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I Am Frigid... Why? by Eric Cotenas (26th August 2025)
The daughter of the gardener (Sins of the Flesh's Georges Guéret) of a country estate, blossoming Doris (The Shiver of the Vampires' Sandra Julien) is a "diamond of the purist water" ripe for the plucking by teenage Erik (Jean-Luc Terrade) at the encouragement of his incestuous sister Carla (Grapes of Death's Marie-Georges Pascal) who chase her down and rape her in the greenhouse. Erik's mother (Montparnasse 19's Arlette Poirier) is eager to pin the blame on Doris despite her father's claims that she was a virgin. For the price of his and Doris' silence, Erik's father (... |
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Her and She and Him by Eric Cotenas (26th August 2025)
Greta (Au Pair Girls' Astrid Frank) hitches her way from Sweden to Paris to study art history ("Because Paris is Paris") and has a cozy room in a boarding house lined up; that is until the landlady's husband tries to assault her. Needing to make the rent for shabbier digs, she tries to become a model and just barely escapes a lech (director Max Pécas regular Michel Vocoret, Young Casanova) and takes to panhandling on the street playing the guitar and singing, quickly discovering that "the kindness of strangers" always comes at a price. She is taken in by beautiful Claude (From Ear to Ear's Nicole Debonne) who turns out to be a lesbian and takes advantage of her in her sleep. Although disgusted, Greta accepts the advise of the similarly lowdown... |
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Creepshow 2 by Eric Cotenas (26th August 2025)
Based upon stories by Stephen King and scripted by George Romero, Romero cinematographer Michael Gornick''s sequel Creepshow 2 would seem to have the right ingredients for a follow-up to Romero's anthology hit, but it all falls flat very quickly due to mostly uninspired stories and pacing that is simultaneously abrupt and drawn out. With only three out of the projected five stories filmed – the others being the unused "Pinfall" and "Cat from Hell" (which appeared in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, also produced by Dawn of the Dead's Richard P. Rubinstein and directed by Day of the Dead composer ... |
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Hellbender: Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (23rd August 2025)
Cheval Noir (Best Actress): Zelda Adams (winner), Sandro Forte Award (Best Motion Picture Score): John Adams (winner), and Cheval Noir (Best Film): Zelda Adams, John Adams, and Toby Poser (nominee) - Fantasia Film Festival, 2021 Best Acting: Zelda Adams (winner) and Best Film : Zelda Adams, John Adams, and Toby Poser (nominee) - Mar del Plata Film Festival, 2021 Due to an autoimmune disease, teenage Izzy (Zelda Adams) has lived isolated on a mountain with her mother (Tobey Poser) for as long as she can remember. Her mother is not only her s... |
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The Old Dark House: Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (22nd August 2025)
On the quintessential dark and stormy night, bickering British couple Philip (A Matter of Life and Death's Raymond Massey) and Margaret Waverton (The Invisible Man's Gloria Stuart) and jovial friend Penderel (Ghost Story's Melvyn Douglas) are caught in the Welsh wilds on the way to Shrewsbury and forced to seek shelter at the titular old dark house when they are waylaid by a landslide on one side and a flooding river on the other. Hulking, mute butler Morgan (The Black Cat's Boris Karloff) is only slightly stranger than their hosts, fey Horace Femm (... |
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Control by James-Masaki Ryan (21st August 2025)
"Control" (2007) While attending a show by the up and coming punk band Sex Pistols, Ian Curtis (played by Sam Riley) meets up with former schoolmates who are forming a band and looking for a singer. Ian volunteers, and the new four piece band with Ian on vocals, Bernard Sumner (played by James Anthony Pearson) on guitar, Peter Hook (played by Joe Anderson) on bass, and Stephen Morris (played by Harry Treadaway) on drums, they start a fast paced punk band with the name Warsaw, but quickly rename themselves as Joy Division. Ian is trying to balance his creative life with his personal one as well as with his full time job. His wife Deborah (played by Samantha Morton) feels left out from his music life even though she tries to be supportive of his direction. Ian’s job working in the civil sector as an employment agent for citizens, but the late nights with the... |
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Devil Fetus by Eric Cotenas (20th August 2025)
During the local Hungry Ghosts Festival, Suk-jing (The Fishing Adventure's Lu Bei-Bei) is drawn to a strange jade vase at auction and buys it. Living with her mother-in-law Madame Jeng (The Avenging Eagle's Ou-Yang Sha-Fei), brother-in-law Ji-Cheng (Hex After Hex's Lau Dan), his wife (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World's Leung San), and their young children while her husband Ji-Wan is away in Japan on business, Suk-jing is left vulnerable to the demonic forces possessing the vase which assume the form of a demon to make love to her. When Ji-Wan returns suddenly and catches them, he smashes the vase and is immediately disfigured, throwing himself out the window. Days later... |
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The Inquisitor + Deadly Circuit: Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (18th August 2025)
"A director with a dark sensibility comparable to Chabrol, Claude Miller made these two twisty Polars (French Police-Noir films) with Michel Serrault (Kill the Referee), showcasing the actor in stunning performances alongside stars including Lino Ventura (Army of Shadows) and Isabelle Adjani (Possession, The Story of Adele H)." César (Best Film): Claude Miller (nominee), Best Actor: Michel Serrault (winner), Best Supporting Actor: Guy Marchand (winner), Best Director: Claude Miller (nominee), Best Screenplay, Original or Adaptation: Claude Miller, Jean Herman, and Michel Audiard (winner), Best Cinematography: Bruno Nuytten (nominee), Best Editing: Albert Jurgenson (winner), and Best Sound: Paul Lainé (winner) - César Awards, 1982 Critics Award (Best Film): Claude Miller (winner) - French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, 1982 The Inquisitor: On the raining evening of New Year's Eve 1980, solicitor Jerome Charles Emile Martinaud (... |
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Mortelle randonnée AKA Deadly Circuit AKA Deadly Run (Blu-ray) by Eric Cotenas (18th August 2025)
"A director with a dark sensibility comparable to Chabrol, Claude Miller made these two twisty Polars (French Police-Noir films) with Michel Serrault (Kill the Referee), showcasing the actor in stunning performances alongside stars including Lino Ventura (Army of Shadows) and Isabelle Adjani (Possession, The Story of Adele H)." César (Best Film): Claude Miller (nominee), Best Actor: Michel Serrault (winner), Best Supporting Actor: Guy Marchand (winner), Best Director: Claude Miller (nominee), Best Screenplay, Original or Adaptation: Claude Miller, Jean Herman, and Michel Audiard (winner), Best Cinematography: Bruno Nuytten (nominee), Best Editing: Albert Jurgenson (winner), and Best Sound: Paul Lainé (winner) - César Awards, 1982 Critics Award (Best Film): Claude Miller (winner) - French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, 1982 The Inquisitor: On the raining evening of New Year's Eve 1980, solicitor Jerome Charles Emile Martinaud (... |
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Zoltán Huszárik: Szindbád/Csontváry/Elégia: Five Short Films - Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (17th August 2025)
"Zoltán Huszárik is one of the great unsung masters of international cinema. With an output that comprised just two features and a handful of remarkable short films, his unique and beautifully realised works set him apart from all other contemporary filmmakers, creating an intoxicating body of work unlike any other in modern cinema. This special edition 3-disc Blu-ray box set contains his two features Szindbád and Csontváry, plus five of his acclaimed, rarely seen short works - including his most renowned film poem, Elégia - presented from new 4K restorations and released for the first time ever on Blu-ray. With this release, one of Hungary’s best-kept cinematic secrets finally has a chance to flourish." Josef von Sternberg Award: Zoltán Huszárik (winner) - Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival, 1972 Szindbád:... |
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Grafted by James-Masaki Ryan (17th August 2025)
"Grafted" (2024) Wei (played by Joyena Sun) was very little when she witnessed the death of her scientist father (played by Sam Wang), who was experimenting with skin rejuvenation. Many years later, Wei moves to New Zealand to stay with her aunt (played by Xiao Hu) and her cousin Angela (played by Jess Hong) and attend university. Being shy and reclusive as well as having a complex about the large genetic birthmark on the side of her face, she has difficulty fitting in with Angela and her best friends Eve (played by Eden Hart) and Jasmine (played by Sepi To'a). But her dream is to one day complete the work started by her late father, and the one person who is willing to help is her science professor Paul (played by Jared Turner). But Paul has plans of his own, as does Eve, who is having an affair with the professo... |
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Zoltán Huszárik: Szindbád/Csontváry/Elégia: Five Short Films - Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (17th August 2025)
"Zoltán Huszárik is one of the great unsung masters of international cinema. With an output that comprised just two features and a handful of remarkable short films, his unique and beautifully realised works set him apart from all other contemporary filmmakers, creating an intoxicating body of work unlike any other in modern cinema. This special edition 3-disc Blu-ray box set contains his two features Szindbád and Csontváry, plus five of his acclaimed, rarely seen short works - including his most renowned film poem, Elégia - presented from new 4K restorations and released for the first time ever on Blu-ray. With this release, one of Hungary’s best-kept cinematic secrets finally has a chance to flourish." Josef von Sternberg Award: Zoltán Huszárik (winner) - Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival, 1972 Szindbád:... |
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Rats: Night of Terror - Deluxe LImited Edition by Eric Cotenas (16th August 2025)
Two hundred years "After the Bomb" when a nuclear holocaust sent all human life below ground and a hundred years after a faction known as the "New Primitives" split from the underground society's authoritarian rule to scavenge the wasteland above ground, a biker gang led by Kurt (Zombie's "worm face" Ottaviano Dell'Acqua), girlfriend Diana (Absurd's Cindy Leadbetter), Taurus (Zombi 3's Massimo Vanni), and Chocolate (Demons' Geretta Geretta) rides into a ghost town looking for supplies. In spite of a large rat population and several rodent-gnawed rotting corpses, they think they have found a gold mine with crates full of canned food and pantry goods ... |
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The Cannibal Man by Eric Cotenas (13th August 2025)
Not middle-age but no longer a youth, slaughterhouse worker Marcos (Soft Skin on Black Silk's Vicente Parra) is being pressured to marriage by his much younger girlfriend Paula (The Other Side of the Mirror's Emma Cohen). On their weekly night out, Marcos gets into a fight with a cab driver (Ricco: The Mean Machine's Goyo Lebrero) and accidentally kills him. When guilt-ridden Paula insists that he turn himself into the police, he strangles her and hides her body in his bedroom. When his brother Esteban (Monster Dog's Charly Bravo) refuses to help him anywhere other than to the police station, Marcos murders him too. Trapped in a sp... |
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Shadowzone by Eric Cotenas (13th August 2025)
NASA Captain Hickock (Creepshow 2's David Beecroft) arrives at the Jackass Flats Proving Ground underground research facility to investigate the death of one of the research subjects of the government-funded "Shadowzone" project, an "extended sleep study" with applications for space travel supervised by the shifty Dr. Van Fleet (Big Trouble in Little China's James Hong). Although the research team - including imperious Dr. Erhardt (Flowers in the Attic's Louise Fletcher), pretty Dr. Kidwell (Baywatch's Shawn Weatherly), and computer tech Wiley (... |
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Rats: Night of Terror - Deluxe LImited Edition by Eric Cotenas (11th August 2025)
Two hundred years "After the Bomb" when a nuclear holocaust sent all human life below ground and a hundred years after a faction known as the "New Primitives" split from the underground society's authoritarian rule to scavenge the wasteland above ground, a biker gang led by Kurt (Zombie's "worm face" Ottaviano Dell'Acqua), girlfriend Diana (Absurd's Cindy Leadbetter), Taurus (Zombi 3's Massimo Vanni), and Chocolate (Demons' Geretta Geretta) rides into a ghost town looking for supplies. In spite of a large rat population and several rodent-gnawed rotting corpses, they think they have found a gold mine with crates full of canned food and pantry goods ... |
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Through and Through by Eric Cotenas (9th August 2025)
Josef von Sternberg Award: Grzegorz Królikiewicz (winner) and Interfilm Award: Grzegorz Królikiewicz (winner) - Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival, 1973 Tossed from the flophouse of his older, alcoholic lover (Killing Auntie's Ewa Zdzieszynska) and fired from his job in a photo salon for coming in late and unkempt, aspiring artist Jan (Man of Iron's Franciszek Trzeciak) finds companionship with prostitute Maria (Anna Nieborowska) and the pair make an attempt at respectability by getting married. In spite of their union, they are still living hand-to-mouth enduring abuse from his younger brother (Camera Buff's Jerzy Stuhr) who conveys to them the disappointment and embarrassment of their mo... |
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F/X AKA F/X: Murder by Illusion AKA Murder by Illusion (Blu-ray) by Paul Lewis (8th August 2025)
F/X: Murder by Illusion (Robert Mandel, 1986) and F/X 2 (Richard Franklin, 1991)
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F/X 2 AKA F/X 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion AKA FX2 (Blu-ray) by Paul Lewis (8th August 2025)
F/X: Murder by Illusion (Robert Mandel, 1986) and F/X 2 (Richard Franklin, 1991)
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You Should Have Been Here Yesterday by James-Masaki Ryan (8th August 2025)
"You Should Have Been Here Yesterday" (2023) Surfing gained popularity among the Australian youth in the 1950s and maintained a steady following for decades as a sport that defined freedom and bliss, away from the worries of society and everyday life. While the government and conservatives viewed surfing in a negative light as they saw it promoted a slacker culture as well as drugs, alcohol, and sex, there were even laws placed by the government to try to curb interest for the sport, which was not at all a “sport” in their eyes. In addition to finding places with the best waves, whether domestic or internationally, there was also a culture of capturing the surfers riding the waves on film by amateurs. Surfers and their friends would use 8mm and 16mm film to capture footage of themselves riding the best waves, wiping out in big splashes, and going up against the forces of nature to place themselves against the magnificent waves of the ocean. These amateur films would be screened to surfing fanatics, friends, and other interested people, which for many was the only way to experience being up and close to the waves. In the 1980s, surfing became more commercial and... |
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My Life is Murder: Series 4 by Eric Cotenas (8th August 2025)
After her husband was killed in the line of duty, detective Alexa Crowe (Xena: Warrior Princess' Lucy Lawless) retired from the Australian police force and devoted her life to her cat and baking sourdough, occasionally consulting on cases before quitting Melbourne for her hometown of Auckland with series two (shot during the pandemic). No sooner had she made a standing arrangement with cafe owner Ruben Wulf (Ghost in the Shell's Joseph Naufahu) to supply him with sourdough every morning than her old partner had given her name to local Detective Inspector Harry Hanare (Step Dave's Rawiri Jobe). Once again, she provides a bit of civilian consultancy on cases requiring a bit more leeway regulation-wise to get the facts with the help of hacker Madison Feliciano (... |
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The Beast and the Vixens by Eric Cotenas (7th August 2025)
Ann (Trick or Treats's Jacqueline Giroux) and Mary (Supervixens' Uschi Digard) use the excuse about writing a term paper on primitive man as an excuse to get away to the countryside with a stay at a cabin in the Pacific Northwest. Not only is Bigfoot prowling around and abducting girls – among them Alice Goodbody's Colleen Brennan aka "Sharon Kelly", Prison Girls' Tracy Handfuss, and A Scream in the Streets' Sandy Carey – that he keeps in his cave, ex-con Pete and his buddy French (... |
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Come Drink With Me by Eric Cotenas (7th August 2025)
While escorting a bandit to prison, governor's son Zhang Buqing (The Fate of Lee Khan's Wong Chung) is captured and held for ransom by Jade-faced Tiger (The Invincible Sword's Chen Hung-lieh) to negotiate the release of the gang's leader Smiling Tiger (The Magnificent Trio's Lee Wan-Chung) . The governor instead sends his deadly daughter Golden Swallow (Lilting's Cheng Pei-Pei) to the local inn to negotiate, and she gives the gang an ultimatum to surrender in the same time period they have guaranteed for her brother's survival. Although Golden Swallow is a skilled fighter, she is impetuous and finds unexpected protection and assistance from a singing beggar known as "Drunken Cat" who is ac... |
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Come Drink With Me by Eric Cotenas (5th August 2025)
While escorting a bandit to prison, governor's son Zhang Buqing (The Fate of Lee Khan's Wong Chung) is captured and held for ransom by Jade-faced Tiger (The Invincible Sword's Chen Hung-lieh) to negotiate the release of the gang's leader Smiling Tiger (The Magnificent Trio's Lee Wan-Chung) . The governor instead sends his deadly daughter Golden Swallow (Lilting's Cheng Pei-Pei) to the local inn to negotiate, and she gives the gang an ultimatum to surrender in the same time period they have guaranteed for her brother's survival. Although Golden Swallow is a skilled fighter, she is impetuous and finds unexpected protection and assistance from a singing beggar known as "Drunken Cat" who is ac... |
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The Sweet House of Horrors by Eric Cotenas (2nd August 2025)
Returning from an evening out to their villa in the countryside, Roberto (Demons 2's Pascal Persiano) and Mary (Massacre's Lubka Lensi) surprise a prowler but he gets the better of them and brutally bludgeons both of them to death, placing their bodies in their car and pushing it down a steep hillside. Mary's sister Marcia (The Beyond's Cinzia Monreale) and her husband Carlo (Rats: Night of Terror's Jean-Christophe Brétignière) arrive to assume guardianship over the dead couple's children Sarah (Ilary Blasi) and Marco (... |
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Terminus by Eric Cotenas (2nd August 2025)
In the near future in defiance of the government, sinister parties have devised an elite new sport combining rally races with American football in which chosen drivers of a monster truck – appropriately called "Monster" – must outmaneuver gray trucks and make it to the end point "Terminus" to claim a cash prize. So far, no one has won the event due to their skills and the incidental casualties as they race through populated areas. The designer of the game is a young child named Mati (Robocop 2's Gabriel Damon) has been genetically-engineered and psychologically-conditioned by his doctor (Das Boot's Jürgen Prochnow) – under the orders of the mysterious and powerful Sir (also Prochnow) from his lair – to ignore his human conscience in game-playing and is remotely controlling the latest truck Monster through its guidance system (voiced in the French version by Louise Vincent... |
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Creepozoids by Eric Cotenas (2nd August 2025)
By 1998 (remember this is a 1987 film so we're still a few months off world annihilation), the world powers have engaged in nuclear war leaving most of the surface of the earth uninhabitable due to mutant nomads and acid rain (neither of which we actually see). A quintet of army deserters - natural leader Jake (Family Reunion's Richard Hawkins), blowhard Butch (Deadly Embrace's Ken Abraham), smart Kate (Lunch Meat's Kim McKamy aka adult star "Ashlyn Gere"), sexy Bianca (Nightmare Sisters' Linnea Quigley), and nerdy Jesse (El Chupacabra's ... |
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Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity by Eric Cotenas (2nd August 2025)
Daria (Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood's Elizabeth Kaitan) and Tisa (My Chauffeur's Cindy Beal) escape being sold into slavery by stealing an escape vessel but get caught in the tractor beam of a strange planet. They find luxurious shelter in a former pirate fortress now inhabited by charming host Zed (Moon in Scorpio's Don Scribner) and his bickering android servants Vak (18 Fingers of Death!'s Kirk Graves) and Krel (Randolph Roehbling). Also joining Daria and Tisa on the menu... erm, guest list are similarly shipwrecked siblings Shala (... |
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The Science of Sleep by James-Masaki Ryan (31st July 2025)
"The Science of Sleep" ("La Science des rêves") (2006) Stéphane (played by Gael García Bernal) is a young man who has traveled to live with his mother (played by Miou-Miou) in France after the death of his father in Mexico. He is very creative and imaginative through arts and crafts, though he has a hard grasp on separating his dreams and reality, with his insecurity and anxiety being more prevalent in his awakened state. He falls in love with his neighbor Stéphanie (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg), who shares a similar creative mindset, but she is more on the side of reality and logic, never being able to complete her own creations. Will he be able to win her over, or will he only push her away further with his anxiety in the way? Filmmaker Michel Gondry made a name for himself in the world of music videos since the 1990s, with his works having intricate handmade qualities and the innovative visual techniques. From building sets from cardboard cutouts and using t... |
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The Sons of Great Bear: Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (30th July 2025)
With gold discovered in the Black Hills and a railroad carving its way across the country, there are only a handful of tribes who still resist the U.S. government's attempts to round them up into reservations. His father Matotaupa (The Thing in the Castle's Adolf Peter Hoffmann) having given himself over to the gamblng and "firewater" through the influence of "white brother" civilian scout for the U.S. Army Fred "Red Fox" Clark (Ikarie XB 1's Jirí Vrstála), Tokei-Ihto (Signals: A Space Adventure's Gojko Mitic) believes that the only way to keep their lands and their ways is to join Sitting Bull and Tashunka-Witka (Trail of the Falcon's Sepp Klose) who are making their wa... |
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