Donald Pleasence
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
1971.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Considered a classic of Australian New Wave cinema, WAKE IN FRIGHT tells the nightmarish story of a schoolteacher’s descent into demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in the outback.
3) Phenomena
Publisher
SGL Entertainment
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (115 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A young girl (Jennifer Connelly), with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders in this 1985 horror film from Dario Argento. Nominated for Best Film at **Fantasporto**.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1960.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
More Fearsome Than Frankenstein... More Demonic Than Dracula! Edinburgh, 1827. Irish immigrants Burke (George Rose, A New Leaf) and Hare (Donald Pleasence, Halloween) hit upon the idea of selling the bodies of the recently deceased to eminent surgeon Dr. Robert Knox (Peter Cushing, The Skull). Dr. Knox, knowing that experimental vivisection is the only way for medicine to make progress, forms an uneasy alliance with the self-styled body snatchers....
6) Will Penny
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Will Penny, an aging, out of work cowboy, is left in the desert to die by a ruthless gang of outlaws. A beautiful young woman, on her way to join her husband out west, stops to help him and nurses him back to health. Suddenly, Will sees a lifestyle he's never known, but he has too many problems - he's fallen in love with another man's wife, and the gang is on its way to finish him off.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
WW III nearly breaks out when a U.S. space capsule is swallowed up by what everyone believes is a Russian spaceship. Bond and the British government believe that it is the work of the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. organisation and must find out what their motives are.
9) Oh, God!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
God picks a supermarket manager to carry His message to all mankind.
11) THX 1138
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
The George Lucas director's cut.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A man whose mind and body are controlled by the government ... makes a harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime"--Container.
Publisher
Warner Home Video [distributor]
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 374 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cozy community of Barchester is rocked from its complacency when a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD video (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity. As the liquid turns their co-workers into zombies, the remaining members realize they have released the most unspeakable of horrors, Satan himself.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Full screen and widescreen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a prison which houses the world's most brutal inmates. And when the President of the United States crash lands inside, only one man can bring him back: Snake Plissken, a notorious outlaw and former Special Forces war hero who, in exchange for a full pardon, descends into the decayed city and wages a blistering war against the captors. But time is short: in 24 hours,...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this realistic depiction of the lives of ordinary German soldiers Paul Baumer and his school chums are encouraged to enlist by their bombastic, slogan-chanting teacher, but they quickly learn that actual war is more gore than glory, as they crawl through mud, huddle in trenches, suffer the ordeal of frenzied hand-to-hand combat and dodge screaming shells during World War I.
16) Halloween
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen and full screen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On Halloween night years ago, little Michael Meyers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold blood. But for the last fifteen years, town residents have rested easy, knowing that he was safely locked away in a mental hospital ... until tonight. Tonight, Michael returns to the same quiet neighborhood to relive his grisly murder again ... and again ... and again. Tonight is Halloween!
Author
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009], c1975
Edition
New special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home?
18) Halloween
Publisher
Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally killed his older sister. The silent child was incarcerated in the Smith's Grove Sanitarium under the care of psychiatrist Sam Loomis. Michael's hometown of Haddonfield was slowly begining to forget the tragic crime. That is, until Loomis returns to the town to warn them of Myers' escape from Smith's Grove. With Michael set on killing a group of high school students, Loomis gets the hesitant town sheriff...
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (191 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Escape to Witch Mountain: Two orphan children escape from a scheming millionaire and discover they have come from another planet.
Return from Witch Mountain: The entire city of Los Angeles teeters on the brink of nuclear disaster when the greedy criminals manipulate a young boy's supernatural powers for their own devious gain. But the youth's sister and a streetwise band of truants join forces in a desperate attempt to save the city from destruction....
20) The great escape
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A high-security German prisoner-of-war camp in 1942 holds only known troublemakers and risk-takers, all of whom are determined to pull off the war's most daring escape.