Zodiac Killer (AGFA / Something Weird) (DVD / Blu-Ray Combo)

A new 4K transfer of the only movie in history made explicitly to catch a serial killer.

Directed by Tom Hanson, who had previously owned a chain of Pizza Man restaurants, The Zodiac Killer was made to capture the real-life Zodiac Killer. That plan didn’t work. Instead, we got the most outrageous and compelling “tabloid horror” vortex in the history of planet Earth. And beyond. During theatrical screenings, Hanson constructed in-theater “traps” to lure the killer from hiding. These included the use of an ice cream freezer filled with rent-a-cops and a raffle with a motorcycle as a prize. You won’t get insight like this by watching a David Fincher movie. But you will get it while watching The Zodiac Killer.

Audio Commentary with director Tom Hanson and producer Manny Nedwick
On-camera interview with director Tom Hanson and producer Manny Nedwick
Bonus movie: ANOTHER SON OF SAM (1977)
Tabloid-horror trailers from the AGFA archive!
Liner notes and director Tom Hanson interview by Chris Poggiali of TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK

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Crime, Thriller,

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The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)

Also known as:Red Queen Kills 7 Times,Die Rote Dame,Die rote Dame,Horror House,La dama rosa mata siete veces,La dame rouge tua 7 fois,Diathiki gia 7 eglimata,Epta eglimata zitoun enoho,La dama de la capa roja,Blood Feast,Feast of Flesh,The Corpse Which Didn't Want to to Die,The Lady in Red Kills Seven Times,The Red Queen Kills 7 Times

Description: Over noble native Wildenbruch dominates the long-standing curse. Many centuries ago between the two sisters - red and Black Queens was implacable enmity, which ended with the fact that the Black Queen killed the Red, causing the last seven stab wounds. The red Queen has risen from the dead and killed the Black Queen, and six related people in order to reimburse all amounts received fatal injuries. Since then, the circumstances of the confrontation between the red and Black Queens are repeated every hundred years. Finally came another period of renewal of a long-standing curse. Martin Hoffman tries to protect his bride, kitty Willenbruch from ancestral curses.

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1970s, 1972, Crime, Giallo, Horror, Italy, Slaser, Thriller, West Germany,

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The Candy Tangerine Man/Lady Cocoa Double Feature (BluRay)

The Candy Tangerine Man: The film opens with pageantry pimp Baron (John Daniels) driving his customized two tone red and yellow Rolls Royce around down town - night time L.A. His ladies have been coming up short lately and he wants to know why. Turns out that two L.A.P.D. cops - Dempsey and Gordon (who have been after Baron for some time now) have resorted to rousting his girls every chance they get. Indeed in the next scene they have set Baron up with a copper in drag to entrap him with procurement of prostitutues. Of course the Baron is wise to their ploy and ends up grabbing the ecopper by the short and curlies. Starring John Daniels, Eli Haines, and Tom Hankason.

Lady Cocoa: A young woman is released from prison in order to help the government build a case against her gangster boyfriend. Lots of violence, explicit language and adult situations keep this blaxploitation film moving forward from beginning to end. Starring Lola Falana, Gene Washington, and Alex Dreier.

BluRay
Region A
Studio: Vinegar Syndrome
TBR

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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime,

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Massacre Mafia Style (1978)

For longtime fans of Grindhouse cinema, the trailer for Duke Mitchell's Massacre Mafia Style is a real beloved treasure. Speaking personally, I can say that ever since I first saw it, it's been one of my all time favorites. One thing I always wanted to know after seeing it was whether the actual film lived up to the trailers iconic outrageousness. Well, after viewing the film now for the first time (thanks to a friend sending me a DVD-R copy of it), I am very happy to say that Massacre Mafia Style (aka The Executioner) is a really solid, entertaining, emotional low-budget mafia film.
The main man behind it all was Duke Mitchell, who film geeks may know from movies like Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla (1952), which he co-starred in with his then comedy partner Sammy Petrillo. Mitchell and Petrillo were actually an act that was a direct rip-off of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis. Mitchell was the suave Dean Martin clone and Sammy Petrillo was the boy-monkey Lewis wannabe. They were later sued as a result. In the late 1970s, Mitchell produced, wrote and directed two mafia genre films, Massacre Mafia Style and Gone With The Pope which was never completed before Mitchell's death in 1981, but thanks to the folks at Grindhouse Releasing, the film hopefully will be seeing the light of day on DVD in the near future.

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1978, Crime, Drama, Italy, Suspence, Thriller,

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Running Hot / Hot Target (DVD)

Its the Dangeorus Beauties Doule bill! Both for the first time digitally remastered from the original vault elements!

First up, RUNNING HOT (1984)! Acclaimed actor Eric Stoltz (Mask, Pulp Fiction) stars in this volatile tale of star-crossed lovers in a last ditch escape from the law. A stripper (Monica Carrico) watches the trial of a younger man (Stoltz) accused of murdering his father. As she falls in love with his tragic image, she writes love letters to him in prison. When the object of her obsession shows up at her doorstep, having made a bloody escape, she joins him in a perilous, passionate run for their lives from a sadistic cop (Stuart Margolin, TV's Rockford Files).

In the tradition of Badlands and True Romance this thrilling 1984 film is a rare gem directed by award winning director Mark Griffiths, and from the producer of the popular TV show The O.C... Now see the cult classic from a brand new 16x9 master in HD from the original camera negatives first time anywhere!

Next up, HOT TARGET (1985)! At first glance, Christine Webber (Simone Griffeth, Death Race 2000) would seem to be a woman who has everything. A wife of a successful NZ businessman, she is beautiful, sophisticated, stylish - the perfect wife and mother. But scratch the surface and see that Christine is also a Woman trapped by the very "perfection" of her life.

Watch this film in wqidescreen on DVD, from a brand new master from the original IP, first time anywhere!

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1984, Crime, Drama, DVD, Films, Reviews, Thriller,

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Deadlier Than the Male (1967)

British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
Classy production, solid plot, witty dialog, believable characters. When watching this film, one does not say, "Oh yeah, a 60's Bond take-off", as one does when watching perhaps "Our Man Flint" or "In Like Flint". Richard Johnson's Hugh Drummond is smooth, handsome and resourceful without being obnoxious or larger than life. Steve Carlson's Robert Drummond provides youthful energy without becoming a foil. Elke Sommer's Irma Eckman is irresistably gorgeous, intelligent, eloquent, and cold-as-ice deadly. Sylva Kocina's Penelope is kittenish, sensual and apologetic...even as she's torturing or killing a man. Nigel Green is a ruthless, cunning business man who has figured out how to get rivals out of his way; Kill them. The murders are clever, sexy and brutal but not campy.

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Adventure, Crime, Drama, Eurospy,

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Handgun

Year: 1984
Duration: 01:39:23
Directed by: Tony Garnett
Actors: Karen Young, Clayton Day, Suzie Humphreys, Helena Humann
Language: English
Country: UK

Also known as: Deep in the Heart, Kathleen, Handgun – Der Waffennarr

Description:  This is a real gem that not only supplies the cheap thrills we’ve grown accustomed to with this genre but also raises some very thought provoking arguments for and against gun control. Karen Young is simply superb as the vengeance seeking Kathleen though she is far too smart and resourceful to simply be labelled “the victim” in this film. Her acting is extremely realistic as well as Clayton Day who plays a first class A grade creep  Larry  who thinks there is absolutely nothing wrong with raping a woman senseless on a first date and expects another trip down memory lane a week later. In the meantime our heroine has bought herself a  handgun and joined  Larry’s  gun club where she practises shooting at targets, presumably pretending they are testicles…

Review: The plot, which could be the basis for the usual speculative thriller about self-defense and counter-violence, is for the British director Tony Garnett’s just an excuse to create a kind of psychological research on the cult of weapons in American society. It is not known whether the director had in mind a reference to the great gun shooting scene in the film “Three Women” (1978) by Robert Altman. But his character is also transformed by taking first in the hands of a gun, gets firm, bitter, fierce in all his actions, eventually turning into almost the exact opposite of myself in the first half of the tape.

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Crime, Drama,

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