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Absolution : An angel descends to Earth - intending to learn what it is like to live as a human being. While on Earth, this spirit becomes involved in terrorism, drug deals, and pornography. Chemicals used in a new super-bomb are to be melted down in VHS tape shells and secretly shipped out of the U.S. as part of a porn film deal. Overseas, the porno tapes will be melted down again so that the chemicals can be extracted and used for mass destruction. The angel wants to stop these evils, though it is the law of the angels to not interfere in human history. The angel jumps from one human host to another, sinking deeper and deeper into the nightmare, becoming more involved.

American Psycho : Patrick Bateman, a young, well to do man working on wall street at his father's company kills for no reason at all. As his life progresses his hatred for the world becomes more and more intense. Based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis. American Psycho is a 1999 film (released in 2000) adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel American Psycho which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on April 14, 2000. The film stars Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Justin Theroux, Bill Sage, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Willem Dafoe and Samantha Mathis.

At Dawn They Sleep : Stephen and Ian are ruthless drug lords in the middle of a vicious battle with their competition. After spending a wild night with two sexy, yet strange and mysterious women, Stephen and Ian wake up feeling oddly sick - their lives changed forever. They discover the women are actually Angels who have infected them with a vampire-type virus. In exchange for immortality, Stephen and Ian, along with an army of throat-tearing monsters, must kill off the human race so the Angels can take over the world. As the vampires begin the gruesome and unstoppable slaughter of mankind, the Demon world rears its ugly head to end the Angels' bid for earthly domination.

Birth : Be Careful What You Wish For! In this mesmerizing and suspenseful film BIRTH, a woman (Nicole Kidman) becomes convinced that a ten year old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband. Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind in BIRTH. And much to the concern of her fianc?e, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. Brilliant. Birth is an eerie tale steeped in psychological suspense.

Bite Me: From acclaimed veteran horror director Brett Piper (Screaming Dead) comes his newest and wildest creation yet - the mutant-bug-on-the-loose monster movie and special FX spectacular BITE ME! When a hybrid strain of bio-engineered marijuana is delivered to a secluded strip club, it brings with it a monstrous army of insect creatures and a renegade U.S. federal agent with a big chip on his shoulder. Soon the stealthy, fist-sized bugs are busily engorging themselves on human blood, their bite effecting a particularly potent narcotic reaction in those attacked.

The Black Cat : Patrick Magee is a psychic that can communicate with the dead. He also has the ability to control the mind of his cat (who incidently is black). He uses the cat to take vengeance upon his enemies. A photographer (Mimsy Farmer) who happen to be working for the local constables (David Warbeck, Al Cliver) begins to notice cat scratches on some of the accident victims that are turning up. She pays a visit to Magee (kitty just happens to be present) and conveys her suspicions of the cat's involvement in some of the local deaths. Kitty doesn't like this at all, and it's his turn to control the mind of owner Magee to take it's vengeance out.

Blade in the Dark, A / Macabre : A Blade in the Dark - Bruno (Andrea Occhipinti of New York Ripper) is hired to compose a new horror movie and rents an isolated villa to concentrate on his work. But when several beautiful young woman are brutally murdered within the house, Bruno becomes obsessed with solving the savage crimes. Is a clue to the killer's identity hidden within the film itself, or is there a more horrifying secret lurking deep in the dark? Directed by Lamberto Bava and written by Dardano Sacchetti, this Italian shocker caused controversy throughout Europe due to its scenes of excessive violence.

The Blair Witch Experience Box Set :

The Blair Witch Project DVD
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch DVD
Stickman Necklace
2 DVD + CD - includes DVD-playable full-length feature on one side and CD-playable compilation Blair Witch music soundtrack on the other!
The Blair Witch PC Games Collection - A three-game series based on the rich Blair Witch mythology. System requirements: Windows 95/98, 233 MHz Pentium MWX or higher processor, 64 MB RAM, 4MB Video Card, Direct X Sound Card, 4X CD-ROM

Blair Witch Project, The : n October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found. Now prepare for a motion picture experience unlike anything you've ever seen, heard or feared before. The Blair Witch Project follows a trio of filmmakers on what should have been a simple walk in the woods...but quickly becomes an excursion into heart-stopping terror. As the three become inexplicably lost, morale deteriorates.

Book of Shadows : Blair Witch 2 : After spending a night in the Black Hills of Burkitsville, Maryland, four young fans of the original Blair Witch movie descend into a nightmare realm of murder, madness, and perception-bending supernatural horror in this eagerly anticipated sequel to the most successful independent film of all time.

Blind Target : Jess Franco's suspenser focuses on a successful writer who returns to her native Latin America for a press junket and soon finds herself caught in the middle of political turmoil, as she encounters an assassination plot, a possible civil war, torture, rape and the secret police.

Body Snatchers : Rebel director Abel Ferrara's atmospheric take on the classic sci-fi story is set on a Southern military base where a teenage girl awakes to find that alien pods are systematically taking over the people around her, draining their personalities and turning them into inhuman monsters.

Britannia Hospital : Welcome to Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator and sinister human experiments financed by the Japanese. Can Mick survive one very strange day in these unhealthy halls or is the entire British Empire in critical condition?

British Horror Collection (4 DVD Set) :

Tower Of Evil - The terror begins when a nude, crazed woman slaughters a sailor who visits Snape Island. Inseminoid - All previous landings on the planet were a fiasco, leaving men dead. Horror Hospital - Welcome to Brittlehouse Manor, a "health resort" where young people are cured of all their hang-ups in one stroke. Curse Of The Voodoo - Big game hunter Mike Stacey leads a safari in the African jungle. After shooting and killing a lion, a tribe of lion worshippers place a curse on Stacey. The curse follows him back to London where it begins to take a terrible toll.

BTK : He was a father, a husband, a preacher? and a serial killer ? step inside the mind of one of the nation?s most twisted murderers in this gripping retelling of the BTK killer?s reign of terror. In 2005, after a 30-year hunt, the Wichita, Kansas, police finally apprehended one of the most elusive serial killers of the century ? right in their own backyard. A dogcatcher named Dennis Rader stood accused of murdering at least ten women in the late 60s and early 70s and then disappeared. In 2005, BTK suddenly resurfaced ? and the killings began again. Bind. Torture. Kill.

Buzzsaw : Strange things are happening at Pea Tree Apartments. An evil dwells there, feeding on the hate and selfishness of some of the residents. Other residents become the victims of this evil, which corrupts their souls before attacking their bodies. Soon, the screams of the mutilated emerge from every apartment and echo down every dark hallway. Dead bodies, torn apart, rest in gory heaps around every turn in the apartment building. Where does this evil come from? Who are the mysterious children who arrive to document the carnage?

Cannibal Man : A young man, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother's fiancee and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to the butchery...

Cardiac Arrest : On the streets of San Francisco, the police are baffled by a series of bizarre mutilation murders. The surgical precision of the grisly attacks leads an off-beat homicide cop to a blood-curdling conclusion: a black market in human organs.

China White Serpentine : Struggling writer Dave Croninch is investigating the mysterious death of his younger brother Trent. Trent was enticed by dark forces and entrapped in a lair of sin. Trent was under the control of Tracey, a drug-dealing seductress who had spun this web of wrongdoing. Theirs was a world of erotic indulgence, frequent drug use, and dangerous mind games. This was Traceys world, and it eventually killed Trent.

Crash Test : "Introducing Crash Test, a surreal automotive nightmare. A struggling writer is kidnapped and surgically transformed into human crash test dummy 171096. Captive to Motorkore, a corporation seeking car nirvana, 171096 must learn the tricks of survival in an industry where any day could be your last. But there's one thing Motorkore hasn't counted on. With the guidance of his cell-mate, a veteran dummy, 171096 prepares to beat the system by mastering the perfect crash. For the first time in Motorkore history, one employee will not die quietly.

Creep : Kathy Willets, "America's Favorite Nymphomaniac," shows off her greatest assets when she stars in this shocker, playing a deranged woman who joins her deranged brother in committing bloody murders. Can a female detective stop their reign of terror? This sleazo shocker also stars Joel D. Wynkoop. Uncut, unrated version.

Creepshow : Two of the most venerable names in the horror field, author Stephen King and director George A. Romero, present this anthology of original twisted tales inspired by the E.C. horror comics of the 50's and 60's (themselves a more direct basis for the popular Tales from the Crypt TV series). The five stories are framed within the pages of a comic book which a boy's insensitive father has thrown in the garbage.

Cremains : Cremains is a macabre, twisted and sexy horror anthology in the tradition of Tales from the Crypt, Asylum, and The House That Dripped Blood ! A funeral director accused of mixing the ashes of cremated bodies faces interrogation from his sinister captors. He is also forced into telling them other frightening, real-life tales of terror and gruesome goings-on that he has collected during his years in the death business. What ensues is a foursome of horrifying stories featuring demented serial killers, lesbian vampires, brutal bondage murders, town sacrifices, and a resurrection gone unspeakably wrong, ending with a creepy little monstrosity called "The Cremainder."

Curse of Frankenstein / Taste the Blood of Dracula : You can't keep a good monster down - a point proven in The Curse of Frankenstein, the film via which Hammer Studios revived Gothic horror in an era dominated by sci-fi scarefests. In the first of many fright-film collaborations, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star in a tale about the family whose grasp of life's secret has monstrous consequences. Next, Lee dons the cape of the notorious evil one in Taste the Blood of Dracula . Society bigwigs cheat on their wives during a night out, but there's no cheating death when they try too late to back out of ceremony that revives the Count. Sink your teeth into this one, horror fans!

Curse of the Devil : Legendary Spanish horror star Paul Naschy returns as Waldemar Daninsky, marked for all eternity with the ancestral curse of the werewolf. But when Darninsky's arrogance triggers the wrath of a satanic coven, they summon a nightmare of homicidal madmen and lusty maidens to plague the tormented nobleman. As the full moon rises and the horror takes hold, is the rage of the werewolf any match for the damnations of the devil himself?

Dawn of the Dead : First-time director Zack Snyder's chilling remake of George Romero's classic zombie flick finds a diverse group of people holed up in a Wisconsin shopping mall, besieged by an army of undead attackers. Their only hope is a daring exodus to a remote island they believe to be safe from the flesh-eating fiends.

Deadly Cargo (Camara Oscura) : When six stranded scuba divers secretly board a merchant vessel, the ship is their only hope. Now it's their biggest nightmare. The six witness a murder before climbing aboard ? and the crew intends to find the stowaways and make sure they never reveal what they saw.

Death and the Compass : In the startling story of power, pride and corruption, a brilliant detective investigates a series of strange murders in a totalitarian city of the future. But when bizarre crimes point to a labyrinth of occult conspiracy, the inspector discovers that his unorthodox methods may be leading to his own equally dark destruction. Peter Boyle (Everybody Loves Raymond, Taxi Driver), Christopher Eccleston (Gone In Sixty Seconds, Existenz) and Miquel Sandoval (Jurassic Park, Three Businessmen) star in this visually stunning drama based on the short story by legendary Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

Death in Hollywood/When the Applause Died : WHEN THE APPLAUSE DIED - The Shocking Truth About Hollywood's Self-Destructive Superstars. Hollywood's glittering stars and starlets have always been the envy of the movie-going public. With their fame, wealth, and lush lifestyles, they epitomize the "good life" we find so glamourous. Yet every pleasure has its price, and sometimes bearing the burden of fame can be an overwhelming task. All too often, celebrities find refuge and solice in a bottle of booze, a vial of pills, or a dirty syringe...and destroy their careers, families, and lives in the process.

Demon Discs 3-DVD Set :

Demon Lust: Ttwo con-men who owe money to the mob decide to rob the home of a sexy and mysterious new women in town...only to discover that she has the habit of transforming into a bloodthirsty demon beast. Demoness: A man strikes a dark deal in the dead of night with a witch to bring back his girlfriend, and it unleashes a hideous and unstoppable demon - the Crier -whose haunting sobs and cries serve as a harbinger of death! Cremains: A funeral director accused of mixing the remains of cremated bodies faces interrogation by his sinister captors, and he recounts to them for frightening, real-life tales of terror and the supernatural that he has heard during his years in the death care business.

Demons of the Mind : Baron Zorn (Robin Hardy) keeps his teenaged children locked up and drugged, fearing that his insane wife passed along a congenital curse to them before her own suicidal death. Elizabeth (Gillian Hills) escapes for a brief tryst with a local before being recaptured and subjected to a bleeding process to 'draw out the bad blood.' Emil (Shane Bryant) keeps trying to escape, but is thwarted time and again by his aunt Hilda (Yvonne Mitchell) who runs the house like a prison. One reason the siblings have to be kept apart, is their incestuous attraction to each other. Local wenches are being murdered in the woods, and the superstitious peasants think demons are responsible.

Devil's Plaything : ears ago, Baroness Daniella Varga was put to death for her uncontrollable appetite for the blood of beautiful women. Now, she has returned in fulfillment of the curse she uttered before her death, vowing revenge. The Baroness's spirit is kept alive by dark rituals, performed by the dangerously seductive housekeeper and her assemblage of beautiful servants. But this faithful cadre requires a body for the Baronness's spirit to occupy, so when four hapless young women arrive at the castle, they are put to the test to discern which is the least inhibited.

Don't Go In the House : A slasher film about a victim of child abuse (Dan Grimaldi) who grows up to become a maniacal construction worker. He stalks women at discos, takes the