Another glorious week in the summer is upon us and the movies of the video store continue to grow with unique additions so let us take a look to see what this week brings us shall we…
The classic Danny Boyle flick gets the 4K Steelcase treatment!
New York City, 1979: working class Jersey City teenager Shane (Ryan Phillippe, Cruel Intentions) becomes infatuated with Studio 54, a lavish Manhattan nightclub known for decadence. Shane’s time at 54 introduces him to a cast of characters including real life nightclub owner Steve Rubell (Mike Myers, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery), busboy Greg (Breckin Meyer, Clueless), coat checker Anita (Salma Hayek, Traffic), and actress Julie (Neve Campbell, Scream).
Van Helsing’s sons uncover their father’s Dracula legacy and confront the horrors hidden behind his vampire obsession in this gothic horror adaptation of Joe Hill’s story. Titus Welliver, Brady Hepner, Judah Mackey, Natasha Kermani, 2025.
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Two Mi’kmaw brothers, estranged after childhood trauma, reunite when a malevolent spirit forces them into Sk+te’kmujue’katik, a time-warping forest tied to ancestral and colonial memory. Blake Alec Miranda, Forrest Goodluck, Bretten Hannam, 2025.
A woman imprisoned after killing her father endures torture and corruption inside a brutal prison in this notorious Jess Franco exploitation shocker. Lina Romay, Paul Muller, Monica Swinn, Jesús Franco, 1976.
A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones replacing humans on a military base in Abel Ferrara’s paranoid sci-fi nightmare based on the original Invasion film. Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, Terry Kinney, Abel Ferrara, 1993.
This documentary explores boutique video labels, collectors, and restoration experts preserving forgotten films and expanding physical media’s cultural legacy. Chris Alexander, Bill Allen, Oscar Becher, Ryan Bruce Levey, 2024.
A horror classic containing one of the most visceral and nauseating scenes in movie history, The Brood follows a man’s investigation into his ex-wife’s placement at an experimental institute. He discovers her progeny of sexless, dwarflike mutants who are born for the sole purpose of acting out Nola’s violent fantasies of revenge. Can he stop Nola’s Brood before they kill again?
Legendary Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis star as elderly Elvis and geriatric JFK, who end up in the same old age home, but the two must join forces to battle an ancient Egyptian Mummy and save the souls of their fellow residents. Don Coscarelli (2002)
A surreal black comedy follows a lonely man drawn into murders and absurd encounters after a strange disappearance triggers a disorienting investigation. Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet, Bertrand Blier, 1979.
Based on Clive Barker’s horror legend The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a sceptical grad student researching the monster’s myth. Bernard Rose (1992)
During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew whose goal was to study the region’s indigenous cannibalistic tribes.
A true crime podcaster from Appalachia blurs the line between fact and entertainment as she investigates a mysterious local death. Emily Nestor,Chris Kasick, 2023.
An undercover cop is torn between duty and loyalty in this cornerstone of Hong Kong’s Heroic Bloodshed cinema, drenched in gunfire and betrayal. Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee, Sun Yueh, Ringo Lam, 1987
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A low-budget body-horror film follows scientists & a trench-coated figure involved in experiments tied to Siamese twins and grotesque birth anomalies that escalate into a brief, gore-heavy transformation sequence. Jôji Iida, 1987
A man wakes to murder and memory loss in a city gripped by eternal night and shifting reality in this cult sci-fi neo-noir. Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly. Alex Proyas. 1998.
In this Canadian action horror, a woman investigates her sister’s murder alongside a stranger hunting a motorcycle killer. Kristen Kaster, Sasha Ormond, Matthew Ninaber, Gabriel Carrer, 2025.
Three brothers confront a bizarre supernatural force after their father’s death in this wild Australian horror comedy filled with possession and family trauma. John Noble, Christian Willis, Charles Cottier, Steve Boyle, 2024.
Beloved trash master John Waters directs this tale of a neurotic society woman who murders her husband with the help of her maid and, on the lam, escapes to Mortville, a misfit community ruled over by a fascist queen. 1977.
A transgressive Brazilian crime drama set in 1970s Rio, centred on a gender-nonconforming crime boss who controls a flamboyant underworld of drag queens, sex workers, and gang affiliates. Antonio Carlos da Fontoura, 1974
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A cult crime film collection presents Duke Mitchell’s Mafia satire, blending violent gangster narrative with absurdist tone and underground exploitation style. 1978.
Nearly a decade before he donned Freddy Kruger’s famous red and green sweater, horror icon Robert Englund delivered a supremely sleazy performance in Eaten Alive – another essay in taut Southern terror from Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Beloved cult film about a rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned… from a DIMENSION OF PURE EVIL! Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997
A police lieutenant in spiritual crisis tracks a rash of murders seeming to copycat a long dead serial killer. George C. Scott, Brad Dourif, William Peter Blatty, 1990.
In this bizarre Taiwanese fantasy adventure a deer warrior defends his forest kingdom after wolves attack his animal companions. Ling Yun, Pai Hung, Lin Lin, Chang Ying, 1961.
3 interlinked stories exposing fragile family bonds follow adult children as they reconnect with distant parents across New Jersey, Dublin, and Paris. Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett, Tom Waits, Jim Jarmusch, 2025.
Outrageous low-budget cult favourite about a small town that faces an alien invasion when bizarre creatures descend from the skies. Greg Scott, Kathy Monks, Warren Disbrow, Warren F. Disbrow, 1989.
Deep within a tranquil forest, five strangers meet at a secluded bed and breakfast. But one of these guests happens to be a mad scientist, who uses his vacation to accidentally create an army of killer mushrooms. Now unleashed on the other guests, and with the body count quickly piling up, it’s up to the survivors to arm themselves and fight back against the slaughtering shrooms!
Patrick Stewart features in this horror thriller where, after witnessing a murder, a punk rock band is forced into a vicious fight for survival against a group of maniacal skinheads. Jeremy Saulnier (2015)
A grieving architect travelling through Morocco encounters a mysterious woman who invites him to her lavish castle in this atmospheric British vampire horror inspired by ancient folklore. William Sylvester, Diane Clare, Frederic Goode, 1968.
Indescribable psychedelic Japanse ghost tale that’s equal parts absurd and nightmarish, Scooby Doo and Mario Bava. Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977.
A surreal psychological horror follows a pregnant woman seeking refuge in a remote motel where he past traumas seem to come alive. Anna Armstrong, Lucy Fry, Julie Pacino, 2025.
A streetwise hero launches a wildly exaggerated revenge mission against a crime boss in this explosive blaxploitation parody. Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Isaac Hayes, Keenen Ivory Wayans, 1988.
The notorious exploitation shocker, remastered in UHD! A sadistic camp commandant subjects prisoners to cruel experiments in a notorious cult classic. Dyanne Thorne, Joe Cirillo, Don Edmonds, 1975
Starring Sam Neill and Jürgen Prochnow, an insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer’s books have on his fans is more than inspirational. John Carpenter (1994)
Shipwreck survivors discover a hidden island where a mad scientist creates aquatic creatures in this outrageous Italian science-fiction adventure. Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson, Sergio Martino, 1979.
A prisoner escapes a corrupt Cambodian detention centre filled with ruthless guards & criminals ready to unleash relentless martial arts skills at a moment’s notice. Jean-Paul Ly, Dara Our, Tharoth Sam, Jimmy Henderson, 2017.
Cult supernatural horror about a young boy trapped inside a haunted school who investigates a decades-old murder while facing the ghost of a murdered girl. Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Frank LaLoggia, 1988.
A Brooklyn hitman revisits his Russian-Jewish family and faces violent obligations that reignite tensions. Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Vanessa Redgrave, James Gray, 1994.
Based on the best-selling manga series, the six intensely kinetic Lone Wolf and Cub films elevated chanbara to bloody, new heights. The shogun’s executioner, Itto Ogami (Tomisaburo Wakayama), takes to wandering the countryside as an assassin-along with his infant son Daigoro (Akihiro Tomikawa) and an infinitely weaponized perambulator-helping those he encounters while seeking vengeance for his murdered wife. Delivering stylish thrills and a body count that defies belief, Lone Wolf and Cub is beloved for its brilliantly choreographed and unbelievably violent action sequences as well as for its tender depiction of the bonds between parent and child.
Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife in this quirky take on Chandler’s classic private dectective. Elliot Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Henry Gibson, Mark Rydell, Robert Altman, 1973.
In a chaotic swirl of karate, Nazi bikers, and rampant nudity, a Lothario fights for survival in Spain while explosions and absurdity escalate around him in this completely insane Swiss / Spanish Exploitation. Paul Grau, 1981
American screenwriter Dan Gillis (Jeff Goldblum), based in Paris and reeling from a recent separation, receives a commission from producer Julien Legrand (Daniel Ceccaldi) to collaborate with ambitious young director Malcolm Greene (Dexter Fletcher). But as Dan becomes entangled with Malcolm’s sister Jenny (Liza Walker), his agent Marilyn (Miranda Richardson) and the project’s bizarre erotic screenplay, his life unravels in a web of manipulation, incestuous secrets, and dangerous deception.
In 1984 Bruno Gaburro directed two provocatively erotic dramas both starring Eurosleaze favorite Paola Senatore (Emmanuelle in America, Salon Kitty). In Maladonna Senatore stars as Maria, a bored and rich member of the 19th century bourgeoisie. She gets involved with Alessio (Daniel Stephan), who shows her other, more unusual ways of expressing love. Malombra is a gothic and romantic mystery about a young man named Marco (Stefano Alessandrini) who goes to stay with a strange uncle, whose wife Carlotta (Senatore) died some time ago. Marco soon witnesses strange sexual rituals by a red-headed woman who looks just like his dead aunt. Is Carlotta still alive, or returned as a randy ghost? Malombra Audio Commentary by Film Historians and Hosts of Wild, Wild Podcast Adrian Smith and Rod Barnett
Starring Nicolas Cage and set in the primal wilderness of 1983 where Red Miller, a broken and haunted man hunts an unhinged religious sect who slaughtered the love of his life. Panos Cosmatos (2018)
A struggling divorced man discovers an injured mermaid and hides her in his home, but must protect his unlikely friend when others seek to exploit her. Johnny Pemberton, Robert Patrick, Kevin Nealon, Tyler Cornack, 2024.
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.
A global pop star returns to her estranged former dressmaker ahead of a major comeback performance, forcing them to confront a fractured creative partnership and an unresolved personal history. David Lowery, Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, 2026.
A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine’s Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer’s order and people start turning up dead. George Mihalka (1981)
Indonesian cult favourite about a woman whose head severs itself from its body, roaming the countryside with an unquenchable thirst for human babies. H. Tjut Djalil, 1981.
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In this cult VHS slasher, a masked killer stalks a Boston night school, leaving a trail of brutal murders as a detective hunts the shadowy figure behind the crimes. Rachel Ward, Drew Snyder, Leonard Mann, Ken Hughes, 1981.
A young man set up as the fall guy in a string of brutal slasher murders decides he’ll hide by sneaking into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian where shape-shifting beings—The Nightbreed—dwell.
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In this martial arts comedy about a young man learns martial arts from two masters of opposing styles, he then combines them to take on the local gangster’s son, who is a master of the deadly Scorpion Style. Chin Ka-Lok, David Lai, 1992.
This documentary follows Canadian musician Peaches as she pushes artistic boundaries and disrupts gender and sexuality norms through her performances. Peaches, Feist, Chilly Gonzales, Marie Losier, 2024.
Phantom of the Opera meets Fast Times at Ridgemont High in this ridiculous horror involving a haunted mall, a ghastly jilted man and his former sweetheart. Derek Rydall, Jonathan Goldsmith, Rob Estes, Pauly Shore, Morgan Fairchild, Richard Friedman, 1989.
A psychopathic killer stalks a Boston campus, brutally slaughtering nubile young college co-eds, collecting body parts from each victim to create the likeness of his mother who he savagely murdered with an axe when he was ten years old! PIECES is a wild, unrated gorefest, with enough splatter and sleaze to shock the most jaded horror fan.
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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
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A pirate radio host crosses a post-apocalyptic America battling mutants and FCC assassins while broadcasting his outlaw signal in this wild sci-fi road adventure. Ryan Junell, Dean Haglund, Nathan Zellner, Jules Beesley, 2000.
In this French horror, a young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh. Julia Ducournau, 2016.
A quintessential cult film of the 1980s, Alex Cox’s singular sci-fi comedy stars the always captivating Harry Dean Stanton as a weathered repo man in a desolate Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in repossessing a mysterious —and otherworldly—Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties LA punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey is also a politically trenchant take on President Reagan’s domestic and foreign policies.
When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapours cause the dead to rise again as zombies. Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Dan O’Bannon, 1985.
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Berlin, 1939: At the dawn of World War II, power-mad SS Officer Wallenberg is ordered to find and train Germany’s most beautiful women to work in the opulent brothel of Madam Kitty. Here these Nazi nymphs will submit to the bizarre passions and carnal degradations of the Reich’s highest-ranking men and women while Wallenberg secretly records their acts for blackmail.
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer
with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece of cool by maverick director Jean-Pierre Melville, Le samourai is a razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture-with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology.
Australian crime which follows a Sydney detective who investigates a murder at the Opera House and uncovers political corruption and a blackmail scheme. Jack Thompson, Judy Morris, Shane Porteous, Terry Ohlsson, 1975.
Student Bob Martin rents a room from the alluring Crystal Traum, who introduces him to her New Age religion, Crystalnetics. Soon, Bob’s health dramatically improves. But when a detective reveals a string of mysterious deaths tied to the cult, Bob must face a slew of cloaked assassins, monsters and the cults’ charismatic alien leader.
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Gonzo arthouse exploitation film from about an aging porn star who is roped into making an “art” film which proceeds to have him commit increasingly demented and depraved acts. Srdjan Spasojevic, 2010.
A prehistoric shark awakens beneath the ice and attacks a remote community in this outrageous low-budget creature-feature horror rampage. Alexander Mendeluk, Robin Sandza, Kate Nauta, Sam Qualiana, 2011.
No Budget underground revenge horror about a masked killer hunts violent predators one by one blending shocking brutality with dark humour. Craig Kelly, Allan Sconza, Dale Gordon, Anthony Catanese, 2015
Fugitives drive nitroglycerin through South American hell, each mile cracking their souls. Based on *The Wages of Fear*. Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, William Friedkin, 1977
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While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum. But when the show’s director locks his cast in the theater overnight, the madman is accidentally locked inside as well.
Someone’s flooding Australia with designer drugs and Sydney’s toughest cop, Joshua Stoner – George Lazenby (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Queen’s Ransom) – has travelled to Hong Kong to find out who. He’s not the only one on the hunt – Taiwanese super-cop Li (Angela Mao, the first lady of kung-fu) is also on the case; between them, the mob is in big trouble.
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Cult film adaptation of the beloved cult comic book about a rocking punk girl in the post apocalyptic wasteland. Lori Petty, Malcolm McDowell, Naomi Watts, Ice-T, 1995.
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4 wild exploitation films about teenage rebellion and social panic: LOST, LONELY, AND VICIOUS (1958) / JACKTOWN (1962) / THE FLAMING TEEN-AGE (1956) / THE NARCOTIC STORY (1958)
It has been called “grisly,” “sick,” and “perverse,”, as well as “raw,” “unshakeable,” and “the movie that redefined horror.” It was attacked by churches, banned by governments, and acclaimed by only the bravest of critics. It stunned audiences worldwide and set a new standard in movie terror forever. Today writer-producer-director Tobe Hooper’s dark, visionary tale remains unparalleled in its impact as perhaps the most frightening motion picture ever made.
It’s the first week of winter in 1982. An American Research Base is greeted by an alien force, that can assimilate anything it touches. It’s up to the members to stay alive, and be sure of who is human, and who has become one of the Things.
Canadian cult curiosity – a bizarre collection of animated and live-action sequences follows a chaotic fantasy adventure from animator Gerald Potterton. Barry Baldaro, 1971
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Two codependent best friends become addicted to the intoxicating touch of an alien narcissist who may be conquering Earth in this outrageous sci-fi comedy horror. Olivia Taylor Dudley, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jordan Gavaris, Addison Heimann, 2024.
Just as the kung fu film seemed to be losing steam as the 1970s came to a close, a new generation of martial arts stars rose to the top of Hong Kong cinema. Amongst them were Yuen Biao, Jackie Chan and the irrepressible Sammo Hung. Presented here are three films spanning Hung’s career, from a supporting role in The Manchu Boxer to stardom in Paper Marriage and Shanghai, Shanghai.
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Uber Edition of the Nic Cage Cult Classic!
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A savage hybrid of shark and werewolf begins hunting the terrified residents of a quiet seaside resort town, turning a summer getaway into a blood-soaked nightmare. As more mutilated bodies wash ashore, panic grips the coastline, no one is safe on land or in the water. A handful of locals must fight back together to stop the Wereshark before the entire town is devoured.
When a young girl mysteriously vanishes, Police Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward) travels to a remote Scottish island to investigate. But the seemingly quiet community is not as it appears, as the detective uncovers a secretive pagan society led by the strange Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee). While the townsfolk tempt and threaten him with bizarre rituals and wanton lust, Howie must race to discover the truth behind the girl’s disappearance before his clash with Lord Summerisle builds to a terrifying conclusion – one that has cemented this cult shocker as a modern horror masterpiece.
CHAINED HEAT, widely regarded as the greatest “women-in-prison” film of all time, finally comes to DVD in a remastered version. This triple-pack of “boobs behind bars” contains CHAINED HEAT, RED HEAT and JUNGLE WARRIORS.
And there we go guys. Movies should be here Thursday/ Friday. Cheers!
