Well guys…as you may or may not know we made a movie and this week that movie hits the shop. Now most of you have paid for it so this is more of a pick up your movie announcement this week. If you want me to sign it bring a loonie for the tip jar. I Kid…I Kid. Anyways with TLVS taking up most of this week’s order only a few more titles arrive with it. So here is the short list…
A love letter to video rental stores and the B-movie treasures that lined their walls, Cody Kennedy & Tim Rutherford’s debut feature, The Last Video Store, is a genre-loving blast of pure joy: “a real treasure trove for genre fans, both new and old.”
THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES (1971) Meet Doctor Phibes: a one-time concert musician who’s now an all-time crazed murderer. In this clever, crypt-kicking classic, horrormeister Vincent Price (The Raven, The Last Man on Earth) plays a diabolical doc seeking the ultimate in revenge with precision creepiness and surgical wit. Watch Dr. Phibes live up to his promise: “Nine killed her, nine shall die, nine eternies in doom!” After a team of surgeons botch his beloved wife’s surgery, leaving her for dead, the emotionally distraught Dr. Phibes creatively concocts a fatal prescription for revenge. Using the Good Book as his guide, Phibes unleashes a score of old testament atrocities—from a plague of locusts to an attack of rats—on his enemies that climax in what may be one of the eeriest endings on screen record! Robert Fuest (And Soon the Darkness) directed this darkly comic shocker that features Joseph Cotten (Baron Blood), Hugh Griffith (So Evil My Love), Terry-Thomas (The Green Man) and Virginia North (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) as the doc’s evil assistant Vulnavia. DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN (1972) Flesh Crawls!
Nice, normal-looking Leslie Vernon (Nathan Baesel) has an obsession with movie-style slashers like Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger. Leslie decides to follow in the footsteps of his heroes, and, ever the self-promoter, invites a documentary filmmaker (Angela Goethals) and her crew to follow him around as he constructs his own grisly legacy.
After a wish turns 12-year-old Josh Baskin into a 30-year-old man, he heads to New York City and gets a low-level job at MacMillen Toy Company. A chance encounter with the owner of the company leads to a promotion testing new toys. Soon a fellow employee, Susan Lawrence, takes a romantic interest in Josh. However, the pressure of living as an adult begins to overwhelm him, and he longs to return to his simple, former life as a boy.
After reports of strange phenomena in a rural English church, a team is sent by the Vatican to see if what is happening qualifies as a miracle. At first sceptical, and mistrusted by the locals, they soon learn that they may have found something far darker and more potent than they could possibly have imagined.
A former boxer loses his job as an auto mechanic, and his troubled marriage is about to expire. At this crossroads in his life, he feels that he has no better option than to work as a drug courier. He soon finds himself in a gunfight between police officers and his own ruthless allies. When the smoke clears, Bradley is badly hurt and thrown in prison, where his enemies force him to commit acts of violence that turn the place into a savage battleground.
C.I.A. Agent Billy Brown (Vincent Gallo) brings his wife home to meet his absurdly dysfunctional family. Only Billy’s not really in the C.I.A., and his “wife,” Layla (Christina Ricci), is actually a young tap dancer he just kidnapped to impress his ridiculous and unloving parents (Anjelica Huston, Ben Gazzara). In reality, Billy’s whole life is an empty lie. He’s fresh out of prison and now on a deadly mission to hunt down and kill the Buffalo Bills kicker whose botched field goal he believes ruined his life. However, Billy’s new hostage may ruin everything. Their crazy attachment blossoms into a desperate and oddly beautiful romance that may or may not be a sweet enough substitute for revenge. Vincent Gallo composed and performed the original music and also wrote, directed and stars in the film that THE NEW YORK TIMES calls, “…a deadpan original.”
During World War II, a dilapidated vessel, the Caine, gets a new ensign, Willis Keith (Robert Francis), and a new captain, Commander Queeg (Humphrey Bogart). The crew sees Queeg’s unconventional behavior as irrational, and communications officer Thomas Keefer (Fred MacMurray) spreads suspicion about his suitability as captain. When a dire situation during a storm forces the executive officer (Van Johnson) to relieve Queeg of his duties, he and Ensign Keith are tried for mutiny.
Personal Favourite! In this Mexican horror, some moronic teenagers disturb a sacred grave site for a laugh and get their comeuppance when the vengeful corpses reanimate and tear out their throats! Hugo Stiglitz, Usi Velasco, Erika Buenfil, Rubén Galindo Jr., 1985.
It’s 1986, and Chuck Steel is the best God damn cop on the force according to his long suffering boss, Captain Jack Schitt.
Director Giuseppe Tornatore’s charming and bittersweet tribute to the power of movies won 1989’s Best Foreign Film Academy Award. A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown for the first time in 30 years and looks back on his life, including the time he spent helping the projectionist at the local movie theater. Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, and Marco Leonardi star. Theatrical version; 124 min./Extended 2002 re-release version; 174 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: Italian DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; featurettes; “making of” documentaries; theatrical trailers. In Italian with English subtitles. Two-disc set. Region Free
Mahmut is a relatively successful commercial photographer who has been struggling to come to terms with the growing gap between his artistic ideals and his professional obligations. His tedious workload, coupled with the lingering loss he still feels for his ex-wife (newly married and on the verge of leaving Istanbul for Canada), leaves Mahmut clinging to the melancholic and obsessive routines of his solitary life.
On his seventeenth birthday, Michael unwittingly unlocks the evil forces of a Ouija board, as one does. Jon Michael Bischof, Gabriela Hassel, Helena Rojo, Rubén Galindo Jr., 1988.
Post Civil War western comedy about a hapless outlaw discovers, on his way to the gallows, that can go free if picked for marriage by a maiden lady in town. Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, Jack Nicholson, 1978.
Nasty South African horror which follows a heroin addict who gets abducted by aliens and is then possessed by aliens then stumbles around Cape Town getting in one misadventure after another, usually involving sex. Ryan Kruger, 2020.
3 disc set includes 3 of Ed Wood’s 70s adult films plus a Wood scripted bonus feature and 7+ hours of bonus materials.
A witty, disgusting, eye-popping, and incomprehensible scabrous satire of organized religion that follows a Christ figure, his disciples, and their bloody quest for the home of the gods, whom they plan to depose. Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973.
Filmmaker Lars von Trier’s internationally acclaimed, cult classic series tells the story of a hospital built on top of the old bleaching ponds in Copenhagen, where evil has taken root and medical science faces a daily struggle with itself.
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies. Tobe Hooper (1995)
After his students are killed by the One Armed Boxer, a vengeful and blind Kung Fu expert travels to a village where a martial arts contest is being held and vows to behead every one armed man he comes across.
A kung fu rock band goes up against a gang of drug dealing ninja bikers who have tightened their grip on Florida’s narcotics trade. Yes, you read that correctly. Written, directed and starring inspirational speaker Y.K. Kim, 1987.
When the Italian Mafia threatens to kill a crooked bookie (John Turturro), Irish mob boss Leo O’Bannon (Albert Finney) refuses to allow it, chiefly because he’s dating the bookie’s sister, crafty gun moll Verna Bernbaum (Marcia Gay Harden). Leo’s right-hand man, Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne), is also seeing Verna on the sly, and when he’s found out is obliged to switch sides, going to work for the Italian mob amidst a dramatically escalating gang war over liquor distribution.
Aboard a fast moving train bound for Hell, God and Satan decide the fates of three unfortunate mortals. Cameron Mitchell, John Phillip Law, Merideth Haze, Ferddy Mane, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, 1985.
Feature length anime about a young man who returns home after his first year away at college he recalls his senior year of high school and the iron-willed, big city girl that turned his world upside down. Tomomi Mochizuki, 1993.
A marvelously inventive Japanese horror-comedy that’s equally a well executed zombie film, a satire of low-budget genre filmmaking and weirdly a charming family comedy. Shinichiro Ueda, 2018.
In the late 1980s, Ace (Wood Harris) is a young man employed by a Harlem dry cleaning shop, working hard to stay out of the drug business. While making deliveries, he meets Lulu (Esai Morales), a drug dealer who convinces Ace to join him. Ace recruits his friends Mitch (Mekhi Phifer) and Rico (Cam’ron), and the trio become major players in the Harlem drug underworld, a violent business that will test the friends’ loyalty and wits as the money rolls in and the dangers grow beyond their control.
Having brought British cinema into exalted realms of fantasy and imagination, Michael Powell took a dark detour into obsession, voyeurism, and violence with this groundbreaking metacinematic investigation into the mechanics of fear. Armed with his killer camera, photographer and filmmaker Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) unleashes the traumas of his childhood by murdering women and recording their deaths—until he falls for his downstairs neighbor, and finds himself struggling against his dark compulsions. Received with revulsion upon its release only to be reclaimed as a masterpiece, the endlessly analyzed, still-shocking Peeping Tom dares viewers to confront their own relationship to the violence on-screen.
In Arizona, an introverted and insightful teenager, Mark Hunter (Christian Slater), finds an outlet for his viewpoints through a shortwave radio. Broadcasting as “Hard Harry,” Hunter uses his pirate radio show to rant against the injustices and hypocrisies taking place in the area, and in society in general. Hunter conceals his off-air identity, but a determined student (Samantha Mathis) discovers the truth, while Principal Creswood (Annie Ross) seeks to shut down Hunter once and for all.
A series of gruesome murders is terrifying the inhabitants of the Australian outback settlement of Axehead. Maddy, the town’s only law enforcement officer and sheriff, searches for clues. However, her investigations lead nowhere – until her uncle Schmitty mentions a massive, seven-foot zombie kangaroo that he is convinced is responsible for the bloodshed. At first, Maddy doesn’t believe his seemingly absurd suspicions, but when the murders continue, she is forced to face reality. Determined to end the nightmare and save her town, Maddy, side by side with her uncle and Aunt Donna, confronts the killer kangaroo in a fight to the death.
While investigating the operators of a drug trafficking app, Detective Ma (Don Lee) and his team discover a link between a murder case in the Philippines and an illegal online gambling organization. The organization’s leader IT genius Chang Dong-cheol, and his accomplice, ex-elite soldier Baek Chang-gi, are already preparing their next big move. To thwart their plans, Detective Ma expands the operation and forges and unusual alliance.
In the year 2019, America is a totalitarian state where the favorite television program is “The Running Man” — a game show in which prisoners must run to freedom to avoid a brutal death. Having been made a scapegoat by the government, an imprisoned Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has the opportunity to make it back to the outside again by being a contestant on the deadly show, although the twisted host, Damon Killian (Richard Dawson), has no intention of letting him escape.
An orphan raised by nuns (Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick) grows up to be a killer toy-store Santa Claus.
Prepare for a trilogy of pure terror (or camp depending on your point of view) with this collection of films from the Silent Night, Deadly Night series. Includes Silent Night Deadly Night 3,4,5
During the Vietnam War, a squad of National Guardsmen — including Hardin (Powers Boothe), a no-nonsense Texan; Reece (Fred Ward), a hunter; and Spencer (Keith Carradine), a sensible private — take part in a military training exercise in the swamps of Louisiana. After attempting to steal several canoes and firing blanks at a Cajun, the group members find themselves being hunted by the locals. Scared and unfamiliar with the territory, the men must scramble to escape.
Guy (Frank Whaley) is a young film executive who’s willing to do whatever it takes to make it in Hollywood. He begins working for famed producer Buddy Ackerman (Kevin Spacey), a domineering, manipulative, coldhearted boss. When Guy also finds out that his cynical girlfriend, Dawn (Michelle Forbes), has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit. Guy decides to exact revenge on Buddy by kidnapping him and subjecting him to cruel and unusual punishment.
Meet Talon, a daring mercenary who conquers castles and dungeons alike with his lethal three-bladed sword. But when Talon learns that he is the prince of a kingdom controlled by an evil sorcerer, he is thrust into the wildest fight of his life. Can Talon rescue the beautiful princess and slay the warlock, or will he fall prey to the black magic of medieval mayhem? Lee Horsley (The Hateful Eight), Kathleen Beller (Dynasty), Simon MacCorkindale (Jaws 3D) and Richard Moll (House) star in this action-packed saga, filled with brutal battles, plucky maidens, savage monsters and more!
Roman Polanski’s cult classic about a bureaucrat who rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, 1976.
Terrence Malick’s visionary adaptation of James Jones’s 1962 novel about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal. Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, and Woody Harrelson.
Korean horror, Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways. Chan-wook Park (2009)
Starring James Woods. Recovering from an ambush that killed his entire team, a vengeful vampire slayer must retrieve an ancient Catholic relic that, should it be acquired by vampires, will allow them to walk in sunlight. John Carpenter (1998)
In an alternate world, the murder of a government sponsored superhero draws his outlawed colleagues out of retirement, into a mystery that threatens their lives and the world itself.
Includes Wishmaster 1, 2, 3, 4 and loads of extras.
A family reunion takes an unexpected and gruesome turn when their home is invaded by masked killers. What the cold-blooded intruders don’t count on however is a guest that can turn just as violent they are.
Special Features
New 4K restoration and HDR Dolby Vision grade approved by Director Adam Wingard
New audio commentary with Director Adam Wingard and Writer Simon Barrett
Audio commentary with Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, Sharni Vinson and Barbara Crampton
Children of the 80s: A new interview with Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett
The Most of Us: A new interview with Producers Keith Calder and Jess Wu Calder
Script as a Blueprint: A new interview with Actor AJ Bowen
Down in the Basement: A new interview with Actor Joe Swanberg
Be Funny and Die: A new interview with Actor Amy Seimetz
Falling into Place: A new interview with Production Designer Tom Hammock
Slashers Don’t Die: Tim Coleman on You’re Next
Who’s Next? The Making of You’re Next
Animated Storyboards
And there we go guys. See you later in the week. Cheers!
