Horror and Suspense

• Halloween II | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £4.89   |  Saving you £1.10 (22.49%)   |  RRP £5.99

  You can't kill the boogeyman", explained John Carpenter in the original, and to prove it Michael Myers returns in the handsome but grisly sequel Halloween 2. Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as Laurie Strode but spends most of her time cowering in a hospital gown, and Donald Pleasance runs around like a maniac as the panicky doctor desperate to hunt down Myers before he kills again. Carpenter writes and produces with partner Debra Hill and together they replace the mystery and uncertainty of the original with an exponentially bigger body count, some strange tales about the Druids and Pagan ceremonies, and the now-familiar family ties between Michael and Laurie. First-time director Rick Rosenthal (Bad Boys) paces the film at a brisk jog and directs it with a clean, crisp style, taking the murders out of the dark to display them in all their nasty detail. --Sean Axmaker

• Sherlock Holmes - Hound Of The Baskervilles / Voice Of Terror | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £5.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (118.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Blood For Dracula | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £12.15   |  Saving you £7.84 (64.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the minds of Andy Warhol and Paul Morrisey comes this cult horror film starring Udo Kier and Joe Dallesandro one of the most prominent actors from 'The Factory'. Tired and sickly Count Dracula (Udo Kier) travels to Italy in search of a virgin bride. He and his domineering assistant Anton stumble across the supposedly virginal DiFiore family. Unfortunately the DiFiore daughters are less than virginal thanks to the determined efforts of servant Mario Balato (Joe Dallesandro

• Scanners | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (-12.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Cameron Vale is living on the fringe of society self-induced due to his telepathic ability to read other people's minds. Darryl Revok has the same condition and is the head of an underground association of so-called Scanners that want world domination. When Vale is taken to Dr Paul Ruth as a result of supposed insanity he's enlisted into a program that will involve him in a battle against his fellow Scanners.

• Sleepless | DVD | (11/12/2006) from £24.98   |  Saving you £-11.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dario Argento's 2001 feature Sleepless didn't receive a cinematic release in the UK, and it's not hard to see why. The movie often feels like Argento on auto-pilot, rehashing images and ideas and camera angles from his more inspired films like Suspiria or Tenebrae. The dialogue is leaden, the plot is a plodding whodunnit (and most of the time it's hard to care who) and the acting, with the exception of the veteran Max von Sydow, is mostly atrocious and crudely dubbed. But then again, no one ever came to an Argento movie for the plot or the dialogue, and least of all for the acting. The key to his mastery has always been the atmosphere of a nightmare that he conjures up, with all its jagged imagery and complete absence of narrative logic. The less sense it makes, the scarier it gets. Sleepless never attains anywhere near a level of nightmarish intensity, but it has its moments--especially the least rational ones. Although the plot involves no elements of the supernatural, and everything is finally (if cumbersomely) explained, it's episodes like the first killing (where the murderer traps his victim on a speeding train he couldn't possibly have boarded) that strike most effectively home. The action involves a retired police inspector (von Sydow) lured back to investigate a series of killings in Turin that replicate murders he was assigned to 17 years earlier. As always with Argento, knives figure prominently, as do prowling steadicam tracking shots, old dark houses and females butchered in any number of gory and far-fetched ways. The film looks unfailingly good, courtesy of its rich dark palate of colours, Ronnie Taylor's sinuous camera, and Argento's favourite group Goblin contribute an edgy, insidious score. On the DVD: Sleepless on DVD comes with a clear, sharp transfer that's a pleasure to watch, with no loss of detail even in the many underlit scenes. Picture is matched for clarity by the terrific 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. This, unlike the truncated US and German DVD releases, is the full 117-minute original, shown in 1.85:1 widescreen. The two-disc set includes a generous helping of extras: stills gallery, the theatrical trailer (in Italian only, though), a 15-minute "making of" featurette, plus an informative one-hour documentary, Dario Argento--An Eye for Horror, narrated by Mark Kermode and previously shown on Channel Four at Christmas 2001.--Philip Kemp

• Inner Sanctum | DVD | (12/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fred Olen Ray's sequel to Inner Sanctum. Full of hallucination scenes, erotic nightmares, and other gimmicky devices (sometimes nested three deep), the film tells the story of nurse Jennifer Reed (Tracy Brooks Swope), who -- when she was still played by Tanya Roberts in the first movie -- killed her murderous husband after he attempted to do the same to her. Jennifer's brother-in-law Bill (Michael Nouri from Flashdance) and his wife (Sandahl Bergman) come to stay with her. When a series of hook-murders begins, the traumatized woman and her guests must determine who is drugging her and setting up the killings. None of it really matters, however, as the mystery is secondary to all of the sex and violence. There are numerous softcore couplings, as well as some pretty silly hallucinations (sex with a decaying corpse, Jennifer's graveyard dance with an undead Kato Kaelin), and even a catfight to keep the punters happy. Ray casts the film with the usual names (Robert Quarry, Margaux Hemingway, David Warner, Joe Estevez).

• Dark Breed | DVD | (18/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Captain Saxon, and agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew members of a secret space mission who returned to Earth against orders. It seems that they were all infected with an alien parasite, and they were trying to bring its eggs back to Earth. The eggs were lost in an accident, and both Saxon and the astronauts are trying to locate them. What could the government want them for?

• Gangsters vs Vampires | DVD | (13/09/2013) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Cold Prey 3 | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Requiem For A Vampire | DVD | (02/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The films of French cult director Jean Rollin belong to a genre all their own, horror fantasies that plunge viewers into wild fantasy worlds out of time and place in which figures (usually nude women) wander a deserted landscape. In Requiem for a Vampire, two school girls in painted clown faces and goofy polka-dot garb shoot out of the back of a speeding car on a desolate country road. For 45 minutes, we follow the adventures of the braided young nymphs as they ditch the car, wipe off the clown white, and change into miniskirts, with nary a word spoken. They dreamily wander through a graveyard (where one falls into a freshly dug grave and is buried alive!) and into a castle, where they are suddenly set upon by cloaked figures and brutish henchmen and made the servants of a tired, sorry-looking vampire desperately attempting to perpetuate his race with fresh blood. The lyrical first half, with its often beautiful and bizarre imagery, gives way to an astonishingly brutal scene in which the henchman molest the women they have chained naked in their dungeon. The film bounces back and forth between surreal poetry and kinky decadence (which also includes scenes of sadomasochism and plenty of gratuitous nudity), but Jean Rollin's ethereal mood and fairy-tale imagery gives the largely wordless film an eerie beauty and the surreal logic of a waking dream. --Sean Axmaker

• The Vampire Bat | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Thousands of monstrous bats fill the night sky of a terrified village while residents are murdered in their beds drained of all their blood. As the killings increase rumors of a vampire in their midst sends the townspeople into a frenzy of panic as even the most respected scientist of the community seems convinced by the evidence. Only one investigator refuses to believe the superstitious tales and argues that a maniac must be at the root of the killings. A mob gathers to hunt down the suspected vampire and drive a stake through his heart yet the exorcism fails to end the horrific slayings. Shot on borrowed sets used in Universal's seminal horror films and starring some of the genre's greatest supporting players The Vampire Bat stands with White Zombie as a low budget terror classic.

• Hollywood Strangler Meets The Skidrow Slasher | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Hollywood Strangler has been so hurt by a former girlfriend that he sees all women as teases deserving of a sinister final lesson. His strangulation spree of beautiful models commences even though he's continually seeking that elusive different woman. At the same time Hollywood is experiencing a throat-cutting explosion of the local vagrant population hence the Slasher. What will happen when the two killers meet?

• 3 Classics Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 3 - Woman In Green / Young And Innocent / Man Who Knew Too Much | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Woman In Green: Based on the Conan Doyle short stories 'Adventures of the Empty House' and 'The Final Problem' this film marks the last screen appearance of Professor Moriarty in the Basil Rathbone series. Holmes and Watson must solve the greatest crime wave since Jack the Ripper. A sequence of strange murders baffles the police. Holmes is called onto the scene and discovers the existence of a blackmail ring that uses a female hypnotist to further their skulduggery. Young And Innocent: Hitchcock's favourite film from his 'British period' is a spine-chilling melodrama centring around the murder of a young actress strangled with a raincoat belt - a clue which sets off a chain of life-threatening events. With its superb visual effects black humour and suspense. This is truly vintage Hitchcock. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934: A husband and wife's holiday in Switzerland goes horribly wrong when their daughter is kidnapped leading them into a web of mystery and intrigue...

• Hammer Collection | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The five most popular Hammer films now in this DVD box set! Titles included on this release are: The Quatermass Experiment Quatermass II The Abominable Snowman X the Unknown and Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter.

• Day Of The Dead 2 - Contagium | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £6.90   |  Saving you £8.09 (54.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Every day has a beginning... Pennsylvania 1968. A strange viral outbreak is contained within the walls of a military hospital:people exposed are disposed of burned to a crisp and the incident covered up.35 years on and the military are gone replaced with a mental hospital. When five patients are about to be released they uncover a secret buried within the compound and unwittingly unleash the virus. Designed to speed human evolution it turns people into powerful creatures

• Jess Franco Double Bill - Vol. 2 - Devil's Island Lovers / Night Of The Assassin | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Devil's Island Lovers (1974): A love-sick man is determined to woo his deceased wife's sister and get his hands on the family fortune... Night Of The Assassins (1976): A castle's residents are stalked by a masked killer who is intent on seeing each is on the receiving end of an exceedingly grisly death...

• Flesh For Frankenstein | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £32.99   |  Saving you £-13.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From Andy Warhol and long-time collaborator Paul Morrissey comes this campy trashy masterpiece of mid-70s horror. Dr. Frankenstein desires to create perfect male and female specimens from body parts he has 'collected'. If all goes well his creations will then start a 'perfect' new race. However when the brain of a holy man is mistakenly placed in the head of the male creature things don't go as the good doctor planned. The result is an abundance of nudity and gore as well as a d

• Cave | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £9.95   |  Saving you £37.04 (372.26%)   |  RRP £46.99

  Deep in the Romanian forest, a team of scientists stumble upon the ruins of a 13th century Abbey. On further inspection they make a startling discovery - the Abbey is built over the entrance to a giant underground cave. Local biologist believe the cave could be home to an undiscovered eco-system, so they hire a group of American cave-explorers to help them investiagte its depths. But waht they find deep inside the cave is not just a new eco-system but an entirely new species altogether ..... Rated 12 - subtitles

• Wolf | Blu Ray | (19/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Driving through a stormy night a wolf runs in front of Will Randall's car. Checking to see if it is okay Will (Nicholson) is bitten and the wolf disappears into the night. From this moment on Will begins to change in subtle ways that he cannot explain his senses quicken and he becomes dynamic and adventurous in every aspect of his life. However Will's new-found lust for life has a price and he finds it increasingly difficult to contain the wild and predatorial spirit that is also growing within him... Starring Jack Nicholson Michelle Pfeiffer and James Spader Wolf is a supernatural tale with a delicious modern twist. Beware: the animal is out!

• Slaver | DVD | (07/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by true events Slaver is a grisly indie-horror film that follows in the torture-porn tradition of Hostel and Wolf Creek. When a group of college students go partying in the woods they find themselves targeted by a sadistic hunter who traffics in selling his human victims to the white-slave trade.