Horror and Suspense

• Martyrs | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £7.25   |  Saving you £8.74 (120.55%)   |  RRP £15.99

  On a dark deserted street a half naked visibly abused girl runs screaming. Bruised bloody and suffering from dementia she is eventually rescued by the local police. Her name is Lucie and she's been missing for over a year but refuses to give away any information describing her captors or any details concerning her violent abduction. During an intensive investigation the police eventually discover an abandoned slaughterhouse containing what looks like a torture chamber. But what exactly took place and how Lucie managed to escape remains a mystery. Many years after the horrific incident a seemingly normal family have an unexpected guest during breakfast. Their surprise visitor is a distraught young woman carrying a loaded shotgun intent on revenge. Directed by Pascal Laugier (House Of Voices) Martyrs is an incredibly disturbing experience that goes beyond the constraints of an average Horror/Thriller and into the dark psychological depths of human drama and suffering. Extremely terrifying utterly believable provocative and ultimately tragic Martyrs is one of the most unforgettable films you'll ever witness.

• Student Bodies | Blu Ray | (26/11/2018) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  As any self-respecting slasher buff will know, Paramount Pictures hit pay-dirt with their all-time teen-kill classic FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980). Yet, when the time came to capitalise on the same cycle that the studio instigated, the brain-trust opted to take a more satirical turn and the result was STUDENT BODIES - unleashed to cinemas in 1981. Dubbed as 'the world's first comedy-horror film', STUDENT BODIES won an instant and eternal fan following for its effective nods to a series of slice and dice denizens, including HALLOWEEN (1978), the Voorhees mythology and PROM NIGHT (1980). Long before SCREAM (1996), this was the original movie that asked audiences to tick-off the tributes - and, with its tongue firmly placed in its cheek, STUDENT BODIES remains a riotous viewing experience! Class is in session and everyone is invited to enjoy the latest, and possibly greatest, addition to the 88 Films' Slasher Classics collection!! Extras: Interview with Kim Newman Audio Commentary with Dr Calum Waddell and Justin Kerswell

• The House That Jack Built | DVD | (04/03/2019) from £6.08   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lars von Trier's upcoming drama follows the highly intelligent Jack (Matt Dillon) over a span of 12 years and introduces the murders that define Jack s development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack s point of view, while he postulates each murder is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police intervention is drawing nearer, he is taking greater and greater risks in his attempt to create the ultimate artwork.

• The Lesson | DVD | (11/07/2016) from £6.30   |  Saving you £4.95 (98.21%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Inspiration vs Motivation - which enhances the ability to learn more effectively? The Lesson is a darkly satirical look at education. A teacher who has dedicated his life to his students, a class of children devoid of any appreciation of his sacrifice , living in a bleak and rural decaying community - what happens if something snaps? The Lesson is the love child of Fritz Lang and Harmony Korine, combining a coming of age, deadbeat summer with a charismatic, morally ambiguous, anti-hero led main narrative. Unashamedly intellectual but deeply violent, The Lesson is a dark, painful and savagely funny psychological thriller unlike any you've seen before. Click Images to Enlarge

• Night of the Demon/Curse of the Demon | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £20.09   |  Saving you £-0.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Night Of The Demon / Curse Of The Demon (2 Discs)

• Firestarter | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £7.05   |  Saving you £-1.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Stephen King wasn't exactly in peak form when he wrote Firestarter, so this 1984 movie adaptation was at a disadvantage even before the cameras rolled. There were so many King movies being made at the time the weaknesses of this one became even more apparent. In her first film role after her memorable appearance in E.T., Drew Barrymore stars as a little girl whose parents acquired strange mental powers after participating in a secret government experiment. From this genetic background she has developed the mysterious ability to set anything on fire at will, especially when she's angry. That makes her very interesting to government officials seeking to exploit her skill as a secret weapon. Her father tries to protect her by using his powers of mind-control, while George C. Scott plays an Indian who believes the girl must be destroyed. There is a routine climax involving a lot of impressive pyrotechnics, but none of this is grounded in a dramatically solid foundation, and none of the characters are developed enough for us to care about them. Director Mark L. Lester, who the following year made Commando with Schwarzenegger, keeps the pace cracking along, but nevertheless the movie gradually turns into a laughable thriller with no suspense whatsoever. It's a movie only a pyromaniac could love. --Jeff ShannonOn the DVD: This is a largely no-frills presentation, albeit with a decent anamorphic print. The only extras are the original theatrical trailer and a nicely presented menu. A fold-out booklet has informative liner notes and a reproduction of the film poster.

• Hollow Man | Blu Ray | (20/04/2020) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Paul Verhoeven, visionary director of RoboCop and Starship Troopers, comes a tales of transparent terror! Hollow Man's Oscar®-nominated special effects are as ground-breaking now as they were upon its original release nearly 20 years ago. A team of scientists led by the ambitious Dr. Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) have developed a ground-breaking serum for invisibility. Desperate to take their research to the next level, Caine volunteers himself as a test subject with horrifying results... Extras: HD Transfer in Original 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio Optional English Subtitles English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Disappearing Act - The Genre Jaunts of Paul Verhoeven: An Interview with Critic Kim Newman about the Hollow Man Legacy and the career of Director Paul Verhoeven Hollow Man Trailer

• Vampire Circus | DVD | (11/04/2011) from £6.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (109.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Though not as widely known as Hammer's popular Dracula and Frankenstein series this is one of the studio's more stylish and intelligent projects. The tale is set in 17th century Serbia in the tiny burg of Stettel whose residents live in fear of an encroaching plague. The frightened villagers welcome the arrival of a colorful traveling troupe dubbed 'Circus of Nights ' unaware that the visiting entertainers pose a far more deadly threat: the entire company is composed of shape-shifting vampires capable of transforming themselves into animals to stalk their prey. The group's leader the most powerful monster of the bunch has returned to the village to exact revenge on those who murdered his cousin one hundred years earlier. Less a standard Hammer monster melodrama than a surreal journey through dark fantasy (reminiscent of Jean Rollin's erotic vampire series) with an unexpected (but not entirely inappropriate) surplus of nudity and bloodletting. The film's creepy highlights include the chilling extended prologue and scenes of vampire trapeze performers transforming into bats in mid-leap.

• The Amityville Horror | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £6.35   |  Saving you £13.64 (214.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ryan Reynolds and Melissa George star in this remake of the classic supernatural chiller.

• Prince Of Darkness | DVD | (26/11/2018) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Deep in the basement of an abandoned church, once run by a sinister religious sect, lies a strange bottle of green liquid being investigated by a group of local theoretic physics students. But as the night draws in the students soon realise that the strange relic holds a dark and powerful force beyond their control. A force that could well be the essence of pure evil: the remains of Satan himself. Extras: Audio commentary with John Carpenter and Peter Jason

• Scream 4 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.75   |  Saving you £9.24 (85.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ten years have passed and Sidney Prescott who has put herself back together thanks in part to her writing is visited by the Ghostface Killer.

• Tenebrae | Blu Ray | (24/07/2017) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Terror Beyond Belief! A notorious horror classic returns in all its depraved glory. This infamous video nasty updated the classic Giallo blueprint for the gorified 80s, courting controversy and drenching the viewer in crimson arterial spray. A razor-wielding psycho is stalking the horror writer Peter Neal, in Rome to promote his latest work, Tenebre. But the author isn t the obsessive killer s only target, the beautiful women who surround him are doomed as one by one, they fall victim to the murderer s slashing blade... Will fiction and reality blur as fear and madness take hold? Watch in terror as by turns the cast fall victim to the sadistic imagination of Dario Argento, Italy s master of horror.

• My Soul To Take | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £9.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (60.22%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.

• Hostel - Part I-III Box Set | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £17.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hostel Presented by genre master Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction) and written & directed by Eli Roth (Cabin Fever), Hostel is a dark, bloody exploration of torture and evil. The film centres on two young Americans backpacking through Europe who find themselves lured in as victims of a murder-for-profit business. Graphic and deeply disturbing, Hostel is one of the most brutal films ever made! Hostel: Part II Hostel: Part II is the shocking and gruesome sequel of the underground torture ring where rich businessmen pay to torture and murder their victims. The second installment in this terrifying franchise centres around three young American women (Lauren German, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Bijou Phillips, Bully, and Heather Matarazzo, Welcome to the Dollhouse) who are studying in Rome. They are lured into a hostel by a beautiful young woman who sells them as the next victims of a murder-for-profit business. Hostel: Part III High stakes gambling takes on a sinister new meaning in this third chapter of the terrifying Hostel series. While attending a bachelor party in Las Vegas, four friends are enticed by two sexy escorts to join them at a private party way off the Strip. Once there, they are horrified to find themselves the subjects of a perverse game of torture, where members of the Elite Hunting Club are hosting the most sadistic show in town.

• Ghost Stories | DVD | (27/08/2018) from £6.65   |  Saving you £0.34 (5.11%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Based on Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson's original Olivier nominated stage production, the same team have co-written and directed this adaptation for the big screen. Starring Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther, Andy Nyman, Paul Whitehouse, and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith. Phillip Goodman (Andy Nyman), professor of psychology, arch-skeptic, the one-man ˜belief buster' has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave. His mentor Charles Cameron, the ˜original' TV parapsychologist went missing fifteen years before, presumed dead and yet now he writes to Goodman saying that the pair must meet. Cameron, it seems, is still very much alive. And he needs Goodman to find a rational explanation for three stories that have shaken Cameron to his core. As Goodman investigates, he meets three haunted people, each with a tale more frightening, uncanny and inexplicable than the last.

• You're Next | DVD | (13/01/2014) from £5.92   |  Saving you £14.07 (237.67%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'You're Next' - a chilling warning scrawled in blood on a neighbour's wall, starts an evening of bloody mayhem for the Davison family.

• The Fourth Kind | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £6.61   |  Saving you £13.38 (202.42%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A fact-based thriller, "The Fourth Kind" stars Milla Jovoivch as Dr. Emily Taylor, a Nome, Alaska-based psychotherapist whose sessions with her patients offer compelling evidence of alien abduction.

• In a Valley of Violence (DVD + Digital Download) | DVD | (06/03/2017) from £8.41   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A mysterious stranger and a random act of violence drag a town of misfits and nitwits into the bloody crosshairs of revenge.

• Dreamcatcher | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £5.81   |  Saving you £8.18 (140.79%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Twenty years ago Jonesy, Henry, Pete, and Beaver were just kids - but in saving the strange boy Duddits they unexpectedly gained a fifth friend and the uncanny powers he conveyed to them, bonding them all beyond ordinary friendship even as adults.

• Jaws | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jaws revolutionised Hollywood, single-handedly invented the summer blockbuster, spawned three increasingly poor sequels, and became the first film to gross more than 100 million dollars. Unlike many recent blockbusters, however, in Jaws the audience really cares about the fate of the men engaged in their duel with the monster. Granted the shark looks fake, but we willingly suspend our disbelief as storytelling and character development count for far more than mere special effects, adding enormously to the movie's suspense, excitement and sheer terror. The cast and screenplay are exemplary, but it was Steven Spielberg who emerged as the film's true star, while John Williams' unforgettable Oscar-winning score made him almost as much of as household name as the young director.On the DVD: For a Steven Spielberg movie and an all-time classic, this 25th Anniversary Edition release is impressive, but not all it could be. The anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 ratio picture is superb, as is the re-mixed Dolby Digital 5.1 sound (the film was originally released in mono). It is a joy to see the film's picture and sound quality rescued from years of television and VHS screenings, offering a reminder of what all the fuss was about in the first place. The deleted scenes are quite interesting, offering more background on Brody, Hooper and Quint, including the latter's bizarre vocal duel with a boy playing the recorder! The four photo galleries are good, but some captions would have helped enormously. Disappointingly, there's no director's commentary, the best extra being a 50-minute documentary, "The Making of Jaws". This is excellent, and quite different from the BBC television production, "In the Teeth of Jaws". Even if you've seen that, there's much more to learn here. --Gary S. Dalkin