Tokugawa Sex Ban (1972) (Import) Available March 10

January 29, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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One of the most extraordinary films to come out of 1970’s Japan!

In Tokugawa era Japan, Princess Kiyo (Miki Sugimoto), youngest daughter of mighty Shogun Ienari Tokugawa, weds country lord Tadateru Ogura. Unfortunately for Kiyo, her new husband is a “man’s man” who has no interest in women. To help Tadateru discover his sexual side, his courtiers bring in Sandra (Sandra Jullien, star of RAVISHING DANY and SHIVER OF THE VAMPIRES), a French courtesan who arrives in a wooden box, like a porcelain doll. Her extraordinary sexual technique awakens Tadateru to the fun he’s been missing all these years. Unfortunately, he enjoys it so much that he decides it’s too good for commoners and so enforces a sex ban on the rest of his subjects, decreeing that any of them having intercourse will be executed. Soon the enraged populace are storming Tadateru’s castle with a battering ram shaped like a giant phallus!

TOKUGAWA SEX BAN is one of the more extraordinary films to come out of 1970’s Japan, this astonishing mixture of historical epic, sexploitation, grand guignol gore and political intrigue is a real one-off. Director Norifumi Suzuki also helmed the “nunsploitation” classic, Convent of The Sacred Beast as well as the notorious S&M themed Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979). This is a first time US release for Tokugawa Sex Ban and a world Blu-ray premiere.

STARRING: Miki Sugimoto, Sandra Jullien, Hiroshi Nawa, Yoko Mihara

The Killer is Not Alone (1975) (Import) Available March 10

January 29, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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The world Blu-ray premier of a rare Spanish psycho thriller!

Julio, the only son of a wealthy businessman, living in the coastal city of Avilés in the north of Spain, is a young man with many problems, including a pathological fear of women due to a psychological trauma he suffered during his childhood. One night, as he prowls the sleazier quarters of the city, he picks up a prostitute and follows her to a seedy hotel room. As she tries to arouse him to action, he responds violently, garrotting her with a length of piano wire, leaving her dead on the bed, covered with blood.

Julio takes the train to Madrid and checks into a boarding house in the city. He is much younger than the rest of the residents and soon Monica, the boarding house owner’s teenage daughter, finds herself attracted to the new arrival. More murders by the sinister “wire killer” are reported in the newspapers and it seems the police have no clue as to who it might be. As Monica gets ever closer to the troubled Julio her mother tries to warn her off the young man. But it’s too late; and soon it seems likely that Monica herself will fall victim to the dreaded “wire killer”. This was director García de Dueñas’s only feature film. He worked mostly for TV and was a noted film critic in Spain. This is the film’s world premiere on Blu-ray and its first appearance, in any form, in the US.

Cinematography of this rare Spanish “giallo” is by the masterly Fernando Arribas (The Blood Spattered Bride, Blood Ceremony).

STARRING: Lola Flores, James Philbrook, Teresa Rabal, David Carpenter, Maria Rohm

The Hungry Snake Woman (1986) (Import) Available March 10

January 29, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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The world Blu-ray premier of a wild Asian horror movie!

Burhan, desperate for wealth and glory, decides to visit the Snake Woman, a mysterious and powerful deity who can confer instant riches on those who obey her commands. She tells Burhan he must kill three women, feast on their blood and eat their breasts. Transformed into Dracula, with cloak and fangs, he sets off on his mission. One killing is all he can take before abandoning the task.

He encounters Nyi Lajang, the Snake Woman’s enemy, a half human/half snake creature. Nyi Lajang offers Burhan a way out of his contract with the Snake Woman. She gives him a silver pin that he must stab Snake Woman with during sex while she is in human form. This will turn her back into a snake and neutralise all her magical powers. This is what Burhan does. But his problems are far from over…

One of the wildest and craziest Indonesian horror films ever made, HUNGRY SNAKE WOMAN is a phantasmagorical ride through a world of cannibal slave maidens, chainsaw wielding heroes, a possessed go-go dancer, exploding rib cages, bizarre black magic spells, a dash of kung fu fighting, buckets of gore, and even a little bit of sex, featuring the legendary Suzzanna, Indonesia’s “queen of horror.” This is a US video premiere and a world premiere on Blu-ray, digitally restored from the original negative. The disc includes the rare English language version of the film. HUNGRY SNAKE WOMAN is directed by Sisworo Gautama Putra, who also gave us the films PRIMITIVES and THE WARRIOR, both starring Indonesian super star Barry Prima.

STARRING: Suzzanna, Advent Bangun, George Rudy, Nina Anwar

HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: January 24, 2025

January 24, 2025February 6, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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Weekly Horror Releases: January 24, 2025 (Imports)

January 24, 2025December 22, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

Today’s horror 4K, Blu-ray and DVD imports!

HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: January 17, 2025

January 17, 2025February 6, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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Erotic Ghost Story Trilogy 1990-1992 (Import) Available January 31

January 11, 2025January 11, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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Erotic Ghost Story Trilogy (1990 – 1992) – Imprint Asia #10 – 12! The steamy Erotic Ghost Story trilogy is coming to Imprint Asia, in a Limited Edition 3-Disc Hard box! These sensual, supernatural Cat III films, the first of which takes influence from The Witches of Eastwick, explore the lustful desires of spirits, demons and humans alike. Packed with plenty of swordplay, weird and wacky comedy, vivid and surreal imagery, and plenty of provocative pleasure, dive into the colourful orgies of the Erotic Ghost Story trilogy. 1500 copies only.

STARRING: Various

Cuckoo (2024) (Import) Available January 31

January 11, 2025January 11, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

#horror – #horrormovies – #Cuckoo – #ViaVision – @viavisionent –

Gretchen reluctantly leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, something doesn’t seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that concerns her own family.

STARRING: Marton Csokas, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Hunter Schafer

HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: January 10, 2025

January 10, 2025February 6, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: January 3, 2025

January 3, 2025February 6, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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Hardware (1990) (4K Ultra HD) (Import) Available March 14

December 28, 2024April 9, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

#horror – #horrormovies – #Hardware – #UmbrellaEntertainment –

Set in a pollution-ravaged future Earth, this imaginative sci-fi thriller follows a young couple as they retrieve what they believe is scrap metal-unaware that the debris is the still-active components of a murderous military android. But when the demented robot reassembles itself, the lovers must avoid falling victim to his deadly reign of terror.

STARRING: Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Iggy Pop

HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: December 27, 2024

December 27, 2024December 27, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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Cure (Kyua) (1997) (4K Ultra HD) (Import) Available February 7

December 26, 2024December 28, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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A Tokyo detective’s (Koji Yakusho) investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders, committed by seemingly average citizens who can’t explain their motives, leads him to a mysterious and amnesiac drifter (Masato Hagiwara) who possesses an almost hypnotic ability to get what he wants from people. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s atmospheric thriller also stars Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Yoriko Doguchi. 111 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Japanese; Subtitles: English; featurettes; theatrical trailers. In Japanese with English subtitles. Region Free

STARRING: Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Koji Yakusho, Anna Nakagawa

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) (Collector’s Edition with Poster and Art Cards) (Import) Available February 7

December 26, 2024December 26, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

#horror – #horrormovies – #CaptainKronosVampireHunter – #HammerFilms – @hammerfilms –

A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.

STARRING: Horst Janson, Shane Briant, Caroline Munro, John Cater, Terence Sewards

Pulse (2001) (4K Ultra HD) (Import) Available December 27

December 23, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

#horror – #horrormovies – #Pulse – #UmbrellaEntertainment –

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lurks some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

STARRING: Haruhiko Kato, Kurume Arisaka, Masatoshi Matsuo, Koyuki, Kumiko Aso

HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: December 20, 2024

December 20, 2024December 22, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: December 13, 2024

December 13, 2024December 20, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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Weekly Horror Releases: December 13, 2024 (Imports)

December 13, 2024November 19, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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Friday, December 13, 2024: The Man in the White Van Premieres Today in Theaters

December 13, 2024November 19, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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Set in 1974 in Florida, this true-crime, Hitchcockian thriller about an ominous white van that begins stalking a young girl leads to a terrifying Halloween nightmare.

HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: December 6, 2024

December 6, 2024December 20, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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Weekly Horror Releases: December 6, 2024 (Imports)

December 6, 2024November 17, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: November 29, 2024

November 29, 2024December 20, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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Severence (2006) (Import) Available January 24

November 26, 2024December 22, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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Severence is a darkly comedic horror-thriller that blends office politics with a deadly game of survival. So, venture out for buckets of corporate carnage with this darkly hilarious manhunt! Featuring a similar satirical British sucker punch as Shaun of the Dead, Severence from Christopher Smith (Creep, Triangle) starring Danny Dyer (Human Traffic) and Laura Harris (The Faculty) will have you rethink returning to the office. During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one. With razor-sharp humor and intense suspense, Severence is an unpredictable thrill ride that balances satire and scares, delivering a unique twist on both the slasher and workplace comedy genres.

STARRING: Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny

Creep (2004) (Import) Available January 24

November 26, 2024December 22, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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Descend into an eruption of subterranean slashing in the survival horror CREEP from Christopher Smith (Severance, Triangle) starring Franka Potente (Run Lola Run) and Vas Blackwood (Mean Machine). Delivering relentless scares and psychological suspense, CREEP is a nightmare you can’t escape. London, midnight, on a cold winters evening. Unable to find a taxi in the West End, Kate (Franka Potente) heads for the Underground. Slightly tipsy, she waits for the last train but drifts off to sleep… and awkens to find everybody else gone. Gripped by panic she attempts to leave the station, she realises she has been locked in. Then a train pulls into the platform and she boards, somewhat unnerved, as she is the only passenger. Her relief at finally being on her journey home turns to alarm when halfway through the train jerks to a halt and her carriage is plunged into darkness. Kate is about to face the first in a series of terrifying events, ones that will shatter her nerve and chic composure – testing her endurance to the limit. She is not alone in the maze of nooks and dark crannies. Lurking in the pitch-black maze is something unimaginable. Something that calls a hidden laboratory home. And something that won’t leave Kate alone.

STARRING: Franka Potente, Sean Harris, Vas Blackwood

Haunted House of Horror (1969) (Import) Available January 20

November 23, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

#horror – #horrormovies – #HauntedHouseofHorror – #88Films – @88_Films –

Bored by their usual nightlife activities, a group of swinging London twenty-somethings decide to get their kicks by partying in an abandoned ‘haunted’ house. But when one of their number is found murdered, the gang is dragged into a world of horror.

Starring Frankie Avalon (Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine) and the likes of Richard O’Sullivan (Dick Turpin) and George Sewell (The Vengeance of She), this spooky 60s romp is a stylish tale of murder and secrets served up in Carnaby Street fashions and liberally splattered in blood.

STARRING: Frankie Avalon, Jill Haworth, Dennis Price

Creep (2014) (Limited Edition) (Import) Available December 20

November 22, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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A young videographer answers an online ad for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man. When he notices the man’s odd behavior, he starts to question his intentions.

STARRING: Katie Aselton, Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass

HNO’s Big Fat Friday Review: November 22, 2024

November 22, 2024December 20, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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Strange Darling (2023) (All-Region Ultra HD) (Import) Available December 13

November 19, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

#horror – #horrormovies – #StrangeDarling – #Icon –

Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.

STARRING: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Madisen Beaty

Pulse (2006) (Import) Available December 13

November 19, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

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Americanized version of the 2001 unsettling shocker from Japan transplants the cyber-creepies to Columbus, Ohio, where Mattie Webber (Kristen Bell) witnesses her boyfriend’s mysterious suicide, only to be confronted by his phantasmagoric reincarnation on the Web. Soon, a spectral outbreak plagues electronic appliances everywhere, leading Mattie and her tech-savvy friends to try and prevent a viral apocalypse. Ian Somerhalder, Christina Milian, and Ron Rifkin also star. 88 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English.

STARRING: Rick Gonzalez, Zach Grenier, Kristen Bell, Kel O’Neill, Ian Somerhalder

Zombi Child (2019) (Import) Available December 6

November 19, 2024 4 Evil Eyes

#horror – #horrormovies – #ZombiChild – #FilmMovement –

French master Bertrand Bonello’s ZOMBI CHILD is an “audacious & cunning” (Little White Lies) new take on classic horror tropes that “poses timely and provocative questions…a zombi drama that’s not undead but bracingly alive” (Screen Daily).

Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at a prestigious all-girls boarding school, Melissa, a young Haitian teenager, confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends – never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.

STARRING: Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat, Katiana Milfort, Mackenson Bijou