Well Halloween has come and gone but at this shop is it really ever over? Anyways another onslaught of cinema crashes into the video store this week and it is led by our good friends from Aston-6. They have come back once again with more silly goodness as Frankie Freako hits the shop. If you are a fan of movies like Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go To College and Garbage Pail Kids for simply being batshit crazy you might get a kick out of this one. Let’s see what else is coming shall we?
An epic documentary spotlighting the pop culture milestones of 1982 including notable motion pictures, TV, music and video games of that seminal year. Ron Howard, Felicia Day, William Shatner, Roger Corman, Amy Heckerling, 2023.
An inside look back at the greatest geek year in cinema ever, 1982, with stars, directors, writers, producers, critics and pop culture historians sharing their insights about such classic films as “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” “Blade Runner,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” “Poltergeist,” “Tron,” and many more.
In the summer of 1986, three sixteen-year-old friends spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local cineplex. When one of the guys invites the girl of his dreams to see an R-rated film, all hilarity breaks loose. Ken Jeong, Kevin Smith, 2024.
The film – which is set in the 80’s – follows three sixteen-year-old friends who spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local multiplex.
Featuring Brooke Shields. In 1960s New Jersey, a withdrawn adolescent girl is suspected of her younger sister’s brutal murder during her first communion, as well as a series of stabbings that follow. Alfred Sole (1976)
On the day of her first communion, young Karen (Brooke Shields) is savagely murdered by an unknown assailant in a yellow rain mac and creepy translucent mask. But the nightmare is far from over – as the knife-wielding maniac strikes again and again, Karen’s bereaved parents are forced to confront the possibility that Karen’s wayward sister Alice might be the one behind the mask.
Imagine walking down the street and finding an unmarked VHS tape. Curiosity piqued, you take it home and pop it in. What starts off as two men screwing around with a video camera quickly transforms into an ultra-realistic torture sequence where the unidentified psychopaths tape their exploits as they torment and violate a woman tied to a chair.
Has someone ever handed you a movie, not telling you one thing about it, only telling you to watch it. What if that tape was the personal home video of two sociopaths on a killing spree’ This is their home movie, for their eyes-only.
The Trilogy Returns!
In the funniest Barbie & Kendra adventure yet, the duo crashes Joe Bob Briggs’ Drive-In, facing off against a land baron in Vegas! Cody Renee Cameron, Robin Sydney, Charles Band, 2024.
The bimbos are back in the fourth – and funniest – “Barbie & Kendra” adventure yet! This time, our hapless heroines head to Vegas to crash horror host Joe Bob Briggs’ annual Drive-In movie meltdown and run afoul of a ruthless land baron intent on turning the passion pit into a golf course! Can B&K stop the villain, save the day AND still have time to catch a crappy flick or two?
A cursed hotel, built over one of the seven gateways to hell, becomes a malevolent abyss that begins devouring both the bodies and the souls of all who enter in a graphic frenzy of gory crucifixions, brutal whippings, eyeball impalements, flesh-eating tarantulas, throat-shredding demon dogs and ravenous bloodthirsty zombies in this cult classic from legendary Italian horror master Lucio Fulci.
A former International Karate Champion, Jim Kelly made a blazing screen debut with Bruce Lee in the martial-arts landmark ENTER THE DRAGON. Now as Black Belt Jones, Kelly’s fiery fighting expertise rips the screen apart in his first solo star turn. featuring Scatman Crothers (The Shining) and sultry Glory Hendry (Live and Let Die). Pop Boyd (Crothers) owns a thriving karate school near downtown Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it sits on a piece of land upon which a local mob wants to build its own civic center. When the gangsters’ muscling of Pop leads to tragedy, Black Belt Jones steps forward to exact his individual brand of lightning-charged revenge. Filmmaker Robert Clouse, who showcased Lee in Enter the Dragon and Jackie Chan in The Big Brawl serves up masterful action sequences of which Kelly said every move was choreographed like a ballet. That unique blend of ballistic combat and colorful comic characters make Black Belt Jones light on its feet — and heavy on entertainment!
New York City policemen Nick (Michael Douglas) and Charlie (Andy Garcia) witness a murder in a bar and quickly apprehend the assailant. The killer, named Sato (Yusaku Matsuda), is a member of Japan’s infamous Yakuza mob, and Nick and Charlie must transport the gangster back to Osaka for his murder trial. There, Sato’s fellow gangsters free him from police custody, forcing Nick and Charlie to scour Japan’s dangerous underworld of organized crime in search of their fugitive.
Blair Witch Project and Book Of Shadows Collector’s Edition
Joel and Ethan Coen began their long career with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled noir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner sets off a torrent of violence with one murderous thought. M. Emmet Walsh, Frances McDormand.
An outwardly normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations that put the very nature of her existence into question.
Starring Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper. A severed human ear found in a field leads a young man to investigate a mysterious nightclub singer and the criminals who kidnapped her child. David Lynch (1986)
When a mysterious beast ravages the countryside, two unlikely heroes are called in to fight the evil. The only way they can save the land from this unspeakable terror is to face their greatest fears, unearth a dark power and reveal a deadly secret.
When attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) knowingly withholds evidence that would acquit violent sex offender Max Cady (Robert De Niro) of rape charges, Max spends 14 years in prison. But after Max’s release, knowing about Sam’s deceit, he devotes his life to stalking and destroying the Bowden family. When practical attempts to stop Max fail, Sam realizes that he must act outside the law to protect his wife and daughter in Martin Scorsese’s remake of the classic 1962 thriller.
Documentary. After 26 years of spinning dives and flying uppercuts in the ring, Cassandro, the star of the gender-bending cross-dressing Mexican wrestlers known as the Exoticos, is far from retiring. Marie Losier (2018)
A Manhattan composer is consumed by grief after his wife and daughter are killed in a shocking accident. But when he moves to a secluded Victorian mansion, he will find himself haunted by a paranormal entity that may unleash an even more disturbing secret. Based on actual events.
British horror about a mad scientist who uses his miraculous plastic surgery abilities to coerce thieves, murders and prostitutes into working for his traveling circus. Anton Diffring, Sidney Hayers, 1960.
When a synthetically-altered street drug is discarded in the woods by a drug dealer during a car chase with police, the fallout proves nothing less than horrific when an innocent raccoon eats it, transforming it into a nightmarish killing machine.
Classic TV horror about a wrongfully killed man exacts revenge from beyond the grave on those who murdered him. Charles Durning, Frank De Felitta, 1981.
A French thriller about an eccentric private eye who is given a case following a young runaway couple, only to discover the woman is a serial killer. Michel Serrault, Isabelle Adjani, Claude Miller, 1983.
This set brings together a pair of atmospheric and terrifying classics of Mexican Gothic, directed by Fernando Méndez: El vampiro / El ataúd del vampiro
She’s back! Elvira, Horrorland’s hostess with the mostest, finally busts out on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with this long-awaited, positively bursting-at-the-seams special edition of her big screen debut, Elvira: Mistress of the Dark!
Fun Irish horror-comedy about a former TV paranormal investigator / exorcist turned driving instructor helps a the father of a virgin with a former popstar into the occult who needs a sacrifice. Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte, 2019.
This is the story of three escaped convicts (led by William Sanderson of Blade Runner as the sickest psycho redneck in cinema history) who take a middle-class Black family hostage for a relentless nightmare of racist humiliation, sexual violence and extreme vengeance. No sleazehound who’s seen it can ever forget Fight For Your Life!
After calling a late-night party hotline that promises out-of-this-world fun, uptight yuppie Conor Sweeney must battle the pint-sized forces of evil that get unleashed through his phone line, led by the maniacal rock ‘n’ roll goblin Frankie Freako.
A kindly old grandfather is actually the leader of a murderous satanic cult which sacrifices its victims on Halloween, his grandson is indoctrinated, but who could be killing all his closest friends? Jag Mundhra (1988)
He butchered 16 people trying to get to his sister. He was shot and incinerated, but still the entity that Dr. Sam Loomis (the legendary Donald Pleasence) calls “Evil on two legs” would not die. Tonight, Michael Myers has come home again … to kill! This time, Michael returns to Haddonfield for Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris, 2009’s Halloween II, The Last Boy Scout) – the orphaned daughter of Laurie Strode – and her babysitter Rachel (Ellie Cornell, Halloween 5: The Revenge Of Michael Myers, House Of The Dead). Can Loomis stop Michael before the unholy slaughter reaches his innocent young niece?
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who’s working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
Canadian horror shot in Northern Ontario that is a fresh and artistic take on the slasher genre filled with revolting kills and dark humour. Chris Nash, 2024.
A young woman stumbles upon a mysterious diary that reveals the secrets of “The Three Mothers” and unleashes a nightmare world of demonic evil. As the unstoppable horror spreads from Rome to New York City, this unholy trinity must be stopped before the world is submerged in the blood of the innocent.
It is the year 8000. Not much remains, except for mutants, scum, and robo-people. Humanity has been wiped out and everyone must kill to survive… even Santa! When his beloved Martha is kidnapped, Santa and his robotic reindeer head out into the post-apocalyptic wasteland to rescue her. Santa fights through hordes of mutant creatures to save Martha and carry on the Christmas spirit.
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam war veteran attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusion, and perception of death. Tim Robbins, 1990.
Coming out of jail & hoping for a quiet life, a yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss and guide his small group as it is pulled into a larger conflict. Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Bunta Sugawara, Kinji Fukasaku, 1969.
Spanish erotic horror where a vanload of kids are stranded in a hilltop castle and become the unwitting victims of an immortal, sex-crazed countess who retains her youth by feeding upon the blood of the young. Jess Franco (1996)
A Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks. Joachim Hedén, 2024.
Based on the best-selling manga series, the six intensely kinetic Lone Wolf and Cub films elevated chambara to bloody, new heights. Tomisaburo Wakayama.
Harry Dean Stanton stars as Lucky, a 90 years old who is spiritually lost. Seeking meaning beyond his desert hometown in his final days, he sets out on a journey of self-discovery that proves both sobering and satisfying. John Carroll Lynch (2017)
In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit. Bong Joon Ho, 2003.
Warning: not for the faint of heart! MEN BEHIND THE SUN exposes the stomach-churning horrors of Unit 731, Japan’s most secret, nightmarish military prison during World War II. In this infamous epoch, we follow a youth squad as they’re indoctrinated to believe the prisoners are disposable as scrap wood, their only use as human guinea pigs for brutal chemical and biological warfare research.
In this adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s hallucinatory, once-thought unfilmable novel Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg, a part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict named Bill Lee (Robocop’s Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish Interzone, a netherworld of sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. Alternately humorous and grotesque—and always surreal—the film mingles aspects of Burroughs’s novel with incidents from the writer’s own life, resulting in an evocative paranoid fantasy and a self-reflexive investigation into the mysteries of the creative process.
It’s Halloween! The gates of Hull House have creaked open once again and Angela (Amelia Kinkade) is waiting for her treats. When a group of rambunctious teens take refuge in the foreboding funeral home to escape the law, they soon realize their grave error. Packed with thrills, chills, and bloody spills, Night Of The Demons 3 is a party to die for!
A psychic medium attempts to uncover the truth behind her sister’s murder at the site of the crime. Carolyn Bracken, Johnny French, Steve Wall, Damian Mc Carthy, 2024.
Animated Czech retelling of the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin by the great animator, Jirí Barta. 1986.
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity. As the liquid turns their co-workers into zombies, the remaining members realize they have released the most unspeakable of horrors, Satan himself
Before bringing the world his Neo-Noir masterpiece DRIVE, director Nicolas Winding Refn chronicled the seedy underbelly of crime with his seminal PUSHER TRILOGY.Starting in 1996 with his debut film, and the first film in the series, PUSHER is the story of a small-time drug dealer named Frank (Kim Bodnia) who after having a heroin deal go wrong, find himself in massive debt to drug baron Milo (Zlatko Buric). The pressure mounts on Frank as he attempts to repay Milo.After working with the legendary author Hubert Selby Jr. (Requiem for a Dream) on the screenplay for his 2003 film Fear X, which starred John Turturro (Barton Fink) in the leading role, Nicolas returned to the PUSHER story with 2004’s PUSHER II: WITH BLOOD ON MY HANDS, which sees Mads Mikkelsen (Doctor Strange) return to his role as Tonny. Just released from prison, Tonny tries to gain the respect of his father, the Duke, a notorious gangster who has nothing but contempt for his son. As he tries to repay an old prison debt, his mistakes run him further afoul of his father.2005 heralds the release of the final film in the trilogy, PUSHER III: I’m THE ANGEL OF DEATH. Milo, now middle-aged, is forced to contend with a new order of young hoods to move a shipment of ecstasy that arrives in place of the heroin he was expecting. In order to maintain his dominance over the Copenhagen underworld, Milo must survive one of the most harrowing days of his life.
A horror documentary about Snuffing, the multi-billion dollar fetish where young women and men get murdered for real on camera, and hopefully get revived.
Experience the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle saga in this totally tubular 23-disc set of the original animated series, featuring all 10 seasons in one complete collection!
A mysterious masked maniac terrorises residents of Plymouth, Massachusetts, one year after a Black Friday riot ended in tragedy. Picking off victims one by one, the seemingly random revenge killings soon become part of a larger, sinister plan.
Nacho Vigalondo’s time-travel thriller opens with Hector spying on a beautiful woman undressing in the woods near his property. Investigating, he finds her assaulted and he in turn is attacked by a man whose head is swathed in bandages. Fleeing, Hector encounters a scientific facility where a scientist persuades him to hide in a time machine. Travelling back in time just a few hours, he observes himself.
Gonzo body-horror from the director of Raw, follows a young woman damaged by a childhood car crash caused by her negligent father now making her living as a dancer at car shows & willing to go violent when men go too far. Julia Ducournau, 2021.
A man and his teenage daughter realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event while watching a concert.
Includes Wishmaster 1, 2, 3, 4 and loads of extras.
And there we go guys. Some flicks to start your month off right. See you soon down at the old video store. Cheers!
