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Features: DVD, 5 Pack
Horror! Suspense! Thrills! From the company launched by Joel Silver, Robert Zemeckis, and Gilbert Adler, the Dark Castle Horror Collection features five films that will make your skin crawl: HOUSE OF WAX, GOTHIKA, GHOST SHIP, THIRTEEN GHOSTS, and HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL!HOUSE OF WAX: When their car breaks down on a road trip, six college friends are sidetracked into an eerie backwoods town. Curiosity gets the better of them when they are intrigued by its macabre HOUSE OF WAX. They soon find out that the town is not what it seems and they must find their way out before they fall victim to its ghoulishly inventive killers. GOTHIKA: At Woodward Penitentiary for Women, an unexpected and highly disturbed inmate is now held in the psych ward once overseen by criminal psychologist Miranda Grey. The inmate: Dr. Grey herself. Halle Berry portrays Grey, accused of a savage murder and clinging to her sanity as she copes with a series of ghostly encounters in GOTHIKA, from Dark Castle Entertainment. GHOST SHIP: Finders keepers. Any abandoned ship floating in international waters can be claimed and towed to port by whoever is fortunate enough to find it. Or, in the case of one team of salvage experts, unfortunate enough. Salvagers trained for any situation imaginable come face to horrifying face with the unimaginable after boarding a derelict luxury liner. THIRTEEN GHOSTS: What a house! It's all steel and glass and elegance - and it all belongs to Arthur Kriticos and his family as an unexpected inheritance. You could say it's their dream home. Especially if the dreams are nightmares. Awesome ectoplasmic specters populate THIRTEEN GHOSTS, an effects-rampant remake of the 1960 William Castle haunted-house film from producers Gilbert Adler, Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis. HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL: One night in the house, one million bucks, no questions asked. But there is a catch for anyone who accepts the offer. Murder is a way of life at the HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, a jolting, effects-ramped remake of the 1959 cult classic that starred Vincent Price and was directed by screen horror legend William Castle.
"[Gothika] Delivers genuine scares." Luke Y. Thompson, Dallas Observer
"[Thirteen] ...as perfect a new-millennium Halloween creepshow as we can expect." Michael Atkinson, Mr. Showbiz
"[Hill] ...creepier than you expect." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"[Wax] Hot, sexy, deliciously creepy horror." Prairie Miller, Long Island Press
"[Ship] ...a fresh setting for terror shenanigans." Richard Harrington, Washington Post
Editor's Note
In these horror films, the only certainty is that no one is safe. This chilling collection includes HOUSE OF WAX, GOTHIKA, GHOST SHIP, THIRTEEN GHOSTS, and HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL. Please see individual titles for synopsis information.
| Features | [All] Interactive Menus | | [All] Scene Selection | | [Gothika, Ship, Thirteen] Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | [Gothika, Ship, Thirteen] Dubbed: French | | [Gothika] Audio Commentary By Director Mathieu Kassovitz | | [Gothika] Music Video: Limp Bizkit's "Behind Blue Eyes | | [Hill] Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | [Hill] Behind-The-Scenes Documentaries | | [Hill] Deleted Scenes | | [Hill] Director's Audio Commentary | | [Hill] DVD-ROM Features: Web Events, Chat Room Access, Genre Essays, Original Theatrical Web Site, & Sampler Trailers | | [Hill] Filmographies | | [Hill] Subtitles: English, French | | [Ship] 3 Shivery How-They-Did-It Pieces: A Closer Look At The Gore, Designing The Ghost Ship, & Visual Effects | | [Ship] Enhanced Features For Your DVD-ROM PC | | [Ship] Featurettes: Unlock The Secrets Of The Antonia Graza Featuring Spectacular Never-Before-Seen Footage & Frightening Untold Tales & Go On Location With These Masters Of Maritime Macabre In Max On Set - Ghost Ship | | [Ship] Music Video: Mudvayne's Not Falling | | [Thirteen, Hill] Theatrical Trailers | | [Thirteen] Cast Film Highlights | | [Thirteen] DVD-ROM Features: Link To The Original Theatrical Web Site & Other Locations | | [Thirteen] Feature-Length Audio Commentary | | [Thirteen] Featurettes: Thirteen Ghosts Revealed & Ghost Files - A Haunted Houseful Of Poltergeist Profiles | | [Thirteen] Tricky Excess Club Reel | | [Wax, Gothika, Ship, Thirteen] Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | [Wax, Gothika, Ship] Original Theatrical Trailer | | [Wax] Audio: English, French, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | [Wax] B-Roll & Bloopers: Cast Video Commentary | | [Wax] Dubbed: French, Spanish | | [Wax] Featurettes: From Location - Joel Silver Reveals The House Of Wax, Wax On - The Design Of House Of Wax, The House Built On Wax - The Visual Effects of House Of Wax, & Alternate Opening - Jennifer Killed | | [Wax] Gag Reel |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 11/13/2007 |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 110070 | | UPC: 00085391100706 | | Number of Discs: 5 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (2006) | | | MTV Award, Paris Hilton, [Wax] Best Frightened Performance | |
Nominee (2004) | | | Image Award, Halle Berry, [Gothika] Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture | | | Image Award, Charles S. Dutton, [Gothika] Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | | | MTV Award, Halle Berry, [Gothika] Best Female Performance |
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| | Professional Reviews | ReelViews 6 of 10
[Ship] Ghost Ship is essentially a movie about a bunch of anonymous characters stuck in a floating haunted house. In general, this kind of movie can be diverting if it's put together correctly. (Consider, for example, that Ridley Scott's Alien is essentially a haunted house movie, set on a spaceship.) Unfortunately, Ghost Ship shows little in the way of solid craftsmanship. Since the primary asset of a haunted house movie is rarely the plot, this sub-genre must rely on elements like shock tactics and suspense - two characteristics where Ghost Ship falls short. Aside from an occasional, half-hearted "boo!" moment, there's nothing scary about this movie. - James Berardinelli
DVDTown 7 of 10
[Hill] The earlier movie's director, William Castle, turned his film into a campy delight, even going so far as to install flying skeletons in select theaters. The new director, William Malone, uses advanced computer graphics and spooky set designs in much the same way, and for a while, at least, he sustains some of the same magic in this new effort...This new "House on Haunted Hill" is as much fun to look at and listen to as the new version of "The Haunting," and it's got more thrills. But, unfortunately, that isn't saying a lot. Like its spectacular audiovisual contemporaries, "Wild, Wild West" and "The Haunting," the movie starts out well and then dies of exhaustion from its own overblown mass. It's properly rated R for an inordinate amount of profanity, mayhem, blood, and gore. - John J. Puccio
DVD Verdict 9 of 10
[Thirteen] Once in a while I'm curious about what other critics thoughts were on a particular film. I was a bit surprised to learn that the website Rottentomatoes.com lists Thir13en Ghosts as having an 11% acceptance rating. This wouldn't be so bad if the mean was fairly small, say topping off around 13%. Unfortunately, this is a 100% scale, meaning if you gathered 100 people and put them in a theater with Thir13en Ghosts, 89 of them would come out demanding their money back. This critical panning did not bode well for the film. Not surprisingly, I'm one of the eleven people who actually liked Thir13en Ghosts...I really think it's a worthwhile disc for fans of rubber organs, droolin' monsters and splatter effects. This is a great looking disc that should please even the most discerning decapitation fan. - Patrick Naugle
Chicago Sun-Times 6 of 10
[Wax] The Dead Teenager Movie has grown up. The characters in "House of Wax" are in their 20s and yet still repeat the fatal errors of all the "Friday the 13th" kids who checked into Camp Crystal Lake and didn't check out...Where the movie excels is in its special effects and set design. Graham "Grace" Walker masterminds a spectacular closing sequence in which the "House of Wax" literally melts down, and characters sink into stairs, fall through floors and claw through walls. There is also an eerie sequence in which a living victim is sprayed with hot wax and ends up with a finish you'd have to pay an extra four bucks for at the car wash. - Roger Ebert
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