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• The Long Riders | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (37.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This terrific Walter Hill Western follows the careers of the James and Younger brothers--and uses the nifty idea of casting actual clans of acting siblings in the roles. Thus, the James brothers are played by James and Stacy Keach; the Youngers by David, Keith, and Robert Carradine; the Millers by Randy and Dennis Quaid; and the Fords by Christopher and Nicholas Guest. Hill, working with an evocative Ry Cooder score, creates a film that is at once breathtakingly exciting and elegiac in its treatment of these post-Civil War outlaws. The Keaches in particular bring a surprising dignity to the roles of Frank and Jesse James, while David Carradine is a hoot as Cole Younger--and the Quaids mimic real life (as it was for them then) in their battles as the Miller brothers. Bloody, to be sure, but also bloody good. --Marshall Fine

• Codename Vengeance | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Robert Ginty stars as ex CIA agent Munro Beiler who for 12 years has been incarcerated in a hell-hole of a Middle-East prison. His capture and imprisonment was manipulated by the CIA in an effort to cover up covert activities which Beiler has threatened to expose. This has now backfired as Tabrak the man responsible for putting him behind bars 12 years ago is now himself threatening to destroy the CIA control in the Middle East. Only one can stop him...

• Hell Night | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Hell Night, a horror film originally made in 1981, is not remotely frightening unless, that is, you are plagued with a pathological aversion to leaden scripts, rampant overacting and cheap special effects; but it is just about knowing enough to be charming, and retains a (very) slight kitsch appeal. The plot--in the loose sense of the word--sees a group of picturesque young college kids compelled, for some reason or other, to spend a night in a haunted house (you can just picture the high fives at the script meeting when some genius came up with that one). Some other college kids try to scare them by way of a prank, but it turns out that something evil really is loose on the premises, and events unfold with entrancing predictability. On the DVD: Hell Night is presented in widescreen, and has been digitally remastered. Special features include brief biographies of actor Linda Blair, director Tom De Simone and producers Irwin Yablans and Bruce Cohn Curtis, as well as the option to watch the film with commentary provided by the four. The original cinema and television trailers for Hell Night are also included.--Andrew Mueller

• The Seduction | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Alone...frightened...trapped like an animal. An attractive well-known TV newscaster is stalked by an obsessed admirer a TV station scriptwriter whose obsession turns to hate when she rejects his advances and his moves become more harassing and ultimately murderous...

• Hell Night | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Linda Blair plays virginal heroine Marti Gaines who together with fellow teens Seth Jeff and Denise takes up a challenge made by party animal Peter Bennett to spend a night at Garth Manor as part of a fraternity-sorority pledge. Garth has a notorious history: twelve years ago the owner massacred his wife and kids and then hanged himself in the house. To liven things up a bit a pack of drunken frat-boys descends on Garth Manor to scare Marti and her pals out of their wits. But something even more horrible has beaten them to it and begins to pick off the pledgers one-by-one through methods ranging from impalement to decapitation. As Garth Manor gives out its darkest secret will anyone come out alive?