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The films of Jean Rollin on Blu-ray and DVD!

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:00:00 -0200

300) this.width=300" />New York, NY - January 18, 2012 - Kino Lorber is proud to announce the Blu-ray and DVD release of five films from French horror filmmaker Jean Rollin under its cult/horror label, Redemption Films: The Nude Vampire (1970), The Shiver of the Vampires (1971), Lips of Blood (1975), The Iron Rose (1973), and Fascination (1979). These five films, which have gained cult status over the years for their striking imagery and dreamlike atmosphere, are now presented in new HD transfers mastered from the original 35mm negatives, which emphasize Rollin's masterful and distinct visual style.

The five films each street on January 24, 2012 (individually priced at $24.95 for the Blu-rays, and $19.95 for the DVDs). The discs comes packed with special features, including deleted scenes, interviews, original trailers, and more.

Each disc comes with a special 20-page booklet written by Tim Lucas, editor of Video Watchdog, that profiles Rollin and his remarkable career.

"Playful, elegantly crafted and brimming with unforgettable images."
- Tim Lucas, Editor of Video Watchdog

Fascination tells the story of a thief who holes up in a lavish chateau, holding its occupants hostage. However, come nightfall, the thief finds that the chateau is home to a group of aristocratic women with a taste for blood.

Packed with special features, Fascination features supplementary materials including two deleted sex scenes (totaling 16 minutes); "Virgins and Vampires", a 24-minute profile of director Rollin with extensive interviews, from TV series Eurotika!, the original theatrical trailer, and original trailers of four other Rollin films. The film is presented with its original French language soundtrack, with optional English subtitles.

France / 1979 / Color / 81 min. / 1.66:1 /
1920 x 1080p

INTRUDER available on NOW on Blu-ray/DVD!!

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:10:00 -0200

300) this.width=300" />From Lawrence Bender, the producer of Quentin Tarantino's PULP FICTION and RESERVOIR DOGS, and the classic FROM DUSK TILL DAWN! Scott Spiegel's INTRUDER presented uncut for the first time in beautiful high-definition in a DVD/Blu-ray combo!

It�s 10 pm and the employees of Michigan�s Walnut Lake Supermarket are in for a really bad night. The place is shutting its doors for good, and the night crew has a long shift ahead of them...longer than they think! The lovely check-out girl has a deranged ex-boyfriend, the store�s phone lines are cut and the employees start dying in the most stomach-churning ways imaginable (courtesy of Academy Award-winning KNB EFX Group). A deranged killer is on the loose in the grocery store! Can anyone stop this murderous intruder?

Synapse Films is proud to present Scott Spiegel�s INTRUDER, the �holy grail� of extreme gore cinema, in an all-new 2K high-definition transfer of the original uncut, uncensored version. Sam Raimi (director of THE EVIL DEAD and SPIDER-MAN trilogies) and Ren�e Estevez (TV�s THE WEST WING) star in this blood-drenched cult film classic that critics call �a gorgeous low-budget shocker that has long been one of the best kept secrets of the genre scene� (Alan Simpson, Sex Gore Mutants). Be sure to look for Bruce Campbell (THE EVIL DEAD, TV�s BURN NOTICE) in a cameo role.

Special Features and Disc Info:
Audio Commentary with Director Scott Spiegel and
Producer Lawrence Bender
"Slashed Prices: "The Making of INTRUDER" featurette, including interviews with Spiegel, Bender, the KNB EFX team, actors Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, Elizabeth Cox, Danny Hicks and others
Never-before-seen extended murder sequences from the original workprint
Outtakes from NIGHT CREW short film
Interview featurette with filmmaker/fan Vincent Pereira on INTRUDER
and GOREZONE magazine
Cast Audition Tapes
Behind-the-Scenes Still Gallery
Original Theatrical Trailer

CHILLERAMA available on Blu-ray DVD NOW!!!

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:07:01 -0200

300) this.width=300" />Chillerama is a Late Night Classic for the new millennium." � Jason Bene, Killerfilm.com

"The most offensively nostalgic fun time I�ve personally experienced in theaters in I don�t know how long." � Aaronflux, Dread Central

"Ghoulishly good and delicious." � Why So Blu?

"Highly recommended fun." � Fangoria

"Worth checking out for a laugh and some seriously gross-out moments." � Shock Till You Drop

After a triumphant premiere at the famed Hollywood Forever Cemetery and after grossing out, er, entertaining audiences all over the country with a 20-city Roadshow Tour, the long-awaited new cult classic finally comes home!

From the depraved minds of directors Adam Rifkin (Detroit Rock City, The Dark Backward), Tim Sullivan (2001 Maniacs,VH-1�s �Scream Queens�), Adam Green (Hatchet, Frozen), and Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2, Knights of Badassdom), CHILLERAMA is a festival of gore, guts, goofiness and good times. In addition to experiencing all the chills, thrills � and goo � of the ultimate midnight movie in high-definition 1080p picture and DTS-HD audio, CHILLERAMA boasts two hours of insightful and heretofore unseen bonus features that delve deep into the creative process of these four renowned directors of the macabre, as they labored and toiled to create a cinematic love letter to horror and film fans.

Produced by ArieScope Pictures and in the spirit of classic �omnibus� films like Dead of Night, Tales From the Crypt, Creepshow and Twilight Zone: The Movie, with four vignettes that not only celebrate the golden age of B horror schlock but also nearly the entire history of horror cinema itself, CHILLERAMA offers something for every bad taste. With titles like �Wadzilla,� �I Was A Teenage Werebear,� The Diary of Anne Frankenstein,� and �Zom-B-Movie,� CHILLERAMA features appearances by Joel David Moore (Avatar, Hatchet), Lin Shaye (Insidious), Ray Wise (X-Men: First Class), Kane Hodder (Hatchet and Hatchet II), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight, Sharktopus) and more cameos than one can (body)count.

It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman (Richard Riehle, Bridesmaids, Hatchet) has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! What could possibly go wrong?

Bonus features on CHILLERAMA Blu-ray and DVD include:

Directors' Video Commentary
Wadzilla Deleted Scenes and Trailer
The Making of The Diary of Anne Frankenstein
I Was A Teenage Werebear Behind the Scenes, Deleted Scenes, and Trailer
Zom-B-Movie Deleted Scenes
Directors' Interviews
Original Theatrical Trailer

ABC'S OF LOVE AND SEX available on DVD January 10th!

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:04:21 -0200

300) this.width=300" />In between the mondo mayhem of AUSTRALIA AFTER DARK and the softcore teenage classic FELICITY, producer/director John Lamond schooled the continent with this graphic grindhouse jaw-dropper: What was ostensibly presented as a serious study of sexual behavior is actually an erotically-charged trip through an alphabet of deviant sexual pleasure, including mile-high clubs, female masturbation, mincing homosexuals, hot lesbians, enormous genitals, disco music, rape fantasies, interpretive dance, socio-cultural blathering, relentless nudity and even a bit of creepy stop-motion animation. Marilyn Rodgers (FELICITY) and Maj-Brith Berstrom-Walan of The Swedish Institute For Sexual Research star in this delightfully dubious documentary relic, now fully restored from a print originally seized by the Australian Classification Board and presented uncut & uncensored for the first time ever in America.

Bonus Features: Audio Commentary With Director John D. Lamond and "Not Quite Hollywood" Director Mark Hartley, John D. Lamond Trailer Reel.

AUSTRALIA AFTER DARK available on DVD January 10th!

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:03:15 -0200

300) this.width=300" />Five years before he turned the world on with his schoolgirl sexploitation classic FELICITY, producer/director John Lamond made his indelible debut with this mondo-style look at the depraved underbelly of a land down-under. It's an ultra-sleazy, full-frontal journey through "the weird and the pathetic, the ugly, the obscene and the beautiful", featuring strippers, swingers, murderers, devil worshippers, nutty gurus, drunken aborigines, and much more. From the back alleys of the big cities to the savage cruelty of the outback, discover a continent of pleasure, pain, erotic art, wriggling cuisine, tiny bikinis, alien landings, record-breaking beer consumption and insane amounts of '70s nudity, now fully restored from a print recently discovered in the cellar of the Lower Wonga Drive-In and presented uncut & uncensored for the first time ever in America.

Bonus Features: Audio Commentary With Director John D. Lamond and "Not Quite Hollywood" Director Mark Hartley, John D. Lamond Trailer Reel.

GUROZUKA available on DVD January 10th!

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:01:13 -0200

300) this.width=300" />A fun getaway turns into a journey to Hell for some teenage girls visiting an isolated house to rehearse and perform a play for their private movie club. Taking the trip with an adult chaperone, the girls learn a previous club member supposedly went missing in the house, and another insane! Shortly after they arrive, a mysterious videotape is found with footage of a violent killer wearing a Japanese "deigan" mask. Is this footage real or fake? Soon, their food and equipment disappears and one of the girls is haunted by ghostly visions of the masked demon. Someone or something is in the house, and gruesome death awaits those who cannot escape! Synapse Films is proud to present Yoichi Nishiyama's GUROZUKA, a stylized horror film in the tradition of SCREAM and genre-bending Japanese classic, THE RING!

Bonus Features: The Making Of Gurozuka Featurette, Original Trailer.

DEADLY SPAWN: MILLENNIUM EDITION Blu-ray & HELL ON EARTH DVD available January 24th!!

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:59:17 -0200

300) this.width=300" />In The Deadly Spawn, two campers in the New Jersey woods have their outdoor fun interrupted by the arrival of a meteorite crashing nearby. They go to investigate the crater, but are suddenly attacked and devoured by alien parasites who have hitched a ride to Earth. After finishing off the campers, the hungry space monsters head for a nearby town, where they make their domain in the basement of an old house and soon begin polishing off one hapless inhabitant after another. Four young teenagers, plus one pre-teen boy, try to find a way to stop the angry space monsters before they reproduce and literally eat humanity.

Bonus Features: Commentary, still gallery, casting footage, gag reel, theatrical trailer & TV spot, enhanced opening scene, television review footage and more!

THOU SHALT NOT KILL�EXCEPT available on Blu-ray/DVD MARCH 13

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:55:45 -0200

300) this.width=300" />WHEN VIOLENCE DEMANDS REVENGE�THE EXPLOITATION ACTION CLASSIC FROM THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU THE EVIL DEAD AND EVIL DEAD 2!

Vietnam, 1969. War is Hell. For Marine Sergeant
Jack Stryker (Brian Schulz), however, Hell is just the beginning. Trapped outside a Viet Cong village, Stryker takes two bullets to the leg. Sent home from the war, he discovers his ex-girlfriend (Cheryl Hausen) has been kidnapped by a religious cult with a vicious Manson-like leader (played by THE EVIL DEAD and SPIDER-MAN trilogy director, Sam Raimi). Stryker teams up with his marine buddies to form an assassination squad to annihilate the gang of crazed killers.

Synapse Films proudly presents THOU SHALT NOT KILL� EXCEPT in an all-new 2K high-definition transfer from the original negative. Directed by Josh Becker, this �must see� (Detroit Free Press) cult classic features many of the creative personnel responsible for THE EVIL DEAD, including co-writer Bruce Campbell, writer/producer Scott Spiegel (INTRUDER), composer Joseph LoDuca, and actor Ted Raimi.

Special Features:

� All-New High-Definition 2K Digital Restoration from the Original Negative
� The Original Super 8mm Short film, STRYKER�S WAR, starring Bruce Campbell!
� Made in Michigan: The Making of THOU SHALT NOT KILL� EXCEPT � Featurette
� Two Audio Commentaries featuring Director Josh Becker, Bruce Campbell, and Star Brian Schulz
� All-New Video Interview with Actor/Writer Bruce Campbell
� Deleted Scene with Optional Director's Commentary
� Alternate Title Sequence
� Original Theatrical Trailer
� Reversible Alternate Cover Artwork

Rudy Ray Moore is DOLEMITE "Weird Wobbler" bobblehead coming soon!

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:48:30 -0200

439) this.width=439" />Cult Collectibles in association with Donald H. Randell / Dolemite Records are proud to announce the release of the Official �Rudy Ray Moore is DOLEMITE� �Weird Wobbler� bobblehead figure.

Known as �The King of The Party Records� and �The Godfather of Rap�, Rudy Ray Moore is an immeasurably influential legend for his groundbreaking comedy albums and films. In the course of a lifelong career in entertainment, Moore released nearly three dozen comedy and vocal albums along with a handful of legendary films (DOLEMITE, HUMAN TORNADO, PETEY WHEATSTRAW: THE DEVIL�S SON IN LAW, DISCO GODFATHER, etc.) which have sold into the millions. Moore�s most famous character, �Dolemite�, is so well known it has been referenced in hundreds of hip-hop/rap songs and spoofed on such major television shows as MadTV, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Saturday Night Live. Rapper Snoop Dogg even stated, �Without Rudy Ray Moore, there would be no Snoop Dogg, and that�s for real!�

Cult Collectibles� owner, Mark Jason Murray, worked with Rudy Ray Moore in various capacities for over 15 years and continues to work hard in efforts to keep his legacy alive after his passing in 2008. Outside of operating Moore�s only official website since 1997 (www.rudyraymoore.com), Murray was granted authorization by Moore to write his official biography, a project over a decade in the making. �Rudy was not only my �idol�, he was my friend and I have always felt he never achieved the success and recognition that he not only wanted so badly for himself, but genuinely deserved,� states Murray. �I continue to dig deeply into Moore�s life and career and look forward to being able to present this book when completed. Doing a bobblehead figure of Rudy was the main motivator for me to start this company and I am happy that it has become a reality. It�s just another way for me to honor him and his work and also give his fans something special that they can enjoy as well.�

Moore�s manager, Donald H. Randell of Dolemite Records, continues to work in all areas relating to Moore�s legacy. �A Rudy Ray Moore bobblehead is something long overdue! Moore continues to be a source of inspiration for so many comedians, musicians, filmmakers and fans and this is something to help keep that inspirational spirit alive!�

Cult Collectibles has quickly become known for its high quality bobblehead figures which frequently push the limits of the format. �I want every figure I create to really stand out,� states Murray, �and I also wanted this figure to be special and something his fans would really love.� Moore is dressed in a highly stylized �pimp� outfit and ready to launch himself off a rock encrusted base which features his name and �Dolemite� logo bursting from below his feet. �It wasn�t enough for me to just have his head be able to move so his right arm is connected by a spring, enabling it to throw a punch. I obsess over details and even made sure his pants were creased properly.� As if that wasn�t enough to please fans, the figure also includes a free double sided Rudy Ray Moore drink coaster stating �Put Your Drink On It!� (a takeoff of his famous phrase �Put Your Weight On It!�)

Pre-orders are available now at www.cultcollectibles.com with figures shipping at the beginning of March 2012, just in time to celebrate the first annual �DOLEMITE DAY� (March 17, Moore�s birthday)

Rudy Ray Moore is DOLEMITE �Weird Wobbler� bobblehead figure details:
-Limited edition of 1,000 individually numbered figures
-7 inches of lightweight polyresin
-Spring activated arm enables "Bone-crushing, Skull-splitting, Brain-blasting" punching action!
-Includes exclusive full color, double sided drink coaster! "Put your drink on it!"
-Housed in a awesome full color retail box
-Special exclusive DOLEMITE trading card available ONLY during pre-order period through www.cultcollectibles.com

For more information on Cult Collectibles visit: www.cultcollectibles.com
For more information on Rudy Ray Moore visit: www.rudyraymoore.com
For more information on Dolemite Records visit: www.dolemiterecords.com

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Sat, 05 Nov 2011 06:10:00 -0200

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