As Hollywood productions become more and more sanitized, movie parlors that featured coin-operated "peep" machines catered increasingly to customers looking for something they couldn't see at their local theater. By the 1950s, the "peep show" traded exclusively in erotic films. For the cost of the spare change, patrons could view short "loops" starring beautiful women in a variety of situations in which they inevitably ended up nude. Made cheaply and anonymously, the stars of the films remain...
As Hollywood productions become more and more sanitized, movie parlors that featured coin-operated "peep" machines catered increasingly to customers looking for something they couldn't see at their local theater. By the 1950s, the "peep show" traded exclusively in erotic films. For the cost of the spare change, patrons could view short "loops" Starring beautiful women in a variety of situations in which they inevitably ended up nude. Made cheaply and anonymously, the stars of the films remain...
This potpourri of Christmas-themed theatrical television and industrial short subjects is perfect fare for the holiday season, guaranteed to evoke nostalgia for a simpler time in America. "A Present for Santa Claus," for example, visits the average post-World War II family at Yuletide. Christmas Around the World and Christmas Through the Ages show how the birth of Christ has been celebrated in other countries and cultures. Perhaps most fascinating are the Hollywood-produced clips in which such...
A 5-DVD set containing five classic mysteries and thrillers. Vintage Hollywood Murder Mysteries: Murder By Invitation (1941) / Murder At Glen Athol (1932) / Wayne Murder Case (1932) / Murder On The Campus (1934) / Murder In The Museum (1934)
5 complete action-packed cliffhangers on 5 DVDs.
Easy, sleazy, and dirty. That's what the short movies you could see in a peep machine were. For the cost of a few coins, a variety of beautiful babes undressed before your eyes. They weren't always glamorous, but they were always stacked. And if you were lucky, maybe they had a little fun with themselves. In the 1950s and 60s these little films were commonplace, but now they're part of a bygone era. This collection brings together over an hour of those short subjects, and take you back to the...
5 complete cowboy serials on 5 DVDs
Mitchell Kowal, Wim Hollard, Lili Dawn, Vicki Carlson. In what has to be one of the campiest exploitation films ever made, the police are baffled by a series of hair-fetish murders in which the killer slays his victims and then gives them a haircut. A psychopathologist is brought in to give the police advice much like in GLEN OR GLENDA
A Manhattan prostitute is murdered by a maniac, her body brutally slashed and scalped. A series of similar grisly crimes follow. Homicide detectives are convinced the slasher is mentally deranged, but are left with few clues. They are forced to turn to unorthodox measures, using a beautiful young photographer's model as bait, in an a desperate attempt to lure the killer into his next crime.Violated is a suspenseful forgotten noir, beautifully photographed by cinematographer Pat Rich, often...
How would World War II veterans adjust to life on the postwar home front? Hollywood looked at various aspects of that question in major films like The Best Years of Our Lives, Pride of the Marines and Till the End of Time. And it would look at it through the prism of B-movies like Violence, a trim, noir-edged thriller wrapped around a then-topical story of a racketeering organization that recruits angry war veterans into its violent agenda. Jack Bernhard of the previous year's applauded film...
On their way to another village, two children are looking for a shortcut through the mountain, but instead stumble into an amusement park called Violence Voyager, and everything goes wrong.
Where and when the next mega disaster will strike ---- volcanic eruption, earthquake, tsunami or hurricane ---- is the focus of Violent Earth. Join tsunami scientist Jose Borrero of the University of Southern California on his trip to visit Banda Aceh with a National Geographic film team, barely one week after the December 26, 2004, tsunami ---- a tsunami so strong it actually moved the island of Sumatra a hundred feet.
Fifteen years after the murder of his older sister, Daniel finds himself falling for Cassie, a vivacious high school senior.
When Milano police lieutenant Giorga's chief is murdered by an organized crime ring, he vows to avenge his boss's death. Going undercover to continue the chief's investigation, he plans to take over a pimping outfit and then proceed to beat up enough low-level thugs until the big guys in the crime ring take notice of him, letting him get close enough to uncover their secrets. Should this unorthodox method actually work, he still must take down the entire organization single-handed
A chance reunion becomes a second chance in VIOLETS ARE BLUE, a touching, bittersweet love story starring Kevin Kline (The Big Chill) as Henry Squires and Sissy Spacek as Gussie Sawyer. Years ago, Henry and Gussie were high school sweethearts in the small seaside town of Ocean City, Maryland. With lofty dreams and youthful ambition, they parted to build separate lives. Fifteen years later, Gussie an accomplished photojournalist and single woman returns to her hometown to reassess her life. She...
A sick mother fears unspeakable evil will soon snatch her 11 year old daughter. When bizarre characters from the neighborhood emerge, she discovers more than one shocking truth.
A young woman's husband is murdered by a band of Middle Eastern terrorists. However, her investigation uncovers a CIA military plot against an Arab nation tied to his death.
There have been a series of murders over the past months, and a young YouTuber named David believes he's found the killeer living on his street. The suspected killer agrees to be interviewd by David, but then kidnaps David and proceeds to torture him. David manages to escape the clutches of the murderer, but to his horror, no one believes that the murderer is really his neighbor; or is even real at all!
A gorgeous young lady enters a sinister castle for the reading of a willl. Soon she discovers that the folks in the castle are all in fact dead and her decision to live with them turns into a nightmare. Unable to leave, she's drawn into a macabre underworld through visions of nude satanic rituals and her own impending sacrifice. Franco's fans love this steamy movie. Rated R for violence and lots of full nudity.
Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains was supposed to be a low-budget horror movie... But as the novice crew stumble upon the perfect location to shoot the climax of their film -- an abandoned orphanage in the middle of nowhere -- they inadvertently run afoul of a twisted family of sadistic killers who want to turn the group's horror flick into a blood-soaked reality show.
Big game hunter, Samson, is savagely attacked by a huge tiger, but manages to kill the beast. Unfortunately, the slain predator was a deity to the fierce Vicuni Indian tribe. Only the sacrifice of a white virgin can appease the wrath of the murdered Tiger-God. When beautiful young Morena is kidnapped, Samson heads for the Vicuni village in a desperate attempt to prevent her from being sacrificed.Exploitation potboiler Virgin Sacrifice is laced with female nudity, bondage and color location...