Another glorious week of cinema is coming to the old video store this week. No time mince words. Lots of stuff coming so let’s dive in shall we?
While all three movies are fun in their own way I’m totally bringing this in for Major Payne!
A quartet of Sci-Fi thrillers from the 1950s make up this enticing collection! Allison Hayes is the big attraction in the original ATTACK OF THE 50 FT. WOMAN, Ray Harryhausen’s amazing special effects bring forth THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, A frenzied invasion of giant ants are the protagonists in THEM!, and astronauts returning from Mars get caught in a time-wap in WORLD WITHOUT END
Contemporary cinema’s foremost chronicler of American dreamers and schemers hustling on the margins of capitalist promise, Sean Baker, reaches new heights of mastery with this audacious anti–Cinderella story—a whirlwind neorealist screwball comedy with an aching heart. In an electric, star-is-born performance, Mikey Madison soars as Anora, an enterprising, ferociously foulmouthed Brooklyn erotic dancer and sex worker whose Prince Not-So-Charming comes along in the form of a Russian oligarch’s wild-child son (Mark Eydelshteyn). This is the beginning of a fractured fairy tale—also featuring standout performances from Karren Karagulian, Yura Borisov, and Vache Tovmasyan—that turns the cruel realities of class inside out. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Anora confirms Baker as one of our preeminent auteurs.
Cult superstar Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead) reunites with director Sam Raimi (Drag Me to Hell, Spider-Man) to battle the deadly forces of evil in Army of Darkness – the outrageous, effects-fueled action epic that will make you scream with fear and laughter. Forced to lead a makeshift Dark Ages army against the demonic Deadites, who possess all the deadly magic of hell, the shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed, reluctant 20th century time traveler Ash (Campbell) must save the living from the dead, rescue his medieval girlfriend and get back to his own time.
Deeply scarred by what he witnessed on battlefields across Asia, a young war photographer (Yusaku Matsuda, Yokohama BJ Blues) returns to the bustling streets of Tokyo, plotting a series of brutal murders and robberies that are mere warmups for an unprecedented bank heist. Searching for an accomplice, he finds the short-fused and equally disenfranchised Tetsuo (Takeshi Kaga, Death Note).
Lane Meyer (John Cusack) is a teen with a peculiar family and a bizarre fixation with his girlfriend, Beth (Amanda Wyss). When Beth dumps Lane, he decides to kill himself, making bumbling attempts at suicide. Outside of his morbid endeavors, Lane spends time with his oddball buddy, Charles (Curtis Armstrong), and befriends Monique (Diane Franklin), a visiting French student. Eventually, Lane resolves to race Beth’s obnoxious new beau on the ski slopes, with unexpected results.
Surprisingly sincere cop dramedy following several days in the life of a Los Angeles police sergeant struggling with the suicide of his previous partner and being saddled with a new one. Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, Harry Dean Stanton, Harold Becker.
The sleepy little town of Mill Basin is about to get more than it bargained for. The satanic heavy metal rock band “Black Roses” is coming through to raise hell… literally! After making a deal with the Devil himself, the band’s music demonically possesses the kids in the audience, turning them into blood-thirsty demons.
U.S. soldier Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial-arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL. After enduring a difficult training and beginning a romance with journalist Janice Kent (Leah Ayres), Frank is given the opportunity to fight. But can he survive?
Orphaned siblings in Australia uncover dark rituals and terror lurking within their deranged foster mother’s grieving home. Sally Hawkins, Billy Barratt, Sora Wong, Danny & Michael Philippou, 2025
When Japanese New Wave bad boy Seijun Suzuki delivered this brutal, hilarious, and visually inspired masterpiece to the executives at his studio, he was promptly fired. Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin (chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) with a fetish for sniffing boiled rice who botches a job and ends up a target himself. This is Suzuki at his most extreme—the flabbergasting pinnacle of his sixties pop-art aesthetic.
Drug Dealing. Gang Beatings. Prostitution. They’re all part of a typical day for the students of Lincoln High. Into this academic abyss arrives Andy Norris, an idealistic and naive music teacher who has moved into the community with his pregnant wife Diane. Appalled by the crime-infested school, Norris soon crosses sabers with its teenage kingpin, the shrewd and sadistic Peter Stegman. With Norris setting his sights on reforming Stegman, and the young miscreant declaring war on his teacher, the duo sets a fateful showdown into motion on the night of an important school orchestra performance.
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II. Elem Klimov, 1985.
Based loosely on a SNL sketch, coneheaded aliens stranded on Earth try to pass as suburbanites in this absurdist satire of immigration and assimilation. Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Steve Barron, 1993
Edith, a troubled aspiring writer, falls in love with the seductive Thomas Sharpe, who whisks her off to his mansion. Here she meets Lucille, Thomas’s sister who seems hostile and jealous. As Edith struggles to feel at home in the residence, she gradually uncovers a horrendous family secret and encounters supernatural forces that will help her discover the terrible truth behind Crimson Peak.
All three movies together!
Writer/director Álex de la Iglesia delivers the smash hit that remains one of the best horror comedies of our time: When a rogue priest discovers the exact date The Antichrist will be born, he’ll enlist a Death Metal record store clerk and a cheesy TV psychic for an urban spree of “gore, sacrilege and twisted humor” (San Francisco Examiner) to prevent the Apocalypse by summoning Satan himself.
DEATHSTALKER (1983):
Deathstalker is a mighty warrior chosen to battle the evil forces of a medieval kingdom who sets off on a journey to the most challenging tournament in the land. To the winner will go the throne of the evil wizard, the ultimate mystical power and the love of the beautiful Princess Codille. But first Deathstalker must prove himself worthy of his legacy…and treachery lurks at every turn.
DEATHSTALKER II (1987):
Deathstalker has a mission: to save the kingdom from the wicked grip of the immoral wizard Jerak and his queen, Sultana, who have ruled the land by creating an evil twin of the lovely Princess Evie. Capturing the real Princess Evie, Deathstalker must now return her to her rightful place of power—but the swordsman’s battle has just begun.
Hermann, a failed sculptor, is about to end it all before he finds a strange, talking hole in the wall. The hole (Denise Poirier, the voice of ON FLUX) has the power to fulfill his wildest dreams, or it just may become his worst nightmare. Deep Dark is a twisted tale warning you to be careful what you wish for, because it just might get you.
Sly! Sly! Sly!
This wild expanded cut of the cult rock doc charts art, ego, and rivalry between The Dandy Warhols and Brian Jonestown Massacre. Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Anton Newcombe, Ondi Timoner, 2024
20 years ago, Sundance was rocked by DIG!, Ondi Timoner’s genre-topping rockumentary about two Gen-X bands and their journey to alt-rock glory. Shot over nearly a decade, DIG! explores the collision of art and commerce through the star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry of dueling 90s bands The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
A loan officer cursed by a gypsy fights to break the supernatural torment unleashed upon her. Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver. Sam Raimi. 2009.
Rock-loving teens and aspiring musicians Hawk (Edward Furlong), Lex (Giuseppe Andrews), Trip (James DeBello) and Jam (Sam Huntington) can’t wait to see their favorite band, KISS, perform at an upcoming concert. However, when Jam’s pious mother (Lin Shaye) finds the tickets to the event, she incinerates them, leaving the boys desperate for a way to see the show. In their attempts to see KISS, the lads endure misunderstandings, humiliation and violence, all just to see their beloved idols.
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.
Inspired by Terry Jones’s children’s book, Erik the Viking and his men travel across the sea to find Valhalla to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnarok.Tim Robbins, Terry Jones, John Cleese, Gary Cady, Eartha Kitt, Mickey Rooney, Imogen Stubbs, 1989.
Beloved cult film about a rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned… from a DIMENSION OF PURE EVIL! Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997
A bedridden patient in a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles befriends a fellow patient, and shares a fantastic tale of heroes, myths, and villains on a desert island with the little girl.
A slice of life story that follows a large Italian family on Christmas Eve as they prepare for the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes, reminisce about the past, and seek love in the future. Robert Tinnell (2019)
A mercenary takes on the job of tracking a high-value asset known only as The Ghost on an international flight. Realizing the plane is filled with assassins assigned to kill them both, the pair must work together in a fight for their lives.
FIRESTARTER: As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple’s daughter, Charlie (Drew Barrymore), begins to exhibit the ability of setting fires solely with her mind. This volatile talent makes the youngster extremely dangerous and soon she becomes a target for the enigmatic agency known as “The Shop.
FIRESTARTER 2: Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002) follows grown-up Charlie McGee, who is on the run from the government and tries to suppress her powerful pyrokinetic abilities. She is tracked by John Rainbird, who has a new group of psychically gifted children at his disposal. Charlie teams up with a government agent and professor to confront Rainbird and stop his new, powerful arsenal.
Hard to find 3-D release of the first film of Spain’s iconic Waldemar Daninsky saga about a cursed nobleman who battles vampires and a deadly werewolf rival for supremacy. Paul Naschy, Aurora de Alba, Enrique López Eguiluz, 1968
A lonely cringe-inducing suburban dad’s awkward obsession with his charismatic neighbour spirals into a darkly comedic and unsettling bromance. Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, Kate Mara, Andrew DeYoung, 2024
A teenager discovers that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire, so he turns to an actor in a television horror show for help dealing with the undead. Tom Holland (1985)
German horror, Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic “games” with one another for their own amusement. Michael Haneke (1997)
This quirky documentary unravels the mystery surrounding the tragic death of actor Peter Sellers’ stunt double during the filming of the Ghost in the Noonday Sun. Geoffrey Rush, Minnie Driver, Ludivine Sagnier, Peter Medak, 2000
In 1973, Peter Sellers invited Peter Medak to direct a 17th century pirate epic called GHOST IN THE NOONDAY SUN. But with nightmares that included an unfinished script, rough seas, sinking ships and Sellers’ own wildly erratic behavior, the production became an unprecedented catastrophe. Over four decades later, Medak revisits this personal and professional fiasco to search for answers.
Japan has barely recovered from the Second World War when a gigantic peril emerges off the coast of Tokyo. Koichi, a deserter traumatised by his first confrontation with Godzilla, sees this as an opportunity to redeem his conduct during the war.
Squidgy, Blop, and Esmeralda are weird creatures that pose as puppets on a TV show against their will by the show’s host, Cap’n Mike. Tommy and Susie are their only hope for freedom, but a powerful being has evil plans for the supernatural stars! Starring Ashley Lyn Cafagna, Timothy Redwine, Daniel Hartley, Michael Dennis, Caroline Ambrose, Sam Zeller, J.W. Perra, Tom Thomson.
The beloved Spaghetti Western classic! Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Sergio Leone, 1967
An American tries to revive a car plant under Japanese management, clashing with culture and pride. Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt, Ron Howard, 1986.
A terrified toy salesman is mysteriously attacked. At the hospital, he babbles and clutches the year’s most popular Halloween costume, an eerie pumpkin mask. Suddenly, Doctor Daniel Challis (Tom Atkins, The Fog, Night Of The Creeps) finds himself thrust into a terrifying Halloween nightmare. Working with the salesman’s daughter, Ellie, Daniel traces the mask to the Silver Shamrock Novelties company and its founder, Conal Cochran (Dan O’Herlihy, RoboCop).
While shooting a news report on a Montréal heatwave, TV cameraman Cliff Reynolds (The Rowdyman’s Gordon Pinsent) unintentionally films Jerry Cuozzo (Scanners co-star Lawrence Dane), a recently-escaped convict hiding from police and his former criminal associates on the heels of a rogue heroin deal. With the help of Barbara (Day for Night’s Alexandra Stewart) and Gabriella (Vampire Circus’ Domini Blythe), Jerry schemes to fake his own death, while offering large sums of money to Cliff to hand over his film and help deliver the drugs – with lethal consequences.
HELL’S BELLS is a screwball horror/comedy about two aging imbeciles who unknowingly make a deal with the Devil to fulfill their life-long dreams of becoming rock stars and the hijinx that ensue when it’s time to pay The Reaper! It’s a riotous, rockin’, music-filled, demon-infested, special effects extravaganza that promises to be one HELL of a good time!
Experience the sublime agony of this quartet of torment like you never have before, featuring Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth and Hellraiser IV: Bloodline in all-new 4K restorations!
Experience the sublime agony of this quartet of torment like you never have before, featuring Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth and Hellraiser IV: Bloodline in all-new 4K restorations from the original camera negatives. Hell has never looked better!
Screen legend Gary Cooper (Vera Cruz) won the 1952 Oscar for Best Actor in this classic tale of an aging lawman who stands alone to defend a town of righteous cowards in one of the greatest showdowns in the history of cinema. The movie also marks the first starring role for a beautiful young actress who went on to become one of Hollywood’s most beloved icons—Grace Kelly (The Country Girl). Produced by Stanley Kramer (Inherit the Wind), directed by Fred Zinnemann (From Here to Eternity) and written for the screen by Carl Foreman (The Bridge on the River Kwai), High Noon garnered a total of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Score for Dimitri Tiomkin (Rio Bravo), and now stands high as one of the most cherished and influential films of all time. Western favorites Thomas Mitchell (Stagecoach), Lloyd Bridges (Canyon Passage), Katy Jurado (Arrowhead), Otto Kruger (Duel in the Sun), Lon Chaney Jr. (The Indian Fighter), Henry Morgan (The Ox-Bow Incident), Jack Elam (Support Your Local Sheriff) and Lee Van Cleef (For a Few Dollars More) round out the rousing cast.
Four grisly, long-banned Italian four-part anthology horror series featuring tales from Lamberto Bava mixing giallo, supernatural terror, and bloody vengeance.
In the late ’80s, Lamberto Bava agreed to direct a four-part anthology series for Italian TV under the title High Tension. But when executives saw the completed features’ extreme themes and graphic violence, their broadcast was blocked for nearly a decade and they have only existed as grey market bootlegs since. Severin Films now presents their Official Worldwide Blu-ray Premiere.
One Sunday in November, Mila (Charo Santos) announces to her father Dadang (Vic Silayan), a retired police officer, that she is pregnant, asking for permission to marry her co-worker Noel (Jay Ilangan). The noose further tightens as Dadong’s unreasonable expectations for a dowry are not met and he exhibits an increasingly authoritarian streak. The couple marries and soon, Mila’s father begins a game of exclusion and manipulation in the hopes of reasserting control over his kin.
Based on the true crime reportage “The House on Zapote Street” penned by Nick Joaquin, Mike De Leon’s Kisapmata, beautifully restored in 4K by L’Immagine Ritrovata, is a stunning example of psychological horror; a film that meticulously tighten the noose around its characters’ neck until the outcome feels inevitable — culminating in a brutal, unflinching portrait of the horrors of patriarchy at its most pathological
BIGGEST JAWS RIPOFF EVER! When a 35-foot great white shark begins to wreak havoc on a seaside town, the mayor, not wanting to endanger his gubernatorial campaign, declines to act, so a local shark hunter and horror author band together to stop the beast.
A sexy space vampire comes to earth and begins to transform the population of London into zombies. From director Tobe Hooper and writer Dan O’Bannon. Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth, 1985.
The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong. Ryan Prows (2017)
A wheelchair-bound boy befriends a rubbery alien in this endlessly mocked, syrupy 80s E.T. knockoff spectacle. Christine Ebersole, George ‘Buck’ Flower, Stewart Raffill, 1988
Frank Zito is a deeply disturbed man, haunted by the traumas of unspeakable childhood abuse. And when these horrific memories begin to scream inside his mind, Frank prowls the seedy streets of New York City to stalk and slaughter innocent young women. Now Frank has begun a relationship with a beautiful photographer, yet his vile compulsions remain. This is the story of a MANIAC.
3 films from acclaimed wuxia Lo Wei: The Black Butterfly / Death Valley / Vengeance of a Snow Girl
Lo Wei found fame in the 1970s following the enormous international success of The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, his collaborations with the inimitable Bruce Lee. In the years before he kickstarted a kung fu revolution. Presented here are three standout films drawn from Lo Wei’s wuxia world: The Black Butterfly, Death Valley and Vengeance of a Snow Girl.
In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s hallucinatory, once-thought unfilmable novel Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg, a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (Robocop’s Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish Interzone, a netherworld of sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. Alternately humorous and grotesque—and always surreal—the film mingles aspects of Burroughs’s novel with incidents from the writer’s own life, resulting in an evocative paranoid fantasy and a self-reflexive investigation into the mysteries of the creative process.
A couple’s erotic photo reenactments of Victorian murderers unravel when a stranger joins, and their grip on sex, identity, and sanity shatters. Peter McEnery, Diane Cilento, Glenda Jackson, Peter Medak, 1968
With his feature film directorial debut, Hungarian émigré Peter Medak created a provocative UK classic and launched one of the most unique careers in cinema history: When a young couple (Peter McEnery and 2x Academy Award® winner Glenda Jackson) grows bored with their kinky roleplay games, they invite an uninhibited photographer (Academy Award® nominee Diane Cilento) to come between them.
After waking up in an apartment the night after a raging party, Sam comes face to face with his new reality: an army of zombies have invaded the streets of Paris and he is one of the lone survivors. Petrified with fear, he barricades himself inside the building to survive. He wonders how long can he last in silence and solitude, and the answer comes when he learns that he’s not all alone after all.
A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of flesh-eating ghouls, Romero’s claustrophobic vision of a late-1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (Duane Jones) in its lead role.
A vagabond swordsman is aided by a kunoichi and a spy in battling a demonic clan of killers – led by a ghost from his past – who are bent on overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate.
After his wife leaves him, a man hires a hitman to kill her but then changes his mind in this pitch-black British farce of botched exits. Graham Chapman, David Jason, Diana Quick, Peter Medak, 1978
In the 1978 black comedy from director Peter Medak, Graham Chapman stars as happily married Arthur Harris, who becomes suicidal when his wife suddenly leaves him. Unable to complete the task himself, he asks a strange handyman (BAFTA Award winner Sir David Jason) to kill him instead. But when Arthur’s wife comes back, he discovers that his homicidal hire has every intention of finishing the job.
Zany cult summer comedy largely held together by a series of gags involving a recently graudated cartoonist-designer who travels to Nantucket Island for adventure, romance and clowning. John Cusack, Linda Warren, Joel Murray, Bobcat Goldthwait, Demi Moore
Dennis Hopper directs & stars in this story of a young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene. Linda Manz, Sharon Farrell.
In this Canadian adaptation of Chester Brown’s graphic novel, a man starts paying for sex after a breakup, exploring intimacy, desire, and personal choices. Sook-Yin Lee, 2024.
When an introverted cartoonist’s girlfriend wants to redefine their relationship, he begins sleeping with sex workers and discovers a new kind of intimacy in the process. An adaptation of the Graphic Novel by Chester Brown.
With the summer sun beating down on her rural Spanish town, Sara hides away in her parent’s butcher shop. A teenager whose excess weight makes her the target of incessant bullying, she flees a clique of capricious girls who torment her at the town pool, only to stumble upon them being brutally kidnapped by a stranger, who drives off with them in his van. When the police begin asking questions, Sara keeps quiet. Intrigued by the stranger an interest that’s mutual she’s torn between revealing the truth and protecting the man who saved her.
John Waters made bad taste perversely transcendent with the forever shocking counterculture sensation Pink Flamingos, his most infamous and daring cinematic transgression. Outré diva Divine is iconic as the wanted criminal hiding out with her family of degenerates in a trailer outside Baltimore while reveling in her tabloid notoriety as the “Filthiest Person Alive.” When a pair of sociopaths (Mink Stole and David Lochary) with a habit of kidnapping women in order to impregnate them attempt to challenge her title, Divine resolves to show them and the world the true meaning of the word filthy. Incest, cannibalism, shrimping, and film history’s most legendary gross-out ending—Waters and his merry band of Dreamlanders leave no taboo unsmashed in this gleefully subversive ode to outsiderhood, in which camp spectacle and pitch-black satire are wielded in an all-out assault on respectability.
A suburban housewife’s world falls apart when she finds that her pornographer husband is serially unfaithful to her, her daughter is pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who’s been breaking local women’s feet. John Waters (1981)
After returning to his childhood home, a disgraced children’s puppeteer is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured his entire life. Directed by Garth Merengie himself, Matthew Holness 2018.
In this 80s horror crammed with highly Italian gore set pieces, scientists accidentally create a rage virus while developing a wonder drug for brain injuries. Patrick Lowe, Cheryl Arutt, Bo Svenson, Vittorio Rambaldi, 1988.
In this provocative Japanese film, a Tokyo detective follows a murder trail to New York, uncovering a model’s wartime secret and the victim’s buried racial identity. Yusaku Matsuda, George Kennedy, Mariko Okada, Junya Sato, 1977
Movie mogul Haruki Kadokawa changed the landscape of Japanese cinema for good when he introduced the concept of the blockbuster to the country with this gripping crime drama featuring an all-star cast. Proof of the Man is a compelling exploration of racial identity and the trauma of the postwar occupation period framed in the form of a whodunnit
A Troma cult classic! A mysterious fog turns grannies into ghouls who can’t wait to sink their dentures into human flesh! Emmanuel Kervyn, 1988.
Welcome to Bates High School. Today’s lesson: stay on Rachel Lang’s good side, because if you don’t, there will be hellfire to pay! When a group of competitive, oversexed jocks target Rachel as a snitch, it triggers Rachel’s psychic impulse for revenge. While mourning the suicide of her best friend, her rage boils to a fever pitch and Rachel finds herself struggling with her inherited telekinetic powers. Can guidance counselor Sue Snell, survivor of Carrie White’s original bloodbath, manage to help Rachel before it’s too late? Is there any way to save Rachel from her own supernatural fury or is it destined to destroy her alongside her teenage tormentors?
BRilliant double feature!
From director Bret McCormick (The Abomination) comes one of the most screwball, brain-melting late 90s direct-to-video entries ever made. At a top-secret military facility, a group of scientists and army brass work on the “The Replicator Project” which quickly goes awry when it turns all the male soldiers into gorgeous, scantily clad nymphets, who then morph into alligators when they reach the peak of sexual excitement! Starring original Leatherface Gunnar Hansen and iconic scream queen Brinke Stevens, Repligator enjoys its first ever release on Blu-ray, with brand new interviews and insights from the cast and creators of this sexy science-fiction send-up.
Ready for a devil of a good time? Linda Blair will scare you silly when she’s Repossessed! Blair stars in this uproariously spooky spoof with Leslie Nielsen, the deadpan comedy hero who provided loop-de-loops of laughter in Airplane! and rapid-fire hilarity in The Naked Gun. The fun begins when grown-up Blair starts spewing curses and pea soup. This is a job for ex-exorcist Nielsen! So he gears up to battle the spirit world—and finds he must also outwit a pair of phony TV evangelists (including Ned Beatty), trying to cash in on the exorcism biz. Get Repossessed. The supernatural hijinks will have your head spinning with laughter! NEW Audio Commentary by Director Bob Logan | Theatrical Trailer
Incarcerated for assault and manslaughter, a man (Siu-wong Fan) survives in a futuristic prison by resorting to more extreme violence.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious final film, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.
In SATAN’S BED, a pre-fame Yoko Ono stars as Ito, a young Japanese woman who arrives in New York to reunite with her husband, only to discover he’s gotten mixed up in a life of drugs and crime. Meanwhile, a gang of strung-out dope fiends, unable to satisfy their kicks, kidnap and torment beautiful women. A truly twisted mutant film which combines an unfinished hard-boiled crime drama with a nasty sexploitation thriller, this Michael & Roberta Findlay effort offers one sick surprise after another.
In SCARE THEIR PANTS OFF, innocent young women are being drugged and kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan, only to awaken in a mysterious dark room where they are tormented by hideously deformed creatures…or are they? Combining a sex-cult oriented nudity with a crime thriller, and touches of oddball humor, this truly unique sleaze pic was the sole directing effort from John Maddox and was produced by the legendary Ron Sullivan (aka Henri Pachard).
Iconic head exploding sci-fi horror where a race of humans with telekinetic abilities must track down a rogue Scanner of unparalleled power waging a bloody war against the normals. David Cronenberg (1981)
Be our guest on a New York City ferry ride that turns into a hilarious nightmare when a mischievous mouse named Steamboat Willie becomes a monstrous reality. As passengers set sail, their trip turns deadly when the tiny terror unleashes murder & mayhem. Packed with big kills, big laughs, and a miniature menace, Screamboat is a cinematic thrill ride – reimagining Steamboat Willie like never before!
Starring Peter Weller, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only — to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms. Christian Duguay (1995)
Facing mounting expenses and the unrelenting pressure of modern living, a down-on-his-luck cab driver is lured on to a mysterious new app that promises fast, easy money. As his first night on the job unfolds, he is pulled ever deeper into the dark underbelly of society, embarking on a journey that will test his moral code and shake his understanding of what it means to have freewill. The question becomes not how much money he can make, but what he’ll be compelled to do to make it. If you’ve got nothing to lose, how far would you go? Commentary with writer / director Michael Pierro, producer Kire Paputts, and actor Nathanael Chadwick
A deep dive into shark cinema, exploring the cultural impact of films like Jaws and Sharknado through interviews with filmmakers, critics, and conservationists. Roger Corman, Joe Dante, Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Scarlata, 2023
Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
The best seller at the video store returns!
Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide-the Stalker-leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself-Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings.
Director Jon Brewer unearths the fascinating story that was the undercurrent of film icon Steve McQueen’s favourite pastime and hidden talent dirt-bike racing in this fast-paced biographical documentary narrated by Charley Boorman. The film explores McQueen’s obsession with speed and the invention of the racing bike The Desert Racer, a by-product of his relationship with Bud Ekins, his stunt double on “The Great Escape.” “Steve McQueen: Desert Racer” boasts new and candid interviews with Chad McQueen from his Malibu home. McQueen’s racing contemporaries, John Cooper and Dave Ekins, also contribute, with firsthand stories featuring Steve McQueen in his happiest times. Now the Metisse motorbike designed by Steve and Bud is being re-created in Limited Edition, handcrafted in the UK. This Blu-ray features English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired.
It’s yogurt, it’s a parasite, it’s corporate satire with a slime budget. A new dessert becomes a deadly addiction, leading to a battle against a corporate conspiracy. Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Paul Sorvino, Larry Cohen, 1985
The Stuff is the new dessert taking supermarket shelves by storm. It’s delicious, low in calories and better still doesn’t stain the family carpet… What’s not to like? Well, for a start, it has a life of its own, and we’re not talking friendly live bacteria…
An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon finds out he is wrong. The screenwriters ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence, madness, and death.
After a comet disrupts the rain cycle of Earth, the planet has become a desolate, barren desert by the year 2033. With resources scarce, Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell) — head of the powerful and evil Water & Power Corporation, the de facto government — has taken control of the water supply. Unwilling to cower under Kesslee’s tyrannical rule, a pair of outlaws known as Tank Girl (Lori Petty) and Jet Girl (Naomi Watts) rise up, joining the mysterious rebel Rippers to destroy the corrupt system.
hot guerilla-style in the shadows of Brooklyn, TEENAGE GANG DEBS combines the template of FREAKS with the blueprint for HAIRSPRAY to forge the most essential juvenile delinquent gutter-noir that ever was. With its cinéma vérité fight scenes, gang leaders who wear cardigan sweaters, and refreshing flip of gender roles in exploitation, this Something Weird classick feels like what would happen if The Shangri-Las stopped singing “Leader Of The Pack” and started stabbing punks with switchblades.
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition. Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Diana Dors, Joan Hickson, Madeline Smith, 1973.
A woman leaves a bloodstained trail through a decaying city in this ferocious, genre-busting neo-noir revenge thrill ride. Shawn Nyberg, Leigh Murphy, Austin Snell, 2024.
Molly Pray is on a bloody crusade against the criminal forces who have wronged her. Her mission strikes at the myth of manifest destiny, but for Molly, with the embodied specter of Death on her side, this isn’t political. This is personal.
An assortment of unruly and misfit teens have all been forced to attend camp at a wildlife preserve which happens to be next to a an illicit marijuana growing op that uses a pesticide that mutates ticks to gigantic size. Rosalind Allen, Seth Green, 1993.
A cake heist turns into a brothel bloodbath in this punk-slasher odyssey of jealous lovers, nihilist thieves, and deranged hosts. Eric Aguilar, Arko Miro, Mike Cuenca, 2024
With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what had been thought nearly impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits under terrible threat from modern forces. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt, Ralph Richardson, Richard Briers, and Denholm Elliott, Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.
A neon‑pastel musical roller romance about a beautiful muse who skates into a songwriter’s life and buries earworms deep in your soul. Olivia Newton‑John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, Robert Greenwald, 1980
From the makers of Daimajin comes a trilogy of terror ripped from the pages of Japanese folklore: 100 MONSTERS / SPOOK WARFARE / ALONG WITH GHOSTS. Also includes Takashi Miike’s remake THE GREAT YOKAI WAR.
Earthquakes are causing havoc throughout Korea and it’s no simple seismic mayhem, but instead the mythic monster Yongary emerging from the earth! After nuclear testing awakens the giant monster presaged in Korean folklore, Yongary threatens to level the country, breathing fire and stomping entire buildings. Only scientist Il-Woo, with the help of his girlfriend’s prankster kid brother Icho, can figure out how to slow down the terrible Yongary, who gobbles up petroleum products and only appears to be growing stronger. The seemingly powerless army considers using guided missiles against Yongary, potentially demolishing ancient historical landmarks in order to save lives, all in the hope of stopping his fiery path of destruction.
And there we go guys. Movies should arrive Thursday/ Friday. Cheers!
