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While visiting London, Sue and her brother, Eddie, are out sightseeing on their own while their parents attend a business conference. At first bored, they are delighted when the bus stops at the infamous Terror Tower.But the fun turns to fright when the kids see the wax statues in the Tower's torture chamber moving as is they are real...and ghostly images start calling out warnings to them.Suddenly, Sue and Eddie are running for their lives as they travel back in time to the Middle Ages to escape the dark fate awaiting them in Terror Tower.

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Possibly, The Best Goosebumps Video
Actually, I give this Goosebumps video 4 1/2 stars. I have seen all of the Goosebumps videos, and this may very well actually be the best one. The only one I really didn't like was "Stay Out of the Basement." I did like "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp." I really liked "Welcome To Deadhouse," "The Haunted Mask," and "The Haunted Mask Part 2." But if I had to choose the best, I would have to say this is the one. Like good horror, the movie STARTS normal and harmless. Gradually, some spooky things start to happen. One fine thing about this video is that a harmless practical joke ("We tour guides have to have some fun") foreshadows the horror to come. It's hard for me to talk about this without ruining the surprise, but I will do my best. Things go along normal for some time, but then spooky things start to happen. The setting of the tower provides a wonderful background for an alternation of fear between real threats to Eddie and Sue and trivial objects that just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Without ruining this video for you, I will say that it will keep you guessing. The greatest thing about this video is that while their are some really implausible events, (such as a journey far away Eddie and Sue will take), the implausible events eventually lead the way to a tragic event that ACTUALLY DID HAPPEN in 1483. Once this is established, we stop worrying about the implausible aspects of this story, and we are able to concentrate on the horror that DID ACTUALLY HAPPEN in history. I don't want to ruin the final scene, but I will say we are given a great combination of relief and sudden fear. The scenery is wonderful and the movie will keep you in suspense. Another thing I must compliment is the smooth transition between scenes and locations, and scenes where we think one thing, and then start to realize another. If you like the Goosebumps, you absolutely MUST have this video tape.

I loved it!
"A Night in Terror Tower" was my favorite Goosebumps book by R.L. Stine. The movie leaves out a lot of the detail in the book (as do all movies adapted from books). However, it is pretty neat to see after you read the book.

Very Good Episode
NOT SCARY- fun to watch!!!!

Have a new appreciation for Canadian Actors!!!!

you wouldnt wanna but this book down tell u read it all.....
this is one of the best books i have ever read when you read one page you wanna keep going and going it like so good..if you havent read it then you are messing out on something and whn you get one reading this you really gonna wanna read it so let me gte started and tell you about it its about to kids that are in england and they are on a tower in a tower that was aa terrior tower and they have like waxed fringers and the starts to see them move.so he tells his siter and she done believe him ,but then she see it move to and then she gets really freaked out also so they run and catch up with the tour group and thisi guy graps them and does like this rock thing and they go back in the time.and they find out there a prine and princess and ther parents are the king aand queen and the are in the terrior tower with this man that tells what they are and they are about to get tortured and you have to read the book to see if they get free are not..>>>by kim<<<<

All Locked Up And No Place To Go!
Sue and her brother Eddie are visiting London when they run into a little problem. The can't find their tour group. Still there's no reason to panic. No way their tour guide would just leave them. All alone. In a gloomy old prison tower. No way they'd get locked inside. After dark. With those eerie sounds. And a strange dark figure who wants them...DEAD!!! ... Read more

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Carly Beth is quiet and shy -- easily scared and overly trusting.She's never seen such a great Halloween mask -- really scary, really creepy, and really life-like.She has to have it -- to scare those boys who tease and humiliate her all the time!And when she does get it, the mask is every bit as weirdly spooky as she had hoped it would be. But wearing the mask seems to be causing strange things to happen to her and other people.Can the mask -- the symbol of her revenge -- be the cause of it all?What strange powers could a Halloween mask have?Unwilling to give up the mask, or to believe that it could be evil, she keeps on wearing it -- only to discover one day that she can't take the mask off.Carly Beth and the mask have become one.

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If looks could kill...
Based on the childrens book series "Goosebumps" by R.L. Stine, "The Haunted Mask" tells the story of a very "scarable" 11 year-old girl named Carly Beth (Kathryn Long) who is the victim of bullies like Chuck (Amos Crawley) and Steve (John White). This Halloween she wants to get her revenge on everyone. But how? While looking in the back of a party store, she finds a row of terrifying Halloween masks.

When she gets her hands on the most terrifying mask, she doesn't listen to the shopkeeper's (Colin Fox) warning about the mask being evil. When she tries the mask on for the third time on Halloween night, it makes her do horrible things to other people. It turns out that the mask is evil. Now she must find a way to stop the evil that is going on inside her and get the mask off that has become one with her.

"The Haunted Mask" is a very interesting video. The storyline is really fun and it's not scary at all. At times the acting is really cheesy but you have to understand that it's an episode of a childrens TV-series. Kathryn Long (of TV's "Forever Night") does an outstanding performance as Carly Beth making "The Haunted Mask" worth seeing. Overall, this video is sorta cheesy but still worth every penny spent. BUY IT OR RENT IT TODAY!

HAUNTED MASK
I LIKE IT MUCH BETTER THAN THE SECOND ONE!I ALSO WROTE A REVIEW ON THE SECOND ONE AND I GAVE IT FOUR STARS AND I GAVE THIS ONE FIVE!

Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask
Probably one of the best (or the best, actually) of the television series based on R.L. Stine's novels aiming to scare teenagers and pre-teens. This eerily effective and scary GOOSEBUMPS episode delivers enough thrills and chills to actually scare more serious horror fans who find movies like HALLOWEEN and THE EXORCIST scary. Just the thought of this normal Halloween mask (which first of all, is extremely scary looking to begin with) being stuck on your face as you slowly become the monster is just frightening. The script is nicely written so that it doesn't cross the line into extreme horror, but it does maintain excellent atmosphere.

It was pretty good!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was pretty scary!!.I liked it, Carly Beth was a GOOD character!!!!!!!!!.It starts out Carly Beth is a quiet,shy timid and very SCARABLE young lady!!!.Her half-friends half-enemies Chuck & Steve, constantly make fun of the poor girl and they are ALWAYS TERRIFYING her with worms,living pumpkins and dead octopuses!!!!!.I saw it when I was 6 years old,...so I don't remember much about it!!!.But it was GOOD and I have to give it a four!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The scariest movie since ''Bride of the Living Dummy''
This movie ''The Haunted Mask'' has a good plot. It all starts with Carly Beth putting on a mask. She doesn't know that the mask can't be taken off.
With help from Sabrina,her best friend,Carly Beth better get the evil mask off...before it becomes her face...forever!
I think it's scary. Every minute,something scary occurs.
R.L.Stine writes scary books. And,surprising.
This scary film teaches a lesson of love but in a scary way.
So,i think everybody should see this.
It's very scary,and surprising.
Nobody knew the mask was evil.
It was a surprise. A surprise in disguise.
That rhymes. So,see it to believe it.
My critic business rocks my foundation.
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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. The acting is surprisingly topnotch and the stories are fun and thrilling.Animorphs: The Invasion Series, Part 1--The Invasion Begins introduces friends and morphers Jake (Shawn Ashmore), Rachel (Brooke Nevin), Marco (Boris Cabrera), Cassie (Nadia Nascimento), and Tobias (Christopher Ralph). Three episodes from the TV series, "My Name Is Jake," parts 1 and 2, and "The Underground," reveal how the Animorphs learn to use their gift and uncover the Yeerk plan. Part of the nasty alien plot is to acquire as many human controllers (those possessed by Yeerks) as possible. And despite the darkness of story, there's a sense of humor, too: one of the human controllers is the high school principal. For ages 6 and up. --N.F. Mendoza ... Read more

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Paper into Film
K.A. Applegate's world famous book series ANIMORPHS has finally hit the TVs of kids who tune into Nickeldoen. Shawn Ashmore plays the Animorphs' leader, Jake. The brave and lion-hearted Rachel is Brooke Nevin. Boris Cabrera plays Marco's part well with his jokes and, may I add, he's really cute. Nadia Nascimento (maybe I spelled that wrong) plays the nature wise Cassie. And last of the "human" actors is Tobias played by Christopher Ralph. And Homer is played by Jesse. These actors play their parts well and the special effects are great for the low sum they had to use. If you liked the books, you'll love the shows. But, and a big BUT, the books are always better. So, don't forget to open the newest ANIMORPHS soon!!!

Im sorry, but I...LUV IT!!!!!
Okay, let me show you what I liked about it. The exellent visser three portrayal was definitely a good start, and the morphing was nicely done. The music fit well with it (though I'm darn dissapointed with the theme) and Boris Cabera and Christopher....what's his name... were good actors and the yeerk pools had a nice spooky touch. It did well copying the pulse pounding excitement of the books and... though it didn't really have that Animorphs FEEL sometimes, it had a unique feel that I really liked. The starship was... dissapointingly low resolution, but it was satisfactory and the Hork Bajir...well...I just don't think they really should look like that. Overall, Animorphs is a fun series that appeals to many ages.

Review of Part 1
I watched this video 2 days ago and it fascinated me and my 8-year old son...the acting is good and these kids are more or less similar to the characters in the book but totally different. With books turned into a TV series, you cannot really expect a "literal" copy of the book to be turned into a TV series but it's still entertaining to watch. I just wish they have this series in reruns or something....and continue to fascinate young generations like my son.

HONESTLY
I don't mean to insult those who think the movie is okay--well that's your choice. Sure movies don't always NEED to fit the book exactly, but come on, at least they should still MAKE SENSE. In the part after the Animorphs have found Ax, as they run away from Visser Three and the controllers, they run into a room with an open ceiling and lock the door. Visser Three uses his tail blade to break the door open (and in the meantime, the Animorphs are aquiring butterflies, to get away) After Visser Three managed to get the door open all the way, he morphs to human before going in and saying "Nooo!" as he sees the butterflies fly away. Now WHY WHY WHY would Visser Three morph to human??? He only uses his human morph when he's among real humans, to hide his real form. There were no real humans here, only controllers. And after all, he thought that he was dealing with Andalite warriors here, right? SO why would he morph into a human that has no natural weapons at all???
There's a lot more pointless stuff than that. Like when Rachel morphs to cat to go spying on Chapman's house. Why doesn't she stay in the dining room to spy on Melissa and Chapman??? Why does she go down into the basement? In the book, the reason why she went there was cause she was following Chapman there, but here it makes no sense at all. And then, get this, once she reaches the basement, she DEMORPHs, which is really dangerous. And then she starts searching through a desk that's there, muttering "come on, come on". ERM, what exactly is she looking for? In the movie she went into this house to check wether or not Melissa is a controller. So what exactly does she expect to find on a DESK? Maybe a document, some piece of paper, that says "Melissa Chapman is a controller" ?? It just seems really stupid, how she's hastily searching through this desk, muttering "Come on, come on.." when she's really searching for NOTHING if you think about it, lol. Like someone else said: If you wanna save money, don't buy this junk. On the other hand, I would also recomend you to buy it, if you feel like it :D , just so that you can laugh your butt off at all the cheapness. (Jake always grins so stupidly when he's supposed to be serious, the furr on Ax's head looks like a punk, and in the part where Elfangor tells the Animorphs to run away from the aproaching yeerks, he's like "Go! Goooo! Gooo!" ugh. He might as well say "Gooo, my little Animorphs, gooo! Mwhahahaha!" ;) )

Animorphs, The Invasion Series
The movie (or small episodes on one video) was quite disappointing. I am a HUGE fan of the book series, Animorphs, by K.A. Applegate so I decided to check out the movie in the library. The movie was a horrible. The actors were much older than the characters in the book. The actors did not portray the characters they were playing very well. The Andalites were completely fake looking and the movie strayed more from the basic book plot than I would have liked. I thought maybe the people who made the movie might have put the episdes in order instead of skipping around. There were some switched roles and completely messed up personalities. All in all, I wouldn't recommend buying the movie if you want to save money. Try renting or borrowing it. ... Read more

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When Margaret's dad gets fired from his job as a botanist, he begins acting weird and spending all his time in the basement.No one seems to notice his odd behavior or hear the strange noises coming from below -- except Margaret.She's really scared.Has her father turned into a mad scientist?Her brother, Casey, thinks she's nuts -- that is until he finds out that dad has been eating plant food!What is going on?Together Margaret and Casey venture down into the dark, creepy basement to unearth their father's spooky secret.

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stay out of the basement
it`s not scary at all!!! it`s real stupid and the actors are c.o.r.n.y.!it`s my least favorete from the goosebumps seris!the book is much better!this movie is stupid!

BEST FLIPPIN MOVIE IN THE WORLD!!!!!
It was such a great and hot movie, that I picked up the cover and it burned my fing hands. I got it and watched it seventy seven before realizing that i had to reaturn it. SO i Killed everyone at Australian BLock BUster and stole the thing. I love(...)this movie!!!(...)

Goosebumps: Stay Out of the Basement
I remember that when I first saw this episode, I had mixed feelings. Looking back on it and having not been such a big horror fan then, I realize now that this is a great episode of GOOSEBUMPS. I agree with another viewer in saying that this is quite creepy and might send chills up even adults spines, and if that can happen, the children will be ferociously scared with this one. There are only about 3 episodes of GOOSEBUMPS that can generate chills and thrills like movies such as HALLOWEEN and THE EXORCIST, and this is one of them. The dad is quite the odd-ball and I felt sorry for the kids for ever having him as a father. Interesting, suspenseful and creepy.

what was that thump??
good...scary even for the adults. be prepared to have the little ones sitting on your lap during this one. you might even need them to help you cover your eyes during the scary parts!!

Stay Out of the Basement
My seven year old son LOVES this tape. He has watched it over and over for the past two years. He has almost all of the Goosebumps tapes and this is definitely his favorite! ... Read more

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Finally, a perfect video from GOOSEBUMPS.
Great! Well done to all the actors. The story wasexcellent,Slappy was scary, the dummies were freaky and scary. Some ofit left me thinking, how DID they get the dummy in the water freshner. I just loved Slappy, he's awesome, scary and funny. I hated Zane, though. Just like the book, thats the way I really like it. I also recommend The Haunted Mask 1 and 2, Night Of The Living Dummy 2. A definite buy for all GOOSEBUMPS fans.

It is a horror movie for younger kids and just as scary
That was so cool.The only reason I read the book was because of the movie.They are nothing alike all they used were the same names but the movie is a lot smarter and scarier.It is the story of a guy who has a lot of dummys in his attic but his newest one is brought back to life by his kid.She learned her leason because the dummy came to life and scaried the heck out of her and her brother and cousin.The coolest part was when slappy the dummy turned Zane the cousin into a dummy. It was the coolest ever buy it for sure.

The dummys 3`rd
THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT!I JUST DON`T UNDERSTAND HOW SLAPPY WAS BLOWN UP IN THIS ONE,AND IN BRIDE OF THE LIVING DUMMY HE`S IN ONE PIECE!?BUT ANYWAY,IT`S GREAT!

slappy's scartastic
when I first saw this I was surprized.Surprized with fear.I never thought that night of the living dummy 3 was so scary.Slappy was scary and boosy just like in the book.But I had thought that more that one dummy would be brought to life not just one[Rocky or Rocko].I loved the part were Slappy propped himself up on the table then Zane told him to kick him and Slappy did,but after Zane turned around."YOU DIDN'T SAY PLEASE AND SO THEY WANT TO PLAY PRANKS ON EACH OTHER",are my favorite lines that Slappy had said.

GOOSEBUMPS ROCKS!!!
This movie was great! The part i don't undeerstand is how at the end of this movie slappy blows up, and in the bride of the living dummy slappy is in one peace? It was good anyway! I recomend bringing night of the living dummy and don't go to sleep to video! ... Read more

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If you know the difference between an Andalite and a Yeerk, then you'll easily become engrossed in this video, which contains three episodes of the Animorphs television series. Even if you're not hooked on the series of sci-fi books that are sweeping grade schools, there's enough inherent dramato draw you in and clues to help you figure it out. Each installment involves high drama: the teens are chased by bad guys and morph into animals as they deal with high-anxiety trauma. In one episode, the teens meet Ax, a wild-looking Andalite creature who falls from space to help them fight the resident bad guys, the parasitic Yeerks. In the best segment, Cassie--one of the morphing teens--can't stop turning into a crocodile against her will. The solution? She burps up the beast. Gross? Yep, and totally kid cool. --Valerie J. Nelson ... Read more

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i wish i were rach!
rachel is soooo lucky! Tobias is sooooo cute! in the book too! i wonder if KA applegate needs another animorph.... -i am the #1 fan of animorphs, ask any one around me- my room is covered in animoroh stuff. i have all the books and the 1st movie!

Animorphs is in-Babysitter's Club trashed!!
In the second part of the Animorphs Invason Series, the first episode ic called "Between Friends", Rachel's friends, Melissa, is the daughter of Principal Chapman, and he's a Controller. Rachel is getting suspicious that her friend is a Controller,too.Investigating gets her into trouble! In "The Message", Cassie and Tobias are recieving weird signals in their brains about something crashing..With an ALIEN INSIDE!The message gets Jake scared, so the Animorphs set off to find the crash site, and a young Andalite is waiting there. His name is Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill. He's the newest Animorph. In "The Reaction", the episode portrays the Animorphs title #12, when Rachel is morphing out of control!In the show, CASSIE morphs a crocodile to save a little boy. Rachel helps, and they're both invited as guests on a talk show that's airing on t.v. With the only way of her crazy out-of-her-control morphing, Cassie has to go on, and risk getting caught. Ax, the new Animorph, says the only way to fix the problem is to regurgitate the croc's DNA- in the shape of the 12-foot reptile.

ANIMORPHS VIDEO # 2- NOWHERE TO RUN!!!!!!!!
I am so sick of people saying about how its Rachel not Cassie-WE KNOW THAT! Even though they don't make them the same did any of you ever think that maybe most TRUE Animorphs fans who have read the books would want something diffrent????Well this video is great even if all you people who aren't true Animorphs fans don't think so!!!!!!!!

books v. movies
I think that this movie was ok . I LOVE the Animorphs series
and am trying to own all the movies ( i have the 1st 2 ) I'm waiting for the 3rd and 4th to come in .They should make the episodes longer 2 . By the tome the credits r over , half the episode is 2!
Anyway ,
I think that if you are a fan of the books that you will be disapointed . They change the stories around . Like with the uncontrollable morphing in the 3rd episode on this video .
In the books its Rachel but here its Cassie . But shes suppose 2 be the best morpher so it makes no sense!
The special affects r pretty bad 2 . The hrk-bajir look nothing like they should and the andalites r just sad .
what ever happened 2 the taxxons?
and they were supose 2 find ax in the domeship in the ocean !
so yeah , they change the stories and the special effects r pathedic .
but I bought it because its Animorphs .
and the 1st 1 was good .so if u have the rest of the series ,
you gotta have this one .
just don't expect 2 much .
and oh yeah -
4 other reviewers-
when you talk bout the books/series/animorphs ending-
don't spoil it 4 the rest of us, ok ?

Calling it Animorphs should be a crime
I absolutly love the books. They are awsome they are great this is not. This series is so bad I can't stand it. The books are wonderful and full of battles and aliens. This has no real battles. Morphing is only showed half the time. You never see an entire andalite at once. The Hork Bajar just stand there. The taxxons are not in this. The acting was absolutly terrible. If only this series was good. Animorphs had so much potencial so much. ... Read more

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As if alien invasion isn't enough to deal with, Rachel finds out herdivorced dad is moving 1,000&nbsp;miles away and wants her to leave her friends, mother, and sister behind and join him in "The Stranger," the first of three 24-minute episodes based on the Scholastic book series by K.A. Applegate.While she is mulling over Dad's offer, Rachel and the rest of the band ofmorphing teenagers face a tempting offer: stay on earth and fight whatappears to be a losing battle to the invading Yeerks, or take refuge on a safeplanet with their families. In "The Leader," parts&nbsp;1 and 2, Jake and Marcoare caught morphing into animals and launched into space to face a powerful new Yeerk leader, Visser One, who turns out to be the mother Marco thoughthad been dead for two years. The three episodes from Nickelodeon's prime-time series are sandwiched by extra footage of Marco first making his case to quit theteens' quest to save the earth and then, after discovering his mother's fate,vowing to fight until she is free. This well-produced adventure seriescombines domestic tales with science fiction geared toward ages6-12. --Kimberly Heinrichs ... Read more

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concerned reader/watcher
The show is okay, but has no comparison to the book series. The books are more graphic, and funnier. Also, They twist the story around. Like in the reaction. Rachel is the one who has the allergec reaction, not cassie. The actors can't act either. The people who played Jake, Tobias,and Cassie are the only people that I have seen on other T.V. shows.

Read the books
Read the books. They are awsome one of the best book series ever made. This show is [is bad]. Morphing is only showed half the time. In the books there are intenes battles and an awsome story. In this show there are no battles just sneaking around. There are no Taxxons. The andalites look like weird mupputs and you never see there whole body at once. Ax and Visser three are always in human morph. The hork bajar look right but they don't move anywhere. They just stand there. Remember the witty and smart dialoge of the books replaced with stupid and unrehersed acting of the show. The charactors don't look like the book charactors at all. Read the books don't watch this [show].

The Enemy Among Us
This movie is great. The 4th one is the best but this one is right behind it. In the Stranger Rachel is offered by her dad to move 1,000 miles away with him. Then Jake, Rachel, Marco, and Cassie are warned by Tobias that Ax is in trouble. They attempt to save him but are caught in a net. Then the net vanishes. Tobias is in human form much to everyone's suprise. They are greeted by a being called the Ellimist. He offers them a chance to leave Earth with their families including a human Tobias, Tom, and possibly Marco's mom. He shows them what happens in the future after they are caught. Rachel is Visser Three's (now Visser One) best warrior and Tobias was roasted and eaten with barbaque sauce. Rachel takes a knife from her older self. The Animorphs refuse his offer. They are caught in the net. Rachel cuts it with the knife. Marco and Rachel save Ax and Rachel doesn't go with her father. In The leader Part 1 Jake discovers there is a second Kandrona at the EGS tower. They set out to destroy it. JAke and Marco are captured and taken to the Mother Ship where MArco discovers a suprising secret. In Part 2 Jake and Marco steal a Blade SHip and with Ax's help they get back to Earth. Marco now has a new reason to fight the Yeerks.

okay
If you ask me, you should read the books first, then watch the movies. The other way around kinda spiols it. I like how the movies are visual, I am a visual person after all (kinda). I still think that the books are better than the videos because they have a longer storyline and a really interesting one, not that I am saying that the videos don't, because they do, they are just kinda dilluting it, that's all. Read book #1, then go down to your local video renting store and check out the first video in the series and you'll see what I mean. The videos are pretty good though, beleive me. The books are better, however, if you want a really good book to read, choose the Holy Bible, God's word.

I loved this movie, it was so awsome. You have to see it!
Animorphs. Five normal kids with the power to become any ANIMAL they touch. Jake, Marco, Rachel Cassie, and Tobias are Earth's only HOPE against an alien invasion that's hit their neighborhood. But they're getting tired of saving the world... until a mysterious stranger shows what the FUTURE will look like if they give up. Then, when Jake and Marco are held hostae on the Yeerk space ship, they discover a SECRET that changes EVERYTHING. ... Read more

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Carly Beth and her friends find themselves in double trouble this Halloween!After last year's spook, Carly Beth buried her old haunted mask forever...or did she?This year Steve is determined to get himself a horrifying mask just like it so he can scare the neighborhood kids. At the last minute he encounters a stranger wearing Carly Beth's old mask who leads him to a deserted shop, where he steals one of the creepy masks in the basement.What he doesn't realize is that Carly Beth's old mask is alive and using both Steve and the shopkeeper to get her back.On Halloween night, evil brings both masks to life, bringing twice as much terror to their festivities.

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SEQUAL TO HAUNTED MASK
I LIKED #1 BETTER THAN THIS ONE.I THINK THE KID THAT PLAYED STEVE IN THE FIRST ONE WAS BETTER TOO.BUT IT`S A PRETTY GOOD EPISODE!

Actually 3 1/2 stars
A good movie, but the acting is c-o-r-n-y, as is the plotline. Please, would a guy be *THAT* desperate to scare everyone? Also who's scared of some croaking old man...unrealisitc in realism, but a good flick, low on scares. Quality seems to lack.

Pretty Good Movie
This is a very good movie, and it's about twice as scary as the first. There are some scary parts so I wouldn't recommend
it to kids younger than eight. But it's good, you can believe that.

A scary Halloween night
It was very scary! My favourite character was the girl who put the mask on. I was really excited to watch it. I would recommend this movie to kids ten and up! My favourite part was when she got the mask-it was really creepy,but cool!

New mask. Old nightmare.
After last years' terrifying Halloween, Carly Beth (Kathryn Long) buried her evil haunted mask in the graveyard. Now this year her friend Steve (John White) wants to find a mask just as scary, but Carly Beth refuses to tell him where she bought hers.

At the last minute though, Steve encounters a stranger wearing Carly Beth's old mask, a mysterious man who leads him to a boarded up novelty shop. Steve slips in through the back door and steals a creepy mask he finds in the basement. What he doesn't realise is that the mask he stole is just as evil as Carly Beth's old mask. The worst of it though, is that Carly Beth's old mask is alive - and it's using both Steve and the shopkeeper (Colin Fox) to get her back.

"The Haunted Mask II" is even better than the original! Like most episodes of the childrens TV-series "Goosebumps," the acting and the script is a little cheesy. You just have to understand it's a show for children. I remeber when "The Haunted Mask II" came out on video on September 5, 1997 - it was a big hit. The whole town was excited about it. Okay, overall, "The Haunted Mask II" is great video. It's worth every penny spent if you enjoyed the first in the series, "The Haunted Mask." BUY IT OR RENT IT TODAY! ... Read more

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Compilation of a new children's horror TV series narrated by R.L. Stine of the "Goosebump" fame. The show is an anthology of chilling tales of children trapped inside The Nightmare Room. This compilation includes the following episodes: Camp Nowhere Parts 1 and 2, Don't Forget Me. ... Read more

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Don't Forget About This Gem......
A wonderful addition to any DVD collection. R.L. Stine, the man behind the "Goosebumps" legacy, has returned with this collection of tales from his "The Nightmare Room" series. This disc features four episodes from the television series. The episodes in question are "Camp Nowhere" (Parts 1 & 2), "Don't Forget Me" and "Full Moon Halloween." "Camp Nowhere" sees Russel, Dave, Erin, and Charlotte attend Camp Hawkwood. The campfire story depicts a ghost-camp. In a routine initiation the four experience the `story' first-hand. Will they escape alive? In "Don't Forget Me" a family moves into a new house. Danielle is left to look after her brother Peter when the parents go away. To make him a better brother, Danielle decides to hynotize Peter, who then begins to act strange. Does this have anything to do with the calls from the basement or is it a hynotization gone wrong? Lastly, in "Full Moon Halloween" a rumoured werewolf is attacking people. An invite to a surprise Halloween party for five friends soon turns into a game of `Who is the werewolf?' Will everybody pass, fail, or is it all a hoax? Each of the episodes are excellently scripted and are great stories. The episodes even feature familiar faces....faces such as Amanda Bynes (Big Fat Liar), Sam Jones III & Allison Mack (Smallville), Frankie Muniz (Malcolm In The Middle), Madeline Zima (The Nanny) + a few others. In term of the special features, they are quite excellent as well. Aside from trailers from other Warner Brothers titles, an an intervew with R.L. Stine entitled "The Nightmare Files," there is a bravery test of our darkest fears in "Do You Dare," and lastly a choose-your-own-adventure type of interactive game with "The Nightmare is Yours:Sink or Swim" where you decide your fate. I recommend that this disc be picked up because the stories and features are things that people of all ages would enjoy. So please don't forget to venture into "The Nightmare Room" or else "The Nightmare Room" will venture into you! :-)

Camp Nowhere
I watched Camp Nowhere once and I really like it alot, and the part that I really liked the most is when one kid was cutting down the tree and everybody else was running from the storm to get back inside, but the camp was gone, and the people who were there were gone forever. ... Read more

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4 and a quarter stars
A good movie. Better acting than the norm for Goosebumps and the plotline is a bit thicker than usual. Although the actors continue to be scared of the tiniest things - as in, exaggeration - it's good creepy fun. Decent SFX for this type of movie. The Wolf-in-the-house-chase with Emily is terribly executed, effects wise. Otherwise good work.

The werewolf that was terrifying
This video tape i saw at school. In Ms.Ahern's room. It was creepy. There was this family,and this boy named Grady and this girl named Emily. They were afraid of their new town,or bored.
Then,Grady meets Will,and Will tells him legends of the werewolves. And,about the town. Grady gets murdered by a werewolf,and he finds out that Will is a werewolf.
He gets a fever,then he's a werewolf,too. This video was all right. I could live with it.

Great Movie
This movie is great. The werewolf is scary when the sister first sees it in the living room. The effects are alright for this kind of a movie. The acting is good and the plot is great. It's a great movie!

Well, 2nd Best Is Not Bad.
I don't feel this quite matches "Night In Terror Tower," "Welcome To Dead House," "The Haunted Mask," or "The Haunted Mask Part 2." But we must not overlook 2nd best. In this day and age, we are often lead into shunning 2nd best. That is not always a good idea. Well, onto the review. It is not the best Goosebumps video (in my opinion), but it does have worthy elements. As usual in good horror, the story STARTS normal and harmless. (Good!) I don't feel the family is as well drawn as the one in "Welcome To Dead House," but it is alright. The (harmless?) eccentric serves to grab our attention quickly. Some of the Goosebumps videos have better scenery, but there is a spooky charm to the scenery in this one. Will is a well drawn character who seems normal enough but makes us nervous at times. It is interesting how Grady wants to stay away from trouble (a possible werewolf), but when his dog is starting to fall under suspicion of bad things, he summons his courage and tries to find out what is happening. I can't tell you too much more without ruining the video, so I will just say that the rest is captivating. One very well drawn scene is the one where the director alternates between shots of Emily and Grady. Also, a memorable situation is when Grady has to convince his mother (a scientist) that there may be things out there that science can't explain. Some people complaimed that this video is too predictable. But even if we know what is happening, that does not mean we can't still enjoy the charm it offers. It's only 45 minutes. So even if you figure out what is going on early, do yourself a favor and enjoy how everything leads up to the solution.

Dog vs. Werewolf
This video was really amazing becasue there was also a dog that struggles to protect Grady and his family from a hideous monster that has been wondering in the swamps for many years. IF there were 3 komondors dogs that are really hairy bigger and stronger than than Vandell then this would be no contest if they went up against the werewolf because Komonodor dogs are really strong and they have a really powerful bite like a pitbull. When grady was being attacked by the werewolf and Vandell came to the resuce and when the dog bit the werewolf's arm well the 3 komondors would all attack the werewolf bit the monster so hard maybe the werewolf would be crippled then grady would have been safe big time and he would sit back and watch the komondors tear the werewolf to shreds. But anyways I really like this movie if I scripted this movie then I would have put the 3 komondor dogs in the movie instead of Vandell. ... Read more

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For those not familiar with the popular Nickelodeon series, Animorphs concerns the adventures offive teens who have been given the ability to morph into animals and bugs. Don't dismiss it as asci-fi Saved by the Bell. The acting is surprisingly top-notch, and the stories are fun and thrilling.Animorphs: Part&nbsp;4--The Legacy Survives finds friends and morphers Jake (ShawnAshmore), Rachel (Brooke Nevin), Marco (Boris Cabrera), Cassie (Nadia Nascimento), and Tobias(Christopher Ralph) in their big battle against the Yeerks, sluglike aliens who aspire to take over theworld. The Yeerks insinuate themselves into a human ear and have all the appearances of being human.The three-episode adventure offered in Animorphs: Part&nbsp;4--The Legacy Survives is like thecreatively creepy They Live! for the 7 and up set.

The actual morphing process, as the teens turn into creatures, is especially neat, and audiences may findthere's not quite enough of the inventive special effect. Since the episodes are designed for television, thereare obvious breaks for commercials (distinctive fades-to-black) that may be distracting, but the videofeatures footage that hasn't and won't be seen on television. --N.F. Mendoza ... Read more

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Read The Books
Here is my positive and negitive lists. Positive: Good Acting, Good time passer. Negitive: weak special effects, bad alien voices, toatlly different from the book, visser three looks dumb. All in all this was the best of the four, but they do weird things, like they find ax in the forest and Cassie has long hair in some episodes and short hair in others. I suggest you read the books.

The Legacy Survives
This is the best of the 4 movies! The 3 episodes are The Capture Parts 1 and 2 and Not My Problem. In the Capture Part 1 The animorphs discover the yeerks are in charge of a health clinic where the governor will receive a treatment and if the Yeerk's plan is successful he will be a human-controller. He is also running for president! Jake falls into the Yeerk Pool and becomes a controller. In the Capture Part 2 Ax figures out that Jake is a human-controller. Jake keeps reassuring the animorphs that he is not and they figure they must lock him up for 3 days to be sure. On the thrid day Jake waits for Rachel (who is guarding him) to fall asleep. He then morphs to dog and escapes the barn undetected (or so he thinks). He leads the animorphs to a new entrance to the Yeerk Pool. He finds out that his friends knew he escaped since Rachel had only been pretending. The Yeerk dies and the Animorphs meet at the mall where Jake calls tom disgusing his voice telling him not to give up. In Not My Problem Jake has had enough between fighting Yeerks and keeping up with his schoolwork. He wishes he never met the Elfangor and the Ellimist grants his wish. Then durind their new lives Tobias (who is the only animorph) tells Rachel about the Yeerk threat. At 1st she thinks he's nuts. Later they all go to a Sharing meeting where Tobias is caught sneeking around. It is then revealed that Jake is a controller. After school Tobias calls Rachel and asks her to meet him at the Spider Club (the place where the Sharing meeting was held). Jake follows her and a lion saves her from Jake. The lion turns out to be Tobias. He and Rachel tie Jake up and then Jake asks him about the "andalite" that attacks him. It turns out that Rachel has been a controller since the previous night and then she tells Jake everything. Tobias tries to escape but Tom, Cassie, Marco, and 2 punks cut off his escape. He is captured and Visser 3 comes in and promotes Jake to Visser 10. Jake tries to infest Tobias but fails when the real Jake fights back. Jake is then in his room back in a world where Tobias is still a hawk, the animorphs exist and none of them are controllers. Was it a dream or real? All in all this is a great movie.

For shame
These books are great and the movie made a joke out of them. Visser 3 looks like a blue hair ball and theirs NO ACTION!

A shame to the name Animorph
This like its predeseres is an insult to the magical books. The books were great this wasn't. Gone is the intense action and fights the book described. Now we get garbage sneaking around. The andalites are very fake and are never showen all at once. No taxxons at all. The hork bajar just stand there. Gone is the witty smart acting of the books replaced by total garbage. Read the books and stay away from this.

Must say,it's the best of all four
This is best of all four movies.Some parts are enjoyable,such as the beginning,but some such as the last,aren't. ... Read more

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Crack the creaky door to R.L. Stine's Nightmare Room and what you're really stepping into is a twilight zone for 12-year-olds. Here, tween scenarios more twisted than getting caught at the mall with Grandma take flight, freaking out the kind of hapless middle- and high-schoolers we hook up with in Scareful. First, normally Mr. Nice Guy would shrug off getting the cold shoulder from his dream babe, but a raw red rash he develops lights up the switchboard to his sinister side. Next, what happens when you cast aside the dolls you treasured as a kid? Mostly nothing, but battered old Buddy won't go into the box quietly. Wrapping things up is a pathological liar whose every elaborate ruse turns suddenly, scarily real. Dim the lights, pass the Doritos, and lock your doors--only a nationwide ban on MTV could send bigger swarms of kids (ages 8 to young teens) screaming into the night. --Tammy La Gorce ... Read more

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great for pre teens and early teens
COOL DVD for kids age 12-16 or older- r.l. steins books are genius and his movies are pretty good too this dvd teaches some lessons to kids while at the same time scaring them or adding some suspense. dvd has 4 diff scary stories and a cool DO you dare? challenge as an extra on the dvd - its sort of like the books he has where u can choose diffrent paths to take but this is on the computer which makes it even cooler - if u take the wrong path u die or u can get to the end if u take right path - u can play it on the dvd player or computer.
EPISODES ON THIS DISK
1. MY NAME IS EVIL- 4 STARS
2. SCAREFUL WHAT U WISH FOR- 4 STARS
3. TANGLED WEB- 5 STARS
4. FEAR GAMES- 3.5 stars
and then the haunted cave game extra feature
plus trailors - highly recomended dvd

TWILIGHT ZONE for kids
This is the TWILIGHT ZONE for kids... with young teens menaced by the supernatural...though usually with a not-so-subtle moral to the story. MY NAME IS EVIL is the best of this bunch...though they are all good, intelligent fun for the 16 and younger set.

A Tangled Piece of Magic......
A wonderful addition to any DVD collection. R.L. Stine, the man behind the "Goosebumps" legacy, has returned with this collection of tales from his "The Nightmare Room" series. The disc is a highly enjoyable one and is full of tricks and treats for all ages. 4 episodes are featured on this disc. In "My Name is Evil" Morgan visits a carnival with friends and is told he is `evil' by a gypsy. Bad things start to happen, but the question is are they a fluke, or is the prediction true? In "Scareful What You Wish For" Dylan is followed around by Buddy, his supposed `best friend.' He belives that it is a childhood toy come to life. Will Dylan be able to stop Buddy's attacks, is he crazy or will he become just another victim? In "Tangled Web" Josh is a compulsive liar who uses words to get out of everything. But when a supply teacher shows up and believes his lie, things get interesting. Josh's lies begin to come true! Will Josh be able to escape the trouble he put himself in or will he become a casuality of his own words? Lastly in "Fear Games" teens are selected to take part in `The Fear Games.' Upon arrival at Tranquility Island April is told of a witch that inhibits it. During the games she sees that the witch legend may indeed be true. Will she and the others be able to escape reality tv alive? The stories each feature familiar faces from current televison....Tippy Hedren, Ashley Peldon (Catlin's Way/Thunder Alley), Besty Randle (Boy Meets World), David Carradine, Justin Berfield (Malcolm In The Middle) + the twins from "Big Daddy" and a few others. The acting is superb and each episode is excellently done. In terms of special features, there are a few. With "The Nightmare is Yours: The Haunted Cave" you have an interactive `Choose Your Own Adventure' type of story in which you decide your very fate. "Do You Dare?" is a trivia feature about our darkest nightmares. "The Nightmare Files" is an interview with R.L. Stine himself. Lastly, there is a "Trailers" feature that showcases other Warner Brothers titles that are available. I highly recommend this DVD as it provides a wide variety of entertainment for people of all ages. Do you dare attempt to venture into "The Nightmare Room?" :-) ... Read more

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For Josh and Amanda, having to move to the remote, desolate town of Dark Falls was bad enough.But as soon as they moved into Dead House, things began to happen, things their parents couldn't see -- a ghostly shape at the window, a shadow on the wall, the way their dog kept growling at strangers, the quiet, death-pale neighbor kids.Was it the chemical spill that made the people of Dark Falls so strange, or something far more sinister?

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Not that good...
Okay the story itself *RULES* and has INCREDIBLE potential. But the actors and actresses ruin it fully. The father's acting is especially horrible. The story is a little slow in execution - it takes the girl about five minutes to walk up the stairs and into the room! In fact, the whole first twenty-five minutes of the film are uneventful slum.

Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House
Comparable to the episode of THE HAUNTED MASK, WELCOME TO DEAD HOUSE is a very well done and masterful Goosebumps episode. When two kids and their parents move to Dark Falls, they didn't expect to find that their town was a ghost town, and that their house is not just any old haunted house - it's almost like a theme park for the haunting ghosts of the town. Much darker than most of the Goosebumps episodes and similar to George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (though of course, much more toned down), this zombie episode is surprisingly very scary and riveting the entire way through. Well scripted and eerily atmospheric.

Very Well Done
I was actually surprised how good this was. The absence of bloody effects and profanity allows the author to simply concentrate on making us nervous. The start is so well done. The story STARTS normal, but we are given some irony and subtle hints of what is to come. The town Dark Falls is portrayed quite well. The images are not miles beyond plausibility, and we can see that something is not right. The gentle but creepy piano music in this video adds to the spooky atmosphere. The writer continues to gradually make us nervous, and then he hits us with more scary news (or to be more accurate scary history). (Very good!) One aspect of good horror is that the hints start small, but then they start getting bigger and more obvious. (Good horror can be like putting a puzzle together. We might find ourselves playing with a few small pieces. They may not mean much to us at first; but then we may find ourselves getting bigger pieces that make the outcome easier to see.) Another thing the writer did VERY WELL here is that he created a wonderfully drawn family. On one hand, they are NOT a sugary blameless family; nor are they a repulsive and vulgar family like Rosanne and The Simpsons. The writer showed that they can bicker amongst themselves, without getting dirty or insulting, but that they also know when to function as a family. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE ABILITY TO DRAW FAMILIES THIS WAY??? I do not want to spoil the ending for those of you who have not seen it. For you parents reading this, it may be a good idea to watch this with your children. It is not exactly a harmless video. I will conclude by saying that this was so well done, it actually got me to buy the series of videos. Once you get into this series, you may find out just how easy it is to get hooked.

Welcome to Dark Falls - USA
This has quickly become a family classic in our house,Particularly around Halloween. My 4 1/2, 8 1/2 and 10 years old girlslove this one!

The story stems around a shady real estatesalesman... whom offers a can't refuse deal to a unsuspecting familyfrom 'out of town'. Unknown to the family, Dark Falls was the victimof some type of hazardous chemical spill a while back, causing theexisting residents to become 'living dead'. Unfortunately for these'living dead' corpses, they are dependent on 'the living' fornourishment.

Thus, they use this one piece of real estate property -AKA Dead House - as 'bait' to unsuspecting family's in order tofeed. Without disclosing the whole storyline, I must say the thingwith the dog at the end adds a nice touch...

It will make you jump
I watched this movie at a good friend's home with her two children - both mother and daughter shrieked and hid under the blanket at a few 'Gotcha!' scenes - I died laughing at both of them! (You scardy-cats may have to clean up puddles on the sofa) The film is well acted and well photographed - don't adjust your TV, it's not broken! It's a good choice for any Saturday night at home with the kids. ... Read more

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Beware of the Werewolf Skin!
This is definately the BEST and SCARIEST Goosebumps video ever! The plot is simply amazing, the story is captivating, and it's just downright terrifying! The only thing wrong about it is, the acting could use a little work. Parents, DON'T let kids under 10 watch this movie! There is a scene where Alex, the main charachter, is talking to is teacher at night in the forest, and the teacher turns around all of a sudden, and he has fangs, a white face, and popping eyes. I'm 11 now, but I first saw it when I was about 8. It was kinda hard to sleep, believe me! Now to the plot. This city kid goes to his aunt's house. He wants to enter a contest to take the scariest picture. At first, nothing scary happens, but then, he learns the legend of the werewolves, and things pick up from there. Besides that teacher scene I talked about before, the scariest scene is when he's looking out his window and these werewolves pop up. Luckily, he gets a few pictures. Anyway, buy this movie now! It's great and you won't be dissapointed! SEE Ya!

All the Goosebumps videos.
I love the R. L. Stine movies. My son and I love to watch a good scary movie, but finding a good, clean movie that's not too gory and is suitable for a child to watch is quite the task. Thanks to R. L. Stine for bringing back movies that are like the ones I watched as a child. I just wish I could find all of the stories on video.

The Skinny on Werewolf Skin
This is definitely one of my favorite Goosebump videos. I've seen
this Goosebumps video about 1,000 times (at least a lot). One reason I liked this one was because in the episode there were two not so bright kids and one always repeated everything that the other guy said. This added some humor to the scary story. I also liked it because the video made you think that any of the characters could be werewolves. It is a surprise in the end when you find out who it really is. I'm not going to give any more away. Watch it and see for yourself. It's worth it!

Awesome
Werewolf skin is awesome. I like it so much. It's perfect for the whole entire family to watch. The special effects are great. At least good enough for this kind of a movie. Watch it. You'll like it a lot.

excellent
We, my family and I, thought the movie was awsome! Great movie for kids as well as adults. We've watched it so much the tape's almost worn out. ... Read more

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The sexy cult cable series Lexx began life in 1997 as aset of four Canadian-German TV coproductions, sci-fi farces about a trioof fugitives in a living spaceship on the run in an unknown galaxy. It'slike a twisted parody of the playful but far more serious space operaFarscape, though Lexx actually was produced first. Sad sackStanley Tweedle (Brian Downey), a bumbling engineer with bad judgment andworse luck, is the pilot of the most powerful weapon in the galaxy thanks toa fluke accident. And his motley crew includes platinum-blond bombshell ZevBellringer (Eva Habermann), whose DNA has been altered to contain that of abloodthirsty cluster lizard; former assassin Kai (Michael McManus), a humorless,dead warrior kept animated for 2,000 years with artificial blood; and a decapitated,lovesick robot head named 790.

The colorful "I Worship His Shadow," the satirical debut of the series, is anabsurd fantasy about a rebellion (led by guest star Barry Bostwick, who gamelykeeps a straight face while running around dressed in psychedelic Arabian Nightsduds) against His Shadow, an immortal emperor who renders his subjects into raw proteinfor his invincible insectlike spaceship, the Lexx. Directed at a fast and furious paceand crammed with cool CGI effects that make up in ambition and wild design what theylack in polish, it's the show's finest hour and a half, a crazy adventure with awacky sense of humor. It's obvious the show's producers lavished their care andattention on this pilot, for the balance of the miniseries never again reaches thislevel of invention and fun, though in moments it comes close. --Sean Axmaker ... Read more

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electrifying and intelligent
if you like Shakespeare and opera, you'll love this. not only does it cater to the panting 13-35 american male category (sex and violence and fabulous special effects), but it is loaded with a dark extremely cynical look at the human race. it is a dim reflection of the brilliant director tim burton's take on humanity, only completely without any sympathy or redemptive attribution to being human whatsoever. its funny and its 'disturbing' (such an overused word in the ott decade, but very very appropriate for lexx), not because of the sex, violence or severely disfunctional 'heroes' but because how every human being on the series ends up being totally empty of any useful reason to exist. if very very clever people wanted to take Star Wars and turn every single wonderful feeling and archtype of hero in that movie into a total intellectually reversed universe of the meanings about being human, Lexx is it. and they even accomplished using the old classic Disney movie trick where whatever level you are at in being entertained, the movie is great to see, unless you are a member of one of the dogmatic and seriously single issue minded class of being human lately taking over all the talking head america.

the original four tv movies are the best, but the series is slowly losing excitement. the characters and what they represent artistically never change, except for the dead hero, who seems to be solidifying into a statue. the assassin is becoming so bloodless that at this point if he disappeared from the series no one would miss him for at least several episodes. after wonderfully clever slamming every aspect of humanity and all historic artistic endeavors to show humanity at its best, the show is turning sterile. even the artistic tension of having the characters possibly die from their adventures has been bled into losing all caring about it. it appears that where such a black view of everything in the universe leads is to complete meaningless or caring about anything, including being interested to tune in next week. i don't know if the creators have lost interest in taking the original sarcastic themes any further or if the ideas of so much utter meaningless to life has left them feeling creatively sterile.

in any case, the first 4 movies are wonderful, stimulating and fun, and leave you wondering, gosh, what next? i only wish that the story hadn't led to this dead end. it seems to me they could have kept the original hints in these movies of some type of satisfying climaxes for the characters, yet retain the sarcastic attitude. i think the creators fell so in love with the idea of trashing human idealism and hopes for the future they lost sight of the idea of how humans make life interesting when it gets dull and played out. if every human killed themselves when they ran out of ideas on what to do tomorrow, well, you know how this ends.

Must see, must have!
I first saw this movie, and the subsequent three "Tales" movies: Eating Pattern, Supernova and Giga Shadow - after watching Lexx religiously for several months on SciFi. It not only was great to see the real origins of the most adorably dysfunctional space crew to ever grace a scifi movie - you can see in this video the beginnings of an epic. The Lexx is, without a doubt, the most endearing space ship - just listen to his/its self-intro at the beginning of each movie. An added bonus is Marty Simon's excellent score to all 4 movies and all the shows. This video, the other 3 Lexx movies and the TV episode "Brigadoom" are must haves for any self-respecting sci-fi or fantasy fan!

Star Trek's Evil Twin
At first glance, I didn't think I would like this series. In fact, I saw the second one first (the one with Tim Curry) and turned it off in the middle. But then, I came back to it, and the bug had bit me, and I had to see what the rest of the series was like.
The first one is very dark, depressing, and satiracly funny. Reminiscent of Stanislaw Lem, it has holocaust themes, gore, weird political structures, etc. I cannot eat anything (not even popcorn) while watching these shows--the emphasis on death, mutilation, dehumanizing ("meat"), and defecation are overwhelming at first, but then the humor crept through. The music grew on me as well. And me, being a graphic designer, liked all the computer animation as well. But really, the acting is superb (MUCH better than Star Wars: the Clone Wars--though that's not saying much), the plot interesting, and the twists of fate ironic. This was the pilot, and one of the best in this series, quite necessary, as it sets everything up to follow.

LEXX!
This movie rocks. Pretty funny and quirky. Give it a try.

This Has to be the best I have seen!
I recently just got into Lexx, and so I decided to see where it all began. Boy was I pleased with the special effects and the storyline, as for the Lexx fans that has never seen this movie Its a must,

I cant wait to purchase the second edition to this amazing story, Finally It all falls into place! ... Read more

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Having fled to the chaotic Dark Zone at the climax of "IWorship His Shadow," the motley fugitives on the planet-killing, livingspaceship Lexx head off for Brunnis, the lifeless planet that was zombiewarrior Kai's home world 2,000 years ago. Kai is dying (well, he's alreadydead, but he's running out of fuel), and they search the library for help.Unfortunately the library is more interested in expanding its collectionvia the memories of its visitors, even if it has to suck the brains out of their bodies to do it. Tim Curry costars as Poet Man, a cocky hologramtour guide miffed that he was left behind during the evacuation (all becauseof a splitting hangover), and Ellen Dubin returns as the cannibal queenGiggerota, an unwelcome Lexx stowaway who can't decide whether to feast onthe living brains in the hold of the ship or team up with them in a hijackingscheme. The TV film was originally titled Super Nova for reasons thatbecome obvious as the planet's dying sun moves toward its final burst ofglory. It's an impressive effect, one of the highlights of a show thatoften gets stuck in talky, static scenes. This episode is kind of a letdowncompared to the action-packed first episode, but it's not without its charms(like Zev's gratuitous R-rated shower scene--hubba hubba!). The next in theseries is "Eating Pattern." --Sean Axmaker ... Read more

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A MUST have bot not the BEST of the four films
This episode of Lexx takes us to the abandoned former home world of the Bruhnanji. There is no one on the planet except the holographic remains of a former disgruntled inhabitant, masterfully played by veteran actor Tim Curry.

While I found this episode enjoyable and mostly essential to any Lexx collection, because it shows you the prophecies of the time prophet, and you get to see Kai sliced into thin wafers, I just dont think it was as good as "I worship his Shadow" and GigaShadow.

I give it four stars for being great. I can't give it five stars, because it's just not quite as exciitng as the other films in the series.

slow entry in the series
This was the second of the Lexx movies - the sequel to "I Worship His Shadow". Having escaped into the "Dark Zone" an with the Lexx now under the total control of Stanley Tweedle, the crew searches for Brunis, the lost homeworld of the Bruneen-Gee. Kai, as described in "I Worship" was last of the Bruneen-Gee and had been killed by His Shadow centuries earlier, but had been kept reanimated to serve His Shadow as an assassin. Sent to the Lexx to kill Tweedle and the lovely Zev, Kai reclaims his memory and joins Tweedle and Zev in escaping His Shadow. Slowly dying again for lack of "proto-blood", Kai spends much of his time in a stasis tube. When that's damaged, Zev, who loves Kai, convinces Tweedle to take the Lexx to Brunis in the vain hope that they may find proto-blood there. Instead, they find the preserved but lifeless planet a death trap. The shared memories of its inhabitants were long ago removed and stored on computer. One of these - The Poet (Tim Curry) has managed to become dominant. Accidentally choosing to follow The Poet's fate, Zev and Kai find themselves trapped in a machine that prepares to dissect them and remove their memories. Tweedle, characteristically, gets trapped in the sort of situation you'd expect him to (The Poet had long ago left his seed in the care of the planet's computer, programming it to impregnate the first life form it could identify as female, or at least not male). Also along is Giggerotta (Ellen Dubin), an escaped criminal like Zev, but not a criminal like Zev actually (Giggerotta is actually a vile cannibal), and one with plans of her own.

This was a disappointing follow-up to "Worship" - much of the action has Kai and Zev strapped to a slab while a buzzsaw keeps getting close and Tim Curry gloats on. It lacks the frantic action of "Worship" and not even the always enjoyable Tim Curry can give this outer the speed it needs. I actually first saw this episode after I had seen both "Worship" and "Giga Shadow" the film that ended the pre-series run, and realized that this episode was entirely superfluous.

worst of the initial 4 "movies"
I guess it's a matter of personal taste but I cared less for this full length LEXX(93 min) than any of the other 3. I WORSHIP HIS SHADOW and GIGA SHADOW could be viewed back to back for story continuity. EATING PATTERN comes across like an individual adventure, complete in itself and better for it. TALES...with Tim Curry seems to drag alot; the pacing is slow and the last third goes on forever with the coming supernova. Thankfully no other LEXX venture repeats this tedious formula. This particular video of the initial 4 is forgetable and unnecessary, unless you're a fan(me). Also, you'd think with the gang going back to the planet Brunnis there would be at least ONE "YO-WAY-OH" recital...but it's curiously missing. I love that space shanty, it was the one particular thing that drew me into the series in the first place.

Poetman screws the day
This was the first I saw of the series, and the worst--though seeing it out of order, not having seen the first one, contributed a lot to my total incomprehension of the events and characters. Seeing it again, after seeing I WORSHIP HIS SHADOW helped, but still. The computer animation was nice, but the weirdness prevailed. Tim Curry wasn't star of ROCKY HORROR P