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02.18.03 by ScottC @ 5:07 pm  
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Written by: Robert Hiltzik Features:
Released by: Anchor Bay My Advice: Own it if you are a fan of horror. Poor Angela (Rose). Still withdrawn and disturbed by seeing her family slaughtered in a speeding boat accident years ago, she hasn’t been helped by being raised by her rather odd Aunt Martha (Gould). Camp Arawak doesn’t help either with its lecherous employees, malicious girls led by the queen bitch Judy (Fields), and hormonally challenged boys. Still she has her very protective cousin, Ricky (Tiersten), and a budding romance with his friend Paul (Collet). Along with the water sports, softball, and juvenile antics, the camp is having a lot of people die, horribly. The victims were all nasty to Angela before they died. Is shy Angela a brutal killer or is Ricky protecting his cousin to a deadly extreme? With the body count getting ever higher, will anyone escape Sleepaway Camp…alive? (Cue ominous music)  Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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02.07.03 by ScottC @ 5:03 pm  Film: Review Note: This set is three discs, one for each member of the trilogy. For accessing the reviews of the individual feature film discs and seeing more info on their individual bonus features, click on their names in the Features section below. The review below gives you an overview of the entire set. Features:
Released by: Anchor Bay My Advice: Own it if a fan of horror; rent it otherwise  The Sleepaway Camp Survival Kit covers the saga of Angela Baker, a girl (kinda) trying to have a pleasant summer camp experience. She has to deal with slutty, bitchy girls; horny, potty-mouthed boys, and staff that’s either incompetent or on the make. Angela has enough to deal with after seeing her family killed in a speedboat accident, being raised by her very odd Aunt Marsha, and having to suffer the various ministrations of the state mental health system. What’s a girl to do? In Angela’s case, she deals with her problems by slaughtering all the ‘nasty’ people around her in various brutal and imaginative ways. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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02.06.03 by ScottC @ 11:05 pm  Film: Written by: William Welch Released by: Sony Pictures My Advice: Good for a MST3K party with lots of alcohol. Interested in recapturing the fresh flower of youth? Forget plastic surgery, botox injections, illegal cloning, they're passé. Join The Brotherhood of Satan and you can get a new body and enjoy causing horrible violence and death for the low price of your immortal soul. All a coven needs is a small town to cut it off from civilization with horrible death as the punishment for anyone trying to leave. Then simply lure children into your power while killing their parents. Don't let the local authorities, the sheriff (Jones) and the priest (Robinson), interfere or else Satan will not be happy. You do not want Satan unhappy. If extra children are needed, don't hesitate to allow strangers into the town, just don't let them leave. Just add one Black Mass and you will be as good as new. Just ask the satanic high priest of Woodley (Martin) and he'll tell you he was fully satisfied with the results. So contact your local Antichrist and join the brotherhood today. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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01.15.03 by ScottC @ 9:22 pm  Film: Written by: Margaret Cho Features:
Released by: Winstar My Advice: Rent it. Margaret Cho was an up-and-coming comedienne with the usual problems of low self-esteem and need for acceptance. When she, like many other successful stand-up comics, got her own show, she was on top of the world. But she felt the responsibility of being the first Asian-American woman to star in her own sitcom. So she let the suits at the network give her notes about her being overweight--such as how her face was too full. She never realized that she was "this giant face taking over America". She had to deal with people saying she wasn't Asian enough. The network even hired an Asian consultant who advised Margaret Cho on how to be Asian. So after putting up with all the static from network executives, focus groups, and Asian interest groups, her show was cancelled. Suffering this massive rejection, Margaret descended into alcoholism to the point of being hung over in bed and debating whether to pee in the bed or get up to the bathroom. She got herself clean and sober and did what most comics do, turn her painful experiences into comedy. This forms the basis for her one-woman show I'm the One That I Want. Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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12.12.02 by ScottC @ 1:41 pm  Film: Written by: Gregory Ramon Anderson & Rob Hardy Features:
Released by: Sony Pictures My Advice: Just rent real porn. Mia DuBois (Calhoun) is a walking cliché--a successful therapist with an unsuccessful marriage. Her husband, Victor (St. John), is more interested in working on his laptop than on her. So she is very receptive to hearing about the wild sex life that her new client Tammy (Wilson) and Tammy's husband enjoyed, before he was murdered. Mia even accepts an invitation from Tammy to Pandora’s Box, a no holds barred secret club of sex, drugs, and even more sex. She falls under the spell of a dark, handsome stranger named Hampton (White), a walking streak of sex. But is Hampton all he seems? It there more going on than just hot, sweaty sex? Categorized as: DVD and Reviews
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