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• Scrooge | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A mixed bag as variations on A Christmas Carol go, this 1970 British musical tells the usual story of Scrooge (Albert Finney) and his spirits on Christmas Eve, although the whole thing is set to music by Leslie Bricusse. Except for Finney's feisty and involved performance, however, there isn't much to recommend this. The songs, which absorb so much of the evolving story line and emotions, are not all that good. Plenty of support, however, from the likes of Roy Kinnear (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) and Dame Edith Evans (Tom Jones), the handsome production is directed by veteran Ronald Neame (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie). --Tom Keogh

• I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim (Criterion Collection) - UK Only | Blu Ray | (14/10/2024) from £22.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh VictimTerror lives in the shadows in a pair of mesmerizingly moody horror milestones conjured from the imagination of Val Lewton, the visionary producer-auteur who turned our fears of the unseen and the unknown into haunting excursions into existential dread. As head of RKO's B-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton, working with directors such as Jacques Tourneur and Mark Robson, brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion, and psychosexual unease. Suffused with ritual, mysticism, and the occult, the poetically hypnotic I Walked with a Zombie and the shockingly subversive The Seventh Victim are still-tantalizing dreams of death that dare to embrace the darkness.I Walked with a Zombie 1943Producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur elevated the horror film to new heights of poetic abstraction with this entrancing journey into the realm between life and death. When she takes a job caring for a comatose woman on a Caribbean island, a young nurse (Frances Dee) finds herself plunged into a mysterious world where the ghosts of slavery haunt the present and witch doctors have the power to summon the living dead. Sugarcane swaying in a moonlit field, the hypnotic beat of voodoo drums, the relentless pull toward deaththe otherworldly atmosphere of this bold reimagining of Jane Eyre is as close as studio-era Hollywood ever came to pure dream-state surrealism.The Seventh Victim 1943Death is good is how producer Val Lewton summarized the message of his films, a credo that received its most explicit expression in this strikingly nihilistic shocker, the first film directed by regular Lewton editor Mark Robson. Kim Hunter makes her film debut as a young boarding-school student who, in search of her missing sister (proto-goth icon Jean Brooks), travels to New York's bohemian Greenwich Village, where she uncovers a sinister shadow world of devil worshippers and murder. And what about that mysterious room furnished with nothing but a chair and a hangman's noose? With its daring treatment of depression and queerness, The Seventh Victim has haunted the margins of cinema for decades, its radical bleakness undiminished by time.SPECIAL FEATURESNew 4K digital restorations of both films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the 4K UHD and Blu-ray editionsAudio commentary on I Walked with a Zombie featuring authors Kim Newman and Stephen JonesAudio commentary on The Seventh Victim featuring film historian Steve HabermanInterview with film critic and historian Imogen Sara SmithAudio essays from Adam Roche's podcast The Secret History of HollywoodShadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005), a documentary featuring Newman; Val E. Lewton, son of producer Val Lewton; filmmakers William Friedkin, Guillermo del Toro, George A. Romero, John Landis, and Robert Wise; author Neil Gaiman; actor Sara Karloff; and othersTrailersEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingPLUS: Essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy SanteNew illustration by Katherine Lam

• Slumber Party Massacre | Blu Ray | (31/01/2022) from £11.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A slumber party turns into a bloodbath when a psychopath wielding a power-drill disrupts the fun. Slumber Party Massacre is a reimagining of Roger Corman's 1982 cult classic. Extras: Audio Commentary with Director Danishka Esterhazy Danishka Esterhazy Q&A : Abertoir Horror Festival Alternate Ending Trailer Stills Gallery Dread Central (5/5) This thoughtful reboot reminds us why slashers are fun Bloody Disgusting (4/5) gory, funny and filled with likable characters The Hollywood News (4/5) Slumber Party Massacre offers the newer, younger horror generation perfect sleepover scary fun

• Six Feet Under - The Complete Fifth Season | DVD | (04/10/2006) from £21.98   |  Saving you £30.00 (150.08%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Alan Ball's incredible drama series comes to an end in this the concluding season of Six Feet Under Episodes Comprise: 1. A Coat of White Primer 2. Dancing For Me 3. Hold My Hand 4. Time Flies 5. Eat a Peach 6. Rainbow of Her Reasons 7. The Silence 8. Singing For Our Lives 9. Ecotone 10. All Alone 11. Static 12. Everyone's Waiting

• Batman: The Long Halloween Part 1 | Blu Ray | (21/06/2021) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Batman races against the calendar when an unknown criminal named Holiday starts committing murders on holidays throughout the year. Special Features Justice Society: World War II - Consumer Trailer HD Batman: Soul of the Dragon - Consumer Trailer HD Batman: Death in the Family - Consumer Trailer HD A Sneak Peek at the Next Animated DC Universe Movie, Batman: The Long Halloween Part Two - The saga continues as Batman desperately hunts the Holiday killer and Harvey Dent comes face to face with his worst nightmare. DC Showcase: The Loser From the DC Vault: Batman The Animated Series: Christmas With The Joker - After escaping Arkham Asylum on Christmas Eve, the Joker takes over Gotham's airwaves and terrorizes the city for a crime. He challenges Batman and Robin to find his hidden TV studio and free his hostages Commissioner Gordon, Detective Bullock and Summer Gleeson before midnight. From the DC Vault: Batman The Animated Series: It's Never Too Late - A mob war between crime bosses Rupert Thorne and Arnold Stromwell is nearing its end when Batman saves Stromwell and tries to persuade him to give up his life of crime and help the police bring Thorne down by testifying against him.

• Wedding Planner, The / Down With Love / One Fine Day | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £9.70   |  Saving you £10.29 (106.08%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Wedding Planner While celebrating her newest and most lucrative account - the wedding of Internet tycoon Fran Donelly (Bridgette Wilson)- Mary is rescued from a near-fatal collision with a runaway dumpster by handsome pediatrician Steve Edison (Matthew McConaughey). After spending the most enchanting evening of their lives together Mary thinks she's finally found a reason to believe in love. What she doesn't know is that cupid and her career are about to collide head-on... Down With Love When best-selling feminist author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) becomes the target of dashing playboy Catcher Block (McGregor) the sparks they generate will fly you to the moon and back! Set in the early sixties every frame pops with 60's technicolour. One Fine Day Melanie Parker (Pfeiffer) is juggling single parenthood with a career as an architect. Jack Taylor (Clooney) is a commitment-shy newspaper columnist who only has his daughter every other weekend. When their kids miss a school field trip Melanie and Jack agree to take shifts babysitting for the day resulting in twelve hours of hilarious misadventures with one unexpected twist.

• Friday Night Dinner - Series 1 - 5 | DVD | (16/07/2018) from £24.79   |  Saving you £15.20 (61.32%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Tuck into five glorious helpings of award-winning madness with the Goodmans as they get together for a Friday night dinner of food, family and major-league bickering. Of course every family has its eccentricities, it's just the Goodman family have made an art form of theirs. Friday Night Dinner is an original series about growing up but not growing away. It marries the groundbreaking with the familiar and, best of all, it's really, really funny.

• Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day | DVD | (09/03/2009) from £6.15   |  Saving you £11.84 (192.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In 1939 London middle-aged governess Miss Pettigrew has a glamorous change of career and life when she becomes social secretary for an actress and singer.

• The Dark Is Rising | DVD | (10/03/2008) from £6.71   |  Saving you £14.54 (266.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting the forces of the dark.

• Coen Brothers Collection - Fargo/Raising Arizona/Miller's Crossing | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.89

  Titles Comprise: Fargo:William H. Macy plays Jerry Lundegaard a Minneapolis car salesman who is by all accounts a loser. He is desperately in debt so decides to hires two thugs (who are bigger losers than he is) to kidnap his wife in the hope that his wealthy father-in-law (who bullies him regularly) will pay the ransom. When one of the kidnappers goes off the rails and events career out of control it falls to Marge Gunderson Chief of the Brainerd Police Department to set things right. Raising Arizona:Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she's barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi's convict friends his boss and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby. Millers Crossing:The year is 1929. The place is an gangster-ridden American city run by Leo (Albert Finney). But the real power lies with Tom (Gabriel Byrne) the power behind the man. Their friendship is severed when they both fall in love with the same woman (Marcia Gay Harden) and a bloody gang war erupts...

• Carnival Of Souls | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £13.90   |  Saving you £1.09 (7.84%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Gifted young organist Mary Henry is riding in a car with friends when the car is forced off the road plunging from a bridge into the river below. Mary's friends die instantly; miraculously she emerges from the water. But Mary is changed. She becomes increasingly detached from everyday life displaying an emotional coldness which those she encounters readily attribute to grief and shock. But the nightmare world that Mary now inhabits is one of transition: she is helplessly caught between the living and the dead. Mary moves to Salt Lake City but is haunted by the spectral presence that lurks in the shadows of its derelict pleasure pavilion. She finds herself drawn inexorably towards the pavilion and its demonic Carnival of Souls' Every inch a cult classic from its iconic opening titles (reminiscent of Hitchcock's Psycho) to its terrifying final sequences Carnival of Souls is cited as an inspiration by among others David Lynch Wes Craven and George A. Romero. The complexity of its themes and eerily atmospheric direction and cinematography with minimal reliance on special effects are widely acknowledged; Carnival of Souls directed by Herk Harvey and first released in 1962 transcends the horror genre to become a unique work of unsettling and enduring power.

• Carnival Of Souls | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Carnival of Souls has gained a strong cult reputation over recent years. Directed and produced by Harold ""Herk"" Harvey it has an intriguing power mixing ordinary people and everyday situations with the extraordinary and the supernatural. Made in Lawrence Kansas in 1962 the film centres on Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) who apparently survives a serious car accident. Shortly after she heads for Utah and a new job as a church organist but is pursued by a cadaverous phantom figure

• The Molly Maguires | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From acclaimed Oscar & BAFTA-nominated director Martin Ritt 'The Molly MaGuires' is a gritty compelling drama about a group of Irish immigrant miners who use sabotage and murder to fight the corruption of the Pennsylvanian mining company they work for. Starring Sean Connery as the leader of the immigrant band known as The Molly Maguires and Richard Harris as the man paid to infiltrate and bring down the gang the film depicts an era of brutal repression and the struggle to maintai

• Carnival of Souls | Blu Ray | (23/10/2017) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ONE OF THE MOST CHILLING AND INFLUENTIAL CULT HORROR FILMS OF ALL TIME A young woman in a small Kansas town survives a drag race accident, then agrees to take a job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. En-route, she becomes haunted by a bizarre apparition that compels her toward an abandoned lakeside pavilion. Made by industrial filmmakers on a modest budget, the eerily effective B-movie classic Carnival of Souls was intended to have the look of a Bergman and the feel of a Cocteauand, with its strikingly used locations and spooky organ score, it succeeds. Herk Harvey's macabre masterpiece gained a cult following through late-night television and continues to inspire filmmakers today. BONUS FEATURES SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Selected-scene audio commentary featuring director Herk Harvey and screenwriter John Clifford New interview with comedian and writer Dana Gould New video essay by film critic David Cairns The Movie That Wouldn't Die!, a documentary on the 1989 reunion of the film's cast and crew The Carnival Tour, a 2000 update on the film's locations Excerpts from movies made by the Centron Corporation, an industrial film company based in Lawrence, Kansas, that once employed Harvey and Clifford Deleted scenes Outtakes, accompanied by Gene Moore's organ score History of the Saltair Resort in Salt Lake City, where key scenes in the film were shot Trailer PLUS: An essay by writer and programmer Kier-La Janisse

• I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh Victim | Blu Ray | (14/10/2024) from £15.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  I Walked with a Zombie / The Seventh VictimTerror lives in the shadows in a pair of mesmerizingly moody horror milestones conjured from the imagination of Val Lewton, the visionary producer-auteur who turned our fears of the unseen and the unknown into haunting excursions into existential dread. As head of RKO's B-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton, working with directors such as Jacques Tourneur and Mark Robson, brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion, and psychosexual unease. Suffused with ritual, mysticism, and the occult, the poetically hypnotic I Walked with a Zombie and the shockingly subversive The Seventh Victim are still-tantalizing dreams of death that dare to embrace the darkness.I Walked with a Zombie 1943Producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur elevated the horror film to new heights of poetic abstraction with this entrancing journey into the realm between life and death. When she takes a job caring for a comatose woman on a Caribbean island, a young nurse (Frances Dee) finds herself plunged into a mysterious world where the ghosts of slavery haunt the present and witch doctors have the power to summon the living dead. Sugarcane swaying in a moonlit field, the hypnotic beat of voodoo drums, the relentless pull toward deaththe otherworldly atmosphere of this bold reimagining of Jane Eyre is as close as studio-era Hollywood ever came to pure dream-state surrealism.The Seventh Victim 1943Death is good is how producer Val Lewton summarized the message of his films, a credo that received its most explicit expression in this strikingly nihilistic shocker, the first film directed by regular Lewton editor Mark Robson. Kim Hunter makes her film debut as a young boarding-school student who, in search of her missing sister (proto-goth icon Jean Brooks), travels to New York's bohemian Greenwich Village, where she uncovers a sinister shadow world of devil worshippers and murder. And what about that mysterious room furnished with nothing but a chair and a hangman's noose? With its daring treatment of depression and queerness, The Seventh Victim has haunted the margins of cinema for decades, its radical bleakness undiminished by time.SPECIAL FEATURES¢ New 4K digital restorations of both films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the 4K UHD and Blu-ray editions¢ In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the films and one Blu-ray with the films and special features¢ Audio commentary on I Walked with a Zombie featuring authors Kim Newman and Stephen Jones¢ Audio commentary on The Seventh Victim featuring film historian Steve Haberman¢ Interview with film critic and historian Imogen Sara Smith¢ Audio essays from Adam Roche's podcast The Secret History of Hollywood¢ Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005), a documentary featuring Newman; Val E. Lewton, son of producer Val Lewton; filmmakers William Friedkin, Guillermo del Toro, George A. Romero, John Landis, and Robert Wise; author Neil Gaiman; actor Sara Karloff; and others¢ Trailers¢ English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing¢ PLUS: Essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante¢ New illustration by Katherine Lam

• 1066 | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £12.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (54.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Channel 4 two-part historical drama telling the story of the Norman conquest in 1066 from the perspective of a group of ordinary villagers caught up in the chaos and bloodshed. Written by Peter Harness.

• The Mist | Blu Ray | (03/10/2023) from £33.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hellfighters (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £8.00   |  Saving you £1.99 (24.88%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Paying tribute to oil field legend 'Red' Adair Wayne plays Chance Buckman a colourful Texan who tames out-of-control infernos in exotic locations around the world. Between blazes Chance carries the torch for Madelyn the wife who left him 20 years earlier because of his dangerous lifestyle and assistant Greg has his hands full at the poker table and in the bedroom with Chance's spunky daughter Tish.

• Gremlins / Gremlins 2 - The New Batch | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £14.35   |  Saving you £-7.36 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous. They're here! Gremlins: Don't ever get it wet. Keep it away from bright light. And no matter how much it cries no matter how much it begs--never ever feed it after midnight. With these three instructions young Billy Peltzer takes possession of his cuddly new pet. Billy will get a whole lot more than he bargained for... Gremlins 2 - The New Batch: The rules are the same but the laughs are bigger and thrills ar

• Resurrection - Season 1 | DVD | (01/12/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  What happens when someone who you’ve mourned and buried mysteriously appears at your doorstep as if not a single day has gone by? The lives of the people of Arcadia Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones miraculously return causing them to confront the emotional depth of their relationship and what it means to be given a second chance. Disc 1 F001 – Pilot F002 – Unearth F003 – Two Rivers F004 – Us Against The World Disc 2 F005 – Insomnia F006 – Home F007 – Schemes Of The Devil F008 – Torn Apart