Earlier this week we featured highly-rated movies priced at $7 to own, and today we’re back with even better bargains: Instant Videos rated at least 4/5 stars, priced at $6 to own. As before, we’re featuring movies especially well-suited to the season, but there are plenty more in all genres currently available at this price point. Prices are subject to change at any time on Amazon, so don’t hesitate to grab any you like!
All descriptions are from IMDB.com.
Practical Magic (PG-13, 4/5 stars, closed captions available)
Sally and Gillian Owens have always known they were different.
Raised by their aunts after their parents’ death, the sisters grew up in a household that was anything but typical–their aunts fed them chocolate cake for breakfast and taught them the uses of practical magic.
But the invocation of the Owens’ sorcery also carries a price–some call it a curse: the men they fall in love with are doomed to an untimely death.
Now adult women with very different personalities, the quiet Sally and the fiery Gillian must use all of their powers to fight the family curse and a swarm of supernatural forces that threatens the lives of all the Owens women.
– Written by WARNER BROS.
Trick r’ Treat (R, 4/5 stars)
It is said that Halloween is the night when the dead rise to walk among us and other unspeakable things roam free. The rituals of All Hallows Eve were devised to protect us from their evil mischief, and one small town is about to be taught a terrifying lesson that some traditions are best not forgotten.
Nothing is what it seems when a suburban couple learns the dangers of blowing out a Jack-o-Lantern before midnight; four women cross paths with a costumed stalker at a local festival; a group of pranksters goes too far and discovers the horrifying truth buried in a local legend; and a cantankerous old hermit is visited by a strange trick-or-treater with a few bones to pick.
Costumes and candy, ghouls and goblins, monsters and mayhem… the tricks and treats of Halloween turn deadly as strange creatures of every variety-human and otherwise-try to survive the scariest night of the year.
– Written by Warner Bros. Pictures
Orphan (R, 4/5 stars)
Kate and John Coleman are rebuilding their troubled marriage. Kate had a drinking problem, but is in therapy and is doing well. She has been sober for one year. The couple decide to adopt a child. When they meet the nine-year-old Russian girl, Esther, at the St. Marina Orphanage, they immediately fall in love with the well-educated orphan.
Their young son, Daniel, is hostile to his new sister; but their deaf daughter, little Max, is enchanted with her – at first.
Eventually, Kate begins to feel that Esther is manipulative and possibly even psychologically disturbed. John refuses to listen to his wife’s misgivings, and the wounds in their marriage reopen.
Kate calls Sister Abigail at the orphanage, and the nun informs her that Esther has a troubled and mysterious history. Kate delves further into Esther’s past and discovers she is not all she pretends to be.
– Written by Claudio Carvalho
Dawn of the Dead [2004] (R, 4/5 stars, closed captions available)
Ana, a young beautiful nurse finishes her day-shift at the hospital to return home to her beloved husband, they make love and sleep together. The next day, after her husband is killed by her neighbor next door, he suddenly comes back to life.
She discovers the chaos happening in her neighborhood and escapes from her home. Soon after coming to her senses in the woods, she encounters a cop and other survivors, they decide to find safety in a mall.
Soon more survivors come, and they learn that if they want to stay alive, they should stick together as the world is overrun by an army of undead. Can they survive the horror in this horrific global chaos?
When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.
– Written by Emphinix
John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness (R, 4/5 stars, closed captions available)
A sinister secret has been kept in the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church for many years.
With the death of a priest belonging to a mysterious sect, another priest opens the door to the basement and discovers a vat containing a green liquid. The priest contacts a group of physics graduate students to investigate it.
Unfortunately, they discover that the liquid contains the essence of Satan himself, and they also discover that he will release HIS father – an all-powerful Anti-God! The liquid later comes to life itself, turning some of the students into zombies as the Devil comes forward to release his father.
Will these students be able to stop him?
– Written by Derek O’Cain