Horror & Suspense

• District 9 | DVD | (28/12/2009) from £3.99  |  Saving you £16.00 (80.00%)  |  RRP £19.99

• Zombieland | DVD | (15/03/2010) from £4.95  |  Saving you £15.00 (75.00%)  |  RRP £19.99

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• Psycho - 50th Anniversary Special Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (09/08/2010) from £15.79  |  Saving you £9.20 (36.80%)  |  RRP £24.99

  After 50 years the ultimate nightmare returns in stunning high definition on Blu-ray with superior picture spine-chilling sound plus a host of extras. More chilling than ever before Alfred Hitchcock's landmark masterpiece of the macabre stars Anthony Perkins as the troubled Norman Bates whose old dark house and adjoining motel are not the place to spend a quiet evening. No one knows that better than Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) the ill-fated traveller whose journey ends in the notorious shower scene. First a private detective (Martin Balsam) then Marion's sister (Vera Miles) search for her as the horror and suspense mount to a terrifying climax where the mysterious killer is finally revealed.

• Let The Right One In | DVD | (03/08/2009) from £4.50  |  Saving you £13.14 (73.00%)  |  RRP £17.99

  A fragile anxious boy 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. The lonely boy's wish for a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli also 12 who moves in next door to him with her father. A pale serious young girl she only comes out at night and doesn't seem affected by the freezing temperatures.Coinciding with Eli's arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders. One man is found tied to a tree another frozen in the lake a woman bitten in the neck. Blood seems to be the common denominator--and for an introverted boy like Oskar who is fascinated by gruesome stories it doesn't take long before he figures out that Eli is a vampire. But by now a subtle romance has blossomed between Oskar and Eli and she gives him the strength to fight back against his aggressors. Oskar becomes increasingly aware of the tragic inhuman dimension of Eli's plight but cannot bring himself to forsake her. Frozen forever in a twelve-year-old's body with all the burgeoning feelings and confused emotions of a young adolescent Eli knows that she can only continue to live if she keeps on moving. But when Oskar faces his darkest hour Eli returns to defend him the only way she can.

• Paranormal Activity | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £4.99  |  Saving you £15.00 (75.00%)  |  RRP £19.99

  After a young middle class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban 'starter' tract house they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to... Play.com Review Following in the ghoulish footsteps of 'found footage' classics The Blair Witch Project and Rec Paranormal Activity is the latest low-budget ultra scare-fest to wow Hollywood! Made for just 000 in director Oren Peli's very own home this unique indie cross between The Exorcist and Poltergeist has left cinema audiences in a perpetual state of terror. Filmed in a documentary style Paranormal Activity follows day-trader Micah and college student Katie a young couple Engaged to be engaged. Played by unknowns Micah Sloat and Katie Featherston the leads are wholly sympathetic and normal characters living out a seemingly mundane suburban existence which is part of the movie's genius - many of us could be them minus the paranormal activity! When Micah takes it upon himself to film Katie's claims that she has been haunted since childhood audiences will likely be just as sceptical as he is but not for long... Sleep is going to be a problem. Not beyond some good old-fashioned scares - strange noises and things that go bump in the night - the film takes all the classics and the cliches of the genre but roots them in a reality that audiences can relate to - nearly everyone has seen or experienced something unexplainable on some level. But what do you do when the unexplainable keeps on happening and it's damn scary? You really will feel like you're watching genuine hauntings of these poor unfortunate souls but - as with all great horror movies - it's what you don't see that really sets the imagination racing. That such terror was achieved on a micro budget is a testament to the filmmaker - few like-minded films have been as successful Blair Witch being one exception. For optimum frights we recommend you leave the lights off if you can bear it. Whatever you do make sure you order in some new underwear because you're going to need them and if DreamWorks and Steven Spielberg have anything to do with it you might have to buy a few pairs because sequels are likely on the way. For more 'found footage' terrors we recommend you check out: The low budget horror that reignited the genre The Blair Witch Project Spanish horror film Rec or Hollywood remake Quarantine The one that started it all Cannibal Holocaust Zombie master George A. Romero's Diary Of The Dead The big budget monster movie Cloverfield

• The Crazies | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £7.49  |  Saving you £8.00 (44.50%)  |  RRP £17.99

  A husband and wife in a small Midwestern town find themselves battling for survival as their friends and family descend into madness in The Crazies. A mysterious toxin in the water supply turns everyone exposed to it into mindless killers and the authorities leave the uninfected to their certain doom in this terrifying reinvention of the George Romero horror classic. Directed by Breck Eisner (Sahara) The Crazies is written by Ray Wright (Pulse Case 39) and Scott Kosar (The Amityville Horror The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). The American Dream goes horribly wrong when the residents of this picture-perfect town begin to succumb to an uncontrollable urge for violence and the horrific bloodshed escalates into anarchy. In an attempt to contain the epidemic the military uses deadly force to close off access into or out of town abandoning the few healthy citizens to the growing mayhem as depraved killers lurk in the shadows. Sheriff David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant); his pregnant wife Judy (Radha Mitchell); Becca (Danielle Panabaker) an assistant at the medical center; and Russell (Joe Anderson) Dutton's deputy and right-hand man find themselves trapped in a once idyllic town they can no longer recognize. Unable to trust former neighbors and friends deserted by the authorities and terrified of contracting the illness themselves they are forced to band together in a nightmarish struggle for survival.

• The Lost Boys | DVD | (14/12/1998) from £2.99  |  Saving you £11.00 (78.60%)  |  RRP £13.99

  This 1987 thriller was a predictable hit with the teen audience it worked overtime to attract. Like most of director Joel Schumacher's films, it's conspicuously designed to push the right marketing and demographic buttons and, granted, there's some pretty cool stuff going on here and there. Take Kiefer Sutherland, for instance. In Stand by Me he played a memorable bully, but here he goes one step further as a memorable bully vampire who leads a tribe of teenage vampires on their nocturnal spree of bloodsucking havoc. Jason Patric plays the new guy in town, who quickly attracts a lovely girlfriend (Jami Gertz), only to find that she might be recruiting him into the vampire fold. The movie gets sillier as it goes along, and resorts to a routine action-movie showdown, but it's a visual knockout (featuring great cinematography by Michael Chapman) and boasts a cast that's eminently able (pardon the pun) to sink their teeth into the best parts of an uneven screenplay. --Jeff Shannon

• The Nightmare On Elm Street (Seven Disc Collector's Edition) | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £9.91  |  Saving you £30.08 (75.20%)  |  RRP £39.99

  A Nightmare On Elm Street Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) is having grisly nightmares. Meanwhile her high-school friends who are having the very same dreams are being slaughtered in their sleep by the hideous fiend of their shared nightmares. When the police ignore her explanation she herself must confront the killer in his shadowy realm... From modern horror master Wes Craven comes a timeless shocker that remains the standard bearer for terror. Featuring Johnny Depp in his fi

• Stephen King's It | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £2.99  |  Saving you £16.00 (84.30%)  |  RRP £18.99

  Is there anything scarier than clowns? Of course not. And who knows scary better than Stephen King? You see where we're going. It puts a malevolent clown (given demented life by a powdered, red-nosed Tim Curry) front and center, as King's fat novel gets the TV-movie treatment. Even at three hours plus, the action is condensed, but an engaging Stand by Me vibe prevails for much of the running time. The seven main characters, as adolescents, conquered a force of pure evil in their Maine hometown. Now, the cackling Pennywise is back, and they must come home to fight him--or, should we say, It--again. Admitting the TV-movie trappings and sometimes hysterical performances, this is a genuinely gripping thriller. As so often with King, the basic idea (the bond formed during a childhood trauma) is clean and powerful, a lifeline anchored in reality that leads us to the supernatural. --Robert Horton

• The Shining | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £3.59  |  Saving you £9.52 (68.00%)  |  RRP £13.99

  Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling horror novel than a complete re-imagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to murderous rage against his wife and young son. Kubrick's film is an existential Road Runner cartoon (his steadicam scurrying through the hotel's labyrinthine hallways), in which the cavernously empty spaces inside the Overlook Hotel mirror the emptiness in the soul of the blocked writer settled in for a long winter's hibernation. As many have pointed out, King's protagonist goes mad, but Kubrick's Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) is Looney Tunes from the moment we meet him--all arching eyebrows and mischievous grin. (Both Nicholson and Shelley Duvall reach new levels of hysteria in their performances, driven to extremes by the director's fanatical demand s for take after take after take.) The Shining is terrifying--but not in the way fans of the novel might expect. When it was redone as a TV mini-series (reportedly because of King's dissatisfaction with the Kubrick film), the famous topiary-animal attack (which was deemed impossible to film in 1980) was there--but the deeper horror was lost. Kubrick's The Shining gets under your skin and chills your bones; it stays with you, inhabits you, haunts you. And there's no place to hide... --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com

• Daybreakers | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £6.00  |  Saving you £13.99 (70.00%)  |  RRP £19.99

  Directed by Michael and Peter Spierig Daybreakers stars Ethan Hawke Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill. In the year 2019 a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. as the human population nears extinction the vampires have to make a choice: capture and farm every remaining human being or try to find a blood substitute before time runs out. However a covert group of vampires makes a remarkable discovery one which has the power to save the human race.

• Legion | Blu Ray | (09/08/2010) from £10.00  |  Saving you £13.04 (52.20%)  |  RRP £24.99

  After a terrifying biblical apocalypse descends upon the world a group of strangers stranded in a remote truck stop diner in the Southwest unwittingly become humanity's last line of defence when they discover the diner's young waitress is pregnant with the messiah.

• Spooks - Complete Season 4 | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £10.85  |  Saving you £29.14 (72.90%)  |  RRP £39.99

  MI5; not 9 to 5! The stakes are higher than ever for Adam Harry and the team as a series of terrorist attacks and political cover-ups threaten national security on an unprecedented scale. Packed with classic Spooks' intrigue Series 4 features all ten episodes plus a host of never before seen special features shot exclusively for the DVD. Series 4 is released just before the new TV broadcast in September. So make sure you pre-order your copy now to see all ten episodes in time for Series 5!

• The Entity | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £3.99  |  Saving you £9.00 (69.30%)  |  RRP £12.99

  Spine-chilling tale about a woman who is raped and attacked by an unknown spirit... Dazzling special effects powerful acting a taut tightly written script and imaginative direction all combine to make 'The Entity' a powerhouse supernatural film that will rivet you to your seat. Based on a true event which took place in California October 1976.

• The Descent Part 2 | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £6.99  |  Saving you £13.00 (65.00%)  |  RRP £19.99

  The chilling sequel to the critically acclaimed and globally successful horror hit The Descent. Dazed bloodied and speechless with trauma Sarah Carter (Shauna Macdonald) emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where the events of The Descent took place. Local Sheriff Redmond Vaines forces her back underground to help the rescue team which is desperately searching for her five missing girlfriends. As the team move deeper into the caves Sarah's flashes of fractured memory intensify and she bgins to realise the full horror of the would-be rescue mission. Only Sarah knows the terror which lurks in the shadows of the caves. But they are about to encounter a new tribe of Crawlers inbred deformed and even more viciously feral than those Sarah faced before.

• Silent Running | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £2.97  |  Saving you £7.02 (70.30%)  |  RRP £9.99

  After creating many of the innovative special effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Douglas Trumbull tried his hand at directing, and 1971's Silent Running marked an impressive debut. (In addition to creating the visual effects for Close Encounters of the Third Kind and directing 1983's Brainstorm, Trumbull later turned to the creation of high-tech cinematic amusement park rides.) One of the best science-fiction films of the 1970s, Silent Running stars Bruce Dern as Freeman Lowell, a nature-loving crewmember aboard the Valley Forge, a gigantic spaceship in a small fleet that carries the last surviving forests of the Earth, which has fallen victim to overpopulation and ecological neglect.Freeman's name reflects his nonconformist philosophy, which runs counter to the prevailing recklessness of his three ill-fated crewmates, who are eager to jettison their precious payload and return to the bleakness of Earth. Before they can sabotage the forests, Freeman does what he must, and spends the remainder of his mission with three robotic "drones" as his only companions, struggling to maintain his sanity in the vastness of space. Dern is superb in this memorable role, representing the lost soul of humankind as well as the back-to-nature youth movement of the 1960s and the pre-Watergate era. (Appropriately, Joan Baez sings the film's theme song.) A rare science-fiction film that combines bold adventure with passionate social conscience, Silent Running will remain relevant as long as the Earth is threatened by the ravages of human carelessness. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Underworld Trilogy | Blu Ray | (18/05/2009) from £14.85  |  Saving you £26.14 (63.80%)  |  RRP £40.99

  Underworld (2003): Vampires and lycans an ancient form of werewolf are at war. While the vampires inhabit a gigantic castle that houses their ancestor's tombs the lycans live underground in a dilapidated sewer cave. Both teams are equipped with big guns and they are constantly innovating deadlier bullets to gain advantage over each other. On the vampire side the leather-clad death agent Selene (Kate Beckinsale) delegates teams of vamps to attack the lycans. But when she discovers that the lycans have kidnapped a human medical student Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman) she knows the worst is on its way. Against the orders of her superior Kraven (Shane Brolly) who is obsessively in love with Selene she awakens the most powerful vampire of all time Viktor (Bill Nighy) and prepares for a massive feud against lycan leader Lucian (Michael Sheen)... Underworld Evolution (2005): Bloodthirsty vengeance is measured out in buckets not spoonfuls for this hard-hitting vampire movie sequel. The story picks up right where the first Underworld left off in the midst of a war between Lycans (werewolves) and vampires with the gorgeous death-dealer Selene (Kate Beckinsale) on the run with her vamp-wolf hybrid lover Michael (Scott Speedman). Being the cause of Viktor's death Selene can only hope to plea to the last remaining elder Marcus. However Marcus has already awakened and has become a more powerful creature than before. Now his only remaining goal is to awaken his Lycan brother William from his eternal imprisonment. With time running out Selene and Michael must piece together the final clues to unlock the secrets of their bloodlines and stop Marcus before it's too late... Underworld 3 - Rise Of The Lycans (2009): A prequel to the last two Underworld movies this installment traces the beginnings of the blood-feud between the dominant Death Dealers and their former slaves the Lycans. Led by the forceful Lucian the Lycan uprising begins to take shape in order to escape the shackles of the evil Viktor the vampire king who rules them.

• Saw 5 | DVD | (09/03/2009) from £4.99  |  Saving you £15.00 (75.00%)  |  RRP £19.99

  Jigsaw is back in Saw V - The fifth installment in the Saw franchise! Agent Perez the last detective to play through Jigsaws grizzly games has been captured. After the events of Saw IV officer Rigg is after Hoffman but doesnt know there is a new piece to the puzzle he must decifier before its too late...

• The Final Destination | DVD | (28/12/2009) from £3.49  |  Saving you £16.50 (82.50%)  |  RRP £19.99

• Case 39 | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £7.99  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £N/A

  In an intense tale of psychological terror a social worker discovers a force of evil greater than she imagined possible when she attempts to rescue a mysteriously silent young girl. Devoted family services specialist Emily Jenkins (Academy Award winner Renee Zellweger) has seen it all - lies neglect abuse - domestic horrors of every type. That is until she takes on Case 39: The case of 10-year-old Lillith Sullivan (Jodelle Ferland) whose eerie secretive family leaves Emily shaken and disturbed. When Lillith's parents attempt to harm their child in a lte-night ritual Emily intervenes. Heartbroken by Lillith's loneliness and innocence Emily decides to do something she has never allowed herself to do in the past: get personally involved. Hoping to do the right thing for the withdrawn girl Emily offers Lillith a caring happy home until she can find an adoptive family. That's when the real terror begins!