Movie Ad of the Week: THE CANNIBAL MAN a.k.a. THE APARTMENT ON THE 13TH FLOOR...
Eloy de la Iglesia's grisly 1971 shocker LA SEMANA DEL ASESINO/THE WEEK OF THE KILLER, starring Vicente Parra and Emma Cohen, was acquired for U.S. distribution by Hallmark Releasing (of LAST HOUSE ON...
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WHITE SALT AND SUNSHINE (1974)FeaturingCraig BreedloveGary GabelichArt ArfonsMickey ThompsonAb JenkinsAthol GrahamSir Malcolm CampbellGlen LeasherDr. Nathan OstichCaptain George EystonTom GreenDonald...
View ArticleGaragehouse Pictures unleashes THE SATANIST and TRAILER TRAUMA 3 on Blu-ray!
Holy crap! Chris worked on two awesome Blu-rays from Garagehouse Pictures recently - one of which came out three months ago - and he hasn't done much to promote either of them. Well, it's definitely...
View ArticleMovie Ads of the Week: The Many Faces of HORROR HOSPITAL (1974-1978)
Richard Gordon's comic-horror production HORROR HOSPITAL (1973) -- directed by Antony Balch and starring Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Vanessa Shaw and Dennis Price -- was acquired for the U.S. by...
View ArticleMystery Movie: TEENAGE RUNAWAYS (1974)
In June 1974, Hallmark Releasing put out something called TEENAGE RUNAWAYS, an obvious cash-in on a then-topical subject, with a tag line that rips from a well-known television PSA ("It's 10 P.M. Do...
View ArticleMovie Ads of the Week: The Many Faces of SOLANGE (1974-1977)
Massimo Dallamano's COSA AVETE FATTO A SOLANGE?, featuring Fabio Testi and Camille Keaton, was picked up for U.S. distribution by Hallmark Releasing Corporation in 1973 and apparently screened as both...
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Rated X, for excellence in violenceBOGARD(1975)StarringRichard LawsonDabney ColemanRobert BurrAnnazette ChaseJoseph RuskinSherry BoucherDirected byTimothy GalfasStory byTim KellyScreenplayByTim...
View ArticleMystery Movie solved! THE SWORD AND THE CLAW (1983)
Three and a half years ago we put up a Mystery Movie post about THE SWORD AND THE CLAW, the main feature on a martial arts triple bill from William Mishkin Motion Pictures that opened on August 26,...
View ArticleMovie Ad of the Week: HOLY WEDNESDAY (1974)
World Premiere - Friday, April 26, 1974 - San Bernardino, CAHOLY WEDNESDAY - El Paso, TX - March 21, 1975SNAKELUST - Lawton, OK - September 26, 1975FANGS - Tallahassee, FL - February 18, 1977
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HENTAI (1966)StarringSayuri SakuraKyôji KokonoeKôtarô MoriMasayoshi NogamiKuniko MasudaNoboru MisawaKen SugiyamaKenji HagiKen AkaishiNoboru TakeishiShigeo SoneJirô UrashimaMiki JôHiroko OkamotoDirected...
View ArticleMovie Ad of the Week: The Many Faces of RANSOM (1977)
Filmed in October 1976 in Phoenix and Scottsdale, AZ under the title RAN$OM, this early Arnold Kopelson credit -- which, not surprisingly, remains a no-show on his IMDb profile -- went through more...
View ArticleMovie Ad of the Week: THE ZEBRA KILLER (1974) a.k.a. COMBAT COPS (1975)
Kentucky-based filmmaker William Girdler's third feature, THE ZEBRA KILLER, was released with a PG rating by Arthur Marks' General Film Corporation in 1974. Top-billed Austin Stoker did two more movies...
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THE LOVE ROBOTS (1967)originally SHIRO NO JINZÔ BIJOStarringRika MizukiMari MukaiHideo SaekiHidekatsu ShibataMikio TerashimaTamami WakaharaShôhei YamamotoJôji ÔharaDirectred byKôji WakamatsuWritten...
View ArticleMovie Ad of the Week: EFFECTS (1979/1980)
Dusty Nelson's horror meta-movie EFFECTS, filmed in Pittsburgh and starring local talent such as Joseph F. Pilato (DAY OF THE DEAD) and Tom Savini, had its world premiere in the Steel City at the Kings...
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SCOOTER IN PALM BEACH (1988)StarringReggie CristoferSteve ColeDiane MarateoDavid EwingCarol RobertsSally EnglertMary SquireRobert MacKerrollScott KippJared KossLarry BlairJanna HowardJoe...
View ArticleMovie Ad of the Week: DOUBLE EXPOSURE (1987)
The Nico Mastorakis comedy GLITCH! was supposedly sent straight to video in February 1989 via Academy Home Entertainment... ...but it actually received a theatrical release in Florida through United...
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THE PRESIDENT MUST DIE (1981)Directed byJames L. ConwayProduced byCharles E. Sellier, Jr.Written byJames L. ConwayandCliff OsmondPhotographybyPaul HippEdited byTrevor JollyMusic byDon PerryAssistant...
View ArticleLost regional horror-comedy THE DISMEMBERED coming soon on Blu-ray from...
Garagehouse Pictures exhumes a lost regional horror-comedy unseen for over fifty years!Some nutty gangsters thought they pulled off the crime of the century… but it’s going to cost them an arm and a...
View ArticleMovie Ad of the Week: DOUBLE EXPOSURE (1987) a.k.a. TERMINAL EXPOSURE
The Niko Mastorakis action-comedy TERMINAL EXPOSURE, which we believed was a direct-to-video release during the summer of 1989, actually received a theatrical release in Florida through United Film...
View ArticleMovie Ad of the Week: WARRIORS OF THE APOCALYPSE (1986) a.k.a. TIME RAIDERS...
Fans of low-budget '80s post-nuke action films have probably seen the Filipino-shot WARRIORS OF THE APOCALYPSE (a.k.a. SEARCHERS OF THE VOODOO MOUNTAIN), but how many were lucky to catch it during its...
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