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1) The Flesh and the Fiends

Publisher

Kino Lorber

Pub. Date

1960.

Physical Desc

1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Language

English

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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....

2) Phenomena

Publisher

MVD Entertainment Group

Pub. Date

1985.

Physical Desc

1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Language

English

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The young Jennifer Corvino (played by Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly) is sent to a private Swiss academy for girls where a killer is on the loose, brutally murdering students. Jennifer is a "gifted" girl with the strange ability to communicate with insects, and Dr. McGregor (Donald Pleasence, John Carpenter's HALLOWEEN series, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK) enlists her to help locate the killer.

3) Escape from New York

Publisher

StudioCanal

Pub. Date

1981.

Physical Desc

1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Language

English

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1997 - and Manhattan has become a walled prison for three million criminals where they are left to run loose. The plane carrying the American President crashes there, and he is taken prisoner by "the Duke." Sent in to rescue him from this land of hell is Snake Plissken, former war hero turned criminal. To ensure he does not abandon his mission, two devices are implanted in his arteries, primed to blow him to pieces if he fails to return on time.

4) The great escape

Publisher

MGM Home Entertainment

Language

English

Description

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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.

5) Ray Bradbury theater

Publisher

Platinum Disc

Pub. Date

c2004

Physical Desc

2 DVDs (ca. 338 min. each) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

6) Halloween

Publisher

Starz Home Entertainment

Pub. Date

[2007], p1978

Edition

[Restored ed.]., Widescreen and Full-screen version.

Physical Desc

1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

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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 beginning 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...

7) Will Penny

Series

Widescreen DVD collection

Pub. Date

1968.

Physical Desc

1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

Description

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An aging and out-of-luck cowboy is taken in by a young woman travelling to meet her husband, and soon finds himself falling in love.

8) The Barchester chronicles

Publisher

Warner Home Video

Pub. Date

2005

Edition

Full screen.

Physical Desc

2 DVDs (ca. 374 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

Description

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The cozy community of Barchester is rocked from its complacency when a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires.

9) Dracula

Publisher

Universal Studios

Pub. Date

2004

Edition

Widescreen home video version.

Physical Desc

1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

Description

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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...

10) Escape from New York

Publisher

MGM Home Entertainment

Pub. Date

c2000.

Edition

Widescreen and fullscreen.

Physical Desc

1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

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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,...

11) Halloween

Publisher

Shout! Factory

Pub. Date

2021.

Edition

Widescreen edition.

Physical Desc

1 DVD (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

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On Halloween night in 1963, six-year-old Michael Myers brutally murdered his seventeen-year-old sister and was locked away for fifteen years. In 1978 he escapes and returns to his quiet hometown on Halloween night to look for his next victims.

12) Halloween: the curse of Michael Myers

Publisher

Dimension Home Video

Pub. Date

[2000?], [1996]

Edition

Widescreen.

Physical Desc

1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

Description

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Six years after he was presumed dead in a fire, Michael Myers has returned to kill again, and his long-hidden secrets are revealed.

13) The eagle has landed

Publisher

Artisan Home Entertainment

Pub. Date

c2000

Edition

Widescreen version.

Physical Desc

1 DVD (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

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Sixteen German paratroopers are dropped on the coast of England with orders to bring Churchill back to Hitler.

14) THX 1138

Publisher

Warner Home Video

Pub. Date

2004.

Edition

The George Lucas director's cut.

Physical Desc

1 DVD (88 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

Description

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Like all other drones in the sprawling subterranean technocracy, he has a designation: THX 1138. He's the product of a number-crunching, soul-numbing society. But there's a flaw: He's human and wants out.

15) Escape to Witch Mountain

Series

Walt Disney classics

Publisher

distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Pub. Date

2009

Edition

New special ed.; widescreen.

Physical Desc

1 DVD (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

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Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home?

16) Halloween

Publisher

Anchor Bay Entertainment

Pub. Date

2001.

Edition

Extended edition.

Physical Desc

1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Language

English

Description

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On a black and unholy 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. For this is a night of evil. Tonight is Halloween!