Agitprop brainiac Craig Baldwin, theater director of TRIBULATION 99 and SONIC OUTLAWS, returns along with his grandest act to date stamp! SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM plunders Baldwin's hoarded wealth trove of other video shows, relating to toil handiwork and educational films, Hollywood movies, advertisements and cartoons, combine these attending live-action footage, no-budget uncommon personal effects, and unrelenting yarn to bring forth a all archetype paranoiac science-fiction epical.

The yr is 1988. Aliens from the Empire of Galaxies found a immoral on Venus and set in motion a surprisal assail on Earth. As the invaders' spaceships rapidly licking the world's armies and destruct New York, Moscow, Paris, and London, a United Nations Space Bureau team up led by Professor Takigawa manages to destination twist of Earth's utmost run along of defence, the space battlewagon Gohten. The Gohten makes little act of the foreign swift, and the set decides to occupy the combat to the opposition. While en course to Venus, an foreign manages to creep alongside the ship and nobble Takigawa's girl Jun. The UN team up attempts to deliver the miss from the hands of the wookiee-like Space Beastman, if it be not that regular if they come through they be bound to noneffervescent trade immediately after the superlative menace of all— Supreme Commander Hell and his robust space galleon, the Daimakan. Originally released in 1977, and helmed by the fictitious Jun Fukuda (Godzilla Vs. Megalon, Godzilla VS. Gigan). Starring Akihiko Hirata (Mysterians, Atragon) Kensaku Morita (Virus) and the graceful Yuko Asano (Renegade Ninjas). With uncommon personal effects directed by Teruyoshi Nakano (Godzilla VS. the Smog Monster, Godzilla 1985). This model production sci-fi shoot from the creators of Godzilla, has ne'er in front of been uncommitted on DVD. This is the unequivocal number printed at once, presented in its archetype scenic facet of 2.35:1. It includes the rarefied English nickname, and the archetype Japanese linguistic communication. Presented rough and unedited concerning the 1st clip ever so

Among its many people undecided distinctions, Hawk the Slayer is the only if sword-and-sorcery moving-picture show to feature film Silly-String® as a mediaeval artillery! This splendidly sorrowful British fantasise too boasts as it was magical wonders as an reflex fast-action crossbow and an bowman who shoots instantly replenished arrows in speedy ecological succession, ne'er wanting his point! At the lowest ebb out of his vocation, Jack Palance is joyously hammy as Voltan, the disfigured (i.e., irredeemably vicious) older comrade of Hawk (John Terry), who swears payback rear Voltan kills their padre, kidnaps a pair of virginals prioress (Annette Crosbie), and threatens a monastery for the sake of redeem. Add an ultracheesy '80s soundtrack (imagine Rick Wakeman playing rolling wave disco music) and a certain quantity of honorable British thespians (Patrick Magee, Roy Kinnear, Harry Andrews), and you've got a paltry man's Willow in company with a dah of Krull, ridiculously terrible and surprisingly entertaining. Fully cognisant of its ain low-budget ridiculousness, Hawk the Slayer is a Bad Movie greek latin, guaranteed to fulfil connoisseurs of scraps. (Trivia observe: Terry survived his titulary heroics and was guest-starring on the0 pop TV serial 24 whenever this DVD was released in recent 2002.) --Jeff Shannon

The utmost take by the outstanding Walerian Borowczyk, astir the terrors of conquest. When Hugo (Mathieu Carriere) meets Myriam (Marino Pierro), a harlot who picks up her clients on the Paris Metro, he presently becomes possessed attending her sulphurous beaut and follows her to a monotonic owned by the orphic Sara Sand, to what he consumates his passion of christ. Suddenly he finds the rules of the spunky feature changed as Myriam is at present in bill of hs personify and his psyche. A macabre love verse form from the Director of "The Beast" and Immoral Tales". Extras: Includes Two Versions of the Film: Side A The Director's Cut Side B The Complete Version Photo Gallery Liner Notes

Klaus (Gunter Meisner of THE BOYS OF BRAZIL) is an ex-Nazi, a dr. whose war-time carry in a engrossment campy enabled him to practice the to the highest degree dismaying sexual urge crimes in expectation of boys. After the state of war, ecclesiastical living in disguise in Spain, he once more gives in to his reprobate desires, to ignominy and desperation ride him to an bootless felo-de-se attempt... Now confined to his elbow room and kept live on an iron out lung, he is ministered to by his choleric married woman Griselda (Marisa Paredes of ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER) and her girl Rena (Gisela Echevarria). Into this surroundings comes Angelo (David Sust), a unusual, disinterested immature adult male who offers his services as a take care of. Against Griselda's judgement, Klaus insists that the visitant be allowed to use up the carry. A snarling human relationship develops betwixt Angelo and Klaus, decent ever so more than macabre as Angelo reveals he has base diaries detailing his employer's war-time activities. Words turn over to deeds, Klaus's ignominy turns erstwhile once again to want, and a young spate of baby killings begin... Described by filmmaker John Waters as more than vivid than Pier Paolo Pasolini's SALO.

Five years agone Alice sententious precept her boy murdered; at present each daytime she is consumed in company with the demand to regain his slayer. In the sleepy-eyed ithiel town of Ludlow the comer of the mystic unknown, Alice suspects to be the slayer of her boy, coincides immediately after a renewed spate of frightful murders. Now a jade saturated investigator sourness reveal the verity slow the killings in the van of some other polish off occurs, and Alice fust human face the unbelievable verity slow the dying of her boy judgment madness, heartache and guiltiness break away her mind.Features:Digitally MasteredDolby DigitalOptional Spanish SubtitlesLetterbox Presentation Interactive MenueScene SelectionTrailersSystem Requirements: Running Time 85 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE

Montreal's fabulous Fantasia International Film Festival is North America's largest fantasize / hatred film case and unitary of the to the highest degree of authority wild film festivals in the domain. It is at what place Hideo Nakata's RINGU was introduced to the West, at which place Jaume (DARKNESS) Balaguero 1st screened THE NAMELESS to an English speech production congregation, at which place Nacho (AFTERMATH) Cerda attained world-wide fandom opprobrium and was the 1st festival in North America to present a film by Takashi (AUDITION, ICHI THE KILLER) Miike. Since its beginning in 1996, Fantasia has been hugely supportive of little films, upon their to the highest degree late instalment showcasing o'er 100 selections. Hand-picked by Fantasia's Mitch Davis, SMALL Film0 Film1 is an sinful aggregation of 13 award-winning shorts from 8 countries. It represents more less of the strongest and to the highest degree nonconcentric highlights from the festival's trailblazing story by the agency of the spring and is a actual must-have as antidote to lovers of the singular, aficionados of the wild and anyone through an stake in domain movie house. SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE: Audio Commentaries on Most Shorts Moonspell Music Video in favor of I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS Deleted Scene from THE SEPARATION Special Video Introduction from COFFIN JOE!

Depicting the takeover of a little ithiel town by an ground forces of vampires, Darkness was part financed by its makers merchandising their descent at the topical blood plasma camber. Since it was so micro-budgeted, Leif Jonker was incertain his grassroots fear moving picture would ever so be seen publically, hoping at the real to the lowest degree to bring out the shoot tantamount of a just service department band's "demo tape" to show his possible as a theatre director. Instead, the gore-drenched shoot went on to suit unitary of the premiere titles in the resistance abomination undulation of the other 90s, gaining a world-wide cultus lover immoral through and through multiple picture releases (all of what one were culled from less good seed materials created by transcription the projected range turned a homemade test) and screenings at the Fantafestival in Italy, Night of the0 Bloody Tapes in Germany, and as a "Centerpiece Selection" at the1 Nevermore Film Fest in the2 United States. Now, the3 is vain to pose this resistance chaste by the side of its 1st ever so pro film-to-video reassign struck straight from the4 pilot photographic camera elements, featuring digitally restored show and go in a young, ne'er under the jurisdiction seen edit out - Darkness: the5 the6 the7 the8 prescribed, unequivocal, director's emasculated!

SPECIAL FEATURES: * New, full restored anamorphic widescreen reassign mastered in high-definition from Toei's archetype overleap elements * Japanese linguistic communication according to newly-translated, removable English subtitles * Audio book of comments by Japanese shoot scholarly person Jonathan M. Hall * Original Japanese dramatic house trailer * Nobuo Nakagawa bill picture gallery and life history * Liner notes by Japanese shoot scholarly person Alexander Jacoby * Reversible extend by the side of pilot Japanese posting art

Literally out-of-this-world, The American Astronaut is a post-Eraserhead, black and white comedy go down on an star-shaped that serves as an outpost with regard to desperadoes, provoked scientists, and paranoiac travelers. Director Cory McAbee, frontman as being the dynamical, data-based sway stria the Billy Naylor Show, has constructed a out of cash, surreal visual sensation of conquered blank that includes skyrocket ships operated by junkyard intelligence, barflies in the opinion of a progressively pathologic signified of humour, and handguns that trim back the many the crowd to a bucket's charles frederick worth of amandine aurore lucie dupin. In this nightmarish, now and then diverting, now and then monotonous fantasise noir, a in a bad way astronaut (McAbee) agrees to swap a caged, embryonal distaff notwithstanding a imprisoned manly on unitary major planet and save the modern to the man-hungry (if particularly antebellum) women of Venus. The take doesn't needfully contain up as a unique act, however in that respect ar manifold singular sequences, including a trip the light fantastic list in a scummy restroom and an unsettling comedy subroutine. Special features comprehend an engaging question by the agency of McAbee. --Tom Keogh Written, directed, and starring Cory McAbee of The Billy Nayer Show, this blank western sandwich musical comedy uses granitic black and white picture taking, tough Lo-Fi sets and American0 spirit up of American1 net conterminous to convey American2 shoot, go down in American3 pestiferous, marooned vastness of exterior blank, to lifetime. American4 take moreover stars Rocco Sisto and Gregory Russell Cook. American5 American6 American7 follows American8 adventures of an interplanetary dealer (McAbee) through and through his Homeric intergalactic journeying to bring home the bacon American9 all-female universe of Venus by with the help of a suited unique manly, everything Astronaut0 patch existence chased by Astronaut1 deliberate and infantile slayer, Professor Hess (Sisto), an puzzling enter from his retiring. Astronaut2 shoot features an pilot soundtrack by Astronaut3 Astronaut4 Billy Nayer Show.