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Forgotten Pistolero

Forgotten Pistolero is a 1969 Italy/Spain spaghetti western by Ferdinando Baldi
Starring Leonard Mann, Luciana Paluzzi and Peter Martell

There are no censorship issues with this release

Summary Notes

Mann, a gunman, learns his father was murdered by his mother and her lover. His childhood friend informs him, while Mann's sister is controlled by their murderous mom. Mann and his friend confront the mother to settle the score.

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Based on the tales of Orestes from Greek mythology, this film tells the story of Sebastian who was swept away from his home as a small child during a massacre orchestrated by his unfaithful mother and her lover which ultimately resulted in the death of his father. Many years later, his childhood friend Rafael finds him living quietly on a farm but, after dredging up Sebastian's forgotten past, the pair decide to set out on a road to revenge that ultimately culminates with one of the more memorable finales in the genre.

Bonus Materials

• Disc 1 - Feature in English
• Disc 2 - Feature in Italian with Non-Removable English Subtitles
• Leonard Mann Interview conducted by tough guy expert Mike Malloy

Re-Animator

Re-Animator is a 1985 US comedy horror by Stuart Gordon
Starring Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott and Barbara Crampton

A rich history of BBFC cuts, which have been waived since 2007. The Unrated Version was passed 18 uncut in 2007. In the US R rated version was cut, but the Unrated version wasn't. There also exists the Integral Version which is a TV version that has been padded out with additional plot.

Summary Review: Fun

A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.

Ah, finally a horror camp classic that deserves to be called a horror camp classic. Re-Animator is one of those fun horror movies that is so over the top that it is just a lot of fun to watch,

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Re-Animator returns in 4K! This cult classic blends horror and dark humor as Herbert West's serum brings the dead back with shocking results.

In celebration of its 40th anniversary, Re-Animator returns in a stunning 4K restoration, bringing new life to this horror classic. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's twisted tale, the film follows Herbert West, a brilliant yet unhinged medical student who creates a serum capable of reanimating the dead--with horrifying consequences. Blending grotesque horror and dark humor, Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator shocked audiences and became an instant cult classic upon its release in 1985. This vivid 4K edition captures every gory detail of West's obsession, inviting fans old and new to experience the film's boundary-pushing terror like never before.

Bonus Materials

• Re-Animator at 40: A Conversation with Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, and Brian Yuzna
• Piece By Piece: Cutting Re-Animator -- A New Interview with Editor Lee Percy
• The Horror of It All: The Legacy and Impact of Re-Animator
• I Give Life: A Look Back at Re-Animator: The Musical
• Suzie Sorority and the Good College Boy: An Interview with Carolyn Purdy-Gordon
• Re-Animating a Horror Classic: The 4K Restoration of Re-Animator
• The Organic Theater Company of Chicago: A 1977 documentary featuring Stuart Gordon
• New 40th anniversary 4K UHD trailer
• Integral Version (105 mins)
• Isolated Score
• Audio commentary with director Stuart Gordon and actors Graham Skipper and Jesse Merlin of Re-Animator: The Musical
• Audio commentary with Stuart Gordon
• Audio commentary with producer Brian Yuzna, actors Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Abbott, and Robert Sampson
• Re-Animator: Resurrectus - Feature-length documentary on the making of the film featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew
• Interviews with director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna, writer Dennis Paoli, composer Richard Band and former Fangoria editor Tony Timpone
• Music discussion with composer Richard Band
• The Catastrophe of Success: Stuart Gordon and The Organic Theater - Director Stuart Gordon discusses his early theater roots and his continued commitment to the stage
• Theater of Blood - Re-Animator: The Musical lyricist Mark Nutter on adapting the cult classic for musical theater
• Extended scenes
• Deleted scene
• Trailer & TV Spots
• Still Gallery
• Barbara Crampton In Conversation: The Re-Animator star sits down with journalist Alan Jones for this career-spanning 2015 interview
• A Guide to Lovecraft Cinema: Chris Lackey, host of the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast, provides a comprehensive look at the many cinematic incarnations of Lovecraft's work.
• Doug Bradley's Spinechillers: Herbert West, Re-Animator actor Jeffrey Combs reads H.P. Lovecraft's original classic story

Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas is a 1995 US romance by Mike Figgis
Starring Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue and Julian Sands

Cut for a US R rating, but the Uncut Unrated version was distributed elsewhere.

Summary Notes

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

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An avowed alcoholic, Ben (Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario, Longlegs) drank away his family, friends and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in one final binge. On the strip, Ben picks up a street-smart hooker named Sera (Elisabeth Shue, Hollow Man, The Boys) in what might have been another excess in his self-destructive jag. Instead, their chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as something connects between these two disenfranchised souls.

Bonus Content:

• 4K Transfer of the Original Super 16mm Camera Negative
• Presented in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos
• Audio Commentary with Writer-Director Mike Figgis

Black Christmas

Black Christmas is a 1974 Canada slasher horror thriller by Bob Clark
Starring Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea and Margot Kidder

Cut by the BBFC for X rated 1975 cinema release. Uncut and 18 rated on home video. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Notes

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

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Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity, and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

Bonus Content:

• 2022 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative
• Presented in Dolby Vision
• 2022 Restoration of the Original Mono Track
• 2022 5.1 Mix Restoring the Missing Sound Effects
• Audio Commentary with Director Bob Clark
• Audio Commentary with Actors John Saxon and Keir Dullea
• Audio Commentary with Actor Nick Mancuso
• Audio Interview with Bob Clark
• 2022 Restoration of the 5.1 Audio, Restoring Missing Dialogue, Music and Sound Effects
• Audio Commentary with Billy (Actor Nick Mancuso)
• Audio Interview with Director Bob Clark
• Film and Furs: Remembering Black Christmas with Art Hindle
• Victims and Virgins: Remembering Black Christmas with Lynne Griffin
• Black Christmas Legacy
• 40th Anniversary Panel at FanExpo 2014 Featuring John Saxon, Art Hindle, Lynne Griffin & Nick Mancuso
• On Screen!: Black Christmas
• 12 Days of Black Christmas Documentary
• Black Christmas Revisited
• Archival Interviews with Olivia Hussey, Art Hindle, Margot Kidder, Bob Clark, & John Saxon
• Midnight Screening Q&A with Bob Clark, John Saxon and Carl Zittrer
• Two Scenes with a New Vocal Soundtrack
• Theatrical Trailers (English and French)
• TV Spots
• Radio Spots
• Alternative Title Sequences
• Still Gallery
• Original Script (BD-Rom)

Emmanuelle

Emmanuelle is a 1974 French erotic film by Just Jaekin.
With Sylvia Kristel, Alain Cuny and Marika Green.    

Cut by the BBFC until 18 rated DVD in 2007. In the US the uncut was MPAA X rated and then released Unrated. The MPAA R rated version is heavily cut.

Summary Notes

The wife of a French diplomat in Bangkok embarks on a voyage of self-discovery.

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THE ORIGINAL THEATRICAL VERSION & DIRECTOR'S CUT PLUS 3+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES

It launched the iconic careers of director Just Jaeckin and star Sylvia Kristel, redefined cultural perceptions of 'adult entertainment' and transformed female sexuality on screen forever. Now "the seminal film of '70s erotic cinema" (DVD Talk) can be experienced like never before: Based on the bestselling memoir by Emmanuelle Arsan, a diplomat's wife (Kristel) unlocks her deepest carnal desires in the bedrooms and back rooms of Bangkok. This presentation includes the Original Theatrical Version and Director's Cut - which removes the one sequence filmed without Jaeckin's permission - both scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal and approved by camera operator Robert Fraisse, with over 3 hours of Special Features.

Special Features

• Audio Commentary With Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell (Director's Cut Only)
• A Slightly Scandalous Character - Interview With Actress Marika Green
• Producing EMMANUELLE - Interview With Producer Yves Rousset-Rouard
• Filming EMMANUELLE - Interview With Camera Operator Robert Fraisse
• Fabric & Fantasy: Costume As Character Development - Video Essay By Fashion And Costume Historian Elissa Rose
• The Channel - Actress Liane Curtis On Her Mother, Dubbing Artist Paulette Rubinstein
• Interview With Marayat Rollet-Andriane (aka Emmanuelle Arsan) On The Set Of THE SAND PEBBLES (1966)
• The Joys Of Emmanuelle, Part 1 - Interviews With Star Sylvia Kristel, Director Just Jaeckin And Producer Yves Rousset-Rouard
• French Trailer

• U.S. Trailer
• Audio Commentary With Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell (Director's Cut Only)
• A Slightly Scandalous Character -- Interview With Actress Marika Green
• Producing EMMANUELLE -- Interview With Producer Yves Rousset-Rouard
• Filming EMMANUELLE -- Interview With Camera Operator Robert Fraisse
• Fabric & Fantasy: Costume As Character Development -- Video Essay By Fashion And Costume Historian Elissa Rose
• The Channel -- Actress Liane Curtis On Her Mother, Dubbing Artist Paulette Rubinstein
• Interview With Marayat Rollet-Andriane (aka Emmanuelle Arsan) On The Set Of THE SAND PEBBLES (1966)
• The Joys Of Emmanuelle, Part 1 -- Interviews With Star Sylvia Kristel, Director Just Jaeckin And Producer Yves Rousset-Rouard
• French Trailer
• U.S. Trailer

Night Of The Sharks

Night Of The Sharks is a 1988 Italy/Mexico/Spain action film by Tonino Ricci
Starring Treat Williams, Janet Agren and Antonio Fargas

A US cut PG-13 rated version has been widely distributed. The running time suggest that this was submitted for BBFC 15 rated DVD in 2004. The US MPAA R rated is uncut.

Summary Notes

David must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proof of their illegal activities. When David gets possession of the CD they go down to Mexico where David lives as a shark hunter. Who will get David first, the gangsters or the shark...

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Three-time Golden Globe nominee Treat Williams of HAIR and PRINCE OF THE CITY fame took the Italian Sharksploitation plunge in this "insane and weirdly good-natured" (Oh, The Horror!) action thriller, now officially licensed on North American disc for the first time ever: Life in a quiet Mexican fishing village is ripped to pieces when a laidback guide (Williams) and his business partner (Blaxploitation legend Antonio Fargas) become entangled with international assassins, $2 million in diamonds and a local shark named Cyclops with an insatiable hunger for foolish divers. John Steiner (CALIGULA), Janet Agren (EATEN ALIVE) and Christopher Connelly (RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS) in his final film role co-star in this "unique and fun" (DTV Connoisseur) obscurity directed by Tonino Ricci (CAVE OF THE SHARKS) from a screenplay by Tito Carpi (TENTACLES) with jaw-dropping man vs. shark stunts by Ramón Bravo (ZOMBIE) and a deliriously '80s synth score by Stelvio Cipriani (THE GREAT ALLIGATOR), now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative and featuring a Bonus Soundtrack CD.

Special Features

• Trailer
• Stelvio Cipriani Soundtrack CD