Pre-viewed for quality and everything looks almost new. Just a little shelf wear to the bottom edges and corners. Imported Canadian copy with differant artwork than the American version. Out Of Print in all formats and no longer being manufactured.

With Viggo Mortensen ('Lord of the Rings' trilogy) in an early lead role, you can't go wrong. In a 1950s prairie town a small boy sees insanity, child-murder, radiation sickness (the title), and pulp comics, leading him to fantasize that the tormented young widow next door is a vampire. When his older brother (Mortensen) comes home and begins to date her, he tries to warn him to no avail.

Most of the quirky characters are right out of a David Lynch film. Bizarre and something inappropiate in almost every scene. The pretentious drama/freak show rationalizes its ghastly events as symbolizing the hero's loss of youthful innocence. But we know the score; this is 'Faces of Death' for the arts crowd, a grotesque menagerie that dares you to watch. The exploding-frog opener is already notorious. Beautiful photography though, with vistas inspired by the painting of Andrew Wyeth.