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The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse, Blaxploitation Classics: Volume Two, The Beast and the Vixens
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The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse The Vengeance of Dr. Mabuse is a 1972 West Germany / Spain crime Sci-Fi horror by Jesús Franco (as Jess Frank)
Starring Fred Williams,Jack Taylor,Ewa Strömberg
There are no censorship issues with this release. US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:
Promotional Material A criminal mastermind (Jack Taylor, Female Vampire) deploys poison gas and a beautiful whip-wielding assassin (Beni Cardoso) in a plot to steal government secrets in The Vengeance of
Dr Mabuse (Dr. M schlägt zu). But his elaborate schemes risk unraveling when a small-town inspector (Fred Williams) stumbles into the scene. An unauthorized entry in the Dr. Mabuse cycle, the film makes no reference to Norbert Jacquess clairvoyant
criminal (the M-word is carefully avoided). Instead, director Jess Franco used the project as a chance to revisit his own sci-fi thrillers (The Awful Dr. Orlof, The Diabolical Dr. Z). Fold in a disfigured henchman (Rocha), a striptease dancer (Ewa
Strömberg, Vampyros Lesbos), and wrap it all in a feverish jazz score, and the result is a spicy cinematic melange that could only have been concocted in the demented mind of Jess Franco.
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Blaxploitation Classics: Volume Two Blaxploitation Classics: Volume Two is a 2025 film by Jack Hill, Arthur Marks
Starring Pam Grier, Peter Brown and Yaphet Kotto There were four films that
once fell foul of the BBFC. US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:
- 2025 SHOUT! FACTORY [Blaxploitation Classics Vol 2] R0 4K Blu-ray at US Amazon #ad released
on 19th August 2025
Cotton Comes to Harlem is a 1970 USA action comedy by Ossie Davis.
Starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St Jacques and Calvin Lockhart.
Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1971 cinema release. Not released since
in the UK. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.
Slaughter is a 1972 USA / Mexico action crime drama by Jack Starrett.
Starring Jim Brown, Stella Stevens and Rip Torn.
Cut by the BBFC for 1973 cinema release and cut again for VHS. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US. Slaughter's Big Rip-off is a 1973 US action thriller by Gordon Douglas
Starring Jim Brown, Ed McMahon and Don
Stroud
Cut by the BBFC for X rated cinema release in 1973.
Foxy Brown is a 1974 US action film by Jack Hill.
With Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas and Peter Brown.
Uncut for 1974 cinema release and a 1982 VHS which was seized by the
police during the video nasties moral panic. Cut for 1987 VHS but uncut in all home video releases since 1998. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US Promotional Material A film movement that
defined a decade and made an indelible mark on American culture forever, blaxploitation cinema produced some of the most beloved and iconic action films of the 1970s and launched superstars along the way. Collected here together on 4K for the first time,
Shout is proud to present 6 of the most essential films of the genre, starring icons like Pam Grier (Jackie Brown), Fred Williamson (From Dusk Till Dawn), Jim Brown (Mars Attacks!), and many more. Films included are Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Cotton
Comes to Harlem, Bucktown, Slaughter, and Slaughter's Big Rip-Off. Bonus Content: Disc 1 - Foxy Brown:
- 4K Scan/Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Presented in Dolby Vision
- Audio Commentary with Director Jack Hill
Disc 2 - Foxy Brown:
- 4K Scan/Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Audio Commentary with Director Jack Hill
- From Black and White to Blaxploitation:
Interview with Actor Sid Haig
- A Not So Minor Influence: Interview with Actor Bob Minor
- Back To Black: Interview with Actors Fred Williamson, Austin Stoker, and Rosanne
Katon
- Theatrical Trailer
- Image Gallery
Disc 3 - Friday Foster:
- 4K Scan/Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Presented in Dolby Vision
Disc 4 - Friday Foster:
- 4K Scan/Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Theatrical Trailer
- Image Gallery
Disc 5 - Cotton Comes to Harlem:
- 4K Scan/Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Presented in Dolby Vision
Disc 6 - Cotton Comes to Harlem:
- 4K Scan/Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Theatrical Trailer
Disc 7 - Bucktown:
- 4K Scan/Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Presented in Dolby Vision
Disc 8 - Bucktown:
- 4K Scan/Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Theatrical Trailer
Disc 9 - Slaughter:
- 4K Scan/Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Presented in Dolby Vision
Disc 10 - Slaughter:
- 4K Scan/Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Theatrical Trailer
Disc 11 - Slaughter's Big Rip-Off:
- 4K Scan/Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- Presented in Dolby Visi
Disc 12 - Slaughter's Big Rip-Off:
- 4K Scan/Restoration from the Original Camera Negative
- The Cost to be the Boss: The Blaxploitation Films Of A.I.P., Part Two -- An In-Depth Documentary Featuring New and Archival
Interviews with Filmmakers, Authors, and Film Historians, Including a Brand-New Exchange with Director Jonathan Kaplan
- Theatrical Trailer
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The Beast and the Vixens The Beast and the Vixens is a 1974 US comedy horror by Ray Nadeau
Starring Jacqueline Giroux, Uschi Digard and Marius Mazmanian
Produced with 2 significantly different versions, a horror version titled The Beast and the Vixens, and a sex version titled The Beauties and the Beast. Later a composite version was assembled.
Summary Notes
Girls in a nudist camp are terrorized by an Abominable Snowman-type beast.
US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:
- 2025 Dark Force Entertainment Composite Version (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon #ad released on
19th August 2025
Promotional Material It's retro Drive-In mania at it's finest with this rare 1974 exploitation flick The Beast and the Vixens (also known as 'Desperately Seeking Yeti'
and originally titled 'The Beauties and the Beast'). Shot on location in Big Bear Lake in California, "The Beast and the Vixens" is a fun filled romp about Bigfoot-like beast terrorizes women in the woods as criminals and hippies clash
in this wild blend of sex, horror, and 1970s sexploitation. This adult Drive-In cult classic had two versions released including an X-rated one showing off countless nude women including Swedish bombshell Uschi Digard (remembered from Russ Meyer's
CHERRY, HARRY & RACHEL)! The Beast/Yeti creature is straight out of B-MOVIELAND and bears a striking resemblance to the Gargantuas in the Japanese monster classic WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS. With only a prior VHS release, the original negative for this
picture had been long lost, however Dark Force Entertainment located the only surviving 35mm prints (with some extra reels from the shorter adult film version) and completed a new 2K scan of the original horror version with added soft core scenes for the
first time ever Hi-Def Blu-ray release of THE BEAST AND THE VIXENS. Bonus Materials
- DARK FORCE 'SAVAGE TRACKS' AUDIO COMMENTARY SERIES: VOL. 1 featuring Label heads: The Demon (DARK FORCE), Joe Rubin (VINEGAR SYNDROME) & David Gregory (SEVERIN) and more!
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Bad Lieutenant
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| 22nd October 2025
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Bad Lieutenant Bad Lieutenant is a 1992 US crime thriller by Abel Ferrara
Starring Harvey Keitel, Brian McElroy and Frank Acciarito
Uncut and BBFC 18 rated for 1992 cinema release. The video release got caught up in the video nasties moral panic and was cut for BBFC 18 rated VHS release in 1995. It was released uncut for BBFC 18 rated DVD in 2009. The film was once banned
in Ireland. The film was uncut and MPAA NC-17 rated in the US but there was also a cut version for release in Blockbuster video rental stores. Summary Notes While investigating a
young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption.
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The video version suffered the bad timing of being released soon after the James Bulger media panic.
- Rape of the nun: cut: scene where nun's pants are removed revealing pubic hair.
- Injecting heroin: cut: close-up of Zoe Lund's arm as she injects herself.
- Injecting heroin: cut: Keitel drinking as he watches Zoe.
- Injecting
heroin: cut: another shot of Zoe's arm with the needle in it.
- Injecting heroin: cut: close up of Zoe's face.
- Injecting heroin: cut: Zoe drawing liquid from spoon. (still present in the trailer!)
- Injecting heroin: 31s replaced
by crude dissolve: Zoe injects Keitel.
Led Zepplin threatened legal action against a track sounding slightly like "Kashmir". The offending song has been removed from 4 points in the video.
- Street drug dealing just before Keitel arrives to buy crack: now no music at all.
- Nun's rape originally to backing track "signifying rapper": now church organ music.
- Long tracking shot following Keitel into the hospital:
now no music at all.
- End credits: now have Abel Ferrara himself singing.
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Promotional Material 101 Films presents Abel Ferraras iconic neo-noir Bad Lieutenant (1992), released on 4K UHD in the UK for the first time. Driven by a career best performance by the legendary Harvey
Keitel as the titular Lieutenant, Abel Ferraras unfiltered tale of self-destruction, guilt, forgiveness and redemption shocked audiences and critics alike with its uncompromising depiction of crime in New Yorks seedy underbelly. In a career full of
provocative filmmaking, the notorious Bad Lieutenant stands alone as Ferraras most incendiary and certainly his finest piece of work. For twenty years, he has ruled the streets--gambling, stealing, using, killing. A corrupt, drug-addicted New York
City cop spirals deeper into vice while investigating the brutal assault of a young nun. As the case forces him to confront his own sins, he walks the line of self-destruction and the elusive promise of redemption. Brand
new extras: - Shooting in New York - Interview with Abel Ferrara - Ken & Abel: Interview with Cinematographer Ken Kelsch - Bad Neighborhoods - The locations of Bad Lieutenant - Limited edition booklet includes Body of Evidence: How Harvey Keitels
Bad Lieutenant Topped a Career of Fearless, Frank Performances by James Mottram, and Morality Crisis: The Vice and Virtues of Abel Ferrara by Rich Johnson Archive extras: - It All Happens Here - The making of Bad
Lieutenant - Audio Commentary with Abel Ferrara & Ken Kelsch - Interview with Abel Ferrara - Original Trailer
- Available for the first time in the UK on 4K UHD
- New interviews with crew and critics
- Newly commissioned artwork
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Limited edition includes essay booklet
- All existing extras included
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The Medium
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| 5th October 2025
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The Medium The Medium is a 1980 Italy/France horror thriller by Silvio Amadio
Starring Guido Mannari, Sherry Buchanan and Martine Brochard
There are no censorship issues with this release Summary Notes A man has psychic premonitions of bad things happening to both a young boy and a young lady in a flaming
vehicle.
US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:
- 2025 Kino International (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon #ad released on 12th August 2025
Promotional Material The Medium is an insidiously creepy supernatural horror film from director Silvio Amadio (Amuck!). Following the death of his wife, an American music composer (Guido Mannari) moves
to an old mansion in Rome with his young son. They are soon haunted by a series of inexplicable events, causing them to hire a medium to divine the true nature of their seemingly cursed existence. Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Film Historians and Hosts of Wild, Wild Podcast Adrian Smith and Rod Barnett
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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| 5th October 2025
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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Italy / Spain / West Germany western adventure by Sergio Leone.
Starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef.
Cut by the BBFC for 1968 cinema release and 1986 VHS. The shorter international Version was uncut since 2000 DVD. The Director's Cut/Extended Version was released uncut in 2008. Summary Notes
A bounty-hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
UK: BBFC 18 rated for:
- 2025 Arrow Video [Extended Cut + International Cut] Limited Edition R0 4K Blu-ray
at UK Amazon #ad released on 11th August 2025
- 2025 Arrow Video
[Extended Cut + International Cut] Limited Edition (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon #ad released on
11th August 2025
Promotional Material With the two preceding films in his 'Dollars' trilogy having unleashed a boom in Euro Western productions, Sergio Leone knew that his concluding chapter would have to top them all.
Armed with his largest budget yet, Leone created what is, for many, the final word on the subject -- a violent, picaresque epic presented with operatic scope and intensity, with Clint Eastwood donning the iconic hat and poncho one last time.
A partnership between two scoundrels, Blondie (Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) goes awry, only for fate to intervene in the form of information about a cache of stolen Confederate gold buried in a graveyard. Each possessing a different clue to
its location, the pair are forced into a distrustful partnership. However, the gold is also sought by Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless mercenary with his own twisted code of honour. Thus begins a desperate pursuit amidst the mass destruction and
absurdity of the American Civil War, culminating in an iconic three-way standoff inside the graveyard. Mythic, cynical and endlessly entertaining, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly brings
Leones grand sense of dramatic scale to its apotheosis. Arrow Films is proud to present this landmark Western in the most comprehensive edition ever assembled, featuring multiple cuts of the film, all meticulously restored in glorious 4K, and a wealth of
new and archival bonus materials. 4K ULTRA-HD SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS DISC 1 - INTERNATIONAL CUT (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY)
- New 4K restoration of the 162-minute International Cut using the original 2-perf Techniscope negative
- 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Newly restored original lossless English mono audio
- Optional newly remixed lossless English DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary by film critic and historian Tim Lucas
- Theatrical trailers, TV spots and radio spots
DISC 2 - EXTENDED CUT (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY)
- New 4K restoration of the 179-minute Extended Cut, using the original 2-perf Techniscope negative
- 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
- Newly restored original lossless English mono audio
- Optional newly remixed English DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary by film historian and Leone biographer Sir Christopher Frayling
- Audio commentary by film historian and Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel
- Seamless branching options to watch the Extended Cut with the uncut torture scene (mono only) and/or without the 'grotto' scene originally removed after the premiere
- Deleted and alternate scenes
DISC 3 - EXTRAS (BLU-RAY)
- A Circular Trilogy, a newly filmed interview with film historian and critic Fabio Melelli
- The Laughter Behind the Epic, a newly filmed interview with Giacomo Scarpelli, son of co-writer Furio Scarpelli
- Three Colors, a newly filmed
interview with Stefano Delli Colli, son of cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli
- Sergio and Sergio, a newly filmed interview with camera assistant Sergio Salvati
- The Hand That Drew The West, a newly filmed interview with Giuditta Simi,
daughter of set/costume designer Carlo Simi
- They Call Him Angel Eyes, a newly filmed interview with filmmaker and Lee Van Cleef biographer Mike Malloy
- From Falls to Fame, a newly filmed interview with stuntman Fabio Testi
- The
Man, The Cut, The Masterpiece, a newly filmed interview with editor Eugenio Alabiso
- Frames of Glory, a newly filmed interview with post-production supervisor Enzo Ocone
- That Magic Sound, a newly filmed interview with guitarist Bruno
Battisti D'Amario
- The Voice Behind the Gold, a newly filmed interview with singer Edda Dell'Orso
- Call of the Coyote, a newly filmed interview with Morricone biographer Alessandro de Rosa
- The Good, The Great and the Moody, a new
visual essay exploring the film's iconic soundtrack by musician and disc collector Lovely Jon
- Leone's West and The Leone Style, two archive featurettes with Eastwood, Wallach, Schickel, Alberto Grimaldi and Mickey Knox
- Reconstructing
the Film, an archive featurette on the assembly of the Extended Cut
- Il Maestro Parts One and Two, two archive featurettes with film music historian Jon Burlingame
- The Socorro Sequence: A Reconstruction, a featurette on a deleted scene
- The Man Who Lost the Civil War, an archive featurette on the film's depiction of the Civil War
- Vignettes (Easter Eggs), four short interviews with Eastwood and Wallach
- Alternate credits sequences
- Four comprehensive
image galleries
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
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