Another week is upon us guys and we got some beautiful special editions of some 80s gems. Joe Dante’s EXPLORERS and CHUCK SHEEN in THE WRAITH! Along with that we have have other flicks coming so let’s take a look shall we…
Back In Stock. All five Final Destination flicks in one set.
Members of the mysterious and spooky Addams family — Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Wednesday, Uncle Fester and Grandma — are readily preparing for a visit from their even creepier relatives. But trouble soon arises when shady TV personality Margaux Needler realizes that the Addams’ eerie hilltop mansion is standing in the way of her dream to sell all the houses in the neighborhood.
In this Danish comedy, 4 friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood. Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Thomas Vinterberg, 2020.
Italian horror, a group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town’s former residents. Joe D’Amato (1980)
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.
Among the ruins of a London devastated by nuclear war, the survivors ineffectually cling to increasingly meaningless social structures. While radioactivity randomly transforms various people into animals and inanimate objects, an absurd election for prime minister takes place. And the parents of Penelope (Rita Tushingham), a young woman who’s been with child for nearly a year and a half, want her to marry a man with a promising future, though the fate of the world itself is rather dim.
Nice, normal-looking Leslie Vernon (Nathan Baesel) has an obsession with movie-style slashers like Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. Leslie decides to follow in the footsteps of his heroes, and, ever the self-promoter, invites a documentary filmmaker (Angela Goethals) and her crew to follow him around as he constructs his own grisly legacy.
Jack is desperately trying for a new start in life, but when he throws away his childhood bear Benny, it’s a move that can only end in death. Karl Holt, 2019.
Italian horror masterpiece, a masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome. Mario Bava (1964)
Starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper. A severed human ear found in a field leads a young man to investigate a mysterious nightclub singer and the criminals who kidnapped her child. David Lynch (1986)
Starring Bill Pullman and Bill Paxton, In a showdown of man versus machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation. Adam Simon (1990)
Banned in 31 countries – the original uncensored, unrated director’s cut of one of the most notorious and violent films of all time. Umberto Lenzi.
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.
A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected.
Condemned maniac escapes capture from the authorities at a bloody cost—by chopping off his manacled hand! Free to kill once more, he outfits his gruesome stump with tools designed to chop, rip, and skewer! Patrick O’Neal, 1966.
Italian horror, an old Gothic cathedral built over a mass grave develops strange powers which trap a number of people inside with ghosts from a 12th Century massacre seeking to resurrect an ancient demon. Michele Soavi (1989)
Tromaville’s honour students are transformed into rampaging freaks when toxic waste leaks into the water supply.
A loving father dons a clown outfit and makeup to perform at his son’s sixth birthday, only to later discover that the costume – red nose and wig included– will not come off, his own personality changing in horrific fashion. Jon Watts (2016)
An astronaut (Ian McCulloch), a colonel (Louise Monroe) and a Brooklyn detective (Martin Mase) track goo-squirting eggs to their source, a one-eyed monster from Mars.
Horror titans George A. Romero and Stephen King deliver yet another fiendish selection of blood-curdling tales in Creepshow 2 – now newly remastered in 2K! Michael Gornick (1987)
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.
Film noir hits the mean streets of 1990s Los Angeles in this stylish and subversive underworld odyssey from veteran actor-director Bill Duke. Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, 1992.
In this definitive Spaghetti Western, Franco Nero gives a career-defining performance as Django, a mysterious loner who arrives at a mud-drenched ghost town on the Mexico-US border, ominously dragging a coffin behind him.
Infamous italian western wher a gunfighter forms a gang of “deceased” execution victims to get revenge on the politician and outlaw who killed his wife. Director: Ferdinando Baldi (1968)
Early 90s cult favourite about a family terrorised by a doll possessed by a vengeful Native spirit. Rip Torn, Maria Lease, 1991.
In this action comedy throwback to 50’s creature features, venomous spiders get exposed to a noxious chemical that causes them to grow to monumental proportions. David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, 2002.
Sweet double feature…
Includes: CRYPT OF THE VAMPIRE (1964) / CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD (1964) / SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE DEADLY NECKLACE (1962) / THE TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM (1967) / CHALLENGE THE DEVIL (1963)
Russian disaster film focusing on the heroic story of the firefighters and rescuers of the Aerial Forest Protection Service. Aleksey Nuzhnyy, 2020.
Beloved cult film about a rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned… from a DIMENSION OF PURE EVIL! Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997
3 curious and adventuresome young boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey. Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix, Jason Presson, Joe Dante.
Part 1 & 2 of Sam Raimi’s classic horror series starring Bruce Campbell: EVIL DEAD (SAM RAIMI 1981), EVIL DEAD 2 (SAM RAIMI 1987)
Sci-fi cheapie featuring 4 astronauts who leisurely make the space flight to Mars and tangle with mischievous Martians. Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz, 1951.
An overworked nurse returns home to find a maniac hiding out with a bruised and beaten hostage. When an unexpected wave of violent intruders descend upon her home, it becomes a fight for survival. Lora Burke, Nick Smyth, Dorian Allen, 2020.
Four teenage friends spent the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a fright mask. Kevin Conway, Elizabeth Berridge, Shawn Carson, Tobe Hooper.
Brand new high definition transfer and restoration of the allegorical blaxploitation vampire film. Duane Jones, Marlene Clark.
Swedish documentary. Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in modern Europe. Benjamin Christensen (1922)
In an effort to repair their ailing marriage, a couple vacations to a remote luxury rental, only to become forcibly trapped inside by an unseen voice that tells them their every move is being watched. Jill Awbrey, Bart Johnson, Travis Cluff, 2020.
HELL’S BELLS is the story of two aging idiots who accidentally make a deal with the Devil to fulfill their life-long dream of being rock stars and the hi-jinx that ensue when it’s time to pay the Reaper.
A witty, disgusting, eye-popping, and incomprehensible scabrous satire of organized religion that follows a Christ figure, his disciples, and their bloody quest for the home of the gods, whom they plan to depose. Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973.
Double feature of the inspired radioactive cannibal films: The Hills Have Eyes (1977) / The Hills Have Eyes II (1984)
In this British / Spanish horror, firmly in the late period Hammer mold, a British anthropologist discovers a frozen prehistoric creature in remote China and must transport it to Europe by train. Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, 1972.
In this balls to the wall martial arts movie an assassin turned sushi chef must complete one final job to finally be free. Masanori Mimoto, Miu, Tasuku Nagase, Kensuke Sonomura, 2019.
Jesus Christ is born again on Earth! But his father is a hardcore Southern Baptist, and during his teen years, Jesus rebels, joining a biker gang and leading an LSD-fueled pilgrimage to “the West” to fight “the establishment.” William F. McGaha, 1972.
Delightfully insane mashup of vintage exploitation tropes and pure absurdism, a WTF thriller, that largely defies explanation. From the director of Crumbs. Daniel Tadesse, Guillermo Llansó, Agustín Mateo, Miguel Llansó, 2019
Starring Ian McKellen. Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison. Michael Mann (1983)
Some Kickboxer flicks coming in. Nuff said…
Peter Lorre stars as serial killer Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang’s harrowing masterwork M, a suspenseful panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.
Henry, and three of his classmates, encounter mind-bending ghostly terror when they volunteer for a weekend study with their psychology professor in the haunted ‘Mad Hatter’ mansion. Cate Devaney, 2021.
Henry, and three of his classmates, encounter mind-bending ghostly terror when they volunteer for a weekend study with their psychology professor in the haunted ‘Mad Hatter’ mansion. Cate Devaney, 2021.
Raucous spoof/tribute to ’50s-era matinees features alien brain parasites who enter humans through the mouth and turn their host into flesh-eating zombies!. Fred Dekker (1986)
With only a recreation center to distract them, most of the teenagers in the drab planned community of New Granada have turned to drugs and delinquency. Carl (Michael Kramer), the son of a town councilman, is an exception, but he can’t seem to help falling in with a charismatic and troubled classmate, Richie (Matt Dillon). Soon after, a trigger-happy sheriff (Harry Northrup) shoots Richie, and sole witness Carl has to go on the run, eventually inciting a dramatic teenage riot.
Beloved animated film featuring songs by Harry Nilsson. A father tells his son a bedtime story about young Oblio, who believes that having no point in the fantastical kingdom of pointed heads and things, still has a point. Ringo Starr, Dustin Hoffman.
In this gory and disturbing thriller assassins use a mind-control device which shunts the consciousness of the victim in a dark recess when taken over. Brandon Cronenberg, 2020.
A log company’s waste mutates the environment, creating a giant killer bear-monster. John Frankenheimer (1979)
There’s no better way to show off your Pioneer Elite monitor than with this amped up Blu-Ray edition of the recent Troma spectacular.
In this delirious, disgusting and delightfully fun “GWAR meets kid film”, a couple of kids meet an alien overlord who’s too serious to take seriously. Matthew Ninaber, Kristen MacCulloch, Rick Amsbury, Steven Kostanski, 2020.
Quirky and unpredictable romantic comedy with a surprisingly effective performance by Adam Sandler. Emily Watson, Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002.
Double feature of the two RAID movies. Amazing as always
All four REC films in one sexy set.
One of the most wildly popular horror movies of all-time, Stuart Gordon’s enduring splatter-comedy classic returns to Blu-ray in a stunning restoration packed with special features! Stuart Gordon (1985)
A weekend holiday turns into a living nightmare for five friends who become the victims of a crazed killer
An ingeniously engineered slash of thoroughly modern horror, arguably the most important film of the Canadian Tax Shelter era, which charts a social breakdown by tearing through our most intrinsic taboos. David Cronenberg, 1975.
While travelling on their first tour an all-girl punk band, Ms. 45, is drugged and kidnapped. When they awaken they find their limbs removed & replaced with crude weaponry, & are forced to fight as gladiators for a sadistic town. Andrew Thomas Hunt, 2020.
3 disc collection of the 15 episodes from the 30-minute syndicated episodes from 1978-80.
Gritty documentary that looks at the lives of teenagers living on the streets of Seattle. Martin Bell, 1984.
Off-kilter thriller featuring a foul-mouthed chicken-hating serial killer who imprisons a mother and daughter while playing a game of cat and mouse with the police. Kate Mulgrew, Rip Torn, James Naughton, Sean S. Cunningham, 1982.
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.
Double bill of classic Thunderbirds! Blast off into interplanetary adventure with the International Rescue team and their incredibly futuristic fleet of Thunderbird rescue ships! THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO (David Lane 1966) THUNDERBIRD 6 (David Lane 1968)
A 98-pound nerd (Mark Torgl) from New Jersey lands in a vat of toxic waste and becomes a benevolent monster (Mitchell Cohen).
Upper-crust executive Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) and down-and-out hustler Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) are the subjects of a bet by successful brokers Mortimer (Don Ameche) and Randolph Duke (Ralph Bellamy). An employee of the Dukes, Winthorpe is framed by the brothers for a crime he didn’t commit, with the siblings then installing the street-smart Valentine in his position. When Winthorpe and Valentine uncover the scheme, they set out to turn the tables on the Dukes.
All three seasons of David Lynch’s iconic series.
A local public station gets a new owner. The station becomes a hit, with all sorts of hilarious sight gags and wacky humor. ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, 1989.
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.
Part road movie, part buddy comedy, part punk musical, and all nuts! A punk band on their first tour hires a roadie who turns out to be a flesh eating demon! Matthew John Lawrence, 2020.
Legendary category 3 serial killer crime thriller from Hong Kong based loosely on a notorious murder which place in Macau in the 80s involving cannibalism. Danny Lee, Anthony Wong, 1993.
Inspired by fairy-tales such as Alice in Wonderland and Little Red-Riding Hood, this surreal Czech tale merges love, fear, sex and religion into one fantastic world. Jaromil Jires, 1970.
The head of a German POW camp, soccer enthusiast Karl von Steiner (Max von Sydow) organizes a match between Nazi players and their Allied captives. Orchestrated as a way to push the Third Reich agenda, the high-profile game is set to feature an international team led by John Colby (Michael Caine), a veteran British player. While the team, which also includes Luis Fernandez (Pelé) of Trinidad, trains for the match, Robert Hatch (Sylvester Stallone) plans a dangerous mass escape from the camp.
High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. After starting a game of Global Thermonuclear War, Lightman leads the supercomputer to activate the nation’s nuclear arsenal in response to his simulated threat as the Soviet Union. Once the clueless hacker comes to his senses, Lightman, with help from his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy), must find a way to alert the authorities to stop the onset of World War III.
Cult teen 80s horror / sci-fi film about a mysterious fast-driving spirit who descends from the sky to take revenge against a road-racing gang of motor-heads. Charlie Sheen, Nick Cassavetes, Sherilyn Fenn, Randy Quaid, Mike Marvin, 1986.
And there you go guys…this week’s goodies. Hopefully they should arrive on Thursday. Much luv as always. Cheers!