Exploitation
Mondo Macabro - Jess Franco
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010It feels like nothing truly exciting has left the Mondo Macabro warehouse in a good long while, but that is all about to change. During the latter part of last year Mondo Macabro made a special announcement on it’s blog stating that they had secured a set of films from the legendary purveyor of sleaze, [...]
More Shameless Releases
Friday, June 25th, 2010At the moment it seems to be the UK where some of the more exciting DVD releases are hitting the shelves. Shameless Films are continuing to litter those shelves with lurid and violent films, and their latest three releases are set to heat up the streets this summer with a trilogy of sin.
SATAN’S BABY DOLL [...]
Video Nasties: The Legacy - Part 1
Monday, March 29th, 2010In the early 80’s the self appointed moral guardians in the UK where highly offended by what was showing up on the video shelves in those early days of the censor free video market. Lurid video sleeves for titles like S.S. Experiment weren’t going down too well with the church attending minority in England. An [...]
New and Upcoming DVD Releases
Friday, July 3rd, 2009The UK’s Arrow Videos recently released some interesting titles under their new imprint, Masters of Giallo. The three initial titles include Dario Argento’s Sleepless, Lamberto Bava’s Macabre, and Lucio Fulci’s House By The Cemetery. Although the titles aren’t anything too exciting, having been released elsewhere previously, but they are definitely worth picking if only for [...]
Eye on Horror: Tales of Voodoo
Thursday, June 18th, 2009There are a lot of DVD releases lately cashing in on the popularity of the Grindhouse tag line. This collection is another of those. Originally released on DVD in the form of several volumes of Tales of Voodoo, this series of 10 films released by Videoasia has been collected into a box set for a [...]
Important DVD Releases
Monday, February 16th, 2009There are a couple dates to look forward to in the coming months, one next week and the other the following month. Both have a slew of dvd releases hitting the shelves which are sure to drain the bank reserves. Mixed in with these releases are some important film by important directors. Remember if you [...]
More New Releases
Saturday, October 11th, 2008Grindhouse Releasing will be releasing Lucio Fulci’s masterpiece, The Beyond, on DVD October 28th. The release promises to be one of the most have releases of the year, even though a lot of the extras on the disc are the same as Anchor Bay’s previous release. Of note this time around is a new introduction [...]
Love Me Deadly (1972)
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008(aka Secrets of the Death Room)
Writer and Director: Jacque Lacerte
Producer: Buck Edwards
Starring: Mary Wilcox, Lyle Waggoner, Christopher Stone, Timothy Scott.
The sleeve of Shriek Show’s release of this obscure 70’s exploitation film includes blurbs about the shocking nature of Love Me Deadly, and while it has it moments, this is no Nerkomantik (1987); a film [...]
Black Candles (1982)
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Director: José Ramón Larraz
Starring: Helga Line, Vanessa Hidalgo, Carmen Carrion
Black Candles is a blend of Rosemary’s Baby and the Hammer Horror films of the 60’s and 70’s, with an extremely large helping of sexploitation.
Released by BCI as part of their Welcome To Grindhouse Double Features series to cash in on the ’success’ of the Tarantino/Rodriguez [...]