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  • Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)

    The filming of the ill-fated 1996 version of H. G. Welles’ THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU is the stuff of legend. For the first time since he was unceremoniously escorted off his longtime dream project, Richard (HARDWARE, DUST DEVIL) Stanley reveals in detail his spectacular original vision and how it was all ripped apart at the seams. Cast members including Fairuza Balk, Marco Hofschneider and Rob Morrow, executives and producers Robert Shaye, Edward R. Pressman and Tim Zinnemann, concept artist Graham Humphreys, members of the Stan Winston Makeup Effects team as well as a host of cast and crew members recall the stories first hand of colossal egos run amok, a production way out of control, and how the original filmmaker was banished from the set but wouldn’t let go. Directed by David Gregory (PLAGUE TOWN, THEATRE BIZARRE, THE GODFATHERS OF MONDO), this is the sensational story of what could have been a science fiction masterpiece which became a huge creative and financial disaster; the story of the outsider artist versus Hollywood machine.

  • Island of the Living Dead (2006)

    For his final film, the late sleaze maestro Bruno Mattei – notorious director of MONDO CANNIBAL, RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR and HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD – delivers his ultimate over-the-top masterpiece: In this insane rip-off of ALIENS, Mattei (aka ‘Vincent Dawn’) packs the screen with shredding flesh, munching guts, exploding heads, undead births, borrowed footage, stolen plots, zombie midgets and more. Yvette Yzon (ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD), Alvin Anson (THE GREAT RAID) and Diana Croyston (THE JAIL: THE WOMEN’S HELL) star in this mind-blowing mash-up from the producer of IN THE LAND OF THE CANNIBALS, now presented uncut and uncensored for the first time ever in America!

  • Zombies: The Beginning (2007)

    For his final film, the late sleaze maestro Bruno Mattei – notorious director of MONDO CANNIBAL, RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR and HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD – delivers his ultimate over-the-top masterpiece: In this insane rip-off of ALIENS, Mattei (aka ‘Vincent Dawn’) packs the screen with shredding flesh, munching guts, exploding heads, undead births, borrowed footage, stolen plots, zombie midgets and more. Yvette Yzon (ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD), Alvin Anson (THE GREAT RAID) and Diana Croyston (THE JAIL: THE WOMEN’S HELL) star in this mind-blowing mash-up from the producer of IN THE LAND OF THE CANNIBALS, now presented uncut and uncensored for the first time ever in America!

  • Santa Sangre - Ultimate Deluxe Edition (1989)

    For its first time on home video in the U.S., Santa Sangre is presented with an all new Hi-Definition 1080p/AVC-encoded transfer from the uncut European version that excels in detail and color reproduction. Careful attention has been paid to presenting a natural image with the film's 35mm grain structure wholly intact.

    In the 1970s, his legendary films El Topo and The Holy Mountain redefined movies as both art and entertainment while changing the face of cinema forever. And in 1989, visionary writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky returned with his modern masterpiece: It is the story a young circus performer, the crime of passion that shatters his soul, and the macabre journey back to the world of his armless mother, deaf-mute lover, and murder. It is an odyssey of ecstasy and anguish, belief and blasphemy, beauty and madness. It is unlike any movie you have seen before…or ever will. Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra and Guy Stockwell star in this epic of surreal genius, now fully restored and featuring more than five hours of exclusive Extras that reveal the mind behind one of the most provocative and unforgettable motion pictures experiences of our time.

    Bonus Features in this download and streaming package include;

    – Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World Of Santa Sangre: Exclusive Feature Length Making-Of Documentary Featuring All-New Interviews with the Cast And Crew
    – Deleted Scenes with Director Commentary
    – For One Week Only: Alejandro Jodorowsky: 1990 UK Documentary
    – Goyo Cardenas Spree Killer: Documentary on the Real Life Inspiration For Santa Sangre
    – On Stage Q&A With Jodorowsky
    – Jodorowsky 2003 Interview
    – Simon Boswell Interviews Jodorowsky
    – “Close Your Eyes” Simon Boswell Music Video
    – Echeck: Adan Jodorowsky Short Film

  • Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen: The World of Santa Sangre (2011)

    Feature length making-of documentary featuring all new interviews with cast and crew. Includes all additional archival extra's.

  • Santa Sangre - Feature Only (1989)

    New Hi-Definition transfer of the main feature.
    In the 1970s, his legendary films El Topo and The Holy Mountain redefined movies as both art and entertainment while changing the face of cinema forever. And in 1989, visionary writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky returned with his modern masterpiece: It is the story a young circus performer, the crime of passion that shatters his soul, and the macabre journey back to the world of his armless mother, deaf-mute lover, and murder. It is an odyssey of ecstasy and anguish, belief and blasphemy, beauty and madness. It is unlike any movie you have seen before…or ever will. Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra and Guy Stockwell star in this epic of surreal genius, now fully restored and featuring more than five hours of exclusive Extras that reveal the mind behind one of the most provocative and unforgettable motion pictures experiences of our time.

  • Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)

    A tender love story. A graphic horror shocker. An urgent ecological warning. And around the world, it became the must-see ‘midnight movie’ sensation of the year: From writer/producer/director/visionary James Nguyen – The Master Of The Romantic Thriller™ – comes the story of a sexy lingerie model (Whitney Moore) and a successful software salesman (Alan Bagh) on a weekend getaway to a quaint Northern California town. But when the entire region is attacked by millions of homicidal birds, their picturesque paradise becomes a winged hell on earth. Can mankind now survive the avian onslaught of Birdemic? Hollywood legend Tippi Hendren of Hitchcock’s The Birds makes a Special Appearance in the global cult movie phenomenon that Videogum says “might end up being the greatest film of all time!”

    EXTRAS: Included for streaming and download
    • Deleted Scenes
    • Birdemic Experience Tour Featurette
    • James Nguyen on Movie Close Up
    • Moviehead: The James Nguyen Story Teaser
    • Birdemic Experience 2010 Trailer
    • Teaser Trailer
    • Theatrical Trailer
    • Electronic Press Kit

  • Horror Express: Deluxe Edition (1972)

    The ‘70s horror classic returns like you’ve never seen it before! Screen legends Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing star as rival turn-of-the-century anthropologists transporting a frozen ‘missing link’ aboard the Trans-Siberian Express. But when the prehistoric creature thaws and escapes, it unleashes a brain-scarfing spree that turns its victims into the eye-bleeding undead. Can the crafty colleagues stop this two million year old monster, hordes of zombie passengers and a psychotic Cossack officer (Telly Savalas) before terror goes off the rails? Silvia Tortosa (When The Screaming Stops) co-stars in this all-time fright favorite from director Eugenio Martín and the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriters of Psychomania, now featuring explosive new Extras and a stunning HD transfer from vault elements recently unearthed in a Mongolian film depot!

    EXTRAS:
    • Murder On The Trans-Siberian Express: New Interview With Director Eugenio Martin
    • Notes From The Blacklist: Producer Bernard Gordon Discusses The McCarthy Era
    • The Guardian Interview With Peter Cushing 1973 (Audio only)
    • Telly And Me: New Interview With Composer John Cacavas
    • Introduction by Fangoria Editor Chris Alexander
    • Theatrical Trailer

  • Bloody Moon (1981)

    As the ‘body-count’ genre stabbed its way into audiences’ hearts in the early ’80s, EuroTrash auteur Jess Franco (Sadomania, Mansion Of The Living Dead) was asked to create his own saga of slaughtered schoolgirls complete with gratuitous nudity, graphic violence, and gory set pieces. But just when you thought you’d seen it all, Franco shocked the world by delivering surprising style, genuine suspense and a cavalcade of depravity that includes incest, voyeurism and roller disco. The luscious Olivia Pascal of Vanessa fame stars in this twisted thriller that was banned in England yet is now presented uncut and uncensored – including the complete ‘stone mill power saw’ sequence – for the first time ever on Blu-ray!

    EXTRAS:
    -Franco Moon – Interview with Director Jess Franco
    -Theatrical Trailer

  • Bloody Birthday (1981)

    Get ready for the rarely seen slasher classic from the ’80s that may also be the most disturbing ‘killer kids’ movies in grindhouse history: Three babies are simultaneously born in the same hospital at the peak of a full solar eclipse. Ten years later, these adorable youngsters suddenly begin a kiddie killing spree of stranglings, shootings, stabbings, beatings and beyond. Can the town’s grown-ups stop these pint-sized serial killers before their blood-soaked birthday bash? K.C. Martel (E.T., Growing Pains), Joe Penny (Jake And The Fat Man), Michael Dudikoff (American Ninja), screen legends Susan Strasberg and Jose Ferrer, and MTV vixen Julie Brown – whose nude bedroom dance remains a landmark of celebrity skin – star in this still-controversial shocker from director Ed Hunt (The Brain, Diary Of A Sinner), now featuring an all-new HD transfer from the original vault elements.

    EXTRAS:
    – Audio Interview With Director Ed Hunt
    – Don’t Eat That Cake! Interview With Star Lori Lethin
    – A Brief History Of Slasher Films Featurette

  • Nightmares (1980)

    From John Lamond, the infamous producer/director of Felicity, Australia After Dark and ABC Of Love And Sex comes this depraved melange of sex, murder and psychotic mayhem. Jenny Neumann of Hell Night and Mistress Of The Apes fame stars as a frigid young theater actress traumatized by her mother’s horrific death years earlier.

    But when a series of brutal stabbings rocks her latest production, the drama queen prone to bloody hallucinations fears that she herself may be the killer. Are all actresses genuinely insane or is the stage set for a shocking final twist? Max Phipps (The Road Warrior) and Gary Sweet (The Chronicle Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader) co-star in the graphic ‘Ozploitation’ giallo also known as Stage Fright, now fully restored from the original Australian vault elements.

    EXTRAS:
    – A Brief History Of Slasher Films Featurette

  • The Wild Geese (1978)

    Screen legends Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris star as a team of aging mercenaries hired by a wealthy industrialist for one final mission: Recruit and train a squad of desperate commandos, parachute into an unstable African nation, snatch its deposed President from a maximum security army prison, escape via the military-controlled airport, and massacre anyone who gets in their way. Getting to the target will be murder. But when the group is double-crossed, getting out alive may be impossible. Hardy Kruger (A BRIDGE TOO FAR), Frank Finlay (THE THREE MUSKETEERS), Barry Foster (FRENZY) and Stewart Granger (KING SOLOMON’S MINES) co-star in this blood & guts action classic, now packed with all-new Bonus Features and fully re-mastered in explosive HD for the first time ever in America!

    EXTRAS:
    -The Wild Geese Director – Exclusive New Interview With Director Andrew V. MgLaghlen
    -The Mercenary – Exclusive New Interview With Military Advisor Mike Hoare
    -The Last of the Gentleman Producers – Documentary on Producer Euan Lloyd Featuring Lloyd, Roger Moore, Joan Armatrading, Ingrid Pitt & more
    -The Flight Of The Wild Geese – Vintage Featurette
    -The Wild Geese Royal Charity Premiere Newsreel

  • Zulu Dawn (1979)

    Burt Lancaster, Peter O’Toole, Simon Ward, Bob Hoskins and Sir John Mills lead an all-star cast in the shocking true story of The Battle of Isandlwana: In January 1879, arrogant officials of the British colony of Natal, Africa issued a list of unauthorized ultimatums to the Zulu Nation. When the Zulu King refused their demands, the Empire declared war. And in a series of grave tactical blunders, a garrison of 1,500 British soldiers faced an army of 25,000 enraged Zulu warriors in what would become the most horrifying disaster in British military history. Nigel Davenport (CHARIOTS OF FIRE), Denholm Elliott (RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK), Phil Daniels (QUADROPHENIA) and 13,000 actual Zulus co- star in this acclaimed prequel to the classic ZULU, now packed with exclusive Bonus Features, fully restored to its correct aspect ratio, and re-mastered in stunning HD for the first time ever in America.

    EXTRAS:
    -The History Of The Zulu Wars Exclusive New Featurette with “Zulu Rising” author Ian Knight

    -Recreating The War Exclusive New Interview with Historical Advisor Midge Carter
    -A Visit To The Battlefield Exclusive New Featurette where Ian Knight visits the location of the infamous Battle of Isandlwana
    -Out-takes

  • Ashanti (1979)

    Michael Caine stars as Dr. David Linderby, half of a married U.N. medical team vaccinating native villages in West Africa. But when his skinny-dipping wife (supermodel Beverly Johnson) is abducted by a depraved Arab slave trader (two-time Oscar winner Peter Ustinov), there’s no time for diplomacy. Now with the help of a human-trafficking activist (Rex Harrison), a cynical mercenary (William Holden) and a vengeful Bedouin (Kabir Bedi), Linderby must pursue his wife’s slavers 3,000 miles across the Sahara before she can be sold at auction to wealthy Saudis. In a land without mercy, how far will one man go to save the woman he loves from the ultimate violation? Omar Sharif stars in this fact-based and still-controversial thriller, now restored in HD from original vault elements and featuring the first-ever DVD interview with Beverly Johnson on the film’s notorious history.

    EXTRAS:
    -Beverly Johnson on Ashanti

  • Snuff Box Complete Series (2006)

    What is Snuff Box? It’s the legendary BBC series written by and starring Britain’s Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place) and American Rich Fulcher (The Mighty Boosh, The Sarah Silverman Program) that only aired once yet instantly entered cult infamy. It’s a combination of depraved sitcom about a pair of jovial hangmen and twisted sketch comedy ala Monty Python, filled with bad first dates, time travel, sex, whiskey, awkward moments, random beatings, snappy musical numbers, one very long white hall, rampant swearing and other pleasures. It’s the show critics have called “one the best kept secrets in the history of British comedy”, now on DVD for the first time ever in America!

    EXTRAS:
    -Taking Control of Your Body Exclusive New Interview Featurette With Simon Pegg, Paul Rudd, Noel Fielding, Rob Coddry, Rob Schrab, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Paul Scheer And More!
    -Locations Walking Tour Exclusive New Featurette With Berry & Fulcher
    -The Score Exclusive New Featurette With Matt Berry
    -Inside the Snuff Box Featurette
    -Testimonials Exclusive New Featurette With Janene Garofolo, Steve Agee And More!
    -Outtakes