Category: Drama

The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man VHS cover art with Gene Shalt. Movie starring Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart. Directed by James Whale. Based on the novel by H.G. Wells. 1933.

The Invisible Man on VHS. Starring Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart. Directed by James Whale. Based on the novel by H.G. Wells. 1933.

From the box:

In The Invisible Man, what you don’t see is what you get. This remarkable 1933 movie marked the screen debut of Claude Rains as a scientist who discovers how to make himself invisible but can’t reverse the process. Slowly he realizes with terror that he’s become a prisoner of his unseen self, an unbearable state that drives him to madness and murder. Although he is invisible, his clothes are not, so we witness the bizarre sight of seemingly empty trousers bounding along, his hat suspended in space, or a floating fork feeding a space with no face. Rains is unforgettable as he grasps his character, which is more than the local constables can do when they try to catch him. This spectral spectacle, based on H.G. Wells’ famous novel, is a motion picture classic–gripping and haunting. –Gene Shalt

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The Shining

The Shining VHS cover art. Movie starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall. With Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Based on a novel by Stephen King. 1980.

The Shining on VHS. Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall. With Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Based on the novel by Stephen King. 1980.

From the box:

Two-time Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson overwhelms you as Jack Torrance, winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, who spirals helplessly towards madness and murder as the hotel’s power plays upon his weaknessess. Shelley Duvall is the ultimate woman on the run as Jack’s put-upon wife Wendy, and Danny Lloyd effectively plays their psychic son, whose ability — his “shining” — unlocks visions of evil.

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Pink Floyd The Wall

Pink Floyd The Wall VHS cover art. Movie starring Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson. With Eleanor David, Kevin McKeon. Written by Roger Waters. Animation sequences by Gerald Scarfe. Directed by Alan Parker. 1982.

Pink Floyd The Wall on VHS. Starring Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson. With Eleanor David, Kevin McKeon. Written by Roger Waters. Animation sequences by Gerald Scarfe. Directed by Alan Parker. 1982.

From the box:

Rock superstar Pink (Bob Geldof) has had too many shows, too much dope and too much applause. Somewhere in Los Angeles he sits in a locked hotel room slowly going mad. Join him if you dare on his journey through the spiraling world of insanity where fantasy bends reality into a nightmare. Pink builds brick after brick in his “wall” — until the night he brings a young groupie to the hotel and lets out all his locked up emotions in a screeching climax that will rock your senses and carry you along with Pink, over the edge.

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Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes on VHS. Starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, Linda Harrison. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 1968.

Planet of the Apes on VHS. Starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, Linda Harrison. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 1968.

From the box:

Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall star in this fascinating first entry of this extremely popular series. This initial story features Heston as astronaut Taylor, who crash lands on a distant planet. The world is similar to earth, but here intelligent apes rule, hunting primitive speechless humans for sport and conducting scientific experiments on the ones they don’t kill. Soon Taylor himself is among the hunted, his life depending on a benevolent chimpanzee scientist (McDowall).

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Fast Times At Ridgemont High

Fast Times At Ridgemont High on VHS. Starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Forest Whitaker, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus, Ray Watson, Nicolas Cage, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards. Directed by Amy Heckerling. 1982.

Fast Times At Ridgemont High on VHS. Starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Forest Whitaker, Brian Backer, Robert Romanus, Ray Watson, Nicolas Cage, Eric Stoltz, Anthony Edwards. Directed by Amy Heckerling. 1982.

From the box:

Twenty-four-year-old first time screenwriter Cameron Crowe went undercover as a high school student to give us an insider’s perspective on sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll, and trying to make it through another year at Ridgemont High. There’s freshman Stacy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) getting plenty of bad advice from Linda (Phoebe Cates) on how to lose her virginity. Her brother, Brad (Judge Reinhold), is the big-man-on-campus who’s grooming himself for a career in the fast food industry.

And then there’s Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) as the ultimate surfer who’s most excellent at catching flack from Mr. Hand (Ray Walston), a rigid history teacher convinced everyone is on dope.

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