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1) The tempest
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, uses his skill at controlling natural forces to cause the shipwreck of his old opponents, forcing them to seek refuge on the island where he and his daughter Miranda have been living in exile, and setting the stage for Miranda to fall in love with Ferdinand, the prince of Naples. Includes explanatory notes, plot summaries, critical essay, and illustrations.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth is a dedicated, workaholic doctor who is much too busy to have a life. One night, she gets into a terrible car accident and dies. She becomes a spirit stuck between heaven and earth. She doesn't realize that she is dead and thinks nothing has happened. That is until she meets David, a lonely architect, who has rented her old apartment. David thinks he is going crazy when he sees Elizabeth's spirit and tries everyway he can think of to get...
3) The others
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen version (1.85:1)
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A devoutly religious mother of two ailing children has moved with her family to a mansion on the English coast. Her two children both suffer from a rare photosensitivity disease that renders them extremely vulnerable to sunlight, prompting the rule of having only one door open in the house at a time. When one of the children claims to see ghosts, Grace at first believes her newly-arrived family of eccentric servants to be responsible, but chilling...
4) R.I.P.D
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two cops are dispatched by the Rest In Peace Department (R.I.P.D.) to protect and serve the living from increasingly destructive spirits hiding among the unsuspecting Earth. When they uncover a plot that could end life as we know it, the new partners have to turn grudging respect into top-notch teamwork to restore the cosmic balance-or watch the tunnel to the afterlife begin sending angry souls the very wrong way.
5) The grudge
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a single mother and young detective try to investigate and solve the case. Later, she discovers the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death. Now, she runs to save herself and her son from demonic spirits from the cursed house in her neighborhood.
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Great Spirits send Kenai, along with Nita, a girl who knew Kenai way back when he wasn't a bear, on a great big, exciting journey to break a pact they made years ago.
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to fit in at school, Sam rejects her East Indian culture and family to be like everyone else. However, when a mythological demonic spirit latches onto her former best friend, she must come to terms with her heritage to defeat it.
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Leo San Juan and his fellow adventurers manage to meet up with La Llorona and do almost the impossible in order to overcome her. However, not only do all their efforts end up being useless, they themselves end up suffering the curse of La Llorona. They go from being the hunters to becoming the prey.
12) The grudge
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Karen is an American nurse living and working in Tokyo who agrees to cover the shift of another nurse. When she enters the assigned home, she discovers an elderly woman who is lost in a catatonic state. As she tends the woman, Karen hears scratching sounds upstairs and goes to investigate. Within this house is a chain of terror more terrifying than she could ever imagine, resulting from a terrifying evil that was born years before. As more people...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy family vacations in a remote house in England, the husband/father experiences weird hallucinations and abnormal reality as a menacing spirit seems intent on making him pay for his past sins.
14) The unborn
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Casey Beldon has become plagued by merciless dreams, visions of strange looking dogs, and an evil child with bright blue eyes. After being hit with a mirror by her neighbor's son, Casey's eyes begin to change color and she learns she had a twin brother who died in the womb. Casey begins to suspect that the spirit haunting her is the soul of her dead twin who became possessed by a malevolent spirit known as dybbuk. The spirit wants to be born so it...
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of The Bell Witch of Tennesee. In 1818, slight, unexplained noises were heard in the house. As the spirit grew, it singled out the father, John, and his daughter, Betsy. The family tried to search for the cause of the spirit in the hope of finding a way to defeat it. The spirit developed voices and began speaking to the family, but refused to say why it was there. Finally it pronounced a death sentence on John and within a...
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (381 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. ; in 1 multi-disc DVD case
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Poltergeist: A young family is visited by ghosts in their home. At first, the ghosts seem friendly, then they turn nasty and terrorize the family before they 'kidnap' the youngest daughter.
House: Horror novelist Roger Cobb is a man on the edge, reeling from his recent divorce, haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his young son, and struggling with his new...
17) Pure colour
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Miras chest like a portal--to what, she doesnt know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis...
Publisher
Monarch Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Workaholic attorney Kate is sent to get a bed and breakfast appraised, however, the owner is uncooperative because he thinks a spirit lives there and wouldn't approve. The only way Kate gets a promotion is if she completes this task. Determined, she checks in and haggles with a "man" she ends up falling in love with, but he just so happens to be the spirit!
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (967 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Melinda Gordon has the ability to communicate with the earthbound spirits of people who have died, providing deeply moving and important closure for them and their loved ones. This season, Melinda and her husband, Jim Clancy, are joined by new friend and employee Delia Banks, as Melinda battles a dark force taking over her beloved town of Grandview.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Karen is an entitled middle-aged woman whose demanding nature has alienated her neighbors and family. After a series of incidents displaying her privilege and prejudice, Karen receives an 'intervention' by some unconventional spirits.