Gory greetings horroryearbook alumni! Check out this week’s Brain Hammer approved horror dvd releases, all of which hit stores Tuesday 08/26/08!
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (2-disc special edition rerelease): Grindhouse
Banned and heavily censored throughout the world, here is a film that surpasses its reputation as a shotgun blast to the senses. CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST presents the lost footage of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters. The footage is so intense, so graphic, and so unflinching in its realism that the director and producers were arrested on its original release and the film was seized.
This long awaited rerelease of the Grindhouse Releasing definitive DVD version of Ruggero Deodato’s masterwork ranks with the most highly anticipated and sought after DVD releases in the history of the medium. Not for the weak of stomach, the film’s horrifying power cannot be denied.
CANNIBAL TERROR (special edition): Severin
Even by the sleaziest standards of 80′s EuroTrash, CANNIBAL TERROR remains a film that must be seen to be believed. When a pair of criminal knuckleheads and their busty moll kidnap the young daughter of a wealthy tycoon they foolishly choose to hide in a local jungle infested with ferocious cannibals. What follows is a mind-roasting exercise in atrocious acting gratuitous nudity and gut-munching mayhem by a ravenous tribe of flesh eaters who inexplicably sport comb-overs and Elvis sideburns.
Robert Foster (INCONFESSABLE ORGIES OF EMMANUELLE) Pamela Stanford (WHITE CANNIBAL QUEEN) and Burt Altman (THE DEVIL HUNTERS) star in this infamous Spanish/French co-production that was banned in Britain as one of the original Video Nasties.
DEVIL HUNTER (special edition): Severin
Notorious director Jess Franco (BLOODY MOON, MACUMBA SEXUAL) takes on the 80′s Cannibal genre and delivers a jungle sickie like no other! When a safari of sexy babes and violent boneheads ventures into native-crazed wilderness Uncle Jess unleashes a deluge of relentless nudity, dubious anthropology, and his own brand of cut-rate carnage.
Ursula Fellner (SADOMANIA) Al Cliver (ZOMBIE) Robert Foster (CANNIBAL TERROR) and Gisela Hahn (CONTAMINATION) co-star in this original Video Nasty also tastefully known as SEXO CANNIBAL and MANDINGO MANHUNTER with something to offend everyone. Now fully restored from the original Spanish negative and presented uncut and uncensored for the first time ever in America!
PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION (special edition): Anchor Bay
The sequel with balls…now loaded with extras! Writer/director Don Coscarelli reunites A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Bill Thornbury and Angus Scrimm for the final shocking chapter of the most unique series in horror movie history!
As The Tall Mans unholy harvest reaches its crescendo, Mike, Reggie and Jody will converge across portals of time and dimensions of the undead to uncover his startling secrets. Flying spheres will be unleashed. Ice cream vendors will reload. But will the ultimate nightmare end where it all began?
KEEP THE BLOOD FLOWING!!!
