LAST MOVIE, THE (DVD) Dennis Hopper's infamous long lost film

This week we have a really rare one from the late great Dennis Hopper.  Even after it won best picture at the Venice Film Festival, Universal buried it after Hopper refused to recut it for its proper theatrical release.  Some will love this film, some will hate it, but regardless, it really is an experience like all great art and should experienced for yourself.  If you are a fan of Mr. Hopper, this is a must for the collection.........

THE LAST MOVIE (1971)

     A crew of American movie makers come to Peru to shoot a western. The locals become mystified by the crew's amazing gear and create giant, non-functional bamboo versions of the film equipment. When the film wraps and the Americans leave, a stuntman stays behind to ineptly exploit the wilds around him.

     The villagers start a cult and cast the stuntman to be in their own movie production. They seem to have failed to recognize that the deaths in the actual movie they saw being filmed were not real. In their "movie" when someone dies, he dies for real. Everything grows to a feverish pitch as civilization and primitivism poison each other as church and theatre become locked in a combustible embrace.

     Dennis Hopper went to his grave insisting that this film was his own Citizen Kane. Alexandro Jodorowsky was an editing consultant as well, which seemed to add to the already trippy vibe. Look for Hopper's buddies Peter Fonda and Dean Stockwell, Eurocrime regular Tomas Milian, as well as Kris Kristofferson in his screen debut.

THE LAST MOVIE is available immediately and can be found in the Director' Lost Gems section of the website.  If it is still listed as COMING SOON, please email us at revok@revok.com with your request and we can send you a customized invoice so you can easily pay by PayPal or credit card.

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SEVEN MAGNIFICENT GLADIATORS, THE(DVD) Bruno Mattei directs Lou Ferrigno

We have dug up some more sword and sorcery for this weeks news release.  Well, more sword and sandal I guess since more muscle is flexed than magic. If you are a fan of Bruno Mattei, you will definitely want to add this one to the collection since he, like Fulci, didn't dable in this genre  for long......

THE SEVEN MAGNIFICENT GLADIATORS (1983)

     The mighty barbarian Han wields his mystical Sword of Achilles, vanquishing evil that is spreading across the countryside of ancient Rome. Pandora, the courageous leader of a group of women, is seeking the one man who can free their village from the wicked Nicerote, who is half man, half god and completely evil.

     

     As Nicerote leads his legion of soldiers in a merciless campaign of terror and murder, Han assembles a fearless group of seven in hopes to defeat him. The band of magnificent gladiators confront the seemingly invincible Nicerote on the field of battle in a colossal collision of muscle and steel.

     

     Bruno Mattei (Shocking Dark, Robowar) and Claudio Fragasso (Troll 2, Zombie 4: After Death) double tag team direct this swords and sandal take on Akira Kurosawa's classic The Seven Samurai. Lou Ferrigno (TV's The Incredible Hulk) stars along side his wife Carla, as well as buxom B-movie queen Sybil Danning.

THE SEVEN MAGNIFICENT GLADIATORS is available immediately and can be found in the Sci-Fi and Adventure section of the website.  If it is still listed as COMING SOON, please email us at revok@revok.com with your request and we can send you a customized invoice so you can easily pay by PayPal or credit card.


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MORTUARY (DVD) rare slasher with Bill Paxton in early role

Getting back to some horror this week.  It is surprising this one hasn't had an official release considering how big a star Bill Paxton has become.  The trailer below is pretty funny because it has nothing to do with the movie and stars our favorite freakazoid Michael Berryman who doesn't even appear in the film............

MORTUARY (1983)

     A young girl suffers from sleepwalking and terrifying nightmares ever since her father supposedly drowned in the family swimming pool. She knows his death was not an accident, but no one will believe her until her boyfriend sees the hooded figures she described in her dreams in the town's mortuary.

     When she learns that her mother is a member of the cult taking part in black magic rituals at the mortuary, she begins to distrust everyone in her life. Is her mother trying to drive her crazy or is there a more sinister figure responsible for the recent murders? It is up to her boyfriend to save her before she ends up on the slab.

     This entertaining slasher stars real-life husband and wife Lynda Day George (Pieces, Young Warriors) and Christopher George (Enter the Ninja, City of the Living Dead), but most notably has Bill Paxton giving an early over-the-top performance as a young, crazy mortician. The horror elements are nicely balanced with a few nuggets of delightfully droll black humor and the sunny locales are a refreshing change for the genre.

MORTUARY is available immediately and can be found in the Slasher Flicks section of the website.  If it is still listed as COMING SOON, please email us at revok@revok.com with your request and we can send you a customized invoice so you can easily pay by PayPal or credit card.

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STARSHIP (DVD) sci-fi adventure with military storm-trooper droids

Pretty funny one this week - but what it lacks in budget, it makes up in style.  Some of the costumes are pretty laughable though, with things like painted football helmets trying to be intimidating cyborg heads.  Roger Christian went on to bring L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth to the screen, so I was thinking this one might have be the warm up for failure - maybe there are some Scientology secrets in there somewhere..........

Note: Our print does not have these subtitles on screen

STARSHIP (1984)


     Things are not going well on the mining planet Ordessa. The working conditions are awful, the workers are disgruntled, and the management is starting to crack the whip. An underground resistance movement is formed and led the young Lorca, and along with his droid and other rebel human workers, they vow to turn around the brutal regime.

     Mining management hires an unscrupulous mercenary to get the situation under control. Guiding his arsenal of military storm-trooper droids, the evil bounty hunter is set on destroying the entire human work force to solve the problem. The rebel's only chance for survival is to put and end to evil reign of terror, and escape back to earth.

     The film compensates its lack of budget by having more style that your average cheap sci-fi adventure. It's directed by Roger Christian who won an Academy Award for set decoration on director George Lucas's Star Wars: Episode IV, was art director on Ridley Scott's Alien, and directed one of the most notorious flops of the century, Battlefield Earth.

AKA - LORCA AND THE OUTLAWS

STARSHIP is available immediately and can be found in the Sci-Fi and Adventure section of the website.  If it is still listed as COMING SOON, please email us at revok@revok.com with your request and we can send you a customized invoice so you can easily pay by PayPal or credit card.

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DEVASTATOR, THE (DVD) Vietnam vets vs. weed growing mercenaries

Back to some action this week.  This one is a short mega-blast of B-movie action by the late cult great Cirio H. Santiago.  Kind of a cross between Rambo and the A-Team, this film has even more  '80s action attributes that combine to make an darn entertaining romp.  The original Deathstalker's Richard Hill also stars as the main DEVASTATOR.....

THE DEVASTATOR (1986) 

 

     A Vietnam vet learns of the mysterious death of a close army buddy and travels to a rural California town to investigate. He soon discovers that fear and violence are a way of life in the town and the cause of terror is a psychotic owner of vast marijuana fields which are ruthlessly defended by an army of henchmen.

     When the vet learns that weed mogul may be responsible for his pal's death, he assembles his closest war buddies: an electronics genius, an am munitions expert and the group's gung-ho strongman. The four band together to retaliate against the weed militia and all hell breaks loose as they fight back with all the cunning and firepower they can muster.

     The prolific B-Action master Cirio H. Santiago (Equalizer 2000, Fast Gun) directs this western style story of good versus evil and combines it with explosive high-tech warfare. With it's one liners and funny dialogue along with the battery of bullets, grenades and bazooka shells, this is the kind of film that will please any fan of action.

THE DEVASTATOR is available immediately and can be found in the Eurocrime and Action section of the website.  If it is still listed as COMING SOON, please email us at revok@revok.com with your request and we can send you a customized invoice so you can easily pay by PayPal or credit card.

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