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001 OUT OF PRINT

Rob (Daktari Lorenz) is an employee at Joe's Streetcleaning Agency, a roving team of misfits who visit roadside accidents and clean up the mess. He lives with his girlfriend Betty (Beatrice M.) in a small Berlin flat. Pictures of centerfold models and serial killers decorate the walls. Human body parts are neatly displayed, floating in formaldehyde, sealed in glass jars. Rob adds to his collection daily, much to Betty's delight.

Street date: 6/13/2000

UPC: 690816600190

Catalog: 001

002 (1st edition) OUT OF PRINT

Lothar Schramm (Florian Koerner von Gustorf) is dying, face down in a pool of his own blood. Behind his closed eyes, fractured memories repeat themselves in a neuronal fire. He runs by the sea. He lusts after the whore (Monika M) across the hall. He staggers through life uncertainly. He kills.

Street date: 5/1/2001

UPC: 690816600299

Catalog: 002

003 OUT OF PRINT

Roger Watkins stars as Terry Hawkins, a down and out pornographer, fresh out of prison. Disgusted by the world around him, he begins work on a series of snuff films—targeting the very society that put him away. Lock your doors! Terry Hawkins is shooting his last masterpiece at The Last House on Dead End Street!.

Street date: 10/22/2002

UPC: 690816600398

Catalog: 003

004 OUT OF PRINT

Monika (Monika M.) is a beautiful necrophiliac who lives alone in Berlin. By day, she works as a nurse. By night, she prowls through cemeteries with her pick and spade, searching for fresh corpses. When she reads about the suicide of Nekromantik’s Rob (Daktari Lorenz), she knows she’s hit paydirt. She hurries to his grave, digs up his body, and brings it home.

Street date: 6/10/2003

UPC: 690816600497

Catalog: 004

005 OUT OF PRINT

In Walls in the City, Sikora’s fringe-dwellers struggle to shape their own fates amidst the flats and taverns of an indifferent and often hostile environment. Cutting performances by Paula Killen (Mad Dog and Glory, Bullet on a Wire), Tony Fitzpatrick (Philadelphia), Bill Cusack (Ed Wood, The Fugitive), Michael James (Code of Silence), and David Yow (vocalist for The Jesus Lizard) lead an array of vibrantly discordant characterizations that compliment a bold and inventive visual style.

Street date: 2/17/2004

UPC: 690816600596

Catalog: 005

006 OUT OF PRINT

A prank phone call becomes telephone terrorism when it leads to murder. The caller, played by Jeff Strong, is a telephone salesman and sometime telemarketing ‘boiler room’ thief. His false report of a positive HIV test administered at a clinic run by his sister, played by Paula Killen, leads a young woman, played by Lara Phillips, to kill her abusive stepfather. Her ne’re-do-well boyfriend, played by David Yow, attempts to cash in on tabloid television’s interest in the story. In a whirlwind of unintended consequences, strange opportunities present themselves and a perverse redemption offers itself to the caller.

Street date: 2/17/2004

UPC: 690816600695

Catalog: 006

007 OUT OF PRINT

"Darkness" depicts the takeover of a small town by an army of vampires.

Street date: 5/30/2006

UPC: 690816600794

Catalog: 007

008 OUT OF PRINT

"Darkness" depicts the takeover of a small town by an army of vampires.

Street date: 5/30/2006

UPC: 690816600893

Catalog: 008

009 OUT OF PRINT

Legendary for his drunken excess and frank observations on life, love, and survival, poet and novelist Charles Bukowski participates in a seven-year interview project, resulting in this four-hour long study of the man and the music of his words.

Street date: 8/29/2006

UPC: 690816600992

Catalog: 009

010 (2nd edition) OUT OF PRINT

Lothar Schramm (Florian Koerner von Gustorf) is dying, face down in a pool of his own blood. Behind his closed eyes, fractured memories repeat themselves in a neuronal fire. He runs by the sea. He lusts after the whore (Monika M) across the hall. He staggers through life uncertainly. He kills.

Street date: 10/31/2006

UPC: 690816601098

Catalog: 010

011 OUT OF PRINT

Weird baroque epic based on Jean Ray's classic novel about the haunted house Malptertius where the old Cassave (performed by none other than Orson Welles) has emprisoned the ancient Greek Gods.

Street date: 7/24/2007

UPC: 690816601197

Catalog: 011