April 29, 2008 releases
ALL MONSTERS ATTACK (a.k.a.
GODZILLA'S REVENGE): Classic Media
Ichiro is a latch-key kid in the late 1960s Japan, a country drowning in urban blight and big, nasty bullies. He escapes his dreary life by dreaming of Monster Island, a fantasy world where Godzilla rules and Ichiro is befriended by Godzilla’s son, Minilla, who's experiencing his own troubles with a bull monster, Gabara. When Ichiro is kidnapped by crooks, the lessons learned from his monster pals help him stand up for himself and fight back.
THE BEAST IN SPACE: Severin
In 1975, European sex symbol Sirpa Lane shocked the world with her performance as a maiden defiled by a ferociously aroused animal in the erotic classic
THE BEAST. Five years later, the beautiful-but-doomed actress would plummet from arthouse to grindhouse in this insanely unofficial outer space 'sequel' packed with rampant sex, cheezy effects, barnyard passions and yet another graphic ravaging by a hugely-endowed man-beast.
BOARDINGHOUSE: Code Red/BCI
A man with telekinetic powers inherits a big house with a horrible past. He opens the house up as a boarding house and very quickly becomes inhabited by a group of gorgeous women. Soon the long sleeping evil supernatural power inhabiting the house starts killing off the tenants one by one.
THE COMPLETE TOXIC AVENGER (7-disc set): Troma
Since its premiere in 1984, The Toxic Avenger has become a world famous icon. Now, Troma has packaged Toxie's greatest films together into The Complete Toxic Avenger! Follow Toxie's entire history in this amazing seven disc set, which includes the unrated Director's cut versions of
The Toxic Avenger, The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie and
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV! The Complete Toxic Avenger also includes the never-before-released complete series run of the Toxic Crusaders animated series and the feature length behind-the-scenes documentary Apocalypse Soon: The Making of Citizen Toxie!
DARK SHADOWS: THE BEGINNING Collection 4 (4-disc set): MPI
With its alluring tales of Gothic mystery and supernatural intrigue DARK SHADOWS became one of the most popular daytime series of all time. The character of Barnabas Collins a guilt-ridden 175-year-old vampire brought the show tremendous success. Now for the first time on DVD MPI presents the spooky series rare early episodes before Barnabas. This set contains episodes 106-143 which aired from November 21, 1966 to January 11, 1967.
DELIRIUM: Blue Underground
Criminal psychologist Dr. Herbert Lyutak is a deranged sex maniac who murders young women. His beautiful wife is tormented by visions of medieval torture and lesbian orgies. But as their madness grows more twisted, they will descend even deeper into a nightmare of dementia, depravity and most of all, DELIRIUM!
DOOR INTO DARKNESS (2-disc set): NoShame
In 1973 Dario Argento became widely known in Italy as the Italian Hitchcock, foremost through the broadcasting of this 4 episode TV series. These legendary and much sought-after mysteries are finally available on a 2 disc set!
GUTTERBALLS: Plotdigger Films
A brutally sadistic rape leads to a series of bizarre gory murders during a midnight disco bowl-a-rama at a popular bowling alley. One by one, players of two teams meet blood-drenched gruesome deaths at the hand of a black bowling-gloved masked killer. This alley will run red with blood by sunrise and the shocking twist that reveals the killer will shock even the most jaded viewer!
HARM'S WAY: Peace Arch
Mavis and her daughter Victoria flee the city looking for refuge at an isolated home for abused women. The woman in charge, , immediately takes young Victoria under her wing. Under Bea’s tutelage, Victoria becomes increasingly hostile toward her mother, worrying Mavis that Bea isn’t the kindly woman she appeared to be. As Mavis comes to learn that other women who’ve stayed at the farmhouse are now missing, she confronts Bea. But she’s too late as Bea has convinced Victoria to murder her mother. Locked away in the barn, Mavis must escape and free her daughter from the grasp of a psychotic killer before she loses her forever.
HEADLESS HORSEMAN: First Look
Seven college kids take a shortcut on their way to a party and unfortunately end up in Wormwood – a "lost" town in the middle of nowhere. They find something strange and sinister happening there- bones and weird decorations line Main Street. The cause: local Wormwood legend says on All Hallows Eve one hundred years ago, a crazed man tortured the youngsters in town and then cut off their heads. In retaliation, the townspeople killed him by cutting off his head. Seeking revenge every seven years, he returns and takes seven heads from children in the town. Now the seven visitors find themselves hunted one by one as the Headless Horseman claims his due. Each will do whatever it takes to survive.
HITCH-HIKE: Blue Underground
While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer and his beautiful wife pick up a stranded motorist. But when this hitcher turns out to be a depraved psychopath, their road trip takes a vicious detour into sex and savagery where the miles are marked in mayhem and vengeance is the ultimate rule of thumb.
IN THE BLOOD: TLA
Cassidy is a popular college jock with a secret; he s attracted to men. Testing the waters he makes a date with Victor a sexy Latino hustler. Their initial foreplay instigates strange and disturbing visions of his sister Jessica covered in blood. With a serial killer roaming the campus targeting blonde-haired girls Cassidy becomes panicked. As his visions become more frequent Cassidy realizes that he must completely embrace his gay desires if he is to crack this gory mystery.
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