Well the magical time of year is upon us with crap weather falling down upon us which leads to the obvious seasonal depression. One way to fight it is some tasty popcorn, a warm blanket, a relalxing couch, and ofcourse the power of physical media giving you new, old school, and WTF movie options to brighten your soul. This week such films will be coming to help you at this so let’s take a look shall we…
One of the most acclaimed and terrifying horror films of the 1970s! A family’s real estate score becomes increasingly strange as a dark supernatural presence asserts its control over the family and home. James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, 1979.
BACK IN STOCK! Takashi Miike’s audacious horror about a widower who stages a mock audition in order to meet a new partner only to become infatuated with a woman who is not what she seems to be. Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, 1999.
A home-invasion thriller involving a dinner party in a country house with 4 wealthy friends in the British countryside. Tom Cullen, Iwan Rheon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Charles Dorfman, 2021.
BACK IN STOCK! Sexually provocative film based on the true story of a 17th-century nun who was chastised for her religious visions and lesbian affairs. Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Paul Verhoeven, 2021.
A pregnant woman’s (Juliet Mills) devil child can move furniture, open doors and make its mother’s head spin.
BACK IN STOCK! BLACK CAESAR: Writer-director Larry Cohen’s clever & entertaining paean to traditional gangster films (a la LITTLE CAESAR) updates the genre to contemporary Harlem. Fred Williamson, Minnie Gentry, Julius W. Harris, D’urville Martin, Val Avery, Phillip Roye.
HELL UP IN HARLEM: Fred Williamson returns as the Godfather of Harlem in director Larry Cohen’s sequel to the blaxploitation hit Black Caesar. Julius W. Harris, Gloria Hendry, Margaret Avery, D’urville Martin, Tony King, Gerald Gordon, Bobby Ramsen, 1973
The Blackbird (Lon Chaney) is a bishop by day, but a world-class thief after nightfall. When he develops feelings for a sultry singer named Fifi Lorraine (Renée Adorée), he will stop at nothing to steal a diamond necklace that she covets. Unfortunately for him, West End Bertie (Owen Moore) has the same idea and beats him to the punch, stealing the jewels and the dame’s heart. But The Blackbird won’t give up without a fight — and it threatens to reveal his other persona.
BACK IN STOCK! Another woman (Joan Chen) joins a future gladiator’s (Rutger Hauer) band of “juggers” against fighters of the ruling elite.
Starring James Earl Jones. A treasure hunter in Greece awakens a sea monster and the locals begin sacrificing virgins to placate it. Richard Jefferies (1982)
Sadistic entertainments are staged for his audience’s pleasure in a bizarre Off-Broardway theatre of the macabre in what is one of the all time greatest sexploitation shockers ever released! Seamus O’Brien, Viju Krem, Niles McMaster, 1976.
BACK IN STOCK! Dynamite fishing in a rural swamp revives a prehistoric gill monster that must have the blood of human females in order to survive.
A group of snowmobilers become trapped on a lake, and hole up in an abandoned camp. What they don’t know is that the camp was once used by a satanic cult for its rituals. Christopher Webster (1993)
BACK IN STOCK! French horror. Dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD. Gaspar Noé (2018)
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.
BACK IN STOCK! 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.
An obese woman recently released from an insane asylum kills anyone who attempts to get her to stop eating.
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything. Jack Cardiff (1968)
After a freak accident, a disturbed priest is transformed into a mutated killing machine on a mission to wipe out the godless fans of heavy metal music.
A collection of 24 films that take a look at the dark side of the festive season. 24 international directors with the most diverse ideas and styles; linked by short animated segments that deal with the Advent calendar itself.
LIMITED EDITION SLIPCOVER VERSION! A very low budget western-horror that might be the only straight-up cowboy slasher in existence. Vic Alexander, 1991.
BACK IN PRINT! 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.
A successful businessman tries to uncover what is wrong with his wife. James Spader, Mädchen Amick, Nicholas Kazan, 1993.
Gushing with over 6 hours of old school slice & dice, Giallo grooviness, Hammer Glamour, gut munching cannibal capers, swanky Euro-trash and creature feature monster madness (not to mention a tsunami of boobs & pubes) (2019)
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.
BACK IN STOCK! Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake. James Signorelli (1988)
BACK IN STOCK! Hong Kong wall-to-wall action from Johnnie To follows the underworld in 1998 Macau as its Portuguese owners turn the colony over to Chinese rule. Anthony Wong, Roy Cheung, 2007.
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.
TIS THE SEASON! BACK IN STOCK! R rated film about Santa who partners with the military in order to keep his gift-giving business afloat complicating matters is a young boy who employs the services of a hitman to take down Father Christmas. Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, 2020.
BACK IN STOCK! Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty “Sex Ray” towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the Earth, football player Flesh Gordon. Howard Ziehm (1974)
BACK IN STOCK! Notorious Canadian-produced sequel to the legendary adult Flash Gordon spoof Flesh Gordon. 1989.
BACK IN STOCK! Extensive special edition featuring a double feature of Ghoulies 1 & 2 and loads of extras.
BACK IN STOCK! Hellraiser Flicks. Enough Said.
Police officer Cliff Garret (Chuck Norris), wounded in the line of duty, is on the edge of death. The Drug Enforcement Administration decides to use his perilous condition to their advantage — publicizing Garret’s death and, when he recovers, using the officer for an all-important undercover mission. Recast as hit man Danny Grogan, Garret is charged with bringing down Seattle kingpin Marco Luganni (Al Waxman). But Garret’s life is put in danger when he runs into a face from the past.
BACK IN STOCK! After being released from the Wishing Well Sanatorium, all he wants to do is make the children happy. So Gregory reopens the old ice cream factory, and all the unappreciative brats are reprocessed into the flavor of the day. Paul Norman (1995)
Sweet Double Feature! ISLAND OF TERROR: Grisly deaths bring a scientist to a remote island where researchers have accidentally created a deadly life form. NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT: Britons (Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Patrick Allen) sweat out a winter inferno caused by malignant alien protoplasm.
The Mutant Killer Snowman returns for another Christmas season of death! Scott MacDonald, Michael Cooney, 2000
BACK IN STOCK! New father Frank (Emilio Estevez) departs for a night out, joining friends Mike (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Ray (Jeremy Piven) as they head to a boxing match. At the last minute, they are joined by John (Stephen Dorff), Frank’s brother. Stuck in gridlock traffic, the guys take a shortcut that gets them lost. In a very dangerous neighborhood, they witness a murder by a gang leader called Fallon (Denis Leary). They flee, but Fallon now wants them hunted down and and eliminated.
BACK IN STOCK! Atmospheric horror mockumentary from Australia about the ghost of a woman who mysteriously died. Joel Anderson, 2008.
Controversial comedian Lenny Bruce (Dustin Hoffman) begins his career telling bad jokes to bored audiences in the 1950s, but can’t repress his desire to unleash edgier material. When he does, he begins a one-man campaign to break down social hypocrisy, and his groundbreaking stage act propels him to cult-hero status. When authorities ban Lenny’s act for obscenity, he begins a downward spiral of drugs, sex and debt, aided by his bombshell wife, a stripper named Honey (Valerie Perrine).
BACK IN STOCK! Nature fights back when a careless couple go camping in this gritty & violent Australian film. John Hargreaves, 1978.
A demented surgeon’s obsession with a British actress leads him to secretly replace her concert pianist husband’s mangled hands with those of a guillotined murderer with a gift for knife-throwing. Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Karl Freund, 1935
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.
Underrated AIP gothic horror based very loosely on a Edgar Allen Poe story about a mutilated man who seeks revenge for being buried alive. Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Gordon Hessler, 1969.
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.
BACK IN STOCK! Starring Jennifer Connelly and Donald Pleasence, A young girl who can communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. Dario Argento (1985)
BACK IN STOCK! Jackie Chan Hong Kong Action Double Bill! POLICE STORY (Jackie Chan 1985) POLICE STORY 2 (Jackie Chan 1988)
BACK IN STOCK! A horror movie marathon in an abandoned theatre decides to screen a bizarre short whose creator killed his family and set the theater on fire after its first showing. That’s when the murder begins. Mark Herrier (1991)
Four repressed, religious teens and a straight-edge projectionist working at a small-town movie theater in the 1990s discover a secret screening room filled with vintage X-rated exploitation films. Playing one of the old film reels unleashes a succubus named Lilith, who attempts to seduce each of them to steal their souls.
BACK IN STOCK! High school students are murdered one-by-one during their prom night in this 1980 tongue-in-cheek horror. Jamie Lee Curtis, Leslie Nielsen, Paul Lynch, 1980.
The Trilogy Of The American PULSE movie all in one set.
BACK IN STOCK! The Adventures Of Dr. Herbert West.
BACK IN STOCK! The REC. four movie saga all in one set.
BACK IN STOCK! Australian horror film about a great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef. Andrew Traucki, 2010.
BACK IN STOCK! The brain munchers with attitude are back as a young man uses a secret government chemical program to reanimate his dead girlfriend, helping her as she consumes the only thing that will nourish her, human brains. Brian Yuzna (1993)
The New 4K Edition of Arnie and Richard Dawson’s 80s beauty of a film!
A champion teenage martial artist and a nerdy high schooler bond while in prison learning to become better people and to fight bullies. Johnny Chae, 2021.
An aging film star retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse to recover from surgery. While there, mysterious forces of revenge emerge from the land where witches were burned. Malcolm McDowell, Alice Krige, Rupert Everett, 2021.
After spending decades in a Siberian Gulag labor camp, Roman Catholic priest Kiril Lakota (Anthony Quinn) is set free by Russian leader Piotr Ilyich Kamenev (Sir Laurence Olivier) at the height of the Cold War, when Russia and China are locked in a tense conflict. Following the death of the pope (Sir John Gielgud), Lakota ends up on the global stage when he is chosen to be his successor. As the pope, the humble Lakota becomes a compassionate advocate for ending world hunger and poverty.
In a sun-scorched post-apocalyptic world largely bereft of water, a group of youthful orphans, including Jason (Jason Patric) and Terra (Jami Gertz), spend their time playing a hard-hitting hockey-like game and defying an authority known as “the Protectorate.” When Daniel (Lukas Haas), one of the younger orphans, discovers a strange sphere, it leads to a struggle between good and evil after the scheming Darstar (Adrian Pasdar) swipes the powerful orb.
BACK IN STOCK! Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Co. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company’s female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio’s hidden underground chambers.
BACK IN STOCK! A smart ass detective battles a supermodel vampire and a murderous televangelist in the bloody depths of a vampire bordello. Gilbert Adler, 1996.
U.S. and Canadian undercover agents (Billy Blanks, Jalal Merhi) use their martial-arts skills against a drug lord (James Hong).\
BACK IN STOCK! Roman Polanski’s cult classic about a bureaucrat who rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, 1976.
BACK IN STOCK! A group of teenagers get into a car crash in the Texas woods on prom night, and then wander into an old farmhouse that is home to Leatherface and his insane family of cannibalistic psychopaths. Kim Henkel (1994)
A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man’s body. The only problem for him is that it is a BLACK MAN! Roosevelt Grier, Ray Milland, Don Marshall, 1972.
For fans and connoisseurs of psychotronic cinema, over two hours of previously unavailable trailers for some of the most ridiculous films in history. Transferred & Digitally Mastered in 4K from various 35mm release prints.
An unorthodox love story and a truly unsettling thriller, Dutch filmmaker George Sluizer’s The Vanishing unfolds with meticulous intensity, leading to an unforgettable finale that has unnerved audiences around the world. Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu.
BACK IN STOCK! As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon “Videodrome,” a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend (Deborah Harry) auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
After a pair of amateur criminals break into a suburban home, they stumble upon a dark secret that two sadistic homeowners will do anything to keep from getting out. Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Blake Baumgartner, Dan Berk, Robert Olsen, 2019.
BACK IN STOCK! THE FINAL CUT! A righteous police officer investigates the disappearance of a young girl on an island inhabited by a cult of pagans. Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt.
After a mysterious girl emerges as the sole survivor of a bloody raid on the research facility behind the top-secret Witch Program, she is rescued by a couple who understands the grave danger the girl now faces. Park Hoon-jung, 2022.
BACK IN STOCK! Idiosyncratic horror-comedy about a misfit cop investigating a rash of murders of young women in the sleepy town of Snow Hollow. Robert Forster, Jim Cummings, 2020.
BCK IN STOCK! A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks. Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, 1981.
From the makers of Daimajin comes a trilogy of terror ripped from the pages of Japanese folklore: 100 MONSTERS / SPOOK WARFARE / ALONG WITH GHOSTS. Also includes Takashi Miike’s remake THE GREAT YOKAI WAR.
Double Feature Of Billy The Kid and The Boys!
And There we go guys. Lots Of stuff to think about as a film collector and movie lover. Hopefully something caught your eyes for the upcoming long weekend. Cheers!
