Horror and Suspense

• Hammer Horror Resurrected Box Set | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  This Hammer Horror Resurrected box set collects Hammer movies from the mid-1960s (plus a stray 1975 title), an era when Hammer was making sequels or even sequels to sequels and occasionally cobbling together films with a lack of care that would not have passed muster in the 1950s. Nevertheless, all of these films have elements that remain pleasing and a good half of the titles represented are in the front-rank of the Hammer canon. Rasputin the Mad Monk is a bloodied-up slice of Russian history, hindered somewhat by the need to limit the sets to those that could be recycled from Dracula Prince of Darkness and a legal injunction to refrain from naming names. Christopher Lee makes a fair fist of the lead role, employing his Dracula staring eyes and wringing hands to go with an impressive false beard and using sheer force of will to dominate the Tsar's court, especially the elegantly masochistic lady-in-waiting Barbara Shelley. Frankenstein Created Woman sends Peter Cushing's Baron back to the drawing board and finds him diverted from his usual brain surgery and corpse-stitching into experimenting with cryogenic suspension and soul transference. Terence Fisher, on his third Hammer Frankenstein, directs the cynical script with cold flair. The side is let down only by Playboy Playmate Susan Denberg's insufficiently devastating lady monster. The Vengeance of She is the mildest effort in this bunch, a quickie sequel to She in which blonde, bosomy Czech "discovery" Olinka Berova did not turn out to be an international sensation along the lines of previous Hammer babes Ursula Andress and Raquel Welch. The feeble storyline peters out as the heroine is plagued by dreams that suggest she is the reincarnation of the evil ice queen Ayesha but then turns out not to be. The Plague of the Zombies is a grimmer Hammer, with cartoonish social comment ladled onto the voodoo goings-on. Cornish squire John Carson (even chillier than the usual Christopher Lee) enjoys rampaging around the countryside with his hunting pals abusing comely lasses while his fortune is kept going by the exploited living dead working his tin mine. Andre Morell has the Peter Cushing role as a concerned expert who recognises that there's voodoo in the air, and Jacqueline Pearce--unforgettable in director John Gilling's companion piece, The Reptile--is suitably affecting as the secondary heroine who turns into a seductive zombie and gets her head lopped off. In Quatermass and the Pit boffin Professor Quatermass (Andrew Keir) unearths an eerie history of insect aliens who have influenced human evolution when workmen extending the London underground discover a five million year old Martian spaceship. This is a rare intelligent science fiction movie with genuine ideas to go along with its creepy moments. 1975's To the Devil a Daughter was the last gasp of Hammer's horror cycle, an attempt to rejig Dennis Wheatley's once-popular Satanist-bashing novel into a post-Exorcist/Omen Devil movie. Fallen priest Christopher Lee tries to get teenage novice Nastassja Kinski pregnant with a monster, while pipe smoking occultist Richard Widmark does his best to foil the dastard. Sloppy, silly and awkwardly structured, with an especially limp climax (the villain is foiled by being bashed with a rock), it does manage some chills along the way, and has an interesting supporting cast of neurotics (especially Denholm Elliott, cowering inside a pentagram). This release presents a fuller version than some video or TV prints, including a strange sequence in which Kinski's womb is invaded by a repulsive demon child. The very young Kinski has a nude scene, but so does Christopher Lee's game stunt double. On the DVD: Hammer Horror Resurrected box set has no extras at all. But the films are presented in nice, anamorphic transfers which bring out the pretty pastels of the landscape around Bray Studios and the rich red splashes of blood. --Kim Newman

• Amityville II: The Possession (Collector's Edition) | DVD | (17/06/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-8.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The living nightmare of the Lutz family. They got out alive! but another family wasn't as lucky. They lived at 112 Ocean Avenue Amityville before the luckless Lutz family and what is the real history of this desirable family residence? In a sequel to the original film ""The Amityville Horror"" which tells the true story of the Lutz family's chilling supernatural encounter ""Amityville: The Possession"" dramatises other terrifying events which took place at the same house. Not f

• Burial Ground | DVD | (28/03/2016) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The carcasscrunching action comes thick and fast. A pack of ghoulish predators entrap some ridiculously ill-prepared locals in a moody, malevolent mansion. Suffice to say, a mammoth amount of stomach-turning, meat-munching mayhem ensues. Only the golden age of Italian horror could have delivered a movie-meal of such outstanding insanity

• Crack in the Floor | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £12.97   |  Saving you £-9.98 (-333.80%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The continuing popularity of horror spoofs has created an opportunity for low-quality slashers such as A Crack In the Floor to pass themselves off as humorous. The story follows axe-wielding psychotic hermit Jeremiah who meets a bunch of fresh-faced young hikers and the movie employs every trick in the genre's book but still fails to rise itself above cheap exploitation (best indicated by the tasteless rape of Jeremiah's mother that prefaces the action). Brazenly claiming to feature Tracy Scoggins and Gary Busey--who in reality appear for about five minutes each--the film features young unknowns, the most high profile being Saved By the Bell's Mario Lopez. Which is fitting really because the film, with its mix of teen enthusiasm, redneck stereotypes and crass violence, is little more than that show meets The Dukes of Hazzard meets Deliverance meets Friday the 13th. Recommended for connoisseurs of everything gory and tacky but no-one else. On the DVD: The DVD manages to keep the quality set so spectacularly by the film itself--featuring an appalling trailer, a reprint of the information on the disc's box, biographies of the handful of established actors who make the briefest of cameos and trailers for some equally naff TV movies. Not what DVD was invented for. --Phil Udell

• Martin | DVD | (28/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  See it with someone you're sure of! Before Let The Right One In there was Martin the original story of teenage angst... and vampirism! George A. Romero (Dawn of the Dead) directs this chilling tale of a tormented youngster with an insatiable appetite for blood! Martin is seemingly your average awkward teen; only he just happens to have a penchant for the blood of nubile women! Suspicious of Martin's nocturnal activities the lad's uncle decides he must be killed believing his death will lift an age-old family curse but he'll have to catch him first... Martin is a brilliant cult curio from the 1970s and is rightly considered to be one of master horror-maker Romero's finest films.

• Season Of The Witch | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £7.61 (58.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Filmed as Jack's Wife and briefly released in the US under the title Hungry Wives Romero's third film Season Of The Witch is the disturbing story of a suburban housewife's descent into extramarital sex and the occult.

• Hatchet 2 | Blu Ray | (29/08/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family's connection to the hatchet-wielding madman Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Boasting a body count that is over double that of the first movie and once more providing ground-breaking work in Old School practical cinema special effects to deliver unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore Hatchet II is more more more of everything you loved about the original only darker funnier and on shocker steroids.

• 28 Days Later | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A virus accidentally released from a research facility has devastated the entire planet and the human race is faced with extinction. Only a handful of survivors are left to salvage a future from the apocalypse.

• Phone Booth / The Siege / Speed | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £8.94   |  Saving you £11.05 (123.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Phone Booth A single phone call can change a man's life...or possibly end it. Stu Shepard is a self-centered New York City publicist who suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope. Now it's a real-time race against the clock as Stu must outwit a psychotic sniper in a frantic scramble from phone booth to freedom. The Siege When a crowded city bus blows up in Brooklyn and a campaign of terror begins to make its bloody mark on the streets of New York it's up to FBI special agent Anthony Hub Hubbard (Washington) and U.S. Army General William Devereaux (Willis) to find out who's responsible and put an end to the destruction. Speed Hold on tight for a rush of pulse-pounding thrills breathtaking stunts and unexpected romance in a film you'll want to see again and again. Keanu Reeves stars as Jack Traven an LAPD Swat team specialist who is sent to defuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (Dennis Hopper) has planted on a bus. But until he does Jack and passenger Sandra Bullock must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles an hour - or the bomb will explode!

• Blood Harvest | DVD | (12/03/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Prolific B-movie maverick Bill Rebane (THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION) opted for some contemporary 'real world' horror carnage and caught wind of the slice and dice craze with his classic BLOOD HARVEST (1987). Unleashed at a time when the slasher movie was awash with sequels, BLOOD HARVEST stood out thanks to a lunatic performance from Tiny Tim (the legendary American television personality who offers up a creepy and instantly-cult sing-song scene as well). Featuring a masked man on the rampage, twists and turns that will keep you glued to the gore and a final reel that packs in plenty of sadism and shocks, BLOOD HARVEST gets its HD worldwide premiere from the celluloid plasma-addicts at 88 Films!!! The harvest has begun... Dare you watch?

• Chill | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £10.75   |  Saving you £0.24 (2.23%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Inspired by Cult Author HP Lovecrafts Short Story “Cool Air”It’s a Cold day in Hell or Freeze …And You’re Dead In this classic retro horror thriller, Sam, an aspiring writer, takes a job as a clerk in an L.A. inner city grocery market owned by the sinister Dr. Munoz, a former scientist who claims to have a rare skin condition that forces him to live in sub-freezing temperatures. Meanwhile, Sam befriends an attractive neighbourhood boutique owner Maria and becomes unwittingly entwined in a threatening love triangle when she reveals that ex-boyfriend Detective Defazio, who is investigating the recent disappearance of two local prostitutes, is stalking her. But it's what Sam doesn't know that might prove more fatal. A darker, diabolical secret lurks behind the freezer walls of his newfound employment. Sam is horrified when he discovers that Munoz died some time ago, but has kept himself alive through occult measures and the flesh that he harvests from his kidnapped victims. With Defazio off track in his investigation, Sam becomes captive in this house of horrors. Time is running out and he must escape to save his own hide - literally. Will he escape before the next fall of Munoz's razor-edged blades?

• Chop | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £13.48   |  Saving you £2.51 (15.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

• The Beast Within | DVD | (16/01/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  KILL ME, PLEASE KILL ME... BEFORE IT S TOO LATE Late one full moonlit night, a woman stands alone on the roadside waiting for her husband to return to their broken-down car. All of a sudden she s pounced upon, dragged into the dark woods and savaged by a barely-glimpsed assailant. But this is only the beginning of the terror in The Beast Within... Seventeen years on, and the devoted parents of teenager Michael are at their wits end. Their son lies in a hospital bed, his body wracked by a mysterious illness. With doctors unable to offer any diagnosis, Michael s desperate parents are forced to seek out the answer themselves by digging up traumatic past events and confronting the true nature of their son s conception. The Beast Within stands apart from other creature features due to its decidedly grim tone the scenes in which the monster violates his victims proved too strong for some critics and standout transformation sequence to rival the likes of An American Werewolf in London and The Howling. Add to that strong lead performances from Paul Clemens and Ronny Cox (Deliverance, RoboCop), alongside a stunning score by the late, great Les Baxter, and you have yourself one absolute beast of a monster movie!

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Slayer Collection (Cordelia) | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The best episodes from the 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' series featuring fashion-conscious Cordelia...

• Fairytale | DVD | (14/01/2013) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A single mother moves into a new house with her daughter. Soon after the young girl has her first baby tooth fall off, she begins to recount that she is having nocturnal visits by a tooth fairy. It seems the house has a sinister history.

• Acacia | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-3.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A young couple adopt an orphan boy but he's convinced his true mother has been reincarnated as a tree. Growing attached to the acacia in the garden his new parents become alarmed when he goes missing. Has evil taken root or are ghosts wanting to join the family?

• The Prophecy 3 - The Ascent | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £8.85   |  Saving you £7.40 (97.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Final Most Thrilling Chapter! Christopher Walken (Suicide Kings The Prophecy) and Vincent Spano (The Tie That Binds) star in The Ascent the third thrilling installment of the action-packed Prophecy trilogy! As fearsome armies of rebel angels continue to wage war in heaven and on earth Pyriel the brutal Angel of Genocide rises to power with the evil intent to destroy all of mankind! The only one on earth with the ability to stop the bloodshed is Danyael who was born of an

• One Missed Call | Blu Ray | (29/09/2008) from £16.49   |  Saving you £3.50 (17.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this remake of the Japanese horror film "Chakushin Ari" (2003), several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves - messages which include the date, time, and the details of their deaths.

• Aquanoids | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  On a small island off the California coast it's July 4th and tourists are washing up dead in Babylon Bay... Aquanoids is a sea creature horror film that delivers a healthy dose of horror combined with a sexy star breathtaking scenery extensive underwater photography state of the art creature effects and a fast paced story with enough action to make anyone have to come up for air....

• They Nest | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £7.97   |  Saving you £6.02 (75.53%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Off the coast of Maine an African cargo vessel mysteriously explodes and crashes into the harbour. What no one knows is that the crew have already been dead for days... Dr. Ben Cahill (Thomas Calabro) arrives on Orrs Island to resolve some personal problems and receives a hostile reception. The locals do not like outsiders and in particular Jack Wald (John Savage) does his best to make Ben feel unwelcome. Soon bizarre and frightening deaths start to occur on the island. Each victim