Island of Terror - DVD

During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers and two Confederates escape the stockade using a hot air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.

Island of Terror is a British horror film shot in rural England. On a remote island off of Ireland a farmer goes missing and his wife contacts the local authorities. The constable finds Ian Bellows (Liam Gaffney) dead in a cave without a single bone in his body and contacts physician, Dr. Reginald Landers (Eddie Byrne), but Landers is unable to determine what happened. All doctors are left stranded on the island while the helicopter travels back to the mainland. This is a fantastic horror classic which should be part of everyone's collection for a lifetime! (4 3) Night of the Big Heat is a 1967 British Horror film starring Patrick Allen, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Jane Merrow. Jeff (Patrick Allen) and Frankie Callum (Sarah Lawson) run The Swan, an inn on the island of Fara, somewhere off the English coast. In the middle of winter the island is experiencing a heat wave with temperatures rising so rapidly that cars stall, beer bottles shatter, televisions explode, and telephones cease to work. Will the aliens survive? What will become of the villagers and their island? This is a magnificent sci-fi thriller and one of a kind movie! They don't make films like this any longer and this is an unforgettable one! (16 9)

The ghostly apparition of a young woman is witnessed by an 18th Century French Lieutenant in Napoleon's army. After two failed attempts to keep up with her, Lt. Andre Duvalier (Nicholson) heads to the castle of Baron Von Leppe (Karloff), where he notices a painting of the Baron's late wife Ilsa, who looks identical to the ghostly woman. Duvalier is now determined to unravel the castle's mystery, and the Baron's hidden secrets. Though officially credited to Roger Corman, The Terror had a total of five collaborative Directors, including Nicholson himself, and Francis Ford Coppola.