"Director: Juraj Jakubisko"

• Extreme Terror - 3 Disc Boxset (Black Christmas, House of the Devil, Bathory: Countess of Blood) | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise:Cherry Tree Lane: is a tense urban thriller in which a couple are taken hostage by a gang planning revenge on their son. Christine and Mike (Rachael Blake and Tom Butcher) arrive home from work as usual to prepare dinner for themselves and their teenage son, Sebastian (Tom Kane). They are disturbed by a knock at the front door, which leads to a group of aggressive teenagers barging into the house. The teenagers want to have a word or two with the absent Sebastian, who they believe to be guilty of grassing up one of their friends, and are plenty happy to hold hostage and terrorise his parents until he returns.House of the Devil: (2009) follows cash-strapped college student Samantha Hughes (Jocelin Donahue), who takes a babysitting job in a remote country mansion. Fairly soon, Samantha senses that something isn't quite right and that she was naive to believe she could land such a well-paid job without a catch. As a lunar eclipse darkens the sky overhead, Samantha begins to get the uncomfortable feeling that her employers (Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov) intend to use her for something rather more sinister than childcare.Bathory: Countess of Blood: (2008) is based on the legend of 16th-century Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who was said to bathe in the blood of virgins in a bid to preserve her youth and beauty. This feature, directed by Juraj Jakubisko, portrays Bathory (Anna Friel) in a somewhat different light - a woman born ahead of her time, who was betrayed by the men in her life. These include a talented young painter with whom she begins an affair, Merisi Caravaggio (Hans Matheson), and conniving rival land owner Juraj Thurzo (Karel Roden).

• Bathory | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Anna Friel (Brookside Pushing Daisies) delivers a sensational performance as Elisabeth Bathory the Vampire Countess in the chilling true story of one of history's most notorious tyrants. History remembers Countess Bathory as the most sadistic murderess who ever lived a monstrous killer of more than 650 innocent lives who delighted in the torture of her victims tearing the flesh from their bodies with her bare teeth and bathing in their still warm blood in an unholy quest for immortality.

• Birds, Orphans And Fools | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £11.45   |  Saving you £1.54 (13.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shot immediately after the Soviet invasion of 1968 Jakubisko's long-repressed feature focuses on the the three-way relationship that develops between two male friends and a female Jewish orphan as they travail a world ravaged by death and destruction a war-torn landscape of bombed-out churches and wrecked homes occupied it seems only by themselves and birds. Their triangular relationship recalls Truffaut's Jules et Jim but Jakubisko's heroes have no romantic ideals - they are all orphans products of an absurd world in which their parents killed each. With references from Shakespeare to Rabelais key episodes in Slovak history and recalling the anarchic air of Věra Chytilová's Daisies Jakubisko's exhilarating experimental film is turn playful surreal and increasingly nightmarish. The second in a series of essential Slovak classic films to be released by Second Run DVD. Special Features: New HD master Booklet Essay

• Bathory: Countess of Blood | DVD | (28/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to mens aspirations for power and wealth.

• Post Coitum | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Slovakian director Juraj Jakubisko is quoted as saying that the meaning of filmmaking is having the audience experience more miracles than they could expect in real life. While watching POST COITUM one is reminded of this maxim since the film - which employs numerous optical tricks - is one long progression of sexual encounters a vulgarized and modernized variant on Arthur Schnitzler's drama of indifference: everyone changes partners like other people change underwear and still don't find anything but their own emptiness. With actor Franco Nero as a photographic artist whose relationship to his models is not strictly professional Jakubisko also satirizes his own profession.