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• I Am Heath Ledger | Blu Ray | (22/01/2018) from £6.60   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  I Am Heath Ledger chronicles the story of one of this generation's brightest young actors and this is the ultimate tribute to an artist gone far too soon. Fiercely private during his life, this documentary features interviews from A-list actors such as Naomi Watts Ben Mendelsohn and Emile Hirsch; Hollywood directors Ang Lee and Catherine Hardwicke, musicians Ben Harper and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, childhood friends, family and artistic collaborators along with never-seen-before candid video and still archival imagery. I Am Heath Ledger provides an intimate look at Heath Ledger as he saw himself, presented in a novel way that reflects his creative spirit.

• Eating Raoul | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  You'd think a black comedy about murder, tackiness, and sexual perversion would quickly become dated, but Eating Raoul (1982) feels surprisingly fresh and delightful. When Mary Bland (Mary Woronov) gets assaulted by one of the repulsive swingers from the neighbouring apartment, her husband Paul (Paul Bartel) rescues her with a swift blow from a frying pan--only to discover a substantial wad of cash in the swinger's wallet. A lure-and-kill scheme follows, which nicely fills their nest egg until a slippery thief named Raoul (Robert Beltran of Star Trek: Voyager, making his film debut) stumbles onto the truth and insists on getting a share. When Raoul starts demanding a share of Mary as well, Paul has to take drastic steps. The key to Eating Raoul isn't the sensational content, but the blithe, matter-of-fact attitude Bartel and Woronov take to it; their sly underplaying makes the movie sparkle with wicked wit. --Bret Fetzer

• Scarecrows | DVD | (11/07/2016) from £10.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The plan was simple. Boost a few-million, head to Mexico, divide the loot and live it up for the rest of their days. Unfortunately for this band of ex-military criminals, they're about to learn the hard way; that best laid plans often go awry. A double-cross ensues and the group find themselves in an eerie abandoned farmhouse, one that holds a murderous secret in the surrounding cornfields. The malevolent scarecrows that inhabit the fields are alive and are soon stalking and slashing their way through the would-be bank robbers. Featuring outlandish gore effects by FX maestro Norman Cabrera (of the KNB EFX Group), stunningly atmospheric cinematography from Peter Deming (Evil Dead II) and a spine-tingling score from Terry Plumeri (Black Eagle), Scarecrows is essential viewing for any self-respecting horror fan. 88 Films are proud to present this stalwart of VHS rental stores in all its HD glory for the first time in the UK!

• Friday The 13th: Part 5 - A New Beginning | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jason is back complete with hockey mask. And he's up to his old maniacal tricks in Friday The 13th Part V - A New Beginning. This time he seems to have set his sights on the young patients at a secluded halfway house. And more than a few of his teen targets end up in half in quarters you name it Jason does it. This is the fifth scary installment in the Friday The 13th saga. If you liked the first four and think you're up to getting back on Jason's bloody trail you'll love 'Frida

• Films That Define A Decade: '70s | Blu Ray | (22/08/2016) from £28.92   |  Saving you £-19.33 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.59

  They say the ˜60s really happened in the ˜70s. Bell-bottoms and disco took over, while films from the ˜70s captured the free-spirited movement of the decade in many ways. There was the LA disaster epic Earthquake; pushing all boundaries came the cult classic National Lampoon's Animal House; there was the rip-roaring road trip Smokey and the Bandit; and crime caper The Sting starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.

• The Duchess Of Duke Street - Series 2 - Part 1 | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £30.90   |  Saving you £-5.91 (-23.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Gemma Jones stars as Louisa Trotter a cook for the upperclass at a fancy hotel.

• Zombie Lake | DVD | (20/03/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a small lakeside town in the French countryside, young women are disappearing without a trace. A Parisian reporter begins to uncover the deadly secrets of the 'lake of ghosts' and the dead, green Nazis who are aroused to action.

• Zombie Lake | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £4.03   |  Saving you £5.96 (147.89%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In a small lakeside town in the heart of the French countryside young women are disappearing without trace. Superstitious locals blame the 'Lake Of Ghosts' but the town's Mayor (Howard Vernon) seems reluctant or powerless to take any action. When the body of a girl is found with her throat ripped out a parisian reporter begins to uncover the deadly secrets of the lake and the undead Nazis who are aroused to action...

• The Servant | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £12.00   |  Saving you £1.99 (16.58%)   |  RRP £13.99

  For anyone interested in voyeurism, role playing, class envy and sexual humiliation, The Servant is an essential buy. Directed by Joseph Losey, scripted by Harold Pinter, it probes away remorselessly at areas other British film-makers would not go near. Dirk Bogarde, the golden boy of 50s British cinema, is transformed into a scheming, unctuous butler, Barrett. Hired by dapper young toff Tony (James Fox), he proceeds gradually to take over his master's life. In one scene, he seduces Tony's fiancée (Wendy Craig). Tony is soon slavering over the voluptuous but vaguely sinister Vera (Sarah Miles), whom he has been told is his butler's sister (in fact, she's Barrett's mistress). Gradually, the lines between master and servant are blurred. Tony becomes beholden to his butler's every whim.Nobody does queasy quite as well as Losey. The American-born director relishes the chance to disrupt the smooth workings of what seems a typical upper-class household. Compared to the bland comedies made at Pinewood in the late 50s, The Servant couldn't help but seem groundbreaking. Thanks to his performance, Bogarde, who'd starred in so many of those comedies, was at last taken seriously as more than a matinee idol. The critics adored the film, which was first released at around the time of the Profumo crisis. "Even if I make 10 better pictures in my lifetime", Losey observed, "I don't suppose one could expect to have such unanimous appreciation and approval again". --Geoffrey Macnab

• A Month In The Country | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on J L Carr's novel two young soldiers fresh from the trauma of World War I meet in a tranquil Yorkshire village and form an unusual bond. Birkin has come to spend a month restoring a church mural whilst Moon who is still suffering nightmares from the horrors of war has come to excavate a forgotten chapel. Set against the background of an idyllic summer passion and forbidden love are uncovered as Birkin falls for the rector's beautiful wife and Moon has to face his own inner desires. As the men become drawn into their work they find reassurance and escape from their experiences and can begin a personal journey to recovery.

• A Virgin Among The Living Dead | DVD | (25/09/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Cristina Reiner is notified of her father's death and is summoned to Monserrat Mansion for the reading of his will. Other members of her strange, accursed family are found there awaiting. When Death finally visits the castle in the person of an elegantly attired Queen of Darkness, Cristina is approached by the ghost of her father, who advises her to flee the castle and her cold-skinned, bloodthirsty relatives. But is it already too late?

• Early Bird, The / Press For Time | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Norman Wisdom reprises his best-loved character, the comically inept Pitkin, in 1965's The Early Bird, ably supported once again by Edward Chapman in his final appearance as Mr Grimsdale. This time around Wisdom is the only milkman working for Grimsdale's Dairy, a small business threatened by a menacing large corporation in the shape of Consolidated Dairies and their electric milk floats. Grimsdale and Pitkin must evoke the Dunkirk spirit to save their family firm from the grasp of the faceless giant. Of course, the wafer-thin plot is the merest excuse for a series of calamitous set pieces in which Wisdom wreaks havoc in his trademark bumbling manner. The best bits involve a disastrous game of golf, the usual shenanigans with a fire hose and a virtuoso tour de force opening sequence as the household struggles to wake up in the morning, all set to Ron Goodwin's tongue-in-cheek music score. --Mark Walker In Press for Time Norman Wisdom offered his version of the crusading reporter movie, though by 1966 time was running out for Norman's style of big-screen comedy. Perhaps a sign of his growing frustration with the formulaic nature of his pictures was that he stretched himself to play not just his usual underdog hero, but also his own mother and his grandfather, the Prime Minister. Wisdom also cowrote the movie in which, as a reporter in a small seaside town, he causes chaos for the council, organises a beauty parade and dresses as a suffragette. Though now nearing the end of his years as a movie star, Wisdom shows himself to still be as polished as ever at his own brand of good-natured slapstick. --Gary S Dalkin

• She Killed in Ecstasy | Blu Ray | (30/11/2015) from £12.45   |  Saving you £3.54 (28.43%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For his follow-up to VAMPYROS LESBOS, writer/director Jess Franco delivered perhaps his most twisted shocker of the ˜70s: In what fans and critics consider to be her greatest role, the luscious Soledad Miranda in one of her final performances before her tragic death stars as the vengeful widow who seduces then murders the men and women responsible for her husband's suicide. Howard Vernon (THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF), Paul Muller (BARBED WIRE DOLLS), Ewa Strömberg (VAMPYROS LESBOS) and Jess himself co-star in this EuroCult classic featuring another epic sexadelic lounge score by Manfred Hübler & Siegfried Schwab now remastered in HD and featuring all-new Extras. It's Franco at his perversely erotic best, like you've never seen or heard it before! Extras: Jess Killed In Ecstasy Interview with Director Jess Franco Sublime Soledad Interview with Soledad Miranda Historian Amy Brown Stephen Thrower on She Killed in Ecstasy Interview with the author of Murderous Passions The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco Paul Muller on Jess Franco interview with the frequent Franco star Original German trailer Cast and Crew: Soledad Miranda, Ewa Stromberg, Howard Vernon, Paul Muller Jess Franco (director) Awards and Reviews: Stunning. A superior slice of eroticism The Spinning Image Truly shows what a creative genius Franco can be when at the top of his form Classic Horror

• Savage Streets | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Brenda's got a switchblade and she knows how to use it... See Linda Blair (The Exorcist) take bloody revenge on a gang of low down dirty street punks in Savage Streets a brutal journey into rape violence switchblades and bear traps. When Brenda (Blair) and her all-girl gang of tough talking chicks The Satins refuse to party with a car full of local drug pushers called The Scars the girls think nothing of it but they didn't reckon on the bruised ego of Jake and his feral pack of no good thugs. Targeting Brenda's deaf sister they invade the school and savage her leaving her on the critical list. Now Brenda must scour the streets in search of crossbow vengeance in a dangerous B-movie classic that's the perfect antidote to 80s high school flicks.

• Green Street 2 | Blu Ray | (23/03/2009) from £31.03   |  Saving you £-8.04 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The sequel to Green Street reveals what happens when the top players of the West Ham crew Green Street Elite are imprisoned following a deadly battle with their archenemies Millwall - every day becomes a fight for survival.

• Dirty Harry Collection | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Dirty Harry: Harry Callahan is a tough streetwise San Francisco cop whom they call Dirty Harry. In this action classic you'll see why - and also why Clint Eastwood's reputation as a premier film star and moviemaker is secure. A rooftop sniper (Andy Robinson) calling himself Scorpio has killed twice and holds the city ransom with the threat of killing again. Harry will nail him one way or the other no matter what the ""system"" prescribes. Filming on location director Don Siegel made the City by the Bay a vital part of Dirty Harry a practice continued in its four sequels. Thirty years after its arrival the original remains one of the most gripping police thrillers ever made. Magnum Force: Underworld figures are being murdered all over San Francisco. One by one criminals who have eluded prosecution are getting the justice they deserve justice you'd think Detective Harry Callahan might approve of with a tight-lipped smile. But if you think so you've misjudged Harry - and so have the killers. Written by future directors John Milius and Michael Cimino this Dirty Harry sequel stars Clint Eastwood in his signature role of Callahan here facing an unexpected kind of lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle policemen have turned vigilante. Their real enemy is the system. But the system is what Harry is sworn to protect. And he does - with Magnum Force! The Enforcer: When detective Harry Callahan stops a liquor store hostage standoff in his own no-nonsense way he gets busted back to personnel. But not for long. When terrorists rob an arms warehouse and go on a blood-soaked extortion spree San Francisco's leaders quickly seek out Callahan: The Enforcer. Clint Eastwood takes dead aim again in this third of his five Dirty Harry films. Presaging her four-time Emmy-winning stint as half of TV's Cagney and Lacey Tyne Daly co-stars as Harry's new partner who has two jobs: nailing the terrorists - and winning hard-boiled Harry's confidence. Stoked with brisk humor and hard-hitting mayhem The Enforcer carves another winning notch in the handle of Harry's .44 magnum. Sudden Impact: Sensitive to outcries of police brutality the superiors of San Francisco Detective Harry Callahan have sent him on an out-of-town assignment until things cool down. But wherever Harry goes things just get hotter. Clint Eastwood hits the mark again in Sudden Impact. Callahan's older dirtier and the world hasn't gotten better. Which means this fourth Dirty Harry movie (which Eastwood also directs) is explosively exciting as Callahan tracks a traumatized rape victim (Sondra Locke) coldly gunning down her bygone attackers. Through the five Callahan films the lawman always struck a powerful chord. But Sudden Impact is particularly potent fueled by the line that became a national catchphrase: ""Go ahead. Make my day."" The Dead Pool: Fame isn't detective Harry Callahan's style. He dislikes being g

• The Sweet House of Horrors | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One of Lucio Fulci's extremely suspenseful horror films about a menacing unstoppable force which was made after his prolific horror / gore films such as House By The Cemetary The Beyond Zombie Flesh Eaters etc. Sweet House Of Horror gets off to a great start with a masked man breaking into a house and brutally murdering the two owners. The story continues after the aunt and uncle of the children whose parents were murdered decide to take care of the children in the same house. Soon the two creepy kids conjure up a supernatural force that brings their parents back. Along with this is a number of strange supernatural occurences go on inside and out of the house... This grisly claustrophobic film contains some very suspenseful tension-filled moments visceral thrills shocks and special effects techniques. It introduces both horror elements and gore to traditional fairytale telling for adults!

• The Love Lottery | DVD | (14/03/2011) from £30.10   |  Saving you £-14.11 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.

• Jurassic Attack | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £3.59   |  Saving you £4.40 (122.56%)   |  RRP £7.99

  While returning from a military expedition to rescue a beautiful kidnapped scientist an elite commando unit crash lands in a dense remote tropical jungle. The survivors Gary Stretch (Savages) Corin Memec (sand Sharks) Natascha Berg (Haywire) and Isreal Saez de Miguel (Che Guevara) find themselves cut off from radio contact in a lost world populated by dinosaurs. Hunted on all sides and with their ammunition dwindling they must find a way to escape and return to civilization before becoming prey to the prehistoric predators.

• Revenge in the House of Usher | DVD | (08/05/2017) from £3.12   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dr. Alan Harker rides to the crumbling castle of his former university professor, Dr. Eric Usher, to find the old man caught in the grip of paranoia, his mind eroded by his ongoing attempts to resurrect his comatose daughter Melissa with the blood of abducted women. As he nears inevitable death, Usher enters a twilight world that exists between life and death, where he is met by some unsavoury souls.