Gory greetings horroryearbook alumni! It’s a good week to be a horror fan. Check out this week’s incredible list of Brain Hammer approved dvd releases, all of which hit stores Tuesday 04/29/08!
Brain Hammer approved dvds hitting stores 04/29/08:
Since its premiere in 1984, The Toxic Avenger has become a world famous icon. Now, Troma has packaged Toxie’s greatest films together into The Complete Toxic Avenger! Follow Toxie’s entire history, from his nuclear waste birth in the Toxic Avenger, through his journey to Japan in The Toxic Avenger Part II, through his fight with the Devil himself in The Toxic Avenger Part III, and into his latest adventure in Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV, as he faces off against his evil doppelganger the Noxious Offender!
DELIRIUM (special edition rerelease): Blue Underground
Criminal psychologist Dr. Herbert Lyutak is a deranged sex maniac who murders young women. His beautiful wife is tormented by visions of medieval torture and lesbian orgies. But as their madness grows more twisted, they will descend even deeper into a nightmare of dementia, depravity and most of all, DELIRIUM!
You have never seen anything like DELIRIUM. Written and directed by the notorious Renato Polselli (under the pseudonym Ralph Brown), this disc contains both the Italian and U.S. versions of the film, which each feature radically different subplots and endings as well as additional scenes of sleazy sex and extreme violence. Both versions of this astonishing 1972 oddity are now proudly presented together for your viewing pleasure.
HITCH-HIKE (special edition rerelease): Blue Underground
While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer (International superstar Franco Nero) and his beautiful wife (the stunning Corinne Clery) pick up a stranded motorist (the one and only David Hess of LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT infamy). But when this hitcher turns out to be a depraved psychopath, their road trip takes a vicious detour into sex and savagery where the miles are marked in mayhem and vengeance is the ultimate rule of thumb.
Barely released theatrically in America, HITCH-HIKE has been called “one of the greatest exploitation films no one has ever seen.” Co-writer/director Pasquale Festa Campanile packs this outstanding sleaze epic with wild performances, extreme violence and some very nasty surprises, all set to a remarkable score by Ennio Morricone.
Check out my review of Hitch-Hike here.
THE NEW YORK RIPPER (rerelease): Blue Underground
A blade-wielding psychopath is on the loose, turning The Big Apple bright red with the blood of beautiful young women. As NYPD detectives follow the trail of butchery from the decks of the Staten Island Ferry to the sex shows of Times Square, each brutal murder becomes a sadistic taunt. In the city that never sleeps, he’s the killer that can’t be stopped!
Written and directed by acclaimed horror maestro Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD) and filmed on location in the mean streets of New York City, THE NEW YORK RIPPER is one of Fulci’s most savage and controversial thrillers and is presented here completely uncut and uncensored.
Check out my review of The New York Ripper.
NIGHTMARE CITY (special edition rerelease): Blue Underground
When a radioactive spill causes mass contamination, thousands of infected citizens are transformed into bloodthirsty undead fiends. But these are not your standard stumbling gut munchers; this is an all out attack by fast moving, flesh ripping, ass kicking maniacs that can only be stopped by a bullet to the brain. Get ready for an all you can eat buffet of gunfire, gore and gratuitous aerobics where zombies run, chaos reigns and heads explode. This is NIGHTMARE CITY!
Hugo Stiglitz, Mel Ferrer, and Francisco Rabal star in this wild splatterfest directed by the notorious Umberto Lenzi (CANNIBAL FEROX, GHOSTHOUSE). Originally released in America as the heavily edited CITY OF THE WALKING DEAD, NIGHTMARE CITY has been transferred from original vault materials and is now proudly presented completely uncut and uncensored.
Check out my review of Nightmare City here.
SCHIZO (1976): Redemption USA
Schizo is classic slice of seventies slasher sleaze directed by Pete Walker (House of Whipcord, Frightmare). A young women, who as a child witnessed the violent murder of her mother, marries and then finds that her close friends are being horrifically murdered one by one and that each death seems to be bringing her closer to the murderer. A vicious and very unpleasant seventies slasher.
KEEP THE BLOOD FLOWING!!!
