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• Gothika | UMD | (03/04/2006) from £9.95  |  Saving you £3.04 (23.40%)  |  RRP £12.99

• Halloween | UMD | (17/10/2005) from £14.98  |  Saving you £-8.99 (-150.10%)  |  RRP £5.99

  Halloween is as pure and undiluted as its title. In the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, a teenage baby sitter tries to survive a Halloween night of relentless terror, during which a knife-wielding maniac goes after the town's hormonally charged youths. Director John Carpenter takes this simple situation and orchestrates a superbly mounted symphony of horrors. It's a movie much scarier for its dark spaces and ominous camera movements than for its explicit bloodletting (which is actually minimal). Composed by Carpenter himself, the movie's freaky music sets the tone; and his script (cowritten with Debra Hill) is laced with references to other horror pictures, especially Psycho. The baby sitter is played by Jamie Lee Curtis, the real-life daughter of Psycho victim Janet Leigh; and the obsessed policeman played by Donald Pleasence is named Sam Loomis, after John Gavin's character in Psycho. In the end, though, Halloween stands on its own as an uncannily frightening experience--it's one of those movies that had audiences literally jumping out of their seats and shouting at the screen. ("No! Don't drop that knife!") Produced on a low budget, the picture turned a monster profit, and spawned many sequels, none of which approached the 1978 original. Curtis returned for two more instalments: 1981's dismal Halloween II, which picked up the story the day after the unfortunate events, and 1998's occasionally gripping Halloween H20, which proved the former baby sitter was still haunted after 20 years. --Robert Horton

• Dawn Of The Dead | UMD | (14/11/2005) from £7.66  |  Saving you £8.33 (52.10%)  |  RRP £15.99

• Amityville Horror | UMD | (24/10/2005) from £12.37  |  Saving you £7.62 (38.10%)  |  RRP £19.99

  There's no place like home...for bloodcurdling horror! James Brolin Margot Kidder and Academy Award winner Rod Steiger fall prey to the powers of darkness in this spine-tingling tale of a house possessed by unspeakable evil. One of the most talked-about haunted-house stories of all time The Amityville Horror will hit you where you live. For George and Kathy Lutz the colonial home on the river's edge seemed ideal: quaint spacious and amazingly affordable. Of course six brutal murders had taken place there just a year before but houses don't have memories....or do they? Soon the Lutz dream house becomes a hellish nightmare as walls begin to drip blood and satanic forces threaten to destroy them. Now the Lutzes must try to escape or forfeit their lives - and their souls!

• Silent Hill | UMD | (07/12/2007) from £4.98  |  Saving you £1.01 (16.90%)  |  RRP £5.99

• Blade 2 | UMD | (26/09/2005) from £3.99  |  Saving you £14.00 (77.80%)  |  RRP £17.99

• Resident Evil: Apocalypse | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £4.99  |  Saving you £13.00 (72.30%)  |  RRP £17.99

• Final Destination 2 | UMD | (30/01/2006) from £17.96  |  Saving you £0.03 (0.20%)  |  RRP £17.99

• Night Watch | UMD | (24/04/2006) from £13.35  |  Saving you £6.64 (33.20%)  |  RRP £19.99

• Blade | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £17.96  |  Saving you £0.03 (0.20%)  |  RRP £17.99

  The recipe for Blade is quite simple; you take one part Batman, one part horror flick, and two parts kung fu and frost it all over with some truly campy acting. What do you get? An action flick that will reaffirm your belief that the superhero action genre did not die in the fluorescent hands of Joel Schumacher. Blade is the story of a ruthless and supreme vampire slayer (Wesley Snipes) who makes other contemporary slayers (Buffy et al.) look like amateurs. Armed with a samurai sword made of silver and guns that shoot silver bullets, he lives to hunt and kill "Sucker Heads". Pitted against our hero is a cast of villains led by Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff), a crafty and charismatic vampire who believes that his people should be ruling the world, and that the human race is merely the food source they prey on. Born half-human and half-vampire after his mother had been attacked by a blood-sucker, Blade is brought to life by a very buff-looking Snipes in his best action performance to date. Apparent throughout the film is the fluid grace and admirable skill that Snipes brings to the many breathtaking action sequences that lift this movie into a league of its own. The influence of Hong Kong action cinema is clear, and you may even notice vague impressions of Japanese anime sprinkled innovatively throughout. Dorff holds his own against Snipes as the menacing nemesis Frost, and the grizzly Kris Kristofferson brings a tough, cynical edge to his role as Whistler, Blade's mentor and friend. Ample credit should also go to director Stephen Norrington and screenwriter David S. Goyer, who prove it is possible to adapt comic book characters to the big screen without making them look absurd. Indeed, quite the reverse happens here: Blade comes vividly to life from the moment you first see him, in an outstanding opening sequence that sets the tone for the action-packed film that follows. From that moment onward you are pulled into the world of Blade and his perpetual battle against the vampire race. --Jeremy Storey

• 28 Days Later | UMD | (05/12/2005) from £9.24  |  Saving you £12.75 (58.00%)  |  RRP £21.99

• Underworld Special Edition | UMD | (01/09/2005) from £17.96  |  Saving you £0.03 (0.20%)  |  RRP £17.99

  Underworld is a hybrid thriller that rewrites the rulebook on werewolves and vampires--imagine Blade meets The Crow and The Matrix. It's a "cuisinart" movie (blend a lot of familiar ideas and hope something interesting happens) in which immortal vampire "death dealers" wage an ancient war against "Lycans" (werewolves), who've got centuries of revenge--and some rather ambitious genetic experiments--on their lycanthropic agenda. Given his preoccupation with gloomy architecture (mostly filmed in Budapest, Hungary), frenetic mayhem and Gothic costuming, it's no surprise that first-time director Len Wiseman gained experience in TV commercials and the art departments of Godzilla, Men in Black and Independence Day. His work is all surface, no substance, filled with derivative, grand-scale action as conflicted vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale, who later became engaged to Wiseman) struggles to rescue an ill-fated human (Scott Speedman) from Lycan transformation. It's great looking all the way, and a guaranteed treat for horror buffs, who will eagerly dissect its many strengths and weaknesses. --Jeff Shannon

• Cursed | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £12.44  |  Saving you £6.55 (34.50%)  |  RRP £18.99

• 13 Ghosts | UMD | (03/10/2005) from £17.96  |  Saving you £0.03 (0.20%)  |  RRP £17.99

• The Company Of Wolves | UMD | (30/01/2006) from £8.57  |  Saving you £1.42 (14.20%)  |  RRP £9.99

• Dark Water | UMD | (21/11/2005) from £2.99  |  Saving you £3.96 (20.90%)  |  RRP £18.99

• I Spit On Your Grave | UMD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A  |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)  |  RRP £5.99

• Constantine | UMD | (25/11/2005) from £11.96  |  Saving you £1.03 (7.90%)  |  RRP £12.99

• The Cave | UMD | (28/11/2005) from £13.44  |  Saving you £6.55 (32.80%)  |  RRP £19.99

• Final Destination | UMD | (30/01/2006) from £3.99  |  Saving you £14.00 (77.80%)  |  RRP £17.99