Coming Soon to this Screen

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© 2010 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

Resurrecting the Pope -- Bob Murawski on the Restoration of Duke Mitchell's GONE WITH THE POPE (1975)

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It's here.  Can you believe it?

On Friday, March 12th, 2010, Duke Mitchell's never-released Gone with the Pope will finally have its world premiere at The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.  Filmed in 1975, the film sat unfinished until ace editor and Grindhouse Releasing head honcho Bob Murawski decided to take a crack at it.  Little did he know just how long it would take...

Cinema Arcana:  When did you first get interested in the films of Duke Mitchell?

Bob Murawski:  Back in 1995, Bill Lustig and I watched the Video Gems VHS of The Executioner (aka Massacre Mafia Style).  I think Sage Stallone had given him a copy, but I hadn't met him yet.  We both thought it was one of the funniest, most off-the-wall and entertaining movies we had ever seen.

CA:  How did the finding and restoration of Gone with the Pope come about?  What did the restoration require?

BM:  After watching The Executioner, we said we've gotta find this guy Duke Mitchell and meet him.  Bill called around and discovered that Duke had died in 1981.  We were pretty saddened to find that out, but a couple of days later Bill called me and said he found Duke's son, Jeff.  He was living in an apartment in Hollywood only about two blocks from where Bill was living!  So I went over to Bill's place, met Sage for the first time, and the three of us went over to Jeff's place.  We told him we were big fans of his father and wanted to find his movie The Executioner and re-release it.  Jeff said he had no idea what happened to that movie, but said he had another feature that his Dad made after The Executioner that was shot but never finished.  He said he didn't think it had even been edited, and if we wanted to take it and try to do something with it then go ahead.  Of course, we said, "ABSOLUTELY!"

We went down to his parking garage and pulled a bunch of dusty old boxes out of his storage closet that had been there since Duke passed away.  Everything was there—the negative, sound tapes and work picture, along with some paperwork that helped us piece everything together.  There was no shooting script, per se, just a lot of scenes written out in notebooks, loose pieces of paper, and, in a couple of instances, backs of envelopes and cocktail napkins!  There was a very crude rough assembly of the movie, but it was long and nowhere near being finished.  17 reels and, of that, reels 9-13 were totally missing and never found.  We screened the reels and found it to be incredibly entertaining—totally different than The Executioner, but still a Duke Mitchell movie through and through.  However, since it was in such rough shape, we knew finishing would be a big job and would probably take a few years.  It ended up taking sixteen!  We started trying to fine cut the movie, working from the assembly, then going back to the trims and outtakes when necessary to smooth things out and make the scenes and story flow better.  For the reels that were totally missing, we carefully went through the original negative to determine what we didn't have, and made fresh work print of that material, which was then edited from scratch.  Two other friends helped me with the editing -- Paul Hart and Jody Fedele, both of whom had worked with me on a lot of other movies like Army of Darkness and Hard Target.  The whole thing was a giant jigsaw puzzle.  Very time consuming.  I worked on it whenever I had time between my real editing jobs over the past 15 years.

I finally finished the picture cut in the time I had between Spider-Man 2 and 3.  We then started the soundwork, which was just as difficult.  I hired the best soundpeople to do the work -- Paul Ottosson, who I had worked with on the Spidey movies and who had been nominated for an Academy Award; Robert Troy, the dialogue editor, and John Sanacore, the foley artist, both from The Hurt Locker; and Marti Humphrey and Brad Semanoff, who had done the sound mix on Drag Me to Hell.  There were numerous problems with the sound, but through the skill of the sound crew, who employed all the newest, most state-of-the-art digital technology, we created a great soundmix for the film last summer.  The final step was scanning all the original camera negative and doing full restoration at Fotokem Lab in Burbank.  Over 1000 hours were spent cleaning up the picture, removing dirt and camera scratches.  The color and density were graded by ace colorist Alastor Arnold over a period of 4 months.  Additional work was done at HTV/Illuminate to restore sharpness as much as possible to some out of focus shots.  Finally, about two weeks ago, we filmed out the negative and saw a complete 35mm print.

CA:  Gone with the Pope's premiere is the same week as the Academy Awards (Bob and his wife Chris Innis are nominated in the Best Editing category for their work on The Hurt Locker). Which one are you more excited about?

 

BM:  It's an honor to be nominated for an Academy Award after over 20 years working in the movie business, but I must admit I'm even more excited about the premiere of Gone with the Pope.  That movie was 35 years in the making!

 

CA:  What can fans expect from the DVD releases of Pope and Massacre Mafia Style?

 

BM:  The utmost in picture and sound quality as well as great packaging with all the exhaustive extras you have come to expect from Grindhouse Releasing.  However, we feel strongly about the theatrical experience, so we will be trying to book the movies in as many cities as possible.  Watch for them, coming soon to a theater near you!

 

CA:  Any other Grindhouse Releasing news worth discussing?

 

BM:  An American Hippie in Israel is coming up; we did a beautiful new HD transfer and have incredible, in-depth interviews with stars Asher Tzarfati and Schmuel Wolf that we shot in Tel Aviv earlier this year.

 

Thanks, Bob.  For more information on theatrical screenings of Gone with the Pope, check out its official website.  For more on Grindhouse Releasing, click here.

© 2010 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved. 

He’s Dead, Jim – Emilio Vieyra (1920-2010)

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A memorial, of sorts.

On January 25th 2010, news broke that Argentina’s genre groundbreaker Emilio Vieyra had passed away. His career as a director was all over the map, moving freely from noirish crime tales to action comedies and vigilante thrillers, but it was his quintet of crackpot horror outings that really opened the eyes of psychotronic students on U.S. shores–Stay Tuned for Terror, The Deadly Organ, The Curious Dr. Humpp, The Nude Beast, and Blood of the Virgins.

In my opinion, Vieyra’s current popularity in the English-speaking world is really due to the tireless efforts of two people: Frank Henenlotter and Pete Tombs. I thought it was only right to give this pair a platform to share their memories of the man who gave us all so many wonderful hours of hyper hypo needle attacks, pissed-off brains in buckets, el happenings & stripper murders, vampires who turn into seagulls, mad scientists and more.

In Pete Tombs’ essential 1997 ‘Mondo Macabro’ text, there's a chapter (written by Diego Curubeto) dedicated to Argentina’s exploitation film history, including plenty of space dedicated to Emilio. In 2001 this idea was fleshed out as part of Channel 4’s UK television series of the same name, including an interview with the director himself. Two years later, Blood of the Virgins was issued on British DVD, followed by a stellar US release in 2004.

Take it away, Pete:

“I was very sorry to read of the death of Emilio Vieyra. He lived to the ripe old age of 89 and was still working right up to the end. That's the way to go. I have very fond memories of meeting him ten years or so ago when we shot the Argentine episode of the Mondo Macabro TV series. He was very generous with both his time and his memories of those long ago pioneering days of Argentinean exploitation cinema. Although some of the Argentine newspapers described him as "the local Ed Wood," I know that he was held in high regard by many of the technicians and actors he worked with on those early films, several of whom went on to become significant figures in Argentina’s film world. His films, like the man, were lively and inventive. El venganza del sexo is something of an oddball masterpiece when seen in its original Spanish cut -- a truly original piece of work that will continue to be enjoyed long after all of us have turned to dust and joined Emilio at that big cinema in the sky.”

Going back even further, El Culto de Vieyra really started in the early ‘90s, when Something Weird Video founder Mike Vraney and director Frank Henenlotter discovered the negative to The Curious Dr. Humpp during one of their now-famous exploitation excavations and unleashed it on an unsuspecting world. Thanks to Frank’s tantalizing catalog write-up, the film quickly became a bizarro must-see for fans of cinema arcana. Something Weird later also issued The Deadly Organ and Violated Love on VHS, and during the 2000s released Humpp and Organ to DVD, further widening Vieyra’s reputation as a Patagonian go-to for the weird and wonderful.

Here’s Frank, in his own words:

"Though I’m now a little fuzzy on the exact date and location, I still vividly remember the moment when I was prowling through the abandoned films left in an underground vault by a lab that had otherwise vanished and saw a row of cans marked “The Curious Dr. Humpp.” It was not a film I saw when it played Times Square in 1970, but there it was, orphaned and forgotten, and just begging me and Mike Vraney to pick it up and give it a home.

"I also vividly remember the first moment I watched it, utterly blown away by its heady mix of monsters, sex, and a talking brain in a jar with a bad attitude. The Curious Dr. Humpp quickly became one of the jewels in my “Sexy Shockers from the Vault” series released through Something Weird Video, and also my link to the man who made it, the Argentinean director Emilio Vieyra.

"A prolific director of Argentinean exploitation, Vieyra noticed the lack of fantastic films made in his country and, in the late 1960s, churned out five quirky gems back to back. One of them was La Venganza del Sexo, in which crazy Dr. Zoide’s sex experiments turn women into insatiable nymphomaniacs and men into stone-faced automatons. In one utterly delirious moment, one of those funny-faced robots is sent to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription causing the brain in the jar to angrily scold the doctor: “Anyone needing drugs doesn’t send a monster to a drug store!” (Director Vieyra can be glimpsed as a customer in the same drug store.)

"Venganza del Sexo was imported into the U.S. by sexploitation distributor Jerald Intrator whose specialty was shooting sex scenes in New York and splicing them into foreign films. Though Venganza already contained a healthy amount of skin, Intrator added 17 more minutes of sex inserts and changed the title to The Curious Dr. Humpp, which wasn’t a reference to the doctor’s inquisitive nature, but rather meant to echo I Am Curious (Yellow) which was then a box-office sensation.

"Shortly after Something Weird released Dr. Humpp on VHS, I got word that Emilio Vieyra was coming to New York and would like to meet me. I jumped at the chance and, though his English was bad and my Spanish was non-existent, we became friends. On a few more occasions when he was in Manhattan on business we would have dinner or breakfast together. A mild, dignified man with a sly sense of humor, he was a delight to know.

"He was also thrilled that Venganza was getting a new lease on life. Pretty much ignored on its Argentinean release, Vieyra was thrilled that this crazy American cult director was championing his baby and often mentioned me and Dr. Humpp in interviews back home (though he was not terribly thrilled with the added inserts).

"Emilio also gave me posters, stills, and copies of his other horror films. Extraña Invasion (Stay Tuned for Terror) is about mysterious signals emanating from television broadcasts which turn viewers into TV addicts. It stars Richard Conte and Vieyra himself as a deranged TV repairman. Sangre de Virgens (Blood of the Virgins) offers sexy bloodsucker Susan Beltran preying on a ski resort, with Vierya playing a police inspector. Placer Sangriento (The Deadly Organ / Feast of Flesh) is about a man in a monster mask who uses heroin and a strange tune on a record to turn women into love slaves. And the wonderful La Bestia Desnuda (The Nude Beast) is a wild, '60s-style thriller about another man in a monster mask killing off members of a theatrical troupe putting on a horror musical. Vieyra plays the show’s director with Aldo Barbero, Dr. Humpp himself, as the hero.

"I also enjoyed many of Vieyra’s other exploitation films and, of course, I enjoyed the man himself. I’m sorry to learn that he passed away at, I believe, the age of 89.

"In tribute, tonight I shall watch Dr. Humpp yet again, then La Bestia Desnuda for an all Emilio double bill."

Much obliged, Pete and Frank. Now what do we have to do to get The Nude Beast on DVD?

If you're unfamiliar with Emilio Vieyra's body of work, here are a few helpful links to get you up to speed:

Exploitation saviors, Something Weird Video.

-- The Curious Dr. Humpp on DVD. (One of my Top Ten of 2000!)

-- The Deadly Organ on DVD as Feast of Flesh, paired with the mindblowing Night of the Bloody Apes. (One of my Top Ten of 2002!)

-- Violated Love on DVD-R.

Pete Tombs and Andy Starke's DVD label, Mondo Macabro.

-- Blood of the Virgins on DVD. (One of my Top Ten of 2004!)

Frank Henenlotter's newest, the excellent Bad Biology. (Sure to be one of my Top Ten of 2010!)

Emilio's old website.
Some of the above images were stolen from Wrong Side of the Art.

© 2010 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

Top Ten DVDs of 2009!

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If you haven't been keeping an eye on the Mondo Digital mainpage, I recommend checking it out. I've compiled a rundown of various critics' choices for their favorite DVDs of 2009; writers include myself, Nathaniel Thompson, Stephen Thrower, Shane M. Dallmann, Ian Jane, Jared Auner and Louis Fowler. Several titles make repeat appearances—top discs like Code Red’s Messiah of Evil, Severin’s Hardware, Lionsgate’s My Bloody Valentine and Mondo Vision’s The Important Thing is to Love should already be part of your collection—but we all get to wax poetically about some unheralded gems like Hanna D., Black Magic 2, The Centerfold Girls and Embodiment of Evil as well. Hopefully you'll find a few items to spend your holiday gift cards on! Below are my picks; purchasing links are available by clicking the titles. 

Top Ten DVDs & Blu-Rays of 2009:

Alphabetically, because it was hard enough to pick ten, much less put ‘em in order:

CAT IN THE BRAIN (Grindhouse)

Years of legal problems have prevented Fulci’s last real masterpiece—a mishmash of appropriated exsanguination footage formed into the Maestro’s own splat-happy 8½—from getting its proper domestic release. 2009 marks the year Grindhouse came to the rescue with this superlative double-disc special edition that not only presents the hand-hacking, head-smashing, gut-spilling, chainsaw-swinging carnage newly restored from its original vault materials, but also serves as a tribute to the late director himself in the form of lengthy interviews and clips. As with all of their titles, Grindhouse have packed every nook and cranny with peripheral goodies to ensure hours of exploring; bonus points for the awesome limited lenticular cover! 

THE CENTERFOLD GIRLS (Dark Sky)

Andrew Prine gives the performance of his career in this atypically structured, fast-paced and consistently surprising serial killer endeavor, stalking and slashing the titular beauties in an effort to “help” them. A few sentences can’t do justice to the jaded worldview this film showcases; no man can be trusted, and no woman is safe. It’s an unheralded classick with a mile-wide meanstreak that’s still criminally under-the-radar; what does it take to get people talking nowadays? Remastered from the camera negative, this grainy, grungy film looks as good as it probably ever will, backed up with an entertaining little featurette, trailers and selections from the excellent score.

COMBAT SHOCK (Troma)

Probably more relevant today than it was 25 years ago, Buddy Giovinazzo’s nihilistic peek at the post-war breakdown of the American soldier remains a bleak, harrowing, nightmarish ride, just as it should. Troma’s 2-disc re-release gives us the US theatrical print along with the unseen longer original American Nightmares edit, restoring character beats and backstory, along with a previously-censored shot of oven-ooze. However, where this set really excels is with its bonus platter; we get everything from promo shorts for Mr. Robbie and Jonathan of the Night, to a video appreciation featuring the film’s more notable fans, tons of interviews, location footage -- they even sneak in some catchy Buddy G. New Wave Muzak videos! “I go back there every night…” 

FEMALE PRISONER: CAGED! (Mondo Macabro)

Living up to their Mission Statement of delivering the “Wild Side of World Cinema,” Mondo Macabro issued a varied slew of Japanese pinku eiga this year, but none blew my mind like this unrepentantly sleazy Asian-flavored babes-behind-bars romp. An extraordinarily grubby affair, various bodily fluids get splashed across the screen throughout, but its undeniably jaw-dropping highlight involves a bit of through-the-fence watersports that whips our felonious females into an orgiastic frenzy! And that doesn’t account for the forced foot sucking, the secret S&M sessions or surprise post-coitus discharge… A nice package for such a dirty film, including a fine transfer, a Nikkatsu pink documentary and trailers, an interview featurette and more. 

HANNA D.: THE GIRL FROM VONDEL PARK (Severin)

Why aren’t internet messageboards alight with praise for this blazing pile of Eurotrash raunch? Detailing the travels and travails of a teenage runaway junkie streetwalker searching for love and meaning, Hanna D. has it all, from dopey romance ballads to eyeball smack injections, from Sirkian melodrama to a startlingly graphic tutorial on DIY drug smuggling that just about knocked me off the couch. In addition to a gorgeous print, Severin thoughtfully includes an extensive, career-length interview with dear dead trash maven Rino Di Silvestro, you know, for educational purposes. “It wasn’t enough to give me The Clap, this time you’ve gone too far!” 

HARDWARE (Severin) (Blu-Ray)

A thing of beauty, this one. Richard Stanley’s ahead-of-its-time cyberpunk debut sees its first uncut Stateside release, with its hallucinatory slate of self-inflicted dismemberments, elevator bisections and rouge robot eye-pokes fully preserved for the masses to enjoy—no flesh shall be spared, indeed. For years relegated to hideous presentations that made mud of its carefully constructed visuals, this high definition transfer is really the only way to view Hardware; the film’s so bathed in intense reds that any lesser format just can’t compete. The disc is fittingly loaded with a worthy roster of special features, too; besides an excellent making-of documentary (one of my favorites of recent memory) we’re treated to shorts, deleted scenes, commentary and more. You can’t stop progress. 

LOST SOULS (Image)

Over recent years, we’ve been blessed with a massive slate of restored efforts from the Shaw Bros. catalog of HK classics, running the gamut from their noted chopsocky output to bizarro horror oddities, weepy musicals and, in this case, a political exploitation shockudrama chronicling the plight of Chinese illegals being slaved across Hong Kong! Corralled like cattle in a secluded shanty, it’s Sleaze City as the immigrants are subjected to regular rounds of gang beatings, hot wax assaults, some birthday buggery and worse until they realize that revolution is their only choice. A bona fide brain-blaster of the highest order; would you expect anything less from the director of Men behind the Sun? No real extras other than some newly-created trailers, but they did manage to unearth the English dub track! 

MARTYRS (Optimum) (UK RB) (Blu-Ray)

Hard to watch, harder to recommend and impossible to forget, this fearless French-fried dose of audience-dividing audacity does what all fine genre films should: get under your skin and stay there. Ignore the cries of “torture porn,” Martyrs has a lot more on its mind. Fiercely unpredictable—every time you think you have your finger on it, it lurches into uncharted territory—this is a true modern classic. Genius’ domestic DVD is plenty good with a great-looking transfer and hour-long documentary, but fans without region constrictions will want the hi-def import. 

MESSIAH OF EVIL (Code Red)

Finally rescued from the PD ghetto, this neglected exercise in Lovecraftian dread gets the makeover it so richly deserves; if you’ve only viewed Messiah of Evil on prior home video incarnations, you have NOT seen Messiah of Evil! Mastered in high definition from super-rare film elements and restoring the ‘scope framing so essential to appreciating its inspired photography, Code Red’s presentation at last makes reevaluation possible, hopefully serving to give this unique ‘70s outing the attention it’s lacked in decades prior. Numerous interviews and commentary serve to sweeten the deal on one of 2009’s most important releases.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE (Lionsgate) (Blu-Ray)

Due to Paramount’s notorious habit of literally trashing important film material, most slasher fans had long given up their hopes of ever seeing the long-deleted bits of miner-induced pickaxe mayhem, so mouth-wateringly displayed in an ancient Fangoria article, intact. Well, if there’s one thing to praise the recent Hollywood remake trend for, it’s this Blu-Ray. In a surprise move, Lionsgate have rescued the censored snippets and restored them to the film proper, giving one of the ‘80s best bodycount pictures back its teeth and supplementing it with multiple extras -- all for a low, low price.

Honorable Mentions:

Black Magic 2 (Media Blasters)

Craving Desire (Mya)
Repulsion (Criterion) (Blu-Ray)
The Sinful Dwarf XXX (Severin)
Teenage Graffiti / Teenage Mother (Code Red)



For a look at Cinema Arcana's top picks from years past, click here!

© 2009-2013 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

Upcoming DVD & Blu-Ray Releases of Note

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Future Undated:
Abigail Leslie is Back in Town / Laura's Toys (Film Movement)
After Hours (Criterion)
Alice in Wonderland (Synapse)
The All American Girl / The All American Woman (Vinegar Syndrome)
Aroused / Fly Now, Pay Later (SWV/AGFA)
Arsenic and Old Lace (Criterion)
L'Atlantide (Arrow)
The Balcony (Kino)
Beyond Therapy (Scorpion)
Blondedeath (AGFA)
Blood on Melies' Moon (Reelgore)
Blue Summer (Vinegar Syndrome)
Boris Godounov (Mondo Vision)
The Brides Wore Blood (Retromedia)
Butterflies / Bibi (Film Movement)
California Split (Criterion)
Cannibal! The Musical (Troma)
Cards of Death (AGFA)
Career Bed (Vinegar Syndrome)
The Change (Massacre)
City of the Dead (Cohen)
Cloistered Nun: Sexual Frustration in a Black Robe (Synapse)
The Convent (Synapse)
Coonskin (Vinegar Syndrome)
Crazy Nuns (Redemption)
Creature from Black Lake (Synapse)
Crocodile (Synapse)
Cross Shot (Raro)
Crossed Swords (Kino)
Daddy Darling / The Indelicate Balance (Film Movement)
The Danish Connection (Vinegar Syndrome)
The Deadly Spawn (Synapse)
Death Game (Grindhouse)
Death Row Diner (Massacre)
The Devil (Mondo Vision)
Devil's Due (Vinegar Syndrome)
A Different Story (Scorpion)
Don Giovanni (Olive)
Don't Go Near the Park (Severin)
Don't Play Us Cheap (Vinegar Syndrome)
The Dragon Lives (Synapse)
The Electric Chair / The Guy from Harlem (SWV/AGFA)
Falchi: Falcons Special Squad (Raro)
Family Enforcer (Grindhouse)
The Farmer (Scorpion)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Criterion)
Get Crazy! (Kino)
The Girl Slaves of Morgana le Fay (Mondo Macabro)
Go For It! (Vinegar Syndrome)
The Great Kidnapping (Raro)
Group Marriage (Vinegar Syndrome)
Hail! (Synapse)
The Headless Ghost (Synapse)
Hollywood 90028 (Grindhouse) aka Twisted Throats
Horror / The Strangler of the Tower (Retromedia) aka The Blanchville Monster
Horror High (Vinegar Syndrome)
Horrors of the Black Museum (Synapse)
I'll Never Die Alone (Synapse)
The Ice House (Grindhouse)
Inga / The Seduction of Inga (Film Movement)
Intrepidos Punks (Vinegar Syndrome)
It Happened One Weekend (Grindhouse)
Killers (Synapse)
The Last House on Dead End Street (Vinegar Syndrome)
The Legend of Hillbilly John (Kino)
Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (Raro)
Loose Ends (Vinegar Syndrome)
Love After Death / Sex on the Groove Tube (SWV/AGFA)
Mark of the Werewolf (Code Red)
Massacre at Central High (Synapse)
McBain (Synapse)
Me, Natalie (Kino)
Men Behind the Sun (Massacre)
Misty (Code Red)
The Monster at Camp Sunshine / Professor Lust (SWV/AGFA)
Moonlighting Wives (Code Red)
Moonlighting Wives / The Naked Fog (Film Movement)
Naples...The Camorra Challenges, the City Hits Back (Raro)
Necromania (SWV/AGFA)
Never Steal Anything Small (Kino)
Night Pulse (Massacre)
Nightmare / Dog Tags (Massacre)
Nude for Satan (Redemption)
Number 17 (Kino)
The Odd Triangle / Desire Under the Palms (Film Movement)
Ostermontag (Massacre)
The Other Side of the Wind (Criterion)
A Pain in the Ass (Kino)
Patty (Synapse)
The Photographer (Grindhouse)
Piazza Vittorio (Raro)
Pot! Parents! Police! / The Devil's Joint (SWV/AGFA)
The Punishment (Mondo Macabro)
Raven's End (Olive)
The Real Bruce Lee (Severin)
Return from the Ashes (Kino)
Rooms for Tourists (Synapse)

Room of Chains (SWV/AGFA)
Satantango (Arbelos)
Scream Bloody Murder (Grindhouse)
Scum of the Earth (Grindhouse) aka Poor White Trash II
The Secret Ways (Kino)
Sexual Assault! 13 Hours (Synapse)
The Shadowed Mind (Mondo Macabro)
Short Films of Alex de Renzy (Vinegar Syndrome)
Silent Death (Vinegar Syndrome)
The Silver Globe (Mondo Vision)
Snake Sisters (Mondo Macabro)
Sorority House Massacre 2 / Hard to Die (Shout Factory)
The Stationmaster's Wife (Olive)
The Steel-Fisted Dragon (Synapse)
Story of a Three-Day Pass (Vinegar Syndrome)
Suicide Dolls (Massacre)
Swedish Wildcats / Siv and Anne and Sven (Film Movement)
T.A.G.: The Assassination Game (Synapse)
Tales of a Salesman / Voices of Desire (SWV/AGFA)
Times Square (Kino)
The Third Part of the Night (Mondo Vision)
To Be Twenty (Raro)
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die (Synapse)
Tombs of the Blind Dead (Synapse)
Trailers from Hell (Synapse)
True Story of a Woman in Jail: The Hell of Love (Synapse)
Twist of Fate (Kino)
2+5 Mission Hydra (Raro) aka Star Pilot
The Unnamable II (Unearthed)
The Usual Suspects (Criterion)
Violent Life (Raro)
Voodoo Black Exorcist (AGFA)
Watch 'Em Die (Synapse)
Waterpower (Code Red)
The Whisperers (Kino)
Who Works is Lost (Raro)
Working Girls (Vinegar Syndrome)
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (Olive)
Young Warriors (Severin)


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