Category: Horror

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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Disturbing Behavior

Disturbing Behavior on VHS. Starring James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Bruce Greenwood, William Sadler, Steve Railsback. Directed by David Nutter. 1998.

Disturbing Behavior on VHS. Starring James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Bruce Greenwood, William Sadler, Steve Railsback. Directed by David Nutter. 1998.

From the box:

Achieve, be excellent… and be afraid.
When the esteemed Blue Ribbon Club of Cradle Bay High takes its slogans too far, things in the small coastal town begin to go wrong. Dead wrong. Newcomer Steve Clark finds fast allies in Gavin, an overly imaginative paranoid and Rachel, a “bad girl” with a razor-sharp tongue and a body to match. But when some “dark sinister force” begins turning the school’s curricularly challenged into the soulless, academic elite, these three “outsiders” join in a desperate, dizzying race to avoid becoming insiders–and losing their individuality forever!

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The Man They Could Not Hang

The Man They Could Not Hang VHS cover art. Movie starring Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox. Directed by Nick Grinde. 1939.

The Man They Could Not Hang on VHS. Starring Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox. Directed by Nick Grinde. 1939.

From the box:

Filmdom’s Master of Horror, Boris Karloff, stars in this thriller in which a brilliant scientist is transformed into an insane killer. Doctor Savaard, who has invented a mechanical heart designed to restore life to the dead, kills a student volunteer in order to test the device. Midway through the experiment, the police break into Savaard’s lab and discover the dead body.

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Son Of Frankenstein

Son Of Frankenstein VHS cover art. Movie starring Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi. Directed by Rowland V. Lee. 1939.

Son Of Frankenstein on VHS. Starring Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi. Directed by Rowland V. Lee. 1939.

From the box:

Boris Karloff stars for the last time in the role that made him a screen legend in this, the second sequel to the famous horror classic.

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