Don't Hurt 'Em! Two new Hammer Studios films released on DVD!
For years, fans of the British Hammer Films studio had to suffer with full frame, VHS copies of their favorite horror classics, and most of the obscure titles
were near impossible to find. A company named Anchor Bay
has been issuing higher quality VHS versions, and for the last two years has been issuing outstanding widescreen DVD versions. Anchor Bay has been restoring the films, and adding
exciting supplements such as director/actor commentaries, trailers, and poster art. They've been able to get the rights to such classics as Dracula, Prince of Darkness , The Repitle,
Plague of the Zombies, The Devil Rides Out, and many more. Hammer fans have been in nirvana over these DVDs, and now they can add two more titles to the list:
Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde and Lust for a Vampire ! Here are the Details:
In Victorian London, young Dr. Jekyll attempts to create an Elixir of Life using female hormones stolen from the glands of fresh corpses. But when Jekyll drinks the experimental potion himself,
he is transformed into a beautiful woman with an unstoppable taste for mayhem. Can both fiends share a rampage of ghastly murder and perverse desire, or will the ultimate battle of the sexes rage
within Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde?
Starring the beautiful Martine Beswick (Thunderball), the film presented here complete and uncut, with footage not seen in the original U.S. theatrical release.
- Widescreen Presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs
- Audio Commentary with Star Martine Beswick, Director Roy Ward Baker, and Writer/Co-Producer Brian Clemens. Moderated by Hammer Films Historian Marcus Hearn.
- Theatrical Trailer
- Radio Spots
- Talent Bios
- Poster And Still Gallery
Through the unholy rites of black magic, the notorious female vampire Carmilla Karnstein is reincarnated as a young debutante (stunning Swedish starlet Yutte Stensgaard). But when the depraved vampire
is enrolled at an exclusive girl's school, she begins to manipulate her fellow students as well as her weak-willed teacher (Ralph Bates) to her own horrifying ends. Can these perverse hungers be quenched
by the mere taste of blood or will an entire village be unwittingly consumed by their LUST FOR A VAMPIRE?
Directed by Jimmy Sangster (Dracula, Prince of Darkness), Lust for a Vampire is now presented completely uncut and uncensored!
- Widescreen Presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs
- Audio Commentary with Director Jimmy Sangster and Star Suzanna Leigh. Moderated by Hammer Films Historian Marcus Hearn.
- Theatrical Trailer
- Radio Spots
- Talent Bios
- Poster And Still Gallery
Again, Anchor Bay rescues these obsure titles from oblivion, and in high style.
News for 12/9/01
Roses are Red for Stephen King fans in January!
Stephen King's Rose Red will be haunting ABC TV in January 2002!
This three-part, six-hour miniseries created was directly for television by the best-selling author and will air on ABC SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, MONDAY, JANUARY 28 and THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET, each night).
Stephen King's Rose Red is the chilling tale of Dr. Joyce Reardon (Nancy Travis), an obsessed psychology professor who commissions a team of psychics and a gifted 15-year-old autistic girl, Annie Wheaton (Kimberly J. Brown), to literally wake up a supposedly dormant haunted mansion --
Rose Red, built in 1907 by Seattle oil magnate John P. Rimbauer. Their efforts unleash myriad spirits and uncover horrifying secrets of the generations who have lived and died there.
Sounds like family fun to us!
News for 12/10/01
Do you dare open The Cabinet of Curiosities?
The Relic is one of the last decade's BEST horror novels, written by the team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Since their writing debut with this novel in 1994, they've written
6 more intense thrillers, including a sequel to The Relic titled Reliquary. In these books, the best supporting character is an enigmatic FBI agent named Pendergast. Fans of Preston/Child
have been clamoring for the duo to write a book with Pendergast in the spotlight, and now fans have gotten their wish!
The Cabinet of Curiosities will be released in hardcover June 2002. Here's something to wet your appetite:
In 1881, the worst string of serial murders in history began in lower Manhattan. With diabolical stealth, scores of young people started disappearing:
victims of a surgically-gifted madman, bent upon a task almost too horrific to contemplate. But the worst is yet to come. Because today. . .
One hundred and twenty years later...The murders have started again.
Ash says, "Agent Pendergast vs Serial Killer = Buy It in Hardcover!"
