The Escapees

On the run from an asylum for the insane, a feisty young girl and her forlorn female companion embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers. Wandering from the fantastic to the farcical and back again, The Escapees contains all the magic and fairy-tale qualities of cult films like Fascination (1979) and Requiem for a Vampire (1971) and has everything one expects from a Rollin film, including two beautiful young women, startling scenes of death, burlesque shows in a junkyard and erotic lesbian encounters with Brigitte Lahaie! This is a rare release that marks the film's DVD debut and this version has been re-mastered from the original negative.

Mondo Topless

Completely topless! Completely uninhibited! The wayout craze that began in San Francisco is now exploding across the USA and Europe. National publications have documented the "Topless", but nowhere has it been as thoroughly covered (or uncovered) as it is in Russ Meyer's rampaging motion picture Mondo Topless. The film is believably real - but "unbelievable" just barely describes all of Meyer's discotheque discoveries! Fantastic women, fantastic dances - the "buxotics" - in an incendiary tribute to unrestrained female anatomy featuring the world's loveliest bosom brigade!

2 DVD Speical - Jamaa Fanaka's Penitentiary & Fritz the Cat

Jamaa Fanaka's Penitentiary

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.

Fritz the Cat

A persiflage on the protest movements of the 60s. It's hero is the bold and sex-obsessed tom-cat Fritz the Cat, as created by the legendary underground artist Robert Crumb. Quitting university Fritz the Cat wanders through the hash, Black Panther and Hell's Angels scenes to find to himself.

2 DVD Special - Les Patterson saves the World and Macabre

Les Patterson Saves the World

Dr. Sir Leslie Colin Patterson KBE is sent to an oil-rich Gulf state to try to make peace after a United Nations blunder. While there, he escapes from a firing squad and discovers a diabolical plan to hold the world to biological ransom. Meanwhile, undercover CIA agent Dame Edna Everage arrives on a 'Possums For Peace' tour. On a visit to a local factory, she also discovers the real truth. Together, Sir Les and Dame Edna set out to save the world.

Macabre

Two newly weds Adjie and Astrid, along with 3 of their best friends decided to have an interstate road trip as a last attempt to reconcile Adjie with his estranged little sister Ladya. Their trip is however abruptly interrupted when they run into Maya, a strange girl out of nowhere, who wanders aimlessly into their path. "I've been robbed" is all she has to say. The friends unanimously decided to give her a ride to her isolated house by the end of the woods. Maya introduces Adjie and friends to her blue-blooded mother Dara, a woman of ageless enigma and few spoken words. Dara insists that their kindness should be repaid with a dinner feast. This is where the night turns into a crimson-hell for the 6 friends, who find themselves trapped and hunted down by Dara and her cult-like family of her three deadly protégés, born and raised to systematically eliminate unsuspecting passers-by for one nefarious reason. Slaughtered one by one, everybody will bleed, the darkest of nights never looked so red

2 DVD Special - Cat Chaser and The Fun House

Cat Chaser
Superstars Kelly McGillis (Top Gun) and Peter Weller (RoboCop) ignite a smouldering passion with chilling consequences in the erotic thriller Cat Chaser, based on a novel by Elmore Leonard.
Something was calling former Lance Corporal George "Cat Chaser" Moran away from his quiet Miami retreat - the haunting memory of his violent brush with death. On a trip to Santo Domingo in search of the woman who saved his life George Moran instead reunites with the sensual Mary de Boya - a woman whose love could cost him everything. A superb thriller directed by Abel (Driller Killer) Ferrara.

The Fun House
It seemed to be a carnival funhouse just like any other: mysterious, eerie, scary, but all in good fun. Yet it wasn’t just any funhouse. In this one there was murder. And the horror became real.
The story concerns four teenagers who visit a local carnival for a night of innocent amusement. They soon discover, however, that there is nothing innocent or amusing there at all. Instead, they find absolute terror when the four are trapped inside the maze of the funhouse. One by one, each victim is taken by a monster who tauntingly stalks them

Night of the Hunted

Euro-horror cult director Jean Rollin dives into science fiction with an ultra-low-budget picture that resembles nothing less than Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor by way of David Cronenberg. Though it starts out in classic horror fantasy fashion, with a beautiful young woman (Rollin regular Brigitte Lahaie) in a flimsy nightgown rushing breathlessly though a dark forest, the imagery quickly changes tone when she is returned to the mysterious, antiseptic skyscraper asylum known as "Black Tower." Blank-eyed inmates with dissipated memories wander through the featureless white hallways and empty rooms, helpfully making up stories for one another to stand in for their lost pasts. Like in most of Rollin's films, the story is more fascinating before the exposition and explanations, when the ambiguous conspiracies and the stark landscapes create an unsettling, alienated world out of time and place. The wooden acting is transformed into an asset, a dazed cast of shuffling living zombies somewhere between shock and stupor slowly losing their minds. In true Rollin fashion, he takes time out for gratuitous sex scenes and nudity and weaves a disconnected series of gory murders into a story that never really makes sense in the first place, but the ethereal, poetic imagery creates an enigmatic psychodrama more concerned with mood and texture than narrative. The new Redemption release restores two scenes cut by the producers for its theatrical release. The DVD features the theatrical trailer and a gallery of production stills.

2 DVD Speical - Day of the Dead 2 and Sleepless

Day of the Dead 2:
n 1968, in the Raveide Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal biological weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers are sent to the hospital to eliminate the infected staff and interns but private DeLuca steals a test tube with the virus and hides it inside a vacuum flask. He is transformed into a zombie and killed but the vacuum flask falls into the grass.

In the present day, a group of patients in the mental institution Ravenside Memorial Hospital finds the vacuum flask and later when one of them opens the vessel, the culture tube drops on the floor of a bathroom contaminating the group.

2 DVD Special - Blood Feast 2 & House by the Cemetery

Blood Feast 2
From the godfather of gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis, comes the most eagerly awaited sequel in the blood red history of splatter cinema! The cannibal caterer is back with a new recipe for gross-out, comedic carnage that literally blows chunks across the silver screen! From the groundbreaking production team of H.G. Lewis and David Friedman, the maniacal masterminds responsible for BLOOD FEAST, 2000 MANIACS and COLOR ME BLOOD RED, BLOOD FEAST 2 is a gorehound's wet dream!

House by the cemetery
Dr. Norman Boyle (Paolo Malco), of the New York Historical Society, accepts a research assignment abandoned by a colleague who has committed suicide. The project requires the researcher to temporarily take up residence in a New England mansion along with his wife, Lucy (Katherine MacColl) and their son, Bob (Giovanni Frezza). Norman discovers his colleague had become consumed with the history of the home's original owner, a turn-of-the-Century surgeon named Dr. Freudstein who possessed a fondness for illegal experiments. Further investigation reveals Freudstein had found a way to stay alive by using cells derived from fresh human blood. The Boyles find out the hard way that the maggot-stuffed, undead doctor remains lurking in the shadows of the house, killing anybody who crosses his path. While the plot does at times lose itself to vagueness and the inexplicable, Italian director Lucio Fulci reinforces his "Godfather Of Gore" moniker as visceral sequences (human mutilation aplenty, along with a gut-wrenching decapitation) unfold before the camera in the maestro's customary extreme close-up style. Made during the height of his career, HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY is one of Fulci's most admired favorites. A percentage of the film's popularity must also be credited to the inadvertently humorous English dubbing of Italian child star Giovanni Frezza's "Bob" character, performed by a much older female actress.

Black Magic Rites

Black Magic Rites features satanic rituals in an ancient castle's underground vaults which revive a witch who was killed 400 years ago. The rites involve slaughtering seven naked virgins, already dazed by their experiences during a demonic orgy, but the ritual is interrupted by one of the women's lovers who tries to save her. There follows a series of frenzied and crazed depictions of torture, burnings, and SM sex Italian-style, in what has to be one of the most bizarre horror films ever made.

The Naked Vampire

While experimenting on a female vampire, a mad doctor is stopped by his son who has fallen in love with her. The two flee to join a hidden vampire sect where they get their fill of beautiful women, suicide rituals, satanic masses, erotic pleasures and sex....

Sacred Flesh

Torn between sexual desire, her vows of chastity and her fear of eternal damnation, a medieval nun struggles with her sanity. Bordering on madness, she seeks solace in the savage words of sexual denial that are spoken to her by a disturbing "death Nun" vision.

Her sanity is further threatened by the imagined figure of Mary Magdalene, who challenges her concepts of sex as an evil malignant force. In between these discussions, the nun's mind is filled with brooding, violent sexual fantasies, that push her into a world of blackness, blood and orgasmic destruction.

Killing Cars

Jean Rollin departs from his usual theme of vampires in Killing Car however his signature mix of of mysterious femme fatales and female flesh are present though out. The story centers around a young Asian woman who steals an American car and then proceeds to shoot and kill anyone who gets in her way (seemingly for no apparant reason!). Truly bizarre and with more killings than the French Revolution Killing Car is a surreal thriller with ghosts, prostitutes and a used car sales man! Insane stuff!

Grapes of Death

Jean Rollins' acclaimed cult horror film 'Grapes of Death' stars Brigitte Lahaie as a woman whose vacation takes a sick twist when she finds herself in a town full of zombie-like killers. She begins to think the town winery has got something to do with these evil transformations. Could the pesticides used on the grapes be responsible for all this madness

Dracula's Daughter

A young woman visits her gravely ill grandmother on her death bed who reveals the family curse: they're all vampires. Shot at the same time, with much of the same cast as Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein and Erotic Rites of Frankenstein, here Franco creates one of his most legitimately erotic works with sapphic love scenes between stunning beauties and cult cinema stars Anne Libert and Britt Nichols. Franco himself has a key role as a Van Helsing style vampire hunter