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• Death Goes To School/Night Of The Prowler | DVD | (24/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Death Goes to SchoolPolice Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) investigates the death of a school teacher in the grounds of the school. He establishes she was murdered and there are many suspects; jealous colleagues a married man she had been having an affair with among others. Also stars Barbara Murray and Sam Kydd. Produced in 1953 by Independent Artists and filmed at Merton Park Studios. Night of the ProwlerThe director of a successful motor racing company is shot dead. His fellow directors fear for their lives as they were all involved in a trail where their evidence sent a past employee down. Detective Inspector Cameron ( John Horsley) must find the killer before he strikes again. Directed by Francis Searle who directed over 40 films throughout his career a 1962 Butchers production filmed at Shepperton Studios. Picture and sound of good quality following restoration.

• Hollywoodland (BLU RAY) | Blu Ray | (20/02/2012) from £14.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (66.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Living in Hollywood can make you famous. Dying in Hollywood can make you a legend. Hollywood Land inspired by one of Hollywood's most infamous real-life mysteries follows a 1950's private detective who investigating the mysterious death of Superman star George Reeves uncovers unexpected connections to his own life as the case turns ever more personal. The torrid affair Reeves had with the wife of a studio executive might hold the key to the truth.

• Demoniac | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £8.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A former Catholic priest, who was tossed from the priesthood for his way-too-liberal beliefs, now writes S&M articles for a French magazine. Having been a witness to Black Masses complete with phony sacrifices, he deems himself judge and sets out to kill those people he feels are destined to spend eternity in Hell. Features: Directed by the notorious sexploitation Director Jess Franco Part of our successful Black House label Starring sex icon and Cult Horror superstar Lina Romay

• The Bloodhound | Blu Ray | (22/03/2021) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  First-time feature director Patrick Picard brings a fresh take to one of the best-known stories from the master of mystery and the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, in his new slow-burner horror-thriller The Bloodhound, a hauntingly atmospheric tale described by The Hollywood News as an impressively stylish and intellectual debut. Francis (Liam Aiken, A Series of Unfortunate Events), a dispossessed young man, is summoned to the secluded home of his wealthy childhood friend, JP Luret (Joe Adler, The Maze Runner), who is suffering from a mysterious affliction. Upon his arrival, Francis realizes that JP and his ethereal twin sister Vivian (Annalise Basso, Ouija: Origin of Evil) are the sole surviving members of the privileged Luret family, whose legacy has been one of depression and self-destruction, and the only occupants of their family estate. As the old friends attempt to reconnect, a number of inexplicable incidents begin to occur within the house, and Francis finds himself drawn into a world of malaise and despair, where an act of betrayal might provide his only way out From Leal Naim and Thomas R. Burke, producers of The Endless and Synchronic, and featuring some remarkable performances from its trio of lead actors, The Bloodhound leads you on a journey exploring themes that are as relevant to today as ever before, such as the yearning for emotional connection, the perils of social isolation and the fragility of mental health. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new audio commentary by director Patrick Picard and editor David Scorca Four experimental short films by director Patrick Picard: bad dream, the muffled hammerfall in action, the mosaic code and wiggleworm On the Trail of The Bloodhound: Behind the Scenes of a Modern Chiller, exclusive 45-minute making-of featurette FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated booklet featuring new writing on the film by Anton Bitel

• The Big Easy | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Blue Velvet | Blu Ray | (04/06/2012) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in the picture-postcard small town of Lumberton, Kyle Maclachlan plays the clean cut Jeffrey Beaumont, who, whilst returning from a visit to his hospitalised father, makes the shocking discovery of a severed human ear. After reporting his discovery to a local police detective, Jeffrey decides to pursue his own line of enquiry, aided by the detective's daughter, Sandy (Laura Dern). This sets Jeffrey on a voyage of discovery that takes him to the very heart of Lumberton's seedy and sinister underworld where he encounters a collection of misfits whose various chronic compulsions threaten to engulf him in their twisted and nightmarish world.

• Keyhole | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £17.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (20.01%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Guy Maddin's new film Keyhole is a film that spins 1930s gangster plot with Homer's Odyssey and stars Jason Patric and Isabella Rossellini. A gangster and deadbeat father, ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) returns home after a long absence. He is toting two teenagers: a drowned girl, Denny, who has mysteriously returned to life; and a bound-and-gagged hostage, who is actually his own teenage son, Manners. Confused, Ulysses doesn't recognise his own son, but he feels with increasing conviction he must make an indoor odyssey from the back door of his home all the way up, one room at a time, to the marriage bedroom where his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) awaits, full of cancer, grieving over the deaths of her three children, and wooed by Ulysses arch-rival, Chang (Johnny Chang). The house is haunted by countless dead relatives. Ulysses eventually reaches his goal and vanquishes his enemy, but the equilibrium of the house has been disturbed. Perhaps this has all been a dream that is dreamt every night by Manners himself or by the ghosts he loves so much.

• Brooklyn Rules | DVD | (11/08/2008) from £6.30   |  Saving you £9.69 (153.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.

• Manhattan Project | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £9.43   |  Saving you £3.56 (27.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The switch is set... The clock has started... Time's running out! A 16 year old student Paul Stephens (Chris Collet) has high hopes of winning first prize at a science fair with his fully-operational A-bomb! Needless to say the army are not happy and set out to disarm the prospective 'terrorist' before he can harm the good people of America. When the bomb is activated only Dr. Mathewson (Lithgow) can save Paul... and prevent Armageddon.

• Wild Things 3 - Diamonds In The Rough | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £6.93   |  Saving you £14.32 (252.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Things get steamy in Blue Bay Florida when Marie a 17-year-old beauty gets caught in a tangle of deceit and double-crossing after meeting the promiscuous Elena the 'new girl' at school. Elena is nothing but trouble she teases Marie about her wealth and relentlessly flirts with Marie's stepfather Jay. When Elena accuses Jay of rape with the intent of extorting money she peaks the investigative interest of Kristen a local who campaigns for rape awareness in schools. Elena suc

• Angels & Demons | 4K UHD | (17/10/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  If the devil is in the details, there's a lot of wicked fun in Angels & Demons, the sequel (originally a prequel) to The Da Vinci Code. Director Ron Howard delivers edge-of-your-pew thrills all over the Vatican, the City of Rome, and the deepest, dankest catacombs. Tom Hanks is dependably watchable in his reprised role as Professor Robert Langdon, summoned urgently to Rome on a matter of utmost urgency--which happens to coincide with the death of the Pope, meaning the Vatican is teeming with cardinals and Rome is teeming with the faithful. A religious offshoot group, calling themselves the Illuminati, which protested the Catholic Church's prosecution of scientists 400 years ago, has resurfaced and is making extreme, and gruesome, terrorist demands. The film zooms around the city, as Langdon follows clues embedded in art, architecture, and the very bone structure of the Vatican. The cast is terrific, including Ewan McGregor, who is memorable as a young protégé of the late pontiff, and who seems to challenge the common wisdom of the Conclave just by being 40 years younger than his fellows when he lectures for church reform. Stellan Skarsgard is excellent as a gruff commander of the Swiss Guard, who may or may not have thrown in with the Illuminati. But the real star of the film is Rome, and its High Church gorgeousness, with lush cinematography by Salvatore Totino, who renders the real sky above the Vatican, in a cataclysmic event, with the detail and majesty of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. --A.T. Hurley, Amazon.comStills from Angels & Demons (click for larger image)

• A New Breed of Criminal | DVD | (11/09/2023) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by Stephen Sayers' rise from the backstreets of Newcastle's West End to the top of the criminal ladder and the authorities subsequent attempt to bring him crashing back down again.

• Funny Games | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A family settles into their new vacation home, which just so happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.

• Basic | DVD | (11/08/2008) from £2.29   |  Saving you £10.70 (82.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.

• Suspect Zero | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £6.17   |  Saving you £9.82 (159.16%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Who's next? Dallas FBI agent Thomas Mackelway (Aaron Eckhart) is investigating the case of a murdered serial killer when he discovers that a former renegade FBI agent (Ben Kingsley) has dedicated himself to hunting down serial killers on his own. Mackelway begins to realize that avenging agent is after ""suspect zero"" a serial killer responsible for the murders of hundreds of people. Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner (Mission Impossible series The Others) are the producers of this conte

• Ring of Spies | Blu Ray | (21/09/2020) from £10.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  There have always been spies men and women who have pried for patriotism, for religion, for love... or for money. This tense drama is based on the true story of the Portland spy ring an unlikely Soviet operation that took place in southern England and which was active during the late 1950s/early '60s. Directed by Robert Tronson and starring Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack and David Kossoff, Ring of Spies is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. An antiquarian bookseller and his wife; a disgruntled, hard-drinking naval clerk and the lonely secretary he recruits; a polished Soviet agent who assumes the identity of a dead Canadian citizen... the players in a familiar Cold War duel between Soviet intelligence and British counter-espionage and a trade in deadly secrets directed from a bungalow in suburban Ruislip, hidden for years from unsuspecting neighbours and British spycatchers.

• Secret in Their Eyes | Blu Ray | (04/07/2016) from £6.48   |  Saving you £9.51 (146.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Billy Ray (Captain Phillips, The Hunger Games), and produced by Academy Award® winner Mark Johnson (Rain Man, Breaking Bad), Secret In Their Eyes is an intense, powerful, haunting thriller starring Academy Award® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Academy Award® winners Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts. A tight-knit team of rising investigators Ray (Ejiofor), Jess (Roberts) and their supervisor Claire (Kidman) is torn apart when Jess's teenage daughter is brutally and inexplicably murdered. After obsessively searching for the elusive killer every day for 13 years, Ray finally uncovers a new lead that he's certain will resolve the case. No one is prepared, however, for the shocking secret that will reveal the enduring, destructive effects of personal vengeance on the human soul.

• The Comic | Blu Ray | (31/08/2020) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Stand-up comedy can be a cut-throat business, but in Sam Coex's world, it's downright murder From the annals of bizarre cinema comes perhaps the most bizarre one of them all 1985's The Comic! In a dystopian police state reality of indeterminate time and place, orange bouffant-haired comedian Sam Coex is eager for his big break. Realising that desperate times call for even more desperate measures, he slits the throat of his rival Joey Myers, leaving the way clear for him to carve his own niche on the comedy circuit. But success can be a fickle and fleeting mistress, and Sam soon finds his career on a downward turn when he falls foul of the powers that be. Filled with more dry ice and lighting gels than an '80s stadium rock concert, The Comic is a barmy, baffling and beguiling cinematic oddity shot on 35mm film in an alternate dimension. If you ever wanted to know the answer to the eternal conundrum How does Pinocchio make love? then this is the one for you! SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Brand new 2K restoration from the original camera negative High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new introduction with actor Steve Munroe Newly-filmed interview with actor Steve Munroe Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Twins of Evil FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector's booklet featuring additional cast/crew interviews

• Armored | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £3.45   |  Saving you £9.54 (276.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

  "Vacancy" director Nimrod Antal helms the crime thriller "Armored", starring Matt Dillon as an armored truck guard who gets wrapped up in a heist scheme hatched by his friends.

• Shooter/The Italian Job/Four Brothers | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set Comprises: Shooter (2007): 'Shooter' is an action-packed thriller starring Mark Wahlberg as Bob Lee Swagger a former Army sniper who leaves the military after a mission goes bad. After he is reluctantly pressed back into service Swagger is double-crossed again. With two bullets in him and the subject of a nationwide manhunt Swagger begins his revenge which will take down the most powerful people in the country. The Italian Job (2003): This stylish and contemporary update of the 1969 Michael Caine classic sees mastermind Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) and his team - inside man Steve (Edward Norton) computer genius Lyle (Seth Green) wheelman Handsome Rob (Jason Statham) explosives expert Left-Ear (Mos Def) and veteran safecracker John Bridger (Donald Sutherland) - pull off the perfect heist stealing millions of dollars worth of gold bullion from a heavily guarded palazzo in Venice Italy. What the team don't expect is that one of them will turn out to be a double-crosser and steal the gold from them. Now with the help of safe cracker Stella Bridger (Charlize Theron) the job isn't about the payoff it's about payback! Four Brothers (2005): When their beloved foster mother is killed in a holdup four tough brothers reunite in their old Detroit neighbourhood with revenge on their minds. Mark Wahlberg plays the brawl-hungry leader Bobby. His brother Angel (Tyrese Gibson) is a rowdy sailor with a high-strung Latina girlfriend (Sofia Vergara). Garrett Hedlun plays the young rock and roller of the clan. And Outkast's Andre - 3000 - Benjamin is the family man whose tenuous mob connection may link him to the killers. Director John Singleton ably blends his action skills (Shaft 2 Fast 2 Furious) and his gift for capturing the warm heart at the centre of violent urban masculinity (Boyz In The Hood) to create a cooked-to-perfection gangster stew. A soundtrack jammed with 1970s Motown classics roots everything firmly in the gritty tradition of the best of that decade's blaxploitation and urban revenge thrillers. Action highlights include a skidding car chase through snowy streets some rough street hockey and a bullet-intensive neighbourhood shoot-out. With its talented likeable cast clever plotting and sharp dialogue this is a real crowd-pleaser that nonetheless doesn't shy away from depictions of street violence. There's not an ounce of fat on it no extraneous romance and no going straight at the end. Terrence Howard (Hustle And Flow) is the well-meaning but ineffectual detective who tries to put a lid on the boys' rebelliousness. The spirits of Dirty Harry and Charles Bronson would be proud and action fans will be well pleased.