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• Best Seller | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £4.15   |  Saving you £10.10 (349.48%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Flynn has directed some good, tough, pacy thrillers and Best Seller, along with the 1973 The Outfit, can claim to be the best of them. It kicks off with not one but two slam-bang action sequences and then, having grabbed our attention, pitches us straight into its twisty plot premise. Brian Dennehy, reliably watchable as ever, plays an ageing cop-turned-novelist who has hit a writer's block since his wife died. James Woods at his most suavely sinister is a hitman with dirt to dish on the head of a big corporation. Woods proposes a Faustian pact. He provides Dennehy with the full crooked story on the mobster-turned-corporate boss and the cop writes it up. Dennehy gets a best seller; Woods gets his revenge and comes out looking like a hero. The dialogue, courtesy of screenwriter and horror-movie director Larry Cohen (It's Alive; Q--The Winged Serpent), is satisfyingly hard-boiled and slips in plenty of subversive sideswipes at rampant capitalism. ("It's the American Way, Dennis," says Woods, detailing how he helped his boss rise via robbery and murder. "I'm a businessman, an executive.") This certainly isn't the only movie to get mileage out of the symbiotic relationship between cop and crook (see Michael Mann's Heat), but it works several neat variations on the theme, with Dennehy and Woods both at the top of their respective forms. If the film never quite lives up to its potential--the required final confrontation between the two principals doesn't materialise and Victoria Tennant is thrown away as Dennehy's love-interest--it remains a way better than average thriller with its roots deep in the best B-movie traditions. On the DVD: Best Seller on disc has no extras apart from the theatrical trailer. The transfer is good and clean, and preserves the original's full-width framing. --Philip Kemp

• The Dungeon | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £13.38   |  Saving you £-4.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Dungeon is run by Dr. Jekyll (James Mathers) who is a sadistic evil terrifying madman! Dr Jekyll conducts bloody experiments on human bodies in a desperate attempt to recreate his grandfather's serum to control man's innate urge to kill. He prowls the streets and snatches up innocent people for his gruesome ends. He uses his rage serum on his kidnapped captives who viciously beat each other to death in The Dungeon. Aiding Dr. Jekyll in his experiments is a brain-damaged cripple named Boris (whom Dr. Jekyll whips) and his lobotomized wide-eyed sister Hilda (who he pours scalding water on)! Meanwhile his beloved fiance Julia is kept drugged and tied in his bedroom as her father Professor Atkinson is lured to Jekyll's mansion for her alleged funeral...

• Prom Night 4 - Deliver Us From Evil | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A maniacal killer stalks two young couples on the night of their prom in this fourth installment of the hit Prom Night series. After 33 years in captivity a possessed man who is 'evil beyond imagination' escapes and makes his way to a monastery he knows from his youth. But it is now a summer home where four teens are celebrating prom night in their own special way. The kids intended to make this an evening to remember... their uninvited guest turns it into a night of un

• Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy Collection: Volume One | DVD | (15/09/2015) from £39.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dungeon / Suicide | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Suicide (Dir. Raoul Heimrich 1982): Two filmmakers offer people who want to commit suicide the opportunity to get their 15 minutes of fame. As the filmmakers become torn between sympathy for the victims and greed for the money they are being paid for the project how far will they go? Dungeon (Dir. James Wood 1982): The Dungeon is run by Dr. Jekyll who is a sadistic evil terrifying madman! Dr Jekyll conducts bloody experiments on human bodies in a desperate attempt to recreate his grandfather's serum to control man's innate urge to kill. He prowls the streets and snatches up innocent people for his gruesome ends. He uses his rage serum on his kidnapped captives who viciously beat each other to death in The Dungeon. Aiding Dr. Jekyll in his experiments is a brain-damaged cripple named Boris (whom Dr. Jekyll whips) and his lobotomized wide-eyed sister Hilda (who he pours scalding water on)! Meanwhile his beloved fiance Julia is kept drugged and tied in his bedroom as her father Professor Atkinson is lured to Jekyll's mansion for her alleged funeral...