In a faraway future, on a wild and untamed female inhabited planet called After Blue, a lonely teenager named Roxy (Paula Luna) unknowingly releases a mystical, dangerous, and sensual assassin from her prison. Roxy and her mother Zora (Elina Löwensohn) are held accountable, banished from their community, and forced to track down the murderer named Kate Bush. Haunted by the spirits of her murdered friends, Roxy sets out on a long and strange journey across the supranatural territories of this filthy paradise. The newest vision from Bertand Mandico (The Wild Boys) plays like a lesbian El Topo (in space!) with stunning 35mm in-camera practical effects, otherworldly set pieces, and a dazzling score by Pierre Desprats.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
"J'ai tué Kate Bush" - Unseen footage by Bertrand Mandico set to new music by Pierre Desprats
Short Film: "The Return of Tragedy" by Bertrand Mandico starring David Patrick Kelly & Elina Löwensohn
20-page booklet featuring an interview with Bertrand Mandico
The Cornshukker is a mythical creature who has lived simply and peacefully with Nature. But now he is besieged by urban sprawl. With nowhere else to go, he is forced to deal with varmints and outlandishly- odd townsfolk. As his food supply diminishes, The Cornshukker is confronted by the bigoted Old Man Thomas. In an act of desperation, The Cornshukker is forced to do the unthinkable. His existence is in peril, and the mysterious world he inhabits could be destroyed. Only Nature and the townsfolk will decide his fate.
When three couples escape to the woods together for a weekend camping trip, their idyllic vacation quickly becomes a desperate struggle for survival when a deranged, axe-wielding psychopath begins murdering them one by one. An impossible web of marital infidelities leads to a meandering mosaic of endless red herrings, deranged Nam vets, bitter office rivalries, perilous punji pits, and puffy brown plaid couches.
In the tradition of Blood Cult, Dead North is a hypnotic, SOV soap opera / slasher epic and an early, non-custom passion project from director Gary Whitson and his New Jersey based company W.A.V.E. Productions. Starring Clancy McCauley (Witchfinder), Aven Warren (Zombie Nightmare), and Terri Lewandowski (Santa Claws), Dead North continues to stupefy underground movie fans with its beguiling blend of head-scratching whodunnit, homespun gore FX, and charming regional eccentricities.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Audio commentary with director Gary Whitson moderated by Ross Snyder, co-director of Mail Order Murder: The Story of W.A.V.E. Productions
Audio commentary with Richard Moog, Author of Analog Nightmares: The Shot on Video Horror Films of 1982-1995
"True North" -an interview with director & W.A.V.E. founder Gary Whitson
Bonus movie: THE PINELANDS MURDERS -director Gary Whitson's 2012 feature length remake of Dead North (98 min.)
"The Hanging Judge" -A 1991 custom short from W.A.V.E. featuring the cast of Dead North (45 min.)
"Crushed" -Gary Whitson's 1995 short featuring Dead North stars Clancy McCauley and Aven Warren (18 min.)
"Lunchmeat Midnight Snack: Dead North Special Edition" -a 28 page booklet featuring rare vintage news articles plus writings by Josh Schafer (Lunchmeat), Ross Snyder (Saturn's Core), Gary Whitson (W.A.V.E.) & more
Trailers
Reversible sleeve
English SDH subtitles
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FROM PARTNER LABEL YELLOW VEIL PICTURES:
Faults
Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth to kidnap and deprogram her. However, once the process is underway, Ansel realizes he may not be the one in control.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Introduction from director Riley Stearns
Original Cast commentary (2015) with Leland Orser, Mary Elisabeth Winstead and director Riley Stearns
New Crew Commentary (2022) with Director of Photography Michael Ragen, Editor Sarah Beth Shapiro and director Riley Stearns
Reprogramming Faults: Interview with director Riley Stearns
Deprogramming Faults: Discussion on cult deprograming between Lola Blanc, cult survivor tunred filmmaker, and director Riley Stearns
Riley Stearns Sundance selected Short Film: The Cub (2013; 5min)
Behind-the-Scenes photo Gallery
Original trailer
Transcribed discussion between director Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell; 2018) and director Riley Stearns in an illustrated 12 pages booklet
English SDH subtitles
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FROM PARTNER LABELS AMERICAN GENRE FILM ARCHIVE (AGFA) AND SOMETHING WEIRD VIDEO:
No one will ever make movies like Doris Wishman made movies. One of the most prolific women filmmakers in the history of American cinema, writer-director-editor Wishman created collisions between surrealism and exploitation that feel like they materialized from an alternate universe. THE FILMS OF DORIS WISHMAN: THE MOONLIGHT YEARS surveys the mid-period, gutter-noir era of Wishman's career. From BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (Wishman's iconic crime epic) to INDECENT DESIRES (a horror-tinged sexploitation mindwarp), AGFA + Something Weird are honored to present these triumphant DIY treasures in sparkling new restorations.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Disc 1: BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL (1965),INDECENT DESIRES (1968), and A TASTE OF FLESH (1967)
2K restorations from the original 35mm camera negatives
A TASTE OF FLESH: Preserved from the Something Weird S-VHS master
BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL: Commentary with filmmaker Frank Henenlotter
INDECENT DESIRES: Commentary with queer film historian Liz Purchell
Theatrical trailers
Booklet with writing from Something Weird's Lisa Petrucci and a vintage Doris Wishman interview by author Mike Watt
Disc 2: ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER MAN (1966),MY BROTHER'S WIFE (1966), and PASSION FEVER (1969)
2K restorations from the original 35mm camera negatives
PASSION FEVER: Preserved from the Something Weird S-VHS master
MY BROTHER'S WIFE: Commentary with Wishman biographer Michael Bowen
Theatrical trailers
"Moonlight Years" photo gallery
Disc 3: THE SEX PERILS OF PAULETTE (1965), THE HOT MONTH OF AUGUST (1966), and TOO MUCH TOO OFTEN! (1968)
2K restorations from the original 35mm camera negatives
TOO MUCH TOO OFTEN!: Preserved from the Something Weird S-VHS master
In the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, single dad and record store owner Frank (Nick Offerman) is preparing to send his hard-working daughter Sam (Kiersey Clemons) off to college, while being forced to close his vintage shop. Hoping to stay connected through their shared musical passions, Frank urges Sam to turn their weekly "jam sesh" into a father-daughter live act. After their first song becomes an Internet breakout, the two embark on a journey of love, growing up and musical discovery.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
New feature length audio commentary with director Brett Haley, co-writer Marc Basch and composer/songwriter Keegan DeWitt, recorded in 2022
New interview with director Brett Haley, recorded in 2022
New interview with actor Nick Offerman, recorded in 2022
Feature length audio commentary with director Brett Haley
Interview with director Brett Haley
Interview with actors Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemmons
Interview with actors Nick Offerman and Toni Collette
Interview with actor Sasha Lane
Keegan DeWitt, Jeremy Bullock, Nick Offerman & Kiersey Clemons performing "Hearts Beat Loud" at Sundance
Band rehearsal footage featuring Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemmons
Behind the scenes of composing the music with Keegan DeWitt and Jeremy Bullock
Original theatrical trailer
Booklet featuring a new essay by writer B.J. Colangelo
English SDH subtitles
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FROM PARTNER LABEL CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES:
Going through life without legs, 13-year-old Kenny (Kenny Easterday, playing a version of himself) is active and enthusiastic, resisting the pressure to wear prosthetic limbs. He also finds himself the subject of a documentary made by a visiting French film crew. As the production unfolds, Kenny's parents (Dragonslayer's Caitlin Clarke and Fight Club's Zach Grenier), brother (Kenny's real sibling Jesse Easterday Jr.), and absentee sister (Girlfriend from Hell's Liane Curtis) bring long-simmering tensions to the surface, shaking Kenny's delicate sense of balance. Determined to better understand his place in the world, he hits the road for a daring journey of self-discovery.
An unprecedented cinematic achievement that has earned acclaim, awards, and disbelief all over the world – while remaining largely unknown in North America – The Kid Brother (aka Kenny) is a one-of-a-kind coming-of-age triumph. In his one and only film role, Kenny Easterday lights up the screen with an infectiously appealing performance full of charm and playful abandon. With humanity and '80s eccentricity to spare, The Kid Brother is a cult phenomenon waiting to happen.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Scanned in 4K from the original 35mm camera negative and restored by Éléphant - mémoire du cinéma québécois, with sound transferred and restored from the original 35mm magnetic film 4-track final mix
Audio commentary featuring author/film historian Kier-La Janisse and writer/film critic Ralph Elawani
In Kenny's Company (2022, 33 min.) – An interview with writer-director Claude Gagnon
Yuri & Claude & Kenny (2022, 11 min.) – An interview with Gagnon's longtime producing partner Yuri Yoshimura-Gagnon
Kenny's World (2022, 9 min.) – Memories from the film's international festival tour
Trailers for The Kid Brother and Gagnon's three previous films (7 min.)
Booklet featuring Rick Trembles' Motion Picture Purgatory comic strip on the film and a new interview with co-star Jesse Easterday Jr.
LO SOUND DESERT is a documentary by Joerg Steineck about the rock music scene in the 'Low Desert' of California. What was started by revolting punk rock kids, hidden from narrow-minded authorities of sub-urban desert communities in the early 80s, gave birth to bands like Kyuss and Queens Of The Stone Age. With its unique artistic approach the film provides a deep, intimate insight and captures the attitude of the 'Coachella Valley's' music scene - from jamming all night in the middle of a surreal desert landscape to headlining European stages, - "Desert Rock" continued its underground spread and became international treasure. Lo Sound Desert is narrated by Josh Homme, Mario Lalli, Brant Bjork, Alfredo Hernandez, Scott Reeder, Sean Wheeler and many more from bands such as Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson, Mondo Generator among others...
What causes a man who seemingly has everything—a thriving business and family—to snap and throw it all away? It's the question that this provocative and intelligent psychological drama investigates. Successful New York magazine publisher Paul Steward (Hal Holbrook, The Fog and All the President's Men) has reached his breaking point and today is the day he has decided to kill himself, his wife and their children. His marriage to Miriam (Louise Fletcher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Strange Behavior) has grown cold and distant. On this final day, he seeks the answers that might relieve him of his despair, through encounters with a psychiatrist (Viveca Lindfors, Creepshow and Dark City), an astronaut, a friend who survived the Holocaust (Jose Ferrer, Dune and Lawrence of Arabia), five prostitutes in a brothel and a lonely woman on the train ride home…
Writer, director and editor Jeff Kanew (Revenge of the Nerds and Troop Beverly Hills) established himself in Hollywood as one of the industry's most sought-after trailer editors of the 1960s and '70s. Having become a leader in that field, he adapted Julius Horwitz's controversial novel Natural Enemies for himself to direct. The result is a blistering and devastating work that recalls Taxi Driver, and which shocked audiences and critics when it was first released in 1979. Having been out of circulation for nearly four decades, this worldwide Blu-ray premiere has been sourced from the best-surviving element, a 35mm deposit print held by the Library of Congress.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
New 2K restoration from 35mm deposit print held by Library of Congress
Newly recorded audio commentary by Bill Ackerman of the Supporting Characters podcast
"The Road to Natural Enemies," a newly-filmed, two-part video interview with director Jeff Kanew
On a drunken walk home, bohemian drug-dealer Kumi (Kumiko Ota) discovers an abandoned building on the outskirts of Tokyo. Attracted by the vast and untapped space rampant with luxuriant vegetation, she promptly sells all of her belongings and retreats from the world. She carves an island out of the concrete squat and wiles her days away growing cabbage and expressing herself in any way she pleases.
Following his gonzo hachimiri (8mm) debut SAINT TERRORISM (1980) and the memorable CARNIVAL IN THE NIGHT (1981), Masashi Yamamoto offers his defining punk statement. Winner of a Special Mention at the 1987 Locarno International Film Festival, ROBINSON'S GARDEN is a rare, radical vision of a marginal, multicultural Tokyo. Think Punk Rock rather than City Pop (the soundtrack features Jagatara, Hamza El Din, and Yoichiro Yoshikawa), this film offers a stark contrast to the sights of financial prosperity brought forth by the films of the Economic Bubble era. Lensed by Tom DiCillo (LIVING IN OBLIVION, JOHNNY SUEDE), it instead shares much in common with the No Wave films the cinematographer pioneered alongside Jim Jarmusch (STRANGER THAN PARADISE). An unsung, anticapitalist masterwork.
In dumpsters, in the gutters, and even hanging from hooks... the streets of Los Angeles are being littered with murdered sex workers. A sinister John with a sizable wallet is tempting desperate women into dangerous traps. If the police (Simon Di Soto, Lawrence Scott, and Susanne Smith from Night Ripper) cannot find the killer, then who will? Maybe it will be a former detective (Tommy Kirk, Babes in Toyland, Blood of Ghastly Horror). Or perhaps it will be a couple of guys (Larry Thomas, "Seinfeld," Austin Powers and Guy Ecker, Night Terror, The Devil Wears White) shooting a documentary about prostitution.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Interview with director Jeff Hathcock (21 min)
Interview with actor Larry Thomas (15 min)
Interview with cinematographer Michael N. J. Wright (13 min)
Full-length commentary by Movie Melt! Grindhouse and Exploitation Podcast
Writer/director Onur Tukel turns in a hilarious performance as the monumentally lazy, socially oblivious and commitment-shy Erik Sparrow, who is dumped by his career-woman girlfriend (Anna Margaret Hollyman, White Reindeer) when he rejects her rather charitable marriage proposal. Feeling lost, he turns to a disastrous string of online dates that successively eat away at his already-deteriorating confidence until a lanky vampire turns him into an undead ladykiller, with a maniacal sex drive matched only by his frenzied need to feed on blood. A collision of absurd, self-deprecating wit and existential curiosity, Summer of Blood is a hilarious horror-comedy with a clever bite all its own.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
2014 and 2022 commentaries by Onur Tukel
Vampire Interview with Larry Fessenden (29 min)
Vampire Interview with Lloyd Kaufman (25 min)
Behind The Scenes
Deleted Scenes
Trailers for Summer of Blood and Drawing Blood
24-Page Illustrated Booklet with essays by Simon Bacon and Onur Tukel