"Director: Roger Corman"

• Five Guns West | DVD | (16/08/2005) from £14.06   |  Saving you £1.92 (17.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Kiss for kiss! Bullet for bullet! Marking the directorial debut of 'B' movie master Roger Corman 'Five Guns West' set the standard for gritty shoot-and-run western adventure! John Lund Dorothy Malone and Touch Connors star in R. Wright Campbell's rugged tale of five outlaws whose next stop is the gallows-unless they take on a dangerous mission! Given the choice of death or deadly mission five convicts agree to hijack a stagecoach carrying a traitor and $30 000 in gold. Br

• The Little Shop Of Horrors | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Even by Roger Corman's thrifty standards, The Little Shop of Horrors was a masterpiece of micro-budget movie-making. Scripted in a week and shot, according to Corman, in two days and one night, it made use of a pre-existing store-front set that serves as the florist's shop where most of the action takes place. Our hero is shambling loser Seymour Krelboined, sad-sack assistant at Mushnick's skid-row flower shop and who is hopelessly in love with Audrey, his fellow worker. Threatened with the sack by Mushnick, Seymour brings in a strange plant he's been breeding at home, hoping it'll attract the customers. It does, and the store starts to prosper, but Seymour is horrified to discover that the only thing the plant will thrive on is blood, fresh, human blood at that. The sets are pasteboard, the acting is way over the top, and altogether Little Shop is an unabashed high-camp spoof, not to be taken seriously for a second. Even so, Corman notes that this was the movie "that established me as an underground legend". Charles Griffith, the film's screenwriter, plays the voice of the insatiable plant ("FEED ME!"), and billed way down the cast list is a very young Jack Nicholson in a bizarre, giggling cameo as Wilbur Force, a masochistic dental patient demanding ever more pain. The film's cult status got it turned into an off-Broadway hit musical in the 1980s, with a great pastiche doo-wop score by Alan Menken, which was subsequently filmed in 1986. The musical remake is a lot of fun, but it misses the ramshackle charm of the original. On the DVD: Little Shop of Horrors on disc does not even boast a trailer, just some minimal onscreen background info about the production. The clean transfer, 4:3 ratio, and digitally remastered mono sound faithfully recapture Corman's bargain-basement production values. --Philip Kemp

• X: The Man with X-Ray Eyes DVD Region 2 | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.

• Classic Horror Volume 2 (Frankenstein, The Wasp Women, The Ghoul, Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde) | DVD | (31/03/2014) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-1.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Frankenstein (1931): Henry Frankenstein is a brilliant scientist who has been conducting experiments on the re-animation of lifeless bodies. He has conducted experiments on small animals and is now ready to create life in a man he has assembled from body parts he has been collecting from various sites such as graveyards or the gallows. His fianc�e Elizabeth and friend Victor Moritz are worried about his health as he spends far too many hours in his laboratory on his experiments. He's ...

• The Wasp Woman | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £6.95   |  Saving you £-4.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Cosmetic magnate Janice Starlin feels that she is beginning to look her age so when Professor Zinthrop announces that he believes he can reverse the ageing process by utilising the royal jelly of a queen wasp she eagerly puts herself forward as the first to test the theory. Her over dosage however turns her into a killer wasp devouring her prey.

• Creature From The Haunted Sea / The Devil Bat / Vampire Bat | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Creature From The Haunted Sea: A mobster hits on a plan while smuggling a deposed general and a fortune in gold out of Cuba on his yacht. He and his crew will scare the general and kill his guards by faking the attacks of a sea monster and thus keep the gold for themselves. Unfortunately a sea monster actually is attacking them leading to all sorts of complications. The Devil Bat: Driven by the thrill of vengeance a crazy scientist devises a particularly diabolical m

• 3 Classic Horrors Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 3 - Little Shop Of Horrors / Bat / Bride Of The Monster | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £3.53   |  Saving you £2.72 (119.82%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Little Shop Of Horrors: The original movie of this classic black comedy/horror about a rather dim-witted young man Seymour (Jonathan Haze) working for $10 a week in Mushnick's flower shop on skid row who develops an intelligent bloodthirsty plant. He names the plant ""Audrey Jr"" and as it grows it demands human meat for sustenance and Seymour is forced to kill in order to feed it. Jack Nicholson has a notable cameo part as an undertaker Wilbur Force who is a masochistic d

• The Cars That Ate Paris/The Legend Of Hell House/The Fall Of The House Of Usher | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cars That Ate Paris (Dir. Peter Weir 1974): Peter Weir's first film is a surreal and fantastic horror. An outstanding hit at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival and a landmark in Australian film-making it remains a cult classic. On the outskirts of the small town of Paris cars crash with alarming regularity. Arthur (Terry Camilleri) survives one such accident and becomes a prisoner of Paris although he's unaware of his predicament as the town has provided him with something he's never had - a family. But these crashes are far from accidents. The townspeople have been laying traps for passing traffic - the dead are disposed of and the injured are stored for medical experimentation. Paris lives off cars - spare parts are their currency - however the source of their livelihood soon turns against them and the cars have their revenge. The town's youth launch a terrifying attack using their bizarre customised souped-up hot-rods as deadly weapons. The town that lives by the car shall die by the car! Legend Of Hell House (Dir. John Hough 1973): A team consisting of a physicist his wife a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation and solve the mystery of Hell House... Fall Of House Of Usher (Dir. Roger Corman 1960): After a long journey Philip arrives at the Usher mansion seeking his loved one Madeline. Upon arriving however he discovers that Madeline and her brother Roderick Usher have been afflicted with a mysterious malady...

• Gas-s-s-s | Blu Ray | (04/01/2016) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When the US military accidentally release a noxious substance that causes 'death from instant old age', everyone over twenty-five dies and the youth of America are left to their own devices to invent a new world order. Fresh from bringing the late-60s counter-cultural explosion to the screen in The Trip, Roger Corman delivers his most ambitious and anarchic take on the 'Love Generation' yet - a free-wheeling blend of acid rock, far-out humour and psychedelic excess that faithfully captures the revolutionary spirit of its time. High Definition transfer The Guardian Interview with Roger Corman (1970, audio only): archival interview held at the NFT Original theatrical trailer

• The Day The World Ended | DVD | (26/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A rancher and his daughter are holed up in their ranch after a nuclear holocaust decimates most of the world's population. Five survivors arrive but an altogether unwelcome presence is hot on their heels: a pack of mutated radioactive animals!

• Horror Triple | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  A box set of three spine tingling horror tales: Masque Of The Red Death: As a deadly plague ravages Europe sadistic Prince Prospero hosts a lavish banquet for noble devil-worshippers in the sanctuary of his castle. But in the midst of their cruelly wanton revelry there is an uninvited masked guest; Death! Night Of The Eagle: Norman Taylor is hated by other university lecturers when rumours of a major promotion circulate. Hated so much in fact that someone pervades his life with sinister occult spells... Zoltan Hound Of Dracula: In the event of a bizarre find a group of Russian soldiers bring back to life the Dog of Dracula. The evil hound then travels to Los Angeles where the last descendants of the deadly clan still survive...

• A Bucket Of Blood | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Inside every artist... Lurks a mad man! Walter (Dick Miller) is a busboy overly impressed with the cool cats who hang out at The Yellow Door coffee house and he wonders how to become ""hip."" When he accidentally kills his landlady's pet cat Walter panics and covers it with clay. His prayers are answered and before he knows it he's the ""cat's meow"" of the art world. His talent develops and - surprise! - he can sculpt humans the same way too. Like so many artists his real ta

• Bloody Mama | DVD | (29/06/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bloody Mama is another shameless unforgettable midnight movie classic directed by the legendary Roger Corman. Written by Robert Thom (Death Race 2000 All The Fine Young Cannibals) it stars Hollywood veteran Shelly Winters (Alfie The Poseidon Adventure) along with cult favourites Bruce Dern (Silent Running Rebel Rousers) Scatman Crothers (The Shining Hong Kong Phooey) and an early performance from superstar Robert DeNiro (Mean Streets Taxi Driver). It's depression era America and the infamous Ma Baker and her hillbilly brood of demented psychopathic sons are trailblazing through the Midwest making Bonnie and Clyde look like Richard and Judy. Rape murder kidnapping robbery drug abuse and incest are amongst their twisted family values. They're an unstoppable gang of lethal trash inhabiting a dark dangerous world of sordid crime and limitless depravity. But with the F.B.I on their trail their sadistic reign is about to end in an explosive massacre. Always entertaining relentlessly shocking and somewhat unsettling the true story of Bloody Mama is one of Roger Corman's most notorious creations.

• Machine Gun Kelly | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Based on the unique real life story Charles Bronson stars as Machine Gun Kelly a cold blooded sadist whose 1930's rampage earned him the title of Public Enemy Number One by the FBI. His homicidal tendencies are linked to his personal sensitivity of his height. Together with his ever loving partner Flo Kelly decides to crown his criminal achievements with a high profile kidnapping. Unfortunately Kelly takes too great a gamble and his intended farewell to the criminal world results in his own bloody downfall.

• Roger Corman Collection | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Title Comprise: Five Guns West: Given the choice of death or deadly mission five convicts agree to hijack a stagecoach carrying a traitor and 000 in gold. Braving hostile Comanches deceit and a rivalry brought on by the presence of a beautiful cunning woman (Malone) the men deftly set up their ambush. But when their uneasy alliance dissolves the only thing any of the men can trust... is his own six-shooter! Gunslinger: After her husband is shot Rose Hood takes his place as the Sheriff of a small Western town. Haunted Palace: When Charles Dexter Ward arrives in Arkham he is instantly disliked by the local townsfolk because he is the descendant of an evil warlock who placed a curse on the town before he was burnt at the stake. Their fears of him are soon justified when the spirit of his evil relative starts to take over his body. Premature Burial: The fear of being buried alive has had a hold over Guy Carrell all his life and to try and overcome his fear he opens his father's tomb. Only to be shocked into a catatonic state and have his worst fear realised. Masque Of The Red Death: A Satan-worshipping Prince invites several of the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague but they get much more than they bargained for when during a masked ball a strange figure appears who is believed to be the Devil. Wild Angels: Peter Fonda and Bruce Dern play two Hell's Angels whose wild lifestlye eventually catches up with them.

• The Last Woman On Earth | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £7.73   |  Saving you £0.25 (5.27%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Three friends (Eve her husband Harold and their lawyer friend Martin) are on a diving holiday in Puerto Rico. When they resurface they soon come to the realisation that they are probably the last people left on Earth! Sci-fi from the legendary Roger Corman penned by (and co-starring!) Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne.

• Gas-s-s-s | DVD | (04/01/2016) from £11.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (73.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When the US military accidentally release a noxious substance that causes 'death from instant old age', everyone over twenty-five dies and the youth of America are left to their own devices to invent a new world order. Fresh from bringing the late-60s counter-cultural explosion to the screen in The Trip, Roger Corman delivers his most ambitious and anarchic take on the 'Love Generation' yet - a free-wheeling blend of acid rock, far-out humour and psychedelic excess that faithfully captures the revolutionary spirit of its time. The Guardian Interview with Roger Corman (1970, audio only): archival interview held at the NFT Original theatrical trailer

• A Bucket of Blood | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-3.99 (-100.00%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Inside Every Artist Lurks... A Madman! When Walter Paisley accidentally kills his neighbour's cat and covers the remains in plaster to hide the evidence he is acclaimed as a brilliant sculptor. But with his work now in demand Walter must return to this method to produce new works and soon enough people start to mysteriously disappear.

• She Gods Of Shark Reef | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-6.08 (-305.50%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Two brothers escaping from the police on a boat are ship-wrecked on an island. It appears that the only other inhabitants are a group of women who make a living diving for pearls. A shark cult that sacrifice the women to the sharks that surround the island make getting off the island more difficult that it appears.

• Hooray For Hollywood | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Happy Go Lovely (Dir. H. Bruce Humberstone 1951): David Niven plays a rich bachelor the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An American troupe wants to produce a musical in town but has trouble getting backers. Niven's character meets several of the leading ladies of the show; through a misunderstanding he doesn't correct they come to think that he's a newspaper reporter. He falls in love with one of the women who reciprocates; he grows more lively and friendly to the surprise of his employees... Pajama Game (Dir. Stanley Donen and George Abbott 1957): A truly joyous tale starring Doris Day as the union leader in a clothing factory. From the novel 'Seven And A Half Cents' by Richard Bissell and adapted into a successful musical which the french director Jean Luc Goddard called the first left wing operetta! The Inspector General (Dir. Henry Koster 1949): In this delightful period farce set in Russia in the 1800's Danny Kaye plays an illiterate buffoon who is mistaken by the villagers for their feared Inspector General.Hilarious situations ensue as Danny is caught up in court intrigue without having a clue of what is going on. Made For Each Other (Dir. John Cromwell 1939): This highly appealing comedy drama stars James Stewart and Carole Lombard as a young couple battling illness lack of money inept servants and interfering in-laws... The Little Shop Of Horrors (Dir. Roger Corman 1960): The original movie of this classic black comedy/horror about a rather dim-witted young man Seymour (Jonathan Haze) working for a week in Mushnick's flower shop on skid row who develops an intelligent bloodthirsty plant. He names the plant Audrey Jr and as it grows it demands human meat for sustenance and Seymour is forced to kill in order to feed it. Jack Nicholson has a notable cameo part as an undertaker Wilbur Force who is a masochistic dental patient and the film also features the writer Charles Griffith as the hold-up man and the voice of Audrey Jr. Sources differ but it was reputed that the film was shot in just two or three days and in 1961 it was billed as The Funniest Picture This Year. The film inspired the well-known off-Broadway hit musical and musical/comedy movie remake starring Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene was made in 1986.