Items Matching Tag 'Cult'

Deadball (DVD Details)
Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu (Tak Sakaguchi) is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, deadly fireball pitch, Jubeh swore off baseball and became a criminal and now, at 17, has been sent to the Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory for hardened criminals. Headmistress Ishihara, the granddaughter of a...

Yakuza Hunters 2: The Revenge Duel In Hell (DVD Details)
After three years of intensive training Asami returns home to see her master Inokuma, the man who first taught her Yakuza hunting skills. She is devastated to see the whole area is now run by the Shoryu Yakuza and her master is in ruins. Planning to open a casino, the Yakuza hire cold-blooded killer Akira to kill anyone who gets in their way. But when Akira brutally murders those closest to Asami,...

Crows Zero (DVD Details)
Prolific maverick director Miike Takashi certainly kept the masses happy in 2007 with the release of three high-profile ready-made cult films. Sukiyaki Western Django and Like a Dragon both had enough Miike magic to spare, but it's Crows Zero (a.k.a. Crows - Episode 0) that comes out on top of the heap as the auteur's most commercially successful film to date. Thanks to his extreme themes and even...

Yakuza Hunters 1: The Ultimate Battle Royale (DVD Details)
It's the birth of the coolest heroines in high heels! Asami fights the treacherous Junko - a former member of her all girl gang-and she is left for dead. Returning to town after several years, Asami finds that Junko now works for the Yakuza and her home town is now a den of drugs and prostitution. Together with four other gun-toting babes, Asami gears up as Yakuza Hunters to take on the...

Tales From The Darkside: Season 2 Box Set (DVD Details)
Welcome to a world where the strange and the ordinary are brought together to tell wicked stories....with a twist. Welcome to Tales From The Darkside: Season 2. Featuring major stars from film and TV, these 24 spine-tingly stories of heart-stopping suspense and killer thrills promise to leave you dead-bolting the door and sleeping with the lights on for any nights to come. "Until next time,...

The Return Of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (DVD Details)
Renew your acquaintance with two of the very best secret agents, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, those smooth, stylish, self assured men from U.N.C.L.E. It has been fifteen years since this intrepid pair made international espionage an art at United Network Command for Law and Enforcement. Their nemesis THRUSH, has been inactive for years. But when THRUSH announces that it has captured an...

Ninja Battle (DVD Details)
Blood-soaked, Ninja-powered mayhem from cult director Seiji Chiba (Alien vs Ninja). Stars Ben Hiura (Zatoichi) & Kentaro Shimazu (Tokyo Gore Police). Set in war-torn feudal Japan, the Iga ninja make a final stand as the overwhelming armies of Warlord Oda Nobunaga and the deadly Koga ninja approach. This is the ultimate battle to the death where surrender is not an option.

Silent Running (Masters of Cinema) (Blu-ray Details)
Three years after helping to achieve some of the most amazing imagery in cinema history with 2001: A Space Odyssey, special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull made an auspicious directorial debut at age 29 with the environmentally themed science fiction classic Silent Running. In the distant future, plant life on our planet is extinct. Remaining specimens are cultivated in vast greenhouse-like...

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Series 4 (DVD Details)
As this ground-breaking action adventure series went into its final series, the unparalleled genius of producer Irwin Allen kicked into creative overdrive, resulting in some of the greatest science-fiction television of all time. From rampaging gorillas and diabolical puppet masters to time-travelling androids and interplanetary kidnappings, this is the show that defined the genre, setting new...

Pathfinders in Space Trilogy (The) (DVD Details)
One of ITV's earliest dramas written specifically for children and a precursor to the development of Doctor Who, Sydney Newman's Pathfinders series is one of the most eagerly awaited archive television releases of all time. Over three series the Pathfinders journeyed to the Moon and other worlds, proving tremendously successful with the viewing public and even getting into the regional top ten...

Children of the Stones: The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Children of the Stones was an undisputed landmark in children's television. Jeremy Burnham and Trevor Ray's groundbreaking fantasy series, starring Iain Cuthbertson and Gareth Thomas and filmed largely in Avebury in Wiltshire, combined scientific fact and fiction with pagan mythology and rural folklore in its portrayal of a village held captive by the sinister power of its Neolithic stone circle....

McBain (DVD Details)
Written and directed by James Glickenhaus (The Exterminator), McBain stars Christopher Walken (Domino; Pulp Fiction; The Deer Hunter) as the eponymous hero, an ordinary steel worker with an extraordinary past. Eighteen years ago, in the sweltering heat of the Vietnamese jungle, Robert McBain was a prisoner of war. Rescued by a future Columbian rebel, he is held to a sacred vow, sworn over a...

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Series 3 Box Set (7 Discs) (DVD Details)
As the SSRN Seaview's ongoing mission continues, her crew boldly defends the free world from the enemies of mankind, battling sinister foreign powers, deadly sea creatures, deranged scientists bent on world domination and the imminent threat of nuclear doomsday. The brainchild of Irwin Allen, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea was years ahead of its time, reflecting the key social and political...

Dramarama: Spooky - The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Providing a showcase for some of Britain’s most accomplished screenwriters, Dramarama was an acclaimed 1980s anthology series which became a staple part of children’s television viewing and is still widely remembered today. Spooky aired shortly before the main series was broadcast, exploring the supernatural vein that would appear throughout Dramarama’s run. These outstanding screenplays...

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Complete Series 2 (DVD Details)
The SSRN Seaview, the world's most technologically advanced submarine, is back and more powerful than ever - now housing the spectacular Flying Sub! Climb aboard with Admiral Nelson (Richard Basehart), Captain Crane (David Hedison) and their crew as they brave hostile waters and explore uncharted depths, protecting the world from sinister foreign agents, deadly sea creatures and evil scientists...

Land Of The Giants: The Complete Series 2 (DVD Details)
The crew and passengers of the crashed spacecraft Spindrift return for the second and final instalment of Irwin Allen's legendary sci-fi series, Land of the Giants. Captain Steve Burton (Gary Conway) leads the team of survivors as they continue to fight for survival on the hostile giant planet where they are stranded. With the totalitarian government's Special Investigations Department out to...

The Time Tunnel: The Complete Series (9 Discs) (DVD Details)
From the creative genius of Irwin Allen comes one of the most popular and original sci-fi shows of the 1960s, starring James Darren and Robert Colbert! "The control of time is potentially the most valuable treasure that man will ever find." Or so believe the scientists of Project Tic Toc. Located beneath the Arizona desert, the ten-year project's focus is the feasibility of time travel. But...

Requiem for a Vampire (DVD Details)
A truly amazing and utterly spellbinding take on the vampire theme, with the director, the late Jean Rollin successfully mixing elements of the fairytale, surrealism, horror and eroticism into a striking visual feast that is almost devoid of dialogue.Centring on two young women on the run from a robbery who take refuge in a ruined castle, Requiem was to establish Rollins unique eroticised take on...

Man at the Top - The Complete Second Series (DVD Details)
Man at the Top, originally screened in the early '70s, continues to chart the progress of Joe Lampton, the aggressively ambitious anti-hero of John Braine's best-selling novel Room at the Top, its award-winning film adaptation of 1958, and 1965 sequel Life at the Top. Kenneth Haigh's portrayal of Joe Lampton earned him a BAFTA nomination, while accomplished film and stage actress Zena Walker is...

The Virginian: The Complete Series 1 (DVD Details)
The rustle of sagebrush and hot desert sands; pounding cattle hooves and rifle-shot echo. In a time when the West was still wild, a man came to Medicine Bow, Wyoming and they called him The Virginian. Tackling rustlers, land-grabbers, escaped convicts, con men, corrupt railroaders and even a spinster-lady bank clerk with a cool head for crime, The Virginian was fair-minded, fast-drawing and not...

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Complete Series 1 (9 Discs) (DVD Details)
Below the surface lies a world of adventure! Join Admiral Harriman Nelson, Captain Lee Crane and the crew of the Seaview, as they venture through a breathtaking undersea world in Irwin Allen's action-packed TV classic, where science-fiction adventure meets espionage thriller! Welcome aboard the Seaview, 'the most extraordinary submarine in all the Seven Seas!' From the outside, the ship...

Land Of The Giants: The Complete Series 1 (DVD Details)
Debuting in 1968 and lasting just two all-too-brief series, Land Of The Giants, the original science-fiction/adventure series created by sci-fi visionary Irwin Allen has far outlived its initial run. Taking on a remarkable life of its own, the show maintained an astonishing degree of popularity, spawning worldwide fan clubs, newsletters and convention appearance. Now, for the first time in...

The Bass Player and the Blonde (DVD Details)
Edward Woodward and Jane Wymark star in a light-hearted drama tracing the unlikely romance between two seemingly mismatched runaways. The bass player is George Mangham, a world-weary, out-of-work jazz musician. The blonde is Terry, a beautiful, wealthy and decidedly determined young woman who fancies herself as a singer. He is twice her age and penniless – but she is in love with him. Having...

Finale (DVD Details)
In the style of Dario Argento, ‘Finale’ is a stylish and surreal horror film with all the hallmarks of a cult classic. It is of low budget and independent origins and has enjoyed much success on the USA festival circuit picking up no less than 5 awards along the way. A family descends into a vortex of denial and paranoia after the death of their oldest son. Though labelled a suicide, the...

Dark Skies: The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Award winning series Dark Skies was a government UFO conspiracy theory based sci-fi drama from the US which originally aired in 1996 for 18 episodes plus a two hour pilot.  It was one of the most imaginative TV series of the 1990s, an unusual and often scary blend of fact informed speculations and high drama.

Tokyo Gore School (DVD Details)
From Yohei Fukuda, the controversial director of the crowd-pleasing action-horror flick ‘Chanbara Beauty’, comes Tokyo Gore School, in which Fukuda uses a violent teen action-drama to address the provocative subjects of bullying, teen violence, underground websites and data protection. For high schooler Fujiwara, everything in life seems to be going according to plan. He’s good-looking, popular,...

The Four Just Men (DVD Details)
This ITC crime drama series, loosely based on Edgar Wallace’s novel of 1905, assembles an astonishing array of talent: Jack Hawkins (The Cruel Sea), Richard Conte (The Godfather) and Oscar nominees Vittorio de Sica and Dan Dailey star as the four men chosen to pursue justice and defeat tyranny worldwide; their regular co-stars include Avengers star Honor Blackman, as glamorous secretary Nicole,...

Fish Story (DVD Details)
Based on a novel by Kotaro Isaka, Fish Story weaves together several seemingly separate storylines taking place at different points in time over a 37-year span to explain how a little-known punk rock song can save the world. In 1975, an unpopular Japanese punk band called "Gekirin" (Wrath) starts work on their 3rd album. Unfortunately the band is a little ahead of its time; punk won't be...

Chanbara Striptease (DVD Details)
From The Creators of Chanbara Beauty comes more blades and more babes! Lili, heir to a famous master swordsman family celebrates her 20th birthday. During the ceremony she is mysteriously transported back in time to a small village in 18th Century Japan! The village is suffering at the hands of an evil geisha and her wicked army of bandits. Lili decides to fight to protect the villagers and the...

Cult Spaghetti Westerns (DVD Details)
DJANGO Banned in UK until the 90s, Sergio Corbucci's ground breaking western stars Franco Nero as Django, the mysterious lone gunfighter who arrives in a bleak, mud-drenched town. Caught in the middle of a violent feud between two gangs of sadistic bandits, Django will need to fight for his life armed with his devastating revolving Gatling gun. Music by Oscar® Winner Luis Enriquez Bacalov (IL...