhere in the Third Reich. A prostitute in wartime Warsaw has been brutally murdered and a German military investigator narrows his field of suspects to three German generals. But the war--and the sense of preening Prussian arrogance--interferes with his investigation, even as he begins to home in on the killer. Moodily sinister atmosphere and a strong cast (Peter O'Toole, Tom Courtenay, Omar Sharif, Christopher Plummer) can't overcome a plodding pace and a tendency to digress. --Marshall Fine --</p>

Starring: Director: Anatole Litvak Studio: Columbia/Tristar Studios Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 2.5 stars a war story about justice/murder. Found it a little bit long to tell the story but it was a good story nonetheless. The movie was not OAR but still the quality of the HD transfer was very good. You could see in the openning credits how good this movie looked OAR. Anyway, if you are not into war movies or history, you won't enjoy this one.

 

[Sean Mota]

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005O06L.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> One of the high points of Woody Allen's career. Cecilia (Mia Farrow), a depression-era waitress married to a brutish husband (Danny Aiello), finds her only escape at the movies, her current favorite being a light comedy about an explorer among socialites, called The Purple Rose of Cairo. She sees it so many times that the main character, Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels), falls in love with her and steps off the screen to woo her. When news of this gets back to the movie studio, the producers send the actor who played Baxter (also Daniels) to convince Baxter to get back on the screen. The script is one of Allen's funniest, but underlying the whole story is a current of sadness that gives the movie's ending a surprising impact. Allen himself considers The Purple Rose of Cairo to be his personal favorite of his own films. A gem. --Bret Fetze--</p>

Starring: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels Director: Woody Allen
Studio: Mgm/Ua Studios Aspect ratio 1.85:1

Voomer Reviews:

TheTimm: 4.5 stars: A character from a movie and the actor who portrays him vie for the affections of a married woman. Are you kidding me? What a great plot. What great movie-making! Clever, creative - pure fun! I can't believe I'd never even heard of this great picture. Now I know why Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea is called The Purple Rose. He's great here in two roles. Danny Aiello also does his thing very well as Mia Farrow's husband. Good stuff -- lots of plot twists and surprises.

Sean Mota: 4.5 stars. I have to agree with TheTimm. What a great movie! I never saw it and enjoyed it so much. Do not miss this one. The PQ HD transfer is just excellent.

 

[Sean Mota]

Manhattan (1979)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0792846109.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Manhattan, Woody Allen's follow-up to Oscar-winning Annie Hall, is a film of many distinctions: its glorious all-Gershwin score, its breathtakingly elegant black-and-white, widescreen cinematography by Gordon Willis (best-known for shooting the Godfather movies); its deeply shaded performances; its witty screenplay that marked a new level in Allen's artistic maturity; and its catalog of Things that Make Life Worth Living. But Manhattan is also distinguished in the realm of home video as the first motion picture to be released only in a widescreen version. You wouldn't want to see it any other way. Allen's "Rhapsody in Gray" concerns, as his own character puts it, "people in Manhattan who are constantly creating these real, unnecessary, neurotic problems for themselves, because it keeps them from dealing with more unsolvable, terrifying problems about the universe." It's a romantic comedy about infidelity and betrayal, the rules of love and friendship, young girls (a radiant and sweet Mariel Hemingway) and older men (Allen), innocence, and sophistication. (a favorite phrase is used to describe a piece of sculpture at the Guggenheim: "It has a marvelous kind of negative capability.") The movie's themes can be summed up in two key lines: "I can't believe you met somebody you like better than me," and "It's very important to have some kind of personal integrity." OK, so they may not sound like such sparkling snatches of brilliant dialogue, but Manhattan puts those ideas across with such emotion that you feel an ache in your heart. --Jim Emerson --</p>

Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton Director: Woody Allen
Studio: Mgm/Ua Studios Aspect ratio 1.85:1

Voomer Reviews:

TheTimm: 1 .5 star : And the full star is just because Mariel Hemingway is so cute. I know it has nothing to do with the movie directly, but I just can't get past seeing old Woody with such a young girl, especially with him talking about the morality of it! Ugh. But even worse than that is ... this is one dull movie. Booooorrrrriiiiinnnnnnnnnnng.

 

[Sean Mota]

Lifeforce (1985)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6304936532.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Director Tobe Hooper was a hot property after he scored a popular hit with Poltergeist (thanks in part to producer Steven Spielberg), so his follow-up film was the most wildly ambitious of his career to date. Armed with a big budget and a special effects crew led by Star Wars pioneer John Dykstra, Hooper and Alien cowriter Dan O'Bannon whipped up a movie that must be seen to be believed. That's not really a compliment, since Lifeforce isn't much of a movie when all the sound and fury is over. But you've got to admit there's something crazily admirable about a movie that starts out as a science fiction adventure about a mission to explore Halley's comet, turns into an alien-invasion thriller featuring a beautiful naked woman (Mathilda May) who's a vampire from space, and escalates into an end-of-the-world disaster flick! It's got everything you could want from a horror movie--from zombies running amok in London to rotting corpses and energy bolts to signal the apocalypse to come! Holding it all together is Steve Railsback as the Halley mission survivor who holds the key to mankind's salvation--but what fun is saving the world when you could be seduced by a sexy naked space vampire? Check out Lifeforce to see how it all turns out. The widescreen DVD includes 15 minutes of footage not seen in U.S. theaters, an eight-page booklet of production notes and trivia, and the original theatrical trailer. --Jeff Shannon --</p>

Starring: Steve Railsback, Mathilda May Director: Tobe Hooper
Studio: Mgm/Ua Studios Aspect ratio 2.35:1

Voomer Reviews:

TheTimm: 4 stars : "...a naked space vampire loose in London."? Yes, please! With a PG description like that, I had to at least give this a quick look. I found a gem of a surprise! Fun movie. Not your traditional vampire, but she sure is naked and from space. Tobe Hooper outdid himself here. Good pq and excellent, explosive surround sound.

 

[Sean Mota]

I Confess (1953)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002HOEQM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Quebec. Whilst robbing a house where he sometimes works as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. Racked with guilt he heads back to the church where Father Michael Logan is working late. Otto confesses his crime, but when the police begin to suspect Father Logan he cannot reveal what he has been told in the confession.</p>

Starring: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter Director: Alfred Hitchcock Studio: Warner Home Video Aspect ratio 1.37:1

Voomer Reviews:

TheTimm: 2 stars : Didn't love it, didn't hate it. Just okay. Not Hitchcock's best work, although it was well-shot with cool compositions and lighting. Thought Karl Malden was pretty good, as much of the time I wanted to slap the crap out of him.

 

[Sean Mota]

From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/630569270X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> The latest bone-chilling installment of FROM DUSK TILL DAWN reveals how this frightening saga all began! Narrowly escaping death, outlaw Johnny Madrid (Marco Leonardi -- LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE) is on the run from the hangman (Temuera Morrison -- SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS) ... with the hangman's sensuous daughter Esmeralda by his side! Along with Madrid's gang, Johnny and Esmeralda embark on an adventure filled with colorful and unsavory characters who lead them straight into the fight of their lives! Also featuring Danny Trejo (CON AIR), Rebecca Gayheart (SCREAM 2), and Michael Parks (FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 1&2) -- you won't want to miss a minute of epic confrontation that results in Esmeralda's discovery of her secret birthright! </p>

Starring: Director: P.J. Pesce Studio: Dimension Home Video Aspect ratio 1.85:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 4.0 Quite a surprise for this one to show up in Monsters HD. PQ excellent. Action, vampires, nudity at maximum. Do not miss it.

TheTimm: 4 stars : Fun, fun, fun! It's like having two movies in one! First a dusty western, then a vampire thriller. With outstanding PQ and surround sound for both, it's a good time.

 

[Sean Mota]

Battle of the Bulge (1965)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6300268748.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent this occurrence, Hitler orders an all out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp. "The Battle of the Bulge" shows this conflict from the perspective of an American intelligence officer as well as from a German Panzer Commander. </p>

Starring: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw Director: Ken Annakin Studio: Warner Studios Aspect ratio 2.35:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 2.5 It is a long movie and some may not like it but it has good actors like Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, etc. Just to look at them when they were very young is quite entertaining. The movie itself was not that great and of course OAR is the preference. Only watch it if you are into WAR movies like I am.

 

[Sean Mota]

Tale of the Mummy (1999)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6305505519.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> When an archaeological expedition opens an ancient Egyptian tomb, the unimaginable evil of a cursed pharaoh -- Talos -- is unleashed! But before all are lost, team leader Sir Richard Turkel (horror legend Christopher Lee -- DRACULA, THE MUMMY, THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN) heroically sacrifices his own life to destroy the tomb and contain Talos once more! Then, years later, Sir Richard's granddaughter (sexy Louise Lombard) sets out with her own team to finish her grandfather's work ... not knowing that she herself is about to reawaken the supernatural terror of the mummified Talos! Also starring action star Jason Scott Lee (RUDYARD KIPLING'S THE JUNGLE BOOK, DRAGON: THE BRUCE LEE STORY), the heart-pounding RUSSELL MULCAHY'S TALE OF THE MUMMY tells us that this time, there may be nothing that can stop the mummy's murderous quest for immortality! </p>

Starring: Director: Russell Mulcahy Studio: Dimension Home Video Aspect ratio 2.35:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.0 not a very good movie but it had its moments plus it was OAR (I gave .5 star for this). The transfer was very good and excellent in OAR.

TheTimm: 2 stars : Some decent effects (& some pretty lame ones as well!) and pretty good sound. The story? -- so nonsensical I lost interest in even trying to follow it closely. But the ending was actually kinda cool. Not a good movie, but not a total waste of time either.

 

[Sean Mota]

Zelig (1983)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6300271870.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif" align="left" hspace="5"> The thinking person's Forrest Gump, Woody Allen's 1983 Zelig is a funny, atmospheric mock-documentary about the collision of one man's manifest neuroses colliding with key moments in 20th-century history. Allen plays the title character, a self-effacing, timorous fellow with such a porous personality that he physically becomes a reflection of whoever he is with. Complex and painstaking, the film's pre-Gump special effects manage to place Allen, buried under a series of makeup and prosthetic guises, in a number of scenes along with Adolf Hitler at a Nazi rally, a pope at the Vatican, and famous guests at a garden party hosted by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Similar in tone and satire to some of Allen's short, comic pieces published in The New Yorker magazine, Zelig is a one-note movie that takes its delicious time establishing the fullness of its central joke. It's well worth the wait. --Tom Keogh .</p>

Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow Director: Woody Allen Studio: v Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

TheTimm: 3 stars : Woody Allen's a little creepy for my taste, but he sure does make some clever movies here and there. This is one of the clever ones.

 

[Sean Mota]

Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6303442358.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Have Rocket, Will Travel is the first Three Stooges feature film after the team became television icons and Joe DeRita was called in to replace Joe Besser (who had replaced Shemp, who had replaced Curly). Aimed at a younger audience, it included a good deal of the physical violence their Snow White film tried to avoid. Curly Joe was given the old Curly shtick of being struck by a tool, exclaiming a painful "Oooo" and then giving a surprised reaction when the tool appears bent from the contact with his cement- like head. He is also prone to a weaker version of his role model's "Woowoowoo."
The plot revolves around the team's accidental launch into space and their adventures on a Venus that looks identical to Earth, including breathable air but housing a giant tarantula that breathes fire and a unicorn that speaks slightly archaic English. There is also an unconvincing robot that is lonesome enough to create three fellow robots in the form of the three Earthlings. This leads merely to a routine already familiar to viewers of old-time comedies: a chase down a corridor lined with doors through which the six are exiting and reentering in a physically impossible way.

The final sequence in which the returning "heroes" wreck a social event is overly familiar from the earlier films, especially the old "sofa spring stuck the rear" routine; and indeed it all seems tacked on to stretch the film to its 76 minutes. Light-comedy veteran Jerome Cowan does his best in a role that would have been handled by Jimmy Finlayson in a Laurel & Hardy film. It is good to hear the team sing the title and closing songs, but they add little to the film.

Children will love this feature, but they must be advised that the eye-poking and hitting are all tricks not to be emulated. --Frank Behrens
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Starring: Moe Howard, Larry Fine Director: David Lowell Rich Studio: Columbia/Tristar Studios Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 2.0 not the best of the Three Stooges. Their movies were not that great but their short comedies were great. I am a big fan of them. It was great to see this one re-mastered in HD but it was not that great of a film.

 

[Sean Mota]

The Blackboard Jungle (1955)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6304196873.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Novelist Evan Hunter burst America's postwar bubble when he described an inner-city school terrorized by switchblade-wielding juvenile delinquents. Director-screenwriter Richard Brooks's 1955 adaptation of Blackboard Jungle still packs a tremendous wallop (even if it was shot mostly on the back lot). A forerunner of Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story, this black-and-white classic--set to Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock"--is part exposé, part melodrama, part public-service announcement. "It is the frankest, the toughest, the most realistic film since On the Waterfront," ballyhooed MGM at the time.
Glenn Ford, at his slow-to-rile best, plays Richard Dadier, an incoming English teacher at North Manual High School. An idealist who knows how to handle himself in a dark alley, Dadier stands his ground and earns the begrudging respect of school thugs led by Vic Morrow and Sidney Poitier. Anne Francis plays Ford's especially vulnerable wife; Richard Kiley (later in Brooks's Looking for Mr. Goodbar) is the timid math teacher with the priceless jazz-record collection; Louis Calhern and John Hoyt are among the more cynical North Manual High veterans. See if you can ID Jamie Farr and director Paul Mazursky as gang members. The film was nominated for four Oscars. --Glenn Lovell </p>

Starring: Glenn Ford Director: Richard Brooks Rich Studio: Turner Home Video Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 I liked the movie. A B&W movie with troubled kids in a school. A teacher tries to teach them but finds how difficult it's to get through them. One of those students is young actor Sidney Poitier. I have seen other movies of Sidney. He is a brilliant actor and this one was an ok performance but not his best. Hope to see more movies with Sidney.

 

[Sean Mota]

The Two Jakes (1990)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000022TTF.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Set more than a decade after the story in Chinatown, this 1990 sequel brings Jack Nicholson back to the screen as L.A. private detective Jake Gittes. Older, fatter, worn, and frustrated, the Jake of 1948 is still haunted by the tragic events of the earlier film. While investigating a case involving adultery and questionable land dealings by an L.A. tycoon (Harvey Keitel as the other Jake), Gittes unexpectedly confronts a few old ghosts and discovers that the resource of choice in Southern California--one for which people die--is no longer water but oil. The film had a notorious production history, with Nicholson taking over the project from writer-director Robert Towne, and the dense plot can be difficult to follow. But if The Two Jakes doesn't measure up to the legendary status of its stylish predecessor, the film does satisfy on its own terms and brings the events of Chinatown to a moving conclusion. Terrific work by Keitel and supporting players Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach, and Ruben Blades. --Tom Keogh </p>

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel Director: Jack Nicholson Studio: Paramount Studio Aspect ratio 1.85:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.0 Good entertainment and Excellent PQ. Great actors in this one but the story itself did not find very good. Jack Nicholson is a guy that I really love in movies. He was just great.

 

[Sean Mota]

Silver Bullet (1985)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000063URC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Corey Haim (back when he was still cute) and his souped-up hot-rod of a wheelchair are all that stand between a sleepy little New England town and a ferocious full-moon killer in Stephen King's adaptation of his novella Cycle of the Werewolf. This minor entry into the werewolf canon lacks the scares and sense of humor of superior hirsute thrillers The Howling and An American Werewolf in London, but pays off in some nice casting touches. Gary Busey is loyal to the end as Haim's beer-guzzling Uncle Red, Twin Peaks's Everett McGill cuts an unsettling figure as the town minister, and fleshy B-movie icon Lawrence Tierney (Reservoir Dogs) is the gruff bartender who breaks up bar fights with a baseball bat called "The Peacemaker." The monstrous wolf beast, a towering mountain of fangs and fur, is the creation of Carlo Rambaldi (E.T.). --Sean Axmaker
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Starring: Gary Busey, Everett McGill Director: Daniel Attias Studio: Paramount Home Video Aspect ratio 2.35:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 good movie. The HD transfer was a little soft, IMO. The movie itself I saw a long time ago but it was good to see once more. Nice movie.

 

[Sean Mota]

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6300181820.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Universal Pictures made a great deal of money from its monster movies in the 1930s. In the early '40s, the burlesque team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello kept the studio's coffers full. When the two franchises were combined in 1948, the result was another windfall--despite the apparent oil-and-water mix of subject matter. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was the first of these summit meetings, although the title is a misnomer. Actually, Bud and Lou bump into most of the Universal heavy-hitters, including Count Dracula (played by Béla Lugosi himself), the Wolfman (Lon Chaney Jr.), and the Frankenstein monster (veteran monster Glenn Strange). There's even a token appearance by the Invisible Man, whose disembodied voice is recognizable as that of Vincent Price. Sure enough, the film is funny, especially since it gives the portly Costello multiple opportunities to do his wide-eyed, quivering scaredy-cat routine. Audiences ate it up, and in future installments Bud and Lou would run into Boris Karloff, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, and the Mummy. But the first was the best. --Robert Horton </p>

Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello Director: Charles Barton Studio: Universal Studios Aspect ratio 1.37:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.0 This used to be my saturday morning marathon when I was a teenager. Great to see it. It was OAR and don't let the B&W fool you. It is special to see this in HD!

 

[Sean Mota]

The Baroness and the Pig (2002)

<p><img border="0" src="http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/x-site/icons/no-img-lg.gif" align="left" hspace="5"> A wealthy American Quaker woman rebels and marries a French baron for love. A plan to start a Parisian salon with a distinctively democratic air brings conflict with her new surroundings and an unusual ally in a country girl raised by pigs. </p>

Starring: Patricia Clarkson Director: Michael MacKenzie Studio: 4-Elements Media Inc. [us] (digital visual effects) Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

riffjim4069: 3.0 stars. Warning: this is an artsy-fartsy film, but it is shot using HD cameras so the PQ is outstanding; worth checking-out just for this reason. This is typically not my type of film, but I do appreciate artistic films when properly motivated. Anyway, I enjoyed this film after placing myself into the proper mindset; being imbibed with Yuengling Laber sure helps! If you enjoyed An Ideal Husband (Oscar Wilde version) then you should enjoy this as well.

 

[Sean Mota]

Phantasm 2 (1988)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6301179544.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Mike is released from psychiatry, when he agrees with the doctors that the terrible happenings in his past were just in his imagination. But once he's free, he contacts Redge and they team up to hunt down and eliminate the "Tall Man", who plunders the graveyards and abducts the sleeping with help of his terrible gnomes. A beautiful strange girl starts to appear in Mike's dreams. He assumes she's in danger and needs their help - will they find her before the Tall Man can do her any harm? </p>

Starring: James LeGros, Reggie Bannister Director: Don Coscarelli Studio: Universal Studios Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 awesome if you like the monsters, blood, and just plain horror and scary situations. This movie gives me the chills. I have seen it a couple of times before and always liked it. The PQ was very good. This is one I think the DVD is not yet available if I am not mistaken.

riffjim4069: 3.0 stars. While it's certainly not as good as the original, there is plenty of scarily good blood & guts and they drive a really cool Hemicuda. Add to this it's on MonstersHD and what's not to like! HD transfer could have been better.