Run Man Run

SERGIO SOLLIMA'S 'SPAGHETTI WESTERN' CLASSIC!

The legendary Tomas Milian (FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE, TRAFFIC) stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiance (Chelo Alonso) and a sheriff turned bounty hunter (Donal OBrien), all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that could finance the Mexican Revolution.

Co-writer/director Sergio Sollima (REVOLVER, VIOLENT CITY) packs this epic Western with bold politics, shocking violence, bravura performances (including John Ireland as General Santillana) and a brilliant score by Bruno Nicolai and Ennio Morricone. RUN MAN RUN has been fully restored from original vault materials and is now presented uncut and uncensored for the first time ever in America.

BONUS: This DVD also contains WESTERNS ITALIAN STYLE, the rarely-seen 1968 documentary featuring on-set interviews with directors Enzo Castellari, Sergio Sollima and Sergio Corbucci, actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Chuck Connors, remarkable behind-the-scenes footage from RUN MAN RUN, THE GREAT SILENCE, Sergio Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST and much more.

Extras-

Run Man Run: 35 Years Running - Interviews with Director Sergio Sollima and Star Tomas Milian
Westerns Italian Style: A rarely seen '60s documentary about the Spaghetti Western phenomenon containing behind-the-scenes footage of THE GREAT SILENCE and RUN MAN RUN as well as interviews with Directors Enzo G. Castellari, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Sollima
Theatrical Trailer
Italian Main Titles Sequence
Poster & Still Gallery
Talent Bios

Tech Specs -

Color
Dolby Digital Mono
English, Italian
Optional English Subtitles
2.35:1 / 16x9
1968
121 Mins
Not Rated
Region Code: 0


hands down the best Spaghetti Western I've ever seen. Great acting by all the leads, often stunning camera work, and gorgeous panoramas. Well writen, extremely entertaining. There is alot going on in this movie. I'm not even going to try to get into it all. One scene that jumps out (and alot of them do!) is our erstwhile hero has been captured and is tied to one wing of a windmill out in the middle of nowhere. He is being tortured into giving up the location of the gold hoarded by the revolution as finance. The bad guy is smacking him in the face when the windmill arm he is on has rotated close to the ground, so its round round round SMACK round round round SMACK, and at some point they mounted a camera to the arm of the windmill so you get a CRAZY cool shot from his point of view as he spins around, and eventually he is able to work and arm free and latch on to the bad guys throat, so BOTH of them are now spinning around. Just stunning. I was vastly impressed with this one, Id watch this again. its a good one. And if you like weesterns, its simply a great one.

Inferno

The Master Of Horror Dario Argento Brings You Terror That's Hotter Than Hell!

A young woman stumbles upon a mysterious diary that reveals the secrets of "The Three Mothers" and unleashes a nightmare world of demonic evil. As the unstoppable horror spreads from Rome to New York City, this unholy trinity must be stopped before the world is submerged in the blood of the innocent.

Written and directed by Dario Argento, INFERNO is considered to be the sequel to his classic SUSPIRIA. This surreal shocker stars Irene Miracle (NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS), Daria Nicolodi (DEEP RED) and Leigh McCloskey (DALLAS), and features a pulse-pounding original score by Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Now transferred from the original vault negative materials, INFERNO contains visually stunning sequences of horror that Argento fans consider among the best of his career.

Extras-

Interview with Writer/Director Dario Argento
Theatrical Trailer
Still Gallery
Talent Bios

Tech Specs-

Color
5.1 Dolby Digital Surround; Dolby Surround 2.0
English
1.85:1 / 16x9
1980
106 Mins
Not Rated
Region Code: 0


A poet living in an old building in New York is reading through an old book sold to her by the friendly neighborhood antique dealer. The books just by happenstance mentions the very building she resides in, and mentions it in connection with very ominous circumstances. Imagine? Well, the girls wastes no time in penning a letter to her brother in Rome, to inform him of this amazing chance. Remarkably, the book also mentions a similiar building that is in Rome! The multi-layered connections of INFERNO had me wondering just what this woman had stumbled inot before the first blood spatters hit the wall. And hit the wall they did. And the ceiling. With a tell tale trail of droplets or two, as well. It seems that the book is excerpts from a diary written by the architect of the residences, (of which there is a third building which does not enter into our story) And the architect seems to have met with a questionable death. Now the brother seems to hae left the letter his sister wrote in lecture hall, where it was picked up by his desk mate, who of course read it. Intrigued by the contents she directs her cabbie to take her to the Roman location, which turns out to be a library. She finds the book in question in the stacks, adn wanders the grounds of the strange library, finding an odd room full of bubbling cauldrons of some unspeakable substance. These are tended by a man who, upon seeing the book cluthced in her hands freaks out and asaults her for possession of it. The girl escapes and returns home, placing a call to the brother, saying "come quickly, i have news of your sisters letter". Or some such. Of course, our music student hero rushes right over, only to discover that the girl is already dead. He quickly books a flight to New York to go to the aid of his sister. Madness ensues. As you can expect from Dario Argento, this stroy revolves around a supernatural presence, which co-exists with mankind. and evolves as we gain clue after clue until the presence finally announces itself in a blaze of flames. There is one scene I really enjoyed and I have dubbed it "When Cats Attack" that involves a pack of cats, yep, attacking en masse. Classic old school horror from the acknowedged master of the craft.

The Heroin Busters

Sex, Violence And A Kickass Score By Goblin All Fully Restored For The First Time Ever In America!
Fabio Testi (THE BIG RACKET, CONTRABAND) stars as a cold-blooded cop gone deep undercover to take down an international drug syndicate. But when a hair-trigger Interpol agent (David Hemmings of BLOW-UP, DEEP RED and GLADIATOR fame) joins the investigation, the case takes a deadly detour into sexual depravity and sudden violence. Can two tough detectives trapped in a criminal underworld now stay alive long enough to ignite a citywide massacre?

Sherry Buchanan (ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST) co-stars in this action-packed thriller - with an unforgettable motorcycle and airplane chase climax - co-written and directed by Enzo Castellari (HIGH CRIME, INGLORIOUS BASTARDS), featuring a pounding score by legendary prog-rockers Goblin (SUSPIRIA, DAWN OF THE DEAD) and now transferred from the original camera negative.

Extras-

Audio Commentary with Director Enzo G. Castellari
Theatrical Trailer


Tech Specs-

Color
Dolby Digital Mono
English
1.85:1 / 16x9
1977
93 Mins
Not Rated
Region Code: 0


Handsome and crafty deep cover agent works his way throught the heroin scene from the bottom up. Packed with action and clever little plot twists all along the way, we are led on a twisty journey throught the labyrinth of international heroin smuggling, from Hong Kong, to Rome. Our devil may care hero leads his gang of herion thugs until they lead HIM to Mr. Big. Or in this case, Mr Low Level Middle Guy, who is at least in control of the Local Roman Dope gangs. Its a cool movie, and satisfied my need for a cops and robbers mood today. Fabio Testi gives a great performance as the undercover police agent who is thick with the bad guys, until its time to make his big move. I'd enjoy this one again some time, just to watch him strut around with belt on over a t shirt. Fashionably 70's costumes and those glorious hairdo's of yesteryear never cease to give me a laugh or three, especially when its a tough guy with feathered hair and a mustache! classic!

Vigilante

The Savage Urban Action Thriller From The Director Of MANIAC
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino (Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for JACKIE BROWN) is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, Eddie goes berserk and vows revenge. Now there's a new breed of marauder loose on the city streets, enforcing his own kind of law. His justice is swift. His methods are violent. He is the VIGILANTE.

Fred Williamson (FROM DUSK TILL DAWN), Woody Strode (SPARTACUS), Joe Spinell (MANIAC) and Salsa legend Willie Colon co-star in this hard-hitting exploitation classic from director William Lustig (MANIAC COP, RELENTLESS) that many critics consider to be better - and more shocking - than the original DEATH WISH.

Extras-

Audio Commentary with Co-Producer/Director William Lustig and Stars Robert Forster, Fred Williamson and Frank Pesce
Theatrical Trailers
TV Spots
Radio Spots
Promotional Reel
Still Gallery

Tech Specs -

Color
6.1 DTS-ES (English Only); 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX (English Only); Dolby Surround 2.0
English, French, Italian, German
Optional Spanish Subtitles
Closed Captions
2.35:1 / 16x9
1983
89 Mins
Not Rated
Region Code: 0


YEAH! This is what happens when you get pushed too far, and can only find peace when you solve it, YOUR WAY. These guys were tired of being hassled, tired of being victimized by the rampant violence that can reach out an change your life on a whim. They decided to send a message back to the bad guys, from the lowest level street pushers and thugs all the way up to the organized leadership, main suppliers and legal professionals who turned a blind eye to what the everyday man was going through. There are some really great lines in this movie and a seriously intense monologue from Fred Williamson proclaiming "This is our Waterloo, baby!". Such a good movie. It makes me want to walk down the street with my shoulders all pushed back and a fierce gleam of pride and security in my eyes. And I weigh like 130. Sometimes we get pushed over that edge. These guys did. And this movie is a wonderful story that tells the why's and wherefor's that did the pushing, and how they chose to react to those circumstances. Im not an advocate of violence in general. But there are always exceptions....Big ups to Blue Underground for this one!

The New York Ripper

New York City: It's A Nice Place To Visit, But You Wouldn't Want To Die There!
A blade-wielding psychopath is on the loose, turning The Big Apple bright red with the blood of beautiful young women. As NYPD detectives follow the trail of butchery from the decks of the Staten Island Ferry to the sex shows of Times Square, each brutal murder becomes a sadistic taunt. In the city that never sleeps, he's the killer that can't be stopped!

Written and directed by acclaimed horror maestro Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD) and filmed on location in the mean streets of New York City, this is one of Fulci's most savage and controversial thrillers. Now remastered in blood-soaked High-Definition from its original camera negative, THE NEW YORK RIPPER is presented completely uncut and uncensored with exclusive new Extras!

extras-

"I'm an Actress!" - Interview with Zora Kerova
NYC Locations Then and Now
Theatrical Trailer

tech -

Color
5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX; Original Mono
English
Optional Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
2.35:1 / 16x9
1982
93 Mins
Not Rated
Region Code: 0

Lucio Fulci does it again in Blue Underground's Special Edition release of The New York Ripper. Lauded as "The most controversial horror film ever made."
It certainly delivers a large measure of the bizzare! From the seedy sex clubs of old New York, to posh penthouse apartments, this killer certainly gets around! It seems someone is going around the big apple slicing up pretty girls! Could it be the 8 fingered Greek? The cops are closing in as this psycho wrecks his vengeance on the women of New York. A brilliant psychologist is enlisted for the task of profiling the killer to narrow it down, and in a ctiy the size of New York, you need it as narrow as possible, right? I mean, no clues, no witnesses, just an inexplicable penchant for talking like a duck. yes. you read that correctly. It seems the killer, for some reason, uses the voice of a duck when making his taunting phone calls to the police. Stranger things have happened though, so they quickly simply dub him "ducky" and get on with trying to figure out who the hell he (wait a minute!) or she is! Why is the killer slicing people up? Whats with the voice of the duck? All these questions and many more are answered in this fantastic psycho-thriler from the dawn of serial killer movies. "the man with two missing fingers" so damn ominous sounding, for some reason, yet for all we know, he lost them fixing a lawn mower. This is a good example of the devices used by Fulci in this film to keep you guessing. I was certainly guessing rrrright up until the end. and I mean RIGHT up to it. I swear , I was all "Of course!" and then literally two seconds later, "what?!?!?" So brilliant. Insane people make for good endingings. and this movie has a doozy!

The Castle of Fu Manchu

The Legendary Asian Crime Lord Is Back...And International Evil Has A Chilling New Home!
Christopher Lee returns as the diabolical super-villian who along with his sadistic daughter Lin Tang (Tsai Chin of THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU and THE JOY LUCK CLUB) creates a fiendish new chemical weapon that will turn the seas into a giant block of ice. But when his Archenemy Nayland Smith (Richard Greene of TALES FROM THE CRYPT) tracks the madman's trail of kidnapping, murder and massive global destruction, he himself becomes trapped in Fu's impenetrable lair of cruelty. Can any of the world's top secret agents (including a wild performance by Director Jess Franco) now stop the cold-blooded terror that lives in THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU?

Maria Perschy (99 WOMEN) and Rosalba Neri (JUSTINE) co-star in this notorious sequel to THE BLOOD OF FU MANCHU directed by Jess Franco (THE BLOODY JUDGE, VAMPYROS LESBOS) that marked Christopher Lee's final performance as the infamous Chinese madman. This definitive edition of THE CASTLE OF FU MANCHU has been newly restored from it's original print and packed with exclusive new Extras for a disc full of Fu Manchu mayhem!

EXTRAS

The Fall of Fu Manchu - Interviews with Director Jess Franco, Producer Harry Alan Towers, Stars Christopher Lee and Tsai Chin
Theatrical Trailer
Poster & Still Gallery
The Facts of Dr. Fu Manchu
Talent Bios
Liner Notes by Video Watchdog's Tim Lucas

Technical

Color
Dolby Digital Mono
English
1.66:1 / 16x9
1969
94 Mins
Not Rated
Region Code: 0


Christopher Lee Stars as the legendary bad guy Fu Manchu. Its seems that Fu Manchu has kidnapped a scientist and forced him to divulge his special formula for turning water into ice! OMG! This is worse than it seems at first glance, because we are talking about LARGE amounts of water, like ocean sized amounts of water. And the formula does not involve littel trays that fit inside the household freezer. Rather something more ominous called "crystals". oh yes, and in this case these powerful crystals are made from a distillation of the opium poppy. Thus it is off to Turkey for loads of fun with the diabolical mastermind so devious, that the world named a mustache after him. Of course their are Turkish drug lords to deal with, and pesky investigators from Scotland Yard, oh yes and it seems that we will also need to invent the heart transplant along the way. But no mater! These are mere trifles to a brilliant madman like Fu Manchu! The movie is a great romp through the youth of evil madmen bent on world domination films. Complete with demands made to all the worlds governments (via intercom) that they must meet his demands or have humanity plunged into a sea of frozen waste for all time. It at no point even seems important that Fu Manchunot once specifies what these demands are, as it is obvious that he is after all of it, the whole enchilada, and only an idiot would ask him what he was after, what he hoped to gain by all this. I mean he has a gorgeous assassin for a daughter and a loyal to the death army of red silk scarf wearing henchmen to do his bidding, so what do you think he wants? sheesh. Well, Fu Manchu throws down the gauntlet in this one, and its pay up or die time as far as he is concerned. Though there is a certain Englishman named Smith who would like to have a word with Mr Manchu before the fun ends. Check it out, a campy flick for a hot day, perfect with a friend and a glass of iced tea!

Shock Waves

Beneath The Living... Beyond The Dead... From The Depths Of Hell's Ocean!
In the dark days of World War II, the Nazi High Command ordered its scientists to create a top secret race of indestructible zombie storm troopers un-living, unfeeling, unstoppable monstrosities that killed with their bare hands. They were known as The Death Corps. No member of this horrific SS unit was ever captured by the allied forces and, somewhere off the coast of Florida, they have survived

Peter Cushing (THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN), Brooke Adams (THE DEAD ZONE) and John Carradine (THE HOWLING) star in this suspenseful and genuinely creepy shocker co-written and directed by Ken Wiederhorn (RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD II) - one of the great horror "sleepers" of the 1970s. Although the film's original negative mysteriously disappeared over 20 years ago, SHOCK WAVES has now been transferred from the directors own vault print and digitally restored for this premiere DVD release!



Blue Underground has a real doozy of a zombie flick for you with this one! Nazi Zombie's in off the Florida coast. It makes sense. The back story on this cult horror flick is actually almost something you could believe. The Nazi's, after all, did get up to some bizzare things. Now, in this delightful little movie gem, we have an old diving boat out touring the glorious islands, complete with the buxom babe, the car salesman, his (soon to be filing for divorce) wife and a guy that can only be described as Larry from Three's Company sans the "ladies man" attitude. The 70's were king of many things and the handle bar mustache was certainly one of them. A glorious specimen of which, is sported by the hunky beach bum boat navigator. The boat comes into some sort of very odd solar activity which freaks everyone on board way out. The old salt captain is shaken, and orders "Let's get the hell out of here." Mustache grabs the wheel and throttles her up. They cruise through the deep dark Atlantic/Gulf night and nearly collide with a mysterious freighter. and get run aground on a deserted desert isle, with the skipper, the mooooovie starm the professor and Mary Anne oh wait sorry. couldnt help it. No no skipper. in fact the skipper has vanished. And the prof and Mary-Anne have nothing to do with this story. Anyways, the crew and passengers find the skippers corpse near the shore, "Larry" climbs a tree and spots a building in the distance. The weathered survivors hike over there, hoping to find a phone or some sort of aid. Instead they find a Nazi Hermit who has been living on the island alone scine the end of WW2. This cheerfull fellow informs them that there are Nazi SS super soldiers coming from the freighter and that they had best get off the island ASAP. Of course, there is a small boat up the dark path, and down the river a bit. Hurry now! you should RUN!

Great zombie (esq) story. I enjoyed this movie. It was vastly entertaining, with everything from cool 70's outfits to nifty 70's Florida Zombie make up. Quite a story, and has a cool "no one escapes" ending.

Snuff

Blue Underground brings you

The Film That Could Only Be Made In South America... Where Life Is Cheap!



And thats the truth! Sorta....


This movie is a loose South American fictionalization of the world famous LaBianca/Tate murders and the cult of Charles Manson. The story revolves around a young actress, in country to shoot a "sexploitation" film. However, (and isn't there always a 'however' in there somewhere?) she is targeted to be the mother of the "sacrifice" that the villain needs to further his depraved plot of, yup, world domination via sex and violence. This is all unbeknownst to the actress of course. She thinks she's just having a marvelous affair with a wealthy German arms dealer's son, in between shooting scenes for her "big" break. The baddies are a team of turbo vixens who adore their master (who goes by the name Satan, with the emphasis on the second syllable there so sa-TAWN) and go around town in bikini's (natch!) doing his bidding, such as slaughtering the local liquor store owner, oh and incidentally, the director of the young bouncy actress's movie. Seems he was cramping the plan in some way. This is all prior to the big B&E finale of the arms dealers house to complete the Manson analog and finish the story(!) The story is stilted a bit, and in a very very clever way that I was scoffing at, until the twist ending. And I mean like from out of nowhere type twist ending, that had my popcorn hand paused enroute to my open mouth as I absorbed exactly how deeply I'd been spoofed by the guys who made this movie. At which point the set of stilted, wierd, and sometimes outright flubbed shots, intentional bad acting, etc - the whole enchilada made perfect sense! Check this one out. and see if you can figure it out before they slam it in your face. I couldnt. They had me going the whole damn movie. Good for them!

This is all not to mention the great 60's (ish) costumes and the nods to classic rock songs most of my 30 something readers will instantly twig too. The movie has allusions to its forbears in the "psychedelia" genre, and of course the Manson Family.

Killer Nun

From the Secret Files of the Vatican! Uncut! Uncensored! Unholy!
Legendary Swedish sex bomb Anita Ekberg (LA DOLCE VITA) stars as Sister Gertrude, a cruel nun who discovers depraved pleasure in a frenzy of drug addiction, sexual degradation and sadistic murder. Joe Dallesandro (ANDY WARHOLS FRANKENSTEIN), Lou Castel (A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL), Alida Valli (SUSPIRIA) and the luscious Paola Morra (BEHIND CONVENT WALLS) co-star in this notorious Nunsploitation sickie based on actual events that took place in a Central European country not many years ago!

Branded as obscene around the world and banned outright in Britain, KILLER NUN has been completely remastered from original vault elements and is now presented with all of its blasphemous sex and violence fully restored for the first time ever in America!


Blue Underground once again brings back a movie from the world of the banned. In this drug addled, sex driven who dunnit, we find ourselves as confused as a nun with a wicked morphine addiction. Who is killing the patients of the hospital? Is it the nun recovering from brain surgery? Is it the man Peter who cannot walk? Could it be a depraved doctor who, surrounded by chaste nuns simply loses it? No. Yes. Maybe. I enjoyed this movie. Plot develops quickly, and I was hooked early, convincedIi had the answer. Little did I know. hah!
Those nuns can be quite crafty, I suppose. A great movie from a time that will never return! At base it is an intelligent mystery movie that revolves around drug use and forbidden sex. There is one scene where a patient whose mouth has been taped shut, is repeatedly pierced with the needle tip of a syringe. I flinched. I admit it. Something about needles and eyeballs makes me squirmy. This is one hospital I wouldnt want to end up in!