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I'm a huge fan of Peter Lorre and a huge fan of his portrayals of Mr. Moto. However, in this one, everyone seems to die for no particular purpose. Very depressing.

I bought the DVD because I like the who-done-its from the 30's and I like Peter Lorre. I'll have to tell you I was very skeptical of Lorre made up to be a Japanese detective. Surprisingly he pulled it off quite well. There was quite of bit of humor for a murder-mystery. The film quality was pretty good too for such an old movie.

this movie is okay not as good as some of the other movies from seduction cinema

If you are looking to get this movie to see SC staple actresses, don't buy it. This is very much like Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula (even directed by the same person). However, unlike that movie that was only so so, this movie is top-notch. It stars Mia (yes that is a different screen name she uses in this one) and the newcomer Sasha Peralta. She really steals the show as the target of the Mummy's affection. See the plot of this movie is that back in ancient Egypt, the pharoh's daughter (Peralta) fell under the "spell" of an evil sorceress who was in the court. They had many hot get-togethers until they were discovered, and the sorceress was mummified. Fast forward several thousand years, and her body has been found and transported to a local university. Conveniently, her lover's soul has been reincarnated into the professor's daughter. She gets the typical where have I met you before, while the sorceress is attempting to have her lover's soul take over in her body. To help her, she takes control of two REALLY HOT women (Regina Russell and Katie Lohman--Playboy centerfold). Can the boyfriend save the day in time, or will we have many more sex scenes between the two stars? Overall, it is an awesome B-movie, just don't let the SC label fool you. Think of it as a Surrender Cinema movie, RIP we all miss you.

This otherwise typical low-budgeter probably has its fans for two reasons. One, obviously, is the intriguing presence of young Dennis Hopper. The other--maybe not so obviously--is that the feature is a not-bad little noir, replete with brooding atmosphere, smokey chiaroscuro, and an everyman enthralled with an exotic, enigmatic woman. The movie's main problem is poor pacing, exacerbated by a tinny, monotonous score. There are also plot lapses that have nothing to do with the leading lady's origins. Though reminiscent of Cat People, the film merely flirts with horror, though it smacks enough of the supernatural to pose lingering, disquieting questions. Is she or isn't she--the ultimate femme fatale--a Siren....

This is one of those little-known films I watched during late night television in the 1980's. I was so intrigued, I never forgot it. Now I finally own the DVD copy of it. This film is interesting to watch and really has that weird 1960's feel to it. Set during the month of August. This film offers the most relaxed performance I've ever seen Dennis Hopper play in any film and he was the age of 24 at the time. This isn't your normal beach movie and it's in black & white. Dennis Hopper plays a sailor on shore leave. He roams around Santa Monica pier and comes across the Blue Grotto, a nice jazz place. There he meets a woman with long black hair, "Mora" (Linda Lawson). A mysterious old woman comes out and tells "Mora" she must leave quickly. John the sailor is so drawn to her that he follows her into the night on the beach. She lives in a apartment above the Merry Go-Round. The sailor asks her to see her again tomorrow for breakfast. A friendship begins. Mora's job is a pier attraction. She is the mermaid. But there is another side of Mora so mysterious that Johnny doesn't know. Memorable good scenes are those when Johnny follows the old women to Venice and who can forget Marjorie Eaton as the Fortune Teller. Also in the cast is Luana Anders, Tom Dillon and Gavin Muir.

As a tiny tot I vaguely remember being mesmerized by this colorful children's production. Today I am able to see how contrived and staged a production it was. Nonetheless, it is a classic of the period.

If you are spoiled by some of the beautiful sight and sound restorations of old films available on DVD today, this one will leave you disappointed. On the DVD I purchased, both the film and soundtrack are filled with artifacts. During one production sequence called "Prestige" film frames are dropped and the sound is severely truncated, even going out of synch in one section. This may be the only source print available, however.

The DVD is also flawed by poor DVD authoring. The menu index does not correctly correspond to the film's content. In fact, the true Chapter I of the authoring is not accessible via the DVD menu at all on my copy. This is poor technical work and totally avoidable.

But, it is not an expensive issue and it does provide an opportunity to see some classic performances by Claude Rains, Van Johnson, and Jim Backus. The film includes a wonderful guest performance by Kay Starr.

This is a piece I'd like to see a fine team of restoration experts tackle. But for less than 10 bucks it isn't a bad deal. It's no worse than watching old film prints on Sunday afternoon local affiliate TV stations.

This Alpha Video DVD of 'The Pied Piper Of Hamelin' is the best source print of this film I have ever seen.
'Pied Piper Of Hamelin' (1953) is a family treat for all ages and for all holidays. First filmed in color as a Hallmark TV special, it is a masterful, musical re-telling of the fairy tale using the beautiful mysterious, music of Edward Grieg with new lyrics.
The cast is first-rate, with movie great Van Johnson brilliantly playing the strange and often frightening piper, as well as the kind school teacher Trueson, who is also the village concience. Legendary movie villain Claude Rains is absolutely wonderful as the clever, sneering, corrupt lord mayor of Hamelin. Rains has a ball playing him like Prince John of 'Adventures Of Robin Hood' (1937) in retirement! He even does a comical, show-stopping song and dance! Jim Backus also appears as the King's messenger, and his comedy is badly needed as this fairy tale goes dark in it's second half.
One highlight of the film, is Van Johnson as the Pied Piper, leading the rats out of Hamelin to their deaths in the river. He is playing on his pipe the haunting 'In The Hall Of The Mountain King' from Grieg's 'Peter Guint Suite', as the cleverly animated rats march to oblivion!
Unlike the fairy tale, this 'Pied Piper Of Hamelin' has a happy ending with a lesson for everyone about greed, selfishness, and false pride.

...P>A quick synopsis...I liked this much better than the first...the characters weren't as dull or paper-thin. There was more going on in this movie. It was not just "let's see how fast we can get to the next scene with guys in their underwear". The plot is flawed by silly dialouge, and bad direction. Not really a horror movie...it still delivers on a small level...

7 out of 10

This is the second film in the "Brotherhood" series of low budget homoerotic horror films directed by David DeCoteau. I preordered it on the strength of the amazingly sexy stills and trailer I've seen. It looks as if this will be even more fun than the first Brotherhood. Cuter guys, more underwear scenes, two warlocks in the bedchamber with one woman, etc. By the way, if you're interested in the original entry in the series please be aware that there are several films with the same or similar titles. If you're looking for sexy vampires running around in their boxer briefs then you want the one directed by DeCoteau, who also made the infamous "Voodoo Academy".

...P>A quick synopsis...I liked this much better than the first...the characters weren't as dull or paper-thin. There was more going on in this movie. It was not just "let's see how fast we can get to the next scene with guys in their underwear". The plot is flawed by silly dialouge, and bad direction. Not really a horror movie...it still delivers on a small level...

7 out of 10

This is the second film in the "Brotherhood" series of low budget homoerotic horror films directed by David DeCoteau. I preordered it on the strength of the amazingly sexy stills and trailer I've seen. It looks as if this will be even more fun than the first Brotherhood. Cuter guys, more underwear scenes, two warlocks in the bedchamber with one woman, etc. By the way, if you're interested in the original entry in the series please be aware that there are several films with the same or similar titles. If you're looking for sexy vampires running around in their boxer briefs then you want the one directed by DeCoteau, who also made the infamous "Voodoo Academy".

This video covers a wide scope for golf history. From how to make a feather golf ball to golf course. Golfers can make use of the contents to test other colleagues. One point to be criticized is that there is little to link with Tiger Woods (...) (actually it is Narr. by Jim Mckey). There is only one chapter mentioned Tiger but it also mentioned other great golfers, in similar manner. That's why one star has been eliminated. Dear Tiger fans, please note.

The Story of Golf is an amazing journey that traces the beginnings of golf through today's game as we know it. It is beautifully shot and edited and you'll love Jim McKay's narration. This is a must have for golfers of any age. Bravo !

Well if you're trying to choose between the 2001 and the 2000 tour, get the 2001 tour. After watching the 2001 tour, this DVD was a little dissapointing. The lineup of skaters is just as good, but they just don't do as much. The only people who get much air time are Tony Hawk and Jason Ellis and the bikers. Which would be cool, but when you've got people like Andrew Reynolds and Brian Sumner listed on the video, but they have about 3 minutes combined air time on a 6 hour DVD its kinda sad. And the complete lack of Mike Vallely and the very sparse footage of Bam Margera means everything is pretty much tech, rather than burly, and the tech isn't that impressive.

Having said that, the skating isn't too bad. They got stuck with a bunch of rather undesirable parks to skate, so there's nothing that's especially progressive on here. And the extra cirricular activities aren't that much fun to watch either. If you're a fan of the series, its kinda cool to have, and I'm glad I bought it, but it really isn't that great of a skateboarding video. Get the 2001 tour.

This video is outstanding. Jason Ellis is laugh out loud funny every time the camera is on him. Of course Tony Hawk's skating is amazing. A good view of life from the road, and a snapshot of how skateboarding's popularity has soared. The rest of the skaters / bmxers also get some good footage, and the 'off days' adventures when the crew is not skating are pretty entertaining as well.

Well, this is the second major release in the "Uncovered" Series. The first one was a masterful DVD of KCi and Jo-Jo. This DVD, however, suffers from numerous production problems. It was made on the cheap, and it shows. The DVD is divided into three parts: documentary, trailers, and videos. The trailers are the worst part -- for a series of unrelated videos made by the same company. So, I'll focus here on the two other parts: the documentary and the videos.

The Good News (The Video Section):
This DVD contains six Outkast videos: SouthernPlayalisticadillacmuzik, Rosa Parks, Bombs Over Baghdad, Ms. Jackson, So Fresh, So Clean, and Ataliens. The videos are crisp and sharp -- but shown in Stereo -- not Dolby Digital.

Bad news (Missing Videos): These aren't all of their videos. This DVD, for no obvious reason, fails to include: FIVE videos. Those videos NOT included are: Da Art of Storytelling, Skew it on the Bar-B, In Due Time, Elevators, and Git Up, Git Up.

Good News - Documentary (General):
The DVD includes a behind-the-scenes documentary look at Outkast on the road and in the studio.

Bad News - Documentary (General):
The behind-the scenes documentary is intercut with those six videos above -- making it much shorter and more disjointed. It's also very short -- maybe a total of 35-40 minutes if you don't include the full-length videos.

Good News - Documentary (Content):
The documentary tells you some new things: like how Puffy directed one of their early videos, about what Dre 3000 and Big Boi look for in women, and how each of them broke into the rap business. The documentary also has insights from other people in the Dungeon Family and various producers of the albums. It even has a rare live performance.

Bad News - Documentary (Content):
Some parts of the documentary are like that bad Tupac documentary from a few years ago: they just interview random people who *sort of* know Outkast and say things like "so, how do you know Outkast?" or "What you think of Stankonia?" Also, the rare live performance sounds horrible -- like it was recorded in somebody's basement.

Very Bad Production:
The production on this DVD is shoddy. The sound is Dolby Digital, but with no surround for any of the videos. Also, the entire DVD lacks a time feature -- making you unable to determine where you are time-wise while you're watching it. (Probably because they didn't want you to know just how short it is!) Also, the separate section for the videos is actually linked back into the documentary -- so when you're trying to watch the videos separately, it just goes back into the documentary and plays forward from there. In other words, you can't play the videos back to back without watching the entire documentary!

Conclusion:
So, should you buy it? If you're a die-hard fan, you'll appreciate this DVD -- barely. But, if you're expecting a complete collection of Outkast videos or a detailed discussion of their albums and the history behind them -- you're going to be very disappointed. As a fan of Outkast, I'm pretty disappointed. This video was designed to capitalize on the success of Stankonia -- and it was rushed to market without much attention to detail. Buy it with caution.

the movie wuz off da real

Finally some live material from the Goalby period available in the US! This is really for Heep fans only, but is great if your a Heep fan. The sound is better then I thought it would, as sometimes these kind of releases are put together rather fast and have lousy audio. This is a decent 5.1 mix. No extras (the track by track reviews by some guy are dumb), and it's, as expected, 4x3.

As for the concert, it's in a small club, definately dated to the '80's but good. the old songs Goalby does good, not as good as Shaw, but good. But the real great thing here is the Goalby period stuff. 'Other Side of Midnight' just kicks butt, and isn't available anywhere else live. Other standouts, 'Too Scared To Run' and That's The Way That It Is'. 'Sell Your Soul' and 'Bad Blood' are fine. 'Rockarama' is just odd, very '80's!, 'Angel' is the only Goalby song I could live without.

The casual Heep fan should either get '73's Live CD w/ Byron or one of the newer Shaw Cd's or DVD's for the best live Heep stuff, but for the true Heep fan this will not dissapoint.

This was a pretty good-time DVD. I have to say I'm not a big Uriah Heep follower, but coming up in the 70s and 80s, you couldn't help but know a little about the band. It's definately dated but you got to love bands with talent to play live and a guitarist who can actually solo when most modern "rock guitarists" don't have the talent to do it. Mick Box rides his wah-wah pedal tastefully throughout.

The sound and picture are good. The venue is small and intimate. The times are dated. But still, this is a good ride even if it's just to see Mick's time-locked look of a big mustache and long hair. (Oh yes, and the band plays good too.)