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A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach movies, H.G. Lewis' gore-fests, William Castle's schlocky theatrical gimmicks, to 1970s blaxploitation, pre-"Deep Throat" sex tease films, Russ Meyer's bosom-heavy masterpieces, etc, etc. Over 25 interviews of the greatest purveyors of weird films of all kind from 1940 to 1975. Illustrated with dozens of films clips, trailers, extra footage, etc. This documentary as a shorter companion piece focusing on exploitation king David F. Friedman.
Jimmy lives through a nightmare of blood and violence. Surreal images are replaced by brutal splatter. An inferno from which Jimmy is only too eager to wake up. Young director Lars Cramer presents his first work, accompanied by dark Italian sounds.
The Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show, acts as a front for Divine, who is out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
While staying at a remote cabin for a week-long vacation, a group of five college friends succumb to an infectious, flesh-eating disease.
A priest senses a change in the Earth. The gates are opening and Hell is being unleashed. Meanwhile, a couple friends are having gruesome dreams of demonic mayhem and wonder if these are merely nightmares or a premonition.
Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the randy new manservant and soon the decadent, permissive household is consumed by an outrageous, bizarre and hilarious combination of death and dismemberment.
Laurie and Hugh are a successful young couple who have just closed on a weekend home away from the city. Unbeknownst to them, the neighboring property contains the crumbling remains of a boarding school that was shuttered in the wake of an unspeakable massacre. The sole survivor of that massacre still resides in the ruins of the school, hiding from the world and wanting only to be left alone. When Laurie and Hugh's friends explore the property, they have no idea that they disturbed an emotionally-broken killing machine: The Blood Widow.
A young couple's marriage becomes threatened when an attractive female occultist enters their lives, enticing them into a strange world of drugs, sex, and satanic rites.
A college student moonlighting as a chauffeur picks up two mysterious women for a night of party-hopping across LA. But when he uncovers their bloodthirsty intentions—and their dangerous, shadowy underworld—he must fight to stay alive.
An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.
Benoit has been driven to voyeurism and impotence due to having a cold, treacherous industrialist as a father and an exhibitionist aunt who constantly parades around nude. Jean-Pierre is a thief. Isabelle is a runaway whose stepfather tried to rape her. When the three cross paths, criminal activity, rape, madness and murder follow in this psycho-drama filled with soft-core sex.
A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of her father's will. After a while she discovers that they are all in fact dead and her decision to live with them turns into a nightmare. Unable to leave she's drawn into a macabre underworld through visions of nude satanic rituals and her own impending sacrifice.
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Ilsa, a warden at a Nazi death camp that conducts experiments on prisoners, strives to prove that women can withstand more pain and suffering than men, and therefore should be allowed to fight on the frontlines.
The survival instincts of a road-tripping family are put to the test when they have no other choice but to stay the night at a remote homestead.
El vampire y el sexy (or Santo in the Treasure of Dracula in its censored version) is a 1968 Mexican film starring El Santo and directed by René Cardona. The Vampire and Sex was filmed as the adult version of Santo in the Treasure of Dracula. While the censored family version was distributed in 1969, the uncensored version was not shown to the public until 2011 when it was discovered.
For the past year, there have been rumors about the KroppCrew from KroppTown, set in the beautiful but bloody Saarland. BackDoorStorys is a smorgasbord of splatter, drug abuse, and grind tunes. In their 2005 debut film, the KroppCrew delivers an elegant, sometimes funny, somewhat lengthy, somewhat meaningless, but ultimately sick movie. For those unfamiliar with the amateur genre, this shit is perfection. This movie bleeds!
Not wanting to die in a body that repulses him, Lev, a trans college student, resorts to the most extreme measures possible.
A TV documentary crew arrive on a remote island in the Philippines to film a survival special. Their back-to-the-wild adventure proves to be more terrifying than they ever could have imagined
