On Halloween Eve in Brooklyn, an average Joe loser named Chris finds an invitation to a costume party. Arriving at the "party", Chris discovers he's fallen prey to the lethal trap set by deranged artists. As the night wears on, rivalries within the group flare up. A body count accrues, and Chris must take advantage of the ensuing chaos if he's to survive the night.

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Raizo has been raised since childhood to be a ninja assassin, but turns his back on the evil killers and teams up with a Europol detective. A ridiculously plot free gorefest with blood soaked decapitations, disembowelments, explosions, fast fights etc. With a title like this what do you expect? One for the boys. find out more...

An experimental bio-weapon is released turning thousands of people into zombies and, as the multiplying horde of frenzied crazies approach, a dangerous outlaw named Wray, a sexy stripper named Cherry, an unscrupulous smuggler named Abby and the curiously incapacitated Dr Dakota Block, amongst others, must try to escape to a place untouched by the nightmare. The B-movie reinvented, "Planet Terror" is a considerably more successful attempt at homage to the American drive-in Grindhouse cinema than find out more...

A 'Leatherface' type murderer who wears other people's faces, kills at an all-night horror-thon at an old theatre put on by a bunch of film students. Maggie, the lead character, believes it's really Lanyard Gates, a crazed film maker who killed his family live on stage fifteen years ago. And now he's back to kill his daughter, Sara, who is believed to really be Maggie. 

 

Superlative horror that blends great diy special effects, cinephilia and frights with aplomb. AN find out more...

Peter Watkins' astonishing pseudo-documentary comes blistering onto the screen in this long overdue re-release of his 1971 classic. Punishment Park tells the bleak story of a section of society whose political and social beliefs have landed them in a courtroom, facing ill-defined charges of hostilities against the state. Once found guilty, an inevitability I'm afraid, they face the choice of spending 20-odd years in prison or, and alarm bells should be ringing right about now, 4 days in Punishme find out more...

A Canadian cult classic with its own language, created by Anthony Burgess, and with choreographiy from Desmond Morris. A simple tale of the Ulam tribe's quest to replace the life-sustaining flame that's been nicked from them by another bunch of marauding Paleolithics. A fascinating look at the trials of life 80,000 years ago, with extraordinary performances and some gruesome violence. find out more...

A future where the key sport's central feature is violence and the star a little too independently minded. A sci-fi film which can't quite make up it's mind whether to go for serious satire or mindless violence and ends up being the kind of violent escapism it seems to dislike. find out more...

Newman is coach of the Chiefs, a third rate ice hockey team. To build up their attendances he hires three oddball characters whose sole asset is an ability to play extremely violently. This has the desired effect by upping the team's support considerably. Violent, foul-mouthed and very funny. find out more...

An unusual departure (if you exclude the violence) for Peckinpah, though the key elements of mans' inhumanity to man and his ultimate emotional expression through aggression are very much present. An American mathematician and his English wife escape the hostility of New York for the apparent tranquillity of Cornwall, only to find themselves in great peril and finally discovering the overwhelming desire for retribution. Straw Dogs was banned due to its explicit violence, but bar the uneasy feeli find out more...

Framed for treason, the executioner of the Shogun is stripped of office and declared an outlaw. Together with his infant son, he sets out as a mercenary on a blood soaked journey of revenge against the secret society that murdered his wife and robbed him of his good name. With his life in ruins, and literally believing that he is in hell, he and his baby son have become Lone Wolf and Cub. An edited version of Sword of Vengeance was released in 1983 as Shogun Assassin this is the first UK release find out more...