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On 14th October Hammer’s classic film The Mummy will be released for the first time ever in HD on Blu-ray and on DVD double play and presented in its original UK theatrical aspect ratio of 1.66:1. Fans will also be treated to a host of brand new extras never seen before.

Included on the disc is “Unwrapping the Mummy: The Making of a Hammer Classic”, a new documentary about the film’s creation and history.

Down Place will forever be associated with the company that turned a quiet English countryside mansion into a film making powerhouse, responsible for countless stomach churning, skin crawling, jump out of your seat horror greats.

Hammer re-christened Down Place as Bray Studios. The community that developed amongst the crew was unique, facilitated by the fact that at its height a film was completed every six weeks.

Watch as many of the most prominent members of the crew recall their time at Bray in this remarkable five part series

Watch it below…

Prepare for the ultimate thriller ride this Halloween with the suspense filled, action packed, The Purge, as it’s released on Blu-ray, DVD and to Download on 21st October 2013. Written and directed by James De Monaco (Crash, Staten Island), and starring Ethan Hawke (Training Day, Great Expectations) and Lena Headey (Game of Thrones, 300) as James and Mary Sandin, a couple who find their family and life is turned upside down overnight.

In an America wracked by crime, unemployment and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity, including murder, becomes legal. The police can’t be called. Hospitals suspend all help. It’s one night when the people of America regulate itself without punishment.

On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, the Sandin family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When an intruder breaks into their gated community during the yearly lockdown, here begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear the family apart. It’s up to James (Hawke), Mary (Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide.

Prepare to be gripped on this suspense-filled, action-packed rollercoast, and #SurviveTheNight with The Purge this Halloween, released on Blu-ray and DVD with UltraViolet on 21st October and Digital Download on 7th October.

With over two weeks to go until the launch of the 17th UK Jewish Film Festival, here is the official trailer, which showcases some of the festival’s most poignant films.

UK Jewish Film from UK Jewish Film on Vimeo.

The 17th annual UK Jewish Film Festival launches on 30 October with an Opening Night Gala at the BFI Southbank with the UK Premiere of The Jewish Cardinal, introduced by award-winning French director Ilan Duran Cohen. This gripping, star-studded historical drama tells the story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the Jewish-born head of the French Church and close confidant of Pope John-Paul II. With possibly the most mischievous portrayal of a pontiff in cinematic history, The Jewish Cardinal is a tour de force about what it means to walk the tightrope of faith and identity.

The festival follows with an exciting array of films and events which run until the Closing Night Gala on 17 November with the UK Premiere of Eytan Fox’s Cupcakes. This hilarious and heart-warming musical comedy about life, love and friendship is the guiltiest pleasure of the year.

Drones, a gripping thriller by award-winning producer/director Rick Rosenthal (Bad Boys, Halloween II) that explores the complex issue of modern warfare, and is part of this year’s London Film Festival, screening to the public on 19 Oct (Rich Mix) and 20 Oct (Ritzy).

In an expanse of desert just outside Las Vegas, a dozen trailers dot the stark landscape. Inside each air-conditioned trailer, two Air Force personnel pilot an unmanned aircraft over Afghanistan, half a world away. While surveilling a possible terrorist hideout, sophisticated new girl, Sue Lawson (Eloise Mumford), daughter of a well-respected and feared army general, and dogged, blue-collar airman (Matt O’Leary) find themselves at odds with their orders – and each other – as they face a range of complicated moral dilemmas when ordered to take out a suspected terrorist – especially because to do so would also mean killing many innocent men, women, and children.

Matt O’Leary (Fat Kid Rules the World, Eden) and Eloise Mumford (The River) star in a film based on the stage play by Matt Witten, and produced by Whitewater Films. Alongside Drones, Whitewater Films has also executive produced two films screening as part of this year’s London Film Festival – Afternoon Delight (directed by Jill Soloway) which centres on an unlikely bond between a disaffected LA housewife and a young stripper, and May in the Summer (directed by Amreeka), a comedy about the travails of a Christian Arab-American writer and her attempts to marry her Muslim boyfriend against her mother’s wishes. Drones cinematographer, Noah Rosenthal, also shot Cold Comes the Night starring Bryan Cranston and Alice Eve, which recently opened in London.

Set for UK release on January 9th, The Monuments Men is directed by George Clooney, who co-wrote and co-produced alongside Grant Heslov (The Ides of March); Clooney also heads up the all-star cast that includes Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin and Hugh Bonneville.

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men focuses on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest achievements.

EDIT – The second trailer’s out!