MEREDITH MONK: Ellis Island: Book of days; DVD
Art/Arthouse (2007), DVD (RARE)
Ellis Island: "A film about the experiences of immigrants entering America at the turn of the century, 'Ellis Island' was one of the last films shot on location before Ellis Island was restored. Neither documentary nor fiction, Monk describes the non-verbal 'Ellis Island' as a 'ghost story told through the musicality of images'"--Container. Book of days: "'Book of days' takes place primarily in the Middle Ages, but the characters and their concerns are deeply familiar. Monk draws parallels between this age of war, plague and fear of the Apocalypse, with our modern times of racial and religious conflicts, AIDS, and the fear of nuclear annihilation. 'Book of days' has a mythic quality, a sense of displacement; it encourages the viewer to ponder the ultimate fragility of the human experience"--Container
Ellis Island (1981) (28 minutes)
Book of days (1988) (75 minutes)
Interview with filmmaker Meredith Monk (2006) (60 minutes).
ANTHROPOPHAGUS (The Grim Reaper) Joe D'Amato1980; DVD
Horror/Shock/Nasty DVD, New
In "Antropophagus", a group of travelers go on a trip to Greece and are joined by a young woman named Julie, who asks them for a ride to an island because she wants to meet some friends. While the group explores the seemingly deserted island, they come across a rotten dead body, which obviously prompts them to rush back to the boat, only to find it adrift. Julie suggests taking shelter at her friends' house, and when they get there, they find the family's blind daughter in an utter state of panic. The teenage girl, named Henerietta, explains to them that her family was killed some days ago by a lunatic. Later, the friends find out that most of the island residents were murdered by the same insane killer, a man named Nikos, who feasts on human flesh and is now out to get them. Immediately banned in many countries after its release, Joe D'Amato's Italian Gore Classic "Antropophagus" of 1980 is a truly disturbing and immensely scary video nasty, and fans of ultra-violent and nasty Horror should not be disappointed. This version, released under the title"The Grim Reaper" is an altogether different cut of the original Anthropophagus film.
FACES OF SNUFF Shane Ryan (2016); DVD
Shockumentary/Underground/Gore DVD, New
The title serves it up without the need for dressing. "Faces of Snuff" couples elements of the death documentary/mondo film (with an obvious nod to the notorious "Faces of Death" series) with the faux snuff/found footage genre that has grown into an epidemic over the last couple of decades (epitomised by the "August Underground" series). No fewer than twenty directors from around the globe contributed to this 136-minute anthology film - and in an attempt to lend credence to the tagline 'Dozens of "snuff" films. Which ones are real?', nobody is credited onscreen. This sense of unknown origins - amplified by the almost complete lack of production credits - is embellished by the lo-fi, spontaneous, homemade quality of the footage, shot on various formats and incorporating onscreen dates that go as far back as the early 80s. Grainy film stock, screen static, sound design reduced to nothing but the whirring of a projector - these elements echo representations of snuff in earlier grindhouse and mainstream films like the controversial "Snuff" (1975) and Paul Schrader's "Hardcore" (1979). This is perhaps most effective at the climax of the film, which features the bulk of a faux snuff film called "Captains Pride Volume 33" - an American short which has been in circulation for years but whose origins remain anonymous.
SPLATTER: Naked Blood (1996); DVD
Gore/Splatter/Japanese/Undergrund DVD, New (RARE)
A young genius develops a new wonder drug called 'Myson' which turns pain into pleasure - the more pain, the more pleasurable it becomes. His mother works at a local hospital and uses three women to conduct experiments on birth control. Unbeknownst to them, the son adds his new wonder drug to the other drugs and the three women become his experiment. One of the women fries her hand, but it feels good and she then cannot stop hurting herself as it gives her more and more pleasure. Things get very messy as she cuts off her nipple and gouges out her eye and eats it!! She eventually kills herself. Another cannot stop piercing herself and cutting herself. It soon becomes apparent that this drug is a nightmare - the victims can't stop butchering themselves. There are several clever subplots but the real outstanding thing about this film is the gore - it's right up there with the best of the 'Guinea Pig' series and quite unlike anything you've seen before. Highly recommended - if you call yourself a hardcore gorehound and are only used to Italian and US splatter, give this one a go - you'll be very surprised. (RARE)
Based on a true story, this is one sick and very very disturbing movie. A foster Mother has a couple of young Sisters join her foster family, and the boy next door becomes friendly with the oldest girl. The foster Mother is an unbelievable bitch, and for no reason gives the younger impaired with leg braces Sister a spanking with a long brush for nothing. But it's the older Sister that gets taken to the basement and strung up by her wrists as other kids begin to torment her, stripping her, torturing her, even raping her later, while the foster Mother encourages them on. And believe me, the worst was still to come for this girl. The boy next door tries his best to help her, but there's not much he can do, except never forget it for the rest of his life. Scene after scene of graphic torture...Brutal.
AMATEUR PORN STAR KILLER (2006); DVD
Underground/Gore/Sex DVD, New
The unofficial story of a killer who kidnaps and kills three girls is told through the tale of his last victim, 'Amateur Porn Star Killer' is about a girl he picks up on the street and convinces to go back to his hotel room. The girl is shy, unnerved, and yet unable to take herself out of a bad situation. The killer is a guy who seems at first nothing more than your standard, 18 year old pervert with a penchant for filming his sexual escapades. An unsettling darkness descends.
MYSTICS IN BALI (1981); DVD
Asian/Cult/Supernatural/Underground DVD, New
"Mystics in Bali" is a wonderfully bizarre, off-the-beaten path Indonesian horror/supernatural flick about an American writer researching black magic. She's experienced the voodoo of the Caribbean, but she runs into some real trouble as a student of the Leak in Bali. A woman researches a book that takes her to the black magic cult of Leák in Bali. She meets an evil witch who promises to train her dark arts. But she is tricked and turned into a flying vampire with internal organs hanging from her neck.
DICKSHARK Bill Zebub (2016); DVD
B-Grade/Cult/Splatter/Sex DVD, New
In this story GIRLS are the ones who say "Don't use your teeth" - (from cover of film)
A romantic couple get more than they expected after the husband's experiments with penis-enlargement cream go awry. Wait, this is not a porn story. Rather, it is an absurd science-fiction movie that features a curious new species, the Dickshark. In some ways this story asks the same questions that Mary Shelly did when she wrote "Frankenstein.".... Dont expect a Hollywood blockbuster.
BADI: (the Turkish E.T) 1983; DVD
Turksploitation/Remake/Cult DVD, New
A Turkish remake of the classic American family film ET, only this one is better. The alien, this time known as "Badi" looks like it was found in the trash then stuffed with a clumsy midget! Watch for the roller coaster scene, it's a real knee slapper! Any fan of the always amazing Turkish style cinema should not miss this mucho retardo masterpiece. Probably as bad a rip as any, but this film is certainly hard to come by, and has definitely not had a digital remaster...... (Cover image may be different from photo)
COHASSET SNUFF FILM (2014); DVD
Found Footage/Gore/Underground/Cult DVD, New
In 2009, the small town of Cohasset, Massachusetts was rocked with tragedy. A 17-year-old high school senior named Collin Mason murdered three classmates. All the murders were videotaped and uploaded to the Internet via bit torrent sites and for three days, the world viewed the murders of these three innocent teens. Through legal action, the parents of the victims were able to remove all footage from the Internet and the town tried to save face by pretending it never happened. Bootleg copies of this footage are still passed around and downloaded through illegal means. The impact of this video is still being felt in Cohasset today. The video has become infamous, and is now referred to as The Cohasset Snuff Film.
SNUFF FILM: Death On Camera (2011); DVD
B-Grade/Horror/Gore DVD, New
Snuff Film is an insane adventure into the perverted, sick and twisted mind of a true psychopath who has decided to share his wild escapades into depravity with his only friend - his video cam. Through the eyes of the camera we get to see a glimpse of how far a tormented and disturbed individual will go to get himself off. Includes a special alternate version of Snuff Film where director Jason Impey (AKA: Joe Newton) has revisited his earlier cult classic Home Made.
BLOOD AND SEX NIGHTMARE (2008); DVD
B-Grade/Horror/Gore/Porn DVD, New
This film contains such wonderful scenes as 1) a man getting castrated and his girlfriend being choked to death on his severed penis; 2) a women getting raped to death with a hunting knife; and 3) the films hheroine getting sexually assaulted by a zombie, complete with a close-up of his rotting johnson (which shoots blood instead of semen, by the way). If this sounds likes something you want to see, then 'Blood and Sex Nightmare' might just be the film for you. Be warned, the budget for this film was only $3,000.....comprende?
