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and look forward to see you in 2011
1/1/11 Open Noon - 9 PM
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Friday, December 31, 2010
JANUARY SPECIAL
Celebrating FOREIGN Cinema
Rent 2 Get 3rd FREE
ALL Foreign Movies except from UKStop by the lesser known section from QUEBEC, lots of great films are hiding in there!
Looking for FRENCH movies? Make sure to also check the New Release section as we've received a very large number of imported titles.
This is also the ideal time to explore the JAPANESE section where you'll discover some rare and newly imported titles!
From CANADA there are several movies in Punjabi (INDIA) and more imported titles.
Didn't finish watching your favorite KOREAN TV series from last month special, here is your opportunity to keep going and to take advantage of the rent 2 get 1 free!
We hope you had a wonderful holiday season and look forward
to see you in 2011
We thank you for your patronage and wish you a fantastic
NEW YEAR
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
DECEMBER SPECIAL
Korean TV Drama
are sooooo addictive that you've got to try them!!
and we've got 85 for you to chose from
already 270 dvd on the shelves... we're half way there
already 270 dvd on the shelves... we're half way there
tip: ask for a free screener at time of rental
Warner Films Archive
Around 215 titles currently on the shelves with titles added daily
Over 700 titles to be processed
We'll even let you mix and match the specials!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Thanksgiving Open Noon to 6 PM
We will be open for all your viewing needs Noon to 6 PM
We are extremely thankful to all our amazing customers for your patronage and wish all of you a happy and safe Thanksgiving.
We are extremely thankful to all our amazing customers for your patronage and wish all of you a happy and safe Thanksgiving.
from all of the Staff at Le Video
Friday, October 29, 2010
Le Video's House of Halloween Horrors
LE VIDEO’S HOUSE OF HALLOWEEN
HORRORS
HORRORS
Staff Endorsed Chillers from Around the World
ANTHONY
Dead Heat (1988. dir. Mark Goldblatt)
Fear (1996. dir. James Foley)
Maniac Cop (1988. dir. William Lustig)
Open Water (2003. dir. Chris Kentis)
Frailty (2001. dir. Bill Paxton)
Chopping Mall (1986. dir. Jim Wynorski)
Flesh and the Fiends (Mania, 1960. dir. John Gilling)
Session 9 (2001. dir. Brad Anderson)
Xtro (1983. dir. Harry Bromley Davenport)
Tombs of the Blind Dead (La Noche del Terror Ciego, 1971. dir. Amando de Ossorio)
Carnival of Souls (1962. dir. Herk Harvey)
CATHERINE (Then & Now)
Horror movies are not my "thing" but those films are fantastic!
A Tale of Two Sisters (Janghwa, Hongryeon, 2003. dir. Ji-woon Kim)
Kwaidan (Ghost Stories, 1964. dir. Masaki Kobayashi)
Nosferatu (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, 1922. dir. F.W. Murnau)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, 1920. dir. Robert Wiene)
Onibaba (The Hole, 1964. dir. Kaneto Shindo)
Le Boucher (The Butcher, 1970. dir. Claude Chabrol)
The Wicker Man (1973. dir. Robin Hardy)
Audition (Ôdishon, 1999. dir. Takashi Miike)
The Birds (1963. dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
The Innocents (1961. dir. Jack Clayton)
Carrie (1976. dir. Brian DePalma)
Jaws (1975. dir. Steven Spielberg)
Rosemary's Baby (1968. dir. Roman Polanski)
The Omen (1976. dir. Richard Donner)
The Tenant (Le Locataire - 1976 dir. Roman Polanski)
The Collector (1965 dir. William Wyler)
Frenzy(1972 dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
J.T.
Cure (1997. dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Murders in the Zoo (1933. dir. A. Edward Sutherland)
The Monster Squad (1987. dir. Fred Dekker)
Kwaidan (Ghost Stories - 1964. dir. Masaki Kobayashi)
Q - The Winged Serpent (1982. dir. Larry Cohen)
Black Christmas (1974. dir. Bob Clark)
The Wicker Man (1973. dir. Robin Hardy)
KRIS
The Descent (2005. dir. Neil Marshall)
The Gate (1987. dir. Tibor Takacs)
Shaun of the Dead (2004. dir. Edgar Wright)
Gremlins (1984. dir. Joe Dante)
LUCKY
Possession (1981. dir. Andrzej Zulawski)
Pin (Pin: A Plastic Nightmare, 1988. dir. Sandor Stern)
Fire in the Sky (1993. dir. Robert Lieberman)
Death Bed - The Bed that Eats (1977. dir. George Barry)
Hellraiser: Inferno (Hellraiser 5 , 2000. dir. Scott Derrickson)
Invaders from Mars (1986. dir. Tobe Hooper)
Day of the Dead (1985. dir. George A. Romero)
Troll (1986. dir. John Carl Buechler) - Seriously. Pickled sonny bono? hello?
Jeepers Creepers (2001. dir. Victor Salva)
Dog Soldiers (2002. dir. Neil Marshall)
An American Werewolf in London (1981. dir. John Landis)
Survival Research Laboratories - A Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief (1988. dir. Jon Reiss)
Event Horizon (1997. dir. Paul W.S. Anderson)
The Untold Story (Human Pork Chop, 1993. dir. Danny Lee and Herman Yau)
MAGGIE
Sisters (1973. dir. Brian DePalma)
Obsession (1976. dir. Brian DePalma)
Carrie (1976. dir. Brian DePalma)
Body Double (1984. dir. Brian DePalma)
Frenzy (1972. dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Vertigo (1958. dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Rebecca (1940. dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
Jennifer's Body (2009. dir. Karyn Kusama)
Drag Me to Hell (2009. dir. Sam Raimi)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992. dir. Fran Rubel Kuzui)
MARK BOWEN (1991-2003; then back like a heart attack in 2010)
As difficult as it was for me to do, I decided to leave some of my all-time favorites off the list so that I could make room for a bunch of truly great and often neglected horror films that you may have missed)
The Tenant (Le Locataire, 1976. dir.Roman Polanski) – the ultimate Polanski film.
Dust Devil (1992. dir. Richard Stanley) – Richard Stanley’s criminally neglected masterpiece
I Walked with a Zombie (1943. dir. Jacques Tourneur) – Perfect! Perfect! Perfect!
Old Dark House (1932. dir. James Whale) – as wickedly funny as it is creepy
Blood and Black Lace (Sei donne per l'assassino - 1964)
Deep Red (Profondo Rosso, 1964. dir. Dario Argento) – the perfect giallo. It’s like watching Antonioni’s
Blow-Up reflected in a cracked and bloody mirror
Lisa and the Devil (Lisa e il diavolo, 1974. dir. Mario Bava) – as beautiful as it is unhinged. Bava’s best.
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969. dir. Terence Fisher) – it’s nearly impossible for me to choose only one film from Hammer’s cycle of Frankenstein films. Curse, Revenge, Created Woman; this are like a single film in my mind. All hail the great gentleman of horror, Mr. Peter Cushing.
Martin (1977. dir. George A. Romero) – I’ll go so far as to say that this is the best vampire film…ever.
Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon, 1957. dir. Jaques Tourneur) – as good a horror film as you will ever see.
Daughters of Darkness (Les lèvres rouges, 1971. dir. Harry Kümel)
Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, 1974. dir. Jorge Grau) – the greatest zombie film that you have never seen
Who Can Kill a Child? (Island of the damned, 1976. dir. Narciso Ibáñez Serrador) – remember reading (or seeing) Children of the Corn? I’m going to wager that THIS is the film that Stephen King watched the night before he wrote it. This is the most sinister “Evil Kids” film that you will ever see. Stunning.
The Brood (1979. dir. David Cronenberg)
Ravenous (1999. dir. Antonia Bird) – best film of 1999
House with the Laughing Windows (La casa dalle finestre che ridono, 1976. dir. Pupi Avati) – essential
Italian horror.
Exorcist 3 (1990. dir. William Peter Blatty) – Every bit as good and, for my money, far scarier than the original. It’s been 20 years since I first saw the film, and one sequence in particular still gives me the willies whenever I think of it.
Quatermass 2 (Enemy From Space, 1957. dir. Val Guest) – VHS only
Vampire Circus (1972. dir. Robert Young) – VHS only
Brides of Dracula (1960. dir. Terence Fisher)
Ju-on: The Curse - Parts 1 & 2 (2000. dir. Takashi Shimizu) – not to be confused w/Ju-on: The Grudge
Session 9 (2001. dir. Brad Anderson) – right up there with the scariest films that I have ever seen
The Kingdom (Riget, 1994. dir. Lars von Trier)
Peeping Tom (1960. dir. Michael Powell)
Seconds (1966. dir. John Frankenheimer) - unforgettable
Witchfinder General (Conqueror Worm, 1968. dir. Michael Reeves) – unlike anything that you have EVER seen Vincent Price in before.
The Innocents (1961. dir. Jack Clayton)
Bay of Blood (Twitch of the Death Nerve, 1971. dir. Mario Bava)
Horror Hotel (City of the Dead, 1960. dir. John Llewellyn Moxey)
Below (2002. dir. David Twohy)
Spider Baby...or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1968. dir. Jack Hill)
The Sadist (Profile of terror, 1963. dir. James Landis) – a riveting and completely unhinged performance
by the usually wooden Arch Hall Jr. This one’s a nail-biter!
Possession (1981. dir. Andrzej Zulawski) – To say there is no other film quite like this one would be a gross understatement. This film may scar you. You have been warned.
The Terror of Dr. Hichcock (The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, 1962. dir. Riccardo Freda) – VHS only
Death Laid an Egg (La morte ha fatto l'uovo, 1968. dir. Giulio Questi) – VHS only
Martyrs (2008. dir. Pascal Laugier) – nasty, NASTY stuff
Spider Labyrinth (Il nido del ragno, 1988. dir. Gianfranco Giagni) – VHS only
Dead Man's Shoes (2004. Shane Meadows) – sinister deconstruction of slasher film conventions. Paddy Considine delivers one hell of a chilling performance.
House of Whipcord (1974. dir. Pete Walker)
Dog Soldiers (2002. dir. Neil Marshall) – the knockout debut from the man who would soon scare the crap out of the world with The Descent.
Castle of Blood (Danza macabra, 1964. dir. Antonio Margheriti & Sergio Corbucci)
A Bell from Hell (La campana del infierno, 1973. dir. Claudio Guerín)
Lips of Blood (Lèvres de sang, 1975. dir. Jean Rollin)
Death Dream (Dead of Night, 1974. dir. Bob Clark) – it hurts my soul to think about how underappreciated this film is.
Ghostwatch (1992. dir. Lesley Manning) – VHS only
MARY
Opera (1987. dir. Dario Argento)
Videodrome (1983. dir. David Cronenberg)
Carrie (1976. dir. Brian DePalma)
The Shining (1980. dir. Stanley Kubrick)
Event Horizon (1997. dir. Paul W.S. Anderson)
Repulsion (1965. dir. Roman Polanski)
Jacob's Ladder (1990 dir. Andrian Lyne)
Possession (1981 dir. Andrzej Zulawski)
Devil's Advocate (1997. dir. Taylor Hackford)
God Told Me To (1976. dir. Larry Cohen)
The Kingdom (1994. dir. Lars von Trier)
VERNON
The Twilight Zone
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (1963)
"Nick of Time" (1960)
Rosemary's Baby (1968. dir. Roman Polanski)
The Night Stalker (1972 dir. John Llewellen Moxey)
Duel (1971. dir. Steven Spielberg)
Carrie (1976. dir. Brian DePalma)
Eden Lake (2008 dir. James Watkins)
Wolf Creek (2005. dir. Greg McLean)
The Descent (2005. dir. Neil Marshall)
House of the Devil (2009. dir. Ti West)
The Stepfather (1987. dir. Joseph Ruben)
The Long Weekend (1978. dir. Colin Eggleston)
Near Dark (1987. dir. Kathryn Bigalow)
The Mothman Prophecies (2002. dir. Mark Pellington)
The Signal (2007 dir. David Bruckner, Dan Bush & Jacob Gentry)
Massacre at Central High (1976. dir. Rene Daalder) – VHS only
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in, 2008. dir. Tomas Alfredson)
Teeth (2007. dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein)
The Host (Gwoemul , 2006. dir. Joon-ho Bong)
Manhunter (1986. dir. Michael Mann)
Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore, 1994. dir. Michele Soavi)
Road Games (1981. dir. Richard Franklin)
Alien (1979. dir. Ridley Scott)
The Company of Wolves (1984. dir. Neil Jordan)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943. dir. Jaques Tourneur)
Night of the Hunter (1955. dir. Charles Laughton)
Dawn of the Dead (1978. dir. George A. Romero)
Dawn of the Dead (2004. dir. Zack Snyder)
MORE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LE VIDEO ALUMNI
ROB TAYLOR
(No particular order)Exorcist 3 (1973) - I actually remember liking this a lot, and being really scared by it, and since everyone thinks of the first one, and not as many people have seen this one this might be a solidrecommendation, but it's been 15 years since I saw it, and I back then I though Drew Barrymore was talented too, so if part III stinks sorry)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
The Lady in White (1988) - you can watch it with the older kids
Cat People (1942)
The Descent (2005) - I screamed out loud more during this film than I've ever screamed at all the other films I've ever screamed out loud at combined. I was 30. I was on a date. I'm certain my date was horrified for additional reasons.
Identity (The twist worked for me, although a lot of folks hate it)
And for people who want "horror-ble" movies that will make them unhappy and accentuate their misanthropic moods (there are such types):
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Angel Heart (1987)
Irreversible (2002) ...I got sad just typing that title.
MIKE BEST
(In no real order)
House of Wax (2005 - mostly because of the way Paris Hilton dies)
Scream (1996)
The Exorcist (1973)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le pacte des loups - 2001)
Ring (Ringu - 1998)
Demons (Demoni - 1985)
Haunting, The (1963)
Dead and Breakfast (2004)
Pitch Black (2000)
SIERRA CAMPAGNA
Ok, well I'm not much of a horror movie person, so these may seem mild. But I think they're super creepy and fun.
Ravenous
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
28 Days Later (2002)
Shining (1980)
The Wicker Man (1973)
Evil Dead 2 (1987)
Psycho (1960)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
Alien (1979)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
LUKE HOWITT
I'm no great scare buff either, but . . . In unranked order:
Alien (1979)
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
The Descent (2005)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Halloween (1978)
Martin (1977)
Quatermass and the Pit (Five million years to Earth - 1967)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Vanishing (Spoorloos - 1988)
LARRY GOLDENBERG
Tenant, The (Le locataire - 1976)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Peeping Tom (Face of fear - 1960)
Seconds (1966)
The Conversation (1974)
Lost Highway (1997)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in - 2008)
The Shining (1980)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
LUCY GOLDENBERG
Parents (1989)
Vampire's Kiss (1988)
Psycho (1960)
Eraserhead (1976)
The Fly (1986)
The Kingdom (Riget - 1994)
The Prophecy (God's army - 1995)
The Blob (1988)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Poltergeist (1982)
RYAN SCHUBERT
Not necessarily my Top/Favorites, either. Mostly what I think of as scary as hell, with a one or two had-to-mentions.
Alien (1979)
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore - 1994)
Event Horizon (1997)
Images (1972)
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Session 9 (2001)
Shivers (They came from within - 1975)
Videodrome (1983)
Tenant, The (Le locataire - 1976)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Thing (1982)
Trouble Every Day (2001)
SHERILYN CONNELLY
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
The Fly (1986)
The Haunting (1963)
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Poltergeist (1982)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Repulsion (1965)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Videodrome (1983)
DAN BUSKIRK (1991 - 1994)
Beyond the Door (Chi Sei? - 1974, d.Ovidio G. Assonitis)
The Body Snatcher (1945, d. Robert Wise.)
End of the Line (2007, d. Maurice Devereaux)
Incubus (1982, d. John Hough)
The Left Bank (2008, d. Pieter Van Hees)
The Manitou (1978, d.William Girdler)
Rabid (1976, d. David Cronenberg)
The Ruins (2008, d. by Carter Smith)
This Night I'll Posses Your Corpse (1967, d. José Mojica Marins)
The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976, d. Matt Cimber)
EDWARD CROUSE (1995-1999)
a.k.a. Edward E. "Eddy Baby" Crouse
[no ranking, by alphabetical director order]
Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)
The Unknown (Tod Browning, 1927)
Night of the Bloody Apes (Rene Cordona, 1969)
Scanners (David Cronenberg, 1981)
Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis, 2001)
What's the Matter With Helen? (Curtis Harrington, 1971)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1999)
Blood Feast (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1963)
The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932)
ARNE JOHNSON (sometime in the '90s)
Suspiria (1977)
Curse of the Demon (Night of the Demon - 1957)
Dust Devil (1992)
The Fog (1980)
The Haunting (1963)
Alien (1979)
Rabid (Rage, 1977)
Intruder, The (I Hate Your Guts!, 1962) ...ok, technically not horror, but I thought it would be when I saw it at The Strand)
The Shining (1980)
Evil Dead 2 (1987)
ERIN HAINES (2003-2008)
American Beauty (1999)
Glitter (2001)
Showgirls (1995)
Aviator (2004)
The Departed (2006)
Titanic (1997)
Gangs of New York (2002)
Clerks (1994)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Student Films
GREG MORANTZ
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
The Shining (1980)
The Evil Dead (1981)
The Stuff (1985)
Dead Alive (Braindead, 1992)
Phantasm (1979)
Poltergeist (1982)
Forbidden Zone (1982) - not horror, but good Halloween movie
The Hitcher (1986)
Amityville 2: The Possession (1982)
JULIA SHANKLIN-TUCKER (1991-1993)
I like spooky films with a sense of inevitable doom. I also like it when women are the central characters.
The Shining (1980)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
The Ring (Ringu - 1998)
The Others (2001)
The Innocents (1961)
It (1990)
Cat People (1942)
Poltergeist (1982)
Angel Heart (1987)
For the kids-
Corpse Bride (2005)
JUSTIN SANE (2000-2007)
Dead Alive (Braindead - 1992)
Freaks (1932)
Re-Animator (1985)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Thing (1982)
Basket Case (1982)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Evil Dead 2 (1981)
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari - 1920)
DAVID FEAR
God Told Me To (1976)
Halloween (1978)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Devil Rides Out (The Devil's Bride - 1968)
Freaks (1932)
Raw Meat (Death Line - 1972)
The Innocents (1961)
Psycho (1960)
Audition (Ôdishon - 1999)
The Bird with the Crystal Plummage (L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo - 1970)
Videodrome (1983
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
The Thing (1982)
The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (1973)
The Howling (1981)
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma - 1964)
Squirm (1976)
House of Wax (1953)
Funny Games (1997)
MATTHEW SEVERSON
Night of the Living Dead (1968, Romero)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, Hooper)
Rosemary's Baby (1968, Polanski)
Alien (1979, Scott)
Mulholland Drive (2001, Lynch)
The Innocents (1961, Clayton)
Carrie (1976, De Palma)
Halloween (1978, Carpenter)
The Exorcist (1973, Friedkin)
Night of the Demon (1957, Tourneur)
Vampyr (1932, Dreyer)
They Came from Within (1975, Cronenberg)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, Kaufman)
Suspiria (1977, Argento)
Vampire Circus (1971, Young)
An American Werewolf in London (1981, Landis)
The Unknown (1927, Browning)
Frankenstein (1931, Whale)
Phantasm (1979, Coscarelli)
Exorcist III (1990, Blatty)
Quatermass 2 (Enemy from space - 1957)
King Kong (2005)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Psycho (1960)
The Shining (1980)
Jaws (1975)
[REC] (2007)
Audition (Ôdishon - 1999)
Funny Games (1997)
The Evil Dead (1981)
DAVID McOY (1994-1997)
Eraserhead (1977)
Halloween (1978)
Don't Look Now (1973)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Suspiria (1977)
Seconds (1966)
Repulsion (1965)
Psycho (1960)
Audition (1999)
KELLY McCUBBIN
This is actually such a personal list. For example, yes, I know that The Exorcist is a better film than, say, Exorcist 3, but I can tell you which one I'm WAY more likely to pull out and watch...
Frankenstein (1931) - James Whale
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - James Whale
Cat People (1942) - Jacques Tourneur
I Walked With a Zombie (1943) - Jacques Tourneur
The Leopard Man (1943) - Jacques Tourneur
The Seventh Victim (1943) - Mark Robson
The Curse of the Cat People (1944) - Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise
Isle of the Dead (1945) - Mark Robson
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) - Terrence Fisher (Though the whole damn series is amazing.)
Vampire Circus (1972) - Robert Young
Quatermass II (1957) - Val Guest
Quatermass and the Pit (1967) - Roy Ward Baker
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - Don Siegel
Them! (1954) - Gordon Douglas
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) - Jaromil Jires
Night of the Living Dead (1968) - George Romero
Dawn of the Dead (1978) - George Romero
Martin (1977) - George Romero
The Hills Have Eyes (1977) - Wes Craven
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1977) - Tobe Hooper
Exorcist 3 (1990) - William Peter Blatty
Paperhouse (1988) - Bernard Rose
JESSE OBSTBAUM
Suspiria (1977)
Quatermass and the Pit (Five Million Years to Earth, 1967)
The Exorcist (1973)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore (1994)
The Mist (2007)
Phantasm (1979)
Seconds (1966)
The Tenant (Le Locataire - 1976)
DINO JOHNSON
The Shining (1980)
Alien (1979)
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Jaws (1975)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The Thing (1982)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
28 Days Later 2002)
Videodrome (1983)
Species (1995)
KURT WILDE
Witchfinder General (Conqueror Worm - 1968)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Devil Rides Out (The Devil's Bride - 1968)
Deep Red (Profondo Rosso - 1964)
Mad Ghoul (1943)
Videodrome (1983)
Martin (1977)
The Evil Dead (1981)
CINDY BARATH
The Thing (1982)
The Shining (1980)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Death Dream (Dead of Night - 1974)
Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Evil Dead 2 (1987)
Session 9 (2001)
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Lost Highway (1997)
Angel Heart (1987)
Creepshow (1982)
Open Water (2003)
Possession (1981)
Terror Train (1980)
Lost Boys (1987)
Re-Animator (1985)
Near Dark (1987)
Zombie (1979)
DUNCAN GRAHAM
Deep Red (1975)
Suspiria (1977)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Tenant (1976)
Inside (À l'intérieur - 2007)
Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore - 1994)
The Spiral Staircase (1945)
Ring 2 (1999)
Kairo (2001 - Pulse)
Black Christmas (1974)
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
October is HORROR FEST at Le Video & HUGE VHS sale most at $ 0.99
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| Halloween Special |
All month long, rent 2 horror flicks, get a 3rd horror movie for FREE
On Halloween Day, rent a movie
get some candy
and a FREE Disney mini-lunchbox
(limited to quantity on hand)
We also wish to apologize for the delay to list all the films we've received.
Since July, we've added around 1,000 titles
including many rare and imports titles and replacing
damaged or stolen DVDs.
We've also been very busy cleaning the store, removing the VHS for which we have DVD and shuffling things around making it easier for you to find movies.
~ this means that we're having an ongoing huge sale
with most VHS around $ 0.99 each! New titles added daily ~
Lots of horror titles are on the shelves right now!
We've also been very busy cleaning the store, removing the VHS for which we have DVD and shuffling things around making it easier for you to find movies.
~ this means that we're having an ongoing huge sale
with most VHS around $ 0.99 each! New titles added daily ~
Lots of horror titles are on the shelves right now!
The Blu-Ray section is growing everyday and
include imports you will not find anywhere else!
Come on by to check out all the new great films!
We're adding titles every single day.
Le Video... keeping on getting better for you
We're adding titles every single day.
Le Video... keeping on getting better for you
Monday, August 9, 2010
Voted Best Video by SF Weekly Reader's Poll 2010! Thank you!
We just learned that we were
voted San Francisco Best Video Store by the
voted San Francisco Best Video Store by the
Best Of Award
Thank you to all those who voted for us.
This was a wonderful surprise. We were not aware the SF Weekly
was conducting this poll
Catherine and the gang at Le Video
Catherine and the gang at Le Video
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Le Video New Arrivals Week 31
Director: Roman Polanski
Ewan McGregor, Kim Cattrrall, Pierce Brosnan, Jon Bernthal
When a gifted ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) is hired to write the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), he quickly finds himself trapped in a web of political and sexual intrigue. Lang is implicated in a scandal over his administration’s harsh tactics, and as the ghostwriter digs into the politician’s past, he discovers secrets that threaten to jeopardize international relations forever. Co-starring Olivia Williams and Kim Cattrall, it’s a taut and shocking thriller from acclaimed director Roman Polanski (The Pianist). Polanski won Best Director Award at the Berlin International Festival for this film.
Drama, Mystery, Thriller - DVD and Blu-Ray - Trailer
Director: Adam Sherman
Hanna Hall, Andie MacDowell, Mark L. Young
A young man named Victor realizes the shortcomings of the Utopian ideals on the hippie commune where he was raised. Victor's mother is funding the commune where the guru Insley hypnotizes and seduces women with a technique he calls "running." Insley manipulates the minds of these women so that they give him their bodies and all their worldly possessions. Victor's childhood love, Becky, returns to take care of her deathly ill father. Victor, haunted by visions of Becky's death, is desperate to save her and himself by escaping from the polygamous cult. Preoccupied with Insley's free love philosophy, the adults of the community overlook the painful reality that the self destructive behavior of their children is most certainly due to early exposure to sex and drugs. To afford an escape, Victor tries to sell weed but is cut out by rivals competing for Becky's affection. Finally, Victor is torn between getting money from his mother who is entirely under Insley's influence, dealing with the violent drama of his drug-addled friends, and staying to save Becky as she spins out of control. Trailer
Drama - DVD
Director: Matthew Vaugh
Aaron Johnson, Garret M. Brown, Clark Duke, Evan Peters, Chloe Moretz
KICK-ASS tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good superhero would, he chooses a new name -- Kick-Ass -- assembles a suit and mask to wear, and gets to work fighting crime. There’s only one problem standing in his way: Kick-Ass has absolutely no superpowers.
His life is forever changed as he inspires a subculture of copy cats, meets up with a pair of crazed vigilantes -- including an 11-year-old sword-wielding dynamo, Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz) and her father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) -- and forges a friendship with another fledgling superhero, Red Mist (Christopher Mintz-Plasse). But thanks to the scheming of a local mob boss Frank D’Amico (Mark Strong), that new alliance will be put to the test. Trailer
Action, Crime, Thriller - DVD and Blu-Ray
Director: Thor Freudenthal
Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Chloe Moretz
Meet the kid who made "wimpy" cool, in a family comedy based on the best-selling illustrated novel by Jeff Kinney. DIARY OF A WIMPY KID chronicles the adventures of wise-cracking middle school student Greg Heffley, who must somehow survive the scariest time of anyone's life: middle school. Chloe Moretz "Hit Girl" from Kick-Ass also stars in this movie. Trailer
Comedy, Family - DVD
Director: Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Christina Ricci, Liam Neeson, Justin Long
After a horrific car accident, Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Ana is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her own death. But Anna’s grief-stricken boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn’t what he appears to be. As the funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth, but it could be too late; Anna may have already begun to cross over to the other side. Trailer
Drama, Mystery, Thriller - DVD
Director: Julie Davis
Leelee Sobieski, Matthew Davis, Donnamarie Recco
Aspiring filmmaker Jody Balaban (Leelee Sobieski) takes a job at a porn studio, planning to use the company’s lush facilities to secretly film her own movie after hours. When Jody’s ruse is discovered, she’s forced to collaborate with infamous porn director, Jeff Drake (Mat Davis) – an initially fractious relationship that simmers into an unexpected romance. Trailer
Comedy, Romance, Independent - DVD
Welcome to the Neighborhood
Director: Andrew Paquin (Anna's Older brother...)
Brian Geraghty, Rachel Blanchard, Anna Paquin
A couple on the verge of a nasty divorce attempt to sell their empty love nest and move on with their lives, separately. After a successful open house they are horrified to discover, days later, that a potential buyer didn't leave their home. While Alice is being held captive in the basement, the unannounced house guest moves in upstairs. She senses her capture is being kept a rebellious secret. She knows her way only way out if she can only get out alive. Trailer
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Horror - DVD
From the Roger Corman Cult Classics Collection
Directors: Barbara Peeters and Jimmy T. Murakami
Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow
In a Pacific Northwestern Town many fisherman have their livelihood endangered due to a new salmon cannery being built which many of the townspeople support. Scientific experiments backfire and produce horrific mutations: halfman, halffish which terrorize a small fishing village by killing the men and raping the women.
Horror, Sci-Fi, Cult - DVD and Blu-Ray
From the Roger Corman Cult Classics Collection
Director: Joe Dante
Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy
Two people unwittingly free a mad military scientist's mutant fish near a summer camp and resort lake.
Horror, Comedy, Sci-fi, Cult - DVD and Blu-Ray
World Cinema
Un Prophete
Director: Jacques Audiard
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif
Nineteen year-old Franco-Arab Malik El Djebena is just starting his six year prison sentence in Brécourt. Although he has spent the better part of his life in juvenile detention, this stint is his first in an adult prison. Beyond the division of Corsicans and Muslims in the prison (the Corsicans who with their guard connections rule what happens in the prison), he has no known friends or enemies inside. He is just hoping to serve his time in peace and without incident, despite having no prospects once he's out of jail since he's illiterate and has no support outside of the prison. Due to logistics, the head of Corsican inmates, a sadistic mafioso named César Luciani, co-opts Malik as part of the Corsicans' activities, not only regarding what happens inside the prison, but also continued criminal activities outside. The innocent Malik has no idea what to do but cooperate. This move does not sit well with the other Corsicans, who only see Malik as a dirty Arab, and the Muslims who now mistrust him. But as time goes on, Malik works to save himself while in prison, while setting up his life post prison on his own terms. Both his demon and his salvation in prison is the specter of one of the first people he really got to know during his incarceration. (Huggo). Nominated for Oscar. Won 25 Awards. Trailer
Foreign, French/Italian, Drama. In French, Arabic. Subtitled - DVD and Blu-Ray
L'Heure Zero
Director: Pascal Thomas
Francois Morel, Danielle Darrieux, Laura Smet (daughter of the rock musician Johnny Hallyday and the actress Nathalie Baye), Chiara Mastroianni (Daughter of actors Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve)
When Guillaume has the bizarre idea of inviting his ex-wife Aude to a family reunion at the luxurious coastal estate of his wealthy Aunt Camilla, his tempestuous new wife Caroline becomes filled with rage. Guillaume hopes that they'll become friends but the two women despise one another. But things turn ugly when Camilla is found dead in her bedroom - and only the trusty Inspector Bataille can put together the pieces. But as the Inspector untangles her mysterious death, he also begins to unearth dark family secrets, brewing jealousies, and perhaps even a murderer in their midst.
Foreign, French, Comedy, Mystery - DVD
Eclipse Series 23 - The First Films of Director:Akira Kurosawa
SYNOPSIS: Years before Akira Kurosawa changed the face of cinema with such iconic works as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Yojimbo, he made his start in the Japanese film industry with four popular and exceptional works, created as World War II raged. All gripping dramas, those rare first films—Sanshiro Sugata; The Most Beautiful; Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two; and The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail—are collected here and include a two-part martial arts saga, a portrait of female volunteers helping the war effort, and a kabuki-derived tale of deception. These captivating films are a glorious introduction to a peerless career.
Sugata Sanshiro
Denjiro Okochi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki
Kurosawa’s effortless debut is a thrilling martial arts action tale, but it’s also a moving story of moral education that’s quintessential Kurosawa.
Foreign, Japanese, Action, Adventure, Drama - DVD
Ichiban utsukushiku
Takashi Shimura, Shoji Kiyokawa, Ichiro Sugai
This portrait of female volunteer workers at an optics plant during World War II, shot on location at the Nippon Kogaku factory, was created with a patriotic agenda. Yet it anticipates the aesthetics of Japanese cinema’s postwar social realism.
Foreign, Japanese, Drama - DVD
Zoku Sugata Sanshiro
Denjiro Okochi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki
Kurosawa’s first film was such a success that the studio leaned on the director to make a sequel. The result is a hugely entertaining adventure, reuniting most of the major players from the original.
Foreign, Japanese, Drama - DVD
Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi
Denjiro Okochi, Susumu Fujita, Kenichi Enomoto
The fourth film from Akira Kurosawa is based on a legendary twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a group of samurai retainers dressed as monks in order to pass through a dangerous enemy checkpoint.
Foreign, Japanese, Drama, Adventure, Thriller - DVD
Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin
Director: Alexander Kluge
Ursula Birichs, Traugott Buhre, Alfred Gartmann
The most significant work by Alexander Kluge, architect of the New German Cinema, features his sister Alexandra as Rosewitha Bronski, a woman trying to make her way in a hostile society. Rosewitha is a wife and mother, a local abortionist, and a factory worker turned labor activist.
Foreign, German, Drama. In German with English subtitles - DVD
Travis (2007)
Director: Jamie Travis
Christopher Redman, Courtenay Webber
Jamie Travis's darkly ironic and stunningly designed comedies have established him as a filmmaker with a distinctive cinematic vision. An international festival favorite since his award-winning 2003 short Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner, the young Canadian auteur often compared to David Lynch, Todd Solondz, Peter Greenaway and Wes Anderson is a talent to keep an eye on.
- The Patterns Trilogy (2005-2006): A woman waits by the phone. A man watches a teacup spin. Are they lovers? Yes, they are. Now let's watch them sing and dance. A gorgeously styled, fabulously poppy triptych, The Patterns Trilogy is a singularly epic musical-thriller/anti-romance.
- The Saddest Boy In The World (2006): Timothy Higgins is having his worst year ever. Always picked last for the team, this eight-year-old lives in a world of friendlessness, suburban complacency and prescription drugs. Now his ninth birthday party has arrived, and he prepares to upstage the musical chairs and birthday cake with a show-stopping suicide.
- Why The Anderson Children Didn't Come To Dinner (2003): Travis's first award-winning short tells the gloriously surreal story of three seven-year-olds forced to endure their mother's culinary abuses. Anderson Children premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival and went on to play at over forty festivals worldwide, including South by Southwest and Slamdance. In 2004, the film made its US television debut on PBS's Independent Lens, hosted by Susan Sarandon; and on Canada's late-night CBC series ZeD. Deemed Sumptuously visualized and darkly hilarious by critics, Film Threat magazine voted it the No. 2 Short Film of 2004.
Foreign, Canadian, Independent, Shorts, Comedy - DVD
Oldies but Goodies
Special Features:
Kim Novak's Hollywood Picnic
Reflections In The Middle of The Night
Backstage and At Home with Kim Novak
Select Scenes Commentary with Kim Novak and Author Stephen Rebello
Bewitched, Bothered and Beautiful
Drama, Film Noir, Biography, Romance - DVD
- Picnic (1955) It's Labor Day weekend, and fresh off a freight train is Hal Carter (William Holden), a happy-go-lucky drifter who's looking for a brand new start in life. A robust, handsome show-off, Hal has come to Kansas to seek gainful employment in his old fraternity brother Alan's family granary. But despite his high hopes and expectations, Hal's ambitious plans soon go away when his sexual magnetism attracts every woman in town, including 19-year-old Madge Owens (Kim Novak) -- the alluring young beauty queen who also happens to be Alan's girlfriend. Won 2 Oscars. Trailer
- Jeanne Eagels (1957) The short and tortured life of Broadway actress and silent screen star Jeanne Eagels was a perfect vehicle for Miss Novak. As a small-town beauty whose ambition for the legitimate stage drove her to self-destruction, the film showcased Novak’s dramatic talents in one of her favorite roles. Richly photographed in Black and White, and directed by George Sidney (Kiss Me Kate, Viva Las Vegas), with strong support from the legendary Agnes Moorehead and Jeff Chandler.
- Bell, Book, and Candle (1958) Meet Gillan Holroyd (Kim Novak), Greenwich Village's most seductive sorceress. Powerful, glamorous, and a wee bit bored, Gillian knows that witches can't fall in love. But they can have fun... especially if their lover belongs to another woman! So when Gillian discovers handsome new neighbor Shep Henderson (James Stewart) is the fiance of an old college nemesis (Janice Rule), she promptly puts the befuddled publisher under her spell. But while her sex hex may have heated up Shep's heart, it has also unthawed her own, leading to a romantic complication that not even Pyewacket, Gillian's mind-reading cat, could have foreseen. Presented in eye popping Technicolor transfer that beautifully captures James Wong Howe's stunning cinematography, Bell, Book and Candle co-starring Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, and Elsa Lanchester is "a delightful spoof on witchcraft with the cast members at their very best." THE MOTION PICTURE GUIDE! Trailer
- Middle of the Night (1959) Paddy Chayefsky’s story, pairing her with actor Frederick March, allowed Novak to again display the richness of her talent. Novak is a young divorcee who falls into an uneasy romantic relationship with her clothing manufacturer boss (March), who is more than twice her age. The anxieties and opinions of family and friends press on the couple and strain the fragile relationship. Directed by Delbert Mann on location in New York, the terrific supporting cast includes Martin Balsam and Lee Grant.
- Pal Joey (1957) Pal Joey stars Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak in a sophisticated musical comedy. Sinatra plays Joey Evans, a cabaret singer who romances wealthy socialite Hayworth into financing his own nightclub, but then falls for voluptuous chorine Novak. Pal Joey took 17 years to get to the screen. Based on a series of stories written as letters by John O'Hara for THE NEW YORKER, the letters were all signed "Your Pal Joey" by a mythical dancer. O'Hara later adapted the stories as a book for the Broadway musical which starred Gene Kelly. When Columbia bought the film rights, studio chief Harry Cohn wanted Kelly for the lead and Hayworth for the younger role of Linda. But Kelly was already contracted to MGM and the project was shelved. At one time, Billy Wilder was interested in doing the picture with Marlon Brando and Mae West-but the studio passed. It finally took the combined talents of Hayworth, Sinatra, and newcomer Kim Novak to bring Pal Joey to the screen. The gossip columns were filled with stories of an impending battle over credits. Sinatra was at the height of his film popularity, but Hayworth's contract stipulated she receive top billing. The battle however, was never fought. Sinatra gladly took the second slot-"I don't mind being in the middle of that sandwich," he quipped. Pal Joey contains some of Rogers and Hart's best songs including "My Funny Valentine," and one of Sinatra's biggest hits, "The Lady Is A Tramp." Hayworth's vocals were dubbed by Jo Ann Greer, Novak's by Trudi Erwin. Pal Joey was nominated for four Academy Awards(r) (1957) for Art Direction-Set Decoration, Sound Recording, Costume Design (by Jean Louis) and Film Editing. Although Pal Joey was a huge commercial success, it would be Rita Hayworth's swan song for Columbia. The studio machine that had turned Margarita Cansino into the glamorous Rita Hayworth, would now turn its attentions to Chicago-born Kim Novak, the last in a long line of studio-made stars. Trailer
The Last Ride of the American Cowboy
Directors: Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Castaing-Taylor
In the summer of 2003, a group of shepherds took a herd of sheep one final time through the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, in the extreme northwest of the United States. It was a journey of almost 300 kilometers through expansive green valleys, by fields of snow, and across hazardous, narrow ridges - a journey brimming with challenges. The aging shepherds do their very best to keep the hundreds of sheep together; the panoramic high mountains are teeming with hungry wolves and grizzly bears. Description written by the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
Documentary - Trailer - DVD
Director: Tim Conrad
Take a peek behind the curtain with HENSON'S PLACE, the original documentary about Jim Henson, the creative visionary that brought us the enchantment of “The Muppet Show,” THE DARK CRYSTAL and more! From honing his skills as a puppeteer in college to creating some of the world’s most beloved characters in the last 30 years, see the imaginative genius like never before. Enjoy interviews with Henson, his wife Jane, long-time puppeteer partner Frank Oz and others, as they share memories of the legendary “Muppet Show,” “Sesame Street,” and “Fraggle Rock,” with a behind-the-scenes look inside the revolutionary Henson Workshop. Experience Henson’s desires to not only create new worlds, but also to celebrate the child inside all of us!
Documentary, TV, Muppets - DVD
Television
Matt Frewer, Amanda Pays
This set has all 14 uncut episodes and lots of extras,
660 minutes!
Original publicity was designed to make the audience believe that Max Headroom was a completely computer-generated character, rather than computer-enhanced footage of a live actor.
Television, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Music - DVD
Hayden Panettiere, Zachary Quinto, Masi Oka, Jack Coleman
Experience all the intrigue and suspense of Heroes: Season 4 in this 5-disc set that includes all 18 gripping episodes from the fourth season’s volume, Redemption. As the Heroes mourn fallen friends and face dangerous new foes, prepare for a wild ride — filled with shocking twists and turns — through an ominous funhouse that culminates in a Brave New World. Then step right up and explore hours of exclusive, behind-the-curtain magic with the show’s writers, stars and artists. 812 minutes.
Television, Drama, Sci-Fi - DVD
Mercy: The Complete First Season (2009)
Taylor Schilling, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jaime Lee Kirchner
Three nurses deal with patients and personal issues at Mercy Hospital.
Television, Drama - DVD
Volume 3
Directors: Beth McCarthy-Miller, Stacey Foster, James Signorelli
Will Ferrell, Alec Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Garth Brooks, Jim Carrey, Tina Fey, Jeff Goldblum
It's Saturday Night Live baby!!
Television, Comedy - DVD
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