"Actor: Brad Dourif"

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A big Oscar winner in 1975, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest still holds up remarkably well. Ken Kesey's novel, an allegory of repression and rebellion set in a mental hospital in the early 1960s, is cannily adapted by Czech director Milos Forman into a comedy drama with a cool, unassuming, near-documentary look. Jack Nicholson has his most jacknicholsonian role as Randle P McMurphy, a livewire troublemaker who unwisely cons his way out of prison and into a mental institution without realising he has switched from serving a sentence with a release date to being committed until adjudged sane by the same people he is winding up on a daily basis. Louise Fletcher, in a career-defining turn, is Nurse Ratched, the soft-spoken sadist who represents the worst type of matronly authoritarianism and clashes with Randle all down the line. Taking another look at the picture after all these years, it's a surprise that all the unknown actors who seemed like real mental patients have graduated to becoming prolific character actor stars: Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Vincent Schiavelli, Brad Dourif, the late Will Sampson, Sidney Lassick, Michael Berryman. Unlike many Best Picture Oscar winners, this deals with profound subject matter without seeming self-important: Forman's approach and all-round great acting make it play as a small character story as well as a Big Statement about the human condition. Full marks also for Jack Nitzsche's musical saw-based score. On the DVD: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest comes to DVD in a two-disc special edition with a great-looking anamorphic 1.85:1 print and 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack, plus tracks in French and Italian and optional subtitles in half a dozen languages. Disc 2 has the trailer, about 13 minutes of deleted scenes (mostly from the first third of the film, and all pretty good) and a making-of retrospective documentary with interesting material from producers Michael Douglas (who inherited the rights from Kirk) and Saul Zaentz, Forman, screenwriter Bo Goldman and many cast-members (though not Nicholson). There's also a commentary track by Forman, Douglas and others which repeats a few things from the documentary but also goes into more scene-specific detail about the development and shooting. --Kim Newman

• Wise Blood | Blu Ray | (12/09/2016) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Legendary film director John Huston creates one of his most cerebral films that will stay with the viewer for a long time. Set in the American Deep South during the post-war era, Wise Blood stars Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes, an unhinged and aimless war-veteran, who decides to become a Bible-thumping preacher for a quasi-religious cult called ˜The Church Without Christ'. Linking up with a fraudulent hustler from hellfire-and-brimstone preaching circuit - who pretends to be blind for the assembled believers - Motes is put under pressure by the fraudster to blind himself for real so that he can truly ˜see the light'. A dark satire on religious movements that, beautifully acted by Dourif, Huston and William Hickey

• Bride Of Chucky | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £12.48   |  Saving you £-2.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ten years ago, after a heated pursuit, psycho killer Charles

• Best Men | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £12.95   |  Saving you £-3.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tamra Davis' Best Men must have seemed a better idea on paper than it ends up being in practice, in spite of some snappy dialogue and good central performances. A group of male friends meet Jesse (Luke Wilson) out of prison to take him to his wedding to Hope (Drew Barrymore); along the way, their friend David pops into the bank for some money and turns out to be the Shakespeare-spouting bandit Hamlet. Suddenly all of them are his unwilling accessories in a hostage situation with David's sheriff father and murderous FBI men besieging them and a crowd cheering their every move. Each of the young men has a trauma and it is not only David who gets a soliloquy: gay Green Beret Buzz (Dean Cain) has an extended period of bonding with one of the hostages, demented Vietnam vet Gonzo (Brad Dourif). The eventual action sequences are curiously perfunctory and uninteresting and the obsessive FBI man, Hoover, has little motivation. This is a likable film which goes nowhere, but has quite a lot of gentle charm along the way to its tragic ending. On the DVD: the DVD is presented in a widescreen video aspect of 2.35:1 and has Dolby surround sound; the special features are a slightly self-congratulatory "making of" featurette and the film's theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney

• Blue Velvet | DVD | (17/06/2008) from £9.87   |  Saving you £-0.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Possibly the most influential American film of the 1980's Lynch's bizarre erotic mystery spawned a whole raft of imitations with its portrayal of the dark underside of American small-town life. Critics and audiences responded to Lynch's original and startling images of sex and violence and made the film a box-office smash. Blue Velvet is renowned for creating in Dennis Hopper's Frank one of the greatest screen villains of all time.

• Child's Play 2 | Blu Ray | (16/08/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Sworn To Justice | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £16.75   |  Saving you £-10.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After attackers inexplicably murder her sister and nephew psychologist Jenna (Rothrock) is in the dock as a defence witness by day and an avenging angel meteing out martial arts justice by night...

• Hidden Agenda | Blu Ray | (16/10/2015) from £18.75   |  Saving you £1.24 (6.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  American activists Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif) and his fiancée Ingrid Jessner (Frances McDormand) journey to Belfast to probe allegations of human rights abuses by the British military in Northern Ireland. But when Paul is killed in mysterious circumstances and denounced as an IRA accomplice, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan (Brian Cox), a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, to uncover a high-level conspiracy with far-reaching consequences. This daring political thriller, from one of Britain's most celebrated filmmakers, features unforgettable performances from McDormand and Cox, and ranks as a true classic of modern cinema.

• Ginger Clown | DVD | (13/01/2014) from £6.85   |  Saving you £6.14 (89.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  1983: A group of high school students are having a great time near Hollywood Hills at the weekend when they bump into the Loser from their school Sam who's just on his way home. Sam would do anything in order to get Jenny's attention one of prettiest girls in school. Unfortunately she's also the girlfriend of the school's bully Biff the quarterback of the football team. Biff and his buddies are keen to take Sam to the old abandoned amusement park to make him prove his courage as part of their initiation ceremony. They involve Jenny in their cruel game as the grand prize of the competition. Sam accepts the challenge but the girl wouldn't let him go in by himself; she follows him into the amusement park and a night they'll never forget. Because in the old park hidden in the darkness are frightening and somewhat eccentric monsters who love to torture innocent human beings while intensively annoying each other.

• Rage Of Angels 2 | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £5.90   |  Saving you £0.09 (1.53%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The sequel to Sidney Sheldon's best-seller Rage Of Angels which follows Jennifer who now heads her own law firm. Returning to America she meets up with an ex-lover and it seems their love may be re-kindled...

• The Wild Blue Yonder | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (56.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man Fitzcarraldo Nosferatu) comes an inspired vision: as humans search for a new planet to colonize aliens attempt to settle on the nearly-uninhabitable Earth Oscar-nominee Brad Dourif (Deadwood The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Seed of Chucky) delivers a remarkable performance as an alien who tells his story. Herzog worked with NASA and musician/photographer Henry Kaiser to create incredible documentary images from outer space and beneath the Antarctic Ocean and combined these with Brad Dourif's performance and interviews with respected scientists - culminating in a personal plea to save our planet.

• Childs Play - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (29/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  The chills come thick and fast as voodoo and terror meet within an innocent-looking doll inhabited by the soul of a serial killer who isn't ready to die. From the director of Fright Night comes a clever playful and stylish thriller with excellent special effects and heart pounding suspense guaranteed to scare! After 6-year-old Andy Barclay's (Alex Vincent) babysitter is violently pushed out of a window to her death nobody believes him when he says that 'Chucky ' his new birthday doll did it! Until things start going terribly wrong... dead wrong. And when an ensuing rampage of gruesome murders lead a detective (Chris Sarandon) back to the same toy he discovers that the real terror has just begun... the deranged doll has plans to transfer his evil spirit into a living human being - young Andy!

• Bride Of Chucky / Seed Of Chucky | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bride Of Chucky (1998): The world's most notorious doll is back on the rampage but this time he's met his match... his ex-girlfriend Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) who with marriage in mind breathes new life into the little guy. So begins a hilarious adventure filled with gruesome splatter murderous mayhem and laughs galore! Seed Of Chucky (2004): Deliver us some evil! The fifth film in the Child's Play series marks the directorial debut of Don Mancini the creator the s

• Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers - Special Limited Edition | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the second part of the fantasy trilogy Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring, whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard.

• Spontaneous Combustion | DVD | (29/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  1955 The Nevada Desert. A young couple Brian and Peggy become known as America's First Nuclear Family after miraculously surviving an atomic weapons experiment. Soon after the test Peggy gives birth to a baby boy with a small red perfectly circular birthmark on his hand. Only a few days later Brian and Peggy spontaneously erupt in flames - melting plastic but leaving everything else in the room untouched. Thirty four years later Sam Kramer - his red circular birthmark now more pronounced is finding out that the results have had some unexpected effects on him....

• One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Steelbook--Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

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• The Last Line Of Defense | DVD | (24/01/2000) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Scream Of Stone | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Cerro Torre in Argentina is the greatest alpine challenge on Earth and Roccia and Martin are two of the world's best climbers. When the death of a mutual friend and a love rivalry divides them it results in a bitter climbing duel. Like two soulless machines they climb in blind rage throwing their lives into the battle to be the first to reach the summit.

• Bride of Chucky | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £6.96   |  Saving you £4.03 (36.70%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Ten years ago, after a heated pursuit, psycho killer Charles

• Progeny | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £9.73   |  Saving you £-6.74 (-225.40%)   |  RRP £2.99

  OK, brace yourself--this could get messy. Craig Burton (Arnold Vosloo, the eponymous vengeful goon in The Mummy) stars here as a dedicated, overworked hospital doctor whose sterling abilities in the emergency room are sadly unparalleled in the bedroom given that he still can't father a child with his spouse Sherry (Jillian McWhirter). Until, that is, he finds himself undergoing a dizzying--and inordinately lengthy--out-of-body experience in the middle of the night. Subsequently troubled by grotesque paranormal visions, Craig is distressed to discover Sherry is pregnant. Convinced his unborn child is, in fact, the product of his wife's abduction by aliens, he's not a happy man. In his fevered state, he first dispatches Sherry to alarming gynaecologist David Weatherly (Wilford Brimley), before visiting both shrink Susan Lamarche (Lindsay Crouse) and alien abduction expert Bert Clavell (Brad Dourif). And from here on in, it gets really dumb. Adorned with the kind of icky, low-rent effects and weird fixation with medical procedure that anyone acquainted with the work of director Brian Yuzna (Society) and scriptwriter Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) will no doubt already be familiar with, Progeny is a boon for the connoisseur of straight-to-tape nonsense. Just check out that cast-can't you hear the deep, gravelly voice on the trailer now ("Together at last--Crouse. Brimley. Dourif. Vosloo!")? Obviously, anyone after plausible moments of human drama is in entirely the wrong place and, yes, both the direction and performances are erratic to put it politely (Vosloo appears in a state of near-catatonia throughout), but, in its own, stomach-turning, sub-Rosemary's Baby kind of way, Progeny is a prime example of sci-fi/horror nonsense at its best (and most nonsensical). --Danny Leigh