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Misa (Mone Kamishiraishi) suffers from severe PMS that can shatter her otherwise demure manner without regard for the company she is in. Newly settled in a job assembling science kits for children, she befriends Takatoshi (Hokuto Matsumura), a withdrawn colleague prone to debilitating panic attacks, and director Sho Miyake — adapting Maiko Seo's novel — charts their blossoming relationship with gentle humour and sensitivity, shot on 16mm.

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In 18th-century Italy, seminary student Giacomo flees his religious life after it emerges that he impregnated a young weaver and forced her to have an abortion. Promised sanctuary by a mysterious woman, he travels deep into the mountains to assist an ailing, exiled priest known as "the Arcane Sorcerer," whose unorthodox research concerns esoterica and the mysteries of death. At the sorcerer's isolated, book-packed villa, Giacomo learns the previous assistant, Nerio, was rumored to have made a pact with the devil before his death — and may have found a way to transcend death itself.

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Disc 1 contains the set's three feature films in new 4K restorations — Orochi (1925), A Page of Madness (1926), and Captain January (1924) — each presented with benshi narration performances and historically inspired musical scores. Flicker Alley and the Yanai Initiative — a joint project of UCLA and Waseda University in Tokyo — present this limited edition box set honoring Japan's benshi, the live narrators who stood beside the screen and voiced the films. Talkies took over Hollywood in 1930, but Japanese cinema had effectively been speaking all along: benshi narrated the action and spoke every character's lines, and as artists in their own right they interpreted and enriched each film, widening its emotional and thematic reach. A handful of performers still practice the art today, many trained by the generation before them in an unbroken line back to the benshi of the 1910s, '20s and '30s.

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Disc 1 contains the set's three feature films in new 4K restorations — Orochi (1925), A Page of Madness (1926), and Captain January (1924) — each presented with benshi narration performances and historically inspired musical scores. Flicker Alley and the Yanai Initiative — a joint project of UCLA and Waseda University in Tokyo — present this limited edition box set honoring Japan's benshi, the live narrators who stood beside the screen and voiced the films. Talkies took over Hollywood in 1930, but Japanese cinema had effectively been speaking all along: benshi narrated the action and spoke every character's lines, and as artists in their own right they interpreted and enriched each film, widening its emotional and thematic reach. A handful of performers still practice the art today, many trained by the generation before them in an unbroken line back to the benshi of the 1910s, '20s and '30s.

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Disc 2 contains The Water Magician (1931), presented at both 24fps and 20fps, the surviving fragment of Blood-Spattered Takadanobaba (1928), and four Baby Peggy shorts: Brownie's Little Venus (1921), Sweetie (1923), Darling of New York (1923), and Our Pet (1924). Flicker Alley and the Yanai Initiative — a joint project of UCLA and Waseda University in Tokyo — present this limited edition box set honoring Japan's benshi, the live narrators who stood beside the screen and voiced the films. Talkies took over Hollywood in 1930, but Japanese cinema had effectively been speaking all along: benshi narrated the action and spoke every character's lines, and as artists in their own right they interpreted and enriched each film, widening its emotional and thematic reach. A handful of performers still practice the art today, many trained by the generation before them in an unbroken line back to the benshi of the 1910s, '20s and '30s.

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Unemployed Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) impulsively picks up a baby left at an orphanage door at Christmas, and everyone assumes the foundling is hers — including her playboy ex-boss (David Niven), who offers her a job if she will live up to her supposed maternal duties. Needing the paycheck, Polly plays along — until the boss's tycoon father (Charles Coburn) decides the infant is his secret grandson and things spin out of control.

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After a horrific amphibian attack leaves college student Victoria Miller (Mary Malloy) infected with a mutational disease, she returns home, where her evil stepfather mistakes the antidote for drugs. Locked in her room without her medicine, she transforms into a hideous monster while an obsessive private investigator uncovers the truth about her condition — an amphibious twist on classic werewolf mythology, and a love letter to the mad-science opuses of Stuart Gordon and Frank Henenlotter.

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Fred Astaire plays a free-spirited playboy who narrowly escapes marriage to a showbiz siren, then falls for a Bowery mission worker (Vera-Ellen) — and, buoyed by true love, literally dances on air above the city rooftops. To prove his worth to the skeptical mission worker, he takes work first as a streetcar conductor, then as a song-and-dance waiter, while the pair perform dazzling routines to Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren's nostalgic score.

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A group of sex workers rents a remote mansion to shoot OnlyFans content, but after a tragic accident they are stalked by Blowie, a doll-faced killer. Cast with real adult performers, BLOWIE is a sexy slasher film.

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Jean Harlow stars as Lola Burns, a glamorous movie diva presiding over Hollywood as its legendary blonde bombshell, with all the fame and fortune she ever dreamed of - and a studio that works her until she drops. A dazzling pre-Code treasure in which Hollywood lampoons itself, as Lola loves, fights, loses and wins her man.

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) of Kino Lorber's two-disc 4K UHD + Blu-ray combo contains Bruiser (2000) in a brand new HD master from a 4K scan of the 35mm original camera negative, with three audio commentaries (George A. Romero & Peter Grunwald; Matt Blazi & Michael Felsher; Arne Venema & Stefan Hammond), new interviews with Peter Stormare, Jason Flemyng, Jeff Monahan and Tom Atkins, The Misfits' drummer Dr. Chud on Bruiser, a new interview with filmmaker Tina Romero, an archival audio interview with George Romero, original trailers, the 'Scream' music video by The Misfits, a vintage on-set featurette, a still gallery, and 5.1 Surround & Lossless 2.0 audio. Henry Creedlow has spent his life being walked over - betrayed by his unfaithful wife, belittled by his overbearing boss and cheated out of a fortune by his best friend. One morning he wakes to find his face has become a featureless white mask, and the man who never fought back sets out on a bloody campaign of revenge against everyone who wronged him.

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Rebecca, a drifting Chinese-American cam girl, struggles to navigate an increasingly toxic relationship with one of her clients while rekindling her relationship with her dying, estranged father and showing up for her privileged but caring best friend.

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An NYU professor comes back from a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest carrying the recovered footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who had been making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes - and what the footage shows is horrifying.

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American music student Susan Roberts travels to a sprawling villa in the French countryside to research her thesis on the late composer Henry Ryman, and is welcomed by his widow Danielle, her wheelchair-bound son Georges and the household staff. As her stay takes a sinister turn - the dead composer's music plays at night from an unseen pianist, and Danielle presses Susan to wear the clothes of Georges' former girlfriend, whom she strikingly resembles - Susan is torn between her growing attachment to Georges and the realization that the household harbors dark, possibly deadly secrets.

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In the tradition of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery comes this cult-classic horror/thriller anthology series, hosted by screen legend James Coburn, whose opening narration draws viewers into the terror that awaits in the Darkroom. Its tales of mystery and suspense feature guest stars including David Carradine, Billy Crystal, Brian Dennehy, Helen Hunt, June Lockhart and Rue McClanahan, with stories from genre writers Robert Bloch (Psycho), Peter S. Fischer (Murder, She Wrote) and Christopher Crowe (Alfred Hitchcock Presents), and directors including Rick Rosenthal (Halloween II) and Curtis Harrington (Night Tide). This Special Edition Blu-ray brings back all 7 episodes of the long-buried 1981–82 series in high definition.

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In the tradition of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery comes this cult-classic horror/thriller anthology series, hosted by screen legend James Coburn, whose opening narration draws viewers into the terror that awaits in the Darkroom. Its tales of mystery and suspense feature guest stars including David Carradine, Billy Crystal, Brian Dennehy, Helen Hunt, June Lockhart and Rue McClanahan, with stories from genre writers Robert Bloch (Psycho), Peter S. Fischer (Murder, She Wrote) and Christopher Crowe (Alfred Hitchcock Presents), and directors including Rick Rosenthal (Halloween II) and Curtis Harrington (Night Tide). This Special Edition Blu-ray brings back all 7 episodes of the long-buried 1981–82 series in high definition.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) of Kino Lorber's two-disc 4K UHD + Blu-ray combo contains Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) in a brand new HDR/Dolby Vision master by Amazon MGM Studios from a 4K scan of the 35mm original camera negative, with a new audio commentary by entertainment journalist Abbey Bender, the audio commentary by director Susan Seidelman, producers Midge Sanford and Sarah Pillsbury and manager Barbara Boyle, Lossless 2.0 audio, a triple-layered UHD100 disc and optional English subtitles. Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta fills her days reading the personal ads and following the ongoing romance between 'Jim' and 'Susan', two mysterious drifters living the free-spirited life she can only dream about. When she shows up at the couple's prearranged New York rendezvous, a bump on the head leaves her with amnesia - and mistaken for Susan herself, opening the door to intrigue, laughter and love.

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Northern Italy in the 1700s is terrorized by bandits, boldest of them Fra Diavolo, who masquerades as an elegant marquis to mingle with the rich - great lords lose their gold to him, great ladies their hearts. But when Stanlio and Ollio impersonate Diavolo to stage copycat crimes, they inadvertently attempt to rob the master bandit himself. One of the best Laurel & Hardy feature comedies, presented restored and remastered.

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In the fall of 1960, two priests, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton, are sent by the Vatican to investigate a reported miracle at an Irish home for 'fallen women' - only to uncover something much more horrific.

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Stranded after a concert scam, an all-girl heavy metal band and their vampire manager stumble into a remote town ruled by a warlock and crawling with cannibals, vampires, sirens and a monstrous werewolf. When they try to help a pregnant woman in danger, the search for help becomes a night of supernatural chaos, and the band must unleash hidden dark powers to survive.

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William Powell and Myrna Loy step away from the urbane pleasures of The Thin Man into the cheerful chaos of Double Wedding (1937). Loy plays Margit Andrew, the imperious owner of a fashionable boutique who runs everyone's life — above all that of her pliable younger sister, Irene (Florence Rice), whom she means to marry off to the resolutely timid Waldo Beaver (John Beal). Her immaculate plans go gloriously wrong when Irene falls for Charlie Lodge (William Powell), a fast-talking bohemian artist who lives in a lavish automobile trailer. Margit marches in to dismiss the interloper and finds herself disconcertingly intrigued instead. Charlie answers with a campaign of inspired mischief, stiffening Waldo's spine while loosening Margit's iron grip on propriety — a prime showcase for the timeless chemistry of its two stars at their best.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) of the 2-disc set contains Elmer Gantry (1960), with a new audio commentary by film historian/writer Julie Kirgo and writer/filmmaker Peter Hankoff. Handsome, opportunistic and immoral, traveling salesman Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) is all this and more. When he stumbles into a revival meeting and discovers he can hustle money in a tent-show as easily as in a saloon, Gantry converts to evangelism. Teaming up with Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), he delivers demon-bashing sermons that bring him fame and fortune. But when an old flame (Shirley Jones) reappears, Gantry is forced to confront demons of a more worldly order — long-buried secrets that threaten to turn his “saintly” life into a veritable Hell on Earth. Directed by Richard Brooks from Sinclair Lewis's bestselling novel; winner of three Academy Awards, for Actor (Lancaster), Supporting Actress (Jones) and Adapted Screenplay (Brooks).

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The 4K UHD disc of the 2-disc set contains Faces of Death II (1981) in its fully uncut and uncensored original theatrical version, newly restored in 4K from its 35mm negative and presented in Dolby Vision. After a well-needed two-year hiatus, the erudite Dr. Francis B. Gröss returns to ponder and expose the mysteries of death. Not content with his first morbid survey of the forbidden, rarely discussed topic of how life ends, he pushes further — showing nature's wintry grasp on life, how finality arrives in the boxing ring, and other lethal sights so shockingly primal they beg to be seen. Expanding his sweeping investigations into crime and human atrocities, Gröss paints a shattering, unparalleled portrait of mortality. Following the unprecedented success of its shocking predecessor, the makers of Faces of Death created an even more unsettling film in its stark and unflinching realism: Faces of Death II (1981). From fatal accidents to the unspeakable cruelty of war, medical experiments and other abominable acts, no facet of man's destruction of his fellow man is left unexplored. Vinegar Syndrome Archive brings the sequel to 4K UHD and Blu-ray in its fully uncut and uncensored original theatrical version, available for the first time on video in the US and newly restored from its 35mm negative.

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The 4K UHD disc of the 2-disc set contains Faces of Death III (1985) in its original theatrical version as Fear, painstakingly restored in 4K and presented in Dolby Vision, with an isolated music track. The shocking analysis of death in full color continues in the expanded, ambitious Faces of Death III. Amid the ongoing success of their appalling series of video-rental favorites, the makers of Faces of Death branched out to make a more conventional mondo movie. The result was Fear, an exploration of fears, superstitions, urban legends and the real-life carnage that so often accompanies them. Despite a brief release in Europe, by the time a US debut was ready the demand for Faces of Death sequels was so overwhelming that Fear was re-tooled and re-titled Faces of Death 3, adding video-only hosting segments with the returning Dr. Francis B. Gröss (Michael Carr). Vinegar Syndrome Archive brings this wild and original mondo production to 4K UHD, restored to its initial theatrical version as Fear, alongside its much more commonly seen Faces of Death III video version.

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Amid stifling heat and pervasive drought in the Philippines, Isabel (Jorrybell Agoto), a 17-year-old Ilokana from the rural north, works at a posh country club outside Manila, lining up golf balls for powerful men to drive into the verdant horizon. New to the job, she wanders the immaculate grounds and samples its luxuries while the members — an industrialist and his expatriate niece, the club president and his pampered wife, and a slew of Chinese tourists — engage in a complex dance with the club's doting, subservient staff. But something is rotting beneath the pristine fairways of the elite resort, as Isabel discovers when she tries to return a mislaid golf club to its patriarchal director, Dr. Palanca (Teroy Guzman). The deeper she journeys into its most exclusive corners, the closer she gets to the violent truths of the club, her native Philippines, and her own past.

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This disc of The Films of Henry Jaglom: Volume #1 contains Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983), with a new audio commentary by Henry Jaglom moderated by film historian Daniel Kremer and an archival introduction by Henry Jaglom. In Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983), Eli (Michael Emil) and Zee (Karen Black) develop a spontaneous romance on the streets of New York City's Upper West Side. Zee, a middle-aged woman reeling after her husband leaves her, wanders Manhattan talking endlessly to herself — until a chance meeting with the divorced social worker Eli at a sidewalk café draws the two lost souls into an unlikely, funny and touching relationship.

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This disc of The Films of Henry Jaglom: Volume #1 contains Sitting Ducks (1980), with a new audio commentary by Sabrina Jaglom moderated by Justin LaLiberty, an archival audio commentary by Henry Jaglom with actors Michael Emil and Zack Norman, and an archival introduction by Henry Jaglom. Sitting Ducks (1980) offers a different kind of road movie: the bumbling but charming Simon (Michael Emil) and Sidney (Zack Norman), two small-time thieves, rip off a crime syndicate and leave New York for Florida, chasing their childhood dreams with the Mob's money in hand.

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This disc of The Films of Henry Jaglom: Volume #1 contains Tracks (1976), with a new audio commentary by film historians Daniel Kremer and Bill Ackerman and an archival audio commentary by Henry Jaglom and actor Dennis Hopper. In Tracks (1976), Sgt. Jack Falen (Dennis Hopper) returns to the US from a tour in Vietnam to transport the body of his fallen friend cross-country by train for a burial ceremony. During the trip he falls for a gentle college student, but their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to combat.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) of the 2-disc set contains The Fortune Cookie (1966), with an audio commentary by film historian Joseph McBride. Powered by an Oscar-winning performance by Walter Matthau as the quintessential all-American chiseler, The Fortune Cookie is a hysterically funny comedy showcasing Billy Wilder at his uproarious best. Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) is one lucky guy: accidentally clobbered by a 220-pound halfback, all he suffers is a slight concussion — until Whiplash Willie (Matthau), a legal scoundrel of the first order, arrives on the scene. If Harry follows shyster Willie's advice and feigns a crippling injury, the two charlatans can split a cool million in phony insurance claims. But can Willie's world-class finagling dispel the ominous words inside the fortune cookie on Harry's hospital plate: “You can't fool all of the people all of the time”? The first film to pair Matthau and Lemmon, co-written by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, with black-and-white cinematography by Joseph LaShelle.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) of the 3-disc collection contains Gwendoline (1984) in its uncut European version, newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative and presented in Dolby Vision, with audio commentaries by director Just Jaeckin and by stars Tawny Kitaen and Brent Huff. With his final feature film, legendary filmmaker Just Jaeckin (Emmanuelle, The Story of O) crafted the most ambitiously erotic epic of his career, now presented in UHD for the first time in North America. Video vixen Tawny Kitaen (Bachelor Party, Witchboard) and action hero Brent Huff (Cop Game, Born to Fight) star in this truly insane Indiana Jones-style adventure based on the infamous S&M comic strip, bursting with perilous adventure, spectacular production design and more. César Award-winning actress/director Zabou co-stars in one of the quintessential films of the '80s — presented here in both the Uncut European Version and the U.S. release version, The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak, newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative, with over six hours of special features including a never-before-seen interview with Tawny Kitaen.

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Sandusky, Ohio is misery for goth misfits and Stevie Nicks superfans Gypsy Vale (Sara Rue) and her younger queer protégé Clive Webb (Birkett Turton). Hearing that a New York City club is staging a "Night of 1000 Stevies," the two take to the road hoping Gypsy can perform, meeting fellow outsiders along the way who help point them toward salvation while they learn hard truths about themselves. With John Doe of X and Karen Black as a washed-up lounge singer, Todd Stephens's cult favorite gives both the road movie and the coming-of-age story a queer, outsider twist — and plenty of black eyeliner. For its 25th anniversary the film has been rebuilt as a new Director's Cut, restored in 4K from the 35mm camera negative with over 40 minutes of never-before-seen footage and more goth classics from The Cure, Cocteau Twins and Echo and the Bunnymen.

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Created by Jacob Tierney from Rachel Reid's best-selling novel, Heated Rivalry is a steamy romance set in the world of professional hockey. Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), two of the biggest stars in Major League Ice Hockey, are bound together by ambition, rivalry and a magnetic pull neither fully understands. What starts as a secret fling between two fresh-faced rookies grows into a journey of love, denial and self-discovery.

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Created by Jacob Tierney from Rachel Reid's best-selling novel, Heated Rivalry is a steamy romance set in the world of professional hockey. Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie), two of the biggest stars in Major League Ice Hockey, are bound together by ambition, rivalry and a magnetic pull neither fully understands. What starts as a secret fling between two fresh-faced rookies grows into a journey of love, denial and self-discovery.

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This church wants to scare the hell out of you — literally. HELL HOUSE is a fly-on-the-wall documentary following Dallas, TX's Trinity Assembly of God Church as it builds its haunted house for the Y2K Halloween season. Instead of Draculas and Freddy Kruegers, the church stages scenes graphically depicting modern-day "evils" — botched abortions, fatal drunk-driving crashes and drug-induced suicides. Shot on 16mm by director George Ratliff and friends, it is an outrageous, enthralling and poignant vérité look at the creative effort and religious zeal behind the event. Newly restored from the original 16mm camera negative.

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Henry Fonda's story, on screen and off, is also the story of the United States — one of democratic yearnings and violent shortcomings, visible in his legendary roles as pioneering settler (Drums Along the Mohawk), migrant sharecropper (The Grapes of Wrath), gullible heir (The Lady Eve) and president (Young Mr. Lincoln, Fail-Safe), and in his own life as a descendant of a Dutch family in pre-colonial New York who witnessed the Omaha Race Riots of 1919, the Pacific war, the civil rights struggle and the rise of another actor, Ronald Reagan, at the Cold War's climax. Weaving together film clips, recorded interviews and a cross-country pilgrimage to significant landmarks, Alexander Horwath — with Michael Palm and Regina Schlagnitweit — traces the entwined trajectories of an actor and his nation in a magisterial work of cultural history.

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In a futuristic metropolis swallowed by a mysterious mist that unleashes a deadly, elusive entity, a troubled young woman searches for her father — a quest that collides with an American GI on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from Hell. In the store's words: an infamous serial killer hunts a group of troubled actresses in the city; after one of them witnesses a murder, she crosses paths with a revenge-seeking soldier, leading them both to the murderer.

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In a futuristic metropolis swallowed by a mysterious mist that unleashes a deadly, elusive entity, a troubled young woman searches for her father — a quest that collides with an American GI on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from Hell. In the store's words: an infamous serial killer hunts a group of troubled actresses in the city; after one of them witnesses a murder, she crosses paths with a revenge-seeking soldier, leading them both to the murderer.

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TAKE A SPIN WITH THE FREEWAY KILLER. The Los Angeles Freeway Killer drives to Las Vegas — and back — in Ken Camp's trancelike, troubling video journey across the California desert and through Nevada, into "the frightening zone where lay the genetic codes and memories that make us all killers." Unseen since its 1984 premiere at West Hollywood's EZTV Video Gallery, HIGHWAY HYPNOSIS is a disturbing meditation on the eroticism of violence and a major work of narrative video art and queer horror. The disc also includes Camp's AS THE WORLD BURNS, the experimental three-part gay soap opera commissioned by John Dorr for EZTV's inaugural 1982 screenings, in which the neighborhood's husbands mysteriously begin turning gay during the Reagan years — a wicked satire of soap conventions, mainstream gay culture and America's rightward shift, and perhaps the first piece of media to explicitly reference the nascent AIDS epidemic.

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Tara (Jenna Bodnar) returns to her ancestral home in the tiny Welsh town of Brecon for her father's funeral, where she uncovers a dark family secret as strange, animalistic desires and forbidden passions overwhelm her. She has fallen prey to an all-consuming curse placed on Brecon centuries ago, which empowers her with acute animal instincts, incredible stamina, impossible strength and a feral libido — but surrendering to her darkest impulses comes at a terrible price. Executive produced by Charles Band during his run making movies in Romania and directed by editor Mark Manos, the film's original negative was recently unearthed in the Paramount vaults, and Delirium Home Video presents this sensual, strange erotic horror fantasy in HD for the first time.

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In 1942, along the barren North African coast where war has turned towns into smoking ruins, Captain Anson (John Mills) of the Royal Army Service Corps must lead his medical unit in a dilapidated ambulance across hundreds of miles of perilous, enemy-patrolled desert to safety in Alexandria — where an ice cold beer awaits.

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After his wife's death, Joe struggles to raise his non-verbal daughter Sophia alone in the Malaysian countryside. Desperate for work, he takes a handyman job with a mysterious woman who claims she can help Sophia speak again — but as her unorthodox treatment progresses, father and daughter begin experiencing terrifying visions that threaten their grip on reality, against the backdrop of the real-life 1985 Memali Incident.

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MGM's sleek proto-noir pairs the studio's leading-man heartthrob with its top glamour icon for a walk down a very dark street. Robert Taylor is Johnny Eager, a cold-blooded racketeer fresh out of the state penitentiary who poses as a reformed cab driver for his gullible parole officer while secretly running a massive illicit gambling syndicate and scheming to open a dog-racing track. When innocent high-society sociology student Lisbeth Bard (Lana Turner) falls under Johnny's spell, he sees his ultimate leverage: she is the cherished stepdaughter of District Attorney John Benson Farrell (Edward Arnold), Johnny's longtime nemesis and the man who put him behind bars. Johnny plans to blackmail Farrell using Lisbeth as a pawn — but as real romantic sparks ignite between the underworld king and the debutante, his frozen heart threatens to bring down his entire empire.

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Disc 1 contains The Indian Scarf and The Squeaker. Edgar Wallace's Kriminalroman became one of the most beloved German film trends of the 1960s, inspiring domestic imitators and predating the Italian giallo, yet the films stayed obscure outside Germany despite US television play in the 1970s; Vinegar Syndrome Labs presents these early Krimis restored with their original German and English dub tracks. In THE INDIAN SCARF, a dysfunctional family gathers at Marks Priory in Scotland for the reading of Lord Lebanon's will, but a storm isolates them at the castle and the will can only be unsealed after six days and six nights together — after the first night, one of them is found strangled with a distinctive scarf, and the family lawyer must sort out what is happening as the bodies keep dropping. In THE SQUEAKER, the killing of a man who tried to reveal the identity of the notorious, anonymous underworld snitch sets Inspector Elford and Sgt. Lomm on a trail of bodies marked by bizarre snakebite punctures, leading them to an exotic animal importer who lost a deadly black mamba and to a suspicious mute animal handler.

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Disc 2 contains Room 13. Edgar Wallace's Kriminalroman became one of the most beloved German film trends of the 1960s, inspiring domestic imitators and predating the Italian giallo, yet the films stayed obscure outside Germany despite US television play in the 1970s; Vinegar Syndrome Labs presents these early Krimis restored with their original German and English dub tracks. In ROOM 13, shrewd criminal Joe Legge emerges from the past to blackmail the esteemed Sir Marney, who turns to ace London private eye Johnny Gray for help. Gray zeroes in on a seamy Soho nightclub called the Highlow, where Legge seems to be planning a complicated heist — and suddenly women connected to the club begin to die in horrific razor-slashing murders, with the answer apparently lying in the private rooms above the club, specifically Room 13.

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In the closing months of World War II, a remote forest asylum is marked for liquidation, but Gestapo officer Windisch arrives with another mission: a British agent is hiding among the patients, and he must unmask the spy before the advancing Soviet army arrives. He narrows his suspects to three — a former literary publisher, an army sergeant, and a man convinced he is the Führer — but the deeper he probes the patients' impaired logic, the more his own sanity slips. Kaljo Kiisk's allegory of power, guilt and free will, hailed as the first truly modernist feature in Estonian cinema, was banned for two decades and only officially premiered in Moscow in January 1987; it was restored by the Estonian Film Institute.

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Legendary director John Huston fulfilled a 20-year dream by adapting Rudyard Kipling's beloved novella. Sean Connery and Michael Caine star as Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan, two rogue former British Army sergeants crossing 1880s India who conclude the Empire was built by men like themselves and set out through the Khyber Pass into remote Kafiristan to conquer its warring tribes and install themselves as wealthy kings. Through tactical ingenuity and astonishing luck, Dravot is hailed by the high priests as a god and a descendant of Alexander the Great — but as wealth and temptation grow, and Dravot falls for a beautiful local princess (Shakira Caine), their mortal vulnerabilities threaten exposure, sparking a violent, tragic uprising. Nominated for four Academy Awards and featuring Christopher Plummer as Kipling himself, it remains a favorite more than 50 years after its debut.

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Martial arts master Chuck Norris stars in this fast-paced action-adventure dramatizing the plight of American servicemen still held captive in Vietnam — and one man's mission to get them out. Special Forces Col. James Braddock (Norris) knows American soldiers are secretly imprisoned in Vietnamese POW camps: he spent 10 years in a brutal labor camp long after the war's end before leading his men in a daring escape. Home at last, Braddock reluctantly joins a fact-finding mission in Saigon, and disgusted by the denials of the sadistic General Tran (James Hong), he enlists State Department official Ann Fitzgerald (Lenore Kasdorf) and slips away to learn the real facts for himself.

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This film version of the Broadway smash remains an irresistible skyburst of Americana. Robert Preston recreates his Tony-winning triumph as con artist Harold Hill, arriving in River City, Iowa to form a boys' band, much to the disapproval — and later delight — of town librarian Marian Paroo (Shirley Jones). Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford and 7-year-old Ron Howard co-star. Meredith Willson's beloved score, featuring '76 Trombones' and 'Till There Was You,' is orchestrated to Oscar-winning effect by Ray Heindorf. A huge box-office success beloved by audiences and critics, the film shines anew in a restoration from its original Technirama negative, enriched with a new Dolby Atmos soundtrack alongside the original 1962 theatrical mix. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, it was added to the National Film Registry in 2005.

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Mutiny in Heaven is an unfiltered, intimate exploration of The Birthday Party, the influential post-punk group that launched Nick Cave onto the global stage. Narrated exclusively by the original band members, it chronicles how Cave and his school friends startled audiences with confrontational performances, primal screams, outlaw gothic horror and an anarchic lifestyle, drawing on never-before-seen personal footage, animation and concert clips to give a front-row seat to one of the most legendary live acts.

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A funny thing happens to newlywed Nick Arden (Cary Grant) on his way to the honeymoon suite: he meets his wife — not his bride, but the wife who was lost at sea seven years ago and pronounced dead. Grant plays the flabbergasted Nick, and radiant Irene Dunne plays the returned wife who cagily sets out to reclaim her former life. Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick add to the marital mix-up as Nick goes from having one wife to two to none — and then to one, the right one. Of all the giddy screwball comedies ever made, this remains an enduring favorite.