DIRECTOR
Ruggero Deodato
STARRING
Meme Lai, Ivan Rassimov, Massimo Foschi
Robert Harper was an average entrepreneur with a comfortable life, until his plane crashed near an isolated development in New Guinea. When a cruel twist of fate separates him from his companion Rolf, Robert finds himself stranded alone in the jungle.
DIRECTOR
Jimmy Wang Yu
STARRING
Jimmy Wang Yu, Kam Kong, Lung Kun Yee
Cited as a personal favorite by Quentin Tarantino, this legendary martial arts film match up pits the famed One-Armed Boxer (Hong Kong superstar Jimmy Wang Yu) in a one-on-one battle to the death with a blind assassin (veteran character actor Kam Kang), and his lethal Flying Guillotine.
DIRECTOR
Lucio Fulci
STARRING
Katherine MacColl, David Warbeck, Sarah Keller
From legendary Italian horror master Lucio Fulci come the ultimate classic of supernatural horror. A remote and cursed hotel, built over one of the seven gateways, becomes a yawning malevolent abyss that begins devouring both the bodies and the souls of all who enter in a graphic frenzy of gory crucifictions, chunkblowing chain-whippings, eyeball impalements, sulphuric acid meltdowns, flesh-eating tarantulas, throat-shredding demon dogs and ravenous bloodthirsty zombies.
DIRECTOR
H. Tjut Djalil
STARRING
Tonya Offer, Amy Weber, Kristin Ann, Joseph Cassano
Escaping from a violent relationship, sexy Suzy (Tonya Offer) flies from LA to south east Asia to stay with her sister, Linda, who works there as a photo-model. While Linda is in Bali, Suzy inadvertently raises the spirit of a thousand year old witch using an ancient book of spells.
DIRECTOR
Akira Kurosawa
STARRING
Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Eijiro Tono
The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. Remade twice, by Sergio Leone and Walter Hill, this exhilarating genre-twister remains one of the most influential and entertaining films ever produced. Criterion is proud to present this Kurosawa favorite in a new, anamorphic high-definition transfer.
DIRECTOR
Harry Kumel
STARRING
Delphine Seyrig, Daniele Ouimet, John Karlen, Andrea Rau, Paul Esser
International screen icon Delphine Seyrig (of Last Year At Marienbad fame) stars as Elizabeth Bathory, an ageless Countess with a beautiful young 'companion' (Goth goddess Andrea Rau) and a legendary legacy of perversion.
DIRECTOR
Sergio Martino
STARRING
Luc Merenda, Richard Conte, Luciano Rossi
A cult classic of the Italian police genre, VIOLENT PROFESSIONALS stars Luc Merenda as an uncompromising detective who pursues criminals with a vengeance bordering on sadism. When the police commissioner is gunned down in broad daylight on the streets of Milan, Merenda dives into the sleazy Italian underworld in an attempt to find the killer responsible for his former companion's death.
DIRECTOR
Alejandro Jodorowsky
STARRING
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau, Jose Luis Fernandez, Gerardo Cepeda, Rene Barrera
The gunfighter El Topo ("The Mole") and his young son ride through a desert to a village, whose inhabitants have been massacred. Bandits are nearby, torturing and killing the survivors. El Topo rescues a woman (Mara), who leads him on a mission to find and defeat the four master gunmen of the desert. Leaving his son with a group of monks, El Topo and Mara complete the mission, accompanied by a mysterious woman in black.
DIRECTOR
Russ Meyer
STARRING
Edy Williams, Erica Gavin, Marcia McBroom, Cynthia Myers, Dolly Read, Charles Napier, Harrison Page, Michael Blodgett, Duncan McLeod, David Gurian, John Lazar
Step into a delirious kaleidoscope of the psychedelic '60s in this "hilarious" (L.A. Herald-Examiner) and "lusty" (Playboy) parody of the 1967 hit film Valley of the Dolls. Directed by auteur filmmaker Russ Meyer (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) and written by fledgling film critic Roger Ebert, this wildly sexy cult classic "spoofs, celebrates and derides the swinging culture all at once" (Village Voice).
DIRECTOR
Pete Walker
STARRING
Sheila Keith, Rupert Davies, Kim Butcher, Deborah Fairfax, Leo Genn, Noel Johnson, Fiona Curzon
Dorothy Yates (Sheila Keith), along with her husband Edmund (Rupert Davies), have just been released from a mental institution after serving an eighteen-year sentence for murder and cannibalism. But have they been cured? Despite a fresh start in an isolated country house, it would appear that bloodlust has no cure.