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Set in 1795 England, And Now the Screaming Starts! tells the tale of blissful newlyweds Catherine (Stephanie Beacham) and Charles Fengriffen (Ian Ogilvy) who move into his ancestral family mansion. On their wedding night, Catherine is raped by a malevolent spirit.

She is plagued further by a series of haunting visions involving an eyeless woodsman and a murderous, disembodied hand. Can a savage act of depravity and violence committed by one of Charles' ancestors be to blame? Charles fears that his bride is going insane and calls for Dr. Whittle (Patrick Magee). Unable to help Catherine overcome her visions, Dr. Whittle calls for assistance from a fellow practitioner, Dr. Pope (Peter Cushing), who uses reason and logic to combat what he assumes is a mental disorder. In time, Dr. Pope finds himself fighting a losing battle against the forces of the supernatural, intent on carrying out a bloody family curse.

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Mumsy (Ursula Howells) and Nanny (Pat Heywood), along with overgrown "children" Sonny (Howard Trevor) and Girly (Vanessa Howard) are a happy family living together in a sprawling, decaying mansion.

Sonny and Girly bring friends home to play but if they don't obey the rules, they are tried and "sent to the angels." The arrival of "new friend" (Michael Bryant) - a man on the run after his girlfriend is accidentally killed whilst playing with Sonny and Girly - upsets the household with his very own brand of adult games, seducing the w women of the house. Trouble is, Girly doesn't like to share her friends, not even with Mumsy and Nanny....

After thirty years of no contact, Norval (Elijah Wood) visits his estranged father (Stephen McHattie) at his remote cabin by the sea. He quickly discovers that not only is his dad a disapproving alcoholic, he also has a shady past that is rushing to catch up with him.

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Richard Widmark delivers an indelible performance as Harry Fabian, a small-time American nightclub tout and desperate dreamer who tries to worm his way into the wrestling rackets of post-war London.

In his path lie the formidable obstacles posed by a vengeful club owner (Francis Sullivan) and the racketeer Kristo (Herbert Lorn). The club owner's sultry wife (Googie Withers) schemes with him, and a long-suffering girlfriend (Gene Tierney) does her best to save him. Like many a noir hero before him, Harry thinks he can outrun his fate. He's wrong. Jules Dassin, under suspicion in Hollywood for his political beliefs, made the film at great speed, shooting night scenes in a London still shattered and skeletal from wartime bombings.

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Welcome to Beverly Hills, where upper class white married couples like Bill (Andrew Duggan) and Bernadette (Joyce Van Patten) enjoy their happy life of wealth and privilege.

But when a violently unstable black criminal Bone (Yaphet Kotto) invades their home, each will be forced to explore their own nightmares of lies and desire where every perverse secret is exposed and nothing is ever really black and white.

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From the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky comes his most autobiographical work and one that is regarded by many as his magnum opus.

Reflecting upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people, 'Mirror' is a sublime expression of memory, imagination, thoughts and dreams intertwined with real life and family relationships. A transcendent, inspired and multilayered masterpiece that continues to grow in stature, 'Mirror' has an exceptional resonance and rewards countless viewings.

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Something has fallen to Earth. Something terrible. A merciless, carnivorous predator with an insatiable hunger for flesh...Assuming human form, the creature stumbles upon a remote country house owned by a beautiful young lesbian couple.

Jessica (Glory Annan) is sweet, innocent and desperate for new experiences. Josephine (Sally Faulkner) is overprotective, jealous - and has a locked trunk full of blood-soaked secrets. As the creature struggles against its bloodlust and studies the girls, it suddenly realises that it may not be the only dangerous predator in the house...

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Klaus Kinski stars in this horrifying and gruesome thriller, as a crazed maniac who is obsessed with trapping young women and then slowly torturing them to death. Karl Guenther (Kinski) is a conscientious landlord who looks out for his young and attractive tenants.

Jessica, a rising young soap star, Harriet, a sensuous and vivacious secretary and Sophie, an accomplished pianist who enjoys wild fantasy sex with her boyfriend - all live in Karl's well kept apartments. The only discord is the "tap, tap, tap" sound at night from the crawlspace above their rooms. Karl tells them its rats, but in reality it is Karl spying on them. One by one his tenants become victims - each one put to a gruesome test. Only one tenant remains to disclose the diabolical Karl and she enters the crawlspace - she is alone with a madman capable of anything.

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It's the engagement party for brilliant young Dr Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier) and his fiancee, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne (Marina Pierro), attended by various pillars of Victorian society, including the astonishing Patrick Magee in one of his final roles.

But when people are found raped and murdered outside and ultimately inside the house, it becomes clear that a madman has broken in to disrupt the festivities - but who is he? And why does Dr Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory? We know the answer, of course, but Walerian Borowczyk's visually stunning adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's much-filmed tale is crammed with wildly imaginative and outrageously perverse touches characteristic of the man who scandalised audiences with Immoral Tales and The Beast, not least the explicitly sexualised nature of Mr Hyde's primal urges.

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Wealthy industrialist George Stark (Teodora Corra) has gathered a group of friends -played by a who's who of Italian genre cinema including William Berger, Ira von Furstenberg, Edwige Fenech and Howard Ross - to his island retreat.

He hopes to entice them into investing in a new project, but soon the sunbathing and cocktail parties give way to murder, as the corpses begin to pile up one by one.

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In the Age of Aquarius, the deranged Gemini twins share everything - teddy bears, lovers and murder! Judy Geeson and Martin Potter play 20-year-old siblings with an unusually close relationship.

Their bizarre fantasy world is shattered by the arrival of Clive (Alexis Kanner), a flamboyant London criminal with a massive gambling debt. As the twins become exposed to the sleazy underbelly of swinging London nightlife, they tumble into a bubbling cauldron of kinky sex, blackmail and sickening violence.

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Acclaimed filmmaker Feng Xiaogang and superstar Fan Bingbing (X-Men: Days of Future Past) team up for this intriguing tale of a wronged womans fight for justice and revenge.

When Li Xuelian (Bingbing) and her husband stage a fake divorce to secure a second apartment reserved for single citizens, everything seems to go to plan. However, when he then remarries, only to a different woman, Li is determined to seek retribution against both him and the bureaucracy that casts her out of society. Based on Liu Zheyuns subversive novel, this is a darkly comedic social satire that transcends all cultures in a uniquely stylish fashion.

When elderly mother Edna (Robyn Nevin), inexplicably vanishes, her daughter Kay (Emily Mortimer) and granddaughter Sam (Bella Heathcote) rush to their family's decaying country home. When Edna returns her behaviour is strangely volatile.

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One of the more unusual entries in Delon's estimable filmography, "Shock Treatment " is an effective psychological thriller that also offers a timely comment on medical practice and the exploitation of the poor for the benefit of the wealthy.

Hélène Masson (Annie Girardot), a stressed-out retail manager takes up a course of therapy at a centre run by the secretive Dr. Devilers (Alain Delon). At first, Hélène is encouraged by Devilers' apparent success with his other patients but soon becomes concerned when one of her fellow patients commits suicide. Later, one of the Portuguese serving boys disappears after asking her for help and Hélène soon realises that something is seriously wrong…

Two brothers - Eli and Charlie Sisters - are hired to kill a prospector who has stolen from their boss. A reimagining of the cinematic Western as a dangerous, witty, and emotionally cathartic exploration of what it means to be a man.