Derann Video Labels
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Die Screaming Marianne
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Read more: Die Screaming MarianneA horror thriller from Pete Walker starring Susan George and Barry Evans from 1971. The plot was fairly simple with sisters fighting over an inheritance, which ends in deadly consequences. We’d picked up a number of Pete’s titles, of which this was perhaps the weakest. However the name Susan George helped us shift a few…
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Haunts
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Read more: HauntsThe video cassette market was booming with customers constantly looking for new horror, ‘sex’ and action titles, so it’s easy to understand why we would release this hooror that in reality is a slow-paced thriller that has a real sense of impending doom. The names of May Britt, Cameron Mitchell and Aldo Ray, adorn the…
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Let’s make a dirty movie
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Read more: Let’s make a dirty movieHere’s a little puzzler for us! This 1976 French movie (original title ‘Attention les yeux!’), wasn’t released in the UK until 1980 by Amanda Films Ltd. I don’t recall that we ever dealt with a distribution company of that name, so I’m at a loss as to who we picked it up from. As for…
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Deep River Savagers
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Read more: Deep River SavagersAccording to the the BBFC this was released to UK cinemas by Mark Associates under the title ‘The Man From Deep River’ (original Italian title was ‘Il paese del sesso selvaggio’), but I’m pretty sure that’s not where we acquired the rights, in fact I don’t think we ever completed a deal with Mark Associates,…
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Space Cruiser
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Read more: Space CruiserHere’s another label for one of our many video cassette releases. We issued the title on both VHS and Beta, with the rights having been obtained, as part of a package, from ‘Enterprise Pictures, who had their rather smart and well maintained offices on the top floor of the same building as 20th Century Fox,…
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Find a Place to Die
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Read more: Find a Place to DieThis a fair spaghetti western and stars Jeffrey Hunter in one of his final films, he passed away the following year of a stroke. It’s original title was ‘Joe… Cercati un Posto per Morire!’ and it’s director Giuliano Carnimeo was versatile and had put his talents to numerous genres. Released in UK by our friends…
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Frightmare
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Read more: FrightmareThis 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
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Read more: Hell Is EmptyThis 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
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Read more: 40 Million BucksAnother 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
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Read more: Mardi Gras MassacreAfter 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…