Are you tired of big summer blockbusters ultimately just being an advert for the next instalment in the franchise? Are you fed up with incomprehensible CGI action scenes and two hour plus runtimes? Do you miss the days when a muscle-bound kickboxer with a strange European accent was a bigger box office draw than Iron Man?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above, I implore you to check the murky world of straight to video action films. While features going straight to home entertainment have been a fixture since the earliest days of VHS, the rise of DVD in the early 2000s brought a new era to non-theatrical action films.