Another fine week of movie magic is hitting the shop and the personal highlight for myself is the NEW RECUT version of DIRTY WORK from the great people at Vinegar Syndrome. Along with that a bunch of other sweetness is hitting the shop so let’s take a look shall we?
The first of the VIRUS films back in stock!
The Blob (1988) / Christine / Fright Night (1985) / The Seventh Sign
A chance encounter brings Elizabeth and John together for a relationship of temptation and seduction, clarity and confusion, excitement and fear … passion and rage. A shared obsession for 9 1/2 Weeks.Elizabeth (Academy Award winner Kim Basinger) has been alone since her divorce. Beautiful and highly romantic, she’s insulated herself from emotional risks through her successful career. John (Mickey Rourke) is a man who has never been in love. Soft-spoken and compelling, he is a wealthy overachiever. Many lovers have tried to penetrate the aura of mystery that surrounds him, but John remains emotionally untouched, until he meets Elizabeth and desire becomes infatuation … then obsession.
An existential epic from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan about a teacher in an isolated Anatolian village faces scrutiny for misconduct, challenging his cynical worldview and relationships. 2023.
Monk is a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Monk is a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
All the kids in town are dying to play the hot new video game ARCADE. Trouble is once you play the game you can kiss reality good-bye. Arcade has seven levels of excitement, adventure, and terror for its players. The game transports you to another world with its stunning graphics, thrilling sound effects, and virtual reality simulation. It is the ultimate experience in a video game.
Somewhere in the distant future, The Girl is alone. She is the last of her people, the others having died in a generations-long war that the girl continues to fight with the assistance of a group of antiquated robot helpers and soldiers.
Policemen (John Saxon, David Huffman) are baffled when people disappear, sucked into the beach by a sand creature.
Starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper. A severed human ear found in a field leads a young man to investigate a mysterious nightclub singer and the criminals who kidnapped her child. David Lynch (1986)
Starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine, a simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted adviser to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics. Hal Ashby (1979)
A horror classic containing one of the most visceral and nauseating scenes in movie history, The Brood follows a man’s investigation into his ex-wife’s placement at an experimental institute. He discovers her progeny of sexless, dwarflike mutants who are born for the sole purpose of acting out Nola’s violent fantasies of revenge. Can he stop Nola’s Brood before they kill again?
The world faces a horrific onslaught of tornadoes, each unleashing hordes of enraged and deadly cats upon humanity! As chaos reigns, a disparate group of individuals have one mission: to stop this feline fury. But against such odds, and with only one life to spare per person, their battle becomes a cat-astrophic struggle for survival. And when the fur flies it will be a meow-ssacre!
Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s breakthrough comedy musical retells the story of Colorado Cannibal Alferd Packer. 1996.
Stephen King’s cult horror film about a boy preacher who compels his adolescent followers to kill all the adults in a small Nebraskan town. Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, 1984.
Underclassman Gabriella, lacking confidence in the ways of the world, is taken in by three older students who are eager to share their experiences and broaden her horizons. Heather (Pat Woodell), Carla (Marki Bey), and Maggie (Sandra Currie) bring Gabriella into their worlds as they teach her how a woman can empower herself in this pro-feminism 70s era film. A time capsule piece, Gabriella frees herself from expectations in this newly restored film print.
A young street dance troupe gather in a forest for a celebration that descends into madness.
This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, Come and See is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.
Two young filmmakers select a crazed conspiracy theorist as the subject for their next project, but they soon come to believe that the man isn’t as delusional as they originally thought.
David Cronenberg’s icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine about the kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. Rosanna Arquette, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas.
A videographer answers a strange online ad and becomes entangled with a man whose behaviour turns increasingly unsettling. Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice, Patrick Brice, 2015.
A psychiatric hospital horror sequel where a violent patient escapes, terrorising victims in a zero-budget slasher setting. Nina Angeloff, Angela Eads, Richard B. Shull, Nick Millard, 1987
A writer’s dark alter ego takes on a murderous life of its own, blending psychological terror. Timothy Hutton, Michael Rooker, Amy Madigan, George A. Romero, 1993
The 1981 “Day of the Triffids” TV series depicts a post-apocalyptic world where a meteor shower blinds most of humanity, allowing carnivorous, mobile plants called Triffids to wreak havoc. Bill Masen, a merchant navy officer, is one of the few who retain their sight after being in a hospital with bandaged eyes during the meteor shower. He teams up with another sighted individual, Jo, and they navigate a world where society has collapsed, and the Triffids are taking over.
From Emmy winning*, Oscar nominated** creator Armando Iannucci, The Death of Stalin is a fearlessly funny parody of Cold War Russia, with a striking similarity to today’s world scene. When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his surviving Soviet comrades desperately maneuver to save the Union and most importantly their own skins. Rolling Stone calls the film a “brilliant satire from a crack ensemble”‘ (including Emmy and Golden Globe winner***Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Andrea Riseborough and Michael Palin). Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
BLU RAY EDITION. A prog-rocker kills his annoying neighbour and unleashes a gore-soaked comedy of undead revenge and suburban chaos. Jonah Ray Rodrigues, Kiran Deol, Randee Heller, Pete Ploszek, Josh Forbes, 2024.
Seasoned stunt driver Ken Carter has spent the past 20 years risking his life jumping cars three times a week. Feeling the pain from decades of injuries, he recognizes the end of his career is near. But before he calls it a day, he’s determined to achieve legend status – by jumping a car a mile over the St. Lawrence Seaway. After spending his life savings building a rocket car, he joins forces with ABC’s Wide World of Sports to build a massive ramp and put all the pieces in place to make his dream a reality. When the network sends Evel Knievel to inspect, he’s shocked by the danger involved and concludes this is the “daredevil stunt that might end all daredevil stunts.”
Based on the iconic Italian comic book series, this new trilogy of Diabolik feature films – Diabolik, Diabolik: Ginko Attacks!, and Diabolik: Who Are You? follows the master thief (Luca Marinelli of Martin Eden in the first entry, Giacomo Gianniotti of Grey’s Anatomy in the second and third) and his beautiful accomplice Eva Kant (Miriam Leone) in a series of increasingly daring capers. Previously adapted as Danger: Diabolik by Mario Bava in 1968, these new adaptations return to the comic’s noirish roots, while delivering all of the danger, sex appeal, and eye-popping production design that’s demanded of a Diabolik tale. Also starring the legendary Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Reloaded).
UNCUT R RATED VERSION! Two lifelong friends start a revenge-for-hire business to fund a father’s surgery, leading to explosive pranks and messy mob entanglements. Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, Jack Warden, Traylor Howard, Bob Saget, 1998.
A band of soldiers is dispatched to war games deep in the woods. When they stumble across a rival team slaughtered in camp, they realize they’re not alone. Something deadly waits in the darkness; something not animal and not human. Holed up in an abandoned farmhouse, the soldiers start a bloody battle against the beasts.
An American action thriller featuring skydiving agents chasing a hijacker in high-adrenaline aerial combat and suspense. Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey, Yancy Butler, John Badham, 1994
Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director Ed Wood (Johnny Depp) is a Hollywood outcast. Nevertheless, with the help of the formerly famous Bela Lugosi and a devoted cast and crew of show-business misfits who believe in Ed’s off-kilter vision, the filmmaker is able to bring his oversize dreams to cinematic life. Despite a lack of critical or commercial success, Ed and his friends manage to create an oddly endearing series of extremely low-budget films.
David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey remains one of American cinema’s darkest dreams.
A police lieutenant in spiritual crisis tracks a rash of murders seeming to copycat a long dead serial killer. George C. Scott, Brad Dourif, William Peter Blatty, 1990.
A knife-wielding maniac in a red cape and hood goes on the rampage and kills American tourists on a tour bus by gouging out their eyeballs.
After crashing their van of stolen gold into a river, a group of ruthless gangsters hire a team of down-on-their-luck divers to retrieve their loot. In an attempt to reach the gold, the divers soon find themselves in the company of a vicious bull shark, but the dangers in the water are only a fraction of the dangers that wait for them above.
Cult classic, a spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes. John Waters (1974)
All SIX flicks together!
Plagued by a violent and recurring nightmare, a college student heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle of death and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.
An agonizing portrait of desperate Japanese soldiers stranded in a strange land during World War II, Kon Ichikawa’s Fires on the Plain is a compelling descent into psychological and physical oblivion. Denied hospital treatment for tuberculosis and cast off into the unknown, Private Tamura treks across an unfamiliar Philippine landscape, encountering an increasingly debased cross section of Imperial Army soldiers, who eventually give in to the most terrifying craving of all. Grisly yet poetic, Fires on the Plain is one of the most powerful works from one of Japanese cinema’s most versatile filmmakers.
Werner Herzog’s legendary film about an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle and his cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local indigenous groups. Klaus Kinski, 1982.
NESTLED IN THE MOUNTAINS OF TIBET, AN ORACLE KNOWN AS “THE GOLDEN CHILD” HAS BEEN BORN. ALTHOUGH GUARDED BY THE MONKS WHO RAISED HIM, VILLAINOUS SARDO NUMSPA IS DETERMINED TO USE THE CHILD’S MYSTICAL POWERS FOR EVIL PURPOSES AND HIRES BANDITS TO KIDNAP HIM. MEANWHILE, IN LOS ANGELES, CRAFTY SELF-STYLED DETECTIVE CHANDLER JARRELL IS APPROACHED BY KEE NANG, A YOUNG WOMAN THE MONKS HAVE SENT TO AID IN THEIR QUEST TO RECOVER THE CHILD. INFORMING CHANDLER THAT HE IS THE “CHOSEN ONE,” THE DUO EMBARK ON AN INCREASINGLY STRANGE AND DANGEROUS ADVENTURE INTO THE SUPERNATURAL UNDERWORLD, FACING STRANGE CREATURES, MAGICAL CHARMS, AND THE THREAT OF DEATH AROUND EVERY CORNER AS SARDO DOES EVERYTHING IN HIS POWER TO PREVENT THEM FROM UNCOVERING WHERE HE HAS HIDDEN THE CHILD.
Oscar-winning editing and sound propel this action-packed look at the intertwining lives of four competitive Grand Prix race car drivers. Starring James Garner (“Victor/Victoria,” “Maverick,” TV’s “The Rockford Files”), Eva Marie Saint (“North by Northwest,” “On the Waterfront,” TV’s “Moonlighting”), and international stars Yves Montand (“The Wages of Fear”) and Toshiro Mifune (TV’s “Shogun,” “Rashomon”). Directed by Emmy-winner John Frankenheimer (“The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ronin”).
A gifted cartoonist’s life comes apart at the seams when his drawing hand is accidentally severed. Slowly, painfully, he tries to adjust…but a terrifying evil creeps into his consciousness. And one by one, the people who stand in his way begin to die. Written and directed by Academy Award winner Oliver Stone, this spellbinder showcases a vivid central performance by Michael Caine and wonderfully ghoulish special effects by veteran macabre master Carlo Rambaldi. Stone called for more than 30 different hands to be designed, all used in different—and fantastically horrific ways.
Master criminal Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is trying to control the rogue actions of one of his men, while also planning one last big heist before retiring. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Hanna (Al Pacino) attempts to track down McCauley as he deals with the chaos in his own life, including the infidelity of his wife (Diane Venora) and the mental health of his stepdaughter (Natalie Portman). McCauley and Hanna discover a mutual respect, even as they try to thwart each other’s plans.
In this 1986 cult classic, director Robert Harmon thrills the viewer with the story of young Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell), who stops on the highway to pick up a hitchhiker, not knowing that by doing so, he opens the door to terrible evil. The mysterious hitcher, unforgettably portrayed by Rutger Hauer, is a relentless slaughterer, preying on those who invite him into their lives. Somewhat dismissed at the time of its original release, THE HITCHER developed a rabid fan following in the ensuing years, now properly recognized as one of the most memorable and terrifying thrillers of the 1980s.
Indescribable psychedelic Japanse ghost tale that’s equal parts absurd and nightmarish, Scooby Doo and Mario Bava. Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977.
Desperate to make some money so she can move into a new apartment, college student Samantha Hughes (Jocelin Donahue) takes a mysterious babysitting job. When she arrives at the house, Mr. Ulman (Tom Noonan) mentions a full lunar eclipse and explains there is no child, but that Samantha will be watching his mother instead. After exploring the sinister-seeming house, Samantha soon comes to realize that her employers are hiding a horrifying secret and have plans to use her, dead or alive.
Japanese anime. When a young woman lacking self confidence is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent young wizard and his companions in his walking castle. Hayao Miyazaki (2004)
Hogan! Nuff Said…
A erotic thriller where a district attorney’s investigation into a murder uncovers a web of deceit and dark secrets. David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri, William Friedkin, 1995
Includes: The Legend / The Legend 2 / Bodyguard from Beijing / Tai Chi Master / Fist of Legend.
One of the greatest legends in martial arts cinema, Jet Li is an international action superstar. Collected here in The Jet Li Collection are 5 of his most beloved and famous films from 1990s Hong Kong, presented together in a collectible box set together on 4K for the first time. Titles included are The Legend, The Legend 2, Bodyguard from Beijing, Tai Chi Master, and international smash hit Fist of Legend.
Every year, 10 of the world’s most lethal death row criminals are chosen to compete for their freedom in The Jurassic Games, a television show where contestants must survive against a variety of ferocious dinosaurs. The last player standing is the winner and is granted not only his freedom, but fame and fortune. Survive the dinosaurs. Survive each other. Survive The Jurassic Games.
Unreleased 90s low budget action film about a corrupt sheriff manipulates two hitmen into killing his partners to secure lakefront land, igniting a violent conspiracy on July Fourth. Steve Jones, Benedetto Sorrentino, David Dubay, 1997.
A horror film where a woman’s psychological torment and supernatural events intertwine after moving to a rural home. Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O’Connor, John Hancock, 1971
In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit. Bong Joon Ho, 2003.
Mr. Peters’ Pets / Everybody Loves It / 50,000 B.C. (Before Clothing) (Kino Cult #33) One of the silliest (and perhaps stupidest) “adults only” features of all time was Peter Perry Jr.’s Mr. Peters’ Pets, which employed the classic formula of the so-called Nudie Cutie film: the naked female form is presented in the least objectionable way, usually seen through the eyes of a harmless male goofball. Alfred Hopson stars as a pet shop owner who transforms himself into a variety of cuddly animals, thereby gaining entry into the boudoirs of his shapely female clients. Also featured in this collection are two bonus films mastered from vintage 35mm prints: the time travel fantasy 50,000 B.C. and the MAD Magazine-style TV parody Everybody Loves It, narrated (believe it or not) by a four-leaf clover. Filled with cringe-inducing comedy and devoid of genuine eroticism, the Nudie Cutie was a short-lived phenomenon, but has become a beloved relic of the collapse of Hollywood censorship. Mr. Peters’ Pets Audio Commentary by Eric Schaefer, Author of Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A History of Exploitation Films | 50,000 B.C. Original Trailer | Printed Booklet of Artwork, With Essays by Lisa Petrucci (Something Weird) and David F. Friedman (Blood Feast, She Freak)
David Cronenberg’s hallucinatory take on William S. Burroughs’ unfilmable novel. Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, 1991.
In this hilarious feature from Please Don’t Destroy (Saturday Night Live) produced by Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad, Bridesmaids), three deadbeat co-workers fend off hairless bears, desperate park rangers and a hypocritical cult leader while searching for a priceless treasure.
After Anna (Isabelle Adjani) reveals to her husband, Mark (Sam Neill), that she is having an affair, she leaves him and their son. Mark is devastated, and seeks out Heinrich (Heinz Bennent), the man who cuckolded him, only to receive a beating. After a series of violent confrontations between Mark and Anna, Mark hires a private investigator to follow her. Anna descends into madness, and it’s soon clear that she is hiding a much bigger secret — one that is both inexplicable and shocking.
An epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity. From Hayao Miyazaki.
Blu-Ray edition of Akira Kurosawa’s acclaimed late period retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear. 1985.
Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing.
Six Black Civil War soldiers face a deadly mission and dark forces deep in Arkansas wilderness during a fight for freedom. Malcolm Goodwin, Michael Madsen, Furly Mac, Ashley Cahill, 2025
A vengeance-fuelled priest hunts mutant vampires through a decaying underworld, as blood scarcity drives the undead to desperate extremes. Tim Thomerson, Ken Foree, Tiffany Shepis, Mark Terry, 2009.
This action-packed box set, the 7th volume in Shout’s popular Shaw Brothers Classics line, comprises 11 classic martial arts films from the famous Shaw Brothers library featuring some of their greatest boxers, swordsmen, and assassins. Get ready for some exciting thrills and chills as heroes meet villains in a duel to the death. Featuring: The Imperial Tomb Raiders, The Shadow Boxer, The Spiritual Boxer, Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre, Heaven Sword And Dragon Sabre 2, Legend of the Bat, Shaolin Hand Lock, Swordsman and Enchantress, The Proud Twins, A Deadly Secret, Heroes Shed No Tears.
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their Mississippi hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
When teenager Alan (Gregory Smith) buys a set of Commando Elite action figures, he’s unaware that they have been programmed with military technology. The toys, including leader Chip (Tommy Lee Jones), spring to life and start taking their directives seriously, beginning by “killing” their enemies, the toy Gorgonites. But Archer (Frank Langella) and the Gorgonites won’t go down without a fight. Alan gets caught in the middle of the war, as does his neighbor and crush, Christy (Kirsten Dunst).
A woman uses voodoo to raise the dead and take revenge on mobsters in this cult blaxploitation horror. Marki Bey, Don Pedro Colley, Richard Lawson, Maslansky. 1974.
A wild, nostalgia‑charged doc tracing Mad Magazine’s anarchic rise from 1952, packed with celebrity fans and creator confessions. Quentin Tarantino, Bryan Cranston, Judd Apatow, Alan Bernstein, 2025.
Jenny turns into a Yorkie werewolf and gets caught in a war between one small town’s creatures of the night and the mafia. Teaming up with a lame vampire, she embarks on a quest to bring peace to her community through much bloodshed.
And there we go guys. Movies should be here Thursday/ Friday. Cheers!
