"Director: Tobe Hooper"

• Salem's Lot | Blu Ray | (04/05/2020) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Sinister events bring together a writer (David Soul) fascinated with an old hilltop house; a suave antiques dealer (James Mason) whose expertise goes beyond bric-a-brac; and the dealer's mysterious, pale-skinned partner (Reggie Nalder) in Salem's Lot - a blood-curdling shocker based on Stephen King's novel and directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist).

• Poltergeist Trilogy Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (21/09/2020) from £19.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Poltergeist: They're here, playful at first...but not for long. Little Carol Anne Freeling is whisked into a spectral void. As her family confronts horrors galore, something else is here too: a new benchmark in Hollywood ghost stories. Producers Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall and director Tobe Hooper head the elite scream team of this classic chiller. Poltergeist II: The Other Side The sinister supernatural forces return in this thrilling follow-up to the smash hit Poltergeist. The Freeling family settles into a new home, but the spirits of the dead are still hell-bent on luring daughter Carol Anne to the other side. Poltergeist III In this riveting finale to the Poltergeist trilogy, Carol Anne is sent to live in a Chicago high-rise with her aunt and uncle. She must face otherworldly demons more frightening than ever before as they take over the entire skyscraper.

• Salem's Lot | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (260.52%)   |  RRP £17.99

  ""Everything in Salem's Lot is connected to that house. You can see it from every part of the town. It's like a beacon throwing off an energy force."" - Ben Mears (David Soul) At last! Salem's Lot the 1979 horror mini-series from 1979 gets the much-desired DVD treatment. Based on Stephen King's terrifying vampire novel Tobe Hooper's cult movie is a supernatural journey into the strange world of the titular town and its oddball inhabitants. Ben Mears (Soul) returns to

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th Anniversary Restoration - 2 Disc Standard Edition | Blu Ray | (17/11/2014) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This sensational, extremely influential, 1974 low-budget horror movie directed by Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist, Lifeforce, Salem's Lot), may be notorious for its title, but it's also a damn fine piece of moviemaking. And it's blood-curdling scary, too. Loosely based on the true crimes of Ed Gein (also a partial inspiration for Psycho), the original Jeffrey Dahmer, Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of teenagers who pick up a hitchhiker and wind up in a backwoods horror chamber where they're held captive, tortured, chopped up, and impaled on meat hooks by a demented cannibalistic family, including a character known as Leatherface who maniacally wields one helluva chainsaw. The movie's powerful sense of dread is heightened by its grainy, semi-documentary style--but it also has a wicked sense of humour (and not that camp, self-referential variety that became so tiresome in subsequent horror films of the 70s, 80s and 90s). OK, in case you couldn't tell, it's "not for everyone", but as a landmark in the development of the horror/slasher genre, it ranks with Psycho, Halloween, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. --Jim Emerson

• Poltergeist (25th Anniversary Edition) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (240.48%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Suburbanites Steve (Nelson) and Diane (Williams) suddenly experience paranormal activity in their home. What begins as minor excitement quickly turns into nasty ghostly encounters. The disappearance of their daughter Carol Anne (ORourke) forces the Freelings to bring in parapsychologists and a professional exorcist to exorcise their home. Directed by Tobe Hooper and featuring Oscar Nominated Visual Effects by Richard Edlund Michael Wood and Bruce Nicholson Poltergeist is one of the most entertaining horror films of its time.

• Lifeforce | Blu Ray | (10/06/2019) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In The Blink Of An Eye, The Terror Begins. When A Space Shuttle Crew Finds A Mysterious Spacecraft Containing Three Human-Looking Creatures In A State Of Suspended Animation, They Bring Them Back To Earth For Further Investigation. It'S Only Then That Scientists Discover That They Are In Fact A Race Of Space Vampires That Feed Off People'S Life-Force Rather Than Their Blood. So When They Escape And Run Amok In London, The Consequences Are Apocalyptic - And The Shuttle Crew'S Only Survivor (Steve Railsback) Seems To Be The Only Man Who Can Stop Them. Based On Colin Wilson'S Novel ˜The Space Vampires', Co-Written By Dan O'Bannon (Alien, Return Of The Living Dead) And Directed By Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Poltergeist), This Lively Sci-Fi Horror Romp Has A Stellar Cast Including Peter Firth, Frank Finlay And Patrick Stewart - Although It'S Mathilda May'S Appearance As A Naked Female Alien That Attracts Most Attention To This Day. Limited Edition Contents: High Definition Blu-Ray (1080P) Presentation Of Both The Theatrical And International Versions, Both From New 4K Restorations Optional Uncompressed 2.0 Stereo Pcm And 5.1 Dts-Hd Master Audio Surround Sound Isolated Music And Effects Soundtrack Optional English Sdh Subtitles For The Deaf And Hard Of Hearing Audio Commentary With Tobe Hooper, Moderated By Filmmaker Tim Sullivan Audio Commentary With Academy Award-Winning Visual Effects Artist Douglas Smith, Moderated By Filmmaker And Scholar Howard S. Berger Audio Commentary With Make-Up Effects Artist Nick Maley, Moderated By Filmmaker Michael Felsher Cannon Fodder: The Making Of Lifeforce - An Epic Uk-Exclusive Look At The Genesis, Production And Release Of Lifeforce Featuring Interviews With Hooper, Producer Michael J. Kagan, Editor John Grover, Actors Aubrey Morris And Nicholas Ball, Makeup Artist Sandra Exelby, Screenwriter Michael Armstrong, Sound Designer Vernon Messenger, Artistic Designers Tom Adams And Douglas Smith And Effects Artist John Schoonraad. Space Vampires In London: An Interview With Tobe Hooper Dangerous Beauty: An Interview With Mathilda May, Lifeforce'S Iconic Star Carlsen'S Curse: Star Steve Railsback Looks Back On Lifeforce And His Career Original Theatrical Trailer

• Poltergeist | Blu Ray | (13/10/2008) from £12.56   |  Saving you £7.43 (59.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Some things have to be believed to be seen. Suburbanites Steve (Nelson) and Diane (Williams) suddenly experience paranormal activity in their home. What begins as minor excitement quickly turns into nasty ghostly encounters. The disappearance of their daughter Carol Anne (O'Rourke) forces the Freelings to bring in parapsychologists and a professional exorcist to exorcise their home. Directed by Tobe Hooper and featuring Oscar Nominated Visual Effects by Richard Edlund Michael Wood and Bruce Nicholson Poltergeist is one of the most entertaining horror films of its time.

• Poltergeist | Blu Ray | (19/09/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  ! A typical family in a quiet suburb of a normal California faces a frightening ordeal when its home is invaded by a Poltergeist. Late one night, 5-year-old Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke) hears a voice coming from inside the television set ... At first, the spirits that invade the Freelings' home seem like playful children. But then they turn angry. And when Carol Anne is pulled from this world into another, Steve and Diane Freeling (Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams) turn to an exorcist (Zelda Rubinstein) in this horror classic from director Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre films) and producer and screenwriter Steven Spielberg. Bonus Features They Are Here: The Real World of Poltergeists documentary The Making of Poltergeist Theatrical Trailer

• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 | Blu Ray | (21/08/2017) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Opinion is mixed as to whether Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 is a worthy successor to Tobe Hooper's seminal slasher flick. The story picks up 14 years after the events of the first film, which have long since passed into local legend. On a relentless search for the maniacs who murdered his wheelchair-bound nephew Franklin, Lieutenant "Lefty" Enright (Dennis Hopper) is drawn to the scene of a brutal roadside killing in Red River, Texas. He soon forms an alliance with Stretch (Caroline Williams), a feisty female radio DJ who inadvertently broadcasts the chainsaw murder of two drunken frat boys live on her late-night phone-in request show. At Lefty's request she replays the tape on air and soon after receives a terrifying visit from two deranged fans, Leatherface and Chop Top, who are intent on killing her. Stretch escapes, and together with Lefty follows the trail of the gruesome twosome into the bowels of the deserted San Jacinto historical theme park, which hides a Leatherface house of horrors. In contrast to the chilling, snuff movie scenario of the original, Hooper whoops it up with this 1986 sequel brimming with gruesome humour, without welching on the thrills. Writer LM Kit Carson (Paris, Texas) reworks Leatherface into a tragic, almost naïve figure trapped beneath a horrific façade and fleshes out his thoroughly dysfunctional family with the introduction of baby brother ChopTop--a steel-plated Vietnam vet. Leatherface's old man (now called Drayton Sawyer) and Grandpa are carried over from the first film. Dennis Hopper is clean cut but dead-eyed in a typically manic performance as the cowboy detective driven by revenge--think of an embryonic Frank Booth from Blue Velvet with a fetish for power tools. TCM2 is a wildly imaginative experiment in terror that stays true to its trashy exploitation roots. On the DVD: The lack of extra features on this disc (apart from the standard theatrical trailer) is a major oversight given that TCM2 has had no previous theatrical or video release in the UK. A director's commentary would have been especially welcome, as well as the addition of the deleted scenes featured on the US laserdisc and special edition VHS versions of this film. Static menus provide options to watch the film with English, Spanish or Italian dialogue and subtitles in Danish, Norweigian and Swedish. The main feature is of more than adequate picture quality and presented in 16:9 anamorphic format. --Chris Campion

• Texas Chainsaw Massacre | DVD | (08/06/2009) from £15.92   |  Saving you £-9.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

• The Mangler | Blu Ray | (10/01/2022) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  IT WILL SCARE THE SHEET OUT OF YOU! Master of Horror Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw, Salem's Lot, Life Force) returns to the works of Stephen King with this baroque and blackly comic adaptation of The Mangler. When a worker at Gartley's Blue Ribbon Laundry is pulled into the titular laundry press and folded like a sheet, police officer John Hunton (Ted Levine, Silence of the Lambs) is called to investigate. Was it an accident, or is something more sinister going on? As more deaths and injuries occur under the watchful eye of owner Bill Gartley (Robert Englund), Hunton, with his demonologist brother-in-law Mark Jackson (Daniel Matmoor) come to believe the machine might be possessed, and the town itself to be hiding a much deeper secret. Like an EC horror comic come to life, The Mangler is bold, brash and politically aware as Hooper once again points his camera at the American Nightmare, this time turning it on the bloodthirsty machinery of capitalism itself! Special Features High Definition blu-ray (1080p) presentation from a 2K restoration Lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new audio commentary by critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson Brand new audio commentary by critics and self-confessed ˜Manglophiles' Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain Audio commentary by co-writer Stephen David Brooks Nature Builds No Machines, a brand new visual essay by Scout Tafoya, author of Cinemaphagy: the Films of Tobe Hooper This Machine just Called Me an Asshole!, a brand new visual essay by author and critic Guy Adams on the monstrous life of inanimate objects in the work of Stephen King Gartley's Gambit, an archival interview with star Robert Englund Behind the Scenes footage Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve with original and newly commissioned artwork by Adam Rabelais FIRST PRESSING ONLY fully illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Michael Gingold, Johnny Mains and Henry Blyth

• Lifeforce | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £17.88   |  Saving you £-3.63 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce, the follow-up to his most popular hit Poltergeist, is a film that must be seen to be believed. That's not really a compliment, though, since Lifeforce isn't much of a movie when all the sound and fury is over. But you've got to admit there's something crazily admirable about a picture that starts out as a science fiction mission to Halley's comet, turns into an alien-invasion thriller featuring a beautiful naked woman (Mathilda May) who's a vampire from space and escalates into an end-of-the-world disaster flick. Armed with a big budget and a special effects crew led by Star Wars pioneer John Dykstra, Hooper and Alien cowriter Dan O'Bannon have whipped up a concoction that's got everything anyone could ask of a horror movie--from zombies running amok in London to rotting corpses and energy bolts that signal the apocalypse to come. Keeping it all together is Steve Railsback as the Halley-mission survivor who holds the key to mankind's salvation--but what fun is saving the world when you could be seduced by a sexy naked space vampire? Check out Lifeforce to see how it all turns out. --Jeff Shannon

• Lifeforce Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (14/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Director Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce, the follow-up to his most popular hit Poltergeist, is a film that must be seen to be believed. That's not really a compliment, though, since Lifeforce isn't much of a movie when all the sound and fury is over. But you've got to admit there's something crazily admirable about a picture that starts out as a science fiction mission to Halley's comet, turns into an alien-invasion thriller featuring a beautiful naked woman (Mathilda May) who's a vampire from space and escalates into an end-of-the-world disaster flick. Armed with a big budget and a special effects crew led by Star Wars pioneer John Dykstra, Hooper and Alien cowriter Dan O'Bannon have whipped up a concoction that's got everything anyone could ask of a horror movie--from zombies running amok in London to rotting corpses and energy bolts that signal the apocalypse to come. Keeping it all together is Steve Railsback as the Halley-mission survivor who holds the key to mankind's salvation--but what fun is saving the world when you could be seduced by a sexy naked space vampire? Check out Lifeforce to see how it all turns out. --Jeff Shannon

• Lifeforce | Blu Ray | (10/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce, the follow-up to his most popular hit Poltergeist, is a film that must be seen to be believed. That's not really a compliment, though, since Lifeforce isn't much of a movie when all the sound and fury is over. But you've got to admit there's something crazily admirable about a picture that starts out as a science fiction mission to Halley's comet, turns into an alien-invasion thriller featuring a beautiful naked woman (Mathilda May) who's a vampire from space and escalates into an end-of-the-world disaster flick. Armed with a big budget and a special effects crew led by Star Wars pioneer John Dykstra, Hooper and Alien cowriter Dan O'Bannon have whipped up a concoction that's got everything anyone could ask of a horror movie--from zombies running amok in London to rotting corpses and energy bolts that signal the apocalypse to come. Keeping it all together is Steve Railsback as the Halley-mission survivor who holds the key to mankind's salvation--but what fun is saving the world when you could be seduced by a sexy naked space vampire? Check out Lifeforce to see how it all turns out. --Jeff Shannon

• Death Trap (Beyond Terror) | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A redneck psycho who runs a hotel in the deep south murders a slew of people and feeds their corpses to a pet crocodile that he keeps in the swamp out back.

• The Mangler | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a little old lady is crushed and spat out by a monstrous press at the Blue Ribbon Laundry everyone thinks it an accident but when another horrific death occurs the terrible truth begins to dawn... Based on the short story by Stephen King.

• King Of Horror Collection | Blu Ray | (09/10/2017) from £16.96   |  Saving you £5.52 (39.51%)   |  RRP £19.49

  Salem's Lot (1979) - Sinister events bring together a writer (David Soul), a suave antiques dealer (James Mason) and the dealer's mysterious, pale-skinned partner (Reggie Nalder) in this bloodcurdling shocker. The Shining (1980) - Jack Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a writer acting as off-season caretaker for the Overlook Hotel with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd), in this ghostly time warp of madness and murder. Stephen King's IT (1990) - Seven children face an unthinkable horror which appears in various forms, including murderous clown Pennywise (Tim Curry). Years later, those who survived vow to stop a new killing spree, this time for good. Extras: Salem's Lot - Commentary and Trailer The Shining - Commentary, Making-of Documentary with Optional Commentary, Three Featurettes and a Trailer. Stephen King's IT - Commentary

• Masters Of Horror - Series 2 Vol.2 | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £18.09   |  Saving you £6.90 (38.14%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The other half of the second series of Masters Of Horror unites some of the horror genre's most respected filmmakers. Includes 'We All Scream For Ice Cream' 'Sound Like' 'The Washingtonians' 'The Damned Thing' 'Dream Cruise' and 'The V Word'.

• Eaten Alive | Blu Ray | (21/09/2015) from £23.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (13.64%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Meet The Maniac & his friend. Nearly a decade before he donned Freddy Kruger’s famous red and green sweater horror icon Robert Englund delivered a supremely sleazy performance in Eaten Alive – another essay in taut Southern terror from Tobe Hooper director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Deep in the Louisiana bayou sits the ramshackle Starlight Hotel destination of choice for those who like to check in but not check out! Presided over by the bumbling mumbling Judd (and his pet croc which he keeps in a large pond out front) the patron of this particular establishment may seem like a good-natured ol’ Southern gent – but he has a mean temper on him and a mighty large scythe to boot… Oozing atmosphere from its every pore (the entire film was shot on a sound-stage at the famous Raleigh Studios which lends it a queasy claustrophobic feel) Eaten Alive matches The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for sheer insanity – and even draughts in Chain Saw star Marilyn Burns as the terrorised woman-in-peril alongside William Finley and Mel Ferrer. Bonus Features: Brand new 2K transfer from the original camera negative High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary with co-writer and producer Mardi Rustam make-up artist Craig Reardon and stars Roberta Collins William Finley and Kyle Richards New introduction to the film by director Tobe Hooper Brand new interview with Hooper My Name is Buck: Star Robert Englund discusses his acting career The Butcher of Elmendorf: The Legend of Joe Ball – The story of the South Texas bar owner on whom Eaten Alive is loosely based 5ive Minutes with Marilyn Burns – The star of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre talks about working on Eaten Alive The Gator Creator: archival interview with Hooper Original theatrical trailers for the film under its various titles Eaten Alive Death Trap Starlight Slaughter and Horror Hotel US TV and Radio Spots Alternate credits sequence Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film illustrated with original archive stills and posters

• Crocodile | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A monster movie from Tobe Hooper the director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist. A hundred years ago an intrepid explorer opened a hotel on the banks of lake Sobek. The main attraction was in enormous Nile crocodile and folklore has it that the croc went berserk one night and ate nearly everyone in sight. The locals burnt the hotel down to the ground thinking the creature would perish. How wrong they were. The first night a group of teens moor in a tiny inlet and begin to party one of them Duncan discovers a huge nest on the shore and steals one of the eggs and hides it in Clare's rucksack. When a 20 foot 600 pound mother croc is angry look out! One by one it stalks out the group. One bite from its three inch teeth exerts 40 tons of pressure that will split you apart like matchwood. One death stare from this ""Mother"" and you are history... with sixty-five million years of practice the crocodile has learned a thing or two about killing.