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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
The Manitou
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| Following his success with Grizzly (1976) and Day of the Animals (1977), producer/director William Girdler bought the film rights to the best-selling novel by Graham Masterton for what would become the most ambitious film of Girdler’s career… and a commercial triumph he would never live to see: Academy Award® nominee Tony Curtis leads an all star cast – including Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, Ann Sothern and Burgess Meredith – in this infamous ‘70s saga of tarot card hustlers, enormous neck tumors, a 400-year-old reincarnated medicine man and naked demon space laser battles that has been called everything from “a thoroughly entertaining supernatural extravaganza” (The Spinning Image) and “a fascinating experience” (DVD Beaver) to “a deliriously ill-advised oddity” (Indiewire) and “as crazy as it sounds and then some” (AV Club).
Misquamacus says “this truly underappreciated gem” (Rock! Shock! Pop!) is now scanned in 4K from the 35mm interpositive by StudioCanal for the first time ever with over 3 hours of all-new and archival Special Features.
The Perros Callejeros Trilogy
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| Cine Quinqui – pronounced ‘kinky’ and short for quincallero, slang used to describe juvenile delinquents – was a series of neorealist dramas depicting the teenage crimewave that plagued post-Franco Spain. And while more than 30 Quinqui movies were produced between 1977 and 1985, the genre was defined – alongside Eloy de la Iglesia’s Navajeros/El Pico films – by this shocking urban trilogy from writer/director José Antonio de la Loma: Recognised as the original Quinqui, Perros Callejeros features a star-making performance by real-life street felon Ángel Fernández Franco as charismatic young hoodlum El Torete.
De la Loma’s adolescent antihero returns in Perros Callejeros II to battle an increasingly brutal world of robberies, prison and vengeance. In Los Últimos Golpes De El Torete, the titular gangster joins forces with the equally notorious El Vaquilla for a rampage that turns violent criminals into pop culture idols. Frank Braña (Pieces), Marta Flores (The House By The Edge of the Lake), Xabier Elorriaga (Thesis) and Bernard Seray (The Devil's Honey) co-star – along with dozens of actual quinquis – in these groundbreaking action hits, now scanned in 4K from their original camera negatives with English subtitles.
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Night Nurse
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Fall 2: Deadpoint
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