tjc's - Rented List

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Edward Douglas (David Thewlis) narrowly escapes death when his plane crashes in the South Pacific. Adrift for weeks, he is rescued and taken to the mysterious island of Dr Moreau (Marlon Brando).

Douglas meets the infamous doctor and his enigmatic assistant, Montgomery (Val Kilmer) but finds that he is a prisoner on the island. Unable to leave or get answers about the experiments Dr Moreau is conducting, Douglas searches for answers on his own. He discovers the beautiful Aissa (Fairuza Balk) and becomes infatuated by her animal sensuality. But as he explores further, Douglas uncovers fantastic and brutal experiments turning animal life into human-like beasts. Dr Moreau has used the key of science to unlock the gates of hell.

Newly employed at a run-down London swimming baths, Mike (John Moulder-Brown) obsesses after his sassy and self-assured co-worker (Jane Asher) whilst collecting tips for the 'special services' he is expected to perform for clients (including Diana Dors).

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This zany, low budget science fiction feature somehow combines Nazisploitation with spaceships and horror to create a cartoonish romp through a history that never was.

When a World War II American military patrol gets lost behind enemy lines in Italy and stumbles upon a crashed alien spacecraft, they quickly come to realise they must join forces with the surviving extra-terrestrials if they are to defeat a Nazi crack team who are hell-bent on using alien technology to win the war. Madcap, fun and charmingly cheap, this daft science fiction potboiler is a must for all collectors of cult 80s movies.

A group of friends are having the vacation of a lifetime in a seemingly island paradise when an accident leaves them being stalked by a large, deadly and unrelenting great white shark.

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Charles Brady (Brian Krause) and his mother (Alice Krige) aren't your average American family. They are Sleepwalkers - nomadic shape-shifting creatures with human and feline origins.

Vulnerable only to the scratch of a cat, they thrive on the life-force of virginal female flesh - and now it's time to eat! Imperceptibly inhuman to everyone except for felines, these vicious shapeshifters have their eyes on a new victim: Tanya (Mädchen Amick), who has fallen for Charles, the new boy at her school.

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Alfie is not really a bad sort. It's just that he has this overwhelming desire for the opposite sex. You might say that "birds" are irresistible to him, sort of second nature. With Michael Caine in the title role. Alfie is a ribald and wild comedy, filled with sex and sin.

For those who want to be entertained, Alfie is charming, delightful and quick-moving. For those who want more, there is, beneath the surface, a lingering tragedy, simply and poignantly told about the taker and the taken.

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Anton Tobias (Devon Sawa) is a channel surfing, junk-food munching, couch potato burn-out who can't control the murderous impulses of his recently possessed hand.

With the help of his zombiefied buddies, Mick (Seth Green) and Pnub (Elden Henson), Anton's got to stop the rampaging devil appendage before it takes total control of his life and ruins any chance he has with class hottie Molly (Jessica Alba).

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In the not-so-distant future, the ecological crisis on Earth has taken a turn for the worse, and humanity's only hope may lie in seeking refuge on neighbouring Mars.

After years of unmanned missions to terraform the planet, a crew of astronauts aboard Mars-1 are finally sent to establish Earth's first Martian colony. But a giant solar flare sends their landing module crash-landing on the planet, leaving our pioneers stranded in a harsh crimson wasteland. As the crew battle the elementsand rising inner tensions, they soon discover that Mars' newly formed atmosphere has had unexpected and terrifying consequences.

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Thor's villainous brother Loki (Daniel O'Reilly) has escaped Asgard to search for Yggdrasil - The Tree of the Nine Realms. The tree holds the power of the Universe, and is secreted away on Earth.

With the help of giant wolf god Fenrir, Loki plans to destroy the tree and replant it in his image, giving him dominion over all. Now Thor (Myrom Kingery) must follow Loki to Earth to wage an epic battle that will hold the two worlds in its balance.

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When an alien experiment goes awry, it crashes to Earth in 1959 and infects a young college student.

27 years later, his cryogenically-frozen body is thawed out by fraternity pledges, and the campus is quickly overrun by alien creatures - whose victims come back as zombies! Fred Dekker's supremely enjoyable throwback chiller deftly combines classic horror and sci-fi elements with delicious humour and loving in-jokes.

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Bobby Griffith (Ryan Kelly) was his mother's favourite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of - much less understood - Bobby finally came out to his family.

Despite the tentative support of his father, two sisters, and older brother, Bobby's mother, Mary (Sigourney Weaver), turned to the fundamentalist teachings of her church to rescue her son from what she felt was an irredeemable sin. As Mary came closer to the realization that Bobby could not be "healed", she rejected him, denying him a mother's unconditional love, and driving her favourite son to suicide.

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When New England college student Natalie finds herself at the center of a series of sadistic murders seemingly inspired by urban legends, she resolves to find the truth about Pendleton's own legend - a 25 year old story of a student massacre at the hands of an abnormal Psych professor.

As the fraternities prepare to celebrate the macabre anniversary, Natalie discovers that she is the focus of the crazed killer's intentions in the ultimate urban legend - the story of her own horrific murder.

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In the future, life will be a dream. And reality a nightmare...In a post-apocalyptic world, one woman (Marta Alicia) relies on computer fantasies to entertain herself, but a glitch sends her to a far-off wasteland to deal with monsters called Crawlers.

She is saved by a young rebel (Bruce Campbell), but the pair are later captured and brought underground by the Crawlers. There, an overlord called the Seer (Angus Scrimm) presides over the kingdom and tries to make life miserable for his captives.

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One of the most unsettling films in the Peter Sellers canon, 'Hoffman' sees the actor in a sinister starring role as a bachelor who obsesses over his secretary Miss Smith (Sinead Cusack).

Hoffman discovers Miss Smith's boyfriend (Jeremy Bulloch) has been fiddling the books at work, and blackmails her into spending a week with him. Their time together reveals Hoffman's tragic, lonely existence.

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Modern-day Cornish fisherman Martin (Edward Rowe) is struggling to buy a boat while coping with family rivalry and the influx of London money, Airbnb and stag parties to his harbour village.

The summer season brings simmering tensions between the locals and newcomers to boiling point, with tragic consequences.