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• Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Halloween is one of the great modern horror films, but as a franchise its track record has been spotty at best, painfully bad at worst. Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later, directed by horror vet Steve Miner (Friday the 13th parts 2 and 3, House), won't displace John Carpenter's original but it might help you forget the films in between. Miner certainly has: the film begins as if sequels 3 through 6 never happened. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising her role for the first time in almost two decades) faked her death and is now a single mom and headmistress of an exclusive California private school. She's also a secret alcoholic who lives in fear of her homicidal brother-bogeyman Michael Myers. Guess who decides to show up for a family reunion? The film begins with classic horror-movie exposition (the deserted college campus, Michael's escape, Laurie's waking nightmares) accomplished with some humour and style, but it's all set up for the second half, a driving roller coaster of stalk-and-slash thrills. There's little of the self-conscious genre referencing of Scream and at times the film is a little far-fetched--it is a slasher movie about a knife-wielding homicidal maniac who won't stay dead, after all--but Curtis transforms Laurie from a shrieking victim into an empowered, determined horror-movie heroine who's learned a thing or two from the previous films. Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, and TV cutie Michelle Williams (Dawson's Creek) co-star, and the script received uncredited polish from Scream writer Kevin Williamson; Curtis's mom, Janet Leigh, pops up in a cameo. --Sean Axmaker

• The Blob (Collector's Edition) | Blu Ray | (17/10/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Cowboy Bebop: The Movie | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As the eagerly awaited Cowboy Bebop feature film reunites the original director, screenwriter, composer and vocal cast, it's not surprising that the film plays like an expanded TV episode. What should be the routine capture of a two-bit hacker by Faye escalates into a deadly game of cat and mouse, as Spike and the gang struggle to prevent the evil Vincent Volaju from murdering every human on Mars. Director Shinichiro Watanabe handles the action sequences with his usual panache: inside the sinister Cherious Medical research facility, Spike fights a beautiful agent, using a push broom in a series of manoeuvres Jackie Chan might envy; the climactic duel between Spike and Vincent plays against innocent yet eerie images of a Halloween carnival. This will delight fans of the series and provide an excellent introduction for the uninitiated. --Charles Solomon

• Plastic Little Magic / Black Magic M66 | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Plastic Little: When her father tries to sabotage the army's newest project Elysse becomes a target for the military police. Luckily for her she runs into or or is run over by Tita a street-wise teenager who decides to help out. Tita is a Pet Shop Hunter dedicated to collecting rare creatures for other planets. But Elysse is the rarest of all for she is the only one who knows the password to the ultimate weapon. The deadly game of cat and mouse begins but the cats are armed and the mice are made out of stainless steel... Black Magic M-66: From the creator of Appleseed and Dominion Masamune Shirow's feature Black Magic M-66 is based on the story 'Booby-Trap' from the original Manga Black Magic. Sybel a free-lance video journalist becomes involved in a dangerous military fiasco when two top-secret military androids are lost in an accident. The surviving M-66 android battles a special forces commando team led by Colonel Arthur. The Deadly M-66 unit escapes with a mission to eliminate ferris the grandfather of its creator. It's a race agianst time...

• Macross Plus - Parts 1 And 2 | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Gungrave Complete Collection | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £35.08   |  Saving you £4.91 (14.00%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Armed with Ceruberus his twin handguns and a coffin filled with heavy weapons on his back Beyond the Grave returns cloaked in darkness and smelling of the grave on his deadly mission of vengeance! For Brandon Heat death doesn't matter. Driven by his need for revenge he returns from beyond the grave to cripple Milleneon the huge mafia organization that uses undead monsters as its enforcers. His ultimate goal will be to destroy Harry MacDowel the leader of Milleneon and at one time Brandon's best friend...