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The Twilight Zone - Vol. 31

Actors: Rod Serling, Jay Overholts, Vaughn Taylor, Robert McCord, Jack Klugman
ASIN : 6305944121
Sales Rank : 36053
Studio : Image Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305944126
ISBN : 6305944121
UPC : 014381894820
Release Date : December 15, 2000
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Running Time : 100

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Episodes: "Miniature" (Ep. 110, February 21, 1963, 50 min.) - Robert Duvall is a shy bachelor who discovers a miniature doll apparently alive inside a 19th century dollhouse. Fascinated, he whiles away the hours peering into this little world and wishing he were part of it. "The Jeopardy Room" (Ep. 149, April 17, 1964) - In a deadly game of cat and mouse, Soviet defector Major Ivan Kuchenko (Martin Landau) has three hours to escape from a room with a ticking bomb and a gun pointing at his head. "Stopover in a Quiet Town" (Ep. 150, April 24, 1964) - Bob and Millie Frazier wake to find themselves in a strange town where everything appears to be fake. There are no other people, though they can hear the giggling of a little girl...

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The Twilight Zone, Vol. 41

Actors: Rod Serling, Jay Overholts, Vaughn Taylor, Robert McCord, Jack Klugman
ASIN : B000055ZCW
Sales Rank : 22364
Studio : Image Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381895827
UPC : 014381895827
Release Date : December 16, 2001
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Running Time : 100

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Episodes: "The Mighty Casey" (Episode 35, June 17, 1960) - A broken-down baseball team soars when a new player, a human-looking robot, pitches shut-out after shut-out. He must be altered to become more human, but how will this affect his superhuman skills? "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up" (Episode 64, May 26, 1961) - State troopers follow tracks from an unidentified flying object to a diner where they try to determine which of the seven bus passengers stranded inside is really a Martian. "The Changing of the Guard" (Episode 102, June 1, 1962) - Donald Pleasence is Professor Ellis Fowler, forced to retire after 51 years of teaching. Feeling his life was worthless, Fowler is startled by the ghostly appearance of former students. "Come Wander with Me" (Episode 154, May 22, 1964) - A singer (Gary Crosby) journeys to the backwoods to find authentic folk songs. He hears a great ballad...a timeless tune that will have a very personal meaning for him.

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Epitafios - The Complete First Season

Actors: Julio Chávez, Paola Krum, Cecilia Roth, Antonio Birabent, Villanueva Cosse
ASIN : B000G1R4TI
Sales Rank : 45539
Director : Alberto Lecchi, Jorge Nisco
Studio : Hbo Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0026359332920
UPC : 026359332920
Release Date : December 29, 2006
Publisher : Hbo Home Video
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Label : Hbo Home Video
Running Time : 780

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The critically-acclaimed suspense drama follows the cat-and-mouse game between a police officer (Julio Chavez) who is looking for a reason to live and a psychotic serial killer (Antonio Birabent) bent on revenge, who has found a reason to kill.

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From Buenos Aires with dread comes Epitafios, a devastating, gag-inducing, and gut-wrenching 13-part miniseries, produced by HBO for Latin America, but was such a sensation it earned a subtitled American broadcast and DVD release. Those creepily compelled by Se7en, or who breathlessly awaited the unmasking of the Carver on Nip/Tuck will be hooked into Epitafos from first corpse to last (the body count is substantial). Things get off to a shocking start with the discovery of the gruesomely dismembered body of a former professor, who five years earlier had taken hostage four students, all of whom died when a rescue attempt went horribly awry. Now, someone is methodically killing those who had a direct and indirect connection with the tragedy. Reluctantly pulled back on to the case is psyche-scarred Renzo (Julio Chavez), the suicidal and self-pitying former cop who blames himself for the students' deaths. He quit the force and is now a cab driver. His old friend on the force, the grizzled Benitez (Lito Cruz), recruits him to help when two tombstones bearing their names are found at the crime scene. Sharing Renzo's tombstone is the name of beautiful psychologist Laura Santini (Paolo Krum), who was treating the professor when he flipped out, and with whom Renzo, her patient, had fallen in love.

It gets creepier. Much creepier. In advance of each murder, the killer sends the police fiendishly enigmatic tombstone epitaphs (hence the title), among them: "Here lies he who never should have trusted his best friend" and "Here lies he who turned deception into a game." He also seems to be everywhere and to be able to anticipate his pursuers' every move. He leaves an ominous message for Laura on her child's balloon before she picks him up at school. He ignites the outlines of body drawings on the street where one of his victims will be passing. The despair in Epitafios is palpable. It makes Se7en look like the feel-good movie of the century. It also thinks nothing of pulling the rug out from under viewers expecting major characters to survive the miniseries, or introducing others, such as homicide investigator Marina (Ceclia Roth), with very heavy emotional baggage of their own. But you won't be able to look away, even when you're terrified of what you'll see next. --Donald Liebenson

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The X-Files - The Complete Third Season

Actors: Julio Chávez, Paola Krum, Cecilia Roth, Antonio Birabent, Villanueva Cosse
ASIN : B000059TQ9
Sales Rank : 29889
Brand : DUCHOVNY,DAVID
Studio : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543009481
UPC : 024543009481
Number Of Discs : 1
Release Date : December 08, 2001
Publisher : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Label : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Running Time : 999

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7 dual layered discs with all 24 episodes from the 3rd season:

Disc 1 - The Blessing Way, Paper Clip, D.P.O., Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, deleted scenes, international clips
Disc 2 - The List, 2Shy, The Walk, Oubliette, deleted scenes, international clips
Disc 3 - Nisei, 731, Revelations, War of the Coprophages, deleted scenes, special effects clips, international clips
Disc 4 - Syzygy, Grotesque, Piper Maru, Apocrypha, special effects clips, commentary, international clips
Disc 5 - Pusher, Teso Dos Bichos, Hell Money, Jose Chung's "From Outer Space", special effects clips, international clips
Disc 6 - Avatar, Quagmire, Wetwired, Talitha Cumi, deleted scenes, international clips
Disc 7 - All New Documentary - "The Truth About Season Three," 12 interviews with Chris Carter, special effects clips, behind the scenes, deleted scenes, behind the truth spots on 17 episodes, promo spots on all 24 episodes, all new DVD-ROM game - "Unholy Alliances"

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By its third season, The X-Files had grown from a cult hit to a global phenomenon, becoming the most popular show in many countries outside the U.S. Armed with the knowledge that the show was here to stay, series creator Chris Carter expanded its mythology, and the 24 episodes in this boxed set represent arguably the strongest of all the X-Files seasons. As usual, stand-alone episodes explored the paranormal and sometimes terrifying possibilities in mythology, pop culture, and religion. Darin Morgan helps the show to mature by expanding its use of humor, directing classic episodes such as "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (featuring a fabulous performance from Peter Boyle) and "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space.'" Meanwhile, two-part episodes continue to delve into the X-Files own mythology, introducing the alien black oil, the implant in Scully's neck, the mysterious Agent X, and the shape-shifting Jeremiah Smith. But following the complex mythology is not crucial to enjoying the show. The strength of the X-Files lies not in resolution but in feeding the paranoia of its rabid audience by revealing conspiracies that linger in the mind as unanswered questions. Series creator Carter realized wisely that fans did not look to the X-Files to explain the unexplained, but to question that which they thought they understood. The third season was effective because it hinted that while the truth was out there, it was more complex, sinister, and amazing than even Mulder had imagined.

Commentaries and deleted scenes are available for some of the 24 episodes, and the last disc in the set contains numerous TV spots and interviews with the creators about the filming of the third season. --Eugene Wei

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The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 2

Actors: Robert Duvall, Donald Harron, Steve Ihnat, Ivan Dixon, Dee Pollock
ASIN : B00009Y3RE
Sales Rank : 16402
Director : Byron Haskin, Charles F. Haas, Felix E. Feist, Gerd Oswald, James Goldstone
Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792858072
ISBN : 0792858077
UPC : 027616895271
Release Date : December 02, 2003
Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD)
Label : MGM (Video & DVD)
Running Time : 870

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You hold in your hands an artifact from a time now vanished forever – a compendium of portals into worlds unknown. A three-disc set that controls over 14 hours of transmission from the 1964-65 series, this vessel has sought you out for one specific purpose: to expand your mind to "The Outer Limits"!

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Despite forced changes in executive and creative personnel, plummeting ratings and the constant threat of cancellation, the truncated second season of The Outer Limits (1964-65) yielded some of the series' finest episodes. While The Twilight Zone was fading fast on CBS, the bean-counters at ABC used focus groups and ratings statistics to enforce their previous mandate for a "monster of the week" format for their flagging science-fiction series, and after a few promising episodes early in the season, Outer Limits settled into a regrettable routine of reduced budgets and rubber-suit creatures that wouldn't pass inspection at a drunken Halloween party. A former network executive with minimal creative input, Perry Mason producer Ben Brady struggled to keep the doomed series alive while coproducer Seeleg Lester sought legitimacy by courting respected writers and material.

As Harlan Ellison observes in David J. Schow's indispensable book The Outer Limits Companion, weak ratings allowed quality episodes to slip under the radar of ABC executives. Ellison's own classic teleplays--"Soldier" (which would later inspire The Terminator and subsequent legal squabbles) and "Demon with a Glass Hand"--yielded the season's finest stand-alone episodes, while the two-part "The Inheritors" (featuring the young Robert Duvall) fulfilled the series' neglected potential for longer-form plotlines. While these highlights redeem the season, "Wolf 359" (a title that would later factor in Star Trek: The Next Generation) is eerily effective despite low-tech restrictions, and "Behold Eck!" is the "best" (relatively speaking) of the tepid monster-themed shows that ABC demanded. It wasn't enough: After 17 episodes against the Saturday-night dominance of The Jackie Gleason Show, the greatest science-fiction anthology series of the 1960s was mercifully canceled, primed for phenomenal success in syndication and eventual revival as the "new" Outer Limits in 1995. --Jeff Shannon

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The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 1

Actor: Outer Limits
ASIN : B000068V9R
Sales Rank : 34892
Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792853459
ISBN : 0792853458
UPC : 027616879127
Release Date : December 03, 2002
Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD)
Label : MGM (Video & DVD)
Running Time : 1642

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You hold in your hands an artifact from a time now vanished forever - a compendium of portals into worlds unknown. A four-disc set that controls over 27 hours of transmission from the 1963-64 series, this vessel has sought you out for one specific purpose: to expand your mind to "The Outer Limits"!

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From the moment Vic Perrin's omniscient "Control Voice" first proclaimed, "There is nothing wrong with your television set," on September 16, 1963, The Outer Limits was destined for greatness. The dazzling, long-beloved series was a daring experiment in "omnibus" TV, trading the speculative fantasies of The Twilight Zone for farther-out sci-fi concepts. Producers Leslie Stevens and Joseph Stefano had risen as gifted writers from (respectively) Broadway and Hollywood; Stevens rebounded from his previous canceled series, while Stefano had scripted Hitchcock's Psycho and was eager to expand his creative horizons. With an executive order for scary monsters and cold war thrills, their fruitful symbiosis was preceded by the superb Stevens-directed pilot "Please Stand By," named after the series' once-proposed title and changed to "The Galaxy Being" for its broadcast premiere.

Cliff Robertson launched an impressive succession of guest stars, and on meager, oft-exceeded budgets of $120,000 per episode, The Outer Limits became a showcase for shoestring ingenuity. The "blue ribbon crew" (as Stevens called it) included cinematographer Conrad Hall, whose Oscar®-winning skills were honed on the series' cramped TV-studio sets. Packed onto four double-sided DVDs, these 32 episodes (out of a total 49) comprise the series' dynamic first season of moody, frequently paranoid black-and-white adventures. Repeat performers Martin Landau, Robert Culp, and Sally Kellerman excel (respectively) in the fan-favorite episodes "The Man Who Was Never Born," "The Architects of Fear," and "The Bellero Shield" (and who can forget the insect-like menace of "The Zanti Misfits"?). There are a few clunkers, of course, but the series' quality (and parade of monsters) is remarkably consistent, and DVD compression does not compromise its technical achievement. These eerily seductive shows invite repeated viewing, supporting Stephen King's oft-quoted remark that The Outer Limits was "the best program of its type ever to run on network TV." --Jeff Shannon

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Masters of Horror - John Carpenter - Cigarette Burns

Actors: Norman Reedus, Udo Kier, Gary Hetherington, Christopher Britton, Zara Taylor
ASIN : B000E5KUME
Sales Rank : 49863
Director : John Carpenter
Brand : STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0013131372397
UPC : 013131372397
Release Date : December 28, 2006
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
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Running Time : 59

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Film is magic. And in the right hands, it can be a weapon. For on-the-ropes movie programmer Kirby Sweetman (Norman Reedus of THE BOONDOCK SAINTS and BLADE II), the holy grail of cinema is LE FIN ABSOLUE DU MONDE, a legendary lost movie whose sole showing was rumored to have driven its audience to a homicidal frenzy. But as Kirby gets closer to the truth about the film, he’s sucked into a private hell of grisly hallucinations and brutal acts of violence. Now the only surviving print of the film is within his grasp… and the most horrific screening of all is about to begin. Udo Kier (SUSPIRIA,THE KINGDOM) co-stars in this gore-drenched mind-blower written by Drew McWeeny & Scott Swan, and directed by horror legend John Carpenter, the creator of THE THING,THE FOG, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK,THEY LIVE and HALLOWEEN.

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John Carpenter's installment in the Masters of Horror cable-TV anthology series looks at the ominous, underground mystique surrounding a notorious 1970s horror classic (now there's something Carpenter should know about). Cigarette Burns tracks the search for said opus, Le Fin Absolue du Monde, by the owner of a repertory theater (Norman Reedus) on behalf of a highly decadent millionaire collector (a role made for Udo Kier). The film, supposedly destroyed after it caused a riot at its only screening, causes viewers to turn into homicidal, cannibalistic maniacs. Even as Reedus gets on the trail of the lone existing print--listening to an interview with the director, looking at production stills--he begins to fall under its supernatural sway. Alas, the same can't be said for Cigarette Burns itself; the stuff about horror aficionados is good, but the production is slapdash, the dialogue stiff, and Reedus's performance incompetent. The basic idea, while a little film-schoolish, has some intrigue, and the notion of a film critic (supposedly a follower of Pauline Kael, no less) driven to write millions of words about this one barely-seen movie is amusingly sinister. --Robert Horton

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Tales From The Crypt Presents - Bordello Of Blood

Actors: Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart, John Kassir, Chris Sarandon
ASIN : B0000AOX0B
Sales Rank : 35817
Director : Gilbert Adler
Studio : Universal Studios
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Surround Sound, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780783292144
ISBN : 0783292147
UPC : 025192360725
Release Date : December 07, 2003
Publisher : Universal Studios
Manufacturer : Universal Studios
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Label : Universal Studios
Running Time : 87

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Private eye Rafe Guttman (Dennis Miller) is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine (Erika Eleniak) to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire (Angie Everhart) and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current (Chris Sarandon, wonderfully insincere and smarmy). Not for the squeamish or the easily offended (but you knew that from the title), Bordello of Blood is pulp horror as it should be--funny, fast, and full of gore. How many movies do you know where naked vampire hookers devour the still-beating hearts of their adolescent clients, or where the hero saves the day with a Super Soaker? Dennis Miller is at his wisecracking best as the oddest private eye since Elliot Gould played Philip Marlowe in The Long Goodbye. Angie Everhart devours her role with relish (yum!). And former Playboy Playmate Erika Eleniak seems to be enjoying the joke that in a movie filled with half-naked women, she's the only one who keeps her clothes on. --Geof Miller

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The Twilight Zone - Vol. 31

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The Twilight Zone, Vol. 41

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Epitafios - The Complete First Season

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The X-Files - The Complete Third Season

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The Twilight Zone - Vol. 25

The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 2

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Tales from the Crypt: The Complete Seasons 1-7

The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 1

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Masters of Horror - John Carpenter - Cigarette Burns

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Tales From The Crypt Presents - Bordello Of Blood

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