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Bloodstained Butterfly, The

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Published on 08-24-2016 08:35 AM

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Released by: Arrow Video
Released on: August 23rd, 2016.
Director: Duccio Tessari
Cast: Helmut Berger, Giancarlo Sbragia, Evelyn Stewart, Gunther Stoll
Year: 1971
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Directed by Duccio Tessari The Bloodstained Butterfly centers around the murder of a beautiful French foreign exchange student named Francoise Pigaut (Carole Andre) after her body is found stabbed to death in a park. The murder took place in daylight and several ...

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American Ninja

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Published on 08-24-2016 08:34 AM

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Released By: Olive Films
Released On: August 16, 2016.
Director: Sam Firstenberg
Cast: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Judie Anderson, Tadashi Yamashita, Phil Brock
Year: 1985
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It's difficult to measure the importance that Cannon Films, resuscitated by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, had on my childhood in the early 1980's. Breakdancers, treasure hunters, special forces operatives, and ninjas were suddenly available to rent from ...

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Abandoned, The

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Published on 08-19-2016 08:30 AM

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Released by: Scream Factory/IFC Midnight
Released on: June 7, 2016
Directed by: Eytan Rockaway
Cast: Louisa Krause, Jason Patric, Mark Margolis, Henry Kelemen, Ezra Knight
Year: 2015
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Julia Streak (Louisa Krause) has a history of mental problems, which has resulted in her mother gaining custody of her daughter. To regain custody, Streak has to prove that ...

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Expresso Bongo

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Published on 08-17-2016 08:36 AM

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Released by: BFI
Released on: April 25, 2016
Directed by: Val Guest
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Sylvia Sims, Yolande Donlan, Cliff Richard, Eric Pohlmann, Hermione Baddely, Gilbert Harding
Year: 1959

The Movie:

The musical genre known as rock and roll began sometime in the late 1940s; it took a number of influences—from rhythm and blues to gospel—and combined them into a unique new form. The exact date of the genre’s birth is disputed, but by the early 1950s, it was distinct enough ...

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Bad Moon

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Published on 08-15-2016 08:25 AM

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Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: July 19^th, 2016.
Director: Eric Red
Cast: Mariel Hemingway, Michael Pare, Mason Gamble, Ken Pogue, Johanna Marlowe
Year: 1996
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Directed by Eric Red, the man who gave us Body Parts and Cohen And Tate and the guy who wrote both The Hitcher and Near Dark, 1996’s Bad Moon begins when a photographer named Ted (Michael Pare) and his ...

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Both Ways

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Published on 08-13-2016 09:11 AM

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Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Released on: July 26th, 2016.
Director: Jerry Douglas
Cast: Gerald Grant, Andrea True, Dean Tait, Katherine Miles, Darby Lloyd Rains
Year: 1975
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Written and directed by Jerry Douglas (the same man who wrote Radley Metzger’s Score), 1975’s Both Ways covers similar ground and even shares a cast member in the form of Gerald Grant. In the film, Grant plays Donald Wyman, a lawyer ...

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Enemy Mine

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Published on 08-11-2016 08:55 AM

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Released by: Eureka Classics
Released on: June 20, 2016
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Richard Marcus, Carolyn McCormick, Bumper Robinson, Jim Mapp, Lance Kerwin
Year: 1985

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In the latter part of this century, a war has broken out between rival species from different planets: the humans, represented by Willis Davidge (Dennis ...

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Basket Case 3: The Progeny (Blu-ray)

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Published on 08-09-2016 08:34 AM

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Released by: Synapse Films
Released on: August 9th, 2016.
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Cast: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Gil Roper, Denise Coop, Annie Ross
Year: 1991
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Those who aren’t familiar with the events in the first two Basket Case films by gloriously demented New York City filmmaker Frank Henenlotter (of Frankenhooker and Brain Damage fame) ...

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Fixed Bayonets!

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Published on 08-09-2016 08:33 AM

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Released by: Eureka/Masters of Cinema
Released on: February 15, 2016
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O’Shea, Richard Hylton, Skip Homeier, David Wolfson, Henry Kulky, Craig Hill, James Dean
Year: 1951

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The Korean War began in the summer of 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. The war was the result of unnaturally drawn territorial ...

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Corporate Assets

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Published on 08-05-2016 08:28 AM

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Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Released on: July 26th, 2016.
Director: Thomas Paine
Cast: Tish Ambrose, Eric Edwards, Robert Kerman, Rachel Ashley, Amber Lynn
Year: 1985
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Thomas Paine’s directorial debut was this glossy 35mm feature introduces us to a business woman named Jill (Tish Ambrose) who is, in fact, a madame – but at least she’s a madame ...

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Binding, The

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Published on 08-04-2016 08:43 AM

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Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: August 2nd, 2016.
Director: Gus Krieger
Cast: Max Adler, Larry Cedar, Amy Gumenick, Josh Heisler, Leon Russom
Year: 2015
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The feature length debut of writer/director Gus Krieger is 2015’s The Binding, a movie that, on the surface at least, seems like another in the seemingly endless line of exorcism/possession films ...

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Funhouse Massacre, The

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Published on 08-02-2016 08:32 AM

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Released By: Shout! Factory
Released On: June 7, 2016.
Director: Andy Palmer
Cast: Robert Englund, Jere Burns, Scottie Thompson, Clint Howard, Courtney Gains
Year: 2015
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If we were to judge The Funhouse Massacre by its cover...the cover of the new Blu-ray from Shout/Scream Factory...we may be convinced that it was nothing but another mediocre, uninspired entry adding to the pile of low-budget horror dreck ...

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Dementia 13 (Film Detective)

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Published on 08-02-2016 08:31 AM

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Released by: Film Detective
Released on: July 26^th, 2016.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: William Campbell, Luana Anders, Bart Patton
Year: 1963
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Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Francis Ford Coppola based of a script he co-wrote with second unit director Jack Hill, 1963’s Dementia 13 isn’t a masterpiece of terror. It is, however, ...

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Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension, The

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Published on 08-01-2016 09:33 AM

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Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: August 16th, 2016.
Director: W.D. Richter
Cast: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Goldblum
Year: 1984
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Directed by W.D. Richter, The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension was a notorious box office flop when it first hit theater screens in 1984 (this reviewer saw it first run with his father and sister in an otherwise completely empty theater!) but it has gone ...

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Bodyguards And Assassins (Blu-ray)

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Published on 07-30-2016 08:45 AM

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Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: June 14^th, 2016.
Director: Teddy Chan
Cast: Tony Leung Ka Fei, Donnie Yen, Leon Lai, Zueqi Wang, Nicholas Tse, Simon Yam
Year: 2009
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Set in 1905, Teddy Chan’s 2009 epic Bodyguards And Assassins tells the story of… some bodyguards and some assassins. There’s more to it than that though, but the title more ...

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Candy Tangerine Man / Lady Cocoa

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Published on 07-29-2016 08:37 AM

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Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Released on: July 26th, 2016.
Director: Matt Cimber
Cast: John Daniels, Eli Haines, George Flower, Meri McDonald, Lola Falana
Year: 1975
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In 1975, Matt Cimber directed two low budget Blaxploitation pictures that have rightly gone on to be considered cult classics. Vinegar Syndrome pairs them together for their Blu-ray debut.

The Candy Tangerine Man:

The first feature introduces us to a tough talking pimp dubbed The Baron (John Daniels). A pair of cops named Dempsey (Richard ...

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Basket Case 2

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Published on 07-28-2016 08:44 AM

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Released by: Synapse Films
Released on: August 9th, 2016.
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Cast: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Annie Ross, Kathryn Meisle, Heather Rattray, Jason Evers, Ted Sorel
Year: 1990
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Shot back to back with Basket Case 3 and Frankenhooker, Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case 2 isn’t as unique a horror film as its predecessor but it’s still a fun, colorful ...

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5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T, The

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Published on 07-21-2016 08:34 AM

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Released by: Mill Creek Entertainment
Released on: June 7th, 2016.
Director: Roy Rowland
Cast: Tommy Rettig, Mary Healy, Hans Conried, Peter Lind Hayes, Jack Heasley
Year: 1953
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Teenaged Bart Collins (Tommy Rettig) leads a pretty mundane life, or so he thinks. Making matters worse, on top of the typical adolescent grumpiness he contends with day in and day out, he’s forced to take piano lessons from the ...

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Doctor Butcher M.D. / Zombie Holocaust

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Published on 07-20-2016 08:36 AM

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Released by: Severin Films
Released on: July 26^th, 2016.
Director: Marino Girolami
Cast: Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Delli Colli, Sherry Buchannan, Peter O’Neal, Donald O'Brien
Year: 1980
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Originally directed by Marino Girolami in 1980 (though released in an alternate form with added footage under the title of Dr. Butcher M.D. in the U.S – more on that in a bit), Zombie Holocaust made the obvious choice of combining two of the Italian horror boom’s most beloved genres, those being the zombie film and the cannibal film. The title itself is even a nod to Fulci’s Zombie and Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust. The end result is a puzzling film, one which doesn’t ...

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Boy Who Cried Werewolf, The

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Published on 07-20-2016 08:35 AM

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Released by: Shout! Factory/Scream
Released on: July 26, 2010
Directed by: Nathan H. Juran
Cast: Kerwin Mathews, Elaine Devry, Scott Sealey, Robert J. Wilke, Bob Homel, Susan Foster, Jack Lucas, George Gaynes, Loretta Temple, David S. Cass, Sr.
Year: 1973
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It may come as a surprise for some horror aficionados that most of the ...

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