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• Tucker & Dale Vs Evil | Blu Ray | (07/03/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A confident mix of comedy and horror, Tucker & Dale Vs Evil brings together Firefly star Alan Tudyk and Reaper’s Tyler Labine as a pair of hillbillies. More to the point, they’re a pair of hillbillies who have bought themselves a secluded cabin in the middle of the woods. Anyone who’s seen even a handful of horror movies will have be more than familiar with the conventions that are being set up, and might just be settling back for a dose of the familiar. But they don’t really get it. Instead, Tucker & Dale Vs Evil chooses to play up the comedy, thanks to writer-director Eli Craig’s very good script. It’s a screenplay that accepts and warms to the trappings of a horror movie, and then has a great deal of fun playing with them. Thus, when a bunch of students turn up in the middle of the woods, things don’t quite go the way that many will be expecting. It’s odd that Tucker & Dale Vs Evil never really secured itself the broader theatrical exposure it deserves, because it’s a really smart film. Granted, it’s bereft of outright movie stars, but the pairing of Tudyk and Labine proves inspired, and Craig is wise enough to keep his running time nice and tight. Don’t let the relatively low budget of the production lead you to think you’re not getting good value from a Blu-ray upgrade, mind. In terms of picture quality in particular, you get a really sharp transfer here, and the audio mix is no slouch either. Given that most people never got to enjoy the film in cinemas, it seems right to make the most of it in the home. Tucker & Dale Vs Evil is far from the most ambitious film of recent times. But it’s certainly one of the funniest. It throws in the necessary gore quotient expected by fans of the horror genre, but delivers far more solid laughs that its relative anonymity might lead you to expect. It’s pretty much the epitome, then, of an undercover gem. --Jon Foster

• Force Within | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £1.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (201.01%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Nick Larsen a degenerate yet oddly sensual criminal combines a love of the spiritual aspects of kung fu with a delight in murder mayhem and a kinky sex life!

• The Roger Corman Horror Collection | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Siren DVD's three-disc Roger Corman Collection contains The Little Shop of Horrors and The Terror, which Corman directed, as well as Dementia 13, which he produced. Though he has a reputation as one of the craftiest businessmen in Hollywood, Corman was too cheapskate in the 1960s to bother copyrighting a bunch of his films and so the same titles have been showing up on video and now DVD from many different distributors. All these films were thrown together in odd circumstances to take advantage of leftover sets, contracted performers or tied-up production funds. Little Shop of Horrors (a disguised remake of A Bucket of Blood) was famously made over a three-day weekend "because it was raining and we couldn't play tennis". The Terror exists because Boris Karloff owed a few days' work after completing The Raven and castle sets were still standing. Dementia 13 was written and directed by a young Francis Coppola in Ireland to take advantage of a European trip made for Corman's The Young Racers. All the films are interesting, in themselves and as footnotes to distinguished filmographies. Little Shop of Horrors has a lasting cult reputation for its blackly comic tale of codependency between a skid-row botanist (Jonathan Haze, relying a bit too much on a Jerry Lewis impersonation) and a blood-drinking, flesh-hungry mutant plant voiced by screenwriter Chuck Griffith ("feed meeee!"), with a creepy cameo from a young Jack Nicholson as a masochist who loves to visit the dentist. The Terror, which has Nicholson as the bewildered lead, is a wilfully incomprehensible Gothic picture made up on the spot by Corman and a handful of other directors (including Coppola and Monte Hellman), climaxing with Karloff's bogus baron and a decaying spectre woman swept away by a flood in the dungeons. Dementia 13, a saga of axe murders and mad sculptors, is brisk grand guignol with a lot of creepy imagery to do with drowned children and family rituals. On the DVD: The Roger Corman Collection limply claims the films are "digitally mastered" (note, not "remastered") as they are simply copies of low-quality video onto disc. Because these titles are public domain no one seems willing to take any care with transfers, and all three films are in terrible state. The Terror, the only colour film, looks especially atrocious (Vistascope cropped to full-frame) but the black-and-white films also suffer all manner of damage. The packaging is classy, but it's a shame more work wasn't done on the films themselves.--Kim Newman

• Short Eyes | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on a play by Miguel Pinero Short Eyes is made up of a series of appalling episodes in prison in which inmate Bruce Davison is depraved by fellow inmates. Their reason for this is that he is a short eyes the prison slang for a man who sodomizes little boys. Despite their own notorious past they believe Bruce to be the scum of the earth and proceed to treat him accordingly.

• Nikos The Impaler | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  All of Romania feared Nikos a bloodthirsty barbarian and cannibal murderer of many. But one moonlit night a courageous few with torches clutched in their hands put the ungodly monster to an end. Yet with his dying words the maniacal Nikos claimed not even death would stop him! Centuries later he resurfaces in Manhattan!

• Android Apocalypse | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £9.26 (137.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Yesterday they wanted each other dead. Today they need each other to survive... Jute is an average guy who has gotten the short end of the stick as androids have advanced in their careers while his has faltered. After a bar brawl he is sent to a prison colony and ends up befriending an android. After their ship is attacked by mutants Jute and the android DeeCee find themselves lost in the wilderness. Jute soon realizes he must rely on DeeCee to survive.

• Shakespeare In Love / Elizabeth / Elizabeth - Golden Age / Other Boleyn Girl | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Shakespeare In Love: When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production! Elizabeth: Now close to death Queen Mary I (Kathy Burke) steps up her policy of Protestant repression. Even Princess Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) her younger sister and her heir apparent is in grave danger but Mary's last ditch to execute her for treason fails. Within days Mary is dead and Elizabeth is crowned Queen of England but with enemies and rebellion continuing in her own council she is advised to hit back. She retaliated in a counter-coup of immense ferocity wiping out all opposition to her leadership. Her throne is finally secure. Elizabeth: Golden Age: Tells the thrilling tale of an era - the story of one woman's crusade to control love crush enemies and secure her position as a beloved icon of the western world. As Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart conspires with Philip of Spain to topple the throne Sir Francis Walsingham Elizabeth's trusty advisor works tirelessly to protect her from the many plots and conspiracies against her. Preparing to go to war to defend her empire Elizabeth struggles to balance royal duties with an unexpected vulnerability in her attraction to Sir Walter Raleigh. The Other Boleyn Girl:

• Babes 'N' Bullets | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Evil Instinct: Steamy sex thriller 'Evil Instinct' is one of Hong Kong's most successful Category III movies ever. The most watched hotel pay-per-view film in Asia as well as a substantial box office smash it combines beautiful women and hot action with a powerful and intriguing story. Cop Sam Hui gets picked up by two gorgeous women in a bar and ends up having an intense sexual encounter with one. They are interrupted by a phone call from the scene of a grisly murder. The crime is just one of a series and the investigation leads Sam to an Insurance Company where the two girls work. Penny (Carrie Ng) fascinates him even when he discovers that the girls are selling sex in return for favours. Meanwhile Wendy (Pang Dan one of Cat III's hottest new stars) has set out to steal Penny's clients by offering them kinky sex. Penny starts to go off the rails as her clients defect to Wendy and Sam finds out she is addicted to a weird snake serum drug. When he discovers that all the murder victims have a snake DNA in their blood his suspicions turn to the object of his sexual obsession - but it seems she has the perfect alibi... Both stunning girls wear a succession of skin tight S/M outfits as they turn up the heat in this scorching thriller which pays homage to Basic Instinct - but with hotter women and far more style. Naked Killer 2: A suave and seductive serial rapist (Mark Cheng) is on the prowl terrorising an apartment block. Fearing her life to be in danger Chu (Jacqueline Ng) enlists the help of her old friend Yau (Chingamy Yau) as an avenging angel who will seduce the rapist and wreak revenge on behalf of the victims of his terrible crimes. Soon the two are embroiled in an erotic and deadly game of cat and mouse... Her Name Is Cat: It's been a while since 'Category III' movies (Hong Kong's own classification for films which mix sex and violence) have been in the news here but following Hong Kong Legends' release of the originial Cat III mega-hit 'Naked Killer' comes another all-action femme fatale thriller from Hong Kong Classics. 'The Huntress - Her Name Is Cat' is from 'Naked Killer' director Clarence Ford produced by the legendary Wong Jing ('Sex & Zen' and many more) and stars statuesque Chinese beauty Almen Wong - who stands out from any crowd of her countrymen by virtue of being almost six feet tall in her boots or stilletos! Clarence Ford expertly recaptures the thrills and atmosphere of the 'babes 'n' bullets' genre in this stylish action movie which features former Elle model Almen Wong as Cat - a highly trained assassin from mainland China forging a new career as a paid killer on the edge of the Hong Kong underworld. When her path crosses that of tough cop Michael Wong and another female assassin is sent kill her Cat turns huntress to survive.....

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 6 | DVD | (31/07/2000) from £14.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (6.67%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Striking Poses | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a beautiful paparazzo for as tabloid magazine (Shannon Doherty) finds herself pursued by a ruthless stalker she is determined to emerge from this deadly game alive..and independently wealthy.. Get ready to ride every twist in this nail biting thriller!

• Monteverdi - Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Monteverdi - Il Ritorno D'Ulisse

• Third Rock From The Sun - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The multi-award winning comedy series stars John Lithgow as the High Commander of an investigative team of aliens sent to Earth on a mission to learn everything about humans and their so-called advanced civilisation.

• The Dawn Rider | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Mason is hit with a bullet. Alice who nurses him turns out to be the sister of the man Mason is looking for; the man who gunned down his father...

• Devotion | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The beautiful owner of a vintage clothing shop is troubled by inexplicable visions in her dreams. When she asks a mystic for help she learns that she is experiencing past lives and loves. This is an adult drama....

• Luther | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rebel. Genius. Liberator. An all-star cast feature in this classic tale of a man who defined history. The film follows Martin Luther the 16th century priest who led the Christian Reformation and opened up new possibilities in exploration of faith. The film begins with his vow to become a monk and continues through his struggles to reconcile his desire for sanctification with his increasing abhorrence of the corruption and hypocrisy pervading the Church's hierarchy. He is ultimate

• Bloodletting | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Serena Stalin (Albright) wanted to learn from the best. So she tracked down Butch Harlow (Edwards) one of the wold's most notorious serial killers and blackmailed him into teaching her the fine art of murder. As the lessons begin teacher and student leaving a trail of horribly mutilated victims in their wake the couple are about to uncover the terible secrets that bind them together the unspeakable passion that compells them to kill again and again...

• Demonicus | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  On a hiking trip in the Italian Alps James (Kenyon) discovers an ancient burial cave filled with gladiator artifacts. While investigating them he becomes possessed by the spirit of Tyranus a demon gladiator intent on a killing spree of such magnitude that it will revive the true spirit of the gladiator god Demonicus. A professor (Talor) tutoring her students in the alps is designated to be the sacrifice for Demonicus: can her students outwit Tyranus and prevent him raising Demonicus...?

• Latter Days | DVD | (01/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Aaron prays. Christian plays... Opposites attract. Christian (Wes Ramsey) a hunky 20-something West Hollywood party boy gets more than he bargains for when he tries to seduce 19-year-old Elder Aaron Davis (Steve Sandvoss) a sexually confused Mormon missionary who moves into his apartment complex. When Christian exposes Davis' secret sexual desire Davis' rejects Christian for being shallow and empty The encounter shatters each boy's reality and draws the two into a passio

• Death Collector | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A kid from the streets of New Jersey becomes a debt collector for the mob hoping to work his way through the ranks. When he makes a couple of mistakes he discovers getting out of the business isn't as easy as getting in. Upon seeing Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent in Death Collector Martin Scorsese cast them in Raging Bull Goodfellas and Casino. Death Collector is very much in the same vein as Goodfellas and Mean Streets.

• Chain Of Command | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £5.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A briefcase that holds the power to destroy the world!