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• The Mangler | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a little old lady is crushed and spat out by a monstrous press at the Blue Ribbon Laundry everyone thinks it an accident but when another horrific death occurs the terrible truth begins to dawn... Based on the short story by Stephen King.

• The Darkling | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A man is offered anything he wants for the sum total of his soul. But the price is too much when his daughter's life is at stake.

• Bad Influence | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Financial analyst Michael Boll seems to have everything: brains money a socially connected fiancee and a blindingly bright future. Then he meets Alex an impeccably dressed drifter with a fatal charm and an unsatiable appetite for wine women...and danger. Alex befriends Michael and takes him for a walk on the wild side-but Michael soon discovers that there's a terrible price to pay for life in the fast lane because hanging out with Alex...can be murder!

• Eminem - Behind The Mask | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £11.39   |  Saving you £1.60 (14.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Eminem - the most controversial artist around today. But where did he come from what did it take to make him famous and what is the real story behind his turbulent private life? Come with us on a journey 'Behind The Mask' to uncover the truth behind the Real Slim Shady. Featuring: The complete unauthorised story of Eminem from childhood to present day ; Masses of previously unseen film footage ; more than twenty-minutes of interviews with Eminem and his family; exclusive access to th

• The Doll Squad | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £8.47   |  Saving you £-5.48 (-183.30%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Both director-entrepreneur Ted V Mikels and the packaging of The Doll Squad claim that the TV show Charlie's Angels was ripped off from this cheapo action film. In truth both concepts owe a lot to Emma Peel, Pussy Galore's Flying Circus or the femme armies that crop up in Our Man Flint and other 60s spy efforts. Despite its (horrible) lounge score and eye-straining selection of flared, midriff-baring 70s outfits, Mikels' opus is basically a late-trailing Bond knock-off shot without a stunt budget. Extortionist baddie Eamon O'Reilly (the usually classier Michael Ansara) wants to blackmail the US into handing over secrets and giving into a load of terrorist demands by spreading a bubonic plague manufactured by twin (or clone) mad scientists. "Big Bertha", a computer, suggests that the best way to nail O'Reilly is to send out "the Doll Squad", a cadre of female agents led by Sabrina (Francine York), who can take advantage of his weakness for women (and occasional impotence). The first two choices, a Q-type scientist and a martial artist, are killed by O'Reilly's goons, though Sabrina sees off her would-be assassin with a cigarette lighter/flamethrower that scars his face (and only mildly perturbs the people in the next booth at the bar), so she rounds up a new gang of hairspray-addicted fashion victims: a librarian (Sherri Vernon), a stripper (Tura Satana) and a swimmer (Leigh Christian), later hauling in a squealy and useless undercover girl who is easily kidnapped by O'Reilly to lead them into a trap. We're supposed to believe most of the action takes place in a Dr No-like island retreat but it looks a lot like scrubby California desert and the director's ranch-style "castle". Aside from some fab gear (matching jumpsuits with bust-accenting white lines) the girls have little to do but run around shooting inept stuntmen. On the DVD: For a marginal title, The Doll Squad offers some pleasing extras: a lurid trailer that's probably a more fun watch than the film ("Sabrina's code-prefex is OO-38-24-35!"); a gallery of publicity materials and stills; an exhaustive Mikels filmography; and an odd 1993 interview with the director. The film itself looks as good as it ever will--it's muddily photographed with low-tech effects (the flamethrower flames are just scratched on the emulsion) but at least the colours are vivid and the print is in great condition. --Kim Newman