"Black Sheep" (2006) Fifteen years after a childhood trauma that left him with a fear of sheep, Henry Oldfield (played by Nathan Meister) returns to his family’s sheep farm in which he is ready to sell his share of the property to his older brother Angus (played by Peter Feeney). Angus Oldfield has gone into the field of genetics, and the farmland has been the site of a science laboratory that has been targeted by environmental activists. But after an altercation leads to a mutated lamb escaping, a chain of events start in which anything or anyone bitten by the creature become rabid creatures that prey on anything in their way… New Zealand is well known for being the land of sheep, in which the fluffy animals heavily outnumber the population of people in the country. In film, New Zealand produced some notable gory horror films, most famously with filmmaker Peter Jackson’s early works becoming influential milestones which led to his company WETA becoming a leader in practical and digital visual effects for many m...

Kon Ichikawa’s "Fires on the Plain" (Japanese title - "Nobi") remains one of the most harrowing and unflinching depictions of war ever committed to film. Adapted from Shōhei Ōoka’s novel, the film follows Private Tamura (Eiji Funakoshi), a tubercular Japanese soldier stranded in the Philippines during the closing days of World War II. What begins as a simple struggle for survival descends into a chilling meditation on humanity stripped bare, as starvation, disease, and despair turn fellow soldiers into scavengers, deserters, and, eventually, cannibals. Ichikawa’s treatment of the material resists the romanticization of sacrifice that pervaded many postwar Japanese war films, instead presenting war as an existential void where human dignity corrodes under unbearable pressure. The film’s stark black-and-white cinematography by Setsuo Kobayashi enhances its unrelenting bleakness. The camera frequently frames Tamura as a small, almost swallowed figure against vast, indifferent landscapes. This visual language underscores the futi...

Silver Ribbon (Best Cinematography): G.R. Aldo (winner) and Special Silver Ribbon: Luchino Visconti (winner) - Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 1955 Golden Lion: Luchino Visconti (nominee) - Venice Film Festival, 1954 Golden Goblet (Best Actress): Alida Valli (winner) - Golden Goblets, 1955 Top 10 Film Award (Best Film): Luchino Visconti (nominee) - Cahiers du Cinéma, 1956 1866: Venice has been occupied by the Austrians, but a war of liberation is on the horizon. General La Marmora has forged an alliance with Prussia, emboldening Italian Nationalists to public demonstrations, the biggest one at the La Fenice Opera House during a performance of "Il trovatore" raining leaflets down on the audience from the upper boxes. When handsome Austrian soldier Franz Mahler (Rope's Farley Granger) mocks the demonstration, hot-headed marchese Roberto Ussoni (Teorema' ...

"Battleship Potemkin" (Броненосец «Потёмкин») (1925) English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys have consistently been at the top of the worldwide pop and electronic charts. Songs like "West End Girls" and "It's a Sin" are staples of 80s pop, their 90s work like "Go West" and "New York City Boy" continued their evolution with electronic music, and they have continued to be relevant into the 2000s. Their most recent album "Nonetheless" was their first to be released on the Blu-ray format with Dolby Atmos audio, and they continue to perform at sold out shows four decades since their debut. In 2003, the duo received an offer that was quite different from anything that they had done so far, and it was to create a new musical score for the 1925 silent Soviet feature "Battleship Potemkin". They had experience in film and stage before, with their music from their first two albums being used for the feature "It Couldn't Happen Here" as a long form music vid...

One night, an alien ship comes into Earth's orbit and alien Kator beams down into the middle of the English countryside. The bear-faced alien brutally murders a necking couple and takes over the body of the man Anderson (Enemy Mine's Barry Stokes,) and presents himself as a wounded, disoriented stranger to the residents of a nearby sprawling estate: young Jessica (Felicity's Glory Annen,) and her older companion Josephine (Vampyres' Sally Faulkner,). Jessica is sympathetic and even intrigued by the stranger, but Josephine is repelled by him yet too dismissive to take his odd behavior beyond face value ("He's no weirder than any other man"). Growing jealous over Jessica's infatuation with Anderson, Josephine welcomes the man to stay if only to show him up to Jessica as nothing more than an animal....

When Pahoota's AM radio station KDUL discovers that they can transmit nationwide at 666 MHz, station owner Vernon Locknut (The Shadow's Aaron Lustig) ditches the "All Polka" format in favor of hiring rock DJ Dan O'Dare (Bad Lieutenant's Paul Hipp), recently fined by the FCC for the on-air broadcast of his sexual encounter with another radio talent. Stuck covering the fluff assignment is Cable World News reporter Lisa Cummings (Dead Heat's Martha Quinn) who finds her own citing and other local reports of a UFO more interesting and runs off with the sheriff (Victor Rogers) to investigate a report. The reports turn out to be true as an alien and his robot partner take over the station with DJ Dan and his engineer Corky (...

Golden Scroll (Best Horror Film): Raw Meat (nominee) - Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, 1975 When American student Alex (The Day of the Locust's David Ladd) and his British girlfriend Patricia (Crucible of Horror's Sharon Gurney) get off the tube one night at Russell Square Station, they nearly step over the body of a man (Blood from the Mummy's Tomb's James Cossins) on the stairs. Alex assumes he is a drunk but Patricia thinks he might be a diabetic. They check his wallet and discover he is James Manfred, OBE and tell a policeman up top but when they return to the scene, the man's body is gone. That seems to be the end of it until the report lands on the desk of Inspector Calhoun (...

Golden Scroll (Best Horror Film): Raw Meat (nominee) - Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, 1975 When American student Alex (The Day of the Locust's David Ladd) and his British girlfriend Patricia (Crucible of Horror's Sharon Gurney) get off the tube one night at Russell Square Station, they nearly step over the body of a man (Blood from the Mummy's Tomb's James Cossins) on the stairs. Alex assumes he is a drunk but Patricia thinks he might be a diabetic. They check his wallet and discover he is James Manfred, OBE and tell a policeman up top but when they return to the scene, the man's body is gone. That seems to be the end of it until the report lands on the desk of Inspector Calhoun (...

Saturn Award (Best International Film): The Last Horror Film (nominee) and Best Supporting Actress: Filomena Spagnuolo (nominee) - Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, 1993 Clavell de Plata (Best Cinematography): Thomas F. Denove (winner) - Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival, 1982 New York cabbie Vinny Durand (The Ninth Configuration's Joe Spinell) has dreams of Hollywood fame, and his muse is Jana Bates (Dracula A.D. 1972's Caroline Munro), the "Queen of Horror Films". Leaving his job and his mother (Stardust Memories's Filomena Spagnuolo, Spinnel's real mother billed as "Mary Spinell") behind, Vinny takes off to Cannes - where Jana is promoting her new film "Scream", produced by her ex-husband Bret...

"Friendship" written and directed by Andrew DeYoung marks his feature film debut with a deceptively simple film that evolves into one of the year’s most cutting explorations of human connection. Directed with a mixture of restraint and offbeat humor, it manages to straddle the line between quirky comedy and poignant character study. At its heart, the film is less about plot than it is about the messy negotiations of intimacy, aging, loyalty, but mostly the male loneliness epidemic. Paul Rudd and Tim Robinson carry the film. What begins as a casual yet quick bond develops into something stranger, as both men confront the gaps between who they were and who they’ve become. While the premise could have lent itself to predictable buddy-comedy territory, "Friendship" instead embraces discomfort, awkward silences, and sharp tonal shifts, making the experience feel both raw and oddly universal. Tim Robinson’s performance as Craig is a fascinating balancing act between his trademark absurdist humor and a surprising dramatic weight. Kno...

With her arch nemesis Barbara – who had a secret relationship with her forgery-trafficking husband and murdered him – finally put behind bars and his scheming ex-wife finally showing her true colors before getting out of the picture, London expatriate antiques dealer Jean White (Scott & Bailey's Sally Lindsay) and part-time general handyman/part-time rideshare driver Dominic Hayes (Starlings' Steve Edge) are still keeping their relationship a secret from the residents of French antiques haven Sainte-Victoire: among them head of police Andre Caron (Hampstead's Alex Gaumond) who calls Jean in to consult on cases involving the use as weapons or the theft of items of unknown provenance, brash village mechanic Gloria (Sue Vincent), Jean's local antiques shop business partner Ch...

"Noroi: The Curse" 「ノロイ」 (2005) For a two year period, Kobayashi Masafumi, a paranormal investigator had been researching and documenting an unusual and disturbing case. The most disturbing is that after completing his documentary, his house burned down, which killed his wife, though his remains were unfound. The master tape of the documentary was found, and would be clues to what had really happened. As it was too disturbing to air on television, the film was released theatrically, and features the contents complete documentary that he compiled before his mysterious disappearance... During an investigation about a case of mysterious cries being heard from a residential neighborhood, Kobayashi knocks on the door of a reclusive and confrontational woman named Ishii Junko. While the exchange did not seem to have any particular resonance with him, the footage and audio that was recorded found some unexplained sounds that were similar to babies crying. In addition, Kobayashi investigated a circumstance surrounding actress Matsumoto Marika, who during a visit to a shrine for a TV show with comedy duo Ungirls started to experience a possession, and the footage wa...

Successful fantasy novelist Wisely (A Better Tomorrow's Waise Lee) finds inspiration for his next novel when friend Li Tung (Bullet in the Head's Lawrence Lau) tells him about a mysterious incident involving his upstairs neighbors – an old man (Re-Cycle's Lau Siu-Ming), a girl (Saviour of the Soul's Gloria Yip), and her black cat – who moved out the morning after he confronted them about strange noises. Investigating the apartment, Li Tung discovered bloody entrails and called friend Inspector Wong (Hard Boiled's ...

"The conclusion of World War Two saw film noir become firmly established as one of the defining Hollywood film genres, with studios almost unable to keep up with audience demand for more violent and bleak stories of murder, greed and betrayal. But outside of the USA, a number of European film-makers, many of whom were still reeling from the destruction levied by years of war on their respective countries, were creating works that were every bit the equal of their contemporaneous American counterparts, while often applying uniquely European sensibilities to the recently established noir framework. This set features three such classic examples of European noir from the post-war period, with all three presented on Blu-ray with English subtitles for the very first time." Not Guilty: Looked down upon and socially-ostracized by his professional contemporaries, Doctor Michel Ancelin (Blanche's Michel Simon) spends most of his days making house calls to poorer residents in the surrounding farml...

"The conclusion of World War Two saw film noir become firmly established as one of the defining Hollywood film genres, with studios almost unable to keep up with audience demand for more violent and bleak stories of murder, greed and betrayal. But outside of the USA, a number of European film-makers, many of whom were still reeling from the destruction levied by years of war on their respective countries, were creating works that were every bit the equal of their contemporaneous American counterparts, while often applying uniquely European sensibilities to the recently established noir framework. This set features three such classic examples of European noir from the post-war period, with all three presented on Blu-ray with English subtitles for the very first time." Not Guilty: Looked down upon and socially-ostracized by his professional contemporaries, Doctor Michel Ancelin (Blanche's Michel Simon) spends most of his days making house calls to poorer residents in the surrounding farml...

"The conclusion of World War Two saw film noir become firmly established as one of the defining Hollywood film genres, with studios almost unable to keep up with audience demand for more violent and bleak stories of murder, greed and betrayal. But outside of the USA, a number of European film-makers, many of whom were still reeling from the destruction levied by years of war on their respective countries, were creating works that were every bit the equal of their contemporaneous American counterparts, while often applying uniquely European sensibilities to the recently established noir framework. This set features three such classic examples of European noir from the post-war period, with all three presented on Blu-ray with English subtitles for the very first time." Not Guilty: Looked down upon and socially-ostracized by his professional contemporaries, Doctor Michel Ancelin (Blanche's Michel Simon) spends most of his days making house calls to poorer residents in the surrounding farml...

In an unhappy relationship with young Fuyumi (Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.'s Noriko Watanabe), Ko (Fudoh: The New Generation's Riki Takeuchi) really has only one true love in his life: his Kawasaki motorcycle that he drives for a courier company run by Fuyumi's older brother Hidemasa (Beyond Outrage's Tomokazu Miura) who threatens him to "take responsibility" for his sister. Ko flees to the countryside to be alone with his love only to meet pretty and uninhibited Miyoko (Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah's Kiwako Harada) who initially seems more attracted to his bike than to him. After a whirlwind romance, Ko returns to the city and breaks up with Fuyumi, leading t...

"Aguirre, the Wrath of God" ("Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes") (1972) Taking place in the year 1560, a group of conquistadors are traveling the mountain slopes, vast jungles, and raging rivers of the Amazon jungle in order to reach their goal - the hope of discovering the mythical land of El Dorado, where they would be greeted with riches in paradise. Under the guidance of lead conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro (played by Alejandro Repullés), the group of men are tasked with building rafts to sail downstream and given a week to report their findings. Pedro de Ursúa (played by Ruy Guerra) is leading the men alongside the power hungry Lope de Aguirre (played by Klaus Kinski) as second in command. In addition, Brother Gaspar de Carvajal (played by Del Negro) joins as a Christian mercenary to bring the word of God, Don Fernando de Guzmán (played by Peter Berling) representing the crown of Spain, a dozen or so men with armor and goods...

Audience Award (Spotlight Premiere): Ti West (nominee) - SXSW Film Festival, 2011 Festival Trophy (Best Musical Score): Jeff Grace (winner) - Screamfest, 2011 Chainsaw Award (Best Score): Jeff Grace (nominee) - Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, 2013 Special Award (Scariest Film – Fans Choice Award): Ti West (winner) - Toronto After Dark Film Festival, 2011 Fright Meter Award (Best Director): Ti West (nominee) and Best Actress: Sara Paxton (nominee) - Fright Meter Awards, 2012 Rondo Statuette (Best Film): Ti West (nominee) - Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards, 2012 With the owner away in Barbados and the only guest a mother (Alison Bartlett) and her child (Moonrise Kingdom's Jake Ryan), hotel clerks Claire (The Last House on the Left remake's ...

Oscar (Best Actor in a Leading Role): Gary Cooper (winner), Best Film Editing: Elmo Williams and Harry Gerstad (winner), Best Music, Original Song: Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington (winner), Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Dimitri Tiomkin (winner), Best Picture: Stanley Kramer (nominee), Best Director: Fred Zinnemann (nominee), and Best Writing, Screenplay: Carl Foreman (nominee) - Academy Awards, 1953 Golden Globe (Best Actor - Drama): Gary Cooper (winner), Best Supporting Actress: Katy Jurado (winner), Best Original Score: ...

When the elderly owner of the Edwards Mansion looming above the township of Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, is murdered in her sleep – not content to just turn off her oxygen, the assailant slits her throat and stabs her twenty-odd times – local realtor James Collins (Christian Keiber) knows better than to contract any local junk removal businesses given the house's reputation and instead contacts Lee Duncan (100 Acres of Hell's Jeff Swanton) who initially balks at taking a job three hours away, requiring food and accommodations for his six man crew; that is, until Collins offers to cover all of that and double his rate if they can clear out the house in a week so he can get it on the market. Lee's crew is less-than-pleased to be giving up their weekends to get to the location to beat Monday morning traffic, and upon arrival Lee discover that Collins has inadvertently reserved rooms at the local motel for them a day later than needed. Collins offers to let them stay in the house and puts their food and drink at the local bar on...

John Milius’ "The Wind and the Lion" is a fascinating hybrid of Hollywood spectacle, revisionist history, and mythmaking. Released in 1975, the film dramatizes—loosely and often fantastically—the 1904 “Perdicaris Affair,” in which a Greek-American expatriate was kidnapped in Morocco. Milius reshapes the event to serve his own brand of muscular, romanticized storytelling: the victim becomes Eden Pedecaris, played with patrician resolve by Candice Bergen, and her captor is the charismatic Berber chieftain Raisuli, brought to life with commanding gravitas by Sean Connery. From the outset, Milius frames the film less as a faithful history lesson and more as a fable about power, imperialism, and cultural identity. Connery’s casting as a Berber leader—complete with a Scottish burr—has long been a point of contention. While it undercuts the film’s authenticity, his sheer screen presence compensates to a degree, giving Raisuli an aura of nobility and tragic grandeur. Bergen, meanwhile, strikes a careful balance between being a figure of aristocratic restraint and a woman di...

"The Hidden Fortress" 「隠し砦の三悪人」 (1958) Tahei (played by Chiaki Minoru) and Matashichi (played by Fujiwara Kamatari) are lowly peasants that escape from slavery in a war torn land and are searching for their way home. They happen to find hidden gold in a mountainous region, each bearing the symbol of the Akizuki clan, one of clans in the area at war. Unbeknownst to them, a few surviving royal members and servants of the clan are hiding in the mountains in a hidden fortress. But as enemy forces are encroaching, their general Makabe Rokurota (played by Mifune Toshiro) enlists the two peasants to help them move the family gold and also accompany princess Yuki (played by Uehara Misa) through enemy territory towards freedom. But not every step goes according to plan... Director Kurosawa Akira had a series of critical successes in the 1950 as well as international recognition with films such as "Rashomon" (1950), "Ikiru" (1952), and ...

John Huston’s "The Man Who Would Be King" is a sweeping tale of ambition, imperialism, and hubris, staged with the kind of old-fashioned grandeur rarely attempted by the mid-1970's. Adapted from Rudyard Kipling’s novella, the film follows two former British soldiers, Daniel Dravot (Sean Connery) and Peachy Carnehan (Michael Caine), as they attempt to carve out their own kingdom in the remote mountains of Kafiristan. What unfolds is both a rousing adventure and a cautionary parable about the corrupting lure of power. Huston had dreamed of making this film for decades, originally envisioning it in the 1950's with Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart as the leads, but Borgart's death in 1957 out an end to the production. Later, Huston attempted to restart with various leading stars but eventually getting nowhere and production stalled multiple times until Connery and Caine, long-time friends off screen, finally brought Huston’s vision to lif...

Peter Medak’s 2018 documentary "The Ghost of Peter Sellers" is less a traditional making-of than a haunting confession. Nearly fifty years after the doomed production of "Ghost in the Noonday Sun" (1974), Medak confronts the chaos that surrounded his attempt to direct Peter Sellers in a pirate comedy. The result is not only an excavation of a failed film but also a self-portrait of an artist still wrestling with guilt, anger, and bewilderment. The film’s structure alternates between archival footage, interviews with surviving crew, and Medak’s own anguished reflections. This blend works effectively in showing how an ill-fated production spirals out of control. The problem is not simply bad luck or logistical setbacks but the mercurial force of Sellers himself. Medak portrays him as a genius comedian who, at this point in his career, was deeply erratic and self-destructive. Sellers’ refusal to cooperate, his manipulative behavior, and his constant undermining of the crew derailed the project before it had a chance to breathe. The documentary, however, resists painting Sellers as a one-dimensional villain; it acknowledges his...

The geographical intersection of Thailand, Burma, and Laos protected by dense jungle and treacherous mountain ranges known as The Golden Triangle produces the bulk of the world's supply of opium from plentiful poppy crops, resulting in the area's inhabitants largely engaging in either manufacturing, transporting, or stealing with even some in the surrounding country's governments profiting by hindering the efforts of international law enforcement. Having escaped from Hong Kong police, drug trafficker Tony Wong (Jade Tiger's Lo Lieh) has fled to Thailand where he lies low until he intervenes in the harassment of hostess Pon (Hanuman and the 5 Kamen Riders' Tanyarat Lohanan) by local thugs which turns out to be a ploy to get Tony to her brother (In Gold We Trust's Somchai Samipak) who offers him a hiding place in the mountains...

Union officer Lt. Dan McDermott (Hale Williams) decides to pose as an outlaw in order to discover how ex-Confederate colonel-turned-bandit William Quantrill (Bill Ferrill) has been smuggling and selling government-owned Spencer repeating rifles. He establishes himself by fighting Bill "The Stud" Doolin (Frenchy Le Boyd) – Quantrill's chief cohort and proprietor of the colonel's desert brothel – over virginal Marsha (Josie Kirk) whose father (Voodoo Heartbeat's Chuck Alford) refused to pay Quantrill's gang protection money and was murdered along with his other daughter (Helga Hanshue) who tried to escape being raped by Doolin and his men. McDermott gathers intelligence from the brothel's madam Irene (...

"Funny Things Happen Down Under" (1965) A group of children in the rural town of Wallaby Creek learn that their hangout will be sold off. They find out the asking price is £200 (this was just before Australia switched to the Dollar) and the payment is due by Christmas, so they try to figure out ways to raise enough money to buy the place for themselves. The kids discover that their mineral water mysteriously colors their farm’s animals to unusual colors such as pink, green, and even multi-colored. They devise a plan to sell the colored wool to raise the funds, but will adults take them seriously? “The Terrific Adventures of the Terrible Ten” was an Australian television series that ran in 1960 for 52 ten minute episodes. Focused on a group of ten rural children who get into comical situations, the series was an early example of an Australian television show that was made for children with local actors. “Actors” may be a stretch as the cast members were basically family members of crew or local children without acting experience. The cast included both boys and girls and it seems like they were never aroun...

The daughter of the gardener (Sins of the Flesh's Georges Guéret) of a country estate, blossoming Doris (The Shiver of the Vampires' Sandra Julien) is a "diamond of the purist water" ripe for the plucking by teenage Erik (Jean-Luc Terrade) at the encouragement of his incestuous sister Carla (Grapes of Death's Marie-Georges Pascal) who chase her down and rape her in the greenhouse. Erik's mother (Montparnasse 19's Arlette Poirier) is eager to pin the blame on Doris despite her father's claims that she was a virgin. For the price of his and Doris' silence, Erik's father (...

Greta (Au Pair Girls' Astrid Frank) hitches her way from Sweden to Paris to study art history ("Because Paris is Paris") and has a cozy room in a boarding house lined up; that is until the landlady's husband tries to assault her. Needing to make the rent for shabbier digs, she tries to become a model and just barely escapes a lech (director Max Pécas regular Michel Vocoret, Young Casanova) and takes to panhandling on the street playing the guitar and singing, quickly discovering that "the kindness of strangers" always comes at a price. She is taken in by beautiful Claude (From Ear to Ear's Nicole Debonne) who turns out to be a lesbian and takes advantage of her in her sleep. Although disgusted, Greta accepts the advise of the similarly lowdown...

Ursula Andress - voted the No.1 Bond girl of all time, emerged from the sea in ‘Dr. No’ - Bond’s first outing - and into film history. Here she leads a heavyweight cast including a snarling Eli Wallach(The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), and action hunk Fabio Testi (The Big Racket). A second Bond girl, the alluring Barbara Bach (The Spy Who Loved Me), completes this iconic ensemble. But this is no quip-filled Hollywood caper. Under the gritty direction of Maurizio Lucidi - a master of emotional tensions – these cinema legends deliver powerful performances in a sleek psychological thriller elevated by a moody score from Academy Award Winner winner Luis Bacalov (The Postman, Django). After a deadly heist and a breathtaking car chase, criminals Wallach and Testi split up to evade police. Testi is tasked with getting the stolen jewels across the U.S.-Canada border, where he holes up in a sleepy border-town motel. There, he meets Michelle (Andress), smouldering as the trophy wife of the motel owner. A twisted game of cat and mouse ignites, charged by the genuine chemistry between Andress and Testi. In this edition’s exclusive interview, Fabio Testi confirms that their long romance began on the set of this film. As th...

Robert Hoffmann (A Black Veil for Lisa), Nieves Navarro aka Susan Scott (The Big Gundown), and George Martín (A Pistol for Ringo) star in Death Carries a Cane, a stylish giallo mystery from director Maurizio Pradeaux (Churchill’s Leopards). Tourist Kitty (Navarro) stumbles upon a murder whilst looking through coin-operated binoculars. When witnesses start being gruesomely bumped off, Kitty teams up with boyfriend Alberto (Hoffmann) to try and find the black-clad killer ... if he doesn’t find her first! With supporting performances from Rosita Torosh (The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and Simón Andreu (The Blood Spattered Bride), Death Carries a Cane is a bloody and shocking classic of Italian genre cinema....

Mimsy Farmer (Four Flies on Grey Velvet), Maurizio Bonuglia (Ludwig), and Mario Scaccia (We Still Kill the Old Way) lead the cast of The Perfume of the Lady in Black, a surreal giallo thriller directed by Italian polymath Francesco Barilli (Hotel Fear). Silvia (Farmer) is tormented by hallucinations from her troubled childhood, including her mother applying perfume in a black dress. Her mental state unravels as she struggles to separate her surreal visions from a series of violent occurrences. Photographed by Palme d’Or-winning cinematographer Mario Masini (Padre Padrone) and scored by Academy Award-winner Nicola Piovani (Life Is Beautiful), The Perfume of the Lady in Black is an eccentric and stylish classic of the Italian giallo....

An adaptation of the comic book, Red Sonja, a vengeful warrior known as a "She-Devil with a sword". Matilda Lutz is a badass barbarian on a mission in this action fantasy based on the best-selling comic series. Enslaved by an evil tyrant who wishes to destroy her people, barbarian huntress Red Sonja must unite a group of unlikely warriors to face off against Dragan the Magnificent and his deadly bride, Dark Annisia. Starring Matilda Lutz (Revenge), Robert Sheehan (The Umbrella Academy), Michael Bisping (Den of Thieves), Wallis Day (Sheroes), Luca Pasqualino (Skins), Martyn Ford (Final Score), Rhona Mitra (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) and Veronica Ferres (The Bricklayer), Red Sonja is written by Tasha Huo (The Witcher: Blood Origin) and directed by M.J. Bassett (Solomon Kane). ...

Transferred from juvenile to adult prison, young offender Mel is taken under the wing of Australia's most despised criminal, Mark Shepard, and Warren Murfett, a soon-to-be paroled inmate. When Murfett is forced into murdering Shepard to pay his debts, he finds a surprising accomplice in Mel. However the transformative paternal love triangle that blossoms between them may be their undoing. A fantastic character study that uniquely subverts prison movie tropes, and a profound exploration of the Australian incarceration system, this superbly crafted drama stars Guy Pearce (Memento, The Hurt Locker), Cosmo Jarvis (Shogun, Persuasion), and Toby Wallace (Babyteeth)....

Legendary director William Wyler (The Collector, Ben-Hur) concluded his filmmaking career with The Liberation of L.B. Jones, a searing indictment of institutional racism starring Lee J Cobb (The Dark Past), Anthony Zerbe (The Omega Man), and Roscoe Lee Browne (Cisco Pike). When Black funeral director L B Jones (Browne) finds that his pregnant wife Emma (Lola Falana) is having an affair with white policeman Worth (Zerbe), he demands a divorce. Worth and his racist colleagues exact brutal revenge upon Jones, and conspire to cover up their actions with the assistance of the local District Attorney (Cobb) With supporting performances from Barbara Hershey (Hannah and Her Sisters) and Yaphet Kotto (Blue Collar), and with a screenplay by Jesse Hill Ford (adapting his own novel) and Stirling Silliphant (Murphy’s War), The Liberation of L.B. Jones is a shocking tale of intolerance and injustice....

From the celebrated director-producer team of Basil Dearden and Michael Relph (The Gentle Gunman, The Ship That Died of Shame) comes Saraband for Dead Lovers, the first colour production from Britain’s legendary Ealing Studios. In this sumptuous historical romance, a teenage princess (Joan Greenwood, Girl Stroke Boy) is trapped in a loveless marriage to Prince George Louis of Hanover (Peter Bull, The Old Dark House), heir to the British throne. To escape the boredom, she begins a dangerous affair with Count Philip Konigsmark (Stewart Granger, Footsteps in the Fog), an affair with potentially terrible consequences for the pair... Adapted from a novel by Helen Simpson (Under Capricorn) by Alexander Mackendrick (Whisky Galore!) and John Dighton (Kind Hearts and Coronets), scored by acclaimed composer Alan Rawsthorne (The Cruel Sea), and shot in ravishing three-strip Technicolor by the great Douglas Slocombe (The Young Ones, Murphy’s War), Saraband for Dead Lovers is a glorious feast for the eyes and ears....

From director Basil Dearden and producer Michael Relph (Saraband for Dead Lovers, The Gentle Gunman) comes Out of the Clouds, a star-studded adventure of the burgeoning jet age from Ealing Studios. A series of stories unfolds over twenty-four hours in a bustling airport: pilot and gambler Gus (Anthony Steel, Another Man’s Poison) finds himself involved in a smuggling ring; duty officer Nick (Robert Beatty, The Gentle Gunman) vies for the attentions of attractive stewardess Penny (Eunice Grayson, Dr. No); and American engineer Bill (David Knight, The Young Lovers), falls for Leah (Margo Lorenz), a young woman en route to marry her fiancé. With a screenplay co-written by documentary pioneer John Eldrige (Waverley Steps), Out of the Clouds was partly filmed at the then-rapidly expanding London Airport (now known as Heathrow), and boasts a level of realism thanks to technical assistance received from leading airlines and the Ministry of Transport....

Robert Morley (Hammer Films’ The Old Dark House), Kay Walsh (David Lean’s Oliver Twist), Bill Owen (The Ship That Died of Shame), and Honor Blackman (Jason and the Argonauts) lead the cast of The Rainbow Jacket, a thrilling exposé of the horse racing world from Ealing Studios. Disgraced champion jockey Sam (Owen) takes eager young racing enthusiast Georgie (Fella Edmonds) under his wing. As Georgie’s talent becomes evident, Sam sees a chance of redemption... if he can resist temptation. From the celebrated director-producer team of Basil Dearden and Michael Relph (The Gentle Gunman, Saraband for Dead Lovers), and scripted by T E B Clarke (Passport to Pimlico, The Blue Lamp), The Rainbow Jacket is a thrilling tale of ambition and integrity....

Holidaying on the French Riviera, widower and playboy Raymond (Niven) begins to develop a relationship with staid Anne (Kerr). His manipulative daughter Cécile (Seberg), fearing her behaviour will be curtailed, conspires to come between them, with tragic results... Shot on location by Georges Périnal (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp) in an innovative mixture of colour and black-and-white photography, Bonjour Tristesse was a favourite film of nouvelle vague filmmakers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, with the latter casting Seberg in his debut feature, Breathless....

Bette Davis (Connecting Rooms), Brian Keith (5 Against the House), Kim Hunter (Lilith) and Paul Kelly (Adventure in Sahara) star in Storm Center, a shocking tale of censorship and its consequences. Idealistic librarian Alicia (Davis) is fired after refusing to remove a book from her small-town library. Despite the attempts of a local judge (Kelly) to defend her, attorney Paul (Keith) leads a campaign to vilify Alicia, with unexpected consequences for the community. Directed and co-written by Daniel Taradash (Knock on Any Door), Storm Center is a powerful rallying cry for tolerance and freedom of speech....

Al Pacino (The Godfather), Jack Warden (Shampoo), and John Forsythe (The Trouble with Harry) lead the ensemble cast of ... And Justice for All, a brutal indictment of the American legal system from director Norman Jewison (A Soldier’s Story). Firebrand defence attorney Arthur Kirkland (Pacino) finds that the demands of his job are at odds with his conscience. When he is forced to defend a judge (Forsythe) who is accused of a terrible crime, he plunges into a moral crisis. Written by Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and Valerie Curtin, and with acting support from Lee Strasberg (The Godfather Part II) and Jeffrey Tambor (The Larry Sanders Show), ... And Justice for All is a riveting and powerful exploration of hypocrisy and injustice....

Richard Burton (Absolution) and Elizabeth Taylor (Secret Ceremony) star in The Taming of the Shrew, a vibrant and bawdy adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal romantic comedy from director Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet). Nobleman Baptista (Michael Hordern, Girl Stroke Boy) seeks husbands for his two daughters. Bianca (Natasha Pyne, The Devil-Ship Pirates) has no trouble attracting suitors, but the headstrong and acerbic Kate (Taylor) drives men away ... until the nobleman Petruchio (Burton) is inspired by a sizeable dowry to take on the challenge. This lavish production’s all-star cast is rounded out by Cyril Cusack (Gideon’s Day), Michael York (Cabaret), Alan Webb (The Third Secret) and Victor Spinetti (A Hard Day’s Night) and features a lush soundtrack by the great Nino Rota (The Godfather, 8½)....

Peter Yates (Summer Holiday, Murphy’s War) directs Albert Finney (Charlie Bubbles), Tom Courtenay (Otley), and Edward Fox (Force 10 from Navarone) in The Dresser, a heart-rending yet darkly humorous tale of life in the theatre. During the Second World War, a group of actors take Shakespeare across the industrial north, led by an ageing and imperious actor known only as ‘Sir’ (Finney), against a background of air-raid sirens and exploding bombs. With his mental and physical condition deteriorating, selfless dresser Norman (Courtenay) struggles to ensure that the show – Sir’s 227th performance as King Lear – goes on. Based on the experiences of screenwriter Ronald Harwood (The Pianist), assistant to legendary Shakespearean actor Sir Donald Wolfit (90° in the Shade), The Dresser is a moving exploration of loyalty and unrequited love....

Alec Guinness (Kind Hearts and Coronets) and Dirk Bogarde (The Gentle Gunman) lead the all-star cast of H.M.S. Defiant, a rip-roaring tale of mutiny on the high seas from the great British action director Lewis Gilbert (Sink the Bismarck!, The Spy Who Loved Me). During the French Revolutionary Wars, Crawford (Guinness), Captain of the Defiant, enters into a battle of wills with his sadistic First Officer Scott-Padget (Bogarde). When Crawford is injured during a skirmish with French forces, Scott-Padget takes control, but the crew begin to rebel against his brutal command, whilst remaining loyal to Crawford and to their country. Adapted by Edmund H North (The Day the Earth Stood Still) and Nigel Kneale (The Quatermass Experiment) from Frank Tilsley’s best-selling novel Mutiny, H.M.S. Defiant – originally released in the US as Damn the Defiant! – does not water down its depiction of the harsh realities of naval life....

Robert Shaw (Young Winston) and Sarah Miles (Blowup) star in The Hireling, a devastating exploration of emotional repression, trauma, and class relations from director Alan Bridges (The Shooting Party). In the years following the First World War, the widowed Lady Franklin (Miles) establishes an unlikely friendship with her working-class driver, Ledbetter (Shaw), a traumatised former sergeant major. But, as Lady Franklin develops a relationship with a scheming former officer (Peter Egan, Ever Decreasing Circles), Ledbetter’s precarious mental state rapidly deteriorates. Adapted from the novel by L. P. Hartley (The Go-Between) by acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz (The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll), The Hireling was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival....

Massimo Dallamano's razor-sharp thriller WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOUR DAUGHTERS? masterfully fuses the stylized violence of giallo with the gritty realism of poliziotteschi in a thematic follow-up to his acclaimed ‘What Have You Done to Solange?’. Transforming genre conventions into vehicles for societal commentary, this newly restored film dares to expose the organized grooming and exploitation of young women – and the institutional corruption behind it. When a teenage girl's body is discovered hanging in an attic, it is District Attorney Vittoria Stori who leads the investigation. Toppling genre and period conventions, it is the captivatingly beautiful Giovanna Ralli who portrays the DA with striking gravitas, bringing both steely determination and sensitivity to the ground-breaking role of a woman heading a team of hardened police detectives. As her team- including the famed Mario Adorf (The Tin Drum, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) - uncovers a web of high-level depravity and secrecy, a mysterious black-clad motorcyclist armed with a butcher’s cleaver begins eliminating witnesses and detectives alike. With their lives at stake, the officers race to uncover the truth before becoming the killer’s next victims. ...

Jack Nicholson (The Passenger) and Art Garfunkel (Bad Timing) star alongside Candice Bergen (Starting Over) and Ann-Margret (R.P.M.) in Carnal Knowledge, one of American cinema’s most daring and provocative films, masterfully directed by Mike Nichols (The Graduate). During their time in college, roommates Sandy (Garfunkel) and Jonathan (Nicholson) reveal their innermost feelings about girls and sex to one another, each taking his own approach to getting what he wants. As they grow older and establish new relationships, they continue to share their fantasies and frustrations about the opposite sex, each responding differently to the mixture of desire, distain and disinterest they experience. Note-perfect dialogue from the pen of the great Jules Feiffer (Little Murders) and exquisite photography by legendary Italian cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno (Fellini Satyricon) combine with universally outstanding performances – including from supporting players Rita Moreno (The Night of the Following Day) and Carol Kane (The Last Detail) – to create an unflinching and uncompromising classic of the New Hollywood era....

Mark Burns (Death in Venice) and Beatrice Edney (Highlander) star in A Day at the Beach, a downbeat tale of alcoholism written by Roman Polanski (Chinatown), produced by regular Polanski collaborator Gene Gutowski (Cul-de-Sac, The Pianist), and shot by celebrated cinematographer Gilbert Taylor (Repulsion, Star Wars). When Bernie (Burns) takes a little girl, Winnie (Edney) – who may or may not be his niece or perhaps daughter – for a trip to a decrepit Danish seaside town on a day of heavy rain, he sets about cajoling the locals in a desperate quest for alcohol, leaving his young charge to fend for herself. The sole feature-film credit for director Simon Hesera, A Day at the Beach received scant distribution at the time of its production, but – after having been lost for decades – it was eventually revived and re-released to critical acclaim, with audiences particularly interested to discover the charismatic cameo appearances by British comedy legends Peter Sellers (The Blockhouse, Hoffman) and Graham Stark (The Wrong Box)....

Mark Burns (Death in Venice) and Beatrice Edney (Highlander) star in A Day at the Beach, a downbeat tale of alcoholism written by Roman Polanski (Chinatown), produced by regular Polanski collaborator Gene Gutowski (Cul-de-Sac, The Pianist), and shot by celebrated cinematographer Gilbert Taylor (Repulsion, Star Wars). When Bernie (Burns) takes a little girl, Winnie (Edney) – who may or may not be his niece or perhaps daughter – for a trip to a decrepit Danish seaside town on a day of heavy rain, he sets about cajoling the locals in a desperate quest for alcohol, leaving his young charge to fend for herself. The sole feature-film credit for director Simon Hesera, A Day at the Beach received scant distribution at the time of its production, but – after having been lost for decades – it was eventually revived and re-released to critical acclaim, with audiences particularly interested to discover the charismatic cameo appearances by British comedy legends Peter Sellers (The Blockhouse, Hoffman) and Graham Stark (The Wrong Box)....

See David Howard Thornton transform from the Art the Clown to the tiny terror of New York in this horror that’ll make you shiver the next time you hear a squeak in the night. A group of New Yorkers are on a late-night ferry ride that turns deadly when a mischievous mouse begins a rampage, targeting unsuspecting passengers. The unlikely crew must band together to thwart the murderous menace before their relaxing commute turns into a nightmare....

From cult maestro Umberto Lenzi — the notorious architect of Italian shock cinema behind depravity classics like ‘Cannibal Ferox’ and ‘Almost Human’ - comes the long-neglected, provocative home-invasion thriller OASIS OF FEAR, where Lenzi expertly balances explicit shocks with genuine suspense. Cool, calculated, and chic. "A steamy, boundary-pushing story!" reveals Ornella Muti, the ever-mesmerising Italian screen icon (Princess Aura in Flash Gordon) in a revelatory new interview exclusive to this release. "Lenzi captures how rapidly society was changing, the freedom and the danger that came with it." Sizzling with magnetic performances, OASIS OF FEAR stars the luminous young Muti and dashing cult favourite Ray Lovelock as free-spirited hippies funding their Italian adventure by selling provocative photos of themselves. When the police shut down their operation, they seek refuge in a secluded villa owned by Barbara (Irene Papas, ‘Zorba the Greek’), a wealthy widow whose sophisticated charm hides sinister intentions. What begins as a flirtatious ménage-à-trois spirals into a claustrophobic psychological power game — where tensions, hidden motives, and shifting loyalties lead to blackmail, threats, and ultima...

Renowned as the “Godfather of Gore” for legendary cult supernatural horror films like “The Beyond” , Lucio Fulci delivers the suspense of noir with the punch of a horror film in his unapologetically brutal crime masterpiece, CONTRABAND - creating a raw, uncompromisingly visceral vision of organised crime with horror-style set-pieces - including one of the most notorious scenes in Italian crime cinema, the "melting face" sequence. Fulci lays bare the raw - and completely unromanticised - brutality of the Camorra in one of his most hard-hitting and unrelenting films, merging crime thriller with Horror’s shocking aesthetics. “It got so real that the local underworld got involved in the actual making of the film”, explains star Fabio Testi in an exclusive interview for this release. CONTRABAND stars the ever-charismatic tough-guy Fabio Testi (‘Revolver’) who delivers a powerful, career-defining performance as Luca - a tough-as-nails cigarette smuggler whose world explodes when his brother is murdered and his wife abducted. This ignites a ferocious mob war, with a ruthless new order attempting to replace the old criminal order with deadly narcotics. What follows isn’t just revenge - it’s a one-man war agains...

Having built his reputation with a quartet of eccentric erotic vampire tales, Jean Rollin surprised audiences with The Iron Rose (Le Rose de fer), an atmospheric detour into the realms of the fantastique. When a couple – played by Françoise Pascal (Burke and Hare) and Hugues Quester (Je t’aime moi non plus) – stumble across an old cemetery, they begin to explore its gravestones and crypts. But, as night falls, they find that they are unable to leave ... Restored in 4K from the original negative, The Iron Rose also features Rollin regulars Nathalie Perrey (Lips of Blood) and Mireille Dargent (Requiem for a Vampire), and is considered by many to be one of its director’s crowning achievements. This new edition also includes a new 4K restoration of Rollin’s early short film The Yellow Loves, an evocation of the poetry of Tristan Corbière, whose work was also the inspiration for The Iron Rose....

Having built his reputation with a quartet of eccentric erotic vampire tales, Jean Rollin surprised audiences with The Iron Rose (Le Rose de fer), an atmospheric detour into the realms of the fantastique. When a couple – played by Françoise Pascal (Burke and Hare) and Hugues Quester (Je t’aime moi non plus) – stumble across an old cemetery, they begin to explore its gravestones and crypts. But, as night falls, they find that they are unable to leave... Restored in 4K from the original negative, The Iron Rose also features Rollin regulars Nathalie Perrey (Lips of Blood) and Mireille Dargent (Requiem for a Vampire), and is considered by many to be one of its director’s crowning achievements. This new edition also includes a new 4K restoration of Rollin’s early short film The Yellow Loves, an evocation of the poetry of Tristan Corbière, whose work was also the inspiration for The Iron Rose....

Joëlle Cœur (The Demoniacs) and Gilda Arancio (Tender and Perverse Emanuelle) star in Girls Without Shame (Jeunes filles impudiques), Jean Rollin’s first foray into the world of erotic cinema, made under the pseudonym ‘Michel Gentil’. Two curious young women, Monica (Cœur) and Jackie (Arancio), find an abandoned old house whilst out hiking. Retiring to bed, they soon find that the house is a hangout for a criminal gang who suspect them of stealing their loot... Restored in 4K from the original negative, Girls Without Shame (aka Schoolgirl Hitchhikers) features a score by regular Rollin composer Pierre Raph (Requiem for a Vampire) and supporting turns by Willy Braque (Lips of Blood) and Rollin himself, and sees the director successfully transfer his trademark images and themes to a new genre. This edition also includes a new restoration of Hubert Lacoudre’s rare 1972 short film Sexana, an erotic spin on Alice in Wonderland, also starring Cœur....

Joëlle Cœur (The Demoniacs) and Gilda Arancio (Tender and Perverse Emanuelle) star in Girls Without Shame (Jeunes filles impudiques), Jean Rollin’s first foray into the world of erotic cinema, made under the pseudonym ‘Michel Gentil’. Two curious young women, Monica (Cœur) and Jackie (Arancio), find an abandoned old house whilst out hiking. Retiring to bed, they soon find that the house is a hangout for a criminal gang who suspect them of stealing their loot... Restored in 4K from the original negative, Girls Without Shame (aka Schoolgirl Hitchhikers) features a score by regular Rollin composer Pierre Raph (Requiem for a Vampire) and supporting turns by Willy Braque (Lips of Blood) and Rollin himself, and sees the director successfully transfer his trademark images and themes to a new genre. This edition also includes a new restoration of Hubert Lacoudre’s rare 1972 short film Sexana, an erotic spin on Alice in Wonderland, also starring Cœur....

Dario Argentodescribes FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET as a deeply personal exploration of his inner turmoil: “I decided to let loose, go crazy, and unleash all my creativity and personal nightmares. Psychoanalysis plays a major role in the film because it’s partly autobiographical – rather Freudian, in fact.” Both Argento and lead actor Michael Brandon, in exclusive interviews for this edition, reveal how the director found his alter ego in Brandon, channelling his own paranoia to create an unsettling psychological thriller. The result is a shocking, knife-edge whodunit with a stunning twist. Introspection becomes art in Argento’s hands, making FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET essential viewing for anyone seeking a glimpse into the director’s psyche. It concludes Argento’s iconic ‘Animal’ trilogy, paving the way for ‘Suspiria’ and his later expressionistic masterpieces that earned him the title ‘Master of Horror.’ Celebrated rock musician Roberto Tobias (Michael Brandon) is thrust into a nightmare. Framed for a brutal stabbing, he soon finds himself ensnared in a web of senseless murders. The only clue to the deranged killer lies in a cryptic image captured on a victim’s retina. Roberto’s desperate searc...

Dario Argentodescribes FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET as a deeply personal exploration of his inner turmoil: “I decided to let loose, go crazy, and unleash all my creativity and personal nightmares. Psychoanalysis plays a major role in the film because it’s partly autobiographical – rather Freudian, in fact.” Both Argento and lead actor Michael Brandon, in exclusive interviews for this edition, reveal how the director found his alter ego in Brandon, channelling his own paranoia to create an unsettling psychological thriller. The result is a shocking, knife-edge whodunit with a stunning twist. Introspection becomes art in Argento’s hands, making FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET essential viewing for anyone seeking a glimpse into the director’s psyche. It concludes Argento’s iconic ‘Animal’ trilogy, paving the way for ‘Suspiria’ and his later expressionistic masterpieces that earned him the title ‘Master of Horror.’ Celebrated rock musician Roberto Tobias (Michael Brandon) is thrust into a nightmare. Framed for a brutal stabbing, he soon finds himself ensnared in a web of senseless murders. The only clue to the deranged killer lies in a cryptic image captured on a victim’s retina. Roberto’s desperate searc...

Gregory Peck (MacArthur), Omar Sharif (Lawrence of Arabia), and Anthony Quinn (R.P.M.) lead the cast of Behold a Pale Horse, a powerful drama from director Fred Zinnemann (The Day of the Jackal). Twenty years after the Spanish Civil War, Republican guerilla Manuel (Peck) lives in exile in France. Francoist Captain Viñolas (Quinn) is tasked with capturing him, and senses an opportunity when Manuel’s mother (Mildred Dunnock) falls ill, but hasn’t counted on the involvement of priest Father Francisco (Sharif), who tries to protect Manuel and guide him away from his path to violence. Adapted by J P Miller (Days of Wine and Roses) from a novel by Emeric Pressburger (The Red Shoes), Behold a Pale Horse is a riveting tale of morality, betrayal, and resistance....

From director Vincent Sherman (Affair in Trinidad) comes the classic drama Harriet Craig, starring Joan Crawford (Strait-Jacket) and Wendell Corey (Rear Window). Manipulative and possessive Harriet (Crawford) controls every aspect of the lives of her husband Walter (Corey) and cousin Clare (K T Stevens, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), and schemes to destroy their chances of happiness. However, when they become aware of her treachery, her world begins to fall apart... Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Craig’s Wife by George Kelly (The Show-Off), Harriet Craig boasts one of Joan Crawford’s most devastating performances....

Prepare to step in and out of time with three friends as they discover they have the power to travel back and forth through the fabric of time with a sneeze. However, the lives they hoped to have in the future are not as promising as they had anticipated and with that, they need to take on the responsibility of taking over the world....

Chantal Contouri (Snapshot), David Hemmings (Harlequin), and Henry Silva (The Tall T) star in Thirst, a shocking fusion of horror and science fiction from legendary Australian producer Antony I Ginnane (Patrick). A sinister organisation known as the Brotherhood kidnaps Kate (Contouri), believing her to be the descendant of Countess Báthory, the Hungarian noblewoman who reputedly had vampiric tendencies. A battle of wills ensues as the Brotherhood tries to force the horrified Kate to join their blood-drinking sacrificial cult. Only Dr Fraser (Hemmings) is willing to help her ... ...

Chantal Contouri (Snapshot), David Hemmings (Harlequin), and Henry Silva (The Tall T) star in Thirst, a shocking fusion of horror and science fiction from legendary Australian producer Antony I Ginnane (Patrick). A sinister organisation known as the Brotherhood kidnaps Kate (Contouri), believing her to be the descendant of Countess Báthory, the Hungarian noblewoman who reputedly had vampiric tendencies. A battle of wills ensues as the Brotherhood tries to force the horrified Kate to join their blood-drinking sacrificial cult. Only Dr Fraser (Hemmings) is willing to help her... ...

Robert Powell (The Survivor), David Hemmings (Fragment of Fear), Carmen Duncan (Turkey Shoot), and Broderick Crawford (The Mob) star in Harlequin, a mysterious and fantastical thriller from director Simon Wincer (Snapshot) and writer Everett De Roche (Roadgames). When eccentric faith healer Gregory Wolfe (Powell) apparently cures the terminally ill son of Senator Nick Rast (Hemmings), Rast’s wife (Duncan) places her faith in Wolfe’s powers. But when Wolfe begins meddling in sensitive government business, political fixer Doc Wheelan (Crawford) decides to make the problem go away... Inspired by Rasputin’s influence over the Russian court, Harlequin (released in the US as Dark Forces) is a classic Australian chiller from producer Antony I Ginnane (Patrick)....