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The Driller Killer
(1979) [MA]
The Driller Killer is one of the most notorious flims ever. It almost single-handedly spawned the media "video nasty" hysteria of 1984 and the introduction of the video recordings act. It is also the film that launched the career and reputation of critically acclaimed director Abel Ferrara. Away... More
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The Cars That Ate Paris / The Plumber
(1978) [M]
The Cars That Ate Paris: In Paris, the traffic is murder. Paris is a quiet little country town… but the unsuspecting motorist who turns off the main highway, attracted by a barrage of inviting signs, will soon discover that the road to Paris is a DEATH TRAP! The town’s residents live off road... More
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Phenomena
(1985) [R]
Jennifer Connelly stars in horror stylist Dario Argento’s spine tingling tale of a young girl who arrives at an eerie Swiss boarding school where the students are being butchered by a vicious serial killer. With the help of wheelchair bound bug-specialist, Dr McGregor (Donald Pleasance), she... More
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Tenebrae
(1982) [R]
Italian horror stylist, Dario Argento directs this inventive, suspense thriller about Peter Neal, (Anthony Franciosa), an American mystery novelist who comes to Rome to promote his latest release.Soon after his arrival, a bizarre sequence of shocking homicides occur which strangely resemble the... More
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Deep Red (Profondo Rosso)
(1975) [R]
Considered by many to be terror maestro Dario Argento’s true masterpiece, "DEEP RED" (aka "PROFONDO ROSSO") stars David Hemmings ("Blow Up", "Gladiator") as an American jazz pianist who witnesses a brutal, bloody murder from afar. He teams up with a local Italian journalist (Daria Nicoladi) –... More
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In the Cut
(2003) [R]
When a lonely teacher witnesses the prelude to a brutal homicide and then falls for the Detective investigating the case, she begins a risky erotic liaison that will expose the darker side of passion and the boundaries of obsession. Hollywood favourite MEG RYAN and award-winning director JANE... More
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Runaway Jury
(2003) [M]
From master storyteller John Grisham and the director of Don't Say a Word comes a taut suspense-thriller that "grabs hold of you and never lets go" (Philadelphia Metro). In their first film together, screen legends Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman face off in this electrifying nail-biter about a... More
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The Grudge (Ju-on)
(2003) [M]
It looks like a normal, everyday house, but the atmosphere about it is anything but. Something happened here once... no, even now there is a terror here, born of a spirit that possesses this place. The various supernatural experiences undergone by the different owners of the house, unaware of the... More
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Dead and Buried (2 Disc Set)
(1981) [MA]
Potters Bluff, Rhode Island. may seem to be a sleepy little town. At least for the casual visitor and the local sheriff, Daniel Gillis. However, all of a sudden, there are a lot of strange murders where strangers or people passing through are killed by mobs of townspeople. Only Sheriff Gillis has... More
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28 Days Later
(2002) [MA]
In this film from director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, a powerful virus is unleashed on the British public following a raid on a primate research facility by animal rights activists. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a... More
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End Play
(1975) [MA]
Russell Braddon's bestseller becomes a gripping, psychological movie thriller with a serial killer, in a small coastal community , preying on young and attractive female hitchhikers! Suspicion falls on paraplegic Robert Gifford (George Mallaby) and his brother Mark (John Waters). Both men remain... More
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Goodfellas (2 disc set)
(1990) [R]
This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960's and 70's New York. Henry Hill is a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Tommy Devito is a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry's best friend. Jimmy Conway puts the two of them... More
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Strangers on a Train (2 disc set)
(1951) [M]
Two strangers, making idle chitchat on a train, agree that "some people are better off dead", and hypothetically speculate that if they swapped murders, they could commit the perfect, motiveless crime. Only later does one of the men realise that the other was serious about his murderous... More
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Brotherhood Of The Wolf (2 disc set)
(2001) [MA]
The year is 1764 and for the past two years a mysterious beast has been killing scores of women and children in the Gevaudan region of France. With the whole country shaken by these inexplicable killings, the King decides to send scientist Gregoire du Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan) and his taciturn... More
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
(2003) [MA]
Remake of Tobe Hooper's terrifying 1974 classic. A van load of young people encounter an extended family of murderers in deepest Texas with a taste for human flesh. Among the dysfunctional members of the clan is Leatherface, fond of terrorising stranded travellers with his collection of power... More
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Read My Lips (Sur Mes Levres)
(2001) [MA]
Deaf secretary Carla (Emmanuelle Devos) is bullied by her mean spirited male colleagues. When they suggest she needs an assistant it seems like the final insult, but, when the first applicant is ex-con Paul (Vincent Cassel) she seizes the chance to change her life. Carla covers his mistakes and... More
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The Good Thief
(2003) [MA]
In Neil Jordon's classy heist movie The Good Thief (a loose remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 Bob Le Flambeur) Nick Nolte plays American ex-pat Bob, a down-on-his-luck gambler with a drug habit, now living on the French Riviera. One last chance at making a fortune arises when Bob and his... More
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The Brides Of Fu Manchu
(1966) [PG]
Chrsistoper Lee returns as Sax Rohmer's legendary Asian super villain Fu Manchu for the second of his five outings as the character. This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnapping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of... More
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The Face of Fu Manchu
(1965) [PG]
The first in a series of thrillers adapated from the works of Sax Rohmer and starring Christopher Lee as the Oriental master criminal. Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) of Scotland Yard to the possibility that the fiendish Fu Manchu (Lee) may not after all be dead,... More
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Ripley's Game
(2002) [MA]
How do you turn an innocent person into a murderer? That's the diabolical game that Tom Ripley is playing in Liliana Cavani's sleek thriller Ripley's Game, based on Patricia Highsmith's novel (and previously filmed by Wim Wenders as The American Friend). Three years after walking off with... More
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2 disc set)
(2003) [M]
It's 1899 and the world is a dark and ominous place. Tensions between Germany and England are growing and a mysterious megalomaniac called "The Fantom" is provoking war, believing he can cash in on the conflict by selling weapons of mass destruction. Desperate to maintain peace, an agent of the... More
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The Italian Job (2003)
(2003) [M]
The plan was flawless. The execution was perfect. Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn’t plan on was being double-crossed (by Edward Norton). Now he wants more than the job’s payoff... he wants payback. Along with a beautiful... More
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Battle Royale
(2001) [R]
At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence amongst the nation's youth is spiralling out of control. With school children boycotting their lessons and physically abusing their teachers, a beleaguered and near-defeated... More
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Magic
(1978) [M]
Magician's assistant Corky performs disastrously at his first solo appearance. He is given a ventriloquist dummy called Fats to improve his act and within a few years Corky is at the height of fame. However, Fats has developed a mind of his own and wants to control his master. More
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Identity
(2003) [MA]
During a savage rainstorm, ten strangers take refuge at a desolate motel run by a nervous night manager. However, relief in finding shelter is quickly replaced with fear, as the travellers begin to die one by one. More
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Phone Booth
(2002) [M]
Colin Farrell delivers a captivating, off-the-hook performance as Stu Shepard, a self-centered New York City publicist who suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope. Now it's a real-time race against the clock as Stu must outwit a psychotic sniper in a frantic... More
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Fargo
(1996) [MA]
Jerry Lundegaard is in a financial jam and, out of desperation, comes up with a plan for his wife to be kidnapped and the ransom from her wealthy father to be secretly split between Jerry and the perpetrators. Jerry, who is not the most astute of individuals, hires a couple of real losers from... More
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Cat People
(1982) [R]
Nastassia Kinski stars in Cat People as Irena, a beautiful young woman on the bridge of sexuality; she discovers love for the first time only to find that the explosive experience brings with it tragic consequences. The tremendous passion of this girl's first romantic love is so strong, however,... More
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
(1971) [M]
Meet Doctor Phibes: a one-time concert musician who's now an all-time crazed murderer. In this clever, crypt-kicking classic, horrormeister Vincent Price plays a diabolical doc seeking the ultimate in revenge with precision creepiness and surgical wit. Watch Dr. Phibes live up to his promise:... More
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The Desperate Hours
(1955) [PG]
Director William Wyler's suspense classic marks the only time cinema giants Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March worked together. And the result is everything you'd expect: taut, terrifying and terrific. Bogart plays an escaped con who has nothing to lose. March is a suburban Everyman who has... More
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