Geek Maggot Bingo or The Freak from Suckweasel Mountain (1983) Nick Zedd; DVD
Cinema of Transgression/Nick Zedd/B-grade/Richard Hell/Cult DVD, New (RARE!!)
Nick Zedd is the King of NYC's post punk 'Cinema of Transgression' school of film making. If you don't agree, watch 'Geek Maggot Bingo' or the classic 'They eat scum'. The set is beyond cheap, all the phones are made of paper, even a wall phone is a paper cut-out, windows are badly drawn or painted, pictures look like they were done with crayon. This is all part of the brilliance of this Z-grade classic from one of the architects of the genre (along with Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, etc..). This is a must see for all transgressive cinema buffs! Another Nick Zedd classic cult movie..... DVD contains 3 extra films - Rare as rockinghorse shit!!
DARK STAR John Carpenter (1974); DVD
Cult/Sci-Fi/B-grade/Psychedelic/Comedy DVD, New
Three guys in space (plus their cryogenically-frozen "dead" commander) are tasked with destroying unstable planets so that the star systems they're in can be safely colonized. Disaster strikes at the end of the film, but for the two "survivors," it doesn't mean much. In fact, the outcome seems like a pretty good thing to both of them! Along the way they must contend with an asteroid storm, a malfunctioning laser, a beach-ball Alien, and a malfunctioning bomb that enjoys phenomenological discourse and eventually concludes that it is God. Pack me another pipe and let's watch it again.......
COLD BLONDED MURDERS / IRISH WHISKY Double Feature; DVD
Canada/Horror/Short Film/Double feature/Slasher/Splatter/B-grade DVD; New
Chad and Abby have a new sexy neighbor. Unlucky for some, she is as deadly as she is lovely! Two short films from Canada totaling around 40 minutes. Rare independent release.
WINTERBEAST (Special Edition); DVD
(2008) B-grade/Horror/Claymation/Gore DVD, New
What an incredibly super B movie. Acting is bad, plot is paper thin, but... coupled with powerful hallucinatory imagery, some of which is truly disturbing, Winterbeast an absolutely unique viewing experience. The clay-animated monsters remind one of Art Clokey on a bad acid trip; they remain cute and likable as they graphically tear their victims to pieces. One sequence featuring a marvelous actor, Bob Harlow, wearing a clown mask and prancing about a dead body to an ancient recording of a childrens song, is as creepy as anything you'll ever see on film. "Winterbeast' is no-budget filmaking at its finest. If you are into strange,low budget, almost art movie horror, this is the unholy grail.
VIDEO NASTIES (Basket Case / Last House On The Left / Maniac); 3 x DVD set
Horror/Slasher/Video Nasties/Splatter/Cult 3 x DVD set, Used
Basket Case (1982) - Siamese twins seek gory revenge against the doctors who surgically separated them! One brother, carried by his sibling in a basket, has an appetite for hamburgers and hookers, as the pair scan a seedy motel for lowlife prey. Last House on the Left (1972) - Four escaped cons kidnap, rape, torture and finally brutally murder a pair of teenage girls, until the girls parents discover their crime and plot violent retribution. Maniac (1981) - A psycho killer with a mother fixation prowls the seedy streets of New York stalking, slaughtering and scalping innocent young women.
TOXIE'S TRIPLE TERROR Volume 3; 3 x DVD Box set
Cult/Trash/B-grade/Horror/Troma/Schlock 3 x DVD Box Set, Used
This triple feature includes a trio of low-budget efforts from the vaults of Troma Films. In CROAKED: FROG MONSTER FROM HELL, a giant killer frog guards a fortune in gold sunken beneath the murky depths of Shadow Lake. In HORROR OF THE HUNGRY HUMONGOUS HUNGAN, a Frankenstein-esque monster created by a mad doctor terrorizes an unfortunate group of teenagers out on a weekend camping trip. And in VIDEO DEMONS DO PSYCHOTOWN, students on a film school project become haunted by murderous nightmares spawned by their own moviemaking.
ZU WARRIORS From the Magic Mountain (1983); DVD
Kung Fu/Asian/Surreal/Fantasy DVD, Used (Special Collectors Edition)
This film illustrates the major difference between Western and Eastern fantasy films. A western version of this same film would attempt for some level of realism, some element of grittiness and angst. This film ignores realism entirely. Hey, its a fantasy already! Swordsman and monks float and dive in aerial battle, an old man's eyebrows are deadly weapons, whole armies of guys in brightly colored uniforms run about attacking each other for very poorly explained reasons, and blue eyed jawa clones swoop about the inside of evil temples. Although the ending is almost unintelligible, the first hour of the film is just one cool scene after another. The editing of this film would certainly make an epileptic have a seizure, but after five minutes you stop caring about the plot and dialogue and just start enjoying the wacky surreal action. I wish I could see this one on the big screen. Sheer brilliance.......
DESPERATE LIVING John Waters (1977); DVD
Trash/Cult/John Waters/Comedy DVD; Used (Unrated - Adults Only)
John Waters can do no wrong, particularly in the era of his "trash trilogy" which began in 1972 with PINK FLAMINGOS and ended with this "political film" from Waters in which bitch lesbians overthrow the tyrannical rule of Mortville's sadistic Queen Carlotta. The more Waters' early assaults on good taste have become absorbed into mainstream entertainment, the better and more shocking his films look for it. When DESPERATE LIVING stood alone, one hardly knew what to make of it. Now that every lesser talent in show-biz is trying to finance a swimming pool by imitating the Waters touch, it's easy to see, and appreciate, who the innovator and true original is. When Waters made this movie, he was a pariah with nothing to lose...he knew better, but still didn't care. Thus, there's an intoxicating power and thrift-shop integrity to DESPERATE LIVING that none of the Johnny-come-latelies can approach, now that "bad taste" is boxoffice, and safe as milk. If you're gonna wallow in slime, then accept no substitutes, folks: demand DESPERATE LIVING
CECIL B DEMENTED (John Waters) 2001; DVD
John Waters spoofs independent filmmaking at its most absurd fringe with this affectionate portrait of a guerrilla filmmaking collective that declares war on Hollywood drivel. Bitchy screen queen Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith, whose kewpie doll voice and aging baby face are right at home) is kidnapped by would-be auteur Cecil (Stephen Dorff), a slogan-spouting bottle blonde with a cult-like crew of cinema outlaws called "The Sprocket Holes." Cecil has declared war on Hollywood with the ultimate underground movie, "Raving Beauty," and his reluctant star Honey soon adopts her young misfit captors like a worried Mommy as her cultural cachet rises: the falling star has turned into a cult cinema rebel. It's a bizarre revision of the Patty Hearst story (with Hearst herself in a supporting role) full of film insider jokes and '60s revolutionary references, but it's more spoof than satire. Waters has always celebrated misfits, outcasts, and cultural rebels and their self-made families, and this is his most outrageous, anarchic such bunch in decades. Through all the shootouts, bomb throwing, and fights with angry teamsters and suburban moms, there's an odd sense of innocence to the enterprise. It's as if Waters wants to remind us: it's only a movie
REFLECTIONS OF EVIL - Director's Original UNCUT Version; DVD
Cult/Experimental/Surreal/Indie DVD, New (Rare!)
Damon Packard's Original 138-minute cult-film masterpiece. This original Packard self-produced DVD contains the Original uncut, unedited version of the film containing all the original music, sound bytes, tv commercials, film clips, sound efx, etc. that he had to remove for legal reasons from the later DVD release from Vital Fluids. Extras include The Early 70's Horror Trailer. It's hard to describe Damon Packard's experimental comedy/horror/satire masterpiece "Reflections of Evil." Stylistically, it bears some resemblance to cyberpunk films like "Tetsuo: the Iron Man" and low-budget gross-out films like "Street Trash." But there's really nothing out there like this film anywhere. "Reflections" is a study in contrasts. Throughout the film, the ugliness of present-day L.A., which Packard presents as a place of paranoia, hatred, and gushing bodily fluids, will be interposed with haunting scenes from a 1970s dreamworld. The plot, such as it is, is built on the wanderings of Packard's character "Bob," a grotesquely obese character. Bob is stuck in a hellish parody of Hollywood, constantly confronted by hostile dogs, police, and street people. The eccentricities of the people he encounters might be funny, except that Packard doesn't leave things at the point of comedy; he presses on until we realize how pathetic his characters are, and then it isn't funny anymore. If you've ever asked the question "What the hell did I just watch?", then prepare to ask it again. REFLECTIONS OF EVIL is definitely NOT for everyone! Some may say that it's not for anyone! An absurd-ist nightmare caught on film, it will never appeal to the casual movie watcher. They'll rip their eyes out over this! It's a meditation on two different time periods. One surreal and idealized, the other manic and paranoid. It's high art. A collection of scenarios and shots, filmed manically and masterfully. Highly recommended.
"The Beatniks" & Wild Guitar" Double Feature; DVD
Trash/Rock'n'roll/Beatnik/Surf/B-grade DVD, Used
DVD Double Feature "The Beatniks" Story of Street Thugs..Back in the Day..90 Min. & Wild Guitar" Young Guitarist Dreams Of Being a Star..75 Min.
VIDEO NASTIES: The Definitive Guide (2010); DVD
Sleaze/Banned/Exploitation/Horror/Video Nasties DVD; Used
Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide (2010) is a terrific three-disk set devoted to the uproar in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain over the availability of violent movies in the new home-video market, "The Video Nasties". Set includes all the original trailers for the 'Video Nasties' listed films, as well as a very well made documentary (directed by Jake West) called Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape, featuring interviews with filmmakers, critics, academics and also two of the major players in stirring up the controversy and prompting the government to pass the law to ban the “nasties” — Graham Bright, at the time a neophyte Conservative back-bencher whose private member’s censorship bill eventually became law, and Peter Kruger, a senior police officer.
