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• The Frightening | DVD | (13/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Take a slash course in teen terror! To the staff and students the new kid in school Corey seems to be a regular teenager. But beneath the suface Corey hides a sinister and evil past. Strange events begin to occur at his new school not least some unexplained gruesome deaths and the mysterious disappearance of fellow students. The rest of the students and the school principal seem strangely unconcerned by the evil events going on around them. Only a small group of misfits are willing to confide in Corey and share the truth and his new school and they're being killed off one by one!

• Curse Of The Puppet Master | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-116.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Andre Toulon's living puppets are back in Curse of the Puppet Master, this time in the possession of Dr. Magrew (George Peck), who runs a house of marvels and is experimenting to create the perfect being, without all the inner conflict and torment of humans. To do so, he recruits a talented young woodcarver named Tank (Josh Green). But Magrew's plans get complicated when his daughter (appealingly played by Emily Harrison) falls for the young man. Fans of the Puppet Master series will probably enjoy this sixth instalment. The three leads are well cast, the production design shows some imagination, and the script works--until the abrupt and nonsensical ending. The puppets also seem less animated than in previous films; nevertheless, they still manage to get their whacks in. Trivia factoid: director "Victoria Sloane" is one of several stage names used by David DeCoteau, who also directed instalments numbers three and seven in the series.--Geoff Miller, Amazon.com