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The Blair Witch ProjectSpecial Edition DVD Retail Price: $29.98 bn.com Price: $20.99 You Save: $8.99 (30%) More Info Massively hyped before its release, this high-concept, super-low-budget, megagrossing indie horror film is a marketing phenomenon that has already achieved cult status with its improvised performances and shaky, subjective camera. It's also one of the scariest movies in recent memory. Three film students get lost in the woods of Maryland while shooting a documentary about a legendary witch who's been frightening locals for centuries. Gradually, the trio are terrorized by the strange sounds and enigmatic offerings of an unseen predator. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT taps into ancient fears about the evil that lurks in dark forests, but it is also very much of the moment -- a cautionary tale about overzealous snoops with movie cameras.
Take a pinch of THE TERMINATOR, a dash of BLADE RUNNER, add a healthy dollop of William Gibson's computer cowboy sensibility, and mix it all up. The result is THE MATRIX, the most inventive science fiction flick to light up a movie screen in recent years. Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), a super-cool, philosophy-spouting rebel with psychic abilities, and his latex-sheathed female sidekick, Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss), turn disaffected computer wiz Neo (Keanu Reeves) into a kung fu warrior who goes head-to-head against the forces of evil deep in cyberspace. Even if viewers get lost in the twisting story line, the dazzling special effects and mind-blowing sets will keep most on the very edge of their seats.
Packed with thrills and spills, this roller-coaster ride of an adventure has more in common with the Indiana Jones series than it does with the moody, expressionistic 1930s horror classic starring Boris Karloff. In their scramble to unearth the legendary City of the Dead, a charmingly klutzy female archaeologist (Rachel Weisz) and a dashing American adventurer (Brendan Fraser) accidentally disturb the tomb of a vengeful, lovesick mummy. Forget the bandages -- this shape-shifting demon masquerades as a sandstorm, conjures up the plagues of Egypt, and has an army of carnivorous beetles at his beck and call. With its eye-popping special effects and lighthearted laughs, this blockbuster hit is a pure rush of high-adrenaline entertainment.
This Oscar-winning confection offers up the clever conceit that a certain love interest of young Will Shakespeare inspired several of the Bard's most famous plays. The result? An engaging bit of "creative history," mixing romantic comedy with nimble wordplay, gender bending, and a self-conscious approach to literary and historical allusions. With a witty script by Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman as its sturdy foundation, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE eschews the bland pageantry of many such period pieces and tells its tale with style and verve. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, and Ben Affleck.
James Cameron's $200 million blockbuster about the sinking of the Titanic dazzled audiences with its technical virtuosity -- creating a nightmarishly specific vision of the passengers' last hours. But the real key to the film's outsize success was its focus on a decidedly old-fashioned love story between a penniless artist with a zest for life (Leonardo DiCaprio) and the strong-willed fiancée (Kate Winslet) of a wealthy magnate. The moral dynamics of the story are as pure and universal as those of silent melodrama, giving this state-of-the-art epic a warm, traditional appeal that could hardly have been expected.
This good-natured gross-out comedy proved a blockbuster at the box office due to its consistent laughs and the surprisingly charming love story at its center. Ben Stiller stars as the lovesick loser who's nurtured a decade-long infatuation for gorgeous girl-next-door Cameron Diaz. Into the mix pops sleazy detective Matt Dillon, hired by Stiller to find his long-lost love. But the story takes a sharp left turn when Dillon falls for the girl himself, and Stiller must go to hell and back to win her over. With engaging cameos by Jonathan Richman, whose songs provide the running commentary of an ersatz Greek chorus.
With this 1991 hit, director Jonathan Demme returned to his roots as a maker of exploitation films. An intelligent, wickedly effective entry in the thriller/slasher genre, this adaptation of Thomas Harris's bestselling novel showed Demme's maturity as an artist with its surprising sensitivity to psychological nuance, while still delivering all the requisite chills and thrills. Anthony Hopkins gives a scene-stealing performance as the imprisoned cannibalistic serial killer/psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, who functions as a kind of oddball oracle for high-strung FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) -- providing her with the psychological insights she needs to capture a barbaric murderer. Despite its profoundly disturbing subject, "The Silence of the Lambs" took home the Oscar in 1992 for Best Picture.
From Thomas Harris's novel, director Jonathan Demme explodes and reconstructs a classic genre, laying a foundation of emotional and political commitment beneath a perfectly constructed psychological thriller. Fourteen years after her controversial role in "Taxi Driver," Jodie Foster finally makes the transformation from helpless victim to rescuing hero in this dark, gender-bending fairy tale on an American obsession: serial murder. As Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter, Anthony Hopkins is the archetypal antihero--cultured, quick-witted, uncontainable -- a portrait of all the sharpest human faculties gone diabolically wrong. Winner of five 1991 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay Adaptation (by Ted Tally). Special features for this edition: Additional Footage, Story Boards, Interactive Menus, Audio Commentary.
"An all-stops-out spoof, this is one of the goofiest movies to come down the pike in a long time. A loving paean to Bond, Flint, Helm and their ilk...director Jay Roach makes a splashy, impressive debut." --Variety
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