Horror and Suspense

• The Gate | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £90.17   |  Saving you £-84.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In 1987 The Gate was at the forefront of what came and went as a purely 80s genre: Kiddie Horror. Just like The Lost Boys or The Monster Squad of the same year, the idea was to let a couple of younger-than-teenage kids loose in a well-worn horror scenario and play it for as many laughs as scares. Its 15 certificate (PG-13 in the States) meant The Gate had an enormous opening weekend, and a considerable shelf life. The kids in question here are a very young Stephen (Blade) Dorff as Glen and his best friend Terry. After some tree felling in Glen's seemingly miles-square back yard they discover a hole full of precious rock. This is of course the Gate to a demonic dimension. As things start levitating, Glen's dog dies and moths get into the most awkward of places, it becomes obvious that the Gate is open! A teenage sister does little to help early on, but naturally the story develops into one about banding together under extreme circumstances. The make-up and stop-motion animation effects remain impressive in scope and there are a couple of frights still just on the right side of cliché. Since it was so successful, the writer and director went on to make an inferior sequel some years later. On the DVD: Viewers should note this is a very murky transfer that's in an unspecified widescreen ratio. There's also an unspectacular (equally unspecified) sound mix. But a gallery of 10 photos and the theatrical trailer makes up for that, right? --Paul Tonks

• Hallowed Ground | DVD | (17/01/2011) from £12.13   |  Saving you £0.86 (6.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After she becomes stranded in a small town a young woman discovers her arrival there was foretold a century earlier by the town's founding preacher and that she is an integral part of his impending - and terrifying - rebirth.

• A Return to Salem's Lot | Blu Ray | (24/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Two Evil Eyes | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two of the high-priests of horror directors George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead Monkey Shines) and Dario Argento (Tenebre Phenomena) each pay tribute to Edgar Allan Poe with screen adaptions of the master's most terrifying tales from the dark side. Romero's shock-filled story (The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar) centres on a greedy young wife's bid to trick her dying husband out of his millions and the terror that is unleashed when mysterious beings take possession of the old man's body. The inspiration for Argento's blood-curdling tale is Poe's The Black Cat. Skilfully grafting in chilling scenes from several of Poe's other classic stories Argento's trip into terror tells of a man's cruel obsession with his wife's cat that finally drives him to murder of the most gruesome kind.

• Nightmares Come At Night | DVD | (24/07/2017) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A Zagreb nightclub dancer, Cincia, moves in with Anne, a beautiful exotic dancer, and the two commence an odd, but erotic, relationship. The peace breaks, however, when Anne begins to have nightmarish visions of gory crimes -- starring herself as the perpetrator. When reality and fantasy blur, Anne begins to wonder if she's only dreaming the terror.

• Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £6.30   |  Saving you £0.95 (18.85%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Ambitious television reporter Maria Sanchez (Danielle Harris of Rob Zombie's Halloween, Hatchet 2) is investigating the disappearance of over 200 Midwestern University students when a local man (Lance Henriksen of Aliens) contacts her with information that reveals details of the serial killer and his crimes: His name is Cyrus (a chilling performance by Brian Krause of Charmed) and the murders themselves were brutal. What happened next was horrific - but the worst is still to come. Based on shocking true events, this bloody and brutal story of the 'The County Line Cannibal' will leave a taste in your mouth that you'll never forget.

• Beneath | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £5.16   |  Saving you £7.83 (151.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Years after a horrific car crash in which her sister was seriously injured Christy (Nora Zehetner) returns to her home town. But as the car's driver she is haunted by terrifying visions prophesying doom...

• Blood Sabbath | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £11.09   |  Saving you £-5.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When travelling through the woods young David is captured by a members of a witches' coven. Soon he is involved in a bizarre power struggle with a beautiful witch and the coven's evil queen...

• Curse of the Cat People | DVD | (21/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A haunting sequel to Cat People (1942) co-directed by Robert Wise (The Haunting) in which Amy a young girl makes an imaginary friend through the ghost of her father's dead first wife Irena (Simon Simon) and befriends Julia Farren (Julia Dean) an aging reclusive actress who is also alienated from her own daughter.

• Ultimate Slasher Box Set II | DVD | (26/08/2013) from £5.03   |  Saving you £12.22 (324.14%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Three great slasher movies: Devil RiderRobert and Allan find themselves in the hands of two psychopaths on wheels Ray and Billy. In the middle of a Poker Run a desert bike rally between Victorville and Vegas Ray and Billy abduct Robert and Allan's wives and leave the two men with an ultimatum of death if they ever hope to see the women alive again. The MazeFive friends break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night and decide to play a harmless game of tag. Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play along. When the body of the maze owner is found they realize that something is terribly wrong. As they race to find the entrance of the maze the murderer cleverly forces them to follow the path that he wants. After succumbing to hours of torture will anyone make it out of the maze...alive? The Goatman MurdersThey wanted a trip they would never forget... Two carloads of friends are heading to Florida the only thing on their minds: sex booze drugs and rock and roll. Engine trouble leaves the group stranded in rural Maryland home of the legendary Goatman. One by one they encounter something in the woods an abomination of nature the beginning of a downward spiral into heinous acts of killing and depravity.

• Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell | DVD | (28/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The finale to Hammer's Frankenstein cycle features a young Doctor who is interned in the asylum where Baron Frankenstein supposedly perished after being found experimenting on stolen corpses. In the asylum he meets the mysterious Doctor Victor (Peter Cushing), and gradually comes to realise that Frankenstein is alive and well and continuing his work.

• Wax Mask | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Paris 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filli

• The Hostess | DVD | (13/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Satanic | DVD | (02/01/2017) from £9.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Four friends on their way to Coachella stop off in Los Angeles to tour true-crime Satanic Panic-era sites, only to find themselves interrupting an apparent human sacrifice. They save the young victim, but she turns out to be much more dangerous than the cult from which she escaped, unleashing an evil spirit who will hunt the friends down one by one... Starring Sarah Hyland (Modern Family), Justin Chon (Twilight Saga), Clara Mamet (Bad Neighbours 2), and Anthony Carrigan (Gotham).

• Some Kind Of Hate | DVD | (09/05/2016) from £11.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Violent supernatural horror film from director Adam Egypt Mortimer. When Lincoln Taggert (Ronen Rubinstein) lashes out at bullies who have harassed him for years, he is sent to a remote reform school for disturbed teens. Trouble starts up again when Lincoln experiences similar problems but this time the wrathful spirit of Moira (Sierra McCormick) is summoned and goes on a vicious rampage to get even with Lincoln's tormentors.

• The House By The Cemetery (3-Disc Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (21/01/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Broken | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £6.10   |  Saving you £9.89 (162.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A woman finds herself tumbling deeper in to psychosis after seeing her doppelganger drive past her home.

• Grindhouse Trailer Classics | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  To tie in perfectly with the new Tarantino/Rodriguez film Grindhouse Nucleus Films are proud to bring you a collection of the very best in Grindhouse Trailers many of which helped influence and shape the Hollywood Blockbuster.

• The Caller | DVD | (24/10/2011) from £11.30   |  Saving you £3.69 (24.60%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When troubled divorcee, Mary Kee (Lefevre), begins to receive mysterious phone calls from an unknown caller, she quickly begins to feel haunted in her own home. When she discovers that the person is calling from the past, Mary realizes that she will have to kill her in order to survive. But how do you kill someone living in the past and what will happen if she fails?Starring Rachelle Leferve (Twilight) and Stephen Moyers (True Blood) this spine chilling thriller will have you on the edge of edge of your seat!

• The Descent - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (14/04/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On a daredevil caving holiday six girls are trapped underground when an unexpected rock fall blocks their exit. Searching the maze of tunnels for a way out they find themselves hunted by a race of fearless hungry predators once humanoid but now monstrously adapted to live in the dark.