FIVE (1951, USA, 93 min., B&W)
Director: Arch Oboler. Stars:William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes and James Anderson.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. 4:3 full screen. Extras.
The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk.
Extras:
Audio Commentary
Kim Newman discusses Arch Oboler
Trailer
$25
THE DEVILS (1971) BDR/DVDR
You already know the plot of this infamous film by Ken Russell. So here's what you get:
BLU-RAY:
•114 min longest version in HD
•Audio Commentary with director Kin Russell
•111 min most common version
•Deleted Scenes
DVD 1
•107 min version Introduction by film critic Mark Kermode
•US Trailer
•UK Trailer
•Amelie (a 1958 short film by Ken Russell)
DVD 2
•Hell On Earth (documentary)
•Director of Devils (documentary)
•On-Set Footage
•On-Stage Q&A with Ken Russell
•Footage of music composer Sir Peter Maxwell Devies
$35
ILSA, THE WICKED WARDED (1977, Switzerland/W. Germany, 95 min.) BDR
Director: Jess Franco. Stars: Dyanne Thorne, Lina Romay and Angela Ritschard.
Language: Multiplie selection. Subtitles: Multiple selection. Widescreen.
After the mysterious disappearance of her sister, a desperate young woman goes undercover to infiltrate brutal warden Ilsa's mental health facility for the sexually deviant women.
Extras:
Interview with Jess Franco
Ilsa Trailers
Optional English, French and German
Optional Subtitles in English, French and German
$25
CLOWNHOUSE (1989, USA, 81 min.) BDR
Director: Victor Salva. Stars: Nathan Forrest Winters, Brian McHugh and Sam Rockwell.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Widescreen.
Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.
$25
MAD AT THE MOON (1992, USA, 98 min.) BDR
Director: Martin Donovan. Stars: Lori Ashton, Hart Bochner and Pat Atkins.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Full screen.
A young woman on the frontier marries a meek farmer who has an annoying habit of going through a rather drastic change every full moon.
$25
ZEBABEL (1969, Italy, 101 min.) BDR/DVDR
Director: Ruggero Deodato. Stars: Lucretia Love, John Ireland and Lionel Stander.
Language: English and Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Zenabel, a young woman from a humble background, discovers that she is actually the daughter of a Spanish nobleman who was killed by a ruthless don, Alonso, who took the title. So Zenable assembles a group of misfit friends to reclaim her title.
BD CONTENTS:
Uncut Italian language with English subtitles (1080p)
Deleted X scenes
Interview with Ruggero Deodato (Eng. subtitled)
DVD CONTENTS
English language version (SD)
$30
VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT (1957, USA, 66 min., B&W) BDR
Director: Roger Corman. Stars: Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot and Bradford Jackson.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
A group of lonely Viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk, only to fall into the clutches of the barbarians that also hold their men captive. There is a cameo appearance by the sea serpent.
$25
A.K.A. SERIAL KILLER (1975, Japan, 86 min.)
Director: Masao Adachi. Narrator: Masao Adachi.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Full screen 4:3
A visual document of the life of serial killer Norio Nagayama, focusing entirely of his living environment with some narrated biographical information.
$20
BLACK BART (1948, USA, 80 min.)
Director: George Sherman. Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea and Jeffrey Lynn.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
A master gunman, a lawless lover and a California stage-coach robber meet European dancer Lola Montez. Outlaw Charlie Boles leaves former partners Lance and Jersey and heads for California where the Gold Rush is beginning. Soon the lone gunman in black is robbing Wells Fargo gold shipments.
$15
THE GAL WHO TOOK THE WEST (1949, USA, 80 min.)
Director: Frederick De Cordova. Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Charles Coburn and Scott Brady.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer and causes a feud between two brothers.
$15
HURRICANE SMITH (1952, USA, 90 min.)
Director: Jerry Hopper. Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland and James Craig.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.
$15
PASSION (1954, USA, 84 min.)
Director: Allan Dwan. Stars: Cornel Wilde, Yvonne De Carlo and Raymond Burr.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
Cornel Wilde stars as a young rancher seeking vengeance for the murders of his wife and parents. The guilty parties are a group of terrorists headed by Rodolpho Acosta, whom Jaun, now a fugitive from justice himself, intends to kill one by one.
$15
SLAVE GIRL (1947, USA, 78 min., color)
Director: Director: Charles Lamont. Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, George Brent and Broderick Crawford.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
An American adventurer goes to Tripoli to rescue some kidnapped sailors, but gets involved with a beautiful slave girl.
$15
SEA DEVILS (1953, USA, 91 min.)
Director: Raoul Walsh. Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson and Maxwell Reed.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
Gilliat,a fisherman/smuggler is in jail, and is offered a pardon if he undertakes a mission to sail to France to rescue Droucette, an English agent whose cover has been blown, and who has now been jailed. Gilliat accepts the challenge.
$15
CURSE OF THE BLACK WIDOW (1977, USA, Made For TV, 97 min.)
Director: Dan Curtis. Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Donna Mills and Patty Duke.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. 4:3 full screen.
A private detective is on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons.
$15
DEATH CRUISE (1974, USA, Made For TV, 75 min.)
Directed by Ralph Senensky. Stars: Kate Jackson, Tom Bosley and Richard Long.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. 4:3 Full screen.
Six people win a free vacation aboard a luxury-liner. Then, begin to mysteriously disappear. The ship’s doctor begins an investigation of the strange murders and finds that the purpose of the cruise pleasure at all, but a prize of one million dollars.
$15
THE MEMORY OF EVA RYKER (1980, Made-For-TV, USA, 112 min.)
Director: Walter Grauman. Stars: Natalie Wood, Ralph Bellamy and Morgan Fairchild.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a cruise ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of her mother's death 30 years previously, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the young woman. An all star cast including Peter Graves, Mel Ferrer and Robert Foxwoth among others
$15
THE BLOODY DOLL (1976, France, TV) 2 DISC SET
Director: Marcel Cravenne. Stars: Yolande Folliot, Jean-Paul Zehnacker and Ludwig Gaum
Language: French. Subtitles: English.
Series of 6 episodes based on two novels by Gaston Leroux, "The Bloody Doll" and "The Murder Machine".
A hideously ugly local book-binder has a crush on a beautiful sculpter who is engaged to a scientist that is dabbling in things he shouldn't be. The book-binder and scultper also get caught up being care-givers to the Marquise who is trying to convince them both that her husband, the Marquis, is a vampire. Original title: "La Poupée Sanglante".
$30
LE COLLECTIONNEUR DE CERVEAUX (1976, France, Made For TV, 93 min.)
Director: Michel Subiela. Stars: Claude Jade, François Dunoyer and André Reybaz.
Language: French. Subtitles: English. 4:3
A young pianist is shocked when she witnesses a strange chess tournament with a robot. Could there be a gruesome secret behind this exhibition? AKA: “The Brain Collector”, “The Collector of Brains”.
$25
DELITTO IN VIA TEULADA (1980, Italy, Made For TV, 60 min.)
Director: Aldo Lado. Stars: Auretta Gay, Pietro Brambilla and Aldo Sassi.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. 4:3 full screen.
Someone is killing the actresses on the set of a drama being filmed at the RAI building.
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$20
PRINCESS FROM THE MOON (1987, Japan, 120 min.)
Directors: Kon Ichikawa and Teruyoshi Nakano. Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Ayako Wakao and Yasuko Sawaguchi.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the original tale, though, in which the girl was a fairy from the moon and was finally taken home.
$20
THE LAST WAR (1961, Japan, 110 min.)
Director: Shûe Matsubayashi. Stars: Furankî Sakai, Akira Takarada and Yuriko Hoshi.
Language: Japanese and English dubbed. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
This Japanese film speculates on the events which lead the U.S. and the Soviet Union into a nuclear Armageddon.
DVD Contents:
Original Japanese version with English subtitles – 110 min.
International English dubbed version – 80 min.
$25
DEATHQUAKE (1980, Japan, 126 min.)
Director: Kenjirô Ohmori. Stars: Hiroshi Katsuno, Toshiyuki Nagashima and Yumi Takigawa.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
A seismologist predicts an enormous earthquake to hit and devastate Tokyo, but no one takes him seriously.
$20
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ANTHAR, THE INVINCIBLE (1964, Italy, 91 min.) BDR
Directors: Antonio Margheriti. Stars: Kirk Morris, Michele Girardon and Renato Baldini.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Ganor, the ferocious tyrant of Baghdad, kills the sultan to seize power, imprisoning his son Daykor and daughter Soraya. Anthar, a young rebel, manages to free Soraya, who is captured again by a slave trader, Akrim, and is sold to a sheik. Repackaged for U.S. TV under the title "Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules".
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$25
AMERICA, NAKED AND VIOLENT (1970, Italy/USA, 92 min.)
Director: Sergio Martino. Narration: Giorgio Albertazzi.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Typical flower-child-era mondo-documentary focusing on the darker side of the First World country. The 60's and 70's were ripe with these theatrically released feature length documentary films. Movies that, if made today, would be little more than a 50 min TV spot on The Discovery Channel.
I have seen many of these in my years of collecting and I often wondered: Who actually sat through this type of movie at a theater back then? Well…I guess anything was appreciated as entertainment before the internet era.
$20
THE HAPPENING (1967, USA, 101 min.)
Director: Elliot Silverstein. Stars: Anthony Quinn, George Maharis and Michael Parks.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Widescreen.
Young drifters kidnap rich businessman Roc Delmonico for kicks and demand $200K for his release. But none of Roc's relatives or Mafia associates want to part with the money. So Roc switches allegiances and plots revenge.
$20
IN (1969, USA, 80 min., Color/B&W)
Director: Larry Kent. Stars: Lanny Beckman, Astri Thorvik and Peter Mathews.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Full screen 4:3
Tom, an amoral Montreal drifter who supports himself by peddling dope and fleecing lonely woman, hooks up with Vicky, a straight-laced librarian, and initiates her, all too well, into his criminal ways.
$20
LES DESAXEES (1972, France, 86 min.)
Director: Michel Lemoine. Stars: Janine Reynaud, Michel Lemoine and Claudia Coste.
Language: French. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
A writer by profession and a libertine at heart, Michel takes advantage of the absence of his wife Marianne, who has left for a few days on vacation to go out to a nightclub. Quickly attracted by an incendiary redhead, he takes her home where they spend the night. This adventure convinces him to continue their meetings. When Marianne returns home, Michel urges her to follow him in his unbridled love life. Reluctantly accepting at first, she eventually takes a liking to it. Until the day she falls in love with a young man...
$20
I’LL SPIT ON YOUR GRAVES (1959, France, 101 min., B&W)
Director: Michel Gast. Stars: Christian Marquand, Antonella Lualdi and Fernand Ledoux.
Language: French. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
After the lynching death of his black brother in Memphis, a light-skinned African-American, heads to a small Southern town, where he draws the attention of a heiress, and learns that the place is as racist as his hometown. Original title: “J'irai cracher sur vos tombes".
$20
EMILY (1976, U.K., 83 min.)
Director: Henry Herbert. Stars: Koo Stark, Sarah Brackett and Victor Spinetti.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. 4:3 full screen.
Set in the Roaring Twenties, "Emily" is a coming-of-age film featuring meticulous period detail and music. The sharp class distinctions of British society are blurred by the universal nature of desire.
The movie that cost Koo Stark her relationship with Prince Andrew.
$20
DEMONS 5: THE DEVIL’S VEIL (1990, Italy, 93 min.)
Director: Lamberto Bava. Stars: Giovanni Guidelli, Debora Caprioglio and Stanko Molnar.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English.
Lamberto pays homage to his father, Mario Bava, and the cult classic "Black Sunday" in this 1989/90 reboot. Here, a group of skiers stumbles upon the frozen corpse of a centuries old witch named Anibas. When they remove the iron spiked mask from her face, they unknowingly release her spirit from the pits of hell.
$18
IL ROSSETTO (1960, Italy, 09 min., B&W)
Director: Damiano Damiani. Stars: Pierre Brice, Giorgia Moll and Laura Vivaldi.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Thirteen year old Silvana has a crush on thirty-year-old musician Gino. One day, while trailing him, she sees him leave the home of a call-girl who was murdered.
$20
DIARY OF A HIGH SCHOOL BRIDE (1959, USA, 72 min., B&W)
Director: Burt Topper. Stars: Anita Sands, Ron Foster and Chris Robinson.
A 17-year-old high-school senior must justify her wedding to a 24-year-old law student to both her parents and her unbalanced ex-boyfriend.
$15
SOS CONSPIRACION BIKINI (Mexico, 1967, 84 min.)
Director: Rene Cardona, Jr. Stars: Julio Alemán, Sonia Furió and Sonia Infante.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English. Full screen 4:3
Secret Organization Service (S.O.S) is an international crime syndicate, quite successful with its female agents operating under the guise of a fashion modeling agency.
$18
PELIGRO...! MUJERES EN ACCION (1969, Mexico, 111 min.)
Director: Rene Cardona, Jr. Stars: Julio Alemán, Alma Delia Fuentes and Elizabeth Campbell.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English. Full screen 4:3
Alex DInamo goes up against the S.O.S. organization, a sinister group of beautiful girls driven by a lust for blood. AKA: "Danger....Women In Action".
$18
WOMAN WITHOUT A FACE (1947, Sweden, 102 min., B&W)
Director: Gustaf Molander. Stars: Alf Kjellin, Gunn Wållgren and Anita Björk.
Language: Swedish. Subtitles: English.
Martin Grandé is married to Frida and together they have a son Pil. When he has to buy flowers one day after a quarrel with his wife to ask for forgiveness, he meets the beautiful Rut Köhler in the flower shop and falls in love with lightning speed. They both start a passionate love affair. But beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected.
$18
DANGEROUS EXILE (1957, U.K., 91 min.)
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst. Stars: Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee and Keith Michell.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Full screen 4:3
During the French Revolution, a French nobleman saves the 10-year-old son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette from the guillotine with the help of an English woman.
$15
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BEYOND DEATH (1986, Spain, 95 min.)
Director: Sebastián D'Arbó. Stars: Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Tony Isbert and Berta Cabré.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English.
An elderly doctor who worked with the Nazis now conducts experiments on animals and humans to find out if there is life after death. Original title: “Mas alla de la Muerte”.
$20
CROSS OF THE DEVIL (1975, Spain, 92 min.)
Director: John Gilling. Stars: Ramiro Oliveros, Carmen Sevilla and Adolfo Marsillach.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English. Widescreen 16:9
A British novelist travels to Spain to visit his sister. However, when he arrives he discovers that she has been murdered by a gang of devil-worshiping bandits called the Devil's Cross.
$20
FLESH AND FURY (1952, USA, 82 min., B&W)
Director: Joseph Pevney. Stars: Tony Curtis, Jan Sterling and Mona Freeman.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
A deaf boxer is exploited by a gold-digging blonde.
$15
HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GRAVES (1982, Argentina, 93 min.)
Director: Pedro Stocki. Stars: Soledad Silveyra, Miguel Ángel Solá and María Rosa Gallo.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English. Full screen 4:3
Clara and Cecilia are two friends who have evolved very differently, regarding the scary stories that were so important during their childhood.
*Note: CFV compiled 2 source VHS's: a North American NTSC VHS and an Argentine PAL VHS. Scenes were inserted where the better looking VHS had rental/wear and tear damage.
$18
HOTEL PARADISE (1980, Spain/Italy, 90 min.)
Director: Edoardo Mulargia. Stars: Ajita Wilson, Anthony Steffen and Cristina Lay.
Language: English dubbed. Subtitles: none. Widescreen.
Girls kept prisoner under appalling conditions to dig emeralds for an evil tyrant are rescued by revolutionaries disguised as soldiers.
This is the full uncut version which contains the XXX scenes. Quality will vary during scenes inserted to create this uncut print. The opening title sequence is also of lower quality as to use an opening that had the English language title.
$20
THE HUMAN JUNGLE (1954, USA, 82 min., B&W)
Director: Joseph M. Newman. Stars: Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling and Chuck Conners.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Widescreen 1.78:1 16x9
Police procedural film about a police captain assigned to take over a demoralized police precinct and turn it around by solving all the unsolved cases as well as some new tough ones.
$15
LA BABY SITTER (France, 1975, 106 min.)
Director: René Clément. Stars: Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome and Vic Morrow.
Language: French. Subtitles: English. 16x9
A naive young girl is forcefully kidnapped while babysitting the son of a wealthy food mogul. Her and the boy are held hostage by an ex-stuntman and a vengeful movie star.
$20
MACISTE ALLA CORTE DEL GRAN KAN (1961, Italy, 91 min.)
Director: Riccardo Freda. Stars: Gordon Scott, Yoko Tani and Gabriele Antonini.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen 2.35:1
Maciste helps a Chinese people rebel against a Tatar warlord who plans to murder the rightful royal family. This is the original Italian version with original music score by Carlo Innocenzi (not Les Baxter).
$18
MEMOIRS OF A FRENCH WHORE (1979, France, 110 min.)
Director: Daniel Duval. Stars: Miou-Miou, Maria Schneider and Niels Arestrup.
Language: French. Subtitles: English. Widescreen 1.66:1
Marie is a young girl from a working-class family who falls for Gerard before she discovers he is a vicious, sadistic pimp. Original title: "La Derobade".
Highly recommended!
$20
ROADHOUSE GIRL (1953, U.K., 70 min., B&W)
Director: Wolf Rilla. Stars: Maxwell Reed, Sandra Dorne and Leslie Dwyer.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
The wife of a garage owner is caught with the mechanic. He is accidentally killed and a cover up begins. Originally titled "Marilyn" and released in the USA as "Roadhouse Girl".
$15
TARZAN IN KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1973, Spain, 86 min.)
Director: José Luis Merino. Stars: David Carpenter, Nadiuska and Paul Naschy.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English. Full screen 4:3
Doris, who hasn't heard from her brother for many months, decides to search for him in the wild African jungle. There, she hires an experienced guide and meets a man raised by animals: Tarzan, the lord of the jungle.
$25
A rare Paul Naschy that no one else has with English subtitles. Thanks always to Alberto Palacios for the excellent translations.
IL MEDIUM (1980, Italy, 91 min.)
Director: Silvio Amadio. Stars: Guido Mannari, Sherry Buchanan and Martine Brochard.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
A man has psychic premonitions of bad things happening to both a young boy and a young lady in a flaming vehicle.
Note: This print has a bit of a 'hiccup' every so often throughout the film. It's brief, like literally a fraction of a second. But if you pay attention, you'll notice it.
$15
THE JURY'S SECRET (1938, USA, 62, min., B&W)
Director: Edward Sloman. Stars: Kent Taylor, Fay Wray and Jane Darwell.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
$15
LA TRAQUE (1975, France, 96 min.)
Director: Serge Leroy. Stars: Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Luc Bideau and Michael Lonsdale.
Language: French. Subtitles: English. Widescreen 16x9
Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal. AKA: "The Track".
$20
MACISTE NELLA VALLE DEI RE (1960, Italy, 94 min.)
Director: Carlo Campogalliani. Stars: Mark Forest, Chelo Alonso and Angelo Zanolli.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. Widescreen 2.35:1
Egypt, in control of a mercenary queen and her confederates, is saved by the Pharoah's son with the aid of a friend, Maciste, he met in the desert.
Full 94 min original Italian version AKA "Son of Samson".
$18
PROSTITUTES' PROTECTIVE SOCIETY (1966, USA, 62 min., B&W)
Director: Barry Mahon. Stars: Madame Sue, Darlene Bennett and Dawn Bennett.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. 4:3
Madame Sue runs a successful prostitute operation in the heart of NYC, and as it should happen, The Mob wants to get a piece of the action.
$18
THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. MEADE (1938, USA, 62 min., B&W)
Director: Lewis D. Collins. Stars: Jack Holt, Beverly Roberts and Noah Beery Jr.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
A New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities. The doctor she works for prefers traditional herbs to modern medicine.
$15
TIRE PAS SUR MON COLLANT (1978, France, 95 min.)
Director: Michel Lemoine. Stars: Vanessa Vaylord, Corinne Corson and Jérôme Foulon.
Language: French. Subtitles: English. Widesceen 16x9
Secretaries, Joëlle and Béatrice are invited to holiday in Marrakech. Once they arrive, they begin to seduce all the handsome boys on vacation. Title translates to: "Don't Pull On My Tights", aka: "Don't Pull On My Pantyhose".
$20
ZORRO, RIDER OF VENGEANCE (1971, Italy/Spain, 87 min.)
Directors: Luigi Capuano and José Luis Merino. Stars: Carlos Quiney, Malisa Longo and Fernando Hilbeck.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. 16x9
Zorro must try to stop the theft of a precious jewel from the local Indian tribe in an attempt to avoid not only a criminal act, but an all out war with the Indians.
$20
WARRIOR QUEEN (1987, USA, 79 min. & 69 min)
Director: Chuck Vincent. Stars Sybil Danning, Donald Pleasence and Rick Hill.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Widescreen 16x9 & Full screen 4:3
In ancient Pompeii, slaves are bought and sold for household chores and sex. A mysterious queen moves among the elite, while secretly helping the slaves to escape.
BDR Quality: 10/10 79 min. (longest currently available version)
DVDR Quality: 9/10 69 min. (VHS version)
$30
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A HAUNTED TURKISH BATHHOUSE (1975, 81 min.)
Director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi. Stars: Naomi Tani, Misa Ohara and Taiji Tonoyama.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Yukino goes to work full time at a bathhouse brothel to help pay a debt her fiancee, Yûzô, owes to a gangster. Her younger sister, Mayumi, comes to live with them for a while. But as Yukino is selling her body to help Yûzô, he decides to rape Mayumi. When Yukino finds out, Yûzô and the bathhouse owner's wife, Utae, silence Yukino the only way they know how. And now, her angry spirit comes back to get revenge.
$20
ANGEL GUTS: HIGH SCHOOL COED (1978, Japan, 80 min.)
Director: Chusei Sone. Stars: Tatsuma Higuchi, Tsutomu Hori and Shin Kagayama.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Three gangsters spend their time assaulting students until their leader feels guilty and saves a young girl from being raped. Following the incident, the gang decides he must now prove himself by being the one to rape her.
$20
BLACK PANTHER BITCH M (1974, Japan, 75 min.)
Director: Koretsugu Kurahara. Stars: Reiko Ike, Mikio Narita and Akiko Mori.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
An assassin trained as a ninja carries the code name "M". Hayami is a yakuza boss and a father who is not allowed to come near his young daughter, Mutsumi because she was born out of the rape of the mother, Kazuko. In the big port city of Yokohama, M has to see Hayami, who with his practices has thrown angry blood at the president of the Yakuza group.
$20
GUZOO, THE THING FORSAKEN BY GOD (1986, Made For Video, Japan, 40 min.)
Director: Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu. Stars: Yumiko Ishikawa, Naomi Kajitani and Kyôko Komiyama.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Full screen 4:3
A very simple story about a group of young girl friends who stay at a villa for their summer vacation and spend a night of horror after being attacked by the mysterious ancient creature "Guzoo" that was kept underground as a research target.
$15
HIGH NOON RIPPER (1984, Japan, 60 min.)
Director: Yôjirô Takita. Stars: Kaoru Orimoto, Usagi Asô and Yûko Aoki.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English.
A journalist. Two photographers. One infamous serial killer on the loose. And an interesting ending.
$20
IRON GIRL (2012, Japan, 93 min.)
Director: Masatoshi Nagamine. Stars: Kirara Asuka, Mickey Koga and Masahiro Noguchi.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Sci-fi action film featuring fierce battles between outlaws and the mysterious young beauty called Iron Girl, who wears an armored suite and wields superhuman powers.
$18
IRON GIRL: ULTIMATE WEAPON (2015, Japan, 83 min.)
Director: Ken'ichi Fujiwara. Stars: Asami, Kirara Asuka and Hiroaki Iwanaga.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Set in the near future in a lawless world. Kurisu Saotome (Kirara Asuka) is a beautiful woman, but she is also a deadly bounty hunter. She wears an armored suit, possessing great power, and she is known as Iron Girl. Kurisu Saotome doesn't remember who she really is or where she comes from. To regain her memory, she continues her lonely battle.
$18
RAPE ZOMBIE: LUST OF THE DEAD 4 (2014, Japan, 87 min.)
Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu. Stars: Yui Aikawa, Asami and Aya Kisaki.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
Their camp has fallen, the chosen child is in the hands of the Otaku and the undead are rampaging across the city. Is there any hope for the remaining survivors?
$20
RAPE ZOMBIE: LUST OF THE DEAD 5 (2014, Japan, 81 min.)
Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu. Stars: Yui Aikawa, Shoji An and Maki Aoyama.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Widescreen.
As the undead and Otaku near their goal the remaining survivors mount one last offense.
$20
SIREN X (2008, Japan, Made-For-Video, 65 min.)
Director: Hideo Jôjô. Stars: Yuma Asami, Yûya Matsuura and Eiji Nakamura.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English.
A documentary crew is filming a new cable TV show called "Mini-skirt Adventures". Their location of choice happens to be a lake known for strange disappearances of campers who are mostly men.
$18
WONDER LADY vs AMERICAN MONSTERS (2011, Japan, 160 min.)
Director: Kang Syaku. Stars: Yui Hatano, Tony Ohki and T.K. Harris.
Language: Japanese. Subtitles: English. Extras: Make-of (no subtitles)
A hardcore XXX take on the American "Wonder Woman", pitting her against knock-offs of American villains and monsters such as the Joker, Terminator, Predator and a cross between Jason/Leatherface.
$25
A RAT IN THE DARKNESS (1979, Mexico, 82 min.)
Director: Alfredo Salazar. Stars: Ana Luisa Peluffo, Anaís de Melo and Ricardo Cortés.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English. Full screen 4:3
Two sisters buy a new home. And one of them is convinced that it's haunted.
$18
CASUAL RELATIONS (1974, USA, 80 min., B&W/Color)
Director: Mark Rappaport. Stars: Sis Smith, Julio Domínguez and Melvin Austin.
Language: English. Subtitles: none.
In Rappaport’s dazzling and bizarre feature-length debut, he focuses on states of imaginative possession and dispossession, demonstrating how impossible it is to separate fantasies, dreams, and realities.
$20
STOP! (1970, USA, 89 min.)
Director: Bill Gunn. Stars: Edward Michael Bell, Linda Marsh and Richard Dow.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. 4:3
In this rarely seen and unreleased film, Michael (Edward Bell) and Lee Berger (Linda Marsh) are an unhappily married couple looking to rekindle their marriage. After moving to Puerto Rico to live in his brother’s house that Michael inherited after a murder, suicide, they decide to try swinging, with disastrous results.
Note: This rarity is taken from a VHS and has never been digitally enhanced. May show signs of VHS wear.
$15
DON'T GO TO SLEEP (1982, USA, Made-For-TV, 94 min.)
Director: Richard Lang. Stars: Dennis Weaver, Valerie Harper and Ruth Gordon.
Language: English. Subtitles: none. Full screen 4:3
Valerie Harper and Dennis Weaver as parents of a girl who claims she's being visited by her dead sister.
$13 (VHS quality)
IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND (1951, Mexico, 112 min.)
Director: Roberto Gavaldón. Stars: Arturo de Córdova, Leticia Palma and Ramón Gay.
Language: Spanish. Subtitles: English. Full screen 4:3
Fraudulent fortune teller, Professor Karin, uses the secrets of his female clientele to blackmail them, while at the same time he is a pawn in the higher game being played by a treacherous widow.
Mastered from VHS, some signs of videotape rental wear may be present during playback. Overall great quality from a VHS. That's a rarity in itself!
$20
ISLAND OF SIN (1973, Greece, 80 min.)
Director: Kostas Doukas. Stars: Lia Flessa, Giorgos Stratigakis and Petros Zarkadis.
Language: Greek. Subtitles: English. Full screen 4:3
Two criminals escaped from prison abuse a family which takes bloody revenge later. Typical 1970's cash-in on the success of "Last House On the Left".
$15 (VHS mastered)
MILADY AND THE 3 MUSKETEERS (1952, Italy, 85 mins., B&W)
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi. Stars: Rossano Brazzi, Yvette Lebon and Armando Francioli.
Language: Italian. Subtitles: English. 4:3
An official, betrayed by his lady servant, joins musketeers under the name Athos, while she turns into a countess and a spy that will eventually face execution.
$18
THE MAN WITHOUT DESIRE (1923, U.K., 70 min., B&W)
Director: Adrian Brunel. Stars: Ivor Novello, Nina Vanna and Sergio Mari.
Language: English title cards.
A doctor suspends the life of a mourning lover and he is revived 200 years later.
$18
NATHAN THE WISE (1921, Germany, 123 min.)
Director: Manfred Noa. Stars: Fritz Greiner, Carl de Vogt and Lia Eibenschütz.
Language: German Title Cards with English subtitles. Color tinted.
Manfred Noa's adaptation of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's stage play is one of the completely forgotten classics of German silent cinema. It is an appeal to peace and tolerance that was violently attacked by the Nazis. The story which takes place againsr the backdrop of religious wars between Christians, Islamists and Jews in 12th-century Jerusalem shows Werner Krauss (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) in one of his best roles.
$18
WOLF DEVIL WOMAN (1982, Taiwan, 85 min.)
Director: Ling Chang. Stars: Ling Chang, Feng Shih and Yu-Hsiang Chang.
Language: English dubbed. Subtitles: none.
A woman who was raised by wolves seeks revenge on Red Devil, the villain who ordered the murder of her parents.
$15