Cheeky! by Eric Cotenas (17th September 2024)
In London on an internship, lithe Venetian blonde Carla (Ukranian model Yuliya Mayarchuk) realizes that she needs more private digs since her boyfriend Matteo (Jarno Berardi) is on his way to join her at the end of the school term. She patronizes an estate agency belonging to Moira (Frivolous Lola's Francesca Nunzi), but she is more interested in what Carla is not wearing under her skirt and gives her "preferential treatment" in the form of a ridiculously spacious loft along the Thames ("She's kind of lesbian-like and gets the hots," Carla explains to Matteo). During her free time, Carla goes to the spa with Moira for much nude and oiled groping, and attends a wild party hosted by Moira's Venetian ex-husband Mario (former soccer player Max Parodi) who finds some alone time with her in the bathroom. Back in Venice, Matteo stops by Carla's parents' home to pick up a pair of pink panties sh... |
Cheeky! by Eric Cotenas (16th September 2024)
In London on an internship, lithe Venetian blonde Carla (Ukranian model Yuliya Mayarchuk) realizes that she needs more private digs since her boyfriend Matteo (Jarno Berardi) is on his way to join her at the end of the school term. She patronizes an estate agency belonging to Moira (Frivolous Lola's Francesca Nunzi), but she is more interested in what Carla is not wearing under her skirt and gives her "preferential treatment" in the form of a ridiculously spacious loft along the Thames ("She's kind of lesbian-like and gets the hots," Carla explains to Matteo). During her free time, Carla goes to the spa with Moira for much nude and oiled groping, and attends a wild party hosted by Moira's Venetian ex-husband Mario (former soccer player Max Parodi) who finds some alone time with her in the bathroom. Back in Venice, Matteo stops by Carla's parents' home to pick up a pair of pink panties sh... |
Querelle: The Criterion Collection by Noor Razzak (15th September 2024)
"Querelle", directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, is an adaptation of Jean Genet's novel "Querelle de Brest". The film stands out as one of Fassbinder's most controversial and divisive works, often praised for its audacity and critiqued for its overt stylization and abstraction. It delves into themes of sexuality, betrayal, and the complexity of desire, set against a backdrop of a gritty, surreal port town. The film's narrative revolves around Querelle (Brad Davis), a sailor and drug smuggler, whose journey into the depths of his own sexuality and morality is marked by murder, betrayal, and lust. Fassbinder's approach to these themes is unflinchingly direct, presenting a world where traditional moralities are subverted and replaced by a complex interplay of power, control, and submission. One of the film's most striking elements is its visual style. Fassbinder uses highly stylized sets, bathed in lurid, artificial lighting that evokes a sense of theatricality and otherworldliness. This choice creates a dreamlike atmosphere, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy, which is ... |
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 by James-Masaki Ryan (12th September 2024)
"Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2" (2024) Following the events of the first film in which a number of people from the town of Ashdown were found brutally murdered in the Hundred Acre Wood, lone survivor Christopher Robin (played by Scott Chambers) was suspected of carrying out the acts but was cleared when no evidence could be pinned on him. He loses his job as a doctor due to the negative publicity affecting the hospital, and even his friends and family have a difficult time believing his account of what had happened. But the murderous Pooh (played by Ryan Oliva) and Piglet (played by Eddy MacKenzie) are taken in by the ever so wise Owl (played by Marcus Massey) after their home is burned to the ground, and along with Tigger (played by Lewis Santer) are together ready to spread deadly horror into the town with an even higher body count. 2023... |
The Nico Mastorakis Collection by Eric Cotenas (11th September 2024)
"He's back! One of the most infamous B-movie maestros to have ever sat in a director’s chair, Nico Mastorakis returns to Arrow Video with a collection of sci-fi shenanigans and screwball comedies that will take you out of this world!" The Time Traveler: Ever since her astronaut husband died in accident in space, Andrea (The Fog's Adrienne Barbeau) has sought to get way from all signs of technological progress, settling on a remote Greek island with her young son Tim (Valerie's Jeremy Licht) and their dog. Tim's imagination, however, remains in the stars. In the aftermath of a sudden electrical storm the night before, Andrea and Tim discover a naked man (2001: A Space Odyssey's Keir Dullea) washed up on the r... |
The Nico Mastorakis Collection by Eric Cotenas (11th September 2024)
"He's back! One of the most infamous B-movie maestros to have ever sat in a director’s chair, Nico Mastorakis returns to Arrow Video with a collection of sci-fi shenanigans and screwball comedies that will take you out of this world!" The Time Traveler: Ever since her astronaut husband died in accident in space, Andrea (The Fog's Adrienne Barbeau) has sought to get way from all signs of technological progress, settling on a remote Greek island with her young son Tim (Valerie's Jeremy Licht) and their dog. Tim's imagination, however, remains in the stars. In the aftermath of a sudden electrical storm the night before, Andrea and Tim discover a naked man (2001: A Space Odyssey's Keir Dullea) washed up on the r... |
The Nico Mastorakis Collection by Eric Cotenas (11th September 2024)
"He's back! One of the most infamous B-movie maestros to have ever sat in a director’s chair, Nico Mastorakis returns to Arrow Video with a collection of sci-fi shenanigans and screwball comedies that will take you out of this world!" The Time Traveler: Ever since her astronaut husband died in accident in space, Andrea (The Fog's Adrienne Barbeau) has sought to get way from all signs of technological progress, settling on a remote Greek island with her young son Tim (Valerie's Jeremy Licht) and their dog. Tim's imagination, however, remains in the stars. In the aftermath of a sudden electrical storm the night before, Andrea and Tim discover a naked man (2001: A Space Odyssey's Keir Dullea) washed up on the r... |
The Nico Mastorakis Collection by Eric Cotenas (11th September 2024)
"He's back! One of the most infamous B-movie maestros to have ever sat in a director’s chair, Nico Mastorakis returns to Arrow Video with a collection of sci-fi shenanigans and screwball comedies that will take you out of this world!" The Time Traveler: Ever since her astronaut husband died in accident in space, Andrea (The Fog's Adrienne Barbeau) has sought to get way from all signs of technological progress, settling on a remote Greek island with her young son Tim (Valerie's Jeremy Licht) and their dog. Tim's imagination, however, remains in the stars. In the aftermath of a sudden electrical storm the night before, Andrea and Tim discover a naked man (2001: A Space Odyssey's Keir Dullea) washed up on the r... |
The Nico Mastorakis Collection by Eric Cotenas (11th September 2024)
"He's back! One of the most infamous B-movie maestros to have ever sat in a director’s chair, Nico Mastorakis returns to Arrow Video with a collection of sci-fi shenanigans and screwball comedies that will take you out of this world!" The Time Traveler: Ever since her astronaut husband died in accident in space, Andrea (The Fog's Adrienne Barbeau) has sought to get way from all signs of technological progress, settling on a remote Greek island with her young son Tim (Valerie's Jeremy Licht) and their dog. Tim's imagination, however, remains in the stars. In the aftermath of a sudden electrical storm the night before, Andrea and Tim discover a naked man (2001: A Space Odyssey's Keir Dullea) washed up on the r... |
The Nico Mastorakis Collection by Eric Cotenas (11th September 2024)
"He's back! One of the most infamous B-movie maestros to have ever sat in a director’s chair, Nico Mastorakis returns to Arrow Video with a collection of sci-fi shenanigans and screwball comedies that will take you out of this world!" The Time Traveler: Ever since her astronaut husband died in accident in space, Andrea (The Fog's Adrienne Barbeau) has sought to get way from all signs of technological progress, settling on a remote Greek island with her young son Tim (Valerie's Jeremy Licht) and their dog. Tim's imagination, however, remains in the stars. In the aftermath of a sudden electrical storm the night before, Andrea and Tim discover a naked man (2001: A Space Odyssey's Keir Dullea) washed up on the r... |
Nightsiren AKA Svetlonoc (Blu-ray) by Paul Lewis (11th September 2024)
Nightsiren (Tereza Nvotová, 2022) The second feature film of Slovakian writer-director Tereza Nvotová, Night Siren (2022) has been released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video. Nightsiren (or Night Siren)opens with its protagonist, Šarlota, as a child. Fleeing from her mother, who wishes to question Šarlota over her association with a local woman, Otyla, who has been accused of witchcraft, Šarlota accidentally knocks her younger sister Tamara off a cliff. Subsequently, Šarlota runs away from home. In the present day, Šarlota (Natalia Germani)—now a young adult—returns to her home village following the death of her mother. In the intervening years, Šarlota has lived in the city. Arriving in the village, she discovers her mother’s cabin, which borders the forest, has been burnt to the ground. Šarlota then takes residence in the nearby abandoned cabin of Otyla, the rumoured witch. Šarlota soon discovers the insular folk of the village have retain... |
Strangers Kiss by Eric Cotenas (8th September 2024)
Hollywood, 1955: Director Stanley (Bitter Moon's Peter Coyote) is eager to helm his noir masterpiece about the relationship between a boxer who falls for a dancer. He and producer Farris (Strange Behavior's Dan Shor) have worked out a week-to-week funding deal with mogul Frank Silva (Mean Streets' Richard Romanus) who wants to boost the confidence of his aspiring actress girlfriend Carol (Flowers in the Attic's Victoria Tennant), so the production is able to shoot on studio sound stages so long as they keep out of the way of other bigger productions so long as they pay their weekly electricity bill. Against Farris' advice, Stanley cast... |
Doll Graveyard by Eric Cotenas (8th September 2024)
Widowed Lester Fillbrook (Ken Lyle), his teenage daughter Deedee (Gabrielle Lynn), and action figure-collecting son Guy (Dance of the Dead's Jared Kusnitz) have just moved into an fixer-upper of an old mansion in the Hollywood Hills. Lester is getting out on the dating scene again so he saddles Deedee with babysitting her brother and cleaning the inside of the house. While Guy is cleaning up the grounds, he digs up an antique samurai doll. Behind her father's back, Deedee invites easy Olivia (The Haunted Casino's Kristyn Green) and closet-nerd Terri (Anna Alicia Brock) over for an evening of drinking and pot-smoking. When jocks Rich (Evil Bong's ... |
Curse of the Crimson Altar by Eric Cotenas (6th September 2024)
When his brother and business partner Peter (Denys Peek) fails to return after a trip, antiques dealer Robert Manning (Seance on a Wet Afternoon's Mark Eden) has only a false bodkin – a spring-loaded blade for pricking witches – and a letter in his brother's handwriting on the letterhead of of Craxtead Lodge in Greymarshe, the village that also happened to have once been the family seat of the Manning family. Peter travels to Greymarshe, arriving on the Witches' Night celebration commemorating the burning of Lavinia Morley "the Black Witch of Greymarshe" which is a combination of traditional pageantry by the villagers and a wild party held by descendant Eve Morley (Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde's Virginia Wetherell) and friends from the city. Eve's uncle J.D. Morley (Horror Express' <... |
Torso by Eric Cotenas (5th September 2024)
The sunny idyll of the summer school session in art history at the University of Perugia is shattered with the murders of students Flo (Giovannona Long-Thigh's Patrizia Adiutori) and Jean (Escape from Galaxy 3's Fausto Di Bella), the girl having been strangled and mutilated post-mortem. The subsequent murder of Carol (The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh's Cristina Airoldi) in a marshland has Inspector Martino (Italian dubbing performer Luciano De Ambrosis) suspecting they are the work of the same assailant since both girls were strangled with the same foulard (scarf), the design of which classmate Daniella (The Nude Princess's ... |
Love and Other Catastrophes by James-Masaki Ryan (3rd September 2024)
"Love and Other Catastrophes" (1996) Ari (played by Matthew Dyktynski) is a university student who is cool yet intelligent with his knowledge of the arts, though at night he makes his extra cash as a gigolo. His classmate Michael (played by Matt Day) is nice but a bit shy and awkward and is looking for a different place to live as his flatmates are partiers and is too noisy for his studies. Ari introduces Michael to Mia (played by Frances O'Connor) who is looking for a new roommate, though she is going through a number of issues. She is going through a breakup with her girlfriend Danni (played by Radha Mitchell) and at the same time she is having trouble with switching her studies due to her professor giving her a hard time with the paperwork involved. Mia's dreamy roommate Alice (played by Alice Garner) has a new crush, but it happens to be Ari. Taking place over a twenty-four hour period, "Love and Other Catastro... |
Red Sun: Standard Edition by Eric Cotenas (1st September 2024)
Layabout Thomas (Deadlock's Marquard Bohm) hitches his way from Hamburg to Munich to reconnect with discotheque barmaid Peggy (supermodel Uschi Obermaier). Uninvited, he moves into the flat she shares with writer Christine (Barry Lyndon's Diana Körner), boutique owner Sylvie (Sylvia Kekulé), and switchboard operator Isolde (Gaby Go). In spite of her affection for him, Peggy is only second to icy Christine in resenting Thomas' parasitic ways while Sylvie is amused by him while Thomas surmises that Isolde is troubled solely by her treatment by married boyfriend Howard (Don Wahl) who he is told has gone to Canada despite Thomas observing the man's fervent interest in her the ni... |
A Quiet Place in the Country by Eric Cotenas (31st August 2024)
His creative batteries drained, modern artist Leonardo Ferri (Django's Franco Nero) wants to get away from the city. Although his art dealer/lover Flavia (Blow-Up's Vanessa Redgrave) finds him a spacious villa, Leonardo finds himself drawn to an older, crumbling one deeper in the countryside. Despite her warnings that the villa is not a good investment, Flavia arranges for Leonardo to buy it and pops in and out with various supplies and modern conveniences and to make sure he is working. Leonardo soon discovers he’s not alone, however, as doors slam on their own and someone or something totally demolishes his workroom. Leonardo learns from some of the villagers that a promiscuous countess named Wanda Valier (Johnny Hamlet's Gabriella Grimaldi) was killed there twenty years before when an English fighter plane riddled the villa with bullets... |
Red Sun: Standard Edition by Eric Cotenas (30th August 2024)
Layabout Thomas (Deadlock's Marquard Bohm) hitches his way from Hamburg to Munich to reconnect with discotheque barmaid Peggy (supermodel Uschi Obermaier). Uninvited, he moves into the flat she shares with writer Christine (Barry Lyndon's Diana Körner), boutique owner Sylvie (Sylvia Kekulé), and switchboard operator Isolde (Gaby Go). In spite of her affection for him, Peggy is only second to icy Christine in resenting Thomas' parasitic ways while Sylvie is amused by him while Thomas surmises that Isolde is troubled solely by her treatment by married boyfriend Howard (Don Wahl) who he is told has gone to Canada despite Thomas observing the man's fervent interest in her the ni... |
Bloodbath at the House of Death by Eric Cotenas (29th August 2024)
In 1975, Headstone Manor hosted a businessman's weekend retreat and summer girls camp on the same night along with eighteen murders in a single night… well, sixteen murders and two lightning strikes. In present day 1983, give or take a year, a team of scientists – disgraced surgeon Lukas Mandeville (Kenny Everett) and partner Barbara Coyle (The Comeback's Pamela Stephenson), walking gay jokes Elliot (Fierce Creatues' Gareth Hunt) and Stephen (Rising Damp's Don Warrington), bickering Sheila (Percy's Sheila Steafel) and John (... |
Top Line by Eric Cotenas (29th August 2024)
Ted Angelo (A Quiet Place in the Country's Franco Nero) is a burnt-out, boozy writer in Columbia to write a series of books on the conquistadors. When money stops coming from his publisher (and ex-wife) Maureen (A View to a Kill's Mary Stavin), he calls her and learns that she has fired him and will only provide him with enough money for a return ticket to Italy (not New York). When hotel maid and occasional lover Juanita (Shirley Hernandez) tries to sell him an Aztec dagger which she claims is part of a treasure her boyfriend Paco (break dancer Robert Redcross) fished from the bottom of a river, Ted decides to cash in the plane ticket for a money-making opportunity. Among Paco's horde, Ted discovers a diary which his professor friend Alonso (... |
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin by James-Masaki Ryan (28th August 2024)
"A Lizard in a Woman's Skin" ("Una lucertola con la pelle di donna") (1971) Carol Hammond (played by Florinda Bolkan) is a young woman who is having a series of odd and disturbing nightmares that are filled with sex and drugs which she cannot explain. There are also vivid dreams of her having sexual encounters with Julia Durer (played by Anita Strindberg), her next door neighbor who sometimes hosts wild parties that disturb the Hammond residence with the noise. But Carol has a horrific dream in which she stabs and kills Julia which unsettles her even further when the Julia is found murdered by stab wounds. Scotland Yard Inspector Corvin (played by Stanley Baker) discovers fingerprints of Carol's at the murder scene and Carol's psychiatrist Dr. Kerr (played by Jorge Rigaud) confirms that Carol had told him about the situation vividly. Did Carol actually murder her neighbor without being conscious or is there something more disturbing at play? Filmmaker ... |
A Man Called Tiger by Eric Cotenas (26th August 2024)
Chinese immigrant Jin Fu (Master of the Flying Guillotine's Jimmy Wang Yu) arrives in Kyoto and sets about riling up the area's local criminals and going so far as to introduce himself and tell them where he is staying. When he knocks out the Shigen Hayashi (The Big Boss' Han Ying-Chieh) for hassling young singer Yoshida Ayako (Okada Kawai) for protection money, his boss Shimizu (Kuro Mitsuo) takes Jin Fu up on the offer and summons him in order to hire him to be part of his gang of debt collectors to wrest back control of local businesses from rival boss Yamamoto (King Boxer's Tien Fang). Jin Fu eagerly accepts, puzzling Ayako who initially saw him as a ... |
The Double Crossers by Eric Cotenas (26th August 2024)
When his father is murdered in an apparent robbery, Singaporean police officer Lung Jian-Min (To Kill with Intrigue's Shin Il-Ryong) discovers a cassette recording in which his father reveals he was a smuggler before leaving the business at the urging of his wife who subsequently died giving birth to him due to the stress of their operations. While one of his business partners Chang Yu-chi (Double Impact's Chan Sing) also washed his hands of the business and settled in Indonesia, their other partner Chen Wang (The One-Armed Swordsman's Chao Hsiung) became a gangland godfather in Hong Kong and Lung's father fingers him as responsible not only for his mother's death but for his own should Lung find the recording. After Chang appears and finishes off Lung's father's murderers himself, ... |
Island of Terror by Eric Cotenas (26th August 2024)
Peter's Island off the northern coast of Ireland has been virtually forgotten by the mainland with promises of telephone service long unfulfilled, only one postage and supply boat a week, and the entire island's power supply taxed by the private experiments of top researcher and resident hermit Dr. Phillips (Scream ... and Die!'s Peter Forbes-Robertson). When Constable Harris (Hound of the Baskervilles' Sam Kydd) discovers the corpse of resident Ian Bellows (Liam Gaffney) seemingly lacking all of its bones "like jelly," island physician Dr. Landers (The Mummy's Eddie Byrne) takes the emergency launch and heads to London to consult pathologist Dr. Brian Stanley (... |
The Sorcerers by Eric Cotenas (26th August 2024)
Living in obscurity after a sensationalist journalist about his experiments, medical hypnotist Professor Marcus Monserrat (The Mummy's Boris Karloff) and his wife Estelle (Whisky Galore!'s Catherine Lacey) have been developing a new technological innovation that would allow him not only to control his subject's actions but to experience them vicariously. They seek out the perfect test subject among the young and bored seeking new experiences, finding the perfect candidate in twenty-something Mike Roscoe (Wuthering Heights' Ian Ogilvy) who runs an antique shop by day but has tired of the nightlife of discotheques, Wimpy burgers, and even his French girlfriend Nicole (Elizabeth Ercy). Monserrat subjects Mike to an audio ... |
A Man Called Tiger by Eric Cotenas (24th August 2024)
Chinese immigrant Jin Fu (Master of the Flying Guillotine's Jimmy Wang Yu) arrives in Kyoto and sets about riling up the area's local criminals and going so far as to introduce himself and tell them where he is staying. When he knocks out the Shigen Hayashi (The Big Boss' Han Ying-Chieh) for hassling young singer Yoshida Ayako (Okada Kawai) for protection money, his boss Shimizu (Kuro Mitsuo) takes Jin Fu up on the offer and summons him in order to hire him to be part of his gang of debt collectors to wrest back control of local businesses from rival boss Yamamoto (King Boxer's Tien Fang). Jin Fu eagerly accepts, puzzling Ayako who initially saw him as a ... |
The Double Crossers by Eric Cotenas (24th August 2024)
When his father is murdered in an apparent robbery, Singaporean police officer Lung Jian-Min (To Kill with Intrigue's Shin Il-Ryong) discovers a cassette recording in which his father reveals he was a smuggler before leaving the business at the urging of his wife who subsequently died giving birth to him due to the stress of their operations. While one of his business partners Chang Yu-chi (Double Impact's Chan Sing) also washed his hands of the business and settled in Indonesia, their other partner Chen Wang (The One-Armed Swordsman's Chao Hsiung) became a gangland godfather in Hong Kong and Lung's father fingers him as responsible not only for his mother's death but for his own should Lung find the recording. After Chang appears and finishes off Lung's father's murderers himself, ... |
Dating the Enemy by James-Masaki Ryan (23rd August 2024)
"Dating the Enemy" (1996) Brett (played by Guy Pearce) is a handsome young host of an Australian music TV program. He is neat, tidy, well versed in the ins and outs of the current alternative music scene and his charisma shines as a ladies' man. Tash (played by Claudia Karvan) is a young woman that works for a newspaper as an editor. Rather than focusing on scandal topics for a chance for the front page, she loves to research in the realm of science and technology which are her main interests. She is a bit messy and disorganized, but is focused on her work. The two meet at a mutual friend's party on Valentine's Day and even though they have nothing in common, they immediately fall head over heels for each other. After a year of dating, the couple seem to be growing apart as their incompatibilities are taking a toll, During an argument, Tash wishes that they could be in each other's shoes to see what it feels like, which magically comes true for them one evening, as their bodies become swapped. Not knowing how to return to the way they were, the two have to somehow naviga... |
Night of the Big Heat by Eric Cotenas (19th August 2024)
England is in the midst of a record-setting frost; that is, everywhere except the island of Fara where the heat is climbing up to ninety-degrees so far and not stopping. The local pub run by popular novelist Jeff Callum (Dial M for Murder's Patrick Allen) and his wife Frankie (The Devil Rides Out's Sarah Lawson) is the only refuge for the hot and thirsty. Speaking of hot and thirsty, Jeff is shocked to discover that his newly-arrived secretary is Angela (Hands of the Ripper's Jane Merrow) who warmed his bed but failed to melt his writer's block, and he is eager to send her packing while his wife is preoccupied by the behavior of guest Godfrey Hanson (Horror Express' ... |