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• Bride Of Re-Animator | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1990) was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum--now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first. Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements--the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun. On the DVD: Bride of Re-Animator is presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney

• Beyond Re-Animator | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £14.40   |  Saving you £-0.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  After causing the Miskatonic University Massacre Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) has been serving a prison sentence for the past 14 years. Far from overcoming his scientific obsession with bringing dead organisms back to life he has had no choice but to continue his experiments on the only specimens he can find in his cell: rats. When Howard (Jason Barry) a new young doctor comes to work as the prison MD and requests Dr. West's assistance Dr. West discovers that Howard has something Dr. West had left behind 14 years ago.

• Re-Animator | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £19.90   |  Saving you £-6.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Re-Animator was undoubtedly one of the most notorious horror films of the 1980's. Based on a classic 'Mad Professor' tale this relentless splatterfest takes obsession suspense and terror to the very limits of your imagination. Prepare to meet Dr. Herbert West the sickest man in science... The night that medical student Dan Cain discovered his pet cat Rufus dead in his roommates fridge was just the beginning. Before long Dan and his beloved girlfriend Megan become involved in the macabre experiments of his roommate the sinister Dr. Herbert West who has created a serum that can bring both brain and body back from the dead. The immoral scientific methods of Dr. West provide the Dean of the medical school with reason to expel West and force Cain out of the hospital. Undeterred West and Cain continue with their experiments in the hospital's morgue - restoring life to an unlimited supply of fresh corpses. However a chilling side effect to West's discovery leads to a seemingly endless night of mind-bending terror and unthinkable madness.

• The Jungle Book (Disney) (1967) | DVD | (18/02/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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