The obscure film OBSESSIONS (aka A HOLE IN THE WALL) was directed by Dutch artsploitation auteur Pim de la Parra and co-produced by longtime collaborator Wim Verstappen (BLUE MOVIE). This gritty, psychedelic Hitchcockian mystery, which is notable for being the first Dutch film shot in English-language, starts in a savagely brutal fashion. When a bloody painting of Vincent van Gogh falls from a wall and exposes a makeshift peephole, student protagonist Nils Janssen (played by the film’s German co-producer Dieter Geissler) becomes an unwitting witness to a gruesome sex crime next door. When his young fiancée Marina (Alexandra Stewart of Truffaut’s DAY FOR NIGHT), an enterprising journalist, tells him about a report of a murder that she is writing, he naturally wonders if it’s the very same killing.
This classic exploitation film was the birth of auteur cinema in Holland, and inspired legendary filmmakers such as Paul Verhoeven to make their start in the industry. Originally distributed in over 100 countries, the film remained unreleased in the U. S. (and France) – until now. Perhaps most notably, the film was co-written by a young Martin Scorsese, who shot the legendary erotic dream sequence for his first feature WHO’S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR (1968) in Amsterdam, that same year. Additionally, the film also stars legendary Dutch filmmaker Fons Rademakers (MIRA, THE ASSAULT), is edited by Henry Rust (CHILDREN OF PARADISE) and scored by Hitchcock composer Bernard Herrmann (TAXI DRIVER, SISTERS). OBSESSIONS is a curious cultural hybrid where late-1960s Dutch exploitation and classic Hollywood Hitchcock collide in a provocative and revolutionary fashion. Hitchcock, Scorsese & Sex. Made in Holland.
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Action
Sortie le 09/05/2017
Editeur: Alive |
USA
Yul Brynner plays the mysterious, gun-slinging anti-hero Sabata in 1971's ADIOS SABATA. Robberies, Mexican revolutionaries, tyranny, double-crossing, and Sabata's brand of Robin Hood-esque justice all come into play in this fun, stylish spaghetti Western from director Gianfranco Parolini.
While going through the remains of their deceased father's video store, two brothers discover an old horror-themed VHS board game. They decide to try it out and play a round, but soon realize that doing so will require them to confront sinister forces. Barbara Crampton, Brea Grant, Graham Skipper, Chase Williamson, and Matt Mercer star in this horror adventure from director Jackson Stewart, which pays homage to the pop culture of the 1980s.
In 1980s German government rarely let classic horror films pass without severe cuts on home video Violent Shit Collection film. To combat this unfortunate situation, many German horror fans scraped together a few bucks, rented video cameras and created their own ultra-violent, gory, splatter film epics Violent Shit Collection video. Arguably the most famous of these micro-budget German gorefests are the VIOLENT SHIT films from director Andreas Schnaas Violent Shit Collection movie. The original VIOLENT SHIT trilogy, along with 2010's VIOLENT SHIT 4.0: KARL THE BUTCHER VS. AXE on DVD for the first time in North America, in versions completely remastered by the original owners. Also includes the crazy English language dub version of ZOMBIE '90: EXTREME PESTILENCE on a Bonus DVD.
Caltiki : Le Monstre Immortel, Caltiki the Undying Monster, Caltiki: Il Mostro Immortale
Horreur Europeen
Sortie le 11/04/2017
Editeur: Arrow US |
USA
Au cours d'une expédition scientifique au coeur de la jungle mexicaine, le biologiste John Fielding découvre une grotte souterraine ornée de sculptures gigantesques entourant une statue de Caltiki, la déesse de la mort. Max, son assistant, est attaqué par un être monstrueux que Fielding réussit à détruire par le feu. Mais un fragment de cette créature reste attaché au bras de Max, comme incorporé à la chair de sa victime, transformant celui-ci en monstre sanguinaire...
Los ojos siniestros del doctor Orloff, Un silencio de tumba
Horreur Europeen
Sortie le 27/03/2017
Editeur: Mondo Macabro |
USA
Deux films de Jess Franco : Los ojos siniestros del doctor Orloff, et Un silencio de tumba. Le premier se déroule sur une île déserte où une vedette de cinéma et ses amis sont assassinés les uns après les autres. Dans le second, William Berger tente de se débarrasser des héritiers de la famille de Lord Comfort. Pour y parvenir, il utilise Melissa (Montserrat Prous) dont il se sert comme d'un objet grâce à l'hypnose.
Based on the famous Victorian erotic novel of the same name, this film is equal parts style and substance as we are transported inside the erotic Victorian world of love and lust, all told by the smallest voyeur of all, a flea who inhabits the privates of a young girl. The erotic adventures of his host are narrated by the tiny storyteller and revolve around several lascivious priests who seduce young virgins turning them into sex machines. Truly an all-time classic.
In today's world of modern conveniences, everything we rely on is run by electricity. But what happens if the power we take for granted turns against us? Old man Holger (Charles Tyner) knows. He claims electricity is a living presence, whose voice can only be silenced by getting rid of anything that can hear it. Bill Rockland (Cliff De Young), however, refuses to believe him. It must have been an accident when an electric spark ruptured the gas pipe that nearly killed Bill's son (Joey Lawrence). And it's surely a coincidence when his wife (Roxanne Hart) is severely scalded by their electric water heater. But when his own power tools attack him and an electrical fire turns their home into a blazing inferno, Bill realizes Holger may have been right after all, and perhaps the time has come to finally pull the plug.
In the history of Synapse Films few titles have generated as much excitement as POPCORN, director Mark Herrier’s 1991 cult favorite that’s been one of the most in-demand genre films of the Blu-ray era. Unavailable for over a decade, POPCORN finally comes to HD in a deliciously butter-topped Limited Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Steelbook® Blu-ray that will have fans craving for refills!
What could be scarier than an all-night “Horrorthon”? A group of film students finds out when they stage just such an event at an abandoned movie palace. In addition to the three features—MOSQUITO, THE ATTACK OF THE AMAZING ELECTRIFIED MAN and THE STENCH—they decide to screen a bizarre short called THE POSSESSOR, whose creator, Lanyard Gates, killed his family and set the theater on fire after its first showing. Maggie (Jill Schoelen, THE STEPFATHER) has been having frightening dreams that seem to be connected to THE POSSESSOR, and as the festival proceeds, the nightmare comes true for her and her friends as they are stalked and slain by a mysterious killer. Has Gates survived to continue THE POSSESSOR’s deadly legacy?
A loving homage to ’50s/’60s B-movies (the trio of flicks shown at the Horrorthon all have accompanying William Castle-style gimmicks), POPCORN is also an insanely fun horror/comedy in its own right. Pseudonymously written by Alan Ormsby (CAT PEOPLE, DEATHDREAM), who directed the films-within-the-film, it celebrates the joys of old-fashioned creature features and ’80s-style stalk-and-slay, with a great cast additionally including Dee Wallace Stone (THE HOWLING), Tony Roberts (AMITYVILLE 3-D), Ray Walston (THE STAND), Malcolm Danare (CHRISTINE) and Kelly Jo Minter (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5). Pop some popcorn of your own and settle in to watch this new high-definition transfer, which comes with a box full of bonus features!
Ludwig. He loved women. He loved men. He lived as controversially as he ruled. But he did not care what the world thought. He was the world.
A string of masterpieces behind him - including Ossessione, Senso, The Leopard and Death in Venice - the great Italian director Luchino Visconti turned his attentions to the life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria in 1972, resulting in an epic of 19th century decadence.
Dominated by Helmut Berger (The Damned, The Bloodstained Butterfly) in the title role, Ludwignevertheless manages to find room for an impressive cast list: Romy Schneider (reprising her Elisabeth of Austria characterisation from the Sissi trilogy), Silvana Mangano (Bitter Rice), Gert Fröbe (Goldfinger), John Moulder-Brown (Deep End) and Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter) as RichardWagner.
As opulent as any of Visconti's epics - Piero Tosi's costume design was nominated for an Academy Award - Ludwig is presented here in its complete form in accordance with the director's wishes and features the English-language soundtrack for the first ever on home video.
Having tackled the corrupting nature of power with Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and taken an angry, impassioned look at labour relations with The Working Class Goes to Heaven, Italian master Elio Petri next turned his attentions to capitalism for the darkly comic Property is No Longer a Theft.
A young bank clerk (Flavio Bucci, the blind pianist in Dario Argento's Suspiria), denied a loan by his employer, decides to exact his revenge the local butcher (Ugo Tognazzi, La Grande bouffe) who is not only a nasty, violent, greedy piece of work but also one of the bank's star customers. Quitting his job, the clerk devotes all of his time tormenting the butcher, stealing his possessions one-by-one, including his mistress (Daria Nicolodi, Deep Red).
Told in an off-kilter fashion by Petri, abetted by the woozy sound design and another outstanding score by Ennio Morricone, Property is No Longer a Theft presents a caustic, blackly comic look at a corrupt society.
After Raquel Welch conquered the screen in One Million Years B.C., Hammer Studios followed up with When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, written and directed by Val Guest (The Quatermass Xperiment) and based on a story by J.G. Ballard (Crash). Victoria Vetri stars as Sanna, rescued from ritual sacrifice by Tara (Robin Hawdon), a member of a rival tribe. Her survival coincides with the mysterious formation of a new 'fire' in the sky: the moon! Sanna's old tribe blames her for this affront to the sun; Sanna flees their wrath and Tara follows. Their shared adventures loom as large as the giants who once ruled the earth! -
When best friends Glen and Terry stumble across a mysterious crystalline rock in Glen's backyard, they quickly dig up the newly sodden lawn searching for more precious stones. Instead, they unearth THE GATE — an underground chamber of terrifying demonic evil. The teenagers soon understand what evil they've released as they are overcome with an assortment of horrific experiences. With fiendish followers invading suburbia, it's now up to the kids to discover the secret that can lock The Gate forever . . . if it's not too late.
Lester Bacon's slaughterhouse has run into financial problems. Faced with the town lawyer, the sheriff, and the rival slaughterhouse owner trying to purchase his land, Lester decides to take matters into his own hands. After discovering the type of violence his hulking and mentally deranged son, Buddy, is capable of, Lester orders him to permanently dispose of anyone who “conspires” against them...
A late 80s video store staple, Rick Roessler's SLAUGHTERHOUSE is a gleefully bloody San Diego shot slasher featuring atmospheric and noirish cinematography along with a generous helping of creative kills. Vinegar Syndrome proudly presents SLAUGHTERHOUSE in its North American Blu-ray debut, newly restored in 2k from its 35mm Interpositive and featuring the original Ultra-Stereo sound mix for the first time on home video.
THE NIGHT BIRD: The Nite Bird is the hottest disco in town, where everyone gets down on and off the dance floor. Southside and his friends hit the streets, searching for the hottest disco girls in the Big Apple, in a never ending quest of drinking, dancing, and, of course, sex. However, Southside has lately been rethinking his life and might want something more than just gang war and disco fever sex.
NIGHT OF THE SPANISH FLY: Somehow a shipment of Gogo Wieners and the aphrodisiac Spanish Fly have been cross contaminated in transit and have been accidentally distributed. As the drugged wieners are consumed by citizens word spreads of raucous love making throughout the metropolitan area. We see first hand the effects in one case after another.
Your favorite nightmares come to life in a horror/fantasy salute to the age-old bedtime story ritual. Travel on a mysterious journey to a medieval world populated by blood-crazed witches, evil experiments and captive maidens.
Then from the catacombs and dark caverns of medieval Europe you plunge into modern suburbia and the frolicsome adventures of a nubile lady jogger tracked by a savage werewolf.
Finally, sensuality becomes macabre black comedy on the trail of three escaped mental patients who share a country house with a daffy murderess.
Priscilla is a tease, flirting with every man she meets. When her mother catches her with Dan, a dockhand, Priscilla accuses the man of attacking her, resulting in a shoot out from which he's left for dead. However, Dan is quickly rescued by two women, who put him to work at an all male brothel with an exclusively female clientele. Becoming fast friends with the other 'studs’, Dan soon finds a new home, that is, until he's warned about the notorious 'nutcracker’.
Acclaimed filmmaker Alex deRenzy's dark social satire, BABYFACE, remains one of the director's most controversial and often censored films. Featuring an all star cast, including Amber Hunt and Paul Thomas, as well as a haunting performance from Molly Seagrim, Vinegar Syndrome brings this landmark film to Blu-ray, fully uncut and restored from long lost 35mm vault elements.
Thriller psychologique et surnaturel d'origine coréenne. Une femme suspecte son mari d’infidélité depuis l'arrivée dans leur maison d'une femme de ménage. Celle-ci emporte avec elle une mystérieuse poupée en bois...
For his final work, Godfather Of Mondo Franco E. Prosperi took on the Nature Strikes Back genre and delivered perhaps the most shocking movie of his controversial career: When PCP gets into the water supply of a city zoo, the drug-crazed beasts including tigers, lions, cheetahs, hyenas and elephants, as well as seeing eye dogs and sewer rats go berserk and rampage through the streets of Rome. What follows is a terrifying mix of actual animal attacks (supervised by professional circus trainers) and over-the-top 80s Italian gore that remains the greatest eco-revenge shocker in EuroCult history. Lorraine De Selle (CANNIBAL FEROX, HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE PARK) and Ugo Bologna (NIGHTMARE CITY) star in this disturbing urban bloodbath, now digitally remastered for the first time ever and bursting with all-new Special Features!
For his final work, Godfather Of Mondo Franco E. Prosperi took on the Nature Strikes Back genre and delivered perhaps the most shocking movie of his controversial career: When PCP gets into the water supply of a city zoo, the drug-crazed beasts including tigers, lions, cheetahs, hyenas and elephants, as well as seeing eye dogs and sewer rats go berserk and rampage through the streets of Rome. What follows is a terrifying mix of actual animal attacks (supervised by professional circus trainers) and over-the-top 80s Italian gore that remains the greatest eco-revenge shocker in EuroCult history. Lorraine De Selle (CANNIBAL FEROX, HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE PARK) and Ugo Bologna (NIGHTMARE CITY) star in this disturbing urban bloodbath, now digitally remastered for the first time ever and bursting with all-new Special Features!
Cette compilation fait honneur aux courts-métrages X tournés en 8 mm et distribués via les magazines pornographiques ou les peep show des grandes villes entre les années 60 et 80. Dans ce nouveau volume, retrouvez une quinzaine de films comme“Truck Girls”, “Lesbian Lust”, “Angie’s Dream”, “Pom Pom Power” avec Linda Shaw, Vanessa Del Rio, Merle Richards et bien d'autres.
First, in Robert Vincent O’Neill’s BLOOD MANIA, Carpenter stars as Craig, lover of the unstable Victoria (Maria De Aragon), who’s very keen to see her wealthy father reach an early grave so she can inherit his fortune. Deciding to speed up the process, she concocts a diabolical plan for his demise, only to be met with some unexpected obstacles… Playing like a sex and violence drenched soap opera, BLOOD MANIA is a mind-bending drive-in oddity that keeps you guessing until its final shocking twist.
Then, in Alex Nicol’s POINT OF TERROR, Carpenter headlines as Tony Trelos, a lounge singer who mysteriously wakes up on Andrea’s (Dyanne Thorne) private beach. The two quickly begin an affair, but things get complicated when Andrea decides to murder her wheelchair bound husband and Tony starts sleeping with Andrea’s pretty stepdaughter… With its Tom Jones inspired musical interludes and DP Robert Maxwell’s Bava-esque lighting scheme, POINT OF TERROR plays like a candy colored acid trip into the world of vanity themed exploitation.
Vinegar Syndrome proudly brings both of these jaw dropping classics to Blu-ray, newly restored from their original negatives and featuring their much sought after alternative TV versions (exclusive to this first pressing of 3,000 units)!
AT MIDNIGHT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL is celebrated as the first true horror film ever made in Brazil and is extremely graphic and frightening for its time. Startling, atmospheric and incredibly gruesome, this film is followed by THIS NIGHT I'LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE and EMBODIMENT OF EVIL (all available from Synapse Films).
Carol Anne a été envoyé dans une école spéciale pour les enfants doués, mais émotionnellement perturbés tout en vivant avec sa tante et son oncle. Le prédicateur de la douleur est encore à essayer de l'attirer de l'autre côté, donc moyen diminutif Tangina monte la garde pour la protéger. Heather O'Rourke, la jeune star, décédé tragiquement pendant le tournage.
Durant la seconde Guerre Mondiale, deux jeunes agents de l'armée américaine se portent volontaire pour infiltrer un camp nazi dans lequel se déroulent d’innommables tortures.
From enigmatic director Donald M. Jones comes one of the most disturbing and rarely seen serial killer sagas of the 80s: By day, mild-mannered Steve Belmont (Eli Rich of THE JIGSAW MURDERS) is a clean-cut teacher and youth counselor at his Los Angeles church. But by night, he's a sexual psychopath who murders prostitutes and dumps their bodies in the Mojave Desert. Ashley St. Jon (TAKIN IT OFF) co-stars in this overlooked and effective (Horrorpedia) chiller, now with an all-new audio commentary and available uncut on DVD for the first time ever.
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