Theatrical Poster
After being shot down during Operation Rolling Thunder and spending seven long, torturous years in North Vietnam’s Hanoi Hilton, Major Charles Rane is brought home to a hero’s welcome and into the arms of a changed family and society. His wife, now committed to the town sheriff, asks for a divorce and his young son only knows of Charles but recognizes the sheriff as his true father figure. Feeling like there’s no place left for him, Charles moves into the shed behind his home and resumes the daily routine that preserved his sanity during his prison camp internment.
As if the pain of losing years out of his life and his family to another man weren’t enough, a group of lowlives take Charles and his family hostage hoping to steal a case Continue reading »
UK Theatrical Poster
The plague (Black Death) is cutting a massive swath of death through Europe; it’s a horrific disease that shows no prejudice, striking down both the wealthy and affluent as well as clergy and commoners. At the command of the King, a small group of knights are sent to a local monastery to secure themselves the aid of a monk willing to lead them through a nearby swamp and to a village rumored to be free of plague. Their mission is to locate the town’s necromancer Continue reading »
UK Theatrical Poster
The future is now and it is bleak and hopeless; population, crime, death and disease have all risen while the food (munchies) necessary to feed everybody has diminished. Though the financial systems may have collapsed, three things still rule the streets of London: the gangs, the “munchies” gangs sell and the money gangs make from the “munchies” they sell. If you aren’t cliqued up with a street gang, you’re a victim being preyed on Continue reading »
Spanish Theatrical Poster
During a casual walk-through of the prison where Juan is begin working at the next day, some loose cement in the ceiling collapses, slamming into his head and injuring him. Forced to drag Juan’s body to the nearest empty cell, the guards must abandon the young employee when a riot sparks off and a wave of violence forces them to flee for their lives.
Shortly after being pulled to safety, Juan awakens in the cell to the shouting of the bloodthirsty prison population swarming the halls and realizes he’s as good as dead if he’s discovered fully clothed, looking like a guard. Stripping himself of all personal items that may reveal his identity, his only means of surviving this ordeal may be to convince the leader Continue reading »
Theatrical Poster
Retired porn actor Milos is offered the chance of a lifetime, to participate in a new genre of Serbian porn, a film that will revolutionize the industry and shake the very world itself. Offered a hefty sum, one that would set he and his family up for life, Milos accepts the offer despite his misgivings about the script being kept secret.
Once the shoot begins, Milos quickly realizes that this is no ordinary porn production as it’s being filmed verite-style by policemen, his actions are dictated to him through an earpiece and one scene he’s forced to perform in features an underage girl! Unwilling to go any further with his involvement and becoming increasingly disturbed by the Continue reading »
R2 UK DVD
Forced to fight for sport, a nameless, one-eyed man attains his freedom with blood after he’s sold to another pagan clan. Accompanied by the young boy that was tasked with giving the warrior food, the pair set out on an excursion that lands them on a boat, surrounded by Christians heading to Jerusalem to defend The Holy Land. Where they actually end up though is far from holy, it could be hell itself.
Valhalla Rising is a beautiful film, it’s visually one of the most striking I’ve seen this year. Every single frame, every angle, every close-up, it’s like looking at a gorgeous oil painting. I found it nearly impossible to look away from the film as the frenetic first quarter slowly uncoils like a Continue reading »
U.S. DVD Release
“Macho, macho man! I want to be a macho man!”
The ‘Poliziottesco’ genre couldn’t have asked for a more fitting song. With big tough men, often sporting gloriously oversized mustaches and even bigger guns, strut around most major Italian cities making their own laws and following their own rules. It’s a genre that contains more immorality than a whorehouse in Mexico, and that’s just the Police force!
Tough guys like Franco Nero, Maurizio Merli and Fabio Testi made a killing off of these types of characters. It’s not hard to see why this genre was so big in Italy in the 70’s: what with all the Red Brigades blowing shit up and political corruption causing many a headache. The ‘every-day man Continue reading »
U.S. DVD Release
More Euro crime-slime from those lovely folks overt at NoShame, it’s a rather odd release. It’s not exactly a classic, or even a cult item, but they have felt fit to unleash it onto the market for fans of Italian B-cinema too lap up! The fact that it also features the awesome talents of Luc Merenda (Sergio Martino’s Torso) pretty much guarantees there’ll be a few interested fans out there eager to catch a film with him on leading man duty.
Inspector Dario Mauri (Merenda) is a top Milanese cop who is sent down to the dirty-south of Naples to help lower the ever growing mob activity. Too bad then, that two rival gangs are about to go to war over a stolen shipment of Continue reading »
U.S. DVD Release
Here’s a novel idea. Update Sergio Leone’s classic spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars for the politioztechi crowd, so it will feel like the Wild, Wild West… with flares. What’s not to love about that, right? And the answer is nothing what so ever. No Shame has saved this title from obscurity and there are going to be many, many fans rejoicing once they pop this beauty into their DVD player.
Arriving in Milan from an unspecified southern city, Marco Russo (Carlos Monzon) looks like he has a score to settle. Arriving with a rucksack and music box, containing the picture of two women, he sets out to complete his mission. Meeting two hermits Wis (short for wisdom) and a blind girl Continue reading »
DVD Release
While the world’s population continues to grow and our resources dwindle, a clear choice must be made, the world needs change and we need real change now. Bill Williamson, after seeing the indifference and the waste, decides to take matters into his own hands and help nature along by thinning the herd, so to speak.
After stringing together an outfit of Kevlar plates and loading up several weapons, Bill sets into motion a horrifying plan to reign down chaos and mass murder on an epic scale, one that will leave dozens of bodies in its wake and the world reeling from the random insanity of it all.
Before jumping into this review I’d like to state Continue reading »
