CineVentures

The family that slays together stays together in Pete Walker's brutal tale of blood ties and cannibalism starring Sheila Keith. REVIEW LINK: 88 FILMS (UK) REGION B BLU-RAY (DVDCOMPARE) FR...

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A young woman becomes the object of obsession for a priest who brutally punishes sin in Pete Walker's anticlerical slasher HOUSE OF MORTAL SIN starring Susan Penhaligon and Stephanie Beacham....

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Stuart Gordon and crew followed up the cult success of RE-ANIMATOR with the bigger and gorier FROM BEYOND in which scientists develop a machine that opens up portals to other dimensions with ...

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"BEFORE YOUR FUNERAL... BEFORE YOU ARE BURIED... BEFORE YOU ARE COVERED WITH THE LAST SHOVELFUL OF DIRT... BE SURE YOU ARE REALLY DEAD!"  Christopher George, Lynda Day George, ALIENS' Bill ...

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Experience a "blinding vision of horror" when a tour group of Americans in Spain are stalked by an eye-gouging killer in this giallo from Umberto Lenzi. REVIEW LINK: 88 FILMS (UK) REGION ALL 4K...

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Pledged to the Order of the Teutonic Knights by his penitent father, Ondrej grows into a man in an atmosphere of repression and brutality.  When he escapes, he is pursued by a fanatical brother...

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British horror in the seventies took a turn towards more realistic, nasty, and sometimes sleazier thrillers.  In CRAZE, Jack Palance plays an antiques dealer who comes to believe that offering ...

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Vengeful ghosts, alluring yokai, and the loving dead haunt DAIEI GOTHIC, a triple feature of classic ghost stories from the celebrated studio.  In THE GHOST OF YOTSUYA, an ex-samurai is haunted...

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It's a double bill of Klaus Kinski terror as he plays twins, one good and one evil, and either one of them might be the CREATURE WITH THE BLUE HAND while Kinski plays Edgar Allan Poe himself dar...

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"Vengeful ghosts returning from beyond the grave, young women with supernatural abilities, investigative narratives, a terror of technology, and an ominous aura of urban alienation and isolat...

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An archaeological dig in the Arizona desert unearths the mummified body of a nineteenth century medicine man leading to a series of grisly murders in the regional horror/slasher pic THE GHOST DA...

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In 1977, Chicago TV talk show host made a play for the top on sweeps week with the occult and shocked a nation in LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL. REVIEW LINK: SECOND SIGHT (UK) REGION ALL 4K ULTRAHD...

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When the bloodless bodies of young women wash up on the Seine, a Parisian newsman goes on the hunt for a vampire in this landmark Italian gothic horror film started by THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCO...

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ORPHAN BLACK's Maria Doyle Kennedy stars as a recipe columnist in a small South African desert town who turns advice columnist and becomes caught up in a murder investigation in this quirky dete...

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In the first of his big-budget directorial and starring works PROJECT A, Jackie Chan plays a member of the water police battling pirates.  When the unit is dissolved, he must join the land poli...

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Max Arnold is back on the job with a new partner investigating murders in London's richest borough and exposing its seedy and sordid side. REVIEW LINK: ACORN MEDIA (UK) REGION 0 PAL DVD (DVDCOM...

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The Yuen Clan took the spooky kung fu genre in wacky directions with this pair of loose sequels to MIRACLE FIGHTERS featuring sorcery, scheming, wire acrobatics, and lots of dirty jokes. REV...

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A scientist visits a remote Scottish island to take samples to assess the effects of an oil spill only to discover something really wrong with the villagers in this Tigon spin-off of the popular...

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After a young boy discovers his mother's role in his partisan father's arrest and disappearance, he experiences a stream of surreal visions in which he tries to find out what happened to his fat...

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Before ALIEN, Mario Bava's PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES was the original "haunted house in space" as two ships land on a strange planet to answer a distress call only to confront a supernatural entity...

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Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung stuntman/actor/"little brother" Yuen Biao stars as a country boy who flees to the city and discovers that his fighting footwork is specially suited to football (don...

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Seth Dove is living the "nightmare of childhood" when he suspects his widowed neighbor is a vampire in Philp Ridley's disturbing British/Canadian "American Gothic" THE REFLECTING SKIN.  Viggo M...

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An orphaned young man raised by his uncle becomes caught up in the world of Taoist sorcery in THE MIRACLE FIGHTERS from Yuen Woo-Ping, action director of THE MATRIX trilogy. REVIEW LINK: EUR...

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When wandering swordsman Tokijiro kills a man for a local yakuza boss, he feels guilty and honors the dying man's request to escort his wife and child to safety.  Unfortunately, the boss' men a...

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Johnny Cash plays a guitar-strumming crook holding a housewife hostage in DOOR-TO-DOOR MANIAC while character actor Aram Katcher stars, writes, directs, edits, art directors, and does hair an...

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