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 Box Of The Banned 2 (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / DVD released 13 March, 2006 at Starz Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Box set, PAL, Widescreen Newest Review: ... (of Goblin); a weird old interview with Argento and his wife; some pretentious film studies stuff about the film; and a few ... more  ... shorter documentaries. It's an impressive package for Argento fans.
Contamination (1980) is easily the worst film on here. It's a shoddy Alien rip-off that takes too long to do too little. Some alien eggs have turned up in New York. They spray anyone with acid if they hatch, causing bloody exploding chests and the like. A New York cop, an astronaut and a woman have to find out what's going on by travelling to Brazil. This is cheap and boring and doesn't have a single original idea. It's another Italian film, so ...more |
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Box Of The Banned 2 (DVD): Box of the fairly obscure (1506 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 26.02.08 (Very useful, 34 readings)
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Box of the Banned 2 was released by Anchor Bay in 2006. The first Box of the Banned had contained the most notorious of the old 'video nasties', most of which were still cut. Box 2 at least has the virtue of being uncensored, but of the five films included, only one can be described as well known (and probably only to genre fans). It's a convenient way to tick off a few titles, but whether it's ultimately worth it is debatable. Tenebrae (1982) is the only film anyone's likely to have heard of. It's a giallo directed by Dario Argento (gialli are, broadly speaking, lurid Italian murder mysteries with complicated plots and elaborately staged murder sequences, ...
