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List Price: $9.98Price: $8.49You Save: $1.49 (15%)Escape From L.A.
Actors: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, A.J. Langer, Georges Corraface
ASIN : 6305222886
Sales Rank : 14379
Director : John Carpenter
Brand : Paramount
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792153146
ISBN : 6305222886
UPC : 097363324973
Release Date : December 15, 1998
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Paramount
Running Time : 101
Product DescriptionKurt russell returns as outlaw hero snake plissken in this thrill-a-minute sequel to the hit futuristic adventure escape from new york. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/03/2006 Starring: Kurt Russell Stacy Keach Run time: 101 minutes Rating: R Director: John Carpenter Amazon.com essential videoKurt Russell reprises his role as Snake Plissken, of the near-future thriller Escape from New York, in this reworking of that film's basic premise. Instead of New York being a maximum-security prison, this time it's L.A., which through the agency of earthquakes has become an island of the damned. This penal colony is where the film's future rulers, something very like the Moral Majority, send those deemed guilty of "moral crimes." But something has gone wrong in this new moral order, because the President's daughter has absconded to L.A. with a detonation device, and Snake is commandeered to retrieve it. The film's dark dystopia, with its satrical elements taking aim at our dwindling freedoms, and the eclipsing of democracy by narrow interests, are more the subject this time. As a result the action suffers, and the plot devices are sometimes weak and predictable. But just below the surface there is a coiled Snake ready to strike. Steve Buscemi's performance as a weasely hawker of L.A. tour maps is a standout, and the presence of Peter Fonda and Pam Grier adds to the fun. In fact, just the sight of Fonda surfing down the flooded corridor of Sunset Boulevard is reason enough to check this movie out. --Jim Gay
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New Price: $5.71Natural Born Killers
Actors: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield, Everett Quinton
ASIN : B00003BDXG
Sales Rank : 11934
Director : Oliver Stone
Brand : Lions Gate
Studio : Lions Gate
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781573628266
ISBN : 1573628263
UPC : 031398729228
Release Date : December 25, 2000
Publisher : Lions Gate
Manufacturer : Lions Gate
Label : Lions Gate
Running Time : 118
Product DescriptionTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 07/11/2006 Starring: Woody Harrelson Robert Downey Jr. Run time: 182 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Oliver Stone Amazon.com essential videoOliver Stone would like to have the last word on America's media culture of voyeurism and violence, but whatever he's trying to say in this grisly, unconventional movie comes across terribly garbled. Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play traveling serial killers who become television celebrities when a Geraldo-like personality (Robert Downey Jr.) turns their madness into the biggest story in the country. Stone extensively rewrote an original script by Quentin Tarantino, and he employs a mosaic of different film stocks, video, and pop pastiches to create a sense of blurred lines between visual phenomena. (The background on Lewis's character's life as an abused child, for instance, is presented as a sitcom starring Rodney Dangerfield.) But the result of these experiments is a pompous, even amateurish effort at grasping the reins of a real-life national debate. One almost wants to tell Stone to sit down and raise his hand next time if he thinks he has something to say. The controversial director would like Natural Born Killers to be nothing less than a monumental achievement, but it's one of the emptier entries in his filmography. --Tom Keogh
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New Price: $9.37Penitentiary (1979)
Actors: Chuck Mitchell, Thomas M. Pollard, Carl Irwin, Thommy Pollard, Gloria Delaney
ASIN : 6305582726
Sales Rank : 44542
Director : Jamaa Fanaka
Studio : Xenon
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305582724
ISBN : 6305582726
UPC : 000799103524
Release Date : December 04, 2003
Publisher : Xenon
Manufacturer : Xenon
Label : Xenon
Running Time : 99
Amazon.comThe first of many in a series depicting the harrowing prison existence of a convict who uses his wits and fists to survive. Leon Isaac Kennedy's character is thrown deep into the bowels of the prison system, where the only consistent truth is kill or be killed. To show his strength and gain respect from the other inmates, Kennedy must distinguish himself as a boxer, taking on all comers to save his own skin and regain his pride as a human being. Surprisingly effective in its harsh detailing of violent prison life, the film addresses the dehumanization of prisoners without excusing their crimes. Thought of as an exploitation picture, Penitentiary rises above its roots to provide a blunt and passionate look at one man's struggle on the inside. --Robert Lane
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New Price: $49.99Ilsa - She Wolf of the SS
Actors: Dyanne Thorne, Gregory Knoph, Tony Mumolo, Maria Marx, Nicolle Riddell
ASIN : 6305808120
Sales Rank : 47786
Director : Don Edmonds
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code : 0
Format : Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305808121
ISBN : 6305808120
UPC : 013131110593
Release Date : December 11, 2000
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
Label : Starz / Anchor Bay
Running Time : 96
Amazon.comThis notorious Canadian sexploitation cult classic is one of the most sick and sadistic features ever released to a general audience, and the only film that producer David F. Friedman, the king of sleaze himself, was so ashamed of that he removed his name from it. Statuesque, buxom blonde Dyanne Thorne is Ilsa, the ruthless commandant of a Nazi medical camp who subjects her patients (mostly naked women) through the most painful and brutal tortures she can think of to prove the superiority of the female sex to Nazi high command. At night she goes through the male prisoners like boy toys to be discarded and castrated the next day ("Once a prisoner has slept with me, he'll never sleep with another woman!"), until she meets a man she can't conquer in bed. It proves to be her downfall. Vamping it up with a corny German growl, Thorne leers with gargoylish delight at her latest diabolical tortures: grotesque, gangrenous infections, exploding sex toys, boiling alive, and a dinner centerpiece involving a naked girl, a noose, and a melting block of ice that leaves her dangling by meal's end. Directed with an artless bluntness and a cold cynicism, it's a brutal, nasty film, utterly tasteless yet perversely fascinating. It was reportedly shot in a week on sets left over from the sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and proved so successful that it spawned two official and one unofficial sequels. Anchor Bay's restored print is letterboxed and reportedly restored. The DVD edition also features commentary by Thorne, producer Friedman, and director Don Edmunds, moderated by humorist Martin Lewis. --Sean Axmaker
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New Price: $49.99The Big Doll House
Actors: Judith M. Brown, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Brooke Mills, Pat Woodell
ASIN : 6305325820
Sales Rank : 25888
Director : Jack Hill
Studio : New Concorde
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305325826
ISBN : 6305325820
UPC : 736991410343
Release Date : December 27, 1999
Publisher : New Concorde
Manufacturer : New Concorde
Label : New Concorde
Running Time : 95
Amazon.comDirector Jack Hill, a protégé of the original schlockmeister, Roger Corman, knew his way around a low budget and a shocking subject. Women-in-prison films were nothing new in 1971, but The Big Doll House had it all--sex, violence, nudity, a sadistic guard, and a sexually frustrated warden--and served it up with an abundance of cheapjack energy and tongue-in-cheek humor. The beauty of Hill's movies lay in the way they could appeal not only to the hordes who would go see them at drive-ins but also to the true trash-cinema fans who could appreciate his offbeat sensibilities. The plot is rather hoary, with a new inmate discovering the corruption of the prison setup, complete with a drugged-out psycho, a cellmate informer, and a guard who delights in torturing the women with poisonous snakes. The girls put their heads together and begin to devise a way out of their tropical hellhole, but not before disrobing several times and having a knock-down, drag-out fight in the muddy rice paddy where they're forced to toil all day. The Big Doll House, like some of Hill's other movies, was shot in the Philippines, with the cast and crew making up plot elements and dialogue in near-guerrilla filmmaking. Though the islands were a cheap place to produce movies in the '70s, the working conditions were boot camp-like. Where The Big Doll House really succeeds is in its mix of titillation and action, a fast-paced combination that makes it one heck of a fun exploitation movie to watch. It's also worth noting that this movie gave the great Pam Grier her first real starring role; she would become a Jack Hill regular before moving on to more substantial roles. --Jerry Renshaw
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