Horror and Suspense

• Family Portraits | Blu Ray | (26/01/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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

  What a combo! Tobe Hooper, the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, teamed up with family-orientated producer Steven Spielberg to make Poltergeist. The film is about a haunted suburban tract home in a development very much like the one in Arizona in which Spielberg was raised. (Because it came out the same summer as Spielberg's E.T., it was tempting to see both movies as representing Spielberg's ambivalent feelings about childhood in suburbia. One was a fantasy, the other a nightmare.) Spielberg also co-wrote the screenplay, which taps into primal, childlike fears of monsters under the bed, monsters in the closet, sinister clown faces, and all manner of things that go bump in the night. At first, some of the odd happenings in the house are kind of funny and amusing, but they grow gradually creepier until the film climaxes in a terrifying special-effects extravaganza when five-year-old Carole Anne (Heather O'Rourke) is kidnapped by the spooks and held hostage in another dimension. Though not nearly as frightening as Hooper's earlier magnum opus, or A Nightmare on Elm Street, which came along two years later, Poltergeist is one of the smartest and most entertaining horror pictures of its time. --Jim Emerson

• House 4 | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £19.75   |  Saving you £-13.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young father is suddenly killed in an automobile accident and to honour his memory his widow and daughter move into the family's dilapidated Victorian estate. Thus begin a series of some very terrifying apparitions.

• F/X 2 The Deadly Art of Illusion (Blu Ray) | Blu Ray | (17/05/2017) from £14.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Follow-on from the 1986 film 'FX - Murder by Illusion' in which Tyler (Bryan Brown) is now semi-retired. However, his girlfriend s ex-husband talks him out of the quiet life after five years and into taking part in a police-sting operation. When the latter is murdered, Tyler investigates; with the help of his old police partner (Brian Dennehy) and soon they are trapped in a dangerous web of murder, treachery and deceit. Brian Brown and Brian Dennehy are back for an all-new action-thriller that continues the F/X saga with stylish wit, unrelenting suspense and amazing high-tech action. Five years after his first deadly adventure, Rollie Tyler (Brown) has left the special effects business and now designs sophisticated toys for a living. But when his girlfriend's ex-husband (Tom Mason), a police detective, persuades him to devise an illusion to capture a serial killer, Rollie is once again lured into the lethal world of make-believe. And soon, he finds himself trapped in a murderous maze of deceit and treachery in which he must depend on his ingenious tricks - and his friendship with detective Leo McCarthy (Dennehy) - to expose a terrifying underworld conspiracy... but only if he can stay alive!

• Hollow | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £7.18   |  Saving you £11.80 (281.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

  On holiday in the English countryside, two young couples uncover an ancient evil.

• Tattoo | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £5.49   |  Saving you £14.50 (72.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A new police graduate is forced to take a superior detective into the world of clubs and drugs to solve a series of brutal killings.

• Children Of Sorrow (DVD) | DVD | (08/06/2015) from £3.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (73.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ellen is searching for her sister who went missing in Mexico. She discovers that she has joined a cult along with a large group of teenagers led by the charismatic Leach. Ellen takes a camera and infiltrates the group in the hope of finding out what happened to her sister but the longer she is there the more she witnesses the terrible atrocities that Leach is making the teens commit and she soon realizes that Leach isn't about to let her leave alive.

• Popcorn | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A psychotic murderer whose only pleasure is to wear the faces of his victims is on a ferocious rampage. Fifteen years ago this monster murdered his family on stage in the town theatre then burned it all down. Tonight he is back for an encore. Elsewhere a bunch of local film students are organizing an all night horror film festival complete with many surprises. Little do they know that Lanyard Gates the crazed killer has his own surprises in store for them. It's only a movie...

• Apartment 1303 | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  While celebrating with her friends in her new apartment on the thirteenth floor, a young girl unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her older sister, decides to investigate her mysterious death. She finds that there have been many suicides of young women living in Apartment 1303...

• The Monster Walks | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  After inheriting her father's estate Ruth and her fiance arrive at the mansion and are dismayed to find a giant ape used for various experiments in the basement. Others in the house use the ape to try and kill Ruth thus saving the inheritance for themselves.

• Black Rainbow | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Charlatan medium Martha Travis (Arquette) and her alcoholic father Walter (Robards) make their living travelling from town to town putting on spiritualist performances during which Martha delivers false messages of hope from the dead to their surviving loved ones. At one such performance Martha gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband Tom. The problem is Tom isn't dead. When Tom is killed exactly as Martha envisioned the case attracts the attention of sceptical journalist Gary Wallace (Hulce) who discovers that Martha's premonition also revealed to her the identity of Tom Kuron's murderer...

• The Last Hunter | DVD | (17/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Last Hunter is the ultimate exploitation war movie containing some of the most horrific action scenes ever filmed. Army Captain Henry Morris (David Warbeck) is sent on a covert mission to destroy a Viet Cong radio station. He must venture through the deadly jungles to accomplish his goal. Accompanying him are a small commando detachment and a war journalist (Tisa 'Zombie Flesh Eaters' Farrow). Together they head through the jungle killing and killing. They encounter decompos

• Death And The Compass | DVD | (15/02/2005) from £14.91   |  Saving you £-5.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An adaptation of the José Luis Borges short story, Death and the Compass is a baroque murder mystery with a comic touch. Plagued by his involvement in a prior investigation, weary and embittered Police Commissioner Treviranus (played by Cox regular Miguel Sandoval, Straight to Hell, Three Businessmen) attempts to set a peculiar history straight. When his star detective Lonnrot (Peter Boyle), an intuitive, blue-suited Buddhist, is stumped as to the motive behind a series of unsolved psycho-geographical murders with Kabbalistic overtones, Treviranus suspects master criminal Scharlach (Christopher Eccleston), at large in the city. But Lonnrot rejects this thesis and, with the aide of enthusiastic, atheist journalist, Zunz (Chistopher Eccleston), he is lead to believe that the crimes are allied to points on the compass. Drawn fatefully to where he believes a final crime will be committed, Lonnrot and Zunz search for the solution within a mysterious deserted mansion to the South of the city. Shot with a comic book sensibility (like a 1930s movie serial) on richly coloured modernist sets with futurist flourishes, Cox's film looks sumptuous and follows the style of Borges' labryinthine scenario to the letter without losing the plot. The three leads all acquit themselves admirably. Boyle's mystical detective is awkward and aloof in contrast to Sandoval's cunning, career-minded police inspector, while Ecceleston shape-shifts between three roles with alarming ease. On the DVD: An audio commentary by Alex Cox and composer Dan Wool of Pray for Rain (who also scored Cox's Straight to Hell and Three Businessmen) primarily examines the relationship between sound and setting. Paul Miller's "Spiderweb", the featurette advertised on the sleeve and liner notes, does not appear on this disc. --Chris Campion

• The Devil's Due | Blu Ray | (16/06/2014) from £3.49   |  Saving you £21.50 (616.05%)   |  RRP £24.99

  After a mysterious lost night on their honeymoon a newlywed couple finds themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything for posterity the husband begins to notice odd behaviour in his wife that they initially write off to nerves but as the months pass it becomes evident that the dark changes to her body and mind have a much more sinister origin.

• The Hollow | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £12.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (7.78%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Ian Cranston returns to Sleepy Hollow unaware that he is the great-great-grandson of Ichabod Crane. His return stirs the spirit of the Headless Horseman and Ian must settle an old score to save his town. Featuring The Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter in his first starring role.

• Ghosts | DVD | (27/06/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (61.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Six contestants win a competition to appear on a LIVE reality TV show at a secret location in rural England. The next ten hours will be spent on a paranormal investigation with a TV crew, searching for the truth behind ghost stories that haunt an old railway station museum. But something evil awaits them and soon they'll discover that they are not alone. Cast and Crew: Starring: Jon-Paul Gates; Vivien Creegor; Freddie Fuller; Lauren Penneycard; Jeremy Hill Directed by: Steven M Smith

• Night Of The Living Dead | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  George Romero's classic 1968 zombie-fest Night of the Living Dead (shot in black and white) offers some disturbing images, even decades later. In a Pittsburgh suburb people are being stalked by zombies ravenous for human flesh. In a house whose occupant has already been slain, two separate groups of people unite and board themselves in, hoping to fend off the advancing ghouls. Through radio and TV reports they learn that radiation from outer space is thought to be responsible for the wave of zombie attacks all over the eastern United States. Once the humans are trapped, Romero shifts the focus to the internal feuding between them as they decide how to handle their dreadful situation. What unfolds is an examination of human nature, and of the fear and selfishness that keep many citizens from getting involved in the world's problems. Appropriately, both the zombies, and the authorities who later hunt them, are equally soulless. This film could also be read as a criticism of white males--it is not merely a coincidence that the film's two most rational, constructive characters are a woman and a black man. It is also no coincidence that the sequel Dawn of the Dead (1978) takes place in a mall infested by the undead--a perfect analogy for consumer culture. --Bryan Reeseman, Amazon.com

• Maigret - The Complete Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  An absolute must for fans of Georges Simenon's beloved sleuth, Inspector Jules Maigret, this four-volume Maigret Collection is the finest detective series from Granada Television since the late Jeremy Brett gave us his definitive portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the 1980s. The masterful Michael Gambon is the latest in a long tradition of familiar leading men (from Jean Gabin to Richard Harris) who have played Simenon's blunt but humane, occasionally whimsical, and magnificently insightful investigator. Yet Gambon is perhaps uniquely suited to the part: a popular star with none of the baggage of a brand-name icon or the self-effacing obligations of a character actor. He captures perfectly Maigret's measured but hardly inscrutable presence in the eruptive underworld of Paris crime. Among the 12 episodes here is "Maigret and the Burglar's Wife", which does honour to Simenon's compassionate tale of a retiring thief whose accidental encounter with a corpse sets in motion one of Maigret's most intense psychological duels. The equally compelling "Maigret's Boyhood Friend" finds the detective on a case drawing suspicion to an old school chum, while "Maigret Sets a Trap" is a wonderful production of Simenon's puzzler about a serial killer whose patterns of motivation and action must be deciphered before he can be caught. --Tom Keogh

• Obsessed | DVD | (03/02/2014) from £2.29   |  Saving you £13.70 (85.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Winona Ryder is Martine a playwright who's new play is about to premiere in New York. But before the curtain goes up she finds herself plagued by visions and dreams of being stalked by a mysterious man (James Franco). She can't decide if she is at the centre of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality. The Letter is an intriguing psychological thriller that blurs the lines of reality and imagination.

• Poltergeist 2 - The Other Side/Poltergeist 3/Stigmata | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Poltergeist 2 (Dir. Brian Gibson 1986): They're baaaaack! The ghastly ghosts and edge-of-your-seat suspense that made you cringe and cower in the original return in this heart-pounding other-worldly sequel filled with jolting state-of-the-art special effects. The Freeling family may have settled into a new home... but the spirts of the dead have not given up their desire to possess Carol Anne. Led by Kane a demon disguised as a preacher the spirts attempt to convince Carol Anne to join them on ""the other side"". But when the plan fails Kane Unleashes the hellish fury of the Poltergeist on the Freelings.... forcing the desperate family to turn for help to a mysterious medicine man a medium a grandmother and most of all to each other. Poltergeist 3 (Dir. Gary Sherman 1988): They're back... again! And they're still looking for Carol Anne (the late Heather O'Rourke) in this riveting and climactic finale to the Poltergeist trilogy. Sent by her parents to live in a Chicago high rise with her aunt (Nancy Allen) uncle (Tom Skerritt) and cousin (Lara Flynn Boyle) Carol Anne must face demons more frightening than ever before as they move from invading homes to taking over an entire skyscraper! Stigmata (Dir. Rupert Wainwright 1999): A lost soul has just received the wounds of Christ...and a shocking message that will alter history. Stunning performances from Patricia Arquette (True Romance) Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) and Jonathan Pryce (Ronin) and a cutting edge score by Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and Elia Cmiral make Stigmata ""a visual and visceral feast. Frankie Paige (Arquette) has absolutely no faith in God. All of that changes when she suddenly begins to suffer the stigmata - the living wounds of the crucified Christ. Frankie's miraculous bleeding comes to the attention of the Vatican's top investigator Father Kiernan (Byrne). But when Cardinal Houseman (Pryce) discovers that Frankie is actually channeling an extraordinary and provocative message that could destroy the Church he's convinced that she - and the force possessing her - must be forever silenced. Determined to stop this deadly conspiracy Kiernan risks his faith - and his life - to save her and the message that will change the destiny of mankind forever.