We keep the movie dreams alive at the old video store. This week another batch of goodies will hit the shop. Some have been here many times and others…it will be there first. Let us dive right in to the list shall we…
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.
The 39 Steps is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, following Richard Hannay (Oscar winner Robert Donat), who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moors—a chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued—as well as into an expected romance with the cool Pamela (Madeline Carroll). Adapted from a novel by John Buchan, this classic wrong-man thriller from the Master of Suspense anticipates the director’s most famous works (especially North by Northwest), and remains one of his cleverest and most entertaining films.
Canadian film set in a dystopian future where farms are under siege, a fierce mother defends her family and farm amid civil war and fractured trust. Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Greyeyes, Kataem O’Connor, R.T. Thorne, 2024
After a terrorist attack at the airport, taxi driver Santi (Luis Tosar, Miami Vice) is taken hostage by Hamza (Nourdin Batan, The Good Boss), the only surviving extremist. A bomb is strapped to Santi’s chest, and he is forced to walk through the center of Madrid – if he stops moving the bomb will detonate. From the Spanish king of action, director Daniel Calparsoro (Sky High), All the Names of God is a high octane thriller like Speed and Die Hard that is a must-see for adrenaline junkies. Alternate English Audio Dub | Alternate French Audio Dub | Optional English, French, and Spanish Subtitles
Chilling tale about a US research satellite carrying a deadly extraterrestrial microscopic organism that crashes into a small town in Arizona. A group of top scientists are hurriedly assembled in a bid to identify and contain the lethal stowaway. Based on the novel by Michael Crichton.
After a nature photographer (Mark L. Taylor) dies on assignment in Venezuela, a poisonous spider hitches a ride in his coffin to his hometown in rural California, where arachnophobe Dr. Ross Jennings (Jeff Daniels) has just moved in with his wife, Molly (Harley Jane Kozak), and young son. As town residents start turning up dead, Jennings begins to suspect spiders, and must face his fears as he and no-nonsense exterminator Delbert McClintock (John Goodman) fight to stop a deadly infestation.
Linguistics professor Louise Banks leads an elite team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must race against time to find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors. Hoping to unravel the mystery, she takes a chance that could threaten her life and quite possibly all mankind.
In this unrelenting action masterpiece from director John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from New York), a police station under siege from a vicious street gang becomes a cataclysmic battleground where only the strongest survive! This explosive gem from one of cinema’s great frightmasters is inspired by Howard Hawks’ immortal western, Rio Bravo and Night of the Living Dead. Made in 1976.
Bradford “Big Brad” Whitewood Sr. (Christopher Walken, King of New York) is the leader of a rural Pennsylvania gang of career criminals and his son, Bradford “Little Brad” Whitewood Jr. (Sean Penn, State of Grace), is an unemployed teenager who decides he wants a taste of his father’s flashy lifestyle and the power that comes with it. Embarking on a budding life of crime with his brother Tommy (played by Sean Penn’s real life brother Chris Penn, True Romance), Little Brad gets arrested, sparking a tense showdown between father and son, and their family and friends who get caught in the middle.
After her brother vanishes, a woman braves the wilderness and confronts a lurking darkness that threatens to consume her. Meg Clarke, Leighton Cardno, Joseph Sims-Dennett, 2024.
42 9th graders are sent to a deserted island. They are given a map, food, and various weapons. An explosive collar is fitted around their neck. If they break a rule, the collar explodes. Their mission: kill each other and be the last one standing. The last survivor is allowed to leave the island. If there is more than one survivor, the collars explode and kill them all.
Documentary uncovering a lost 1985 Star Trek fan film and the cultural impact of its making on representation and fandom in the US sci‑fi community. George Takei, Stan Woo, Eugene Roddenberry, 2026.
From the director of Basic Instinct and Total Recall, based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta’s shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
John Woo’s action-packed trilogy redefines Hong Kong cinema with explosive gunfights, brotherhood, and betrayal. Chow Yun-fat, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, John Woo, 1986–1989
In 1970, 20th Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing “King of the Nudies” Russ Meyer (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) brought to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood in hell-bent sixties style under the spell of a flamboyant producer-whose decadent bashes showcase Meyer’s trademark libidinal exuberance. Transgressive and outrageous, this big-studio version of a debaucherous midnight movie is an addictively entertaining romp from one of the movies’ great outsider artists.
Affable hit man Melvin Smiley (Mark Wahlberg) is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it’s naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That’s because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang’s ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam (Christina Applegate).
Two troubled youths form a fragile bond in juvenile detention and channel their anger into underground martial arts bouts as they struggle for identity and escape. Masataka Kubota, Yuki Furukawa, Tetta Sugimoto, Takashi Miike, 2021.
Sweden’s first feature film shot on video (U-matic), is also Sweden’s only slasher movie. The overall-clad hemophiliac “The Bleeder” is roaming the abandoned estate of Byfors, blood pouring from his eyes. The all-girl band Rock Cats (real-life band Revanch) have engine trouble with their tour bus in the middle of the woods. Guess where they end up?
Hans Hatwig is the legendary editor of the hugely successful Swedish pop magazines Poster (1974-1980) and Okej (1980-1989). He photographed the bands himself, and got Gene Simmons from KISS to pose with a poster for The Bleeder in his mouth, fueling the rumor that Simmons played the lead character, a clever PR trick by the enterprising Hatwig. The Bleeder is actually played by Åke Eriksson, one of Sweden’s best drummers, known from bands like Attack, Bedlam and Wasa Express
A twisted family business sees its new heir, a teen girl, eager to take over her father’s “snuff film” enterprise but struggles with finishing her targets.
Based on Clive Barker’s horror legend The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a sceptical grad student researching the monster’s myth. Bernard Rose (1992)
1995 sequel to the horror film Candyman. The Candyman arrives in New Orleans and sets his sights on a young woman whose family was ruined by the immortal killer years before. Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, William O’Leary, Bill Nunn, Bill Condon.
The Candyman returns to try to convince his female descendent, an artist, to join him as a legendary figure. To this end, he frames her for a series of hideous murders of her friends and associates so that she has nowhere else to turn to.
During a winter road trip, young couple Cliff (Schitt’s Creek’s Eugene Levy) and Gloria (Black Christmas’ Andrea Martin) get lost and make an unplanned stop in Farnhamville, Ontario, a snowy small town known as “The Friendly City.” When they hear the legend of three local women with a history of murdering men, they playfully investigate. But to their horror, it seems the killers are still active, police and other locals are complicit, and they’re all feasting on the victims. When the cannibals develop an appetite for Cliff and Gloria, they race to get on the road – before they get on the menu.
Alferd Packer, awaiting his execution on the charge of cannibalism, recounts his harrowing story of survival in the snow-covered Colorado mountains while on an ill-fated quest for riches. After being convinced by a group of gold prospectors to join their expedition, Alferd loses his beloved horse, Liane, which unwittingly sets the men on an unplanned adventure, including encounters with a group of very unusual Indians, facing off with ultra-manly fur trappers, and, of course, fudge packing, all before becoming stranded in the freezing winter with no provisions. As tempers flare and stomachs growl, the posse is forced to make the only logical decision: eat each other!
Horror retelling of story of Jesus’ boyhood in Egypt with the one and only Nicolas Cage. Lotfy Nathan, 2025.
Stuart Gordon takes you on a pulse pounding roller- coaster ride in Castle Freak. one of the most macabre thrillers you’ll ever experience. John Reilly (Jeffrey Combs – Re-Animator), Susan (Barbara Crampton – Young & The Restless) and their daughter come face to face with terror when they travel to Italy to move into a castle they have inherited. They soon discover it is haunted by a relentless blood- thirsty creature. When mutilated bodies start turning up, John must uncover the Reilly family’s dark secret to save his wife and child from the sadistic being.
When Ted’s beloved cat dies, grief fractures his mind beyond repair. Consumed by delusion and anger, he becomes convinced that nine human lives are the key to bringing his pet back from the dead. Armed with vicious clawed gloves and a haunting cat mask, Ted descends into a nightmare of obsession and murder. But amid all his carnage, he meets Claire, a young woman mourning her own lost cat, and their shared sorrow sparks a bond that blurs the line between love and madness.
All four seasons of the Creepshow TV series deliver creepy, gory tales and dark humour, blending comic-book thrills with terrifying stories. Giancarlo Esposito, Adrienne Barbeau, Tobin Bell, David Arquette, Tricia Helfer, Dana Gould, 2019–2023
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother’s wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Rae Ingram (Nicole Kidman) and her husband, John (Sam Neill), struggle to overcome the sudden death of their young son. In an attempt to move past their loss, the couple take their yacht out for an extended vacation trip. While far out at sea, they come across a sinking schooner and rescue the ship’s sole survivor, Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane). Hughie claims the crew of the ship died from food poisoning. Though Rae is empathetic towards Hughie, John is suspicious of his story.
Michael Murphy (Tanner ’88), Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Dan Shor (Wise Blood), and Fiona Lewis (A Day at the Beach) head the impressive cast of Dead Kids (also known as Strange Behavior), a darkly comic blend of horror and science fiction from director Michael Laughlin (Strange Invaders).
In a small midwestern town, police chief John Brady (Murphy) investigates a bizarre series of murders. As the corpses pile up, all signs point to the hellish mind-control experiments of a twisted scientist…
Co-written by Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters), with a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream (Sorcerer), and produced in New Zealand by the legendary Australian producer Antony I Ginnane (Snapshot).
The 90s cult cable-access phenomenon! 2 enforcement officers battle interdimensional creatures in this surreal, Lynchian supernatural series. Wayne Spitzer, Andy Kumpon, 1994–1997. Welcome to Viktorville: a town where inter-dimensional flux-core portals open daily and a menagerie of dangerous creatures crawl through them. Join Viktor Corporation enforcement officers, Status and AK, as they protect Viktorville from dinosaurs, killer robots, golems, Basilisks, Sligaks, Goldenballs, Drainers, The Drolic, and much more!
A decaying amusement park hides decades of child murders as Jake confronts vengeful spirits in this sprawling, gore-soaked folk horror SOV masterpiece. William Clifton, Lindsey Luscri, Eric Stanze, 2007.
Ken Russell’s controversial erotic historical elevated nunsploitation in its full 111 minute version! Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Jess Conrad, 1971.
An urban legend-based slasher from acclaimed filmmaker S. Torriano Berry, EMBALMER is one of the few 1990s independent horror movies that was made for Black audiences. The story follows Chiffon, a troubled teenager with a dark past, as she and her friends run afoul of Undertaker Zach—a mortician who killed his family and turned his funeral home into an H.H. Holmes-style murder castle. Shot on 16mm film with a small budget in Washington, D.C., EMBALMER utilizes a hip-hop soundtrack, sly humor, and slasher mechanics to tell a deeper story of abuse, trauma, and the never-ending cycle of coping with pain. AGFA is honored to bring this powerful chapter of overlooked ’90s horror to Blu-ray for the first time ever.
In 1980 Texas, a college freshman meets his new baseball teammates, an unruly group of disco-dancing, skirt-chasing partiers, and they navigate their way through the freedom and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
Ridiculous but stylish 80s ultra-violent action film about a Texas ranger who must take on a childhood friend who is now a drug kingpin. Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Walter Hill, 1987.
In this premier adaptation of a Michael Moorcock novel, writer/director/production designer Robert Fuest (THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, THE DEVIL’S RAIN) unleashes Moorcock’s lethal dandy genius Jerry Cornelius (Jon Finch of Hitchcock’s FRENZY and Polanski’s MACBETH) into a mind-melting conspiracy of mad scientists, pinball nuns and immortal ambisexuals bent on world domination.
A lonely cringe-inducing suburban dad’s awkward obsession with his charismatic neighbour spirals into a darkly comedic and unsettling bromance. Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, Kate Mara, Andrew DeYoung, 2024
In an English-language remake of his 1997 German thriller, acclaimed director Michael Haneke (Cache) creates a claustrophobic tale of two deeply disturbed young men who take a family hostage in a vacation home invasion. Produced and starring Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts (21 Grams, The Painted Veil, King Kong), Haneke’s harrowing film also features Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction), Michael Pitt (The Village) and more in an exploration of violence in our society and in our entertainment.
Enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) receives a strange gift from his ne’er-do-well younger brother (Sean Penn) on his forty-eighth birthday: a voucher for a game that, if he agrees to play it, will change his life. Thus begins a trip down a rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewer alike. This multilayered, noirish descent into one man’s personal hell is also a surreal, metacinematic journey that, two years after the phenomenon Se7en, further demonstrated that director David Fincher was one of Hollywood’s true contemporary visionaries.
Korean horror where the crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast. It soon encounters much more than expected as it moves deeper inside the nightmarish old building. Beom-sik Jeong (2018)
King Arthur’s headstrong nephew embarks on a daring quest to confront the Green Knight, a mysterious giant who appears at Camelot. Risking his head, he sets off on an epic adventure to prove himself before his family and court.
When a missing teen’s sister goes undercover at Mary Magdalen Halfway House for Troubled Girls, she’ll expose an unholy conspiracy of pervy priests, aggressive lesbians and a secret dungeon where naked runaways are sacrificed to a one-eyed Cthulhu. Janet Tracy Keijser (SCHISM), FX legend Cleve Hall (MONSTER MAN) and national treasure Mary Woronov (EATING RAOUL, ROCK & ROLL HIGH SCHOOL) star.
William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, celebrate the birth of their son, Hamnet. However, when tragedy strikes and Hamnet dies at a young age, it inspires Shakespeare to write his timeless masterpiece “Hamlet.”
While returning from a trip in the woods, George Henderson (John Lithgow) and his family run into something with their car that turns out to be a Sasquatch. Thinking the creature is dead, they take him home, but “Harry” (Kevin Peter Hall) soon awakens. Despite their initial fears, Harry is a kind and sensitive being, and the Hendersons become very fond of him. However, it is difficult to keep him a secret, and soon they begin to fear for Harry’s safety.
Adventures from deep space to futuristic New York, and beyond. Each world and story is dominated by the presence of the Loch’nar — the sum of all evils manifest as a glowing green sphere whose power infects all times, all galaxies, all dimensions. To some, it appears as treasure, a green jewel they must possess. Others worship it as a god. Few escape it. Even in death and through death its powers continue. From war to war and world to world it seems invincible.
Twenty years ago, seven superstar artists left Marvel Comics to create their own company, Image Comics, a company that continues to influence mainstream comics and pop culture to this day. Image began as more than just a publisher – it was a response to years of creator mistreatment, and changed comics forever. The Image Revolution tells the story of Image Comics, from its founders’ work at Marvel, through Image’s early success, company difficulties during the comics market implosion, and ultimately the publisher’s new generation of properties like The Walking Dead. Filled with colorful characters, the film is a clarion call to artists to take control of their destiny
Whole Lotta Wick!
Two climbers confront obsession, mortality, and male rivalry during a perilous ascent of the world’s second-highest mountain. Michael Biehn, Matt Craven, Franc Roddam, 1991.
In this anime feature, 13-year-old Kiki moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji, to spend a year alone, in accordance with her village’s tradition for witches in training. After learning to control her broomstick, Kiki sets up a flying courier service and soon becomes a fixture in the community. But when the insecure young witch begins questioning herself and loses her magic abilities, she must overcome her self-doubt to get her powers back.
Lars von Trier’s internationally acclaimed, cult classic series, all three parts, about the spooky and bizarre happenings at a Copenhagen hospital.
Filmmaker Lars von Trier’s internationally acclaimed, cult classic series tells the story of a hospital built on top of the old bleaching ponds in Copenhagen, where evil has taken root and medical science faces a daily struggle with itself.
On a remote island, Ephraim Winslow arrives as a lighthouse keeper and assists his elderly supervisor, Thomas Wake. As days pass, Ephraim is haunted by strange and mysterious visions.
n a perfect world, he’d be happy to head-bang in his room all day to heavy metal music. But no, his mom is an angel, his old man is the devil, and like all good fathers, he insists that Nicky get involved in the family business. Nicky could think of 666 things he’d rather be doing than corrupting souls or spewing evil, but when his father’s command over Hades is threatened by his bullying older brothers, it’s up to unbalanced Nicky to restore the balance between Good and Evil on earth.
A misunderstood teenager and a reanimated Victorian corpse embark on a murderous journey together to find love, happiness, and a few missing body parts.
Jess Franco unleashes cruelty and unhinged exploitation as kidnapped brides, sadistic wardens, and guerrilla rebels collide in this delirious, fevered WIP nightmare. Nana Van Bergen, Ada Tauler, 1977.
A wheelchair-bound boy befriends a rubbery alien in this endlessly mocked, syrupy 80s E.T. knockoff spectacle. Christine Ebersole, George ‘Buck’ Flower, Stewart Raffill, 1988
Jean Gabin’s salty Inspector Maigret attempts to dismantle an American crime syndicate operating under a veneer of respectability in this fun French crime film. Françoise Fabian, Gilles Grangier, 1963
Controversial. Brutal. Disturbing. To describe Megan Is Missing is to describe the outer limits of terror and horror. But there’s no way to tell the story of the disappearance of 14-year-old Megan Stewart and her best friend, Amy Herman a story taken from video chats, webcam footage, home videos, and news reports without descending into the very heart of depravity and despair. Notorious on social media, banned in New Zealand, and enhanced by never-before-seen Blu-ray bonus content, Megan Is Missing offers an unflinchingly candid look at the dangerous online world today’s teenagers face a world that’s every parent’s worst nightmare.
Jesuit priest Father Gabriel enters the Guaraní lands in South America with the purpose of converting the natives to Christianity. He soon builds a mission, where he is joined by Rodrigo Mendoza, a reformed slave trader seeking redemption. When a treaty transfers the land from Spain to Portugal, the Portuguese government wants to capture the natives for slave labor. Mendoza and Gabriel resolve to defend the mission, but disagree on how to accomplish the task.
New York, 1980. Raped at gunpoint on her way home from work, mute seamstress Thana returns to her apartment only to be assaulted again by a burglar; but this time she fights back. Bludgeoning her assailant, she takes his gun and disposes of the body piece by piece. Fuelled by her trauma, Thana sees that sexual threat is everywhere and decides to bring a .45 calibre solution to the problem.
All-ages animated masterpiece featuring the voices of Tim Daly, Lea Salonga, and real-life sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning, in one of their earliest roles.
Cowboy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar) meets gorgeous Mae (Jenny Wright) at a bar, and the two have an immediate attraction. But when Mae turns out to be a vampire and bites Caleb on the neck, their relationship gets complicated. Wracked with a craving for human blood, Caleb is forced to leave his family and ride with Mae and her gang of vampires, including the evil Severen. Along the way Caleb must decide between his new love of Mae and the love of his family.
Based on M R James’ classic tale of terror, ‘Casting the Runes’, and adapted for the screen by regular Hitchcock collaborator Charles Bennett, Jacques Tourneur’s (Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, Out of the Past) Night of the Demon is considered to be one of the seminal horror films of Twentieth-Century cinema.
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!
Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) specializes in tracking down rare and exotic volumes for collectors. Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) has recently acquired a seventeenth-century satanic text called The Nine Gates- a legendary book written by Satan himself. With The Nine Gates in his possession, Corso soon finds himself at the center of strange and violent goings-on. Not only is his apartment ransacked, it appears that he is being shadowed ferociously by others determined to regain the book.
A US Army psychiatrist must assess the mental fitness of top Nazi leaders, especially Hermann Göring, as the historic Nuremberg Trials begin and legal justice reshapes post-war order. Russell Crowe, Rami Malek, Michael Shannon, James Vanderbilt, 2025.
Dae-Su is an obnoxious drunk bailed from the police station yet again by a friend. However, he’s abducted from the street and wakes up in a cell, where he remains for the next 15 years, drugged unconscious when human contact is unavoidable, otherwise with only the television as company. And then, suddenly released, he is invited to track down his jailor with a denouement that is simply stunning.
A marvelously inventive Japanese horror-comedy that’s equally a well executed zombie film, a satire of low-budget genre filmmaking and weirdly a charming family comedy. Shinichiro Ueda, 2018.
Joe Young (Trey Parker) is a Mormon, serving his mission in Los Angeles and needing money to marry his girlfriend, Lisa (Robyn Lynne). This leads him to a porn film set, where filmmaker Maxxx Orbison (Michael Dean Jacobs) casts unwitting Joe as a masked superhero named Orgazmo. The film becomes a surprise megahit, even in the mainstream, but Joe soon discovers Maxxx is a criminal with sinister plans. So Joe and sidekick Ben (Dian Bachar) become real superheroes to combat the evil director.
Cult horror comedy where a young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents are cannibalistic murderers. Bob Balaban (1989)
When the American Chicken Bunker, a military themed fast food restaurant, builds its latest chain restaurant on the site of an ancient Native American burial ground, the displaced spirits take revenge on unsuspecting diners and transform them into chicken zombies! Now, it’s up to a dimwitted counter boy, his collegiate lesbian ex-girlfriend and a burqa-wearing fry cook to put an end to the foul feathered menace once and for all.
Double feature of kick ass!
A chameleon (Johnny Depp) who has lived as a sheltered family pet finds himself in the grip of an identity crisis. Rango wonders how to stand out when it is his nature to blend in. When he accidentally winds up in a frontier town called Dirt, he takes the first step on a transformational journey as the town’s new sheriff. Though at first Rango only role-plays, a series of thrilling situations and outrageous encounters forces him to become a real hero.
British cult film about a leather-clad bisexual vampire hitwoman who eliminates targets for money while evading a cult and a determined stake-wielding officer. Eileen Daly, Christopher Adamson, David Warbeck, Jake West, 1998.
For skintight-black-clad bisexual vampire Lilith Silver (a knockout performance by Eileen Daly), being a professional hitwoman is all in a night’s work. But when Lilith becomes hunted by the equally immortal Illuminati, she’ll unleash her own war of bullets, bloodlust and fanged brutality.
Somewhere in the Australian Outback, there is a creature that can rip a man in half and destroy a house in seconds: Razorback, a giant freak of nature that’s nine-hundred pounds of tusk and muscle which terrorizes an isolated community as violent and primitive as itself. This astonishing debut from director Russell Mulcahy (Highlander) is a ferociously entertaining, adrenaline-pumping thriller that was beautifully shot by Academy Award®-winning* director of photography Dean Semler (The Road Warrior) and imbued with stunning special make-up effects by Bob McCarron (The Matrix). Razorback is an Ozploitation classic that will leave you on the edge of your seat.
Stuart Gordon’s classic cult film about the efforts of a pair of dedicated students to re-animate dead tissue! Jeffrey Combs, David Gale, Barbara Crampton, 1985.
Curious kids unearth the barrels that helped revive the dead of the first film, which proves the second time’s an undead charm. Ken Wiederhorn (1988)
A desperate man plunges into the cursed, ash-choked streets of Silent Hill, facing grotesque horrors and nightmarish visions to rescue his lost love. Jeremy Irvine, Hannah Emily Anderson, Nicola Alexis, Christopher Gans, 2026.
James Dalton is a tough-as-nails bouncer with a reputation for using any and all force necessary to “keep the peace.” Meanwhile, Frank Tilghman, a country businessman, is having trouble maintaining control over the violent patrons and crooked staff at his newly acquired club, the Double Deuce. Upon learning of Dalton’s take-no-prisoners attitude toward security, he makes a proposal too good for Dalton to refuse; summoning him from The Big Apple to Jasper, MO and handing him the reins to the bar, on the promise that he clean the place up. But no sooner than his first few days in charge does he wind up stabbed and in the hospital. With the knowledge that he’s up against a gang of thugs who play even dirtier than he does, Dalton throws caution to the wind and prepares for a fight that will inevitably send someone six feet under…
In this loose sequel to the gloriously ridiculous Kung Fu fantasy horror the Peacock King, the Holy Maiden of Hell wants to enjoy 7 days in the human world before disintegrating. Yuen Biao, Gloria Yop, Ngai Choi Lam, 1989.
She was in the wrong place at the wrong time and then she was no more. Jazzman Danny Parker’s wife was murdered, and Danny was powerless to prevent it. Now the heartbroken Danny is on the skids, lost among the derelict tweakers of L.A. Or is he? In Danny’s world nothing — most of all Danny — is what it seems. Mystery runs deep in The Salton Sea. So does the talent behind this dreamlike thriller written by Tony Gayton (Murder by Numbers) and stylishly directed by D.J. Caruso. Val Kilmer is spellbinding as Danny, a man adrift in a sea of lowlifes (played by Vincent D’Onofrio, Anthony La Paglia and many more) — yet hovering on the razor’s edge of a dangerous revenge.
In a time of social and political unrest in Haiti, anthropologist Dennis Alan (Bill Pullman) travels to the torn country to study a Voodoo drug used in religious practices to turn victims into living zombies. With the help of a witch doctor (Brent Jennings) and a fellow researcher (Cathy Tyson), Dennis pieces together the deadly mystery. But as Dennis uncovers the secrets behind the mysterious powder, he must evade the Haitian authorities who view his research as a potential threat.
Kino Cult and Something Weird present two rarely-seen “roughies” culled from the lower depths of the American grindhouse. In The Sexploiters, Terri Steele is a Long Island housewife who immerses herself in the seedy subculture of the camera club, where clients engage live models for private photography sessions. Director Al Ruban later brought the gritty black-and-white aesthetics of The Sexploiters to John Cassavetes’ 1968 Faces (which Ruban shot and edited), launching a decades-long collaboration between the two artists. Raw Love is a hicksploitation classic virtually unseen for 50 years: a sordid slice of life among the depraved moonshiners and uninhibited daughters of an unspecified rural community.
In 1937 after The Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out a soldier and a young woman have an awkward meet cute in darkness under a bridge as they seek refuge during a bomb raid. Although they can’t see each other’s faces they promise to meet again after the dust settles. Ten years later the soldier, now a burgeoning songwriter and tuba-player in a marching band, is back in town desperately searching for his would-be soulmate. As fate would have it they end up living in the same building unbeknownst to each other. Through a series of mishaps he mistakes her new ingénue roommate for his love interest and wacky love triangle hijinks ensue. Consummate auteur Tsui Hark almost singlehandedly reinvented Hong Kong cinema in the 80’s and 90’s with uber-kinetic genre opuses, amping up cinematic spectacle whether with special effects or sheer unbridled energy. This Hong Kong styled homage to the screwball comedies of yesteryear features black belt level slapstick and delightfully droll romcom shenanigans. With striking mise en scene and inspired production design Shanghai Blues is, “…luscious, loving and a lot of fun…one of Tsui Hark’s most enjoyable works,”
Korpi dismantles the house where his family was murdered and loads it on a truck to rebuild it somewhere safe. He soon finds himself in a violent cross-country chase as the Red Army commander who killed his family comes back to finish the job.
Eight people are invited to their old high school for their ten-year reunion where a fellow former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is out to seek revenge. George Dugdale (1986)
Set during the height of the Vietnam War and deep in the swamps of Louisiana, a group of National Guardsmen have been ordered to partake in a simulated jungle exploration in an isolated part of Cajun country. After getting lost during the training mission, the soldiers commandeer canoes belonging to the locals in order to take a shortcut. When the rightful owners discover the soldiers with their property, the situation spirals out of control leaving one man dead and the soldiers caught in a deadly game of retribution. What follows is a bloody fight for survival as, with only their wits and blanks for ammunition, the soldiers will have to journey deeper and deeper into the bayou as they’re forced to face the brutal reality of Cajun justice…
A pilot haunted by the ghosts of the passengers and crew that died when the 747 jet aircraft he was piloting crashed soon after take-off is helped by a psychic to ease the supernatural happenings. Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten, David Hemmings, 1981.
A trilogy of thrilling tales:
Swordsman:
A kung-fu manual known as the sacred scroll is stolen from the Emperor’s library. An army detachment is sent to recover it. Meanwhile, a young swordsman and his fellow disciple are accidentally drawn into the chaos.
Swordsman II:
Ling Wu Chung (Jet Li) decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. However, he finds that the tribe have been attacked, and their leader Yam Ying Ying has been abducted.
Swordsman III: The East is Red
A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the sacred scroll and castrating himself. As Invincible Asia seeks to destroy all they deem “imposters”, the Portuguese sailors, a mysterious Japanese warlord, and others search for them in turn.
John Carpenter’s fun satire of consumerism finds an unemployed Roddy Piper uncovering that the world’s ruling elite are aliens in disguise who’s aim is to keep humans in a state of mindless consumerism. Keith David, Meg Foster, 1988.
The cult fantasy-horror film! Shot in Utah with a nonprofessional cast about a family vacationing in the town of Nilbog only to discover that it is populated by vegetarian goblins. Claudio Fragasso, 1990.
A U.S. podcaster (Justin Long) ventures into the Canadian wilderness to interview an old man (Michael Parks) who has an extraordinary past, and the American learns the man has a dark secret involving a walrus.
The legendary Gene Hackman (Mississippi Burning, The Package) commands the screen as retired Marine Colonel Jason Rhodes, a man obsessed, in the powerful, action-packed adventure, Uncommon Valor. For over ten years, Rhodes has been living a nightmare searching for his son who is listed as “missing in action” in Vietnam. After useless appeals to the government for information, Rhodes takes matters into his own hands. With the financial backing of a Texas oil tycoon (Robert Stack, Airplane!) and the help of his son’s five Marine buddies, Rhodes prepares to carry out a dangerous mission. After weeks of grueling training, the courageous veterans leave for Laos. The final battle of the Vietnam conflict is about to begin. Ted Kotcheff (North Dallas Forty, First Blood) directed this explosive actioner with a first-rate cast featuring Fred Ward (Remo Williams), Reb Brown (Big Wednesday), Randall “Tex” Cobb (Raising Arizona), Tim Thomerson (Trancers), Harold Sylvester (Fast Break) and Patrick Swayze (Point Break).
Renowned oneirologist Ambrose London is requested to appear at Arkham Asylum by newly appointed Dr. Barnard to study the strange case of James Fhelleps. A patient seemingly inhabited by the personality of Joe Slater, a denizen of the Catskill Mountain region and a primitive colonial peasant of barbaric degeneracy, who had mysteriously vanished 122 years ago. Ambrose and Barnard’s investigation takes an unexpected turn when Fhelleps/Slater is attached to London’s Dream Machine that releases an alien life from Hell bent on world annihilation
A college student suspects a series of bizarre deaths are connected to certain urban legends. Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Rebecca Gayheart, 1998.
Jess Franco’s legendary erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood. Soledad Miranda, Dennis Price, Jess Franco, 1970.
From Jess Franco comes his legendary “fever dream of blood and lust” (The New York Times), now in UHD for the first time: Eternally stunning Soledad Miranda stars as a vixen vampire who lures women to a Mediterranean island to satisfy her insatiable hunger for female flesh in “a distinctive work of art and beautiful must-see” (Classic Horror) that seductively corrupts the Dracula mythos forever.
When teen debutante Kelly (Denise Richards) fails to attract the attention of her hunky guidance counselor, Sam (Matt Dillon), she cries rape, igniting a scandal that results in his arrest. Sam appeals to Ken (Bill Murray), a hack personal-injury lawyer who has never handled a case that couldn’t be helped by a prop neck brace. Soon, a second victim, Suzie (Neve Campbell), comes forward, and Detective Duquette (Kevin Bacon) discovers that the unfolding case is far from what it seems.
A sly, self-reflexive documentary in which Charlie Shackleton reconstructs his aborted Zodiac Killer film to dissect true-crime obsessions, industry cynicism, and narrative failure itself. 2025.
And there we go guys. Movies should be here Thursday/ Friday. Cheers!
