With the long weekend upon us figured I would get the head start on the new movie list for next week so let’s just dive in and take a look shall we?
Dr. Kelson’s groundbreaking discovery promises to change the world, but for Spike, an encounter with Jimmy Crystal spirals into a never-ending nightmare.
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Based on an original screenplay by Dr Seuss, a visually stunning pioneering wild fantasy adventure that remains one of American cinema’s most beloved – and bizarre – children’s films. 1953.
Collection of 7 German films based on the novels of Karl May: Old Shatterhand and Winnetou / Shatterhand in the Valley of Death / The Shoot / Through Wild Kurdistan / In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion / The Treasure of the Aztecs / The Pyramid of the Sun
Wildly entertaining, shot in beautifully cinematic European locations and helmed by some of the most talented filmmakers working in Germany during the 1960s, these popular Karl May adaptations paved the way for the many Italian Westerns that would soon follow.
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Payal Kapadia’s acclaimed fiction-feature debut is a radiant ode to hope-giving connections forged amid big-city anonymity. Set against the hypnotic luminescence of Mumbai, All We Imagine as Light follows three very different women working at the same hospital—Prabha (Kani Kusruti), Anu (Divya Prabha), and Parvathy (Chhaya Kadam)—each contending with personal and material struggles amid a modernizing India riven by gentrification and rising Hindu nationalism. When eviction drives Parvathy back to her childhood village, the trio embark on an enchanting getaway by the sea, where they shake loose their remaining secrets and—in one otherworldly sequence—a lingering ghost. Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, All We Imagine as Light is a deep-rooted study of the fortifying power of friendship, propelled by moving performances and the director’s compassionate eye.
Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity piqued, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the unidentified psychopaths tape their exploits as they torment and violate a woman tied to a chair.
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.
The trilogy of the Legendary Beastmaster!
Remake of the 1958 sci-fi horror classic about a deadly blob from another planet which consumes everything in its path. Teenagers attempt without success to warn the townspeople, who refuse to take them seriously. Chuck Russell (1988)
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.
This shot-on-video martial-arts double feature unleashes pure 1980s ninja chaos as two unlikely heroes are dragged into a war over stolen germ-warfare secrets.
This shot-on-video martial-arts double feature unleashes pure 1980s ninja chaos as two unlikely heroes are dragged into a war over stolen germ-warfare secrets. Featuring disappearing ninja assassins, endless waves of thugs, criminal masterminds, insane effects and the mysterious ‘Hocus Pocus’ magic fighting style – It’s full-tilt SOV insanity, delivering cult ninja action at maximum volume.
This martial arts box set assembles three 3 featuring karate champion Tadashi Yamashita: Za Karate, Za Karate 2, and Za Karate 3.
In ZA KARATE – U.S. Version BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION also included – Tadashi Yamashita is targeted by mobsters when he dares to compete in Kyoto’s World Championship. In ZA KARATE 2, the world’s deadliest martial artists are sent to kill Tadashi before he can avenge the theft of a priceless sword. In ZA KARATE 3, Yamashita must learn new fighting styles to defeat a global squad of kung fu assassins.
Settling in for some time off in his suburban home, Ray Peterson’s vacation becomes a horror when the Klopeks, a suspiciously odd family, move in down the block. Enlisting the aid of his paranoid buddy, Art, and his militia-man neighbor, Rumsfield, Ray sends his son and wife away on a trip while he investigates the Klopeks. When a neighbor disappears, Ray and his cohorts risk their lives to save their cul-de-sac from the clutches of evil.
Wonderfully goofy cult horror that gave the world the acronym C.H.U.D. (Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers). John Heard, Daniel Stern, 1984.
From the subterranean depths it crawls! Director Douglas Cheek’s cult ’80s favorite C.H.U.D. is the ultimate underground movie experience.
Tormented by the murder of his family, the young, wary Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) eliminates his devious adoptive grandfather Tiberius (Peter O’Toole) and seizes control of the declining Roman Empire as it descends into a spiral of depravity, destruction and madness. Restoring the complete performances of McDowell and O’Toole along with fellow film legends Helen Mirren and John Gielgud, this extensive reconstruction
Deluxe blu-ray edition of Ruggero Deodato’s infamous 1980 exploitation film. Newly restored high definition print and new bonus features.
During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew whose goal was to study the region’s indigenous cannibalistic tribes.
Alferd Packer, awaiting his execution on the charge of cannibalism, recounts his harrowing story of survival in the snow-covered Colorado mountains while on an ill-fated quest for riches. After being convinced by a group of gold prospectors to join their expedition, Alferd loses his beloved horse, Liane, which unwittingly sets the men on an unplanned adventure, including encounters with a group of very unusual Indians, facing off with ultra-manly fur trappers, and, of course, fudge packing, all before becoming stranded in the freezing winter with no provisions. As tempers flare and stomachs growl, the posse is forced to make the only logical decision: eat each other!
Darkly comic sci-fi horror about a rogue fungus which erupts inside a sealed facility, forcing workers & an agent into a frantic containment fight. From screenwriter David Koepp. Joe Keery, Georgina Campbell, Liam Neeson, Jonny Campbell, 2026.
3 intertwined horror stories explore death, vengeance, and supernatural terror in modern England, linked by a sinister collector’s dark legacy. Emily Booth, Alex Chandon, 2001
Notorious child murderer Kemper is hellbent on exacting his revenge on the people who put him away, and from his padded room in the local asylum, he commands “The Man” to slaughter the families of those responsible. Detective Nielson, who’d had his own unpleasant run-in with Kemper, is faced with an increasingly large pile of mutilated bodies and tries to make some sense of the savagery.
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.
When a young Englishwoman attempts to discover her mysterious connection to a remote island convent, she will unlock an unholy communion of torment, blasphemy and graphic demonic depravity. Louise Salter (INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE) stars in this “stunning and horrifying debut” (Digitally Obsessed) – filmed on location along the grim Ukraine coast.
In the year 2000, America is a totalitarian regime on the brink of collapse. The most popular sport in this dystopia is the Transcontinental Road Race, where teams earn points for logging the fastest time and for mowing over the most innocent pedestrians in the process. This year’s competitors include Frankenstein (David Carradine), who is rumored to be more machine than man, and the tough-as-nails “Machine Gun” Joe Viterbo (Sylvester Stallone). Some have a plan to stop the race.
Gioia made her fortune working as a high-class call girl, but now she runs one of Italy’s top erotic photo magazines for which only the most beautiful women are hired as models. When a perverted psychopath begins killing them off one by one, sending Gioia macabrely staged photos of their corpses, posed to mirror their latest centerfolds, Gioia realizes that to put an end to the horrors and unmask the murderer, she will need to come to terms with a secret in her past which has resulted in all of the bloodshed…
From the minds of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava comes the horrific Heavy Metal splatter film classic, DEMONS! A strange masked man offers tickets to a horror movie sneak preview at the mysterious Metropol cinema. When a patron is accidentally scratched by a prop displayed in the lobby, she transforms into a flesh-ripping demon!
Indie film favourite starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Donnie is a troubled high school student with an imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going to end in 28 days 06 hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds. Richard Kelly (2001)
At a high school in small-town Ohio, a few students, including an introverted photographer and a charismatic drug dealer, begin to suspect their teachers are under the control of mind-controlling alien parasites. Outnumbered and endangered, they must fight to save their school, their town, and the world._x000B_
Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson (The King of Marvin Gardens) devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study Five Easy Pieces. Nicholson plays the now iconic cad Bobby Dupea, a shiftless thirtysomething oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to his upper-middle-class childhood home, blue-collar girlfriend (Nashville’s Karen Black, in an Oscar-nominated role) in tow, to see his estranged ailing father. Moving in its simplicity and gritty in its textures, Five Easy Pieces is a lasting example of early 1970s American alienation.
A 16-year-old in 1980s Tokyo, accidentally relives the next day, learning about friendship, love, and fate in this live-action take on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s classic novel. Tomoyo HaradaN, Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1983
Schoolgirl Kazuko begins to experience time leaps backwards and forwards in time, disorienting her as she yearns to stay in the present. Obayashi’s film is a genuine expression of the transcendence of love–one cast across the stars for a young girl who lives in tomorrow.
Korean horror where the crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast. It soon encounters much more than expected as it moves deeper inside the nightmarish old building. Beom-sik Jeong (2018)
Patrick Stewart features in this horror thriller where, after witnessing a murder, a punk rock band is forced into a vicious fight for survival against a group of maniacal skinheads. Jeremy Saulnier (2015)
On Friday, a single e-mail blips through the Internet. The word spreads quickly through the city: the party is on. Saturday evening, two hundred people secretly converge at an abandoned San Francisco warehouse. As the sun sets the records start spinning, setting into motion a night that no one will forget. David Turner, his brother Colin and Colin’s girlfriend, Harmony go to Groove and have a night that changes the brothers forever.
Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers. Perry Henzell (1972)
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!
A reckless pilot miniaturized for an experiment is accidentally injected into a timid clerk, forcing them to outwit corporate thieves before his oxygen fails. Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Joe Dante, 1987
Deliriously assaultive pulp excess from Jess Franco: Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included / Bangkok, Date With Death. Howard Vernon, Lina Romay.
In The Worldwide Blu-ray Premiere of TRIP TO BANGKOK, COFFIN INCLUDED, Francoverse legend Howard Vernon stars as a cantankerous British agent on the trail of a creepy cult leader. In The Worldwide Disc Premiere of BANGKOK, DATE WITH DEATH, Jess unleashes a pop-art crime spree of pirates, kidnappers and kung fu killers starring his beloved muse Lina Romay.
In this anime feature, 13-year-old Kiki moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji, to spend a year alone, in accordance with her village’s tradition for witches in training. After learning to control her broomstick, Kiki sets up a flying courier service and soon becomes a fixture in the community. But when the insecure young witch begins questioning herself and loses her magic abilities, she must overcome her self-doubt to get her powers back.
Kindred: The Embraced (1996) follows Julian Luna (Mark Frankel), the charismatic “Prince” of five hidden vampire clans ruling San Francisco’s underworld. He struggles to keep the peace, enforce the vampire secrecy laws (the “Masquerade”), and protect a human reporter he loves, while forming an uneasy alliance with a police detective who discovers the supernatural
During the final days of Slobodan Miloševic’s Serbian rule, a student named Marko (Mihajlo Jovanovic) becomes desperate to make a film. Finally getting a job as an adult film director, he runs afoul of the mob and needs to get out of town fast! Assembling a traveling “porno cabaret,” Marko and his new friends ride though the countryside in a van performing sex acts for peasants and farmers.
Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi’s literal adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, is brought to the screen. An evil sorcerer from a previous era created a magical ring which enables its users to call upon its tremendous powers to rule the world, but it inevitably warps them to evil. It was believed lost, but during a resurgence of magical evil in the world, Bilbo, a simple, plain-spoken hobbit, recovers it from its hiding place. The forces of good give his nephew Frodo the choice to bear the awful burden of the ring to a place where it may be destroyed.
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, in a tribute to 1960s pulp novels and Technicolor melodramas. Anna Biller (2016)
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben (Benoît Poelvoorde) are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.
Starring Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, in Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who’s on his trail. Elaine May (1976)
You really are what you eat with Farmer Vincent’s smoked meat in this creepy horror yarn that packs a punch and goes way beyond mere terror! Vincent’s popular products contain a special ingredient, and when his secret is threatened, he and his psychotic sister will literally kill to keep it from getting out.
In the 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny, two New York college students are wrongly arrested for a convenience store murder in rural Alabama. With their lives on the line, they hire an inexperienced, fast-talking Brooklyn lawyer (the defendant’s cousin) who must overcome Southern legal customs to prove their innocence.
The brilliant and controversial Naked, from director Mike Leigh, stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming and eloquent but relentlessly vicious drifter. Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself around London on a nocturnal odyssey, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances from Thewlis and costars Katrin Cartlidge and Lesley Sharp, Leigh’s depiction of England’s underbelly is an amalgam of black comedy and doomsday prophecy that took the best director and best actor prizes at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
When a happy family man is dismissed after twenty-five years of loyal service at a paper company, he finds the perfect solution to land his next role: truly eliminate the competition.
In this obscure SOV horror, a haunted movie theatre traps an investigator inside as a zombie film spills into reality, forcing him to solve the curse before the screen-fed undead consume everyone. Phil Herman, Todd Norris, 1998.
Something is haunting the Englewood movie theater – an unseen force that comes alive after dark. Paranormal investigator Kyle Jennings is called in, but once he steps inside, the nightmare begins. The theater seals itself shut, the screen tears open like a doorway, and the low budget zombie movie playing suddenly becomes real. First time ever on disc following it’s initial 1998 VHS release.
Sam Peckinpah’s cycle of genre-redefining westerns came to a close with this blood- and dust-caked elegy for the American West, which marries his renegade style with a fatalistic sense of finality. As newly minted lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) stalks the outlaw Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) across the plains, their old friendship is twisted into rivalry, and mythic ideals of freedom come up against an emerging ruling-class order—all to the strains of a haunting soundtrack by Bob Dylan (who also appears as the mercurial Alias). Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid—presented here for the first time in three separate versions—stands as perhaps the maverick auteur’s richest, most mature work, a world-weary ballad that bears the solemn weight of history passing into legend.
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An aspiring joker moves to Gotham City to make it big, but ends up grappling with her gender identity while forming an anti-comedy troupe and combatting a fascistic caped crusader. Helmed by writer/director/editor/star Vera Drew and using her own life experiences as a basis for the film, THE PEOPLE’S JOKER is a deeply personal journey that’s as much documentary as it is parody.
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.
B-movie goofiness abounds when a US recon squad during the Vietnam War enters a remote jungle valley and faces deadly dinosaurs while trying to rescue a missing platoon. Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer, Jeremy Piven, Luke Sparke, 2025
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 noble young samurai searches for a thief who has stolen a precious treasure and killed one of his clansmen and meets an older samurai who tries to deter him from the violence of revenge. Hiroyuki Nakano, 1998.
In this feature length anime inspired by the Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet, the eponymous princess who can cross time and space is on a quest of vengeance after her father is murdered. Mamoru Hosoda, 2025.
From co-directors Paul Donovan and Maura O’Connell comes one of the most disturbing Canadian shockers of the ’80s, inspired by the actual 42-day Halifax police strike: When a local group of right-wing vigilantes massacres the patrons of a gay bar, the sole survivor seeks refuge in a nearby apartment building whose residents must now defend themselves in a night of hate, terror and bloodshed.
Starring Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, a woman advertising for a new roommate finds that something very strange is going on with the tenant who decides to move in. Barbet Schroeder (1992)
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.
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) follows Charlie MacKenzie, a neurotic, commitment-phobic San Francisco beat poet who falls for an exotic butcher named Harriet. Driven by his eccentric parents’ tabloid conspiracy theories and his own paranoia, Charlie suspects Harriet is a notorious “black widow” serial killer who murdered her previous husbands on their honeymoons
Ben Kingsley stars where an alien transmission details how to splice alien and Human DNA, resulting in a seductive killer woman/monster. Scientists try to track down and trap her before she successfully breeds with a human. Roger Donaldson (1995)
Born into a family business of race cars, Speed Racer is one of the track’s hot stars. Sitting at the wheel of his Mach 5, he consistently deflates the competition. When Speed turns down an offer from the head of Royalton Industries, he uncovers a secret. Powerful moguls fix the races to boost profits. Hoping to beat the executive, Speed enters the same arduous cross-country race that killed his brother.
The credits dub this “the maddest story ever told”, a promise that’s well on the way to being fulfilled in the opening scene alone, when Virginia traps and kills a hapless deliveryman in her makeshift web. She’s one of three siblings who suffer from a unique genetic disorder that causes them to regress back to childhood, while retaining the physical strength and sexual maturity of adults.
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.
Suicide Club (2001) is a Japanese horror-satire directed by Sion Sono that explores themes of viral mass hysteria, youth alienation, and the power of pop culture. The film uses graphic violence and surreal imagery to comment on the trivialization of life in the digital age
One wintry night, pals Robin and Monica are making their way to a Christmas party when they’re carjacked by a gang of crooks recently escaped from the local penitentiary. With the two young women taken as hostages, things take an even darker turn when their vehicle plummets down an abandoned mine shaft, trapping them underground with the dangerous crooks – and a mutant cannibal.
Secretly a spy but thought by his family to be a dull salesman, Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is tracking down nuclear missiles in the possession of Islamic jihadist Aziz (Art Malik). Harry’s mission is complicated when he realizes his neglected wife, Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis), is contemplating an affair with Simon (Bill Paxton), a used-car salesman who claims he’s a spy. When Aziz kidnaps Harry and Helen, the secret agent must save the world and patch up his marriage at the same time.
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.
Four young college girls battle vampires and several other supernatural forces when they pledge a strange sorority, stumbling into a hallucinatory mix of butt-biting bloodsuckers, unexplained time jumps, and increasingly ridiculous metaphysical situations in a live-action cartoon funhouse. Incudes bonus feature film <b>I Know What You Did In English Class</b> (2000).
A young man embarks on an obsessive search for the girlfriend who mysteriously disappeared while the couple were taking a sunny vacation trip, and his three-year investigation draws the attention of her abductor, a mild-mannered professor with a diabolically clinical mind. An unorthodox love story and a truly unsettling thriller, Dutch filmmaker George Sluizer’s The Vanishing unfolds with meticulous intensity, leading to an unforgettable finale that has unnerved audiences around the world.
Fun-loving salesmen Richard and Larry are invited by their boss, Bernie, to stay the weekend at his posh beach house. Little do they know that Bernie is the perpetrator of a fraud they’ve uncovered and is arranging to have them killed. When the plan backfires and Bernie is killed instead, the buddies decide not to let a little death spoil their vacation. They pretend Bernie is still alive, leading to hijinks and corpse desecration galore.
Harrison Ford (The Fugitive) and Kelly McGillis (The Accused) star as would-be lovers from two different worlds in Witness, director Peter Weir’s (Picnic at Hanging Rock) Academy Award-winning neo-noir thriller which pits modernity against tradition.
In the gritty glow of a local bar’s backstage, an all-girl punk rock band teeter on the edge of chaos. Relationships fray, secrets surface and the rhythm of ambition clashes with the heartbeat of self-doubt. As they await their turn to hit the stage, each member confronts her own inner demons and the raw pulse of the music that brought them together — and may just tear them apart.
And there we go guys. Movies should be here Thursday/ Friday next week.
