Masters Of Giallo

FCD375 DVD

The Master of Nightmares is back! Dario Argento’s Sleepless sees the director return to true giallo form in a nightmarish slasher movie of considerable style and tension. A retired police detective is forced back into action to try and solve the case of a serial killer who makes an unwelcome return to society. Hang onto that idea, and then steel yourself for a bravura thrill ride of Argento patented murderous set pieces including a stunning opening sequence aboard a train. The prowling camerawork, the relentless Goblin music score, and uncompromising moments of mayhem attack the senses with vicious flair that will leave you Sleepless.

Street date: 6/29/2009

UPC: 5027035005409

FCD376 DVD

For Gods sake don’t raid the fridge! Lamberto Bava, son of Mario, made his own stunning debut as a director in his own right with a film that is still ranked by many as his best and closest in style to his late fathers. In Macabre a women devastated by the death of her lover, moves into a boarding house where the blind landlord soon begins to suspect that’s she’s resuming her passionate affair with her dead lover! The landlords quest to find out the truth propels this simmering claustrophobic thriller into a chilling climax and a late night raid on the fridge that’ll cure any snack addiction.

Street date: 6/29/2009

UPC: 5027035005416

FCD377 DVD

A middle-class family move to a house in New England and find that the previous tenant, a mad scientist who's supposed to be dead, is still on the premises. Gore aplently and not for the faint hearted.

Street date: 6/29/2009

UPC: 5027035005423

FCD410 DVD

Unsuccessfully trying to get to the bottom of the current spate of bizarre murders are a couple of bumbling cops, one of whom is due to be the groom at the forthcoming nuptials, the other a food-junkie who develops an irresistible appetite for Fuad's delicious wares.

Street date: 1/11/2010

UPC: 5027035005751

FCD414 Blu-ray

A National Emergency grips the US as the zombie population grows at an inexplicable and alarming rate. Two Philadelphia Police S.W.A.T. officers, a helicopter pilot and his TV reporter girlfriend escape the city and take refuge in an abandoned, suburban shopping mall after securing it following a series of brutal confrontations with the undead. Their survival is threatened when a band of looters leave a door open allowing the zombies access to the mall once more.

Street date: 10/19/2009

UPC: 5027035005799

FCD415 Blu-ray

The concluding part of George A. Romero's cult horror trilogy opens with the undead roaming the planet freely. The living have been forced underground, where they make their base in a hidden missile depot, helping with the experiments of scientist Doctor Logan, who hopes to domesticate the zombies. However, the military faction of the human survivors favour a more direct approach, and with food stocks becoming ever more depleted, they decide to take action. What folllows is the final showdown between the forces of the living and the armies of the dead.

Street date: 3/29/2010

UPC: 5027035005805

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FCD420 DVD

Seasonal slasher horror. After years of abuse from the cruel nuns who ran the orphanage where he spent his childhood following the brutal murder of his parents, the now-teenage Billy gets a job at a department store. When he is asked to dress up as Santa Claus at Christmas time, traumatic memories are triggered in his mind and he loses the plot, embarking on a bloodthirsty rampage and killing everyone who crosses his path.

Street date: 11/23/2009

UPC: 5027035005850

FCD422

Just when you thought you had seen it all, out of the multi-colored slime bubbles comes STREET TRASH - the most squeamishly funny gore-fest ever. When an off brand of cheap wine becomes the favorite among a group of violent Skid Row bums and junkyard denizens, they are unaware that it will cause them the melt into formless blobs of dayglow gook.

Street date: 1/11/2010

UPC: 5027035005874

FCD426 DVD

Two Edgar Allan Poe stories that have been adapted and directed by two directors of horror. The first story is about a woman who plots to kill her rich husband with the help of an unsuspecting doctor. In the second a jealous photographer kills his mistress and her 'black cat', but all is not what it seems.

Street date: 5/10/2010

UPC: 5027035005911

FCD427 DVD

A Dario Argento horror along the lines of 'Phantom of the Opera'. Betty (Christina Marsillach), a young understudy at the opera house, finds herself in demand when the female lead in Verdi's Macbeth falls ill. Whilst on stage, her fears about the curse of Macbeth begin to ring true as a stagehand is murdered and several ravens used in the production are killed. Betty is then taken captive by the murderer, tied up, forced to have her eyes pinned open and then witness the murder of two other people. The police inspector assigned to the job, Santini realises that ravens never forget and releases the remaining birds so that they can find the murderer. This leads to a chain of gory events, eventually revealing who the killer is and what his connection with Betty is.

Street date: 3/22/2010

UPC: 5027035005928

FCD428 DVD

Giallo-type detective thriller directed by Italian horror maestro Dario Argento. Police detective Anna Mari becomes caught up in an Internet poker game, only to realise to her horror that the stakes are higher than she could have imagined: if she loses, the maniacal 'Card Player' will slit his victims' throats live on webcam. Irish police detective John Brennan is sent to Rome to join the investigation after a British tourist becomes involved. But the stakes are raised even higher when the police chief's daughter (director's daughter is abducted - and it becomes apparent The Card Player knows Anna better than she thought.

Street date: 3/22/2010

UPC: 5027035005935

FCD429 DVD

Asia Argento stars as detective Anna Manni, on the trail of a serial killer and rapist. Unfortunately, she suffers from the Stendhal Syndrome, a mental disorder causing hallucinations whenever the sufferer comes into contact with works of art. The killer discovers Manni's condition, and uses it to make her insane. Even when she thinks she has finally tracked him down and dealt with him, his taunts continue, and so do the murders.

Street date: 3/22/2010

UPC: 5027035005942

FCD431 DVD

Set in the desolate surburban wasteland of Pittsburgh, George A. Romero's modern vampire story juggles traditional myths and legends with contemporary medical science, in this study of a modern teenager who believes he needs to suck blood to survive and sets about doing so wielding razors and syringes.

Street date: 6/21/2010

UPC: 5027035005966

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FCD433 Blu-ray & DVD

After Father William Thomas (Fabrizio Jovine) hangs himself in a cemetery, the gates of hell are opened. Zombies with abilities of super strength, teleportation and levitation appear and start killing off people in town. Investigating reporter Peter Bell (Christopher George) along with psychic Mary Woodhouse (Catriona MacColl) travel to Dunwich, New England, and from the Book of Enoch learn that they must close the portal to hell before All Saints Day, or the spirits of the dead will overtake the earth.

Street date: 5/24/2010

UPC: 5027035005980

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FCD435 Blu-ray & DVD

The full, unexpurgated version of Tinto Brass's infamous soft-porn Roman epic. Malcolm McDowell stars as the deranged Emperor whose depraved acts include giving his horse political office, sleeping with his own sister and executing anyone who remotely displeases him. Gore Vidal provides the (uncredited) screenplay. The film, which is punctuated by a sequence of elaborate orgy scenes, remained in limbo for two years as Brass wrangled over the right to a final cut, and various versions have been in circulation over the years since its initial release.

Street date: 5/3/2010

UPC: 5027035006000

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