Horror and Suspense

• Creepshow 2 | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  For Creepshow 2, the quickie 1987 sequel to the Stephen King-scripted/George Romero-directed 1982 original, Romero shifted jobs to become the screenwriter, earning King (who also has a goony cameo as a trucker) a "based on stories by" credit. Cinematographer Michael Gornick stepped up to make an uninspiring directorial debut, turning out a conventional TV-look picture unlike the sometimes striking Creepshow. A frame story mixes live action and cartoon as a small boy leafs through the latest issue of his favourite horror comic while plotting revenge against neighbourhood bullies. A pun-dropping host called the Creep (played by Tom Savini when not a cartoon) introduces three anecdotes. In "Old Chief Wooden Head", George Kennedy and Dorothy Lamour are kindly Western shopkeepers killed by tearaways and avenged by the wooden Indian which stands outside the place. In "The Raft", four obnoxious teens are terrorised on a lake by a hungry slime-monster. And in "The Hitch-Hiker", hit-and-run driver Lois Chiles is haunted by her squashed victim, who keeps reappearing in a progressively battered forms. Though King and Romero deliver a good mix of cynical and melodramatic dialogue, the stories are disappointingly thin and predictable, with especially weak punch-lines. Of the performers, only Chiles really works up the hysterical attack needed to play a comic book character. On the DVD: just a trailer. The picture is a fullscreen print that cuts off crucial details in the comic book panels. --Kim Newman

• Beyond The Door 2 | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Several years after her first husbands death Dora (Daria Nicolodi) returns to her country home with her son (David Colin Jr) and her second husband (John Steiner). However she finds that the house is occupied by a mysterious evil presence that begins to torment her with terrifying nightmares and strange occurrences. Even her young son Mark is grasped by the evil and undergoes hideous transformation as though possessed by a supernatural force. As Dora is driven closer to the edge of madness the truth behind her first husband's death is revealed. The terror grows as the game of supernatural revenge is played to its chilling conclusion. The final theatrical film from Italian horror maestro Mario Bava.

• Boggy Creek 2 And The Legend Continues | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  He stands eight feet tall... weighs over three hundred pounds... and has been seen only one hundred times in the past thirty years. Some call him Bigfoot. Sasquatch. Or Yeti. But in the deep dark woods of Texarkana he's known as the legend of Boggy Creek. Charles B Pierce creator of such classics as The Town That Dreaded Sundown and the original The Legend of Boggy Creek returns with Boggy Creek II: And The Legend Continues! As reported sightings of the feared man-beast increase anthropologist Brian Lockhart (Pierce) and his team of student researchers venture in to the swamps of Texarkana to investigate. Armed with firearms and sophisticated surveillance gear Lockhart's team uncovers such terrifying encounters as a near-fatal aquatic attack on a lone jet skier the brutal slaying of a hapless drunkard on a moonlit lane and a state trooper's lethal battle with the creature in his own backyard. But the investigators soon find that invading the territory of others exacts a price as they come face to face with not one but two primal terrors in a harrowing and unforgettable climactic encounter! Beautifully photographed in the ominous backwards of the South Boggy Creek II is a fascinating adventure into the wild weird realm of the unknown.

• Scissors | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £11.08   |  Saving you £-7.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Angie Anderson (Sharon Stone) is a beautiful young woman who harbours a dark childhood secret - one that has kept her from having meaningful relationships with men. She works as a temporary secretary and spends her evenings at home alone working on her doll collection the one source of pleasure in her life. One night in her apartment elevator Angie is brutally attacked by a red-bearded assailant. She fights off the would-be rapist by stabbing him with a pair of scissors. Angie gradually becomes convinced someone is trying to drive her insane. Steve Railsback and Ronny Cox co-star in this pre-Basic Instinct Stone thriller.

• Friday The 13th: Part 2 | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £8.94   |  Saving you £4.05 (45.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Just when you thought it was safe to go back to camp: here's even more heart-pounding terror! Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake all that remains is the legend of Jason Voorhees and his demented mother who had murdered seven camp counsellors. At a nearby summer camp the new counsellors are unconcerned about the warnings to stay away from the infamous site. Carefree the young people roam the area not sensing the ominous lurking presence. One by one the

• Shocker | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Shocker allows Wes Craven to hang onto his title as the master of the horror genre--but only just. Centring once more on a charismatic lead character (Horace Pinker) Shocker continues Craven's penchant for combining fantasy and horror. Pinker (played with zeal by Mitch Pileggi of X-Files fame) is a serial killer--the "family slasher"--terrorising the inhabitants of the city of. Having murdered the foster family and girlfriend of all-American boy Jonathon Parker (Peter Berg), the latter finds he can foresee Pinker's actions in his dreams. The resulting supernatural developments (including ghosts, magic charms and possessed bodies) are more than a little muddled but underpinned by the continuous gruesome hack and slash action. A film with its brain most definitely disengaged, Shocker is still undemanding, wince-inducing fun. On the DVD: Not much to offer from this format. The splendidly dated 1980's American heavy metal soundtrack (including Kiss and Megadeth) comes through loud and clear and the sound effects are certainly horribly audible. Picture quality is fine but not spectacular. Extras are limited to scene selection, the trailer and a selection of storyboards and their cinematic equivalents. --Phil Udell

• Howling 6 - The Freaks | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A mysterious drifter wanders into a desolate desert town in search of the man who put a curse on him that causes him to become a werewolf every full moon. The man runs a carnival of freaks and the carnival has come to town...

• Howling 4 - The Original Nightmare | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A beautiful writer is plagued by sinister visions and a long country vacation is prescribed. But when the great outdoors beckons with an eerie howling the novelist begins to unearth more than her fertile mind could ever imagine.

• Blood Dolls | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• The House By The Cemetery | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Previously banned! A young young family move into a forboding New England mansion unaware that it was once the gruesome residence of Dr. Freudstein a dabbler in bizarre surgical practices. Soon Freudstein now a classic Fulci zombie is up to his murderous old tricks again seeking freshly severed limbs and organs to keep his corrupt rotting flesh alive! As past and present collide in a vortex of fear the terrified family are forced to fight for their lives in the subterranean gore-soaked charnel-house that is one of the many secrets of the house by the cemetery! Who will survive and what will be left of them after the deranged Dr. Freudstein has taken his cut? Only italian horrormeister Lucia Fulci - director of Zombie Flesh Eaters - has the answer in The House By The Cemetery.

• Children Of The Corn 2 | DVD | (16/10/2000) from £8.46   |  Saving you £1.53 (15.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In Children Of the Corn a young couple uncovered the horrors that lay hidden in the small community of Gatlin Nebraska. Three years earlier all the adults suffered a terrible fate at the hands of their own sons and daughters - victims of a bloody cult of human sacrifice. Now the bodies have been discovered and the neighbouring townsfolk of hemingford agree to shelter the trumatised children... unaware that they are opening their doors to an awesome force that will threaten their very existence. Once again the evil power of He Who Walks Behind The Rows is reincarnated and commands the children to rise up and rid the land of the adults and defile the sacred corn. It's time for the final sacrifice.

• Alfred Hitchock: Secret Agent/The Skin Game Number 17/The Ring | DVD | (19/09/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Tox Box | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Horror Classics 2: Indestructible Man/Amazing Transparent Man | DVD | (26/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Spooks - Complete Seasons 1 To 3 | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

• Bloody Moon | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Meet the ladies who lunch... on their families! For an unexplained reason housewives fall prey to a strange disease. Feeling the need for flesh they turn on their loved ones and can't get enough of it!

• The Brain | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Toxic Avenger Part 2 | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £17.94   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-20.00%)   |  RRP £14.95

• Shadow Conspiracy | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Bobby Bishop is one of the President's most powerful and trusted advisors but when he becomes involved with a college professor who has information on a traitor he suddenly becomes an outsider and a fugitive...

• Rosemary And Thyme - Series 2 - Part 1 | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Laura Tyme is a former policewoman whose husband has abandoned her for a younger woman; Rosemary Boxer is a plant biology lecturer whose academic career is cut short. A sudden death brings them together and they discover their shared love gardening and a natural inquisitiveness. Together they search for work as gardeners. However mysteries have a habit of following them around! In a two-hour special Rosemary and Thyme are hired along with the inmates of a local prison to restore a barrister's walled garden. Rosemary's suspicions of working with ex-cons are confirmed when the body of the barrister's cousin is found in the local river. Includes two further episodes.