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.
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.......
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.
Stephen Romano Presents Shock Festival (2010); 3 x DVD set
Cult/Grindhouse/Exploitation/Trailer 3 x DVD set (2010), Used
Brimming with heroes, villains, monsters, aliens, mutants, cops, porn stars, etc. It's all over the map, from the B movie underground, to the Hollywood hills, and beyond.It's seven hours of blood, nudity, monsters, and makeup effects! Shock Festival features two feature length collection of exploitation/grindhouse trailers and two additional short collections. In addition, disk two features TV spots, many for films that I am surprised got advertised (Beyond the Door II, Cry of the Prostitute), ten trailers for Independent International Pictures' movies, and a short interview with Sam Sherman who used to own IIP. By owning shock festival you have enough content to have multiple movie nights with friends. The set has everything, the only thing you need to provide is alcohol, and friends to have an unforgettable experience in Grindhouse trash cinema. This set is absolutely amazing! You can tell the love of trash cinema was the driving force behind the project. It gave me everything I was looking for, and maybe even a little more. In the words of one Stephen Romano "Watch my DVD or I'll blow your fucking head off."
42nd Street Forever, Volume 3: Exploitation Explosion; DVD
Exploitation/Trailer/Horror/Schlock/Grindhouse DVD; Used
"Volume 3: Exploitation Explosion" is one of the best DVD's in the 42nd Street Forever series. If you are someone who loves trailers for drive- in/grindhouse movies, volume three offers a well balanced selection. As one might expect, there are trailers for action films, martial arts movies, sex comedies, docudramas, thrillers, and of course exploitation and horror films. The quality of the trailers is excellent, and the entire disk is a fucking great time. In addition, the DVD's commentary track by Fangoria editor Michael Gingold, Shock Cinema writer Chris Poggiali, and AV Maniacs editor Edwin Samuelson is cool. These guys are both entertaining to listen to and know their schlock.
DRIVE-IN DELIRIUM VOL 1; 4 x DVD set
Horror/Exploitation/Sleaze/Trailers/Grindhouse 4 x DVD set, Used
BAD MUTHAS! CHICKS IN CHAINS! NATURE GONE WILD! STALK 'N SLASH! and much, much more!
Take an eye-popping, jaw-dropping and trouser-bulging trip back to the “gory days” of big screen exploitation with this ultimate collection of the most insane trailer trash ever to up-chuck onto a drive-in screen! Bursting with almost 12 hours of non-stop sex, violence, monsters and mayhem - not to mention an unstoppable posse of foxy soul sisters stickin’ it to the man - DRIVE-IN DELIRIUM VOLUME ONE is a rip-roaring off-road rampage through a cinematic era when films were proudly FASTER, CHEAPER, BLOODIER and BLACKER! So bung in the DVD, crack open a tube and settle back for this mind-numbing cinematic orgy of blood, beasts, breasts and brothers - straight from the drive-in projector to your very own private grindhouse!
CHOPPAHEAD 2 - Chopper Animals and Mayhem Machines Vol 2; DVD
Kustom/Lowbrow/Choppers/Skate/Culture DVD, New
If you haven't seen volume 1, you might be asking yourself - "What the hell is this DVD series, anyhow?" Well, take a chopper documentary, an old skateboard video, and an episode of jackass - smash them together and there you have it....! From the back cover: Forget all those drama queen and diva-esque superstar builders! Like its predecessor, this DVD pays homage to the true essence of Kustom Kulture - the home builder and the underground chopper scene! Follow the crew as they go out on-location across the globe to spotlight some of the wildest home bike builders & customizers, small grassroots shops, and undergound kustom motorcycle and hot rod shows. You'll get an inside look into the madness, ingenuity, debauchery, and shenanigans that surrounds this world!
