Summary: Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two brothers discover that their local mortuary hides a legion of hooded killer dwarf creatures, a flying drill-ball, and the demonic mortician known as The Tall Man who enslaves the souls of the damned.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR PHASummary: Tokyo teenager Gorgeous is upset with her long-widowed father--he wants to marry his new girlfriend Ryoko. Seriously miffed, Gorgeous hits the road to visit her aunt in the country, bringing along her best girlfriends Sweet, Melody, Fantasy, Prof, Mac, and Kung Fu. The titular house belongs to the wheelchair bound aunt, whose large white cat has been immortalized in artwork throughout. Things...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOUSummary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNSummary: Since the 1960s, Nome, Alaska, has seen a disproportionate number of its population being reported missing every year. Despite multiple FBI investigations of the region, the truth has never been discovered. Psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler begins videotaping sessions with traumatized patients and unwittingly discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abduction ever documented.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FOUSummary: Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEASummary: Michael Myers has returned home to sleepy Haddonfield, Illinois, to take care of some unfinished family business with his sister. But, Laurie is attempting to heal the psychic wounds from her previous encounter with Michael by bonding with Sheriff Brackett and his daughter Anne. Dr. Loomis has forsaken his connection to Laurie by exploiting his connection to Michael with a tell-all book. In the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HALSummary: In a bustling wasteland of stolen cars, mechanics and street hustlers, Alejandro, a tough and ambitious street orphan, and his older sister, Isamar, must rely on each other to survive. Living and working in the Iron Triangle, a sprawling junkyard in Queens, New York, the two find their dreams threatened by the hard truths of life, only to find hope and salvation in one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHOSummary: 12-year-old Oscar is a fragile and bullied boy who finds love and revenge when he meets Eli. Eli is a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends. She has moved into his building. Oscar does not know that she and her father are vampires. When strange disappearances and murders start happening in the town, suspicions mount from her neighbors and police. Eli must move on to stay alive or stay to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LET1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LET
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LETSummary: The Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut. They soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history. The house was once a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred. The owner's clairvoyant son, Jonah, served as a demonic messenger. He provided a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAU RATED PG-13Summary: What is the scariest movie idea anyone can think of? How about a guy with a bag on his head staring into a window? So, four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. They want to make a funny film that may be a little bit scary too. But what happens when their story idea starts to come true?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAGSummary: In 1888 London's Whitechapel slums, poor women like Mary Kelly and her friends walk the streets for a living. When the streetwalkers begin to be murdered one by one, it attracts the attention of Inspector Abberline, who takes a personal interest in the case, and Mary Kelly. Now he must use his psychic abilities to stop the most notorious serial killer in history -- Jack the Ripper -- before...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FROEckhart, Aaron
Summary: After the death of his creator, Victor Frankenstein's monster finds himself caught up in a war between the ancient demon and gargoyle clans that threatens to destroy humanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IFRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISummary: This story of a technological paradise suddenly turned nightmare is a genuine shocker. For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the "theme park" called Westworld where the gunhands and dance-hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests' violent and lustful fantasies--until something goes wrong with their circuitry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WESSummary: When a young girl mysteriously disappears, Police Sergeant Howie travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But this pastoral community, led by the strange Lord Summerisle, is not what it seems as the devout Christian detective soon uncovers a secret society of wanton lust and pagan blasphemy. Can Howie now stop the cult's ultimate sacrificebefore he himself comes face-to-face with the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR WICBeckinsale, Kate
Summary: Vampire Selene leads the battle against humans after they discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans and try to eradicate them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDSummary: Kylie Bucknell is forced to return to the house she grew up in when the court places her on home detention. Her punishment is made all the more unbearable by the fact she has to live there with her mother Miriam, a well-intentioned blabbermouth who's convinced that the house is haunted. Kylie dismisses Miriam's superstitions as nothing more than a distraction from a life occupied by boiled...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After twelve years in prison, a convicted sex offender struggles to regain the life he lost, while grappling with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WOO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOO
Sutherland, Donald
Summary: Mysterious pods fall from space, threatening to dominate Earth by cloning humans and destroying the originals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Get ready for a twisted take on the classic tale as Hansel and Gretel have turned pro, coping with the trauma of their childhood captivity by slaying witches for hire. But when the seemingly unstoppable bounty hunters meet their match in an enemy so evil, it'll take all their training, weapons and courage to survive. Revenge is sweeter than candy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain house are mistaken for murderous backwoods hillbillies by a group of obnoxious, preppy college kids. When one of the students is separated from the group, the boys try to lend a hand, but as the misunderstanding grows, so does the body count and the laughs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnet Releasing 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TUC1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TUC