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• Spaced Out/Sex Clinic | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Spaced Out: When three voluptuous female aliens crash-land in a quiet English park the result is close encounters of the sauciest kind! Three hapless men witness the UFO's arrival and are kidnapped by the sexy extra-terrestrials who soon discover the joys of 'first contact'! From cult director Norman J. Warren (Satan's Slave Prey and Inseminoid) this wacky space odyssey blasts off with intergalactic giggles and girls aplenty! Sex Clinic: An unscrupulous and beautiful proprietor of a London heath clinic (Georgina Ward) offers her randy clients 'added extras' but after administering the spankings she ruthlessly blackmails the customers. But when a mysterious stranger appears on the scene she gets a taste of her own naughty medicine. Unseen for over thirty years Sex Clinic is an ingenious sex drama from the pen of Hazel Adair (creator of TV soap Crossroads).

• Rabid | DVD | (07/08/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of David Cronenberg's most successful early films, Rabid features porn star Marilyn Chambers as a woman who becomes infected with a virus after an operation. As result she grows a kind of phallus with which she penetrates her victims as she sucks their blood and thus the disease spreads rapidly. The film displays all Cronenberg's usual horrified fascination with the human body and its sexual function. Looking back, it can be read as a kind of parable about AIDS, but it works perfectly well as an effective low-budget shocker. On the DVD: the widescreen image on the DVD is acceptable quality, as is the sound. The fairly routine extras consist of excerpts from a TV interview with Cronenberg, lasting about 10 minutes; a collection of stills from the film; some written notes by horror expert Kim Newman that give useful background, though in part reproduce what is said in the interview; full filmographies for Cronenberg and the three principal performers, including a long list of Chambers' porn credits. --Ed Buscombe