Another week of cinema is coming to the old video store and a couple of beauties stand out. First it is the underrated body horror flick from earlier this year TOGETHER which has it’s moments to keep you entertained for sure. The second is for some a childhood blast from the past with TALES FROM THE CRYPTKEEPER which was the animated kid friendly version of the HBO series. Let’s see what else is coming in shall we…
The always popular franchise returns to the shop. Beauty!
Baggage handlers Bud & Lou accidentally stumble upon Frankenstein’s Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Barton, 1948
A missing artifact leads Abbott & Costello into an Egyptian tomb full of curses and slapstick adventure. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Lamont, 1955
A great set highlighted by my personal favourite Hitch film STRANGERS ON A TRAIN.
From the director of the cult classic the Hidden, a horror about a quartet of murderous psychopaths who break out of a mental hospital during a blackout and lay siege to their doctor’s house. Jack Palance, Donald Pleasence, Martin Landau, 1982.
The young Amiko is obsessed with her classmate Aomi, a cool soccer player and Radiohead fan, with whom she goes on a short, but memorable stroll through the park. There begins a fixation that carries over the entire school year: a period during which she dares not speak to the boy, though she obsesses over him with every waking thought. So when he run away to the big city to pursue his own life, Amiko becomes determined to find him, and tell him how she really feels, on a journey that will take her from her banal home town of Nagano to the bustling, anonymous streets of Tokyo.
Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is a private detective contracted by Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to track down the iconic singer Johnny Favorite. However, everybody that Angel questions about Favorite seems to meet a tragic demise. Eventually the trail leads Angel to New Orleans where he learns that Favorite had dabbled in the black arts. As Favorite’s whereabouts and true identity become clear, Angel learns that being hired by Cyphre was not a random choice.
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
In this Danish comedy, 4 friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood. Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Thomas Vinterberg, 2020.
In this 70’s TV disaster movie murderous & poisonous ants run amuck in a small hotel. Myrna Loy, Lynda Day George, Brian Dennehy, Gerald Gordon, 1977.
Cult superstar Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead) reunites with director Sam Raimi (Drag Me to Hell, Spider-Man) to battle the deadly forces of evil in Army of Darkness – the outrageous, effects-fueled action epic that will make you scream with fear and laughter. Forced to lead a makeshift Dark Ages army against the demonic Deadites, who possess all the deadly magic of hell, the shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed, reluctant 20th century time traveler Ash (Campbell) must save the living from the dead, rescue his medieval girlfriend and get back to his own time.
In the distant future, Captain Larry Madison, the most heroic leader of the space fleet, has been sent on a mission to Lorigon, a far off planet known to be the galaxy’s greatest resource for Antalium, a precious metal needed to create weaponry. However, when they reach the planet, they discover that it’s overseen by a powerful computer which is capable of forcing all those near it to engage in mindless debauchery. Determined to overcome its effects, Madison and his crew wade through jungles and valleys in search of Antalium…but why does Lt. Sondra Richardson keep having strange sexual nightmares involving a well endowed beast?
Best Christmas Movies Ever! is a festive journey through the most beloved holiday films of all time. Featuring exclusive interviews with stars, filmmakers, and critics, this documentary dives into classics like Home Alone, Elf, The Santa Clause, It’s a Wonderful Life, and more! Relive iconic moments, uncover behind-the-scenes secrets, and settle the debate–Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?
CinzIa Monreale (THE BEYOND) and Franca Stoppi (THE OTHER HELL) star in this psycho-sexual sickie featuring torture, cannibalism, necrophilia, unrequited love and other perversions, totally uncensored and set to a pounding score by Goblin. Severin is proud to present the “ultra-graphic sleaze-fest” (Fright.com) also known as BURIED ALIVE and BUIO OMEGA – for which director Joe D’Amato (ANTHROPOPHAGUS) was infamously accused of using real corpses.
New York City policemen Nick (Michael Douglas) and Charlie (Andy Garcia) witness a murder in a bar and quickly apprehend the assailant. The killer, named Sato (Yusaku Matsuda), is a member of Japan’s infamous Yakuza mob, and Nick and Charlie must transport the gangster back to Osaka for his murder trial. There, Sato’s fellow gangsters free him from police custody, forcing Nick and Charlie to scour Japan’s dangerous underworld of organized crime in search of their fugitive.
17 years ago, Peter’s grandfather went missing under mysterious circumstances. Now, Peter and his friends have returned to the placid Wisconsin town to check out his inherited lake house and to partake in the annual ‘Muskie Madness’ fishing competition.
Soon after his arrival, Peter begins to sense that something isn’t quite right, but none of his friends, nor the local sheriff, will believe him. But as townsfolk and tourists begin to disappear, Peter becomes determined to solve the mystery, as well as that of his grandfather’s disappearance, and soon finds himself facing off against a fish hook wielding madman!
A couple of bored teens who decide after graduating, to take a little vacation where they go on a homoerotic killing spree, killing whoever gets in their way. Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen, 1985.
A horror classic containing one of the most visceral and nauseating scenes in movie history, The Brood follows a man’s investigation into his ex-wife’s placement at an experimental institute. He discovers her progeny of sexless, dwarflike mutants who are born for the sole purpose of acting out Nola’s violent fantasies of revenge. Can he stop Nola’s Brood before they kill again?
A privileged man-child arrives at the beautiful and remote coastal cabin of his estranged father, whom he hasn’t seen in 30 years. He quickly discovers that not only is his dad a jerk, he also has a shady past that is rushing to catch up with him.
A young woman (Meiko Kaji), trained from childhood as an assassin and hell-bent on revenge for her father’s murder and her mother’s rape, hacks and slashes her way to gory satisfaction. Rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay, Toshiya Fujita’s pair of influential cult classics Lady Snowblood and Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance, set in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan, respectively, are bloody, beautiful extravaganzas composed of one elegant widescreen composition after another. The first Lady Snowblood was a major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, and both of Fujita’s films remain cornerstones of Asian action cinema.
In 1986 paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to Pennsylvania to vanquish a demon from a family’s home.
A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives. Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill, 2014.
Members of a family find themselves in a desperate fight for survival when a pack of coyotes swarms their Hollywood Hills home.
John Murdoch wakes in a hotel bathtub with no memory of who he is or how he got there, but there’s a body on the floor with bloody spirals carved into the flesh and a voice on the phone that tells him to flee. Soon Murdoch is on the run, wanted by the police, a woman who claims to be his wife, and a group of mysterious pale men who seem to control everyone and everything in the city…except him.
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.
When the ’80s one-hit-wonder glam-metal band Sonic Grave embarks on a road trip to Coachella in hopes of a comeback, their peyote trip pit stop in Joshua Tree incites a grisly attack, and they must “rock” themselves out of harm’s way.
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.
A new nurse (Linda Blair) arrives at a private clinic and discovers that the renowned resident psychiatrist (Tony Bonner) is treating short-term patients with a combination of coma-like sedation and electroconvulsive therapy. But when these unorthodox procedures trigger dozens of tragedies, she’ll risk her own life to expose decades of malpractice and murder.
Kids love him. TV execs adore him. Sheesh, it’s enough to make out-of-work kiddie-show host Rainbow Randolph puke purple. Ever since that plush, fuchsia-hued, platitude-spouting Smoochy the Rhino started Jiggy Ziggy-dancing in Randolph’s time slot, he has just one mad goal: turn the rhino into a dead duck. Danny DeVito takes the rhino by the horn to direct and costar in this gleefully twisted skewering of children’s TV. Robin Williams, his famed wit set at warp, plays ranting Randolph. Edward Norton is the high-minded goodnik whose righteous-rhino creation becomes a sensation, and Catherine Keener portrays a jaded exec who likes kid-show hosts in, let’s say, a grown-up way. Say nite-nite, rhino!
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.
Even though they know very little about camping, seven unsuspecting friends decide to take a vacation in the wilderness, winding up in the infamous haunted woods of Decamp Acres. The bloody fun begins when the DECAMPITATED crew start to die at the hands of a mysterious killer. Bang your head against the screen as flesh flies to the beautiful soundtrack which includes music from H20, STRIFE, COALESCE, HATEBREED and many more.
One night, musician Marcus Daly (David Hemmings, Blow-Up), looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, Marcus just manages to miss the perpetrator… or does he’ As he takes on the role of amateur sleuth, Marcus finds himself ensnared in a bizarre web of murder and mystery where nothing is what it seems…
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!
During a routine nighttime training mission in the Scottish Highlands, a small squad of British soldiers expected to rendezvous with a special ops unit instead find a bloody massacre with a sole survivor. The savage attackers of the special ops team return, and the men are rescued by Megan (Emma Cleasby), a zoologist who identifies what hunts them as werewolves. Without transport or communications, the group is forced to retreat to a farmhouse to wait for the full moon to disappear at dawn.
Stylish Hong Kong slasher film about a woman pushed to kill by family, work, her love life and finally by not getting her dream apartment. Pang Ho-cheung. 2010.
Collection of films from Charles Band’s Full Moon precursor Empire International Pictures: DUNGEONMASTER / DOLLS / CELLAR DWELLER / ARENA / ROBOT JOX
Remember the shelves of your local video store’ Those days aren’t gone! Reject reality and substitute your own with Arrow Video! In 1983, entrepreneurial producer and director Charles Band founded Empire International Pictures. Empire became a mainstay of video stores across the world with their catchy titles, outlandish art and Band’s wholehearted belief in giving audiences a good time.
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 self-absorbed father is attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter on her birthday. The awkward reunion is interrupted when two armed, masked women invade his home. When they begin a twisted game of cat and mouse, he realizes the intruders know unsettling details about his past and this is about more than money. He must quickly find a way to protect himself and his daughter from the hidden motives and sinister actions of these two in order to survive.
A breathtakingly intimate romance unfolds against a sweeping backdrop of social upheaval in renowned director Chen Kaige’s sumptuous saga of passion, fate, and the transcendent possibilities of art. Spanning fifty years of twentieth-century Chinese history, Farewell My Concubine follows aspiring actors Dieyi (a heartbreaking Leslie Cheung) and Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) as they emerge from a childhood of brutal training to become Beijing-opera stars, with life mirroring art as Dieyi’s unrequited love for Xiaolou and the country’s changing political tides engulf them in their own personal tragedies of jealousy and betrayal. The first Chinese film to win the Palme d’Or is epic filmmaking of the highest order—visually and emotionally ravishing from frame to exquisite frame.
A thrilling tale of friendship and survival that took indie animation to ecstatic new heights of ambition and imagination, this Academy Award–winning international sensation follows a courageous cat after its home is devastated by a great flood. As the cat teams up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, the crew must rely on trust, courage, and their wits to survive the perils of a newly aquatic planet. Working with a small team using open-source software, visionary DIY animator Gints Zilbalodis conjures a sublime sensory odyssey and a profound meditation on the fragility of the environment and the spirit of community.
Punk fights, rap duels, street justice, and NBA magic explode in four gonzo tales of 1987 Oakland under a strange green light. Pedro Pascal, Dominique Thorne, Jay Ellis, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, 2024
Five years ago, Chihiro was raped by three men. The crime was captured on video, its images hanging over her life like a sword. Having left her rural hometown for the big city, she has managed to start anew. She works an office job and is about to marry her boyfriend when one of her assaillants shows up at her doorstep, threatens blackmail and warns her: they are back, it is happening again. Now waking to a recurring nightmare, Chihiro is shocked into an unexpected set of actions action that will keep her abusers close, forever.
GOING OUT OF PRINT. ALL 12 FILMS ON 16 DISCS! Plus loads of extras which are new to this set!
A teenager discovers that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire, so he turns to an actor in a television horror show for help dealing with the undead. Tom Holland (1985)
In an English-language remake of his 1997 German thriller, acclaimed director Michael Haneke (Cache) creates a claustrophobic tale of two deeply disturbed young men who take a family hostage in a vacation home invasion. Produced and starring Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts (21 Grams, The Painted Veil, King Kong), Haneke’s harrowing film also features Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction), Michael Pitt (The Village) and more in an exploration of violence in our society and in our entertainment.
A grieving father infiltrates a deadly drug cartel with an anti-drug officer to avenge his family’s destruction in this gritty Hong Kong thriller. Nick Cheung, Ethan Juan, Sandrine Pinna, Marc Ma, 2024
When an American air raid kills their mother in the final days of World War II, teenager Seita and his younger sister Setsuko are left to fend for themselves in the devastated Japanese countryside. After falling out with their only living relative, Seita does his best to provide for himself and his sister by stealing food and making a home in an abandoned bomb shelter. But with food running short, the siblings can only cling to fleeting moments of happiness in their harsh reality.
There can only be one! Highlander on 4K UHD!
In this 1986 cult classic, director Robert Harmon thrills the viewer with the story of young Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell), who stops on the highway to pick up a hitchhiker, not knowing that by doing so, he opens the door to terrible evil. The mysterious hitcher, unforgettably portrayed by Rutger Hauer, is a relentless slaughterer, preying on those who invite him into their lives. Somewhat dismissed at the time of its original release, THE HITCHER developed a rabid fan following in the ensuing years, now properly recognized as one of the most memorable and terrifying thrillers of the 1980s.
Hoping for heaven but finding an urban hell, a homeless man (Rutger Hauer) takes aim at a crime boss and the man’s sadistic sons (Gregory Smith, Nick Bateman).
A witty, disgusting, eye-popping, and incomprehensible scabrous satire of organized religion that follows a Christ figure, his disciples, and their bloody quest for the home of the gods, whom they plan to depose. Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973.
Careless American military personnel dump chemicals into South Korea’s Han River. Several years later, a creature emerges from the tainted waters and sinks its ravenous jaws into local residents. When the creature abducts their daughter (Go Ah-sung), a vendor (Song Kang-ho) and his family decide that they are the only ones who can save her.
In five audacious episodes, failed architect and arch-sociopath Jack recounts the elaborately orchestrated murders—each, as he views them, a towering work of art—that define his “career” as a serial killer. Mixing pitch black humor, transcendent surrealism, and renegade musings on everything from history to architecture to cinema, von Trier fashions a radical, blazingly personal inquiry into violence, art, and the twin acts of creation and destruction.
One safe. Six keys. Six robbers, each expecting their cut of a diamond heist when they finally meet to divide their spoils. But before they can open the safe that guards their glittering hoard, they are mysteriously killed, one by one. With fear and suspicion growing among the shrinking group of survivors, it becomes clear that one of them is trying to take all the diamonds for themselves!
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.
Amoral teen Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick) has made it his goal to sleep with as many virgin girls as possible — but he doesn’t tell them that he’s HIV positive. While on the hunt for his latest conquest, Telly and his best friend, Casper (Justin Pierce), smoke pot and steal from shops around New York. Meanwhile, Jenny (Chloë Sevigny), one of Telly’s early victims, makes it her mission to save other girls from him. But before she has a chance to confront him at a party, everything goes horribly wrong.
Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, her twin sister, Rhonda runs a local gym where all of a sudden, people are being murdered. Ted Prior, Marcia Karr, David James Campbell, Fritz Matthews.
After the mayor of an idyllic Newfoundland village discovers a child with mysterious powers awash on their shores, the once peaceful community devolves into civil war, torn over the belief that the child is the next saviour. Christian Sparkes, 2023.
Nuclear war and climate change have rendered the world a desolate wasteland where survival is not guaranteed and bullets are the only currency. Haunted by his past, Ronin wanders the lawless world alone in search of his father’s killer. His path changes when he encounters a wayward teen who offers him a large bounty for escorting her safely to her birthplace, but the dangerous journey will require all of his skills to survive.
Passions are aroused and old wounds reopened in this sassy post-Scream teen slasher based on the urban legend of “The Hook”. Prepare yourself for the ultimate hook up with Lovers Lane, a scream-a-minute rollercoaster that marked the film debut of Anna Faris (the Scary Movie series; Lost in Translation).
Frank Zito is a deeply disturbed man, haunted by the traumas of unspeakable childhood abuse. And when these horrific memories begin to scream inside his mind, Frank prowls the seedy streets of New York City to stalk and slaughter innocent young women. Now Frank has begun a relationship with a beautiful photographer, yet his vile compulsions remain. This is the story of a MANIAC.
In this near-future Argentine splatter-action film, a porn star revived as a cyborg battles through a disused factory to protect women and punish men. Sofia Gala Castiglione, Malena Sanchez, Gabriel Grieco, Nicanor Loreti, 2023
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.
Full-throttle splatter-ific Japanese cyberpunk science fiction/horror at its most aggressive about alien parasites that turn their human hosts into slave “Necroborgs” will leave you dizzy and drained – in a good way. Yudai Yamaguchi (2005)
Nobody knows where they came from. They parasitize human beings, take control and change their figures into hideous monsters. Yoji and Sachiko get caught up in the horrific battles of Necro-borg. What will their fate be?
Gigantic mutated sea monsters arise from the depths and begin to wreak havoc upon an awe-stricken Tokyo. As a last ditch effort, the government forms the “Seafood Monster Attack Team (SMAT)” and an all-new plan of attack is immediately put into action. But just as the tide appears to be turning, a colossal crab monster appears, plunging the world into culinary chaos.
From the Makers of THE BLOB, PRINCE OF DARKNESS and THEY LIVE and the SPFX Team of ARMY OF DARKNESS, DARKMAN and BATMAN RETURNS comes the high-definition world premiere of this giant monster cult classic! Science-fiction becomes horrifyingly real for a park full of innocent campers, as a hideous horde of mutated mosquitos viciously attack without warning!
Legendary animator Bill Plympton’s lovably twisted tribute to alien invasion films ala 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH and MARS ATTACKS! features an American astronaut named Earl Jensen who’s intentionally stranded in space by his evil boss, Dr. Frubar. Twenty years later he returns to Earth with incredible stories of his survival in space — and he’s not alone.
What if the only people left alive in the world were Southern California teenagers? That’s the premise in this campy, enjoyable sci-fi tale of two sisters who must fend off zombie-like mutants and mysterious scientists after a comet’s passing exterminates nearly all life.
Known for its tense, extended foot chase through crowded NYC streets, a relentless ex-cop pursues a deranged kidnapper in 1970s New York to save his daughter. James Brolin, Cliff Gorman, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Butler, 1980.
The body of a sexy aerobics instructor is invaded by the evil spirit of a dying ninja. Things get complicated after that. Sho Kosugi, Lucinda Dickey, James Hong, 1984.
NYC DIY punk films from Beth B & Scott B and featuring Lydia Lunch: G-Man (1978) / Black Box (1979) / Letters to Dad (1979) / The Offenders (1979) / The Trap Door (1981) / Vortex (1983)
Emerging from the downtown art scene of a pre-gentrified 1970s New York, Beth B and Scott B crafted strikingly cinematic sci-fi and neo-noir thrillers that emblemized the alienation and spirit of rebellion fueling a generation of young creators. Filmed in Super-8 and 16mm, and highlighted by the electrifying presence of performance artist Lydia Lunch, these defiant “B Movies” brought a Times Square grindhouse aesthetic to the music venues and art spaces where they were shown. Newly restored from the original film elements, No Wave (as the movement would later be called) is a major cinematic rediscovery: a provocative body of work previously unavailable, and an insider’s view of a city (and art scene) on the brink of explosion.
In the 1830s, estate agent Thomas Hutter travels to Transylvania for a fateful meeting with Count Orlok, a prospective client. In his absence, Hutter’s new bride, Ellen, is left under the care of their friends, Friedrich and Anna Harding. Plagued by horrific visions and an increasing sense of dread, Ellen soon encounters an evil force that’s far beyond her control.
In this classic of Greek cinema, a man struggles against societal oppression in postwar Athens, facing isolation, alienation, and the consequences of a rigid, uncaring system. Dinos Iliopoulos, Iakovos Kambanellis, Nikos Koundouros, 1956
Despite his best efforts, shy and modest bank clerk Thomas (Dinos Iliopoulos) struggles to fit in with the pace of modern life. On New Year’s Eve, a comedy of errors ensues and Thomas is mistaken for ‘The Ogre’, a notorious criminal mastermind who rules the streets of Athens.
When Randle Patrick McMurphy gets transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a mental institution, he assumes it will be a less restrictive environment. But the martinet Nurse Ratched runs the psychiatric ward with an iron fist, keeping her patients cowed through abuse, medication and sessions of electroconvulsive therapy. The battle of wills between the rebellious McMurphy and the inflexible Ratched soon affects all the ward’s patients.
When a young opera singer (Cristina Marsillach) is stalked by a masked psychopath, she will be forced into a grisly aria of murder, memories and unimaginable torment. Ian Charleson (CHARIOTS OF FIRE), Urbano Barberini (DEMONS), Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni (MOTHER OF TEARS) and Daria Nicolodi (TENEBRE) co-star in this definitive presentation of “one of Argento’s best” (IndieWire).
A timeless tale of vengeance told through the medium of a bloated Jaws rip off! Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Anderson, 1977.
Hayao Miyazaki’s delightful animated film about a WWI Italian pilot cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig. 1992.
Outstanding Japanese horror where a group of young friends tangle with strange phenomenon related to a creepy website. As their city grows emptier by the day, they must solve the mystery before all is lost. Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2001)
Beloved cult horror about a group of teens who inadvertently kill the child of a backwoods witch who unleashes a monstrous demon called Pumpkinhead to exact her revenge. Lance Henriksen, Jeff East, Stan Winston, 1988
First three flicks together!
A chameleon (Johnny Depp) who has lived as a sheltered family pet finds himself in the grip of an identity crisis. Rango wonders how to stand out when it is his nature to blend in. When he accidentally winds up in a frontier town called Dirt, he takes the first step on a transformational journey as the town’s new sheriff. Though at first Rango only role-plays, a series of thrilling situations and outrageous encounters forces him to become a real hero.
Filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is considered one of the most controversial women of the 20th century. Her films Triumph of the Will and Olympia are defined by their fascist aesthetics, perfectly-staged body worship, and the celebration of all that is “superior” and victorious, simultaneously projecting contempt for the imperfect and weak. But Riefenstahl – who first broke into the German film industry as an actress – spent decades after the war denying her association with Nazi ideology, and claiming ignorance of the Holocaust. How did she become the Reich’s preeminent filmmaker if she was just a hired hand?
Iconic head exploding sci-fi horror where a race of humans with telekinetic abilities must track down a rogue Scanner of unparalleled power waging a bloody war against the normals. David Cronenberg (1981)
Gorgeous and adventure-filled animated adaptation of the children’s book The Borrowers from master animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Studio Ghibli.
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.
Nomi Malone will be a star. She knows it. The problem is, no one else does…yet. Fresh to Las Vegas and with no connections, Nomi takes a job as an exotic dancer at a club named Cheetahs. Showing impressive abilities, her talents are quickly noticed by Stardust Casino headlining dancer, Cristal who senses an opportunity to bolster her own act. But Nomi won’t play second fiddle and soon begins her venomous path to the top, ruthlessly backstabbing anyone who gets in her way…however karma has a funny way of catching up as Nomi learns that being a Vegas showgirl has a harder and more brutal edge than she’d ever have imagined…
Hungarian sci-fi from the 1940s blends time travel and romance as a brash playboy journeys to the 18th century, falling for a penniless opera singer while confronting his aristocratic ancestors. Dezsõ Ákos Hamza, 1942.
When a 10-year-old girl’s sketchbook takes a dip in a mysterious forest pond, her comically imaginative drawings spring to life, and they’re not exactly friendly. As these scribbled monsters wreak havoc, it’s up to her family to come together, face the madness, and somehow save the day.
Marco (Gianmarco Tognazzi of Lamberto Bava’s GRAVEYARD DISTURBANCE) is an unemployed 22-year-old stoner who still lives at home with his mother. But when he’s drawn to a local group of neo-Nazis, their escalating violence towards immigrants and minorities will collide with his growing relationship with a beautiful African woman.
When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart. Penelope Spheeris (1983)
Jessica Harper (PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, PENNIES FROM HEAVEN) stars in this horrific tale of a young student who uncovers dark and horrific secrets within the walls of a famous German dance academy. Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA comes to home video from Synapse Films in an exclusive new 4K restoration!
From Studio Ghibli, an animated fairy tale about a princess found inside a stalk of bamboo who goes on a transformative journey. Isao Takahata, 2013.
Tales from the Cryptkeeper is an animated children’s horror series hosted by the Cryptkeeper who tells cautionary tales, unlike the adult-oriented HBO series Tales from the Crypt.
After a comet disrupts the rain cycle of Earth, the planet has become a desolate, barren desert by the year 2033. With resources scarce, Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell) — head of the powerful and evil Water & Power Corporation, the de facto government — has taken control of the water supply. Unwilling to cower under Kesslee’s tyrannical rule, a pair of outlaws known as Tank Girl (Lori Petty) and Jet Girl (Naomi Watts) rise up, joining the mysterious rebel Rippers to destroy the corrupt system.
A crazy clown stalks and tries to kill three women in a wretched old apartment building on Halloween night
A newly relocated couple encounters a supernatural force in the woods that fuses their bodies, forcing them to confront love, intimacy, and trust in grotesque and darkly comic ways. Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Damon Herriman, Michael Shanks, 2025
Blood, guts and guns are the new normal in the new police state! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation wages a blood-splattered war with the Engineers, a genetically modified group of super-criminals. These mutant mobsters can bio-fuse and surgically implant weapons into their anatomy, turning self-mutilation and body modification into a lethal form of performance art.
It’s Halloween. Ashley and her costumed friends find themselves locked in a bar, in the middle of nowhere, threatened by a gang of bikers. She hears a Jack-o-lantern whispering to her. Is it all a trick, or does it want to help?
In Detroit, loner Clarence marries a call girl named Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood. Meanwhile, the owners of the cocaine, the mob, track them down and try to reclaim it.
Lovely teen Julie Richman (Deborah Foreman) is steeped in the excessive, pink-clad culture of the San Fernando Valley, complete with her narcissistic boyfriend, Tommy (Michael Bowen). At a party, however, Julie falls for an edgy Hollywood punk named Randy (Nicolas Cage), and the two begin an unlikely romance. Torn between fitting in with her superficial friends and embracing a more non-conformist lifestyle, Julie ultimately has to decide to stay with Tommy or take a risk with Randy.
Collection of stylish French films from Robert Hossein: The Wicked Go to Hell / Nude in a White Car / The Taste of Violence
A prison break, femme fatales and a genre-defining western: Robert Hossein, one of French cinema’s great unsung stylists directs & stars in 3 classics
3 ENGLISH-SUBTITLED BLU-RAY PREMIERES
A prison break, femme fatales and a genre-defining western: Robert Hossein (Rififi) was, both behind and in front of the camera, one of French cinema’s great unsung stylists. Three of his finest genre exploits are collected here:
In The Wicked Go to Hell, two inmates (Henri Vidal, A Kiss for a Killer, and Serge Reggiani, The Leopard) join forces to stage a daring escape. In Nude in a White Car, a drifter (Robert Hossein, also director) is tempted into a night of passion by a pair of mystery blondes (Marina Vlady, 2 or 3 Things I know about Her, and Odile Versois, Passport to Shame). In The Taste of Violence a revolutionary kidnaps the daughter (Giovanna Ralli, The Mercenary) of a dictator to negotiate a prisoner swap with his two lieutenants Chamaco (Mario Adorf, The Italian Connection) and Chico (Hans H. Neubert, Der Richter von London).
WOLFCOP (Lowell Dean 2014)
As a series of strange and violent events begin to occur, an alcoholic policeman realizes that he has been turned into a werewolf as part of a larger plan.
STARS: Leo Fafard, Amy Matysio, Sarah Lind
ANOTHER WOLF COP (Lowell Dean 2017)
Alcoholic werewolf cop Lou Garou springs into action when an eccentric businessman with evil intentions seduces Woodhaven’s residents with a new brewery and hockey team in this outrageous horror-comedy sequel.
STARS: Leo Fafard, Yannick Bisson, Amy Matysio
Special A24 release of Ti West’s X Trilogy – X, Pearl and MaXXXine
YOJIMBO
The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. Remade twice, by Sergio Leone and Walter Hill, this exhilarating genre-twister remains one of the most influential and entertaining films of all time.
SANJURO
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro. In this sly companion piece to Yojimbo, jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan’s evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a “proper” samurai on its ear. Less brazen in tone than its predecessor but equally entertaining, this classic character’s return is a masterpiece in its own right.
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