Horror and Suspense

• Trauma | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Trauma was director Dario Argento's big crossover attempt at combining the Italian giallo genre with the American stalk 'n' slash. His fans may debate whether the result was a complete success, but the film certainly put his name in front of a wider international audience. Essentially the story is a psycho-murderer-mystery, with the audience made to piece together clues towards the identity-revealing denouement. The movie comes alive as a result of suitably intense performances, even while the characters die. Piper Laurie and Brad Dourif supply atypically explosive cameos. The leads are contrastingly subdued for the most part, no doubt because of their characters' involvement with drugs. Asia Argento (the director's daughter) is an anorexic who witnesses her parents' decapitations among a series of similar murders by the notorious "Headhunter". Christopher Rydell plays the ex-junkie who takes her in and helps track down the killer. Backing them up are some even greater performances from Tom Savini's eye-boggling special FX. With the aid of a motorised garrotte, the beheadings are gruesomely real, especially the one that leaves a head still able to talk. On the DVD: Trauma comes to disc in full 2.35:1 widescreen, though this isn't the clearest of transfers (plenty of artefacts present). The sound is in an unspecified Dolby mix. An interesting selection of extras almost makes up for the lack of a commentary. There are filmographies of Dario and Asia, a gallery of behind-the-scenes stills, and trailers for the movie Phantom of the Opera and several more in this series of releases. More interesting are the text features: interviews with Asia on her memories of the shoot and with renegade horror director Richard Stanley surreally recalling his long-term fandom of everything Argento. Most fascinating, there's a mini-essay on what was cut and why by the BBFC for the original UK video release. --Paul Tonks

• Satan's Little Helper | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Evil can dwell in the most innocent of places.... Nine year old Douglas Whooley has decided that this halloween he's going to dress as the title character from his favourite video game - Satan's Little Helper. While trick-or-treating he happens upon a masked psychopath who tricks Dougie into being his 'Little Helper' and the two begin a hellish rampage through the small community of Bell Island. Soon Dougie realises that this is for real and that his new 'master' is a crazed killer determined to murder Dougie's family next.

• Deer Crossing | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £5.29   |  Saving you £10.70 (66.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Maggie Chancellor and her son Cole head off after saying goodbye to Cole's father only to have an accident near a country farm. They are found by a farmer called Lukas Walton who takes them to his farm...they are never seen again. It's now 8 years later and the father gets a call from someone who claims to be his son Cole. The father hires an ex detective to go back to the County where his family went missing but the Detective finds that there's something more than just a missing persons case here. He thinks that the local Sheriff is keeping something from him. Lukas is raising Cole as his own son but what has happened to the mother Maggie?

• Invisible Dog | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £5.89   |  Saving you £-3.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Charles Kessler has homicidal tendencies and is controlled by his wife. When she leaves him for another man those tendencies start to take over.... Written by Al Martin and Helen Martin and directed by Joseph H Lewis.

• London Voodoo | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  If you don't believe in voodoo... pray you never have to! When a young man relocates his family from New York to London his wife discovers a horrifying new sexual power that threatens to tear the family apart...

• Plague Town | DVD | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's the movie that fright fans around the world have hailed as a new benchmark in independent horror: In a remote village a shocking secret lives on with each and every baby born. Now for a group of lost tourists every conception of 'family' will soon be sliced to pieces. And for the mysterious young lady named Rosemary the most depraved hunger of all is about to be fulfilled. Get ready to witness the graphic shocker from director/co-writer David Gregory that Fangoria hails as a boundary-pushing taboo-breaking experience... Plague Town goes where most mainstream horror films fear to tread!

• Night of the Shark | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Full Moon Bay is a quaint California fishing town undergoing change. One man fighting to usher it into the 21st century is eco-terrorist Hamilton Lux. The industrial millionaire is converting landmarks into tourist traps, constructing a monster of a luxury resort, raping the coast with his drilling, and trying to amass a stranglehold on small businesses like the fishery run by Daniel and Brook (Daryl Hannah, Kill Bill) Wilder (John Schneider, Smallville).When Marine biologist Amy Zuckerman (Heather McComb, Party of Five) arrives to survey Lux's questionable developments, she makes an alarming discovery: a beached Bull shark whose sensory organs exhibit violent tendencies even after death. But the second anomaly fills her with dread: the unheard of phenomenon of a swarm of Great Whites, forty strong, cutting through the waters together with one horrifying purpose to kill for pleasure.For Amy, Daniel, and Phillip, the only way to fight the man-eating army that s growing in strength, number, and hunger is to venture out into the watery terrors. What's waiting for them is beyond anything they could fathom.

• Identity / Gothika / House Of Nine | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Identity (Dir. James Mangold 2003): A daring new thriller from director James Mangold and producer Cathy Konrad featuring an all-star ensemble cast including John Cusack Ray Liotta Amanda Peet Alfred Molina Jake Busey Clea DuVall and Rebecca De Mornay. Caught in a savage rainstorm ten travellers are forced to seek refuge at a strange desert motel. They soon realize they've found anything but shelter. There is a killer among them and one by one they are murdered. As the storm rages on and the dead begin to outnumber the living one thing becomes clear: each of them was drawn to the motel not by accident or circumstance but by forces beyond imagination forces that promise anyone who survives a mind-bending and terrifying destiny. Gothika (Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz 2003): Halle Berry stars as Dr. Miranda Grey a psychiatrist who becomes a patient in her own mental hospital after she is accused of murdering her husband (Charles S. Dutton). Grey's only initial memory of the incident involves a chilling encounter with a distraught girl (Kathleen Mackey) on a rain-soaked road. The incarcerated and medicated Grey is now haunted by the same apparition and she must convince her former colleague Pete Graham (Robert Downey Jr.) that she is not insane or guilty of murder. Meanwhile the seemingly mad ramblings of Chloe (Penelope Cruz) one of Grey's former patients now make more sense and Grey must throw aside clinical logic to solve the supernatural murder mystery. House Of Nine (Dir. Steven R. Munroe 2005): Nine strangers with no apparent connection between them are abducted: drugged kidnapped and sealed in a house together. Doors are bolted shut windows are plugged with brick. No way out. Disoriented and angry they are greeted by a voice on an intercom system: they are to be watched as they 'compete' for a prize of five million dollars. And the winner will be the only one who gets out alive!

• Embrace Of The Vampire | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The innocence is over. Martin Kemp Alyssa Milano Charlotte Lewis and Jennifer Tilly head the star-studded cast of this gripping and eerily gothic feast of blood sex and seduction. Infected with the curse of the undead a tortured vampire has been condemned to a lonely search through the centuries for the reincarnation of his long-lost love Charlotte. With only days left before being damned to eternal sleep the love-struck nosferatu discovers his beloved's soul living in the virginal body of a young college student. But before he can suck her into his world of all-consuming darkness and passion he must first regain Charlotte's affections. Seducing her with demonic dream images of sensuality he sows evil seeds of doubt to reap his harvest of salvation. Transforming her from a shy virgin into a wild promiscuous woman hungry for sex with anyone - men and women - the vampire will destroy anyone who threatens his race for unholy matrimony...

• Little Erin Merryweather | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £5.25   |  Saving you £4.74 (90.29%)   |  RRP £9.99

  On a New England college campus something mystical and deadly is taking place. Flashes of red and grissly deaths. Local golden boy Peter decides to investigate but as the body count rises he realises he is becoming drawn into a nightmare world.

• Isle of the Dead | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's 1912 and Greece is beset by war and pestilence. As his troops bury their dead after another bloody battle stern General Pherides (Boris Karloff) goes to visit the grave of his wife buried on an island nearby. He's horrified to see her tomb has been looted and learns grave robbers are to blame for the desecration but there is worse news to come: plague has come to the island. The doctors are powerless but perhaps the sickness has another cause. Could it be that a 'Vorvolaka' - a vampiric demon - is at large on the island? And is there anything that can stop it?

• Out In Fifty | DVD | (01/10/2002) from £7.44   |  Saving you £-5.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A man who accidentally kills a prostitute is sent to jail for seven years. On his release he looks to the future and a chance to put the past behind him.... But he reckons without an alcoholic cop who is looking for an opportunity to put him back inside.

• Plague Town | Blu Ray | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's the movie that fright fans around the world have hailed as a new benchmark in independent horror: In a remote village a shocking secret lives on with each and every baby born. Now for a group of lost tourists every conception of 'family' will soon be sliced to pieces. And for the mysterious young lady named Rosemary the most depraved hunger of all is about to be fulfilled. Get ready to witness the graphic shocker from director/co-writer David Gregory that Fangoria hails as a boundary-pushing taboo-breaking experience... Plague Town goes where most mainstream horror films fear to tread!

• The Dead Pit | DVD | (08/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A mad doctor performs fiendish experiments on a group of mental asylum patients. In an effort to stop the slaughter a colleague eventually feels driven to kill him The corpse of the once brilliant Dr. Ramzi is sealed along with those of his victims in a pit. Twenty-one years later a beautiful young woman suffering from total amnesia is admitted. Soon after a massive earthquake hits the asylum and strange and terrifying events start to happen.

• Tribulation | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Police detective Tom Canboro (Gary Busey) led a normal happy life surrounded by his wife and family. But one night all that changed. Tom finds himself battling with more than thieves and thugs as he becomes entangled in the activities of an underground group who possess frightening psychic powers. These powers are unleashed and directed at his family. Before he can reach them a mysterious force takes control of his car and thrusts it headlong into an oncoming truck. Years later Tom wakes up from a deep coma in a hospital bed. As he returns to consciousness he finds himself in a new world unlike anything he could have imagined...

• RPM | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Ghoul School | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Where the uneducated meet the undead... Two thugs in search of hidden treasure mistakenly unleash a chemical into the school's water supply causing everyone it comes into contact with to become flesh-eating ghouls. Now it's up to a couple of geeks and a bad heavy metal band to escape the mayhem before the students consume everyone in sight!

• Blood Camp Thatcher | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In a faceless and clinical landscape of the future where every living soul is a potential enemy of the State a degenerate hierarchy - ruling by terror and intimidation - wields absolute and ultimate power over life and death. The State has become master; the protesters deviates the unfortunates who end up at notorious Camp 17 have little to look forward to. Behind the electrified fences a band of sadistic guards - teasing taunting dispensing cruelty at the crack of a whip - make survival a living hell. The cold-blooded commandant Thatcher and his devious cronies live a life of two pleasures: one of the flesh the other organising regular Turkey Shoots - it is the only possible escape. With a head start selected prisoners are allowed to run beyond the camp's boundaries to the hills and apparent freedom whilst Thatcher and his evil menagerie scheme to devise fascinating and gruesome deaths for their 'turkeys'. As the hunt begins so does the ultimate nightmare.

• The Asphyx | DVD | (23/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Early 1970s cult British horror starring Robert Stephens and Robert Powell. The Asphyx - the spirit of death - enters the body at the precise moment the soul is released. Each person has their own asphyx and if it can be captured the person can theoretically live forever. Sir Hugo (stephens) through his interest in photography and metaphysics captures the asphyx on film. when his son dies in a boating accident Sir Hugo becomes obsessed with immortal life with terrible consequences.

• Inhabited | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Russell's think that they have found their dream home the perfect place to raise their kids teenaged son Tyler and young imaginative Gina. Before long the dream house becomes a nightmarish hell as haunting events rattle the family. Strange noises broken toys murdered pets - is it the work of the beasts Gina describes or a disturbed child acting out? Dr. Werner a child psychologist is brought in to help Gina come to grips with reality. But can Dr. Werner come to grips with the chilling truth - a vicious pack of creatures no doctor can cure. The house becomes a battleground between the new occupants and the ancient monsters beneath. Not since Poltergeist has a family fought so hard for their home and their lives taking one final stand to keep their home from becoming... INHABITED!