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BUYING BRITISH 101 ’ Steve Davey Interviewed UNDERGROUND TERRORS Shocks on the box! SPECIAL Find out more at www.101-films.com / 101FilmsUK @101_Films

Available at Out Now on DVD Introduction A WARM WELCOME TO THE DARKSIDE D I G I TA L Special

Page 04 ello and welcome to a special digital edition of The Dark Side Interview devoted to 101 Films, an enterprising British entertainment Hlabel and part of the Lace group, who handle a wide variety of product: everything from classic 1950s westerns and violent British gangster flicks to rom-coms, and kiddie movies about talking dogs! Their speciality remains horror, though, and they have literally dozens of releases in their catalogue, all distinctively packaged in the unique 101 style. While some of these may not be the greatest horror films you’ve ever seen, there are plenty of hidden gems lurking there to spring out and (pleasantly) surprise you. We like 101 Films a lot, and not only because they have been Page 09 strong supporters of The Dark Side since the magazine returned to Cult Faves’ newsstands a few years ago. We like them because the guys who run 101 are genuine buffs, and their head buyer, Steve Davey is most definitely one of us, a dyed-in-the-wool horror fan who never misses out on a trip to FrightFest every year. Steve is also a big supporter of British talent, as you’ll see from his interview here. If not for 101, decent low budget British horrors like Sawney – Flesh of Man, Heretic and Silent Night, Bloody Night: The Homecoming would never have seen the light of day here outside of festival screenings. In recent times 101 have expanded into the Blu-ray arena with great success, bringing us superb editions of cult releases like ’s much-underrated Lord of Illusions, Stuart Gordon’s creepy Dolls and Robert Englund’s remarkably gruesome Phantom of the Opera. Genre fans can also look forward to HD releases of the sci-fi favourite Futureworld, and the superior Burt Lancaster version of The Island of Dr. Moreau. Page 14 Page 18 The company don’t mind courting controversy either. They New Horrors Film & TV released an extras-packed Blu-ray of , one of the most controversial of all ‘video nasties’ and this remains the most uncut version you can buy legally in the UK. As you read through this special 101 issue I think you’ll be surprised to see just how many movies the company now have in their Page 21 catalogue. Hopefully it will also encourage you to seek out some of Competition the interesting titles you might have missed and add them to your own collection. On the other hand, you may be a filmmaker yourself. If that’s so, and have a you are looking to secure a sales/distribution deal for, just contact Steve via email at [email protected] and Page 20 he will be happy to answer your questions and discuss your film in much more detail. Give them a try, you won’t be sorry.

Allan Bryce.

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101 Films Special 3 Run by film fans for film fans, 101 Films is one of the UK’s fastest growing, truly labels. Allan Bryce met up with their head buyer, genre

Slaybells ring in Silent buff Steve Davey, Night, Bloody Night: Homecoming for a chat about the company’s latest and forthcoming releases…

he last time I sat down for a chin wag with personable TSouth London boy Steve Davey was early in 2012 when 101 Films had only recently entered the horror market with two very different genre titles: the just that as he keeps 101’s put out in January this year. Buying British BBC’s terrifying release schedule kicking and “January was a really good According to Steve, the real and the controversial ‘Video screaming with a constant month for us,” says Steve, passion part of his job is ’ I Spit On Your Grave. supply of low budget “because we did well with supporting and discovering Since then 101 have shockers. Banshee Chapter, which I new British independent clearly gone from strength Steve is totally honest thought was brilliant. It was films. “We really try to do to strength, amassing an about the fact that some of produced by Star Trek actor our best in that area. You’ll impressive catalogue of their releases fall into the Zachary Quinto and was a notice that we have quite a indie horrors, cult TV and “so bad it’s good” category. very popular mainstream number of good British films movie classics, westerns, war “There’s a lot of competition showing at FrightFest last in our catalogue, including films and even animation. to pick up titles,” he explains. year. a great low-budget slasher “We’ve been going three “Everyone’s always out there “In the same month we movie, Silent Night, Bloody years as a label now,” says looking for the holy grail of also put out a little British Night from a talented Steve, “and the diversity the micro-budget film that called Heretic production team based of what we’re releasing makes a fortune,” he says. which cost £30,000 to make in Wales - Andrew Jones has increased. But our “In hindsight it’s always easy and was probably one of the and James Plumb. That core product, and my core to see why films like Blair best-reviewed films we’ve has done really well for us. interest as head buyer, is Witch or Paranormal Activity ever released; virtually every We’re releasing a very good the horror genre, and that’s worked so well, but finding critic really liked it. It was film next January called what I love the most.” them in advance is difficult.” really nice to help support Exorcism, a low budget Steve says he could They’ve managed to find British filmmakers with their British production that’s watch horror films all day, some really good ones first film and it did so well going to be next year’s and on occasions his job though, such as the spooky on DVD and as a digital Heretic. We have high hopes probably calls for him to do Banshee Chapter, which 101 download.” for that one.

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Meet The Cellar Dweller A spooky moment from the eerie Banshee Chapter and inset below 101’s Steve Davey

“In the meantime, obviously you’ve got to pay the bills, so we are still buying the American horrors from agents as well, because they do bring in revenue. They’re not always necessarily the best films, but they do have their followers.” A lot of those followers can be found at London’s FrightFest, and Steve says he loves joining crowds of genre fans there each August. “We really try to do our “I get in trouble with the missus for being best in that area. You’ll out of the house from ten in the morning until two in the morning for five straight notice that we have quite days,” he laughs, “but it’s good to meet up a number of good British with the filmmakers and chat to the people that actually buy our films. films in our catalogue, “There’s nothing like watching a decent including a great horror film with the FrightFest audience because the feedback they give is brilliant. low-budget slasher movie, One of the best examples I had of a Silent Night, Bloody FrightFest audience’s reaction was during a screening of the movie Big Bad Wolves, Night from a talented which got an amazing reception. It was such production team based in a brilliant film, though not horror as such. “I think what I like the most is you never Wales - Andrew Jones and know what you’re going to get at FrightFest. James Plumb. That has A great example of that is a movie that we picked up from last year’s event, something done really well for us.” very interesting called On Tender Hooks. It’s a documentary about people who enjoy putting hooks in themselves and putting themselves in suspension. Sounds weird, but there’s a real underground scene for it, like tattooing and piercing. We’re releasing that on Blu-ray on the 13th of October this year.” 101 have also gone down the Blu-ray route with a select number of their titles, though Steve says this option isn’t always available to them. “It’s dictated by the quality of the master material,” he explains. “If the original transfer isn’t good enough I won’t release it on Blu-ray The late , because I don’t want people being and in disappointed. Ghostwatch

101 Films Special 5 Some people have a strange idea of fun… A scene from On Tender Hooks

Putting Quality First watching Alex Cox’s release. The deal is not Before working for 101, Steve Videodrome on BBC2,” done yet though, so we’ll used to be the Blu-ray buyer Steve says. “That’s have to wait for details. for HMV. what really got me Of course there’s a great “The thing that frustrated me into films that weren’t deal more to I01 than just the most then was that some necessarily ones you’d horror and cult these days. films were being released on see at the Odeon The company recently Blu-ray with picture quality Leicester Square, films enjoyed one of their that was not very good. that were under the biggest successes with the The problem is, if you are radar, the cult films British gangster movie Full working from a poor master really. English Breakfast, starring in the first place, Blu-ray can “Those types of Dave Courtney. actually make it look worse.” films always interested “That was one of our Luckily, 101 have managed me, and it’s great that biggest successes,” says to source excellent masters we are managing to Steve. “We’ve got another for the Blu-rays in their release some of these one coming out in October growing collection of retro in excellent editions for called Looters, Tooters cult favourites, including collectors. and Sawn-Off Shooters, Clive Barker’s Lord of “Some I had to really little film and really good which is really good. It’s a Illusions, Stuart Gordon’s seek out, like Cellar Dweller fun.” great British gangster movie Dolls and the upcoming for example. That’s not in At the moment he is in with really catchy music. releases of Futureworld HD, but it’s a brilliant little the process of signing a pair The market is there for this (August) and The Island of film, just 77 minutes. It’s not of really interesting 80s kind of production if it’s Dr. Moreau (September). CGI, it’s fantastic monster monster movies in the Cellar done well and we expect big “I remember as a lad animatronics, a great looking Dweller mould for Blu-ray things of it.” “I remember as a lad watching Alex Cox’s Videodrome on BBC2. That’s what really got me into films that weren’t necessarily ones you’d see at the Odeon Leicester Square, films that were under the radar, the cult films really. Those types of films always interested me, and it’s great that we are managing to release some of these in excellent editions for collectors.”

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Future Releases Wax’s André De Toth from packaged with original year’s offerings beforehand, 101 have also delved into a screenplay by Melvyn poster art as The War since he prefers just going the Hollywood archives and Bragg. This gritty yarn set Collection. along and being surprised. released a dozen vintage during the North African Of course we are on the “That’s all part of the fuin,” Universal westerns starring campaign in WW2 has been eve of another FrightFest, he says. “The films that the likes of Alan Ladd and favourably compared to The and there’s a very good interest me don’t have to Audie Murphy. Dirty Dozen. chance that at least one or have the biggest budget. As They have also scheduled War movie buffs can two of the movies screened long as they have a decent a long-deserved Blu-ray also look out for a host there will end up on the 101 script and some smartness release for Play Dirty, a of fun 60s actioners like label. about them, that’s what really good Michael Caine Beach Red, Hornet’s Nest, Steve can’t give us any we’re looking for. And if they war movie from the early Thousand Plane Raid and clues though. He says he are British-made, that’s even 70s directed by House of Submarine X-1, all brilliantly hasn’t researched any of this better.”

101 Films Special 7 Find out more at www.101-films.com / 101FilmsUK @101_Films

Available at Out Now on DVD Cult Favourites CULT FAVOURITES

It’s almost impossible to define what makes a cult movie, but 101 have released quite a list of such strange and wonderful films on Blu-ray and DVD, as you will see from their ever-growing Cult Collection…

back to wherever it came from, but in the process causes a big fire that does him in too… Flash forward three decades and the artist’s home has become an art colony for big-haired 80s types, presided over by grumpy Yvonne De Carlo (the former Lily Munster). Aspiring comic book artist Whitney (Debrah Foreman) discovers the artist’s last drawings and the dark tome that inspired him, and you can probably guess what happens next. Neatly Scripted by Child’s Play’s Don underrated little chiller from CELLAR DWELLER (1988) DVD. Mancini and efficiently directed Stuart Gordon, the talented Certificate: 18. by special effects ace John Carl director of Re-Animator and Re-Animator’s Jeffrey Combs Buechler, this is low on budget From Beyond. A standard plot has a short but potent cameo but high on imagination, with a (travellers seeking shelter from in this fun monster flick, playing great 80s vibe! a storm end up staying the night a 1950s EC-type comic book with a sinister dollmaker whose artist who accidentally brings DOLLS (1987) Blu-ray. toys come to murderous life) is the Cellar Dweller, one of his Certificate: 18. given a visually stylish treatment, monstrous creations, to life. Jeff Great to see 101 giving a and the film has a pleasantly manages to banish the creature Blu-ray release to this much macabre fairytale atmosphere

101 Films Special 9 about it. The special effects are stuff ever done for the small very good indeed, and the story screen, and if you have nerves of holds the interest throughout. steel you can buy it in a double FUTUREWORLD (1976) DVD. Guy Rolfe (Mr. Sardonicus) gives DVD set with 101’s equally This cult sci-fi sequel to Michael an excellent performance as the chilling disc of The ! (Jurassic Park) Crichton’s Westworld kindly but creepy dollmaker. It’s begins three years later and has eerie and atmospheric and we THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU investigative reporters Blythe Danner would recommend this over any (1977) Blu-ray. (Gwyneth Paltrow’s mum) and Peter of Charlie Band’s Puppet Master Certificate: 12. Fonda looking over the newly rebuilt movies. First filmed in 1932 asThe Island robot theme park, where they discover Of Lost Souls, this version of head man Arthur Hill is planning GHOSTWATCH (1992) DVD. the HG Wells classic stars Burt to replace all world leaders with Certificate: 12. Lancaster as the evil Dr. Moreau, mechanical duplicates. Would anyone This notorious BBC a man who changes people into notice in real life? Yul Brynner has a production was originally animals - and vice versa. Michael cameo as the black-clad gunfighter broadcast at Halloween in York plays the shipwreck victim robot from the former film, and location 1992 as a supposedly true who Moreau wants to mate with shooting at NASA gives the movie a big life ‘investigation into the his “Tiger Lady,” Barbara Carrera. budget look. Intelligent and suspenseful, supernatural’. Four respected She’s very sexy indeed - can we it’s well worth adding to your collection. presenters and a camera crew volunteer ourselves for this job, attempted to discover the truth please? behind ‘The This handsome production has house in Britain’, expecting nice location photography in a light-hearted scare or two. the Virgin Islands and excellent Audiences who tuned in for makeup from John Chambers, a laugh to see the likes of who won an Oscar for Planet Of Michael Parkinson, Sara Greene, The Apes. It’s also miles better Mike Smith and Craig Charles than the later Marlon Brando/ doing their fluffy thing were Val Kilmer version, the least said confronted by some of the most about which the better. Looks terrifying scenes ever shown on fab on Blu-ray too. It’s due for the box, and the show earned release this September. the dubious honour of being the first TV programme to be cited I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (1978) in The British Medical Journal as Blu-ray. having caused Post Traumatic Aka Day Of The Woman, Stress Disorder in children! this infamous “” 30,000 complaints later it was features one of the most banned and never repeated. graphic and vicious gang-rape Based on the reportedly true scenes ever committed to case of the ‘Enfield , celluloid. Camille Keaton this is up there with the scariest (Buster’s grand-niece) plays

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a writer on holiday in a JACK THE GIANT KILLER backwoods community who is (1962) DVD. raped twice by four local thugs If you enjoyed The Seventh (one of whom is mentally Voyage Of Sinbad then you’ll LORD OF ILLUSIONS (1995) Blu-ray. retarded). They leave her for love this colourful medieval Certificate: 18. dead, but she recovers and fantasy. It was remade just last Clive Barker’s third directorial effort wreaks a brutal revenge on year as a $195 million production after and her attackers, castrating one with Ewan McGregor, but the is an interesting chiller starring guy in the bath, chopping one original is much more fun. Evil Quantum Leap’s Scott Bakula as up with an axe, and slicing wizard Torin Thatcher is out to Harry D’Amour, a private eye whose another to pieces with an regain his lost magical powers cases always seem to involve the outboard motor. by abducting beautiful Princess supernatural. The opening sequence Though technically very Elaine (Judith Meredith). Then is great, with Swann (Kevin J. rough, the film is nevertheless Kerwin Matthews, who played O’Connor) and some helpers very powerful in places, and Sinbad in the Harryhausen film, attempting to rescue a young girl the lack of background music turns up as the heroic Jack and from the clutches of Nix, a messianic gives it a disquieting feeling of agrees to transport the Princess cult leader living in the desert with a documentary reality. to safety at a faraway convent. host of followers. 101’s release is the longest, Over the course of the trip he All the usual Barker motifs are least censored version ever to battles witches, dragons, sea here - shamanic totems, bizarre set be made available in the UK. monsters and the like, aided by design, black metal torture devices The 2-disc Blu-ray set also a magic leprechaun, a dog and a and over-cooked dialogue. includes lots of juicy extras. chimpanzee! After rescuing the girl they ‘imprison’ Nix in a multi-piece iron mask, sealed with blood, prior to I Spit On Your Grave his burial in the desert. Years later Swann is a world-famous magician because of the powers he inherited from Nix, and living in a loveless marriage with Famke Janssen. The team who raided Nix’s camp are being murdered in hideous ways by the menacingly camp Butterfield (Barry Del Sherman) and Swann knows he is next on the list, so he enlists Harry’s protection. Intelligent, exciting stuff and a must for Barker fans.

101 Films Special 11 Michael Bryant and in

Jim Danforth’s stop-motion Bryant) and Jill (Jane Asher) monsters are a real marvel, and are made of sterner stuff and help make this a treat for kids investigate the room, finding of all ages! This superb quality nothing more scary than a few 50th Anniversary Edition comes tins of pre-war spam and a THE RED BARON (1970) complete with an original 1962 letter to Santa from a young girl Certificate: 12 theatrical poster of Jack the probably now long dead. This stirring wartime flying Giant Killer. Things get a bit spookier adventure filmed in Ireland is of though when the scientists interest to cult movie fans because knock down an old wood panel it’s one of the biggest budget studio to discover a stone staircase. It pictures ever to be directed by is on this that the psychically B-movie king Roger Corman. John susceptible Jill sees the of Phillip Law stars as the legendary a terrified 19th-century servant German flying ace, Baron von girl. Bryant believes in what Richtoven, who was credited with she has seen but treats it as a 80 air combat victories during WW1. scientific problem. He thinks Don Stroud plays von Richtoven’s that the stone walls have acted nemesis, Canadian pilot Roy like a kind of recording tape to Brown, who refuses to play by the keep replaying this traumatic gentlemanly rules of his British event and determines to use compatriots and gets to take Law on this ghostly event to further his in an exciting dogfight climax. You team’s research. But there may could say he fought the Law but the be a more frightening secret Law didn’t win. Great aerial action hidden away within those cold scenes abound in this underrated stone walls… effort that fully deserves its cult Truly scary in places, The following. THE STONE TAPE (1972) DVD. Stone Tape is the small screen Certificate: 12. equivalent of Robert Wise’s The Nigel (Quatermass) Kneale’s Haunting (1963), and it gets a legendary small screen splendid transfer here. frightener is set in a traditionally spooky old house which is PHANTOM OF THE OPERA bought by an electronics (1989) Blu-ray. company to house their new Certificate: 18. recording media research Put all thoughts of Andrew division. The building has been Lloyd Webber out of your head completely renovated apart from and settle back to enjoy the one room that the superstitious most gruesome Phantom movie workmen have refused to so far. This entertaining Harry enter. Of course Alan Towers production casts programmers, Peter (Michael Elm Street’s Freddy (Robert

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Robert Englund as The Phantom of the Opera

PUMPKINHEAD 2: BLOOD WINGS (1993) DVD. Certificate: 18. A slam-bang sequel to Stan Englund) as a mutilated composer Winston’s E.C. comics monsterfest who destroys everyone who stands starring Dirty Harry psycho Andy in the way of his attempts to turn Robinson as a Sheriff who moves young singer Jill Schoelen into back to his sleepy home town with an opera star. The setting is 19th his wife (Caren Kaye) and daughter Century London (though the film (Ami Dolenz). The latter falls in with was shot in Hungary), and there’s a crowd of wild teens who incur a pleasing feel of vintage Hammer the wrath of a blind mountain witch about the sets and photography. (Lilyan Chauvin). Pretty soon the This Phantom has made a deal fearsome Pumpkinhead, who is with the devil, and he likes to cut revealed to be a deformed boy who the faces from his victims a-la was drowned in a well years ago, Leatherface, and stitch them onto is stalking the youngsters. There’s himself. Director Dwight Little dwells plenty of creative dismemberment gleefully on grisly beheadings and on the menu, and trivia buffs might impalements, so gore fans really get be interested to know that’s Bill their money’s worth. The film looks Clinton’s brother, Roger, in the tiny amazing on Blu-ray too. role of Mayor Bubba!

Pumpkinhead flexes his Blood Wings!

101 Films Special 13 As well as their popular Cult Horror Collection, 101 Films have managed to put together an impressive catalogue of memorable low-budget and indie titles, some only seen here previously at genre events such as London’s prestigious yearly FrightFest. Here’s a full checklist of what you may have been missing…

THE PIT (2013) Cert 18. DVD Groundhog Day-style chiller. screenwriter and his Produced by Lucky Writer/director Luke Massey composer girlfriend do a McKee, this unconven- makes the most out of an house swap to enjoy a dream tional horror tale centres intriguing premise. holiday at a sprawling Tudor around a pregnant teen in a mansion near Glastonbury… backwoods community who DARKNESS DESCENDS but the dream turns into a tries to escape when she (2014) Cert 18. DVD nightmare because the place discovers she is due to be The great Danny Trejo is haunted! sacrificed to a creature in a (Machete) is on top form as pit. It’s eerie and offbeat, and a real badass villain in this ALL HALLOWS’ EVE (2013) well worth a look. gripping tale of a young Cert 18. DVD documentary filmmaker Babysitting two children THE CAPTIVE (2013) who investigates a dark and on Halloween night, Sarah Cert 18. DVD dangerous world below the (Katie Maguire) finds an old A Royal Marine awakes in streets of New York VHS tape in the kids’ trick a mysterious house and is or treat bag. Three tales of THE HAUNTING OF forced to fight for his life YOU ARE NOT ALONE terror unfold, all linked by a CRESTVIEW HIGH (2012) every day against grotesque (2010) Cert 18. DVD murderous clown… who then Cert 18. DVD inhuman opponents in this A young Californian turns up in person! The Breakfast Club meets

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potent scares. It’s released grim TCM-style shocker September 1st. has wealthy young beauty Ali Faulkner abducted by a THE ATTIC (2103) gang of inner-city cannibals Cert 18. DVD who just love to eat the rich! Aka Crawlspace, this disturbing has a family’s new dream home quickly turning into a living nightmare when they discover the psychotic former owner has never moved out! A novel twist on the classic stalk and slash in a sexy, dark formula. comedy-thriller. Six spoiled after he makes the mistake prep school kids are stuck of ripping off a psychotic in detention on a dark and gang boss. Packed with gory stormy Saturday afternoon, incident, it makes Lock Stock and as if that wasn’t bad and Two Smoking Barrels enough, there’s a psychotic THE CABIN (2013) look like a Disney movie! killer in their midst! Cert 18. DVD Priest-to-be Brett and his friends take a trip to the desolate cabin that Brett’s grandfather secretly owned, only to be confronted by an ancient evil presence out for revenge. A spooky tale with an vibe. BANSHEE CHAPTER (2103) Cert 18. DVD With plenty of decent scares and a compelling mood of lurking menace, this intriguing ‘found footage’ tale of a journalist who DEAD SOULS (2012) ARE YOU THERE? (2102) takes a hallucinatory trip Cert 18. DVD Cert 18. DVD into a world of Lovecraftian A young guy inherits a Why do young people never nightmares has already farm in New England learn that if you play with an developed a deserved cult and discovers it has a Ouija board on Halloween following. horrifying history in an eerie you are likely to attract the supernatural horror tale attention of a malevolent featuring a juicy role for demon? Supposedly based Texas Chainsaw 2’s on real experiences, this CARNIVAL OF FEAR (2013) Bill Moseley. creepy effort delivers some Cert 18. DVD A young couple are trapped in a forgotten amusement park and terrorized by swamp monsters and a ghostly clown in a movie that has echoes of the classic Carnival of Souls.

A DAY OF VIOLENCE (2010) Cert 18. DVD BUTCHER BOYS (2102) Darren Ward’s ultra-violent Cert 18. DVD crime caper follows the last Scripted by Texas Chainsaw days in the life of small time Massacre’s Kim Henkel, this gangster Mitchell Parker

101 Films Special 15 DEMON LEGACY (2014) Jeffrey Combs play brothers Cert 18. DVD who inherit a family Five sorority sisters visit mortuary and create a full a remote mountain lodge scale zombie outbreak and accidentally release by exposing hundreds of an unholy entity in this fun un-cremated bodies to toxic 80s-style horror which owes medical waste. Romero style a big debt of gratitude to fun – in 3D! .

HERETIC (2012) Cert 18 with lots of gore and some DVD and Blu-ray decent scares. A troubled Catholic priest finds his faith crushed when a young girl he promised to protect commits suicide. Months after her death, he is haunted by the of the girl and her dead stepfather. An intelligent British horror with a knockout twist. OUTPOST 11 (2012) Cert 15 DEVIL RIDERS (2009) DVD and Blu-ray Cert 18. DVD An intriguing British Race For The Devil seems chiller set in a compelling to have been the inspiration environment, for this horror Outpost 11 tells the story about two suburbanites who of three soldiers who must hit the open road with their THE MAZE (2010) battle isolation, madness wives on Route 66 and fall Cert 18. DVD and arctic spiders at a foul of a group of brutish Five friends break into a remote listening post in the bikers. Definitely one for closed corn maze in the Arctic Circle. torture porn fans. middle of the night and decide to play a harmless game of tag. Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play THE LODGE (2008) Cert 18. along with them! DVD and Blu-ray A young couple’s weekend getaway at a secluded mountain ranch turns into a living nightmare when they discover that the barking mad caretaker of the place has murder on his mind! What ensues is a really suspenseful tale of terror RITES OF SPRING (2011) THE FORGOTTEN (2011) with some neat twists. Cert 18. DVD and Blu-ray Cert 18. DVD It’s the season to be scary as A fast-moving, very violent MASK MAKER (2010) Cert a ransom scheme turns into post-apocalyptic thriller 18. DVD and Blu-ray a nightmare for a group of about a soldier looking for A young couple and their kidnappers. They become his kidnapped daughter in a friends start renovating an victims of Wormface, a zombie infested wasteland. old house, in the process : supernatural being who This compelling and awakening a deformed killer RE-ANIMATION (2012) Cert accepts victims in exchange imaginative effort features who makes masks of his 18. DVD and 3D Blu-ray. for ensuring a rich harvest. plenty of gore and good victim’s faces. A pleasing Wishmaster’s Andrew It’s basically Jeepers action scenes. old-style stalk and slasher Divoff and Re-Animator’s Creepers revisited.

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and son in hillbilly country and uncovers a grim tale of abduction, corruption, rape, incest and even murder. Doug (Hellraiser) Bradley is great as a local sheriff with something to hide.

SAVAGES CROSSING (2011) turns out to be far worse Cert 18. DVD than she could imagine. THE WRONG ROAD (2011) Wolf Creek’s John Jarratt Cert 18. DVD is a psycho fresh out of Prepare for Halloween- prison stranded by a storm style horror. An escaped along with his estranged psychopath terrorises wife and kid and various teenagers from the town of other characters in a remote Saint Charles, Illinois as the Australian roadhouse. A tense small town prepares for its tale of suspense and horror. THE WICKED (2013) Cert annual October Scarecrow 18. DVD and Blu-ray Festival! A Group of teenagers test the legend of an immortal witch by breaking a window in her creepy old house in the woods - and get more than they bargained for! A SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY very neat mixture of horror NIGHT (2013) Cert 18. DVD and . A British remake of a classic 1970s slasher, this fun gore epic is set in the abandoned home of Wilfred Butler, a wealthy but troubled man who committed suicide, An SAWNEY – FLESH OF MAN axe wielding maniac has set Cert 18. DVD and Blu-ray up residence there - and David Hayman stars as he doesn’t take kindly to ZOMBIE HORDE (2011) legendary Scottish cannibal strangers! Cert 18. DVD Sawney Bean. Still feasting We all love zombie movies on human flesh after and we all love gritty Mad hundreds of years, he picks Max-style post-apoca- up victims in his black lypse movies. Here’s an cab before taking them action-packed blending of back to his hungry family. THE WRONG HOUSE (2012) both, with rugged wanderer A gruesome treat for the Cert 18. DVD John Knox (Johnny Gel) strong of stomach! This unusual haunted helping a ragtag group of house tale has echoes of survivors fight the living SICK BOY (2012) The Legacy. Two different dead and stave off the Cert 18. DVD families find themselves attentions of ruthless raiders Lucy (Skye McCole trapped in a deserted in a world where law and Bartusiak) babysits a young farmhouse, discovering that order has gone the way of boy confined to his room by every attempt to leave takes the Dodo. And for extra a mystery illness. She soon them right back to its front value it’s got the great begins to suspect the child’s WASTELAND (2012) door. Even worse, they’re star Fred mother (horror legend Certificate: 18. DVD haunted by the ghost of (‘The Hammer’) Williamson Debbie Rochon) is hiding A detective tries to track the place’s vengeful former playing a character called something – and the truth down a missing mother owner! Moses!

101 Films Special 17 FILM & TV 101 may be famous for their many great horror releases, but their extensive catalogue also contains a wide selection of films from other too - including rooting tooting Technicolor westerns from the 1950s, hard-hitting modern day gangster flicks and even family movies about talking dogs! Here’s the full rundown…

BEAT GIRL (2013) Cert 12 Captain America is freed to character, trying to give up small-time London villain An Emmy-nominated battle against arch-criminal his gunslinging ways, in this who kills his way to the top coming-of-age story, with The Red Skull, played flavoursome from of Britain’s drugs empire in Louise Dylan as a 19-year old by Castle’s Scott Paulin. top genre director Budd this violent British gangster girl torn between a career Exciting comic book action. Boetticher. flick. Best enjoyed with a as a classical pianist and the nice cup of tea. enticing world of DJ-ing. CAPTAIN AMERICA – DANCIN’ THRU THE DARK DEATH TOO SOON (1979) (1990) Cert 15 GREAT NORTHFIELD BORDER RIVER (1954) Cert PG Cert PG Educating Rita’s Willy MINNESOTA RAID (1972) Joel McCrea stars in a Reb Brown is Marvel’s star Russell penned this Cert 12 rugged American Civil War spangled superhero, battling bittersweet comedy about A vivid re-enactment of the western as a Confederate a villain’s plan to poison a couple-to-be who choose violent shootout that ensued officer who steals $2-million America with a chemical the same Liverpool club when the Jesse James and in gold bars to buy firearms that horrifically accelerates for her hen and stag night Cole Younger gangs joined for the South. the aging process. celebrations! forces to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota. Cliff BREAKFAST WITH JONNY CAPTAIN AMERICA – EVIL ROY SLADE (1972) Robertson leads a great cast. WILKINSON (2013) Cert 15 SENTINEL OF LIBERTY Cert PG Norman Hale of Hale (1979) Cert PG John Astin of The Addams GUN FOR A COWARD and Pace fame stars in Steve Rogers is the recipient Family stars as the meanest (1957) Cert PG a fun British comedy set of an experimental body villain in the West, who Fred MacMurray stars as a in a rugby club enhancement chemical that tries to change his ways rancher in the days of the during the historic England turns him into America’s after he falls for a pretty old west whose two younger v Australia Rugby Union most patriotic superhero in schoolteacher. A classic brothers cause him problems. World Cup final of 2003. this fun origin adventure. Blazing Saddles-style Fast-shooting action in the comedy! classic western style. CAPTAIN AMERICA (1990) CIMARRON KID (1951) Cert PG Cert PG FULL ENGLISH BREAKFAST HALF BROKEN THINGS Frozen in the ice for Real-life WW2 hero (2014) Cert 18 (2007) Cert 12 decades, Matt Salinger’s Audie Murphy is the title Dave Courtney stars as a Middle aged house-sitter

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Penelope Wilton takes in (2014) Cert 18 Stephen Dillane is a dog who has the ability to two tearaways, and together Ex-gangster Charlie self-made millionaire who talk! But once his special they form a surrogate Thompson returns to re-unites with his estranged powers are discovered, the family in a gripping and London with violent revenge brother to re-open the (F.B.D.I) Federal Bureau of suspenseful thriller with an in mind after the tragic abandoned fish and chip Dog Investigation will stop at unexpected conclusion. death of his young nephew shop they shared in their nothing to get him. Danny. A top class Britflick youth. HELL BENT FOR LEATHER for gangster movie fans. THRONES AND EMPIRES (1960) Cert PG RANGER (2011) Cert 15 (1994) Cert 15 Audie Murphy stars as MAN IN THE SHADOW A lone Mountie cleans up A young Christian Bale stars Clay Santell, mistaken by (1957) crime and corruption in a alongside Helen Mirren townspeople for a murderer Honest Sheriff Jeff Chandler small town, taking down the and Kate Beckinsale in this named Travers. Escaping takes on bad rancher Orson bad guys one by one in the epic Viking saga based on and taking lovely Janet Welles in a lively western most vicious showdown the Shakespeare’s Hamlet! Gifford hostage he struggles from the director of Creature town has ever seen. to prove his real identity. From The Black Lagoon. TORTOISE IN LOVE (2012) RIDE A CROOKED TRAIL Cert 12 HORIZONS WEST (1952) MASTER OF THE WORLD (1958) Cert PG A charming British comedy Cert PG (1961) Cert U Audie Murphy is a thief about Tom, a gardener who Brothers Robert Ryan and Charles Bronson is the good mistaken for a lawman can talk to plants more Rock Hudson face each guy trying to stop misguided in a lively western easily than he can talk to other on the opposite sides genius Vincent Price and his adventure featuring a great women, and his attempts to of the law, with Rock the ingenious flying machine in performance by Walter woo and win beautiful Polish good guy in a solid western a colourful, exciting fantasy Matthau as an alcoholic au pair Anya. from veteran horse opera based on two Jules Verne judge! director Budd Boetticher. novels. WARRIORS OF THE RIDE CLEAR OF DIABLO STEPPE - MYN BALA (2012) LAW AND ORDER (1953) MOBS, GANGS AND GUNS (1954) Cert PG Cert 15 Cert PG (2010) Cert 18 More gun-blazing action This epic movie tells the Former US President Ronald After serving time in prison, with Audie Murphy which story of the oppression Reagan features in this two-bit thug Don Keys gets sees our hero playing a of the native Kazakhstan fast-moving western as a caught up in the kidnapping deputy seeking the cattle people by the Dzungars (a lawman who wants to retire plot of a mobster’s daughter. rustlers who murdered his Mongol tribe descended and marry Dorothy Malone. Tough criminal action all the family, and being befriended from Genghis Khan) in First he has to deal with bad way. by cheerful gunfighter Dan the early 18th century. guy Preston Foster though. Duryea Spectacular locations and NICK FURY – AGENT OF action scenes. LEGEND OF GOD’S GUN SHIELD (1998) Cert 12 SHOOTERS (2001) Cert 18 (2007) Cert 15 David Hasselhoff portrays BAFTA-award-winning WHISPERING SMITH (1948) Gunslinging preacher Robert Marvel’s hard-bitten director Dan Reed’s gripping Cert PG Bones heads for the lawless eyepatched hero battling documentary draws you Hollywood legend Alan town of Playa Diablo for a to stop the sinister forces of into a disturbingly realistic Ladd plays the legendary confrontation with notorious Hydra unleashing a deadly world of Liverpool gangsters railroad detective of the title, scorpion-venom drinking virus on America. and the situations they get who becomes convinced bandito El Sobero! themselves into. that his old friend and PAPADOPOULOS & SONS colleague Murray Sinclair LOOTERS, TOOTERS AND (2012) Cert 15 SOX (2013) Cert U has joined a criminal band to SAWN-OFF SHOOTERS Game of Thrones star A family adopts an adorable loot the railroad.

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MARVEL KNIGHTS spinning in a non-stop the super genius warrior penetrate the domed walls COMPLETE COLLECTION downward spiral. Will an king of the African nation of Tokyo Jupiter and find a Cert 15. Blu-ray and DVD unlikely union be the final of Wakanda, the most single young man, a young Joss Whedon, director of straw? After secretly lying technologically advanced man upon whom the fate of Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, in wait for months, the new nation on Earth. When all humanity depends… for brings some of the greatest Hellfire Club makes its move! Klaw, a deadly assassin, and in his heart lies the power of superhero adventures to his mercenaries threaten RahXephon, and with it all life. This amazing value X-Men Unstoppable Cert 15 to invade his civilisation the worlds can be remade. compilation brings together The X-Men are off to Black Panther must use his All 26 episodes of this 8 Marvel Knights protect the Earth from its superhuman skills to prevail. classic anime series and its in one fantastic box set. destruction at the hands of motion picture counterpart The titles included are listed the Breakworld. And when Thor & Loki Blood Brothers are presented here together below, and they are also it’s all over, nothing will ever Cert 15 in an 8-disc Complete available as separate DVD be the same! Thor & Loki are brothers and Collection. releases. forever enemies. But why Iron Man Extremis Cert 15 does Loki hate his brother? EFFEN LIED (2004) Cert 15 X-Men Gifted Cert 15 Extremis, a 21st century of Is this master of mischief Lucy, a beautiful young The X-Men are back with the super-soldier serum that really the villain he’s been mutant, is bred by the the express purpose of turns its subjects into living branded? government to be the astonishing the world. But weapons, has fallen into ultimate weapon. All 13 when pressure builds for terrorist hands. Now Iron RAHXEPHON COMPLETE episodes of this ultra-violent the mutants to take an Man must change to fight COLLECTION (2002) Cert 12 Japanese anime series are antidote to cure them and this threat in ways that will It is a new reality. For 15 included in this 4-DVD a new adversary arrives on forever alter Tony Stark. years, the remnants of the set. This new edition also the scene, will it derail their human race have fought includes a double-sided plans before they even get Spider Woman Agent of against the alien Mu and poster. started? S.W.O.R.D Cert 15 their unstoppable giant When Spider Woman is Dolem; a battle mankind LADY DEATH (2004) X-Men Dangerous Cert 15 approached by a mysterious seems destined to lose. But Cert 15 The tragic death of a student agent of S.W.O.R.D., the deep within the captured Together with the valiant at the Xavier Institute reveals last thing she wants is city of Tokyo, where time outcast, Cremator and that a powerful enemy is another invasion of Skrulls. flows on a different path and her trusted companions, working from inside the But she soon finds that the mind-wiped citizens do not Vassago and the Nameless mansion to destroy the urge within her to inflict even know that they have Wolves, the powerful warrior X-Men. vengeance upon them is too been conquered, there is Lady Death challenges the intense to deny. something that the Mu fear Lord of Lies for control of X-Men Torn Cert 15 more than all of mankind’s Hell itself in this ground- Emma Frost’s erratic Black Panther Cert 15 weapons. To find that secret, breaking anime feature behaviour has the X-Men T Challa is the Black Panther, one young woman must based on a US comic book.

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