I shall not be long winded with any speech so movies that coming this week…here they are!
Perfect New Year’s Eve Flick! Ben Affleck, Casey Affleck, Dave Chappelle, Kate Hudson, Courtney Love, Jay Mohr, Martha Plimpton, Christina Ricci and Paul Rudd highlight a cast of today’s hottest acting talents in this hip comedy about the quest for Mr. or Ms. Right or at least for Mr. or Ms. Right Now. It’s New Year’s Eve 1981, and a wild assortment of comic characters are looking for romance in NYC’s rollicking East Village. Can a poser, a hunk, a teeny bopper, a gabby cabbie, a cute klutz, and a bevy of too-cool-to- cope artists find love before the stroke of midnight? The surprising and delightful answers will be revealed in the clear light of the morning after.
The comedy double feature that everyone needs in their collection!
The ultimate cinematic head trip of the 1980s, British renegade Ken Russell’s first Hollywood film—adapted by the legendary screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky from his own novel—is part hallucinogenic freak-out, part gonzo creature feature, part transcendent love story, all played at a fever pitch. When researcher Eddie Jessup (William Hurt) begins using himself as a test subject for his mind-expanding psychological experiments, it sends him on an increasingly dangerous, substance-fueled odyssey from humankind’s primordial past to the outer limits of consciousness. It’s all visualized by Russell in a psychedelic supernova of out-there imagery that encompasses everything from the pagan to the cosmic sublime, culminating in a brain-wave-blasting battle between the mind and the heart.
15 Hours Of Ashy Slashy!
It’s time for Christmas break, and the sorority sisters make plans for the holiday, but the strange anonymous phone calls are beginning to put them on edge. When Clare disappears, they contact the police, who don’t express much concern. Meanwhile Jess is planning to get an abortion, but boyfriend Peter is very much against it. The police finally begin to get concerned when a 13-year-old girl is found dead in the park. They set up a wiretap to the sorority house, but will they be in time to prevent a sorority girl attrition problem?
In a world where vampire blood is harvested as a drug, two desperate teenagers on the run from a vicious dealer break into an empty house and find a sleeping girl locked inside.
Nothing can prepare you for BOARDINGHOUSE. Jim (director John Wintergate), a psychic-gigolo who wears a leopard-print thong, rents a haunted house to “beautiful women with no ties.” From there, this unworldly slasher transforms into a sleazy, hallucinogenic maelstrom of gore, sex, chainsaws, pie fights, killer refrigerators, jacuzzis, beds that eat people, a new wave band called 33 and 1/3, and a leading lady known only as Kalassu. BOARDINGHOUSE is the first shot-on-video horror film to be blown up to 35mm and released theatrically. AGFA + Bleeding Skull! are thrilled to bring the 35mm theatrical cut to home video for the first time in this 2-disc set, which also includes PSYCHO KILLER (a previously unreleased alternate home video cut) and SALLY & JESS (the previously unreleased “family film” from the makers of BOARDINGHOUSE).
A young actor’s obsession with spying on a beautiful woman neighbour leads him into a tangle of murder where he must prove his own innocence while battling crippling claustrophobia. Brian De Palma (1984)
In this erotic-thriller throwback, a romantic lakeside retreat turns sinister when two couples sharing an Airbnb slip into twisted games of trust, lust, and ultimately… survival. Maddie Hasson, Alex Roe, Marco Pigossi, Mercedes Bryce Morgan, 2024
In the San Fernando Valley in 1977, teenage busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) gets discovered by porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), who transforms him into adult-film sensation Dirk Diggler. Brought into a supportive circle of friends, including fellow actors Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly), Dirk fulfills all his ambitions, but a toxic combination of drugs and egotism threatens to take him back down.
Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri give captivating performances in this intense drama about a boy torn between his tough, hard-working father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.
What starts out as a harmless prank turns into a terrible tragedy when the caretaker at a summer camp winds up horrifically burned. Permanently disfigured, he returns to the campgrounds seeking revenge against the teenagers responsible. His weapon: a huge pair of garden shears!
During a winter road trip, young couple Cliff (Schitt’s Creek’s Eugene Levy) and Gloria (Black Christmas’ Andrea Martin) get lost and make an unplanned stop in Farnhamville, Ontario, a snowy small town known as “The Friendly City.” When they hear the legend of three local women with a history of murdering men, they playfully investigate. But to their horror, it seems the killers are still active, police and other locals are complicit, and they’re all feasting on the victims. When the cannibals develop an appetite for Cliff and Gloria, they race to get on the road – before they get on the menu.
When he was a boy, Harry idolized Santa Claus but one Christmas Eve, he witnessed something horrifying that forever shattered his innocent understanding of Santa. Now an adult, Harry wants to embody the pure Santa Claus that he grew up loving. He works at a toy factory and keeps records of who’s been naughty and nice, but the spirit of Christmas isn’t what it used to be and he can’t take it. So, garbed in his red suit, Harry decides that the only thing he can do is to become Santa himself and make all of the naughty townspeople pay…in blood! Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present Lewis Jackson’s cult favorite, Christmas Evil, newly restored in 4k and on Blu-ray for the first time!
Director Giuseppe Tornatore’s charming and bittersweet tribute to the power of movies won 1989’s Best Foreign Film Academy Award. A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown for the first time in 30 years and looks back on his life, including the time he spent helping the projectionist at the local movie theater. Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, and Marco Leonardi star. Theatrical version; 124 min./Extended 2002 re-release version; 174 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: Italian DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; featurettes; “making of” documentaries; theatrical trailers. In Italian with English subtitles. Two-disc set. Region Free
Writer/director/producer Buddy Giovinazzo made his indelible debut with this nihilistic saga of a Vietnam vet’s desperate pursuit to save his family from the horrors of poverty and urban squalor. Culminating in one of the most brutal climaxes ever committed to celluloid, this unforgiving masterwork remains as controversial and relevant as it was at the height of Reagan’s America.
Actors (Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent) take on multiple roles in an epic that spans five centuries. An attorney harbors a fleeing slave on a voyage from the Pacific Islands in 1849; a poor composer in pre-World War II Britain struggles to finish his magnum opus before a past act catches up with him; a genetically engineered worker in 2144 feels the forbidden stirring of human consciousness — and so on. As souls are born and reborn, they renew their bonds to one another throughout time.
This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in Belorussia, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, Come and See is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.
Neil Jordan directs this atmospheric adaptation of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ (via Angela Carter), exploring the story’s adult subtexts. Angela Lansbury, 1985.
A videographer answers a strange online ad and becomes entangled with a man whose behaviour turns increasingly unsettling. Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice, Patrick Brice, 2015.
America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Among the best teen films ever made, Dazed and Confused eavesdrops on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshmen. A launching pad for a number of future stars, the first studio effort by Richard Linklater also features endlessly quotable dialogue and a blasting, stadium-ready soundtrack. Sidestepping nostalgia, Dazed and Confused is less about “the best years of our lives” than the boredom, angst, and excitement of teenagers waiting . . . for something to happen.
The chilling story of identical twin gynecologists who share the same practice, same apartment and the same women. When a new patient challenges their eerie bond, they descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs and madness. Jeremy Irons.
Academy Award Nominee & Winner of Un Certain Regard, Cannes! A darkly surreal Greek film about three teenagers confined to an isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen by their parents. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009.
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.
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire 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, a notorious outlaw and former Special Forces war hero who, in exchange for a full pardon, descends into the decayed city and wages a blistering war against the captors. But time is short: in 24 hours, an explosive charge planted inside Snake’s body will end the mission – and his life – unless he succeeds!
When a meteor crashes on Earth, it brings with it single-celled organisms which evolve rapidly. Later, four professionals stumble upon these aliens and must stop their growth to avoid an invasion.
One of the most profitable horror movies ever made, this tale of an exorcism is based loosely on actual events. When young Regan (Linda Blair) starts acting odd — levitating, speaking in tongues — her worried mother (Ellen Burstyn) seeks medical help, only to hit a dead end. A local priest (Jason Miller), however, thinks the girl may be seized by the devil. The priest makes a request to perform an exorcism, and the church sends in an expert (Max von Sydow) to help with the difficult job.
Stanley Kubrick’s career-capping Eyes Wide Shut unfolds in a dreamscape vision of New York City, where doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confront the unconscious desires, jealousies, and fears threatening their marriage. A Christmastime odyssey into a surreal sexual underworld whose hidden power structures are laid frighteningly bare, the film marks the fulfillment of the director’s decades-long desire to adapt Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Dream Story and the culmination of his obsessive interest in the relationship between institutional authority and the individual. Released in 1999, the film also serves as a fitting coda to a century of cinema, by one of its greatest visionaries—an endlessly tantalizing labyrinth whose myriad symbols, mysteries, and meanings are still being unraveled.
The Earth is about to be destroyed by a huge ball of fire racing toward the planet. Cornelius, an old monk, knows how to stop the burning sphere with the help of Korben Dallas, a taxi driver and former secret agent and a woman named Leeloo.
A collection showcasing the works of Japanese director Hisayasu Sato, one of the most esteemed and transgressive filmmakers ever to work in Japan’s explosively popular Pink Film genre. Includes: Re-Wind / Lustmord / Love Letter In the Sand
Based very loosely on a story by H. P. Lovecraft, a group of scientists create a resonator to stimulate the pineal gland, and open up a door to a parallel (and hostile) universe. Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Stuart Gordon, 1986.
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)
Get ready for a non-stop assault to your sick cinema senses as everyone’s fave killer cookie unleashes his greatest – and grisliest – hits. It’s the ultimate cookie carnage classic, baked fresh for every Full Moon fiend to devour.
English director Alfred Hitchcock, a.k.a. The Master of Suspense, is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One such actress was Tippi Hedren, an unknown fashion model given her big break when Hitchcock’s wife saw her on a TV commercial. Brought to Universal Studios, Hedren was shocked when the director, at the peak of his career, quickly cast her to star in his next feature, 1963’s The Birds. Little did Hedren know that as ambitious and terrifying as the production would be to shoot, the most daunting aspect of the film ended up coming from behind the camera. Starring Toby Jones as Hitchcock and Sienna Miller as Hedren, The Girl tells the story of the director’s obsessive relationship with his leading lady during the making of The Birds and Marnie. As he attempted to sculpt Hedren into the perfect blonde of his imagination, Hitchcock became obsessed with the impossible dream of winning the real woman’s love. Her rejection of his misguided attempts only added to his obsession, putting both their careers and personal lives in jeopardy. The Girl is a complex tale of power, obsession, and the price exacted for stardom.
The Trilogy all Together.
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)
Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy in the southern-gothic tradition of William Faulkner and William Eggleston. Shot in Korine’s native Nashville—standing in for the tornado-ravaged Xenia, Ohio—the rough-hewn film follows two young friends, Tummler and Solomon, as they ride around town, huffing glue and hunting stray cats, their every local encounter charged with vaudevillian anarchy as well as deep pathos. At once transgressive and empathetic, disturbing and undeniably beautiful, Gummo is a one-of-a-kind portrait of angelic and devilish souls caught in a cultural void, circumscribed by poverty and the depleted, alienated spiritual life of late-twentieth-century America.
This box set comprises three 4K remastered films from one of the longest running horror series in cinema history: HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS / HALLOWEEN H20 / HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION
This box set comprises three terrifying films from one of the longest running horror series in cinema history. Michael Myers takes on Tommy Doyle and Dr. Loomis with help from a mysterious cult, comes face to face with Laurie Strode again and slashes his way through the cast of a reality TV show! This set includes all of the previously released extras plus some brand-new surprises.
A millionaire offers ten thousand dollars to five people if they agree to stay overnight in a large, spooky, rented house. When you consider that the millionaire is Vincent Price, and the film is directed by Schlock master William Castle, you can bet the five guests are in for a long, bumpy night. This “super shocker of the century” was a smash hit upon its 1959 release.
In this film from the director of Torque, a grotesque creature emerges in suburbia, spreading chaos and unsettling terror in this playful, eccentric indie horror-comedy paying gleeful homage to B-movie goo and creature-feature camp. Brandon Routh, 2025
Out-of-work filmmaker Jimmy spirals into a bender, claims to have been abducted by aliens, and enlists old friend Stiggs to prepare for their return.
During WWII, soldiers guarding an eerie fortress accidentally unleash an ancient evil that preys on them. Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, Ian McKellen, Michael Mann, 1983.
One of the classics of Hong Kong cinema! A maverick hitman is double-crossed after a drug kingpin assassination, forcing a disaffected cop and the killer into a violent, emotionally charged game of vengeance in Hong Kong. Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee, Sally Ye
Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) is a young bowler with a promising career ahead of him until a disreputable colleague, Ernie McCracken (Bill Murray), tricks him into participating in a con game that ends with Roy’s bowling hand crippled for life. Years later, Roy ekes out a hardscrabble existence until he discovers Amish bowling phenom Ishmael (Randy Quaid). With the help of a gangser’s girlfriend (Vanessa Angel), he plots to take Ishmael to the top of the bowling world.
In 1995 a four-man team from the cable-access program Fact or Fiction braved the desolate New Jersey Pine Barrens determined to deliver a live broadcast of legendary monster, the Jersey Devil. Only one came out alive. The lone survivor was sentenced to life in prison, but filmmaker David Leigh is convinced that he’s innocent. Could the Jersey Devil still haunt the barrens?
101 Films presents trailblazing thriller The Last Broadcast (1998). Released on Blu-ray for the first time, Stefan Avalos and Lance Weiler’s chilling feature debut is a landmark in the history of the found footage genre. This Limited Edition Blu-ray release includes a new 30 minute interview with the directors, newly-commissioned slipcase artwork from legendary comics artist Stephen R. Bissette, and a booklet with expert writing on the film and the found footage genre from the directors of feature documentary “The Found Footage Phenomenon” (2021).
A beautifully animated fantasy tale based on a cult novel from Rankin & Bass about an unicorn’s quest to find her lost kin. Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, 1982.
A love letter to video rental stores and the B-movie treasures that lined their walls, Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford’s debut feature, The Last Video Store, is a genre-loving blast of pure joy: “a real treasure trove for genre fans, both new and old.” (Kat Hughes, THN)
Hammer Horror & Shaw Brothers style Kung Fu meet in this strange hybrid of both forms. Peter Cushing, David Chiang, Julie Ege, Roy Ward Baker, Cheh Chang.
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.
A half-man, half-cyborg hero seeks the source of his mysterious origins while fighting to protect Earth from an infernal tyrant leading a legion of Nazi vampires hell-bent on destroying humanity.
A chronically underemployed artist gets a job as a department-store window dresser and falls in love with a mannequin – the attraction being that she comes to life on occasion, but only for him. Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Michael Gottlieb, 1987
George Romero’s twisted take on vampire films! Misunderstood Martin may or may not be a vampire but one thing is certain: he needs to KILL! George A. Romero, 1978.
Comedy homage to 50’s B-movies about a William Castle inspired promoter who comes to small town Florida exciting the locals. John Goodman, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Dante, 1993.
A scientist’s experimentation on his own brain goes horribly wrong and ends up with not one alter-ego but nine, all competing for control of his body. Sathya Sridharan, Paton Ashbrook, Dana Ashbrook, Eric Schultz, 2020.
Scott Valentine (TV’s Family Ties) and Michelle Little discover that true love has many faces, and occasionally claws, in the frightfully funny romance My Demon Lover. The happy-go-lucky but lonely Kaz (Valentine) is looking for love when he meets Denny (Little), a cute, kindhearted gal with an uncanny ability to attract stray pets and down-and-out boyfriends. Denny is sure she’s met the man of her dreams when she sweeps Kaz off the streets and into her heart. But it’s not exactly a match made in heaven because Kaz has a slight problem. Every time he’s turned on, he becomes an animal — literally — complete with horns fur and sometimes a tail! Will Kaz ever be able to shake this curse? And will Denny finally bring out the best, not the beast, in her man? Find out in this monstrously hilarious film!
For reasons unknown, the recently deceased are rising from the grave as flesh-hungry zombies. Fleeing from the undead horde, a small group of survivors, including Barbara (Patricia Tallman), Ben (Tony Todd) and Harry (Tom Towles), sequester themselves in a remote farmhouse. With the zombies outside the house multiplying, tensions flare, as the group argues over the best way to escape their increasingly dire situation before they are overrun completely.
Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) specializes in tracking down rare and exotic volumes for collectors. Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) has recently acquired a seventeenth-century satanic text called The Nine Gates- a legendary book written by Satan himself. With The Nine Gates in his possession, Corso soon finds himself at the center of strange and violent goings-on. Not only is his apartment ransacked, it appears that he is being shadowed ferociously by others determined to regain the book.
A soldier convicted for murdering his commanding officer is dumped and left to die on a prison island inhabited by two camps of convicts. Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Martin Campbell, 1994.
Aging assassin Hornclaw has seen it all, but she never expected to mentor a reckless rookie like Bullfight. As their unlikely bond deepens, cracks form in the underworld they navigate together. When Hornclaw discovers someone wants her dead, she’s thrust into a deadly game of deception. With enemies closing in and trust in short supply, survival means staying sharp both blade and mind.
Bags of loot and his daughter’s love life confuse a gangster (Sylvester Stallone) on the day he plans to go legitimate.
A rewarding Norwegian film about a recovering heroin addict released on a day pass for a job interview and struggles to hold it together as he wanders through Oslo revisiting people and places from his old life. Anders Danielsen Lie, Joachim Trier, 2012.
One of the most eccentric comedies of the 1980s, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is a pop-culture touchstone that helped make a manic oddball named Pee-wee Herman—the creation and alter ego of actor-comedian Paul Reubens—into an icon for outsiders of all ages. It also established the distinctive style of director Tim Burton, whose eye-popping visual sense is already on full display in this, his first feature film. Following the gleefully irreverent Pee-wee as he embarks on a road trip to recover his beloved stolen bicycle, the movie unfolds with the antic invention of a live-action cartoon, combining a gallery of memorably wacky characters, colorful, kitschy Americana, and surreal flights of fancy into a joyously uninhibited paean to creativity and the spirit of childhood.
An amphibious shark-like monster terrorizes an abandoned secret military base and the people who live on the island it is located on. Craig T. Nelson, Kim Cattrall, Colm Feore, 1998.
Starring John Hurt, a disturbing account of the hardships of two dogs who escape from an animal testing lab. The perceived haven of the real world soon turns out to be anything like Rowf and Snitter had hoped. Martin Rosen (1982)
The collection all together!
In this folk horror set in 1970s, an avant-garde musician & her sound recordist husband living in a remote Welsh cottage a mysterious child insinuates himself into their isolated life. Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, Jade Croot, Bryn Chainey, 2025
Fast-paced farce about an unlikely pair who go to extreme lengths to have a child. When an incompetent robber marries a policewoman, they discover that they are infertile. In order to appease his wife’s longings for a child, the man steals one of a set of quintuplets, but mayhem ensues when the child’s rich father sends a rabbit-shooting bounty hunter after the kidnapper.
UHD EDITION! Stuart Gordon’s classic cult film about the efforts of a pair of dedicated students to re-animate dead tissue! Jeffrey Combs, David Gale, Barbara Crampton, 1985.
The collection returns to the shop!
Traveling to a wedding on Halloween, Trevor (Karl Jacob), Allison (Vanessa Horneff), Brian (Sean Reid) and Elliot (Wil Horneff) are four friends lucky to be alive after crashing their car. Stranded in the Pennsylvania countryside, the foursome set off in search of help — only to discover that making it to the wedding on time is the least of their problems. Stumbling to a nearby farm, the friends have no way to prepare for the roost of lurking vampire bats in the barn and zombies in the house.
In the small New England town of Charlestown, the local mill is about to lay off 10,000 workers. The town’s minor league hockey team, the Charlestown Chiefs, is doing no better. After years of failure, this will be the team’s last season. Exasperated player and coach Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) lets the club’s recent acquisitions, the Hanson Brothers, play. The brothers’ actively violent and thuggish style of play excites the fans. Dunlop retools the team, using violence to draw big crowds.
Welcome to Camp Arawak, where teenage boys and girls learn to experience the joys of nature, as well as each other. But when these happy campers begin to die in a series of horrible “accidents”, they discover that someone – or something – has turned their summer of fun into a vacation to dismember.
Angela, supposedly reformed and living under an assumed surname, is working at a summer camp. However, when the campers start misbehaving, she soon reverts to her old ways. Pamela Springsteen, Renée Estevez, Tony Higgins, 1988.
After murdering a young girl, Angela Baker assumes her identity and travels to Camp New Horizons, built on the grounds of the camp she terrorized the year before, and starts killing again. Pamela Springsteen, Tracy Griffith, Michael J. Pollard, 1989.
Dwayne Johnson stars as MMA fighter Mark Kerr in this gripping sports drama exploring addiction, love, and identity behind the victories and violence of the ring. Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten. Benny Safdie, 2025
Fugitives drive nitroglycerin through South American hell, each mile cracking their souls. Based on *The Wages of Fear*. Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, William Friedkin, 1977
A man’s surfing plans spiral into chaos when he faces hostile locals, wild animals, and his own unraveling sanity on a Western Australian beach. Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Lorcan Finnegan, 2024
From Jack Hill, legendary director of Spider Baby, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and The Swinging Cheerleaders comes another iconic cult classic, Switchblade Sisters!
Filled with sharp, clever dialogue and tongue in cheek humor, this Shakespeare-influenced girl gang/women in prison/action movie medley is a stone cold grindhouse classic!
It’s the first week of winter in 1982. An American Research Base is greeted by an alien force, that can assimilate anything it touches. It’s up to the members to stay alive, and be sure of who is human, and who has become one of the Things.
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.
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, fog-enshrouded landscape in feudal Japan. As a hardened warrior who rises savagely to power, Toshiro Mifune gives a remarkable, animalistic performance, as does Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife. Throne of Blood fuses classical Western tragedy with formal elements taken from Noh theater to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
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Visionary martial arts movie about a lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks. King Hu.
Monte Hellman’s masterpiece! A nearly dialogue-free existential road-race drama. James Taylor, Dennis Wilson, Warren Oates, Laurie Bird.
In the Ultraman Universe, none other than Christmas’ most mythical figure Santa Claus is highly linked with Father of Ultra, the peace-keeping guardian of the galaxy and the executive leader of the Inter Galactic Defense Force.
A pair of siblings (Ministry of Fear’s Ray Milland and The Philadelphia Story’s Ruth Hussey) from London purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price; soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. Rich in atmosphere, The Uninvited, directed by Lewis Allen (Suddenly), was groundbreaking for the seriousness with which it treated the haunted-house genre, and it remains an elegant and eerie experience, featuring a classic score by Victor Young (Written on the Wind). A tragic family past, a mysteriously locked room, cold chills, bumps in the night—this gothic Hollywood classic has it all.
The 1983 V mini-series plot follows a seemingly benevolent alien race, the “Visitors,” arriving in massive ships over Earth’s cities, offering advanced tech and friendship while asking for resources for their dying world. However, a small resistance group, led by journalist Mike Donovan and scientist Juliet Parrish, uncovers their true, carnivorous reptilian nature, realizing they are actually fascist invaders planning to take over Earth and use humans as food, sparking a struggle for survival against the Visitors’ growing control and propaganda.
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new material for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called “Videodrome.” His attempts to unearth the program’s origins send him on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation. Starring James Woods and Deborah Harry, Videodrome is one of the most original and provocative works from writer-director David Cronenberg, and features groundbreaking makeup effects by Academy Award winner Rick Baker.
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.
Michelle Yeoh stars in this action drama as a Senior Police Inspector Ng assigned to work with Inspector Carrie Morris (Cynthia Rothrock) from Scotland Yard, to investigate the murder of an agent from the Commercial Crime Bureau of London, who was killed because of the evidence he has collected against a crime syndicate in Hong Kong.
The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two …), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Whether chronicling middle-age father NJ’s tentative flirtations with an old flame or precocious young son Yang-Yang’s attempts at capturing reality with his beloved camera, the filmmaker deftly imbues every gorgeous frame with a compassionate clarity. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.
There we go guys. Movies should be here Thursday/ Friday. Cheers!
