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• Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire | Blu Ray | (08/04/2019) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of several ˜animal-in-the-title' cash-ins released in the wake of Dario Argento's box-office smash The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire is a gloriously excessive giallo that boasts a rogues gallery of perverse characters; violent, fetishized murders, and one of the genre's most nonsensical, red-herring laden plots (which sees almost every incidental character hinted at potentially being the killer). Set in Dublin (a rather surprising giallo setting), Iguana opens audaciously with an acid-throwing, razor-wielding maniac brutally slaying a woman in her own home. The victim's mangled corpse is discovered in a limousine owned by Swiss Ambassador Sobiesky (Anton Diffring, Where Eagles Dare) and a police investigation is launched, but when the murdering continues and the ambassador claims diplomatic immunity, tough ex-cop John Norton (Luigi Pistilli, A Bay of Blood) is brought in to find the killer Benefitting from a sumptuous score by Stelvio Cipriani (Nightmare City, Death Walks on High Heels) and exuberant supporting performances from Valentina Cortese (The Possessed, Thieves' Highway) and Dagmar Lassander (The Frightened Woman, The Black Cat), The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire is a luridly over-the-top latter-day entry in the filmography of acclaimed director Riccardo Freda (Caltiki The Immortal Monster, Murder Obsession). An archetypal giallo from the genre's heyday, Freda's film is presented here in a stunning new restoration with a host of newly produced extras. Special Edition Contents: New 2K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Uncompressed mono 1.0 LPCM audio Original English and Italian soundtracks, titles and credits Newly translated English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack New audio commentary by giallo connoisseurs Adrian J. Smith and David Flint Of Chameleons and Iguanas, a newly filmed video appreciation by the cultural critic and academic Richard Dyer Considering Cipriani, a new appreciation of the composer Stelvio Cipriani and his score to The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire by DJ and soundtrack collector Lovely Jon The Cutting Game, a new interview with Iguana's assistant editor Bruno Micheli The Red Queen of Hearts, a career-spanning interview with the actress Dagmar Lassander Original Italian and international theatrical trailers Image gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Andreas Ehrenreich

• The Frightened Woman (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (08/01/2024) from £21.63   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hatchet For the Honeymoon - DELUXE COLLECTOR'S EDITION | Blu Ray | (13/12/2021) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From director Mario Bava, the Godfather of Italian horror, comes Hatchet for the Honeymoon, a superlative early 70s slasher which places us and the erstwhile filmmaker back in the realm of the Gialli feature, a cinematic sub-genre he practically invented. With echoes of Psycho (1960) and Peeping Tom (1960), this unsettling production sees troubled protagonist John Harrington (Stephen Forsythe) turning to a life of serial killing. Refused a divorce by his uncaring wife, and haunted by childhood trauma John takes out his murderous frustrations on a string of would-be brides who innocently cross his path. Undoubtedly an influence on later movies like Maniac (1980), and a host of other chillers, this often-overlooked piece from one of Europe's finest, is a smart, beautifully stylised, gory delight. Special Features Audio Commentary by Giallo Cinema Export Troy Howarth Meet the Bavas - An Interview with Renowned Director Lamberto Bava Working With A Master - An Interview with Assistant Camerman Gianlorenzo Battaglia Trailer

• Hatchet For The Honeymoon | Blu Ray | (03/07/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From director Mario Bava, the Godfather of Italian horror, comes Hatchet for the Honeymoon, a superlative early 70s slasher which places us and the erstwhile filmmaker back in the realm of the Gialli feature, a cinematic sub-genre he practically invented. With echoes of Psycho (1960) and Peeping Tom (1960), this unsettling production sees troubled protagonist John Harrington (Stephen Forsythe) turning to a life of serial killing. Refused a divorce by his uncaring wife, and haunted by childhood trauma John takes out his murderous frustrations on a string of would-be brides who innocently cross his path. Undoubtedly an influence on later movies like Maniac (1980), and a host of other chillers, this often-overlooked piece from one of Europe's finest, is a smart, beautifully stylised, gory delight. Product Features Audio Commentary by Giallo Cinema Export Troy Howarth Meet the Bavas - An Interview with Renowned Director Lamberto Bava Working With A Master - An Interview with Assistant Camerman Gianlorenzo Battaglia Trailer

• Black Emanuelle 2 | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Emannuelle is confined to a Manhattan psychiatric clinic with an acute case of extreme amnesia and depraved fantasies. Can her doctor unravel a Freudian nightmare of incestuous hungers, lesbian longings, rampant nymphomania and inexpicable body painting to solve the shocking mystery of her bizarre sexual trauma?

• Star Gate | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It was a brave new experiment designed to give our world a glimpse into unexplored vistas of the universe and never-before see able alien life forms. We shouldn't have looked so closely. In the control room of the National Institute of Science brilliant physicist Dr. Jillian O'Hara attempts to secure her government funding by revealing a new cold-fusion machine. Purportedly it will open a window into alternate universes. Among the handful of attendees' dubious Senator Jackson Crenshaw security office Colonel Sam Synn and Presidential Science Adviser Dr. Karen Fast. But the demonstration goes horribly wrong shaking their foundation as if struck by a quake. Once the dust clears O'Hara knows she can kiss her funding goodbye - as well as their reality. For beyond the door of the Institute now stretches a new otherworldly dimension. Transported to an alternate alien universe the unwitting travellers have a six-hour window to make their journey back home - and with a damaged cold-fusion machine it won't be easy. A more immediate threat comes when they realize they are not alone here. An army of enormous clawed acid-spitting predators are wreaking havoc with the team's sanctuary and turning them one-by-one into alien chow. Forced to fend for themselves across this unknown landscape the last remaining survivors must now use the ingenuity and courage to outwit outplay and outlast the creatures. But even if they stay alive without a working transport they may never make is back home at all. It's the predators versus the humans in Star Gate a hard-core Sci-fi action adventure that takes viewers beyond anywhere they've been before.

• Forbidden Photos Of A Lady Above Suspicion | Blu Ray | (14/01/2019) from £16.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Before the influence of Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage permeated every corner of the giallo genre, another strain of these distinctive Italian thrillers enjoyed considerable success. These melodrama gialli, heavily inspired by Clouzot's Les diaboliques, relied less on graphic violence and high body counts and more on psychological tension. Minou (Dagmar Lassander, Lucio Fulci's The Black Cat) leads a pampered but dull life with her frequently absent husband, Peter (Pier Paolo Capponi, The Cat O' Nine Tails). One night, while out walking on the beachfront, Minou is accosted by a mysterious blackmailer (Simón Andreu, Death Carries a Cane) who informs her that Peter is a murderer. Driven by misplaced loyalty to her husband, Minou gives in to the blackmailer's every perverted whim in exchange for his silence. But as the blackmailer ups the ante, demanding that she submit to his increasingly obscene demands, can Minou hold on to what little remains of her sanity? Written by the prolific Ernesto Gastaldi (Torso), infused with a seductive score by the great Ennio Morricone (The Cat O' Nine Tails) and featuring a memorable turn by Nieves Navarro a.k.a. Susan Scott (Death Walks at Midnight) in the role of Minou's best friend, The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion is a trippy giallo delight that brings together the talents of many of the genre's leading lights on both sides of the camera. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Brand new 2K restoration from the original camera negative by Arrow Films High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original lossless mono Italian and English soundtracks English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack New audio commentary by Kat Ellinger, author and editor-in-chief of Diabolique Magazine Private Pictures, a newly-edited documentary featuring archival interviews with actress Nieves Navarro and director Luciano Ercoli, and new interview material with writer Ernesto Gastaldi The Forbidden Soundtrack of the Big Three, a new appreciation of the music of Forbidden Photos and 70s Italian cult cinema by musician and soundtrack collector Lovely Jon The Forbidden Lady, a Q&A with actress Dagmar Lassander at the 2016 Festival of Fantastic Films Original Italian and English theatrical trailers Image gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Twins of Evil FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by author and critic Michael Mackenzie

• Summer With Monika | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Released in 1953, Summer with Monika, an early Ingmar Bergman-directed melodrama, did much to establish the reputation of Swedish cinema, and perhaps Swedish women in general, as leading the vanguard in sexual liberation. The film attracted the wrath of the censors and one scene of lovemaking had to be cut. While subsequent generations will look at the film and wonder whatever the fuss was about, it retains a vivid and frolicsome sensuality, before submitting to the inevitable, Bergmanesque bleakness. The film tells the story of a young couple, Harry (Lars Ekborg) and Monika (18-year-old Harriet Andersson, with whom Bergman would fall in love) stuck in lousy jobs in Stockholm. Harry is beset by parental responsibility--his mother died young and his father is ill--while Monika is fed up with her drunken, violent father. They escape in a motorboat and to spend a blissful summer on an island in the archipelago. Once Monika gets pregnant and they're forced to steal food, however, the idyll concludes and they return to Stockholm, where the relationship disintegrates. You realise that Monika, from a large and fractious family, yearns for escapism, while Harry, who has never known true family life, longs for domestic stability. It is he who is left holding the baby. But Bergman does not quite condemn Monika, giving her one of his best scenes: in a cafe, estranged from Harry, chatting up a stranger, she stares unwaveringly and directly to camera, as if defying us to judge her. Visually ravishing, this film would have a deep impact on French New Wave cinema. On the DVD: Summer with Monika on disc offers a fine restoration of the original film, and includes notes from Phillip Strick who points out that the film is in part hymn of praise to Stockholm's beauty and was influenced by the documentary "City Symphonies" made during World War II. --David Stubbs

• Intimate Lighting | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Award-winning comedy (American National Society of Film Critics) revealing the hilarious lifestyles of the residents in a small country town. Brilliantly photographed by cinematographers Josef Strecha and Miroslav Ondricek (Amadeus A League of Their Own) this spirited farce is never timid never afraid to reach for the outlandish or sublime. With stunning performances and an unforgettable ending director Ivan Passer (Cutter's Way) wonderfully illustrates

• The House By The Cemetery | DVD | (26/06/2017) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  You may have just mortgaged your life! Shock gore master Lucio Fulci's The House by the Cemetery is one of the finest typically single-minded exercises in zombie terror. It s just a shame no-one told the Boyle family who move into a gothic style house (by a cemetery) with a bloody past and a guts spraying future, what is yet to come! You d think they d twig given the basement door is nailed shut that they should get the hell out. Instead they stay long enough to discover their zombified non rent-paying lodger, the cellar-dwelling, flesh-hungry Dr Freudstein and boy is he angry!

• City Of War: The Story of John Rabe | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £6.06   |  Saving you £9.93 (163.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Inspired by the astonishing diaries of John Rabe As the globe stands on the brink of World War II Shanghai has fallen and deadly Japanese bombers target the infamous city of Nanking. As panic breaks out and savage bombing raids devastate the city veteran entrepreneur John Rabe a German living the high life in the social whirl of Nanking must make a agonizing choice: to flee or give sanctuary to the terrified population within the gates of his factory When the Imperial Japanese Army discovers rich Nazi Rabe's selfless operation they see it an act of high treason. As a wave of brutality is unleashed on Nanking Rabe and his comrades find themselves in a race against time to fight for a safety zone to protect the hundreds of thousands of innocent victims of this ultimate act of war. But as the bombings desist a perilous siege begins.

• The House By The Cemetery | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young family move into a forboding New England mansion unaware that it was once the gruesome residence of Dr. Freudstein a dabbler in bizarre surgical practises. Soon Freudstein - now classic Fulci zombie - is up to his murderous old tricks again seeking freshly severed limbs and organs to keep his corrupt rotting flesh alive! As past and present collide in a vortex of fear the terrified family are forced to fight for their lives in the subterranean gore-soaked charnel-hous

• The House By The Cemetery | Blu Ray | (26/06/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  You may have just mortgaged your life! Shock gore master Lucio Fulci's The House by the Cemetery is one of the finest typically single-minded exercises in zombie terror. It s just a shame no-one told the Boyle family who move into a gothic style house (by a cemetery) with a bloody past and a guts spraying future, what is yet to come! You d think they d twig given the basement door is nailed shut that they should get the hell out. Instead they stay long enough to discover their zombified non rent-paying lodger, the cellar-dwelling, flesh-hungry Dr Freudstein and boy is he angry!

• Die Lustige Witwe - Lehar | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Recorded Live from the Zurich Opera House 2004Based on the comedy L'Attache d'ambassade by Henri Meilhac.

• Story of a Cloistered Nun | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £12.39   |  Saving you £0.60 (4.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Witness the ultimate subjugation of a woman to serve the most twisted desires of man in the achingly hip 'n' horny Femina Ridens where the kinkiest urges are played to a deadly conclusion... The beautifully sensuous Dagmar Lassander stars as Maria the living sex toy of Dr Sayer (Philippe Leroy) who delights in killing women at the point of orgasm. Sayer's prolonged campaign of degradation pushes Maria right to the edge of death but the spell she casts on him will lead to the most extraordinary climax of a lifetime! Stylish imaginative and deliciously twisted this kitschy 60s pop art erotica-fest boasts gorgeous set design an even more alluring leading lady and a heady desire to please the viewer with increasingly bizarre and dangerous sex games.

• The House By The Cemetery | Blu Ray | (25/08/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The House By The Cemetery (3-Disc Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (21/01/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Coming Out | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £18.93   |  Saving you £-0.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A gay teacher who dates a female colleague for appearances' sake falls in love with a man he meets in a gay bar... 'One of the best gay films I have ever seen. I only wish that there were more films like this..' Stephen Bourne London Gay Times.

• A Lesson In Love | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bergman brings a refreshing wit to this dark domestic comedy tale of a married couple who desperately need each other. David (Gunnar Bjrnstrand) is a gynaecologist who is involved with a young patient. His wife Marianne (Eva Dahlbeck) learns of this transgression and begins an affair with his best friend. They attempt a trial separation however an ecounter upon a train bound for Copenhagen reminds them of the good times and connection they have with each other. Mirroring the

• Kalman-Die Csardasfurstin | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £13.39   |  Saving you £3.60 (21.20%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Kalman: Die Csardasfurstin (Grund Moffo Kollo)