After a freak lab accident, scientist Alec Holland transforms into a superhuman plant-based creature known as Swamp Thing and must protect the swamp from a paramilitary group.
After being kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a gang of criminals, a 17-year-old girl and her friend escape and seek revenge on their attackers, leading to a brutal and violent showdown.
Hitch Hike is a crime thriller movie released in 1977. The film follows a sadistic murderer who picks up a hitchhiker and subjects her to a nightmarish ordeal. The hitchhiker's husband, a neglected trophy wife, and various other characters become entangled in a web of violence, rape, and revenge. The movie is known for its grindhouse style and deep exploration of disturbing themes.
In Zombie Nation, a rookie cop named Joe teams up with a wheelchair-bound detective, Carl, to solve a series of gruesome murders. The killer, a voodoo practicing cannibal, has the ability to reanimate the dead. As Joe and Carl dive deeper into the case, they uncover a dark secret involving a medical experiment gone wrong, childhood trauma, and a cover-up by corrupt cops. With the clock ticking, they must stop the killer before he strikes again and unleashes an army of zombies upon the city.
House on the Edge of the Park (1980) is a movie about a sadistic man named Alex and his friend, Ricky, who enter a remote villa and terrorize a group of people. The victims are subjected to various forms of violence, including rape, torture, and murder. As the night progresses, the situation spirals out of control, leading to a climactic confrontation between the sadistic duo and their prey. The movie explores themes of power, control, and the dark side of human nature.
The film, released on DVD in 2014 as part of a boxset also containitng Melancholie der Engel (2009) and Reise nach Agatis (2010), deals with the everyday life of a man, Carsten , who works on the set of the 2004 Ulli Lommel film Zombie Nation. At the same time, he is planning to realize his own film, a task he finds extremely difficult.
American Grindhouse is a documentary film that delves deep into the history of grindhouse cinema. From its origins in the early 1900s to its heyday in the 1970s, the film explores the various aspects of this unique and often controversial style of filmmaking. With interviews from industry experts and filmmakers, American Grindhouse provides a comprehensive look at the impact and legacy of grindhouse cinema.
A CIA agent and a Russian defector must team up to stop a terrorist plot involving a top-secret biological weapon. As they race against time, they face deceit, danger, and a relentless chase through a ski-resort.
Excerpts from an unfinished 1976 zombie-western anthology film by Wes Craven, in the style popularized by Amicus films, which were given an official home video release with The Last House on the Left, and placed in sections of an American version of the Italian film, Zombi Holocaust.
Smash Cut is a dark comedy movie about a director who uses real-life murders to create realistic effects for his films. When a private detective and a stripper team up to find the director's missing sister, they uncover his gruesome secret and must stop him before he kills again.
Featurette about the 1980 film "Gefangene Frauen" starring Eric Falk and Erwin C. Dietrich.
A clean-cut synth artist in Germany hopes to turn his career around with the help of a washed-up, erratic, publicity-crazed American manager.
A group of vacationers at a summer camp are terrorized by a masked killer who is following a Native American legend. As they try to escape, the group must navigate through the forest and fight for their survival. The killer uses various weapons such as a chainsaw, hatchet, and ax. The tension rises as the vacation turns into a nightmare filled with bloodshed and murder. Will anyone make it out alive?
Zodiac Killer is a suspenseful movie that revolves around the notorious Zodiac Killer. The story follows a group of detectives and journalists as they hunt down the elusive serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s. Filled with clues, cryptic messages, and suspenseful twists, the movie keeps audiences on the edge of their seats as they try to uncover the identity of the Zodiac Killer.
Loosely based upon Jack London's novels, this is a canine adventure set in the wilderness of the far North, amidst gold diggers, outlaws and children-in-distress.
A young boy witnesses his parents' murder. Later, as he grows up, he befriends a bear in the wilderness and the chief of a local Indian tribe, and he stays with the Indians, but makes an enemy of the chief's son. As he enters adulthood he sets out to find the men responsible for his parents' deaths.
The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, Klick celebrated international success and achieved cult status. Yet after making only six features, he disappeared from the scene in a rather mysterious way. The story of an uncompromising film maniac.
Potato Fritz (Hardy Kruger) and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a gang of gold thieves. This movie is notable among German-made Westerns for its use of authentic period costumes and firearms.
40-minute documentary on the making of Wes Craven's 1972 classic, The Last House on the Left.
Model Starlet, leads a double life; at night, she becomes Sherry, a Times Square prostitute, in order to search for her brother's killer. He was a marine who had been involved in a game of hot potato with a live hand-grenade on a boat returning from Lebanon. The game had ended tragically when the grenade went off, killing three men and injuring six others, castrating one of them. Now someone is stalking New York and stabbing ex-marines to death, leaving fake hand-grenades between their legs after castrating them. Hard-boiled policeman Flanigan thinks Starlet is putting herself in too much danger, so he intentionally exposes her double identity, then poses as her to catch the real killer.