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• Asia Extreme Originals | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ring (1998): Within a week of watching a mysterious videotape a group of teenagers are dead. The bodies are found gruesomely contorted their eyes frozen as if they had seen something more terrifying than any physical threat. The video then becomes an urban myth. Insidiously an unseen force is pointing its deadly finger at those poor souls unable to resist their curiosity. One of those people is cynical journalist Reiko who soon finds herself unwillingly drawn into a spiralling nightmare of fear from an unseen omnipresent threat. The most unsettling film since The Exorcist with an unnatural presence that touches every nerve in your body 'Ring' is a beast of an entirely different order. Critically acclaimed as one of the most frightening horror films in years 'Ring' delivers a tense spine-chilling atmosphere filled with an overwhelming sense of dread and a potent presence of unworldly evil. Dark sinister and genuinely horrifying this is a film you will never forget. Dark Water (2002): In the midst of a custody battle Yoshimi and her beloved 6 year old daughter move in a creepy apartment. Once there the discovery of a schoolbag left behind by a mysterious young girl along with the appearance of damp patches on the ceiling and walls begins to haunt them as rumours circulate of a little girl who disappeared from the apartment above... Premonition (2004): Hideki Satomi (Mikami) his wife Ayaka (Sakai) and their young daughter Nana (Inoue) are driving blissfully through the countryside when the workaholic Satomi stops at a roadside phone booth to send an e-mail from his laptop. In the booth he discovers a smudged scrap of newsprint with Nana's picture on it -- and an article describing her death in a traffic accident. Three years later Satomi has not recovered from his failure to prevent the accident while his marriage has also ended. Meanwhile Ayaka has joined forces with a psychological researcher (Ono) to unravel the mysteries of prophecy. They interview a psychic who has the ability to take Polaroids of the future with her mind - but becomes suspicious of the researchers' motives. Then another new newspaper arrives at Satomi's flat - saying that one of his students (Maki Horikita) a girl with piercing eyes and an uncanny presence will die. Can he save her and himself?

• Beti Bete | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Raghu is a widower with 3 children - Laxmi Ramu and Munna. He can't makes ends meet on his meagre income. To add to his woes his landlord is a heartless man who confiscates Raghu's cycle in lieu of the rent Raghu owes him. Without the cycle Raghu reaches late for work and is fired. When he defies the dismissal order and starts welding he is blinded by the welding sparks. Unable to take his misfortunes he runs away. The children are thrown out of the house. Laxmi and Munna lan

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• Hellinger | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-2.44 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Violent and gory low-budget horror. Young Melissa Moran (Shannan Betz) witnesses her father's horrific murder and in the depths of her psychological breakdown holds on to the only fact of which she is sure - that somewhere out there is the brutal supernatural killer Hellinger. Once he was a misguided priest who made a pact with evil but now Hellinger is a pawn of Satan and is forced to carry out his bidding. As Melissa is the only surviving witness to Hellinger's existence she has to find a way to defeat him before he comes for her.

• Cunning Little Vixen | DVD | (14/09/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.39

  Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen is a real charmer of an opera, a tale that shows the natural world the composer had loved from childhood in its true colours: miraculous, beautiful, mysterious but also cruel. The inspiration came from a series of illustrated stories published in a Czech newspaper. The Vixen of the title is captured by a forester and taken home as a plaything for his children. She is soon thrown out of the house and has to make her own way in the world, encountering lust, stupidity, pride, love and ultimately death. This 1995 performance was taken from the Chatelet Theatre in Paris. Visually, Nicholas Hytner's production is a triumph, the animals wonderfully wittily wrought (the mosquito with its syringe for a nose, the mangey old dog, distasteful in baggy Y-fronts, the hideous, goggle-eyed frog). And it's also brilliantly cast: Eva Jenis's Vixen is funny, sexy, endearing and youthful enough in voice and figure to convince. Thomas Allen is a veteran of the role of the Forester, a huge presence and singing in impeccable Czech. In fact, there's not a weak performance here, and that goes for the dancers and instrumentalists as well as the singers. And at the helm, who better than Sir Charles Mackerras, arguably the greatest living interpreter of Janacek's music? This is in essence a grown-up fairy tale, ravishingly done and extremely highly recommended. On the DVD: The Cunning Little Vixen is presented on disc in vividly remastered PCM stereo, with 16:9 picture format that does full justice to the alluringly colourful designs. The disc is encoded for regions 2 and 5, and the menu and subtitle languages are English, German, French and Spanish. The useful booklet gives coherent background information and synopsis as well as full casting details. There's also a substantial (23-minute) trailer of other offerings from Arthaus Musik. --Harriet Smith

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