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• Mind Ripper | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £15.40   |  Saving you £-9.41 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Shot in Bulgaria and Canada, with a "Wes Craven Presents" caption--that doubtless has something to do with the producer being Craven's son--Mind Ripper started out as The Hills Have Eyes, Part 3 but turned into yet another re-run of the plot about the genetically-engineered super-being-cum-brain-eating-monster who gets loose in an underground research station and slaughters scientists one by one in grisly fashion. After most of the original cast members are killed, craggy Lance Henriksen turns up with his family to provide a fresh set of characters to be chased, menaced, jumped on, cranially sucked and splattered. The monster, acronymed THOR (Dan Blom), is a would-be suicide volunteered for a new serum created by the sinister GenTec Corporation. He turns into a bald steroid case with yellow contact lenses and a Cronenbergian brain-leeching tentacle tongue, and meagre attempts are made at wringing pathos out of his plight (uniquely, the monster has an irrelevant dream sequence in which he is killed by the heroine). It's competent but formulaic stuff, with reliable Henriksen carrying more than his weight at the head of a cast of then-unknowns, some of whom (Giovanni Ribisi, Natasha Gregson Wagner) have gone on to improve their careers. On the DVD: there are frame captures passed off as a photo gallery and the trailer; and the picture is fullscreen. But what else can you expect?--Kim Newman

• Cannibal Apocalypse | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £6.15   |  Saving you £9.84 (160.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The horrors of war take on a whole new meaning for Vietnam vet Norman Hopper (John Saxon) whose quiet domestic life in Atlanta is shattered by the return of Charlie Bukowski a combat buddy who dredges up terrifying flashbacks of flesh eating and bloodshed in the war-torn jungles. Now on the run from the law Charlie begs Norman to help him get out of town with another fellow veteran Tom (Tony King). Soon the ragtag team of cannibals are fighting for their lives spreading a deadl

• The Card Player | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £15.97   |  Saving you £-0.98 (-6.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Policewoman Anna Mari plays a dangerous game with a serial killer: if she loses she will be forced to watch the murderer take another victim...

• Quo Vardis, Baby | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Giorgia a short-tempered but quick-witted investigator works in her father's private detective agency in Bologna. She spends most of her time trailing cheating spouses with a telephoto camera. One day she receives a box of video cassettes - taped diaries of her younger sister Ada sixteen years after her mysterious death. The tapes show a happy extroverted girl fully involved in her future - struggling to start an acting career and keeping an affair secret from her boyfriend. As she negotiates the twists and turns of the mystery and her own complex love life Giorgia finds herself descending deeper and deeper into her sister's past...and ultimately her own. Soon Giorgia begins to suspect that Ada's death was something far more sinister... Making atmospheric use of its Bologna locations and effective and subtle use of music Quo Vadis Baby? is one of the most distinctive European thrillers of recent years.

• Stagefright | Blu Ray | (23/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bay Of Blood | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Highly influential Italian slasher flick has people brutally murdered in an isolated house. Extremely violent semi-incoherent but visually impressive offering from cult director Bava. Essential for cult horror fans.

• Orchestra Rehearsal | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £12.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this sly social and political allegory an orchestra assembles for a rehearsal under the inquisitive lenses of a TV crew. With their bullish union officials lingering on the sidelines the musicians introduce themselves one by one expounding with wit passion and rancour about the characteristics of their instruments. The rehearsal begins under the baton of an autocratic conductor and soon the musicians' bawdy humour turns to anarchy as he tries to impose his will on this diverse group of players... Featuring a superlative score from Nina Rota (The Godfather 1 & 2 expert cinematography from Guiseppe Rotunno (The Leopard) and ingenious production design from Dante Ferretti (Gangs of New York).

• A Blade In The Dark | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £16.85   |  Saving you £-7.87 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When The Lights Go Out The Knife Goes In. Bruno (Andrea Occhipinti of New York Ripper) is hired to compose the music for a new horror movie and rents an isolated villa to concentrate on his work. But when several beautiful young women are brutally murdered within the house Bruno becomes obsessed with solving the savage crimes. Is a clue to the killer's identity hidden with the film itself or is there a more horrifying secret lurking deep in the dark? Directed by Lamberto Bava

• Swordfish / Basic / Collateral Damage | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Swordfish Log on. Hack in. Go anywhere. Steal everything. John Travolta stars as Gabriel Shear a sinister mastermind with an elite criminal crew who are desperately trying to access information locked inside a complicated computer system that contains government secrets and if they can hack it a billion payday... Basic Legendary drill instructor Sgt. Nathan West (Samuel Jackson) takes six Ranger cadets on a training mission to Fort Clayton in the Panamanian jungle but only two remain alive. The two survivors are uncooperative and give wildly differing accounts of what actually happened. Former Ranger and DEA agent Tom Hardy (John Travolta) currently on suspension for allegedly accepting a bribe is called in to try and separate the truth from the lies and find out what really happened. Collateral Damage: A firefighter (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing. Frustrated by the government's stalled investigation and haunted by the thought that the man responsible for murdering his family might never be brought to justice he takes matters into his own hands and tracks the bomber to Columbia...

• Schmid - Tosca's Kiss | DVD | (05/09/2000) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-7.59 (-54.30%)   |  RRP £13.99

• Strange Things Happen At Sundown | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  'Strange Things Happen At Sundown' is the story of vampires run amuck in New York City. There's a group of low level mobsters with fangs there's an old-age vampire who does mob hits for money there's a pair of vampire lovers on the run. Throw in a born again Christian trying to bring one of the vampires over to her side an Italian girl from Brooklyn bitten by vampires and left to endure an agonising three-day turn and a psychotic four-hundred year old blood sucking housewife with

• The House by the Cemetery | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £7.05   |  Saving you £2.94 (41.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  You may have just mortgaged your life! Shock gore master Lucio Fulci’s The House by the Cemetery is one of the finest typically single-minded exercises in zombie terror. Its just a shame no-one told the Boyle family who move into a gothic style house (by a cemetery) with a bloody past and a guts spraying future what is yet to come! You’d think they’d twig given the basement door is nailed shut that they should get the hell out. Instead they stay long enough to discover their zombified non rent-paying lodger the cellar-dwelling flesh-hungry Dr Freudstein and boy is he pissed! ARROWDROME IS A FLEAPIT SELECTED LIBRARY OF CULT FILMS; VIOLENT HORRIFIC SLEAZY EXPLOITATIVE. TO EXPLORE STEP IN TO THE CULT ARENA! EVERY ARROWDROME RELEASE INCLUDES A REVERSIBLE SLEEVE OF ORIGINAL ARTWORK AND A COLLECTOR’S BOOKLET! ALSO INCLUDES THE ITALIAN MASTER OF SPLATTER FEATURETTE TRAILERS TV SPOT DELETED SCENE AND VIDEO NASTY VIXEN BOOKLET BY CALUM WADDELL!

• A Pure Formality | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A young woman has been found murdered and Onoff a famous writer is found wandering aimlessly in the rain with no identification or memory. Called in for questioning he is soon the prime suspect. By dawn the identity of the woman is revealed and now Onoff is faced with even more frightening consequences.

• MANHATTAN BABY | Blu Ray | (25/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• L'Amore Molesto | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-4.44 (-89.00%)   |  RRP £4.99

  After Delia's mother's unexpected death Delia travels back home for the funeral. While there she tries to piece together her mother's recent life inadvertently opening the door to childhood memories that shaped her families history.

• House By the Cemetery | Blu Ray | (24/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fellini | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Orchestra Rehearsal (1978): In this sly social and political allegory an orchestra assembles for a rehearsal under the inquisitive lenses of a TV crew. With their bullish union officials lingering on the sidelines the musicians introduce themselves one by one expounding with wit passion and rancour about the characteristics of their instruments. The rehearsal begins under the baton of an autocratic conductor and soon the musicians' bawdy humour turns to anarchy as he tries to impose his will on this diverse group of players... Featuring a superlative score from Nina Rota (The Godfather 1 & 2 expert cinematography from Guiseppe Rotunno (The Leopard) and ingenious production design from Dante Ferretti (Gangs of New York). And The Ship Sails On (1983): Italian cinematic maestro Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita 8 1/2) shows that even in his mid-sixties he had lost none of his power to shock entertain and amaze with And The Ship Sails On his haunting and majestic 'comedy of arias'. Made in 1983 the film is set on the eve of the first world war but this matters little to the peacock parade of opera celebrities who cast off on a luxury liner to scatter the ashes of the world's greatest diva near her native adriatic island. yet their gilded world is about to receive a chill blast of reality. The captain has rescued a group of serbian refugees and an enemy battleship looms on the horizon demanding their surrender. Unbeknown to the passengers their old order is about to be eradicated on a global scale and the ship sails on to a fate as inevitable as that of the Titanic. Ginger And Fred (1986: In this wonderfully affectionate and satirical 1986 film italian cinematic maestro Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita 8 1/2) celebrates the legacy of Rogers and Astaire - and sends up tacky television - with this touching tale of two elderly dancers who model themselves on cinem's greatest dance duo and who reunite after 30 years for one final TV dance spectacular. starring two of Italy's greatest acting talents: Cannes `best actress' winner Giulietta Masina (Nights Of Cabiria Juliet Of The Spirits La Strada) and oscar nominee Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita Divorce Italian Style).

• The Beyond | Blu Ray | (31/12/2012) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lucio Fulci's masterpiece of face chewing Spider action, milky eyed psychics, face melting embalming fluid and rotted, flesh-crazed Zombies returns in all its blood splattered, surreal and grossly disturbing glory for a new generation of Horror Kids! If your new business venture is sited on the cursed gateway to the hell dimension of The Beyond, then maybe it's time to move elsewhere but Liza (Catriona MacColl) is determined to make her New Orleans hotel work, until strange things start happening, people vanish and her waking thoughts are haunted by a ghostly blind woman who seems to hold the answers to the whole bizarre fever-dream. As reality breaks down and the plot explodes, Liza must journey far from everything she understands and descend in The Beyond... The Beyond is Fulci's Zombie masterwork as he assaults his audience with shock after head spinning shock, all the while leading up to one of horror cinemas most heart stopping finales. The Beyond drives sane men mad and leads others to murder. Dare you step over to the other side? Special Features: Introduction by Cinzia Monreale Audio Commentary with Antonella Fulci and Calumn Waddell Audio Commentary with David Warbeck and Catriona MacColl AKA Sarah Keller: Cinzia Monreale remembers 'The Beyond' Catriona MacColl Q&A from the Glasgow Film Theatre Open Your Eyes Easter Egg One Step Beyond: Catriona MacColl remembers a Spaghetti Spatter Classic Beyond Italy - Louis Feller and the Seven Doors of Death: Interview with US Dstributor and Editor of 'The Beyond' Terry Levene Butcher, Baker and Zombiemaker: The Living Dead Legacy of Special Effects Wiazrd Gianetto Di Rossi Fulci Flashbacks: Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Sergio Stivaletti, Antonella Fulci and others remember The Godfather of Gore Alternative Colour Pre-credits Sequence Original International Trailer

• Cold Eyes Of Fear | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In this grisly Italian giallo thriller a vicious criminal breaks into the house of a prominent London lawyer and then proceeds to terrorise the lawyer's son and an attendant Italian prostitute...

• Django - Den Colt an der Kehle - Mediabook - Cover B (+ DVD) | Blu Ray | (23/09/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A