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Our modern world is full of marvels - but also polluted air, foods sprayed with deadly chemicals, misused drugs and hidden radioactive substances.

Ever wonder how these poisons might affect a developing child in the womb? 'It's Alive' offers a shocking possibility - and in so doing has become a creepy cult classic!

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Some horror films have gained notoriety for their abhorrent imagery (Cannibal Holocaust) or were as scary to film as they are to watch (The Exorcist) but none have ever been cursed to the point that they have led to deaths in the real world.

Such is the case with 'Antrum', a film from the 1970's rumoured to have been lost, until now.

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Rutger Hauer is Nick Parker, a Vietnam Vet who returns home after years missing in action; minus his sight but with lethal new skills as an expert swordsman. Skills that will be put to the test when he tries to rescue an old army buddy who's deep in trouble with the mob.

Parker, however, has other ideas and a lot of surprises in store...

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The Birling family are rich, pampered and complacent. It is 1912, and the shadow of the impending war has yet to fall across their lives.

As they sit down to dinner one night, celebrating the engagement of the eldest child, Sheila (Eileen Moore), to prosperous business man Gerald (Brian Worth), a knock at the door announces the arrival of a visitor who will change their lives forever.

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The terror has not ended. It has just begun...again. A young, lovable scanner with extraordinary telepathic powers transforms into a murderous megalomaniac after taking one of her father's experimental drugs.

After taking over his pharmaceutical company, the deranged scanner runs amok on a killing spree and takes over a television company in her quest for world domination. Will her scanner brother, fresh from a spell in a Thai Monastery, have the power to stop her?

The now global terrors are rounded up and relocated to a far-flung island - but not for long. Michael Moriarty and Karen Black star in a tale of human choice and monstrous consequences.

What began as a lone little in It's Alive grows more numerous when It Lives Again. Frederic Forrest and Kathleen Lloyd play parents who realise that perhaps the only one way to stop the mutants' deadly spree is to become the bait for their own monster/child.

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Kyoya's father was a great warrior, killed at the hands of the diabolical psychic, Rebi Ra, who has now opened a portal to hell in the city of Shinjuku. It falls to Kyoya to finish what his father started and battle his way through demons, while protecting a young woman from harm.

The only problem is that he's not exactly your classic hero type, and his powers are still latent.

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A mysterious face-off in a wooded clearing between two escaped convicts and a carload of sharply dressed yakuza holding a beautiful woman captive ends in hails of bullets and showers of blood.

The location for this violent encounter is the mythic Forest of Resurrection, the site of the 444th portal of the 666 hidden gates that link this earthly domain to the netherworld - and it didn't get this name for nothing. As one of the surviving prisoners escapes with the girl into the darkness of the forest, disgruntled gangsters soon become the least of their worries as an earlier battle between a lone warrior against hordes of zombie samurai is carried over from a millennium ago into the present day...

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It's not unusual for lady-killer Renzaburo Taki to share a night with a woman. When that woman can turn into a demonic spider, however, it's just a little worrying.

The demons are on the move, and as a member of the Black Guard, Taki's job - his 'real' job - is to protect the human world from the demon world. And his work is just beginning! A fragile peace exists between the two worlds, brokered by a treaty. In order for the renewal of that treaty to go smoothly, Taki has to protect Giuseppi Mayart, a two hundred year old man with immense spiritual power, from an extremist faction of demons seeking to bring chaos to the two worlds. Worst of all, Taki's assigned a partner for the mission: the unnaturally beautiful Makie, a fellow Black Guard and herself a demon!

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This first film of the trilogy introduces Hanzo 'Razor' Itami, the stone-faced samurai policeman.

Refusing to swear the police blood oath due to his fellow officers and superiors' bribery and corruption, Hanzo's duty is to protect the people of Edo and fight corruption using whatever means or weapon is to hand. His reputation as the hardest man on the beat is quickly established as we witness his gruelling training routines of self-torture to test his limits of strength and endurance. Special methods - employed to prepare his 'long arm of the law' -include an array of devices such as wooden blocks, boiling water, and rice-dollies. Beyond these eye-watering spectacles, crime-fighting Hanzo seeks out women who have been involved in corruption and forces information from them. With outstanding fight scenes and a sweaty, grinding 1970s funk track, the Hanzo trilogy is pinku entertainment at its absolute best.

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In the final film of the series, Hanzo (Shintarô Katsu) is thrown into the realms of the supernatural as he comes up against a female ghost, remarking: “I’ve always wanted to do it with a ghost, at least once”.

The spirited woman soon finds herself on the receiving end of Hanzo’s famous interrogation tactic as a bigger plot involving the Shogunate treasury unfolds. 'Who's Got the Gold? ' explores the social divide in poverty stricken Edo as once noble Samurai are forced to sacrifice their honour and possessions in order to survive. Throw into the mix royal orgies, corruption, deceit, and fantastic fight scenes - evocative of Katsu’s former glory as Zatoichi - for a rousing climax to this cult pinku series.

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Before 'The Grudge', before 'Dark Water', there was 'Pulse', one of the scariest films ever made from the master of Japanese horror, Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

At Sunny Planet Sales in Tokyo, a group of friends are concerned about Taguchi, a colleague who owes them a computer disc for a project and hasn't been returning phone calls. When co-worker Michi (Kumiko Aso) visits Taguchi's apartment to check on him, he seems fine. But within minutes, Taguchi has hanged himself. Michi flees the apartment, taking the disc, which may contain the most deadly computer virus ever created... When Taguchi subsequently reappears as a ghostly presence on their computer and video screens, is he trying to contact his friends from beyond the grave or is there something more sinister afoot? Soon, there are more sudden deaths and disappearances within the group, terrifying rooms sealed in red tape, and the appearance of more ghosts as the city of Tokyo - and the world - is slowly drained of life.

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Based upon the legendary myth, 'The Assassin's Blade' tells the story of Yan Gi who disguises her identity so she will be accepted into the country's greatest and most celebrated martial arts academy.

Struggling with the physical strength of her male counterparts, Yan Gi finds an ally in the school's top student, Chan Shan, who discovers and tutors her to become one of the most lethal assassins the academy has ever known. Fighting to keep her secret at any cost, Yan Gi must battle more than simply the fighting fists of her enemies. But soon, treachery and tragedy strike at the heart of the illustrious institution. To exact justice and revenge for Yan Gi, Chun Shan has no choice but to use all that he's learned from the academy to bring down furious vengeance upon all who stand in his way.

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Hiroshi Mikami plays Hideki, a father trying to prevent the death of his young daughter. When Hideki picks up a newspaper he knows what he will see... death. Foretelling ill-omened fate of everything from slaying to train crashes, there is nothing Hideki can do to stop the event...

or is there? When the paper predicts the demise of his daughter in a car crash, Hideki seeks out other like himself, searching for a way to change the future.