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Unstable Ground Goes to Cannes with Offbeat Doc ‘Skull World’ (2012)

May 112012

MAY 11, 20120 - The upcoming counter‐culture documentary SKULL WORLD is now complete, and a new ‘Redband’ trailer has surfaced online and if featured below. The film will be represented by RAVEN BANNER ENTERTAINMENT at the upcoming Cannes Film Market (Marché Du Film). Festival programmers and distributors can obtain screeners from Raven Banner at ‘Riviera G31’.

Greg Sommer is an enigma wrapped inside a mystery, encased in a Jean-Jacket Vest. An enterprising man in his early 30s, Greg, and his alter-ego SKULL MAN, are at war. Box Wars that is.

Welcome to Greg’s world. A world of warriors, magic, and glory. A world of metal. Greg is building the Canadian-chapter of BOX WARS, an international underground movement of Continue reading »

Switchblade Wants to Brainwash You with Sultry Assassin 2

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May 112012

HOUSTON, May 11, 2012— Switchblade Pictures has announced the newest addition to the company’s growing line of live action features: SULTRY ASSASSIN 2 – NINJA BRAINWASH. The second in a new series of ero-ninja epics based on the novels by Junichi Yagami, SULTRY ASSASSIN 2 picks up where the previous installment, APHRODISIAC KILL, left off and is once again written and directed by Kenichi Fujiwara (ZOMBIE HUNTER RIKA, ZEROMAN R) and produced by the Take Shobo Company and Shintoho Pictures Co., Ltd. Akiho Yoshizawa (MAIDROID 1 & 2, INVADER 33D) reprises the titular lead role, joined once again by WKA and WPKC world kickboxing champion Yoshihiro Sato, also the two-time winner of the Japanese national K-1 tournament (2006, 2007.) Adding new faces to the Continue reading »

“Hell on Wheels” Rolls onto DVD/BRD This Coming May 15th

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Apr 232012

Credited for “helping to modernize the Western genre” when it premiered in 2011, Hell on Wheels centers on former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), whose quest for vengeance has led him to the Union Pacific Railroad’s westward construction of the first transcontinental railroad. Currently reigning as the #2 rated show on AMC (with a series premiere that was the second highest rated AMC debut of all time), it is episodic TV at its very best. And before Season Two rolls into town this fall, home viewers can catch up on all the frontier drama in this star-studded smash with HELL ON WHEELS: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON, arriving on DVD and blu-ray this May, only from Entertainment One.

“Hell on Wheels” tells the epic story of post-Civil War America, focusing on a soldier who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who have killed his wife. His journey takes him west to Hell Continue reading »

Switchblade Pictures Invites You to a Feast of Infernal Proportions

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Apr 102012

HOUSTON, April 10th, 2012 — Switchblade Pictures has tied up the rights to THE DEVIL’S FEAST, the suspense and shibari erotic thriller from the late, internationally acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Oniroku Dan (FLOWER AND SNAKE, ROPE HELL, LADY BLACK ROSE.) Widely considered to be Japan’s greatest master of dark erotica, Dan, who passed away in May of 2011, wrote over two hundred novels over his career, as well as the screenplays for many of Japan’s most successful and influential features, being especially known his popularization of the Japanese rope-bondage art of Shibari. Directed by Kenji Hanyu from an adaption by Hiroshi Yoshino, THE DEVIL’S FEAST was distributed theatrically in Japan by Shintoho and stars Chihiro Koganezaki (CRUEL RESTAURANT,) Yuya Matsuura Continue reading »

Taiwanese Actioner ‘Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale’ (2011) Heads to Theaters (April 27th)

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Mar 262012

OFFICIAL SELECTION: TAIWAN’S OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR THE 2012 ACADEMY AWARDS, VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2011

Wei Te-sheng’s epic film Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale reclaims an extraordinary episode from 20th-century history, which is little known, even in Taiwan. Between 1895 and 1945, the island was a Japanese colony inhabited not only by the majority (Han Chinese Immigrants) but also by the remnants of the aboriginal tribes who first settled the mountainous land. In 1930 Mouna Rudo, the leader of the Seediq tribe settled on and around Mount Chilai, forged a coalition with other Seediq tribal leaders and plotted a rebellion against their Japanese colonial Continue reading »

Shameless Gets Shameless with Sexploit Triple-Feature

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Mar 152012

You know those days when it seems like you just cannot get enough sleaze in your diet of dirt? Any exploitation and sleaze fan worth their weight in spent tissues knows nobody does sleaze like the UK’s Shameless Screen Entertainment and this upcoming release is no exception! Packed with three super-sexy, nasty Italian sexploitation films, the Shameless Sexploitation triple-feature release will ooze sex with the following films: LOVE GODDESS OF THE CANNIBALS, SATAN’S BABY DOLL and THE BEAST IN SPACE!

Shameless Sexploitation will be released on DVD by Shameless Screen Entertainment on 23 April 2012. Details can be found below Continue reading »

Switchblade Pictures Gets Sultry with Fujiwara Action/Exploitationer

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Mar 022012

HOUSTON, March 2nd, 2012— Switchblade Pictures has announced the latest addition to the company’s expanding line of live action features: SULTRY ASSASSIN – THE APHRODISIAC KILL. Based on the sizzling line of “eroninja” novels by Junichi Yagami, APHRODISIAC KILL is the first film in a new series from writer/director Kenichi Fujiwara (Zombie Hunter Rika, Zeroman R and Grafreeter Toki.) Produced by the Take Shobo Company and Shintoho Pictures Co., Ltd, the erotic action thriller stars Akiho Yoshizawa (Maidroid 1 & 2, Invader 33D) as the titular female ninja Rin, while exploitation stalwart Kesuke (Cruel Restaurant,) former U.S. adult film star Asami and new ero-horror star Rin Kawai round out the cast.

When drugs, graft and the illegal sex trade, come together, the outcome can be deadly; especially in ancient Edo, where the law is dictated by he who wields Continue reading »

R.I.P. – Lina Romay (1954-2012)

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Feb 232012

Release News: Arrow Plans Royal Treatment for King of New York (Blu-ray Disc)

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Jan 292012

Christopher Walken is out of prison and back on the dirty streets of New York as convicted drug lord Frank White in a pitch black 90s crime classic from the magnificently disreputable Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, Ms.45).

White returns to his old patch to find it in disarray as the parasites that moved in to capture his business don’t share in the same Robin Hood spirit. Soon he’s violently taking out the competition, stealing their stashes and turning a healthy profit on the gear, putting it towards building a new South Bronx hospital.

But you can’t make an omelette without breaking some heads. As the street killings rise and the corrupt cops close in, White’s crazed mix of criminal psychosis and heartfelt charity threatens to tear Continue reading »

Release News: Arrow Brings Bava’s Demons to Blu-ray in 2012

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Jan 292012

Live and direct, straight from HELL!

Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento bring you THE Gonzo Horror movie of the 1980s with Demons, a frenzied slice of gore heavy shock cinema that gives up on logic and instead assaults the screen with a riot of X-Rated violence, face chewing Zombies and pounding Heavy Metal.

In a mysterious cinema, an audience are watching a brutal horror flick when the horror rips out of the screen, unleashing a swarm of slathering Continue reading »

The Skin I Live In (DVD/BD – March 6, 2012)

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Jan 262012

Synopis: Dr. Robert Ledgard is a driven plastic surgeon haunted by personal tragedies. After many years of trial and error, he finally perfects a new skin – a shield which could have prevented the death of his wife in an accident years earlier. His latest “guinea pig” is a mysterious captive whose true identity masks a shocking mystery. THE SKIN I LIVE IN is a masterful tale of secrets, obsession and revenge from Oscar-winning writer/director Pedro Almodovar.