Horror and Suspense

• Evil Dead | Blu Ray | (20/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.49

  Director Sam Raimi may now be renowned for his trilogy of Spider-Man films, but for many, it’s the Evil Dead films that hold a special place in their heart. Unsurprisingly, too, for here’s a horror film that’s got no sign of Hollywood studio interference, no wish to tone things down, and instead finds a massively talented film maker stretching a small budget to impressive ends. The Evil Dead, along with its sequels, has built up a cult following since its original release, but it’s also earned a deserved respect too. For this is a film that’s jammed with energy, and genuinely bursting with ideas. Granted, in the years since its release, many have been mined by the horror genre. But there’s still so much to admire and enjoy. The film, if you’ve not had the pleasure, stars Bruce Campbell as Ash, one of a group of five friends who head to a cabin in the woods on holiday. While there, unwisely as it turns out, they play a tape that they shouldn’t, and all hell breaks loose. It also sets loose a very enjoyable half and a half of stylish, and gory horror. It comes out of its Blu-ray release surprisingly well, too. Here’s a film shot on old stock, that should be showing plenty of wear and tear. And yet the 1080p transfer here is a fine job, backed up by an always-welcome package of extras. The end result is both a fine way to enjoy the movie for the first time, or arguably the best way to revisit it. Either way, it’s very much a recommended buy. --Jon Foster

• The House By The Cemetary | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The House By The Cemetary

• Queen Of Blood | DVD | (31/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Hey...Stop Stabbing Me! | Blu Ray | (28/06/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Smash Cut | DVD | (31/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £51.99

• The Wicker Man | Blu Ray | (03/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nicolas Cage stars in this remake of the classic 1973 British horror film.

• Evil Is In The Blood - The Blood Pack | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: The Lost Boys: Sam and his older brother Michael are all-American teens with all-American interests. But after they move with their mother to peaceful Santa Carla California things mysteriously begin to change. Michael's not himself lately. And mom's not going to like what he's turning into. Ghost Ship: In a remote region of the Bering Sea a boat salvage crew discovers the eerie remains of a grand passenger liner thought lost for more than 40 years. Once onboard the crew must confront the ship's horrific past and face the ultimate fight for their lives. Constantine: Supernatural detective John Constantine (Reeves) has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson (Weisz) to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles... House on Haunted Hill: One night in the house one million bucks no questions asked. But there is a catch for anyone who accepts the offer. Murder is a way of life at the House On Haunted Hill a jolting effects-ramped remake of the 1959 cult classic that starred Vincent Price and was directed by screen horror legend William Castle. Geoffrey Rush plays twisted theme park bigshot Steven Price who's hosting a scary birthday bash for his wife (Famke Janssen) at an abandoned institute for the criminally insane. Taye Diggs Ali Larter Bridgette Wilson Peter Gallagher and Chris Kattan portray strangers mysteriously assembled for the event that could make them all very rich. Or profoundly dead. And you? We won't start the party without you. House of Wax: What begins as a weekend getaway for six friends becomes a terrifying fight for their lives in House Of Wax an exciting re-imagining of the 1953 horror classic from Dark Castle Entertainment and producers Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis. A road trip to one of the biggest college football games of the year takes a turn for the worse for Carly Paige and their friends when they decide to camp out for the night before heading to the game. A confrontation with a mysterious trucker at the camp site leaves everyone unsettled and Carly has her hands full trying to keep the peace between her boyfriend Wade and her hot-headed brother Nick. They wake up the next morning to find that their car might have been deliberately tampered with. At the risk of being stranded they accept a local's invitation for a ride into Ambrose the only town for miles. Once there they are drawn to Ambrose's main attraction - Trudy's House of Wax which is filled with remarkably life-like wax sculptures. But as they soon discover there is a shocking reason the exhibits look so real. As the friends uncover the town's dark secrets they are stalked by a mysterious killer and find themselves in a bloody battle for survival. The group must find a way out of Ambrose - or become permanent additions to the House Of Wax.

• Skeleton Key/The Grudge | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £12.86 (51.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Skeleton Key: It can open any door. From the writer of The Ring (Ehren Kruger) and the director of K-PAX (Iain Softley) comes the supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key. Set largely in the dark atmospheric backwoods just outside of New Orleans The Skeleton Key stars Kate Hudson as Caroline a live-in nurse hired to care for an elderly woman's (Rowlands) ailing husband (Hurt) in their home... a foreboding and decrepit mansion in the Louisiana delta. Intrigued by the enigmatic couple their mysterious secretive ways and their rambling old house Caroline begins to explore the mansion. Armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door in the house she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret... The Grudge: American nurse Karen Davis (Sarah Michelle Gellar) living and working in Tokyo is drawn to an odd house and exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim... Produced by Sam Raimi 'The Grudge' sees Sarah Michelle Gellar changing tack from her 'Buffy' guise in this superior chiller directed by Takashi Shimizu adapted from his own Japanese horror classic.

• Interstate 84 | DVD | (30/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When a body is found floating in an upstate New York river, hard-drinking cop Joe Weldon is left with few clues. After uncovering the man's identity - an enigmatic simpleton named Hap - Weldon is led to the crooked hustler who took advantage of Hap and the disturbed, young punk who tormented him. A tale of personal demons, shattered lives, and ultimate redemption.

• Lady Of The Lake | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Lady Of The Lake

• Nightmare In A Damaged Brain / Demonium | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nightmare In A Damaged Brain: In this former Video Nasty title escaped mental patient George (Baird Stafford) repeatedly suffers a graphic nightmare that depicts the axe murders of a couple making love. In Florida a prowler stalks a babysitter - when she is attacked the youngest child she is looking after just sits and laughs... George begins a journey of brutal murder death and destruction until the final moment of truth when his nightmares come to frightening life! Dem

• Day of the Dead | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The walking dead have taken over the world and only a small band of the living survive. This motley group of scientists and soldiers are barricaded in an abandoned missile silo where the chief scientist is conducting grotesque research experiments to find a way of controlling the ravenous marauding Zombies. Tensions meanwhile become intolerable especially when the self appointed psychotic military leader discovers that some of his soldiers have been used as guinea pigs in the zombie experiments. A last ditch battle results in the darkest day of horror the world has ever known.

• The Barber | DVD | (16/03/2009) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  As twenty-four hour darkness descends upon the small town of Revelstoke Alaska local barber Dexter Miles knows all too well the signs of an approaching winter. But its while cutting Sheriff Corgan's hair that he is surprised to overhear that the body of Lucy Walters has been found a woman he murdered days prior and hoped no one would find until the spring. When FBI Agent Crawley arrives in Dexter's sleepy town the barber finds an excitement and resolve he hasn't experienced in years...and he needs to feel it again. Now through the eyes of a deranged serial killer we discover a chilling layer in a weary town whose only concern is surviving another long dark winter.

• The Horror Collection Vol I | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £15.15   |  Saving you £-0.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A chilling anthology of five horror tales, enough to strike fear into any viewer. A woman is terrorised by an unknown caller in the middle of the night. A man wakes up with blood on his hands and his therapist tries to unlock the secrets of his troubled mind. A schoolgirl is followed home in a frightening game of cat and mouse. A mother and her child are trapped in an unspeakable cycle of domestic abuse. A sick serial killer preys on a teenager he befriends. Tune in to the Horror Network for all these horrific sights and terrifying tales.

• Requiem for a Vampire | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A truly amazing and utterly spellbinding take on the vampire theme with the director the late Jean Rollin successfully mixing elements of the fairytale surrealism horror and eroticism into a striking visual feast that is almost devoid of dialogue. Centring on two young women on the run from a robbery who take refuge in a ruined castle Requiem was to establish Rollin's unique eroticised take on the vampire. It is a fitting tribute to his work. Jean Rollin died on 15th December 2010.

• Bucket Of Blood, A / The Giant Gilla Monster | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £6.96   |  Saving you £13.02 (327.96%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A spine-tingling double feature. A Bucket of Blood (Dir. Roger Corman 1959 66 mins) Coffee bar waiter Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) is hailed as an artist for his amazing lifelike sculptures. Unbeknown to his customers his art is achieved by murdering his models and covering them in clay. Said by many to be cult actor Dick Miller's finest hour A Bucket of Blood is a superb semi-spoof of the dead-bodies-in-the-wax-museum genre. Produced and directed by Roger Corman it is a fine example of macabre humour perfectly capturing the spirit of the beatnik. The Giant Gilla Monster (Dir. Ray Kellog 1959 74 mins) When a Texas town is threatened by a gigantic lizard a singing and swinging teenager kick starts his friends into gear to stop the crazed beast. An enjoyable romp through 1950s science fiction drive-in cheese the sleepy lizard wreaking havoc on miniature sets is no less terrifying than the musical numbers.

• Awakening Of The Beast | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A sinister psychiatrist experiments with LSD on 4 swinger volunteers who enter the strange nightmarish world of a claw handed entity known as Coffin Joe with each experiencing a different reaction involving sex perversion and sadism...

• The Stranger | DVD | (18/10/1999) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The legendary story that hovers over Orson Welles' The Stranger is that he wanted Agnes Moorehead to star as the dogged Nazi hunter who trails a war criminal to a sleepy New England town. The part went to Edward G. Robinson, who is marvellous, but it points out how many compromises Welles made on the film in an attempt to show Hollywood he could make a film on time, on budget and on their own terms. He accomplished all three, turning out a stylish if unambitious film noir thriller, his only Hollywood film to turn a profit on its original release. Welles stars as unreformed fascist Franz Kindler, hiding as a schoolteacher in a New England prep school for boys and newly married to the headmaster's lovely if naive daughter (Loretta Young). Welles, the director, is in fine form for the opening sequences, casting a moody tension as agents shadow a twitchy low-level Nazi official skulking through South American ports and building up to dramatic crescendo as Kindler murders this little man, the lovely woods becoming a maelstrom of swirling leaves that expose the body he furiously tries to bury. The rest of the film is a well designed but conventional cat-and-mouse game featuring an eye-rolling performance by Welles and a thrilling conclusion played out in the dark clock tower that looms over the little village. --Sean Axmaker

• Living Terror | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £20.99

  This box set features three films where the beasts takes the power back! komodo: Emerald Island a tropical haven where fifteen-year-old Patrick spent many happy summer holidays. But now ever-expanding industrial plants have replaced the summer homes and in place of the friends with whom he played a hidden and unimaginable terror lurks. Within minutes Patrick's world collapses as his family are attacked by fearsome creatures leaving him orphaned and unable to describe the traumatic events he barely survived. Patrick's grandmother locates Victoria Juno a fiercely committed young doctor who believes she can help him. She decides that the best way to dislodge Patrick's memories is to return him to the scene of his terror - the island whose bloodthirsty inhabitants robbed him of the ones he loved. But the devilish terror that existed before has grown in number and ferocity. When Patrick Dr. Juno and their party arrive on the island they are met with deadly consequences. Dr. Juno must take on insurmountable odds in order to recover Patrick's psychological well-being and Patrick must come face to face with his greatest fear. But can any human overcome the predatory instinct of the Komodo Dragon. They Nest: Off the coast of Maine an African cargo vessel mysteriously explodes and crashes into the harbour. What no one knows is that the crew have already been dead for days... Dr. Ben Cahill (Thomas Calabro) arrives on Orrs Island to resolve some personal problems and receives a hostile reception. The locals do not like outsiders and in particular Jack Wald (John Savage) does his best to make Ben feel unwelcome. Soon bizarre and frightening deaths start to occur on the island. Each victim appears to have died by natural causes yet each has red insect bite-marks on their flesh. When Wald's dead body is discovered all fingers point to Ben. To clear his name Ben performs an autopsy to establish the true cause of Wald's death. He is horrified to discover insect cocoons filling the man's chest. A rare breed of African cockroaches has invaded the island and are using the insides of humans as breeding grounds. When a new hybrid of flying cockroaches evolve and begin to engulf the island the town's people must run for their lives to escape the hordes of bugs or face being eaten alive! Arachnid: A viral outbreak on a remote South Pacific island lures a secret expedition to investigate. The natives there are dying from a lethal cocktail of neurotoxins and the most likely cause is a venomous spider bite. The suspect - a previously unknown species of arachnid. Now a terrifying predator with a voracious appetite and a killer instinct is hunting ex-Navy pilot Lauren Mercer and her team of soldiers and scientists. To make matters worse the thing is multiplying at a ferocious rate. And when Mercers team finds the wreckage of a crashed spaceship it becomes clear that the extraterrestrial arachnid is more than just a new species of spider.

• Weird Film 10-DVD Box Set | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  This fantastic box set comprises some of the strangest weirdest and cult films ever committed to film. Features: 1.The Lost World (1925) 2.Reefer Madness 3.The Little Shop Of Horrors 4.Night Of The Living Dead 5.Dementia 13 6.Cocaine Fields 7.Bride Of The Monster 8.The Wasp Woman 9.Terror By Night 10.Teenagers From Outer Space For individual film synopses please refer to the individual products/