School of the Holy Beast

School of the Holy Beast (1974)
Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Starring: Yumi Takigawa
Personal Rating: 4.5/5

"A young Japanese woman in search of her missing mother discovers a sinister secret deep within the Sacred Heart Convent in director Norifumi Suzuki's notorious nunsploitation classic. After taking religious vows to gain entry into the convent where her mother was last seen, Maya (Yumi Takigawa) descends into a hedonistic world where sinful archbishops and whip-wielding nuns torment her in the most unholy manner imaginable."-© Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Notable DVD Releases This Week

Available May 27th, 2008:

Come Drink With Me (Dragon Dynasty)
1966, Hong Kong, Director: King Hu

Dario Argento Collection (Anchor Bay/Starz)
Italy, Director: Dario Argento

Heroes Of The East (Dragon Dynasty)
1979, Hong Kong, Director: Chia-Liang Liu

Phenomena (Anchor Bay/Starz)
1984, Italy, Director: Dario Argento

Tenebre (Anchor Bay/Starz)
1982, Italy, Director: Dario Argento

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Django

Django (1966)
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Starring: Franco Nero
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Sergio Corbucci crafted one of the most popular and widely imitated of the Italian Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s with this violent but stylish action saga. A mysterious man named Django (Franco Nero) arrives in a Mexican border town dragging a small coffin behind him. When he attempts to save a woman who is being attacked by a group of bandits, he finds himself in the middle of a conflict between Mexican gangsters and racist Yankee thugs, with the innocent townspeople and a fortune in Mexican gold stuck somewhere in between. Django becomes a force to be reckoned with when it's discovered his coffin actually contains a Gatling gun. Django proved so popular in Europe that over 30 sequels and follow-ups were produced, though Franco Nero would not return to the role until 1987's Django 2: Il Grande Ritorno (the only sequel endorsed by Corbucci, which proved to be the last film in the series)."-© Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs

Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)
Director: Yukio Noda
Starring: Miki Sugimoto
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Based on a manga by Toru Shinohara, the Zero Woman series was a popular Japanese exploitation franchise of the 1970s, and it holds up strikingly well today. RED HANDCUFFS begins with female cop Rei (Miki Sugimoto), otherwise known as Agent Zero, seducing a Westerner who has been killing women with his sadistic sexual fetishes. Once she gets him back to the hotel room, however, she metes out her own brand of justice, of which her fellow cops do not approve, and Rei promptly lands in jail. Elsewhere, the maniacal criminal Nagumo (Tetsuro Tamba) is being let out of prison, and it isn't long before his brutal celebration leads to the kidnapping of an important politician's daughter. Charged with retrieving the girl without the media's knowledge, the police turn the job over to Rei. What follows is a melee of violence, sex, and violent sex, as Rei coolly does what it takes to get the job done."

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Notable DVD Releases This Week

Available May 20th, 2008:

Anguish (Blue Underground)
1987, Spain, Director: Bigas Luna

Bohachi Bushido: Code Of The Forgotten Eight (Discotek)
1973, Japan, Director: Teruo Ishii

Diary of the Dead (Dimension Extreme)
2007, USA, Director: George A. Romero

The Killing Hour (Blue Underground)
1982, USA, Director: Armand Mastroianni

Lucker: The Necrophagous - The Director's Cut (Synapse Films)
1986, Belgium, Director: Johan Vandewoestijne

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