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This is the best severed head film you're ever gonna see! I had first heard about this film in Cahill and Toombs' "Immoral Tales" as an exemplar of low budget German exploitation... and now that I have seen it I keep thinking "why haven't more people been after this?" It works artistically on the same kind of level as "Eyes Without a Face" but with a bit more, well, concreteness and less poetry. It tells the story of Dr. Ood who joins with a group of scientists and dispatches them one by one so he can further their experiments in keeping heads alive but with his own amoral vigour. A hunchbaked woman enters in and has her head put on a murdering stripper's body, and the film keeps it in a grey area about how much the hunchback might know about her surgery beforehand while still making her a believable heroine. In the meanwhile Dr. Ood loses it every time he sees a full moon (in a weird note, his triangularly bushy eyebrows seem to naturally fit in with the set... trust me on this.) And last but not least, the real star of the film, Herbert Warm, who with Bruno Monden, created sets for this film, and made it the last Great German Expressionist Film. He had worked on "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and you can tell here in the way that all walkways turn angles and lead upwards and all the shadows are constructed in a thin and chiascuro kind of way that go vertically. And that living room and staircase with the Michealangelo... picture Dr. Caligari having a swinging luxury bachelor pad and you get the idea (and it works). I've never seen sticks, yes, sticks, used so effectively in a film. One star off for non Anamorphic and beat up public domain, but I've seen far, far worse, and just thank Alpha for making it available as they have.

A scientist is working on a way to keep body parts alive without a body. Enter Dr. Ood (Horst Frank), an evil psychotic with ideas of his own! He decapitates the good scientist (Helmut Schmid) and keeps his severed head alive. This is my favorite part, as the head is shown very realistically alive by itself! Excellent special effects illusion! There's also the hunchback nurse, who is used by Ood, who gets her a "new and improved" body! This is a dark film. I love it's cheese factor! It would make a fantastic triple feature with: "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" and "The Atomic Brain". "The Head" is a classic of horror, betrayal, and revenge. Fans of mad scientists will drool! Beware of Serum Z...

This b&W horror movie featuring Vincent Price is a gem. It's suspenseful, features some decent acting, and is fun to watch.

Recommended.

William Castle at his gimmicky best! A Classic, spooky Black and White, with deliciously devilish Vincent Price as millionaire with a bored gold-digger wife. She wants a Halloween party with her friends, Price tosses a party all right, but not with the people of her choosing. He offers $10,000 dollars to five stranger if they will join him and his wife in spending Halloween night in a truly haunted house. One of the 5 is a young Elisha Cooke, family of the former owners who died in the house, and he leads them on a murder tour. To jazz things up, Price passes out "party favors" - guns. And it's a race to find out whether Price of his wife will be the last one standing. This movie is a grandfather of nearly every clichés, blooding dripping from the ceiling, dark mysterious corridors, a witchy woman floating around and vanishing - and the topper that organ music!! This is more like a Halloween Fun house ride than a movie! Price is campy and has great fun with the role, with super lines, especially when fussing with his less than happy wife.

Castle originally devised this movie with "special touches" for the audiences, like ghost on wires gloating through the audience of people in costume sitting down beside you to enhance the fun house feel.

Just plain fun and a wee trip down memory lane.

The concert was great and my only complaint is that there are only 6 songs on this 22 minute DVD. I love the music video for "These Are The Days", but 2 or 3 music videos would have been even better. That's the only other drawback that prevents me from giving this concert 5 stars. O-TOWN should have performed all 12 songs from the O2 concert for this DVD release. If this concert had been just 40 minutes longer I would have given it 5 stars. One huge bonus is an interview with the guys. I only recommend buying this DVD if you are a really big fan.

I think the new music is great! They have grown so much as a band. My favorite song is "Over Easy". However, there is not a bad song. Seeing them live was a wonderful.

This is another DL banger. I have been a fan of DL since his Going Home special. This guy is funny. He's all over TV doing a lot of big things. Comedy fans should definetly check tihs joint.

This DVD has to be one of the best stand up performances I have ever seen.I also checked out Cedric The Entertainer's Starting Line Up,and this is better!D.L. Hughley is one of the best comics on the scene today.This DVD proves that.The only drawback to this DVD is that it has to be the most vulgar stand up routine I have ever seen.So if you have young children,DO NOT let them watch this.I'm signing off for now.In the mean time,check out the rest of the Platinum Comedy Series,includingStarting Line Up 2,which comes out October 21st.Also watch some reruns of "The Hughleys",I guarantee that you will like it.

Shaquille O'Neal and a comedy roast? Who would have thought that this would be as funny as it was. Perhaps it's because Shaq is such a natural object of joking, ridicule, good-natured ribbing, whatever you want to call it. As a fan of good roasts -- Dean Martin, Friar's Club -- this video lives up to the time-tested standard. Shaq's good nature and charismatic smile show him to be not only a world-class athlete, but a world-class good sport. The only time he looked a little angry was when Artie Lange made some off-color references to a part of Shaq's anatomy, segueing into a derisive comment about his mother. Nonetheless, the joke was a riot and Shaq seemed to take everything in his Size 22EEE stride.

The question is: Do you need to buy this video? Of course not, but if you love world-class comedy -- from the likes of Jonathan Winters, Gilbert Gottfried, Don Rickles, and Jerry Seinfeld -- then ... well, what do you think?

We all knew Shaq could dunk, rebound, and play ball, but who knew that he could tell a joke or two and be the fodder for such comedic hilarity? Buy it, check it out. It's Shaq-tastic!

i truly enjoyed this all the way.some of the Comedians featured here while not always knocking me out with there regular Comedy were really funny here.Cedric The Entertainer&Steve Harvey cracked me up.Dick Gregory was a Hoot as well.this was cool.Shaq is the Baddest Cat on The Court&is cool off the court.very down to Earth.

Great Thriller! Full of suspense and a few surprises. Great cast too! I even fell in love with the supporting actors! An ideal movie to watch with your significant other. I saw it first on BET and enjoyed it thoroughly! This is definitely a must see.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
IT IS FULL OF SUSPENSE AND PASSION!
MEL JACKSON, ISN'T THAT FINE, BUT, HE IS SEXY, HOT!
THEIR IS A DIFFERENCE!
THE MOVIE IS GREAT, I SAW IT ON BET!
I AM GLAD THEY PUT IT ON DVD!

Taking ideas from the Roger Corman produced; Stephanie Rothman film Student Nurses (1970), and cashing in on the success of Brian De Palma's Carrie (1976) legendary exploitation filmmakers Al Adamson / Sam Sherman evolved these genres to once again please the drive-in crowd. The plot consists of a Guru cult leader who takes ill, and is taken to the hospital for an unwanted operation. Before dying under the knife, his soul manages to possess... You guessed it!... Nurse Sherri. Of course, the spirit uses the Nurse [Jill Jacobsen] to wipe out the medical personal who failed to save him. Trying hard to give the audience both sex, and thrills the evil Nurse begins to kill off many of the other characters. "...Along the way she gets to speak in a man's voice Exoricist (1973) style and whack people with cleavers and pitchforks Andy Milligan-style, while treating the viewer to some welcome T&A as well..." The movie moves along quickly, and uses it's budget well. Considering the time... Adamson, and Sherman films where very racially aware, and featured many Afro-Americans in them. The subplot in Nurse Sherri, consisting of a black football player who turns up with a voodoo amulet doesn't have much to do with the film, however it played well to a new film going audience. '...From a doomed medical operation - to - a returned evil soul" The Possession of Nurse Sherri is a great film which I'm more than pleased is available on DVD. An excellent job on this disc from shock-o-rama.com, my only complaint is lack of any original artwork. Producer Sam Sherman explains the production of the film in-depth on the commentary track, sadly Adamson doesn't appear. In August of 1995 the police found his body buried under four tons of cement, with his skull broken by a heavy object. Fred Fulford, a handyman who had been doing some remodelling was arrested and sentenced to 25 years and life in prison.

Great movie! Really has stood the test of time! I originally saw this movie under the name "Black Voodoo". But this is the version you want! This DVD has all the bells and whistles! A very creative TV spot, kind of a strange one, but very different. The Sam Sherman commentary really adds to it, you are let in on the process of the making of the film. It is a honest commentary, from a visionary, inspiring, great man. I can listen to Sherman talk all day! If you have seen this movie before, get this version for the commentary, if you haven't seen it, get it for actors Marilyn Joi and JC Wells. A truly inspired film! Sam Sherman is a person I would like to meet and chat with in my lifetime. Great all around DVD, worth every penny...

ALL I KNOW WAS I WAS AT THE SHOW THEY TAPED THE DVD FOR AND IT WAS THE MOST BRUTAL SHOW EVER LITTLE TO NO SECURITY, GLASS BOTTLES SERVED BY THE STAGE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE IT WILL SURELY BE {HEAVY} METAL THE WAY IT SHOULD VIOLENT GOTTA LOVE IT

We came to the 13th episode of 6FU last night and lament that we'll have to wait a year before the next year come available.

It is brilliant, quite the most involving and challenging series currently in our ken. And whilst great entertainment series like "The Sopranos", and "Sex and the City" are, well, great entertainment, they don't involve you so completely and caringly in the characters the way 6FU does.

One of the wonderful Duke Ellington numbers in the boxed anthology from France that I have, has the occasional track prefaced by the great man introducing it. Sometimes there is a little anecdote, as in the case of a particularly nice number called "The Tattoed Lady". With his usual insouciant charm, Ellington explains that the lady was tattooed all over, not with pictures or words or things but with a series of zig-zag lines, each like a W.

The letter W has four strokes, and so he transcribed those four strokes into four notes ( and here he played the four notes). These four notes of course have different timbres, and different qualities. And naturally they gain different feelings depending on the instrument that plays them of course (and here, several instruments took it in turn playing the four notes. Then DE said that they had great fun using these four notes as the basic theme for the following music. And the band played "The Tattoed Lady".

I wondered whether the same idea had hit the fellow who composed the brilliant and stunningly original 6FU theme. There are four central characters, and the calibre and timbre of the note assigned to each reflects their characters - fragile, defiant, cool, conservative... Once I remembered Duke Ellington's introduction to the origins of the "Tattooed Lady" theme lady theme, it never escaped me every time we watched an episode. Of course the tagged on two or three notes were Brenda and Keith... and father.

Take one of Christian rock's hardest rockers and force them to play unplugged - a recipe for certain disaster in most cases. In this case, it's not a total failure though. Although Skillet could have done better than try to exactly copy their hard rocking songs on acoustic guitar, they do a good job. The only song that gets a real overhaul for the acoustic treatment is "You Are My Hope", and even that really stays pretty true to the original. Plus it seems like the guitars were miked rather than plugged through the system (thus the "unplugged" concept, I suppose) which means they sound rather thin at times. For the price though, it's a good deal. It's a shame they didn't just do a regular concert video because these guys can ROCK when everything's going. Maybe they can do it next time. Included on the DVD are a few pictures and the "Best Kept Secret" concept video.

I got this DVD free in the mail not knowing it was coming. So it just all of a sudden plopped into my hand. What's cool was that i just got my first surround sound system so I had a chance to test this out. It sounds awesome! The picture quality is alright, its a sight for sore eyes. The features are nice too. Skillet is a group that I recommend checking out. They are often said to sound like Marilyn Manson, I will agree, but only the sound. They also sound like Orgy, with the electronica sounds. Well anyway, get this DVD, then buy "Alien Youth" the album, because it is sure to rock!

Bajo la dirección impecable de Alberto Isaac, "Tivoli" nos relata la historia de los días postreros del teatro Tivoli de la ciudad de México, que fue la Meca del espectáculo de revista de los años 50 de la entonces provinciana capital mexicana.
Todos los personajes están bien caracterizados, las anecdotas bien seleccionadas, los diálogos cuidados y aparecen varias gratas sorpresas, como Pérez Prado y el enano Margarito.
Quien adquiera "Tivoli" gozará de un par de horas de agradable diversión y hará una excelente compra.

pelicula mexicana que nos retrata de forma correcta y agradable una parte de la historia del D.F.,filmada bajo la mano de uno de los mejores directores mexicanos el señor:Alberto Isacc que logra mostrarnos una parte de las tradiciones que mas gozan los mexicanos:El teatro del burlesque.