New on Blu-ray: JESS FRANCO - FROM BANGKOK WITH BULLETS (1985) - Action Double Feature

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Product Description: In 1985, writer/director Jess Franco briefly stepped away from horror and erotica to focus on several adventure thrillers that combined elements of his earlier Eurospy and Fu Manchu hits with his sardonic wit and love for exotic settings. But having no budget for foreign locales, he instead sent cinematographer Juan Soler to Thailand to shoot a few days of exteriors which became the foundation for two of Uncle Jess' most surprising - and rarely-seen - Spanish productions of the decade: In The Worldwide Blu-ray Premiere of TRIP TO BANGKOK, COFFIN INCLUDED, Francoverse legend Howard Vernon stars as a cantankerous British agent on the trail of a creepy cult leader. In The Worldwide Disc Premiere of BANGKOK, DATE WITH DEATH, Jess unleashes a pop-art crime spree of pirates, kidnappers and kung fu killers starring his beloved muse Lina Romay. Both films have been scanned in 4K from their original camera negatives, complete with all-new appreciations by Stephen Thrower and Parts 14 & 15 of In the Land of Franco, hailed by Mondo Digital as "Severin's ongoing featurettes that now constitute the most intensive and valuable survey of a filmmaker's locations in history."

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SATANIC SISTERS (1977) - Blu-ray Release of Eurosleaze Flick From Prolific Exploitation Director Jess Franco

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Product Description: Lock up your daughters! From notorious arthouse exploitation icon Jess Franco (BLUE RITA) and prolific Swiss producer Erwin C. Dietrich (ROLLS ROYCE BABY) comes SATANIC SISTERS, a trippy freefall into surreal sensuality!

The comely Pamela Stanford stars as Countess Edna Stein, a predatory woman who prowls the streets at night to bring back men and her disturbed, intimately insatiable sister Milly (Karine Gambier) to sleep with. As the lurid encounters continue, reality and fantasy collide and the truth about these sisters is revealed. Also starring Franco regular Jack Taylor (FEMALE VAMPIRE), SITANIC SISTERS is the director at this most explicit and abstract. It’s a total mind-bender of flashy psychedelia and orgiastic excess!

DELIRIUM HOME VIDEO is thrilled to present SATANIC SISTERS uncut on Blu-ray for the first time in North America, a Stunning transfer remastered from Dietrich’s original negative!

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DVD & Blu-ray: COUNTDOWN TO ESMERALDA BAY (1990) Starring Robert Forster, George Kennedy and Fernando Rey

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Product Description: From the fevered mind of cult director Jess Franco comes COUNTDOWN TO ESMERALDA BAY, a rarely seen, action-packed thriller produced by Europe's notorious genre film studio, Eurocine (FEMALE VAMPIRE, DEMONIAC)! In the sweaty, politically volatile South American country of Puerto Santo, there's a battle brewing. When an arms-dealing American (George Kennedy, COOL HAND LUKE) begins selling weapons to the local rebels, he stirs the ire of a hot-headed General (Robert Forster, JACKIE BROWN, ALLIGATOR) and raises the blood-pressure of the country's hapless president (Fernando Rey, THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE). As tensions rise, a Priest who has had enough (Franco regular Antonio Mayans, WHITE CANNIBAL QUEEN, ZOMBIE LAKE) takes command of the rebels and leads his people to the battle of their lives in Esmeralda Bay! One of a handful of now-obscure action films Franco made for Eurocine in the late 1980s (including the Christopher Lee espionage dramas NIGHT OF THE EAGLES and FLOWERS OF EVIL), TO ESMERALDA BAY is a colorful, pulse-pounding tale of revolution, a military gone mad, a government out of control and the grafters who profit from the chaos. Led by a first-rate international cast (that also includes Brett Halsey, Ramon Estevez and Franco's muse and regular star Lina Romay as Rey's mistress), COUNTDOWN TO ESMERALDA BAY Is an essential film for Franco completists. Full Moon is thrilled to bring this obscure action film to Blu-ray for the first time, uncut and remastered from the original camera negative.

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New on Blu-ray: DRACULA, PRISONER OF FRANKENSTEIN (1972) - Horror

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Product Description: Inspired by Universal's 1940s monster mash-ups, writer/director Jess Franco instead delivered "a weird and wonderful masterpiece that transports you to a world like no other" (Scream Magazine): With minimal dialogue and maximum gothic atmosphere, Franco crafts a fever dream of erotic horror in which Count Dracula (Howard Vernon of DELICATESSEN), Dr. Frankenstein (Dennis Price of TWINS OF EVIL), his assistant Morpho and Frankenstein's monster battle gypsies, showgirls, Dr. Seward and a wolfman. Alberto Dalbés (THE EROTIC RITES OF FRANKENSTEIN), Carmen Yazalde (A VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD) and Geneviève Robert (star of Franco's DEVIL'S ISLAND LOVERS and the future Mrs. Ivan Reitman) co-star in "a fantastic experience for those who respect Franco's demented vision" (Mondo Exploito), now scanned in 4K from Spanish, French and German release prints and presented in 1080p HD on Blu-ray to create the longest and most comprehensive version known to exist.

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New on Blu-ray & 4K: NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTER aka THE BLOODY JUDGE / IL TRONO DI FUOCO (1970)

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Product Description: Christopher Lee (THE WICKER MAN) gives one of his most unforgettable performances as Judge Jeffreys, the infamous 17th Century witchfinder whose unholy obsession with a luscious wench (Maria Rohm of EUGENIE) fuels a jaw-dropping spree of torture, brutality and flesh-ripping perversion. Howard Vernon (SUCCUBUS), Margaret Lee (FIVE GOLDEN DRAGONS), Maria Schell (99 WOMEN) and Oscar® nominee Leo Genn (QUO VADIS) co-star in this landmark epic of sexual violence and sadism, complete with a superb score by Bruno Nicolai (COUNT DRACULA) and directed with spectacularly deviant glee by the one and only Jess Franco (VENUS IN FURS).

Blue Underground is proud to present the most complete and uncensored version of NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTER (also known as THE BLOODY JUDGE) from a brand-new 2023 HD transfer / master, painstakingly restored from various European vault elements featuring additional nudity, bloodshed and what Christopher Lee himself calls “scenes of extraordinary depravity!”

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New on Blu-ray: Jess Franco's DOWNTOWN HEAT / CIUDAD BAJA (1994)

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Product Description: From director Jess Franco (VAMPYROS LESBOS, JACK THE RIPPER), one of the most important and revered purveyors of international cinema, and legendary French exploitation film studio Eurocine (PANTHER SQUAD, ZOMBIE LAKE) comes DOWNTOWN HEAT (aka CIUDAD BAJA), a rarely seen 1994 action thriller starring MANNIX himself, Mike Connors, along with Josephine Chaplin (Franco's JACK THE RIPPER) and Franco's main muse Lina Romay. It's a lurid tale of a vengeful jazz musician, his murdered wife, her punk rock lesbian lover and a gang of vigilantes set on bringing down a sadistic drug cartel, all set to relentless jazz-funk soundtrack. One of Franco's most interesting, colorful and eccentric late-period ventures (the film was shot in 1990 but not released until 1994 due to a legal dispute between Franco and Eurocine), Full Moon is thrilled to be bringing this action-packed potboiler to disc for the very first time in North America with a striking new HD transfer remastered from the original negative. Get ready for wild ride, Franco style! Bonus features include: Trailers

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New on Blu-ray: THE SEXUAL STORY OF O (1984) - Special Edition

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Product Description: With a crew of three, cast of five and minimal budget from Golden Films Internacional, writer/director Jess Franco combined elements of his own COUNTESS PERVERSE and EUGENIE with the extremes of de Sade for a startling tale of aristocratic depravity: When a vacationing nymphet (Alicia Príncipe of NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND DESIRES) is seduced by an amoral couple, she'll be sold into a nightmare of desire, degeneracy and a climax of carnal torment that remains one of the most disturbing sequences in Uncle Jess' entire '80s oeuvre. Carmen Carrión (THE HOUSE OF LOST WOMEN), Mauro Rivera (BLACK CANDLES) and Mari Carmen Nieto (MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD) co-star in this "beautifully decadent dream of corruption" (SexGoreMutants), now presented in HD for the first time ever with all-new Special Features.

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New on Blu-ray: MANSION OF THE LIVING DEAD (1982) Starring Lina Romay

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Product Description: THE WORLDWIDE Blu-ray PREMIEREOne of the more infamous works of his Golden Films Internacional period, writer/director Jess Franco's depraved subversion of raunchy comedy, erotic thriller and heretical horror has never popped off the screen like this: When four topless cocktail waitresses - led by Lina Romay (aka Candy Coster) at her most luscious - arrive at a deserted resort, they'll unlock a perverse netherworld of lesbianism, sadism and unholy violation by a zombie religious sect inspired by de Ossorio's BLIND DEAD series. Antonio Mayans (BLACK BOOTS, LEATHER WHIP), Mari Carmen Nieto (SEXUAL STORY OF O), Eva León (BAHIA BLANCA) and Albino Graziani (NIGHT OF OPEN SEX) co-star in "a fetishistic feast essential for the Francophile's collection" (Sex Gore Mutants), now scanned in 2K from the original negative for the first time ever.

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New on Blu-ray: MACUMBA SEXUAL (1983) - Special Edition

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Product Description: THE WORLDWIDE Blu-ray PREMIEREPerhaps the most stunning work of his Golden Films Internacional period, this "late career masterpiece" (Cult Movie Reviews) from writer/director Jess Franco can now be experienced like never before: Lina Romay (in her succulent 'Candy Coster' guise) stars as a sexually repressed wife tormented by visions of 'the goddess of unspeakable lust' Princess Obongo (an unforgettable performance by pioneering transgender actress Ajita Wilson of SADOMANIA fame) in a fever dream of erotic cruelty, carnal duality and nonstop Franco-style insanity. Antonio Mayans (BAHIA BLANCA), Hemy Basalo (NIGHT OF OPEN SEX) and Uncle Jess himself co-star in this "wonderfully vivid sexual nightmare that's one of Franco's best" (Mondo Esoterica), now scanned in 2K from the original negative for the first time ever

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New on Blu-ray: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR / AL OTRO LADO DEL ESPEJO (1973) - Horror

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Product Description: When lovely Madeira musician Ana (Emma Cohen) found a man she wanted to marry, her widowed father (Howard Vernon) couldn't bear the thought of her leaving... and hanged himself. Joining a band in Lisbon to get away from the trauma, she'd be tormented by visions of her parent in every mirror, hectoring her to kill anyone who'd want her-a call to which she'd ultimately succumb. Stylish shocker from Jess Franco co-stars Françoise Brion, Philippe Lemaire, Ramiro Oliveros. 100 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: French DTS HD mono Master Audio; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; featurettes; theatrical trailers. In French with English subtitles.

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DVD & Blu-ray: FRANCO NOIR (Rififi in the City/Death Whistles the Blues)

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Product Description: Following his international breakthrough with THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF, director Jess Franco next delivered a startling pair of crime-thrillers that pistol-whipped European notions of film noir while lighting the fuse on Uncle Jess' own insane aesthetic. Set in New Orleans and based on a novel by the authors of VERTIGO, DEATH WHISTLES THE BLUES is a hard-boiled tale of betrayal, violence and revenge featuring smoky jazz compositions by Franco himself. Jean Servais of RIFIFI fame stars in RIFIFI IN THE CITY, a nihilistic trip through a pulp underworld of thugs, snitches, nightclub dames and black-gloved giallo-style murders. Both films – which led an impressed Orson Welles to hire Franco as his assistant on CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT – now feature HD scans from the original negatives for the first time ever.

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DVD & Blu-ray: Jess Franco' ANGEL OF DEATH (1987) Starring Christopher Mitchum & Suzanne Andrews

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Product Description: From the fevered mind of the notorious Jess Franco (BARBED WIRE DOLLS) comes 1987's ANGEL OF DEATH (aka COMMANDO MENGELE), a deranged free-fall into "Nazisploitaion" that takes its cues from the blockbuster 1978 shocker THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL and delivers the sort of delirium that fans of French genre film studio Eurocine hunger for!

When an attractive pair of young Nazi hunters exploring Uruguay accidentally stumble upon the lair of the maniacal war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele, they immediately live to regret it. There, deep in the sweltering jungles, Mengele has continued his hideous human experiments, torturing, murdering and mutilating nubile virgins in the name of creating some sort of master race. Soon, mercenaries, monstrosities, femme fatales and vengeful concentration camp survivors face off, with bullets and bodies flying everywhere and Mengele holding cretinous court. Written by (under the name D. Khunn) and co-directed by Franco and completed by Italian trash movie maverick Andrea Bianchi (BURIAL GROUND: NIGHTS OF TERROR), the pair signed off on the film as "Frank Drew White", apparently too nervous to take credit for making this truly daft piece of unsavory exploitation.

ANGEL OF DEATH is a fast-paced slice of vintage Eurocine mayhem, with an international cast that includes Franco regulars Jack Taylor, Antonio Mayans and Howard Vernon (as Mengele) along with Robert Mitchum's son Christopher and Shirley Knight from Franco's equally insane WHITE CANNIBAL QUEEN. Jump into the jungle with Jess and get ready for some prime cinematic insanity! Get ready for ANGEL OF DEATH, presented here in a beautiful, uncut master culled from the original 35mm camera negative.

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