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Review TLA Releasing / Meatball Machine [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Taro Suwa
  • Issei Takahashi
  • Kenichi Kawasaki
  • Aoba Kawai
  • Ayano Yamamoto
Release date: 2007-06-05
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Tomohide Harada
Price: £6.04

Review Meatball Machine [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / TLA Releasing:


Review Exploitation Digital / SS Hell Camp [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Luigi Batzella
  • Xiro Papas
  • Edilio Kim
  • Salvatore Baccaro
  • Gino Turini
  • Macha Magall
Release date: 2004-12-28
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £5.99

Review SS Hell Camp [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Exploitation Digital:


Review New Line Home Entertainment / The Orphanage [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mabel Rivera
  • Roger Príncep
  • Montserrat Carulla
  • Fernando Cayo
  • Belén Rueda
  • Juan Antonio Bayona
Release date: 2008-04-22
Run time: 105 min.
Price: £10.80

Review The Orphanage [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Entertainment:


Review Arrow Films / Female Vampire [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Lina Romay
  • Jack Taylor
  • Jess Franco
Release date: 2002-04-22
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.48

Review Female Vampire [1973] / Arrow Films:

Eurotrash sex/horror auteur Jesus Franco's Female Vampire delivers nudity, drinking of human body fluids, plentiful zoom shots, languorous music, a vestigial storyline and the odd moment of surrealism (a flapping bat car ornament). It opens with a soulful-eyed brunette (Lina Romay) striding through misty woods wearing only thigh-boots, a leather belt and a black cloak, then chancing across a breeder of tropical birds upon whom she performs an act of oral sex that winds up painfully and fatally for the poor chump. One of Franco's better films, this still has an extremely leisurely pace which means that the story drifts dreamlike (or tediously, depending on your point of view) between protracted but unappealing sexual encounters as a smitten fellow with the requisite 70s porno moustache (Jack Taylor), a vampire-hating doctor (director Franco) and a blind coroner pursue the gloomy Countess for their own reasons. The vampire is mute but has an Anne Rice-style whining voice-over, and the dubbing means that everyone else seems equally dissociated from the words that fail to approximate their lip movements. Fans of Lina's frustrated naked writhings get to see her do the thing on top of several men and women, a bed, a tree and in a bath of blood. To Franco-philes, it's a masterpiece; to everyone else, wearisome tat. On the DVD: Female Vampire on disc comes with a nice widescreen transfer of a print that goes on longer than any previous UK release (though it runs 94 mins, not the 101 listed on the cover); an alternate opening sequence (with the title The Bare Breasted Countess); a fairly complete list of Franco credits; a French trailer (for La Comtesse aux Seins Nus); and four brief alternate scenes from a version of the film with less explicit sex but more blood (i. e. , necks are bitten but not private parts). -Kim Newman.

Review BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company / Human Beasts [1972]
Actors & Directors
  • Luis Ciges
  • Ricardo Palacios
  • Jacinto Molina
  • Jacinto Molina
  • Rafael Hernandez
  • Eiko Nagashima
Release date: 2008-03-25
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £6.08

Review Human Beasts [1972] / BCI, a Navarre Corporation Company:


Review Platinum Media Distribution / Demons - The Director's Cut (Dubbed) [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Lamberto Bava
  • Coralina C. Tassoni
  • Nancy Brilli
  • Fiore Argento
  • Urbano Barberini
  • Natasha Hovey
Release date: 2006-11-27
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.40

Review Demons - The Director's Cut (Dubbed) [1987] / Platinum Media Distribution:

Lamberto Bava, son of the Italian horror legend and giallo godfather Mario Bava, teamed up with modern master Dario Argent (co-writer and producer) for this slick gorefest, a triumph of style and special effects over movie logic. Set in a refurbished German movie palace, our hapless soon-to-be victims arrive for a sneak preview of a horror movie only to see the gore unfold in the audience, as well as onscreen. While the exposition remains murky, one patron finds that an infected cut leads to a gooey transformation, and every one of her victims follows suit until the snaggle-toothed monsters outnumber the humans. The survivors, trapped in the tomb of a cinema, must fend off attacks à la George Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Borrowing liberally from films such as Dawn of the Dead and The Tingler, Demons also anticipates Scream in its cinema-savvy references, not to mention its undeniably Neve Campbell-ish heroine. The blaring heavy-metal-hard-rock soundtrack and the carnival horror-house atmosphere helps remind us that this is all just stupid fun. Despite the overwhelming body count, excessive gore and rivers of green demon pus, the cartoonishly grotesque killings avoid the sadistic edge of many Italian horror films. By the climax of the film the premise is long forgotten in a ghoul apocalypse, but who's watching this for the story anyway? -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.

Review Facets Video / Noriko's Dinner Table [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kazue Fukiishi
  • Tsugumi
  • Shion Sono
  • Ken Mitsuishi
  • Yuriko Yoshitaka
  • Sion Sono
  • Shiro Namiki
Release date: 2008-05-27
Run time: 159 min.
Creator: Junichi Ito
Price: £8.48

Review Noriko's Dinner Table [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Facets Video:


Review Optimum Home Entertainment / The Orphanage [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Juan Antonio Bayona
  • Fernando Cayo
  • Belen Rueda
  • Geraldine Chaplin
Release date: 2008-07-21
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.75

Review The Orphanage [2007] / Optimum Home Entertainment:

Backed by Guillermo del Toro and yet made by a surprisingly inexperienced group of film makers (especially considering the end result), The Orphanage is a chilling, tense supernatural thriller that could certainly teach more established directors a thing or two about how to send shivers down the spine. It tells the story of a woman, Laura, returning to the orphanage where she was raised as a child. Her plans are to look after sick children there, but it doesn't take long for things to go awry. Without giving too much away, visions from her past and a threat to her own family are the starting points for a complex and quite haunting thriller, that stays in the mind long after the credits have rolled. A film that works on more than one level, The Orphanage really is some piece of work. Juan Antonia Bayona, behind the camera, generates an incredibly atmospheric mood that underpins the film, and wisely takes time to put pieces in place. He's aided by a terrific cast, and an unsettling screenplay that layers in an uneasy horror that's as anti-Hollywood as it comes. The result of all of this is one of the scariest films of recent times, and yet something that still manages to be that little bit more, that sticks in your mind for some time afterwards. Make no mistake, The Orphanage really is something different, and all the better for it. -Jon Foster.

Review Dimension Extreme / Inside [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Béatrice Dalle
  • Alexandre Bustillo
  • Julien Maury
  • Jean-Baptiste Tabourin
  • Alysson Paradis
  • Nathalie Roussel
  • François-Régis Marchasson
Release date: 2008-04-15
Run time: 82 min.
Price: £7.26

Review Inside [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Dimension Extreme:


Review Lionsgate / Frontier(s) [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Xavier Gens
  • Aurélien Wiik
  • David Saracino
  • Maud Forget
  • Karina Testa
  • Patrick Ligardes
Release date: 2008-05-13
Run time: 108 min.
Price: £6.81

Review Frontier(s) [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lionsgate:


Review Blue Underground / Deep Red [1975] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Macha Meril
  • Glauco Mauri
  • Geraldine Hooper
  • Furio Meniconi
  • Clara Calamai
Release date: 2007-02-27
Run time: 126 min.
Creator: Goblin
Price: £4.40

Review Deep Red [1975] (NTSC) / Blue Underground:


Review Grindhouse / Cannibal Ferox [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Umberto Lenzi
  • Giovanni Lombardo Radice
  • Lorraine De Selle
  • Walter Lucchini
  • Danilo Mattei
  • Zora Kerova
Release date: 2006-10-31
Run time: 93 min.
Price: £7.70

Review Cannibal Ferox [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Grindhouse:


Review Vision Video Ltd. / Brotherhood Of The Wolf [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Dacascos
  • Samuel Le Bihan
  • Vincent Cassel
  • Jérémie Renier
  • Monica Bellucci
Release date: 2002-09-23
Run time: 133 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.96

Review Brotherhood Of The Wolf [2001] / Vision Video Ltd.:

If you crave an over-the-top historical kung fu-fantasy epic with a good dose of voluptuous nudity, bravura machismo, and passions so intense they verge on ridiculous, then Brotherhood of the Wolf is for you. Based (loosely) on an 18th-century legend, this French film follows a hunky scientist (Samuel Le Bihan) and his Iroquois sidekick/spiritual partner (Mark Dacascos) as they pursue a monstrous wolf ravaging the French countryside. Along the way Le Bihan gets entwined with a beautiful noblewoman (Emilie Dequenne) and a gorgeous prostitute (Monica Belluci) with secrets to tell. The plot grows more and more incomprehensible, but the mix of torrid emotions, outrageous action sequences, and lurid titillation is really what the movie is about. Ignore the highbrow philosophising and confused political intrigue; just enjoy the sensual images. -Bret Fetzer On the DVD: Brotherhood of the Wolf is a film which revels in excess, yet the extra features on the disc are surprisingly sparse. The DVD boasts a programme on the legend of the Beast of the Gevaudan, as well as the original theatrical trailer, which was obviously geared towards an American audience-all action, no (French) dialogue. Unfortunately, though the DVD gives the viewer the option of watching the film in French (with English subtitles) or dubbed in English, only the dubbed version has Dolby 5. 1 sound. Viewers who want to watch this film in its original language are forced to settle for 2. [+]
0. -Rob Burrow.

Review Criterion / Vampyr [1931] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Maurice Schutz
  • Rena Mandel
  • Sybille Schmitz
  • Julian West
  • Carl Theodor Dreyer
  • Jan Hieronimko
Release date: 2008-07-22
Run time: 73 min.
Price: £15.28

Review Vampyr [1931] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Criterion:


Review Blue Underground / The Black Belly of the Tarantula [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Claudine Auger
  • Barbara Bouchet
  • Silvano Tranquilli
  • Paolo Cavara
  • Rossella Falk
  • Giancarlo Giannini
Release date: 2006-03-28
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £4.49

Review The Black Belly of the Tarantula [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Blue Underground:


Review Weinstein Company / Nightmare Detective [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Masanobu Ando
  • Yoshio Harada
  • Ren Osugi
  • Ryuhei Matsuda
  • Shinya Tsukamoto
Release date: 2008-02-19
Run time: 106 min.
Price: £6.94

Review Nightmare Detective [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Weinstein Company:


Review Xenon / Baberellas [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Julie K. Smith
  • Shauna O'Brien
  • Julie Strain
  • Chuck Cirino
Release date: 2004-01-13
Run time: 80 min.
Price: £3.92

Review Baberellas [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Xenon:


Review Lions Gate / High Tension [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Maïwenn Le Besco
  • Franck Khalfoun
  • Philippe Nahon
  • Andrei Finti
  • Cécile De France
  • Alexandre Aja
Release date: 2005-10-11
Run time: 95 min.
Price: £4.54

Review High Tension [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review Tokyo Shock / The Machine Girl [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Taro Suwa
  • Noboru Iguchi
  • Honoka
  • Minase Yashiro
  • Kentaro Shimazu
  • Asami
Release date: 2008-06-03
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Kenji Tanabe
Price: £6.30

Review The Machine Girl [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tokyo Shock:


Review Tartan Video / Trouble Every Day [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Vincent Gallo
  • Tricia Vessey
  • Claire Denis
  • Alex Descas
  • Beatrice Dalle
  • Florence Loiret-Caille
Release date: 2003-04-28
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.35

Review Trouble Every Day [2002] / Tartan Video:

A classic example of obscure art house European cinema, Trouble Every Day is a sordid, shocking and often indecipherable examination of sexual depravity and violence. This is a deliberately difficult film-it is a full 15 minutes before anyone utters a line of dialogue-and director Claire Denis has created a world that offers the viewer little in the way of respite throughout the 90-minute duration. Both Vincent Gallo and Beatrice Dalle turn in their standard cult movie performances (long silences, staring into the distance) but in truth there are few actors so well suited to a piece of work such as this. Trouble Every Day is not for the casual viewer, suited more to real aficionados of the genre who are prepared to be challenged, shaken and more than a little appalled by every twist in the gruesome plot. -Phil Udell.

Models & Brands:
Meatball Machine [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), SS Hell Camp [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Orphanage [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Female Vampire [1973], Human Beasts [1972], Demons - The Director's Cut (Dubbed) [1987], Noriko's Dinner Table [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Orphanage [2007], Inside [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Frontier(s) [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Deep Red [1975] (NTSC), Cannibal Ferox [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Brotherhood Of The Wolf [2001], Vampyr [1931] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Black Belly of the Tarantula [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Nightmare Detective [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Baberellas [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), High Tension [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Machine Girl [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Trouble Every Day [2002]

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