Stars: Agnes Bruckner, Bruce Campbell, Patricia Clarkson

Director: Lucky McKee

Summary: Heather is a young woman with a tendency to set things on fire. Her exasperated parents send her off to a remote boarding school in a mysterious wooded area, where it turns out the administration has been collecting young people with special powers in order to execute their nefarious schemes.

Equal parts Dario Argento and Henry James, Lucky McKee's brooding psychological horror film stars Agnes Bruckner as Heather, a young woman with a tendency to set things on fire. Her exasperated parents send her off to a remote boarding school in a mysterious wooded area, where it turns out the administration has been collecting young people with special powers in order to execute their nefarious schemes. Patricia Clarkson (DOGVILLE, GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK) stars as the school's creepy headmistress, and cult legend Bruce Campbell (ARMY OF DARKNESS) plays Heather's father.

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The extended editions of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Ringspresent the greatest trilogy in film history in the most ambitious sets in DVD history. In bringing J.R.R. Tolkien's nearly unfilmable work to the screen, Jackson benefited from extraordinary special effects, evocative New Zealand locales, and an exceptionally well-chosen cast, but most of all from his own adaptation with co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, preserving Tolkien's vision and often his very words, but also making logical changes to accommodate the medium of film. While purists complained about these changes and about characters and scenes left out of the films, the almost two additional hours of material in the extended editions (about 11 hours total) help appease them by delving more deeply into Tolkien's music, the characters, and loose ends that enrich the story, such as an explanation of the Faramir-Denethor relationship, and the appearance of the Mouth of Sauron at the gates of Mordor. In addition, the extended editions offer more bridge material between the films, further confirming that the trilogy is really one long film presented in three pieces (which is why it's the greatest trilogy ever--there's no weak link). The scene of Galadriel's gifts to the Fellowship added to the first film proves significant over the course of the story, while the new Faramir scene at the end of the second film helps set up the third and the new Saruman scene at the beginning of the third film helps conclude the plot of the second.

To top it all off, the extended editions offer four discs per film: two for the longer movie, plus four commentary tracks and stupendous DTS 6.1 ES sound; and two for the bonus material, which covers just about everything from script creation to special effects. The argument was that fans would need both versions because the bonus material is completely different, but the features on the theatrical releases are so vastly inferior that the only reason a fan would need them would be if they wanted to watch the shorter versions they saw in theaters (the last of which, The Return of the King, merely won 12 Oscars). The LOTRextended editions without exception have set the DVD standard by providing a richer film experience that pulls the three films together and further embraces Tolkien's world, a reference-quality home theater experience, and generous, intelligent, and engrossing bonus features. --David Horiuchi

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive menu
Subtitles:	Spanish, Dutch, Hindi, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, Arabic, Turkish
Year:	2006
Release Date:	December 11, 2006
Runtime:	88 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D T 52422
Keywords:	English, Bruce, Woods, General, Campbell, Horror, Occult
Genre:	Horror/Occult