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13 Notes in Red

13 Notes in Red

Horror

After a seemingly drunken evening, Charlotte wakes up in the middle of the night on her bed. While she has no memory of the past few hours, she hears her co-tenant being violently attacked in her room.

The Asphyx

The Asphyx

Cult · Sci-Fi and Fantasy · Horror

Blending elements of Gothic horror with the more contemporary ingredients of steampunk, THE ASPHYX has emerged from obscurity to become a cult favorite of the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Utilizing an experimental photographic device, a scientist (Robert Stephens) captures what appears to be the image of…

Black Torment

Black Torment

Horror

An 18th-century gothic thriller, depicted with the overt eroticism borrowed from the Hammer films, THE BLACK TORMENT is now recognized as "a minor classic". Returning to his country estate with his new bride, an English nobleman finds himself under suspicion for the rape and brutal murder of a young…

The Blood Beast Terror

The Blood Beast Terror

Thriller · Cult · Horror

This classically told monster movie directed by Vernon Sewell is set in motion when mutilated bodies begin appearing in the English countryside, drained of blood. Horror icon Peter Cushing stars as Detective Inspector Quennell, brought in to investigate the deaths.

Burke & Hare (Special Edition)

Burke & Hare (Special Edition)

Crime · Cult · Historic Drama

A colorful, early ’70s rendition of life in the taverns, brothels, and surgical theatres of 1820s Scotland, blending dark comedy with bawdy eroticism, seasoning it with the grotesque, then crowning it with a playful theme song by the pop band The Scaffold.

The Comeback

The Comeback

Thriller · Cult · Horror

Pop star Jack Jones (best remembered for the theme from The Love Boat) plays a singer who is haunted by the death of his estranged wife, and led into a confrontation with the killer, in THE COMEBACK. A sleek and entertaining slasher film from director Pete Walker, it is a bloody illustration of the …

The Demoniacs (Unrated Extended Cut)

The Demoniacs (Unrated Extended Cut)

Erotic · Cult · Horror

A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, THE DEMONIACS (Les Demoniaques) concerns a band of "wreckers" who rape and murder two young sisters, the survivors (Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier) of a ship they have lured into coastal rocks and plundered.

Diabolical Dr. Z

Diabolical Dr. Z

Horror

A stylish medical-horror thriller that brings to mind the work of Georges Franju and David Cronenberg, The Diabolical Dr. Z is a vitally important film in the horror cinema’s transition from spooky scares to a more dreamy and erotic variety that would become the signature of Spanish-born filmm…

Die Screaming, Marianne

Die Screaming, Marianne

Cult · Horror

Marianne (Susan George, STRAW DOGS), following the sudden death of her mother, stands to inherit the family fortune, along with several documents that could incriminate her corrupt judge of a father. Now, her sister and her father both want their hands on Marianne's inheritance and they'll stop at n…

Eden and After

Eden and After

Cult · World Cinema · Horror

From the darkly erotic imagination of Alain Robbe-Grillet (Trans-Europe-Express) comes EDEN AND AFTER, a dreamlike fable in which a group of decadent French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman.

The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein

The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein

Horror

After the death of Victor Frankenstein (Dennis Price), two figures vie for control of his metallic-skinned monster (Fernando Bilbao) and the radical technology that created him: the scientist's daughter, Vera (Beatriz Savon), and the immortal wizard Cagliostro (Howard Vernon), who is assisted by a b…

The Escapees

The Escapees

Cult · Drama · Horror

THE ESCAPEES is among Rollin's most personal films, and has been remastered in HD from the original 35mm negative. Jean Rollin's THE ESCAPEES revisits the director's fascination with pairs of women who wander, dreamlike, through a modern dystopia (Requiem for a Vampire, Two Orphan Vampires). Two fem…

Far From the Apple Tree

Far From the Apple Tree

Sci-Fi · Fantasy · Horror

Judith is a struggling art student who lands a dream job of working for a renowned and somewhat sinister visual artist. Judithʼs work involves cataloguing the artistʼs video footage and in doing so she discovers film sequences of a young woman, the artistʼs dead daughter, who looks exactly like h…

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Hatchet for the Honeymoon

Cult · Horror

Seven years after innovating the grisly Italian genre known as giallo, Mario Bava returned to the form to create one of its deliriously frightening examples: HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (Il rosso segno della follia).

Home Before Midnight

Home Before Midnight

Cult · Horror

A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.

House of Mortal Sin

House of Mortal Sin

Cult · Horror

A deranged priest takes it upon himself to punish his parishioners for their moral transgressions

House of Whipcord

House of Whipcord

Thriller · Cult · Horror

In HOUSE OF WHIPCORD, fashion model Ann-Marie (Penny Irving) is lured into a private reform school where she is punished for her sexually liberated behavior by a zealous warden (Barbara Markham). The warden and her doddering husband established this house of horrors to stifle the sexual revolution, …

The Iron Rose

The Iron Rose

Erotic · Cult · World Cinema

Two lovers have a tryst in a vacant tomb, only to find themselves trapped within the graves and crypts of the massive cemetery. One of cult director Jean Rollin’s most unconventional films, THE IRON ROSE vividly depicts the young couple’s steady descent into madness.

L'Immortelle

L'Immortelle

Erotic · Cult · Drama

L'MMORTELLE is a cinematic arabesque that teases the eye with visual delights yet sadistically confounds expectations. A Frenchman (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) traveling in Istanbul becomes entranced by a mysterious woman who seems to encourage his attentions but remains just beyond his reach. His erot…

The Living Dead Girl

The Living Dead Girl

Cult · Horror

Bloodier and more violent than his own tastes preferred, THE LIVING DEAD GIRL forced Rollin to work against the grain in his own preferred genre - and he transformed himself in the process.

Miss ZOMBIE

Miss ZOMBIE

Horror

When the Teramoto family received their new domestic servant, Sara (Ayaka Komatsu), they were provided specific instructions: do not feed her meat (“It may turn feral”) and use the enclosed pistol to “dispatch” it, if there is a threat of bodily harm.

The Night of the Hunted

The Night of the Hunted

Erotic · Cult · Sci-Fi and Fantasy

A man driving home late one night nearly hits a beautiful, scantily-clad woman who is running wild in the streets; he takes her back to his apartment, they make love, and he discovers that she has already forgotten where they met. She is rapidly losing her memory, a woman without a past. The amnesia…

Nude for Satan

Nude for Satan

Horror

Italian Gothic horror that tells the tale of a man who stops at a remote castle hoping to get medical help for an injured woman, only to find the inhabitants mirror the darker sides of the woman and himself.

The Pete Walker Collection (4 Blu-ray Set)

The Pete Walker Collection (4 Blu-ray Set)

Thriller · Horror

An influential figure in the 1970s British indie cinema, producer/director Pete Walker tested the limits of film censorship in the UK with a string of gruesome and erotic thrillers. The four films in this collection—HOUSE OF WHIPCORD; SCHIZO; DIE SCREAMING, MARIANNE; and THE COMEBACK—dem…

Phantasmagoria

Phantasmagoria

Horror

Set in a grey, bleak and decrepit European town an American investigative journalist (Rachel Audrey) is looking into a series of macabre and strange phenomenon that have been impacting the local residents.

The Rape of the Vampire

The Rape of the Vampire

Cult · Avant Garde · Vampires

A psychiatrist (Bernard Letrou) ventures to a remote castle to convince a brood of four vampire sisters that they are misguided, brainwashed by superstitious villagers, and not truly creatures of the Supernatural.

Requiem for a Vampire

Requiem for a Vampire

Erotic · Cult · Vampires

REQUIEM?FOR?A?VAMPIRE was Jean Rollin’s favorite of all his films. Because he dredged the scenario from his subconscious, and because it was rushed into its written form so quickly, he felt it was his purest work.

Revelations of a Psychiatrist in a World of Perverse Sex

Revelations of a Psychiatrist in a World of Perverse Sex

Exploitation · Drama

Mondo-style film in which a psychiatrist explains to his students several stories of sexual deviancy.

Satanic Sluts: The Black Order Cometh

Satanic Sluts: The Black Order Cometh

Horror

Real bloodletting, Japanese rope bondage, whippings and satanic crucifixions through fantasized sequences involving torture, medical experiments and vampirism.

Two Orphan Vampires

Two Orphan Vampires

Staff Picks · Cult · Vampires

TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES follows two blind girls of unknown origin, raised in an orphanage by two adoring nuns. Little do the nuns know, each night as the sun goes down, their "little angels" acquire night vision, as well as an appetite for blood and teenage mischief.

Vice and Virtue

Vice and Virtue

Cult · Drama · World Cinema

In Nazi occupied France, two sisters navigate very different courses. Juliette (Annie Girardot) is surrounded by the spoils of war, being the mistress of an SS colonel. Justine (Catherine Deneuve), whose husband is seized by fascists on their wedding day, is taken to a chateau in the country, where …

Virgin Witch

Virgin Witch

Erotic · Cult · Horror

Capitalizing on the pop cultural fascination with the occult, while taking advantage of the era's relaxed censorship, VIRGIN WITCH was one of the more notorious British horror films of the early seventies.