"Director: Paul Hills"

• Boston Kickout | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In the 1980s Phil moved with his parents from an inner-city slum to start a new life in Stevenage. However on leaving school he finds himself in a world of violence unemployment alcoholism and drug abuse.

• Urban Gothic - Series 1 | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Urban Gothic is an interesting and original horror short story anthology format, uniting standard horror material with contemporary urban London settings. Writer Tom De Ville has a good ear for streetwise chatter and a reasonably acute sense of class and ethnic difference; his pieces that are essentially character-driven tend to be more successful than those that depend rather more on sensation and plot device. The London locations and young cast combine to make something surprisingly creepy. Highlights include the opening episode, "Deadmeat", in which a group of sensation-seeking young people, on the run from drug dealers and sexually rapacious employers, find a corpse with a look of horror on its face and decide to experiment with necromancy. In the fly-on-the wall documentary parody "Vampirology" a film crew follows a vampire on his nightly round of drinks with yuppie friends, before devouring a lost tourist. Keith-Lee Castle's portrait of a lost soul is remarkable, and the guest appearance of Ingrid Pitt, every vampire's favourite starlet, is hilarious. --Roz Kaveney

• Urban Gothic - Series 2 | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tales of the city to chill the blood... Available for the first time the second series of the cult classic URBAN GOTHIC offers more bite sized tales of terror from cannibal killers to the darkest of teen love stories leading finally to the terrifying secret conspiracy behind the horrors. Stories comprise: Sandman Membrane Necromance Eater Serotonin Wild The End Ritual Slaughter Dollhouse Burns - Parts 1 and 2.

• Do Elephants Pray? | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £3.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (275.69%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Frustrated by the soulless routine of life, advertising executive Callum Cutter is thrown into poetic chaos when he meets free-spirited French seductress Malika who promises to change his life forever providing he keeps her identity a secret. Whilst his employees, lead by the egotistical Marrlen mutiny over a make or break campaign on a seemingly unsellable product, Callum follows Malika to her native France where he is subjected to increasingly demoralizing trials and tribulations. Will he find the hidden meaning of life? Will the unsellable become sellable? A poetically spiritual film set in London and Brittany with stunning imagery.

• The Poet | DVD | (12/12/2011) from £6.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (275.69%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Rick (Andrew Lee Potts Primeval), a promising young artist, inadvertently enters an active crime scene and is gunned down in central Vienna by hired assassin, Andrei Loesin (Dougray Scott Enigma , Hitman). When Andrei visits the opening of a show of the dead artist he gets embroiled in the world and starts a relationship with Rick sister, Paula (Laura Elena Harring Mulholland Drive). Detective Inspector Vashon (Jurgen Procnow Das Boat, the English Patient) investigates the murder. Can Andrei free himself from the relationship before Vashon catches him or will Andrei confess his crime to Paula? A lyrical tragedy set in France, Austria and Germany with stunning images, poetically directed by Paul Hills (Boston Kickout, Do Elephants Pray?).

• The Frontline | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When young film-maker Paul Hills was asked at an interview for Plymouth film school what he wanted to do in the industry he replied 'direct feature films' he was told 'you have more chance of being struck by lightning twice than ever directing a feature film'. Two years later he embarked on making The Frontline...Filmed in the Moss Side area of Manchester this gritty tale of futility pulls no punches in its graphic depiction of drug addition political corruption and society out of control.On his release from mental hospital James re-kindles his relationship with pirate DJ Marion helping her to kick her heroin addiction and moving in together with plans for marriage. However Marion is found dead. Suicide? The police would have us think so. But James has other ideas.With the help of Marion's father James follows through his plan to trap and expose the 'protected killer. A plan that leads to a tense and bloody showdown that will leave you shattered.As you'll hear on the director's commentary making The Frontline was a creative struggle of epic proportions. Hills like a modern day King Canute empowered with super-human willpower and a titanic endurance waged a war to end all wars for three long years with a small band of like-minded irrepressibles to shape this film out of the most meagre of raw materials - 12 000 - for the money this is the greatest film ever made. It nearly killed Paul Hills. Now we can watch it in the comfort of our living rooms.