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• Congo | DVD | (31/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This is a terrible movie. Frank Marshall (Arachnophobia) demonstrates no control over story, actors, effects or general presentation in this adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel about an expedition into deep, dark Africa that runs into an unknown race of killer apes. The big monkeys attack and attack and attack and have to be fought off with machine guns and lasers--that's pretty much the story, except there's probably an even better one behind "fourth Ghostbuster" Ernie Hudson's bizarre decision to speak with a British accent. While Marshall wants us to root for the human characters, they're all so obnoxious and unbelievable you can't help but feel lousy for the poor apes when they get chopped to bits just for defending their homes against these twerps. If you're not feeling enough environmentalist ire these days, watch this and get angry. --Tom Keogh

• Flowers In The Attic | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This screen adaptation of Flowers in the Attic, Virginia Andrews' classic teen novel of adolescent torment and forbidden love, shies away from what made the book so hugely popular, namely the incestuous sex between the two older children, Cathy (Kristy Swanson) and Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams). When the father of four beautiful blond children is suddenly killed, their mother (Victoria Tennant) takes them to the family home she fled 17 years earlier. Their fierce and frightening grandmother (Louise Fletcher) locks them in an upstairs room, from which the only escape is into the cluttered and cobwebbed attic. The children's isolation gets more and more extreme as their mother abandons them, finally even slowly poisoning them to gain her father's inheritance. The movie insinuates but does not make explicit incestuous longing in all directions: Cathy's father brings her special presents before he dies, Chris scrubs Cathy's back in the tub, Chris has a noticeably stronger attachment to their mother than Cathy does--not to mention that the grandmother whips the half-naked mother in front of the grandfather. Fletcher brings a bit of bite to her role, and the movie occasionally rises to absurdly lurid zest. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• A Touch of Frost: Series 1 | DVD | (01/06/2009) from £34.15   |  Saving you £-9.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Includes the feature-length episodes 'Care & Protection' 'Not With Kindness' and 'Conclusions'. David Jason is the gritty and dogged Detective Inspector Jack Frost a man who has little time for paperwork or the orthodox approach. This release features all the episodes from Series One of A Touch of Frost.

• Daniel Isn't Real | Blu Ray | (10/02/2020) from £9.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Childhood wonderment meets the horror of the adult world in Daniel Isn't Real, director Adam Egypt Mortimer's (Some Kind of Hate) darkly twisted take on the imaginary best friend concept, critically acclaimed as one of the year's most disturbing out-and-out horror films (Kim Newman). Luke Nightingale, a lonely young boy with an emotionally unstable mother, invents a friend named Daniel who leads them both into a world of fantasy and imagination. After Daniel tricks Luke into doing something terrible, Luke is forced to banish him to the bottom of his subconscious. Twelve years later, Luke (Miles Robbins, Halloween 2018), now a college freshman, brings Daniel (Patrick Schwarzenegger, Midnight Sun) back and he now appears as a charming, manipulative young man with a terrifying secret agenda. Featuring star-making turns from a young cast, and co-starring Sasha Lane (American Honey) and Mary Stuart Masterson (Skin), Daniel Isn't Real is a visually stunning, thought-provoking exploration of mental illness, entitlement and childhood trauma, perfectly tailored for our troubled times, and one of the most unique and captivating independent horror movies of recent years. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation Original lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracks Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing New audio commentary by co-writer/director Adam Egypt Mortimer, exclusive to this release Beyond the Garden of Earthly Delights, an exclusive video essay on the film and its themes by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Deleted scenes Alternate ending Cinema of Anxiety, an exclusive video interview with Adam Egypt Mortimer FrightFest premiere introduction and Q&A FrightFest TV interviews with Adam Egypt Mortimer Theatrical trailer Stills galleries FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Katie Rife

• The Incredible Shrinking Man | Blu Ray | (13/11/2017) from £9.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A FASCINATING ADVENTURE INTO THE UNKNOWN! He baffles science! He confounds medicine! Submitted for your approval, the strange story of Scott Carey an ordinary young man who, through an extraordinary set of circumstances, becomes The Incredible Shrinking Man! Whilst on a holiday cruise with his wife, young Scott finds himself enveloped by a luminous mist which cover him in a strange, glittery dust. Several months later, he's accidentally sprayed with an insecticide. Soon, Scott starts shrinking at an alarming rate, and before long he's thrust into a terrifying world of gigantic cats, spiders and other over-sized pitfalls! Adapted for the screen by celebrated fantasy scribe Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) from his own novel, The Incredible Shrinking Man directed by sci-fi pioneer Jack Arnold (It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon) is rightly regarded as being one of the finest science-fiction films of all time. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed PCM mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Auteur on the Campus: Jack Arnold at Universal an extended documentary about the early career of director Jack Arnold at Universal-International studios There Is No Zero: Writing The Shrinking Man an in-depth conversation with author Richard Christian Matheson about his father and the creation of the original Incredible Shrinking Man novel Super 8 cut-down version Original Theatrical Trailer Teaser Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sara Deck First pressing only: Fully-illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Kim Newman

• Welcome To The Jungle - Director's Cut | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £4.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (303.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Rock stars as a bounty hunter sent to retrieve a fast-talking double dealer from the Amazonian jungle. But he hasn't reckoned on stumbling upon a gold-mine treasure or an unhinged despot in this ripping action adventure.

• Versailles | DVD | (08/08/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £26.99

  All ten episodes from the first series of the historical drama starring George Blagden as French monarch Louis XIV. In a bid to strengthen his weakening position among the country's elite, Louis decides to move the French court from Paris to Versailles. However, with the Parisian nobility deeply opposed to the move, Louis is faced with negotiating a dangerous cycle of lies, deceit and vicious political manoeuvrings as he attempts to exert his authority.

• Class | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £19.39   |  Saving you £-6.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As rites-of-passage films featuring a young man's sexual initiation in the arms of a beautiful woman go, Class (1983) has plenty going for it, not least its attractive cast: Andrew McCarthy as Jonathan, Rob Lowe as Gatsby-ish best friend Skip and Jacqueline Bisset as the beautiful woman who is old enough to know better and just happens to be Skip's mother. Lewis John Carlino's film has moments of insight, taking a few well-aimed shots at the vaguely sinister network of American public school life. In the first reel it neatly subverts the bullying scenario that threatens when the geekish Jonathan arrives at the school, while offering the briefly intriguing sight of Lowe in scarlet bra and pants. And there's a subplot of deceit and complicity that both strengthens and threatens the friendship that rapidly forms between Skip and Jonathan. In many ways, though, the most interesting element of the picture--Skip's relationship with his dysfunctional family--is left unexplored. Jonathan's deflowering and subsequent interludes are merely titillating. And Bisset's Ellen, a desperately sad character, becomes superfluous once the revelation that she is the "teacher" sets the boys' friendship on the path to fraternal solidarity. On the DVD: Class is presented in widescreen anamorphic format and looks as good as its leading players, although the Dolby Digital mono soundtrack has odd moments of flatness that detract from the cinematic experience. Extras are limited to the cinema trailer that now looks like a red rag to the puritanical objectors who were appalled by the graphic scenes in which Jonathan loses his virginity to the predatory Ellen. --Piers Ford

• Blood - The Last Vampire | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £6.46   |  Saving you £10.53 (163.00%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Blood the Last Vampire brings a moody atmospheric quality all of its own to the Japanese animated film tradition. In a few short enigmatic scenes, we learn of the young girl Saya who is working for nameless government agencies and is sent, after one of her killings, to pose as a new pupil at an American school on an air force base. The Vietnam War is underway, but this does not concern her--she is involved with a far older war. All we ever find out is that she is not quite human, and that two of her schoolmates (and a whore in the mean streets adjacent to the base) are something yet again. Much of what ensues--gore and metamorphosis and nightmare chases--is all the more confusing for being seen through the eyes of a schoolteacher who never learns very much. This is a dreamlike film which does not have to make entirely literal sense, far more so than the creator's more famous Ghost in the Shell. It is also a memorable stage in the development of digitised animation. --Roz Kaveny

• Sky - The Complete Series | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Eerie, unsettling and a benchmark production for children's television in the 1970s, Sky was created by Doctor Who stalwarts Bob Baker and Dave Martin as one of the run of outstanding children's dramas HTV produced in that decade. Filmed in such richly atmospheric locations as Avebury, Glastonbury Tor and Stonehenge, Sky is a mixture of ecological fable, science fantasy and good, old-fashioned peril. Marc Harrison stars as Sky - an ethereal boy who materialises on an Earth that is as unprepared for him as he is for it. He soon realises that he's been brought to the wrong time and must seek out the Juganet to return to his correct place in reality. With the help of tearaway Arby Venner, his sister June and friend Roy he must race against time as Nature rejects Sky and the Earth's immune system creates the evil Goodchild, who is out to stop him at all costs... One of the most memorable television series of the 1970s is available here, for the very first time in any video format. Episodes three and seven no longer exist in the archive in any format and the version included on this set is taken from an off-air VHS.

• I Know What You Did Last Summer Trilogy | Blu Ray | (21/12/2020) from £54.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town.

• Striptease (1996) | DVD | (24/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This horrible misfire from the usually reliable writer-director Andrew Bergman (The Freshman) has nothing funny, provocative, timely or interesting to say (despite being based on a novel by Carl Hiaasen) once Demi Moore gets her clothes off. Moore plays a single, unemployed mum caught up in a custody battle who elects to make some money by stripping at a club. The character's troubles don't end there, however: her ex-husband is posing a threat, and a perverted congressman (Burt Reynolds) is looking for more than a lap dance. Bergman's great wit is nowhere in sight, and the film primarily becomes another opportunity for Moore to function like a special effect. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Flowers In The Attic | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A family's desire to survive following the tragic death of the father drives the mother to take her four children to a new home where a bizarre and disturbing future awaits them... Based on V.C. Andrews bestseller 'Flowers In The Attic' is a shocking tale of greed depravation incest and cruelty.

• Lawless Heart | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £4.49   |  Saving you £15.50 (77.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Lawless Heart" takes a journey through the comedy of love, with three friends facing life, death, sex and misadventure when, shocked by the death of a friend, they decide to take their lives in hand.

• Versailles Series One & Two Complete | DVD | (26/06/2017) from £16.57   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All 20 episodes from the first two series of the historical drama starring George Blagden as French monarch Louis XIV. In a bid to strengthen his weakening position among the country's elite, Louis decides to move the French court from Paris to Versailles. However, with the Parisian nobility deeply opposed to the move, Louis is faced with negotiating a dangerous cycle of lies, deceit and vicious political manoeuvrings as he attempts to exert his authority. Series 1 episodes are: 'Welcome to Versailles', 'I Am the State', 'Mirror for Princes', 'The Road', 'Bow to Your King', 'Invalides', 'Revelations', 'Diplomacy', 'Etiquette' and 'Bring the Garden Here'. Series 2 episodes are: 'The Labyrinth', 'A Still Small Voice', 'Who Will Guard the Guards Themselves?', 'Miasma', 'War and Peace', 'The Sands of Time', 'A Night', 'The New Regime', 'Seven Shadows' and 'Of Blood and Stone'.

• Wrong Turn / Roadkill / The Hole | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wrong Turn: In a hunt to the death would you survive? When a group of friends get stranded in the back woods of Virginia they find that they are not alone... hunted by cannibalistic mountain men they must try to escape without transport before they become the next meal. Roadkill: It's summer break and college freshman Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker) has decided to embark on a cross-country road trip to pick up the girl of his dreams Venna (Leelee Sobieski). But Lewis' romantic hopes hit a detour when he stops on the way to rescue his older brother Fuller (Steve Zahn) who goads him into playing a practical joke on a lonely trucker over a CB radio. Now that trucker an unseen and terrifying force known only by the CB handle 'Rusty Nail' wants the last laugh; and revenge... The Hole: Liz (Thora Birch) staggers towards her exclusive school bloodied and deeply traumatised. Whilst a police psychologist is trying to figure out what happened to her she reveals this twisted and chilling tale. Three rebellious friends Mike Geoff and Frankie are desperate to avoid a school fieldtrip to Wales. Martin the school nerd helps them hide away in an old underground bunker and his only condition is that his friend Liz joins them. Martin is in love with Liz but she wants Mike the coolest guy in school. The teenagers party uncontrolled and undetected in the soundproofed bunker hidden deep in the woods. For three days it is this wild place; Mike even starts to notice Liz for the first time. But when Martin doesn't return to let them out the party atmosphere drains and their sanctuary quickly becomes their living nightmare.

• Young Adam | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £6.40   |  Saving you £7.59 (118.59%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The corpse of a young woman is discovered by a rootless young drifter who works on a barge on a Scottish canal. Is it an accident, suicide or murder?

• The Man Who Came Back | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £6.19   |  Saving you £-0.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The power elite took his family and his freedom but this one man stood against injustice and made the guilty pay! When local legend Resse Paxton is wrongly accused of murder by the corrupt and racist town leadership and sentenced to prison he accepts his fate hoping his innocence will eventually set him free. When the self-appointed major brutally murders Paxton's wife and son he has nothing left to live for. In a town that writes its own rules; in a land where the innocent are killed and where the system is rotten Paxton decides to take the law into his own hands in and dispense his own form of justice. The Man Who Came Back is a gripping tale of revenge based on the legendary true story of the Thibodaux Massacre of 1887.

• The President's Man | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £17.96   |  Saving you £-11.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When the President's wife is kidnapped and held hostage by Terrorists the President calls on Jonathon to rescue her. In a breathtaking action sequence the mission is a success but it was closer than it should have been maybe the time has come to find a successor.Enter Deke Slater a stubborn hot-headed Delta Force operative who has ended up in Military Prison for disobeying a direct order. Jonathon has other plans for Deke and arranges his release to begin training as his successor.Soon Deke's training will be tested when a Columbian Drug Cartel decides to go on the offensive and kidnaps a leading U.S. nuclear weapons expert and his family.

• The Sisters | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £5.88   |  Saving you £4.11 (69.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bello plays Marcia one of three sisters around whom the story is based. The film opens with Marcia and Olga preparing a birthday surprise for their younger sister Irene. There are deep seated clearly longstanding rifts opening up between Marcia and her siblings and their other family members especially when a man from their childhood makes a surprise appearance and jolts a few unhappy memories out of the women. Revelations about the sisters' turbulent relationship with each other and their father begin to surface and Irene has to quell a storm brewing between two men with romantic intentions toward her and to make matters worse their troublesome brother and his girlfriend appear.