Horror and Suspense

• House on Haunted Hill | DVD | (24/06/2016) from £19.95   |  Saving you £-4.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  House on Haunted Hill is one of the new breed of waste-no-time thrill machines, like Deep Blue Sea, and a particularly effective example at that. The plot is pure contrivance: For a party stunt, a wealthy amusement-park manufacturer (Geoffrey Rush) offers five people a million dollars if they spend the night in a former insane asylum where the patients murdered the sadistic staff. But it turns out the five people who arrive aren't the five he invited--did his wife (Famke Janssen), who hates him, make the switch? From there events unfold with a smart combination of human and supernatural machinations; spooky jolts are dispensed at regular, but not entirely predictable, intervals. The visual effects owe a considerable debt to Jacob's Ladder, a much more ambitious movie; House on Haunted Hill just wants to get under your skin, and succeeds more than you'd expect. Rush is his entertainingly hammy self; Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter and Bridgette Wilson are attractive and reasonably straight-faced about it all; and Chris Kattan is genuinely funny as the house's neurotic owner. Some elements of the plot seem to have been lost in the editing process, but it hardly matters. More bothersome is that the scares go flat when computer effects take over at the end--the digital images just aren't as creepy as the more suggestive stuff that came before. But that's just the very end; most of the movie has a lot of momentum. Watch until the end of the credits for a final bit of eeriness. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Wish You Were Here | DVD | (19/05/2014) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Kieran Darcy-Smith directs this mystery drama starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Price. When Alice (Price) and her husband Dave (Edgerton) decide to get away from it all before the birth of their third child, they invite Alice's sister Steph (Teresa Palmer) and her new boyfriend Jeremy (Antony Starr) to join them. A relaxing holiday is not what's in store for the group however, when a night of drinking, dancing and drug-taking leads to Jeremy's disappearance. As fragments of the previous nig.

• Contracted Phase 1 | DVD | (31/08/2015) from £9.45   |  Saving you £0.54 (5.71%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After a lapse in her relationship with her lover (Katie Stegeman) forces twenty-something party girl Samantha (Najarra Townsend) to move back in with her overbearing mother (Caroline Williams The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) things seem to be at an all-time low. But the devil-may-care Samantha soon finds escape in a one-night stand with a mysterious man (Simon Barrett V/H/S) who leaves her hung-over guilt-ridden and infected. Uncertain of the disease or the man who gave it to her Samantha attempts to hide it from her loved ones. But she soon realizes that she is not just the victim of an STD but rather the host of something much more catastrophic and that she and those around her are in mortal danger. Part zombie film and part body-horror shocker director Eric England s CONTRACTED is a skin-crawling experience in biological horror.

• Autopsy | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £6.30   |  Saving you £7.95 (157.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Autopsy

• House On Haunted Hill | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £15.72   |  Saving you £-9.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Consult your doctor! Bring your seat belts! 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 (Elisha Cook Jr) a nervous alcoholic who has been in this house before and witnessed some terrible things. Mr. Loren's beautiful but treacherous wife (Carol Ohmart) is also present - and might be out to kill Frederick during the course of the evening; t

• Doll Graveyard | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £5.59   |  Saving you £10.40 (186.05%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It is 1905 and 12-year-old Sophia (Hannah Marks) plays all by herself in her big creepy house with four handmade dolls as friends. When her abusive father (Ken Lyle) has finally had enough he forces her to bury them in the backyard. But after she slips and accidentally breaks her neck her dad buries her right along with the dolls. 100 years later the Fillbrook family moves into the very same house. Guy Fillbrook (Jared Kusnitz) finds the buried dolls while playing in the backyard. Much like Sophia Guy has no friends and is the constant source of extreme harassment from two teenage boys Tom and Rich (Scott Seymour and Brian Lloyd). After the 100 year old decaying dolls are unearthed Sophia's spirit begins to possess Guy and the dolls are brought back to life.... One night Guy's sister DeeDee (Gabrielle Lynn) has a party with her best friends Terri and Olivia (Anna Alicia Brock and Kristyn Green). After smoking and drinking with the boys the dolls stand up for Guy once and for all violently showing the nasty teenage boys who's boss! With no testosterone left to protect them the girls fight to the death!

• Angel's Wild Women | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tough biker babes stomp a couple of vicious racist rapists and then cool their heels in a rural commune while the men hit the road for a biker rally. The vacation is short-lived when the women discover the seemingly peace-loving guru is actually a drug kingpin with a vicious gang and a side business in human sacrifices...

• The Man Who Knew Too Much | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Alfred Hitchcock himself called this 1934 British edition of his famous kidnapping story "the work of a talented amateur", while his 1956 Hollywood remake was the consummate act of a professional director. Be that as it may, this earlier movie still has its intense admirers who prefer it over the Jimmy Stewart--Doris Day version, and for some sound reasons. Tighter, wittier, more visually outrageous (back-screen projections of Swiss mountains, a whirly-facsimile of a fainting spell), the film even has a female protagonist (Edna Best in the mom part) unafraid to go after the bad guys herself with a gun. (Did Doris Day do that that? Uh-uh.) While the 1956 film has an intriguing undercurrent of unspoken tensions in nuclear family politics, the 1934 original has a crisp air of British optimism glummed up a bit when a married couple (Best and Leslie Banks) witness the murder of a spy and discover their daughter stolen away by the culprits. The chase leads to London and ultimately to the site of one of Hitch's most extraordinary pieces of suspense (though on this count, it must be said, the later version is superior). Take away distracting comparisons to the remake, and this Man Who Knew Too Much is a milestone in Hitchcock's early career. Peter Lorre makes his British debut as a scarred, scary villain. --Tom Keogh

• Down | DVD | (27/02/2004) from £12.92   |  Saving you £1.07 (8.28%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Something evil is about to wake up. The lift in a high rise block has suddenly become alive and dangerous...

• Demon Wind | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-0.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A farm which became a gateway to hell is re-visited by a group of friends who try to close the door. When things get too tough their escape is blocked by a thick fog...

• Carnival of Souls | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £15.65   |  Saving you £-7.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Carnival Of Souls

• Nazi Vengeance | DVD | (16/02/2015) from £4.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (64.30%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Ralph s nights are becoming increasingly restless as his moonlit hours are haunted by terrifying nightmares and scenes of Nazi terror missions which flood his mind. Confiding in his three best friends, the visions become increasingly vivid and begin to shape Ralph s waking hours too. The group decide to investigate and head to the bleak, deserted countryside of the South Downs; the location of many of the harrowing dreams. However, the past they desperately seek is now stalking them, and in the shadows, waits to exact a terrible revenge for war crimes committed over seventy years before. Blood, pain and screams and, this time, Ralph can t wake up...

• Dead of the Nite | DVD | (24/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When a group of ghost hunters investigate the infamous Jericho Manor, they soon realise it's not just ghosts that go bump in the night! As people get murdered, the survivors need to discover who or what's killing them before it's too late.

• The Devil's Daughter | DVD | (01/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Horror directed by Jason Bognacki. On her 18th birthday, Jordyn Ames (Paulie Rojas) learns that everyone around her has been lying about who she really is. After discovering that she is the daughter of Satan, Jordyn is plunged into the dark depths of the underworld where, disturbingly, she realises she truly belongs.

• Venerdi' 13 (Steelbook Mondo) | Blu Ray | (10/12/2018) from £45.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• STENDHAL SYNDROME - STENDHAL SYNDROME (3 Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (25/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dark Corners | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £8.34   |  Saving you £7.64 (142.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.

• Bleed | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Maddy (Debbie Rochon) goes to a party with her new boyfriend Shawn (Danny Wolske) she only wants to meet his friends and have a good time. They tell her about their 'Murder Club' and invite her to join. Confused but intrigued Maddy really wants to be part of the group. Before she can join the 'Murder Club' members are being killed off one by one...

• The Frighteners - Limited Steelbook | Blu Ray | (30/10/2024) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Demons + Demons 2 (2-Disc Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (19/10/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A