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Near Dark [Blu-ray]
Country boy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) crops to the local rural quiet nights hunting girls - but when it falls prey to the mysterious and beautiful Mae (Jenny Wright), Caleb unwittingly becomes the prey. Mae is not a normal girl, Caleb learns quickly, is part of a gang of vampires, bandits, and love is going to lure him into a terrible world thirst for blood, chaos and the 'absolute horror. Caleb will pay the ultimate price for love and eternal life - or he will find a way to overcome evil grow in it every night, almost black?
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The Dark Crystal [Blu-ray]
Jim Henson's fantasy epic The Dark Crystal does not happen a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but like Star Wars, it takes people to a place that exists only in the imagination, and for an hour and a half on the screen. Reminding the world of JRR Tolkien, Henson tells the story of a race of grotesque birdlike lizards called Skeksis, Gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. A prophecy tells of a Gelfling (a small Elfin) that fall of their empire to their reign of terror that have exterminated the race, or at least you think. The orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of wizards called the Mystics peace, start a search to find the fragments of Dark Crystal (which gives them the power Skeksis) and restore the balance of the universe. Henson and codirector Frank Oz have pushed puppetry into a new direction: traditional puppets, giant puppets body, and mechanical engineering are mixed
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