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2) From beyond
Publisher
Orion Pictures
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Unrated director's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When scientists create a resonator to stimulate the pineal gland, which is the sixth sense, it opens the doors to a parallel and hostile universe.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Meacham is chosen, along with others, to do research that will help save the dying planet Metaluna. However, an evil scheme is uncovered by the suspecting Dr. Meacham when he discovers the Metalunan's plan to take over Earth.
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young boy is awakened during a storm to witness a flying saucer land in the field behind his home. No one will believe his story as, one by one, the townspeople are captured and put under the control of sinister forces from the planet Mars.
5) Starman
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An alien, from a distant planet, lands in Wisconsin and arrives at the remote cabin of Jenny Hayden, a distraught young widow. The alien (Starman) convinces her to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if he is not picked up by his mothership in three days he will die. En route, Starman demonstrates the power of universal love, while Jenny rediscovers her human feelings for passion.
6) Gorgo
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen destruction edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Enterprising Joe and Sam capture a 65-foot monster and bring it to London as a seaside carnival attraction. This proves to be a major mistake when Gorgo's mother comes in search of her baby and trashes London.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A botanist has spent three years aboard the space freighter "Valley Forge" preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, he rebels and hijacks the space craft, killing his fellow crewman and injuring himself. He plunges the ship into the gaseous Rings of Saturn, where he embarks on the loneliest adventure of all with only two drone robots to keep him...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comet hits earth killing everyone who was not protected by steel. Now it's up to two valley girl high school seniors to protect themselves from cannibals, zombies, and still look good for any survivors they come across.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Torn between loyalty to his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the seductive powers of the Sith, Anakin Skywalker ultimately turns his back on the Jedi. This begins his complete journey to the dark side and his transformation into Darth Vader.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
Special letterbox edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scientists at a "Top Secret" Atomic Research Laboratory are taken over by strange fantastic control devices launched from an orbiting space ship inhabited by a hostile super-intelligence from beyond the stars. Simultaneously, a gigantic flying saucer crashes in the Gulf of Mexico and Kronos, a giant metalic monolith monster emerges. Unstoppable, it slashes across the countryside draining the earth of all it's electrical energy and beaming it into...
12) Sunshine
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Limited edition ; Enhanced trilogy version.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Darth Vader and the Empire are building a new, indestructible Death Star. Meanwhile, Han Solo has been imprisoned, and Luke Skywalker has sent R2D2 and C3PO to try and free him. Princess Leia, disguised as a bounty hunter, and Chewbacca go along as well. The final battle takes place on the moon of Endor, with its natural inhabitants, the Ewoks, lending a hand to the rebels.
14) Tarantula
Series
Classic sci-fi ultimate collection volume disc 1
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min. ; 78 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tarantula: A biochemist has a plan to feed the world by using a growth formula on plants and animals. But instead he creates a spider of mammoth proportions with an appetite to match!
Mole people: A team of archaeologists digging in the Middle East stumble upon a race of albinos living under the Earth. They are afraid of light of any kind and keep mutant humanoid mole men as their slaves.
15) Zathura
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 101 min.) : anamorphic, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Danny twists the key of an old science fiction game. The game unleashes a localized meteor shower and wrenches Danny's house into orbit around a distant ringed planet. Besides Danny, his brother Walter and sister Lisa have to go along. Soon a defective robot, a rangy astronaut, and an alien spaceship enter the picture. The only way the kids can return their house to its proper space-time coordinates is to finish the game, but before they can finish,...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Limited edition ; Enhanced trilogy version.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the rebels abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo, R2-D2 and C-3P0 escape in the damaged Millennium Falcon. Later, on Bespin, they are captured by Lord Darth Vader. Luke Skywalker, meanwhile, follows Ben Kenobi's posthumous command and receives Jedi training by Yoda on Dagobah.
17) Strange days
Publisher
Twentieth Centrury Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A thriller set in the urban inferno of 1999 Los Angeles. Lenny Nero sells dreams and hustles nightmares available on small disks that are viewable via a compact headpiece that makes every sensation immediate. Nero replays scenes of happier days with Faith Justin, who has run off with sadistic Philo Gant. As he attempts to win Faith back, he hooks up with an old friend, Lornette "Mace" Mason, and the two of them are caught in a deadly fantasy of conspiracy,...
18) The Terminator
Publisher
MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2029, the ruling giant super-computer, Skynet, sends an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to 1984 to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope.
19) Superman III
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet Gus Gorman, a naïve computer programming natural. For Gus, a keyboard is a weapon - and, as a result Superman faces the microelectronic menace of his life. Superman's human side comes out as he sees Lana Lang at his Smallville High School class reunion. Superman becomes his own worst enemy after a Kryptonite exposure.
20) Idiocracy
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe Bowers is an average Joe. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed. He becomes part of a government experiment to go into hibernation. The experiment goes awry and Bowers awakens in the year 2505 to find a society so dumbed-dowm by mass commercialism and mindless TV programming that he's become the smartest guy on the planet. Now it's up to this average Joe to get human evolution back on the right track.
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