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• She Freak (American Genre Film Archive) | Blu Ray | (14/03/2022) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fed up with waitressing, Jade Cochran (Claire Brennen) embarks on a new life with a traveling carnival. But she discovers that what lurks behind the curtain doesn't take too kindly to her backstabbing plans. A gutter-noir reworking Tod Browning's FREAKS and a valentine to the carnival lifestyle that defined the career of producer David F. Friedman (BLOOD FEAST), SHE FREAK is a snapshot of life, love, and revenge on the grounds of a seedy carnival in Smalltown, USA complete with crackpot monster make-up effects from Harry Thomas (PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE). Like Devo's music and Ed Wood's novels, SHE FREAK creates a synthetic reality that is often preferable to our own. Special Features: Presented in 4K from the original camera negative Archival commentary with producer David F. Friedman and Something Weird founder, Mike Vraney Asylum of the Insane: She Freak inserts preserved in 2K The Laughing, Leering, Lampooning Lures of David F. Friedman a feature-length compilation of trailers from the Something Weird vaults, newly preserved in 2K Vintage shorts from the carnival midway Promotional photo gallery Booklet with essay by Something Weirds Lisa Petrucci

• Starsky And Hutch - The Complete First Season | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In the rough-and-tumble, wildly entertaining world of Starsky & Hutch, impatient cops--anxious to join a foot race in pursuit of a villain--throw themselves out of moving vehicles and roll to a bruising stop. Undercover detectives Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul), hardly imbued with the powers of Spider-Man, routinely scale walls, hop from rooftop to rooftop, and fling themselves down steep hillsides to stop bad guys from doing what bad guys do. Years later Hill Street Blues would redefine the cop genre as a mesh of overlapping storylines and workaday frustrations, but Aaron Spelling's iconic 70s show portrays LA's finest as madly heroic creatures of reckless determination and physicality. This first season is also startlingly brutal for a primetime US show—it was later significantly toned down, much to the regret of fans—while maintaining a delightful, often incongruous, self-deprecating humour. From the series pilot on, partners and best pals Starsky and Hutch work a fine line between predator and prey, relentlessly pursuing suspects while also snared by crime chieftains or short-sighted superiors. In "The Fix", Hutch's secret romance with the former girlfriend of a mafia boss (Robert Loggia) results in the lawman's kidnapping and forced addiction to heroin. Similarly, in "A Coffin for Starsky", a mad chemist injects the wisecracking cop with a slow-acting but lethal poison. "Jo-Jo", written by Michael Mann, finds our guys at loggerheads with federal officers over a dumb deal the G-Men make with a serial rapist. The 23 episodes in this set are all fun, if sometimes shocking, viewing. Expect each character to take as much abuse as he dishes out. Still, the comic sight of Starsky and Hutch (in "Death Notice") trying to conduct business amid busy strippers is well worth the surrounding violence. --Tom Keogh

• Stolen From The Heart | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £8.07   |  Saving you £0.91 (17.91%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When college student Leslie Wagner discovers she is pregnant by dashing rodeo star Brian she just can't wait to become a wife and mother. But when Brian mysteriously disappears Leslie's dreams of happiness seem shattered. What she doesn't realise is that Brian has been forced to leave town after a run-in with former prostitute Karen Ravetch the devious wife of a local drug-lord Cody. Karen who cannot herself have children yet is desperate to give birth becomes fascinated with Le

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  She Freak (aka: Alley Of Nightmares): A barbarous experience! An ambitious young girl joins a travelling freakshow marries the wealthy owner enters into an affair with the Ferris-wheel operator and then pays dearly as the freaks take revenge for her infidelity.... (Dir. Byron Mabe 1967) A Taste Of Blood (aka: The Secret Of Dr. Alucard): A ghastly tale drenched with gouts of blood spurting from the writhing victims of a madman's lust! When John Stone receives two bottles of ancient brandy through the mail he is as excited as he is mystified. As no more than a benign businessman to receive such an inheritance is quite an event. His wife feels differently and begs him not to drink any of the brandy perhaps intuiting that the sweet spirits also hold the blood of Stone's ancient ancestor the Count Dracula. Against her foreboding he drinks and is soon feeling the thirst for blood. The blood has not only given him the inclination to bite necks however. As the surviving heir of the Count's legacy he is driven by revenge to destroy the heirs of Dracula's persecutors. (Dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis 1967)