As the video store has entered it’s 21st year of silly and brilliant cinema to show you all the new batch of movies continue to invade the little basement shop. This week is yet another mix of old, new, and bizaare so let’s take a look shall we…
Starring, Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, a private investigator is hired to discover if a “snuff film” is authentic or not. Joel Schumacher (1999)
The boundless imagination of Terry Gilliam yields a dazzling fantasy of epic proportions. Inspired by the extravagant exploits of the fabled Baron Munchausen, this spectacle—born of a famously turbulent production—follows the whimsical eighteenth-century nobleman (John Neville) as he embarks on an outlandish quest that takes him from faraway lands to the moon to the belly of a sea monster and beyond, meanwhile waging battle against a vengeful sultan and the tyranny of logic. Packed frame to frame with special effects, mischievous wit, and colourful performances—including a young Sarah Polley as the Baron’s no-nonsense sidekick—the Oscar-nominated The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a lavish celebration of the triumph of make-believe over reality.
When his girlfriend suddenly disappears, leaving a cryptic note as her only explanation, Hank’s comfortable life and his sanity begin to crack. Then, from the woods surrounding his house, something terrible starts trying to break in. 2019.
The first Six Alien films all together in one set.
Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is a private detective contracted by Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to track down the iconic singer Johnny Favorite. However, everybody that Angel questions about Favorite seems to meet a tragic demise. Eventually the trail leads Angel to New Orleans where he learns that Favorite had dabbled in the black arts. As Favorite’s whereabouts and true identity become clear, Angel learns that being hired by Cyphre was not a random choice.
42 9th graders are sent to a deserted island. They are given a map, food, and various weapons. An explosive collar is fitted around their neck. If they break a rule, the collar explodes. Their mission: kill each other and be the last one standing. The last survivor is allowed to leave the island. If there is more than one survivor, the collars explode and kill them all.
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 man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich. Michael Fassbender, Joel Schumacher, 2009.
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)
Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), an unemployed actor, is asked to house-sit a luxurious hillside apartment. The home offers Jake a telescopic peek into the bedroom of Gloria Revelle (Deborah Shelton), who performs nightly. When Jake discovers another man is also spying on Gloria, he begins an obsessive surveillance of her. Soon a grisly murder leads him into the world of adult film where he meets, Holly Body (Melanie Griffith), who is a key to the crime.
A tough female ex con and her lover concoct an elaborate scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on a crooked boyfriend. Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, Wachowskis, 1996.
Tender cannibal romance meets emo horror in this story of pair of poverty stricken insatiable flesh eating outsiders. Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Luca Guadagnino, 2022.
A banger of a double feature…90s style!
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.
Starring Michael J. Fox, Kiefer Sutherland, a disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife. James Bridges (1988)
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
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?
Darkly comic & violent TV series about an ex-con, who is recruited into the police force when he is betrayed by his partner and lover. Max Williams, Eddie Izzard, Eric Roberts, Kate Kelton, Neil Napier, Jessica Steen.
In this erotic remake of the 1942 classic, a young woman’s sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.
A gleefully absurd Estonian horror-musical where lovers are hunted by a killer in a forest full of off-beat violence, gore and song. Karl Ilves, Laura Niils, Janno Puusepp. Sander Maran, 2024
Tashi, a tennis player turned coach, has transformed her husband from a mediocre player into a world-famous grand slam champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she makes him play a challenger event — close to the lowest level of tournament on the pro tour. Tensions soon run high when he finds himself standing across the net from the once-promising, now burnt-out Patrick, his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend.
An undercover cop is torn between duty and loyalty in this cornerstone of Hong Kong’s Heroic Bloodshed cinema, drenched in gunfire and betrayal. Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee, Sun Yueh, Ringo Lam, 1987
In this darkly comedic horror from Spain, new parents argue over the purchase of a hideous coffee table which leads them on a breathtakingly sick journey. Caye Casas, 2022.
Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead. Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen, 2013.
Horror titans George A. Romero and Stephen King deliver yet another fiendish selection of blood-curdling tales in Creepshow 2 – now newly remastered in 2K! Michael Gornick (1987)
A retired detective investigating a missing-person case suspects his quiet neighbour harbours a darker secret. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2016
Beloved cult film based on an equally beloved cult comic about a man who is brutally murdered and then comes back to life as a ghost of vengeance to avenge his murder. Brandon Lee, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson, Alex Proyas, 1994.
A surfer is abducted by a twisted charter captain who stages snuff‑style shark attacks, turning the isolated marine night into a fight for survival. Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston, Sean Byrne, 2025
Lonely teenage genius has two best friends: his remarkable robot and the beautiful girl next door. When tragedy strikes both he rebuilds them with frightening results! Matthew Labyorteaux, Kristy Swanson,Wes Craven, 1986.
Average Joe’s Gym and its owner, Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn), are both down on their luck. A fancy competing gym called Globo-Gym, run by the maniacal health nut White Goodman (Ben Stiller), is about to put Average Joe’s out of business unless Peter can raise $50,000 to keep his mortgage. To save the gym, Peter and a ragtag group of Average Joe’s members and employees enter a dodgeball contest with a big cash prize. In response, White forms his own Globo-Gym team to rout the competition.
A sleeper hit of the early 1980s, Eating Raoul is a bawdy, gleefully amoral tale of conspicuous consumption. Warhol superstar Mary Woronov and cult legend Paul Bartel (who also directed) portray a prudish married couple feeling put upon by the swingers who live in their apartment building; one night, by accident, they discover a way to simultaneously realize their dream of opening a little restaurant and rid themselves of the “perverts” down the hall. A mix of hilarious, anything-goes slapstick and biting satire of me-generation self-indulgence, Eating Raoul marks the end of the sexual revolution with a thwack.
All hell breaks loose when Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator, The Running Man) battles the ultimate evil in this chilling supernatural action thriller. When Jericho (Schwarzenegger), a burned-out former New York City cop is assigned to security detail for a mysterious stranger (Gabriel Byrne), he thwarts an incredible assassination attempt. During the ensuing investigation, he and his partner (Kevin Pollak) save the life of the beautiful and terrified Christine York (Robin Tunney), whose destiny involves death, the devil and the fate of mankind. Now it’s up to Jericho to save the girl, the world and his own soul as he comes face to face with his most powerful enemy ever!
In a world ravaged by crime, the island of Manhattan has been converted into a prison which houses the world’s most brutal inmates. And when the President of the United States crash lands inside, only one man can bring him back: Snake Plissken! In 4K!
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 REKINDLED: Charlie McGee is a young woman with the unwanted and often uncontrollable gift of pyrokinesis, lighting fires by mere thought. Charlie has been in hiding for nearly all her life from a top-secret government fringe group headed by the maniacal John Rainbird, who wants to find and use Charlie as the ultimate weapon of war. Vincent is a young private investigator unwittingly sent to look for Charlie, and evenutally tries to help her escape from Rainbird, who has formed a group of young boys from other research projects — each with different special abilities — in a plot to take over the world.
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.
A visually striking Latvian animated film about a stray cat embarks on a perilous odyssey towards safety through post-human ruins. Gints Zilbalodis, 2024
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
Enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne’er-do-well younger brother (Sean Penn) on his forty-eighth birthday: a voucher for a game that, if he agrees to play it, will change his life. Thus begins a trip down a rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewer alike. This multilayered, noirish descent into one man’s personal hell is also a surreal, metacinematic journey that, two years after the phenomenon Se7en, further demonstrated that director David Fincher was one of Hollywood’s true contemporary visionaries.
John Carpenter mines Rio Bravo again for this ridiculous B-movie about human colonists on Mars who must be rescued after becoming possessed by vengeful Martian ghosts. Jason Statham, Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Pam Grier, 2011.
Inventive metaphysical horror about a desperate man who encounters a personable but destructive demi-god in a grimy rest stop bathroom. Ryan Kwanten, J.K. Simmons, Rebekah McKendry, 2022.
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.
Henry Hill knows only too well that he must put the Mob’s interests before everything, even his family, but when the good times turn sour, his loyalties dissolve in the face of greater rewards. Faced with a terrible retribution, Hill can see only one way to get out alive.
In the wake of a horrific car accident that kills her husband, Michael (Stephen Park), expectant mother Madeline Matheson (Jordan Ladd) discovers that her daughter, Grace, has died in the womb. Ignoring her doctor’s warnings that the fetus must be removed from her body, a grief-stricken Matheson demands to carry the child to term — even if it endangers her own life to do so. Curiously, little Grace emerges undead — and with a craving for human blood.
Italian western, starring Klaus Kinski, a mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, as a grim, tense struggle unfolds. Sergio Corbucci (1968)
Take the conventions of the American teen movie, transpose them to Los Angeles’s freaky fringes, anchor them in an unapologetic vision of sexual fluidity, and top it all off with heavy doses of Gen X disillusionment, gonzo violence, and hallucinogenic surrealism, and you’ll end up with something like these audacious transgressions from New Queer Cinema renegade Gregg Araki. Gleefully mixing slacker irony with raw sincerity, Godardian cool with punk scuzz, the savagely subversive, hormone-fueled films that make up the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy pushed 1990s indie cinema into bold new aesthetic realms, while giving blistering expression to adolescent rage and libidinal desire.
In a neon-drenched city, a rogue hacker plunges into violent criminal networks, psychotropic experiments, and extreme stunts in this cyber‑thriller cult favorite. Kai Lennox, Marlo Thomas, Ryo Kase, 2000
A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one, The Hidden Fortress stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess (a fierce Misa Uehara) as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director’s most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas’s Star Wars. The Hidden Fortress delivers Kurosawa’s trademark deft blend of wry humor, breathtaking action, and compassionate humanity.
There can only be one! Highlander on 4K UHD!
Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, Britain’s premier masters of the macabre, bring the Horror of Dracula to vivid, full-color death in this retelling of Bram Stoker’s spellbinding vampire tale. Dracula (Lee), a centuries-old Transylvanian nobleman damned to an eternal half-life, regularly finds new victims. He also finds Dr. Van Helsing (Cushing), a scientist who becomes the Count’s implacable foe in a deadly game of bat-and-mouse. The dread is here — as are the power and pathos of this genre landmark by which Hammer Studios ushered in a new era of screen chills from classic evildoers. Tremble through that era again. Unleash the horror.
Four losers at a ski resort hot tub wake up in 1986, facing outrageous hair, retro tunes, and awkward choices as they scramble to alter their futures—or not. John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke, Steve Pink, 2010
The first film to fully capitalise on Lon Chaney’s unorthodox appeal, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame is a sumptuous dramatisation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, produced by Universal Studios at the then-phenomenal cost of $1.25 million. This was an extraordinary gamble, since the film boldly deviated from established Hollywood formula and made its central character not a charming romantic ideal, but a gruesomely disfigured “monster” who is incapable of arousing in the beautiful leading lady anything more than pity.
Veteran bounty hunter Ralph Thorson risks all in bringing bail jumpers to justice, but starts to question what he’s done with his life.
Ingenious slasher about a frustrated actress & employee of an used bookstore, spending her dark & stormy nights with a mysterious pulp novel, who’s disfigured maniac protagonist comes to life to terrorise her. Jenny Wright, 1989.
Terror lives in the shadows in a pair of mesmerizingly moody horror milestones conjured from the imagination of Val Lewton, the visionary producer-auteur who turned our fears of the unseen and the unknown into haunting excursions into existential dread. As head of RKO’s B-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton, working with directors such as Jacques Tourneur and Mark Robson, brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion, and psychosexual unease. Suffused with ritual, mysticism, and the occult, the poetically hypnotic I Walked with a Zombie and the shockingly subversive The Seventh Victim are still-tantalizing dreams of death that dare to embrace the darkness.
A woman who believes she’s a combat cyborg falls in love with a man who believes he can steal souls in this Korean romantic comedy. Chan-wook Park, 2006.
The first manned expedition to Mars is decimated by an unknown life form…which stows away on the rescue ship. Marshall Thompson, Shirley Patterson, Kim Spalding, Edward L. Cahn, 1958
In a bid to further their careers, indie band Low Shoulder made a pact with the Devil, one that requires the soul of a virgin. They kidnap and kill cheerleader Jennifer, but unfortunately she was no virgin and resurrects to take her retribution.
Starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Alicia Silverstone, a charismatic surgeon is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice to save his family by a teenage boy he has taken under his wing. Yorgos Lanthimos (2017)
The Shat stars as veterinarian in an Arizona town infested with a horde of arachnids that turn on the humans whose insecticides have depleted their natural food supply. William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode. 1977.
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi (The Human Condition) shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted. This version of Kwaidan is the original three-hour cut, never before released in the United States.
Lee Geum-ja (Lee Young-ae) has spent the last 13 years in prison for a murder she didn’t commit. She’s fantasized about getting revenge on the various people who wronged her, including the police officer (Nam Il-u) who forced her to confess and a shady teacher (Choi Min-sik) with whom she has a checkered past. After her release, she teams up with a group of eccentric friends she made while behind bars and sets out to clear her name and find the daughter she was forced to leave behind.
Atmospheric horror mockumentary from Australia about the ghost of a woman who mysteriously died. Joel Anderson, 2008.
A live broadcast of a late 70s talk show goes awry when the troubled host unleashes the evil inhabiting a young woman. David Dastmalchian, Laura Gordon, Ian Bliss, Fayssal Bazzi, Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes, 2022.
Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole) is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness) and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), Lawrence rebels against the orders of his superior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey across the harsh desert to attack a well-guarded Turkish port.
A devastating love story of self-destruction, where an alcoholic writer and a kind-hearted sex worker find solace in each other’s ruins. Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Mike Figgis, 1995
Internationally famous oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his crew, Team Zissou, set sail on an expedition to hunt down the mysterious, elusive, possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark that killed Zissou’s partner during the documentary filming of their latest adventure. They are joined on their voyage by a young airline copilot (Owen Wilson), a pregnant journalist (Cate Blanchett), and Zissou’s estranged wife (Anjelica Huston). Wes Anderson has assembled an all-star cast that also includes Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Seu Jorge, and Bud Cort for this wildly original adventure-comedy.
When a school teacher is plagued by recurring nightmares of a mysterious entity, he travels to his childhood home because suspects a link to a dark incident in his past.
“We’ve met before, haven’t we?” A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, Lost Highway, David Lynch’s seventh feature film, is one of the filmmaker’s most potent cinematic dreamscapes. Starring Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman, the film expands the horizons of the medium, taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. As this postmodern noir detours into the realm of science fiction, it becomes apparent that the only certainty is uncertainty.
Three emotionally abused individuals from the fringes of society get locked in a convoluted love triangle. Takahiro Nishijima, Sion Sono (Suicide Club), 2008.
Launched to stardom by Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train, enigmatic actor Masatoshi Nagase thrives as the hardboiled detective wannabe Maiku Hama in Kaizo Hayashi’s trilogy of the same name, encompassing The Most Terrible Time in My Life (1994), The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995) and The Trap (1996). Stomping through the bustling-and-hustling port city of Yokohama, Hama operates out of a run-down movie theatre and his office sees every kind of customer: from rich ladies looking for runaway pups to serial murderers who look suspiciously like himself… Equal part American hardboiled detective pastiche, Seijun Suzuki-style Nikkatsu akushon send-up, and Masatoshi Nagase’s own new school comedic charmer, the Maiku Hama Trilogy is a cult phenomena of 90s Japanese cinema, that would go on to inspire many – and spawn its own anthology NTV television series The Private Detective Mike by 2002.
The trilogy kicks things off in akushon black-and-white with The Most Terrible Time in My Life, set among immigrant communities of a multi-cultural Yokohama. When Maiku accidentally saves a Taiwanese immigrant named Yang during a mahjong parlour brawl, he becomes embroiled in a tale of two brothers at the heart of an underground pan-Asian mafia on the brink of war.
In The Stairway to the Distant Past, now in vibrant color, Maiku Hama returns in a dashing convertible that is promptly repo’d. Taking on odd jobs, from lost dogs to men looking for their own selves, Hama’s search leads him to a past he thought he’d left him behind as the port city’s most legendary stripper returns and our detective struggles with being a chip off the old block.
Closing out the trilogy is The Trap in which Nagase stars in a memorable double role. When a string of young women in floral dresses are found serenely posed and afflicted with rigor mortis, alarms are sounded throughout Yokohama about the possibility of a serial killer on the loose. But when all evidence points to Hama, he has to fight against the clock and former allies, putting his trust in a rookie cop and his trusted sidekick Hoshino. Will Hama escape the trap?
French torture horror about a woman, a victim of abuse, who’s desire for revenge takes her on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity. Pascal Laugier, 2008.
Starring Emilio Estevez, a group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal. Stephen King (1986)
Mermaid Shan is sent to kill Xuan in order to stop his project which threatens the entire mermaid race. However, they fall in love with each other which puts them in the target sights of a hidden and dangerous organisation.
Includes 4 films from one-man creative revolutionary Melvin Van Peebles: THE STORY OF A THREE DAY PASS (1967) / WATERMELON MAN (1970) / SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG (1971) / DON’T PLAY US CHEAP (1972)
Director, writer, composer, actor, and one-man creative revolutionary Melvin Van Peebles jolted American independent cinema to new life with his explosive stylistic energy and unfiltered expression of Black consciousness. Though he undeniably altered the course of film history with the anarchic Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, that pop-culture bombshell is just one piece of a remarkably varied career that has also encompassed forays into European art cinema (The Story of a Three Day Pass), mainstream Hollywood comedy (Watermelon Man), and Broadway musicals (Don’t Play Us Cheap). Each facet of Van Peebles’s renegade genius is on display in this collection of four films, a tribute to a transformative artist whose caustic social observation, radical formal innovation, and uncompromising vision established a new cinematic model for Black creative independence. Also included in the set is Baadasssss!, a chronicle of the production of Sweet Sweetback made by Van Peebles’s son Mario Van Peebles—and starring the younger Van Peebles as Melvin.
Banger triple feature! Finish him!!!
This documentary uncovers Bunny Yeager, the trailblazing photographer who helped invent the bikini era and shape pop culture’s image of womanhood. Dita Von Teese, Bruce Weber, Larry King, Dennis Scholl & Kareem Tabsch, 2023
Reincarnated “Satanic Witch” from New Amsterdam, circa 1600’s comes back to revive her cult members by sucking the life force out of people. LeeAnne Baker, 1987.
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.
Dae-Su is an obnoxious drunk bailed from the police station yet again by a friend. However, he’s abducted from the street and wakes up in a cell, where he remains for the next 15 years, drugged unconscious when human contact is unavoidable, otherwise with only the television as company. And then, suddenly released, he is invited to track down his jailor with a denouement that is simply stunning.
Kaneto Shindo’s chilling retelling of the nightmarish folktale of an impoverished older woman, her daughter-in-law and a bedraggled neighbour fresh from battle that they both desire. 1964.
This edition presents the 1929 theatrical version, restored from archival 35mm elements by Film Preservation Associates. It is highlighted by the Technicolor Bal Masque sequence as well as meticulously hand-colored sequences.
Brian De Palma’s (Scarface, The Untouchables) classic musical cult comedy Phantom of the Paradise blends elements of The Phantom of the Opera, The Picture of Dorian Grey, and Faust, paving the way for his later hits. In it, a disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace.
A bumbling French detective stumbles through a UK-set jewel-heist caper that became a defining comic classic. Peter Sellers, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Blake Edwards, 1963
A madman builds a doomsday machine in the UK, forcing Clouseau to save the world in chaotic slapstick style. Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely, Blake Edwards, 1976
All region collection of nine Films by Nagisa Oshima: The Catch (1961) / Death by Hanging (1968) / Boy (1969) / Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970) / The Ceremony (1971) / Dear Summer Sister (1972)
Romance becomes psychodrama in Alfred Hitchcock’s elegantly crafted Rebecca, his first foray into Hollywood filmmaking. A dreamlike adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel, the film stars the enchanting Joan Fontaine as a young woman who believes she has found her heart’s desire when she marries the dashing aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter (played with cunning vulnerability by Laurence Olivier). But upon moving to Manderley-her groom’s baroque ancestral mansion-she soon learns that his deceased wife haunts not only the home but the temperamental, brooding Maxim as well. The start of Hitchcock’s legendary collaboration with producer David O. Selznick, this elegiac gothic vision, captured in stunning black and white by George Barnes, took home the Academy Awards for best picture and best cinematography.
Clouseau faces assassins and global chaos in this UK-set comedy that cemented his cult status. Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Blake Edwards, 1978
Hong Kong policeman Keung (Jackie Chan) arrives in New York for the wedding of his uncle Bill (Bill Tung), a grocer who recently sold his Bronx store to the fetching Elaine (Anita Mui). After a biker gang bursts into the store to wreak havoc, Keung springs into action, giving up his vacation to defend the weak and protect the innocent with his extraordinary martial arts skills. As Keung investigates local gangs, he learns more about a criminal syndicate that needs to be brought to justice.
In the year 2019, America is a totalitarian state where the favorite television program is “The Running Man” — a game show in which prisoners must run to freedom to avoid a brutal death. Having been made a scapegoat by the government, an imprisoned Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has the opportunity to make it back to the outside again by being a contestant on the deadly show, although the twisted host, Damon Killian (Richard Dawson), has no intention of letting him escape.
After a year of combating a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a frustrated nation finally lets its guard down. This is when the virus spontaneously mutates, giving rise to a mind-altering plague. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things they can think of. Murder, torture, rape and mutilation are only the beginning. A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they try to reunite amid the chaos. The age of civility and order is no more. There is only “The Sadness”.
Dracula resurrects in the London, turning his castle into a gore-filled gothic spectacle during Hammer’s late Cold-War era productions. Christopher Lee, Patrick Troughton, Dennis Waterman Roy Ward Baker 1970
In 1976, singer Jackie Moon (Will Ferrell) uses the profits from his only hit single to fulfill a longtime dream of owning a basketball team. His team, the Flint Michigan Tropics, is the worst team in the league, and what’s more, the franchise may fold when the ABA and NBA announce plans to merge. It’s up to Jackie and the Tropics to turn their game around and slam-dunk their chance for survival.
A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food. A giant battle occurs when 40 bandits attack the village.
Collection of 80s horrors from Hong Kong’s infamous Shaw Brothers Studio: SEX BEYOND THE GRAVE / HELL HAS NO BOUNDARY / HAUNTED TALES
The engine behind Shaw Brothers never faltered in enthusiasm, willing to blend concepts both wildly ambitious and cleverly inspired by other cinema hits. Their waning days in the 1980s were no exception, and perhaps their most eclectic. Here we present to you a spectrum of horrors from the Shaw system, encompassing everything from demonic possession, atrocities of World War II, ghost stories, rape and revenge, police infighting, mahjong competition, blind prophets, the wages of good fortune, mother hatred, and even cannibalism.
A woman hunts for her missing sister after a lost rural investigation surfaces on tape, unleashing found-footage terror and supernatural dread. Camille Sullivan, Sarah Durn, Brendan Sexton III, Chris Stuckmann, 2024
Something has surfaced in Tokyo Bay. As the Prime Minister of Japan pleads with the public to remain calm, a horrific creature of tremendous size makes landfall in the city, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Then it evolves. The government assembles a motley task force to combat the monster when an envoy from the US Department of State delivers a folder of classified documents. On its cover is written: “GODZILLA.”
Collection of 3 films from the Full Moon vaults featuring bad girls, dancers and strippers and starring a plethora of some the most famous small-screen starlets from the era of late-night cable.
Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.
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 volatile drummer loses much of his hearing & is launched on an odyssey as he comes to understand what it means to live as a deaf person and to discover deafness as not a disability but as a rich culture and community. Riz Ahmed, Darius Marder, 2019
In their quest for free beer, bumbling Canadian brothers Bob (Rick Moranis) and Doug McKenzie (Dave Thomas) wind up working at the Elsinore Brewery. The hapless lads uncover a sinister mind-control plot spearheaded by Brewmeister Smith (Max von Sydow) and must stop the scheme, which also involves Uncle Claude (Paul Dooley), a member of the Elsinore family. As Bob and Doug try to prevent Smith from taking over the world, they also manage to drink plenty of their favorite sudsy beverage.
Fading actress Elisabeth Sparkle becomes distressed when her chauvinistic boss fires her from her aerobics show. She soon injects herself with a mysterious serum that promises a younger, better version of herself, but things go horribly wrong.
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city. When Travis meets pretty campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), he becomes obsessed with the idea of saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate, then directing his attentions toward rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster).
In 1984, it was aired on the BBC and shocked tens of millions of UK viewers. Four months later, it was broadcast in America and became the most watched basic cable program in history. It remains one of the most acclaimed made-for-television movies ever. THREADS is a docudrama about the effects of a nuclear attack on the working-class city of Sheffield, England as the fabric of society unravels.
Spinal Tap has come to be recognized as England’s loudest and most punctual band. In the legendary rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, now beautifully restored, Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) embark on their final American tour, with filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) capturing all the mishaps, creative tensions, dwindling crowds, and ill-fated drummers. This Is Spinal Tap takes DiBergi’s brilliant vérité style and turns it up to eleven!
In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson), they plunder treasure from Napoleon (Ian Holm) and Agamemnon (Sean Connery)—but the Evil Genius (David Warner) is watching their every move. Featuring a darkly playful script by Gilliam and his Monty Python cohort Michael Palin (who also appears in the film), Time Bandits is at once a giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire of technology gone awry.
The all-American obsession with celebrity turns monstrous in this deliciously subversive (and disturbingly prescient) satire of our television-mediated, true-crime-obsessed age. In a career breakthrough, Nicole Kidman delivers a diabolical deconstruction of the girl next door as a local TV weather reporter whose perfectly perky facade belies a murderous heart, as her ruthless pursuit of fame ensnares three disaffected teens in a sordid, tabloid-ready scandal. Deftly deploying shifting perspectives, faux-documentary interviews, and a supporting cast featuring Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon, and Casey Affleck, director Gus Van Sant adds provocative layers of meaning to this darkly funny examination of suburban sociopathy.
A newly relocated couple encounters a supernatural force in the woods that fuses their bodies, forcing them to confront love, intimacy, and trust in grotesque and darkly comic ways. Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman, Michael Shanks, 2025
Blood, guts and guns are the new normal in the new police state! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation wages a blood-splattered war with the Engineers, a genetically modified group of super-criminals. These mutant mobsters can bio-fuse and surgically implant weapons into their anatomy, turning self-mutilation and body modification into a lethal form of performance art. Meet Ruka, the daughter of a brutally slain police officer, the Corporation s deadliest Engineer Hunter. With cold-blooded efficiency, she slices and dices her way through the crime world and discovers a lair that operates as the underworld s freakish fetish club! But no amount of fear can deter Ruka from fulfilling her sworn duty and avenging her father’s death. Stars J-Horror icon Eihi Shiina (Miike s Audition) and Directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura, the special effects visionary behind The Machine Girl. Audio options: English dubbed or Japanese language with English subtitles. Warning: Graphic violence and gore!
In orbit over Nevada desert, alien invaders use unknown powers to make trucks come to life to use as weapons. The unmanned vehicles turn homicidal on its owners and people inside a remote diner below.
Adam Sandler delivers an almost maniacally embodied performance as Howard Ratner, a fast-talking New York jeweller in relentless pursuit of the next big score. Josh and Benny Safdie, 2019.
Wild Bill Hickok hunts a mythical buffalo, said to be cursed, that is terrorizing the frontier. Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, J. Lee Thompson, 1977.
A dark comedy about a likeable guy pursuing his office crush with the help of his evil talking pets – but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date. Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, 2014.
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White (Mickey Rourke) becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai (John Lone), an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures — even as his concerned wife, Connie (Caroline Kava), and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.
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