"Actor: Ashbrook"

• The Aggression Scale | Blu Ray | (03/09/2012) from £11.27   |  Saving you £8.72 (77.37%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Charged with murder and likely going to jail, crime boss Reg Bellavance (Ray Wise) is out on bail and wants to skip town with his son. The only problem is that the money he had stashed away for just such an occasion has gone missing.Bellevance gives his right hand man Lloyd (Dana Ashbrook) a simple order: Find his money, kill everyone who had a hand in stealing it and make it messy. Lloyd and his crew tear out into the city and begin carrying out the order in brutal fashion... They have no idea just how dangerous their job is about to get.

• Waxwork | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Waxwork a waxwork museum appears overnight in an American small town and sinister showman David Warner invites a group of typical teens to a midnight party. However, as expected, the place is home to nasty secrets, and the blundering kids find themselves transported via the exhibits into the presence of "the 18 most evil men in history". What this means is that the film gets to trot out gory vignettes featuring such horror staples as Count Dracula (played inaptly with designer stubble and a Clint croak by ex-Tarzan Miles O'Keefe), the Marquis de Sade, an anonymous werewolf with floppy bunny ears (John Rhys-Davies in human form) and the Mummy. Nerdy hero Zach Galligan appeals to wheelchair-bound monster fighter Patrick MacNee for help. Waxwork is strictly a film buff's movie--with Warner and MacNee turning in knowingly camp performances, and references to everything from Crimes of Passion to Little Shop of Horrors cluttering up its very straggly story line. It's not without ragged charms, though the tone veers between comic and sick (the de Sade scene, although inexplicit, features some lurid dialogue) more or less at random. The effects are likewise variable, and in any case rather fudged by direction, which frequently fails to point up the gags properly. It winds up with a scrappy Blazing Saddles-style fight between the forces of Good and a whole pack of monsters, and the budget runs out before the climactic burning-down-the-waxworks scene. The episodic approach echoes the old Amicus omnibus horrors (Dr Terror's House of Horrors, The House that Dripped Blood etc.), and various cameos allow director Anthony Hickox to parody/emulate the styles of Hammer films, Night of the Living Dead and Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. On the DVD: It's a nice-looking and sounding print, but fullscreen format. The only extras are filmographies taken from the IMDB and the trailer.--Kim Newman

• Backflash 2 - Angels Don't Sleep Here | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Some secrets do not stay buried.Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) stars in this compelling thriller as a corrupt cop who's hiding the dark secrets of a high profile politician (Roy Scheider Jaws).Everything seems under control until a forensic specialist comes to town asking questions about the disappearance of his twin brother.There are more questions than answers in this daunting thriller about corruption mistaken identity and murder.

• Snakes | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Can the Americans and Russians stand strong and make one last stand against a creature which could spark World War III?

• Snakes | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £7.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Mankind has found a new enemy. The world is sent into a high state of emergency when an American cargo plane is shot down by rebels over a war-torn former Soviet state. The planes precious cargo is a top-secret anti-personnel weapon which is taken to a covert Russian military base. But chaos is about to be unleashed as an impatient scientist decides to crack open a mysterious canister with dire results. The secret cargo is a biogenetically enhanced snake lightning fast with magnificent sensory apparatus and array of deadly weaponry which tears apart the thinly equipped Russian scientists. Can the Americans and Russians stand strong and make one last stand against a creature which could spark World War III?