British label 88 Films will add a number of new titles its Blu-ray catalog. Amongst them are
Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!,
The Bride from Hell, and
Joe Bullet.
Joe Bullet
Synopsis: When a mysterious gangster starts sabotaging soccer team The Eagles' chance at winning the upcoming championship final, there is only one man who can save the day...Joe Bullet. Directed by Louis de Witt, and starring Ken Gampu, Joe Lopez, and Abigail Kubeka.
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 11.
Django, Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
Synopsis: Tomas Milian stars as a half-breed bandit double-crossed and left for dead who rises from the grave to seek his revenge in a bizarre town called "The Unhappy Place" where he's plunged into an odyssey of gruesome , graphic violence and sexual depravity. This is the landmark movie that fans and critics still consider to be the strangest-and most controversial- 'Spaghetti Western' ever made. This is Django Kill!
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 25.
The Bride From Hell
Synopsis: he clue is in the title of this seriously sinister ghost story, as a hapless new husband comes to find out that he has become involved in a beautiful young lady who brings new meaning to the term 'out of this world'. Yes, he has become hitched to a spectre - but the plot twists do not stop there, with a horrifying revelation and a quest for revenge soon to turn his life upside down!
With a cast that features the timeless screen allure of of Margaret Hsing Hui (THE FIVE BILLION DOLLAR LEGACY), THE BRIDE FROM HELL is finally unleashed in HD from the Oriental terror-loving lunatics at 88 Films.
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 25.
Mountaintop Motel Massacre,
Synopsis: By 1984, many fear-fans were probably under the impression that the slasher genre had run out of surprises. However, MOUNTAINTOP MOTEL MASSACRE indicates that nothing could be further from the truth. Unlike so many of its contemporaries, this positively sleazy, and sanguine-stained, sickie features an older antagonist in the seriously psychotic Evelyn (Anna Chappell) - an elderly and absolutely insane off-road hotel owner that might well give Norman Bates some sleepless nights. When Evelyn is not taking a sickle to the faces of those stupid enough to rent a room at her one-star establishment, she is planting poisonous snakes under their beds or hiding in an underground bunker that gives her plenty of time to plan her next bout of shockingly brutal slaughter. One of the most maniacal of all the 80s slasher pictures, the seriously sinister MOUNTAINTOP MOTEL MASSACRE has been in high-demand from horror fans for a Blu-Ray appraisal. So it is, then, that 88 Films offers this underrated and unfairly under-seen bout of bloody brilliance in a worldwide HD exclusive bow. Sit back and prepare for the plasma to flow...
STREET DATE: September 25.
The Brave Archer
Chang Cheh is recognised as perhaps the greatest martial arts director of all time and 1977's THE BRAVE ARCHER provided him with one of his biggest box office successes. Reinventing the kung-fu formula in the era of Bruce Lee knock-offs, this period-set bout of fist-to-fist fighting and swashbuckling action used the hit Cantonese novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes as its basis. With a whimsical sense of 'old China', THE BRAVE ARCHER undoubtedly paved the way for such later wuxia blockbusters as ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON by weaving a lavish costume-packed story of rival kung fu schools pitting their best fighters against a series of trials and tribulations. Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Alexander Fu Sheng (HEROES SHED NO TEARS) and Ti Lung (A BETTER TOMORROW), the action comes furious and fast, the atmosphere is so strong you can almost taste the Far Eastern fog and the battles are some of the most mesmerising ever produced! Leading to two sequels THE BRAVE ARCHER is one of the standout Shaw Brothers adventures and 88 Films is thrilled to bring this classic to UK shelves in glorious HD, accompanied by a Bey Logan commentary and booklet from Asia-based academic Calum Waddell.
STREET DATE: SUMMER 2017.