Horror and Suspense

• Blind Beast (Special Edition) | Blu Ray | (24/08/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dead Hate The Living | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Dead Hate the Living is a love letter to the nightmarish scenarios and visual freakouts of Italian horror pictures, although it also echoes with such American genre classics as Phantasm, The Evil Dead, and Scream. What could be better than a bunch of Italian horror buffs making their own zombie flick in a spooky abandoned hospital? Being attacked by the real thing, of course. The hapless crew discover a creepy black altar (complete with its own decorative corpse) and incorporate it into their film. When their scripted ceremony opens a portal from another dimension and unleashes an army of rampaging zombies, the hallways become flooded in red and blue and green pools of light for no good reason other than it looks cool. The hospital is suddenly adrift in an alternative reality because... well, just because. Writer-director Dave Parker never tries to explain the madness (a zombie's exclamation, "Hate the living! Love the dead!" is as much motive as we're offered), choosing instead simply to plunge viewers into the inspired mayhem. What makes it all work is a love of the genre, a cast of energetic, likable performers, cool zombie makeup, and a sure, stylish hand. Horror movie mavens will pick up on oodles of clever references (a bumper sticker that reads "Fulci lives"; a zombie king commanding, "Make them die... slowly"), but these are merely asides in an accomplished, clever, and remarkably entertaining indie horror riff. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Vampire Princess Miyu - Vol. 5 | DVD | (19/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sharing a dark journey through the weaknesses of the human heart with her only companion Lava once an evil Shinma and now her devoted guardian Miyu lives an endless quest as both the hunter and the hunted. The Moray Boat: When Mayumi starts some trouble it's up to Miyu to reluctantly pursue her. City Of Illusion. In different parts of the city buildings are seen turning into sand and crumbling away... Love Of The Dolls: Kasumi a doll artist treats

• Blood Feast | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A weird and grisly ancient rite horrendously brought to life. When Mrs Fremont hires crackpot Egyptian cultist Fuad Ramses to cater at her daughter Suzette's party she commits the culinary catastrophe of the century. With his radical approach to food preparation and absolute insistence upon the most succulent of ingredients Fuad uses his machete to gather his bloody harvest... Herschell Gordon Lewis' classic has been digitally remastered for this release.

• I Am The Ripper | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £6.59   |  Saving you £8.40 (127.47%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Ripper is death himself let loose in a party of teenagers. The sole survivor is then challenged to a duel to the death in order to live...

• I Spit On Your Grave | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  I Spit on Your Grave, writer-director Meir Zarchi's controversial story of rape and revenge, has lost none of its ability to shock viewers since it first gained notoriety in 1978. Camille Keaton (grand-niece of Buster Keaton and, later, Zarchi's wife) stars as a young woman who is terrorised and then brutally assaulted by four men while on vacation. After slowly pulling herself together, she methodically tracks down and butchers each of the perpetrators. Zarchi's film has been consistently accused of celebrating violence against women, and while the rape scenes are graphic, they also lack the voyeuristic qualities that earmark other similarly plotted exploitation films. If anything, Zarchi is guilty of awkward scripting; the dialogue is leaden, and Keaton's transformation from victim to avenger is too swift. But to label him a pornographer is wrong, and while the film is challenging--perhaps more than most audiences can bear--its depiction of the psychology of violence is undeniably powerful. --Paul Gaita

• Hollow Man --Superbit | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  What would you do if you were invisible? How far would you go? After years of experimentation Dr. Sebastian Caine (Bacon) a brilliant but arrogant and egotistical scientist working for the defense department has successfully transformed mammals to an invisible state and brought them back to their original physical form. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough Caine instructs his team to move on to Phase III: human experimentation. Using himself as the first subject th

• Cannibal Taboo | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £11.79   |  Saving you £1.20 (10.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  You are who you eat... What began as a happy occasion for Cliff and his newfound love erodes into a pit of darkness a satanic feast of the flesh an unspeakable act of twisted humanity an unthinkable nightmare of carnality and an apocalyptic journey into the realm of diseased minds. Discover a world of forbidden pleasures and moral decadence. Discover the Cannibal Taboo.

• The Incredible Melting Man | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  You've never seen anything til you've seen the Sun through the rings of Saturn exclaims Alex Rebar. Apparently somehow this causes him to start melting and eating people such as a nurse in the tightest fitting nurse's outfit ever a nerdy fisherman a horny old couple who simply can't keep their hands off each other in a car. To save the day comes Doctor Ted Nelson!

• Phantasm I/Phantasm II/Phantasm III (Box set) | DVD | (06/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Jody is the kind of guy that every 1970s teen looked up to. He's in his early 20s, has a cool car, splendid '70s hair, leather jacket, plays guitar and (naturally) snags all the girls. His little brother, Mike, in particular, admires him and emulates him at every turn. Things start to go astray, however, when the two brothers and their friend Reggie attend a funeral for a friend. Mike notices a tall man working at the funeral home; in the course of his snooping, he sees the tall man put a loaded coffin into the back of a hearse as easily as if it was a shoebox. Jody doesn't believe his little brother's stories, though, until he brings home the tall man's severed finger, still wriggling in what appears to be French's mustard. From there, the film picks up a terrific momentum that doesn't let up until the sequel-ripe twist ending.Phantasm was one of the first horror movies to break the unspoken rule that victims were supposed to scream, fall down and cower until they were killed. Instead, Mike and Jody are resourceful and smart, aggressively pursuing the evil inside the funeral home with a shotgun and Colt pistol. Furthermore, the script has a great deal of character development, especially in the relationship between the two brothers. The film even has a surprisingly glossy look, despite its low-budget origins, and little outright gore (except for the infamous steel spheres that drill into victims' heads). This drive-in favourite was a big success at the time of its release, and spawned three sequels. Little wonder; it includes an inventive story, likeable characters, a runaway pace, and, of course, evil dwarves cloaked in Army blankets. The end result is one of the better horror films of the late 1970s. Hot-rod fans take note: Jody drives a Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda, the pinnacle of 1960s muscle cars, rounding out his status as a Cool Guy. --Jerry Renshaw, Amazon.com

• Lava | DVD | (12/10/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Lava has taken a long time to get to the cinemas. Unjustifiably, really. It is a funny, well-acted movie. It is hyper-violent, but most of the violence is off-camera. And Joe Tucker's Smiggy character has some inspired, loopy moments of byplay. Look out for the 'You talkin' to me?' Taxi-driver hommage. Hilarious.

• Devils Hand | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Robert Alda stars as a man who becomes entranced by the beautiful high-priestess of a voodoo cult. Totally bewitched he realizes that he has to break his own spell when his fiance is kidnapped and due to be sacrificed.

• Mind Ripper | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A scientific experiment designed to create a superhuman being has gone wrong. The creators become trapped in a remote desert outpost pursued relentlessly and mercilessly by their own creation. James Stockton the scientist whose research was used despite his protests to create the monster is called the outpost to help undo the horror that now lurks somewhere within the dark halls. James together with his son and daughter soon find themselves trapped inside with the others trying desperately to survive. And with the outpost sealed from within there is no way out...

• The Manson Family | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  You've seen the story through the eyes of the law; now see it through the eyes of the Manson 'family'... A terrifying biopic of Charlie Manson and his coterie responsible for some of the most heinous crimes in American history... August 9th 1969. In the quiet secluded canyons above Beverly Hills the silence of a summer's nights is shattered by the terrified screams of a woman begging for mercy. Within 48 hours Charles Manson and his so called 'Family' have butchered seven innocent people in a killing spree that shook the world. In a movie as controversial as it is relentlessly shocking the story of the most infamous cult of all time unfolds; the story of one man's twisted vision of an Armageddon and how it turned the hippy dream into a nightmare. Take a glimpse inside the killers' minds and discover that the grisly truth is even more chilling than the myth....

• Saint John's Wort | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nami an artist working on a computer game visits a house that resembles one from dreams she has been having. As she explores it with one of the game's producers they feel as though they are being watched...

• Guardian | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Though the Guardian opens with a nod or two to Three Kings, it really offers a cut-down version of Fallen, with Los Angeles Detective Kross (Mario Van Peebles) facing Telal--a body-hopping Sumerian demon he encountered at an archaeological site in Iraq during the Gulf War--entrusted by ritual scarification with the task of protecting a 12-year-old boy who will grow up to unite the three great monotheistic faiths (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) and thus set the Devil's work back millennia. A sub-plot deals with a red powder drug ("Chaos"), imported by the demon's minions, which catches on in LA sending coke-sniffing agents into murderous frenzies (the funniest scene) and briefly giving guest star dealer Ice-T superpowers until an ambiguously angelic hit lady (Stacy Oversier) tosses him off a building. There are elements of The Matrix stirred in, with Oversier and Telal dead ringers for the Carrie-Ann Moss and Hugo Weaving characters, but it inevitably boils down to a Fallen-style formula. It's stripped-down demonology--ever since The Evil Dead, those Sumerian demons have been getting a bad press--with direct-to-video action, but is by no means unlikeable. On the DVD: Along with the trailer, this disc offers IMDB filmographies for Van Peebles, Remar, Ice-T and John Terlesky (who used to be a busy B-actor in the likes of Chopping Mall and Valet Girls and now directs quickies such as Guardian). The transfer is augmented for 16:9 and looks significantly better than the video version, giving this low-budget effort a relatively lush feel, though the Iraqi desert does look as though it was an hour or so drive out of Los Angeles. --Kim Newman

• Harvesters | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A pretty young jogger is brutally abducted... but why and by whom? So sets the tone for Harvesters a blood-curdling clash of two evil forces both bent on destruction. This high-energy action-packed thriller pits an outlaw gang led by lesbian Gulf War vet Frankie Falzone (Donna Sherman) against the Peelmans - a seemingly ""normal"" family who harbor a dark and deadly secret. As two U.S. marshals close in on the gang the terror mounts and the body count rises. The ensuing battle

• Beg! | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £7.46   |  Saving you £1.52 (34.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A doctor's world begins to come apart as her father falls into a coma and her lover is murdered. The detective investigating the crime begins to act strangely and the doctor's new lover is put in jeopardy...

• Deepwater | DVD | (09/06/2008) from £6.67   |  Saving you £9.32 (58.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When Nat banyon (Lucas Black) saves the life of a man named Finch (Peter Coyote) his actions are rewarded with a job restoring Finch's crumbling motel in the small town of Deepwater. Soon Nat is consumed by his attraction to Finch's pretty young wife Iris (Mia Maestro) and a suspicious Finch challenges Nat to a not so friendly boxing match. Discovering he may have gotten in over his head Nat plans to escape before it is too late...

• 13 In A Warehouse | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  As five underworld heavies settle in for an all night stay at an abandoned warehouse and former film studio a series of bizarre and unsettling occurances quickly lead them to believe they are not alone. It was supposed to be a simple night of babysitting a single hostage but when a series of numbers begin to appear on the walls things soon take a dark turn. Later after the hostage escapes the perplexed thugs not only learn that there is a rat in the ranks but also discover the unsettling nature of the films that were shot in the warehouse. Now as terror takes hold the thieves are about to discover that they are being stalked from the shadows and that their odds of living to see daybreak are shrinking with each passing minute