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Gritty masterpiece from the director of Bad Lieutenant and King of New York!
Long available in incomplete or full screen editions, Abel Ferrara's 1979 cult classic The Driller Killer here receives its definitive presentation. The Driller Killer stars Ferrara himself (under the pseudonym 'Jimmy Laine') as Reno Miller, an artist being driven mad by the pressures of New York life who takes to the streets and begins murdering derelicts with a power drill. Although Ferrara intended to make a film in the tradition of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the end result bore an even greater resemblance to Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. The Driller Killer is an indispensable addition to the collection of anyone interested in 1970s horror, the work of Abel Ferrara, or off-the-wall cinema. |
THE DRILLER KILLER
(Single Disc) • DVD024
$19.95 • Director: Abel Ferrara
96 minutes • 1979 • Aspect ratio 1.85:1
Release date: September 27, 2005 |
SPECIAL FEATURES
• Driller Killer Widescreen version
• Audio Commentary by Abel Ferrara
• French & Spanish Subtitles
• Trailer
• Porto-pack Commercial |
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"Manson Family Movies is a primitive, obsessional, fetishistic tribute to mayhem, murder and madness.
Enough to appall even the most jaded video junkie… The home movie effect really added to it.
Attention to fetishy detail was really astounding – Abigail's scarf, Tex's gun, plus Sadie, Tex and G. Spahn looked more like the originals than Helter Skelter. Very rude – all the rumors, MDA deal, Leno the bookie, Tate S&M… I liked the Valley of the Dolls touch. The most obscure was Leno's vacation – I had never even imagined those sights."
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MANSON FAMILY MOVIES
A film by John Aes-Nihil
DVD032 • $29.95 • USA •
1984 • 88 Minutes
Release date: July 26, 2005 |
SPECIAL FEATURES
• Director's Commentary Track
• Outtakes with Director's Commentary
• Last Interview with Charles Manson (30 min.)
• The Original LAPD Murder Photos
• Original Charles Manson Artwork |
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In 1930, Grant Wood won a painting competition with his masterpiece, American Gothic. Although it's considered to be a visual satire on rural American Life, perhaps the story goes deeper than canvas.
In this provocative horror tale by acclaimed photographer, Carlos Batts, we see a different interpretation of a rural American family on the 75th anniversary of Wood's painting, American Gothic. Batts paints his own story and invites us into a world where the old farmer struggles with his crime of passion, the consequences and his iconic fate. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but this painting's story will leave you speechless.
New Music by Swarm of the Lotus, Dog Fashion Disco, Mastodon, Buzz Oven
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AMERICAN GOTHIC
A film by Carlos Batts
DVD031 • $24.95 • USA • 2005 • 50 Minutes
Release date: June 28, 2005 |
SPECIAL FEATURES
• 3 Short Films: Puppadere • Choke • Clone
• Director's Introductions
• Photo Gallery
REVIEWS
Penny Blood
New Egg |
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Constantin Werner's award winning debut feature Dead Leaves is the story of a young man who travels with the corpse of his deceased girlfriend from New York City to West Virginia.
When Laura (Elizabeth Gondek) falls to an accidental death her already unbalanced boyfriend Joey (Haim Abramsky) suffers a breakdown. He steals her body and escapes on a self-destructive journey through lonely motels and rainy villages. While Joey is trying to preserve Laura's fading beauty in strange rituals he is haunted by the memories of the happy and dark moments of their relationship. As she starts to decay physically, he descends mentally and emotionally.
New Music by Rozz Williams, Gitane Demone, Soma Music, Camarillo Blues Triangle, Mutant Press.
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DEAD LEAVES
A film by Constantin Werner
DVD030 • $19.95 • USA • 1998 • 95 Minutes
Release date: May 31, 2005 |
SPECIAL FEATURES
• Director's Commentary
• The Making of Dead Leaves, a film by Roland Andrijauskas
REVIEWS:
DVD Maniacs |
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Gritty masterpiece from the director of Bad Lieutenant and King of New York!
Long available in incomplete or full screen editions, Abel Ferrara's 1979 cult classic The Driller Killer here receives its definitive presentation, accompanied by three of the director's never-previously-released short films from the 1970s. The Driller Killer stars Ferrara himself (under the pseudonym 'Jimmy Laine') as Reno Miller, an artist being driven mad by the pressures of New York life who takes to the streets and begins murdering derelicts with a power drill. Although Ferrara intended to make a film in the tradition of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the end result bore an even greater resemblance to Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. The Driller Killer is an indispensable addition to the collection of anyone interested in 1970s horror, the work of Abel Ferrara, or off-the-wall cinema.
REVIEWS:
FangoriaOOOLDVD ManiacsOLOLCut CutsOLOLMondo Digital
SPECIAL DVD FEATURES
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DISC ONE
• Driller Killer Letter-boxed version
• Audio Commentary by Abel Ferrara
• French & Spanish Subtitles
• Trailer
• Porto-pack Commercial
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DISC TWO
The early short films of Abel Ferrara:
• Could This Be Love (1973)
• The Hold Up (1972)
• Nicky's Film (1971)
• Trailer - Nine Lives of A Wet Pussy
• Audio Commentary by Abel Ferrara
• New Liner Notes Brad Stevens |
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DRILLER KILLER/THE EARLY SHORT FILMS OF ABEL FERRARA
2-DISC Limited Edition of 10,000 copies • DVD023
$29.95 • Director: Abel Ferrara
DISC ONE
96 minutes • 1979 • Aspect ratio 1.85:1
DISC TWO
62 minutes • 1971-1976 • Aspect ratio 1.33:1
Release date: June 29, 2004
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"A Nightmarish Masterpiece!" - Elliot Stein, Village Voice
Klaus (Gunter Meisner of The Boys From Brazil) is an ex-Nazi, a doctor whose war-time post in a concentration camp enabled him to commit the most appalling sex crimes against boys. After the war, living incognito in Spain, he again gives in to his depraved desires, until shame and despair drive him to an unsuccessful suicide attempt...
Now confined to his room and kept alive on an iron lung, he is ministered to by his resentful wife Griselda (Marisa Paredes of All About My Mother) and her daughter Rena (Gisela Echevarria). Into this environment comes Angelo (David Sust), a strange, handsome young man who offers his services as a nurse. Against Griselda's judgement, Klaus insists that the visitor be allowed to take the post. A perverse relationship develops between Angelo and Klaus, becoming ever more macabre as Angelo reveals he has found diaries detailing his employer's war-time activities. Words turn to deeds, Klaus's shame turns once again to desire, and a new spate of child killings begin...
Described by filmmaker John Waters as more intense than Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo.
IN A GLASS CAGE (Special edition)
DVD • DVD019 (NTSC) • $24.95 • Director: Agustín Villaronga • 1986 • 108 Minutes • Not Rated • Spanish language with optional English subtitles
Release date: May 25, 2004
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SPECIAL DVD FEATURES
• Uncut, Uncensored Version
• Exclusive Interview with director Agustín Villaronga
• 4-Page Liner Notes
• Letterbox
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"Lost Horror Film of the Seventies"
Prepare yourselves... The strangest bedtime story ever told! Released for the first time here after 25 years in obscurity, Cult Epics brings you Death Bed, George Barry's uniquely weird journey through a world of wind demons, carnivorous furnishings and the spirit of Aubrey Beardsley!
At the edge of a grand estate, near a crumbling old mansion lies a strange stone building with just a single room. In the room there lies a bed. Born of demonic power, the bed seeks the flesh, blood and life essence of unwary travellers… Three pretty girls arrive on vacation, searching for a place to spend the night. Instead, they tumble into nightmares - and the cruel, insatiable hunger of the Bed! Death Bed is a one-of-a kind experience: comic, horrific and dreamlike, that truly has to be seen to be believed. Discover this neglected marvel of American horror for yourself!
"Death Bed is one of the weirdest films ever made, and it's great!"
- Bruce Fletcher, SF Indiefest
"Downbeat and narcotic, Death Bed is the rather glorious result of one demented lotus eater's wild stab at acid horror. It's a trip, baby. Highly recommended.."
- Sleazegrinder....more...
"Just when you thought you'd seen it all - along comes Death Bed."
- Mondo-digital....more...
"Death Bed earns its rightful place in the annals of 1970s midnight cult cinephilia along with such films as Eraserhead, Pink Flamingos, and El Topo"
- Donato Totaro, Offscreen.com....more...
Release date: April 27, 2004 |
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DEATH BED - The Bed That Eats
DVD • DVD020 (NTSC) • $19.95 • Director: George Barry • 1977 • 80 Minutes • USA • Not Rated
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SPECIAL DVD FEATURES
• Uncut, Uncensored Version
• New Transfer
• Video Introduction by the Director
• 4-Page Liner Notes
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Based partly on fact Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer tells the shocking tale of a killer who selects his victims at random. Having served time for murdering his mother, Henry (Michael Rooker) travels to Chicago where he and his former jailmate Otis (Tom Towles) start a senseless killing spree. When Otis' sister Becky (Tracy Arnold) comes to visit, she unsuspectingly falls in love with Henry.
Henry was the directorial debut of John McNaughton (Wild Things), now regarded as a masterpiece of modern horror by critics from all over the world. The film paints a bleak picture of American society, where serial killers apparently can operate as long as they keep drifting and changing their tacticts. Based on the life of Henry Lee Lucas.
SPECIAL DVD FEATURES:
• Exclusive Audio Commentary by John McNaughton
• Interview with John McNaughton
• Director Filmography
• Trailer
• Dutch subtitles option
• New Transfer from negative (1.33:1)
HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER (Out of Print)
DVD005 (Benelux release PAL only) • f69,95 • 82 minutes film / 25 minutes documentary • 1989 • Color • English Language • Not Rated
Director: John McNaughton
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