Down Terrace wins a BIFA!

Down Terrace won the Raindance Award at last night's British Independent Film Awards giving director Ben Wheatley the opportunity to swear in front of Michael Caine (sir), DD Lewis & the assembled throng of the UK movie great and good. Other notable winners we like include Moon, Let The Right One In & Bronson.

Big thanks to all concerned!

All the lowdown here.

Franco 70 - Volumes 1-3 - coming 2010!

A while back we said we'd be announcing a set of releases from one of the legends of Eurocult... and any sort of cult for that matter... at last, and after literally years of negotiating, we can finally let the cat out of the bag!

Franco 70 will see the first ever DVD releases of some of the most important unreleased (up til now) films from the career of Jesus Franco. The first in what will hopefully be a long line of releases will be Lorna the Exorcist, Sinner (The Intimate Diary of a Nymphomaniac), and my personal fave; The Perverse Countess. All three were produced by Robert De Nesle’s Comptoir Français du Film Production and will be remastered over the coming months in glorious HD for the first time ever.

We're hoping the first volume will hit the virtual shelving around May 2010 ..... we'll confirm soon.... in the meantime here's a couple of pics to get you in the mood!

Goodnight, Mr Monster

Paul Naschy is dead.

The uncrowned king of Spanish horror passed into eternity on December 1st, 2009. He was 75 years old.

He’d already survived a heart attack but pancreatic cancer got him in the end.

Born Jacinto Molina Alvarez in 1934, Naschy (a pseudonym created for his first werewolf film La Marca del Hombre Lobo in 1968), was a lifelong horror fan and a man who never gave up on his dreams. He was active right until the end, with two films due for release in 2010.



He had many detractors, not least of all in Spain, but he had many fans too, all over the world, who loved his films and respected his fortitude, his talent and his vision.

Jacinto Molina may be dead, but his films are immortal.

Paul Naschy lives!

JLVB - vol 1 cover art

Here's a sneak peek at the cover art for our Jean-Louis Van Belle double disc ... coming March 09 .... I know ..I know...it's a way off..but hey....you've got Thanksgiving & Xmas to take your mind off things for the next few weeks....



By the way - its drawn by all round genius of pen and ink, Gilles Vranckx. More of his very fine stuff here

and...for those of you who read all the way to the end... check out our twitters over the next couple of days....some very exciting news about some releases for the new year...... click this to follow us in twitterland

C'est 180! - JLVB comes to DVD!

On mange les rideaux dans paris ce soir!



Salut!

Enter The 7 Doors Hotel

Just wanted to draw your attention to our friend Stephen Thrower' s new blog - 7 Doors Hotel. I'm sure you'll all know Steve's fantastic books, including the essential Nightmare USA. Not sure you'll all know that Steve is also an all round musical genius who's electro-accoustic vibrations have graced both our original features - Zibahkhana and Down Terrace.

The hot news is his new book: Sadomania: The films of Jess Franco!

Read it here.

Born of Fire - take our word for it!

Hi Folks -
there's been a cock up on the promo front with Born of Fire so you'll not be seeing reviews on this for a couple of weeks yet - apologies for that - in the meanwhile - it streets Monday 27th October! You'll just have to take our word for it that its a classic MM title - if you're a fan of Jodorowsky etc etc - it's got your name written all over it. We guarantee a wild ride with this one...



Get it now from our friends at Diabolik DVD