British distributors 88 Films have announced that they will launch a brand new collection of Asian films. Later this year, the distributors will also release on Blu-ray Steve Carver's
River of Death and Andrew V. McLaglen's
Sahara.
Hex
Directed by the late, great Kuei Chih-Hung, whose output also includes the frequently censored "nasty"
The Killer Snakes (1974), this formidable Eastern frightener has an abused woman caught in a strange mystery of manslaughter and macabre happenings. To say anything else would be to spoil one of the Orient's most influential terror titles, but rest assured that
Hex has a few spooky surprises up its sleeve. Directed by Kuei Chih-Hung and starring Tanny Tien Ni, Lee Sau-Kei, Hon Gwok-Choi, Lau Yat-Fan, and Chan Si-Gaai.
STREET DATE: SUMMER 2016.
River of Death
In 1945, with the Allies approaching, two German officers ransack a monastery in Greece and make plans to escape with the loot. However, one of the Germans is left behind by his partner, while the other escapes by submarine from Wilhelmshaven. Forty years elapse, a weathy millionaire, Smith, hires Hamilton, allegedly an expert on the jungle, to lead him to the ruins of a lost Indian civilization recently discovered in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle in Brazil. The entourage faces giant anacondas, giant spiders, cannibalistic natives, and so on, discovering a settlement of Nazi war criminals and their descendants, living as if the Third Reich had never ended. It is soon clear that Smith's real purpose has little to do with archaeology, and more to do with revenge. Starring Michael Dudikoff, Robert Vaughn, Donald Pleasence, Herbert Lom, and L.Q. Jones.
STREET DATE: SUMMER 2016.
Sahara
The passions and the engines run as hot as the desert sands in Sahara, a romantic adventure featuring international superstar Brooke Shields.
Shields portrays Dale, an American heiress who disguises herself as a man to take the place of her late father in a 1927 auto race through the Sahara Desert. Before she can finish the race she finds herself caught up in a conflict between two powerful men: the villainous Lord Beg (Ronald Lacey - Raiders Of The Lost Ark) and the dashing Jaffar (Lambert Wilson - The Matrix Reloaded).
Also featuring John Rhys-Davis (Lord Of The Rings) and an evocative musical score by Ennio Morricone (The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly), Sahara is an exotic race to the heart of adventure.
STREET DATE: SUMMER 2016.