Another week is upon us and the video store is gearing up for some more exciting flicks to come crashing into the shop so let us take a look at this week’s batch. Cheers!
Still one of the best selling Triple packs in the shop and why not…KUBRICK!
The complete set of OG Addams Family!
Speaking of badass Triple Features!
A high-octane roller coaster action extravaganza set in a dystopian future, the world is ruled by a psychotic dictator and it is up to a tough jungle orphan trained by a shaman to topple her. Bill Skarsgård, Famke Janssen, Jessica Rothe, Moritz Mohr, 2023
Back In Stock! In this drama based on a true story, there’s no one tougher or more brutal in the English penal system than prisoner Michael Peterson, aka Charles Bronson (Tom Hardy). First incarcerated after robbing a jewelry store, the married Bronson is sentenced to seven years. But his incorrigible, savage behavior quickly gets him in trouble with guards, fellow inmates and even a dog. The only place where Bronson can’t do any harm is in solitary confinement, where he spends most of his time.
A NASA Mars mission won’t work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. But then they have to keep the secret… Hal Holbrook, O.J. Simpson, James Brolin, Sam Waterston, Elliott Gould, Peter Hyams, 1977.
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The peaceful tranquility of a small Western town is disturbed when a murderous car wreaks havoc by viciously mowing down innocent victims. Sheriff James Brolin may be the only one who can stop this menace.
back In Stock! When a sentient robot goes on a killing spree, some teens fight for their lives while the robot’s mad scientist creators try to stop the slaughter.
back In Stock! Six blackmail victims are invited to an isolated mansion by a man who knows a dark secret from each of their pasts. On arrival, each is given a pseudonym drawn from Cluedo before being introduced to the blackmailer. Each is handed a weapon, at which point the lights are switched off and the blackmailer is killed. Can the guests uncover the murderer before they all become victims?
Brazilian horror icon Coffin Joe’s unholy quest to find the perfect bride. Director: José Mojica Marins. AT MIDNIGHT I’LL TAKE YOUR SOUL (1964), THIS NIGHT I’LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE (1967), EMBODIMENT OF EVIL (2008)
Back In Stock. Influential cult classics rampant with inventive violence and spectacularly choreographed swordplay about 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.
Tunisian horror inspired by true events, an investigation into witchcraft leads a trio of journalism students to a mysterious town marked by sinister rituals. Abdelhamid Bouchnak, 2018.
In 1985, a tragic car accident caused by a drunken John Eisentempler results in the death of an innocent man. The victim’s son, Stefan Bandera, deeply affected by his father’s violent demise and its impact on his family, vows to exact revenge. Believing anyone associated with the Eisentempler family shares responsibility for his father’s murder, Stefan embarks on a path of bloody retribution.
Massacre Video presents DAS KOMABRUTALE DUELL, the film that pioneered the “party splatter” genre as dubbed by its director, German filmmaker Heiko Fipper (OSTERMONTAG). Known for its extreme violence and gore, and having been banned in Germany, this ground breaking movie is now available on Blu-ray, completely uncut and uncensored. This release showcases the film’s raw intensity and relentless brutality, offering viewers an unparalleled experience of the first-ever “party splatter” film in all its gory glory.
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When a woman learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival but things don’t go as planned. Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Robert Zemeckis, 1992.
Back In Stock. 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.
Back In Stock…Two fallen angels who were ejected from paradise find themselves banned in Wisconsin. They are now headed for New Jersey where they find a loophole that can get them back into heaven. The only catch is that it will destroy humanity. A group bands together to stop them.
Back In Stock…Broadly comic Mel Brooks parody of the classic vampire story and its famous film adaptations. Leslie Nielsen, Harvey Korman, Chuck McCann, 1995.
Back In Stock…When the Event Horizon, a spacecraft that vanished years earlier, suddenly reappears, a team is dispatched to investigate the ship. Accompanied by the Event Horizon’s creator, William Weir (Sam Neill), the crew of the Lewis and Clark, led by Capt. Miller (Laurence Fishburne), begins to explore the seemingly abandoned vessel. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors, and that the horrors that befell the Event Horizon’s previous journey are still present.
Documentary account of a Canadian rock festival train tour featuring some of the greats of the Rock N’ Roll history. The Band, Grateful Dead, Flying Burrito Brothers, Buddy Guy, Ian & Sylvia, Janis Joplin, Sha Na Na. 2003.
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Starring Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, a mobster travels to Hollywood to collect a debt, and discovers that the movie business is much the same as his current job. Barry Sonnenfeld (1995)
The Spengler family returns to the iconic New York City firehouse where the original Ghostbusters have taken ghost-busting to the next level. When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must unite to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age.
The BBC gives over a whole evening to an ‘investigation into the supernatural’. Four respected presenters and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind ‘The most haunted house in Britain’, expecting a light-hearted scare or two and probably the uncovering of a hoax.
Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieues on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—white, black, and Arab—give human faces to France’s immigrant and otherwise marginalized populations, their resentment at their situation simmering until it reaches a boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis.
Picking up exactly where the first film left off, Halloween II follows the same ill-fated characters as they encounter the knife-wielding maniac they left for dead in the first film. The inhuman Michael Myers is still very much alive and out for more revenge as he stalks the deserted halls of the Haddonfield hospital. As he gets closer to his main target, Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) discovers the chilling mystery behind the crazed psychopath’s actions. Written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, Halloween II is a spine-tingling dark ride into the scariest night of the year.
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What would happen if Canadian proto slasher Black Christmas was made in 1983 instead of 1974? This movie! A rare 80s slasher with a female focus from Brian DePalma protegé Mark Rosman.
Hulk Hogan triple pack to display his stellar acting range!
Back In Stock. Starring Christopher Lambert, a New Yorker on business in Nagoya sees a woman killed by ninja’s, but new samurai friends help, hide and train him. J.F. Lawton (1995)
An American nun embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home harbours a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.
back In Stock! The perfect trilogy and something about a crystal skull.
The four pack of Mr. Wick and a bunch of guns
back In Stock…80’s sword & sorcery film about an evil bishop and a ragtag group who seek to depose him. Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Donner, 1985.
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In the classic 1999 horror film, an investigative team led by Sheriff Hank Keough (Brendan Gleeson), armed to the teeth with state-of-the-art equipment, high-powered weaponry and a biting sense of sarcasm, must work together to defeat Black Lake’s most ferocious resident: a 30-foot prehistoric crocodile!
The Last Temptation of Christ, by Martin Scorsese, is a towering achievement. Though it initially engendered enormous controversy, the film can now be viewed as the remarkable, profoundly personal work of faith that it is. This fifteen-year labor of love, an adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s landmark novel that imagines an alternate fate for Jesus Christ, features outstanding performances by Willem Dafoe, Barbara Hershey, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, and David Bowie; bold cinematography by the great Michael Ballhaus; and a transcendent score by Peter Gabriel.
Back In Stock. Meek flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) pines for co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene). During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of business for the previously struggling store. After Seymour feeds Audrey’s boyfriend, Orin (Steve Martin), to the plant after Orin’s accidental death, he must come up with more bodies for the increasingly bloodthirsty plant.
Three emotionally abused individuals from the fringes of society get locked in a convoluted love triangle. Takahiro Nishijima, Sion Sono (Suicide Club), 2008.
Ami loses her brother to yakuza bullies then her arm when she seeks retribution. Two mechanics take pity on her and create a new limb out of a machine gun allowing her and a chain-saw wielding woman to seek out their revenge.
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben (Benoît Poelvoorde) are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.
Oscar® nominee Dev Patel (Lion, Slumdog Millionaire) achieves an astonishing, tour-de-force feature directing debut with an action thriller about one man’s quest for vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systemically victimize the poor and powerless.
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, an icon embodying strength and courage, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash.
Doug Kinney (Michael Keaton) is a busy construction worker struggling to make time for his family and his demanding job. When a scientist offers to clone him, Doug accepts and spawns a slightly more macho version of himself. He decides to create a second clone, but this sparks a series of duplications when his second clone begins to feel overwhelmed. Doug attempts to manage his many clones while trying to keep his wife (Andie MacDowell) in the dark.
Holland March (Ryan Gosling) is a down-on-his-luck private eye in 1977 Los Angeles. Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) is a hired enforcer who hurts people for a living. Fate turns them into unlikely partners after a young woman named Amelia (Margaret Qualley) mysteriously disappears. Healy and March soon learn the hard way that some dangerous people are also looking for Amelia. Their investigation takes them to dark places as anyone else who gets involved in the case seems to wind up dead.
Back In Stock…Fun cult film about a pair of Valley Girls who survive the apocalypse and must defend themselves against zombies while they go shopping. Mary Woronov, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, Kelli Maroney, 1984.
Zany ’80s comedy double feature. Richard Lewis, Richard Belzer, Louis Anderson, Andrew Dice Clay…
Back In Stock…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. Craig Sheffer, David Cronenberg, Clive Barker.
They creep. They kill… and no one knows who they are or where they came from. But when these rootless, demonic spirits descend on a determined doctor, all hell breaks loose. Bitten by a dying madman named Jean Pommier (Brosnan), Dr. Eileen Flax (Down) becomes the vessel for his turbulent and insane thoughts. Thrust into his last days, she is shocked to discover the existence of mysterious and murderous demons on a quest for destruction… and begins her own quest to somehow stop them before she joins Pommier in his horrifying fate.
Back In STock…German New Wave pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard. Paris, Texas follows the efforts of the mysterious, nearly mute drifter Travis (a magnificent Harry Dean Stanton, whose face is a landscape of its own) to reconnect with his young son, living with his brother (Dean Stockwell) in Los Angeles, and his missing wife (Nastassja Kinski). From this simple setup, Wenders and Shepard produce a powerful statement on codes of masculinity and the myth of the American family, as well as an exquisite visual exploration of a vast, crumbling world of canyons and neon.
back In Stock…A young Japanese singer is encouraged by her agent to quit singing and pursue an acting career, beginning with a role in a murder mystery TV show.
Extremely sexually explicit film about a young woman who eeks out an existence as a cam girl to support her drug habit. William Margold, Sheena Rose, Chad Alva, 2018
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 cyborg girl & her sister run amuck with heavy weaponry in this over-the-top Japanese splatter film. Yûki Kobayashi, 2019.
In the distant future, two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent 8-ft robot—which later takes a murderous mind of its own.
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)
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death (Bengt Ekerot) to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof (Nils Poppe) and his wife, Mia (Bibi Andersson), and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
A mysterious creature terrorizes five teenage friends after their bus takes a shortcut on a desolate road in the wild.
Rock + magic + stunts = the stuntsploitation classic and the hottest blu-ray release of the year – STUNT ROCK! From cult director Brian Trenchard-Smith (Escape 2000).
Ex-fireman Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) has a new job working security at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. Hoping to impress his kids, he’s scored tickets to the Stanley Cup Finals, unaware that the place has been taken over by a group of terrorists. Ex-CIA agent Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe) is holding the vice president hostage in a press box and plans to blow up the building if he doesn’t pay the ransom. But, when Darren learns of his scheme, he jumps into action to save the day.
Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.
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A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war. Issa López, 2017.
Based on Lloyd Kaufman’s cult 1984 schlock-horror film, this musical tells the story of the citizens of Tromaville, desperate for a hero to clean up their toxic waste problem. Enter Melvin Ferd the Third, an aspiring earth scientist. But when the Mayor and her goons get wind of his plans, Melvin is tossed into a vat of waste transforming him into The Toxic Avenger, New Jersey’s first superhero!
Newly restoration of the 1902 hand-colored edition featuring new scores from composer/DJ Jeff Mills, musical group Dorian Pimpernel, and an improvised piano track by Serge Bromberg with optional narration written by Georges Méliès.
Back In Stock! All 3 Seasons of the cult classic series!
V/H/S/94: After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police swat team launch a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.
V/H/S/99 harkens back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium. In V/H/S/99, a teenager’s home video leads to a series of horrifying revelation
2 students hope to win over a fraternity by delivering them a stripper for the night, only to realise that their choice of dancer is a vampire… Chris Makepeace, Grace Jones, Dedee Pfeiffer, 1986.
And there we go guys. This week’s arrivals. Hope to see ya down at the old video store. Cheers!
