Soylent Green

Film Skool

| IT'S THE YEAR 2022... PEOPLE ARE STILL THE SAME. THEY'LL DO ANYTHING TO GET WHAT THEY NEED. AND THEY NEED SOYLENT GREEN.

Across a forty year career, Richard Fleischer directed classic movies in almost every decade he was working: from the epic swashbuckling of The Vikings, to the psychological chills of 10 Rillington Place... and, of course, Soylent Green: a dystopian science-fiction thriller with a venomous sting in its tail.

In a frighteningly prescient world of overpopulation and ecological collapse, resources are scarce. While the elite live in spacious, walled-off communities eating natural food and drinking clean water, the masses live in squalor, collecting water from communal taps and eating highly processed food wafers made by the Soylent Corporation. Soylent Red and Soylent Yellow are a staple, but now there's a tastier and more nutritious option: Soylent Green. When a member of the Soylent Corporation's board is murdered, Detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) is called in to investigate. His search for answers will lead to a shocking discovery.

The final entry in a trilogy of dystopian sci-fi classics starring Charlton Heston - following Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man - Soylent Green is a devastating vision of humanity on the brink, once seen, never forgotten.

4K ULTRA HD LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS

- Brand new 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative by Arrow Films

- Archive audio commentary with director Richard Fleischer and star Leigh Taylor-Young

- Brand new audio commentary with film historian Michael Brooke and author Johnny Mains

- Charlton Heston at the BFI, an archive on-stage interview with the star of Soylent Green

- Richard Fleisher at the BFl, an archive onstage interview with the director of Soylent Green

- A Look at the World of Soylent Green, a vintage featurette

- MGM's Tribute to Edward G. Robinson's 101st Film, a vintage featurette

- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Nathanael Marsh

- Collectors' booklet featuring new writing by Frank Collins and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Ice Cream Man

Film Skool

| An idyllic summer town descends into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results.

Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

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Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

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Above the Line

Film Skool

| Six fledgling Hollywood hopefuls get the opportunity of a lifetime to burglarise a producer that screwed them over and steal his Best Picture awards.

TEEKS

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|My Boy, new music + visual from TEEKS.

Keiynan Lonsdale

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|Triggered, new music + visual from Keiynan Lonsdale.

Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

Qué Rico!

The Weight

Film Skool

| Desperate to save what is left of his family, during the height of the Great Depression a battle-scarred veteran is hired to help smuggle a fortune in gold across 100 miles of impenetrable wilderness.

Saint Micah

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|The Grind, new music + visual from Saint Micah.

Creedo

Art Skool

Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

Qué Rico!

Natalie Imbruglia

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|Algorithm, new music + visual from Natalie Imbruglia.

Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

Qué Rico!

Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

Qué Rico!

Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

Qué Rico!

Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

Qué Rico!

Intensive Care

Film Skool

| Before the reckless, short-tempered surgeon Dr. Bruckner was able to continue his controversial neurological experiments, wherein he applied shock therapy on comatose patients, he wound up in a fiery head-on collision with a gasoline truck. Brought back to his own hospital, gravely wounded, he lies in a coma for seven years, until one New Year's Eve, when he suddenly awakens, ready to exact bloody vengeance fueled by his years' worth of pent-up rage. After massacring several hospital staff, Bruckner sets his sights on a young orderly named Peter, tracking him to a quiet suburban neighborhood. Blinded by cold bloodlust, anyone and everyone who crosses Bruckner's path soon meets a grisly demise, as Peter, his neighbor and her kid brother, must figure out how to survive the wrath of this deformed and demented doctor.

The feature-film debut of multi-talented Dutch director Dorna X. van Rouveroy (An Amsterdam Tale), Intensive Care is the first and only Dutch horror film directed by a woman to date. Inspired heavily by the style and structure of 80s horror, and specifically created for the export market, it would remain virtually unreleased in the English world despite becoming a hit in the Netherlands and Belgium, in part due to its casting of two Dutch teen idols, actor/TV presenter Nada van Nie and pop star Koen Wauters. Packed with dramatic, gory kills and classic slasher ambience, it features prolific veteran actor George Kennedy (Dallas) as Bruckner, as well as supporting roles played by Dolf de Vries (The 4th Man), Jules Croiset (Amsterdamned), and Dick van den Toorn (Pastorale 1943).

Vinegar Syndrome Labs is eager to revive this rollicking Euro-chiller in a new, director-supervised restoration of its English-language Director's Cut.

Additional info:

- Newly scanned and restored in 2K from its 35mm original negative and a 35mm print

- Commentary track with Dutch film historians Yfke van Berckelaer and Bram Roza

- "35 Years Later" (23 min) - an in-depth conversation with director Dorna X. van Rouveroy

- Behind-the-scenes footage (9 min) 

- International trailer

- Reversible sleeve artwork

Charity Shop Sue

TV Times

| I've celebrated Pride month by revisiting (in nearly one sitting) Charity Shop Sue, the web series.

"In 2014, three local filmmakers in Nottingham were invited to document the life of charity shop manager Sue Tuke. In an attempt to raise the shop's profile, Sue planned to get the business 'on the net' to prevent the store from closure and become an online super star in the making. Not all went to plan as Sue’s ambitious ideas were met with obstacles from both inside and outside the shop resulting in a series of catastrophes. Sue therefore decided to not participate further in filming and the footage has not been seen… until now."

'Scuse me, laydeh! If you haven't already discovered the pleasures of Sue Tuke (Manager), now's your chance, alright, darlin'?

Metteson

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|Put It To Sleep, new music + visual from Metteson.

Carolina Caroline

Film Skool

| A young woman joins a charming con man on the run, leaving a trail of crime and passion as they hustle through the Southeast in search of her estranged mother.

Beyond the Darkness

Film Skool

| It’s been condemned as “flinch-inducing” (The Terror Trap), “stomach-churning” (Horror 101) and “one of the most sickening movies ever made” (Classic Horror), while simultaneously acclaimed as “dark poetry” (Mondo Digital), “gut-fondling fun” (DVD Talk) and “an astonishing achievement” (At the Mansion of Madness). Now experience “Joe D’Amato’s horror masterpiece” (Genre Grinder) like never before, in UHD for the first time ever: Cinzia Monreale (The Beyond) and Franca Stoppi (The Other Hell) star in this psychosexual sickie featuring torture, cannibalism, necrophilia, unrequited love and other perversions, fully restored, totally uncensored and set to a pounding score by Goblin.

Severin Films is obscenely proud to present “the sordid gem that surpasses its reputation” (Daily Dead) – also known as Buried Alive and Buio Omega – scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with over 5 hours of all-new and archival Special Features.

Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

Qué Rico!

Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness

Mass in Motion

Antropophagus

Film Skool

| Those with intestinal fortitude know it’s “truly jaw-dropping” (Bloody Disgusting), “surprisingly thrilling” (Confluence of Cult) and “a must-see gut-muncher” (DVD Talk). It was condemned as a Video Nasty and accused of being an actual snuff film. Yet even by ‘80s Italian gore-spewing standards, this grueling shocker from sleaze maestro Joe D’Amato still stands as perhaps the most controversial – and extreme – spaghetti splatter epic of them all, now in UHD for the first time ever in North America. Tisa Farrow, Zora Kerova and co-writer/producer George Eastman/Luigi Montefiori star in this depraved daddy of cannibal carnage from “Italy’s King of Trash Sinema” (Horrorpedia) in both its original theatrical and extended Italian version – which incorporates a never-before-seen sequence obtained through Rome underworld contacts – plus the U.S. theatrical cut The Grim Reaper, all scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with Special Features that include a new archival interview with D’Amato.

What Have You Done to Solange?

Film Skool

| It’s been called a “one-of-a-kind giallo” (The Digital Bits) that “delivers shocks with the precision of a Swiss watch” (Starburst). More than 50 years later, the stunner “that remains massively disturbing at a deeper level” (Scream Magazine) is uncut in UHD for the first time ever: When a series of brutal sex murders rocks an all-girls Catholic college, suspicion falls on a philandering professor (Fabio Testi of Contraband) whose own investigation will uncover a conspiracy of depravity.

Cristina Galbó (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie) and Camille Keaton (of I Spit On Your Grave infamy) in her film debut) co-star in “one of the classics of the genre” (DVD Talk) – also known as The School That Couldn't Scream, Who's Next? and Terror In The Woods – directed by Massimo Dallamano (What Have They Done To Your Daughters?) featuring masterful cinematography by Joe D’Amato and a legendary score by Ennio Morricone, now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with 6 hours of Special Features and Bonus Soundtrack CD.

Omar Rudberg x felix jaehn

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| Siren, new music + visual from Omar Rudberg and felix jaehn.

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?

Film Skool

| Hansel and Gretel forgot the attic. Hammer Presents Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? with Shelley Winters at her most gloriously unhinged.

Curtis Harrington's pitch-black festive horror makes its UK physical media debut in a brand-new 2K restoration, alongside new artwork by Lydia Maltby and an exclusive commentary with film critic and historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.

MNEK

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| REVERSE!!, new music + visual from MNEK.

Hot Spot

Film Skool

| In the late 21st century, an investigator and a member of a feared religious sect are brought together by a murder in a refugee camp.

Another Country

Film Skool

| Steve Hayes celebrates Gay Pride with a loving look at Another Country (1984), directed by Marek Kanievska, written by Julian Mitchell, and starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, and Cary Elwes.

Based on Mitchell’s play, Another Country explores privilege, repression, sexuality, class, and political rebellion inside a 1930s British public school modeled on Eton and Winchester. Rupert Everett stars as Guy Bennett, a brilliant, defiant young gay man whose refusal to hide puts him at odds with the brutal rules of the school. Colin Firth makes his feature film debut as Tommy Judd, a committed Marxist and fellow outsider, while Cary Elwes plays James Harcourt, the beautiful boy who becomes the object of Bennett’s romantic longing.

Steve looks at the film’s connection to Cambridge spy Guy Burgess, the British public school system, the Cambridge Five, and the emotional force behind one of the great queer coming-of-age films of the 1980s. He also traces the later careers of Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, and Cary Elwes, from Pride and Prejudice and The King's Speech to The Princess  Bride and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

Pol Prince

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|Diablito, new music + visual from Pol Prince.

Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

Qué Rico!

Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

Qué Rico!

The Manitou

Film Skool

| 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

Film Skool

| 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.

Their muscles met the demands of the city, and the city met the demands of their muscles

Qué Rico!

Night Nurse

Film Skool

| As a series of perverse scam calls unsettles an idyllic retirement community, a starry-eyed nurse becomes entangled with her mysterious patient.

Prince Joshua

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|Gogo Boy, new music + visual from Prince Joshua.