Horror and Suspense

• Joyride | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Tail Sting | DVD | (30/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Tail Sting

• Stag | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Ever felt the chill wind of déjà vu? You will with Stag, as its entire premise follows that of director Peter Berg's none-more-black comedy Very Bad Things to the letter--except that Stag actually came first. While Very Bad Things starred Cameron Diaz and Christian Slater and therefore got a cinema release, Stag stars (oh dear) Mario Van Peebles, ex-Brat Pack star Andrew McCarthy and Taylor Dayne, and therefore didn't grace the silver screen. Van Peebles plays Michael, the loyal best friend and housemate of Victor (John Stockwell) who is poised to leave the buddy fold for marriage and domesticity. So, being a pal, Michael organises a surprise stag party for Victor, and invites along a host of their old crowd--including, regrettably, drug dealer and racketeer Pete (McCarthy), and the obligatory pair of strippers, Serena and Kelly (Dayne and Jenny McShane). Of course, things swiftly turn rowdy, Kelly falls to her wholly accidental death, and the boys have to cover up the death fast. Having established this nightmarish scenario, Stag veers away from the Gap-ad Grand Guignol of Very Bad Things and instead attempts to juggle suspense, melodrama, and a fairly ponderous examination of modern-male morality. The results aren't particularly edifying, but they do display a certain conviction, even if it's never satisfactorily explained why Van Peebles spends the entire film without eyebrows. Them's the breaks. --Danny Leigh

• White Zombie | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  White Zombie

• Antisocial | Blu Ray | (14/04/2014) from £6.41   |  Saving you £9.58 (149.45%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Antisocial is the horror movie for the social networking generation. After being publicly dumped by her boyfriend on the social networking site The Social Redroom celebrating New Year's Eve is the last thing Sam (Michelle Mylett) wants to do but she reluctantly attends a party at her friend Mark's house. As they celebrate New Year a global crisis is erupting in the world outside - people are being affected by a wave of extreme violence suicide and paranoid hallucinations but the cause is unknown. With the party house in lockdown mode the guests take to the internet to seek answers but what they find suggests that locked doors and barricaded windows might not be enough to stop infection. Shocking tense and unnerving Antisocial is a brutal new horror film for the 'Now Generation' that will have you second-guessing everything you do on Facebook Twitter and Instagram... Special Features: Trailer Behind the Scenes Commentary

• Garden Of Evil | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kelly searches for her missing detective partner when she meets Ben a botanical genius who has a sinister and complicated past.

• Mimic 3-Sentinel | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  CD gatefold sleeve VINYL REPLICA EDITION. DIGIPAK. MADE IN JAPAN. INC: foldout, lyric insert/ GENESES FAMILY TREE.

• Cruel And Unusual | DVD | (19/08/2002) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Art a brilliant serial killer uses his chameleon-like charm to befriend siblings Kate and Mike. Posing as the English professor he murdered he seduces Kate who falls for the charismatic and handsome stranger until his true identity is revealed.

• Blackmail | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Two low-life con men lose big-time on a sure thing. Forced to come up with the cash by their loan shark this stylish dark thriller takes you on a roller coaster plot boasting illegal boxing gambling extortion drugs murder necrophilla love seduction and ritual execution by golf ball...

• Night Of The Zombies | DVD | (12/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Includes the following 3 films: King of the Zombies White Zombie Revolt of the Zombies

• The Vault | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When students visit a derelict school they accidently unleash a horrific spirit that's been locked away in a vault for over 100 years...

• The Theatre Bizarre | Blu Ray | (26/01/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Nightmare Man | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  ELLEN MORRIS believes there is someone or something trying to get her. Her husband and psychotherapists believe she's a paranoid schizophrenic. On their way to the mental institution the Morris' car breaks down. When her husband goes to get help Ellen stays in the car and is attacked by her mysterious assailant The Nightmare Man. Escaping for her life into some nearby woods Ellen stumbles upon a country house where two young couples are spending the weekend. Now everyone is in danger. But is the killer real or is it only in Ellen's mind. Is he outside or already someone we know inside the house? As people start dying nobody knows who they can trust or who is the real Nightmare Man!

• Downtime | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Down Time is a strange attempt to mix concrete Northern social realism and Bruce-Willis-style cliffhanger thrills, with balls of fire billowing up empty lift shafts and so forth. Paul McGann plays an ex-police psychologist, retired through ill health, drafted in to dissuade miserable single mother Chrissy (Susan Lynch) from throwing herself and her child off the top of a tower block. He succeeds, though in so doing betrays some of the problems that caused him to quit his job. He then pursues Chrissy romantically, during the course of which he, she and her little boy become stuck in the tower block lift, which then starts ascending and descending at random when hoodlum squatters break into the control box and mess about with it for an idle laugh. With its bizarre and somewhat improbable scenario, its odd mix of whimsical light romance, grim-up-North-style melodrama and explosive stunt action, Down Time as a whole doesn't really come off. The behaviour of key characters borders on the arbitrary, the "yobs" who cause all the problems go curiously unpunished and the ending barely makes sense. However, the lengthy mid-sequence in which McGann rescues (and is rescued by) Chrissy from the perilously dangling lift is, though predictable in its outcome, gripping enough. --David Stubbs

• Dark House | Blu Ray | (24/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bucket Of Blood, A / The Killer Shrews | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £11.85   |  Saving you £3.14 (26.50%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A Bucket of Blood: Coffee bar waiter Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) is hailed as an artist for his amazingly lifelike sculptures. Unbeknownst to his customers his art is achieved by murdering his models and covering them in clay. Said by many to be a cult actor Dick Miller's finest hour A Bucket of Blood is a superb semi-spoof of the dead-bodies-in-the-wax-museum genre. The Killer Shrews: Special effects master Ray Kellogg turns director for this 1959 slice of sci-fi horror about a

• Scared To Death | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £6.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (43.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In 'Scared To Death' the pieces of a puzzling murder are revealed to us one by one in this frightening story narrated by a dead woman...

• The Dario Argento Collection | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Suspiria (1977): Inspired by Thomas De Quincey's 'Suspiria de Profundis' and co-written by Argento and his long-term partner Daria Nicolodi SUSPIRIA is Argento's undisputed masterpiece of Grand Guignol horror hitting new peaks of terror through its stunning photography (courtesy of Luciano Tovoli) eye-popping production design and terrifying atmosphere of dread - thanks in no small part to the great score from Goblin! Susy Banyon (Jessica Harper) is an American ballet student travelling to Germany to study at an exclusive dance academy in the Black Forest. After one of the students and her friend are hideously murdered in the first of Argento's breath-catching set-piece killings Susy discovers that the academy has a bizarre history and as the body count rises she gets involved in a hideous labyrinth of murder black magic and madness... Tenebrae (1982): Shortly after American mystery-thriller novelist Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa) arrives in Rome to promote his new book (the Tenebrae of the title) an attractive young woman is murdered by a razor-wielding maniac who stuffs pages of Neal's latest novel into the mouth of his victim before slashing her throat. So begins a bizarre series of horrific murders the details of which strangely resemble the fictional murders in Neal's book. Baffled by the killings the local police believe the author may hold the key to solving the case and turn to him for help. Circumstances change however when Neal himself begins to receive death threats from the killer. Terror At The Opera (1987): When a young opera singer takes over the leading role in an avant-garde presentation of Verdi's Macbeth she triggers the madness of a crazed fan who repeatedly forces the diva to watch the brutal murders of her loved ones. Will the woman's recurring nightmare hold the key to the identity of this psychopath or does an even more horrific evil lay waiting in the wings? The legendary Dario Argento co-wrote and directed this savagely stunning thriller featuring some of the most shocking sequences of the maestro's entire career. The Stendhal Syndrome (1996): On the trail of a deranged serial rapist and killer Detective Anna Manni (Asia Argento) hides her own secret: she suffers from the Stendhal Syndrome a mental condition which makes her retreat into frightening hallucinations when confronted with works of art. Her quarry the sadistic Alfredo Grossi (Thomas Kretschmann) discovers her condition and uses it against Anna to reduce her to a helpless victim. Subjected to these savage relentless attacks Anna is a powerless witness as his murder spree continues. Now alone she has to face her own fears her own terrors and the terrible legacy of the Stendhal Syndrome... The Card Player (2004): Policewoman Anna Mari plays a dangerous game with a serial killer: if she loses she will be forced to watch the murderer take another victim...

• Werewolf Of Washington / House Of Clocks | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  The Werewolf of Washington (Dir. Milton Moses Ginsberg 1973): A White House aide bitten by a Hungarian werewolf returns to Washington to wreak havoc in the corridors of power and get his teeth into some presidential provisions senatorial snacks and congressman canape's! Find out what happens when a vicious heartless and callous monster with no regard for human life (the President) meets a wicked and wily Whitehouse werewolf in this uproarious comedy in the tradition of Amer

• The Stranger | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Stranger, according to Orson Welles, "is the worst of my films. There is nothing of me in that picture. I did it to prove that I could put out a movie as well as anyone else." True, set beside Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, or even The Trial, The Stranger is as close to production-line stuff as the great Orson ever came. But even on autopilot Welles still leaves most filmmakers standing. The shadow of the Second World War hangs heavy over the plot. A war crimes investigator, played by Edward G Robinson, tracks down a senior Nazi, Franz Kindler, to a sleepy New England town where he's living in concealment as a respected college professor. The script, credited to Anthony Veiller but with uncredited input from Welles and John Huston, is riddled with implausibilities: we're asked to believe, for a start, that there'd be no extant photos of a top Nazi leader. The casting's badly skewed, too. Welles wanted Agnes Moorehead as the investigator and Robinson as Kindler, but his producer, Sam Spiegel, wouldn't wear it. So Welles himself plays the supposedly cautious and self-effacing fugitive--and if there was one thing Welles could never play, it was unobtrusive. What's more, Spiegel chopped out most of the two opening reels set in South America, in Welles' view, "the best stuff in the picture". Still, the film's far from a write-off. Welles' eye for stunning visuals rarely deserted him and, aided by Russell Metty's skewed, shadowy photography, The Stranger builds to a doomy grand guignol climax in a clock tower that Hitchcock must surely have recalled when he made Vertigo. And Robinson, dogged in pursuit, is as quietly excellent as ever. On the DVD: not much in the way of extras, except a waffly full-length commentary from Russell Cawthorne that tells us about the history of clock-making and where Edward G was buried, but precious little about the making of the film. Print and sound are acceptable, but though remastering is claimed, there's little evidence of it. --Philip Kemp