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This is the world's wildest continent as you've never seen it before - an intense sensory adventure from the Atlas Mountains, through the Savannah lands to the Cape of Good Hope and from the Roof of Africa and the Kalahari to where the dark rainforests of the Congo meet the Atlantic Ocean. Each episode shifting the focus onto a different region as it contrasts the epic power of the landscape with the dramatic struggles of individual creatures living there. From hidden jungles and ice-blue glaciers to erupting volcanoes and lakes of poison, Africa explores an astonishing array of previously un-filmed locations and discovers bizarre new creatures and behaviours -including some of the rarest fish in the world, exploding insects and lizards that hunt on the backs of lions.
This landmark six-part series utilises the latest filming technology to reveal the surprising environments, extraordinary creatures and other fascinating secrets of an amazing continent.- Director:
- Katrina Bartlam
- Cast:
- David Attenborough, Simon Blakeney, James Aldred
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Critters 3 (1991)Critters 3: You Are What They Eat
Leonardo DiCaprio's first hit film is the third and most outrageous instalment of the classic cult tale of the infamous Critters. As the fanged, furious furballs viciously invade an L.A. apartment building and sink their teeth into the low-rent tenants, Leonardo DiCaprio leads the battle to beat back the conniving critters and save the planet. It won't be an easy job, but he's the one person the human race must depend on to destroy these terrifying alien hedgehogs once and for all! - Director:
- Kristine Peterson
- Cast:
- John Calvin, Aimee Brooks, Christian Cousins
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It's no picnic for the Brown family when a lethal litter of carnivorous aliens arrives unannounced at their Kansas farm. Trapped in a deadly nightmare, the terrified Browns fight for their lives against the attacking bloodthirsty monsters. But it's a losing battle until two intergalactic bounty hunters arrive, determined to blow the hellish creatures off the planet! It's an alien adventure, full of action and just crawling with Critters! - Director:
- Stephen Herek
- Cast:
- Corey Burton, Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh
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Critters 2 (1988)Critters 2: The Main Course
It's been two years since the fiendish Critters first terrorised the town of Grovers Bend and sent the Brown family packing. But the "boy who called Critter", Brad Brown (Scott Grimes), is back...and just in time. Critter eggs have been hatching lethal litters and the bloodthirsty hairballs are eager to partake in their favourite pastime - eating. In no time, the eggs are popping open everywhere - a field full of livestock becomes a gigantic feeding ground, and local residents are disappearing by the mouthful. Fortunately, three bounty hunters from space, Ug, Lee and Charlie, are flying back to eradicate the problem. But can they wipe out the Critters before Grovers Bend is erased from the map? - Director:
- Mick Garris
- Cast:
- Scott Grimes, Mick Garris, Liane Curtis
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These are no ordinary Critters - they're a super strain of genetically engineered mutants designed to take over the universe. This time they're hungry to conquer the galaxy, with an appetite for mankind that's out of this world. Joined by Angela Bassett and Brad Dourif, Don Keith Opper and Terrence Mann reprise their popular roles as they battle for survival against the Critters, a nuclear meltdown and the fate of the universe! - Director:
- Rupert Harvey
- Cast:
- Martine Beswick, Don Keith Opper, Terrence Mann
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When a ferocious blizzard strands the cast and crew of an adult film on their precarious mountain shoot, this ragtag band of eccentric heroes must band together against a mysterious and deadly alien menace which has literally possessed the cast's largest member - Ron Jeremy (naturally). After slaying Ron, his detached junk embarks on a spree of carnal carnage on a colossal scale. With the help of a half-crazed Vietnam vet (Charles Napier), haunted by his own wartime experience with this alien fiend, the race is on to trap and destroy this penile predator before there are more victims of its vicious, utterly unique method of murder. - Director:
- Adam Fields
- Cast:
- Amber Benson, Bobby Knight, Jason Graham
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Tonight the people of Cove Crescent are in for a treat they'll never forget. A grotesque parade if intergalactic, candy coloured, hooligan freaks are about to march their bigred shoes throughtown leaving a twisted trail of death and destruction. Armed with flesh melting custard pies, lethal pizza, rabid balloon animals and laser firing puppet shows, they're about to turn this toen into a bizarre funhouse of murder and mayhem. They're clowns, they kill people, they're from outer space and they need feeding. So whatever you do, stay away from the popcorn and don't go near the candyfloss. - Director:
- Stephen Chiodo
- Cast:
- Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson
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Deep within the desolate landscape of the Californian desert a dangerous killer roams the land looking for victims. With his terrifying psychic abilities he leaves a blood soaked trail of chaos and death. No one is safe from the destructive, horrifying powers that he possesses as he continues on his brain-splattering journey of exploding heads and dismembered body parts. However, this is no ordinary psychopath. His name is Robert and he just so happens to be a rubber tyre. - Director:
- Quentin Dupieux
- Cast:
- Stephen Spinella, Roxane Mesquida, Wings Hauser
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Demons (1985)Dèmoni
People from all walks of life have been invited to a special screening in an isolated movie theatre, several of the attendance are disgusted by the picture, a brutal stalk and slash flick that centres around demonic possession and graphic murder. Meanwhile a young girl who cut her face on a display mask in the foyer begins to undergo a hideous transformation. She contaminates her companion and panic spreads around the cinema. In terror everyone rushes for the exits only to discover that they have been walled in. As the evil spreads, events escalate into an orgy of bloodshed and madness, climaxing in a crescendo of violence. - Director:
- Lamberto Bava
- Cast:
- Urbano Barberini, Victor Beard, Natasha Hovey
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Quatermass and the Pit (1967)Five Million Years to Earth
Hobbs End, Knightsbridge, London. Whilst working on a new subway tunnel for the London Underground a group of construction workers uncover a strangely shaped skull amongst the rubble. Nearby is another discovery: a large, mysterious and impenetrable metal object. Initially mistaken for an unexploded bomb the origins of the object and its strange power are far more horrific and terrifying than anybody could have possibly imagined. Is it of this earth? Could it be the ancestral link to mankind's evolution? Or could it be an ancient link to unleashing ultimate evil? There's only one man capable of unravelling the clues, his name is Professor Bernard Quatermass, a man of science who thrives on the dark mysteries of the world, a man with answers. - Director:
- Roy Ward Baker
- Cast:
- Andrew Keir, James Donald, Barbara Shelley
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The first in a trilogy of films based on the enduring masterpiece The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" follows title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), who - along with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and 13 Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) - is swept into an epic, quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome Dragon Smaug. Their journey will take them into the Wild, through treacherous lands inhabited by Goblins, Ores and deadly Wargs, as well as a mysterious and sinister figure known only as the Necromancer (Benedict Cumberbatch). Along the path, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of ingenuity and courage that surprise even himself, he also gains possession of a "precious" ring tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways he cannot begin to imagine. - Director:
- Peter Jackson
- Cast:
- Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage
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Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund and William Fichtner star in this story of a woman caught in a futuristic civil war between the government and a subculture of disease-modified humans in whom speed, strength, and intelligence are magnified. To protect a young boy who has been marked for death she must fend off the human government. - Director:
- Kurt Wimmer
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- Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund
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Forced into hiding, a rogue troop of UniSols have formed an underground militia of deadly warriors. Lead by the merciless Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren) and Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme), their plan is to rage a war of total destruction. Only one man can stop them. Hell bent on revenge for the death of his family, John (Scott Adkins) is on a mission to hunt down and kill all UniSols, unless they find him first. - Director:
- John Hyams
- Cast:
- Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Scott Adkins
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Attack of the Werewolves (2011)Lobos de Arga / Game of Werewolves
1910. In a remote village, a terrible curse has fallen on the evil Marchioness of Marino and her son - transforming him into a bloodthirsty werewolf who preys on the residents of the village. 100 years on, Thomas, the only male descendent of the Marino family, returns home to a warm welcome from the villagers but things aren't quite what they seem. After a century of being terrorized by the vicious werewolf, they plan to break the curse by sacrificing him 100 years to the day when the original curse fell. Thomas must defeat the villagers and pit his wits against the violent beast in order to save himself and overcome a curse that threatens to last forever. - Director:
- Juan Martínez Moreno
- Cast:
- Gorka Otxoa, Carlos Areces, Secun de la Rosa
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The arrival of the exotic Marcilla (Ingrid Pitt) causes a stir in the Austrian province of Styria. Women seek Marcilla's friendship and men are entranced by her beauty. When she stays at the home of General Spielsdorf (Peter Cushing) and his niece Laura (Pippa Steele), the only clue to Laura's subsequent death is an unusual wound on one of her breasts. Now calling herself Carmilla, the enigmatic stranger moves in with a nearby English family. Like Laura, the naive Emma Morton (Madeline Smith) soon falls ill. As her life hangs by a thread, the terrible truth about Carmilla is finally revealed... - Director:
- Roy Ward Baker
- Cast:
- Ingrid Pitt, Pippa Steel, Madeline Smith
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