"Director: Roger Corman"

• Five Guns West | DVD | (18/01/2016) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Marking the directional debut of Roger Corman (The Pit and the Pendulum), Five Guns West sets 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 stops 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. Braving hostile Comanche's, deceit and a rivalry brought on by the presence of a beautiful, cunning woman (Dorothy Malone), the men deftly set up their ambush. But when their uneasy alliance dissolves, the only thing the men can trust is his own six-shooter!

• Classic Horror - Vol. 1 | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-0.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nine classic horror movies of the Silver Screen era. The Corpse Vanishes (Dir. Wallace Fox 1942): Bela Lugosi plays a botanist who sends orchids to blushing brides on their wedding days. But they are not around to enjoy the reception as Bela kidnaps them to use their glandular fluids to rejuvenate his wife... Horror Hotel (Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey 1960): Young college student Nan Barlow (Stevenson) uses her winter vacation to research a paper on witchcraft in New

• The Little Shop Of Horrors | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £14.32   |  Saving you £-4.33 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  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 dental patient and the film als

• Rock All Night | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This is a tense hostage melodrama set in a bar where a new singer is auditioning. Dick Miller stars as Shorty, a much maligned hanger-on at the Cloud Nine tavern. Shorty's hot headed pugnaciousness comes in handy when a pair of gunmen invade the Cloud Nine and take the patrons hostage to hold off the police.

• Sorority Girl | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Susan Cabot stars as Sabra Tanner a poor little rich girl in this dark tale of teenage rebellions and bribery. Sabra feels alienated and misunderstood by her mother and when she is turned down for membership of her college's most prestigious sorority she takes out her frustration on her peers. Muttering dark imprecations she vows revenge on the girls that rejected her.

• Not Of This Earth | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-3.09 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Not Of This Earth

• Elvira Box Of Horrors | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This box set of cheesy delights includes six of the greatest low-budget horror flicks ever made. Each of these classics is introduced by Peterson who has dusted off her trademark gothic beehive and voluptuous vamp suit to write and record intros and outros for each film. Carnival of Souls (Dir. Herk Harvey's 1962): Three friends are out for a day's drive when they accept a drag challenge. Their car is forced off a bridge and plunges in to a river. with all three appearing to have drowned. Eventually Mary resurfaces and makes her way into town where she accepts a job as a church organist but a mysterious phantom figure begins to dog her every move. Dementia 13 (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola 1963): John Haloran dies from a heart attack leaving his wife Louise with something of a problem; she won't get to inherit any of the Haloran family money when Lady Haloran dies if John is already dead. So Louise forges a letter from John in order to convince the rest of his family that he has been called away urgently on business to New York whilst she journeys to the ghostly ancestral home in Ireland. It is her intention to ingratiate herself into the family and ensure a cut of the inheritance but things don't go as she had planned... Night of the Living Dead (Dir. George A. Romero 1968): The story begins casually enough; a brother and sister go to visit the grave of their father in a remote graveyard in the woods. There a strange man grabs at O'Dea and her brother rushes to her defense at which the man bites him and knocks him out. Terrified the girl jumps in the car and speeds to a nearby farm house to get help. She goes inside and the house appears to be deserted and the phone disconnected. She looks out the window and to her horror she sees the man trying to get inside the house! That is just the beginning of the seminal horror movie that is Night Of The Living Dead! House on Haunted Hill (Dir. William Castle 1959): Millionaire playboy Frederick Loren invites five guests out to a genuine haunted house offering them each $10 000 if they spend the night. Amongst the inivited is Watson Pritchard a nervous alcoholic who has been in this house before and witnessed some terrible things. Mr. Loren's beautiful but treacherous wife is also present - and might be out to kill Frederick during the course of the evening; then again he might be out to kill her... Severed heads a skeleton an acid vat ghostly screams and a noose that creeps around on its own and strangles unsuspecting victims are just some of the treats on show. The Little Shop of Horrors (Dir. Roger Corman 1959): Seymour Krelbourne works at a struggling flower shop where he shows the owner Gravis Mushnick a plant hybrid he has been working on. Named Audrey II in honour of Audrey Fulguard the plant proves an instant attraction as business booms almost overnight. Delighted Mushnick invites Seymour and Audrey out for a celebratory meal but Audrey already has a date with her boyfriend and Seymour needs to care for his ailing plant. Seymour soon realises that the only thing that can keep Audrey II alive is human blood... and that Audrey II's appetite is growing with her size! The Brain That Wouldn't Die (Dir. Joseph Green 1962): Jan Compton (Virginia Leith) literally loses her head in a fiery car crash and awakens as a monstrosity. Herb (a.k.a. Jason) Evers is Jan's fianc transplant specialist Bill Cortner who is driven to keep the head alive at any cost until he can find a suitably voluptuous replacement body. Locked in a closet by Bill and his assistant Kurt (Leslie Daniels) is yet another monster. A nightmarish patchwork of previous mistakes that becomes Jan's ally in bloody revenge.

• Classic Horror - Vol. 2 | DVD | (09/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Includes: 1. Carnival Of Souls 2. The Ape Man 3. Mesa Of Lost Women 4. Creature From The Haunted Sea 5. The Devil Bat 6. Vampire Bat 7. Dementia 13 8. Shock 9. Black Dragon For more information on individual films please refer to the individual products.

• The Terror | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £8.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Terror - Cult Classic Horror Movie DVD

• The Terror | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A lieutentant in Napoleon's army (a young Jack Nicholson) traces a mysterious woman to a castle on the Baltic coast and finds himself trapped by a mad baron (Boris Karloff). This highly enjoyable atmopsheric slice of low-budget horror from the great Roger Corman was also reportedly directed at points by future talents Francis Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich.

• 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

• Ski Troop Attach (B/W) | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £6.89   |  Saving you £-0.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An American recon patrol finds itself cut off from their support forces during World War Two as a German offensive severs their line of communication. Trapped in enemy territory in the midst of a freezing winter the soldiers must avoid detection whilst recording information about the German advance. They soon discover that a bridge spanning two mountains is providing the enemy with a strategic advantage and decide to blow it up. With a German ski patrol in close pursuit this mission could prove to be their last.

• World War II Collection | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £13.79   |  Saving you £11.20 (81.22%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Desert Commandos: As Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin prepared to meet at the Casablanca Conference in the midst of World War Two a crack troop of Nazi assassins were making their way slowly through the African desert with only one objective - to kill the 'Big 3'. Disguised as British commandos the men must avoid detection repel hostile locals and survive the harsh surroundings if they are to complete their mission and return home alive. Minesweeper : When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbour U.S. Navy Lieutenant Richard Houston a penniless deserter decides to take a chance and re-enlist. To avoid being identified he assumes an alias 'Jim Smith' and is assigned to duty aboard a minesweeper charged with keeping the waterways clear. Packed with wartime suspense and building to a shocking climax Minesweeper is an engrossing story of friendship bravery love and honour. Go for Broke!: Van Johnson stars as Lt. Michael Grayson in this wartime drama about a unique regiment of Japanese-American men during World War Two and their distrustful and bigoted lieutenant. Sent to fight in Italy the regiment soon have the lieutenant re-evaluating his personal opinions as his men prove their willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty and live up to their motto and 'Go For Broke'. Ski Troop Attack: An American recon patrol finds itself cut off from their support forces during World War Two as a German offensive severs their line of communication. Trapped in enemy territory in the midst of a freezing winter the soldiers must avoid detection whilst recording information about the German advance. They soon discover that a bridge spanning two mountains is providing the enemy with a strategic advantage and decide to blow it up. With a German ski patrol in close pursuit this mission could prove to be their last. Manila Open City: In early February 1945 as Allied Forces slowly closed the net around the Japanese Army entrenched within the city ruins of Manila the defeated Empire's soldiers adopted a brutal and savage operation of persecution against the citizens. Atrocities committed against the inhabitants were akin to those being inflicted in Europe by the Nazis and a damning indictment of the Japanese Army's contempt for the innocent. Three Came Home: Claudette Colbert stars in the inspirational and compelling true story of American author wife and mother Agnes Newton Keith whose life is shattered by the Japanese occupation of Borneo in 1941. Separated from her husband and imprisoned in a P.O.W camp with her young son she begins a painful journey of survival as the harsh realities of camp life and the horrors of war become daily routine.

• Target - Harry | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £4.15   |  Saving you £-1.16 (-38.80%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Freelance pilot Harry Black (Vic Morrow) finds both the Monte Carlo police and the underworld hot on his trail when he becomes caught up in the plans of one of his passengers - to break the Bank of England using forged currency. The tension mounts as Harry struggles to find the plates used to forge the notes and thus prove his innocence....

• Viking Women And The Sea Serpent | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A group of lonely Viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk who have not returned from an earlier voyage. As they are sailing they are caught in a whirlpool that sends them near a hideous sea serpent and their boat is destroyed. The survivors make their way to an island the land of the Grimolts... a race of people that have enslaved all the unfortunate beings that land on their territory including the Viking men who have been forced to work down their mines. The women must battle to save their men and themselves.

• Creature From The Haunted Sea | DVD | (30/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Crook Sparks Moran attempts to muscle in on a Caribbean island revolution by rescuing loyalists and helping himself to the contents of the national treasury. He then plans to kill the loyalists and blame a mythical sea monster for their deaths. Trouble ensues when the real monster turns up.

• Teenage Caveman | DVD | (16/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A classic 50s film from Arkoff's library. A young caveman(Robert Vaughan) defies tribal laws and searches for answers. The result of his quest involves some strange encounters.

• Arkoff - Vol. 2 | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A unique collection of some of the seminal 1950's monster and sci-fi movies made by the greatest director of the time including Roger Corman Bruno VeSota and Edward L Cahn. Featuring Monsters vampires delinquent school girls and giant arachnids along with the earliest performances of some of Hollywood's greatest stars. The Day The World Ended: A rancher and his daughter are holed up in their ranch after a nuclear holocaust decimates most of the world's population. Five su

• Bucket Of Blood, A / The Giant Gilla Monster | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £6.96   |  Saving you £13.02 (327.96%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A spine-tingling double feature. A Bucket of Blood (Dir. Roger Corman 1959 66 mins) Coffee bar waiter Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) is hailed as an artist for his amazing lifelike sculptures. Unbeknown to his customers his art is achieved by murdering his models and covering them in clay. Said by many to be cult actor Dick Miller's finest hour A Bucket of Blood is a superb semi-spoof of the dead-bodies-in-the-wax-museum genre. Produced and directed by Roger Corman it is a fine example of macabre humour perfectly capturing the spirit of the beatnik. The Giant Gilla Monster (Dir. Ray Kellog 1959 74 mins) When a Texas town is threatened by a gigantic lizard a singing and swinging teenager kick starts his friends into gear to stop the crazed beast. An enjoyable romp through 1950s science fiction drive-in cheese the sleepy lizard wreaking havoc on miniature sets is no less terrifying than the musical numbers.

• The Terror - Reloaded | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £5.16   |  Saving you £0.83 (16.09%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Terror is a classic Horror movie. Bringing together three greats from cinematic history Jack Nicholson Boris Karloff and producer Francis F Coppola. Chop it up with some stomping mixes by The House Music Movement DJ Todd Terry and VJ Dr Magic what do you get..? New realms of sensual fear and erotic imagery... That is Terror Reloaded. A lieutentant in Napoleon's army (a young Jack Nicholson) traces a mysterious woman to a castle on the Baltic coast and finds himself trapped by a mad baron (Boris Karloff). This highly enjoyable atmopsheric slice of low-budget horror from the great Roger Corman was also reportedly directed at points by future talents Francis Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich.