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• The Graves | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £3.94   |  Saving you £12.05 (305.84%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Present day. Arizona. Megan and Abby Graves are inseparable sisters. Megan is a self-assured ass kicker. Abby is a caustic Hot Topic Goth afraid of her own shadow. They couldn' t be less alike but they share a life-long obsession with comics pop culture and rock 'n' roll. Simply put they are beautiful geeks. In a few days Megan will start a new job in New York. To send her off in style the sisters go on a trip to uncharted Arizona in search of kitchy roadside attractions. Instead they're lured to Skull City Mine an abandoned mine town. But Skull City is anything but abandoned - and there's no way out. The sisters are now prey forced to unleash their most primitive instincts in a desperate fight for survival against unspeakable horrors - both human and supernatural: Caleb aka Pig Man (Bill Moseley) the twisted wife-seeking serial killer Reverend Abraham Stockton (Tony Todd) the insane leader of The Church of Devout Ascension Deacon Luke (D. Randall Blythe) the church's enforcer who is quite possibly a cannibal Darlene Atwood (Amanda Wyss) the seemingly friendly waitress at Screamer's diner who delivers tourists to their doom Jonah Lee Atwood (Shane Stevens) - the ruthlessly efficient reluctant killer and Mama Heinbecker (Barbara Glover) - the cold-hearted ticket taker who's handy with knitting needles. When Megan suffers a mortal wound Abby must save her sister but to do so she must confront her fears and unlock the mystery of Skull City alone. Can Abby survive Skull City's threats? Can she rescue Megan or are the Graves doomed to a fate much worse than death? Legendary independent comic book creator Brian Pulido (Lady Death Evil Ernie) makes his feature debut with an intense action-packed mind-bender of a horror flick.

• Waxwork | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Waxwork a waxwork museum appears overnight in an American small town and sinister showman David Warner invites a group of typical teens to a midnight party. However, as expected, the place is home to nasty secrets, and the blundering kids find themselves transported via the exhibits into the presence of "the 18 most evil men in history". What this means is that the film gets to trot out gory vignettes featuring such horror staples as Count Dracula (played inaptly with designer stubble and a Clint croak by ex-Tarzan Miles O'Keefe), the Marquis de Sade, an anonymous werewolf with floppy bunny ears (John Rhys-Davies in human form) and the Mummy. Nerdy hero Zach Galligan appeals to wheelchair-bound monster fighter Patrick MacNee for help. Waxwork is strictly a film buff's movie--with Warner and MacNee turning in knowingly camp performances, and references to everything from Crimes of Passion to Little Shop of Horrors cluttering up its very straggly story line. It's not without ragged charms, though the tone veers between comic and sick (the de Sade scene, although inexplicit, features some lurid dialogue) more or less at random. The effects are likewise variable, and in any case rather fudged by direction, which frequently fails to point up the gags properly. It winds up with a scrappy Blazing Saddles-style fight between the forces of Good and a whole pack of monsters, and the budget runs out before the climactic burning-down-the-waxworks scene. The episodic approach echoes the old Amicus omnibus horrors (Dr Terror's House of Horrors, The House that Dripped Blood etc.), and various cameos allow director Anthony Hickox to parody/emulate the styles of Hammer films, Night of the Living Dead and Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. On the DVD: It's a nice-looking and sounding print, but fullscreen format. The only extras are filmographies taken from the IMDB and the trailer.--Kim Newman

• Insomniac | DVD | (19/09/2016) from £7.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (38.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After someone breaks into John Figg's home and takes all of his material and sentimental possessions, he develops a severe case of insomnia and learns that the people around him are not as trustworthy as they appear to be.