Movies tagged as "anthology"

Creepshow [1982, USA ] starting from $1.99

The Most Fun You'll Ever Have... BEING SCARED!

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Hal Holbrook, Fritz Weaver, Leslie Nielsen, E.G. Marshall, Ed Harris, Ted Danson, Stephen King, Warner Shook, Robert Harper, Jon Lormer, Don Keefer, Bingo O'Malley, John Amplas, David Early, Joe King Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Cult classic anthology from two of horrors big wigs, Romero and Stephen King, the film contains 5 sections, held together with 50's style comic images. A murdered man returns from the grave demanding his Father's Day cake and death ensues, a meteor's space ooze causes anything and anyone that comes in contact with it to grow (special appearance by Stephen King himself), a scheming vengeful husband buries his wife and her lover in sand to await death at high tide, a professor selects his nagging negative wife to become a tasty snack for a strange crated creature, and finally, a mean ole millionaire with an intense insect phobia becomes the prey of an army of cockroaches.

Creepshow 2 [1987, USA ] starting from $1.99

When The Curtain Goes Up, The Terror Begins!

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi Actors: Domenick John, Tom Savini, George Kennedy, Philip Dore, Kaltey Napoleon, Maltby Napoleon, Tyrone Tonto, Dorothy Lamour, Frank Salsedo, Holt McCallany, David Holbrook, Don Harvey, Dan Kamin, Dean Smith, Shirley Sonderegger, Directors: Michael Gornick Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Three more stories told from a comic book are presented by the Creep. The first is about a dime-store Native American that seeks vengeance on those who killed the store's owners. The second is about a carnivorous mass of pond scum that attacks four people on a raft. The final tale is about a rich woman who accidentally kills a hitchhiker while speeding home from an affair with a male prostitute.

Creepshow III [2006, USA ] starting from $1.99

Scary New Stories and a Freaky Wraparound Guaranteed to Chill You to the Bone!

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Stephanie Pettee, Roy Abramsohn, Susan Schramm, Bunny Gibson, Matt Fromm, Nathan Kirkland, Selma Pinkard, Kalena Knox, Brian Jacobs, Leonardo Millán, Magi Avila, Margarita Lugo, Robert Gonzales, Simon Burzynski, Rami Rank, Directors: Ana Clavell Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   There are five new tales of horror and suspense in this follow-up to George A. Romero & Stephen King's 1982 horror anthology classic. In "Alice", a snotty teenage girl gets her just desserts in the form of a demonic universal television remote. In "The Radio", a security guard is driven to the very brink of madness and eventually murder thanks to a possessed radio. Next up, in "Call Girl" a murdering, cold-blooded prostitute accidentally hooks up with a vampire client. In "The Professor's Wife", a demented professor with a taste for pranks tricks his two best students into believing he's getting married. But there's something rather sinister about his new bride-to-be. Lastly, in "Haunted Dog", a cruel miserly doctor kills a homeless man by purposely giving him a contaminated hotdog - a tale of savage revenge from beyond the grave.

Fantasia/2000 [1999, USA ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Animation, Family, Music Actors: Leopold Stokowski, Ralph Grierson, Kathleen Battle, Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones, Bette Midler, James Earl Jones, Penn Jillette, Teller, James Levine, Angela Lansbury, Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo, Russi Taylor, Directors: James Algar Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   In this update of Disney's masterpiece film mixture of animation and music, new interpretations of great works of music are presented. It begins with an abstract battle of light and darkness set to the music of Beethoveen's Fifth Symphony. Then we see the adventures of a Humpback Whale calf and his pod set to "The Pines of Rome." Next is the humourous story of several lives in 1930's New York City, scored with "Rhapsody in Blue." Following is a musical telling of the fairy tale, "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" set to Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2. Then a goofy Flamingo causes havoc in his flock with his yo-yo to the tune of the finale of "Carnival of the Animals." This is followed by the classic sequence from the original film, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" starring Mickey Mouse and followed by "Pomp and Circumstance" starring Donald Duck as a harried assistant to Noah on his Ark. Finally, we see the awesome tale of the life, death and renewal of a forest in a sequence featuring the composition, "The Firebird."

Four Rooms [1995, USA ] starting from $1.99

Twelve outrageous guests. Four scandalous requests. And one lone bellhop, in his first day on the job, who's in for the wildest New year's Eve of his life.

Genres: Comedy, Drama Actors: Paul Calderon, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Sammi Davis, Amanda De Cadenet, Valeria Golino, Madonna, Ione Skye, Lili Taylor, Alicia Witt, Jennifer Beals, David Proval, Antonio Banderas, Lana McKissack, Patricia Vonne, Tamlyn Tomita, Danny Verduzco, Salma Hayek Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Quentin Tarantino, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It's New Year's Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop. He's on his first night on the job, when he's asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster's kids for him while he's away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager.

Illustrated Man, The [1969, USA ] starting from $1.99

Don't dare stare at the illustrated man.

Genres: Sci-Fi Actors: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins, Jason Evers, Tim Weldon, Christine Matchett, Directors: Jack Smight Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A man, whose body is almost completely covered in tattoos, is looking for the woman who drew all the intricate designs on him. Each tattoo hides a futuristic story, which you experience when you stare at it.

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas [1999, USA ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy Actors: Wayne Allwine, Tony Anselmo, Jeff Bennett, Corey Burton, Jim Cummings, Bill Farmer, Shaun Fleming, Kelsey Grammer, Andrew McDonough, Alan Young, Tress MacNeille, Diane Michelle, Russi Taylor, April Winchell, Directors: Jun Falkenstein Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A Christmas themed, three-part anthology-style video. The first part, "Donald Duck: Stuck on Christmas", is essentially a retelling of _Groundhog Day (1993)_ (qv), with Huey, Dewey, and Louie reliving Christmas ad infinitum. Next is "A Very Goofy Christmas", in which Goofy tries to overcome his son's skepticism about Santa Claus. Finally, "Mickey & Minnie's Gift Of The Magi" recreate the classic tale of ironic Christmas selflessness. The stories are linked together by narration by 'Kelsey Grammer' (qv).

Sin City [2005, USA ] starting from $1.99

Hell of a way to end a partnership.

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel, Powers Boothe, Jude Ciccolella, Jeffrey J. Dashnaw, Rosario Dawson, Jesse De Luna, Benicio Del Toro, Jason Douglas, Michael Clarke Duncan, Tommy Flanagan, Christina Frankenfield, Rick Gomez, Carla Gugino Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Frank Miller, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   "Sin City" is Four stories inter-weaved telling tales of corruption in Basin City. The First Story (The Customer is always right)is short, and is based on the depression of women that they need to pay a man to feel loved when they commit suicide. The Next Story is Part 1 of "That Yellow Bastard" starring Bruce Willis as a cop who needs to save a young girl from being raped. The Third Story (The Hard Goodbye) features Mickey Rourke and his revenge on a heartless killer who murdered his one-night stand. The fourth story (The Big, Fat Kill) stars Clive Owen as a man who must dispatch of a cop's body, but it will be a tough ride to do it. Following that are two conclusions to Sin City, the ending of "That Yellow Bastard" which is set 8 years later, and a short story that ends Sin City.

Ten, The [2007, USA ] starting from $1.99

If He'd meant the commandments literally, He'd have written them in stone.

Genres: Comedy Actors: Jessica Alba, Adam Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Rob Corddry, Famke Janssen, Kerri Kenney, Ken Marino, A.D. Miles, Gretchen Mol, Oliver Platt, Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, Liev Schreiber, Ron Silver, Jason Sudeikis, Directors: David Wain Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.

Terror Tract [2000, USA ] starting from $1.99

Horror has a new home.

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Thriller Actors: John Ritter, David DeLuise, Allison Smith, Kim Correll, Kelli Mix, Aaron J. Alberts, Virginia Darragh, Cathy Hutchison, Paul E. Short, Ray Lykins, Katie Seals, Kendall Green, Laura Bryant, Rachel York, Carmine Giovinazzo, Directors: Lance W. Dreesen Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Bob Carter, a suburban real estate agent, tries to get a kindly couple, Allen and Mary Ann Doyle, to buy a house only to give them horrifying stories about the pasts of three of them. In the first story "Nightmare" a businessman discovers his wife cheating on him only to be killed by his spouse and her boyfriend in which she begins having dreams of her husband not staying dead. The second story "Bobo" involves increasing fear and paranoia from a kindly family man whose young daughter finds and adopts a stray monkey who turns out to be more than meets the eye. The third story "Come To Granny" involves a trouble teenager with psychic abilities who visits a therapist to warn her that she happends to be the next victim of a vicious serial killer called The Granny.

Trapped Ashes [2006, USA, Japan, Canada ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Horror Actors: Jayce Bartok, Henry Gibson, Scott Lowell, Dick Miller, John Saxon, Richard Ian Cox, Scott Heindl, Rob deLeeuw, Mina E. Mina, Winston Rekert, Ken Russell, John R. Taylor, Yoshinori Hiruma, Ryo Ishibashi, Yôzaburô Itô Directors: Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.

Twilight Zone: The Movie [1983, USA ] starting from $1.99

You're travelling through another dimension. A dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!

Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Doug McGrath, Charles Hallahan, Rainer Peets, Kai Wulff, Sue Dugan, Debby Porter, Steven Williams, Annette Claudier, Joseph Hieu, Al Leong, Stephen Bishop, Directors: Joe Dante Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Four horror/science-fiction segments directed by four of Hollywood's famous directors based on TV's most popular anthology series, bookened by a funny and scary prologue and epilogue featuring Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. In the first story directed by John Landis (a vague remake of the Twilight Zone episode "A Quality of Mercy") a loud-mouthed bigotted businessman (Vic Morrow) with an intense hatred for Jews, blacks, and Asians, gets the tables turned on him when he walks out a bar and is inexplicably transported back in time to being pursued by Nazis in 1940's France, then as an African-American at a KKK rally in the 1950s Deep South, and as a Vietnamese in 1960s Vietnam. The second story directed by Stephen Spielberg (a remake of 'Kick the Can') an old man (Scatman Crothers) arrives at a retirement home and makes the wishes of the residents come true when he magically transforms them into youthful incarnations of their days gone by. The third story directed by Joe Dante (a remake of 'It's a Good Life') a young woman on the road (Kathleen Quinlan) gives a ride to a mysterous 10-year-old boy (Jeremy Licth) to his house and ends up trapped with other people in an alternate reality created by the boy's imagination. The fourth story directed by George Miller (a remake of 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet) stars John Lithgow as an passenger on an airline whom sees, but cannot convince anyone, a mysterious creature on the outside wing of the airplane trying to sabotage the aircraft.