Well it’s Monday so time to let you know what is coming in on Thursday. Hope some of these titles make ya smile! Cheers…
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Takashi Miike’s excellent, and exceedingly violent, remake of 1966 Japanese classic about a group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord. Koji Yakusho, 2010.
In the near future, aliens have invaded Earth and declared a galactic war resulting in thousands of human casualties. To save Earth, a team of four teenage astronauts brave the alien wilderness of a distant planet to stop an assassin from changing the course of history forever.
BATTLE KAIJU SERIES 03: ULTRAMAN VS GOMORA brings together 16 episodes and one feature film highlighting the most epic showdowns between the two gargantuan intergalactic rivals.
Beloved cult film featuring Chris Farley as a clumsy fat martial artist attempting to rescue a woman. Nicollette Sheridan, Nathaniel Parker, Dennis Dugan, 1997.
U.S. soldier Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial-arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL. After enduring a difficult training and beginning a romance with journalist Janice Kent (Leah Ayres), Frank is given the opportunity to fight. But can he survive?
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Meet Elmer. He’s your friendly neighborhood parasite with the ability to induce euphoric hallucinations in his hosts. But these LSD-like trips come with a hefty price tag: when young Brian comes under Elmer’s addictive spell, it’s not long before he finds himself scouring the city streets in search of his parasite friend’s preferred food source – brains!
Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together in a Brooklyn brownstone several months after the end of World War II, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all-too-literal. Feature length audio commentary by writer/director Ted Geoghegan
Ghosts of the Past: The Making of Brooklyn 45 – A 30-minute behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film, featuring director and cast
The full, feature length film professionally recolored in glorious black-and-white
Detailed production notes chronicling the film from concept to release
Back In Stock! “The Cell” takes a shocking, riveting mind trip into the dark and dangerous corridors of a serial killer’s psyche — a psyche that holds the key to saving the killer’s final, trapped victim who remains alive. Making this journey into the recesses of a killer’s nightmarish fantasy world is Catherine Deane, a psychologist who has been experimenting with a radical new therapy. Through a new transcendental science, Catherine can experience what is happening in another person’s unconscious mind.
A big city police woman & martial arts trainer, is forced to hand in her badge when she returns to her hometown to take on the organized crime that’s taken control of it. Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Keith Cooke, Robert Clouse, 1990.
All Seven Chucky Flicks together…
Starring Sylvester Stallone, a tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans. George P. Cosmatos (1986)
Neil Jordan directs this atmospheric adaptation of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ (via Angela Carter), exploring the story’s adult subtexts. Angela Lansbury, 1985.
Interpol operative Russell Hatch witnesses the death of an informant when a seemingly routine raid goes wrong. Years later, he finds himself protecting the informant’s son from a group of merciless gangs involved in an all-out turf war.
Based on a novel by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and a script by the legendary Dan O’Bannon, after a series of gory murders committed by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses begin to come back to life. Gary Sherman, 1981.
Long-time friends Mitch and Sam start a revenge-for-hire business, and work to fund heart surgery for Sam’s father Pops. Norm MacDonald, Jack Warden, Artie Lange, Traylor Howard, Don Rickles, Christopher McDonald, Bob Saget, 1998
A film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button — and it played the situation for laughs. U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely insane, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He thinks that the communists are conspiring to pollute the “precious bodily fluids” of the American people.
Both Part 1 and 2 of the Epic Sci Fi story that is DUNE
Giuseppe Tornatore directs this documentary on legendary film composer Ennio Morricone. Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino, Dario Argento, Bruce Springsteen, 2021.
Following her breakout success in a killer clown horror flick, a up and coming star finds herself held hostage by an unhinged fan determined to recreate the film’s fatal plot. Jenna Kanell, Raymond Wood, 2023.
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In this cult classic, a shy, lonely film buff embarks on a killing spree against those who browbeat and betray him, all the while stalking his idol, a Marilyn Monroe lookalike. Dennis Christopher, Tim Thomerson, Gwynne Gilford, Vernon Zimmerman, 1980.
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This French Sci-Fi classic is a bizarre and beautifully animated futuristic story on a faraway planet, where blue giants rule and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine-like leaders. René Laloux (1973)
The largest computer gaming firm in the country has just completed its latest and possibly greatest virtual reality game, “Pleasure”. But the erotic program has a deadly computer virus that meshes the realms of reality and fantasy when its host, Vixen (Tammy Parks, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds), takes the player into a journey through the senses. Play at your own risk!
Game of Pleasure perfectly blends horror, sci-fi and erotica in a late 90s virtual reality infused melting pot that is impossible not to enjoy. VHSHITFEST could not be happier to bring this to blu ray for the first time with hours of extras and a new transfer! Audio commentary with director Dale Frantz and producer/writer Kevin Summerfield, new interview with Dale Frantz, new interview with Kevin Summerfield, new interview with special effects artist Doug Ulrich, Behind the Pleasure, Deleted Scenes, Alternate Scenes, Raw Footage, Trailer, Image Galler
Godzilla and the almighty Kong face a colossal threat hidden deep within the planet, challenging their very existence and the survival of the human race.
Back In Stock. Mathieu Kassovitz’s (‘Amelie’) first feature about the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Vincent Cassel, France, 1995.
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who’s working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
Dr. John Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, takes two specially selected women to Hill House, a reportedly haunted mansion. Eleanor (Julie Harris), a lonely, eccentric woman with a supernatural event in her past, and the bold Theodora (Claire Bloom), who has ESP, join John and the mansion’s heir, cynical Luke (Russ Tamblyn). They are immediately overwhelmed by strange sounds and events, and Eleanor comes to believe the house is alive and speaking directly to her.
Some of the world’s best genre filmmakers present seven of the most legendary horror-comedy shorts ever made.
Three Times The Chuck! Nuff said!
In the near future, war and corruption have plagued America and turned it into a police state. A resistance member, Alegre Dyer, breaks out of political prison and reunites with her husband and daughter. On the run, the family takes refuge in a safe house with an evil past.
Widely considered one of the great works of American nonfiction cinema, this epic chronicles 2 ordinary inner-city Chicago kids who dare to reach for the impossible — professional basketball glory. Steve James, 1994.
The worst Australian film ever made! A rowdy & horny rock band shooting a music video on a boat on a lake are terrorised by a killer. Alan Dale, Christine Jeston, Craig Alexander, Kendal Flanagan, Ollie Martin, 1989.
Before Tommy Wiseau entered THE ROOM and James Nguyen took flight with BIRDEMIC, Ollie Martin welcomed audiences aboard HOUSEBOAT HORROR. Shot on video, banned in Queensland and distributed with the world’s first ‘Gratuitous Violence & Blood Gush Guarantee’, HOUSEBOAT HORROR is pure homegrown hilarity and quite possibly the most quotable film in (SOV) cinematic history!
Starring Rose McGowan. Three of the most popular girls at Reagan High accidentally kill the prom queen with a jawbreaker when a kidnapping goes horribly wrong. Darren Stein (1999)
After his apparent death, Kong is saved by modern medicine and impregnates mankind’s newest discovery, a female Kong.
Action packed old school martial arts about a skilled martial artist who is forced into an illegal fighting tournament to save his daughter. Cynthia Rothrock, Billy Blanks, Ross W. Clarkson, 2024.
Back In STock! Based on the best-selling manga series, the six intensely kinetic Lone Wolf and Cub films elevated chambara to bloody, new heights. Tomisaburo Wakayama.
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Gruesome stop-motion fever dream produced, written, directed, designed and largely animated by legendary visual effects maestro Phil Tippett off and on for roughly 30 years. Alex Cox, Niketa Roman, Satish Ratakonda, Phil Tippett, 2021.
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.
Back In Stock! In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s hallucinatory, once-thought unfilmable novel Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg, a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (Robocop’s Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish Interzone, a netherworld of sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. Alternately humorous and grotesque—and always surreal—the film mingles aspects of Burroughs’s novel with incidents from the writer’s own life, resulting in an evocative paranoid fantasy and a self-reflexive investigation into the mysteries of the creative process.
Infamous sleazy horror film that brings together softcore sex, hardcore violence, Satanic sex cults and a limb-tearing, gut-slinging, dick-ripping beast for “the best and bloodiest Bigfoot movie ever made.”
For reasons unknown, the recently deceased are rising from the grave as flesh-hungry zombies. Fleeing from the undead horde, a small group of survivors, including Barbara (Patricia Tallman), Ben (Tony Todd) and Harry (Tom Towles), sequester themselves in a remote farmhouse. With the zombies outside the house multiplying, tensions flare, as the group argues over the best way to escape their increasingly dire situation before they are overrun completely.
Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, a karate school master trained by the ghost of Bruce Lee must confront the Seattle mafia’s undefeated enforcer in a deadly trial by combat over the fate of the city. Directed by action master Corey Yuen (1986)
In 1930, sea captain Russel Marsh saw the light, and for 93 years his body was not his own. Inhabited by a Great Old One, he committed unspeakable acts in the name of the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Now free, he is in search of a way to go back in time to reverse the horrors wrought upon the world. But the cult has other plans and will stop at nothing to destroy him. Director Commentary, Maing Of, Deleted Scenes, Special Effects & Makeup Test Footage
Cult favourite about a tough American street fighter seeking vengeance against organized crime in L.A.’s Chinatown. Jeff Speakman, Mako, James Hong, Mariska Hargitay, 1991.
In this Spanish horror, a bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger. Carlota Pereda, 2022.
After a string of bizarre bank robberies in Southern California, with the crooks donning masks of various former presidents, a federal agent, Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves), infiltrates the suspected gang. But this is no ordinary group of robbers. They’re surfers — led by the charismatic Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) — who are addicted to the rush of thievery. But when Utah falls in love with a female surfer, Tyler (Lori Petty), who is close to the gang, it complicates his sense of duty.
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it’s just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission: the English language.
To protect herself from a revolt by the workers on her family’s farm, a reclusive woman locks herself in her own armored car. Separated by a layer of glass, two universes are about to collide in this Brazilian thriller. Daniel Bandeira, 2022.
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Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing.
Set in 1930s New York, a reformed criminal becomes a superhero. With the aid of a beautiful female friend, a playboy millionaire with a dark past sets out to bring the evil Shiwan Khan to justice. His quarry, who is determined to attain world domination, is a deadly descendant of Genghis Khan and will not surrender without a fight.
Back In Stock. Japan is plunged into chaos when an enormous monster emerges from Tokyo Bay and terrorises the city, leaving a path of destruction and casualties.
In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Levine, 1991.
Cult Movies, Shows & Classic Comics brings together 10 documentaries based on 10 iconic movies, TV shows and comic franchises. Taking a deep dive into these popular IP’s before finding every single video game based upon them.
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In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed. Boots Riley (2018)
back In Stock…The film—made in a similar vein to the Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night (1964)—depicts a series of fictional events leading up to a major concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall, liberally interspersed with dream sequences and flashbacks as well as surreal moments and humorous asides, whilst also including a subplot dealing …
Deep within a subterranean Mine-World, a tribe of humans forced into a grim life of servitude by malevolent overlord Zygon knows nothing of the surface world or of hope… until a brave young boy named Orin discovers a sword with mysterious powers that only he can unlock! After escaping the Mine-World with his weapon, Orin teams with rogue smuggler Dagg, a beautiful princess and some trusty robots on an intergalactic mission to free his enslaved people and defeat the evil Zygon.
A bracingly bleak neo-noir soaked in sinister atmosphere, Na’s feature debut focuses on Dong Zi (Li Jiuxiao), a 21-year-old debt collector making a dishonest living in the bustling criminal economy in the Sichuan Province city of Zhenwu, all while aspiring to a better life than that which his ailing, ex-gangster father (an excellent Qi Zhi) has lived. Boasting a crack ensemble cast, brooding nocturnal cinematography courtesy of DP Li Jianeng, and an insider’s understanding of small-town claustrophobia, Na’s sleek neo-noir established him as one of Mainland China’s undeniable emerging talents during its lauded festival run.
Back In Stock. Fish has spent six years in jail. Six years alone. Six years keeping his mouth shut about the robbery and about the other men involved. The night he is released, the four men he protected with silence celebrate his freedom with a congratulatory dinner. The meal is a lavish array of sushi served off the naked body of a beautiful young woman. The sushi girl seems catatonic, trained to ignore everything in the room, even if things become dangerous. Sure enough, the four unwieldy thieves can’t help but open old wounds in an attempt to find their missing loot.
When North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il (Trey Parker) orchestrates a global terrorist plot, it’s up to the heavily armed marionettes of the highly specialized Team America unit to stop his dastardly scheme. The group, which includes the thespian-averse technology expert Chris (Matt Stone), not only has to face off against Jong-il, but they must also contend with F.A.G., the Film Actors Guild, a cadre of Hollywood liberals at odds with Team America’s “policing the world” tactics.
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Terry Gilliam’s fantastic voyage of a boy named Kevin who escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarfs for a series of misadventures. Sean Connery, David Warner, Michael Palin.
Vacation! is an existential beach party movie about life, death, sex and drugs. When four college friends reunite for a girls’ week at the beach, it’s all bikinis, piña coladas and dance parties at first. But the fun soon fades away… After procuring a psychotropic drug from a sketchy surfer dude, the girls take a very strange trip into the abyss. –
A showman cowboy seeks fame and fortune by capturing a Tyrannosaurus Rex living in the Forbidden Valley and putting it in a Mexican circus. His victim, called the Gwangi, turns out to have an aversion to being shown in public. Jim O’Connolly (1969)
Beautifully shot Folk Horror about a land surveyor working in an unnamed woodland area is disturbed and beguiled by a strange silhouette that moves amongst the trees. Lorcan Finnegan, 2016.
And there we go guys…lots of stuff coming on Thursday. See ya then! Cheers.
