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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)Shock Corridor - Criterion Collection
Actors: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best, Hari Rhodes
ASIN : 0780021096
Sales Rank : 15647
Director : Samuel Fuller
Studio : Criterion
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780780021099
ISBN : 0780021096
UPC : 037429125922
Release Date : December 26, 1998
Publisher : Criterion
Manufacturer : Criterion
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Criterion
Running Time : 101
DescriptionSeeking a Pulitzer Prize, a reporter has himself committed to a mental hospital to investigate a murder. As he closes in on the killer, madness closes in on him. Writer/director/producer Samuel Fuller masterfully charts the uneasy terrain between sanity and dementia. Criterion is proud to present Shock Corridor in a gorgeous, black and white widescreen transfer with its rarely-seen color sequences. Amazon.comMaverick film director Samuel Fuller was doing some of his best work in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and in the years since its release in 1963, Shock Corridor has become a B-movie classic and a prime example of Fuller's gritty tabloid style. Never hesitant to explore the darkened corners of contemporary life, Fuller depicts the chambers of an insane asylum as a microcosm of American society, telling the story of a cynical, ambitious journalist (Peter Breck) whose obsessive quest for a Pulitzer Prize leads him into the depths of madness. To investigate a murder, the reporter goes undercover in a mental hospital, having convinced a psychiatrist that he needs treatment. Once inside the asylum, he pieces together clues to the murder, but his own mind begins to deteriorate until he's trapped in a downward spiral towards insanity. Fuller heightens the melodrama with his aggressive style of filmmaking (his next film, The Naked Kiss, proved even more effective), and his imaginative use of black-and-white cinematography (by noted cameraman Stanley Cortez) fills the movie with raw, emotional power. It's the kind of film one would expect from a rebellious director on the Hollywood fringe, and that's why Shock Corridor remains an enduring low-budget examination of the "rat race" and the consequences of pursuing success at any cost. The Criterion Collection DVD presents the film in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio, and a rarely seen color dream sequence has been fully restored. --Jeff Shannon
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)Sebastiane
Actors: Barney James, Neil Kennedy, Leonardo Treviglio, Richard Warwick, Donald Dunham
ASIN : B000092T59
Sales Rank : 46102
Director : Derek Jarman, Paul Humfress
Studio : Kino Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0738329029920
UPC : 738329029920
Release Date : December 13, 2003
Publisher : Kino Video
Manufacturer : Kino Video
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Kino Video
Running Time : 90
Product DescriptionA sensuous lushly photographed homoerotic vision of the tragedy of st sebastiane is filled with scintillating images of male bodies & graphic scenes of sex. Studio: Kino International Release Date: 05/13/2003 Run time: 85 minutes
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New Price: $79.99King Of Hearts
Actors: Jacques Balutin, Alan Bates, Jackie Blanchot, Robert Blome, Pierre Brasseur
ASIN : B000059H9D
Sales Rank : 13756
Brand : BATES,ALAN
Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792849391
ISBN : 0792849396
UPC : 027616860415
Release Date : December 10, 2001
Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD)
Label : MGM (Video & DVD)
Running Time : 102
DescriptionOne of the most popular foreign films of all time, playing continuously in some theatres for over five years, King of Hearts is a "bright, lilting, whimsical, lyrical" (Cue) comedy thatcleverly satirizes the absurdity of war with a "message [that is] meaningful and entertaining" (Boxoffice). Bumbling Scottish Private Plumpick (Alan Bates) is sent to a village in the beautiful French countryside during World War I on a suicide mission to detonate explosives set bythe retreating German army. The village, soon to be blown sky-high, has been abandoned by its inhabitantsand replaced with escapees from the local insane asylum. Now, with the mentally challenged running the town, Plumpick is crowned King! But his new title brings him his first horrible decision: to carry out his deadly mission or join the ranks of the blissfully ignorant who know nothing about war. King of Hearts is subtle, visually striking and, in short, the "ultimate display of madness" (Life)! Amazon.comThis film was a touchstone of the late 1960s, when it was seen as an antiwar allegory for a world in which madness seemed to reign. Of course, that would probably be true whenever this movie was shown, wouldn't it? Directed by Philippe de Broca and set during World War I, King of Hearts stars Alan Bates as a Scottish soldier separated from his unit in France. He wanders into a small French village that has been abandoned by its residents in the face of oncoming combat. Instead, the town is populated by the residents of a nearby insane asylum, whose keepers have fled--a fact that escapes the innocent soldier, who assumes these are the regular folks. A film that celebrates the innocence and wisdom of the insane, even as it questions who the real madmen are. --Marshall Fine
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New Price: $9.98Bad Lieutenant
Actors: Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Paul Calderon, Leonard L. Thomas, Robin Burrows
ASIN : 0784011559
Sales Rank : 27911
Director : Abel Ferrara
Studio : Live / Artisan
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780784011553
ISBN : 0784011559
UPC : 012236047605
Release Date : December 10, 1998
Publisher : Live / Artisan
Manufacturer : Live / Artisan
Label : Live / Artisan
Running Time : 96
Amazon.comProving that he may be the most fearless actor of his or any other generation, Harvey Keitel gives an amazing, no-holds-barred performance in director Abel Ferrara's uncompromising 1992 film about a New York cop on the edge of self-annihilation. The film's title is meant to be taken literally: Keitel's character has no redeeming values whatsoever, save for his desperate need for redemption. Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide is correct in calling this an "over-the-top Catholic guilt movie," but it's been made with such conviction that Ferrara and Keitel transcend the sheer unpleasantness of the material to give it a kind of tragic divinity. Here's a character so vile and corrupted that he consumes or re-sells the drugs he confiscates, but when he's assigned to investigate the brutal rape of a nun who refuses to press charges, he feels that this is his opportunity to redeem his rotten soul. Deservedly rated NC-17 due to its rough content and a frontal nude scene that even Keitel's most loyal fans could do without, this film tends to divide viewers into love-it-or-hate-it categories, but few could deny its raw power and the deeply anguished humanity that Keitel brings to his role. Whatever your reaction may be, few would deny this is an unforgettable film. --Jeff Shannon
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New Price: $7.00Shadow of the Vampire
Actors: John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Udo Kier, Cary Elwes, Catherine McCormack
ASIN : B00005B6L0
Sales Rank : 34256
Director : E. Elias Merhige
Studio : Universal Studios
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780783257877
ISBN : 0783257872
UPC : 057373153475
Release Date : December 29, 2001
Publisher : Universal Studios
Manufacturer : Universal Studios
Label : Universal Studios
Running Time : 91
Amazon.comClever, engaging, and boosted by the sublime casting of Willem Dafoe as Nosferatu actor Max Schreck, Shadow of the Vampire is a film full of good ideas that are only partially developed. Its premise is ripe with possibilities, but the movie's too slight to register much impact, so you're left to relish its delightful performances and director E. Elias Merhige's affectionately tongue-in-cheek homage to a landmark of German silent cinema. John Malkovich is aptly loony as the eccentric director F.W. Murnau, whose passion in filming the 1922 classic Nosferatu leads to the extreme casting of Schreck as the vampire, a vision of evil who, in this movie's delightfully twisted imagination, actually is a vampire, sucking the blood of cast and crewmembers who've dismissed Schreck as an overzealous method actor. As these on-set maladies and "accidents" continue, Schreck wields greater control over Murnau, who descends into a kind of obsessive art-for-art's-sake madness until diva costar Greta Schroeder (Catherine McCormack, doing wonderful work) is served up as the actor's ultimate motivation. Merhige and his actors (including Cary Elwes, as intrepid cameraman Fritz Wagner) have great fun with this ghastly escapade, and the humor is kept delicately subtle to balance the movie's artistic aspirations. To that end, Dafoe is just right, his bald pate and gaunt features a perfect match for the mysterious Schreck, his grimace and talon-like fingers suggesting a human vulture on the prowl. Likewise, the re-creation of Nosferatu's expressionist style is both fanciful and brilliantly authentic. Too bad, then, that this movie suffers a mild case of vampiric anemia; if it shared the depth and richness of, say, Ed Wood, this might have been a cult classic for the ages. --Jeff Shannon
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New Price: $48.00Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Actors: Mary Demas, Michael Rooker, Anne Bartoletti, Elizabeth Kaden, Ted Kaden
ASIN : 6305191883
Sales Rank : 41062
Director : John McNaughton
Studio : Mpi Home Video
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305191889
ISBN : 6305191883
UPC : 030306738222
Release Date : December 03, 1998
Publisher : Mpi Home Video
Manufacturer : Mpi Home Video
Label : Mpi Home Video
Running Time : 130
Amazon.com essential videoMost horror films exist in a fantasy movie-world safely removed from our existence, populated by zombie-like killers and psychopathic madmen. The power of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is its chilling placement in the mundane existence of everyday life. Michael Rooker plays Henry not as a raving psychopath but as the frumpy guy next door, a drifter who takes out his frustrations on random victims and escalates his body count after teaming up with the violent ex-con Otis (Tom Towles). Though not exceedingly gory in light of the excesses of such fantasy horrors as the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street series, director John McNaughton's straightforward presentation and documentary-like style creates a chilling realism that many viewers will find hard to watch. McNaughton neither comments on nor flinches at the brutal violence, which reaches its apex in a disturbing camcorder-eye view of a particularly sadistic murder of a middle-class couple, with Henry and Otis smiling through the deed as they record it for their continued pleasure. Henry straddles the line between True Crime (though fictional, the story was inspired by the confessions of real life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas) and horror, a bleak, brutal kind of terror for a generation deadened by the escalating outrageousness of movie murders and nightly news crime scene clips. --Sean Axmaker
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)The Naked Kiss - Criterion Collection
Actors: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey, Patsy Kelly
ASIN : 0780021088
Sales Rank : 14712
Director : Samuel Fuller
Brand : Image Entertainment
Studio : Criterion
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780780021082
ISBN : 0780021088
UPC : 037429125823
Release Date : December 26, 1998
Publisher : Criterion
Manufacturer : Criterion
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Criterion
Running Time : 91
DescriptionThe setup is pure pulp: A former prostitute relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit into mainstream society. But in the strange, hallucinatory territory of writer/director/producer Sam Fuller, perverse secrets simmer beneath a seemingly wholesome facade. Criterion is proud to present The Naked Kiss in a beautiful widescreen transfer. Amazon.com ReviewUntil Sam Fuller came along, movies in the 1960s were still bound by Hollywood's self-imposed and often hypocritical rules of discretion. The crimes and misdemeanors of lurid pulp fiction remained on drugstore spin-racks and newsstands, diluted on screen until Fuller, with his cigar-chomping audacity and confrontational style, liberated movies from artificial restraint and kicked them into the meaner, darker, but more honest maturity of the post-Kennedy era. Shock Corridor announced Fuller's brazen agenda a year earlier, but The Naked Kiss is even more astonishing because its trashy, provocative plot dares to find depth and humanity beneath the hardened shells of corrupted souls. The film begins like no other before it: Kelly (Constance Towers) beats her pimp with a handbag, grabs the cash he owes her, adjusts her telltale wig and makeup, and sets out to begin life anew, free from the shame of prostitution. Two years later she's in Grantville, a typically Rockwellian slice of Americana, working wonders with disabled kids and gaining distance from her miserable past. She's even engaged to the town's most respected citizen, but dark clouds are gathering: a corrupt cop knows Kelly's hidden secrets; a nearby brothel taints the community; and a pedophile is lurking in the shadows. Through it all, Fuller calibrates The Naked Kiss with such precision that sentiment and sordidness can run parallel without colliding, shifting from outrageous vice to shameless tear-jerking with equal facility. With twisted tricks up his sleeve, Fuller can be accused of tabloid tackiness, but that would be missing the point: In Fuller's cruel and ugly world, compassion still finds a way to survive. --Jeff Shannon
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List Price: $19.95Price: $17.99You Save: $1.96 (10%)Tromeo and Juliet
Actors: Wendy Adams, Stephen Blackehart, Flip Brown, Patrick Connor (II), Steve Gibbons
ASIN : 6304723210
Sales Rank : 44609
Director : James Gunn (II)
Studio : TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786304723210
ISBN : 6304723210
UPC : 790357940035
Release Date : December 17, 1997
Publisher : TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Manufacturer : TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Label : TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.
Running Time : 105
DescriptionA surprisingly moving retelling of the Bard's famous romantic tragedy in fine Troma fashion, complete with a Manhattan setting, gratuitous violence, body-piercing, and a hard-driving alternative soundtrack. Winner of the Raindance Audience Award. Tromeo and Juliet features the work of Scooby Doo and Dawn of the Dead screenwriter James Gunn and more tromatic obsessions than one can shake a nipple-ring at! In director Lloyd Kaufman’s hands, Will Keenan and Jane Jensen provide an intoxicating screen chemistry that has garnered critical acclaim from critics everywhere. Featuring All the body-piercing, kinky sex, and car crashes that Shakespeare wanted but never had, Tromeo and Juliet is a modern classic! Features a showstopping turn as Lemmy from Motorhead as the narrator.
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List Price: $29.95Price: $26.99You Save: $2.96 (10%)Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Actors: Ron Eyolfson, Michael Gottli, Ian Handford, Angela Heck, Don Hewak
ASIN : B00004Z4TF
Sales Rank : 44477
Studio : Kino Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0738329018320
UPC : 738329018320
Release Date : December 17, 2000
Publisher : Kino Video
Manufacturer : Kino Video
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Label : Kino Video
Running Time : 68
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List Price: $24.99Price: $22.49You Save: $2.5 (10%)The Defilers/The Scum of the Earth
Actors: Lawrence J. Aberwood, Mal Arnold, Doug Brennan, Toni Calvert, Christina Castel
ASIN : B000056NW6
Sales Rank : 33872
Studio : Image Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Special Edition, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0014381974928
UPC : 014381974928
Release Date : December 20, 2001
Publisher : Image Entertainment
Manufacturer : Image Entertainment
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Label : Image Entertainment
Running Time : 142
DescriptionHere's a double dose of drive-in depravity with two kinky classics from producer David F. Friedman! "Scum of the Earth!" (1963, 68 min.) - Trying to earn money for college, wholesome cutie Kim (Vickie Miles) is sucked into the degenerate world of the dirty picture racket when she agrees to model for the "Scum of the Earth" in this film from cult director Herschell Gordon Lewis. Under the tutelage of a sleazy photographer, Kim is soon posing topless before being blackmailed into appearing in raunchier shots, which lead to a police raid, two murders, and suicide. "The Defilers" (1965, 63 min.) are two hedonistic young men who, just for kicks, abduct a sexy blonde (Mai Jansson) as their own personal sex toy. Directed by R. Lee Frost (Love Camp 7), this shattering story of the shameless is downright nasty but you can't look away.
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