Category: Mystery

Serial Experiments Lain: Navi

Serial Experiments Lain: Navi on VHS. Japanese anime starring Bridget Hoffman. Character Design by Yoshitoshi Abe. 1998.

Serial Experiments Lain: Navi on VHS. Starring Bridget Hoffman. Character Design by Yoshitoshi Abe. 1998.

From the box:

Close the world, Open the nExt.

We’re All Connected

There is a world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the wired world, inside the computer, of images, personalities, virtual experiences, and a culture all of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, Lain, a thirteen year-old girl, discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she receives an e-mail from the dead girl: “I just abandoned my body. I still live here…” Has the line between the real world and the wired world begun to blur?

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The Bone Collector

The Bone Collector VHS cover art. Movie starring Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah. Directed by Phillip Noyce. 1999.

The Bone Collector on VHS. Starring Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah. Directed by Phillip Noyce. 1999.

From the box:

He takes his victims’ lives and leaves behind mysterious pieces of a bizarre puzzle. And the only person who may be able to make sense of the serial killer’s deranged plan is Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington), a onetime top homicide investigator. But after a tragic accident changes his life forever, Rhyme can only watch as other cops bungle the case… until he teams up with a young rookie, Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie), who bravely searches out the clues that help them solve the case.

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Blue Velvet

VHS covers: Blue Velvet. Mystery crime thriller movie starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern. Directed by David Lynch. 1986.

Blue Velvet on VHS. Starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern. Directed by David Lynch. 1986.

Pabst Blue Ribbon:

The Most Talked About Film Of The Decade

No film in recent history has generated more praise or more controversy than Blue Velvet. Director David Lynch (Eraser Head, The Elephant Man, and Dune) takes you on a surreal journey that peeks through the windows and over the well-trimmed hedges of a small town to discover murder, mystery and perversion. His hero (Kyle MacLachlan) finds a severed ear whose trail leads him to a detective’s daughter (Laura Dern) and a mesmerizing beauty (Isabella Rossellini) with a terrible secret. Dennis Hopper’s ferocious performance as the sadistic villain is already legendary. Disturbing, astounding and sometimes oddly comic, Blue Velvet is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before; one touch and you’ll never be the same.

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Lost Highway

Lost Highway VHS cover art. Mystery drama thriller movie starring Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Robert Loggia. Directed by David Lynch. 1997.

Lost Highway on VHS. Starring Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Robert Loggia. Directed by David Lynch. 1997.

VHS covers roll on:

A David Lynch Film

Haunting sexuality, ricochet action and fleeting, murderous shadows await you on a journey that begins and ends on the Lost Highway. The successful jazz musician whose marriage is on the rocks… The man in black who threatens to expose him… The young mechanic with links to a powerful mobster… The mobster’s moll who knows what she wants and the people who can get it for her. These are the riders on the Lost Highway, trapped in their worlds of desire, destiny and unknown destination, where the truth is always just a short way further down the road. Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Robert Blake, Balthazar Getty and Robert Loggia star in a powerful, sensual and extraordinary new movie from the director of “Twin Peaks” and “Blue Velvet”: David Lynch.

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The Million Dollar Hotel

The Million Dollar Hotel VHS box cover art. Movie starring Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits. With Peter Stormare, Amanda Plummer, Gloria Stuart, Tom Bower, Donal Logue, Bud Cort, Julian Sands, Conrad Roberts, Harris Yulin, Charlayne Woodard. Directed by Wim Wenders. 2000.

The Million Dollar Hotel on VHS. Starring Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits. With Peter Stormare, Amanda Plummer, Gloria Stuart, Tom Bower, Donal Logue, Bud Cort, Julian Sands, Conrad Roberts, Harris Yulin, Charlayne Woodard. Directed by Wim Wenders. 2000.

From the box:

Everyone Has Something To Hide.

FBI Agent Skinner has been brought in to solve his most bizarre case yet. In a downtown fleabag hotel, the son of a billionaire media mogul has mysteriously died. Now, Skinner must find the murderer among the hotel’s guests, uncovering a web of deception which runs deeper than he ever thought imaginable… and protects the guilty from justice.

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