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  • Frightmare

    Frightmare

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    This was one of the titles we picked up direct from its cult director Pete Walker! The other titles were ‘Die Screaming Marianne’, ‘The Four Dimensions of Greta’ and ‘House of Whipcord’. The deal was finalised while we were drinking coffee and relaxing in the spacous lounge of his appartment in Chelsea. Pete had some…

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  • Hell Is Empty

    Hell Is Empty

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    This was our fourth video release and even after trying very hard to recall as to where we purchased the rights from it still remains a puzzle. According to the IMDb it was given a theatrical release in the UK by Rank Film Distributors in 1969… that was two years after it’s production, so it…

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  • 40 Million Bucks

    40 Million Bucks

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    Another title we picked up while in the US and one of a fairy large package. Originally released as ‘The Treasure Seekers’, it was also known as ‘Jamaican Gold’,  ‘Contraband’ and ‘On A Deadman’s Chest’ and any film with that number of titles spells only one thing, old hat banality! It was a  low budget…

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  • Mardi Gras Massacre

    Mardi Gras Massacre

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    After all this time I’ve no reccollection of who we purchased the rights for this piece of exploitation, but I know it was acquired on one of our business visits to the States. I’ve read that the film is a loose remake of  the Herschell Gordon Lewis film ‘Blood Feast’ and there’s no doubt there…

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  • Monsters from an Unknown Planet

    Monsters from an Unknown Planet

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    I  must be a small child at heart’, for movies such as this get my heart beating just a little faster! “Mekagojira no Gyakushu” was for me one of Toho’s best later Godzilla entries. Released in 1975 and known as ‘Terror Of Godzilla’ in the USA it was given a UK theatrical release by one…

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  • Bisexual

    Bisexual

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    Released on our “Goldstar” label, the BBFC lists this film as having been granted an X certificate in 1976 to Anthony Balch Films, yet as far as I can remember we never dealt with Balch, but as the distributor had a prolific output of films of an erotic nature and we too had a suffice…

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  • The Fiend

    The Fiend

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    I believe this was another of the many titles we picked up from Michael Meyers at Miracle Films. It’s been a long time since I viewed this movie and if I’m honest it was a pretty dull affair, but the IMDb says it’s one of the more notable British horror films from the early 1970s,…

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  • Drummer of Vengeance

    Drummer of Vengeance

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    Ty Hardin, best remembered as TVs ‘Bronco, a popular western series that ran for 5 years, stars in this Italian made movie. The original title was ‘Il Giorno del Giudizio’, but it has also been viewed under several other names, including ‘Day of Judgment’, ‘Doomsday’ and ‘An Eye for An Eye’. The plot wasn’t anything…

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  • Ten Fingers of Steel

    Ten Fingers of Steel

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    It’s full title was ” Wang Yu – Ten Fingers of Steel”, which played on the popularity of the star of this martial arts drama, Jimmy Wang Yu, who was already a superstar of some substance and had acheived great aclaim in blockbusters like ‘One armed Swordsman’ (1967), which had set new box office records…

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  • Bloodlust

    Bloodlust

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    This English dubbed German horror was another that we picked up from Butchers Films. Its original title was ‘Mosquito der Schänder’, but was also known as ‘Bloodlust: The Black Forest Vampire’ and ‘Bloodlust: The Vampire of Nuremberg’. Loosely based on a true case, this film deals with a young man (Werner Pochath), who in his…

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