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• Heavy Metal | DVD | (13/12/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  As long as there is a need for adolescent male sexual fantasy, there will be an audience for Heavy Metal. Released in 1981 and based on stories from the graphic magazine of the same name, this silly and senseless the movie is an aimless, juvenile amalgam of disjointed stories and clashing visual styles. Hundreds of animators from around the world were employed, resulting in a near-total absence of creative cohesion in the finished product. It remains, for better and worse, a midnight-movie favourite for the stoner crowd--a movie best enjoyed by randy adolescents or near-adults in an altered state of consciousness. With a framing story about a glowing green orb claiming to be the embodiment of all evil, the film shuttles through eight episodic tales of sci-fi adventure, each fuelled by some of the most wretched rock music to emerge from the late 1970s-early 80s period. The most consistent trademark is an abundance of blood-splattering violence and wet-dream sex, the latter involving a succession of huge-breasted babes who shed their clothes at the drop of a G-string. It's rampantly brainless desire to fuel the young male libido becomes rather fun, and for all its incoherence Heavy Metal impresses for the ambitious artistry of its individual segments. Produced by Ivan Reitman (who went on to direct Ghostbusters), the voice talents include several Canadian veterans of the Second City improvisation comedy troupe--including John Candy, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy and Joe Flaherty--many of whom went on to greater fame on the US TV series Saturday Night Live. --Jeff Shannon DVD Special Features Feature-length Rough Cut with Optional Commentary by Carl MacEk, Production notes Theatrical trailer Documentary: Imagining Heavy Metal Art Galleries Deleted Scenes, Carl MacEk reading his book "Heavy Metal: The Movie" 1:85:1 widescreen anamorphic Dolby Digital 5.1

• The Honeymoon Killers | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £5.00   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Though it was pre-produced by Martin Scorsese, who left the project after arguments with the producers, The Honeymoon Killers wound up being written and directed by Leonard Kastle, one of cinema's great one-hit wonders. The Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer of 1969, The Honeymoon Killers follows hefty nurse Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler, who looks like a humourlessly malevolent Roseanne) and her low-rent gigolo lover Raymond Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco) as they take up serial murder for profit and passion, luring middle-aged women into marriage through lonely-hearts ads, then killing them and raiding their savings. Based on a genuine crime case history, it is filmed in the candid-camera style of a Frederick Wiseman documentary. The intense scenes (such as the couple's frightening love-play: escalating arguments that end in awkward killings) unfold with a fly-on-the-wall dryness, showcasing the extraordinary acting of the leads and their cameo victims. A rare film in which genuine romantic love does not excuse the central couple's amoral behaviour, this still manages to generate some sympathy for the truly monstrous Martha. The washed-out black and white photography and sometimes scratchy soundtrack (the score is sampled from Mahler) have a deliberately amateurish feel which adds to the film's chilling power, lodging it into the memory. On the DVD: Along with a lurid trailer and gallery of images are filmographies for Stoler, Lo Bianco and (redundantly) Kastle. The widescreen transfer is excellent, representing perfectly the film's rough-hewn look but also bringing out a lot of detail--like Stoler's freckles, which have looked like grain on video releases. --Kim Newman

• Death Trap (Beyond Terror) | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A redneck psycho who runs a hotel in the deep south murders a slew of people and feeds their corpses to a pet crocodile that he keeps in the swamp out back.

• Party Monster | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Macaulay Culkin stars in this movie based on notorious New York killer Michael Alig.

• Bowling For Columbine : Special Edition (Two Disc Set) | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £7.10   |  Saving you £12.89 (181.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the wake of the Columbine high school massacre acclaimed documentary filmmaker Michael Moore's latest film takes a critical look at America's obsessive gun culture.

• The Misfits | DVD | (18/09/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Marilyn Monroe - The Best Of Marilyn | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £17.58   |  Saving you £7.41 (42.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Celebrate the 80th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe with the delightful 4 disc boxed set featuring: 1. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 2. The Seven Year itch 3. How To Marry A Millionaire 4. Marilyn Monroe - The Final Days For individual synopses' please refer to the individual products.

• Rabid | Blu Ray | (26/08/2019) from £21.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  101 Films presents Rabid (1977), an enduringly tense and gruesome horror that marked a landmark in David Cronenberg's early career. Title 009 on 101 Films' Black Label, this double Blu-ray is stacked with extras, including Part 1 of a new feature length documentary on Canadian horror film. When Rose suffers terrible injuries in a motorcycle crash, she is taken to a nearby clinic run by Dr Keloid for experimental skin-graft surgery. At first, the revolutionary procedure proves successful, but it soon leaves Rose with a strange orifice protruding from her armpit and an insatiable thirst for human blood. Hell-bent on satisfying her bloodlust, Rose leaves a trail of insane and uncontrollably aggressive victims, as the unknown virus engulfs North America in an orgy of frenetic violence. Starring: Marilyn Chambers, Howard Ryshpan, Frank Moore and Patricia Gage (American Psycho). Rabid is written and directed by David Cronenberg (Videodrome) and produced by John Dunning, Ivan Reitman and Don Carmody. Extras: The Quiet Revolution: State, Society and the Canadian Horror Film Part One: Gimme Shelter: Cinepix and the Birth of the Canadian Horror Film, a brand new feature-length documentary exploring the social contexts behind Canadian horror cinema from filmmaker and author Xavier Mendik Audio commentary with filmmakers Jen & Sylvia Soska Limited edition booklet: Includes ˜The Birth of Rabid' by Greg Dunning and ˜Stunned. Shocked. Exhilarated': Horror in the Early Films of David Cronenberg by Alex Morris Additional Extras Audio commentary with writer-director David Cronenberg Audio commentary with William Beard, author of ˜The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg' Audio interview with Jill C. Nelson, author of ˜Golden Goddesses: 25 Legendary Women Of Classic Erotic Cinema, 1968-1985' and Marilyn Chambers' Personal Appearances Manager Ken Leicht Young And Rabid An interview with actress Susan Roman Archive interview with David Cronenberg The Directors: David Cronenberg a 1999 documentary on the filmmaker Radio spots Trailer

• Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson | Blu Ray | (01/06/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Horror Film Director Found Slain, Buried Under Floor , screamed the 1995 headlines read around the world. But the truth behind the wild life of Al Adamson including the production of such low budget classics as SATAN'SADISTS, DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN and THE NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES and his grisly death reveals perhaps the most bizarre career in Hollywood history. Told through over 40 first-person recollections from friends, family, colleagues and historians plus rare clips and archival interviews with Adamson himself BLOOD & FLESH is the award-winning chronicle of bikers, go-go dancers, porn stars, aging actors, freak-out girls, Charles Manson, Colonel Sanders, alien conspiracies and homicidal contractors that House Of Mortal Cinema calls brilliant stuff a superb documentary and one of the top films of the year.

• Clerks | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £17.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (10.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dante and Randal return in this sequel to Kevin Smith's seminal slacker classic.

• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £6.96   |  Saving you £6.03 (86.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In this musical spectacle, Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe are the infamous 'Two Little Girls from Little Rock'; Dorothy - the sassy one looking for true love, and Lorelei - the blonde hoping to marry a millionaire.

• Seven Year Itch | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £7.90   |  Saving you £5.09 (64.43%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When a seductive starlet moves in upstairs a married man (Tom Ewell) has his fidelity put to the test. Keeping his marriage vows in the face of her flirtations proves hilariously tough when challenged by the notorious ""Seven Year Itch""!

• Bus Stop | Blu Ray | (29/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Though it seems dated now, Bus Stop was considered pretty hot stuff in 1956. Directed by Joshua Logan from George Axelrod's script of William Inge's comic-romantic Broadway hit, the film stars Marilyn Monroe as the kind of woman who can't understand why she always brings out the worst in men. She attracts the attention of a young rodeo rider (Don Murray) while on a bus, and finds herself trapped at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere during a blizzard. The young cowboy, whose intentions are honourable, can't control his temper and can't understand why this experienced woman won't take him seriously--and why she rejects him when he begins acting jealous and possessive. Love takes its lumps but comes out slugging in the end, with Marilyn at her vulnerable, jaded best. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Rabid | Blu Ray | (16/02/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (60.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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

• How To Marry A Millionaire / Seven Year Itch / Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  How To Marry A Millionaire: Three screen goddesses - Betty Grable Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe - star as golddigging models blessed with fabulous looks but limited brain power. The three blondes pool their resources and conspire to nab millionaire husbands renting an expensive penthouse to lure in their likely prey. But with Rory Calhoun Cameron Mitchell David Wayne Fred Clark Alex D'Arcy and William Powell playing the desired millionaires the ladies are pushed to

• Strauss: Die Fledermaus -- Royal Opera House | DVD | (16/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Originally broadcast live by the BBC from the Royal Opera House on New Year's Eve 1990, this production of Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss' masterpiece of comic operetta, was a truly historic occasion, marking the retirement from the stage of one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century, Dame Joan Sutherland. Sung in English, in a version by John Mortimer, conducted by Sutherland's husband Richard Bonynge and directed for television by Humphrey Burton, this is an exceptional translation from stage to screen. The story, an elaborate farce with elements of satirical comedy set around a lavish masked ball in 19th-century Vienna comes to life through outstanding performances by a large, vivacious cast, including Judith Howarth, Nancy Gustason and Jochen Kowalski as Prince Orlofsky. Gorgeously designed, wonderfully costumed and enthusiastically played as it is, attention inevitably centres on the "special recital" by the "surprise guests": Sutherland herself, Marilyn Horne and Luciano Pavarotti. No finer, more exhilarating and touching a farewell could have been imagined. After the curtain there is a short, on-stage tribute to Sutherland by Jeremy Isaacs, bringing to a close a glorious, unforgettable evening of music-making for which the word "glittering" might have been invented. --Gary S. Dalkin On the DVD: By presenting the production on two discs the picture quality is maximised, and, by the standards of live-filmed opera, is very good indeed. The discs are presented with PCM stereo sound and a 4:3 TV ratio image. There are options for French and German subtitles, but unless trailers for two further Arthaus DVDs count, there are no extras. The booklet is well documented, though lacking the libretto. --Gary S. Dalkin

• How To Marry A Millionaire | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £6.29   |  Saving you £6.70 (106.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Three screen goddesses - Betty Grable Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe - star as golddigging models blessed with fabulous looks but limited brain power. The three blondes pool their resources and conspire to nab millionaire husbands renting an expensive penthouse to lure in their likely prey. But with Rory Calhoun Cameron Mitchell David Wayne Fred Clark Alex D'Arcy and William Powell playing the desired millionaires the ladies are pushed to the end of their wits as they try t

• Pole Position | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  To the unsuspecting eye Pole Position is the motorized acrobatics show featuring the high-flying stunts of Dan and his sisters Tess and Daisy. Behind the dangerous and excitement of performing in front of audiences they lead a secret life working for the government fighting crime. With the assistance of their Uncle Dr Zachary and the cunning Kuma - a cross between a koala bear and a raccoon - Dan Tess and Daisy work to unravel mysteries and to solve baffling crimes.

• Eaten Alive | Blu Ray | (13/11/2017) from £14.84   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Meet The Maniac & His Freind. Nearly a decade before he donned Freddy Krueger's famous red and green sweater, horror icon Robert Englund delivered a supremely sleazy performance in Eaten Alive another essay in taut Southern terror from Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Deep in the Louisiana bayou sits the ramshackle Starlight Hotel, destination of choice for those who like to check in but not check out! Bumbling Judd, the patron of this particular establishment, may seem like a good-natured ol' Southern gent but he has a mean temper on him, and a mighty large scythe to boot Oozing atmosphere from its every pore (the entire film was shot on a sound-stage which lends it a queasy, claustrophobic feel), Eaten Alive matches The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for sheer insanity helped in no small part by some marvellous histrionics from Chain Saw star Marilyn Burns and William Finley (Phantom of the Paradise).

• Vanity Fair | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A BBC adaptation of Thackery's novel which follows the relative changes in fortunes of two friends in the early 19th century...