"Watership Down" (1978) Taking place in rural England in a wild rabbit warren, one of the rabbits, Fiver (voiced by Richard Briers) has a premonition that their entire community would perish. His older brother Hazel (voiced by John Hurt) tries to inform the chief (played by Ralph Richardson) of the community, only to be struck down as traitors. Hazel and Fiver decide to escape the warren for a safer place, and they are joined by fellow rabbits Bigwig (voiced by Michael Graham Cox), Blackberry (voiced by Simon Cadell), Pipkin (voiced by Roy Kinnear), Dandelion (voiced by Richard O'Callaghan, Silver (voiced by Terence Rigby), and Violet. On their journey to find a new safe haven, they encounter some allies such as Kehaar (voiced by ...

Assigned to prepare a paper on the centennial of the "Mill of the Stone Women", a macabre carousel of wax statues of statues in a windmill in the village of Veeze designed by the grandfather of local art school professor Gregorius Wahl (Secret of the Red Orchid's Herbert Boehme), young journalist Hans Van Arnim (Sweet Violence's Pierre Brice) catches the eye of (and catches sight of) Wahl's beautiful daughter Elfie (The White Warrior's Scilla Gabel). In spite of warnings from Wahl and mysterious live-in physician Dr. Bohlem (Dr. M's Wolfgang Preiss) that excitement could kill Elfie – along with the withering watchful eye of housekeeper Selma (...

No one believes newly married ice skater Samantha (Four of the Apocalypse's Lynne Frederick) when she fears that she is being stalked and terrorized by William Haskin (The Wild Geese's Jack Watson) who was institutionalized for the murder of her mother twenty years previous. Her husband Alan (The Great Escape's John Leyton) and her prank-playing best friend Beth (House of Mortal Sin's Stephanie Beacham) think she is just stressed, Beth's psychologist boyfriend Leonard (Repulsion's John Fraser) is more interested in probing her repressed traumatic memories than indulging her delusions of persecution, but people are beginning...

Pop singer Nick Cooper (singer Jack Jones) has recently divorced his wife Gail (The Omen's Holly Palance) who convinced him to give up singing, and is planning to recording a comeback album in England. His agent Webster Jones (Charlie's Angels's David Doyle) arranges for him to stay in a country house staffed by housekeeper Mr. and Mrs. B (Last of the Summer Wine's Bill Owen and who else but Sheila Keith); which is just as well since Nick's riverside loft is a mess as an old hag with a sickle hacked Gail to pieces on the staircase and left her corpse to decompose. Nick finds further distraction in Webster’s secretary Linda (...

Ever since she was a child, Edith Cushing (Stoker's Mia Wasikowska) has known that ghosts do indeed exist when her mother appeared her days after her death from black cholera with a cryptic warning. An intelligent young woman in 1890s Buffalo, New York, Edith is on her way to spinsterhood having forsaken suitors and mixing with high society in favor of looking after her father Carter (Supernatural's Jim Beaver) and pursuing her own goal of becoming an authoress of ghost stories. Upon hearing of the arrival of an English baronet who made the acquaintance of Eunice (Star Trek: Discovery's Emily Coutts), sister of her childhood friend ophthalmologist Dr. Alan McMichael (Sons of Anarchy's ...

Wealthy and eccentric Cyrus Canby West spends his remaining days feeling like a canary surrounded by cats. If he is mad, he believes he has been driven to it by greedy relatives, and he decides to make them wait a while after his death until they can learn of their inheritance; indeed, he makes them wait twenty years after his death until all that remain of his family line are imperious Aunt Susan Sillsby (Orphans of the Storm's Flora Finch), ditzy niece Cecily Young (Stage Struck's Gertrude Astor), grave Harry Blythe (Doctor X's Arthur Edmund Carewe), wily Charlie Wilder (Curse of the Undead's Forrest Stanley), craven Paul Jones (...

Having been kicked out the university doctorate program for submitting a "speculative" thesis about the existence and nature of the yeti as factual, anthropology dropout Matt Connor (Vampirella's Richard Joseph Paul) gets a special invite back to campus by Dr. Claire Collier (Beyond the Door's Juliet Mills) who reveals at a conference the killing of a "Nepalese anthropoid" of immense stature that had killed a number of sherpas in the mountains, unveiling its frozen carcass to the press and colleagues. Claire introduces the miffed Matt to biologist Dr. Lloyd Trent (The Thing from Another World's Robert Cornthwaite) who discovered upon dissection of the creature's brain that its violent behavior might have been caused by a surgical operation as barbaric as it is advanced beyond ...

On the road to Nashville for Jamboree, country western singers Woody Wetherby (Ferln Husky) and Boots Malone (Touch of Evil's Joi Lansing) along with their business manager Jeepers (Don Bowman) get caught up in a shootout between local law enforcement and foreign spies. With night falling quickly and a storm coming, the trio are unable to find accommodations in the ghost town that is Sleepy Junction and stumble upon the crumbling antebellum Beauregard Mansion. Locals inform them that the house is supposed to be haunted, and that people who have investigated the strange sounds and lights emanating from the property have never returned. Woody and Boots are not so willing as Jeepers to believe in ghosts and they settle in for the night, and things do indeed go bump. Of course, the haunting is a front for the secret basement operations of spies Miss Wong (Dimension 5's...

Golden Berlin Bear (Best Film): Tsai Ming-liang (nominee), Teddy (Best Feature Film): Tsai Ming-liang (nominee) and Teddy – Special Mention: Tsai Ming-liang (winner) - Berlin International Film Festival, 2020 Golden Q-Hugo: Tsai Ming-liang (nominee) and Silver Q-Hugo: Tsai Ming-liang (winner) - Chicago International Film Festival Golden Horse Award (Best Narrative Feature): Days (nominee), Best Director: : Tsai Ming-liang (nominee), and Best Sound Effects: Dennis Tsao, Hsiang-Ling Ho, Terry Lin, Yu-Chih Lee, and Min-Hsu Wang (nominee) - Golden Horse Film Festival, 2020 Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Prize: Tsai Ming-liang (nominee) and Sebastiane Award (Best Film): Tsai Ming-liang (nominee) - San Sebastián International Film Festival, 2020 Festival Prize (Best Actor): Lee Khang-sheng (nominee), Best Narrative Feature: Days (nominee), and Best Director: Tsai Ming-liang (nominee) - Taipei Film Festival, 2020 Following a stroke, Kang (...

Freelance cameraman Mark (The Doll Squad's Christopher Augustine) is in love with film, believing that only celluloid is capable of showing people as they really are; as such, he aspires to work in documentaries more so than cinema and is honing his skills shooting 16mm pornographic loops for voyeuristic director Jobal (Dick Glass). One one of the rougher S&M-oriented shoots, he meets Michelle (Jeannette Sears then billed as "Jeannette Dilger") and feels like she is a kindred spirit, having compromised her ideals by being a kept woman for an inattentive wealthy musician and feeling that her work in pornography out of economic necessity has tainted any other opportunities she might have had. It is perhaps a good thing that he identifies so closely with her since the other women he meets tend to wind up with their larynxes crushed by his hands as he relives a childhood trauma forever replaying in his brain like a movie. With a body count sparse enough ...

Robert Dominici (Accident's Michael York) seems to have it all. He's young, handsome, engaged to beautiful socialite Susanna (Curse IV: The Ultimate Sacrifice's Mapi Galán), and on the verge of world fame as a concert pianist; however, he has been diagnosed with the late onset of progeria, a rapid aging disease that usually shortens the life expectancy of children. While Robert's aging on the outside seems slow by the standards of the disease, the deterioration of his brain is accelerating and he is finding it harder to control his violent urges; having already brutally murdered his doctor (Tenebrae's Carola Stagnaro) to keep his illness secret. When Susanna is murdered after a fight with Robert that sent her into the arms of his best friend Davide (...

Golden Berlin Bear: (nominee) - Berlin International Film Festival, 1995 Independent Spirit Award (Best Feature): Denis Hann and Fernando Sulichin (nominee) and Best Female Lead: Lily Taylor (nominee) - Film Independent Spirit Awards, 1996 Critics Award: Abel Ferrara (winner) and Best Film: Abel Ferrara (nominee) - Mystfest, 1995 Best Film: Abel Ferrara (winner), Best Actress: Lily Taylor (winner), and Special Mention: Christopher Walken (winner) - Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema, 1997 Sant Jordi (Best Foreign Actress): Lily Taylor (winner) - Sant Jordi Awards, 1998 On her way home from class one night, philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (I Shot Andy Warhol's Lily Taylor) is assaulted by a woman in an evening dress (...

An old Massachusetts homestead has long had a reputation in the neighborhood for being haunted by a killer witch; but there was nothing truly concrete until 1966 when the Weems family moved in and wife Jane (Elise Manning) was found in the basement bitten to death and young son Avery (Leo Wildhagen) was discovered in the ground floor bathroom above the basement laundry hatch with his face pulled off. Twenty-one years later, while suspicion officially has stuck with husband and father Harold Weems (Bob Gallagher) despite no evidence while his wife (Kimberly Salditt Poulin) finds joy in scaring off the children who dare each other to creep onto the property and see the witch. Harold is ready to "spill his guts" and hires documentary videographer Apollo (The Hangman's LeJon Woods) to film his account of what really happened. He has cellulo...

Audience Award: Mike Mendez (winner) - Fantafestival, 2000 International Fantasy Film Award (Best Film): Mike Mendez (nominee) - Fantasporto, 2000 Narcisse Award (Best Feature Film): Mike Mendez () - Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, 2000 Chainsaw Award (Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film): The Convent (nominee), Best Supporting Actress: Adrienne Barbeau (winner), and Best Screenplay: Chaton Anderson (nominee) - Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, 2000 The St. Francis Boarding School for girls has been an attractive nuisance for forty years since sixteen-year-old Christine (The Dead Hate the Living!'s Oakley Stevenson) gunned down the priest and nuns and set the chapel ablaze after they supposedly forcibly aborted her child rumored to have been fathered by the priest. While the exterior of the old mission building and its classrooms have been vandalized, every few years during homecoming, students from the local college attempt...

Rural Japan, 1938: Residents of the mountain village of Kamo near Tsuyama in the Okinawa prefecture are bidding farewell another group of young men conscripted for the war effort, possibly never to return (especially should they lose). Twenty-one-year-old Tsugio (Female Teacher's Masato Furuoya) is eagerly awaiting his opportunity to serve his country. Living alone with his grandmother (The Inugami Family's Izumi Hara) and self-studying to become a schoolteacher, Tsugio lives a lonely life estranged from the rest of the village due to his family's social position and the resentment it engenders from people who nevertheless borrow money from his grandmother. When he develops a cough, his grandmother insists he sees the doctor who prescribes him three months rest for inflamed lungs. His wastrel friend Tetsuo (Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters' ...

Detective Inspector John Barnaby (Different for Girls' Neil Dudgeon) and his sergeant Jamie Winter (Suffragette's Nick Hendrix) are back for another season of Midsomer Murders with four new cases along with Barnaby's wife Sarah (Ultraviolet's Fiona Dolman), their young daughter, Paddy the dog, and spunky senior citizen coroner Fleur (Angels & Insects's Annette Badland). In "The Blacktrees Prophecy" (89:20), the murder of an extreme survivalist (Aran Bell) in his own high-tech shelter cast suspicion on his long-suffering wife (...

Award of the Youth (Foreign Film): Sean Mathias (won) - Cannes Film Festival, 1997 Max (Close My Eyes' Clive Owen) is the rebellious son of a wealthy family, living for the nightlife of 1930s Berlin. Although he has a live-in lover in dance student Rudy (Brian Webber), he seeks out others for one night stands at the nightclub of female impersonator chanteuse Greta (Performance's Mick Jagger). One night, Max is drawn to handsome Brownshirt Wolf (Nightwatch's Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) with whom he has an extended affair. Wolf's continued presence drives Rudy to jealousy, but the fractious triangle is exploded on "The Night of the Long Knives" when H...

David (Best Music): Franco Mannino (winner) - David di Donatello Awards, 1976 Aristocratic Tullio (Swept Away's Giancarlo Giannini) and Giuliana (Simona's Laura Antonelli) have long lived a marriage of convenience, with Tullio repeatedly testing their relationship as "friends" with his affairs; none have been as serious, however, as his infatuation or obsession with widowed Countess Teresa Raffo (The Summer of '42's Jennifer O'Neill). When Teresa bristles at Tullio's reluctance to be too affectionate with her in the presence of his wife, she baits him by entertaining the interest of older Count Egano (Last Tango in Paris

A clerical assistant by day, Sam (My Bloody Valentine's Cynthia Dale) dreams of opening up her own dance studio. She and her friends KC (Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed's Patricia Idlette) and Patty (Prom Night's Pam Henry) go in on an old warehouse with inexplicably good flooring and canvas the city with fliers and "Heavenly Bodies" becomes an overnight success with working class clients intimidated by bigger health clubs and even a commission training a local football team where she meets love interest Steve (Visiting Hours' Richard Rebiere) who charms her with both practical jokes and home-cooked meals, as well as getting on with her s...

"Seven Samurai" 「七人��� (1954) Exactly ten years ago this November, I was recruited here to lend my knowledge and services to the Rewind DVDCompare database. It was a fairly tumultuous time in my life, as a divorce was being finalized and I had also received word that my workplace of over a decade was planning to close its doors in about a year’s time. The site was a nice way to use my film and home media knowledge for a good cause, and it helped with some sort of stability for my life when I needed positivity the most. When then-site owner Samuel Scott (who passed away in 2020 at the young age of 36) was asking if any staff members knew people who were looking for writing disc reviews for the site, I asked if we the staff could do some ourselves. I didn't have any credentials to my name as a write, and so in order to establish myself, I had to write reviews from my personal collection of discs, deciding to concentrate on films and discs that were not commonly reviewed titles. Rediscovered gems from the Korean Film Archive, music related titles of some favorite artists, and some indie label titles that deserved a larger notice were a number of early reviews...

Photography student Tsukiko (Love Exposure's Mami Nakamura) has moved away from home, the stress of her amnesia after a car accident three years before being a source of tension between her and her mother who seems reluctant to discuss it. She lives with her boyfriend Yuuichi (Moonlight Whispers' Kôta Kusano) who is an assistant chef at a local restaurant with his fellow failed bandmates and is also sleeping with her classmate Kaori (April Story's Rumi). Tsukiko has been seeing hypnotherapist Dr. Hosono (Cure's Yoriko Dôguchi) due to her problems sleeping and recurring nightmares in which she can only remember the image of herself covered in blood. When reclusive student Yamamoto (

Housewife Ritsuko (Vengeance is Mine's Kazuko Shirakawa) is left perpetually unsatisfied by her overworked husband Ryôhei (Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards' Tatsuya Hamaguchi) in the bedroom and everywhere else since for him it is "early to bed and early to rise." Her neighbor Yoko (Erotic Liaisons' Makiko Tsunoda), whose husband is constantly traveling abroad, does not have to intuit the signs of Ritsuko's unhappiness since she has bugged the couple's apartment. Yoko scandalizes Ritsuko by gifting her a remote-controlled vibrator but she notices that the unhappy woman is more attracted to her diamond ring. Ryôhei runs into their old college friend Ichirô (Sumikata Sekido), who is fortunate enough to work for his father and ma...

Erotic magazine model Catherine (Bizarre's Florence Guérin) is the girl who cried wolf, repeatedly bursting into the police station in torn clothes claiming to have been raped only to be greeted with laughter and derision by officers following the example of Commissioner Durieu (Sins of the Flesh's Francis Lemonnier). Not even her roommate Florence (Natasha Delange), her boss Valerie (Calvaire's Brigitte Lahaie), or her photographer J.B. (The Punishment's Jean-Pierre Maurin) believe her stories, dismissing her as a "loony" or a pathological liar. Her latest shoot at a cemetery that has her straddling ...

To most people, Claude Berger (Belle de jour's Françoise Fabian) is an attractive if rather cold woman. Only her girls and her clients know her as Madame Claude, the proprietor of an elite escort agency that supplies companionship to the wealthy and powerful. Although she is aware that the French government has tapped her phones and are surveilling her moves trying to get her on tax fraud – with Inspector Lefevre (Three Men to Kill's François Perrot) well aware that she has too many connections for them to get her on pimping – she is unaware that the CIA is investigating her on suspicion of being involved in a bribery scandal involving a deal between the Japanese and Lockheed after one of her girls Anne-Marie (The Story of O's Vibeke Knudsen-Bergeron) was photographed in the company of a Japanese bigwig. A bigger bother for Claude is...

Oscar (Best Actress in a Leading Role): Isabelle Adjani (nominee) - Academy Awards, 1976 Bambi (Film - International): Isabelle Adjani (winner) - Bambi Awards, 1978 Golden India Catalina (Best Actress): Isabelle Adjani (winner) and Best Film: François Truffaut (nominee), Special Critics Award: : François Truffaut (winner) - Cartagena Film Festival, 1976 César (Best Actress): Isabelle Adjani (nominee), Best Director: François Truffaut (nominee), and Best Production Design: Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko (nominee) - César Awards, 1976 David (Best Foreign Actress): Isabelle Adjani (winner) - David di Donatello Awards, 1975 Critics Award (Best Film): François Truffaut (winner) - French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, 1977 NBR Award (Best Actress): Isabelle Adjani (winner), Best Foreign Language Film: France (winner), and Top Foreign Films: The Story of Adele H. (winner) - National Board of Review, 1975 NSFC Award (Best Actress): Isabelle Adjani (winner) - National Society ...

One weekend, family man Harry (The Uninvited's Ray Milland) drags his wife Anne (Singin' in the Rain's Jean Hagen), son Rick (Horror House's Frankie Avalon), and daughter Karen (Dementia 13's Mary Mitchel) out of bed and into a trailer in anticipation of an idyllic weekend fishing trip. While they are on the road, blinding flashes of light nearly cause them to drive off the road. When they determine that it is neither lightning nor atomic testing, and even the civil defense-dedicated radio stations are off the air, the family first think of heading back home to their family and friends. Upon encountering the reckless mass exodus from Los Angeles and hea...

Accused of murdering her mistress, young servant Sachiko (In the Realm of Passion's Hiroko Isayama) flees on foot through into the mountains where she is picked up by the Rolls Royce of Yoko (Man & Woman Sexology: Private Lessons' Rie Nakagawa), a beautiful and kindly-seeming woman of wealth who intuits that Sachiko has had a hard life and reveals that her own misery doing the bidding of a dreadful husband. Taking Sachiko back with her to her mountaintop inn, Yoko offers Sachiko not a job but half of her estate for the consolation of her company. As soon as Yoko's husband Ryûnosuke (The Demon's Hatsuo Yamaya) returns, however, the couple's real intentions are revealed. They know well who Sachiko is and are aroused by her innocence and morality. Ryûnosuke reveals that their inn is a front for divesting gu...

"Executive producer Roger Corman unleashes hideous aqua beasts and horrors from outer space in two of his most memorable thrillers. A mutant stalks the Earth when the body of a dead astronaut is used as an alien incubator in Night of the Blood Beast (1959). Equally revolting is Attack of the Giant Leeches (1958), which stars B-movie siren Yvette Vickers (Attack of the 50-Foot Woman) in a watery scare fest about massive, bloodsucking monsters. The two features were directed by Bernard Kowalski, who went on to be Emmy-nominated for his television work, and they are truly representative of Corman's world: cheap, tasteless, and extraordinarily fun!" Night of the Blood Beast: John Corcoran (Attack of the Giant Leeches' Michael Emmet) is the first man to be launched into space and orbit the Earth; however, things go wrong as he reenters the Earth's atmosphere with the rocket plummeting towards the ground with the instruments no longer responding. The rocket crashes within five miles of the Golden...

"Executive producer Roger Corman unleashes hideous aqua beasts and horrors from outer space in two of his most memorable thrillers. A mutant stalks the Earth when the body of a dead astronaut is used as an alien incubator in Night of the Blood Beast (1959). Equally revolting is Attack of the Giant Leeches (1958), which stars B-movie siren Yvette Vickers (Attack of the 50-Foot Woman) in a watery scare fest about massive, bloodsucking monsters. The two features were directed by Bernard Kowalski, who went on to be Emmy-nominated for his television work, and they are truly representative of Corman's world: cheap, tasteless, and extraordinarily fun!" Night of the Blood Beast: John Corcoran (Attack of the Giant Leeches' Michael Emmet) is the first man to be launched into space and orbit the Earth; however, things go wrong as he reenters the Earth's atmosphere with the rocket plummeting towards the ground with the instruments no longer responding. The rocket crashes within five miles of the Golden...

"In the 1980s, Clive Barker changed the face of horror fiction, throwing out the rules to expose new vistas of terror and beauty, expanding the horizons for every genre writer who followed him. With Hellraiser, his first feature film, he did the same for cinema." Saturn Award (Best Horror Film): Hellraiser (nominee), Best Music : Christopher Young (nominee), and Best Make-Up: Bob Keen (nominee)- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, 1988 Fear Section AwardClive Barker (winner) - Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival, 1988 Best Film: Clive Barker (nominee) - Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival, 1987 International Fantasy Film Award (Best Film): Clive Barker (winner) and Critics Award: Clive Barker (winner) - Fantasporto, 1988 Hellraiser: Moving back to England and into the house of his late mother, American-educated Larry Cotton (Dirty Harry' ...

In The Vampire (El vampiro), the beautiful, bereaved Marta (Welter) travels with Enrique (Salazar) to visit her sick aunt in her ancestral home. There, the mysterious neighbour Duval (Robles) offers to buy the family's decrepit hacienda. However, Duval is really Count Karol de Lavud, a vampire whose aim is to drain Marta of her blood and revive his entombed brother. In the sequel, The Vampire's Coffin (El atad del vampiro), grave robbers bring Lavud's corpse to Enrique's city hospital, where Marta now works as a nurse. Duly re-animated, Lavud sets about his bloody plan to make Marta his bride. Pre-dating Hammer Films' Dracula by a year, The Vampire's uniquely Mexican take on vampire mythology was the first film to give its antagonist elongated fangs, and its success kick-started Mexico's horror boom. Restored from the original negatives, these films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete with new and archival extra features, and a fully illustrated 80-page book....

In The Vampire (El vampiro), the beautiful, bereaved Marta (Welter) travels with Enrique (Salazar) to visit her sick aunt in her ancestral home. There, the mysterious neighbour Duval (Robles) offers to buy the family's decrepit hacienda. However, Duval is really Count Karol de Lavud, a vampire whose aim is to drain Marta of her blood and revive his entombed brother. In the sequel, The Vampire's Coffin (El atad del vampiro), grave robbers bring Lavud's corpse to Enrique's city hospital, where Marta now works as a nurse. Duly re-animated, Lavud sets about his bloody plan to make Marta his bride. Pre-dating Hammer Films' Dracula by a year, The Vampire's uniquely Mexican take on vampire mythology was the first film to give its antagonist elongated fangs, and its success kick-started Mexico's horror boom. Restored from the original negatives, these films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete with new and archival extra features, and a fully illustrated 80-page book....

In The Vampire (El vampiro), the beautiful, bereaved Marta (Welter) travels with Enrique (Salazar) to visit her sick aunt in her ancestral home. There, the mysterious neighbour Duval (Robles) offers to buy the family's decrepit hacienda. However, Duval is really Count Karol de Lavud, a vampire whose aim is to drain Marta of her blood and revive his entombed brother. In the sequel, The Vampire's Coffin (El atad del vampiro), grave robbers bring Lavud's corpse to Enrique's city hospital, where Marta now works as a nurse. Duly re-animated, Lavud sets about his bloody plan to make Marta his bride. Pre-dating Hammer Films' Dracula by a year, The Vampire's uniquely Mexican take on vampire mythology was the first film to give its antagonist elongated fangs, and its success kick-started Mexico's horror boom. Restored from the original negatives, these films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete with new and archival extra features, and a fully illustrated 80-page book....

In The Vampire (El vampiro), the beautiful, bereaved Marta (Welter) travels with Enrique (Salazar) to visit her sick aunt in her ancestral home. There, the mysterious neighbour Duval (Robles) offers to buy the family's decrepit hacienda. However, Duval is really Count Karol de Lavud, a vampire whose aim is to drain Marta of her blood and revive his entombed brother. In the sequel, The Vampire's Coffin (El atad del vampiro), grave robbers bring Lavud's corpse to Enrique's city hospital, where Marta now works as a nurse. Duly re-animated, Lavud sets about his bloody plan to make Marta his bride. Pre-dating Hammer Films' Dracula by a year, The Vampire's uniquely Mexican take on vampire mythology was the first film to give its antagonist elongated fangs, and its success kick-started Mexico's horror boom. Restored from the original negatives, these films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete with new and archival extra features, and a fully illustrated 80-page book....

Six bone-chilling tales from the vaults of Columbia Pictures, starring a host of the classic horror genre’s most celebrated names, including Ralph Bellamy (Lady on a Train), Nina Foch (Escape in the Fog), Rose Hobart (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Jack Holt (Cat People), Boris Karloff (The Criminal Code), Peter Lorre (M), and Fay Wray (Thunderbolt). In Behind the Mask, the dastardly Dr ‘X’ murders his patients and smuggles narcotics in their coffins. Black Moon sees a cursed daughter return to the island where her parents perished in a voodoo ceremony. In Air Hawks, pioneering aviators are tormented by rivals operating a horrifying death ray. Island of Doomed Men sees an undercover agent infiltrating a remote penal colony presided over by a madman. In Cry of the Werewolf, a beautiful female lycanthrope vows to murder those who discover her family’s secret. And, for those whose nerves are still intact, The Soul of a Monster tells the tale of a woman who makes a diabolical deal to save her husband’s life. This essential three-disc collection marks the UK Blu-ray premiere of all six films, and features an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, critical appreciations, and rare archival sh...

Six bone-chilling tales from the vaults of Columbia Pictures, starring a host of the classic horror genre’s most celebrated names, including Ralph Bellamy (Lady on a Train), Nina Foch (Escape in the Fog), Rose Hobart (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Jack Holt (Cat People), Boris Karloff (The Criminal Code), Peter Lorre (M), and Fay Wray (Thunderbolt). In Behind the Mask, the dastardly Dr ‘X’ murders his patients and smuggles narcotics in their coffins. Black Moon sees a cursed daughter return to the island where her parents perished in a voodoo ceremony. In Air Hawks, pioneering aviators are tormented by rivals operating a horrifying death ray. Island of Doomed Men sees an undercover agent infiltrating a remote penal colony presided over by a madman. In Cry of the Werewolf, a beautiful female lycanthrope vows to murder those who discover her family’s secret. And, for those whose nerves are still intact, The Soul of a Monster tells the tale of a woman who makes a diabolical deal to save her husband’s life. This essential three-disc collection marks the UK Blu-ray premiere of all six films, and features an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, critical appreciations, and rare archival sh...

Six bone-chilling tales from the vaults of Columbia Pictures, starring a host of the classic horror genre’s most celebrated names, including Ralph Bellamy (Lady on a Train), Nina Foch (Escape in the Fog), Rose Hobart (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Jack Holt (Cat People), Boris Karloff (The Criminal Code), Peter Lorre (M), and Fay Wray (Thunderbolt). In Behind the Mask, the dastardly Dr ‘X’ murders his patients and smuggles narcotics in their coffins. Black Moon sees a cursed daughter return to the island where her parents perished in a voodoo ceremony. In Air Hawks, pioneering aviators are tormented by rivals operating a horrifying death ray. Island of Doomed Men sees an undercover agent infiltrating a remote penal colony presided over by a madman. In Cry of the Werewolf, a beautiful female lycanthrope vows to murder those who discover her family’s secret. And, for those whose nerves are still intact, The Soul of a Monster tells the tale of a woman who makes a diabolical deal to save her husband’s life. This essential three-disc collection marks the UK Blu-ray premiere of all six films, and features an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, critical appreciations, and rare archival sh...

Six bone-chilling tales from the vaults of Columbia Pictures, starring a host of the classic horror genre’s most celebrated names, including Ralph Bellamy (Lady on a Train), Nina Foch (Escape in the Fog), Rose Hobart (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Jack Holt (Cat People), Boris Karloff (The Criminal Code), Peter Lorre (M), and Fay Wray (Thunderbolt). In Behind the Mask, the dastardly Dr ‘X’ murders his patients and smuggles narcotics in their coffins. Black Moon sees a cursed daughter return to the island where her parents perished in a voodoo ceremony. In Air Hawks, pioneering aviators are tormented by rivals operating a horrifying death ray. Island of Doomed Men sees an undercover agent infiltrating a remote penal colony presided over by a madman. In Cry of the Werewolf, a beautiful female lycanthrope vows to murder those who discover her family’s secret. And, for those whose nerves are still intact, The Soul of a Monster tells the tale of a woman who makes a diabolical deal to save her husband’s life. This essential three-disc collection marks the UK Blu-ray premiere of all six films, and features an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, critical appreciations, and rare archival sh...

Six bone-chilling tales from the vaults of Columbia Pictures, starring a host of the classic horror genre’s most celebrated names, including Ralph Bellamy (Lady on a Train), Nina Foch (Escape in the Fog), Rose Hobart (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Jack Holt (Cat People), Boris Karloff (The Criminal Code), Peter Lorre (M), and Fay Wray (Thunderbolt). In Behind the Mask, the dastardly Dr ‘X’ murders his patients and smuggles narcotics in their coffins. Black Moon sees a cursed daughter return to the island where her parents perished in a voodoo ceremony. In Air Hawks, pioneering aviators are tormented by rivals operating a horrifying death ray. Island of Doomed Men sees an undercover agent infiltrating a remote penal colony presided over by a madman. In Cry of the Werewolf, a beautiful female lycanthrope vows to murder those who discover her family’s secret. And, for those whose nerves are still intact, The Soul of a Monster tells the tale of a woman who makes a diabolical deal to save her husband’s life. This essential three-disc collection marks the UK Blu-ray premiere of all six films, and features an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, critical appreciations, and rare archival sh...

Six bone-chilling tales from the vaults of Columbia Pictures, starring a host of the classic horror genre’s most celebrated names, including Ralph Bellamy (Lady on a Train), Nina Foch (Escape in the Fog), Rose Hobart (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Jack Holt (Cat People), Boris Karloff (The Criminal Code), Peter Lorre (M), and Fay Wray (Thunderbolt). In Behind the Mask, the dastardly Dr ‘X’ murders his patients and smuggles narcotics in their coffins. Black Moon sees a cursed daughter return to the island where her parents perished in a voodoo ceremony. In Air Hawks, pioneering aviators are tormented by rivals operating a horrifying death ray. Island of Doomed Men sees an undercover agent infiltrating a remote penal colony presided over by a madman. In Cry of the Werewolf, a beautiful female lycanthrope vows to murder those who discover her family’s secret. And, for those whose nerves are still intact, The Soul of a Monster tells the tale of a woman who makes a diabolical deal to save her husband’s life. This essential three-disc collection marks the UK Blu-ray premiere of all six films, and features an array of fascinating contextualising extras, including newly recorded commentaries, critical appreciations, and rare archival sh...

Hollywood legends Marlene Dietrich (Blonde Venus) and Fred MacMurray (Pushover) collide in the screwball comedy classic The Lady Is Willing. Eccentric Broadway star Liza Madden (Dietrich) longs to become a mother but has no need for a husband. When she stumbles across an abandoned baby, she resolves to adopt it, entering into a marriage of convenience with child-hating, rabbit-obsessed divorcé Dr McBain (MacMurray). Directed by Mitchell Leisen (Remember the Night) and scripted by James Edward Grant (Bullfighter and the Lady), The Lady Is Willing also includes memorable supporting turns from Stanley Ridges (An Act of Murder), Aline MacMahon (One Way Passage), and Arline Judge (An American Tragedy). ...

Sylvia Sidney (An American Tragedy), George Raft (Spawn of the North), and Harry Carey (The Long Gray Line) head up the cast of this powerful film from the great Fritz Lang (Ministry of Fear). When ex-convict Joe (Raft) gets a job in a department store, he falls in love with his co-worker Helen (Sidney) and, even though the rules of their employment strictly forbid it, the two secretly are married. However, when he discovers that Helen has been hiding the fact that she is also an ex-con, Joe becomes enraged and decides to rob the store, putting their relationship in jeopardy. With a screenplay by Virginia Van Upp (Affair in Trinidad) and Norman Krasna (Fury), as well as music by the legendary Kurt Weill (The Threepenny Opera), You and Me is a unique mix of crime thriller and romantic comedy which confounded audience expectations at the time of its release, but which has become a critical favourite in the decades since....

Following the runaway success of Love Affair, Irene Dunne (The Awful Truth) and Charles Boyer (A Woman’s Vengeance) were reunited for When Tomorrow Comes, a heartbreaking romantic melodrama. Despite differences of class and politics, concert pianist Philip (Boyer) falls in love with waitress Helen (Dunne), and they embark on a torrid romance. However, Helen soon finds that Philip is hiding something from her... Directed by John M Stahl (Leave Her to Heaven) and based on a story by James M Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice), When Tomorrow Comes was later remade by Douglas Sirk as Interlude, and stands as a classic of the so-called ‘Women's Picture’ genre....

George Lazenby, in a career-defining departure from his role as James Bond 007 (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service), delivers a powerful, gutsy performance in Aldo Lado's chillingly disturbing giallo masterpiece, WHO SAW HER DIE? Lazenby portrays Franco Serpieri, a sculptor recently separated from his wife (Anita Strindberg). He invites their young daughter, Roberta (Nicoletta Elmi), to spend time with him in an autumnal Venice. As father and daughter joyfully make up for lost time exploring the city, their idyllic bonding is shattered when Roberta becomes the target of a dangerous child-killer lurking in the city's foggy canals. Consumed by grief and driven by a thirst for justice, a tormented Franco embarks on his own investigation, uncovering vicious depravity in the highest echelons of Venetian society controlled by a Machiavellian art-dealer Adolfo Celi (Largo in 007’s Thunderball). Bearing striking and uncanny similarities to Nicolas Roeg’s later film, Don’t Look Now, Lado’s WHO SAW HER DIE? delves into a father’s haunting guilt within a spellbinding giallo mystery. Enhanced by Ennio Morricone's eerie score and Franco Di Giacomo's (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly) evocative cinematography, now properly revealed in this defin...

Robin Askwith (Britannia Hospital) stars in THE COMPLETE CONFESSIONS, 1974–1977, the definitive collection of the celebrated British sex-comedy series. Based on the pseudonymous Timothy Lea novels by screenwriter Christopher Wood (The Spy Who Loved Me), each instalment follows the fortunes of the feckless and accident-prone – yet seemingly irresistible – Timmy (Askwith) as he gets embroiled in the money-making schemes of his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett (Anthony Booth, Corruption). The fun starts in Confessions of a Window Cleaner, as Timmy must satisfy the demands of a clientele of lonely housewives whilst attempting to woo police officer Liz (Linda Hayden, The Blood on Satan’s Claw). In Confessions of a Pop Performer, Timmy endures the ups and downs (and ins and outs) of the music business when he joins a band managed by Sid. With Confessions of a Driving Instructor, Timmy finds his female students fumbling for his gearstick. Finally, in Confessions from a Holiday Camp, entertainment officer Timmy struggles to organise a beauty contest under the watchful eye of the camp’s tyrannical new manager. Directed by Val Guest (The Full Treatment) and Norman Cohen (Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers), this classic quartet features a support...

Robin Askwith (Britannia Hospital) stars in THE COMPLETE CONFESSIONS, 1974–1977, the definitive collection of the celebrated British sex-comedy series. Based on the pseudonymous Timothy Lea novels by screenwriter Christopher Wood (The Spy Who Loved Me), each instalment follows the fortunes of the feckless and accident-prone – yet seemingly irresistible – Timmy (Askwith) as he gets embroiled in the money-making schemes of his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett (Anthony Booth, Corruption). The fun starts in Confessions of a Window Cleaner, as Timmy must satisfy the demands of a clientele of lonely housewives whilst attempting to woo police officer Liz (Linda Hayden, The Blood on Satan’s Claw). In Confessions of a Pop Performer, Timmy endures the ups and downs (and ins and outs) of the music business when he joins a band managed by Sid. With Confessions of a Driving Instructor, Timmy finds his female students fumbling for his gearstick. Finally, in Confessions from a Holiday Camp, entertainment officer Timmy struggles to organise a beauty contest under the watchful eye of the camp’s tyrannical new manager. Directed by Val Guest (The Full Treatment) and Norman Cohen (Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers), this classic quartet features a support...

Robin Askwith (Britannia Hospital) stars in THE COMPLETE CONFESSIONS, 1974–1977, the definitive collection of the celebrated British sex-comedy series. Based on the pseudonymous Timothy Lea novels by screenwriter Christopher Wood (The Spy Who Loved Me), each instalment follows the fortunes of the feckless and accident-prone – yet seemingly irresistible – Timmy (Askwith) as he gets embroiled in the money-making schemes of his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett (Anthony Booth, Corruption). The fun starts in Confessions of a Window Cleaner, as Timmy must satisfy the demands of a clientele of lonely housewives whilst attempting to woo police officer Liz (Linda Hayden, The Blood on Satan’s Claw). In Confessions of a Pop Performer, Timmy endures the ups and downs (and ins and outs) of the music business when he joins a band managed by Sid. With Confessions of a Driving Instructor, Timmy finds his female students fumbling for his gearstick. Finally, in Confessions from a Holiday Camp, entertainment officer Timmy struggles to organise a beauty contest under the watchful eye of the camp’s tyrannical new manager. Directed by Val Guest (The Full Treatment) and Norman Cohen (Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers), this classic quartet features a support...

Robin Askwith (Britannia Hospital) stars in THE COMPLETE CONFESSIONS, 1974–1977, the definitive collection of the celebrated British sex-comedy series. Based on the pseudonymous Timothy Lea novels by screenwriter Christopher Wood (The Spy Who Loved Me), each instalment follows the fortunes of the feckless and accident-prone – yet seemingly irresistible – Timmy (Askwith) as he gets embroiled in the money-making schemes of his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett (Anthony Booth, Corruption). The fun starts in Confessions of a Window Cleaner, as Timmy must satisfy the demands of a clientele of lonely housewives whilst attempting to woo police officer Liz (Linda Hayden, The Blood on Satan’s Claw). In Confessions of a Pop Performer, Timmy endures the ups and downs (and ins and outs) of the music business when he joins a band managed by Sid. With Confessions of a Driving Instructor, Timmy finds his female students fumbling for his gearstick. Finally, in Confessions from a Holiday Camp, entertainment officer Timmy struggles to organise a beauty contest under the watchful eye of the camp’s tyrannical new manager. Directed by Val Guest (The Full Treatment) and Norman Cohen (Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers), this classic quartet features a support...

Robin Askwith (Britannia Hospital) stars in THE COMPLETE CONFESSIONS, 1974–1977, the definitive collection of the celebrated British sex-comedy series. Based on the pseudonymous Timothy Lea novels by screenwriter Christopher Wood (The Spy Who Loved Me), each instalment follows the fortunes of the feckless and accident-prone – yet seemingly irresistible – Timmy (Askwith) as he gets embroiled in the money-making schemes of his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett (Anthony Booth, Corruption). The fun starts in Confessions of a Window Cleaner, as Timmy must satisfy the demands of a clientele of lonely housewives whilst attempting to woo police officer Liz (Linda Hayden, The Blood on Satan’s Claw). In Confessions of a Pop Performer, Timmy endures the ups and downs (and ins and outs) of the music business when he joins a band managed by Sid. With Confessions of a Driving Instructor, Timmy finds his female students fumbling for his gearstick. Finally, in Confessions from a Holiday Camp, entertainment officer Timmy struggles to organise a beauty contest under the watchful eye of the camp’s tyrannical new manager. Directed by Val Guest (The Full Treatment) and Norman Cohen (Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers), this classic quartet features a support...

Boy (Bill Skarsgard) is left orphaned, deaf, and voiceless when his family is brutally murdered in front of him. Driven by his inner voice, taken from his favourite childhood video game (the legendary H. Jon Benjamin), Boy escapes to the jungle where he encounters a mysterious shaman (The Raid’s Yayan Ruhian) who trains him to become an instrument of death. Seeking revenge Boy embarks on a mission against the corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty headed by the deranged matriarch Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen), unleashing carnage, delirious violence and martial arts mayhem on his road to retribution....

Boy (Bill Skarsgard) is left orphaned, deaf, and voiceless when his family is brutally murdered in front of him. Driven by his inner voice, taken from his favourite childhood video game (the legendary H. Jon Benjamin), Boy escapes to the jungle where he encounters a mysterious shaman (The Raid’s Yayan Ruhian) who trains him to become an instrument of death. Seeking revenge Boy embarks on a mission against the corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty headed by the deranged matriarch Hilda Van Der Koy (Famke Janssen), unleashing carnage, delirious violence and martial arts mayhem on his road to retribution....

Bridget Fonda (Jackie Brown, A Simple Plan) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hitcher, The Hateful Eight) star in Barbet Schroeder’s (Reversal of Fortune, Mad Men) erotic psychological thriller Single White Female. When Allie (Fonda) breaks off her engagement, she is delighted to find a supportive new roommate in Hedy (Leigh). But when Hedy's behaviour becomes increasingly obsessive, and a series of violent events begin to occur, Allie fears that Hedy is not all she claims to be. Beautifully photographed by Luciano Tovoli (The Passenger, Suspiria), and with a powerful score by Howard Shore (The Silence of the Lambs, Videodrome), Single White Female is one of the most stylish suspense thrillers of the nineties....

Horror legend George A Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead) directs Jason Flemyng (Snatch, Pennyworth), Peter Stormare (Fargo), and Leslie Hope (24) in the devastating and deranged Bruiser. Unhappy with both his homelife and his career, Henry (Flemyng) is plagued by violent fantasies. When he wakes up to find his face replaced by a featureless mask, he sets about exacting violent punishment on those who have wronged him. Featuring music by celebrated composer Donald Rubinstein (Martin, Knightriders), and including an appearance by legendary punk band the Misfits, Bruiser was hailed by critics and fans alike as a triumphant return to independent filmmaking for Romero....

Spike Lee’s double Oscar nominated biographical epic, Malcolm X, arrives in the UK for the first time in stunning 4K. The 4K Ultra HD special collector’s edition, packaged with a premium O-ring, will contain an exclusive, limited-edition poster and four art cards, and includes more than 20 minutes of deleted scenes introduced by Spike Lee, and the film’s original trailer. Academy Award winner Denzel Washington stars in a career-best performance as Malcolm X, one of the most charismatic and divisive political voices in American history. From poverty to prominence, from hustler to humanist, Malcolm X and his ideologies touched the lives of millions and continue to inspire and enlighten. The complex life of this endlessly fascinating civil rights leader is traced in magnificent detail, held together by the vision of director Spike Lee, who masterfully combines historical and contemporary perspectives to create one of the most ambitious, expansive, and acclaimed biographical dramas of all time. ★★★★★ “A masterpiece” Next Best Picture ★★★★ “One of the great screen biographies … this is an extraordinary life, and Spike Lee has told it in an extraordinary film” Roger Ebert...

From Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow, experience Point Break, the ultimate 90’s cult classic, like never before as it returns to the UK for the first time in stunning 4K. The two-disc 4K UHD special collector’s edition, packaged with a premium O-ring, contains the feature in 4K and Blu-Ray, plus an exclusive, limited-edition poster and four art cards. Also included are more than 45 minutes of bonus features. Assigned to investigate a string of bank robberies conducted by the notorious masked group known as The Ex-Presidents, FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) is transferred from the Midwest to Los Angeles, where sun and smog coexist with New Age music and 20th Century spirituality. Going undercover among the maverick fringe who surf off the Southern California coast, Johnny meets his match in Bodhi (Patrick Swayze), who shows the young agent a whole new way of looking at the world, and himself. In an escalating series of explosive encounters, Johnny will learn the truth of Bodhi's most important lesson: If you want the ultimate thrill, you must be prepared to pay the ultimate price....

From Academy Award winning director Kathryn Bigelow, experience Point Break, the ultimate 90’s cult classic, like never before as it returns to the UK for the first time in stunning 4K. The two-disc 4K UHD special collector’s edition, packaged with a premium O-ring, contains the feature in 4K and Blu-Ray, plus an exclusive, limited-edition poster and four art cards. Also included are more than 45 minutes of bonus features. Assigned to investigate a string of bank robberies conducted by the notorious masked group known as The Ex-Presidents, FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) is transferred from the Midwest to Los Angeles, where sun and smog coexist with New Age music and 20th Century spirituality. Going undercover among the maverick fringe who surf off the Southern California coast, Johnny meets his match in Bodhi (Patrick Swayze), who shows the young agent a whole new way of looking at the world, and himself. In an escalating series of explosive encounters, Johnny will learn the truth of Bodhi's most important lesson: If you want the ultimate thrill, you must be prepared to pay the ultimate price....

Starring Robert Newton (Kiss the Blood Off My Hands), Phil Brown (The Camp on Blood Island), Sally Gray (They Made Me a Fugitive) and Naunton Wayne (The Lady Vanishes), Obsession – originally released in the US as The Hidden Room – takes a dark and unsettling journey into the mind of a murderer. When psychiatrist Clive (Newton) learns that his wife, Storm (Gray), is having an affair, he resolves to take revenge by kidnapping and murdering her lover, Bill (Brown) and dissolving his corpse in acid. As Bill languishes in Clive’s cellar, Detective Finsbury (Naunton) doggedly pursues the case ... Written by Alec Coppel (Vertigo), scored by Nino Rota (8½, The Godfather), and directed by Edward Dmytryk (The Sniper) during his blacklist-induced exile in Britain, Obsession’s original release was delayed due to the ongoing court case of real-life ‘Acid Bath Murderer’ John Haigh....

Starring Robert Newton (Kiss the Blood Off My Hands), Phil Brown (The Camp on Blood Island), Sally Gray (They Made Me a Fugitive) and Naunton Wayne (The Lady Vanishes), Obsession – originally released in the US as The Hidden Room – takes a dark and unsettling journey into the mind of a murderer. When psychiatrist Clive (Newton) learns that his wife, Storm (Gray), is having an affair, he resolves to take revenge by kidnapping and murdering her lover, Bill (Brown) and dissolving his corpse in acid. As Bill languishes in Clive’s cellar, Detective Finsbury (Naunton) doggedly pursues the case ... Written by Alec Coppel (Vertigo), scored by Nino Rota (8½, The Godfather), and directed by Edward Dmytryk (The Sniper) during his blacklist-induced exile in Britain, Obsession’s original release was delayed due to the ongoing court case of real-life ‘Acid Bath Murderer’ John Haigh....

From director Richard Franklin (Roadgames) comes Patrick, a terrifying fusion of science fiction and Hitchcockian thriller, starring Susan Penhaligon (House of Mortal Sin), Robert Helpmann (The Red Shoes), and Robert Thompson (Thirst). Murderer Patrick (Thompson) is kept in a comatose state between life and death, under the watchful eye of the eccentric Dr Roget (Helpmann). When he is assigned a caring new nurse, Kathy (Penhaligon), he becomes possessive, and uses telekinetic powers to torment anyone who comes between them. Produced by Antony I. Ginnane (Snapshot), written by Everett De Roche (Harlequin) and scored by Brian May (Mad Max), Patrick’s unprecedented international success made it a landmark of the Australian New Wave....

From director Richard Franklin (Roadgames) comes Patrick, a terrifying fusion of science fiction and Hitchcockian thriller, starring Susan Penhaligon (House of Mortal Sin), Robert Helpmann (The Red Shoes), and Robert Thompson (Thirst). Murderer Patrick (Thompson) is kept in a comatose state between life and death, under the watchful eye of the eccentric Dr Roget (Helpmann). When he is assigned a caring new nurse, Kathy (Penhaligon), he becomes possessive, and uses telekinetic powers to torment anyone who comes between them. Produced by Antony I Ginnane (Snapshot), written by Everett De Roche (Harlequin) and scored by Brian May (Mad Max), Patrick’s unprecedented international success made it a landmark of the Australian New Wave....

Chantal Contouri (Thirst), Robert Bruning (Ned Kelly) and Sigrid Thornton (Prisoner: Cell Block H) star in Snapshot, a tense Australian thriller that marked the feature debut of director Simon Wincer (Harlequin, Free Willy). When naïve hairdresser Angela (Thornton) is persuaded by her model friend Madeline (Contouri) to try glamour modelling, she dreams of escaping her humdrum life and the clutches of her over-protective mother. Instead, she is thrust into a decadent world of jealousy, exploitation ... and death. Produced by Antony I. Ginnane (Patrick), co-written by Everett De Roche (Roadgames) and scored by Brian May (Mad Max), Snapshot – released internationally under the titles One More Minute and The Day After Halloween – is a classic of Ozploitation cinema....

Chantal Contouri (Thirst), Robert Bruning (Ned Kelly) and Sigrid Thornton (Prisoner: Cell Block H) star in Snapshot, a tense Australian thriller that marked the feature debut of director Simon Wincer (Harlequin, Free Willy). When naïve hairdresser Angela (Thornton) is persuaded by her model friend Madeline (Contouri) to try glamour modelling, she dreams of escaping her humdrum life and the clutches of her over-protective mother. Instead, she is thrust into a decadent world of jealousy, exploitation ... and death. Produced by Antony I. Ginnane (Patrick), co-written by Everett De Roche (Roadgames) and scored by Brian May (Mad Max), Snapshot – released internationally under the titles One More Minute and The Day After Halloween – is a classic of Ozploitation cinema....

Our sixth journey into Columbia Pictures’ film noir output walks a different path, taking a detour into the mysterious world of the Whistler, as we present all eight films in the popular series. Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix (It Happened in Hollywood). In The Whistler, a guilt-stricken man hires a contract killer to end his life… but finds he cannot pull out of the deal. The Mark of the Whistler sees a homeless man claim the money in an abandoned bank account, only to find the rightful owners on his tail. In The Power of the Whistler, an amnesiac must reconstruct his dark past using only the items in his pockets. Voice of the Whistler finds a poor nurse marry her wealthy, terminally ill patient, only for him to defy the odds and recover. In Mysterious Intruder, a private eye becomes embroiled in a murderous race to track down a missing girl and a lost fortune. The Secret of the Whistler sees a young bride suspect that her new husband may have murdered his first wife. In Dix’s final film, The Thirteenth Hour, the owner of a trucking company is framed for a ...

Our sixth journey into Columbia Pictures’ film noir output walks a different path, taking a detour into the mysterious world of the Whistler, as we present all eight films in the popular series. Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix (It Happened in Hollywood). In The Whistler, a guilt-stricken man hires a contract killer to end his life… but finds he cannot pull out of the deal. The Mark of the Whistler sees a homeless man claim the money in an abandoned bank account, only to find the rightful owners on his tail. In The Power of the Whistler, an amnesiac must reconstruct his dark past using only the items in his pockets. Voice of the Whistler finds a poor nurse marry her wealthy, terminally ill patient, only for him to defy the odds and recover. In Mysterious Intruder, a private eye becomes embroiled in a murderous race to track down a missing girl and a lost fortune. The Secret of the Whistler sees a young bride suspect that her new husband may have murdered his first wife. In Dix’s final film, The Thirteenth Hour, the owner of a trucking company is framed for a ...

Our sixth journey into Columbia Pictures’ film noir output walks a different path, taking a detour into the mysterious world of the Whistler, as we present all eight films in the popular series. Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix (It Happened in Hollywood). In The Whistler, a guilt-stricken man hires a contract killer to end his life… but finds he cannot pull out of the deal. The Mark of the Whistler sees a homeless man claim the money in an abandoned bank account, only to find the rightful owners on his tail. In The Power of the Whistler, an amnesiac must reconstruct his dark past using only the items in his pockets. Voice of the Whistler finds a poor nurse marry her wealthy, terminally ill patient, only for him to defy the odds and recover. In Mysterious Intruder, a private eye becomes embroiled in a murderous race to track down a missing girl and a lost fortune. The Secret of the Whistler sees a young bride suspect that her new husband may have murdered his first wife. In Dix’s final film, The Thirteenth Hour, the owner of a trucking company is framed for a ...