Well it’s another week of goodness coming to the video store. Steelcases, 4Ks, Cult Classics, Soon To Be classics, and everything in between the magic of cinema keeps pouring into the shop and I’m here to tell you all about it so let’s take a look shall we?
JJ has just made a deal with the Devil herself. He’s tasked with an ominous goal: Collect seven souls in seven days or spend eternity burning in hell. With the clock ticking, there’s only one thing that can stop him. Love.
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado. Klaus Kinski, Werner Herzog, 1972.
AIRPLANE: This spoof comedy takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that were released in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, a rogue pilot with a drinking problem must cooperate with his ex-girlfriend turned stewardess to bring the plane to a safe landing.
AIRPLANE 2: Though haunted by combat memories, heroic pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) agrees to return to the cockpit to man the controls of Mayflower One, America’s first commercial spacecraft. But, as soon as Mayflower One lifts off, an electrical malfunction sends the ship veering off course. A shaken Striker struggles to guide the shuttle through a treacherous asteroid belt, tame its failing computer systems and stop the disgruntled Joe Seluchi (Sonny Bono) from detonating a deadly bomb on board.
AIRPORT: In this large-ensemble disaster movie, Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster), the general manager of a Chicago-area airport, must contend with a massive snowstorm and other issues, both work-related and personal, while the troubled D.O. Guerrero (Van Heflin) threatens to blow up an airliner. As pilot Vernon Demerest (Dean Martin) attempts to calm Guerrero down and dissuade him from setting off explosives on the plane, tensions increase in the air and on the ground, and danger is imminent.
AIRPORT 1975: When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor (Karen Black) is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock (Charlton Heston), a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun (Helen Reddy) and a cranky man (Sid Caesar) — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
AIRPORT 77: The story about the mid-air hijack of a multi-millionaire’s private 747 carrying a collection of priceless works of art. The terrified pilot is forced by the hijackers to fly low to avoid radar detection and, as a result, the plane hits an oil rig and crashes into the sea. As the stricken airliner sinks, its passengers and crew are faced with a nightmare fight for survival.
AIRPORT 1979: Journalist Maggie Whelan (Susan Blakely) discovers that her married boyfriend, Kevin Harrison (Robert Wagner), heads a company that is involved in illegal arms sales. To stop her from going public, Harrison decides to kill her by bringing down the Concorde she is taking from Paris and Moscow. It is up to pilots Paul Metrand (Alain Delon) and Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) to keep the plane aloft and intact in the face of repeated missile attacks from jets sent by Harrison.
It lives 50 feet beneath the city. It’s 36 feet long. It weighs 2,000 pounds…and it’s about to break out! From director Lewis Teague (Cujo) and screenwriter John Sayles (The Howling) comes an unstoppable thriller with bite. A family returning from Florida decides their pet baby alligator is too much to handle and flushes him down the toilet. Meanwhile, Slade Laboratories is conducting secret experiments with animals and disposing of them in the sewer. The alligator, fending for itself, begins to feed on the dead animals, and grows. Now, twelve years later, after several mysterious murders, David Madison (Robert Forster, Jackie Brown) is on the case to find out who…or what…is killing people.
All the kids in town are dying to play the hot new video game ARCADE. Trouble is once you play the game you can kiss reality good-bye. Arcade has seven levels of excitement, adventure, and terror for its players. The game transports you to another world with its stunning graphics, thrilling sound effects, and virtual reality simulation. It is the ultimate experience in a video game.
Archaeologist Scarlett Marlowe (Perdita Weeks) has devoted her whole life to finding one of history’s greatest treasures: Flamel’s Philosopher’s Stone. According to legend, the artifact can grant eternal life and turn any metal into gold. When she learns that the stone is hidden underground in the Catacombs of Paris, she assembles a crew to guide and document her historic mission. As they begin their descent, the team-members have no way of knowing that they are entering their own personal hell.
2 teen killers face rivals and growing pains in the leaner, meaner third sequel where inventive fights eclipse their usual sweet chaos. Akari Takaishi, Saori Izawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Yugo Sakamoto, 2024
From Juraj Herz, director of The Cremator and Morgiana, comes this singular adaption of the classic tale – an altogether darker interpretation than we’re used to. Light years from Disney, Herz’s Beauty and the Beast (also known more provocatively as The Virgin and the Monster) follows the familiar story – innocent girl presents herself as sacrifice to a cursed man-beast hiding in exile, and learns to live with, and eventually love her captor – but is transformed into something entirely more twisted and terrifying in Herz’s macabre re-imagining.
The Tall Grass Country Club offers its members a luxury getaway, with all the best in sport and relaxation. But when a mangled body is discovered on the club’s prized golf course, right before a nationally televised tournament, panic ensues at the possibility of a killer on the loose, and even worse, that the death might cause some bad press. Enlisting the expertise of Roy, a has been golf pro, along with disgruntled pro-hopeful, Kelly, to unmask the culprit behind the carnage, the club’s hard nosed owner soon finds himself with even bigger problems when additional victims begin to turn up, and all signs point to the killer being an out of control, bloodthirsty lawn mower!
Before they blew the world’s mind with The Matrix, Lana and Lilly Wachowski delivered a jolt of pure pulp pleasure with their hyperstylish debut, which puts a deliciously sapphic spin on a crackerjack caper premise. When butch plumber Corky (Gina Gershon) catches the eye of alluring femme (fatale) Violet (Jennifer Tilly), little does she know she’s about to be drawn into both a torrid affair and a high-stakes heist that will pit the pair against the mob. With crackling dialogue, luscious neonoir cinematography, and live-wire performances by Gershon, Tilly, and Joe Pantoliano, Bound is a genre-reimagining joyride that keeps both the tension and the erotic heat rising through each crazily careening twist.
A collection of gritty 1970s blaxploitation films remastered in 4K: FOXY BROWN / FRIDAY FOSTER / COTTON COMES TO HARLEM / BUCKTOWN / SLAUGHTER / SLAUGHTER’S BIG RIP-OFF
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
In this Czechoslovak New Wave film, a travelling circus and its magical feline mascot arrive in a provincial Czech town, unleashing mayhem as they expose the virtues, vices and desires of its unruly inhabitants. Vojtěch Jasný, 1963.
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.
Korean tale about a disgraced police detective-turned-pimp who becomes involved in a breathless race against time to catch a psychopathic serial killer after one of his girls goes missing. He has just twelve hours to find evidence against the killer, before the bureaucratic Seoul police department are forced to release him to continue his reign of terror.
An undercover cop is torn between duty and loyalty in this cornerstone of Hong Kong’s Heroic Bloodshed cinema, drenched in gunfire and betrayal. Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee, Sun Yueh, Ringo Lam, 1987
From best-selling author and celebrated director Clive Barker comes a supernatural thriller that rips apart the boundaries between sanity and madness! Scott Bakula, Kevin J. O Connor, Famke Janssen.
A small-time wrestling company accepts a gig in a backwoods town, only to discover the community is run by a sinister cult and a mysterious leader. Chris Jericho, Ayisha Issa, Steven Ogg. Lowell Dean. 2025.
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.
Jess Franco directed euro shocker in which a group of nun’s become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the Spanish inquisition. One of Franco’s better erotic extravaganzas!
Hard-boiled detective Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) is searching for evidence that proves Alphonse Big Boy Caprice is the city’s most dangerous crime boss. He may have found the key to unraveling the crimelord’s illegal empire in Breathless Mahoney (Madonna), an enigmatic barroom singer who has witnessed some of Caprice’s crimes firsthand. However, she seems more set on stealing Dick away from his girlfriend, Tess (Glenne Headly), than helping him solve the case of his career.
UNCUT R RATED VERSION! Two lifelong friends start a revenge-for-hire business to fund a father’s surgery, leading to explosive pranks and messy mob entanglements. Norm Macdonald, Artie Lange, Jack Warden, Traylor Howard, Bob Saget, 1998.
A loan officer cursed by a gypsy fights to break the supernatural torment unleashed upon her. Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver. Sam Raimi. 2009.
Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper), two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth. On their journey, they experience bigotry and hatred from the inhabitants of small-town America and also meet with other travelers seeking alternative lifestyles. After a terrifying drug experience in New Orleans, the two travelers wonder if they will ever find a way to live peacefully in America.
Gaspar Noé’s English language “psychedelic melodrama” about a drug-dealing teen who is killed in Japan, after which he reappears as a ghost to watch over his sister. Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, 2009.
Starring Richard Burton and Linda Blair, a teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl’s exorcist. John Boorman (1977)
A police lieutenant in spiritual crisis tracks a rash of murders seeming to copycat a long dead serial killer. George C. Scott, Brad Dourif, William Peter Blatty, 1990.
All Six Movies In One Blu Ray Set…
In 1975, a group of five men are driving home after working in a forest when they see a mysterious light. Intrigued, Travis Walton (D.B. Sweeney) leaves the truck — only to be sucked up by a flying saucer. The other four men report the strange event, but they are skeptically interrogated by Lt. Frank Watters (James Garner), who suspects that murder is behind Walton’s disappearance. When Walton reappears five days later, his story of alien abduction is met with disbelief.
THE GATE: When Al (Christa Denton) and Glenn’s (Stephen Dorff) parents (Deborah Grover, Scot Denton) leave town for the weekend, Al uses the opportunity to throw a party while little brother Glenn and his friend Terry (Louis Tripp) decide to explore a hole left by a tree-removal service in the backyard. When unexplainable phenomena begin occurring, Terry — with the help of his extensive heavy-metal music collection — comes to the conclusion that he and Glenn have accidentally opened a gateway to hell.
THE GATE II: In “The Gate II: Trespassers,” Terry, still reeling from his mother’s death and dealing with his alcoholic father, returns to Glen’s abandoned house where the Gate to hell was previously opened. He intends to summon demons for power, hoping to fix his father’s life. He’s joined by a group of teens, including Liz, who encourages him to complete the ritual. The teens summon a minion, and their wishes, granted by the demon, lead to disastrous consequences, with two of the teens turning into demons. In the end, Terry confronts the demons and closes the Gate, but not without sacrifice.
Diving into delirious realms of imagination, this second film of the Godzilla franchise’s 1980s resurgence showcased the towering beast for a new generation of fans. This time, Godzilla’s foe is one of the series’ most wondrously strange kaiju creations: Biollante—a mutant plant genetically engineered from the cells of a rose, a renegade scientist’s dead daughter, and Godzilla itself. With a wild plot encompassing spies, psychic children, and bonkers biotechnology—and some of the coolest special effects in the history of Japanese cinema—Godzilla vs. Biollante stands as a high point in the ever-evolving mythology of the King of the Monsters.
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
Indescribable psychedelic Japanse ghost tale that’s equal parts absurd and nightmarish, Scooby Doo and Mario Bava. Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977.
A Fine Triple Feature..
A sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer comes across a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain the enforcer can only dream about.
In this horror comedy, an amusement park paleontologist and a hapless security guard team up to stop an invisible raptor from wreaking havoc on their small town. Sean Astin, Mike Capes, Sandy Martin, 2023.
A haunted man, attending a dinner party at the house he once called home, becomes gripped with paranoia that his ex-wife and her new husband are harbouring an insidious agenda. Karyn Kusama (2015)
An English U.N. negotiator (David Thewlis) becomes stranded in the tropics with a mad scientist (Marlon Brando) who makes half-human beasts.
When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) wants to close the beaches, but mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) overrules him, fearing that the loss of tourist revenue will cripple the town. Ichthyologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and grizzled ship captain Quint (Robert Shaw) offer to help Brody capture the killer beast, and the trio engage in an epic battle of man vs. nature.
Nazi-occupied Romania, 1941: In a small and gloomy village hidden deep in the mountains, German troops have arrived to lay siege. Although warned by the townspeople to stay out of a mysterious and ornately carved structure known only as “The Keep,” two arrogant soldiers ignore their orders and break into the obelisk, hoping to find stowed treasure, but instead unleash an ancient evil force which, with each new victim, grows stronger and more powerful. After suffering large casualties at its hands, Captain Klaus Woermann is informed that the only person who might be capable of defeating this monstrous and demonic entity is an elderly Jewish historian named Dr. Theodore Cuza, who is being held captive with his daughter in a concentration camp…
Three sorority pledges are tasked with ensuring that the gals of Sigma Alpha Pi throw a killer party at an abandoned fraternity house. Unfortunately, a vengeful spirit decides to take the killer epithet literally.
The Thing meets Alien but UNDERWATER! Newly remastered cult film. Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Ernie Hudson, George P. Cosmatos, 1989
French horror fantasist Jean Rollin delivers this Oedipal tale of a young man haunted by visions of a forgotten childhood when he spies a poster of a coastal castle at a party. Jean-Loup Philippe, 1975.
A fine Triple Feature..
The Lords of Discipline is a riveting and suspenseful tale of human triumph. David Keith (An Officer and a Gentleman) gives an intense performance as Will McLean, a fine, disciplined cadet whose uncompromising integrity leads him to defy and reject the rules of conduct that have shaped him. The year is 1964. Carolina Military Institute has admitted, for the first time, a young black man into its freshman class. Will is asked to protect him from The Ten—a secret society of cadets dedicated to eliminating from the school those it deems “unfit.” Steeped in myth and legend, The Ten’s power extends to every corner of Will’s life, and he is ultimately forced to risk his career, his friends…and his own life.
The “Maniac Cop” is back from the dead and stalking the streets of New York once more. Officer Matt Cordell was once a hero, but after being framed by corrupt superiors and brutally assaulted in prison, he sets out on a macabre mission of vengeance, teaming up with a vicious serial killer to track down those that wronged him and make them pay… with their lives!
The wonderfully ridiculous story of a beautifully coiffed man and his army of mercenaries who combat vaguely ethnic supervillains. Barry Bostwick, Michael Beck, Persis Khambatta, Hal Needham, 1982.
Starring Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, in Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who’s on his trail. Elaine May (1976)
Raucous spoof / tribute to ’50s-era matinees features alien brain parasites who enter humans through the mouth and turn their host into flesh-eating zombies! Fred Dekker, 1986
Interesting vampire free film from Jean Rollin about a not-so-distant future where the the residents of a skyscraper asylum are suffering with insanity and collective amnesia begin to kill one another. Brigitte Lahaie, 1980.
An alien with an appetite for blood & disembowelment is set loose on a small town when its spacecraft crashes. Sheriff Jack Cinder & local militia arrive on scene, a violent battle ensues, leaving only Jack, his deputy & a wild-eyed redneck as survivors. With a corrupt mayor unwilling to stand up against the Nightbeast’s reign of carnage, it’s up to Jack to evacuate the townsfolk & save the day!
A young man set up as the fall guy in a string of brutal slasher murders decides he’ll hide by sneaking into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian where shape-shifting beings—The Nightbreed—dwell.
Conservative street cop DaSilva reluctantly agrees to terminate an international terrorist who has demanded media attention. But DaSilva’s “at-home” tactics are very much put to the challenge. Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams, 1981.
All Seven Movies In One Set..
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.
Dr. Atsuko Chiba works as a scientist by day and, under the code name “Paprika,” is a dream detective at night. Atsuko and her colleagues are working on a device called the DC Mini, which is intended to help psychiatric patients, but in the wrong hands it could destroy people’s minds. When a prototype is stolen, Atsuko/Paprika springs into action to recover it before damage is done.
All 5 Movies Together!
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity. As the liquid turns their co-workers into zombies, the remaining members realize they have released the most unspeakable of horrors, Satan himself
All 5 movies together on Blu Ray!
After undergoing radical emergency surgery, a young woman develops an insatiable desire for blood. She searches out victims to satisfy her incurable craving, infecting them with an unknown disease which in turn swiftly drives them insane and equally bloodthirsty.
A heart-wrenching slacker revenge feature set in Austin, Texas.
Sequel to Enter the Ninja! After ninjas kill his family, a martial artist and his son move to America and open am Japanese doll business, all the while being used by a mafia-killing ninja drug-dealer smuggling heroin through the dolls. Shô Kosugi, 1982
Two priests confront a young woman’s demonic possession in 1928 Iowa, challenging their faith and sanity during a harrowing exorcism. Al Pacino, Dan Stevens, Abigail Cowen, David Midell, 2025
In this advanced society, most homes have robots that perform everyday menial duties. Every so often, one malfunctions, and Sgt. Jack Ramsay (Tom Selleck), an expert in rogue machines, must deal with it. When he and his new partner, Karen Thompson (Cynthia Rhodes), investigate a robot-involved homicide, they discover strange computer chips. Rather than a malfunction, someone is programming the robots to kill. The police must find whoever is behind the murder before more harm is done.
Lindsey McKeon (Saved By The Bell: The New Class), Scott Weinger (Fuller House, Aladdin) and Brad Hawkins (Boyhood) star in this scare-filled, laugh-packed weekend of horror as a homicidal maniac with a grudge against snowboarders turns a snowy getaway into a body count nightmare when seven hot-blooded coeds break into an abandoned ski lodge.
A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures move to a small town to seek out a young virgin to feed on. Mick Garris (1992)
Fading actress Elisabeth Sparkle becomes distressed when her chauvinistic boss fires her from her aerobics show. She soon injects herself with a mysterious serum that promises a younger, better version of herself, but things go horribly wrong.
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!
Meet Talon, a daring mercenary who conquers castles and dungeons alike with his lethal three-bladed sword. But when Talon learns that he is the prince of a kingdom controlled by an evil sorcerer, he is thrust into the wildest fight of his life. Can Talon rescue the beautiful princess and slay the warlock, or will he fall prey to the black magic of medieval mayhem? Lee Horsley (The Hateful Eight), Kathleen Beller (Dynasty), Simon MacCorkindale (Jaws 3D) and Richard Moll (House) star in this action-packed saga, filled with brutal battles, plucky maidens, savage monsters and more!
Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a bored construction worker in the year 2084 who dreams of visiting the colonized Mars. He visits “Rekall,” a company that plants false memories into people’s brains, in order to experience the thrill of Mars without having to travel there. But something goes wrong during the procedure; Quaid discovers that his entire life is actually a false memory and that the people who implanted it in his head now want him dead.
An imprisoned boxing champion fights for respect and freedom in a brutal tournament inside a maximum-security prison. Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, Peter Falk, Walter Hill, 2002
A rip-roaring college campus comedy about 2 ne’er do wells who are tasked with winning an intercollegiate white water raft race. Tim Matheson, Stephen Furst, Robert Butler, 1984.
Beloved cult neo-noir remastered in 4K. Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Spacey, Giancarlo Esposito, Paul Bartel, Bryan Singer
Dr. Mabuse (AKA Dr. M) returns to unleash chaos, forcing a city to unravel under his twisted mind games and deadly schemes. Fred Williams, Jack Taylor, Ewa Strömberg, Jesús Franco, 1972
An ex-police officer who suffers from an intense fear of heights is hired to prevent an old friend’s wife from committing suicide, but all is not as it seems. Hitchcock’s haunting, compelling masterpiece is uniquely revelatory about the director’s own predilections and hang-ups and is widely considered to be one of his masterworks.
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
Celebrated playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s rich, humanist portrait of a single mother and her wayward brother as they navigate life’s challenges and familial bonds. Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick, Kenneth Lonergan, 2000
And there we go. Movies should be here Thursday/ Friday.
