Manhunter (Scream Factory) (Blu-Ray)

Manhunter (Scream Factory) (Blu-Ray)
Former FBI profiler Will Graham (William Petersen, To Live and Die in L.A., CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) reluctantly returns to his old job to track a horrific serial killer known as the 'Tooth Fairy.' But in order to get into the mind of this maniac, Graham must face another: Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox, X2, RED), the imprisoned psychiatrist whose own insanity almost cost Graham his life… and whose insights into the 'Tooth Fairy' could prove as dangerous as the killer himself.

Tom Noonan (Heat, Robocop 2), Joan Allen (The Bourne Legacy), Dennis Farina (Get Shorty), Kim Greist (Brazil) and Stephen Lang (Avatar) co-star in this gripping thriller from director Michael Mann (Heat, Miami Vice) and adapted from the novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. Manhunter is one of the most unnerving serial killer movies ever made.

Blu-Ray Theatrical Cut
DVD Director's Cut

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All Night Long / Tapestry Of Passion [DVD]

Written and directed by Alan Colberg and shot in 35mm in the mid-1970s, these two films have been expertly transferred to DVD by Vinegar Syndrome and provide a great opportunity to view a number of leading male and female adult film stars of the period, including the "legendary" John Holmes, the real-life inspiration for the Dirk Diggler character played by Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights (1997).

In All Night Long Holmes and Rick Lutze are challenged to complete a series of sexual encounters (including a little bit of everything, incidentally) in order to win a prize from a local society supposedly dedicated to male satisfaction. However, as the story progresses, one begins to notice that the most enthusiastic members of the society are female and that the female sexual partners control each man's progress through the night. Interestingly, both Boogie Nights and All Night Long currently enjoy a 7.9 user rating among IMDb members, which puts All Night Long up there with Hans Billian's Sensational Janine (7.8 rating) as one of the most highly rated adult films of the Classic era.

Tapestry of Passion, in which Holmes plays private investigator Johnny Wadd, has a less compelling story line and scores a mere 6.0 among IMDb members. However, it is nicely shot with lovely, natural actresses and is infused with the same campy outlook as All Night Long, which makes this double feature thoroughly enjoyable for adult couples of any age.

ALL NIGHT LONG (1975):
The world's greatest lovers, John Holmes and Rick Lutze, embark on a lusty competition to see who can bed the greatest number of women over the course of a night...
TAPESTRY OF PASSION (1976):
Private detective Johnny Wadd is hot on the case of a mysterious and beautiful woman known as 'The Black Widow' whose lovers have an unfortunate habit of dying... Featuring Annette Haven and Leslie Bovee!

Bonus Features:
1. Scanned in 2k from 35mm original negatives
2. Original theatrical trailers for both titles

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Harlot / Tijuana Blue [DVD]

Following the unprecedented success of his 1970 film Mona, director Howard Ziehm quickly established himself as a one-man filmmaking machine, directing dozens of boundary pushing films. Presented here are two of his most unique and important early works.

HARLOT:
Mary and Melody are best friends, though Melody is uncomfortable around Mary's sexual openness. After finally being coaxed into sexual experimentation, Melody begins to discover her erotic self and indulges in a series of sexual adventures, each wilder than the last. HARLOT is an avant-garde influenced, anti-establishment oddity, presented fully uncut for the first time on DVD.
1970 / 64 min / Color / 1.33:1

TIJUANA BLUE:
After discovering that his girlfriend is pregnant, a man named Jamie agrees to assist on a drug run from Tijuana back to LA so that he can raise the money necessary for an abortion. However upon his arrival in Mexico, he soon discovers that there may be more to the operation than drugs...
1971 / 92 min / Color / 1.33:1

Bonus Features:
1. New 2k scan and restoration from 16mm vault elements
2. Commentary for Harlot by director Howard Ziehm

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Fall Of The Eagles

This movie contains some scenes from Convoi de Filles (1978), which was itself full of stock footage. The train and fight scenes in the middle part are taken from Alain Payets exploitationers Train Spécial Pour SS (1977) and Nathalie Rescapée De L’Enfer (1978). Don’t be fooled by the screens, this is neither exploitation nor war action.

Berlin, 1939. Lily is a young, pretty girl with a wonderful voice, the daughter of wealthy banker Walter Strauss. A brilliant officer falls in love with her. However, she prefers him Charles — musician and composer living contrary to the laws of the Third Reich.

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Black Torment

Sir Richard and his second wife hear of 18th-century evil done by someone who looks like Sir Richard.
BLACK TORMENT was a movie I read about in books on British horror films but it was one which I had never seen until I was recently able to rent it locally. I was so impressed that I went out and bought it. It's not a classic but it is very well done. BLACK TORMENT was made in 1964 by a small production called Compton headed up by Tony Tenser who would eventually start one of Hammer's main competitors Tigon Films (makers of WITCHFINDER GENERAL, BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW) later in the decade. Compton produced some interesting films in the mid-1960s including Roman Polanski's REPULSION, The Sherlock Holmes meets Jack the Ripper thriller A STUDY IN TERROR and George Harrison's WONDERWALL. BLACK TORMENT was obviously an attempt to cash in on the success of Hammer Films and the film turns out to be not such much a horror film as a Gothic one like those being produced in Italy with Barbara Steele (CASTLE OF BLOOD, NIGHTMARE CASTLE) although not as gruesome. In fact it was of the few true English Gothic movies that I've seen as it comes straight out of the tradition of Ann Radcliffe and Horace Walpole.

The plot is standard Gothic stuff. An 18th century nobleman returns to his family estate only to be told that he's been there before and committed murder. He begins to see the ghost of his first wife and starts to doubt his own sanity. Meanwhile more murders are occuring. If you're a fan of Gothic literature you'll have a pretty good idea of how this all turns out but I won't spoil it for you. The film is beautifully shot which comes as no surprise since the cameraman is Peter Newbrook who would later direct the atmospheric Victorian shocker THE ASPHYX. The real surprise is that the director is Robert Hartford-Davis who would go on to make CORRUPTION and BLOODSUCKERS (INCENSE FOR THE DAMNED) two very different films in terms of style and content. All were photographed by Newbrook so there is that connecting thread. Although there are no major genre stars, the costumes are appropriate, the settings atmospheric (inside and out), and the music is effective. A good, old-fashioned Gothic thriller that really entertains if you're into this sort of thing. This Redemption DVD of BLACK TORMENT looks very good but I'm sure there's a better print out there somewhere.

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Black Venus

A black chick named Venus (Josephine Jacqueline Jones who also played in Warrior Queen) provides the inspiration for a down and out sculptor to create a statue of her likeness.They fall in love but he gets all belligerent on her when she starts bringing home the bread and paying the rent while he's doing his starving artist thing.So Venus goes out and becomes a total slut.First thing she does is become a "companion" to a rich old MILF who likes to buy her stuff and fuck her.Venus gets pissed though when her hubby comes home and wants her to become his plaything too, so she splits.She ends up being a high class hooker who gets sold outright to some rich art critic who has a grudge against her ex-boyfriend.To really piss him off, he also steals the statue of Venus too.In the end, the drunken artist comes barging in to the critic's house with a loaded gun to get Venus back.But which one does he want more; the flesh and blood Venus, or the statue?

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Palace of Venus

Palácio de Vênus (Palace of Venus)

To satisfy her costumers, an owner of a luxuruior bordello does whatever it takes. but the place's eficiency is threataned when the most desirable of its ladies decides to quit. The owner set a diabloical plot to keep the girl working.
One of prolific director/screenwriter Ody Fraga most wanted films.
It's like socialism coming into pornochanchada. Not ony the film stars some of the greates actresses of the genre (Helena Ramos, Neida Ribeiro, Matilde Mastrangi, among others) but it also had some problems with censorship when released. Not because all nudity and sex situation, but due to its theme.
Anyawy, it's early 80's Brazilian softcore. Although porn was not allowed in Brazil, it was already a reality, so the producers had to be daring and the actresses went on very fine. Thanks God!
In Portuguese only.

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Public Cowboy No. 1

Rustlers using modern technology (airplanes, shortwave radios, refrigerated trucks) are Gene's target.

Deputy Gene Autry rides to the rescue when modern rustlers use airplanes, short wave radios, and refrigerator trucks to ply their trade. Cowboys and 1937 technology result in an ersatz era that only exists in Hollywood fiction. Occasional chuckles are a side effect. The leading citizens consider Gene's friend and mentor, old Sheriff Doniphan, outdated. They hire a team of modern detectives. Hot on the trail, the detectives' car is stuck in a stream, and their teargas grenades explode accidentally. Gene and his cowboy pals ride through a teargas fog to bypass this obstacle in pursuit of the crooks. Surrealism abounds. Gene does a fair amount of singing, but lengthy musical numbers are thankfully absent. As comic sidekicks go, Smiley Burnette leaves one yearning for Gabby Hayes. The story includes cliff-hanging action and light humor. The outbursts of violence are bloodless enough to be "G" rated. B movie meister, Joseph Kane, directed this little flick. Nobody made Westerns like Republic. Great Saturday matinee fun. ;-)

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The Radio Detective (1926)

The Radio Detective is a 1926 American adventure film serial directed by William James Craft and William A. Crinley and released by Universal Pictures. The film is considered to be lost.
List of episodes
Chapter 1: The Kick Off!
Chapter 2: The Radio Riddle
Chapter 3: The Radio Wizard
Chapter 4: Boy Scout Loyality
Chapter 5: The Radio Secret
Chapter 6: Fighting For Love
Chapter 7: The Tenderfoot Scout
Chapter 8: The Truth Teller
Chapter 9: The Fire Fiend
Chapter 10: Radio Romance

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Blazing Stewardesses - 2 Disc SE ( NTSC Region 1)

Blazing Stewardesses - 2 Disc SE ( NTSC Region 1) Those "naughty stewardesses" are at it again! But this time they've turnedin their Mile High Club sky miles fora sexy, rousing, Old West-styled adventure ona dude ranch. Punchin' cattle andbreakin' stallions are thelast things ontheir mindsas these lovely ladies earn their wings ina whole new way blazinga trail straightto thebedroom. Amidst thehilarious antics of theRitz Brothers andaction-packed thrills & spills of themysterious Hooded Riders led byWestern movie icon Don "Red" Barry, thegirls are approached bybeautiful Madam Honey (Yvonne De Carlo/The Munsters)to join their swingin' Bee Hive Ranch. It'sa sweet deal our saucy stewardesses may not be ableto pass up.
NTSC Region 1
Disc 1:
Feature film: BLAZING STEWARDESSES (1975)
Interview: MARILYN JOI (a.k.a. T.A. King)
Rare combo trailer
Commentary: Producer SAM SHERMAN / historian ED HULSE
Full color booklet featuring liner notes
Disc 2:

Feature film: NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES (1974)
Never-Before-Seen outtakes
Commentary: Producer Sam Sherman
Original trailer / TV spots
Retro-Seduction cinema trailer vault
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Violent Shit - The Movie (LE Mediabook CD / PAL DVD / Blu-Ray All Region Combo)

Violent Shit - The Movie (LE Mediabook CD / PAL DVD / Blu-Ray All Region Combo)
3-Disc-mediabook - numbered and limited to 999 copies - incl. Blu-Ray, DVD and soundtrack CD, 36-page booklet.


Rome is shattered by a series of gruesome murders that paint the Eternal City deep red. The suspicion grows that these atrocious crimes are connected with the return of one of the most heinous serial killers of our time - Karl the Butcher.

“The relentless Karl the Butcher, beloved and best known to gorehounds and German Underground aficionados has been revamped and re-envisioned; his trademark brutality in the likes of the distinctly German independent VIOLENT SHIT now remade into an equally ghastly giallo featuring a Claudio Simonetti soundtrack. VIOLENT SHIT — THE MOVIE is an homage to both the original’s 25th anniversary and the producer’s love of Italian horror and blends German gore movies with the ”mastery of Italian horror.” The film stars Italian genre mainstay Giovanni Lombardo Radice as “the devil incarnate, who masterminds Karl the Butcher’s evil murder spree.” Italian directors Enzo G. Castellari (INGLORIOUS BASTARDS) and Luigi Cozzi (CONTAMINATION) have cameos in the movie, as well as Lucio Fulci’s screenwriter Antonio Tentori and SUSPIRIA’s Barbara Magnolfi.” -Fangoria

DVD PAL All Region
Blu-Ray All Region
CD plays music

Video: 1,78:1 (16:9) Full HD 1080p

Audio: German, English, DTS-HD, DD 5.1

Subtitles: German, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch and Japanese subtitles

Duration: 82 min. - Uncut Version

Bonus Material:

CD-Original Soundtrack by Claudio Simonetti’s GOBLIN,

Making of the movie - of Luigi Pastore (Italian with German and English Subs)

Tribute to Lilli Carati- the last interview (Italian with German and English Subs)

Interviews, Trailers, Slideshow, Hidden Feature, uvm.

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The Terror of the Tongs (1961)

A secret society of Hong-Kong at the beginning of the century called "The Red Dragon Tong" kidnaps the captain of a ship in the harbour of Hong-Kong as he tries to detain the killers of his daughter. Because the secret society is very powerful it is not easy to free him from their hands.
In 1910 Hong Kong Christopher Lee plays Chung King, an evil leader of tongs who will kill anyone who stands in their way of their slave and opium trade.
A sea captain (Geoffrey Toone) battles them when his daughter is murdered. Violence follows and then bodies begin piling up.
Unusual Hammer film--not really a horror movie--more like a violent action film. Lee is having a whale of a time playing King and Toone is OK in his role. Everyone else is pretty terrible--especially pretty Yvonne Monlaur and all the Asian actors. The low budget does show and the script is sort of scattershot.
I'm giving it a 7 because it's no longer than it needs to be (79 minutes), Lee is very good, there's some beautiful color photography and some pretty strong bloody violence for 1961--but then this IS a Hammer film.
Worth seeing on a slow day.

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