In store since last month (March)
Distributed by the Dutch Filmfreak label
9 New Region 2 DVD releases
One torture thriller, one sci-fi drama, and various world cinema films
See cover art & links to details below…
Director: Andy Hurst
Writer: Andy Hurst
Release Year: 2006
I am a girl, just like the girl, who married dear old dad.
Six young people sign up to participate in a reality TV show about fear called, imaginatively enough, ‘Are You Scared?’. The thing is, the show is just a cover for a deformed maniac (Brent Fidler) to unleash Saw-like nonsense upon youngish people. One contestant in particular, however, seems to have annoyed the maniac, meaning that he gives her his special, undivided attention….
Director: Yoon Hong-Seung
Writer: Yoon Hong-Seung and Kim Eun-Kyeong
Release Year: 2008
Korean title: Gosa
Saw set in a Seoul school
It’s Saturday in Seoul. Twenty intelligent high school graduates have gathered for some special tutoring to prepare for the university’s entry exam. What they didn’t anticipate, is that their very lives will depend on their correct answers when they find themselves targeted by an anonymous killer, who is about to turn this exam into a merciless game of torture, horror and death.
Director: José Mojica Marins
Writer: José Mojica Marins and Dennison Ramalho
Release year: 2008
Brasilian title: Encarnação Do Demônio
The return of Coffin Joe
He is pure evil incarnated. For forty years he has waited, imprisoned and almost forgotten. Now, the system that put him away for his sick crimes, is about to set him free again. His name is Coffin Joe. And he will live forever.
Director: Jess Franco
Writer: Erwin C. Dietrich and Jess Franco
Release year: 1977
German title: Greta – Haus Ohne Männer
Germo-Latino tabsploitation
Abbie Phillips (Tania Busselier) suspects her sister – lets call her Sophie, shall we? – is being mistreated in a mental hospital. When she looses all contact with Sophie, she comes up with a plan to have herself committed to the asylum by Dr. Arcos (Jess Franco), who on his terms also suspects foul play within the walls of the institute. That’s her way to try and find out what happened to her sister. With holding the friendly Dr. Arcos at gunpoint while explaining her idea, you can already suspect that she didn’t think things through properly, let alone this being one of the more clever ideas she ever came up with. A poor girl with a plan doomed to failure, as the place she so desperately wants to get into is run be Greta (that’s Ilsa, the She Wolf of the SS re-incarnated as the exact spitting image of Dyanne Thorne), a very nasty warden who’s only joy in life seems to be torturing women, throwing depraved sex & rape parties, playing vicious S&M games and a bit of that good old killing for pleasure too.
Director: Alan Birkinshaw
Writer: Alan Birkinshaw
Release Year: 1978
A jolly good time!
The bus transporting a schoolgirl choir breaks down in the woods at the same time a quartet of maniacs has broken loose from their LSD “dream therapy.” Those maniacs become very happy to have a nice cache of nubile victims since the dream therapy was presented to them as a way that they could satisfy their desires and, thus, heal their various psychoses….
Director: Steven Sheil
Writer: Steven Sheil
Release year: 2008
Planes, sickening torture, and more planes…
The Polish Lena is quite fond of her new job as a cleaning lady at the airport and gets along nicely with her co-worker Birdie. A new-found friendship she’ll soon have to re-evaluate, as it will lead her to be abducted, chained to a bed and subject to endless torture and molestation. Lena has just been adopted by dear old Mum and Dad.
Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Writer: Jiku Yamatoya, based on a manga by Masaaki Sato
Release year: 1979
Japanese title: Dabide no hoshi: Bishôjo-gari
Human depravation… Sex… Torture… Death.
Or, how to be mislead by Japanese 70′s exploitation cinema.
Tatsuya is a handsome but lonely man who inherits his family’s fortune. This includes his late parents’ luxurious mansion on an isolated and serene location. Tatsuya likes beautiful young women. He also likes inviting them to his mansion. But sadly, they don’t really like what all he does to them.
Director: Uwe Boll
Writer: none, inspired by true events
Release year: 2009
Much ado about Toothpaste…
Four petty criminals share a minuscule cell and spend most of their days playing poker and exchanging tall stories. One day, a game of poker runs out of hand and the weakest player of the foursome loses a bet…
Director: Luigi Cecinelli
Writer: Andrea Dal Monte
Release year: 2009
Ambitious Italian thriller
When Matt wakes up in a mental health hospital after a car accident, he’s suffering from amnesia. Trying to learn more about his life, he accidentally stumbles upon Dr. Leeman’s hidden files of an unsolved serial killer case. From that moment onward, Matt starts having strange visions of the victims.
