HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD aka VIRUS aka APOCALIPSIS CANIBAL (1980) - New on Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD

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Product Description: What began as the epic global zombie apocalypse screenplay VIRUS by Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi (SHOCKING DARK, ROBOWAR) became - via the inimitable vision of director Bruno Mattei (CRUEL JAWS, RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR) and a fraction of the original budget - this "gloriously ludicrous" (Confluence of Cult), "compulsively watchable" (Classic-Horror), "infamous zombie-chomp spectacular" (Braineater), now in UHD for the first time in America: When a top-secret biomedical project accidentally unleashes a catastrophic plague, a four-man commando team and a female reporter head into the jungle for an "absolutely insane" (B&S About Movies) experience in gratuitous nudity, grisly stock footage and ravenous hordes of flesh-eating zombies. Margie Newton (THE ADVENTURES OF HERCULES), Franco Garofalo (THE OTHER HELL) and a soundtrack 'borrowed' from Goblin star in "a must for all fans of Italian exploitation" (Cinezilla) - also known as VIRUS, NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES and ZOMBIE CREEPING FLESH - now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative.

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RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR / NOTTE DI TERRORE (1984) - Blu-ray & 4K Release of Bruno Mattei's Horror Film

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Product Description: Having depicted the zombie apocalypse in HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD, director Bruno Mattei and screenwriters Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi took on a new kind of cataclysm to create "a grotesque, funny and thrilling magnum opus" (Daily Dead) that still must be seen to be believed, especially in UHD: In the year 225 A.B. (After The Bomb), a gang of scavengers discovers a seemingly abandoned city - including sets originally built for ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA - only to become prey for millions of flesh-hungry rats. Ottaviano Dell'Acqua (ZOMBIE 3), Massimo Vanni (ROBOWAR), Gianni Franco (THE WAX MASK) and Geretta Geretta (DEMONS) star in "Bruno Mattei's masterpiece" (Senseless Cinema), now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative for the first time ever, with 3 hours of new & archival Special Features.

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New on Blu-ray: BORN TO FIGHT / NATO PER COMBATTERE (1989)

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Product Description: When remained-in-country Vietnam vet Sam Wood (Brent Huff) was approached by TV reporter Maryline Kane (Mary Stavin), he knew she wasn't looking for his life story. His instincts were right-as she believed that her father was in the still-operational hellhole POW camp Wood barely escaped from. Learning that the commandant (Werner Pochath) that tortured him was still in charge, he found incentive to go back. Explosive exploitationer from Bruno Mattei co-stars John Van Dreelen, Romano Puppo.

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New on Blu-ray: COP GAME (1988) Starring Brent Huff and Max Laurel

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Product Description: As America's presence in Vietnam was winding down, U.S. officers were being picked off in the field-and suspicion fell on elite commandos believed to have gone rogue. Special investigator MPs Morgan (Brent Huff) and Hawk (Max Laurel) went undercover looking for the truth... and they'd flip Saigon over if they had to. Manila-lensed mayhem from exploitation maestro Bruno Mattei also stars Candice Daly, Brett Halsey, Romano Puppo, Werner Pochath.

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New on Blu-ray: DOUBLE TARGET (1987) Starring Miles O'Keeffe

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Product Description: Rambo-esque former U.S. commando Bob Ross (Miles O'Keeffe) is tasked with obtaining evidence of a Russian terrorist training operation in Southeast Asia. But Ross has a much more personal reason for taking on such a dangerous mission-he plans to track down the son he fathered while serving in the Vietnam War and bring him back to the States. Explosive Italian-made actioner also stars Donald Pleasence, Bo Svenson.

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DVD & Blu-ray: CALIGULA AND MESSALINA (1981)

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Product Description: In one of the earliest entries in the subgenre, ItaloFilth veteran Bruno Mattei (THE OTHER HELL, WOMEN'S PRISON MASSACRE) set the Caligsploitation standard for informative history, raid-the-peplum-props ingenuity and jaw-dropping depictions of ancient Roman depravity: When the deranged emperor (Vladimir Brajovic of THE STORY OF O) falls for an insatiable gladiatrix (Betty Roland of Mattei's CALIGULA REINCARNATED AS NERO), their reign will launch a mind-bending bacchanal of torture, sodomy, incest, castration, borrowed footage and aroused livestock. Françoise Blanchard (THE LIVING DEAD GIRL), Florence Guérin (Cozzi's THE BLACK CAT) and the infamous Sal Boris (THE BEAST IN HEAT) co-star in this saga of saturnalian obscenity, presented in both the Explicit Italian Version and Unrated U.S. Release scanned in 2K from their original negatives.

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New on Blu-ray: NASTY HABITS - THE NUNSPLOITATION COLLECTION - 4-Disc Collector's Set

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Product Description: Throughout the '70s, Italian filmmakers fired a canon of blasphemy to launch what remains the most controversial genre of all. For the first time ever on Blu-ray, these four uncut/uncensored Nunsploitation classics: In Sergio Bergonzelli's CRISTIANA DEVIL NUN (1972), a woman finds pleasures of the flesh in a convent of the damned. Suzy Kendall and Eleonora Giorgi star in Domenico Paolella's historically accurate and wholly amoral STORY OF A CLOISTERED NUN (1973). Sleaze maestro Joe D'Amato combines Sapphic lust, Satanic panic and pure filth for IMAGES IN A CONVENT (1979). And with THE TRUE STORY OF THE NUN OF MONZA (1980), director Bruno Mattei fulfills ungodly vows of graphic sacrilege.

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DVD & Blu-ray: STRIKE COMMANDO 1 and 2 (1986 - 1988)

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Product Description: STRIKE COMMANDO - Two years before the deranged genius of ROBOWAR and SHOCKING DARK, writer/director Bruno Mattei and co-writers Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi borrowed from RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II, MISSING IN ACTION and more to create their own mind-blowing 'Namsploitation masterpiece: Reb Brown (UNCOMMON VALOR) stars as Sgt. Mike Ransom, a one-man war machine on a screaming-for-vengeance mission against brutal Vietcong, merciless Russians, double-crossing U.S. officers and acres of bullet-blasted Philippines jungle. Christopher Connelly (RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS), Luciano Pigozzi (ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK) and Jim Gaines (ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD) co-star in this exploding bamboo gun-tower of Mattei magic at its finest (Good Efficient Butchery), now mastered in 2K from the original negative for the first time.

STRIKE COMMANDO 2 - Director Bruno Mattei and screenwriters Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi return to the Philippine jungles with a higher budget, bigger action and Richard Harris (yes, that Richard Harris) for a crowd-pleaser that shamelessly borrows from APOCALYPSE NOW, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, RAMBO and beyond. This time, Sgt Mike Ransom (Brent Huff of GWENDOLINE fame) battles the KGB, rogue CIA agents, an army of ninjas, a tough bar owner (Miss World 1977 Mary Stavin) and "all the stuntman craziness and explosions you can cram into 90 minutes" (DTV Connoisseur). Mel Davidson (ROBOWAR) and Vic Diaz (THE BIG BIRD CAGE) co-star in this slow-motion machine-gun of Mattei mayhem that's "just as insane as its predecessor" (Good Efficient Butchery).

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DVD & Blu-ray: CRUEL JAWS (1995) - Sharksploitation

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Product Description: He defied all laws of good taste and international copyright with SHOCKING DARK and ROBOWAR. He reset the bar for batsh*t crazy ItaloHorror with RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR and HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD. And in 1995, legendary director Bruno Mattei - here as 'William Snyder' - stunned the civilized world with this ultimate sharksploitation saga that liberally borrows characters, plot and footage from Joe D'Amato's DEEP BLOOD and Enzo G. Castellari's THE LAST SHARK (and that's just the tip of a very litigious fin). Filmed in South Florida with a cast of now-ashamed unknowns that includes a Hulk Hogan lookalike, experience "the epitome of outrageous thievery cinema" (All Movie) - actually released in some countries as JAWS 5 - now remastered uncut in HD for the first time ever.

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