As May rolls on and the weather gets more summery the cinema of physical media keeps knocking at the shop’s door so let’s take a look and see what is coming to say to us this week…shall we?
After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, residents of California descend into a wild panic, afraid that they might be the next target. Among them are Wild Bill Kelso (John Belushi), a crazed National Guard pilot; Sgt. Frank Tree (Dan Aykroyd), a patriotic, straight-laced tank crew commander; Ward Douglas (Ned Beatty), a civilian willing to help with the American war effort at any cost; and Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell (Robert Stack), who tries his hardest to maintain sanity amid the chaos.
It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped from a biological weapons laboratory. Still living in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amid the infected. One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily defended causeway. When one of them decides to venture into the dark heart of the mainland, he soon discovers a mutation that has spread to not only the infected, but other survivors as well.
After the Millennium is a new documentary focused on Chris Carter’s landmark television series Millennium. This all new and much extended cut of the original 2019 documentary looks back at what makes Millennium so enduring to fans and critics alike.
AKIRA, the crown jewel of anime and science fiction, returns with remastered 4K visuals and remixed audio. In the future, Shotaro Kaneda and his motorcycle gang tear through Neo Tokyo, a city divided by growing tensions. But when caught in an accident, Kaneda’s friend Tetsuo Shima discovers a secret government project and receives psychic abilities beyond his control.
In Golden Harvest’s first production, a young swordswoman journeys across rival sects to win a rare healing herb and save her poisoned father in this early Hong Kong wuxia. Angela Mao, Kang Chin, Sammo Hung, Huang Feng, 1971.
A milestone in Hong Kong film history – the very first film produced by the legendary Golden Harvest studios, for whom Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan made their best films. Kung Fu Queen Angela Mao (Invincible Eight) plays a woman searching for a way to cure her injured father – but the people who wounded him are still at large and she’s a target too.
For his follow-up to THE HUNTERS OF THE GOLDEN COBRA, director Antonio Margheriti puts a Bondian spin on Indiana Jonesploitation for an Italian/Turkish co-production of “undeniably great fun” (The EOFFTV Review). David Warbeck (THE BEYOND) stars as a master burglar recruited by a wealthy collector (John Steiner of TENEBRE) to raid a mountaintop temple and steal the mythical Scepter of Gilgamesh.
In this found footage horror, a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead. Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, John Erick Dowdle, 2014.
A father and son, both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the body of a young woman, who was apparently harboring dark secrets. André Øvredal (2016)
Badlands announced the arrival of a major talent: Terrence Malick. His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial-killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance, lovingly and idiosyncratically enacted by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. The film also introduced many of the elements that would earn Malick his passionate following: the enigmatic approach to narrative and character, the unusual use of voice-over, the juxtaposition of human violence with natural beauty, the poetic investigation of American dreams and nightmares. This debut has spawned countless imitations, but none have equalled its strange sublimity.
Russ Meyer meets Taratino in this action film about three bad girls who travel to a remote desert hideaway to steal $200 million in diamonds from a ruthless underworld kingpin. Erin Cummings, Julia Voth, America Olivo, Rick Jacobson, 2009.
After The Man kills his brother and poisons the neighborhood with tainted liquor, a kung fu fighter (Michael Jai White) wages a war that takes him all the way to Nixon’s White House.
Joel and Ethan Coen began their long career with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled noir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner sets off a torrent of violence with one murderous thought. M. Emmet Walsh, Frances McDormand.
Roy Scheider stars as a courageous police officer pilot battling government fanatics planning to misuse an experimental attack helicopter. Warren Oates, Candy Clark, John Badham, 1983.
This tale of airborne surveillance and institutional overreach became a defining genre snapshot of Reagan-era anxiety, shot through with Hollywood muscle and a prescient distrust of unchecked technology.
With his debut feature, acclaimed writer-director Lawrence Kasdan brilliantly updated the conventions of 1940s film noir for the 1980s, resulting in one of the steamiest and most influential erotic thrillers ever made. On the sultry South Florida coast, lawyer Ned Racine (William Hurt) is drawn into a torrid affair with unhappily married housewife Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner, in a star-making performance)—and it’s not long before they’ve hatched a scheme to murder her wealthy husband. Featuring ingenious plot twists, memorable hard-boiled dialogue, and an atmosphere so evocative you can practically feel the humidity, Body Heat is a languorously seductive tale of greed and desire, one that paved a new path for American crime cinema.
Acclaimed animator Miyazaki’s animated fantasy about a young boy who encounters a magical world and surreal characters while struggling with the grief of the death of his mother. Luca Padovan, Gemma Chan.
Settling in for some time off in his suburban home, Ray Peterson’s vacation becomes a horror when the Klopeks, a suspiciously odd family, move in down the block. Enlisting the aid of his paranoid buddy, Art, and his militia-man neighbor, Rumsfield, Ray sends his son and wife away on a trip while he investigates the Klopeks. When a neighbor disappears, Ray and his cohorts risk their lives to save their cul-de-sac from the clutches of evil.
Controversial Russian film in a style akin to the films of Gaspar Noe and Michael Haneke. Described as a “grim epitaph for the death of the former Soviet Union”. Alexey Balabanov, 2007.
A trans woman drifting through punk shows, toxic friendships, and online alienation spirals toward self-destruction in this raw underground drama of DIY queer life. Aoife Josie Clements, Michaela “Traps” Sinclair, Louise Weard, 2024.
In this erotic remake of the 1942 classic, a young woman’s sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.
A cat from space centers this batshit crazy flicm from the director of Story Of Riki. Nuff Said…
Real-life convict and bestselling author of “How To Shoot Friends and Influence People,” Mark “Chopper” Read dreams of making a name for himself as a legendary crime figure in this frightening, savagely funny true story. The son of a devoutly religious mother and a one-time soldier with a fondness for sleeping alongside a loaded gun, Chopper starts out as a wisecracking criminal failure, inside a maximum-security prison, but he manages to twist his life into celebrity.
Ralph Bakshi’s (Fritz the Cat) infamous indictment of blaxploitation films, negative black stereotypes and the plight of blacks in America circa 1975. Barry White, Scatman Crothers.
Lavish French retelling of the oft told story of a betrayed nobleman who escapes imprisonment, masters combat, and seeks revenge on those who destroyed his life. Pierre Niney, Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte, 2024.
David Cronenberg’s icily erotic fusion of flesh and machine about the kinky, death-obsessed underworld of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists for whom twisted metal and scar tissue are the ultimate turn-ons. Rosanna Arquette, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas.
Double feature of soft-core doomsday action fever-dreams: CRIES OF ECSTACY, BLOWS OF DEATH (Antony Weber 1973), INVASION OF THE LOVE DRONES (Jerome Hamlin (1977)
CRIES OF ECSTACY, BLOWS OF DEATH (Antony Weber 1973)
Year 2062, the land is barren, post-apocalyptic vision of hell on earth. Environmental pollution, human callousness and evil. Marauding gangs of motorcyclists, violence and rape.
STARS: Sandy Carey, Michael Abbott, John Martin
INVASION OF THE LOVE DRONES (Jerome Hamlin (1977)
An absurd, ambitious and ultra-stylish sci-fi romp in which Eric Edwards is enlisted by aliens to deflect a nuclear-tipped rocket from their mother ship…by causing a planetary orgasm.
Stars: Eric Edwards, Joann Sterling, Arlana Blue
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 chilling story of identical twin gynecologists who share the same practice, same apartment and the same women. When a new patient challenges their eerie bond, they descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs and madness. Jeremy Irons.
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!
From the minds of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava comes the horrific Heavy Metal splatter film classic, DEMONS! Presented in a stunning new high-definition transfer and re-mastered audio!
From the minds of Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava comes DEMONS 2, the sequel to the surprise horror hit, DEMONS! 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, a demonic evil is released through her TV and partygoers soon find themselves fighting an army of murderous monsters!
In this French gothic horror retelling, Count Dracula brings seduction and death to Europe as his ancient curse ensnares those who attempt to destroy him. Caleb Landry Jones, Christoph Waltz, Matilda De Angelis, Luc Besson, 2025.
Elizabeth’s life is in shambles. Her husband has just dumped her for another woman, her car has been stolen which causes her to arrive late for work only to get fired, and her overbearing mother has convinced her to move back home. One night when she can’t sleep, Elizabeth happens upon the small box which housed her childhood imaginary friend, Drop Dead Fred, who used to cause all kinds of mischief. But, when Elizabeth opens the box causing Fred to reappear, she is drawn into a raucous series of new, highly destructive, and hilarious adventures.
Goofy pop-fantasy musical about a frisky extraterrestrial and the Valley Girls he loves. Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Julie Brown, Charles Rocket, Julien Temple, 1988.
Twenty-four hours in the lives of the young employees at Empire Records when they all grow up and become young adults thanks to each other and the manager.
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
When former gangster Johnnie Wo returns to raise a family on his old boss’s territory, four assassins are sent by the boss to despatch him. However, all four are Wo’s childhood friends, and their loyalty to him, though tested, is strong. Yet if they side with him, all five will be in danger.
At a high school in small-town Ohio, a few students, including an introverted photographer and a charismatic drug dealer, begin to suspect their teachers are under the control of mind-controlling alien parasites. Outnumbered and endangered, they must fight to save their school, their town, and the world.
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.
In this German animated feature, a combination feline detective story, Gothic mystery and occult horror, follows a cat detective and his grizzled, one-eyed companion as they unravel killings stretching back decades. Michael Schaack, 1994.
Starring the iconic and beautiful Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Stray Cat Rock) in a role that came to define her career, the four-film Female Prisoner Scorpion series charts the vengeance of Nami Matsushima, who assumes the mantle of “Scorpion,” becoming an avatar of vengeance and survival, and an unlikely symbol of female resistance in a male-dominated world.
The time is now. The place is aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz, America’s mightiest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on maneuvers in the Pacific Ocean. Suddenly, a freak electrical storm engulfs the ship and triggers the impossible: The Nimitz is hurtled back in time to December 6, 1941, mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
In the dying days of World War II, a battalion of Russian soldiers find themselves lost in enemy territory. Stumbling upon a village decimated by an unseen terror, they’re lured into the secret lab of a deranged scientist (Hellboy’s Karel Roden) and forced to face off against his army of horrific flesh-and-metal war machines. Leaderless and faced with dissention amongst their dwindling ranks, the Russians must find the courage to face down this terrifying new menace – or die trying. A nightmarish fantasy thrill ride unlike any other, Richard Raaphorst’s FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY is a delirious plunge into the darkest depths of insanity.
German horror, Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic “games” with one another for their own amusement. Michael Haneke (1997)
A Japanese sci-fi action film sends a modern Self-Defense Force unit back to the Sengoku era, where tanks and rifles collide with samurai warfare and feudal ambition. Sonny Chiba, Tsunehiko Watase, Raita Ryū, Kōsei Saitō, 1979.
Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer star in this tense, terrific and true adventure set in1896 East Africa. There, two lions on a man-eating rampage have shut down the construction of a railway. The beasts hunt together, showing no fear of man or fire. What’s more, they’re killing for sport rather than for food – and they have an almost supernatural knack for knowing what traps await them. Big-game hunter Remington (Douglas) and construction engineer Patterson (Kilmer) set out to stop these unstoppable monsters. But, in this astonishing tale of man against beast, the hunters become the hunted.
All three Ginger Snaps together on Blu Ray!
Three girls: Susanne (Charlotte Wailer), Annie (Zoé Chauveau) and Catherine (Anne Parillaud) have just finished high school, meet every night in discos and cinemas to meet boys. Susanne younger sister Betty (Isabelle Mejias) often joins them and copies their behavior, and believes everything they say. Soon she ends up with projectionist George – although she doesn’t take the pill yet.
A loyal dog and his owner move into a long‑abandoned rural home, where the dog’s uncanny instincts lead him to confront unseen supernatural forces threatening his beloved companion. Indy, Shane Jensen, Larry Fessenden, Arielle Friedman, Ben Leonberg, 2025
Claiming to be from the future, a man takes hostages at a Los Angeles diner to recruit unlikely heroes to help him save the world.
A mysterious and wealthy woman hires a lonely nurse named Clara to be the nanny of her soon-to-be born child. When a full moon brings about the birth of a werewolf, Clara makes it her mission to care for the monstrosity and protect it from others.
In this classic feature length anime, an orphaned siblings struggle to survive in war-torn Japan in a harrowing animated tale of loss and love. Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi, Isao Takahata, 1988.
In this collection two thought-lost-forever features: THE DEGENERATES and the 1968 underground psychodrama KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME! PLUS documentary THE DEGENERATE: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN, COMPASS ROSE, HOUSE OF SEVEN BELLES.
In this collection of Worldwide Disc Premieres, Severin Films presents two thought-lost-forever features: 1967’s post-nuke nihilism THE DEGENERATES and the 1968 underground psychodrama KISS ME, KISS ME, KISS ME! Also included is the acclaimed 2025 documentary THE DEGENERATE: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN, the early Milligan project COMPASS ROSE and 1979’s rarely seen HOUSE OF SEVEN BELLES.
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
The Last Blood (1990), marketed as Hard Boiled II in some regions, is a Wong Jing-directed action-thriller. It follows Interpol agent Lui Tai (Alan Tam) protecting the Dalai Lama from a Japanese terrorist group led by Kamakura. When the Dalai Lama and a triad leader’s girlfriend (Andy Lau’s love interest) are injured, they need a rare blood type (type “P”) from a donor, leading to a desperate 12-hour race against terrorists to save their lives.
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.
Scientific experiments backfire and produce horrific mutations: half man, half fish, which terrorize a small fishing village by killing the men and raping the women. Doug McClure, Ann Turkel, Vic Morrow, 1980.
From the director / star of the Lake Michigan Monster, a live action Looney Tunes meets Guy Maddin story of a drunken applejack salesman who must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
For the first film in his Indiana Jonesploitation Trilogy, Italian maestro Antonio Margheriti delivers “full-throttle action” (The Gentlemen’s Blog to Midnite Cinema) starring David Warbeck (THE BEYOND) and John Steiner (NIGHT OF THE SHARKS) as a pair of adventurers blasting their way through deadly traps, double-crosses and daring escapes in search of a supernatural relic called The Golden Cobra.
Teenager Owen (Justice Smith) is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate (Brigette Lundy-Payne) introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
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.
Eight warriors seek vengeance against the general who killed their fathers in this classic Hong Kong swordplay epic featuring high-octane action and intricate choreography. Nora Miao, Angela Mao, Sammo Hung, Lo Wei, 1971.
Before he helped Bruce Lee unleash his Fists of Fury, director Lo Wei established himself as a master of action with swordplay classics like this story of family and vengeance; eight warriors – amongst them Nora Miao (The Way of the Dragon) and Angela Mao (The Angry River) – ride out for revenge against the cruel general who killed all their fathers.
The film introduces us to Alex (Will Arnett), a middle-aged man facing an impending divorce and seeking to reinvent himself in the world of New York stand-up comedy. Meanwhile, Tess (Laura Dern) grapples with the sacrifices she has made for her family and the challenge of redefining her identity amidst co-parenting.
Set in Stephen King’s universe, this American horror series traces earlier cycles of terror in Derry, Maine, where a shape-shifting evil feeds on the town’s children. Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, Andy Muschietti, 2025
Christopher Connelly (RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS) stars as a cynical safari guide who leads gullible millionaires on bogus treasure hunts in Malaysia. But when a crafty U.S. government operative (legendary Lee Van Cleef) blackmails him into finding the mythic Ruby of Gloom, they’ll battle death cults, double-crosses, unstable volcanoes and exploding refineries to snatch the jewel from maniacal pirates.
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.
One of the classics of Hong Kong cinema! A maverick hitman is double-crossed after a drug kingpin assassination, forcing a disaffected cop and the killer into a violent, emotionally charged game of vengeance in Hong Kong. Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee, Sally Ye
. It stars Lee Young-ae as Lee Geum-ja, a woman released from prison after serving the sentence for a murder she did not commit. The film tells her story of revenge against the real murderer.
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.
“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.
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie, follows Thomas Jerome Newton, a humanoid alien who lands in New Mexico seeking to transport water to his drought-stricken home planet. Utilizing advanced technology, he creates a corporate empire but is corrupted by human vices, love, and government interference, ultimately becoming trapped on Earth.
Sam Elliott stars as a former US spy who killed Hitler and now must take on Bigfoot in order to prevent it from spreading a deathly plague. Seriously that’s the plot. Aidan Turner, Robert D. Krzykowski, 2018.
Mars Attacks! (1996) is a satirical sci-fi comedy directed by Tim Burton, following a chaotic Earth invasion by sadistic Martians.
In the 1986 Pedro Almodóvar film Matador, Antonio Banderas plays Ángel, a shy, repressed bullfighting student who suffers from vertigo and visions of murder. He attempts to rape his teacher’s girlfriend to prove his masculinity, fails, and then falsely confesses to a series of murders committed by his mentor, Diego Montes (a retired bullfighter obsessed with death) and a lawyer named María.
The plot follows a group of people in the small town of Bridgton, Maine, who become trapped inside a supermarket after a mysterious mist envelops the town, concealing deadly, Lovecraftian creatures.
You really are what you eat with Farmer Vincent’s smoked meat in this creepy horror yarn that packs a punch and goes way beyond mere terror! Vincent’s popular products contain a special ingredient, and when his secret is threatened, he and his psychotic sister will literally kill to keep it from getting out.
Whole lotta Muppets!
The Holy Trilogy!
Gritty modern Noir about an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case of a murdered cop. Jason Patric, Ray Liotta, Joe Carnahan, 2002.
Starring George C. Scott, an idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran, but he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life. Richard Fleischer (1972)
A psychic medium attempts to uncover the truth behind her sister’s murder at the site of the crime. Carolyn Bracken, Johnny French, Steve Wall, Damian Mc Carthy, 2024.
The Unholy Trilogy…
Robin Williams delivers his “finest hour” (USA Today) in “one of the eeriest, most absorbing, effective thrillers in years” (NBC-TV). Sy “the photo guy” Parrish (Williams) has lovingly, painstakingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as Yorkins’ lives become fuller, Sy’s only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he’s part of their family. When “Uncle Sy’s” picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, what happens next “has the spine-tingling elements of the best psychological crime thrillers!” (The New York Observer)
Palmer Rockey’s legendary lost magnum opus navigates Satanic conspiracies, occult rituals, and twin brothers in a deliriously chaotic outsider epic spanning decades of self-mythology. Palmer Rockey, Dr. Ron DiSalvo, Jello Biafra, 1970s–1980s
Do-it-all auteur Palmer Rockey wrote, produced, directed, and starred in this legendary lost magnum opus, shot in Dallas and originally titled IT HAPPENED ONE WEEKEND. Rockey plays twin brothers tangled up in a story of Satanic skullduggery and strange occult rituals on a country estate. After the film was laughed off the screen at its ill-fated 1974 premiere, Rockey spent decades re-working it.
Perfect Blue (1997) is a psychological thriller directed by Satoshi Kon that follows Mima Kirigoe, a pop idol who quits singing to pursue an acting career. As she leaves her clean-cut image behind, she is stalked by an obsessed fan while experiencing a terrifying breakdown of reality, identity, and mental health, often questioning if she is living in a nightmare
A loving snapshot of a vanished New York, director Ira Sachs’s captivating cultural time capsule is a warm, witty, graceful re-creation of a real-life conversation that took place between photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) and writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) in 1974. Peter Hujar’s Day eavesdrops on the two friends’ leisurely, affectionate hangout as Hujar recounts his previous day’s activities, offering insights into both his art and his everyday life. What emerges is a touching celebration of creativity, connection, and simply being present, made exceptionally vivid by Sachs’s cinematic flourishes and wonderfully tender performances from Whishaw and Hall, whose chemistry gives the film its heart and soul.
Avalon Bay, 1945: On the night of her graduation dance, young Rosemary and her date are brutally murdered by a prowler thought to be a jilted soldier home from the war. The killer was never found. Thirty years later, the dance is held again for the first time since that horrific evening – but something else may have also returned…
Queen of the Damned (2002) follows vampire Lestat (Stuart Townsend) as he wakes from a long slumber and becomes a gothic rock star, revealing vampires to the world. His music awakens Akasha (Aaliyah), the ancient Queen of all vampires, who desires to make him her King. Together they face an alliance of ancient vampires.
A quintessential piece of early 80’s trash newly restored from the original camera negative and on blu-ray for the first time! Just look at the cover! Cameron Mitchell and Vic Diaz star!
In the 1979 miniseries Salem’s Lot, author Ben Mears returns to his hometown to write about the sinister Marsten House, only to discover it has been purchased by Kurt Barlow, a vampire turning residents into undead slaves. Ben, alongside young Mark Petrie, battles to save the town as people die or turn, culminating in a fiery showdown where they stake Barlow
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s notorious final film, Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom, has been called nauseating, shocking, depraved, pornographic . . . It’s also a masterpiece. The controversial poet, novelist, and filmmaker’s transposition of the Marquis de Sade’s eighteenth-century opus of torture and degradation to Fascist Italy in 1944 remains one of the most passionately debated films of all time, a thought-provoking inquiry into the political, social, and sexual dynamics that define the world we live in.
Cult classic action comedy following a sexually insatiable cop with the skills of a samurai, including fluent Japanese. He’ll need it to stop a renegade Yakuza gang who want to lead the drug trade in Los Angeles. Amir Shervan (1991)
A woman and her overbearing boss become stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash. They must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it’s a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their Mississippi hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Welcome to the special edition Blu-ray of… SNOWY BING BONGS ACROSS THE NORTH STAR COMBAT ZONE. This blissfully bonkers whatzit from unclassifiable dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team – Sunita Mani (GLOW, MR. ROBOT), Tallie Medel (EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE), and Eleanore Pienta (A DIFFERENT MAN) – is part psychotropic performance art spectacle, part absurdist sketch show. The three Bing Bongs lounge about, fight beachballs, and periodically break into wondrously strange dance routines, with outer space interludes, a serious consideration of doctor boners, and a 90s-style girl group meltdown along the way. It all plays like a live action cartoon piped in from a cotton-candy-colored alternate universe. Produced by the Academy Award-winning Daniels (EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE). Featuring Kate Berlant (WOULD IT KILL YOU TO LAUGH?), Joe Pera (JOE PERA TALKS WITH YOU), Keith Poulson (I BLAME SOCIETY), and Reggie Watts (COMEDY BANG BANG).
On a quiet Halloween night, friends Mac, Dean, Amanda, and Skyler find their festive plans derailed by the arrival of a terrifying alien rodent. As chaos unfolds, they face deadly attacks, absurd missteps, and moments of hilarity while trying to survive the night. Combining humor, suspense, and quirky characters, this thrilling adventure pits unlikely heroes against an extraterrestrial menace.
The Straight Story (1999) is a G-rated, biographical road movie directed by David Lynch based on the true story of Alvin Straight, a 73-year-old Iowa man who rides a 30-year-old John Deere lawnmower 240 miles to Wisconsin to reconcile with his estranged, ailing brother, Lyle. The film is a quiet, heartwarming, and slow-paced journey focusing on humanity, forgiveness, and the kindness of strangers.
An erotic novelist’s assistant tries to uncover the truth behind her latest story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse.
International superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in the tension-packed, suspense thriller Sudden Death. When Darren McCord’s (Van Damme) daughter is suddenly taken hostage during a championship hockey game with a billion dollar ransom, he must frantically create a plan to rescue her and abort an impending explosion before the final buzzer. Loaded with must-see special effects and stunts, it’s a wild ride against time.
Burt Lancaster (FROM HERE TO ETERNITY) stars as Ned Merrill, a man who confronts his destiny by swimming home, pool by pool, through the suburban nightmare of upper class East coast society. Based on the acclaimed short-story by John Cheever, and directed by Frank Perry (DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE), THE SWIMMER is film like no other, a feature-length TWILIGHT ZONE episode by way of THE NEW YORKER.
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.
Tanya (Vanity), and her lover, Lobo escape to the solitude and tranquility of a deserted tropical island. Soon, Tanya begins to explore her new found paradise. During one trip into the jungle, she discovers and eventually befriends a gorilla-like creature. A vicious rivalry develops between Lobo and the creature, “Blue.” Lobo now takes on animal characteristics. He takes Tanya prisoner and begins a campaign to kill Blue. Meanwhile, the beast, who has observed Tanya and Lobo at work, play and lovemaking, now begins to develop human traits – and needs! Tanya is caught in a fierce battle between man and beast for total possession of a beautiful woman.
When a downtrodden janitor, Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage), is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident, he’s transformed into a new kind of hero: The Toxic Avenger. Now, Toxie must rise from outcast to savior, taking on ruthless corporate overlords and corrupt forces who threaten his son, his friends, and his community. In a world where greed runs rampant… justice is best served radioactive.
In The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022), a fictionalized, cash-strapped Nicolas Cage accepts a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a dangerous super-fan, Javi Gutiérrez (Pedro Pascal). CIA agents recruit Cage to spy on Javi, who they believe is an arms dealer, forcing Cage to channel his iconic roles to save himself and his family.
On a Macao beach, kids discover the severed hands of a fresh victim. A squadron of cops investigate, and suspicion falls on Wong Chi Hang, the new owner of Eight Immortals Restaurant. The hands belong to the missing mother of the restaurant’s former owner; he and his family have disappeared; The police arrest Wong and try to torture him into a confession.
Four young college girls battle vampires and several other supernatural forces when they pledge a strange sorority, stumbling into a hallucinatory mix of butt-biting bloodsuckers, unexplained time jumps, and increasingly ridiculous metaphysical situations in a live-action cartoon funhouse. Incudes bonus feature film <b>I Know What You Did In English Class</b> (2000).
Includes: Fall of the House of Usher (1960) / The Haunted Palace (1963) / The Masque of the Red Death (1964) / Witchfinder General (1968) / The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) / The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971).
Master of the World (1961): In 1848, a fanatical inventor seeks to fly around the world and stop war from his flying airship…a cross between a zeppelin and a helicopter. Adapted from two Jules Verne novels. Tower of London (1962): The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.
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)
Wer (2013) is a horror thriller following defense attorney Kate Moore as she represents Talan Gwynek, a man accused of brutally murdering an American family in France. While Talan initially appears to suffer from a physical ailment, he is revealed to be a werewolf.
Three decades after it first shattered audiences worldwide, Severin presents the animated classic about an elderly couple – voiced by Academy Award® winners Sir John Mills and Dame Peggy Ashcroft – attempting to survive the aftermath of a nuclear war. Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, adapted by Raymond Briggs’s acclaimed graphic novel, and featuring an original score with title song by David Bowie.
When a young girl mysteriously vanishes, Police Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But the seemingly quiet community is not as it appears, as the detective uncovers a secretive pagan society led by the strange Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee). While the townsfolk tempt and threaten him with bizarre rituals and wanton lust, Howie must race to discover the truth behind the girl’s disappearance before his clash with Lord Summerisle builds to a terrifying conclusion – one that has cemented this cult shocker as a modern horror masterpiece.
The original 1983 hip hop spectacular is reissued with new bonus extras. Grand Master Flash, The Chief Rocker Busy Bee, The Cold Crush and the Rock Steady Crew. Charlie Ahearn, 1983.
In early 1980s New York City, independent filmmaker Charlie Ahearn and downtown artist Fred Brathwaite ventured uptown with the aim of capturing an exciting new underground scene that was happening in the South Bronx, a scene that featured graffiti artists, breakdancing b-boys and two turntables and a microphone.
And there we go guys. Movies should be here Thursday/ Friday. Cheers!
