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Pets

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Published on 05-25-2018 04:00 AM

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Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Released on: May 25th, 2018.
Director: Raphael Nussbaum
Cast: Ed Bishop, Joan Blackman, Candice Rialson, Teri Guzman, Brett Parker, Matt Green, Mike Cartel, K.T. Stevens
Year: 1974
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Raphael Nussbaum’s 1974 film Pets tells the story of a beautiful woman named Bonnie (Candice Rialson) who escapes from her creepily controlling pimp-esque brother (Mike Cartel) and makes it out into the streets of early seventies Los Angeles and then the beach. Here she befriends a ...

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Of Unknown Origin

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Published on 05-23-2018 08:32 AM

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Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: May 22nd, 2018.
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Cast: Peter Weller, Jennifer Dale, Lawrence Dane, Kenneth Welsh, Louis Del Grande, Shannon Tweed, Maury Chaykin
Year: 1983
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Directed by the late, great George P. Cosmatos in 1983 just a few short years before he’d strike box office gold with Rambo: First Blood Part II and then Cobra, Of Unknown Origin, written by Brian ...

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Shocking Dark

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Published on 05-22-2018 07:25 AM

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Shocking Dark
Released by: Severin Films
Released on: May 29th, 2018.
Director: Bruno Mattei
Cast: Christopher Ahrens, Haven Tyler, Geretta Geretta, Fausto Lombardi, Dominica Coulson
Year: 1989
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There are knock offs, and then there are knock offs, and Bruno Mattei’s 1989 film Shocking Dark (also released as Alienators and, yes, as Terminator 2), is a knock off. It’s also a film that takes place in the terrifying future of the year 2000. Here, Venice, Italy has been transformed ...

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Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song

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Published on 05-21-2018 07:24 AM

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Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Released on: May 29th, 2018.
Director: Melvin Van Peebles
Cast: Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, Mario Van Peebles, John Dullaghan, Wesley Gale, Niva Ruschell, John Amos, Lavelle Roby
Year: 1971
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In 1971, a young filmmaker named Melvin Van Peebles would effectively kick start the 'blaxploitation' genre with his notorious full-length feature film, Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song. This was a low budget picture (finished with money borrowed from none other than Bill Cosby), which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in made completely outside of the established ...

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New Centurions, The

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Published on 05-18-2018 08:16 AM

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Released by: Twilight Time Releasing
Released on: March 27th, 2017.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson, Rosalind Cash, Erik Estrada, Clifton James
Year: 1972
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Based on former L.A.P.D. officer Joseph Wambaugh’s autobiographical book of the same name, Richard Fleischer’s 1972 adaptation of The New Centurions follows the exploits of three rookie ...

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Old Dark House, The

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Published on 05-17-2018 08:32 AM

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Released by: Eureka/Masters Of Cinema
Released on: May 21^st, 2018.
Director: James Whale
Cast: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton
Year: 1932
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Directed by James Whale way back when in 1932 for Universal, The Old Dark House is not be as well-known as some of the other classic Universal horror pictures of the time. It'll always live in the shadow of Whale's more famous Karloff collaborations, those obviously being Frankenstein ...

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Outlaw, The

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Published on 05-16-2018 10:58 AM

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Released by: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Released on: February 27th, 2018.
Director: Howard Hughes
Cast: Jane Russell, Walter Huston, Thomas Mitchell, Jack Buetel, Mimi Aguglia
Year: 1943
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The second and final film to be directed by quirky business tycoon Howard Hughes, 1943's The Outlaw tells the story of notorious outlaw duo Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel in his first feature film appearance) and Doc Holliday (Walter ...

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Sweet Virginia

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Published on 05-14-2018 08:19 AM

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Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: April 3rd, 2017.
Director: Jamie M. Dagg
Cast: Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots, Rosemarie Dewitt
Year: 2017
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Elwood (Christopher Abbott) walks into a small-town watering hole late one night, not paying much mind to the fact that it’s closed. Here he encounters three men at a table who send him away. He goes but comes back shortly after ...

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Schlock

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Published on 05-04-2018 08:37 AM

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Released by: Turbine Media
Released on: April 27^th, 2018.
Director: John Landis
Cast: John Landis, Eric Allison, Saul Kahan, Susan Weiser, Emile Hamaty
Year: 1973
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The Movie:

John Landis’ 1973 feature-length directorial debut film was…. Schlock! It’s a goofy, low budget throwback to the monster movies that so clearly had an effect on Landis as a kid and it serves as both a peek at things to come in his career and a love letter of sorts to his influences. The end result? A whole lot of fun.

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Path Of Blood

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Published on 05-02-2018 06:30 AM

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Released by: Synapse Films
Released on: March 13th, 2018.
Director: Eric Power
Cast: Kenji Kiuchi, Yoshi Okai, Shinya Wakao
Year: 2013
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Clearly inspired by films like Seven Samurai, the Zatoichi series and the Lone Wolf And Cub films, Eric Power’s 2013 animated feature Path Of Blood takes place in the feudal Japan of 1614. With no war currently being waged, scores of displaced ...

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Sea Fog

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Published on 05-01-2018 08:24 AM

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Released by: 88 Films
Released on: March 26th, 2018.
Director: Shim Sung-bo
Cast: Kim Yun-seok, Park Yoo-chun, Ye-ri Han
Year: 2015
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The directorial debut of Shim Sung-bom, who co-wrote with producer Bong Joon-ho (of The Host, Snowpiercer, Memories Of Murder – which Shim Sung-bom co-wrote) and quite a few more recent South Korean films worth seeing), 2014’s Sea Fog introduces ...

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Sole Survivor

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Published on 04-27-2018 08:25 AM

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Released by: Code Red Releasing
Released on: August 27th, 2017.
Director: Thom Eberhardt
Cast: Anita Skinner, Kurt Johnson, Caren Larkey, Robin Davidson, Brinke Stevens, Randy Stripling
Year: 1983
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The directorial debut of Thom Eberhardt (who would later direct Night Of The Comet), Sole Survivor opens with a scene where a hard drinking psychic/actress named Karla Davis (Caren Larkey) calls TV commercial producer Denise Watson (Anita Skinner) and gives her a warning about a flight ...

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Peekarama: Women At Play/Good Girls Bad Girls

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Published on 04-22-2018 08:28 AM

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Peekarama: Women At Play/Good Girls Bad Girls
Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Released on: March 27^th, 2018.
Director: Art Ben
Cast: Colleen Brennan, Taija Rae, Paula Meadows, Sharon Kane, Tigr, Danielle, Cara Lott, Sharon Mitchell, Jerry Butler, Joey Silvera
Year: 1984
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Vinegar Syndrome pairs up two of director Art Ben’s (a.k.a. Ron Dorfman) NYC shot mid-eighties adult features in this latest in their Peekarama line of vintage dirty movie collections.

Women At Play:

Our first film is “a story ...

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Offerings

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Published on 04-20-2018 08:43 AM

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Released by: 88 Films
Released on: April 9th, 2017.
Director: Christopher Reynolds
Cast: Loretta Leigh Bowman, Elizabeth Greene, G. Michael Smith, Josh Coffman, , Jerry Brewer
Year: 1989
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The Italians and the Turks don’t have an exclusive on cinematic rip offs – oh no, North America has its own share of celluloid copycats, many of which are just as goofy as their foreign counterparts. Case in point? A 1989 low budget horror film named ...

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Star Time

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Published on 04-13-2018 08:38 AM

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Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Released on: March 27th, 2018.
Director: Alexander Cassini
Cast: Michael St. Gerard, John P. Ryan, Maureen Teefy
Year: 1991
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Henry Pinkle (Michael St. Gerard) has issues. His social worker Wendy (Maureen Teefy) tries to help him, and to an extent she does, but she can’t quite get through to him the way she wants to. Henry’s also obsessed with a TV show called The Robertson Family, so much so that ...

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Two Films by Duccio Tessari: A Pistol for Ringo & The Return of Ringo

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Published on 04-11-2018 06:54 AM

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Released by: Arrow Video
Released on: April 24^th, 2018.
Director: Duccio Tessari
Cast: Guilio Gemma, George Martin, Fernando Sancho, Nieves Navarro, Antonio Casas, Lorella De Luca, Manuel Muñiz, Mónica Sugranes
Year: 1965/1965
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The Movies:

Arrow Video offers up the first two Ringo films, both directed by Duccio Tessari and starring Guilio Gemma as the titular lead, on one feature packed and nicely restored Blu-ray.

A Pistol For Ringo:

Ringo, played in this 1965 Spaghetti Western by Giuliano Gemma (the star of Tenebre) in one of his signature roles), is a charmer of a cowboy. ...

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Sissi Collection, The

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Published on 04-11-2018 06:51 AM

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Released by: Film Movement
Release date: October 31, 2017
Directed by: Ernst Marischka
Cast: Romy Schneider, Karhlheinz Bohm, Vilma Degischer, Erich Nikowitz, Peter Weck, Magda Schneider/Romy Schneider, Adrian Hoven, Magda Schneider, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Christi Mardayn, Paul Horbiger, Rudolf Vogel, Peter Weck
Year: 1955/1956/1957/1954/1962
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Sissi:

Duke Maximilian Joseph and his wife, Princess Ludovika, lead an idyllic life with their eight children at Possenhofen Castle in Bavaria. The eldest child is pretty but conservative ...

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Super Inframan, The

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Published on 04-10-2018 08:25 AM

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Released by: 88 Films
Released on: April 23^rd, 2018.
Director: Shan Hua
Cast: Danny Lee, Terry Liu, Hsieh Wang, Man-Tzu Yuan, Dana, Bruce Le, Yang Chiang
Year: 1975
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One of the more popular superhero exports from Asia, Super Inframan (also known as Infra-Man and Chinese Superman) is a fantastic barrage of monsters and mayhem courtesy of the world famous Shaw Brothers studios. Though it's obviously inspired by the Japanese superhero television shows that were popular at the ...

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Sect, The

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Published on 04-09-2018 07:19 AM

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Released by: Scorpion Releasing
Release date: February 27, 2018
Directed by: Michele Soavi
Cast: Kelly Curtis, Herbert Lom, Mariangela Giordano, Michel Adatte, Angelika Maria Boeck, Giovanni Lombardo Radici, Niels Gullov, Tomas Arana, Donald O’Brien, Yasmine Ussani, Daria Nicolodi, Michele Soavi
Year: 1991
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Michele Soavi may have begun his professional career as an actor in Italian cinema, but he is best known today as the director of a number of modern horror classics within that ...

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Soldier, The

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Published on 04-05-2018 08:24 AM

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Released by: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Released on: March 27th, 2018.
Director: James Glickenhaus
Cast: Ken Wahl, Klaus Kinski, Alberta Watson, Jeremiah Sullivan, Steve James
Year: 1982
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Written and directed by the great James Glickenhaus – the man behind The Exterminator, The Protector and McBain – 1982’s The Soldier begins when a gang of KGB operatives steal some plutonium from a top-secret ...

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