"Director: Joe Dante"

• The 'burbs Steelbook | Blu Ray | (15/09/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  He's a man of peace in a savage land... suburbia. The films of director Joe Dante have taken us to some strange places - a mysterious Chinatown antique store in Gremlins; a secluded resort populated by werewolves in The Howling; even deep inside the human body in Innerspace. But now he takes us to the strangest place of all - surburbia! Family man Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) is looking forward to a week of putting his feet up at home in the quiet leafy cul-de-sac of Mayfield Place. But his plans are scuppered by the arrival of new next-door neighbours The Klopeks whose behaviour and habits are more than just a little kooky. But things go from kooky to downright sinister when local old boy Walter disappears leading Ray and his buddies to suspect their new neighbours of killing and eating him! Sure the Klopeks are a strange bunch what with their digging up the backyard in the middle of the night - but they're not devil-worshipping cannibal killers...are they? If you're looking for a knowing slice of tongue-in-cheek terror then look no further than The 'Burbs. A standout horror comedy from a director who has given us more than his fair share of fun frighteners The 'Burbs assembles a superb cast including Tom Hanks Bruce Dern Carrie Fisher and Corey Feldman in a tall tale of small-town terror. You'll never look at those eccentric neighbours in the same way again! Special Features: Limited Edition SteelBook Packaging High Definition Digital Transfer Newly Created Exclusive Content Collector’s Booklet Featuring New Writing on the Film Archive Content and more!  

• Rock 'N' Roll High School | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £4.61 (46.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In this campy classic musical tribute to the rock legends the Ramones the students of Vince Lombardi High School are a wild and rebellious bunch who are sick of sitting in school - they want to go see the Ramones in concert. Riff Randall the leader of the frisky students writes the song Rock 'N' Roll High School and leads a brigade of her peers to a Ramones concert. However when a fierce new principal cracks the whip and attempts to silence the rock music by burning stacks of the students' records a riot breaks out. The Ramones arrive at school and join forces with the students to take over the school and in a glorious victory burn it down. The terrific soundtrack includes such Ramones favorites as Blitzkrieg Bop Pinhead and Teenage Lobotomy in addition to the title track.

• Gremlins | Blu Ray | (15/10/2018) from £13.94   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gremlins is a roller-coaster ride of wild originality. One minute your hair will stand on end, the next you'll hold your sides with laughter at the havoc these supposedly gentle furballs create when the rules surrounding their care and feeding are inadvertently broken one fateful Christmas. Presented by Steven Spielberg, written by Chris Columbus and directed by Joe Dante, Gremlins is hilariously funny and wickedly scary! SPECIAL FEATURES: Over 10 minutes of footage not seen in cinemas, making-of featurette, 2 commentaries: (1) Director Joe Dante, Phoebe Cates, Zach Galligan, Dick Miller and Howie Mandel, (2) Director Joe Dante, Producer Michael Finnell and Special Effects Artist Chris Walas. Includes Funko Pocket Pop! Keychain of Gizmo.

• Gremlins | Blu Ray | (05/10/2009) from £11.41   |  Saving you £6.58 (57.67%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Holliday, Frances Lee McCainDirector: Joe Dante

• Small Soldiers/We're Back! a Dinosaur's Story | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Small Soldiers: Meet the Commando Elite - toy action figures with an attitude. They've escaped from their boxes along with the Gorgonites kindhearted but unusual-looking creatures. Now teenager Alan Abernathy gets enlisted to help the Gorgonites and rescue the girl of his dreams before the whole town is turned upside down. Small Soldiers is a spectacular adventure for the whole family! (Dir. Joe Dante 1998) We're Back A Dinosaur's Tale: The voices of the above stars bring a handful of dinosaurs back to life in the modern day in this Steven Spielberg production. Lavish animation and imagination bring to life this delightful tale of dinosaurs in New York City. A group of very friendly very intelligent dinosaurs take a trip to Manhattan and brighten the lives of two very special lonely children. (Dir. Ralph Zondag 1993)

• Explorers | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ben Crandell (Hawke) is an alien-obsessed teenager whose dreams are being influenced by a group of extra-terrestrials! When he wakes one morning he is able to draw an advanced circuit board designed for space flight. With the assistance of his two friends Wolfgang (Phoenix) and Darren (Presson) Ben constructs a home-made spaceship to meet the aliens. Hilarity ensues as they discover that the creatures are obsessed with American culture! Great special effects by Rob Bottin (The T

• Gremlins | Blu Ray | (15/04/2013) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With its Christmas lights and dusting of snow Kingston Falls is an idyllic small town - until the gremlins take over. A father returns from Chinatown with an unusual pet a Mogwai - a gift for his son. The rules are simple: Keep your Mogwai away from water bright lights and most importantly never..ever..feed him after midnight. But the rules are inadvertently broken and the consequences multiply at an alarming rate. Gremlins is a wildly original roller-coaster ride of hilarious mischief – an instant classic!

• Gremlins | Blu Ray | (04/10/2010) from £12.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (43.35%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous. Don't ever get it wet. Keep it away from bright light. And no matter how much it cries no matter how much it begs--never ever feed it after midnight. With these three instructions young Billy Peltzer takes possession of his cuddly new pet. Billy will get a whole lot more than he bargained for...

• Thunderbirds Are Go - The Movie / Small Soldiers / We're Back - A Dinosaur's Story | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Inner Space/Gremlins/The Goonies Triple Pack | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following a mysterious treasure map into a spectacular underground realm of twisting passages outrageous booby-traps and a long-lost pirate ship full of golden dubloons the kids race to stay one step ahead of a family of bumbling bad guys... and a mild-mannered monster with a face only a mother could love.

• Horror Collection - Frogs/Lake Placid/Piranha | DVD | (09/04/2007) from £22.50   |  Saving you £-9.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Frogs Dir. George McCowan 1972): Today the pond! Tomorrow the world! Jumping with action suspense revenge and Southern Gothic charm Frogs stars Ray Milland Sam Elliott and Joan Van Ark are constantly a lily away from croaking! Joan Crockett (Milland) is an aging physically disable millionaire who invites this family to his island estate for his birthday party. The old man is more than crotchetyhe's crazy! Hating nature Crockett poisons anything that crawls on his property. But on the night of his shindig it's nature's payback time as thousands of frogs whip up every bug and slimy thing into a toxic frenzy until the entire environment goes environ-mental. Lake Placid (Dir. Steve Miner 1999): Bill Pullman Bridget Fonda and Oliver Platt share an appetite for sheer adventure when a tranquil New England lakefront erupts into an action-packed den of destruction. An investigative team of malcontents (armed with state-of-the-art equipment high-powered weaponry and a biting sense of sarcasm) must work together to defeat Black Lake's most ferocious resident: a 30-foot prehistoric crocodile! Piranha (Dir. Joe Dante 1978): Lost River Lake was a thriving resort - until they discovered... A school of piranha are heading downstream and eating everything in their way... just when you though it was safe to go back in the water! Produced by legendary producer-director Roger Corman Piranha is the film that helped spawn the careers of Joe Dante (director) Jon Davison (producer) John Sayles (writer) Rob Bottin (special effects) and Chris Walas (effects). Starring Kevin McCarthy Keenan Wynn Bradford Dillman and Heather Menzies as well as long time Corman-faves Dick Miller Barbara Steele and Paul Bartel.

• Looney Tunes Back In Action / Cats And Dogs / Kangaroo Jack | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (217.03%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Three fantasitc family favourites on this great boxed set. Looney Tunes Back In Action: David verses Goliath Ali versus Frazier Britney versus Justin all pale in comparison to the earth rending bone-crushing carrot-chomping anvil-dropping tail-feather-scorching gleefully epic smack down that is Rabbit verses Duck or more specifically Bugs Bunny verses Daffy. Set in a live-action world Warner Bros. animated superstars interact with human characters for maximum comic eff

• The Twilight Zone - Season 1 | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Travel into the fifth dimension once again with The Twilight Zone testing the limits of reality and exploring the mysteries of the universe. Airing from 1985 to 1989 this critically acclaimed anthology series carried on the legacy of the original Rod Serling program and attracted a brand-new audience of fans. The series features major stars in compelling tales of intrigue by such noted writers as: Ray Bradbury Stephen King Harlan Ellison Rockne S. O'Bannon Arthur C

• Jumanji/Monster House/Small Soldiers | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jumanji: When young Alan Parrish and his friend Sarah (Bonnie Hunt) begin to play a mysterious board game they don't realise its unimaginable powers until Alan is magically transported into the untamed jungles of Jumanji. Twenty-six years later Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce) discover the dusty board and reawaken the game as they begin to play. Instantly the forces of Jumanji release a fully-grown bewildered Alan Parrish (Robin Williams) into their world. With each roll of the dice they must face the increasingly terrifying consequences until the game is finished and the victor had uttered the word Jumanji... Monster House: CGI animation from executive producers from Robert Zemeckis (Back To The Future) and Steven Spielberg in which three teens discover that their neighbour's house is really a living breathing scary monster! Even for a 12-year old D.J. Walters has a particularly overactive imagination. He is convinced that his haggard and crabby neighbor Horace Nebbercracker who terrorizes all the neighborhood kids is responsible for Mrs. Nebbercracker's mysterious disappearance. Any toy that touches Nebbercracker's property promptly disappears swallowed up by the cavernous house in which Horace lives. D.J. has seen it with his own eyes! But no one believes him not even his best friend Chowder. What everyone does not know is D.J. is not imagining things. Everything he's seen is absolutely true and it's about to get much worse than anything D.J could have imagined.... Small Soldiers (Dir. Joe Dante) (1998): Big action. Big fun. Big movie! Small Soldiers is one huge adventure. Meet the Commando Elite - toy action figures with an attitude. They've escaped from their boxes along with the Gorgonites kindhearted but unusual-looking creatures. Now teenager Alan Abernathy gets enlisted to help the Gorgonites and rescue the girl of his dreams before the whole town is turned upside down.

• Gremlins: 30th Anniversary 2-Disc Special Edition | Blu Ray | (10/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  When his absent-minded father gives young Billy Pelzer (Zach Galligan) a new pet, he warns him to abide by three rules. The rules get broken, of course, and the pet--a cute Mogwai named Gizmo--unwittingly gives birth to the vicious Gremlins who proceed to terrorise the town. Although the long shadow of Producer Steven Spielberg hangs over Joe Dante's 1984 comedy Gremlins almost as much as it did over Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist (1982), Dante doesn't allow it to overwhelm his own quirky style too much. Glimpses of Robbie the Robot and The Time Machine (which promptly disappears) at an inventors' convention reveal his passion for old-movie references (which culminated with Matinee, 1993). Aided and abetted by Spielberg's guidance and a script by Chris Columbus (who would go on to direct and produce the Home Alone franchise) and a music score by Jerry Goldsmith, Dante had all the help he needed to make the biggest hit of his career. Much of the humour derives from Dante's playful handling of the setting in Smallsville, USA, whose inhabitants are as much the target of his satire as they are of the Gremlins' unwanted solicitations. The xenophobic neighbour who warns prophetically of "gremlins" in foreign cars and machinery provides a subtext for the attack on homely American values, as does showing Invasion of the Body Snatchers on TV while the wicked Gremlins hatch. The sight of the little tykes cavorting in a bar, getting drunk and even dancing in pink leggings looks suspiciously like a satirical dig at the whole 1980's culture of selfishness: with their destructive impulses and overindulgences the Gremlins are the ultimate egotistical yuppies. As with many Spielberg projects, the bland hero saves the day for nostalgic, old-fashioned values, but there are plenty of laughs along the way--for example in the now-classic scene when the hero's mother fights off Gremlins in the kitchen by stuffing them in the blender and microwave. Dante's 1990 sequel is even more satirically pointed, and he effectively remade the original with Small Soldiers (1998), replacing Gremlins with toys. --Mark Walker

• Trapped Ashes | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.

• Thunderbirds/Small Soldiers | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Thunderbirds (Dir. Jonathan Frakes 2004): International Rescue run in secret by the Tracy family and led by Jeff (Bill Paxton) is permamently on standby to offer assistance when accidents and incidents threaten lives across the world. However when the villainous Hood (Ben Kingsley) infiltrates the Tracy's clandestine island base and imprisons most of the family who will rescue the rescuers? It's left to teenage Alan (Brady Corbet) and his similarly young friends to save the day! Small Soldiers (Dir. Joe Dante 1998):Meet the Commando Elite - toy action figures with an attitude. They've escaped from their boxes along with the Gorgonites kindhearted but unusual-looking creatures. Now teenager Alan Abernathy gets enlisted to help the Gorgonites and rescue the girl of his dreams before the whole town is turned upside down. Small Soldiers is a spectacular adventure for the whole family! We're Back A Dinosaur's Tale (1993): The voices of the above stars bring a handful of dinosaurs back to life in the modern day in this Steven Spielberg production. Lavish animation and imagination bring to life this delightful tale of dinosaurs in New York City. A group of very friendly very intelligent dinosaurs take a trip to Manhattan and brighten the lives of two very special lonely children.

• Gremlins | Blu Ray | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• The Howling (1 Disc Edition) | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £10.75   |  Saving you £5.24 (32.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Severely shaken after a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer TV newscaster Karen White (Dee Wallace-Stone) takes some much-needed time off. Hoping to conquer her inner demons she heads for the 'Colony' a secluded retreat where her new neighbors are just a tad too eager to make her feel at home. Also there seems to be a bizarre link between her would-be attacker and this supposedly safe haven. And when after nights of being tormented by savage shrieks and unearthly cries Karen ventures into the forest to find answers she makes a terrifying discovery. Now she must fight not only for her life but for her very soul!