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Women In Heat Behind Bars
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-22-2018 07:34 AM
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Released by: Impulse Pictures
Released on: April 10th, 2018.
Director: Junichi Suzuki
Cast: Shinobu Wakana, Reina Hatta, Tomomi Segawa, Susumu Morioka, Shirô Shimomoto
Year: 1987
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Junichi Suzuki’s 1987 trash/sleaze mini-opus Women In Heat Behind Bars opens with a hyper-sexualized scene of a whole lot of prison sex before introducing us to the film’s central character, ...

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Bloodthirsty Trilogy, The
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-21-2018 07:44 AM
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Released by: Arrow Video
Released on: May 22nd, 2018.
Director: Michio Yamamoto
Cast: Atsuo Nakamura, Yukiko Kobayashi, Yoko Minakaze, Kayo Matsuo, Midori Fujita, Midori Fujita, Toshio Kurosawa
Year: 1970/1971/1974
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Arrow Video releases Toho’s early seventies attempts to bring Hammer Horror style gothic chills to a Japanese audience with their Blu-ray debut of director Michio Yamamoto’s The Bloodthirsty Trilogy.

The Vampire Doll:

The first film opens on a dark and stormy night with a young man named Kazuhiko Sagawa (Atsuo Nakamura) travelling by a hired car to the remote family home of his beloved Yuko Nonomura (Yukiko Kobayashi). Kazuhiko was away for a few months, and when he finally returns ...

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Forever Amber
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C.D. Workman

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Published on 06-21-2018 07:43 AM
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Released by: Twilight Time
Release date: December 19, 2017
Directed by: Otto Preminger
Cast: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Glenn Langan, Richard Haydn, Jessica Tandy, Anne Revere
Year: 1947
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The Movie:

In 1939, MGM released Gone With the Wind, an epic adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s massive bestselling novel, to big box office and major ...

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House On Sorority Row (Limited Edition)
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-20-2018 08:25 AM
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Released by: Scorpion Releasing
Released on: May 11th, 2018.
Director: Mark Rosman
Cast: Kate McNeil, Eileen Davidson, Janis Ward, Robin Meloy
Year: 1983
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The Movie:

Written and directed by Mark Rosman, who has since gone on to churn out a lot of comedies and TV work in addition to writing the recent remake of this very film entitled simply Sorority Row, this low budget slasher film from 1983 isn't even close to the best of its ...

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Darkest Hour
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Robert Morgan

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Published on 06-20-2018 08:23 AM
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Released by: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Released on: February 27, 2018
Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily James, Ronald Pickup, Stephen Dillane
Year: 2017
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Gary Oldman finally took home a Best Actor Oscar statuette this year for his towering performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, the historical ...

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Grave Robbers
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-19-2018 08:32 AM
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Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Released on: June 26th, 2018.
Director: Straw Weisman
Cast: Elizabeth Manino, David Gregory, Larry Bockius, Kelvin Keraga, Jerry Rector
Year: 1988
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Also known as Dead Mate, 1988’s Grave Robbers was written and directed by Straw Reissman (who was an associate producer on 1977’s notorious Fight For Your Life), and this movie is truly in a league of its own. Filled with the kind of dialogue bad movie fans can only dream of, this unbelievably wonky ...

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Young Seducers, The
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-19-2018 08:31 AM
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Young Seducers, The
Released by: Full Moon Features
Released on: January 1^st, 2018.
Director: Erwin C. Dietrich
Cast: Ingrid Steeger, Rena Bergen, Margret Cicek, Claus Jurichs, Herbert Kluever
Year: 1972
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Like a lot of German sexploitation pictures, Erwin C. Dietrich’s 1971 film Blutjunge Verfuhrerinnen 1 – Teil (also known as The Young Seducers, the title used on this DVD release from Full Moon) follows a tried and true formula. When the picture begins, a group of ...

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Return Of Swamp Thing, The
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-18-2018 07:20 AM
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Released by: MVD Rewind
Released on: May 15th, 2018.
Director: Jim Wynorski
Cast: Heather Locklear, Louis Jourdan, Dick Durock, Sarah Douglas
Year: 1989
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Made seven years after the success of Wes Craven’s 1982 Swamp Thing, Jim Wynorski’s 1989 sequel, aptly titled The Return Of Swamp Thing, takes the intentionally campy elements that were inherent in that first picture and turns them up to eleven.

The story introduces ...

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Helena
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-17-2018 10:30 AM
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Released by: Impulse Pictures
Released on: April 10th, 2018.
Director: Alain Nauroy
Cast: Valerie Boisgel, Yan Brian, Richard Darbois, Monique Vita
Year: 1975
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A lovely woman named Helene Kanosha (or Helena, if you prefer, played by pretty Valérie Boisgel of The Blood Rose) is invited by a man named Roy, a man she has a romantic past with, to spend some time at a fancy estate on the coast of southern France. ...

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Money Movers
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-16-2018 10:13 AM
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Released by: Umbrella Entertainment
Released on: March 7th, 2017.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Bryan Brown, Ed Devereaux, Terence Donovan, Tony Bonner, Candy Raymond
Year: 1978
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Money Movers opens with a tense scene wherein an armored car belonging to Darcy’s Security Services is robbed in broad daylight by a small but heavily armed gang of men, their identities hidden behind garish rubber masks. The ...

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Violence Movie, The
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-15-2018 07:21 AM
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Released by: MVD Rewind
Released on: May 8th, 2018.
Director: Eric D. Wilkinson
Cast: Joseph Shaugnessy, David E. Wilkinson, Eric D. Wilkinson, Michael Kahn
Year: 1988
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Armed with only a camcorder, some Halloween props, a bottle of ketchup and what clearly looked like a distinct lack of adult supervision, Eric Wilkinson and his brother David teamed up with friend Joseph Shaugnessy in the summer of 1988 to bring to the world…. The Violence Movie. Made as a blatant knock off (or homage, if you prefer) of various slasher classics, the picture managed to gain a bit of a ...

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Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
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Robert Morgan

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Published on 06-15-2018 07:20 AM
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Released by: Arrow Video
Released on: February 5, 2018
Director: Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea
Cast: Romy Schneider, Serge Reggiani, Costa-Gavras, Berenice Bejo, Jacques Gamblin, Dany Carrel
Year: 2009
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The Movie:

In 1964, the acclaimed French filmmaker Henri-George Clouzot, flushed from the critical and commercial success of his earlier screen triumphs The Wages of Fear (remade brilliantly by William Friedkin in 1977 as Sorcerer) and Les Diaboliques (a noted inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s own ...

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Night Of The Lepus
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Published on 06-14-2018 08:35 AM
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Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: June 19th, 2018.
Director: William F. Claxton
Cast: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley, Melanie Fullerton, Paul Fix
Year: 1972
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Based on the book by author Russell Braddon, William F. Claxton’s 1972 adaptation of Night Of The Lepus opens with some stock footage of a news report showing how dangerous rabbits can be when ...

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Lords of Dogtown (Mill Creek)
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Published on 06-14-2018 08:34 AM
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Released By: Mill Creek Entertainment
Released On: March 6, 2018.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Cast: John Robinson, Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, Heath Ledger, Rebecca De Mornay, Nikki Reed
Year: 2016
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The Movie:

In March of 1999, Spin Magazine published an article entitled, "The Lords Of Dogtown", a look at a group of skateboarders and surfers from the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles. Dubbed, "Dogtown" by the natives, the area was host to urban decay, gang activity, and a locals only surf spot that broke in the splintered pilings and rebar of the dilapidated Pacific ...

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Death Ship (Blu-ray)
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-13-2018 08:18 AM
Released by: Scorpion Releasing
Released on: May 30th, 2018.
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Cast: George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso, Saul Rubinek, Sally Anne Howes
Year: 1980
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The Movie:

When Scorpion Releasing put Death Ship out on DVD back in 2012, Todd Jordan had this to say:

A luxury cruise ship is out to sea, minding its own business. The ship’s Captain Ashland, played by George Kennedy, is bitter about having to cart all the tourists around and sit with them to give them a ...

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Xtro
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Published on 06-12-2018 08:16 AM
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Released by: Second Sight
Released on: June 18th, 2018.
Director: Harry Bromley Davenport
Cast: Philip Sayer, Bernice Stegers, Danny Brainin, Maryam D'Abo
Year: 1984
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The movie begins when Sam Phillips (Philip Sayer) disappears right on front of his young son Tony (Simon Nash of Terry Gilliam's Brazil). Three years later, Tony is still dealing with his father's disappearance and he tells his mother, Rachel (Bernice Stegers of Lamberto Bava's Macabro) and her new boyfriend – a high fashion photographer named Joe (Danny Brainin), that his father didn't leave, that he was taken by aliens. Things start to get strange ...

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Fistful Of Dollars, A
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-11-2018 08:32 AM
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Released by: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Released on: May 22nd, 2018.
Director: Sergio Leone
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, John Wels, Gian Maria Volontè, Wolfgang Lukschy
Year: 1964
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The Movie:

The lead role in Sergio Leone’s A Fistful Of Dollars was originally offered to Henry Fonda and then to Charles Bronson but would eventually wind up making Clint Eastwood a household name. A lose remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (Kurosawa and company successfully sued the filmmakers for copyright infringement), the international success of the film would kick start the Spaghetti Western phenomena into high gear and result in dozens, if ...

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Venus Theater Presents Vol. 1: Abduction Of Lorelei
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-10-2018 10:12 AM
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Released by: After Hours Cinema
Released on: June 12th, 2018.
Director: Richard Rank/Rik Taziner/Bob Kirk
Cast: Serena, John Galt, Charles Neal, Monique Perris, Jamie Gillis, Sharon Thorpe, John Seeman, Rick Andrews, Tyler Reynolds
Year: 1977/1974/1975
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The Movies:

After Hours Cinema presents a triple feature of vintage adult films from the mid-seventies taken from vintage 16mm prints found in the archives of the late Venus Theater in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The Abduction Of Lorelei:

First up is this fifty-six minute roughie that starts with the titular Lorelai (Serena) doing her makeup and getting ready for some sort of big even while some music before leaving her abode where she’s spotted by a man and a woman in a white Ford Mustang with a gun. They head after her, watching her start up her rad Lincoln – which has a neat vintage car phone in it that she uses to call her dad before he leaves town to make another million. ...

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Touch Of Death
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-09-2018 11:08 AM
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Released by: 88 Films
Released on: August 7th, 2017.
Director: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Brett Halsey, Ria De Simone, Al Cliver, Sacha Darwin, Zora Kerova
Year: 1988
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The Movie:

Brett Halsey tops this later period Lucio Fulci film, starring as a financially starved and reasonably psychotic man named Lester Parsons. He needs money to pay off some pretty substantial gambling debts, so to do this he comes up with a scheme: prey on rich, ...

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Blood Suckers From Outer Space
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Ian Jane

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Published on 06-08-2018 08:17 AM
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Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
Released on: May 29th, 2018.
Director: Glen Coburn
Cast: Robert Bradeen, Big John Brigham, Glen Coburn, Laura Ellis, Thom Meyers
Year: 1984
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Jeff Rhodes (Thom Meyers) is a newspaper photographer investigating what the first of what will turn out to be many unusual deaths in a small Texas town. His uncle Joe (Robert Bradeen) wants Jeff to put the camera down and work the family’s dairy farm, however – something Jeff isn’t interested in doing… ...

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