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UK: Maniac (2012) from Metrodome in July

MarcMorris — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:52:58 GMT

On 1st July 2013 Metrodome will issue Franck Khalfoun's Maniac re-make on DVD and Blu-ray.

Elijah Wood stars in this remake of director William Lustig's 1980 horror classic of the same name. To say that Frank (Wood) is a troubled young man would be an understatement - as the ever-growing number of young women he has murdered since the death of his mother (America Olivo), with whom he enjoyed an unhealthily close relationship, demonstrates only too well. Frank runs a mannequin store and likes to apply the scalps of his victims to the models in his spare time. However, when beautiful young artist Anna (Nora Arnezeder) wanders into the store and talks about making use of its resources for an exhibition she is planning, she presents Frank with a troubling quandary. Anna appears to offer the possibility of a human relationship that will fill the void created by his mother's death, but she also excites his desire to kill and possess. Will Frank be able to overcome his homicidal urges?

DVD: amazon.co.uk

Blu-ray:amazon.co.uk

The Purge

deep end — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:26:49 GMT

Anyone looking forward to "The Purge?"

Ethan Hawke and Game of Thrones star Lena Headey must protect their children from the forces of the outside world, on a night when all crime in America is completely legal. Interesting concept, and seems to have a genuinely creepy vibe to it, judging by these images: http://imgur.com/a/IqYnR

Here's the Red Band trailer.

UK: A Field in England (Ben Wheatley, 2103)

MarcMorris — Tue, 21 May 2013 15:34:33 GMT

Who's looking forward to this then?

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A trailer for Kill List director Ben Wheatley's latest film, A Field in England, has arrived offering the first footage we have ever seen since the project was announced.

Billed as “a psychedelic trip into magic and madness,” A Field in England follows a group of English Civil War soldiers in the 17th century who are captured by an alchemist and led into a vast mushroom field, where they fall victim to violent and nightmarish forces.

DVD | Blu-ray

Trailer Debut for Ben Wheatley's A Field in England

The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 2013)

MarcMorris — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:34:11 GMT

It's taken a long time, but we finally have a new movie from Alejandro Jodorowsky.

Cannes 2013: La Danza de la Realidad (The Dance Of Reality) - first look review

More info over at Twitch

X-Ray + Schizoid from Shout! Factory

MarcMorris — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:35:16 GMT

On August 20, 2013 Shout! Factory will issue Boaz Davidson's X-Ray (aka Hospiotal Massacre) and David Paulsen's Schizoid (aka Murder by Mail) as a Blu-ray / DVD combi.

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The Intruders (Torgny Wickman & David Gilbert, 1974)

gavcrimson — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:48:03 GMT

At first glance you�d be forgiven for mistaking The Intruders as a sexploitation take on Easy Rider, opening as it does with softcore sex intercut with a couple thundering down backwoods roads on their motorbike. The unshaven, longhaired look of the male part of this couple making him instantly identifiable as a product of the hippie era and a man who has endured a lengthy spell living out on the road. However don�t be fooled, we�re in Sweden here, rather than the America of Easy Rider, and biker Richard (Chris Chittell) is a real wolf in hippie�s clothing who doesn�t mind making either love or war!

A series of remarkable �if implausible- incidents play out over a couple of hours that provides Richard with the basis for a crooked, blackmail scheme. Along with his travelling companion and �half-sister� Paula (Gilda Arancio) Richard encounters a drunk at the wheel motorist (Stellan Skarsgard) and helps him out after he drives his car into a ditch, then chances upon a couple, Helen (Jacqueline Laurent) and Philip (Burt Bellman) having sex at a remote farmhouse. The couple�s post-coital chat making it obvious that both are married to others and that Helen would like nothing better than her husband to be dead �if only Simon would die, why must we always be separated?�. Later in the day Richard and Paula happen to be passing as Nobel Prize winning scientist Simon Delaney (Borje Nyberg) is giving an interview to a Television crew, in the process parading his family for the TV cameras and announcing his discovery of a valuable formula for a petrol substitute. Richard eyeballs a few familiar faces in the Delaney family line-up, Simon�s son Peter being the motorist he�d encountered earlier in the day, and Simon�s wife being the adulterous Helen from the farmhouse.

Ignoring Paula�s protests, Richard re-introduces himself to Peter and Helen then swiftly blackmails them into letting him and Paula stay at the Delaney house where he is passed off by them as a �friend� of Peters� to the Delaney patriarch. Richard might claim to just want a place to crash, but in reality he has his crafty eye on stealing Simon�s formula and with disturbing efficiency is quickly worming his way into the Delaney household. Richard�s unshaven look, bandana, and well worn biker clothes soon disappear, replaced by smart business suits and a posh, well groomed hippie look a la a 1970s Richard Branson or Noel Edmonds, in order to blend into his new, polite society surroundings.

Naturally all this meets with the approval of Simon, especially when Richard starts to feign an interest in Simon�s scientific research and knowingly play up the �son you�d wished you�d had� role. Simon�s embracing of this total stranger further adds to the despair of the son he did have. The sad, sensitive Peter having never shared his father�s obsession for science, preferring instead a career as a poet, only for feelings of inadequacy, and his father�s disapproval, to increasingly turn him towards the bottle. Although the formula is Richard�s primary aim, along the way he delights in being the thorn in the side of Peter and the married into money Helen, the type of privileged people Richard loathes with a vengeance. It amuses Richard no end that his influence within the household grows to the extent that Peter has to ask him, rather than his father, for permission to borrow the family car. Helen�s sexual interest in Richard also affords him the kick of getting to fuck a rich man�s wife and right under his own roof too.

Inevitably Richard�s antics set into motion a very intricate- attention demanding- plot, overcrowded by sexual encounters and numerous characters conspiring against one another. So much of which goes on in The Intruders that you�re surprised characters don�t have to jot down who they are fucking, blackmailing or double-crossing, just to remember where they are up to. The very busy Helen is not only having an affair with Philip, but with Hans, Simon�s chauffer, who is secretly working alongside Richard. Helen is also sleeping with Ulla (Anita Ericssson), the Delaney�s maid, who she sends off to fuck Richard in the hope Ulla will be able to screw an answer out of Richard as to what hold he has over Peter. Ulla though finds herself being sweet-talked by Richard and torn over whether to help him steal the formula or her loyalty to the Delaney family. Whereas Ulla starts to warm to Richard, Paula becomes increasingly sickened by him, and changes her allegiance to Peter. In fact barely a scene goes by in The Intruders without Paula calling Richard a �bastard�, generally answered with an incensed response of �you bitch�, an insult Richard uses so often in the film that it feels like the character�s unofficial catchphrase. Will Paula, Peter or Helen be able to bring about Richard�s downfall? Or has Richard, as he triumphantly proclaims mid-way through the film �got the Delaneys by the short and curlies�.

(stills courtesy of Beutelwolf)

This 1974 British/Swedish co-production served as an early collaboration between the makers of the following year�s Erotic Inferno, namely producer Bachoo Sen, writer Jon York and lead actor Chris Chittell. Everything that made Erotic Inferno a standout film within its genre- the frequent and explicit sex scenes, the hostility between male and female characters, and a plot that pits the haves against the have not�s- was beginning to fall into place here. Essentially the two films act as companion pieces to each other, Erotic Inferno clearly having been born out of Sen wanting �more of the same� from York and Chittell after seeing their work in action here.

Sen�s productions were at one point in time held in high regard, the magazine Cinema X in particular being one of Sen�s biggest supporters. Their very first issue carried a still from Sen�s film Loving Feeling on its cover, and by the time of his next production 1969�s Love is a Splendid Illusion (another recipient of a Cinema X cover) were placing Sen alongside Russ Meyer and Radley Metzger in terms of innovative figures working in the sexploitation field. It is a comparison that wasn�t to survive the decades that followed, all these years later Meyer and Metzger are still revered as seminal figures, Sen is all but forgotten, save as a bad time character from the early career of horror film director Norman J Warren. Working for Sen proved to be Warren�s trial by fire entrance into feature filmmaking after he signed a contract that resulted in him directing and editing two films for Sen on a pittance of a salary, all the while seeing the critical and financial rewards from these films go to Sen.

Warren�s story doesn�t look to have been unique when it came to dealing with Sen either. Just to give an idea of the ill-feelings that continues to exist towards Bachoo Sen, a couple of years ago there were rumours doing the rounds that Sen�s death in 2002 was the result of murder. A story that eventually turned out to be untrue but couldn�t be quashed before he reached the ears of a former Sen employee. A mellow, nice guy hardly known for wishing violent death on former employers, but in Sen�s case couldn�t resist indulging in a bit of the old schadenfreude and quipping �that couldn�t have happened to a nicer man�.

The horror stories that exist about Bachoo Sen almost turn you against the films themselves. Since, unlike the output of British exploitation�s original badass film producer E.J. Fancey whose relentlessly shoddy productions like 1955�s The Missing Scientists reflected the misery and lack of enthusiasm induced by working under their violent, bullying producer, Sen�s productions were consistently class acts and testament to Sen�s ability to squeeze the maximum out of his talented underlings. Self-consciously sophisticated in tone and concerned with young, fashionable and rich protagonists- no doubt meant as aspirational figures to a late 1960s audience- Sen�s Loving Feeling and Love is a Splendid Illusion come across as British sex film anomalies these days. Their serious approach, European filmmaking influences and decidedly upper middle class characters, strongly going against the predominantly working class sex comedies that lay just around the corner, waiting to become the genre�s norm.

With The Intruders, Sen�s productions developed an aggressive streak to them. The idea to parachute an angry working class antagonist like Richard into the same demographic as the earlier Sen films proving to be a genius touch and lends an almighty dramatic punch to The Intruders that Loving Feeling and Love is a Splendid Illusion sorely lacked.

As vital as class themes are to Jon York�s script there is little here that flatters the polar opposites of the class divide that Richard and the Delaneys represent. York uses the Richard character as a �mirror of truth� figure who shines a light on the multiple failings that hide behind the phony-baloney happy front that this bourgeois family put on for the TV cameras at the film�s outset. At the same time York could hardly stand accused of being in awe of Richard, depicting him as a character too consumed by hatred and envy to ever be considered a working class hero. His barely contained contempt for �stuck up bastards� being undermined by the fact that his every action in the film, blackmail, fucking women he hates, the pursuit of money and power, is an attempt to become everything he professes to despise.

Two scenes in particular are tailor made to alienate the audience from Richard, and succeed in being so verbally and mentally sadistic that they are hard to get out of your head once you�ve witnessed them. In one Richard torments a waitress who is serving him drinks. He is in a foul mood and on the prowl for someone to take his frustrations out on, she is his unfortunate target. The waitress questioning whether he wants to order food is all it takes for Richard to blow his top. �Nobody tells me what I want, and what I don�t want� he rants, violently grapping her arm, a look of genuine madness in his eyes. After he lets go, the waitress darts for the kitchen. Nastier still is a later confrontation between Helen and Richard that finds her desperate to fuck him again. As Richard has no real use for her by this point, he instead gets his jollies by forcing her to beg for it, having her crawl on all fours as he unleashes a torrent of abuse and taunts; �you�ve no pride at all�, �you�re as dry as an old crone�. What follows is one of the most hostile sex scenes in film history, one that sees Richard wearing an expression that suggests he�d rather be garrotting Helen than having sex with her. Predictability Richard�s favourite word gets several airings during this scene �you little bitch�, �beg, like a good little bitch� and finally the kiss off of �get out bitch, you got what you came for�.

York�s script might build a compelling drama on the back of the absolutely worse aspects of people�s behaviour, but there is an authentic disgust at the mercenary side of human nature here too. The love that blossoms between Peter and Paula then offers a nice, hopeful counterbalance to the creeping misanthropy of York�s worldview. Their union strengthens these two damaged by the world souls, as the other characters� greed and ruthlessness only taints and destroys them. There is a notable �and audience pleasing- transfer of characteristics that takes place between Peter and Richard. As Peter gains confidence and learns to assert himself, thanks to Paula�s love and encouragement, Richard gradually becomes the miserable, alcoholic mess that Peter was at the start of the film. Everyone gets the fate they deserve in the world of The Intruders.

Inadvertently Richard only serves as a catalyst for change in the others. His blackmailing ways forcing the Delaneys to confront the problems �Peter�s alcoholism and Simon and Helen�s unsalvageable marriage- that had been eating away at them. Simon and Helen�s final acknowledgement of the end of their marriage giving Simon the best line of dialogue in the film �to be frank I don�t enjoy being married to a nymphomaniac whose foremost thought is bed�.
For a film whose narrative is dominated by Richard and an abundance of sex scenes, York�s script is unusually rich in fully developed characters that register as very real, tormented human beings rather than sex film stereotypes. Even with a venal, beyond redemption character such as Richard there are revealing moments that make sense of why he behaves the way he does. �I�m not going to work like a slave in some company like my father did� he rages at Paula �at the end of it get a gold watch, a slap on the back and a pension that�s far less than what Peter gets for pocket money.�

Estranged- or less than fondly remembered- fathers haunt nearly all the characters in The Intruders, a trait that surfaces again in Erotic Inferno. Peter�s fractured relationship with his cold and distant father is pinpointed as the source of his initial unhappiness. Likewise Paula has a disapproving father in her background, eventually revelling to Peter that she is not in fact Richard�s half-sister but a tycoon�s daughter who Richard has blackmailed into tagging along with him. Lisa (Evelyne Scott), Simon�s secretary is another product of a bad childhood �I remember how cruel my father was to my mother� she tearfully confesses to Paula �he�d come home drunk and beat her, right there in front of us�. Against stiff completion it is Lisa who earns the prize as Jon York�s most tragic creation. Her secret longing for Simon and sexually repressed personality go unnoticed by everyone except for Richard. True to form he exploits it to his own advantage; throwing the love and attention she craves from Simon her way, then using her as a pawn in his scheme to steal the formula. The newfound confidence Lisa gains from Richard draws parallels with the Peter-Paula situation, but unlike that relationship nothing good comes from this transformation in her character. Lisa only manages to get dragged down with Richard, their fates, and the final scene in the film resurrecting the Easy Rider comparisons from the opening scene.

The writer and producer team behind The Intruders and Erotic Inferno would later have the cameras turned on them by the BBC�s Man Alive programme, when Jon York and Bachoo Sen were profiled in the Man Alive episode about the sex film industry that went out on BBC2 in 1975. A programme that uncovered York to actually be one Jonathan Gershfield, a 21 year old student studying English at York University (hence the �Jon York� pseudonym) and cranking out sex film scripts for Sen in his bedsit and at the university�s study hall. The small window that the Man Alive programme grants you into York/Gershfield presents him an introverted, well-read man who cites Geoffrey Chaucer as a literary inspiration and therefore appears embarrassed to admit that a filmed version of one of his scripts has recently been released by Sen under the clumsy title �Sexier than Sex�. Personality wise he gives the impression of having more in common with the Peter character in The Intruders rather than Richard, thankfully indicating a degree of separation between the author and the misogynistic, alpha males he so vividly brought to life in The Intruders and Erotic Inferno.

While York is portrayed as an intelligent, if slightly isolated fellow in the Man Alive programme, Bachoo Sen fares less well. The priceless first sight of Sen in the programme, which sees him turning round in his swivel chair as the sound of a gong being stuck plays on the soundtrack, is an entrance worthy of a James Bond villain. Even without such hatchet job moments, Sen �admittedly addled by his second language English- still manages to make himself look a fool and a hypocrite. Disapproving of hardcore pornography (�actual scenes will never be allowed in England, well I hope it won�t be�) and sadism and violence in films (�it�s a very difficult area to try and moralise�) yet struggling to persuade a BBC2 audience that his own films are any more socially redeeming. Sen is seen to be ill at ease with having his productions described as containing sex scenes �I�d call it love scene, because it�s not, well you cannot show sex explicitly in a story� he ineptly explains �sex must stay under the skin�.

Cinema X saw red over the Man Alive programme, with Sen�s shambolic appearance spelling the end to the Cinema X-Bachoo Sen love-in. Not long after the Man Alive broadcast Cinema X took aim at Sen in their September 1975 editorial �one filmmaker said he hoped porno would never be allowed here. Having recently seen plenty in New York I can see his point. It�s a million light years better produced than the trash being perpetrated in the name of sex on British Screens.�
The Man Alive programme also contained the shameful disclosure that York was being paid a flat fee of �250 per script by Sen, mere chickenfeed considering these films sold all over the world as well as enjoying hugely profitable domestic releases. Erotic Inferno playing for years in Soho, sometimes double-billed with The Intruders under it�s aka title �Let Us Play Sex�, and The Intruders receiving a release stateside in 1977 �in a hardcore insert version- under the title �Hungry Young Women�. The revelation of York�s low-fee adds to the growing suspicion that York, like Norman J Warren before him, was another Sen lackey who wasn�t being paid anywhere near his real worth. Should anyone ever write a book about Sen, then �Cheaper than Cheap�, or �Getting Paid is a Splendid Illusion� are worthy of consideration as its title.

Not everyone involved in The Intruders was destined to be caught up a low-budget rut though, and for a modern audience the film offers up not one, but two �before they were famous� sex film performances, courtesy of Stellan Skarsgard and Chris Chittell. These days you know Skarsgard from Lars von Trier films not to mention Hollywood blockbusters like Avengers Assemble and The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. Rumour has it that he suffers from career amnesia (sometimes diagnosed as �the Sue Bond syndrome�) when it comes to his early acting roles in Swedish sex films, which includes appearing in another Torgny Wickman film from 1974, the Christina Lindberg vehicle �Anita- Swedish Nymphet�. However the really distinguishing factor to The Intruders is Chris Chittell�s mesmerising performance as Richard, and director Wickman wisely makes him the centre of attention. Chittell is in practically every scene in the film, and on the rare occasions that he isn�t still manages to make his presence felt, Richard�s evil machinations reverberating throughout the film and driving its plot. Having previously distinguished himself in mainstream fare like To Sir with Love and the TV version of The Best Pair of Legs in the Business, the mid 1970s proved a lean period for Chittell. By the actor�s own admission he�d gotten involved in several financially disastrous ventures that left him in debt to �some heavy duty people�. He�d later joke �it was either rob a bank or take what was on offer�. Bank robberies loss was the sex film genre�s gain, as Chittell throws himself into his roles in The Intruders and Erotic Inferno with frightening conviction, exhibiting a fearlessness about getting under the skin of thoroughly loathsome, sexually sadistic characters, regardless of how he�d be judged by the outside world on the basis of these roles. Territory that only a handful of actors �such as David Hess or George Payne- would have dared to tread. That Chittell may well have been acting to save his life here (if his stories about needing to pay off those �heavy duty people� are to be believed) does cause you to worry that the actor was relating a little too much to the anger and desperation that fuelled his onscreen characters. Wherever he drew his inspiration from Chittell makes for a true force of nature in The Intruders, acting everyone else off-screen, quite literally given that several scenes end with him chasing or throwing his co-stars out of shot and hurling insults after them. With the role taking him far away from home, requiring him to appear in sexually explicit scenes, and with �� worries being part of his motivation, The Intruders is to Chittell what Miss Bohrloch was to Mary Millington.

Unlike Millington, there would be life after porn and a happy ending for Chittell, and for over two decades now Chittell has entertained mainstream TV audiences with his long-running role on ITV soap opera Emmerdale. The opportunity to have women grovelling on all fours for him, or for �you bitch� to get an airing may well be few and far between within the confines of a primetime ITV soap, but look closely enough and you might just be able to spot those Erotic Inferno and The Intruders characters of his living on through Chittell�s roughish but popular Emmerdale character. A �man they love to hate� routine Chittell had first perfected all those years ago in Sweden, and in the world of 1970s sexploitation.

UK: Trans-Europ-Express from the BFI in Dec 2013

MarcMorris — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:55:03 GMT

On the 2nd December 2013 the BFI will begin to issue a series of films from Alain Robbe-Grillet. These will be dual Blu-ray+DVD editions.

TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS (DVD + Blu-ray)

A film by Alain Robbe Grillet

This stylish, cult 1966 erotic thriller stars French new wave icons Jean-Louis Trintigant (Amour, The Conformist) and Marie-France Pisier (Stolen Kisses, Bed and Breakfast).

Trintignant plays a drug courier smuggling a stash of cocaine from Paris to Antwerp on the Trans-Europ-Express. Matters are complicated by surreal encounters with police, three filmmakers who are also on the train making a film about drug-traffickers and erotic-fantasy sequences featuring Pisier being bound and subjected to Trintignant's will.

Originally banned by the BBC for scenes of sexual sadism and bondage, Trans-Europ-Express was written and directed by ground-breaking and daring filmmaker Alain Robbe Grillet, best known for his experimental novels, and for writing Alain Resnais ,Last Year in Marienbad.

This is one of the first releases by the BFI in a series making many of Robbe-Grillet's films available in the UK for the first time and on Blu-ray for the first time worldwide.

Special Features

Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition
Extensive booklet with essay by Ben Hervey and full film credits
Other extras to be confirmed

DVD+Blu-ray: amazon.co.uk

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UK: Successive Slidings of Pleasure from the BFI in Dec 2013

MarcMorris — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:52:22 GMT

On the 2nd December 2013 the BFI will begin to issue a series of films from Alain Robbe-Grillet. These will be dual Blu-ray+DVD editions.

SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASURE (DVD + Blu-ray)

A film by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Cult erotic drama from one of the most ground-breaking and daring of the post-war French filmmakers, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Isabelle Huppert.

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, bound to the posts of her bed, a pair of scissors impaled in her heart. Does the woman have the powers to make all around her fall prey to her spell, forcing them to slide progressively into desire, lust and, ultimately, the unknown.

Written and directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, best known for his experimental post-war novels, and writer of Alain Resnais Last Year in Marienbad.

This is one of the first in a collection of BFI releases which finally make the films of Robbe-Grillet's films available for the first time. Each title is released on DVD and Blu-ray in a Dual Format Edition.

Special Features

Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition
Extensive booklet with essay by Ben Hervey and full film credits
Other extras TBC

DVD+Blu-ray: amazon.co.uk

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Monty Python dvds?

TheRoadWarrior — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:12:07 GMT

Monty Python boxsets?

I was looking at what's available on Amazon and there's a few mixed views over the quality of what's on offer. Feedback is a bit uneven, does anybody own or recommend any particular boxset...

nb, was also looking at Ripping Yarns, and found the Tomkinson's Schooldays sketches, which were very funny, online by chance. Haven't seen these since the 90s, the ritual of fighting the school's grisly bear set me off laughing, before any of the other scenes even kicked in.

666 Park Avenue

Cannonball — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:23:40 GMT

Anybody been watching this 13 parter on ITV2 ?

A lot of it is stolen from films especially The Omen.

Although on November 16, 2012, 666 Park Avenue was canceled by ABC. The network will air the thirteen episodes produced, but ultimately decided to pass on the two extra scripts that were ordered. On November 21, 2012, it was announced that producers had been given enough notice of the show's cancellation that they were reworking the final episode to function as a series finale and give the fans closure.

Personally the jump from ep 12 to 13 was way too rushed in explaining things.:(

The Wicker Man Uncut, A search begins...

Satans Puppet — Wed, 15 May 2013 09:43:30 GMT

It has begun!!! Much like Sergeant Howie searched for a young girl, Studiocanal are looking for the missing pieces of The Wicker Man puzzle. 2013 will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the film and Studiocanal won't to remaster and release the definitive edition.

They've given a call to action with a new facebook page http://www.facebook.com/WickerManAppeal?fref=ts and what I think is great is there's already comments and posts from people who worked on the original US posters and art work alongside other people who worked on the production of the film but there have been no solid leads as of yet.

Nifty.... nifty... nifty...

Looking for Rare Movies - Can Anyone Help?

luciofulci — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:09:33 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I'm not sure if this is allowed - couldn't see anything about it in the rules section but apologies if it's not allowed! This is a list of titles I am looking for, I collect workprints / TV Versions and would be very interest in speaking to anyone who can help with any of these titles. If you can - please send me a PM! :)

Thanks

Confirmed As Existing

Angel Heart TV Version
Angus TV Version (TNT or TBS)
Bodyguard TV Version
Born In East LA TV Version
Car, The ABC TV Version
Client John Grisham TV Series
Communion 1989 TV Version
Darkman 2 Sci Fi channel Version
Death Valley 1982 TV Version
Erin Brockovich TV Version
Evil Dead 2 Full Mexican TV Version (not youtube rip)
Fandango TV Version (NBC)
GI Jane TV Version
Little Shop Of Horrors Workprint
Looker TV Version (not TV and DVD mix)
Man's Best Friend TV Version
Nadja WP
National Lampoon's Senior Trip TV Version
Nightbreed WP
Nightmare Sisters 1988 TV Version
Police Academy 3 TV Version (TBS)
Red Eye TV Version (FX)
Shawshank Redemption HBO Version with 3 Deleted Scenes
Stepfather 1987 TV Version (FX)
The Perfect Weapon TV Version (TBS)
Trading Places TV Version
Westworld TV Version (NBC)

Rumours Only

8mm Uncut Screener Version
13th Floor Workprint
13th Warrior Workprint
A Perfect Murder with Alternate Ending
American Pie 2 Original Version with Stifler's Dad
Apt Pupil Workprint
Armageddeon Workprint
Babylon AD Original Version/Workprint
Back to the Future TV Version (not ABC Family)
Back to the Future 2 TV Version (not ABC Family)
Back to the Future 3 TV Version (not ABC Family)
Bad Company Workprint (Centropy release)
Batman Forever Original Version (Not extended dvd version)
Blade Workprint
Candyman Workprint
Centre Stage Workprint
Children of the corn Original Director's Cut
Con Air Workprint
Congo Workprint
Crash Workprint
Dark Angel (Dolph Lundrgren film not TV show) Workprint/TV/Extended
End Of Days Test Screening Version
Enemy of the state Workprint
Event Horizon Workprint
Faculty Workprint
Fled Extended 105 Minute Original Version
Fog TV Version (I've checked at least 3 TV Versions so far)
Friday the 13th Part 2 X Rated Version
Friday the 13th Part 2 TV Version (with Mrs Myers opening her eyes at the end) (I've checked at least 3 TV Versions so far)
Friday the 13th Part 3 X Rated Version
Friday the 13th Part 3 TV Version
Friday the 13th Part 5 Workprint (Not Version 2, the workprint)
Friday the 13th Part 5 TV Version
From Dusk Till Dawn Complete Workprint
Girl Interrupted Workprint
GO Workprint
Godzilla Workprint
Good Will Hunting Workprint
Gremlins Workprint (aired at a cinema once in CA)
Halloween 5 Uncut Japanese Version
Hitman Original Version/Workprint
House On Haunted Hill Original Version/Workprint
I know what you did last summer Workprint
Interview with the Vampire Original Version/Workprint
Jackie Brown TV Version (FX)
Jackie Brown Workprint
Jacob's Ladder Workprint
Jeepers Creepers 2 Workprint with original opening
Joyride/Road Kill Original Version With Alternate Ending
Judge Dredd Workprint (with clones awakening sequence)
Jurassic Park 3 Extended Version
Knock Off Workprint
Lost In Space Workprint
Mad Max Beyond The Thunderdome Original Version/Workprint
Mask Of Zorro Workprint
Mission Impossible 2 Original Version/Workprint
Mortal Kombat TV Version (TBS)
Mortal Kombat Annihilation Original Version
Napoleon Dynamite Workprint (LRC release)
Next Friday Workprint
Poltergeist 2 Original 130 Minute Version
Poseidon 2006 Original Version/Workprint
Radio Workprint (TCF release)
Red Dawn TV Version
Replacement Killers Workprint
Rock, The Airline Version
Saint, The Original Test Screening Version
Scorpion King Workprint
Shrek TV Version
Sleepy Hollow Workprint
Space Adventures In The Forbidden Zone Workprint
Star Trek Network TV Version
Star Trek Insurrection Original Version/Workprint
Star Trek Nemesis Original Version/Workprint
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Workprint
Thin Red Line Original Version/Workprint
Time Machine Workprint
Titanic Pre Release Extended Version
Twister Workprint
Unbreakable Workprint
Unfaithful Workprint (Centropy release)
Until Death (Van Damme) Workprint / 113 Minute Version
Wedding Singer Workprint
Wyatt Earp Workprint
Your Friends And Neighbours Workprint

Corruption Blu-ray and others from Grindhouse Releasing!

MarcMorris — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:07:12 GMT

For Immediate Release:

HOLLYWOOD - Grindhouse Releasing has announced CORRUPTION and AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL as the first in a series of new Blu-ray, DVD and theatrical releases. Both movies will arrive on home video on September 10.

Founded by the late Sage Stallone (1976-2012) and Bob Murawski, Grindhouse Releasing has long been considered the Criterion of cult movie labels. In a span of seventeen years, the company has produced lavish restorations of such notorious titles as CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, Lucio Fulci's THE BEYOND, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD, PIECES, and many more to worldwide acclaim from fans and critics.

"Sage and Bob were pioneers in catering to the niche audience, and blazed a trail for all to follow," says Jay Douglas of CAV Distribution. "The anticipation for Grindhouse's return to the home video marketplace is incredible."

The release of AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL and CORRUPTION marks the company's return to the video market after a hiatus of two years during which Academy Award-winning film editor Murawski was busy working on Sam Raimi's OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL. It is also the company's first release since the passing of company founder Sage Stallone.

"After two years in the yellow brick prison of OZ, I am back full-time at Grindhouse Releasing, proudly continuing the important work that Sage and I began back in 1996," says Murawski. "We have an incredible slate of mind-blowing films that will be coming your way soon on Blu-ray and DVD. And on the big screen in a theater near you."

Grindhouse Releasing has brought its films to theaters all over North America. In recent years, the company coordinated nationwide theatrical releases of such celebrated horror classics as Sam Raimi's EVIL DEAD and William Lustig's MANIAC (both remade in 2013). Grindhouse scored a hit on the midnight movie circuit in 2010 with its restoration of Duke Mitchell's long-lost gangster epic GONE WITH THE POPE, and now aims to do the same with the psychedelic nightmare AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL.

"AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL is already drawing huge midnight movie crowds in Tel Aviv, where it's become another ROCKY HORROR," says company theatrical director David Szulkin. "We plan to do a full theatrical run of the film in the U.S. to promote the film's release on Blu-ray and DVD."

The rarely seen, shocking British feature CORRUPTION, starring Peter Cushing as a mad surgeon, will hit Blu-ray and DVD on September 10. The Grindhouse Releasing special edition of CORRUPTION coincides with the legendary Hammer Films star's 100th birthday, and will be preceded by a series of theatrical playdates.

Four additional titles will follow in late 2013 and late 2014: Sergio Sollima's THE BIG GUNDOWN, THE SWIMMER, starring Burt Lancaster, Duke Mitchell's GONE WITH THE POPE and S.F. Brownrigg's SCUM OF THE EARTH (a.k.a. POOR WHITE TRASH PART 2). According to Murawski, the company's entire back catalog will also appear in new Blu-ray editions soon thereafter.

Watch the AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL trailer on YouTube:

CORRUPTION

Coming soon on Blu-Ray! Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the first ever U.S. home video release of the wildest, sickest and sleaziest swinging-sixties British horror thriller -CORRUPTION. The legendary Peter Cushing stars as a surgeon driven to murder and madness as he attempts to restore the beauty of his hideously disfigured fashion model wife. This special edition contains shocking scenes of gore and nudity previously deemed too strong for American audiences.

THE BIG GUNDOWN

Coming soon on Blu-Ray! Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the first ever US homevideo release of the Lee Van Cleef / Sergio Sollima spaghetti western classic. with a stunning new HD remaster of the original uncensored 110 minute director's cut and loads of extras

THE SWIMMER

Coming soon on Blu-Ray! Grindhouse Releasing is proud to present the Deluxe Edition of this late 60s Burt Lancaster classic, with a stunning new HD master created trom super-high resolution 4K scans of the original film elements, and loads of extras.

SCUM OF THE EARTH

Ray Harryhausen RIP

Kel E — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:43:12 GMT

Huge cinematic influence over me. His movies got me interested in mythology and classical literature.
Favorite films were Jason and the Argonauts and Golden Voyage of Sinbad, although I think Clash of the Titans was a good send off.

Jeff Hanneman (1964 � 2013) RIP

drterror666 — Fri, 03 May 2013 09:53:50 GMT

Well, what can I say. I remember as a teenager in the early to mid-eighties being wowed by the guitar exchanges Jeff had with fellow Slayer member, Kerry King. It was like they were joined at the hip! I cannot say how shocked I am to hear that he died yesterday of liver failure. He was suffering from necrotising fasciitis after being bitten by a spider and had been in hospital for a long while. Apparently, the liver failure isn't connected to the original problem, so I have no idea what happened there.

The guy was a true metal icon and he was only 6 years older than me! RIP Jeff!