101 Films dips into the Full Moon Features catalogue of exploitation cinema with the gory cult classic, Mansion of the Doomed – available on Blu-ray from May 6th, appropriately under their Black Label. Produced by prolific filmmaker Charles Band, who is comparable to Roger Corman in terms of his output and style, Mansion of the […]
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March was a genre-heavy month for Imprint Films, which offered something for everyone, and was capped with the label’s milestone 300th Limited Edition release, Ravagers – a post-apocalyptic journey set 12 years in the future from the film’s theatrical release, and available now on Blu-ray for the first time ever. Richard Harris stars as an
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Over the past five years, I’ve been introduced to a number of Paul Leni’s silent classics, a filmmaker whose style was decades ahead of its time. One example of the director’s innovation is seen in his tendency to blend genres, namely horror and comedy, with his most prominent example, The Cat and the Canary available
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When I was a kid there were a group of movie sequels I had on regular rotation or rewind. Among them were Temple of Doom, Back to the Future Part II, Jaws: The Revenge, and Conan the Destroyer. The films were more than just entertainment, they were moods; and when I was tired of pondering
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Not including the 2006 remake, 20th Century Fox laid The Omen series to rest in 1991 with the made-for-television feature, Omen IV: The Awakening, and in the year that followed, Whoopie Goldberg re-energized Catholicism with the musical comedy, Sister Act. Over the subsequent decades, studios have merged, nuns are now scary, and a franchise is
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Melbourne’s Dockland Studios opened in 2004, as a bold artistic representation of the city’s growing ambition to be on the world stage and to claw back some lucrative media position from rival locations. Ghost Rider (2005) was the first major American film shot at the new location and quickly became the highest-grossing film made in
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Satan is on the prowl in theatres with The First Omen followed by Late Night with the Devil opening next month, and currently, screening is the new psychological horror, Immaculate – released on March 21st across Australia through Rialto Distribution. Sister Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney) travels to Italy on invitation to join a convent located in
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101 Films’ very collectable Black Label has attached some salacious classics from dark alleys of cinema, with the latest and one of its most worthy titles, Fear City from mad-man director Abel Ferrara – released May 18th on a Limited-Edition Blu-ray. Tom Berenger stars in this violent neo-noir as ex-boxer-turned-talent-manager, Matt Rossi, who finds himself
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I was super keen to see Triple Cross when it was announced by Signal One Entertainment last year. The ultra-red cover design with Yul Bryner holding a cigarette like a proper Nazi officer alluded to a very sinister affair, but the subject matter is fairly lightweight as far as World War II goes. The film
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If you’ve watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles, you need not worry, as the line about Harry Houdini’s fate delivered by John Candy is not a spoiler to the classic biography/drama, Houdini, starring Tony Curtis, which was released on Blu-ray last year by Signal One Entertainment in the UK. World-renowned escape artist, Harry Houdini had been
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