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Evelyn Kuipen accompanies a group of ecology students to a remote research station where her father, the famed scientist Dr Kruipen (Val Kilmer) has discovered the carcass of a woolly mammoth in a melting ice cap.

Arriving in the icy north they find that the research station has been mysteriously abandoned and Evelyn discovers that something else has survived thousands of years locked in the frozen ice cap. A deadly parasite has been unleashed by her father and one by one the students are infected and turn on each other. Dr Krupien staggers back to the station, wounded but alive, and just as Evelyn thinks that help is at hand her father makes a staggering revelation......

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When Mary and her teenage son, Fergal, move to yet another new home, it soon becomes clear that they live their lives on the run, hiding from someone or something, terrified of being found.

Their hunter Cathal (James Nesbitt) soon picks up the trail, intent on tracking and killing Mary and Fergal, he will go to any length to succeed in his quest often using dark arts to aid him. Mary's only defence is to use an ancient form of magic of her own in order to protect her only son. When local residents begin to be brutally murdered by an unknown life force, the sense fear escalates. Is Cathal the beast responsible for the killings? Or is it the beast that he is trying to destroy.

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Repentant convict Carl Lucas (Luke Goss) - aka Frankenstein - is a legendary driver in the brutal prison blood sport known as Death Race. Only one victory away from winning freedom, Lucas is plunged into his most vicious competition yet: the first-ever desert Death Race.

Through South Africa's infernal Kalahari Desert, Lucas is pitted against ruthless adversaries and powerful forces at work behind the scenes to ensure his defeat.

When two researchers find a staggering level of toxicity in the water they attempt to alert the town before the situation gets out of control. Panic spreads quickly as a deadly plague of parasites is unleashed causing sheer panic in what was once a docile seaside town.

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The crocs are back... and they're bigger, badder and more brutal than ever. After the deadly predators' last vicious attack, the government prevented their extermination. Sealed away in a nature preserve, they've been growing to record size, awaiting their next chance to feast on human flesh.

Now, when a high school swim team takes a wrong turn directly into the crocs' hunting grounds... dinner is served. As the teens race to avoid the hungry reptiles, they become caught in a showdown between a rogue game warden (Yancy Butler) and a demented poacher (Robert Englund). It's the last serving of hysterical horror in a finale that shows terror is best served raw.

When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the islands our heroes are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.

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Colonel Gerard K. Brauchman (Christian Slater) leads a team of isolated astronauts on board the ARK moon base.

When a meteor collides with their base, the astronauts find themselves in immediate danger spores from the meteorite can replicate, reproduce and mutate human cell structure, leaving everyone on board to fight for their lives.

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Obsessive scientist Dr. Pretorius and his assistant Crawford Tillinghast have invented 'The Resonator', a device intended to stimulate the brain's pineal gland and expand the powers of the mind. The machine gives them more than they bargained for however.

A parallel universe inhabited by creatures ready to prey on humans reveals itself, Pretorious meets a sticky end only to return as a grotesque being and all manner of depravity ensues.

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Epic story of the Greek legend of Theseus. The ruthless King Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) leads his bloodthirsty army on a murderous rampage across Greece to find a deadly weapon that can kill the Gods themselves.

Only Theseus (Henry Cavill), a mortal chosen by Zeus, King of the Gods, can lead the fight against Hyperion and his evil army with the fate of mankind and the Gods at stake.

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When eccentric Victorian scientist Dr. Abner Perry (Peter Cushing) and his assistant develop a high powered drill they decide to test its capabilities in a remote Welsh Mountain.

The drill proves too powerful and plunges the duo into a vast cavern at the earth's core where evil pre-historic birds have enslaved a tribe of humans. Can the Doctor and his assistant help rescue the tribe and escape the evil clutches of their flying nemesis?

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Jaded Richard Grindle (Ross Noble) is the sleaziest clown working the children's party circuit. Arriving late to one birthday, his timing is off, the bratty kids a nightmare and a prank goes horribly wrong: he falls on a kitchen knife and goes to that Big Top in the sky.

Years later the same nasty kids attend another more grown up bash. Little do they know, thanks to a black magic clown cult, Stitches will be the uninvited guest of honour seeking revenge on those responsible for his untimely death. Gore and frights combine in this twisted tale of one very bad clown.

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The deceased have risen from their graves with only one instinct, to feed on the living. As academics speculate on the scientific cause of the phenomena, theologians point to the Armageddon foretold in the Book of Revelation.

As the cities are over run and civilization crumbles, a family take refuge from the undead army in an isolated farmhouse in West Wales. But the greatest threat is already among them...

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American truck driver Pat Quid (Stacey Keach), is making his way across Australia's outback for a delivery. He becomes convinced that the driver of a suspicious green van is a serial killer wanted by the cops.

After sharing his theory with Pamela (Jamie Lee Curtis) a hitch-hiker he picks up, she decides to investigate the green van at a service station. But when Pamela disappears, Pat becomes the police's prime suspect.

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Robert Rodriguez double bill.

El Mariachi (1992)

All he wants to be is to be a Mariachi, like his father, his grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse - of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the Mariachi is playing for his life in this critically-acclaimed film debut from director Robert Rodriguez.
Desperado (1995)
Antonio Banderas, Joaquim de Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin and Quentin Tarantino star in this stylish shoot-'em-up described as a south-of-the-border Pulp Fiction. Director Robert Rodriguez follows up his legendary debut film, El Mariachi, with this sexy sequel about a mysterious guitar player (Antonio Banderas) searching for vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend.

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A horrific Leprechaun (Warwick Davis) goes on a rampage after his precious bag of gold coins is stolen. He uses all his magical destructive powers to trick, terrorize and kill anyone who is unlucky enough to hinder his relentless search.

In a frantic attempt to survive the wrath of the Leprechaun, Teri (Jennifer Aniston) and her friends scramble to find the only weapon known to kill this Irish monster... a four leaf clover. However, until they discover a four leaf clover or return all the gold taken from the rainbow's end, their fairytale nightmare has only just begun.