ILSA: THE WICKED WARDEN (1977) Jess Franco; DVD
Cult/Sexploitation/Sleaze, DVD
Dependably twisted schlockmeister Jess Franco dishes up enough nastiness, violence, sex, nudity and sleaze for a dozen average exploitation pictures. A female journalist infiltrates a women's prison to expose the corruption within. Once inside (posing as a prisoner), she is exposed to the grim, vile world that is a women's prison. Ilsa is the vicious warden, who puts her prisoners through all sorts of physical and psychological abuse, although the prisoners manage some pretty outrageous behavior on their own. There's a nice, long, voyeuristic catfight in the showers, as well as an unspeakably tacky scene in which self-appointed lead prisoner forces the reporter to lick her ass clean after a bout of diarrhea. That pretty much sets the standard for taste in this movie.
AMERICAN GUINEA PIG: Bouquet of Guts and Gore (2014); DVD
Underground/Disturbing/Extreme Gore - Unearthed Films, DVD
As the unsuspecting young women, Erika and Amy, get in their car, a sadistic predator in black equipped with a gas-mask knocks them out and abducts them. From this point on, an endless nightmare of unspeakable torment awaits the helpless victims--who are drugged and chained down by their throats to wooden tables--through a wide assortment of sharp instruments and common household tools. Always starting from left to right, the butchering begins, as a savage trio of desensitized executioners film the abominable act of sacrifice with their Super-8 camera. Is death the only means of salvation?
SVINET: Vase De Noces (Wedding Trough) (1974)
ART/Experimental/Cult/Underground DVD, Used
A farmer(Dominique Garny)who may be the last man on earth, loves and makes love to a huge sow-pig. When the sow gives birth, he takes the piglets from her to keep her from eating them, and knits cute little infant things for them. When the piglets abandon him for their mother, he executes them by hanging, and the sow shows the first distress she has shown for the whole film. "Wedding Trough", more commonly known as "The Pig Fucking Movie" is certainly one of the sickest and strangest films ever made. It's loaded with scenes of implied bestiality, coprophagia and insanity,so fans of unrelentingly grim, experimental transgressions will be satisfied. The action is set on a secluded rural farm and the film is completely devoid of dialogue. It certainly has some truly repellent subject matter, and the scenes of the farmer sodomizing his swine or eating his own excrement are sick as hell. Absolutely amazing film, especially for those folk who are into cinema on the more extreme bizarre side.....
FRITZ THE CAT (1972) Animated; DVD
Rated X (R), Robert Crumb DVD, New
Cult classic piss take of the protest movements of the 60s. It's hero is the bold and sex-obsessed tom-cat Fritz the Cat, as created by the legendary underground artist Robert Crumb. Quitting university Fritz the Cat wanders through the hash, Black Panther and Hell's Angels scenes to find to himself. We're not rated X for nothin', baby!
COSY COOL (1977- Australian Biker Film); DVD
Cult/Ozploitation/Biker DVD, New (Rare as rocking horse shit)
Australia 1975. Gas station attendent Cosy Cool has had enough of his dead end job, his boss and living in a country town. He hooks up with his old biker buddy Gracious Grytt, leaves town and the straight life, and heads for a car show in the city. With their winnings they decide to hit the road, and look for kicks. However they don't realise that some sinister rednecks are on their trail and have a secret agenda that involves them. Features Jack Ross and the Comancheros MC Club. Is this the film that caused the Milperra Fathers Day Massacre?
UN CHIEN ANDALOU - Louis Bunuel and Salvador Dali (1929); DVD
Surreal/Art/Cult, DVD, Used
Un Chien Andalou(1929) was an artful collaboration between two surrealistic masters in Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. These two artists were part of a surrealism movement in Spain that influenced the country's art. Bunuel and Dali had a fruitful but short film partnership that ended once each wanted to go their separate ways. After the early 1930s these talented artists would never work with each other again. For Un Chien Andalou(1929), Bunuel and Dali created images of eccentric force based on their day and night dreams. Surrealism was very popular in early 20th Century art especially during the 1920s. The surrealist movement took shape in places like France and Spain where it flourished for a period of time before falling apart in 1930s. Un Chien Andalou(1929) is a good example of what made the surrealist movement tick. Salvador Dali designs images with social and symbolic meanings. Bunuel's skills as a surrealist as first shown here would become more abstract once he started mastering his craft. Plotless short film that is basically a series of images. Un Chien Andalou(1929) is an 'Absolute Film' which relies on abstract imagery in an attempt to unnerve the viewer. In Bunuel's early films, imagery took precedent over things like dialogue and plot. In the history of cinema its a rarity especially since the beginning of the sound era for pure imagery to be the sole existence in a motion picture. Un Chien Andalou(1929) contains images that ranges from the erotic, frightening, funny, strange, and symbolic.
DER TODESKING - Jorg Buttgereit (1990); DVD
Graphic Horror/Cult/Underground DVD, New
Cult Epics presents the third release in the series Corpse Fucking Art; Jorg Buttgereit’s powerful masterpiece Der Todesking (aka The Death King), made in between Nekromantik (1987) and Nekromantik 2 (1991). Seven stories on Death and Suicide, each taking place on a different day of the week, enframed by the decomposition of a human body.
Warning: extremely graphic. Der Todesking, available for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray, is presented Uncut and Uncensored in a new High Definition transfer.
SANTA CLAUS: SERIAL RAPIST (Bill Zebub); DVD
B-Grade/Sex/Absurd DVD
A woman who is researching alien abductions for a book receives increasing reports of nocturnal attackers described as resembling Santa Claus. She enlists the aid of a scholar of mythology to see if the legend of Santa has a darker side, and what she discovers is more horrifying than she could never have expected.
A female figure sleeps, face buried in a pillow, covered only by a sheet of uninspired textile pattern. Something is off. Slowly an unseen force begins to pull the sheet off of her voluptuous figure. To our terror, it is Santa Claus! The intruder has his way with his victim with images of red velvet, white fur, nose piercings, and breasts, fill the tight close-ups spilling across the screen. Thus begins Santa Claus: Serial Rapist. This surprisingly pensive film delivers rape, Santa, and the philosophical ramblings of writer-director and star Bill Zebub. It all adds up to something that is thoughtful, yet painfully remiss of the absurdist possibilities that the title indicates.
ANTFARM DICKHOLE (2011); DVD
Bill Zebub B-Grade/Sex/Trash DVD
Hailed as having "the most WTF moments in movie history" Antfarm Dickhole is the story of rampaging army ants that have nested inside a living human man's 'dickhole'. The unwilling host discovers that when bullies attack him, the ants defend their penile nest. Thus begins a tragic tale of what happens when the powerless become powerful. After a painful encounter with some bullies next to an ant colony, Ant-Drew will never have to fear again, as an improbable, yet miraculous symbiosis begins. Now, he is unstoppable, and he thirsts for revenge. Is this a dream come true? Who could have ever come up with this shit? He's Got Ants in His Pants! - Later re-released as "Human Antfarm"
BLOOD DUSTER - THE SHAPE OF DEATH TO COME (2005); DVD
Mucic/Live/Grindcore/Australian DVD (with bonus poster!)
This is a fairly hefty DVD, split into two sections. One section contains a feature length mix of live gigs dating back to the early 90's intersperced with the lads crazy touring antics...serious antics. Eating spew off the ground, throwing piss at one another, and consuming copius amounts of drugs are only the beginning. Considering much of the live music footage in this section is bootlegged, the quality of vision and sound is excelent. Also the choice of songs that have been included is a good cross-section of the Blood Duster era's.
The second section of the DVD is a full concert recorded at the Ding-Dong in Melbourne. This innitially might be a dissapointment to those who like their crisp, clear sounding live DVD's but once you can accept the sound this gig is pretty fucking great! It's also a good representation of what Blood Duster shows were like. I have also included with this, an original 1997 'Straight outta Northcote' LP promo poster!! Oh yeah.........
GRINDSTONE REDUX: The story of the 1980's US underground music network (2009); DVD
Music/Art/Culture/Documentary DVD
GRINDSTONE REDUX is the story of the underground music network of the 1980s?and how it transformed the music business. In response to an industry with a narrow spectrum of work being released and promoted, artists decided to self-publish and distribute before the internet made it commonplace. The advent of affordable recording equipment, synthesizers and photocopiers made it possible for musicians and bands to form a network by producing home recordings and exchanging them through the mail. For the first time, musicians were able to produce and distribute their work without a major record company. They formed their own record labels, produced independent magazines and began the first generation of radio shows devoted to independently-released music. The network was supported by small, independent record stores (which have all but disappeared) where musicians could place their work for sale, as well as discover other like-minded artists and 'zines.
FUCK...I'M DEAD - GORE GRIND THRASH ATTACK LIVE (2006); DVD
Music/Grindcore/Live, DVD + CD set
Brutal Melbourne Goregrind legends "Fuck...I'm dead" released this live recording bootleg DVD, 40 tracks, mainly recorded at the ARTHOUSE in Melbourne in 2006. Includes all their classic radio hits including.... Anal abattoir, Bury the cunt in shit, Burnt to an absolute crisp, Inject me with AIDS, Toilet tantilizers, Slowly raped with a chainsaw and Spray me with fecal matter. The CD contains the first 26 tracks from the DVD at the Arthouse, tidied up a bit...... Brilliant!
