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June 5
Larry Barnes is on the fast track to a partnership in a prestigious law firm, and his sexy witch wife Erica (Julie Strain) will do anything to keep her husband happy. But Erica makes a fatal mistake when she tries to kill Larry's main competition for the partnership, Howard Reynolds. With Howard now crippled for life from Erica's dark magic, his wife Amelia (Linda Blair) plots her revenge.
A greedy real estate developer desecrates a sacred Viking burial ground, unleashing a comical nightmare upon the unsuspecting locals.
June 9
A 10-year-old girl convinces a lonely classmate that she is a witch, forcing the child to become her assistant. Though their games are initially rather naive, they gradually take a nasty and violent turn.
Eiichi Kudo concludes his Samurai Revolution trilogy with 11 Samurai, the bleakest as well as the most violent in the series, and a suitably heartrending coda to his epic saga of existential jidaigeki.
While out hunting for deer, Lord Nariatsu (Kantaro Suga, the Zatoichi series), the petulant son of the former Shogun murders his fellow lord Masayori over a disagreement. But not only does Masayori's chamberlain Tatewaki (Koji Nanbara, Branded to Kill)'s plea for reparations fall on deaf ears, the Shogun's chief secretary Mizuno (Kei Sato, Onibaba) rewrites the event, claiming Nariatsu's actions were defensive. Tatewaki is left with no other option to restore his clan's honour than to assemble his most loyal samurai, including his lifelong friend Hayato (Isao Natsuyagi, Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion), and hatch a plan to assassinate Nariatsu. Such a rebellion could have devastating consequences for the ruling powers. But faced with the rot and corruption of the Shogunate, Tatewaki and his eleven samurai are ready to choose honour over duty, even if it means their apotheosis. Bursts of explosive action and grand scale swordfights punctuate the dramatic fatalism of the characters' doomed mission in this gripping final instalment of the Samurai Revolution trilogy.
June 12
On returning to her childhood home young nun Colleen finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. During Colleen's visit, tensions rise and fall with a little help from Halloween, pot cupcakes, and GWAR. Little Sister is a sad comedy about family, a schmaltz-free, pathos-drenched, feel-good movie for the little goth girl inside us all.
When a young Englishwoman attempts to discover her mysterious connection to a remote island convent, she will unlock an unholy communion of torment, blasphemy and graphic demonic depravity. Louise Salter (INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE) stars in this "stunning and horrifying debut" (Digitally Obsessed) – filmed on location along the grim Ukraine coast.
Kingdom of Joseon, ancient Korea. A usurper has conquered the throne. His ministers are being systematically eliminated by a mysterious assassin. An arrogant master swordsman is in charge of putting an end to the carnage.
G.I. Samurai - (US) - 1979 G.I. Samurai sees action superstar Sonny Chiba (The Street Fighter) heading the cast in a rip-roaring time-slip action blockbuster in which guns, tanks and helicopters come up against katana-wielding warriors on horseback!
During a routine military exercise, modern-day soldiers led by Second Lieutenant Iba (Chiba) find themselves transported back in time four hundred years to war-torn feudal Japan. Facing attack by samurai warriors from rival clans, frictions rapidly emerge among these modern-day soldiers, whisked from a time of peace, freed from the strictures of a higher authority and stranded in one of the bloodiest and most decisive periods in Japan’s history.
Based on a novel by Ryo Hanmura and directed by Kosei Saito (Ninja Wars), G.I. Samurai’s epic battle scenes wowed Japanese audiences upon release in 1979 and are now more awe-inspiring than ever in a new restoration.
June 17
For their first fateful collaboration, director Bruno Mattei and writer Claudio Fragasso took the oft-filmed story of 17th century heiress turned sinful sister Marianna De Leyva and transformed its themes of religious and political hypocrisy into a celebration of desecration that remains one of the most bizarre, extreme and blatantly blasphemous films in the genre.
June 29
Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have a taste of dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here. Raw and brutal in its depiction of Outback country drinking culture in the 1970s, Wake in Fright is an uncompromising landmark of Australian cinema from director Ted Kotcheff (First Blood).
John Grant (Gary Bond, Zulu), a bored schoolteacher working in the remote outback, stops overnight in the frontier mining town of Bundanyabba on his way back to Sydney for the Christmas holidays. After he loses all his savings in a bad gambling bet, Grant finds himself marooned and swept up in the vortex of a succession of hard-drinking, hard-living and crude men led by Doc (Donald Pleasance, Halloween), who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent as they are.
Ignored upon release, Wake in Fright has now been acclaimed as one of Australia's most legendary, unique and horrifying contributions to cinema history by the likes of Martin Scorsese and Nick Cave and is presented here in a stunning new 4K restoration.
