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Blue Sunshine
94mins (18) Horror
Directed by Jeff Lieberman Starring Zalman King, Deborah Winters, Mark Goddard

At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry is on the run. More bizarre homicides continue with alarming frequency all over town. Trying to clear his name, Jerry discovers the shocking truth...people are losing their hair and turning into violent psychopaths and the connection may be some LSD all the murderers took a decade before.

Tetsuo : The Iron Man
64mins Japan (18) Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto Starring Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomoroh Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Naomasa Musaka, Renji Ishibashi

A "metal fetishist" (Shin'ya Tsukamoto), driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman (Tomorowo Taguchi) and his girlfriend (Kei Fujiwara). The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 111mins USA (15) Film
Directed by Philip Kaufman Starring Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Brooke Adams

When health official Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) notices that her lover has become strangely distant, this sets in train a series of shocking discoveries that sees both her and colleague Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) fleeing for their lives to the sound of ear-piercing alien screams.

Remakes of great films are usually on a hiding to nothing, but Philip Kaufman's brilliant update of the 1956 classic is a rare and memorable exception. Transposing the action to the heart of San Francisco allows Kaufman to retain all the suspense of Jack Finney's original story while adding caustic social commentary about the selfishness of the 1970s "me generation" that remains all too relevant today.

But it's a paranoid thriller first and foremost, based on one of the most psychologically terrifying of all premises - what happens when you can no longer trust not just the authorities but even your nearest and dearest?

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue
1974 95mins Italy, Spain (18) Film
Directed by Jorge Grau Starring Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock, Arthur Kennedy

A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders. Unbeknown to him, the real culprits are the living dead.

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
100mins (18) Horror
Directed by Rob Hedden Starring Jensen Daggett, Sharlene Martin, Scott Reeves

Jason ships out aboard a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned.

Alien (Theatrical Cut)
1979 117mins UK, USA (15) Sci-Fi / Horror
Directed by Ridley Scott Starring Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt

In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma.

Videodrome
1983 89mins USA (18) Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Directed by David Cronenberg Starring James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Les Carlson, Jack Creley

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend (Deborah Harry) auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

Shock Treatment
1981 95mins USA (18) Musical / Comedy
Directed by Jim Sharman Starring Jessica Harper, Cliff De Young, Richard O'Brien

Brad and Janet are now married and on the rocks. Ostensibly to fix their marriage, the couple goes on the game show ‘Marriage Maze' with the eccentric Bert Schnick, who suggests Brad be imprisoned in the local mental hospital. Meanwhile, Janet's star potential is skyrocketing but who is her mysterious benefactor, and who exactly are these doctors?