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• Marnie | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.94%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Both visually and psychologically, Marnie is crass in comparison with Hitchcock's peak achievement in Vertigo--although it shares some of that film's characteristic obsessive themes. Sean Connery, fresh from From Russia with Love, is a Philadelphia playboy who begins to fall for Tippi Hedren's blonde ice goddess only when he realises that she's a professional thief (she's come to work in his upper-crust insurance office in order to embezzle mass quantities). His patient programme of investigation and surveillance has a creepy, voyeuristic quality that's pure Hitchcock, but all's lost when it emerges that the root of Marnie's problem is phobic sexual frigidity, induced by a childhood trauma. Luckily, Sean is up to the challenge, as it were. Not even DH Lawrence believed as fervently as Hitchcock in the curative properties of sexual release. --David Chute

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• Lion Of Oz | DVD | (08/07/2002) from £6.82   |  Saving you £3.17 (46.48%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Lion finds himself in the enchanted Land Of Oz after a storm and encounters the Wicked Witch of the East. She forces the Lion on a mysterious journey in her quest for control.

• Flash Gordon - 4 Classic Episodes - The Claim Jumpers / Akim The Terrible / The Breath Of Death | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £3.26 (48.44%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Featuring 4 classic episodes of Flash Gordon: The Claim Jumpers Akim the Terrible The Breath of Death Deadline at Noon

• The Brood | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £12.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (23.19%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Arguably the best and most personal of director David Cronenberg's early films, The Brood is an extremely unsettling horror film about familial disintegration and emotional trauma taken to a monstrous extreme. Art Hindle stars as a man embroiled in a bitter custody struggle with his estranged wife (Samantha Eggar), who is undergoing therapy at psychiatrist Oliver Reed's controversial institute. Reed's treatment causes his patients to give form to their inner conflicts, and Eggar--whose psyche is at the boiling point from childhood abuse as well as the custody trial--creates a horde of homicidal humanoid children who enact bloody revenge on anyone who has threatened their "mother". Cronenberg's first feature with name actors and composer Howard Shore has its share of gruesome moments, but the film's subtext--how emotional violence impacts a family--is its most chilling aspect. --Paul Gaita