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We are Mondo Macabro, the DVD label that shows the wild side of world cinema. Whether it's Argentinian vampires, Pakistani zombies, French Sex Murders, or Indonesian Lady Terminators, we've got something you're looking for!

MOD100

"Alucarda" tells of the strange friendship between two young girls, Justine and Alucarda, and how their relationship destroyed the lives of those around them in a torrent of blood, death and damnation.

Catalog: MOD100

MOD101

Just before his death, Dr. Z creates a mind control machine; and his daughter decides to use his devious device to brainwash a sexy go-go dancer and turn her into a deadly killing machine!

Catalog: MOD101

MOD102

A pregnant girl enters into a strange pact, agreeing to play the part of someone else's wife. She is taken to a huge, isolated estate to give birth.

Catalog: MOD102

MOD103

In the 1960's, even Pakistan was swinging! To prove it, here's this amazing version of the Dracula story from 1967. So hot it was banned on its original release. The only Pakistani film ever to be rated "X" in its country of origin.

Catalog: MOD103

MOD104

One weekend, two visitors arrive at Boris's castle. The young girl is fascinated by tales of the wicked Zaroffs and asks if she can see their famous torture chamber. Maybe now he Zaroff dreams can become reality?

Catalog: MOD104

MOD105

A bunch of wild swingers are on holiday in the mountains. One night their van breaks down. They seek shelter in an old abandoned lodge. It's a night none of them will ever forget.

Catalog: MOD105

MOD106

A pregnant girl enters into a strange pact, agreeing to play the part of someone else's wife. She is taken to a huge, isolated estate to give birth.

Catalog: MOD106

MOD107

One day a young artist meets a mysterious but dangerously beautiful real life woman inside a local windmill. Before long he is drawn into her clutches. But who is this girl? And what is the terrible secret that keeps her hiding from the outside world?

Catalog: MOD107

MOD108

A sexually rapacious Asian goddess known as the "Queen Of The South Sea" possesses the body of a young female skin diver. Armed with an AK47 and an endless supply of bullets, this murderous Lady Terminator takes to the streets on a revenge filled rampage.

Catalog: MOD108

MOD109

The film tells the story of a man's life through three crucial nights, spread over 20 years. From a love struck teenager to a down and out 30-something, we see him move from dreams to despair.

Catalog: MOD109

MOD110

LA chick Suzy, on holiday in southeast Asia, raises the spirit of a 1000 year old witch using a book of magic spells. The witch wants blood--and sends Suzy out to get it for her. A riot of outrageous SFX make this sex-filled outing a jaw-dropping delight.

Catalog: MOD110

MOD111

A rich womanizer plans to murder his wife. He blackmails a man into doing the evil deed for him. The car with the murdered woman's corpse is stolen by a pair of joyriders. The vicious killer sets off in pursuit--with more than just murder on his mind.

Catalog: MOD111

MOD112

Somewhere in California is hidden a mysterious industrial complex. Apparently well known to certain priveleged members of the inner circles of government, this factory has only one product: human clones.

Catalog: MOD112

MOD113

This horror suspense thriller, based on Edgar Allan Poe's "Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon", takes place within a famous mental asylum. The madness of the mansion is uncontrollable as the patients have been driven into a rage of passion and sex.

Catalog: MOD113

MOD114

Sister Maria is tormented by her forbidden passions. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!

Catalog: MOD114

MOD115

After Paul enlists the help of a sexy and ambitious younger woman to kill his heiress wife, he learns that one murder is not enough to satisfy her bloodlust and greed! As the corpses pile up, she heads for a confrontation with an ancient evil.

Catalog: MOD115

MOD116

Two hot chicks happen upon the castle of Morgane le Fay and must choose either to become immortal sex slaves or rot in a dungeon.

Catalog: MOD116

MOD117

This gory sex thriller boasts a wild plot, featuring hooded killers, mad scientists, an eyeball thief and some of the sleaziest murders seen in a long time. Set in and around a Paris brothel, the action is as hot and steamy as you could wish for.

Catalog: MOD117

MOD118

Medical student Howard really has a crush on Christine. After she dies, Howard takes her body home to his tiny apartment. Suddenly Christine starts to talk, asking Howard to take revenge on all the people who caused her death.

Street date: 7/26/2005

UPC: 843276011895

Catalog: MOD118

MOD119

Deathless Devil:

The Deathless Devil pits a masked superhero against the devious Dr. Satan and his killer robot.

Tarkan Versus the Vikings:

Tarkan is a Conan-style hero, who roams the plains with his faithful dog, Kurt. Here he comes up against a band of vicious Vikings, who take great pleasure in sacrificing nubile maidens to a hungry octopus!

Street date: 10/25/2005

UPC: 843276011994

Catalog: MOD119

MOD120

The Diabolical Docotor Z:

Just before his death, Dr. Z creates a mind control machine; and his daughter decides to use his devious device to brainwash a sexy go-go dancer and turn her into a deadly killing machine!

Mill Of The Stone Women:

One day a young artist meets a mysterious but dangerously beautiful real life woman inside a local windmill. Before long he is drawn into her clutches. But who is this girl? And what is the terrible secret that keeps her hiding from the outside world?

Street date: 10/25/2005

UPC: 843276012090

Catalog: MOD120

MOD121

For Your Height Only:

For Your Height Only is a legend amongst lovers of truly "out there" cinema. A film about a two and a half foot tall Filipino secret agent: a kung fu master and suave loving machine who struts his stuff in a Travolta style white suit.

Challenge of the Tiger:

Witness Bruce Le--king of Brucesploitation--in his best film ever. Red hot martial arts action and thrills as two secret agents race around the globe to foil a crazed madman's plans for world domination.

Street date: 11/15/2005

UPC: 843276012199

Catalog: MOD121

MOD122

This has to be one of the wildest films ever to come out of Asia. The action kiks off with a girl biker gang clad in leather hot pants raiding a casino drug den and then it starts to get crazy.

Street date: 1/31/2006

UPC: 843276012298

Catalog: MOD122

MOD123

Andy and Anna are tricked into staying the night at a couple's house--but their night turns into a nightmare. They soon find that they have strayed into the clutches of a dangerous pair of psychopaths who are planning for them a fate worse than death.

Street date: 2/28/2006

UPC: 843276012397

Catalog: MOD123

MOD124

Two young convent girls become friends and decide to spend the summer together. However, their innocent bicycle rides and walks in the country soon develop a much more sinister side.

Street date: 3/28/2006

UPC: 843276012496

Catalog: MOD124

MOD125

Klaus Kinski plays the mysterious "Swiss Man", who is obsessed with a search for the elixir of life. He tricks a young American scientist into joining him on his demonic quest. A quest that ends in suicide, death and madness.

Street date: 5/30/2006

UPC: 843276012595

Catalog: MOD125

MOD126

Deep under the ocean lives the sexually insatiable Crocodile Queen. She uses her body to enslave men. All who enjoy her favors become mutant warriors in her zombie army. She wants the power of a special sword and entraps the one man she thinks can get it.

Street date: 6/27/2006

UPC: 843276012694

Catalog: MOD126

MOD127

Lady Terminator:

A sexually rapacious Asian goddess known as the "Queen Of The South Sea" possesses the body of a young female skin diver. Armed with an AK47 and an endless supply of bullets, this murderous Lady Terminator takes to the streets on a revenge filled rampage.

Dangerous Seductress:

LA chick Suzy, on holiday in southeast Asia, raises the spirit of a 1000 year old witch using a book of magic spells. The witch wants blood--and sends Suzy out to get it for her. A riot of outrageous SFX make this sex-filled outing a jaw-dropping delight.

Street date: 8/29/2006

UPC: 843276012793

Catalog: MOD127

MOD128

Bandh Darwaza:

After helping a woman to conceive a baby girl, an evil magician demands she hand her over. She refuses and has the magician killed. But years later he is revived and comes looking for the now teenage girl, intending to make her his slave.

Purana Mandir:

A curse is visited on an Indian king 200 years ago so that all female members of his family will turn into hideous monsters and die in childbirth. But one of his descendents decides to put an end to the curse and travels to the temple where it all began.

Street date: 9/26/2006

UPC: 843276012892

Catalog: MOD128

MOD129

This film unfolds a tale that has echoes in George Orwell's 1984 or in various sci-fi movies. The premise: Americans have not realized that their government is in cahoots with certain industrial and medical giants to clone the citizens and thereby create a society that is easily controlled. Richard, one of the clones, slowly comes to believe that the normal human society is much better than the cloned version and starts a rebellion against the powerful forces in control. What happens after that is about as hard to believe as what has happened before.

Street date: 10/31/2006

UPC: 843276012991

Catalog: MOD129

MOD130

The film is based on the true story of Glenda Kemp, a woman who became notorious in 1970's South Africa. A former Sunday School teacher, she paid her way through college by performing "exotic" dances in Cape Town's nightclubs and bars.

Street date: 11/14/2006

UPC: 843276013097

Catalog: MOD130

MOD131

When his new bride's face is hideously disfigured in a fire, a famous society painter seeks out a notorious plastic surgeon who is on the run from the authorities. Together they hunt down and imprison young girls, using their skin to restore his bride.

Street date: 8/28/2007

UPC: 843276013196

Catalog: MOD131

MOD132

A young American woman on holiday in Bali becomes fascinated by tales of the local black magic cult known as the Leyak. She seeks out a Leyak witch and attempts to learn her secrets. Needless to say it all goes horribly wrong.

Street date: 10/2/2007

UPC: 843276013295

Catalog: MOD132

MOD133

A wild, shocking and controversial title from the Philippines--guaranteed to have your jaw dropping.

Street date: 11/20/2007

UPC: 843276013394

Catalog: MOD133

MOD134

As one of the first Asian horror movies to reach western audiences, this film set a pattern for crazy effects and gore that has rarely been equalled and is still fondly remembered today. It is the ultimate female revenge saga and a real cult classic.

Street date: 5/27/2008

UPC: 843276013493

Catalog: MOD134

MOD135

Having discovered that death and bloodshed are their mutual aphrodisiacs, an amorous man and woman embark on a rampage of murder and mutilation. Soon the violence escalates until it seems that nothing can stop them.

Street date: 10/28/2008

UPC: 843276013592

Catalog: MOD135

MOD136

The landlord in a cheap Tokyo boarding house spies on his tenants through holes in the ceiling. When he sees a prostitute murder one of her clients, he decides that at last he has found his soul mate. Featuring some of the most bizarre sex scenes ever.

Street date: 10/28/2008

UPC: 843276013691

Catalog: MOD136

MOD137

This outrageously entertaining fantasy-fight flick stars 1980's action hero Barry Prima as Jaka Sembung, a kind of Robin Hood figure who possesses mystical powers.

Street date: 11/18/2008

UPC: 843276013790

Catalog: MOD137

MOD138

Famed Japanese exploitation director Masaru Konuma ("Wife To Be Sacrificed") directs this 1983 women in prison flick which is legendary for both the quantity and extremity of its overt sexuality.

Street date: 1/27/2009

UPC: 843276013899

Catalog: MOD138

MOD139

This Japanese nunsploitation classic follows the sexual exploits of a promiscuous girl sent to a convent to reform her deviant ways, but who instead finds that the convent is the most deviant place of all.

Street date: 2/24/2009

UPC: 843276013998

Catalog: MOD139

MOD140

Veerana - Vengeance Of The Vampire:

A local landowner’s daughter is possessed by the spirit of a dead witch. She becomes a bloodsucking seductress.

Purana Haveli - Mansion Of Evil:

An innocent girl unwittingly releases the ancient curse contained in her family’s old country mansion. Statues come to life, hairy beasts roam the corridors, the bodies pile up. Can nothing stop the evil they have unleashed?

Street date: 3/31/2009

UPC: 843276014094

Catalog: MOD140

MOD141

Nineteen years after they were separated at birth, a pair of twins, a boy and girl, meet. What follows is a blood-soaked and shocking tale of revenge as the girl seeks to track down and destroy all those she considers ruined her life.

Street date: 4/28/2009

UPC: 843276014193

Catalog: MOD141

MOD142

Mahakaal - The Monster:

A nightmare creature haunts a young girl's dreams. Her friends refuse to believe her when she tells them the fiend has entered the real world and they are all going to die. This Indian version of Nightmare on Elm Street must be seen to be believed!

Tahkhana - The Dungeon:

Two sisters, separated as children, share the secret of a hidden treasure. Years later, their secret falls into the hands of a bunch of sleazy adventurers. But the treasure is guarded by a hideous monster, animated by the blood of a vengeful magician.

Street date: 5/19/2009

UPC: 843276014292

Catalog: MOD142

MOD143

A decadent count in 1920's Japan becomes obsessed with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from the notorious writer's novels and recruits prostitutes to act out his fantasies onstage.

Street date: 6/30/2009

UPC: 843276014391

Catalog: MOD143

MOD144

An orientalist professor researching Delacroix's North African work becomes entangled in an S&M waking dream in Morocco.

Street date: 8/25/2009

UPC: 843276014490

Catalog: MOD144