Lots of flicks return to the shop this week. Out of the bunch super excited to see the Charles Bronson classic 10 To Midnight getting a sexy release. Let’s see what else is coming shall we…
A rogue cop stalks a taunting killer through neon nights and legal loopholes in this lurid, blood-hot revenge thriller. Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens, J. Lee Thompson, 1983.
The underrated James Cameron returns to the shop!
Released in 1985, Angel’s Egg (Tenshi no Tamago) is an avant-garde anime by Mamoru Oshii and artist Yoshitaka Amano. It is a sparse, atmospheric film with almost no dialogue. The surreal story follows a nameless young girl wandering a desolate, gothic-steampunk city, fiercely protecting a mysterious large egg she hides under her gown.
Lena, a biologist and former soldier, joins a mission to uncover what happened to her husband inside Area X — a sinister and mysterious phenomenon that is expanding across the American coastline. Once inside, the expedition discovers a world of mutated landscapes and creatures, as dangerous as it is beautiful, that threatens both their lives and their sanity.
15 hours of Bruce!
Japanese sci-fi, three aliens travel to Earth in preparation for a mass invasion, taking possession of human bodies. Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2017)
John Woo’s action-packed trilogy redefines Hong Kong cinema with explosive gunfights, brotherhood, and betrayal. Chow Yun-fat, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, John Woo, 1986–1989
Meet Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White), the smoothest, baddest cat on the street. He´s a ladies´ man and the man with a plan. He´s also a former C.I.A. agent out to avenge his brother´s death. Whether he´s taking down drug dealers or sweet-talking foxy mommas, he´s the man on the streets out to stop The Man. Take a wild ride from the mean streets of the ghetto to the pool halls of the inner city, all the way to the “Honky House” with this bad-ass, tough-as-nails action hero. Black Dynamite is a kung-fu-fighting, pimp-slapping, gun-blasting, outrageously over-the-top parody of ´70s-era blaxploitation films that delivers big action and even bigger laughs like nobody´s bizness.
The sleepy little town of Mill Basin is about to get more than it bargained for. The satanic heavy metal rock band “Black Roses” is coming through to raise hell… literally! After making a deal with the Devil himself, the band’s music demonically possesses the kids in the audience, turning them into blood-thirsty demons.
In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances as Jack, a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally (Nancy Allen), a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, Blow Out is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on the act of moviemaking.
In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances as Jack, a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally (Nancy Allen), a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, profoundly felt characterizations, and gritty evocation of early-1980s Philadelphia, Blow Out is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other, as well as a devilish reflection on the act of moviemaking.
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
Sam Peckinpah’s last personal film is an audacious descent into violent nihilism following Warren Oates’ hauntingly doomed antihero on a blood-soaked road trip to claim a severed head, with nothing but booze, regret, and a loaded gun to guide him. 1974
Bunny Yeager began her career as a popular model in the 1950s, but quickly found even greater notoriety as a photographer (most famous for her collaboration with pin-up queen Bettie Page). In 1963, sexploitation filmmaker Barry Mahon documented Yeager’s methods of recruiting and photographing amateur models in two feature films. Bunny Yeager’s Nude Camera showcases Yeager’s pragmatic approach to nude modelling, as she persuades a young newlywed to shed her clothing (and her husband’s objections) for a magazine spread. In Nude Las Vegas, Bunny uses her camera to help big-wigged Peggy Pepper out of a financial jam. Presented in collaboration with Something Weird, Sonney Amusement Enterprises, and the Burlesque Hall of Fame and Museum, this Kino Cult edition of Nude Camera was reconstructed from the first-generation 16mm camera elements and a 35mm release print. Nude Las Vegas was mastered from two 35mm prints.
Joe Dante’s cult classic gets the 4K treatment!
At the center of the terror is Carrie (Spacek), a high school loner with no confidence, no friendsand no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. But when her psychotic mother and sadistic classmates finally go too far, the once-shy teen becomes an unrestrained, vengeance-seeking powerhouse who, with the help of her “”special gift,”” causes all hell to break loose in a famed cinematic frenzy of blood, fire and brimstone! This classic also stars John Travolta (Blow Out), Amy Irving (The Fury), William Katt (House) and P.J. Soles (Halloween).
Irish horror about an amnesiac drifter who takes a job from a shady stranger to look after his disturbed niece in a decrepit house on a deserted rural island following her father’s recent suicide. What could go wrong? Damian Mc Carthy, 2020.
80’s horror about 8 teenagers trapped after hours in a high tech shopping mall pursued by murderous, out of control security robots. Jim Wynorski, 1986.
Stephen King and John Carpenter’s classic roars back into the video store.
When the pacifist lawyer for an Indigenous tribe fails to protect their land against the racist owner of a lumber mill, both white men will be forced by a rogue Native man (Academy Award® nominee Graham Greene of DANCES WITH WOLVES) into a wilderness nightmare of violence, vengeance and supernatural horror.
A gonzo revenge thriller, a darkly comic anticapitalist critique, and a dizzying plunge into the alienated abyss of the internet, Cloud is among the most audacious genre experiments to date from master of psychological tension Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Factory worker Yoshii (Masaki Suda) quits his job to pursue his side business reselling questionably procured items online at outrageous markups. His profits quickly grow—but so does his list of enemies, and the petty grievances of his disgruntled clients and competitors soon take on a terrifying life of their own. With slow-burn precision, Kurosawa constructs a dread-inducing vision of digital depersonalization that ignites into something altogether shocking and unpredictable.
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.
Sly Stallone and Friends bring this underrated crime thriller back to the video store.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders—each committed by a different person yet all bearing the same grisly hallmarks—leads Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them, and into a disturbing game of cat and mouse with an enigmatic amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) who may be evil incarnate. Awash in hushed, hypnotic dread, Cure is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.
John Vernon (CHAINED HEAT, National Lampoon’s ANIMAL HOUSE) and Samantha Eggar (THE BROOD, THE EXTERMINATOR) star in this horror classic from the golden age of the slasher genre. A group of women gather for a weekend casting call at the secluded mansion of director Jonathan Stryker (Vernon). Unfortunately, a crazed killer in a disgusting “hag” mask is viciously murdering everyone one by one.
The misadventures of a group of unfortunate but street-wise cabbies working for a Washington, D.C. decrepit taxicab company. Adam Baldwin, Mr. T, Gary Busey, Joel Schumacher, 1983.
Classic Czech New Wave film about a pair of hedonistic young women embark on a gleefully debauched odyssey of gluttony, giddy destruction, and anti patriarchal resistance, in which nothing is safe from their nihilistic pursuit of pleasure. Věra Chytilová
A single mother moves into a dilapidated apartment complex and experiences startling visions and sounds, calling her mental well-being into question, and endangering not only her custody of her child, but perhaps their lives as well. Hideo Nakata (2002)
‘When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.’ With the U.S. in the grip of a zombie apocalypse, four desperate survivors find refuge in a shopping mall. But the flesh-eating hordes, still possessed by an instinctive desire to consume, are drawn to the same destination. What follows is a nail-biting fight for survival. George A Romero’s Dawn of the Dead remains one of the greatest horror films ever made, often imitated but never equalled,
A small group of military officers and scientists dwell in an underground bunker as the world above is overrun by zombies. George A. Romero, 1985.
Something very strange is happening in the quiet coastal village of Potters Bluff, where tourists and transients are warmly welcomed… then brutally murdered. But even more shocking is when these slain strangers suddenly reappear as normal, friendly citizens around town.
At a remote alpine lodge, an inspector investigates a physicist’s death as bizarre events and clashing testimonies suggest alien contact and unravel reality in this Estonian sci-fi mystery. Grigori Kromanov, 1979.
Estonian director Grigori Kromanov’s dazzling, paranoid mixture of locked-room mystery, 1970s Euro giallo, classic noir whodunit, and (unbelievably) alien sci-fi ala THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, based on a novel by famed Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (STALKER, HARD TO BE A GOD).
DEATHSTALKER (1983):
Deathstalker is a mighty warrior chosen to battle the evil forces of a medieval kingdom who sets off on a journey to the most challenging tournament in the land. To the winner will go the throne of the evil wizard, the ultimate mystical power and the love of the beautiful Princess Codille. But first Deathstalker must prove himself worthy of his legacy…and treachery lurks at every turn.
DEATHSTALKER II (1987):
Deathstalker has a mission: to save the kingdom from the wicked grip of the immoral wizard Jerak and his queen, Sultana, who have ruled the land by creating an evil twin of the lovely Princess Evie. Capturing the real Princess Evie, Deathstalker must now return her to her rightful place of power—but the swordsman’s battle has just begun.
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!
There’s a scary movie on television and the residents of a luxury high-rise building have their eyes glued to their sets. Unfortunately for a young birthday girl, an eternal demonic evil is released through her TV, and partygoers soon find themselves fighting an army of murderous monsters! Acid blood, demonic dogs, possessed children and rampaging zombies wreak havoc for the trapped tenants!
A remote wilderness erupts in blood-soaked terror as Bigfoot, zombies, and alien monstrosities unleash unstoppable carnage in this delirious 80s creature-feature extravaganza. George Kennedy, David Michael O’Neill, Emmett Alston, 1988.
A year after a severe emotional trauma, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) goes to North Carolina to spend some time exploring caves with her friends; after descending underground, the women find strange cave paintings and evidence of an earlier expedition, then learn they are not alone: Underground predators inhabit the crevasses, and they have a taste for human flesh.
A strange weather phenomenon causes dread and desperate behavior. The storm has a vulgar shape, but this is not new to nature; some mushrooms and snakes also bear this form. The winds of change push some people toward desperate acts while others take less drastic measures. The movie is philosophical and experimental, despite the seemingly lowbrow title.
Frustrated by severe, relentless bullying from their peers (a group they call “The Dirties”), the two friends decide to make a class project about exact deadly revenge. While Owen sees it as a harmless, cathartic joke, Matt becomes disturbingly obsessed, and the line between fantasy and a real, terrifying school shooting plot begins to dangerously blur
The master of modern horror, Wes Craven, presents this riveting adaptation featuring Gerard Butler, Omar Epps, Jonny Lee Miller, Jennifer Esposito, Shane West, Sean Patrick Thomas and Jeri Ryan. When a team of techno-savvy thieves break into a high-security vault, they don’t discover priceless works of art, they find a crypt unopened for 100 years. Suddenly, the ancient terror of Dracula (Butler) is unleashed, and his first destination is America and the exotic city of New Orleans, a place where he feels right at home. Not far behind, however, is a vampire hunter (Miller) from London determined to save a young woman with whom Dracula shares his dark legacy!
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.
Kai is a violent fugitive on the run from the law. Making his way from Hong Kong to South Africa, he begins a new life working at a small Chinese restaurant. When he joins his boss on a work trip through the African savanna, he encounters a remote African tribe afflicted with the Ebola virus. After attacking a young woman from the tribe, he contracts the virus, but to his surprise, he discovers that hes immune to the deadly disease. His ruthlessness emboldened, Kai returns to Hong Kong, thus setting into motion a blood spewing and bodily fluids oozing nightmare!
Beloved cult film about a rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned… from a DIMENSION OF PURE EVIL! Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997
A group of high-society friends are invited to a mansion for dinner and inexplicably find themselves unable to leave in The Exterminating Angel (El ángel exterminador), a daring masterpiece from Luis Buñuel (Belle de jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie). Made just one year after his international sensation Viridiana, this film, full of eerie, comic absurdity, furthers Buñuel’s wicked takedown of the rituals and dependencies of the frivolous upper classes.
When blind musician Wong Kar Mun has her eyesight restored following a cornea transplant, she’s initially astounded to discover the beauty of the world around her. Her nascent wonder soon turns to fear as her newfound sight becomes plagued with harrowing and uncanny visions.
In this cult classic, a shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike. Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford, Vernon Zimmerman, 1980.
Russ Meyer’s iconic 1966 film, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! has been digitally restored by the Russ Meyer Trust in high definition on a trade-wide Blu-ray disc. Features masterful photography in the unique, one-and-only style of the often-imitated, King of the Drive-In. A tough threesome of Go-Go dancers (Tura Satana, Haji, Lori Williams) embark on a wild, crazy, and deadly journey of violence.
Borderline- Two undercover agents embed themselves inside a Mexican drug-smuggling operation–each completely unaware that the other is working the same case. D.O.A. -D.O.A. is the classic drama of suspense with Edmond O’Brien giving one of his finest performances as Frank Bigelow, a real-estate salesman whose life suddenly turns into a bizarre nightmare.
In this premier adaptation of a Michael Moorcock novel, writer/director/production designer Robert Fuest (THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, THE DEVIL’S RAIN) unleashes Moorcock’s lethal dandy genius Jerry Cornelius (Jon Finch of Hitchcock’s FRENZY and Polanski’s MACBETH) into a mind-melting conspiracy of mad scientists, pinball nuns and immortal ambisexuals bent on world domination.
When Jeffrey Franken’s fiancée is chopped to pieces by the blades of a remote-controlled lawnmower, he uses his dubious medical knowledge to try to bring her back to life. He reassembles his beloved Elizabeth using the body parts of New York City’s finest prostitutes, and resurrects her during a heavy lightning storm.
Good old Vince in this body swap slasher comedy!
What if you had the chance to travel back in time and change just one event in your life? What would it be? For John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel), there is no question. He would undo the events of October 12, 1969, when the out-of-control Buxton fire took the life of his father (Dennis Quaid), a heroic firefighter. Now John may get exactly what he wished for — and much more than he bargained for.
The 1995 anime classic returns to the shop in UHD
The BBC gives over a whole evening to an ‘investigation into the supernatural’. Four respected presenters and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind ‘The most haunted house in Britain’, expecting a light-hearted scare or two and probably the uncovering of a hoax.
A frantic man from the future drags disgruntled diners into a chaotic mission to stop an AI apocalypse in a single night, exploding with surreal humour, manic action, and blistering social satire. Sam Rockwell, Juno Temple, Michael Peña, Gore Verbinski
A Chicago family’s vacation spirals into comic mishaps as clashing personalities, wildlife chaos, and suburban anxieties disrupt their lakeside retreat. Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Howard Deutch, 1988.
Remaster of John Woo’s high-octane Hong Kong genre defining thriller about a fearless cop and an undercover agent who face a ruthless gang. Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung, Philip Kwok, John Woo, 1992
Cult slasher series about a relentless swamp monster who hunts teenagers loaded with gore and dark humour. Kane Hodder, Danielle Harris, Parry Shen, Adam Green, 2006–2017
In Brian De Palma’s audacious early satire, a Vietnam veteran and aspiring adult filmmaker navigates New York’s counterculture, experimental theatre, and domestic upheaval while seeking inspiration. Robert De Niro, Barbara Hershey
In New York’s art world, a magazine editor draws a reclusive photographer back into the spotlight, binding ambition and desire as addiction and control destabilise a lesbian romance. Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Lisa Cholodenko, 1998.
Indescribable psychedelic Japanse ghost tale that’s equal parts absurd and nightmarish, Scooby Doo and Mario Bava. Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977.
Starring Seth Green. A teenage slacker’s right hand becomes possessed with murderous intent. Rodman Flender (1999)
Check it out! Who’s that tuxedoed dude in the awesome cherry-red machine? Make way, Bill and Ted: here comes Richard Grieco is his very own excellent adventure. Grieco (Mobsters, TV’s 21 Jump Street, Booker) plays “teen agent” Michael Corben in If Looks Could Kill, a bodaciously funny spy spoof also starring Linda Hunt, Roger Rees and Gabrielle Anwar. It’s an adventure that’s stylin’ from the start. Needing a class credit for graduation, Michael goes to Europe with the French Club for what he hopes will be a breezin’ babe safari. Instead, he’s mistaken for a top superspy, loaded up with lots of righteous espionage gear and given a totally cool car. He’s having the time of someone else’s life. Now all he has to do is save Europe and graduate from high school. No problem.
The notorious exploitation shocker, remastered in UHD! A sadistic camp commandant subjects prisoners to cruel experiments in a notorious cult classic. Dyanne Thorne, Joe Cirillo, Don Edmonds, 1975
A sadistic camp commandant terrorizes prisoners in a Soviet gulag before a survivor pursues revenge from Canada, turning exploitation horror into cold-war action. Dyanne Thorne, Jean LaFleur, 1977.
Sick former Nazi Ilsa returns as a warden of an asylum for sexy young women who films the inmates brutal assaults and sells them to the highest bidder. A twisted classic from the mind of Jess Franco. Dyanne Thorne, Lina Romay, 1977.
Whole Lotta Donnie!
Jesus (Phil Caracas) uses kung fu to wipe out a horde of bloodsuckers who attack lesbians.
John Carpenter’s neo-western action horror about a team of vampire hunters hunting a powerful vampire from gaining a sacred religious relic. James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Maximilian Schell, 1998.
Writer/director Taika Waititi (director of THOR: RAGNAROK and HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE) brings his signature style of humor and pathos to his latest film, JOJO RABBIT, a World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy (Roman Griffin Davis as Jojo) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. In spite of his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Waititi), Jojo confronts his blind nationalism.
Kiki’s Delivery Service is a coming-of-age Studio Ghibli anime film about a 13-year-old witch who leaves her hometown with her talking black cat, Jiji, to start an independent life. She settles in a seaside city, starts a flying courier service using her broom, and learns to overcome self-doubt as she grows up
Following the death of his father, young Danny Madigan (Austin O’Brien) takes comfort in watching action movies featuring the indestructible Los Angeles cop Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger). After being given a magic ticket by theater manager Nick (Robert Prosky), Danny is sucked into the screen and bonds with Slater. When evil fictional villain Benedict (Charles Dance) gets his hands on the ticket and enters the real world, Danny and Jack must follow and stop him.
Fully remastered in high definition! Motown’s Berry Gordy produced this wigged-out kung-fu disco extravaganza, featuring head-spinning break dancing, mild martial arts and goofball storyline. Taimak, Vanity, Christopher Murney, 1985.
Haruka Nozaki is bullied at her new school. One day, a fire breaks out at her home, killing her parents and her severely injuring her younger sister. Haruka has an emotional breakdown and begins to take revenge on those who are responsible. Based on the popular manga series “Misumisou” by Rensuke Oshikiri, and released for the first time in North America.
“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.
Japanese splatter horror / comedies featuring school girls cyborg killing machines: THE MACHINE GIRL: JACKED! / RISE OF THE MACHINE GIRLS
Innocent people are brutally killed on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. A young cop, Jack Forrest (played by Bruce Campbell), finds himself marked as the chief suspect after his wife is murdered. As Lieutenant Frank McCrae (Tom Atkins) investigates these mysterious killings, the death toll rises and he suspects a mysterious police cover-up.
Daring and affecting thriller about a graduate student and marathon runner who is unwillingly trapped in a killing game of intrigue involving a Nazi fugitive. Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, John Schlesinger, 1976.
When Orfamay Quest hires Philip Marlowe to find her brother, it seems like just another missing persons case. But soon enough Marlowe’s investigation leads him on a trail of blackmail and murder, all of it seemingly linked to a mobster and his TV star mistress. Luscious starlets, pugnacious gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks… welcome to Marlowe country!
In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit. Bong Joon Ho, 2003.
Metropolis takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor. The tense balance of these two societies is realized through images that are among the most famous of the 20th century, many of which presage such sci-fi landmarks as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner. Lavish and spectacular, with elaborate sets and modern science fiction style, Metropolis stands today as the crowning achievement of the German silent cinema.
The quadrilogy begins with the cult classic original… NEMESIS: Alex (Olivier Gruner), a burned out LA cyborg cop, is forced by commissioner Farnsworth to find his former cyborg partner and lover Jared who’s about to deliver sensitive data to cyborg terrorists who wish to wage war against humans.
Quintessential 80s gory horror! A party at an abandoned funeral parlor and former lair of a serial killer on Halloween night unleashes a gory living hell. Linnea Quigley, Kevin Tenney, 1988.
Beloved web series is now a movie! Two best friends unleash chaos on Toronto with CN Tower skydives, time travel, and reality-bending schemes all while spiralling through hysterical stunts, paradoxes, and pure insanity. Matt Johnson
Yu Tian Long is the best fighter to come out of his local martial arts school, but when he crosses the ruthless leader of a crime syndicate, the big boss’ bevy of deadly killers make mincemeat out of the school and everyone inside. Now the only survivor and short of one appendage, Yu is gifted a powerful elixir that promises to give him the strength to take revenge on the army of assassins.
Starring Jennifer Connelly and Donald Pleasence, A young girl who can communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. Dario Argento (1985)
Happy 45th anniversay to a great date night movie
Kiyoshi Kurosawa delivered one of the finest entries in the “J-Horror” cycle of films with this moody and spiritually terrifying film that delivers existential dread along with its frights. Setting his story in the burgeoning internet and social media scene in Japan, Kurosawa’s dark and apocalyptic film foretells how technology will only serve to isolate us as it grows more important to our lives.
In the 2002 gothic horror film Queen of the Damned, the vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) awakens from a long slumber and reinvents himself as the charismatic lead singer of a rock band. His provocative music and lyrics unintentionally reveal vampire secrets, angering other vampires who want him killed and awakening Akasha (Aaliyah), the ancient and malevolent Queen of all vampires.
In this French horror, a young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh. Julia Ducournau, 2016.
Beautiful remastered version of Tarkovsky’s final film moving film about a man who, under threat of annihilation from a global war, offers everything he has to God including his son. Includes the documentary Directed by Tarkovsky. 1986
Raunchy 80s sex comedy involving a ghost. Nuff said!
Gonzo arthouse exploitation film from about an aging porn star who is roped into making an “art” film which proceeds to have him commit increasingly demented and depraved acts. Srdjan Spasojevic, 2010.
Beauty 4K of this thriller!
When Billy witnesses his parents’ grisly murder at the hands of Santa, it ignites a lifelong mission to spread holiday fear. Every Christmas, he dons the red suit and embarks on a blood-soaked massacre to feed his twisted sense of justice.
Just a story of two punks growing up in Salt Lake City in the 80s.
A genetically trained super-soldier, discarded as obsolete, is marooned on a brutal garbage planet where he reluctantly protects a colony of outcasts from the next generation of deadlier warriors. Kurt Russell, Paul W. S. Anderson, 1998.
Demi Moore should have won the Oscar.
Welcome to Tales From the Crapper, an epic of biblical proportions and questionable taste. Boasting the greatest cast and largest breasts ever assembled in Troma’s thirty year history, Tales From the Crapper will cause you to lock your door, look under your bed and pray for daylight. Tales from the Crapper is the inaugural film in Troma Entertainment and Lloyd von Kaufman’s acclaimed Dogpile 95 Doctrine of Digital Filmmaking, and is destined to be part of all the critic’s must see lists this year.
80’s TV horror anthology show gets the big screen treatment in this comes an all-star anthology of horror. Debbie Harry, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, 1990.
A controversial talk radio host provokes callers and enemies alike, leading to escalating tension in this intense thriller. Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, Oliver Stone, 1988.
The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this rapturous “ramen western” by Japanese director Juzo Itami is an entertaining, genre-bending adventure underpinned by a deft satire of the way social conventions distort the most natural of human urges, our appetites. Interspersing the efforts of Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto) and friends to make her café a success with the erotic exploits of a gastronome gangster and glimpses of food culture both high and low, the sweet, sexy, and surreal Tampopo is a lavishly inclusive paean to the sensual joys of nourishment, and one of the most mouthwatering examples of food on film ever made.
A shell-shocking saga of mutants, martial arts and New York mayhem, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy brought comic book grit, practical effects wizardry and pizza-fuelled fun to a generation of moviegoers, helping turn four sewer-dwelling brothers into global pop culture icons.
Canuxploitation classic! A masked killer targets college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong years earlier and whom are currently throwing a New Year’s Eve costume party aboard a moving train. Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, David Copperfield, 1980.
Corman double feature!
Happy 30th anniversary to Steve Buscemi’s bar drinking beauty!
Rock ‘n’ roll will never die, in this 1980s cult favorite that stars Marc Price (Family Ties) as Eddie Weinbauer, a teenage outcast who idolizes Sammi Curr (Tony Fields), a heavy metal superstar. After Sammi dies a violent death, his spirit returns to help Eddie get even with his high school tormentors. When Eddie realizes that he has become the tool of Sammi’s vengeance, he attempts to stop him.
There’s no shortage of magnificent Douglas Fir trees in Twin Peaks. Immerse yourself in the entire universe of Twin Peaks with this definitive collection which includes Seasons 1 and 2 of The Original Series?, A Limited Event Series, Fire Walk with Me, and 4K Ultra Hi-Def versions of the Original Series Pilot and Part 8 of A Limited Event Series?, plus so much more! So grab a cup of coffee, a slice of cherry pie, and experience the legendary mystery…again and again!
A college student suspects a series of bizarre deaths are connected to certain urban legends. Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, 1998.
2 students hope to win over a fraternity by delivering them a stripper for the night, only to realise that their choice of dancer is a vampire… Chris Makepeace, Grace Jones, Dedee Pfeiffer, 1986.
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.
Korean horror mystery where a stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter. Hong-jin Na (2016)
Kain (David Carradine), a lone mercenary on the desert planet Ura. He wanders into the town of Yamatar and pits two rival warlords—Zeg and Bal Caz—against each other to gain control of the town’s only water supply
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton are ideal as malevolent marrieds Martha and George in first-time-director Mike Nichols’ searing film of Edward Albee’s groundbreaking stageplay. (1966)
Includes Wishmaster 1, 2, 3, 4 and loads of extras.
This uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk give unforgettably harrowing performances as a married couple deeply in love but unable to express their ardor in terms the other can understand. This landmark American film is perhaps the most beloved work from the extraordinary John Cassavetes.
Cult teen 80s horror / sci-fi film about a mysterious fast-driving spirit who descends from the sky to take revenge against a road-racing gang of motor-heads. Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid, Mike Marvin, 1986.
And there we go guys. Movies should be here Thursday/ Friday. Cheers.
