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• The X Files: Deadalive | DVD | (06/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This release consists of two episodes--"This is Not Happening" and "Deadalive"--of the eighth series of The X-Files spliced together into a feature-length story. With David Duchovny contracted only to do a certain percentage of shows this year, Robert Patrick was brought in as Agent John Doggett, partnering Gillian Anderson's Agent Scully while Duchovny's Mulder is off being tortured by alien-abductors in what looks like an industrial dentist's chair. This story comes about two-thirds of the way through the arc and sets up Duchovny's return to the show--though he literally has to die and come back to get back on the case. It's an unfortunate paradox that most X-Files stand-alone releases concentrate on the dreary alien-abduction/conspiracy episodes which carry the greater storyline of the show, giving the misleading impression that the series is a drearily solemn, badly plotted, straight-faced but stupid sci-fi soap opera. Always skipped over are the far more interesting, entertaining and impressive stand-alone supernatural mysteries or strange comic exercises. Though Duchovny is mostly lying in a hospital bed with oatmeal all over his face, Anderson--whose character is pregnant this series, another dull sub-plot--still gives an amazingly committed performance and gets terrific support from Patrick, whose character has shaken up a lot of what was settled or stale about the show, and the always-underrated Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Skinner. The story features several wild-eyed UFO guru types (including Roy Thinnes, once star of The Invaders) and returned abductees transformed into un-killable alien zombies. It's as well made as ever, with ominous shadows and the odd smart line, but you need to have been paying very close attention for seven years to understand what's going on. With Duchovny a potential escapee and Anderson perhaps in line to follow, this episode brings on the excellent Annabeth Gish as Agent Monica Reyes, a specialist in bizarre rituals, who is being effectively set up to partner Patrick in a post-Mulder-and-Scully X-Files that might well keep the franchise going on forever Star Trek-fashion. --Kim Newman

• The Bogey Man - Uncut | DVD | (22/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Bogey Man had been banned since 1982. The Bogey Man is the chilling story of concentrated evil and its gruesome effect on a small American farming community. The evil is so great that even exorcism cannot stop the blood-bath. As a young girl Lucy witnessed her brother murder her mother's lover. In an attempt to recover her psychological turmoil she later visits the house and finds the demons have not left.

• The John Thaw Tribute Collection | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A tribute to John Thaw which includes: 'Inspector Morse - The Dead Of Jericho' in which Morse investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Anne Stavely. Based on the novel by Colin Dexter. 'Kavanagh QC - Nothing But The Truth' which centres on James Kavanagh who has climbed to the top of his profession as one of the leading criminal advocates in London. He takes on the defence of a student accused of raping a middle-aged housewife. 'Goodnight Mister Tom' finds To

• Boogeyman | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £9.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death.

• Total Reality | DVD | (03/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  It is 200 years in the future. Twenty years of war between Earth and the colonies has finally come to an end. Earth has been devastated as the alliance of colonies battled Earth's evil fascist government led by General Tunis. Realising the scale in which his forces have been defeated. General Tunis commandeers a space ship equipped with a time generator and escapes to Earth in the late 1990's. Tunis's objective is to replicate himself in the image of the next president of the United States. A team of four death row inmates are assembled for a suicide mission to save the Earth from its own dark future.

• Prozzie | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Through the keyhole begins a game that results in the violent death of a prostitute watched helplessly by her daughter. The story continues when the daughter now a prostitute herself suffers psycological ailments that make her seek revenge on those she makes contact with by repeating the events that she witnessed the night her mother was killed. This disturbing 1981 drama comes from German-born director Ulli Lommel and is also known under the titles Olivia Faces of Fear A Taste of Sin.

• Chain Reaction | UMD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99