Shadow Raiders - Final Hours (Vol. 3)

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Riveting fall from grace.......2006-05-04

Balthazar Getty gives an amazing performance as do Peter Weller, Rebecca Gayheart, and Peter Greene. Also look for Corin Nemec.

This film is a riveting ride with the devil, a fall from grace. There are no lost causes but one (but even that character stays true to his calling). The film is not for the squemish (I have to admit I could not look at some of the scenes). A real film for adults -- not for children or adolescents.

WOW.......2006-03-06

I saw this movie at 3 in the morning just flipping through the channels and wow i found an amazing movie this film is why i love those wierd independent films Getty does a great job but Peter Weller is amazing ...Watch this beautiful little masterpiece.... THE SOUNDTRACK IS AMAZING!

" Do you feel the rush ".......2005-12-28

One of my personal favorite movies of all time something about the mysterious stuart chappel (Weller) taking michael halloway (Getty)to all those crazy places keeps you drawn to the screen Isac H Eaton is brilliant because he made such a sick and twisted movie A GENUIS MASTERPIECE I thought the movie was shot great and Rebbeca Gayheart plays the worried pregnant wife perfectly this movie might not get to everyone but if you really watch it youll realize it is just like i said before A GENUIS MASTERPIECE.. IF YOU LOVE :partying all night until light out , a good fight, special cigars, blow, playing russian roullete or you just cant sleep at night Shadow Hours is for you I give it 5 stars

I'll Take This "B" Movie Over A Coma Anyday.......2005-09-19

I've seen hundreds of Sci Fi/Horror movies over the years. This is one of those you'll wonder whether you've watched it or not a few years down the road. You just can't remember.

All in all, I figure it's still better to watch a so-so Sci Fi/Horror movie than "Dances With Wolves" or "Evita". This movie will end up being non-memorable, but it's preferable to being in a coma.

Nothing's shocking.......2003-12-04

Shadow Hours tells that story of Michael (Balthazar Getty), a recovering alcoholic who has a pregnant girlfriend at home (Rebecca Gayheart and an uncredited pillow under her shirt) and a dreary night job working in a gas station in L.A. In the opening scenes, the film actually does do quite a good job of capturing both the monotony and the underlying menace of working nights though eventually the continual montages of crazy homeless guys and rising gas costs grows almost as monotonous as Michael's life -- it's as if the director stumbled across something that worked once and then couldn't stop himself from repeating it over and over again.

Anyway, the film picks up once Peter Weller drives his porche into Michael's life. Weller plays a guy named Stuart who claims to be a writer and who, in one of those scenes that seems to take place exclusively in movies like this, quickly befriends Michael and takes Michael on a journey into the seedy underside of L.A. -- a world of perversion and temptation and nothing you haven't seen before in films ranging from Blue Velvet to Fight Club to the Matrix Trilogy to whatever happens to playing on Cinemax right now. Indeed, the main weakness of Shadow Hours is that in today's world, nothing's shocking and simply using a whole lot of neat little film school tricks isn't going to make the mundane any more interesting.

Natrually, Getty's character must chose between a life of stable, boring stability with Gayheart or the life of self-destruction offered by Weller. However, since the film makes both choices look positively dull, who really cares? Since the film never really bothers to give any build-up to Getty's plunge into decadence, it's pretty much impossible to judge just exactly what it is he's rebelling against beyond working in a gas station and living with a Noxzema spokesmodel with a pillow under her blouse. It doesn't help that Getty sleepwalks through his role.

However, I would recommend seeing this film for one reason and one reason only and that is the brilliantly bemused performance that Peter Weller gives as the film's perverse version of Virgil. Smirking like an aneroxic Jack Nicholson and never giving into the temptation to take any of his overbaked dialogue too seriously, Weller manages to breathe new life into a familiar character and he even manages to bring a few moments of genuine menace into an otherwise dreadfully silly film. Eventually, the film lets Weller and his character down but Weller never lets the audience down. It's rare that one actor alone can redeem an entire film but that is what Weller manages to do in Shadow Hours.

Product Description

Enjoy all your favorite The Shadow Old Time Radio episodes on this DVD packed with 239 different shows and appearances for a total of 106+ hours of listening enjoyment. This product is a DVD collection of Old Time Radio mp3s. It is designed to be played on your computer DVD drive with standard mp3 software - like Windows media player or its equivalent on Macintosh computers. The image shows the front cover of the DVD.

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The Perfect Wife/Shadow Hours
Starring: York Double Feature
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Release Date: 2005-01-11

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SHADOW HOURS

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Shadow Hours/The Perfect Wife ~ Starring: Corin Nemec, Rebecca Gayheart, Shannon Sturges (Closed Captioned)

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Shadow Hours/The Perfect Wife ~ Starring: Corin Nemec, Rebecca Gayheart, Shannon Sturges (Closed Captioned)
Director: Don E. Fauntleroy , and Isaac H. Eaton
Manufacturer: York Ent
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ASIN: B000S06MRW

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Two hard-hitting turn-of-the-21st-century noir films appear back-to-back; individual descriptions of the movies follow: SHADOW HOURS (2000) - The underside of Los Angeles is the setting for SHADOW HOURS, a fast paced noir thriller that pits Michael Holloway (Balthazar Getty) against the devil. Moving quickly along with the beat of its techno soundtrack, the film follows Holloway as he tries to make a new life for himself. Working the graveyard shift at a seedy Los Angeles gas station provides hours of boredom and a ringside seat to the craziness of Los Angeles as Holloway, a recovered drug addict, tries desperately to survive, with only his pregnant wife Chloe (Rebecca Gayheart) to support him. When rich, Porsche-driving "writer" Stuart Chapell (Peter Weller) drives in seeking help with nocturnal research for his new novel, Holloway's attempts at maintaining a normal life are derailed. What starts as a seemingly innocent tour of the exotic and shocking nightlife of Los Angeles quickly transforms into a drug-soaked and decadent descent into debauchery. THE PERFECT WIFE (2001) - When the beautiful young Liza (Shannon Sturges) witnesses her beloved brother's horrible death in a car accident, she vows revenge against both the drunk driver responsible and the doctor who could not save his life. After killing the first, she hatches an elaborate plan to murder the doctor. The first step in this plan--marrying him.

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Riveting fall from grace
WOW
" Do you feel the rush "
I'll Take This "B" Movie Over A Coma Anyday
Nothing's shocking

Shadow Hours [Region 2]
Starring: Balthazar Getty , Peter Weller , Rebecca Gayheart , Peter Greene , and Frederic Forrest
Director: Isaac H. Eaton
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Customer Reviews:

Riveting fall from grace.......2006-05-04

WOW.......2006-03-06

" Do you feel the rush ".......2005-12-28

I'll Take This "B" Movie Over A Coma Anyday.......2005-09-19

Nothing's shocking.......2003-12-04

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