Twisted Terror Collection (Deadly Friend / Dr. Giggles / Eyes of a Stranger / From Beyond the Grave / The Hand / Someone's Watching Me)

Studio description

Includes: Deadly Friend (1986), Dr. Giggles (1992), Eyes of a Stranger (1981), From Beyond the Grave (1973), The Hand (1981), Someone's Watching Me (1978).

Customer Reviews:

Poor, oh so poor this is an atrocity!.......2007-08-05

What a rip off
the price is high the quality is low
I am not talking Rob Lowe
I am talking a bunch of films that stink
I would rather throw them in the drink
then waste the overpriced asking of this set
I don't even think I will donate it for the wagons headed for Tibet
Just buy them individually it will cost less
of course the zombies profess
it is so good!

Yeah, overpriced collection

A mixed bag of horror films.......2007-07-29

Someone else has already said which films are in this set, so I will add detailed descriptions of each featured film:

From Beyond the Grave (1973) Peter Cushing - 4/5 - Cushing hosts this anthology of four tales that is pretty good if you are a fan of British style horror. The shortness of the four tales keeps things moving along nicely so that you don't get bored. What holds the stories together is that Cushing plays the owner of an antique shop whose customers meet supernaturally tragic fates if they try to wrong him.

Someone's Watching Me (1978) - Stars Lauren Hutton and David Birney, directed by John Carpenter - 4/5 - Lauren Hutton is a woman being stalked by a neighbor across from her apartment. He calls her, sends her gifts, and watches her through his telescope. When she can't get the police to take her seriously, she has to take on her tormenter herself along with her boyfriend and a woman that works at the same TV station as she. This is actually a well-done film that was made for TV. The features are:
Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
English, French and Spanish Mono
English, French and Spanish subtitles
New Featurette "John Carpenter: Director Rising"

The Hand (1981) - stars Michael Caine, directed by Oliver Stone - 3/5 - The idea is simple enough. Jonathan Lonsdale is a comic book artist whose right hand is severed in a car accident. The hand takes on a life of its own and kills everyone who annoys or wrongs Jon. Although not great, good direction by Stone and good acting by Michael Caine as the tortured artist really save this one. It's not meant to be so much horror as a character study of Lonsdale, and on that level it works. The features are:
Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
English and Spanish Dolby Surround
English, French and Spanish subtitles
Commentary by Oliver Stone
Theatrical Trailer

Eyes of a Stranger (1981) - Lauren Tewes and Jennifer Jason Leigh - 2/5 - This is your typical immediate post Jason/Michael Myers kind of slasher movie that was prevalent at the time. Tewes, of "Loveboat" fame, is a reporter on the trail of a neighbor that she believes is a serial killer. And of course, what would a 1980 era slasher film be without the helpless girl waiting to be a victim, Jason Leigh, the blind and deaf sister of Tewes. Not very interesting or thrilling at all except for the fact that this is Leigh's film debut. The features are:
Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
English, French and Spanish Mono
English, French and Spanish subtitles
Theatrical Trailer

Deadly Friend (1986) stars Matthew Laborteaux (Little House on the Prairie) and Kristy Swanson (Buffy in the original BTVS movie) directed by Wes Craven - 2.5/5 - Laborteaux plays Paul, a new kid in a strange town whose only real friends are the girl next door, Samantha (Kristy Swanson), and a robot that he has built. When Samantha is murdered by her abusive father, Paul steals Samantha's body and implants his robot's microchips into her brain to bring her back to life. However she is merely reanimated rather than "alive" in the moral sense, and soon becomes out of control. I have to say it's not like any other Craven film I've seen, and it comes across more cheesy than anything else. It does have one extremely original thing going for it - death by basketball. What a hoot. The features are:
Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
English, French and Spanish Mono
English, French and Spanish subtitles
Theatrical Trailer

Dr. Giggles (1992) - Holly Marie Combs (Charmed) and Glenn Quinn (Angel) - 2.5/5 - Larry Drake, the villain in "Darkman", plays the insane son of a mass-murdering doctor. Drake's character escapes from his confinement, sets up practice as a doctor in the town where his father was caught, and comes up with all kinds of inventive ways of killing his patients as a means of avenging his dad. The worst thing a horror film can be is boring, and it seems the film makers had this in the front of their minds because they are so busy juggling activity that the picture literally becomes cramped with action. Much could have been cut from the script and they would have had a better movie. The features are:
Anamorphic Widescreen Presentation
English Dolby Surround
English, French and Spanish subtitles

I didn't show any extra features for "From Beyond the Grave" because the Warner press release doesn't specifically mention any. The extra features on the whole package really just add up to the commentary by Oliver Stone on "The Hand" and the featurette about John Carpenter on "Someone's Watching Me". Because of the paucity of extra features in this set I just averaged my ratings of the individual movies in the set to get my final rating of three out of five stars.

Collection includes the following titles:.......2007-07-18

Since it is not included in the description, the collection includes the following titles:

1. Deadly Friend (Wes Craven)
2. Dr. Giggles
3. Eyes of a Stranger
4. From Beyond the Grave
5. The Hand (Oliver Stone)
6. Someone's Watching Me (John Carpenter)

Average customer rating:

Daddy I wanna be a Doctor, Just like you!!
The Doctor is In(sane)
Finally coming out on DVD!

Dr. Giggles
Starring: Larry Drake , Holly Marie Combs , Cliff De Young , Glenn Quinn , and Keith Diamond
Director: Manny Coto
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B000TUDFDU
Release Date: 2007-09-25

Description

When the psychopathic son of a mass-murdering doctor escapes from a mental institution, he seeks revenge on the citizens of the town where his father was finally captured. The giggling new "doctor" uses the surgical skills he picked up from his father and a near-lifetime spent in and around medical facilities to gruesomely do away with his victims while he awaits the chance to perform his ultimate revenge -- giving one of the townsfolk a heart transplant, without anesthesia!

Customer Reviews:

Daddy I wanna be a Doctor, Just like you!!.......2007-09-03

As a kid, I loved this movie! I'm so glad that it's finally getting the proper DVD release it deserves! I knew if I was "Patient" that it would be re-released and I wouldn't have to pay 100+ bucks for it. I am so going to pre-order this and it will be mine! (Giggles)

The Doctor is In(sane).......2007-07-29

Once upon a time there lived a friendly small town Doctor who lived with his wife and son, Evan. But when his wife is diagnosed with a deadly heart disease, doc snaps and hurriedly rushes to find a suitable donor for his beloved. Since searching for a donor involves murdering the locals and cutting them open, doc is soon rumpled.
As the mob descends on him, doc manages to conceal young Evan away (sick - Cartman has spoofed this scene in South Park).

Years later a now adult and deranged Evan (Larry Drake `Darkman') escapes from a sanatorium, and heads home to set up his own practice.
After some one liners and kills involving various medical instruments Evan learns of local girl Jennifer (Holly Marie Combs `Charmed), who suffers from the same heart condition as Evans dear mum did. Evan only wants to save her, but his idea of life saving surgery is basically just ripping her heart out.

From this point on, the film turns into a race against time - who will get to Jennifer first? Her father? Her boyfriend Max (the late Glenn Quinn `Angel')? The police? Or will Evan perform his deadly surgery?

Finally coming out on DVD!.......2007-07-20

I am so preordering this! I supplied a review on the original release's page, and I wanted to be the first to review here. This movie has the perfect mix of horror and comedy. I'm just so excited that it's finally getting a proper widescreen DVD release.

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OOP movies are expensive!
Back On DVD Sept. 25th 2007!!!
Just What The Doctor Ordered
LOL
CHEEZY FUN

Dr. Giggles
Starring: Larry Drake , Holly Marie Combs , Cliff De Young , Glenn Quinn , and Keith Diamond
Director: Manny Coto
Manufacturer: Good Times Video
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ASIN: 630513734X
Release Date: 2001-05-01

Amazon.com

Strictly for horror buffs with an appetite for gratuitous gore and bloodshed, Dr. Giggles is appropriately titled, since the title character (played by Larry Drake, best known as Benny from TV's L.A. Law) is a psychotic killer who chuckles uncontrollably as he eviscerates his victims. Having escaped from a mental hospital, he returns to the town where he was raised to seek bloody revenge on those responsible for the death of his mad doctor father. His chosen payback method is a lot of unnecessary surgery. But then he takes pity on a teenaged girl who desperately needs a heart transplant. Of course, he's got plenty of involuntary donors! That should tell you enough to know if you'd actually want to watch this movie, which is actually worth a few laughs--or at least a few giggles--if you're into this kind of thing. Drake puts everything he's got into his performance, and you have to admire his effort in the service of a lost cause. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

OOP movies are expensive!.......2007-08-14

I recently got an OOP copy of this movie from Aomeaba records(however you spell it) in Hollywood where I live. The guy I am seeing insisted on buying it for me because I love horror movies! It cost him $50 lol. I think it is actually worth the price because honestly I could NOT find this movie anywhere else! This movies is awsome in it's cheesey ways it tries to scare you and make you laugh at the same time! If you love B rated horror movies you will definetly love this one!

Back On DVD Sept. 25th 2007!!!.......2007-07-19

Just wanted to let you all know NOT to buy this DVD from ANY of these greedy sellers! The DVD is being re-released Sept. 25th by Warner Bros., NOT Universal as first thought, as part of their Twisted Terror Collection as well as 5 other titles never before avail. on DVD. Also, this one will be widescreen and cost less that 10 bucks new! Take that you greedy Marketplace sellers! :)

Just What The Doctor Ordered.......2007-07-19

It's silly, it's predictable, it's got every cliche in the book, it's full of awful one liners and bad puns, it bombed at the box office, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Dr. Giggles was a movie that came along at the very end of the long slasher movie run. I'm talking about the original slasher movie run now, not that idiotic "I know I'm in a slasher movie" genre resurrected by Scream a few years later. Slasher films exist today in one form or another, but usually direct to video. Dr. Giggles was one of the last, if not the last to hit theaters. Around this time the public wasn't really "feeling it" anymore when it came to this genre, and the film makers here must have known it, so it was decided(wisely if you ask me) to play Dr. Giggles tongue in cheek.....and tongue in cheek it certainly is! This is why I don't understand these schmucks who whine about the film not being scary. Well, it's awfully clear it's really not supposed to be. Hell, the title should be a hint. Most slasher flicks use revenge as the motive for the killer's killing spree, and Dr. Giggles is no exception, but there is a twist. Dr. Giggles comes back to his hometown to slaughter everyone for revenge of the lynching of his father many years back. His father was the town doctor who killed many patients in order to find a heart for his dying wife. About half way into the film Dr. Giggles decides to try to attempt the heart transplant that his father never got the chance to try(Dr. Giggles' mother eventually died from that failing heart). Conveniently enough, our leading lady has a heart problem, and becomes the doctor's focus. So, he takes a hiatus from mass murder and chases our heroine all around hell and back in order to get her into his operating room. Naturally he kills anyone who gets in his way. It's weird coz the one character who's the target is the one who you really don't have to worry about being killed. It's an interesting twist in a rather cliche riddled film. Nothing in this movie is meant to be taken seriously. If you haven't realized that by the time he kills the town slut with a giant Band-Aid, you'd better just shut the movie off. The real star of this film is Larry Drake. It wouldn't be half as fun without his performance. You won't be able to help yourself from laughing at the rotten jokes and puns, and he's never at a loss for one. One of my personal faves being when he shoves a bone saw into a guy's stomach and says, "you think that's bad, wait til you get my bill". And of course there's the giggle. Since it has a rather definite ending, I don't think this was meant to be a franchise, but it would have been nice to see more Dr. Giggles mayhem. Very funny movie and definitely worth a watch if you're into the sillier side of the horror genre like Ice Cream Man, Leprechaun or Jack Frost. Lets just hope it gets rereleased on dvd.

LOL.......2007-03-07

I just found this movie used at EB games for 5.99, so of course I picked it up. i used ot love this movie back in the day

CHEEZY FUN.......2007-03-06

I can't understand why so many people are surprised by the prices on Dr. Giggles here. It's important to realize those prices don't reflect the film's cultural value or its cult status. And it's all the same if a movie got Oscar, Golden Globe and whatnot. It's just that this edition is being OOP for a long time so the price goes for the rare release itself, no matter what the film is. Believe me, when Skinned Deep is out of production for a couple of years, it will cost exactly the same. If here, on Amazon, you look for such flicks as Fun, Parents, Phantasm or Puppet Master (different installments), you'll see they all cost a pretty penny, because it's just almost impossible to find them elsewhere. And all the sellers know the rule: collectors are crazy, they'd buy what they need for any sum of money.

So now for Dr. Giggles itself. I remember first watching it in 1993 and I was totally mesmerized - not by the film itself although I liked it a lot, but by Larry Drake who without any doubt stole the show here. First the music during opening credits was great and that was a good sign (it's always a good sign). The story itself wasn't new, and I'm sure given to any other director and other leading actor it'd become another mindless slasher to forget the next day. Oh, and we certainly shouldn't forget about the script, because Dr. Giggles is written fabulously. All that phrases put in the mouth of Larry Drake's character made this film an incredibly funny yet creepy experience. Me and my friends were quoting them endlessly. Just a couple of examples: 'If you think that's bad wait until you get my bill' or (pulling out a golf club) - 'Time to do what doctors do best' or (watching a boy playing video game) - 'Terminal' or (before performing a stomach lavage to a girl) - 'We got to start taking better care of ourselves. Remember: we are what we eat'. All those lines were just hilarious especially seeing what followed them. But of course it was not all just fun. Dr. Giggles contains one of the most grisly scenes I've seen - with a woman's dead body in the cellar (you know what I mean if you watched it). So even if we put it like a black comedy, it's one of the darkest I've ever seen.

Anyway this little gem became somewhat a cult film among horror buffs and Dr. Giggles is still one of the dearest VHS copies in my collection. I started to follow Larry Drake's career, but as I know he didn't have parts like this anymore and that's a shame because here he proved he can carry the weight of a movie on his shoulders. And for all the other fans I recommend to wait a while till they re-release the DVD. It will cost normally and be quite affordable.

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