andyb's - Rented List

When a homicidal mental patient (an enduringly disturbing performance by Baird Stafford) flees an experimental drug program, he'll leave a 5-day trail of psychosexual carnage from the peep shows of 42nd Street to the gore-soaked shores of Florida.

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As the 'body-count' genre stabbed its way into audiences' hearts in the early '80s, EuroTrash auteur Jess Franco was asked to create his own saga of slaughtered schoolgirls complete with gratuitous nudity, graphic violence, and gory set pieces.

But just when you thought you'd seen it all, Franco shocked the world by delivering surprising style, genuine suspense and a cavalcade of depravity that includes incest, voyeurism and roller disco.

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Mikos (George Eastman), an unstoppable killing machine, is on the loose in a sleepy American town. The town's only hope is a mysterious priest (Edmund Purdom) who has been hunting this madman around the globe.

As the bodies pile up, desperate Police Sergeant, Engleman (Charles Borromel), teams up with the priest in hopes of stopping Mikos from slaughtering more and more of his town folk.

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When they arrive to spend the weekend in a large country villa, the guests are expecting a chance to unwind and make merry. Unfortunately, their host has neglected to mention that there are zombies in the basement. They're feeling peckish too...

Boasting icky effects from Gino De Rossi (who arranged atrocities for 'Zombie Flesh Eaters'), 'Burial Ground' is a head-bashing, gut-muching, maggot infested classic from the gory glory days.

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In true 'Zombie Flesh Eaters' form, our story begins with the arrival of an ominous, seemingly unmanned craft - in this instance, a military plane making an unscheduled landing at a European airport.

Upon forcing the aircraft doors open, the waiting soldiers get a nasty shock when out bursts a horde of flesh-hungry, pizza-faced radioactive ghouls. The walking dead are here, and they're hungry!

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"Wacko" - a fast-moving comedy - voluptuous nymphets, young studs, the 'last virgin in the school', a bald looney and an obsessed detective (who hasn't slept in thirteen years) are all involved in various satirical scenes from such films as 'Alien', 'Saturday Night Fever', 'Grease', 'Dr Moreau',

'The Exorcist' and 'Dr Strangelove' and plagued by the return of the infamous 'Lawnmower Killer' who makes his final appearance at the High School Pumpkin Prom thirteen years after his first fatal attack.

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Six young friends fly off on a weekend's camping trip when engine trouble forces them down on a remote American Island. They explore and find a strange house occupied by an even stranger family.

MA (Yvonne De Carlo), PA (Rod Steiger) and their three middle-aged children, still living in the past of 1920 backwoods America. To their relief the group of friends are given shelter and welcomed with apple pie and bible reading. This remote idyll rapidly becomes the stuff of nightmares as one by one the young friends die macabre and horrible deaths. Eventually only CYNTHIA (Sarah Torgov) is left alive, and the secret of the Island is revealed. But Cynthia too has a past, and the horrors she experiences on the Island are enough to snap her already fragile hold on reality. She renders a terrible revenge on the killing family and finds herself the sole survivor of the Island of death. Now she waits for the next innocent visitor.

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An eerie and deserted wax museum, 'Slausen's Lost Oasis', is the site for spine-tingling terror where four unsuspecting young travellers (Tanya Roberts) are lured into a very deadly "Tourist Trap".

Slausen (Chuck Conners) is the reclusive and bizarre owner of this attraction, which is actually more like a macabre chamber of horrors. The grotesque and frightening mannequins in this sordid sideshow are only the beginning of the murderous mayhem and nightmarish madness to come!

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Beatrice (Juliet Stevenson) and her teenage son Elliot (Alex Lawther) spend a week packing up the contents of their remote holiday house in the South of France.

Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his sexuality and she in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément (Phénix Brossard) enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and finally, each other. "Departure" is an intimate story beginning at dawn on the first day and ending at night on the sixth day, charting the end of a summer, the end of a childhood and the end of an otherwise nuclear, middleclass family.

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An erotic psychological thriller, a tense drama, and, without question, a delicious guilty pleasure, 'Steel' hits all the right buttons - Hard.

Daniel is a sexy, successful TV journalist living life in the fast lane - but he s has fallen into a deep funk, suffering from serious paranoia and panic attacks. Enter Alexander, a hot 19 year old guy, who's about to change Daniel's life forever.

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Laugh-out-loud funny and seductively sweet, Is It Just Me? is a gay romantic comedy about one gay boy's search for Mr. Right. Plainly handsome Blaine, (Nicholas Downs) can't seem to meet guys, let alone form a relationship.

His beefy go-go boy roommate Cameron— who has no shortage of willing partners —can't understand why he doesn't just pounce and enjoy some one-nighters. Instead, Blaine hides in chat rooms where he meets Xander, a shy, recently relocated, Texan. But when the time comes to exchange photos, Blaine accidentally sends an image of his hunky roomie, and things go from romantically promising to downright confusing. Full of witty charm and cute guys, Is It Just Me? is a bona fide feel-good winner!

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'Parting Glances' follows New York lovers Michael and Robert on the eve of Robert's departure for Africa where his employer has reassigned him. During the night of farewell partying with friends they come to terms with the end of their relationship.

In the background their best friend Nick is dying of AIDS but isn't going to stop drinking and smoking (a fantastic performance of cutting wit from Steve Buscemi).

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Southern Italy, 1944: As chaos reigns all around them, British Army Captain Michael Berryman meets war artist Thomas March.

Despite having a young fiancée, Flora, straight-laced Michael finds himself falling for Thomas' bohemian charms; their relationship, however, is made impossible by societal pressures. 2017: In a more accepting world, an ageing Flora looks on as her grandson Adam tentatively forms a relationship with his client Steve. But while the external obstacles have fallen away, a minefield of internalised issues and dangerous temptations still line the road to happiness...

A young wide-eyed Christopher (Matt Smith) escapes repressive English society and arrives in Berlin at a time when the cabaret scene is in full swing. Launched into the thriving gay subculture, Christopher embarks on a seminal journey of self-discovery.

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The handsome Aaron (Steve Sandvoss), a Mormon missionary, travels door-to-door in Los Angeles spreading the word of his religion. Christian (Wes Ramsey), a cute West Hollywood party boy, goes from man to man without much commitment.

Opposites soon attract when Aaron and Christian meet, and sparks begin to fly.