Science Fiction & Fantasy VHS Movies
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A Christmas Carol (Colorized)
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Category: VHS Movies
 Publisher: Vci Video Starring: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley Directed By: Brian Desmond Hurst Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This is the desert-island choice of the many versions of A Christmas Carol, with a magnificent, full-bodied portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge by Alastair Sim that leaves everyone else in the dust. Lean and direct, this film's version of the story wastes no time trying to impress viewers with the magical nature of the spirits' visitations. Director Brian Desmond Hurst keeps the focus on Scrooge's life story, beautifully simplifying and underscoring the theme of lost women with a haunting musical refrain from the folk song "Barbara Allen." Sim's commitment to the role is at times astonishing; his Scrooge's Christmas-morning ecstasy is a marvel of giddy technique. Watch for Patrick Macnee (Steed in The Avengers) as the young Jacob Marley--the actor made his screen debut in this 1951 production. --Tom Keogh. |
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Price: $16.75
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker, Thayer David Directed By: Henry Levin Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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James Mason plays Professor Oliver Lindenbrook, a scientist hoping to find the world's core in this 1959 adaptation of the Jules Verne novel. He leads his unusual party on an expedition to the center of the earth, by way of a volcano in Iceland. On the way, they encounter enormous mushrooms and giant prehistoric monsters. Produced by Michael Todd with then-spectacular special effects, the story was modernized to 1950s sensibilities. |
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Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
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Publisher: Warner Bros. Pictures Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Richard Griffiths, Pam Ferris Directed By: Alfonso Cuarón Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Some movie-loving wizards must have cast a magic spell on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, because it's another grand slam for the Harry Potter franchise. Demonstrating remarkable versatility after the arthouse success of Y Tu Mamá También, director Alfonso Cuarón proves a perfect choice to guide Harry, Hermione, and Ron into treacherous puberty as the now 13-year-old students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry face a new and daunting challenge: Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) has escaped from Azkaban prison, and for reasons yet unknown (unless, of course, you've read J.K. Rowling's book, considered by many to be the best in the series), he's after Harry in a bid for revenge. This dark and dangerous mystery drives the action while Harry (the fast-growing Daniel Radcliffe) and his third-year Hogwarts classmates discover the flying hippogriff Buckbeak (a marvelous CGI creature), the benevolent but enigmatic Professor Lupin (David Thewlis), horrifying black-robed Dementors, sneaky Peter Pettigrew (Timothy Spall), and the wonderful advantage of having a Time-Turner just when you need one. |
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Hocus Pocus
Price: $10.91
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Walt Disney Video Starring: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch Directed By: Kenny Ortega Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This big, fat theatrical bomb has a lot going for it. There's the three leads, Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker, playing three resurrected witches who wreak havoc on Salem, Massachusetts, 300 hundred years after they were hung. There's music, special effects, and magic. There's a surprisingly horror-filled plot. |
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Publisher: Warner Bros. Pictures Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith Directed By: Chris Columbus Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The next installment in the Harry Potter series finds young wizard Harry Potter (DANIEL RADCLIFFE) and his friends Ron Weasley (RUPERT GRINT) and Hermione Granger (EMMA WATSON) facing new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as they try to uncover a dark force that is terrorizing the school.. |
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Animorphs - The Invasion Series, Part 1: The Invasion Begins
Price: $16.94
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Sony Pictures Directed By: Don McCutcheon, Graeme Lynch, Robert K. Sprogis Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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For those not familiar with the popular Nickelodeon TV series and the phenomenally successful Scholastic book series by K.A. Applegate, Animorphs centers on the adventures of five teens who can morph into animals and bugs. They battle the Yeerks, a frightful mercenary alien race (slimy, sluglike, gray-green, and the size of a rat) who want to control humans by entering their ears and taking over human minds. Don't dismiss Animorphs as a sci-fi Saved by the Bell. |
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Sailor Moon R The Movie - The Promise of the Rose
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Geneon [Pioneer] Starring: Kotono Mitsuishi, Tôru Furuya, Michie Tomizawa, Aya Hisakawa, Emi Shinohara Directed By: Kunihiko Ikuhara Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Kisenian, traveling from a far away galaxy, disguised as a meteor, aims to gather all the "positive" energy from the Earth and plant the seeds of "negativity" leaving Earth full of hatred. Unable to do this on her own, Kisenian preys on the vulnerable heart of Darien's childhood friend, Fiore. Fiore, jealous of Sailor Moon and Darien's passionate friendship, joins Kisenian in her wicked endeavor to gather energy from every star and planet!. |
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Sleeping Beauty (Special Edition)
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Publisher: American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Starring: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Barbara Luddy Directed By: Clyde Geronimi Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Disney's 1959 animated effort was the studio's most ambitious to date, a widescreen spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapting Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked Queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her 16th birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Things almost but not quite turn out that way, thanks to the assistance of some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. |
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Kiki's Delivery Service
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Walt Disney Video Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi, Keiko Toda Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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In Hayao Miyazaki's magical Kiki's Delivery Service, a 13-year-old girl meets the world head on as she spends her first year soloing as an apprentice witch. Kiki (Kirsten Dunst) is still a little green and plenty headstrong, but also resourceful, imaginative, and determined. With her trusty wisp of a cat Jiji (a gently subdued Phil Hartman) by her side she's ready to take on the world, or at least the quaintly European seaside village she's chosen as her new home. Miyazaki's gentle rhythm and meandering narrative capture the easy pulse of real life (even if his subject is a girl flying high upon a broomstick) and charts the everyday struggles and growing pains of his plucky heroine with sensitivity and understanding. |
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The First Christmas
Price: $14.50
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Angela Lansbury, Cyril Ritchard, David Kelley, Dina Lynn, Greg Thomas Directed By: Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Lucas is a young shepherd, who has been blinded by lightening. Fortunately, some thoughful nuns at a nearby nunnery offer to take care of him. When Sister Catherine descovers Lucas has never seen snow, she tries to describe it to him. The nuns decide that at this year's Christmas pageant Lucas will play an angel. |
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