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

[Sean Mota]

Octavia (1982)

<p><img border="0" src="http://www.labutaca.net/50sansebastian/octavia/octavia.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> A 19 year-old blind girl, sheltered and mistreated since early childhood, befriends an escaped convict who takes her into the outside world where she discovers freedom as well as the realities of life and loving.</p>

Starring: Director: Studio: Columbia Tristar Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 2.5 did not find this particular appealing but I caught it and I could not change the channel until the end to be disappointed. Excellent PQ but poor plot.

 

[Sean Mota]

The Harder They Fall (1956)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6302360951.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif" align="left" hspace="5"> Humphrey Bogart's final screen role was in this 1956 film by Mark Robson (Home of the Brave), about a cynical sportswriter who becomes a press agent and sees firsthand how badly boxers are used and manipulated by crooked managers. The story finds Bogart's character waffling about the ethics surrounding the exploitation of an overrated fighter who will earn money for his handlers in the short term, then be tossed onto the scrap heap. This is a very tough tale written by Budd Schulberg and shot with determined unromanticism; the boxing sequences are among the most striking and violent ever committed to film. Jan Sterling plays Bogart's wife, who watches him vacillate about whether to expose the fight syndicate as a racket. --Tom Keogh.</p>

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger Director: Mark Robson Studio: Columbia/Tristar Studios Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Voomer Reviews:

TheTimm: 2 stars : I guess the movie, and its message, aren't too bad - and PQ was good for an older flick - but I just couldn't get past how awful the boxing scenes were. And Bogart sure is one cool cat.

 

[Sean Mota]

Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter (1984)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6300214605.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Amateur butcher and enthusiastic hockey fan Jason Vorhees is back in business, and business is good. Can a plucky young boy stop the madness before Camp Crystal Lake's population report takes yet another machete-aided dip? The stalk-and-slash formula was pretty narcoleptic by this point, but this otherwise humdrum entry is distinguished by some unusual casting choices (Crispin Glover as a stud in training? Corey Feldman as a genius?) and the splattery return of makeup master Tom Savini. The fact that this installment was titled The Final Chapter may seem to contradict the existence of the numerous sequels that followed, but it's not as if logic was ever this series' strong point to begin with. --Andrew Wright .</p>

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger Director: Joseph Zito Studio: Paramount Studio Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 2.5 I saw this movie like 10-20 times between theater and TV. So this time watching it in HD, I was not impressed. The transfer suffer from a lot of grainy and the 90% of dark scene did not help either.

 

[Sean Mota]

Ginger Snaps 2 - Unleashed (2004)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001EFV7M.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> BRIGITTE isnt spelt with a d!!!!!phew,well got that out of my system.
I wrote the first review for this on amazon.co.uk, so i thought id write one here too.After a loooong wait and many updates to my Ginger Snaps fansite (www.baileydowns.com) i saw this movie and it really blew me away,i was expecting(and hoping) for the same feel as the first movie,we do not get this though,Ginger Snaps has evolved into something way bigger and better, the feel of the movie is much darker.The new characters,however small some parts may be all add to the tension and humour of the film,i just have to mention GHOST! even if you hated the first movie and the characters Ghost alone is worth watching this movie,orrrrr she so cute! she gives so many laughs,shes smart and stupid at the same time,and her serious yet sarcasticly sounding comments like "when you close your eyes is it hell you see?" are dvd pausing, cant stop laughing moments.The ending is in the same form as the first,the final struggle for your fate,i was not expecting an ending similar to the first,and it wasnt, but it was not what i was expecting either,anyone who tells you they predicted the ending before the last 15 minutes are TOTAL LIARS!despite the ending being hinted at through the entire film (you notice the second time you watch it) it is impossible to predict, its a real tear festering kick in the face, but thats what i loved about the first.DVD includes lots of behind the scenes footage,and stuff on special effects,visual effects, it includes pages from brigittes diary,some of ghosts artwork,the trailer for Ginger Snaps Back,a commentary,ginger snaps 2 tv spots and trailer,cast audition tapes,storyboards and deleted scenes!(nearly all of 'Alice's' scenes were cut), and on the audition tapes you see many scenes that didnt even get filmed,one where brigitte wakes up in rehab and Ghost tells her shes at a body farm and they are going to harvest her limbs,great stuff.BUY THIS MOVIE! dont even think about it, click buy now!
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Starring: Director: Brett Sullivan Studio: Lions Gate Home Ente Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 4.5 This movies was shown back in Jan/Feb of 2004. It will be shown again this month. It actually premiered on VOOM Monsters HD before it premiered in Canada Theaters (Cool!). The movie and HD transfer were fanstastic. Do not miss it.

TheTimm: 3 stars : Not a bad way to spend a couple hours. Not only is this not stupid, but you actually get the feeling that they respect the intelligence of the viewer. PQ okay, sound good, werewolf itself pretty bad. The girl who played Ghost really did a good job - and had a good character to work with.

 

[Sean Mota]

The Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00009YXHN.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> The mad Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), the tormented Dr. Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott), and the beheaded Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale) return in this terrifying sequel to Re-Animator, the most deliriously outrageous horror movie of the decade. It's been eight months since the Miskatonic Massacre stained the halls with blood - and Dr. West and Dr. Cain's experiments have taken a bizarre turn. Now they have gone beyond re-animating the dead...into the realm of creating new life. The legs of a hooker and the womb of a virgin are joined to the heart of Dr. Cain's dead girlfriend - and the bride is unleashed upon her mate in a climax of sensual horror.</p>

Starring: Director: Brian Yuzna Studio: Lionsgate/Fox Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 4.0 a Classic. What a good horror movie with blood all over. Re-Animator is playing this month as well and I do not want to miss it;

Dvlos: 3 Stars both characters from the original film return, as Jeferry Combs tries to continue his work with reanimating the dead. This movie is still decent but it definately makes a turn into the wacktacular. As they try to bring in pieces of other dead bodies to make a completely new reanimated being.

 

[Sean Mota]

Re-Animator (1985)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005U4UV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Stuart Gordon's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Re-Animator puts a Night of the Living Dead spin on the classic Frankenstein story. Jeffrey Combs furrows his brow and bugs his eyes as the preternaturally intense Herbert West, a maverick medical student whose gory, gooey experiments cause bloody corpses and body parts to jerk to life. Bruce Abbot is the studious roommate drawn into his extracurricular experiments, which soon involve the dean's daughter (the frequently naked Barbara Crampton) and the college's cadaverous, calculating star professor (David Gale), who literally loses his head over a battle for West's discovery. In this world, that's only a minor setback. Charged with sick gallows humor and a ghoulish gallery of undead beasties, Re-Animator, like Evil Dead II, is one of the most inspired and inventive--and funniest--horror films of the 1980s. Combs, Abbot, and Gale reunite for the almost-as-entertaining sequel Bride of Re-Animator. --Sean Axmaker.</p>

Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott Director: Stuart Gordon Studio: Ventura Distribution Aspect ratio 1.85:1

Voomer Reviews:

Dvlos: 4.5 Stars - Great horror flic, good story, a misunderstood medical student devises a formula that can bring dead tissue to life. Although the comprehension factor of the dead creature is directly related to its "freshness".

 

[Sean Mota]

White Nights (1985)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6302862949.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Sometimes movies are built around a great idea begging for a story, in this case pairing ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov with tap great Gregory Hines. The resulting storm of dance in White Nights, as one would expect, is great, but the story is a little forced. Baryshnikov plays (in parallel to his own life) a Russian defector to the U.S. who ends up a prisoner in the motherland after his plane is forced to land in Leningrad during an emergency. Hines is an American expatriate who gets involved with the situation. Director Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman) punctuates an escape scenario and relationship dilemmas with as many dance sequences as possible, and the result is a wobbly, unconvincing tale with some furious footwork. Fortunately, performances carry the day, as the two male leads are both very strong as actors, and the supporting cast--Isabella Rossellini, Helen Mirren, and filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski (Moonlighting)--is terrific. --Tom Keogh.</p>

Starring: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines Director: Taylor Hackford Studio: Columbia/Tristar Studios Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 Music of Phil Collins you've got to like it. I have seen this money too many times. The high of the movie is at the end. Picture quality was as good as I have seen in other's channel the same movie in HD. I like to story as well.

TheTimm: 3 stars : This movie wasn't as good as I remembered it being - but still a good watch, if only for the dancing. But did men - even dancers - ever really wear leg warmers? (And does that alone qualify it for DivineHD?) Pretty good PQ, somewhat disappointed in the sound - it was more of a five-channel stereo (with the surrounds real quiet) than a true surround mix. Strong ending.

 

[Sean Mota]

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) [Monsters-HD]

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JQTT.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Wes Craven's 1984 horror film is a better movie than it is generally credited for being. Forget the tawdry sequels; this highly original, almost surrealist work stars Robert Englund as a mutilated monster who kills teenagers during their dreams. Craven, who only directed one Elm Street sequel (Wes Craven's New Nightmare), takes the Hitchcockian step of layering in psychological explanations for the terror and then proving them all irrelevant in the face of mindless evil. The horror in the film is emotionally raw, in contrast to the overimaginative set pieces of most of the sequels that followed; and the final scene is as deeply unsettling as anything Luis Buñuel ever committed to film. --Tom Keogh.</p>

Starring: Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp Director: Wes Craven Studio: New Line Home Entertainment Aspect ratio 1.85:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.0 Nice HD Transfer. The first Nightmare was a hit because it was a new concept and it is still enjoyable.

TheTimm: 4 stars : Much better than I remembered it being - perhaps it's reputation has been hurt by the endless sequels? Creative, creepy, original, downright clever. And the Johnny Depp graces us with his presence. PQ on par, sound very good. If you haven't seen this in a while (or ever!), be sure to catch it.

 

[Sean Mota]

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005O5IX.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> The first zombie movie of its kind. George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" is an instant cult classic. A simple, peaceful countryside is being terrorized by killer zombies with only one thing on their minds- destroy all humans. A small stronghold of survivors must hold the zombies at bay outside an old, abandoned house for any future hope of humanity. Filled with spine-tingling, edge of your seat suspense, "Night of the Living Dead" is a masterpiece of thrills and horror that will leave you afraid to turn out the lights. This is an excellent film. If you're a fan of zombie movies this is the movie for you. Enjoy! .</p>

Starring: Duane Jones Director: George A. Romero Studio: Goodtimes Home Video Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 Sensational thrillers. I loved both and the HD transfer on both were excellent.

 

[Sean Mota]

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6301969782.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> really can't knock this movie, but being that it is a bigger budget remake of a low budget classic, it's hard to help!

One of the things I love about the original "Night of the Living Dead" is Romero's ability to do so much with so little. Part of what made the original so frightening was the low budget black-&-white effects that made the zombies look more menacing, the blood look grotesque, the munchings look more grisly.

This remake also lacks the claustrophobic effect that George Romero pulled off the first time around. With so much of the original being shot from the inside looking out, coupled with the "low budget echo-pitch" dialogue, gives off a creepy presence, as if the zombie attack was actually happening, and some 8MM Film student happened to have his camera on hand...

This remake is a good zombie flick, but not a classic. Every time I bring it up, hard as I try, I can't help but compare it to the original. This version is too polished, too thought out. This version starts with the same meek woman character who is the first to run from the carniverous cadavers, but in this version, the character takes a new twist that leaves you going "HUH?" How did she turn from bashful to brazen?

The flick is genuinely scary at times, but lacks the ambience that makes the one...and, in my opinion, ONLY "Night of the Living Dead" famous .</p>

Starring: Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman Director: Tom Savini Studio: Columbia/Tristar Studios Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 Sensational thrillers. I loved both and the HD transfer on both were excellent.

 

[Sean Mota]

Subspecies (1991)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6302087341.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> I first saw this movie in 1998 when I was 11 years old. This was probably the smartest thing I have done my entire life. Since then I have seen the movie well over 30 times and I just wish that I owned it. As the movie starts out we see none other than horror icon himself-Angus Scrimm! It is at this point that we get our first glimpse of Radu. Radu is a Nine Hundred year old vampire who just can't seem to kill enough people and drink enough blood to satisfy his urges. This sets up the primary conflict for the film and its sequels. Radu is out to gain possession of the Blood Stone, an ancient relic that drips the blood of the saints. He kills his father to gain the Blood Stone and thus begins the film. Radu's half brother Stefan returns home to regain the throne of his father but realizes Radu has already done so. Stefan trys to gain control of the Blood Stone and also attempts to sheild 3 young beauties from Radu and his evil. Stefan falls in love with one of the young girls named Michelle, played by Laura Tate. Although Ms. Tate did an excellent job with the character of Michelle she just can't seem to measure up to he standard set by Denice Duff in the sequels. To say that this is one of my favorite movies would be an understatement. I simply cannot say enough good things about this film. Please for the love of god SEE THIS MOVIE! The sequels are just as good as the original unlike most horror movie series. Please re-release this Full Moon it is a million times better than the [stuff] you put out now.</p>

Starring: Director: Ted Nicolaou
Studio: Paramount Home Video Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 in each one. Quite enjoyable sequels if you are into vampires and terror.

 

[Sean Mota]

Bloodstone:Subspecies 2 (1993)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6302744636.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> sorry for the pun, but its true that Bloodstone is one of those forgotten films of the 80's. Most people who saw it in the theater then have forgotten they did and the movie disappeared from theaters never to be heard from again, that is until now. I, for one, was one of the people that forgot about this film For years my memory of the film layed dormate, then one day I saw it on the shelf at one of our local DVD store. I was totally surprised to see it, so I picked it up. This DVD release by Image/Omega Entertainent is a beautiful release. Widescreen, digitally remasted, with plenty of special features. I was impressed. As for the movie, it brought back great memories. The story is your average adventure affair, much like Indiana Jones, Romancing The Stone, & Firewalker, but it does have many comical moments. The best part of the film is the police chief that speaks with a funny back of the throat voice. I found myself mimicking this voice for days after I saw the movie. The film was a pleasure with its adventure, off-the-wall humor, and exotic locations. If you like adventure films, give this lost gem a try, you shouldn't be disappointed. And for those of you who saw the movie, and can't remember...refresh your memory.</p>

Starring: Director: Dwight H. Little
Studio: Paramount Home Video Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 in each one. Quite enjoyable sequels if you are into vampires and terror.

 

[Sean Mota]

Bloodlust - Subspecies 3 (1993)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6302993245.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Buried deep within the hellish confines of Castle Vladilas,the sadistic vampire Radu Vladilas lies inside his crypt,hand in hand with the object of his unholy affection,Michelle Morgan.

Outside the castle walls,Michelle's sister Becky rallies forces to save her sister's soul.Embroiled in this bitter struggle are U.S Embassay Agent Mel Thompson,Lieutenant Marin of the Bucharest Police,and Bob,a CIA agent with a black bag of tricks and a handful silver bullets.With their help,Becky leads the bunch and they all attack the castle.

But when Radu,aided by his grotesque Mummy and the demonic subspecies,Radu turns his love against Becky.The bunch of vampire killers realize that it's not only Michelle's fate that's at stake...but their own.Great cast,music,and story. Anders Hove as Radu Denice Duff as Michelle Kevin Blair as Mel Melanie Shatner as Becky Pamela Gordon as Mummy Michael Dellafemina as Bob Ion Haiduc as Lieutenant Marin Michael Denish as Popescu This movie is OUT OF PRINT from the company Full Moon I sugest you by it before it's Out of Stock.If you love this movie check out Subspecies 1,2,and 4.Also check out the Puppet Master series. If you hate it sell it.</p>

Starring: Director: Ted Nicolaou
Studio: Paramount Home Video Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 in each one. Quite enjoyable sequels if you are into vampires and terror.

 

[Sean Mota]

Blacula (1972)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000035P6X.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> William Marshall, a Shakespearean actor with a rich baritone voice, enriches this otherwise bland blaxploitation vampire film with his strong, seductive performance. He's Manuwalde, a European-educated 18th-century African prince who appeals to the Count Dracula for help in ending the slave trade. Dracula, never known as a great emancipator, puts the bite on Manuwalde's troubles, dubs him "Blacula" (the only time the name is uttered in the film), and imprisons him in a casket. Stirred to life, so to speak, centuries later in Los Angeles by gay antique hunters, he steps into the soulful '70s and splits his energies between feeding his bloodlust and wooing a young beauty (Vonetta McGee), a dead ringer for his long-dead wife. Thalmus Rasulala (Friday Foster) is a modern medical professor turned urban Van Helsing, and Elisha Cook Jr. has a bit part as a coroner with a hook for a hand. The potential for a clever urban black twist on the European vampire myth is lost in this dull, thoroughly conventional tale. Marshall is under enough sloppily applied facial hair to make him a wolfman, and his victims walk around with a plastic blue pallor. But despite the limitations, Marshall creates a magnetic, aristocratic character and infuses his monster with a sense of loss and sadness in the climax. It was followed by a sequel, Scream, Blacula, Scream, and inspired Blackenstein. For a more interesting and thoughtful African American take on the vampire legend, look to Ganja and Hess. --Sean Axmaker.</p>

Starring: Director: William Crain
Studio: Mgm/Ua Studios Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 2.5 this one was an oldie. If you start watching it, you get stuck to the TV to see the end but the concept was not that great. The HD transfer was acceptable.

 

[Sean Mota]

The Amityville Horror (1979)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6303917283.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Based on a bestselling, allegedly nonfiction book about haunted goings-on in a Long Island house (The Amityville Horror Conspiracy), this rather cheesy horror movie is more silly than unsettling. James Brolin and Margot Kidder star as newlyweds who move into the empty home and are gradually affected by the legacy of a murder committed on the premises. Rod Steiger is a priest who can tell what's up and gets dispatched in a rather ugly way. Director Stuart Rosenberg can't lift the action above a certain level of tawdriness, and the audience ends up watching the horror from a distance instead of feeling involved. In the wake of The Exorcist, this 1979 spooker seemed like a no-brainer knockoff--and still does. --Tom Keogh.</p>

Starring: James Brolin, Margot Kidder Director: Stuart Rosenberg Studio: Goodtimes Home Video Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.0 stars. I watch them all in sequence and it was quite good to see them once again. The HD transfers are ok but not outstanding. But you would really enjoy them if you are into horror.

 

[Sean Mota]

Amityville II: The Possession (1982)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6303917410.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif" align="left" hspace="5"> Of course, it was going to be hard to live up to the chills of the original Amityville movie. But any die-hard Amityville fan such as me, should without a doubt, between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. some night, take this movie, put it in the VCR, turn off all the lights, sit down, and get ready for Amityville 2:The Possession. For starters, it's the exact same house used in the original Amityville movie(with those same spooky, creepy third floor windows on the sides of the house). That's almost reason enough to check this movie out. But you also get to watch a few creepy, paranormal demonic scenes that take place in the early, early morning hours inside the house, such as in the first one. The beginning of the movie isn't the most exciting, but-keep watching!! The movie gradually builds and builds and there are a couple of creepy, scary as hell scenes that take place in the basement of the house!! I won't give away what happens in the last 15 minutes of the movie, but anyone who is a die-hard fan of the Amityville house(like me), will watch the last 15 minutes over and over again when you see some of the creepy and I do mean CREEPY scenes taking place in the house!!! You will feel some of those same chills going through your spine that you saw watching some of the other scenes from the first Amityville movie!! Not to get off the subject, but who could forget the "marching drums" that George Lutz heard coming from his...DOWNSTAIRS LIVING ROOM(!!!!!!!) in that first movie at 3:15 a.m. no less!! The mother in this movie is very good at scaring and creeping you out when she starts getting chills in the house because of how scared she makes herself look. The person who did the musical score in this movie I THINK is the same person who did the musical score for the original Amityville, and whether that is the case or not, the music is very, very spooky and creepy too. Anyway, Amityville house fans, please, watch this!! For a sequel, it was VERY WELL done. Remember, the best time to watch it is between 2-5 a.m. alone in the dark!!</p>

Starring: James Olson, Burt Young Director: Damiano Damiani Studio: Goodtimes Home Video Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.0 stars. I watch them all in sequence and it was quite good to see them once again. The HD transfers are ok but not outstanding. But you would really enjoy them if you are into horror.

 

[Sean Mota]

Dawn of the Dead (1979)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001611DI.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Are you ready to get down with the sickness? Movie logic dictates that you shouldn't remake a classic, but Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead defies that logic and comes up a winner. You could argue that George A. Romero's 1978 original was sacred ground for horror buffs, but it was a low-budget classic, and Snyder's action-packed upgrade benefits from the same manic pacing that energized Romero's continuing zombie saga. Romero's indictment of mega-mall commercialism is lost (it's arguably outmoded anyway), so Snyder and screenwriter James Gunn compensate with the same setting--in this case, a Milwaukee shopping mall under siege by cannibalistic zombies in the wake of a devastating viral outbreak--a well-chosen cast (led by Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, and Mekhi Phifer), some outrageously morbid humor, and a no-frills plot that keeps tension high and blood splattering by the bucketful. Horror buffs will catch plenty of tributes to Romero's film (including cameos by three of its cast members, including gore-makeup wizard Tom Savini), and shocking images are abundant enough to qualify this Dawn as an excellent zombie-flick double-feature with 28 Days Later, its de facto British counterpart. --Jeff Shannon </p>

Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames Director: Zack Snyder Studio: Umvd Aspect ratio 2.35:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 stars. Nothing better to enjoy when you are watching zombies. Romero was outstanding in this one and I hope that the new one follow in the same path. The HD transfer was excellent.

 

[Sean Mota]

The Shaft (2001)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008RUYS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Naomi Watts had not yet been put through the paces with David Lynch or The Ring when she made this 2001 thriller about an elevator with a malevolent spirit. It's essentially an English-language revamp, by the Dutch director Dick Maas, of his very fun 1983 movie The Lift. Set in pre-9/11 New York, in a fictional 102-floor high-rise, it's yet another lesson in why man should never tamper with combining computer chips and human tissue. Unfortunately, this lesson is pretty dull, cramped by stilted dialogue and a plodding pace. There's one great action sequence with an elevator car racing upward as its floor drops out, and Dan Hedaya, Ron Perlman, and Michael Ironside lend their indelible mugs for some character-actor juice. Watts provides a bit of playfulness, but it would take Mulholland Drive to unlock the more compelling part of her personality. The Shaft finds her still on the ground floor. --Robert Horton </p>

Starring: Director: Dick Maas Studio: Lionsgate/Fox Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 stars. HD transfer was excellent. The movie is about and elevator who kills people. Never saw it before and it was quite entertaining.


TheTimm: 2 stars : Pretty silly. We're talking about a killer elevator here. But it's not a total waste of time, as some of the scenes were pretty cool. And the PQ and sound were alright, too.

 

[Sean Mota]

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

<p><img border="0" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005LC4E.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Remember back in the early 1980s when special-effects makeup artists were tripping over themselves to create the next big effect? The Howling boasted a fantastic werewolf transformation scene courtesy of makeup wizard Rob Bottin. Then along came Bottin's mentor, Rick Baker, with his own spectacular effects in this popular horror comedy directed by John Landis. An American Werewolf in London is more of a makeup showcase than a truly satisfying movie, but the film is effectively moody when David Naughton discovers that a wolf attack has turned him into a bloodthirsty lycanthrope. Jenny Agutter plays his love interest (watch out, he bites!), and who can forget Griffin Dunne as Naughton's best friend, an undead corpse who progressively rots away as the plot unfolds? All things considered, it's easy to see why An American Werewolf in London became a modern horror favorite. --Jeff Shannon </p>

Starring: David Naughton, Jenny Agutter Director: John Landis
Studio: Universal Studios Aspect ratio 1.85:1

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 stars. This movie rocks! HD transfer was very good and be able to see it after so many years it was quite a show.

 

[Sean Mota]

Puppet Master (1989, Horror)

<p><img border="0" src="http://shopping.yahoo.com/video/images/muze/dvd/sm/58/156058.jpg" align="left" hspace="5"> Alex and three other gifted psychics are investigating rumors that the secret of life has been discovered by a master puppeteer. But they quickly uncover the secret of death in the form of five killer puppets. The first in the series of multiple sequels</p>

Starring: Paul Le Mat, Jimmie F. Scaggs, Irene Miracle, Robin Frates, Barbara Crampton Director: David Schmoeller
Studio: Paramount Home Video Aspect ratio

Voomer Reviews:

Sean Mota: 3.5 I love this series. I have not seen them all in sequence which is the right way to do it. But everyone of them varies in HD transfers. It ranges from very good to Excellent.

TheTimm: 1.5 stars : Well, there were a couple well-composed shots and an interesting effect or two, but that's about it. So dull and dumb I totally lost interest. Even fell asleep near the end. And there is some truly horrible acting.