Horror and Suspense

• Sisters | DVD | (20/11/2017) from £8.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  What The Devil Hath Joined Together Let No Man Cut Asunder! Before 1973, Brian De Palma was impossible to pigeonhole: he made comedies, political satires and openly experimental pieces. But with Sisters (originally released as Blood Sisters in the UK) he turned to the suspense thriller and discovered his natural home and a style that would lead directly to later masterpieces like Carrie, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out. When Danielle (Margot Kidder) meets potential boyfriend Philip (Lisle Wilson) after appearing on the TV show Peeping Toms (a nod to the Michael Powell shocker), she invites him home, only to attract the ire of her twin sister Dominique. From across the courtyard, Rear Window style, reporter Grace (Jennifer Salt) witnesses Philip being murdered by one of the twins but the police find no body or any physical evidence. Naturally, Grace takes things into her own hands, and discovers more about the sisters' relationship than she bargained for Strongly influenced by Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski, and with a score by the great Bernard Herrmann (Citizen Kane, Psycho), Sisters was the first true Brian De Palma film. Features: Brand new High Definition digital transfer High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation Original Mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) What the Devil Hath Joined Together: Brian De Palma's Sisters A visual essay by author Justin Humphreys All new interviews with co-writer Louisa Rose, actress Jennifer Salt, editor Paul Hirsch and unit manager Jeffrey Hayes The De Palma Digest a film-by-film guide to the director's career by critic Mike Sutton Archive audio interview with star William Finley (excerpt) Theatrical Trailer Gallery of Sisters promotional material from around the world Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys

• Taggart - Vol. 41 - Falling In Love | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Davie's pre-wedding celebratory parachute jump turns into a disaster when his parachute fails to open and he crashes through a greehouse from 3000 feet. The team is called to investigate his fellow members of Eckie's Dance Club and follow a trail of money and corruption with passions running deep.

• Amityville 4 - The Evil Escapes | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A demonic force lurking in Amityville for over 300 years once again comes to life and escapes to a remote California mansion where it craves the possession of an innocent young girl.

• The Lost World - Vampires | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £14.45   |  Saving you £-12.46 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  When the full moon rises the beast awakens! A group of explorers scours the terrain tracking a member missing from their group. However he has been bitten by a vampire and is in fact stalking his former friends looking for his next bloodthirsty meal...

• The Sea Wolf | DVD | (11/04/2011) from £14.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (10.35%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Wolf Larsen (Sebastian Koch) is the tyrannical Captain of the notorious seal hunting vessel the Sea Wolf. While on the high seas he takes on castaway Humphrey Van Wyden (Stephen Campbell Moore). But instead of abandoning him at the next harbour Wolf puts the mild mannered literary critic to work and rules over him with an unyielding iron fist. Much to Wolf's surprise the graft transforms Van Wyden into a hardened adversary - every bit as formidable as Wolf himself. But it's not until the appearance of Wolf brother Death (Tim Roth) and Maud (Neve Campbell) the daughter of a rival ship owner that the dynamic truly explodes into life leaving three men to war over love duty life and death. Inspired by the Jack London classic Sea Wolf is a high-seas adventure and psychological thriller that will stir inspire and excite its fans like never before.

• Bad Meat | DVD | (17/06/2013) from £5.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (151.93%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Starring Dave Franco (21 Jump Street), BAD MEAT, which premiered at London's Frightfest 2012 tells the story of a group of teenage delinquents who contract a deadly virus after being ordered to a remote camp for rehabilitation. Directed by The Wrong Turn s Rob Schmidt under the pseudonym Lara Jarman.

• Fugitives | DVD | (05/06/2017) from £8.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Creighton Masterson, in a last ditch effort to save his marriage, whisks his wife Lydia away for a tropical vacation. Staying on an isolated beach in the Bahamas, the Mastersons meet William and Mary, who live on a nearby island and invite them for dinner. Upon their return, Lydia and Creighton are shocked to discover that they have been robbed. With no sign of the intruders, they seek help from the only other people on the island, a couple named Jacob and Nina. Though friendly at first, the mysterious couple seems to be hiding darker motives. With no one to trust but each other, Lydia and Creighton are forced to work together and fight for their future.

• Zombie Killers | DVD | (11/05/2015) from £3.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (73.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The town of Elwood is a small rural collection of colourful characters tended to by “Doc” a physician who looks out for the well being of the town and sees the community as his patient. Seiler a war veteran trains a group of 20 something’s in paintball skirmish strategy as a practice for real weapon and militia training. It is an eclectic team of young men and women with Brody seeing potential in trainee Ian Sommers. The town is enclosed wide fencing that stretches miles around its perimeter. What lies beyond the fence is something awful in the deep forests surrounding the town. Humans die but keep moving & shamble the landscape looking to spread their infection in a grisly horrific way. The community is guarded by a band of young people raised since children to be military combatants. Under the leadership of vet Seiler (Billy Zane) they are known by the community as “Zombie Killers” a negative term used behind their backs. Ian Sommers tends to his dying mother Sharon (Dee Wallace) while having a semblance of normal life with girlfriend Nikki (Gabrielle Stone). Rory Gower and his young wife Toni (Mischa Barton) search for a reason behind the plague while Seiler and his Young soldiers discover something far worse coming for Elwood. Something that may target them or put them in the way of an “Elephant’s Graveyard” and Hell.

• The Spiral | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An autopsy case draws Dr Mitsuo Ando into the world of Sadako the restless spirit as he seeks to resolve the mystery of her curse and its effects. As in 'The Ring' after viewing the tape he has seven days before Sadako's curse comes into effect. Delving deeply Ando is horrified to discover Sadako's true intentions. This discovery causes him to face an agonising decision as to whether he will make the ultimate sacrifice to prevent the world from falling into darkness....

• The Day Of The Beast | Blu Ray | (30/03/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Plague Of The Zombies | DVD | (01/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A strange disease of epidemic proportions is invading the English town where Peter Thompson practices. In desperation he seeks the help of his mentor to make sense of the horrible plague. Amidst walking corpses voodoo dolls and empty graves the two embark on an investigation that uncovers a ghastly secret and leads them to the shocking truth.

• Strigoi | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £9.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (60.22%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Strigoi is a vampire movie that defies categorisation. Shedding a fantastic light on a post-communist Romanian village it introduces us to an ancient myth: Strigoi the souls that rise again after death to seek justice if they've been wronged their appetites intensified by a hunger for blood. Vlad Cozma (Catalin Paraschiv) is a young man returning to his grandfather's village from Italy with barely a foot through the front door Vlad dives head first into investigating a mysterious death that raises questions about land ownership in the community. The trail points to ex-communist bully Constantin Tirescu (Constantin Barbulescu) and his wife but when Vlad confronts them he discovers that the richest landowners in the village have become real bloodsuckers. Full of unpredictable twists and turns brimming with black humour and drenched in Romanian folklore Strigoi is a nihilistic and bitingly funny film akin to discovering a beautiful black rose blooming in an (un)dying over killed film genre.

• Creature | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A family living around a naval research station experience shark attacks against their boat. When they investigate further they discover a half-man half-shark like creature... Based on the novel by Peter Benchley (Jaws).

• Cat In The Brain | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £8.96   |  Saving you £11.03 (123.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chainsaw mayhem cannibalism lusty nazis steak tartar blood and gore - all rounded off with some highly amusing offbeat antics by the great man Lucio Fulci himself. What more could a horror fan ask for?

• Dracula | Blu Ray | (01/10/2012) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The original 1931 movie version of Bram Stoker's classic tale has for generations defined the iconic look and terrifying persona of the famed vampire.Dracula owes its continued appeal in large part due to Bela Lugosi's indelible portrayal of the immortal Count Dracula and the flawless direction of horror auteur Tod Browning. Special Features: Dracula: The Restoration – New Featurette Available for The First Time! Monster Tracks: Interactive Pop-Up Facts About the Making of Dracula Dracula Archives Score by Philip Glass performed by the Kronos Quartet Feature Commentary by Film Historian David J. Skal Feature Commentary by Steve Haberman, Screenwriter of Dracula: Dead and Loving It Trailer Gallery

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Affair At The Victory Ball / The Mystery Of Hunter's Lodge | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  More intriguing investigations for Agatha Christie's famed Belgian detective... The Affair At The Victory Ball: The Victory costume ball is in full swing just before midnight when a brutal murder is discovered. Poirot has only his own observations a mysterious note and a silver monogrammed case of cocaine to lead him to the killer. The Mystery Of Hunter's Lodge: Hastings accompanied by Poirot has been invited to a Grouse shoot on his uncle's estate. Amidst the gloomy Emglish weather and gun-smoke Poirot finds himself investigating a case of bizarre disguise and mistaken identity.

• Riding The Bullet | DVD | (06/08/2007) from £8.25   |  Saving you £7.74 (48.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Dead Travel Fast Alan embarks on a 100-mile hitchhike to see his mother in hospital. Along the way he must confront his many demons - both living and dead - and in the end make the ultimate choice that will mean life or death for him and his mother!

• The Sorcerers | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  The Sorcerers, the second film directed by the lost "wunderkind" of British cinema Michael Reeves, may not have the scope and visceral impact of his masterpiece, Witchfinder General (1968), but there's enough fierce originality here to show what a tragic loss it was when he died from a drugs overdose aged only 24. The film also shows the effective use he made of minimal resources, working here on a derisory budget of less than £50,000--of which £11,000 went to the film's sole "named" star, Boris Karloff. Karloff plays an elderly scientist living with his devoted wife in shabby poverty in London, dreaming of the brilliant breakthrough in hypnotic technique that will restore him to fame and fortune. Seeking a guinea-pig, he hits on Mike, a disaffected young man-about-town (Ian Ogilvy, who starred in all three of Reeves' films). But the technique has an unlooked-for side effect--not only can he and his wife make Mike do their bidding, they can vicariously experience everything that he feels. At which point, it turns out that the wife has urges and desires that her husband never suspected. Karloff, then almost at the end of his long career, brings a melancholy dignity to his role; but the revelation is the veteran actress Catherine Lacey as the seemingly sweet old lady, turning terrifyingly avid and venomous as she realises her power. The portrayal of Swinging London, with its mini-skirted dollybirds thronging nightclubs where the strongest stimulant seems to be Coke rather than coke, has an almost touching innocence, but Reeves invests it with a dream-like quality, extending it into scenes of violent death in labyrinthine dark alleys. By this stage, some ten years after it started, the British horror cycle was winding down in lazy self-parody. Reeves had the exceptional talent and vision to revive it, had he only lived. On the DVD: The Sorcerers DVD has original trailers for both this film and Witchfinder General (both woefully clumsy); filmographies for Reeves, Karloff and Ogilvy; an "image gallery" (a grab-bag of posters, stills and lobby cards); detailed written production notes by horror-movie expert Kim Newman; and an excellent 25-minute documentary on Reeves, "Blood Beast", dating from 1999. The transfer is letterboxed full-width, with acceptable sound. --Philip Kemp

• Leprechaun | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A mean Leprechaun doesn't like to play by the rules... A horrific Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) goes on a rampage after his precious bag of gold coins is stolen. He uses all his magical destructive powers to trick terrorize and kill anyone who is unlucky enough to hinder his relentless search. In a frantic attempt to survive the wrath of the Leprechaun Teri (Jennifer Aniston) and her friends scramble to find the only weapon known to kill this Irish monster... a four leaf clover. However until they discover a four leaf clover or return all the gold taken from the rainbow's end their fairytale nightmare has only just begun.

• Avoid The Shortcut (DVD) | DVD | (09/07/2012) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Just behind the grammar school and past the 'No Trespassing' sign is the shortcut through the woods that nobody dares to take: People in town still whisper about the creepy old guy who lives back there and the kids that disappeared near his home a long time ago. Now a group of high school seniors has decided to find out just what the shovel-wielding weirdo may be hiding. But even if they can uncover his shocking secret, will they survive what happens when the truth is finally unleashed?