"Director: Brian Yuzna"

• Society | Blu Ray | (31/03/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Brian Yuzna brings us one of the most shocking horror films of the 80's with its'; legendary finale that has to be seen to be believed. Despite his family's privileged Beverly Hills lifestyle troubled teen Bill Whitney has always had a problem 'fitting in'. His parents and sister seem disturbingly alien to him and lately he's witnessing some increasingly strange behaviour. His paranoia is soon justified but nothing can prepare him for the unimaginable depraved and perverse excesses that will be found beneath the surface of this 'elite' society. Special Features: New Audio Commentary With Brian Yuzna Governor Of Society With Director The Masters Of The Hunt With Stars Billy Warlock Devin DeVasquez Ben Meyerson and Tim Bartell The Champions Of The Shunt With FX Artists Screaming Mad George David Grasso and Nick Benson Screaming Mad George Music Video

• Bride of Re-animator Dual-Format Blu-ray & DVD | Blu Ray | (17/10/2016) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1990) was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum--now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first. Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements--the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun. On the DVD: Bride of Re-Animator is presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney

• Beyond Re-Animator | Blu Ray | (08/02/2021) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  WELCOME TO DEATH ROW. THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW... Jeffrey Combs (The Frighteners) returns as everyone's favourite mad doctor in Beyond Re-Animator, the second sequel to Stuart Gordon's undisputed 1985 splatter classic Re-Animator. Finally being held accountable for his catastrophic experiments in re-animating the dead, Dr Herbert West (Combs) finds himself incarcerated at a maximum-security penitentiary. With the arrival of a new prison doctor who happens to be an enthusiastic student of West's work, the medical deviant is afforded the opportunity to resume his grisly studies - this time on his fellow inmates, with predictably hair-raising results. Once again helmed by gore guru Brian Yuzna (Bride of Re-Animator, Society) with memorably imaginative make-up effects by Screaming Mad George (Society, The Guyver), Beyond Re-Animator breathes new life into the hit horror franchise. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0 audio options Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary by director Brian Yuzna Isolated score track featuring an interview with composer Xavier Capellas Beyond & Back, an interview from 2018 with Yuzna Death Row Side Show, an interview from 2018 with Jeffrey Combs Six Shots by Midnight, an interview with S.T. Toshi, author of I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft All in the Head: Brian Yuzna on the Re-Animator Chronicles, an archive interview with the director looking back at the franchise In Prison with the Dead, an on-set documentary made by Yazid Benfeghoul for his Gore News fanzine, featuring interviews with Yuzna, Screaming Mad George and others Production Art Gallery by illustrator Richard Raaphorst Electronic press kit featurette, plus interviews with Yuzna and the cast, and behind-the-scenes footage Press conference footage, featuring Yuzna and the cast Interviews filmed at the Sitges Film Festival in 2002 Music video for Move Your Dead Bones by Dr. Reanimator Alternate opening credits Theatrical trailers Image gallery Reversible sleeve featuring new and original artwork by Gary Pullin FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing on the film by Xavier Aldana Reyes and Michael Doyle

• Society | Blu Ray | (07/08/2017) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  IT IS A MATTER OF GOOD BREEDING. REALLY. After producing Stuart Gordon s hit Re-Animator, Brian Yuzna (Bride of Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead III) turned his hand to directing with 1989 s Society, and gave birth to one of the ickiest, most original body horror shockers of all time. Teenager Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) has always felt like the odd one out in his wealthy, upper-class Beverly Hills family. For some reason, he just doesn t seem to fit in. But his sense of alienation takes a sinister turn when he hears an audio recording of his sister s coming-out party, which seems to implicate his family and others in a bizarre, ritualistic orgy. And then there are the strange things he s been seeing glimpses of people with their bodies contorted impossibly out of shape... Is Bill going mad or is there something seriously amiss in his neighborhood? Packing stomach-churning grue and thought-provoking social commentary in equal measure, Society is a biting horror satire which culminates in one of the most gag-inducing climaxes in all of horror history.

• Return Of The Living Dead III | Blu Ray | (28/08/2017) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Return of the Living Dead III is the third go-round for a premise intended as both a sequel to and a satire of the George A Romero Living Dead films. This could just as easily have been an entry in director Brian Yuzna's Re-Animator series, and indeed the plot nugget seems derived from the last shot of Re-Animator itself, as a devoted youth (J. Trevor Edmond) revives his freshly dead girlfriend (Mindy Clarke) with trioxin, a military zombie-making gas, and learns to regret his actions. Though it has some left-field ideas--the heroine turns herself into a DIY Hellraiser Cenobite poster-girl with extreme body piercing to distract herself from the desire to eat her boyfriend's brain--and effective action, it is still confined by its low budget and thus stuck with ordinary acting, a minimal plot and too many dumb developments. The central thread is the necrophile/SM romance, which ends up in a liebestod clinch in the army base's furnace, but there's a sub-plot about a quartet of zombified gang members which serves mainly to get some violence going every few minutes. Clarke is a striking presence, studded with bits of metal like a punk porcupine, but her performance flat lines even before her death in a motorcycle crash and revival as a zombie, while the rest of the cast--with the honourable exceptions of Kent McCord as a senior officer and Basil Wallace as a mystical down-and-out--are typified by Sarah Douglas' strident militarist mad scientist, who wants to put zombies in armoured exoskeletons and deploy them as combat troops. Nevertheless, this is gruesome fun for the fans, with some imaginative zombie mutilation effects. On the DVD: It's a no-frills full-screen transfer. The only extra is a 50-second trailer.--Kim Newman

• Rottweiller | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-4.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From the legendary horror movie director Brian Yuzna comes Rottweiler a terrifying film set in the post-apocalyptic near future that will leave horror fans both exhilarated and mortified as they are taken on a rollercoaster ride of fear. Escaping from a Spanish immigration camp in 2018 Dante heads off to find his lost girlfriend who he left behind after his capture. He is relentlessly pursued by a bounty hunter and his tracker dog ROTT; a vicious Rottweiler that had been left for dead and rebuilt ever stronger with fangs and jaws of steel. A relentless chase across a landscape of terror ensues where Dante finds that there are no friends no refuge and no respite from the relentless terror that pursues him. There is only the hunter and the hunted. Famous for the Re Animator trilogy amongst other classics of the horror genre Brian Yuzna crafts a tense unnerving and gruesome horror full of twists turns and startling revelations. Never one to shy away from gore Yuzna lets his audience view the full horrific terror of the cyber enhanced canine; a monster on mission to kill.

• Faust: Love Of The Damned | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  John Jaspers (Mark Frost) is just a regular guy whose life is changed forever by the sadistic murder of his girlfriend. Mad with grief and vowing revenge he meets the enigmatic cult leader M (Andrew Divoff) who offers him all the power he needs to get payback. The price? His immortal soul. Reborn as the demonic Faust Jaspers is soon on the vengeance trail. But his hellish alter ego is totally out of control. All it wants to do is kill and it's not satisfied by a few criminals. As t

• The Return Of The Living Dead 3 | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £22.50   |  Saving you £-9.52 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Return of the Living Dead III is the third go-round for a premise intended as both a sequel to and a satire of the George A Romero Living Dead films. This could just as easily have been an entry in director Brian Yuzna's Re-Animator series, and indeed the plot nugget seems derived from the last shot of Re-Animator itself, as a devoted youth (J. Trevor Edmond) revives his freshly dead girlfriend (Mindy Clarke) with trioxin, a military zombie-making gas, and learns to regret his actions. Though it has some left-field ideas--the heroine turns herself into a DIY Hellraiser Cenobite poster-girl with extreme body piercing to distract herself from the desire to eat her boyfriend's brain--and effective action, it is still confined by its low budget and thus stuck with ordinary acting, a minimal plot and too many dumb developments. The central thread is the necrophile/SM romance, which ends up in a liebestod clinch in the army base's furnace, but there's a sub-plot about a quartet of zombified gang members which serves mainly to get some violence going every few minutes. Clarke is a striking presence, studded with bits of metal like a punk porcupine, but her performance flat lines even before her death in a motorcycle crash and revival as a zombie, while the rest of the cast--with the honourable exceptions of Kent McCord as a senior officer and Basil Wallace as a mystical down-and-out--are typified by Sarah Douglas' strident militarist mad scientist, who wants to put zombies in armoured exoskeletons and deploy them as combat troops. Nevertheless, this is gruesome fun for the fans, with some imaginative zombie mutilation effects. On the DVD: It's a no-frills full-screen transfer. The only extra is a 50-second trailer.--Kim Newman

• Bride of Re-Animator Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD Limited Edition | Blu Ray | (11/04/2016) from £16.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (66.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  DATE. MATE. RE-ANIMATE. The success of Stuart Gordon's hit horror-comedy Re-animator meant that a sequel was all but inevitable. The resulting follow-up, Bride of Re-animator this time helmed by director Brian Yuzna (Society, Return of the Living Dead 3) would prove that there was a good deal more life left in the story of Dr. Herbert West and his ghoulish exploits. It is 8 years since the Miskatonic massacre. Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West (again played by Jeffrey Combs) continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life starting with the heart of his young protégé Dan's dearly deceased, Meg Halsey. Surely nothing could go wrong? With special effects master Screaming Mad George (the man behind the infamous shunting sequence in Society) on hand to contribute a host of characteristically weird and wonderful creations including zombified bats and a one-eyed finger spider Bride of re-animator is a more than worthy successor to Gordon's original cult classic. DIRECTOR-APPROVED 3-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS Brand new 2K restorations of the Unrated and R-rated versions of the film, approved by director Brian Yuzna High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Original Stereo 2.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin Limited Edition Collector's Booklet Limited Edition Packaging to be revealed DISCS 1 & 2 BLU-RAY/DVD UNRATED VERSION Brand new 2K restoration of the Unrated version Brand new audio commentary with Brian Yuzna Audio Commentary with Brian Yuzna, star Jeffrey Combs, visual effects supervisor Tom Rainone and the effects team including John Buechler, Mike Deak, Bob Kurtzman, Howard Berger and Screaming Mad George Audio Commentary with stars Jeffrey Combs and Bruce Abbott Brian Yuzna Remembers Bride of Re-animator brand new featurette in which the director looks back at the making of the first Re-animator sequel Splatter Masters: The Special Effects Artists of Bride of Re-animator Brand new FX featurette with a wealth of behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Robert Kurtzman of KNB, Screaming Mad George, Tony Doublin and John Buechler Getting Ahead in Horror archive making-of featurette Deleted Scenes DISC 3 BLU-RAY R-RATED VERSION Brand new 2K restoration of the R-rated version

• Society | Blu Ray | (08/06/2015) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  IT’S ALL ABOUT FITTING IN After producing Stuart Gordon’s hit Re-Animator Brian Yuzna (Bride of Re-Animator Return of the Living Dead III) turned his hand to directing with 1989’s Society and gave birth to one of the ickiest most original body horror shockers of all time. Teenager Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) has always felt like the odd one out in his wealthy upper-class Beverly Hills family. For some reason he just doesn’t seem to fit in. But his sense of alienation takes a sinister turn when he overhears a surreptitious audio recording of his sister’s coming-out party which seems to implicate his family and others in a bizarre ritualistic orgy. And then there are the strange things he’s been seeing – glimpses of people with their bodies contorted impossibly out of shape… Is Billy going mad or is there something seriously amiss in his neighbourhood? Packing stomach-churning grue and thought-provoking social commentary in equal measure Society is a biting horror satire which culminates in one of the most leftfield gag-inducing “climaxes” in all of horror history – just don’t eat beforehand! SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing New Audio Commentary with Director Brian Yuzna Governor Of Society with Brian Yuzna The Masters Of The Hunt with stars Billy Warlock Devin Devasquez Ben Meyerson and Tim Bartell The Champions Of The Shunt with FX Artists Screaming Mad George David Grasso and Nick Benson Screaming Mad George music video Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film illustrated with original archive stills and posters

• Society | Blu Ray | (07/09/2015) from £21.58   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brian Yuzna directs this 1980s horror starring Billy Warlock, Devin Devasquez and Evan Richards. Bill Whitney (Warlock) is just a normal teenager growing up in Beverly Hills, California. Surrounded by the rich and famous Bill is soon introduced to a surreal lifestyle of partying, paranoia and perverse behavior. Things turn even stranger when Bill is shown a video of his family getting up to some unusual activities at a party. Can Bill put aside his morals to become an elite member of Beverly Hills society?

• The Fantastic Factory Collection (Arrow Video) | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  A Bloody Feast of Zombies Demons Spiders & Werewolves! Step into the Fantastic Factory for a festival of gory mayhem and blood-splattered horror. Four twisted tales of terror and carnage await you... In Beyond Re-Animator the evil Dr. Herbert West a medical genius with an overwhelming drive to raise the dead returns to what he knows best: science...and murder. John Jaspers is driven to insanity in Faust and signs a pact with the devil in order to enact a horrible vengeance on the thugs who murdered his girlfriend. Transformed into a sickening beast he stalks the night seeking only to maim and kill. Alien spiders threaten the very existence of man in Arachnid only a team of scientists and mercenaries stand in the way of eight-legged doom for humanity. Trapped on an island with a nest of hungry enemies time is running out before the eggs were laid in every last one of them... A traveller with a girl in every village leaves a trail of murder behind him but is he the killer or is there a beast stalking the night? Romasanta based on a true life murder case is a chilling tale of bloody romance shadowy forests and Werewolves.

• The Dentist 2 | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A trip to the Dentist isn't what it used to be... Years ago demented dentist Dr. Alan Feinstone (Bernsen) was sentenced to spend his life in a maximum security mental hospital. Now he's escaped and determined to practice - again. Resettled in the tiny farm town of Paradise the good doctor conveniently disposes of the local dentist and he's Open for Business! Within moments of wielding a scalpel on his first patient he is transformed into his former deranged self. The more patients Alan sees the more brutal his cleaning techniques become. When a few residents suspect something peculiar about the town's new dentist Alan vows to treat them before they drill up his chilling past.

• Bride Of Re-Animator | DVD | (03/07/2017) from £10.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1990) was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum--now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first. Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements--the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun. On the DVD: Bride of Re-Animator is presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney

• The Dentist | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £14.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Dr. Alan Feinstone is a rich and successful Beverly Hills dentist. In fact he is much more - a connoisseur of music the owner of a palatial mansion and the proud husband of a beautiful wife. There's only one small problem - he's insane. The perfectionist Dr. Feinstone expects it of everyone else as well. The unacceptable fact that no one is perfect annoys the good doctor and leads him to commit his one small imperfection - murder. Murder is so messy and Dr. Feinstone hates messes. But sometimes he just can't help killing a patient or two.

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

  IT IS A MATTER OF GOOD BREEDING. REALLY. After producing Stuart Gordon s hit Re-Animator, Brian Yuzna (Bride of Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead III) turned his hand to directing with 1989 s Society, and gave birth to one of the ickiest, most original body horror shockers of all time. Teenager Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) has always felt like the odd one out in his wealthy, upper-class Beverly Hills family. For some reason, he just doesn t seem to fit in. But his sense of alienation takes a sinister turn when he hears an audio recording of his sister s coming-out party, which seems to implicate his family and others in a bizarre, ritualistic orgy. And then there are the strange things he s been seeing glimpses of people with their bodies contorted impossibly out of shape... Is Bill going mad or is there something seriously amiss in his neighborhood? Packing stomach-churning grue and thought-provoking social commentary in equal measure, Society is a biting horror satire which culminates in one of the most gag-inducing climaxes in all of horror history.

• Re-Animator 2 | DVD | (18/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Brian Yuzna's Bride of Re-Animator (1990) was one of the last hurrahs for special-effects-based horror films before CGI extended the ease with which the impossible could be put on screen. Like its predecessor, Re-Animator, Bride is very loosely based on HP Lovecraft's stories of Herbert West, a scientist with a taste for investigation that knows no boundaries, especially not those of good taste. He and his agonisingly liberal sidekick Cain have discovered an improvement on their original serum--now they can not only bring the dead back to life but also assemble them from parts first. Jeffrey Combs gives a wonderfully dour performance as West, not even cracking a smile when a creature he has concocted from fingers and an eye-ball is running around the room unseen by a pestering detective. This is the sort of film that constantly escalates its macabre elements--the surviving villain of the first film has been left as simply an animated head, but that does not stop him pursuing his revenge on West, nor finding ways of using West's new techniques along the way. It all makes for cheerfully gruesome fun. On the DVD: Bride of Re-Animator is presented in an anamorphic widescreen visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and its Dolby 2.0 does what little can be done with the muddy soundtrack, but is rather better with the jauntily creepy score. The only special features on this Tartan issue are the trailer, the director's production notes and a reel of trailers for other Tartan horror movies. --Roz Kaveney

• Society | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Even though he's from a wealthy family teenager Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock of Baywatch and General Hospital) just can't seem to fit in among the mysterious upper class of Beverly Hills. But when he learns that his parents and sister may be involved in secret sexual depravity Bill begins to suspect that rich people are indeed very different from the rest of us. Can Bill escape his initiation into a nightmare world of privileged perversion or will he be forced to make the ultimate contribution to Society? Directed by Brian Yuzna (Bride of Re-Animator and The Dentist) and featuring ultra-disturbing makeup effects by Screaming Mad George (Freaked).

• Beyond Re-Animator | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £8.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (97.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Welcome to Death Row. The Doctor will see you now... Trash cinema's greatest ghoul is back! Horror legend Jeffery Combs returns as Dr. Herbert West in Beyond Re-Animator the gory sequel to the original 80s splatter classic. Incarcerated for the death of an innocent teenage girl at the hands of one of his resurrected corpes Dr. West continues his insane research into the creation of life from behind bars. West makes a breakthrough with his discovery of Nano-Plasmic Energy a substance that prevents the living dead from degenerating but in doing so he unleashes bloody chaos in the prison as no one knows difference between the humans and the zombies. From the fevered mind of HP Lovercraft and Brian Yuzna comes a sick horror comedy thrill ride in which you can trust no one... Alive or Dead!

• Progeny | DVD | (29/07/2003) from £9.73   |  Saving you £-6.74 (-225.40%)   |  RRP £2.99

  OK, brace yourself--this could get messy. Craig Burton (Arnold Vosloo, the eponymous vengeful goon in The Mummy) stars here as a dedicated, overworked hospital doctor whose sterling abilities in the emergency room are sadly unparalleled in the bedroom given that he still can't father a child with his spouse Sherry (Jillian McWhirter). Until, that is, he finds himself undergoing a dizzying--and inordinately lengthy--out-of-body experience in the middle of the night. Subsequently troubled by grotesque paranormal visions, Craig is distressed to discover Sherry is pregnant. Convinced his unborn child is, in fact, the product of his wife's abduction by aliens, he's not a happy man. In his fevered state, he first dispatches Sherry to alarming gynaecologist David Weatherly (Wilford Brimley), before visiting both shrink Susan Lamarche (Lindsay Crouse) and alien abduction expert Bert Clavell (Brad Dourif). And from here on in, it gets really dumb. Adorned with the kind of icky, low-rent effects and weird fixation with medical procedure that anyone acquainted with the work of director Brian Yuzna (Society) and scriptwriter Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) will no doubt already be familiar with, Progeny is a boon for the connoisseur of straight-to-tape nonsense. Just check out that cast-can't you hear the deep, gravelly voice on the trailer now ("Together at last--Crouse. Brimley. Dourif. Vosloo!")? Obviously, anyone after plausible moments of human drama is in entirely the wrong place and, yes, both the direction and performances are erratic to put it politely (Vosloo appears in a state of near-catatonia throughout), but, in its own, stomach-turning, sub-Rosemary's Baby kind of way, Progeny is a prime example of sci-fi/horror nonsense at its best (and most nonsensical). --Danny Leigh