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  • Lady Frankenstein

    Movie

    1971 • Italy • Directed by Mel Welles and Aureliano Luppi

    Co-produced by Roger Corman, "one of the most underrated horror movies of all time" (Classic Horror) features lurid direction by Mel Welles (LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS) from a story by by Dick Randall (PIECES), and a cast that includes Hollyw...

  • Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein

    Movie

    1972 • France • Directed by Jess Franco

    Inspired by Universal's 1940s monster mash-ups, writer/director Jess Franco instead delivered "a weird and wonderful masterpiece that transports you to a world like no other" (Scream Magazine): With minimal dialogue and maximum gothic atmosphere, Franco cr...

  • Libido

    Movie

    1965 • Italy • Directed by Vittorio Salerno and Ernesto Gastaldi

    The screenwriter of classics that include THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH, ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK and TORSO, Ernesto Gastaldi made his directorial debut with one of the most groundbreaking yet underseen gialli of them all: When ...

  • Prague Nights

    Movie

    1969 • Czech Republic • Directed by Jiří Brdečka

    In the vein of horror anthologies like Mario Bava's BLACK SABBATH, the long-unseen PRAGUE NIGHTS is a gorgeous and supernatural vision of ancient and modern Prague: caught between Mod Sixties fashions and nightmarish Medieval catacombs, and filled...

  • Cocaine Crabs From Outer Space

    Movie

    2022 • United States • Directed by Chuck Magee

    When a couple of intergalactic space crabs land on Earth, they encounter the one thing they didn't expect... A duo of dumb frat boys force-feeding them cocaine! As it turns out, cocaine gives space crabs an overbearing impulse to kill! Their string ...

  • Pandemonium
    Movie + 6 extras

    Pandemonium

    Movie + 6 extras

    2023 • France • Directed by Quarxx

    Director Quarxx (All the Gods in the Sky) explores the peculiar, welcoming all those hungry for wonder, in Pandemonium, a unique cinematic blend of fantasy, drama, genre, and humour.

    Nathan (Hugo Dillon) and Daniel (Arben Bajraktaraj) are caught in a road acci...

  • Eaten Alive
    Movie + 4 extras

    Eaten Alive

    Movie + 4 extras

    1976 • United States • Directed by Tobe Hooper

    Nearly a decade before he donned Freddy Krueger's famous red and green sweater, horror icon Robert Englund delivered a supremely sleazy performance in Eaten Alive another essay in taut Southern terror from Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chain Sa...

  • Spider Baby
    Movie + 2 extras

    Spider Baby

    Movie + 2 extras

    1967 • United States • Directed by Jack Hill

    This was the first solo feature by Jack Hill (Coffy, Switchblade Sisters, Foxy Brown), whom Quentin Tarantino dubbed 'the Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking', and it remains one of his wildest and weirdest.

    The credits dub this 'the maddest stor...

  • The Strange World of Coffin Joe

    Movie + 2 extras

    1968 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins

    The Strange World of Coffin Joe is an anthology horror film hosted by Zé do Caixão featuring three short films directed by José Mojica Marins which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish, and a psychotic profes...

  • Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

    Movie + 2 extras

    1981 • Japan • Directed by Shinji Sômai

    A perky high-schooler takes on the mob in Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, a one-of-a-kind genre-bender that riffs on the yakuza film, coming-of-age drama and ‘idol movie’, inventively adapted from Jiro Akagawa's popular novel by director Shinji Somai (Typhoo...

  • Deadbeat At Dawn
    Movie + 6 extras

    Deadbeat At Dawn

    Movie + 6 extras

    Written by, directed by and starring Van Bebber, Deadbeat follows the story of Goose - a gang leader whose girlfriend is brutally slaughtered when he attempts to leave the thug life behind. Pulled back into the gang, who've now formed an uneasy alliance with the thugs that butchered his girl, Goo...

  • Tetsuo - The Iron Man

    Movie

    A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of dis...

  • Alien From The Abyss

    Movie

    1989 • Italy • Directed by Antonio Margheriti

    For one of the final films of his legendary career, director Antonio Margheriti headed to the Philippines to deliver "the perfect '80s Italian popcorn flick" (Mondo Digital): When environmental activists attempt to expose an evil corporation dumping ...

  • Beast From Haunted Cave

    Movie

    1959 • United States • Directed by Monte Hellman

    "Screaming young girls sucked into a labyrinth of horror by a blood-starved ghoul from Hell." So said the original advertising for Beast from Haunted Cave. Directed by Monte Hellman, filmed in the Black Hills of South Dakota, this feature is about...

  • The Last Video Store
    Movie + 2 extras

    The Last Video Store

    Movie + 2 extras

    2023 • Canada • Directed by Tim Rutherford and Cody Kennedy

    A love letter to video rental stores and the B-movie treasures that lined their walls, Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford's debut feature, The Last Video Store, is a genre-loving blast of pure joy: "a real treasure trove for genre fans, both...

  • Hellbent

    Movie

    1988 · United States · Directed by Richard Casey

    A bandleader whose career is nosediving makes a deal with the owner of a bar to sell his soul for success.

  • Bastard Swordsman
    Movie + 2 extras

    Bastard Swordsman

    Movie + 2 extras

    1983 • Hong Kong • Directed by Lu Chun-ku

    Actor Lu Chun-ku really hit his stride as a director of mystical kung-fu epics such as this, truly one of the best of its kind. Norman Tsui stars as a put-upon illegitimate son of a “Martial Arts World” master, who nearly sacrifices all to learn the “Sil...

  • Buddha's Palm
    Movie + 5 extras

    Buddha's Palm

    Movie + 5 extras

    1982 • Hong Kong • Directed by Taylor Wong

    In the arsenal of classic martial arts secret weapons, there is none more lethal than the Buddha’s Palm, a technique by which an ordinary hand is transformed into a formidable force. Koo, a blind recluse living in a cave, knows its secret, which proves ...

  • Mother Fucker

    2017 • United States • Directed by Nicholas Payne Santos

    Charles is deeply in debt and desperate to save his kidnapped dog. In a last-ditch effort to secure the ransom, Charles returns home to ask his wealthy, widowed mother for help. An unimaginable bargain is struck.

  • We Are the Flesh

    Movie

    A visionary and bizarre slice of Mexican arthouse cinema, We Are the Flesh is an extraordinary and unsettling film experience, a sexually charged and nightmarish journey into an otherworldly dimension of carnal desire and excess, as well as a powerful allegory on the corrupting power of human des...

  • 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 ...

  • And God Said to Cain

    1970 • Italy • Directed by Antonio Margheriti

    The inimitable Klaus Kinski (Double Face) gives an uncharacteristically restrained performance as a wronged man chasing justice in And God Said to Cain, a dark, uncompromising western from celebrated Italian horror maestro Antonio Margheriti (Canniba...

  • The Church

    Movie

    1989 • Italy • Directed by Michele Soavi

    For his second feature film - and first full collaboration with co-writer/producer/mentor Dario Argento - writer/director Michele Soavi unleashes a "mind-blowing" (Bloody Disgusting) "masterwork" (DVD Drive-In): In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass gra...

  • The Sect

    Movie

    1991 • Italy • Directed by Michele Soavi

    The Sect, also known as The Devils Daughter, the third feature by director Michele Soavi - his second collaboration with producer/co-writer Dario Argento - can now be experienced like never before: As a global satanic cabal grows in ferocity, an unwitting...