Gore, Violence, Disturbing, Shocking, Bloodthirsty; DVD Toe Tag Pictures (2007) Used
Penance, the final part in the "August Underground" trilogy is pure unabashed gore! Blood, guts, intestines, nails through the head, disembowelment, cigarette burns, limb sawing and heads being opened like Christmas presents! August Underground's Penance is a shockingly gruesome movie filled with anger, torture, and ejaculation. Every last second of each hideous act is unflinchingly captured by the roving camera, and watching without wincing is not an easy trick. The gruesome effects are top notch and praise must be given to effects man Jerami Cruise.
Rare to find this DVD in Australia.
GUINEA PIG: Flower of Flesh and Blood (Double Feature); DVD
Gore/Underground/Violent/Splatter/Japanese DVD, New
Infamous Manga artist Hideshi Hibino received an 8 mm snuff film in the mail. After contacting the Japanese police and handing over the evidence, Mr. Hibino created a semi-documentary film on what he witnessed. The Flower of Flesh and Blood is a recreation of the snuff film that is in the hands of the Tokyo Police. Now that you know do you have the guts? Also included on this DVD is the making of the Guinea Pig films. See how they worked the effects on one of the most brutal, horrifying films ever made in the annuls of cinematic history.
STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER Andrea Bianchi (1975); DVD
Giallo/Italian/Horror/Slasher/Cult
Roll up for a Euro cult experience like no other, with kitschy fashion shoots, back alley abortions, blow-up sex dolls and some very indelicate humor, as one of the most notoriously sleazy gialli ever! Sleazy Italian giallo film that opens with a doctor performing an abortion on a young woman. When she wakes up in the middle of the procedure and dies of a massive coronary, the doctor and assistant take the woman's body to her house, place her in a bathtub full of water and make it look like she drowned in her bathtub of natural causes. The doctor then drives home like nothing wrong has happened, but is attacked and graphically stabbed to death by someone wearing a black leather outfit, complete with motorcycle helmet. The attacker then cuts off the doctor's testicles and leaves them next to his body........and that's just the start.
GUINEA PIG: Devils Experiment/Android of Notre Dame; DVD
Gore/Violence/Underground/Cult/Horror DVD, New (Rare)
Double feature from the infamous Japanese horror series "Guinea Pig". Devils Experiment: A Video Tape and a letter are given to the Tokyo police in a small discreet envelope with no return address or postal mark. The accompanying letter tells of an experiment on human endurance and how much the human body and mind can endure before succumbing to death. Android of Notre Dame: A scientist's sister has a dreaded heart disease that is slowly killing her. He must find a way to cure her in any way possible. Animal research can only do so much but, on the other hand, a real human body could work wonders.
DJ Q-BERT Wave Twisters (Special Edition Director's Cut) 2003; DVD
Hip Hop/Animated/Turntables/Art/Sci-fi DVD, Used (Rare)
This is no second rate animated Hip-Hop affair, as 'Wave Twisters' was selected by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to be included in its archive for digital moving images. An eye-popping, hip-hop-meets-Hanna-Barbera animated adventure synched skratch for skratch with DJ QBert's turtable masterpiece of the same name, this sci-fi-/kung fu epic seamlessly integrates dazzling visuals to original musical compositions. The Inner Space Dental Commander must fulfill his destiny by reviving the "Lost Arts" (breakdancing, rapping, graffiti and skratching), so he and his posse (mischievouc droid Rubbish, lovely assistant Honey, and B-Boy Grandpa) battle their way through an increasingly surreal collection of villains, pratfalls, and boobytraps. Sampling from a wide variety of techniques from traditional cell animation to 3D to photo collage, Wave Twisters takes the Fantasia concept to the next, dizzying level!
WILD STYLE (1983) Hip-Hop; DVD
Graffiti/Breakdance/Hip Hop/Four Elements/Old School DVD, New
Before Beat Street, Krush Groove and Breakin there was Wild Style, THE first Hip Hop movie. The film was made by Charlie Ahearn and Fab 5 Freddy and captures the early days of rap music and culture. The story loosely follows a graffiti artist named Zoro who runs around the subway yards in the Bronx at night tagging the trains. That’s really secondary however. The real stars are the music, the art, the mood, and the times Wild Style captures. Right at the start there’s all kinds of real New York graffiti featured both on walls, on subways, and in books. The stuff looks amazing. There’s also a stark contrast between all the color the graffiti brought to the neighborhood compared to the empty buildings and lots and general destruction that had hit the Bronx by this time. Then there’s the music. Even the background music is banging, which was made just for the film by Grandmaster Caz and Chris Stein of Blondie. Some of the artists featured are Busy Bee Starski, Rodney Cee, the Cold Crush Brothers, the Fantastic Freaks, Double Trouble, and Grandmaster Flash. They’re captured in the club, on the stoop, and in one of the most iconic scenes on the basketball court. This was before all the flash and glamor and money hit the rap scene. If you want to hear rap in its most rawest and organic form this is it. Plus there’s pop-locking, break dancing and more.
ROCKET SCIENCE (Thrasher); DVD
Skateboard/Thrasher Magazine/Skate/Documentary DVD, Used
Bottom line: skating is not rocket science... it is harder. This is learning on the streets.
CHLORINE A pool skating documentary (2005); DVD
Skate/Skateboarding/Old School/Pool Skating/Alva/Documentary DVD; New
...for anyone who skates or has skated, or just likes the idea of skating. All the guys in this movie are legendary, ground-breakers who would rather find an abandoned (or not so) backyard pool than a huge commercial ramp or concrete skatepark to ride in. For something that was discovered/invented in the mid-70's, pool skating seems as strong as it's ever been.
Girl / Chocolate - Pretty Sweet (Skateboard) DVD + BLU RAY
Skate/Skateboard/Documentary DVD
Great footage and some amazing skaters. The Marc Johnson part is ridiculous. The guy can do it all barely needs to lift his hands above his waist...SMOOTH! This copy of Pretty Sweet offers both a DVD and Blu-ray copy. The one hour and 10 minute skate video includes ground-breaking parts by the Girl and Chocolate teams and 60 minutes of bonus footage is also included.
STREETS ON FIRE Santa Cruz (1988); DVD
Skate/Santa Cruz/Skateboard/Cult DVD, Used
Jason Jesse is locked up in prison for skateboarding in this sequel to Wheels of Fire. As he wastes away behind bars, dreaming of his imminent excecution, his pals come by to recant their sessions and let him live vicariously through their stories. Aside from the obvious retro-wonder of seeing an old video given new life on DVD, there are the familiar yellow and blue Rector pads everywhere. It's easy to forget how progressive skating was getting. Especially when you see Natas do his fire hydrant spin - amazing! Streets On Fire offers a nice selection of different skate styles and locations. They hit up the Fallbrook Ramp, The Turf Skate Park and Upland Pipeline park and there is some great ditch footage.
OVER THE TOP ROPE The legends of World Championship Wrestling Australia 1964 - 78; DVD
Wrestling/Australian/Documentary DVD, Used
Take yourself back to the time and action of World Championship Wrestling 1964 – 1978. Directed and written by Libnan Ayoub and Damian Kringas, OVER THE TOP ROPE charts the amazing events that saw ‘World Championship Wrestling’ establish itself as a weekend ritual in loungerooms across the country – and became a media juggernaut that mesmerised the nation during the 1960s and 70s.
10 years in the making – the most comprehensive documentary about World Championship Wrestling in Australia charts the events and extraordinary characters of World Championship Wrestling that mesmerised the nation between 1964 – 1978. It was a world where good triumphed over evil, heroes and villains fought – and a sport not for the faint-hearted. World Championship Wrestling became an iconic part of Australian sporting history, the likes you will never ever see again. The wrestlers were the ultimate characters of World Championship Wrestling – larger than life and each with their own unique style. Many were from different cultural backgrounds, and all appealed to the fans. Legendary wrestlers like Spiros Arion, King Curtis, Mario Milano, Abdullah the Butcher; commentators Mike Cleary and referee Tony Marino; and prominent Australians who were touched by the magic – like Ray Hadley, Santo Cilauro and the late, great sports doyen, Mike Gibson – all talk in their own words about the hey day of World Championship Wrestling – the events, characters and experiences that indelibly marked the time.
A two-hour DVD with extremely rare footage and photos, interspersed with interviews with the wrestlers, fans, commentators and referees. As a companion to the film, a bonus 32-page timeline booklet presents a chronological record of World Championship Wrestling highlights year-by-year, with never-seen-before photos and memorabilia.
DARK DAYS (2000) Documentary; DVD
Documentary/DJ Shadow/USA/Controversial DVD, Used
Near Penn Station, next to the Amtrak tracks, squatters have been living for years. Marc Singer goes underground to live with them, and films this "family." A dozen or so men and one woman talk about their lives: horrors of childhood, jail time, losing children, being coke-heads. They scavenge, they've built themselves sturdy one-room shacks; they have pets, cook, chat, argue, give each other haircuts. A bucket is their toilet. Leaky overhead pipes are a source of water for showers. They live in virtual darkness. During the filming, Amtrak gives a 30-day eviction notice.
