Horror and Suspense

• Revenge Of Frankenstein | DVD | (19/08/2002) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-22.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Revenge of Frankenstein was an inevitability after Hammer Films had made an international star of Peter Cushing in The Curse of this sequel-rich franchise. The plot here is a braver twist on the story than the many follow-ups would take. The Creature doesn't make its presence known until the final reel, up to which point the only sense of lurking menace comes from Cushing's deliciously mannered performance as a disguised Dr Stein. A new name and a new town is a gamble sure to fail, and circumstances almost immediately conspire against the deceit. Also rattling around the brilliantly lit studio sets are Eunice Gayson and Francis Matthews, while Michael Gwynn gives everything he's got in stiff competition to predecessor Christopher Lee in the Creature role. It's subtle and simply screams out for enfranchisement--so of course Hammer dutifully made another five in the series. On the DVD: The Revenge of Frankenstein comes with mono sound (all you're going to get from Hammer and 1958), but the 1.66:1 ratio is a treat. You also get a trailer (and a surprise additional movie trailer) plus 10 photos. --Paul Tonks

• Lake Placid 3 | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

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• Absurd (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (13/02/2017) from £16.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A tall man is running, chased by a Priest. He comes across a house but the tall gates are locked so he begins to climb them, however he slips at the top and impales himself on the spikes. Critically injured, he s taken to hospital and once there the doctors discover that this man has an amazing regenerative power and his blood coagulates very quickly making him almost indestructible. Sergeant Ben Engleman is put on the case and he finds out that the priest has the answers: this man, Mikos Stenopolis is the result of a nuclear experiment gone wrong. He s now completely insane and will kill everybody who crosses his path, showing no mercy. One of the most infamous slasher movies of all time, Absurd was banned in the UK and labelled a Video Nasty . Here presented in 2 alternate versions from a full 2K restoration, Joe D Amato s ultra gory Absurd is uncut and uncensored for the very first time..... Extras: Restored in 2K from the Original Camera Negative English Version with Uncompressed Mono Audio (94 Mins) Italian Version with Uncompressed Mono Audio and newly translated subtitles (88 Mins) Audio Commentary by The Hysteria Continues The Absurd Files: An Interview with Luigi Montefiori aka George Eastman Michele Soavi IV

• The Guardian (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (22/10/2018) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Following The Exorcist, Oscar-winning director William Friedkin returned with another classic tale of supernatural horror in The Guardian. Phil and Kate are a young couple living an idyllic life in their LA home. When Kate becomes pregnant with their first child they begin the search for a nanny to care for their newborn. The lovely young Camilla seems like the perfect candidate for the live-in role. She's a beautiful woman who devotes herself to looking after the baby, but it soon becomes apparent the nanny is not all she seems...

• Honeymoon | DVD | (26/01/2015) from £12.26   |  Saving you £1.99 (18.09%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Young newlyweds Paul (Treadaway) and Bea (Rose Leslie) travel to remote lake country for their honeymoon where the promise of private romance awaits them. Shortly after arriving Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night. As she becomes more distant and her behaviour increasingly peculiar Paul begins to suspect something more sinister than sleepwalking took place in the woods. Treadaway and Leslie give captivating leading performances as a couple that takes new love to disturbing depths. With romance slowly giving way to terror writer/ director Leigh Janiak puts her unique stamp on this intimate chilling thriller.

• Hollow Man | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £7.18   |  Saving you £5.81 (80.92%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Torn Curtain (Dual Format) | Blu Ray | (14/08/2017) from £14.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Paul Newman and Julie Andrews star in Torn Curtain, what must unfortunately be called one of Alfred Hitchcock's lesser efforts. Still, sub-par Hitchcock is better than a lot of what's out there, and this one is well worth a look. Newman plays cold-war physicist Michael Armstrong, while Andrews plays his lovely assistant-and-fiancée Sarah Sherman. Armstrong has been working on a missile defence system that will "make nuclear defence obsolete", and naturally both sides are very interested. All Sarah cares about is the fact that Michael has been acting awfully fishy lately. The suspense of Torn Curtain is by nature not as thrilling as that in the average Hitchcock film--much of it involves sitting still and wondering if the bad guys are getting closer. Still, Hitchcock manages to amuse himself: there is some beautifully clever camera work and an excruciating sequence that illustrates the frequent Hitchcock point that death is not a tidy business. --Ali Davis

• The Skeleton Key | Blu Ray | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A young woman in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of strange Hoodoo practitioners.

• The Baby | Blu Ray | (24/09/2018) from £22.19   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Still traumatised by the loss of her husband, well-meaning social worker Ann Gentry (Anjanette Comer, The Loved One) throws herself into her latest assignment: the case of Baby , a 21-year-old man with the mind of an infant who crawls, cries and has yet to make it out of nappies. But Baby s family the tyrannical Mama Wadsworth (Ruth Roman, Strangers on a Train) and her two demented daughters aren t the only ones with a warped conception of familial relations, and the full horror only begins when Ann sets her sights on liberating the drooling man-child... and in so doing unleashes the wrath of the Wadsworth women. 45 years after its original release, this film remains one of the most bizarre horror movies ever committed to celluloid. Directed by Ted Post (Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Magnum Force) and co-starring Marianna Hill (Blood Beach, Messiah of Evil), The Baby is a twisted, psychedelic nightmare of suburban depravity. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: 1.85:1 and 1.33:1 versions of the feature High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed PCM mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new audio commentary by Travis Crawford Down Will Come Baby a new retrospective with film professor Rebekah McKendry Tales from the Crib archival audio Interview with director Ted Post Baby Talk archival audio Interview with Star David Mooney Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by The Twins of Evil FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector s booklet featuring new writing by Kat Ellinger

• Tenebrae | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £7.94   |  Saving you £9.05 (113.98%)   |  RRP £16.99

  After several excursions into supernatural horror, Dario Argento returned to the homicidal frenzy that made his reputation with this mystery that plays more like a grown-up slasher movie than a detective thriller. Anthony Franciosa stars as Peter Neal, a best-selling horror novelist whose promotional tour in Italy takes a terrible turn when a mysterious killer recreates the brutal murders from his book with real-life victims. The first to die are so-called "deviants", Neal's own friends and finally there comes a promise that the author himself is next on the list. Columbo it ain't, but Argento has always been more concerned with style than story and his execution of the crimes is pure cinematic bravura. From the simple beauty of a straight razor shattering a light bulb (the camera catches the red-hot filament slowly blacking out) to an ambitious crane shot that creeps up and over the sides of a house under siege in a voyeuristic survey that would make Hitchcock proud, Argento turns the art of murder into a stylish spectacle. He even lets his kinkier side show with flashbacks of an adolescent boy and a teasing dominatrix in red stiletto heels that become a key motif of the film. The objects of Argento's homicidal tendencies are traditionally lovely, scantily clad Italian beauties, and with self-deprecating humour he even inserts a scene in which Neal is taken to task for the misogynist violence of his stories--an accusation Argento himself has weathered for years. --Sean Axmaker

• Starry Eyes | DVD | (16/03/2015) from £6.59   |  Saving you £8.40 (127.47%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A horrifying and shocking tale of desperate ambition in the city of dreams. Aspiring actress Sarah (Alexandra Essoe) spends her days chasing her dream of Hollywood stardom. After a series of disturbing auditions for the mysterious Astraeus Pictures, Sarah lands the lead role in their latest film. As stardom beckons, the price of Sarah s dreams lead her to an excruciating physical and mental transformation that will push her desires and ambitions to the very limits. Special Features: Alex Essoe Audition Deleted Scenes Score to Picture Audio Commentary

• Blood and Black Lace | Blu Ray | (13/04/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This delirious mix of sex, sadism and style has a masked man stalking the gorgeous mannequins of a Roman high fashion house, murdering them in a strikingly fetishist manner and then leaving the corpses to be discovered like grisly works of art. Mario Bava's 1964 film, originally titled Sei donne per l'assassino, is one of the earliest slasher movies, and remains a suspenseful, disturbing and oddly seductive film. The complex, lurid plot features blackmail, murder for profit, drug addiction and scandal among the beautiful people. Smooth Cameron Mitchell and lovely Eva Bartok are the conspirators, pursued by a plodding Columbo-style detective. However, Bava goes beyond the world of Agatha Christie or Edgar Wallace to embrace the surreal and the nightmarish. Each murder is handled like a musical number, with elaborate camera moves, striking colour effects and a strangely memorable jazz score. There is certainly more than a tinge of misogyny in the treatment of actresses as disposable dummies, but the plot is equally cynical about its grasping, feeble, suspicious male characters. This welcome video release--more complete than any previous UK edition--is letterboxed to show off the cinematography and, most importantly, preserves Bava's astonishingly rich colour effects. --Kim Newman

• Poltergeist | Blu Ray | (26/10/2015) from £37.78   |  Saving you £-12.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi (Spiderman Evil Dead The Grudge) and director Gil Kenan (Monster House) contemporise the classic tale about a family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and hold the youngest daughter captive the family must come together to rescue her before she disappears forever.

• Waxwork | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £6.19   |  Saving you £9.80 (158.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Stop On By And Give Afterlife A Try. Zach Galligan (Gremlins) teams up with special effects wizard Bob Keen (Alien Highlander) to star in this spine-tingling horror. Mark and his college class decide to have a little fun and attend a 'private' midnight showing at the new waxwork museum. Admission is free... but getting out may cost them their lives! Join them in this roller-coaster ride into terror in Waxwork.

• The Forest | Blu Ray | (20/06/2016) from £6.09   |  Saving you £11.90 (195.40%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A supernatural thriller set in Japan's legendary Aokigahara Forest, where Sara (Natalie Dormer) goes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared. Despite warnings not to stray from the path , Sara dares to enter the forest to discover the truth about her sister's fate, only to be confronted by the angry and tormented souls of the dead who now prey on anyone who comes their way.

• Phantom of the Opera | DVD | (12/12/2011) from £17.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (6.67%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Directed by Rupert Julian, and based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, classic horror masterpiece The Phantom of the Opera stars Lon Chaney, in one of his most grotesque performances as the crazed man without a face, who lives in the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, and falls in love with the voice of a young opera singer. Infatuated, he kidnaps her, dragging her to the depths below where she will sing only for him. This 2-disc Ultimate Edition includes an all-new restoration of the film, with the Bal Masque sequence in two-strip Technicolor and other scenes hand tinted, and features both the 1925 and 1929 versions. It also includes a brand new score by The Alloy Orchestra, in addition to Gaylord Carter’s famous 1974 score – released for the very first time in stereo – and Gabriel Thibaudeau’s 1990 score. Together with new audio commentary by Dr. Jon Mirsalis, this edition features the following extras: * Still Frame Gallery *Original Trailers * Interview with Gabriel Thibaudeau * Reproduction of the 1925 Souvenir Programme and Script

• Crime on the Hill | DVD | (06/04/2015) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Suspense and wry humour abound in this classic murder mystery set in an English country house – one of the first films made in Britain by influential American director Bernard Vorhaus with a cast that includes former child star Sally Blane acclaimed British player Lewis Casson and comedy stalwarts Hay Petrie and Hal Gordon. Released in 1933 Crime on the Hill is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. A wealthy squire who had bequeathed much of his estate to his niece is found to have been poisoned and suspicion soon falls upon the young woman's fiance Tony. As speculation runs rife in the village a local vicar turns amateur sleuth in an attempt to prove the young man's innocence... Features: Image Gallery Original Script PDF

• House II: The Second Story | Blu Ray | (11/12/2017) from £14.84   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  FRIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE! Another House, another horror! Following on from the original 1986 horror classic, House II: The Second Story relocates the terror to a sprawling mansion where multiple dimensions converge all of them terrifying! This first House sequel sees young Jesse (Arye Gross) moving into an old family property where his parents were mysteriously murdered years before. Joined by pal Charlie (Jonathan Stark), the pair soon find themselves with some unexpected guests in the form of Jesse's mummified great-great grandfather, a mystical crystal skull and the zombie cowboy who'll stop at nothing to lay his hands on it! Newly restored for this deluxe Blu-ray edition, House II: The Second Story is the horror sequel that offers up even more thrills and chills than its predecessor. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: ¢ Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements ¢ High Definition Blu-ray presentation ¢ Original Stereo and DTS-HD MA 5.1 Audio Options ¢ Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing ¢ Audio commentary with writer-director Ethan Wiley and producer Sean S. Cunningham ¢ It's Getting Weirder! The Making of House II: The Second Story brand new documentary featuring interviews with writer-director Ethan Wiley, producer Sean S. Cunningham, stars Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Lar Park Lincoln and Devin DeVasquez, composer Harry Manfredini, special make-up and creature effects artists Chris Walas, Mike Smithson, visual effects supervisor Hoyt Yeatman and stunt coordinator Kane Hodder ¢ Vintage EPK ¢ Still Gallery ¢ Theatrical Trailer and TV Spot ¢ Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Justin Osbourn

• Black Sunday Dual Format | Blu Ray | (04/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  STARE INTO THESE EYES... discover deep within them the unspeakable terrifying secret of BLACK SUNDAY... it will paralyze you with fright! Legendary Scream Queen Barbara Steele (Shivers, Caged Heat) stars in this classic slice of gothic terror from the father of fantastic Italian cinema Mario Bava (Lisa & the Devil). A beautiful witch is sentenced to death for her evil deeds by her own brother, condemned to die by having a metal mask hammered onto her face before being burnt at the stake. As...

• Deadly Game | DVD | (23/03/2015) from £5.09   |  Saving you £7.90 (155.21%)   |  RRP £12.99