"Actor: Don Frye"

• The Bride Of Frankenstein | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £5.25   |  Saving you £6.00 (150.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It appeared, at the end of the epochal 1931 horror movie Frankenstein, that the monster had perished in a burning windmill. But that was before the runaway success of the movie dictated a sequel. In Bride of Frankenstein, we see that the monster (once again played by Boris Karloff) survived the conflagration, as did his half-mad creator (Colin Clive). This remarkable sequel, universally considered superior to the original, reunites other key players from the first film: director James Whale (whose life would later be chronicled in Gods and Monsters) and, of course, the inimitable Dwight Frye, as Frankenstein's bent-over assistant. Whale brought campy humour to the project, yet Bride is also somehow haunting, due in part to Karloff's nuanced performance. The monster, on the loose in the European countryside, learns to talk and his encounter with a blind hermit is both comic and touching. (The episode was later spoofed in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein.) A prologue depicts the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, being urged to produce a sequel by her husband Percy and Lord Byron. She's played by Elsa Lanchester, who reappears in the climactic scene as the man-made bride of the monster. Her lightning-bolt hair and reptilian movements put her into the horror-movie pantheon, despite being onscreen for only a few moments. But in many ways the film is stolen by Ernest Thesiger, as the fey Dr. Pretorious, who toasts the darker possibilities of science: "To a new world of gods and monsters!" --Robert Horton

• The Hot Spot | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £29.49   |  Saving you £-16.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Hot Spot is best known to lecherous film buffs for Jennifer Connelly's topless scene, but this sultry southern noir deserves more than prurient interest. It's arguably Dennis Hopper's best directorial effort (OK, so that's not saying much), and Charles Williams' source novel Hell Hath No Fury finds Hopper in a comfortable B-movie milieu, riffing on Double Indemnity with an overripe tale of sex, greed and blackmail in an unnamed Texan town. Fresh from the final season of Miami Vice, Don Johnson stars as a shifty drifter, conning his way into a salesman job on a used-car lot, where the boss's insatiable wife (Virginia Madsen) offers him sexual favours and a lovely secretary's (Connelly) innocence is threatened by a percolating scandal. Nobody's really innocent, of course, and Hopper spices this languid web of secrets with enough trashy misbehaviour to qualify The Hot Spot as a bona fide guilty pleasure. --Jeff Shannon

• Ultimate Fighting Championship 9 - Motor City Madness And Ultimate Fighting Championship 10 | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (-21.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  UFC 9 - Motor City Madness: 1. Dan Severn vs Ken Shamrock 2. Amaury Bitetti vs Don Frye 3. Mark Hall vs Koji Kitao 4. Mark Schultz vs Gary Goodridge 5. Rafael Carino vs Matt Anderson 6. Zane Frazier vs Cal Worsham UFC 10: The Tournament: 1. Mark Coleman vs Don Frye 2. Mark Coleman vs Gary Goodridge 3. Don Frye vs Brian Johnston 4. John Campetella vs Gary Goodridge 5. Mark Coleman vs Moti Horenstein 6. Scotty Fiedler vs Brian Johnston 7. Mark Hall vs Don Frye

• Pride 23 Championship | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £7.99

  From the Tokyo Dome In JapanA legendary event in Japan Pride Fighting matches the world's elite fighters in competitions of honour and art. Imagine Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner versus Kick boxer Judo specialist versus Wrestler... this is Pride Fighting. Each match is the culmination of years of training by these athletes the finest representatives of their martial art who not only compete for victory but also to defend their fighting style! From big-time knockouts to punishing submissions you don't want to miss the drama spectacle and excitement of Pride Fighting!

• Hero*S 2006 - Semi-Final | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £22.96   |  Saving you £-1.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This DVD features fan-favourite fighters such as Don Frye Kid Yamamoto Semy Schilt Melvin Manhoeff and Rodrigo Gracie.