Gala Avary Selects
Gala Avary from THE VIDEO ARCHIVES PODCAST invites you into the scene…
POV: It’s Friday night. Instead of going out, we’ve decided to stay in and hang out. We’ve already labored over the difficult decision of what to eat (and, of course, decided on ordering Thai food like usual) — but now it’s time for the even harder choice of the night. What are we going to watch? Don’t worry, you won’t have to make that decision. You sigh a big breath of relief realizing that when you’re with me, I’ve got control of the clicker. You settle down on the comfortable couch with your curry and egg rolls, put your feet up, and prepare to watch one of these Arrow Selects...
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Road Games
1981 • Australia • Directed by Richard Franklin
Stacey Keach (Escape From New York) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) star in Quentin Tarantino's favourite Australian film: Road Games, a high-speed thriller with a Brian May score that you won't regret putting your thumb out for.
A laid-back Amer...
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The Swinging Cheerleaders
Kate, an undergraduate at Mesa University, goes undercover as a cheerleader for her college newspaper in order to expose 'female exploitation in contemporary society'. But instead of oppression she finds love, friendship and a bigger fish to fry: corruption in the football team, headed up by the ...
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Re-Animator
1985 · United States · Directed by Stuart Gordon
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
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Countess Dracula
1971 • United Kingdom • Directed by Peter Sasdy
In 17th-century Hungary, elderly widow Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy maintains her misleading youthful appearance by bathing in the blood of virgins regularly supplied to her by faithful servant Captain Dobi.
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The Living Dead Girl
1982 • France • Directed by Jean Rollin
A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.
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Double Face
In the post-war years, the proliferation of transnational European co-productions gave rise to a cross-pollination of genres, with the same films sold in different markets as belonging to different movements. Among these, Riccardo Freda's ('I vampiri', 'The Horrible Dr. Hichock') 'Double Face' wa...
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The Suspicious Death of a Minor
In the wake of the success of Dario Argento's ground-breaking giallo "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage", numerous other directors stepped forward to try their hand at these lurid murder-mysteries. At the forefront was Sergio Martino (The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh, Torso), whose sensual 70s thril...
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Screamers
1979 • Italy • Directed by Sergio Martino
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does...
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Intruder
1989 • United States • Directed by Scott Spiegel
Ace check-out girl, Jennifer, has a deranged ex-boyfriend who's fresh out of prison. When he appears outside, weird things start happening. The phone lines are cut, and the night crew starts dying...one by one, in the most gruesome ways imaginable...
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The Slayer
Two young couples set off to a secluded island for what promises to be a restful retreat. But the peace is short-lived: as a storm batters the island, troubled artist Kay begins to sense that a malevolent presence is here with them, stalking them at every turn. Is she losing her mind, or are her ...
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Cemetery without Crosses
After her husband is lynched by bandits, Michèle Mercier (Black Sabbath) seeks revenge and turns to an old friend, played by Robert Hossein, for help. A solitary figure who lives in a ghost town and dons a single black glove before each gunfight, Hossein is initially reluctant but soon infiltrate...
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Tourist Trap
1979 • United States • Directed by David Schmoeller
A deserted wax museum, SLAUSEN'S LOST OASIS, is the site for terror when young travellers are lured into a deadly "TOURIST TRAP." Slausen is the reclusive and bizarre owner of this attraction, which is more like a macabre chamber of horrors. Th...
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The Slumber Party Massacre
1982 • United States • Amy Holden Jones
A female high school student's slumber party turns into a bloodbath, as a newly escaped psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill prowls her neighborhood.
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Mighty Peking Man (English version)
1977 • Hong Kong • Directed by Meng-Hua Ho
When Hollywood announced a big-budget remake of King Kong, Shaw Brothers followed suit with perhaps the most unhinged giant monster movie ever made: Mighty Peking Man. Fresh off directing the smash hit Black Magic horror series for Shaw, director Ho Men...
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Horror Hospital
1973 • United Kingdom • Directed by Antony Balch
Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehouse Manor, a health farm run by the leather-gloved, ex-Nazi scientist Dr. Storm. Along the way, Jason meets Judy, also on her way to Brittlehouse Ma...
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The Beast In Heat
1977 • Italy • Directed by Luigi Batzella
In a remote village in occupied Europe, the SS pursue their inhuman treatment of captured partisans in an effort to force them to betray their comrades... while Fraulein Krast, a sadistic biologist, concentrates her efforts on the womenfolk with refined ...
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Switchblade Sisters
1977 · United States · Directed by Jack Hill
THE WILDEST GIRL GANG THAT EVER BLASTED THE STREETS!
From Jack Hill, legendary director of Spider Baby, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and The Swinging Cheerleaders comes another iconic cult classic, Switchblade Sisters!
Lace (Robbie Lee), the leader of inner c...
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Humanoids From the Deep
Humanoid sea creatures emerge from the depths and start killing a fishing town's residents and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off. This glorious, gory and grisly 1980 monster movie also features a score by James Horner and Roger C...
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Mill of the Stone Women (Italian version)
1960 • Italy • Directed by Giorgio Ferroni
Before Black Sabbath, before I Vampiri, director Giorgio Ferroni (The Lion of Thebes, Blood for a Silver Dollar) introduced audiences to period horror Italian-style with his chilling 1960 shocker Mill of the Stone Women – a classic tale of terror redole...