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A freak heatwave sends the temperature soaring on the remote island of Fara. The locals, including Dr. Vernon Stone (Peter Cushing) and novelist Jeffrey Callum (Patrick Allen), are left dazed by the rising temperature.

When Callum is reunited with his former mistress Angela Roberts (Jane Merrow), the atmosphere becomes even more tense. It falls to Godfrey Hanson (Christopher Lee), another visitor to the island, to solve the mystery. The unbearable temperature is the result of a heat ray directed towards the island by creatures from another planet. As the spearhead of their invasion force materialises, the surviving humans are left at the mercy of the unstoppable aliens...

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Russia, the early 20th century: a monk called Rasputin (Christopher Lee) is expelled from his monastery and travels to St. Petersburg, where he encounters two ladies-in-waiting to the Tsarina (Renée Asherson).

Using seemingly unnatural powers of persuasion, Rasputin hypnotises one of the girls, Sonia (Barbara Shelley), and gives her a sequence of sinister instructions. Acting under Rasputin's influence, Sonia causes harm to come to the Tsarevitch (Robert Duncan). With the royal heir gravely ill, Sonia tells the Tsarina that she knows of a man who could bring his extraordinary powers of healing to bear. Rasputin attends to the injured boy and is rewarded with a villa where he sets up practice as a faith healer. Rasputin's evil influence has now extended to the peak of Russia's high society...

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Whilst in England to promote his latest work, successful American novelist Kenneth Magee (Desi Arnaz Jr.) enters a bet with his publisher, Sam Allyson (Richard Todd), that he can compose a gothic novel within a 24 hour period.

Sam arranges for him to use Baldpate Manor, an uninhabited house in the Welsh countryside that should provide Kenneth with the seclusion and atmosphere he requires. Although told he has the only key to the house, Kenneth soon discovers that he is not alone. He is startled by an old man and his daughter who claim they are Baldpate Manor's caretakers and soon another old woman unmasked as Mary Norton (Julie Peasgood), Sam Allyson's secretary sent to distract Kenneth and keep him from winning the bet. Mary informs him that the manor has no caretakers and their lives may be in danger. Later that evening a gaunt faced man called Sebastian (Peter Cushing) knocks on the door to say his car has broken down and he needs shelter. He is later followed by Lionel Grisbane (Vincent Price) who announces Baldpate Manor as his ancestral home. It is soon revealed that all the strange folk there are members of the Grisbane dynasty and they have gathered to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of a terrible family secret. It has haunted their lives all these years, and still lives, locked in the attic upstairs. To add to the confusion a property developer named Corrigan (Christopher Lee) arrives and threatens the gathering with eviction. Soon, the assembled party members are murdered one by one as the curse of the Grisbanes takes its toll.

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Jackie Chan stars as the girl-chasing private detective Ryo Saeba in this hilarious live-action adaptation of the popular Japanese manga series, "City Hunter". Hired to track down Shizuko Imamura, the runaway daughter of a publishing tycoon, Ryo initially turns the job down...

until he sees a picture of the missing woman! Ryo eventually finds her aboard a luxury cruise ship, but much to the annoyance of his exasperated assistant Carrie (Joey Wong), Ryo seems more interested in catching Shizuko's attention than returning her safely to her father. When terrorists hijack the ship, Ryo must put his romantic feelings aside and swing into action to dispatch the bad guys and save the day.

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Also known as the 'Horror Star', the 1983 cult creeper 'Frightmare' offered audiences postmodern shocks long before Wes Craven gave us his game-changing 'Scream' in 1996! An underrated and underseen gem, 'Frightmare' tells of a celebration for a late, great horror star...

only the actor in question might not be entirely dead and soon the participants at his supposed party are being picked off one by one! Highlighting a notable supporting performance Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator) and assured direction from Norman Thaddeus Vane (who also worked on the X-rated cult favourite 'Dracula Sucks'), this is one of the most stylish and sublime of all the eighties slice and dice horror-pack...

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A family must navigate their lives in silence to avoid mysterious creatures that hunt by sound.

Knowing that even the slightest whisper or footstep can bring death, Evelyn (Emily Blunt) and Lee (John Krasinski) are determined to find a way to protect their children at all costs while they desperately search for a way to fight back.

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Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final mission.

To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all! Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.

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After years of unavailability, the three surviving episodes from the legendary BBC horror anthology series 'Dead of Night' finally come to video. Originally screened on BBC2 in 1972, and rarely seen since, 'Dead of Night' has been highly sought by fans of classic TV and British horror for decades.

1. The Exorcism
In what is perhaps the most terrifying of the episodes, four wealthy, middle-class friends (Clive Swift, Edward Petherbridge, Anna Cropper and Sylvia Kay) gather for a Christmas dinner in a country cottage only to find that the past will not rest while they feast.
2. Return Flight
The professionalism of an experienced and respected airline pilot (Peter Barkworth) is placed under scrutiny when he encounters the ghostly apparition of a Second World War Lancaster bomber.
7. A Woman Sobbing
A middle-class housewife (Anna Massey) becomes increasingly paranoid when her nights are interrupted by the terrifying and unexplained sound of a woman crying in one of the rooms in her new house.

Corporate exec Miles Creighton dies, and is cryogenically frozen in the hopes that he can be revived. 10 years later, the procedure is a success, and Miles returns - without his soul.

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Professor Philip Goodman (Andy Nyman) is a renowned sceptic of all things P supernatural.

Given the opportunity to investigate three unsolved case histories of baffling paranormal activity, he uncovers mysteries beyond his own imagination, each more frightening, uncanny and inexplicable than the last, leading to a nightmarish conclusion that forces him to question everything he once believed.

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American action thriller in which Ryan Reynolds reprises his role as alternative superhero Wade Wilson, AKA Deadpool.

When a mysterious young boy with incredible powers captures the attention of the ruthless time-travelling mutant Cable (Josh Brolin), Deadpool must acquire a group of fellow rebels with incredible abilities to stop Cable in his path of destruction and save the boy.

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In Western Europe, 1501, a small army of mercenaries led by the charismatic and mercurial Martin (Rutger Hauer) reclaim a heavily fortified castle for its owner Arnolfini (Fernando Hilbeck), who then betrays the band and ejects them from the city by force.

Swearing revenge, Martin leads a violent assault on the nobleman and ends up accidentally kidnapping the beautiful Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), the fiancee of Arnolfini's son Steven (Tom Burlinson), who in turn pledges to wipe out the mercenary group once and for all.

Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox (Peter Cushing) requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh...

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A secret government experiment has produced unexpected results and now the last remaining victim and his young daughter are on the run. Their only defence is the psychic powers granted them by the experiment.

The father has limited mind-control powers but his daughter (Drew Barrymore), whose mother was also psychic, has tremendous power over fire.

When three parents stumble upon their daughters' pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.