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The
Ring
(Widescreen
Edition)
(2002)
DVD
With its disturbing images and
a few good shocks, The Ring is the kind of frightfest you'll watch to set
a chilling mood or spook your susceptible friends, but when you try to
sort it out, this well-mounted American remake (of the 1998 Japanese hit
Ringu, based on Koji Suzuki's popular novel) becomes a batch of incoherent
parts. The negligible plot follows a Seattle reporter (Naomi Watts) as
she investigates the death of her niece, the victim of a mysterious videotape
that, according to urban legend, causes the viewer's death seven days later.
(Fear Dot Com borrowed the same idea while avoiding this film's lofty pretensions.)
The countdown structure follows the reporter, her son, and her estranged
boyfriend into deepening layers of terror--all quite effective until the
movie attempts to explain itself. At that you're better off shutting down
your brain and letting the creepy visuals take over. --Jeff Shannon |
The
Sum of All Fears
(2002)
DVD
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Spy
Game
(Widescreen
Edition)
(2001)
DVD
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The
Alfred Hitchcock Collection (1999) DVD
Hitchcock's Best work now on DVD
in a marvelous combo. Psycho is the Master's most notorious film and still
terrifying after all these years. Vertigo is one of Hitchcock's most discussed
films and one of the most suspenseful movies out there. Combine that with
four episodes of Hitchcock masterpiece TV show 'Alfred Hitchcock presents',
and you've got a knockout combo. |
K-19
- The Widowmaker
(2002)
DVD
Based on an incident that was officially
suppressed for 28 years, K-19: The Widowmaker is a fine addition to the
"sub-genre" of submarine thrillers. The first major American film about
Russian cold war heroes, it re-creates the nightmare endured in 1961 by
the crew of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-19, when an exposed reactor
core nearly resulted in a nuclear catastrophe. Several crewmen died, and
K-19's captain (played by Harrison Ford) had to assert his command when
near-mutiny favored his executive officer (Liam Neeson). --J.Shannon |
Cure
(2001) DVD
Spine-tingling horror/thriller
from one of Japan’s most talked about filmmakers, Kiyoshi Kurosawa. |
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