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Donnie Darko

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C.D. Workman

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Published on 05-24-2017 08:58 AM

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Released by: Arrow Films
Released on: April 18, 2017
Directed by: Richard Kelly
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Katharine Ross, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daveigh Chase, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, Seth Rogen
Year: 2001
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A suburban teenager, Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), is awakened one fall morning by a person dressed in a sinister rabbit costume who calls himself Frank. Frank (James Duval) tells Donnie in exactly how many days, down to the very second, that the world is going to end. Not long after, Donnie ...

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Django, Prepare A Coffin

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Mark Tolch

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Published on 05-22-2017 09:01 AM

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Released By: Arrow Video
Released On: April 25, 2017.
Director: Ferdinando Baldi
Cast: Terence Hill, Horst Frank, George Eastman, José Torres
Year: 1968
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The Movie:

In 1966, Sergio Corbucci's Western film Django turned Franco Nero into an instant legend as the coffin-dragging title character, still blowing minds over 40 years later, and spawned a ...

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Blackenstein

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Ian Jane

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Published on 05-19-2017 08:38 AM

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Released by: Severin Films
Released on: May 30th, 2017.
Director: William A. Levey
Cast: John Hart, Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue, Roosevelt Jackson
Year: 1973
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The Movie:

When Blacula hit box office gold, it made sense that more blaxploitaiton/horror hyrbids would follow in its wake – and as such, Blackenstein was born, the brain child of writer/producer Frank R. Saletri and director William A. Levey (his directorial debut, two years before ...

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Cops Vs Thugs

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Ian Jane

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Published on 05-18-2017 08:39 AM

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Released by: Arrow Video
Released on: May 22nd, 2017.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata
Year: 1975
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The Movie:

Yakuza movies were at the height of their popularity during the seventies and few directors were at the forefront of the genre in the same way that the late, great Kinji Fukasaku was. While some of his entries in the Japanese gangster film cannon, like ...

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Amuck!

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Ian Jane

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Published on 05-15-2017 08:44 AM

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Released by: Camera Obscura
Released on: April 27th, 2018.
Director: Silvio Amadio
Cast: Farley Granger, Rosalba Neri, Barbara Bouchet, Patrizia Viotti
Year: 1972
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The Movie:

Greta Franklin (Barbara Bouche) takes a new job as a secretary for a famous and well off writer named Richard Stuart (Farley Granger). He lives in a fairly massive old house out on an island near Venice with his beautiful wife Eleanora (Rosalba Neri) on an island. ...

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Autopsy Of Jane Doe, The

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Ian Jane

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Published on 05-11-2017 08:31 AM

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Released by: Shout! Factory/IFC
Released on: June 27th, 2017.
Director: André Øvredal
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Brian Cox, Michael McElhatton, Olwen Kelly, Ophelia Lovibond
Year: 2016
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Directed by André Øvredal, the man who directed the sorely underrated Troll Hunter a few years ago, 2016’s The Autopsy Of Jane Doe first came to this writer’s attention ...

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100 Girls By Bunny Yeager

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Ian Jane

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Published on 05-10-2017 08:33 AM

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Released by: Cult Epics
Released on: April 11th, 2017.
Director: Nico B.
Cast: Bunny Yeager
Year: 1997
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100 Girls By Bunny Yeager is a forty-four minute look at the life and times of its titular subject, 'the worlds prettiest photographer.' It’s been put together by director Nico B., who has, with this project, allowed Yeager (who ...

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Ben

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Ian Jane

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Published on 05-08-2017 08:42 AM

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Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: May 16th, 2017.
Director: Phil Karlson
Cast: Joseph Campanella, Meredith Baxter, Lee Montgomery, Rosemary Murphy
Year: 1972
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In this follow up to 1971’s Willard, we meet Danny Garrison (Lee Montgomery). He’s a young boy who has recently had heart surgery due to a medical condition. He’s also lost his father and lives now with his mother Beth (Rosemary Murphy) and sister ...

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Aria

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Ian Jane

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Published on 05-06-2017 09:36 AM

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Released by: Lightyear
Released on: March 7h, 2017.
Director: Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge, Julien Temple
Cast: Buck Henry, Theresa Russell, Beverly D'Angelo, Bridget Fonda, Julie Hagerty, Elizabeth Hurley, John Hurt
Year: 1987
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Aria maybe a very 'eighties' attempt at bringing opera to the screen, but such an impressive pedigree ...

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Chilly Scenes Of Winter

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Mark Tolch

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Published on 05-04-2017 08:34 AM

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Released By: Twilight Time
Released On: February 14, 2017.
Director: Joan Micklin Silver
Cast: John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan
Year: 1979
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In 1979, the film Head Over Heels, a "romantic comedy" based on the novel Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie, was dropped on unappreciative audiences, and quickly disappeared from theatres. Five years ...

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Dismembered, The

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Ian Jane

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Published on 05-03-2017 08:27 AM

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Released by: Garagehouse Pictures
Released on: April 25th, 2017.
Director: Ralph S. Hirshorn
Cast: Frank Geraci, Tim Sheldon, Kate Shaffmaster, William Lane
Year: 1962
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The Movie:

Never herad of Ralph S. Hirshorn’s 1962 feature film The Dismembered (also known as Oswald, You Botched It Again)? Don’t feel bad. Since it was made in 1962 it’s definitely faded into obscurity – it never ...

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Amuck

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Ian Jane

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Published on 05-02-2017 07:22 AM

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Released by: 88 Films
Released on: February 27th, 2017.
Director: Silvio Amadio
Cast: Farley Granger, Rosalba Neri, Barbara Bouchet, Patrizia Viotti
Year: 1972
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The Movie:

Greta Franklin (Barbara Bouche) takes a new job as a secretary for a famous and well off writer named Richard Stuart (Farley Granger). He lives in a fairly massive old house out on an island near Venice with his beautiful wife Eleanora (Rosalba ...

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Feuertanz (Wake Up And Kill)

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Ian Jane

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Published on 05-01-2017 08:37 AM

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Released by: Subkultur Entertainment
Released on: January 21^st, 2017.
Director: Carlo Lizzani
Cast: Robert Hoffmann, Lisa Gastoni, Gian Maria Volonté
Year: 1966

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Director Carlo Lizzani’s Wake Up And Kill (also known as Wake Up And Die) follows Luciano Lutring (Robert Hoffman), a small time crook who, when almost nabbed by the fuzz, jumps out a window and runs to freedom…. for now. The cops don’t miss the stolen assault rifle that ...

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Creeps, The

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Ian Jane

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Published on 04-29-2017 09:00 AM

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Released by: Full Moon Entertainment
Released on: March, 2017.
Director: Charles Band
Cast: Rhonda Griffin, Justin Lauer, Bill Moynihan, Kristin Norton, Jon Simanton, Phil Fondacaro
Year: 1997
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Anna Quarrels (Rhonda Griffin) is everyone's favorite cliche, the sexy librarian! She works in the rare books section of her city's library where, one day, ...

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Caltiki The Immortal Monster

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Ian Jane

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Published on 04-28-2017 08:39 AM

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Released by: Arrow Video
Released on: April 25th, 2017.
Director: Riccardo Freda, Mario Bava
Cast: John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, Giacomo Rossi Stuart
Year: 1959
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The story for 1959’s Caltiki The Immortal Monster begins when an archeologist named Nieto (Arturo Dominici) wanders back to base camp in bad shape. This concerns the rest of his team - John Fielding (John Merivale), Bob (Daniele Vargas) and Max (Gérard Herter) – who decide to head back into the jungle to find out what happened to the missing ...

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Delinquents, The

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Ian Jane

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Published on 04-25-2017 08:32 AM

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Released by: Olive Films
Released on: March 21st, 2017.
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Peter Miller, Tom Laughlin, Dick Bakalyan, Rosemary Howard
Year: 1957
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Robert Altman’s feature film directorial debut is this low budget ‘youth gone wild’ film made in and around Kansas City in 1957.

The story revolves around a young man named ...

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Dead Or Alive Trilogy

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Ian Jane

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Published on 04-21-2017 09:15 AM

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Released by: Arrow Video
Released on: April 11th, 2017.
Director: Takashi Miike
Cast: Riki Takeuchi, Sho Aikawa
Year: 1999/2000/2002
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Arrow brings together three of Takashi Miike’s earlier V-cinema works on Blu-ray for the first time in North America with their boxed set release of the Dead Or Alive Trilogy.

Dead Or Alive:

In the first picture, Riki Takeuchi (best known for his amazing mullet in Miike’s earlier Fudoh – The New Generation) plays Ryuichi. He is a Ronin-like criminal leading a small gang of criminals who have no allegiance to any social structures, be they law enforcement agencies or the local Yakuza. Anyway, Ryuichi and his gang decide to take their business to the next level and ...

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Dark Waters

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Ian Jane

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Published on 04-18-2017 08:29 AM

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Released by: Severin Films
Released on: April 11th, 2017.
Director: Mariano Baino
Cast: Louise Salter, Venera Simmons, Mariya Kapnist
Year: 1994
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While Mariano Baino's 1994 effort Dark Waters hasn't been impossible to find (it was available via New Yorker Video some years ago and then given a really nice special edition DVD release through No Shame after that back in 2206) it's one of those horror movies that hasn't quite found the audience that it really deserves. This is a shame as Dark Waters is a smart, creepy, ...

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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films / Machete Maidens Unleashed!

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Ian Jane

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Published on 04-17-2017 08:42 AM

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Released by: Umbrella Entertainment
Released on: April 5th, 2017.
Director: Mark Hartley
Cast: Various
Year: 2014/2010
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Two features from documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley exploring some serious treasure troves of exploitation movie history!

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films:

Mark Hartley’s 2014 documentary sheds some welcome light on the combined cinematic output of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, two cousins from Israel with a love for film that they turned into a moviemaking machine. In the eighties in particular, Cannon Films were everywhere – you couldn’t walk two feet without running ...

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Easter Sunday

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Ian Jane

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Published on 04-16-2017 09:30 AM

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Released by: Camp Motion Pictures
Released on: March 14^th, 2017.
Director: Jeremy Todd Morehead
Cast: Robert Z'Dar, Jeremy Todd Morehead, Jason Delgado, Ari Lehman
Year: 2014
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One of the late, GREAT, Robert Z’Dar’s final movies was Jeremy Todd Morehead’s crowdfunded 2014 slasher comedy, Easter Sunday. A very low budget shot on video production, the story here takes place twenty-four years after ...

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