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Attention all shoppers! It’s going to be a crappy day when Sewer Gators is released! You mark your calendars now! June 3rd can’t get here fast enough. Don’t believe me? Go here and wait for the Sewer Gators to appear themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xahw04ZDgTM or ...
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The zombie apocalypse is among us. You can either die easy or die fighting! Opening with the famous OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION, scratchy sound and all, and the panther ...
Read more: Hell Of The Screaming Undead (2021) - Movie Review
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“Hands off, or your hand is ham and I’m the slicer!” Filipino filmmaker Eddie Romero might be dead, but his movies - being cheapo depot horror offerings, exploitative skin flicks, and action vehicles, live on. Such is the case with Savage Sisters, an exploitation flick in title alone, which he directed in 1974, but ...
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Shaft in 4K?! With a new digital restoration, too? Can you dig it? Funked up by Isaac Hayes’ incredible score and theme, Richard Roundtree is back in action as Harlem P.I. John Shaft in this signature blaxploitation offering from director Gordon Parks (Shaft, Shaft’s Big Score). The character's ...
Read more: Shaft: The Criterion Collection (1971) - 4K UHD Review
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“Very good. You know your alphabet.” Life in the big apple can be so . . . draining. Literally. For the lawyer at the center of this black comedy, it begins with a bat flying around in his apartment and it ends with him discovering his own arousal while in mortal danger with the same damn rodent. ...
Read more: Vampire’s Kiss - MVD Rewind Collection (1989) - Blu-ray Review
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The beach is alive with the sound of screaming!? You’ve heard about Beach Blanket Bingo, well, now - thanks to Scream Factory’s love of all things schlocky and science fiction - get a load of what washes ashore to party with the rest of the beach bums in The She-Creature, a low budget ...
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“Dirkie, Dirkie, Wild Turkey.” This might be the movie you have been waiting for Midnight Marauders! Especially if you love to see cacti stab at people wandering the desert as they attempt to free themselves from the guilt they feel for murdering their teacher. The cacti have ...
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It lives in the sewers of Chicago. It’s 36 feet long and weighs over 2000 pounds. This gargantuan is also very, very hungry. Its name is Ramon and, after being flushed down the toilet by an angry Dad, is now about to break out from beneath the city! And Chicago will never be the same ...
Read more: Alligator 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray: Collector’s Edition (1980) - 4K UHD Review
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Stop Motion animation addicts rejoice! Monster from Green Hell has been unleashed and, for those few seconds of stop motion glory, it’s worth it! ...
Read more: Monster From Green Hell: The Film Detective Special Edition (1957) - Blu-ray Review
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Beginning with an explosion which levels a poppy field, Cleopatra Jones is one bad mutha! Drug trafficking is about to get the red light thanks to her blazing guns. With an undefined beauty and a ...
Read more: Cleopatra Jones: Warner Archive Collection (1973) - Blu-ray Review
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Dag Bandy means business! Opening with a wild party in which stoned bikers try to bed a bunch of women, Bury Me An Angel pulls a quick double-cross on its audience as the party ends when someone’s head gets blown clean ...
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The water! It’s the goddamn water! From the very beginning, there is something very forward-thinking about 1964’s The Flesh Eaters. It is as if the black-and-white creature feature absolutely predicted what teens and young adults would be wanting to see on the matinee silver screens as one ...
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“Screw the heat. We don’t stop for nobody!” Wine. Women. Whiskey. And weed. Sounds like a good time, right? It isn't. Angels Hard As They Come, a biker exploitation classic with original music by Carp, should know. Things don't go as planned. ...
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It is a film that Roger Ebert eviscerated with his review, taking the moral high ground and shaming 10 to Midnight for its portrayal of sex, violence, and the female condition. He also took to the review to suggest that Charles Bronson was just showing up for a paycheck. And, ...
Read more: 10 to Midnight: Collector's Edition (1983) - Blu-ray Review
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The “Brother Man from the Motherland” returns to settle yet another score! Can you dig it? Funked up by Isaac Hayes’ incredible score and theme, Richard Roundtree is back in action as Harlem P.I. John Shaft in this trio of signature blaxploitation offerings from directors...
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Spellbinding science fiction doesn’t get any more outrageous than it does here in The Brain Eaters, a 61-minute schlocky shocker from the Drive-In era of B-flicks. This is what happens when Small Town, America finds itself at the center of a UFO invasion! Hide the jars of pickles, Ma and ...
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Top secret genetic engineering gone wrong! This is what you get in this b-grade sequel (or is it a remake?) to the Corey Haim-led Watchers, a film no one remembers for good reason. With a bit more gore and a change in scenery, this creature feature pumps up the volume on its lifeless . ...
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This life can be a long, rambling walk down a twisting highway. Just ask Mr. Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates), the “junior birdman” who dreams of a cockfighting championship while he puts others to the side in his quest for the title. ...
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“Is your sword for hire? I would pay anything for it. What is wrong? Is your sword too small. . . “ Go BOLD or GO HOME, right? Surely, that must have been behind this sword and sorcery romp as a bad king dares to raise a demon from the depths of Hell in order to conquer even more land for ...
Read more: The Sword and The Sorcerer - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Collector’s Edition (1982) - Review
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Jack Hill is BACK in a BIG way! For anyone who “hates” on exploitation film auteur Jack Hill’s The Swinging Cheerleaders for its objectification of women – namely cheerleaders – there’s a need for a brief lesson in film and cultural history. Made during the 1970s, Hill’s movie was a very ...
Read more: The Swinging Cheerleaders: Arrow Video 2K Restoration (1974)
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Exploitation flicks don’t get any nastier than this! You've been warned. If there is any thread of humanity left within you, you'll just stop reading now and go about your day. Nothing to see here. Still here? Goooooood. Then you already know just how absolutely AWESOME this film is and, yeah, there's plenty to see. I don't know ...
Read more: Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973) - Blu-ray Review
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Now, this right here is the KA-RAZY chopsaki kung-fu that I miss about the martial art flicks from the 1980s! Written, directed and starring Taiwanese martial arts legend John Liu (The Secret Rivals, Invincible Armor), New York Ninja is truly a ...
Read more: New York Ninja (1984) - Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive 4K Release
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Primal terror has never looked this good before! Writer/Director Joe Dante (Gremlins) humorously takes on America’s culture of violence with 1981’s The Howling. Manically led by a charging performance from Patrick Macnee (BBC’s The Avengers), The Howling and Dante – alongside Jon ...
Read more: The Howling 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray (1981) - 4k Review
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“You made two mistakes. One was getting up and the other was making fun of Shirley Temple.” Directed by David Berlatsky and starring Gary Conway as a decorated World War II veteran who returns home to try to save his farm from being taken over by the bank, The Farmer, a ...
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"The motion picture that follows is a fable. In it there are many nudists but only one monster. In life, it is generally the other way around." Brain dead dialogue? Plenty of female flesh? Monster madness? Where do I sign up?! AGFA and Something Weird, those cool-headed ...
Read more: The Monster of Camp Sunshine/Honeymoon of Terror (1964) - Blu-ray Review
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Fishing with grandpa was never as wild and as out there as in this slasher satire! That’s right, Gorehounds and Guppy Heads, Blood Hook is back to get you in the mood for some more summertime hijinks . . . and this time all the muskie madness and mutilations are completely uncensored! Whoop ...
Read more: Blood Hook (1985) Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive - Blu-Ray Review
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007 who? The Man From Hong Kong has all that you crave! Operating as if Inspector Fang Sing Leng (Jimmy Wang Yu) was the one and only James Bond, The Man From Hong Kong blows its action sky high and delivers a spirited action-adventure flick that could only come out of the pages of ...
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Independent films don’t get any more baadasssss than with Melvin Van Peebles at the helm. Recognize that right now and we can remain on speaking terms. The collective black consciousness is alive and well in his filmography and, thankfully, his independent output left a lasting mark on pop ...
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“Doctor! Doctor! She’s . . . dead.” A horror triple feature from the vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)? Yes, please! Call it the return of the Drive-In schlock. Hell, call it whatever you want. I call these films - Help Me . . . I’m Possessed, Carnival of Blood, and Night of the ...
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This set from Arrow Video is arguably their best release yet. It is indeed a labor of love as the company has carefully curated and gorgeously presented a selection of all-time Shaw Brothers classics in this box set. You read that correctly. From King Boxer to Mighty Peking Man and everything ...
Read more: Shawscope Volume One - Limited Edition - Blu-ray Review
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