A long-dead Pharaoh is resurrected by one of his descendants. Along with his beautiful assistant, they kidnap and murder innocent women as the trio search for a perfect body fit to receive the Pharoah’s long-dead Queen. Writer/Star Paul Naschy plays dual roles as he pays homage to the Universal Mummy series, splashing heaps of gore and violence into the mix.
Eurocult icon Paul Naschy (Frankensteins Bloody Terror) stars as a criminal gang leader who undergoes a radical surgery in Juan Fortunys 1973 thriller CRIMSON.
The giallo remains one of the most popular sub-genres in Italian and Spanish film history. But for all of the well-known and classic films the genre has spawned, so many others have been nearly impossible to enjoy since their theatrical debuts. This first entry in our ‘Forgotten Gialli’ series presents three rarities, two from Spain and one from Italy, none of which have ever been legally available in the U.S.
Double Feature of French horror from Claude d’Anna with The Broken Mirror and Unquiet Death
THE FEAR was the third, and final, film made by director Kostas Manoussakis. It was screened at the Berlin Film Festival and was widely sold around the world. However, due to a series of problems, Manoussakis never completed another feature. Now acclaimed as a classic and one of the best Greek films of its era, THE FEAR has lost none of its power to grip the viewer with its striking imagery and pulsing, avant garde soundtrack. This is a world premiere on home video, restored from the original negative.
Surely one of the weirdest “sex comedies” ever, the story concerns Danielle (’Dany to my friends’), a freelance fashion model in early 1970s France, played here by Sandra Julien of SHIVER OF THE VAMPIRES fame. She wants to buy a car and so is saving the travel portion of her fee for that purpose. To get from gig to gig she hitchhikes. This puts her into numerous dangerous and bizarre situations, including being picked up by a hearse driver who wants to have sex with her underneath his hearse, as there’s a corpse in the back; an escaped loony who mistakes sheep for women; a horny Italian countess who’s looking for some kinky sex and flagellation; a hippy who sings rather than talks (and has a big surprise in store for Dany); a crucifix-obsessed butterfly collector; a Byzantine prince in a Rolls Royce; and more
Serge Chekov inherits his uncle’s estate, only to discover that Professor Droila, a mad scientist, has taken residence in the basement. As Chekov investigates further, he learns that Droila is reanimating the dead with the help of a necrophiliac grave robber by the name of Igor.
One of Naschy’s most significant roles, Javier Aguirre’s COUNT DRACULA’S GREAT LOVE is a sensitive, complex, and surprisingly subversive Dracula story featuring expert direction, effective gothic atmosphere, and gruesome violence. Presented here in its full strength ‘unclothed’ export version, Vinegar Syndrome brings this classic piece of Spanish horror cinema to Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in the world, fully restored from its uncut International negative and featuring a never released feature length audio commentary track with star Naschy and director Aguirre.
In 16th century France, Inquisitor and magistrate Bernard de Fossey (Paul Naschy) travels to the plague-ridden region of Peyriac in search of witches and devil worshippers. Local beauty Catherine (Daniela Giordano) quickly catches his eye, tormenting him with impure thoughts, although her affections lie with her handsome fiancé Jean. Meanwhile, embittered one-eyed manservant Rénover (Antonio Iranzo) presents Bernard with his first group of torture victims when he accuses several sexy young
Violent Spanish slasher starring the great Paul Naschy about a group of students who decided to have a party where a group of students met their demise 27 years earlier.
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