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Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, And Girly Add to Shopping Cart

Freddie Francis 1970

Freddie Francis' incredible black comedy about a family of serial killers. They use prick teaser

Girly to reel in their victims and then all 4 take turns killing them off back at their huge estate.

A perverse little masterpiece that could only have been made in the seventies

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Murder In A Blue World Add to Shopping Cart

Eloy De La Iglesia 1977

Sue Lyon, Jean Sorel, Chris Mitchum

Letterboxed print. This oddball film mixes elements from Kubrick's film with a serial killer story

involving Sue (LOLITA) Lyon as a nurse who can't stand physical imperfection. Directed by Eloy

de la Iglesia (CANNIBAL MAN).

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Necrophobia Add to Shopping Cart

1995

In Dutch Only. Here's a gross out film from Holland that should satisfy the jaded ones in the

audience. Colette is a demented young woman who lives in a HELLRAISER-like place where she

brings the recently deceased to have sex with. She ends up seducing a death obsessed young

man with the hopes of adding him to her dungeon of horror. The ending has a nice sick twist in

this demented but well made film

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Night Killer Add to Shopping Cart

Claudio Fragasso 1990

Tara Buckman

Claudio Fragasso directs this excellent Italian horror film starring Tara Buckman. At a dance

academy a supernatural being is killing off the dancers in a very graphic fashion, he uses his

long fingerblades (remind you of anyone?) to slit throats, decapitate and gut his victims. Very

gory

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No One Heard The Scream Add to Shopping Cart

Eloy De La Iglesias 1973

Carmen Sevilla, Vincente Parra

In Spanish with English subtitles. Excellent Spanish made thriller by Eloy De La (CANNIBAL

MAN) Iglesias starring Carmen Sevilla, Vincente Parra, and Maria Asquerino. Somewhat related

in theme to his THE GLASS CEILING, Sevilla stars as a woman who decides to quit an affair

with a married man. Unfortunately for her, the next man she falls for is a wife murderer!!

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Open Season Add to Shopping Cart

Peter Collinson 1974

John Phillip Law, Helga Line, William Holden, Cornelia Sharpe, Peter Fonda

Here is a sick Spanish film with a name cast and a noted British director, but for eurotrash

afficianados, it's the co-stars that make this worth seeing. 3 psychotic Vietnam vets decide to

kidnap people, take them to a place inb the woods and after torturing them, set them loose so

they can hunt them down and kill them. Their latest group may be more than they bargained

for however as one of their victims is actually plotting revenge! Peter Fonda, Cornelia Sharpe,

John Phillip Law, Richard Lynch, William Holden, Helga Line, Alberto De Mendoza, and Simon

Andreu star.

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Paganini Horror Add to Shopping Cart

Luigi Cozzi 1987

Daria Nicolodia, Donald Pleasence

Luigi Cozzi directs this late eighties horror film centering around a female rock group who head

for a haunted house to film their latest video. The spirit of Paganini infests the abode and soon

gory deaths are the result. Daria Nicolodia and Donald Pleasance co-star.

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Psycho Thrill Add to Shopping Cart

1984

Trash Cinema, Mexican style! There's a psycho loose and he's knifing, burning, and hanging a

multitude of victims. He loves to pick up prostitutes, force them to strip and then knife them,

when he penetrates them with a knife, he sexually climaxes--yes, he's one sick puppy.The cops

finally have enough and hunt him down like a dog. Sleazy fun from south of the border,

contains nudity

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Queens Of Evil Add to Shopping Cart

Tonino Cervi 1972

Ray Lovelock, Evelyne Stewart, Haidee politoff, Silvia Monti

One of the best Italian horror and sex films from the seventies, if you have missed this one

then see it now as it ain't coming to dvd anytime soon! 3 women who live out in the country are

agents of the devil and their mission is to seduce and kill any man who ventures into their lair.

Poor Ray Lovelock does just that and his fate is sealed. Evelyne Stewart, Haidee Politoff and

Silvia Monti play the witches. Directed by Tonino Cervi.

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Red Lies Add to Shopping Cart

1993

Tomas Arana, Gioa Maria Scotese

In Italian Only. Tomas Arana is a reporter who goes deep into the sex industry underground to

try and determine who is killing off their clientel. He finds himself becoming addicted to the

lifestyle while his wife (Gioa Maria Scotese with several nice nude scenes) wonders if and when

he'll return to her. Meanwhile, the killer continues using his long bladed knife on whomever gets

too close to his identity. This film has a lot in common with Friedkin's CRUISING.

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Robowar Add to Shopping Cart

Bruno Mattei 1988

Nicely letterboxed print of this Brunoi Mattei ripoff of ROBOCOP and TERMINATOR. A bunch of

macho assholes are turned loose in the Phillipine jungle to hunt down a low budget SPFX (a

man in a cheesy robot suit) with a big gun. Bruno blows up things real good.

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Sanatorium, Under The Sign Of The Hourglass Add to Shopping Cart

1973

In Polish with English subtitles. letterboxed print. For fans of the director of THE SARAGOSSA

MANUSCRIPT, here's another strange fantasy film he made. Extreme weirdness is the rule here

as a young man returns home to find his father has died. The guy starts to relive his life in

flashback and comes to realize his home was like an insane asylum, inhabited by all types of

crazy bastards. Some nudity and MUCH strangeness.

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Scarab Add to Shopping Cart

Steohen Charles-Jaffe 1984

Rip Torn, Robert Ginty

Professor Manz (Rip Torn) experiments on a beetle-shaped amulet, when he accidentally cuts

his hand on it, the God Khepera takes over his body. He goes into hiding for 30 years before

resurfacing to kill off Government leaders and throwing the world into chaos. Enter Jack Murphy

(Robert Ginty), whose girlfriend's brother was one of Manz/Khepera's victims. This obscure

Spanish lensed horror film was directed by Stephen-Charles Jaffe.

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School Of Fear Add to Shopping Cart

Lamberto Bava 1992

Daria Nicolodia, Alessandra Acciai

Diana (Alessandra Acciai) is the new teacher at an exclusive private school (the previous one

died mysteriously). She soon discovers her students are not what they seem and they soon

involve her in their deadly game of reality that includes murder and rape. Daria Nicolodia

costars in this Lamberto Bava film with music by Simon Boswell. Please note there is a logo at

the bottom of the screen

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Scream Of Fear Add to Shopping Cart

Seth Holt 1961

Susan Strasberg, Christopher Lee

Penny (Susan Strasberg) is crippled and returns home at the request of her father who wants

her to meet his new wife. No sooner does she arrive then she finds his corpse! Of course the

body disappears and no one believes her story. Director Seth Holt and screenplay writer Jimmy

Sangster teamed up for this B&W chiller from Hammer. Christopher Lee co-stars

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Sex Of The Witch Add to Shopping Cart

Elo Pannaccio 1976

Camile Keaton, Donald O'Brien

In Italian Only. Thomas Hilton, the rich head of the family, dies after detailing the curse on the

family name to his relatives. They are there to divy up his estate and learn they each have to

make it to age 30 before they can collect. Sure enough, the relatives are knocked off one by

one by the killer who has a rather unique talent. Camille Keaton co-stars (and fortunately has a

nude scene before exiting the plot) along with Donald (ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST) O'Brien.

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Shadow Of Illusion Add to Shopping Cart

Mario Caiano 1972

Daniela Giordano, William Berger

Mario Caiano directed this very weird voodoo sex and horror thriller set in the Middle East.

Daniela Giordano (who has some terrific nude scenes) stars as a strange psychic who is drawn

to a cult ritual in an ancient and evil setting. She is the focus of a cult who want to kill her so

they can raise the dead. William Berger stars as a professor who may help her escape or help

her to die.

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Shocking Dark Add to Shopping Cart

Bruno Mattei 1989

Letterboxed print. It's the future and Venice is now a dead city due to a toxic gas. The

inhabitants are now mutated monsters and a trained group of Marines are sent in to try and

figure out what the hell is going on. This goofy mixture of ALIENS and THE TERMINATOR is by

Bruno Mattei, one of Italy's true genius of trash. See if you can spot the scenes and dialogue

that are direct steals from the first two ALIEN films.

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Snow devils Add to Shopping Cart

Antonio Margheriti 1965

Giacomo Rossi Stuart

Never released on video! here is a rare entry in Antonio Margheriiti's SF Gamma 1 series.

Giacomo Rossi Stuart heads a space mission to earth's Himalayas to learn more about the Yeti.

Are they really an alien race?

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Snuff Trap Add to Shopping Cart

Bruno Mattei 2001

Letterboxed print. Good Ol Bruno Mattei!! You can depend on him to deliver the sleaze in this

time of conservatism and boy does he! You'll want to take a bath after this one. A woman goes

looking for her missing daughter and before too long she has descended into the world of

pornography and ultimately torture and snuff videos (all graphically depicted by Bruno). In fact

she's in big danger of starring, along with her daughter, in her own snuff film!

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Strange Love Of A Vampire Add to Shopping Cart

Leon Klimovsky 1972

Emma Cohen, Carlos Ballesteros

aka THE NIGHT OF THE WALKING DEAD. Here's an excellent Spanish made gothic vampire film

with plenty of exploitation to go with the atmosphere. Directed by Leon Klimovsky (veteran of

many Paul Naschy flicks), it features Carlos Ballesteros as Count Dracula who desperately

looks for a woman to share his life. He finds an ill young beauty (Emma Cohen who has nude

scenes) in the local village and initiates her into his vampiric lifestyle

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Swamp Of The Ravens Add to Shopping Cart

Manuel Cano 1974

Fernando Sancho

Without a doubt one of the creepiest Spanish horror films I have ever seen. A crazy doctor is

performing reanimation experiments in the middle of the Florida swamps. He begins to have

success just as the police and locals close in on him. The scenes of zombies rising from the

swamp creeped me out and an there's an autopsy scene that's all too real. Director Manuel

Cano has a made a weird little film to say the least

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Symptoms Add to Shopping Cart

Jose Larraz 1974

Angela Pleasance

For years this film has only existed in a crappy looking version but here is a great quality

version of Jose Larraz's excellent thriller in the REPULSION-mode. A woman heads to the

country for some peace and quiet but she is soon terrorized by all types of weird characters, or

is it all in her mind. An excellent psychological thriller with Angela Pleasance.

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Terror Express Add to Shopping Cart

Ferdinando Baldi 1975

Silvia Dionisio

Director Ferdinando Baldi takes a screenplay by George Eastman (real name Luigi Montefiore)

and creates a sick puppy of a horror film that once again treads the LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT

territory. Blonde goddess Silvia Dionisio (one time wife to Ruggero Deodato!) stars as a hooker

who teams up with another passenger to save the day

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The Childhood Friend Add to Shopping Cart

Pupi Avati 1995

Jason Robards III

Pupi (THE HOUSE WITH THE WINDOWS THAT LAUGHED) Avati wrote and directed this neat little

horror film that stars Jason Robards III (who looks just like his father) as a popular TV talk

show host who is terrorized by a friend from the past. A neat thriller that eschews graphic

horror for a creepy and disturbing atmosphere that lingers far longer.

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The Collector Add to Shopping Cart

1996

In Finnish with English subtitles, letterboxed print. Intense horror film from Finland about 2

sisters who are in constant conflict. The older one is a lesbian and the younger is a crazed

psychotic who freaks out when she learns about her sister and goes off on a killing spree. An

excellent thriller

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The Crime On Via Monti Add to Shopping Cart

Antonio Bonifacio 1997

Katarina Vassilissa

New Giallo with an accent on nudity and sleaze! A killer breaks into a bedroom and kills the

man yet it seems the woman is in approval of the murderous deed. Meanwhile, a hapless

detective is hired to discover if a man's wife is cheating on him and he invariably ends up in

bed with her! The killer soon puts the detective at the top of his list to knock off. The big reason

to see this is that it stars Katarina Vassilissa, incredible sexy star of Tinto Brass' THE VOYEUR!!

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The Dead Mother Add to Shopping Cart

Juan Ulloja 1993

In Spanish with English subtitles, letterboxed at 2.35:1. A lot of people have been waiting for

this Spanish made thriller by Juan Ulloa. During the nineties, Spain is leading Europe when it

comes to contemporary, edgy entertainment. A young girl witnesses the murder of her mother

by a thief. She ends up in an asylum where she appears to be in shock. Years later, the thief

discovers her and decides to kidnap and kill her. Unfortunately for him, he becomes obssesed

with her (much to his current lover's dismay) creating a dangerous and complex love triangle.

This psycho thriller soon degenerates toward a violent and downbeat conclusion

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The Deadly Bees Add to Shopping Cart

Freddy Francis 1967

Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Michael Ripper

Early Amicus Studios horror film directed by Freddie Francis and written by Robert Bloch. A pop

star diva (Suzanna Leigh) heads to the country only to discover a crazy farmer who is raising

a strin of killer bees. Frank Finlay and Michael Ripper co-star

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The Demon Add to Shopping Cart

1963

Daliah Lavi, Frank Wolff

)-In Spanish only, letterboxed print. Beautiful B&W italian horror film starring Daliah Lavi as a

woman possessed by a demon. She tries to use potions to ensnare a man (Frank Wolff) she

lusts after. Her father whips her to try and beat the demon out of her but things just get worse.

Lavi has never been better (even WHIP AND THE BODY!).

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The Devil Within Her Add to Shopping Cart

Peter Sadsy 1976

Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Caroline Munroe, John Steiner

This was released here in a cut version (for a PG rating) as I DON'T WANT TO BE BORN. This

uncut copy stars Joan Collins as a woman cursed by a dwarf into giving birth to a child killer.

Also stars Caroline Munroe, John Steiner and Ralph Bates

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The Devil's Exorcist Add to Shopping Cart

1978

Jack Taylor

A young girl is troubled by loud sounds and the vision of a scary man in black walking toward

her. She soon becomes violent and a woman doctor is called in to help. Upon their first

meeting, the girl cold-cocks the doctor and knocks her ass around the room. Eventually, she

kills her own mother (it's ruled an accident) and moves in with the doctor who ultimately pays a

high price for trying to cure her. This film eschews the overt graphic imagery of most

EXORCIST-clones and goes for a more subtle approach. Jack Taylor plays a medical colleague

who feels shock treatments are the only way to cure the kid. Too bad no one listened to him!

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The Devil's hand Add to Shopping Cart

Maurice Tourneur 1943

Pierre Fresnay

In French with English subs. Rare Maurice Tourneur horror film from the forties. Pierre Fresnay

stars as a poor artist who made a deal with the Devil. What is the price he will pay? Creepy

B&W cinematography make this an undiscovered classic!

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The Devil's Men Add to Shopping Cart

1976

Peter Cushing, Luan Peters, Charles Gray

Letterboxed print. Peter Cushing, Luan Peters (nice nude scenes!), and Charles Gray star in

this sleazy Greek/British horror film. Cushing is in charge of a cult who worship the ancient

Minotaur and through it's influence is trying to gain world domination. Uncut version (it played

here cut as THE LAND OF THE MINOTAUR) of course and it looks perfect. Also a short interview

with Christopher Lee about his friend Cusjhing is included

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The Devil's Men Add to Shopping Cart

1976

Peter Cushing, Luana Peters

Released here in a cut version under the title LAND OF THE MINOTAUR, here's the uncut one

with all the nudity and violence restored! Peter Cushing is the leader of a cult that sacrifices

people to their Minotaur idol. When a young couple disappear it brings them uneanted attention.

Luan Peters co-stars

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The Dragon Ring Add to Shopping Cart

Lamberto Bava 1994

Franco Nero, Anna Falchi

In Italian with English subtitles. Here's the newest Lamberto Bava film, a big budget SPFX

extravaganza fantasy film set in a foreign world. Franco Nero plays a cruel king whose

daughter Desideria (Anna Falchi of DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE who has no nude scenes here!),

falls in love with a rebel leader. His other daughter (actually a wolf-child he found in the forest)

plots to get rid of Desideria so she can take over the throne and rule the land. A Godzilla like

Dragon appears at the film's conclusion.

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The Horrible Dr Hichcock Add to Shopping Cart

Riccardo Freda 1962

Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng

In Italian with English subtitles. For the first time, this seminal Ricardo Freda horror film is now

available in a definitive, uncut and letterboxed print. Barbara Steele stars as the victim of her

husband who likes to have sex with dead women. Guess what his plans for her are?

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The Humanoid Add to Shopping Cart

Aldo Lado 1980

Barbara Bach, Richard Kiel, Arthur Kennedy, Ivan Rassimov, Leonard Mann

Aldo Lado directs (with special effects help by Antonio Margheriri and Enzo Castellari) this STAR

WARS ripoff with a super sexy cast: Corrine Clery and Barbara Bach. Also starring Leonard

Mann, Richard Kiel, Arthur Kennedy and Ivan Rassimov as the Darh Vader lookalike! Ennio

Morricone contributes the weird electronic score

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The Infernal Trio Add to Shopping Cart

1974

Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli

In French with English subtitles. Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli co-star as a couple who

murder wealthy individuals for their money. They also involve Schneider's sister in their latest

plan to seduce and kill a teenaged girl who is heir to a large fortune. This black-humored film

has a rather gory murder sequence (cut from most prints, it is included here but has brief

below the waist censoring) unusual for a French production. Great score by Ennio Morricone.

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The Inquisador Add to Shopping Cart

1975

In Spanish only. Here's a nasty piece of work from Argentina. The charred corpses of young

women are being found all over town. The police are baffled as to who is doing this. It turns out

a group of religious zealots comprised of several men and one woman kidnap loose women,

bring them back to their underground torture chamber and stretch them on the rack before

torching them. Nudity and gore abound in this one.

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