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Donald Pleasence
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
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!
Series
[James Bond films] volume 5
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Time is running out. From their secret base on a Japanese island, Blofeld and the fanatics at SPECTRE hijack both an American and a Soviet spaceship. Accusations fly, and superpower war is imminent. 007 must infiltrate SPECTRE's heavily fortified hideout, but countdown to destruction has already begun. This the last consecutive Bond film to star Sean Connery.
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
1971.
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.
5) THX 1138
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
George Lucas adapted this, his first film, from a short he made at University. THX 1138, LUH 3417, and SEN 5241 attempt to escape from a futuristic society located beneath the surface of the Earth. The society has outlawed sex, with drugs used to control the people. THX 1138 stops taking the drugs, and gets LUH 3417 pregnant. They are both thrown in jail where they meet SEN 5241 and start to plan their escape.
6) Phenomena
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Corvino, who can communicate telepathically with insects, is sent to an eerie Swiss boarding academy for girls where the students are being butchered by a vicious serial killer. Guided by a wheelchair-bound bug specialist, she must find the killer before he finds her.
7) Halloween II
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Michael Myers, a psychopath left for dead, picks up where he left off stalking the halls of the hospital where his sister lies waiting.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1960.
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....
11) Dracula
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Throughout history Dracula has filled the hearts of men with terror and the hearts of women with desire. This stylish new production of the classic gothic horror tale stars Frank Langella, repeating his electrifying, award-winning stage performance as the blood-thirsty Count, and Laurence Olivier as the devout vampire hunter Von Helsing who is Dracula's nemesis. A great cast, fine direction, and a superbly atmospheric musical score make this the ultimate...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A Caribbean mystery (1989): A tropical breeze blows an ill-wind upon the Golden Palm Hotel and when guest start turning up dead, Miss Marple begins gathering suspects.
The mirror crack'd from side to side (1992): Excitement abounds at the little village of St. Mary Mead when an American movie star arrives to shoot a new film. But when a poisoned cocktail revises the script, Miss Marple must quickly uncover hidden jealousies before the assailant acts...
13) Wake in fright
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a man arrives in the Australian outback to stay for one night before starting a job as a teacher, he spends several days in the town falling into a downward spiral of alcohol and gambling.
14) Will Penny
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
An aging cowboy on a hard-luck streak is out of work, out of money and staked out to die in the desert by a gang of ruthless outlaws when he is rescued by a beautiful young woman.
15) The great escape
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A World War II melodrama about the escape of British and American flyers from a maximum-security German prison camp.
Publisher
CBS Paramount Network Television
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The lavish international saga spans a century and focuses on the Blackwell family's rise to wealth, from 1890s South Africa where the family's fortune is made in diamonds to the primary story of iron-willed Kate Blackwell, the driven, power-hungry head of the family's embattled corporate empire.
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him. During his escape, Lewis stumbles on to the set of a Wild West movie and through mishap and chance becomes a star of Hollywood Westerns.
19) Soldier blue
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A paymaster's detachment of the U.S. cavalry is attacked by Indians seeking gold, and two white survivors trek through the desert.