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• Kingdom Hospital - Complete | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Kingdom Hospital is horror novelist Stephen King’s adaptation of Danish director Lars Von Trier’s cult mini-series The Kingdom, geared very much for an American audience. The story unfolds across 15 hours, telling the story of a hospital in Maine that’s been built on the site of a 19th Century mill fire that killed most of its young occupants--themes that King fans will be familiar with. In the present day, Kingdom Hospital is haunted by the ghost of ten-year-old child labourer Mary and, even more bizarrely, a fearsome giant anteater-like creature called Antubis. It falls to the ace doctor Hook (Andrew McCarthy), the paraplegic artist Jack Coleman (Peter Rickman) and the hypochondriac psychic Sally Druse (Diane Ladd) to enlist the help of a surreal assortment of hospital staff and patients to help Mary and save Kingdom Hospital itself from certain doom. Fans of Stephen King will probably enjoy the blend of black comedy, spectral horror and general weirdness, which owes a big debt to previous television series like Twin Peaks and even ER. But too often, Kingdom Hospital seems to be trying too hard to make itself into a cult series, something which King is just not a subtle enough writer to carry off. But Kingdom Hospital looks good, especially the CGI Antubis, who steals every scene in which he appears. Generally, though, the series is more of an entertaining experiment than a cult-in-the-making. --Ted Kord

• The Cabin Movie | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £5.85   |  Saving you £2.14 (36.58%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The Cabin Movie is a darkly comic look at the nature of desire the challenge of monogamy and the definition of sexuality. Three very different couples travel to a secluded cabin in an attempt to revitalize their lives through a series of bizarre sex games. Katherine an unemployed housewife who hasn't had sex in a year is intent on getting some with or without her repressed husband Mark's involvement. Jason a happy-go-lucky cool guy has shown up without his long-term girlfriend but with Ginny a party girl he met the previous weekend. Ken and Maria a stable common-law couple are caught in the middle somewhere between discovery and sexual panic as they try to keep things on track while wrestling with issues of their own. With the sexual tension hitting boiling point by the end of the night all their relationships will be called into question and pushed to the very limit.

• Thaw | DVD | (10/10/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (85.69%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Evelyn Kruipen accompanies a group of ecology students to a remote research station where her father, the famed scientist Dr Kruipen (Val Kilmer) has discovered the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth in a melting ice cap. Arriving in the icy north they find that the research station has been mysteriously abandoned and Evelyn discovers that something else has survived thousands of years locked in the frozen ice cap. A deadly parasite has been unleashed by her father and one by one the students are infected and turn on each other.Dr Krupien staggers back to the station, wounded but alive and just as Evelyn thinks that help is at hand her father makes a staggering revelation...