Derann Video Labels
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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…
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Monsters from an Unknown Planet
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Read more: Monsters from an Unknown PlanetI 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
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Read more: BisexualReleased 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
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Read more: The FiendI 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
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Read more: Drummer of VengeanceTy 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…