Search - Hangman's Curse on DVD

MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Adult Language, Watch With Your Teen Movie Release: 2003 DVD Release: 03/30/2004 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 46 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Total Copies: 6 Genres: Thriller, Teen Movie, Supernatural Thriller

A family of paranormalists investigates the strange goings-on at a high school still reeling over a student's very public suicide in this teen thriller. Hangman's Curse concerns the further exploits of the Veritas Group, a loose collective of people committed to researching supernatural mysteries. The group's members include the Springfield family -- parents Nate (David Keith) and Sarah (Mel Harris) and Elisha (Leighton Meester) and Elijah (Douglas Smith) -- whose current assignment takes them to the aforementioned high school. There, they find that Abel, the teen who took his life, had been long ostracized by various cliques in the school -- jocks, popular kids, and the like -- all of whom are falling prey to mysterious ailments. As Nate and Sarah watch from the sidelines, it's up to Elisha and Elijah to pose as students to get inside the mystery. Hangman's Curse was based on the novel by Christian author Frank Peretti. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

David Keith - Nate Springfield
Mel Harris - Sarah Springfield
Leighton Meester - Elisha Springfield
Douglas Smith - Elijah Springfield

An unnamed terror stalks the halls of a high school in this horror story based on a novel by Christian author Frank Peretti, which earns a respectable transition to DVD. Hangman's Curse has been given two transfers to disc for this edition -- a letterboxed version at the widescreen aspect ratio of 1.85:1 (which has been enhanced for anamorphic playback on 16 x 9 monitors) and a full-frame pan-and-scan transfer at 1.33:1. The original English-language audio is presented in two mixes, in Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital Surround, while optional subtitles in English and Spanish also appear. Bonus materials include a documentary on how the swarms of spiders were assembled for the film, a look at adapting Peretti's work for the screen, and the movie's original trailer. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide