An oil prospector (Massimo Foschi) and his partner (Ivan Rassimov) along with a young lady (Me Me Lai) and pilot fly deep into an inhospitable jungle in search of a missing exploration team. A bad landing causes a wheel to collapse so they find themselves stranded. Stumbling across the original team's camp they find evidence that they were massacred. They soon find that the jungle contains a deadly and horrifying secret when they come face to face with flesh eating cannibals!
Fleeing from underworld justice a photojournalist takes to the jungle where he goes native and finds love. However this comes with a high price when he finds that he is living with natives who are not only prized for their women but also for their potential as food stock for the local cannibals!
So shocking that to this day the British censors insist on culling some of the film’s use of live animal ‘performers’ THE MAN FROM DEEP RIVER instigated the entire Italian cannibal movie trend. Indeed long before CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST attempted its own blend of bloodshed and authority-upsetting horror THE MAN FROM DEEP RIVER was carving out an influential and important path of its own. Directed by Umberto Lenzi who later oversaw the arterial-gushing gore of CANNIBAL FEROX and EATEN ALIVE THE MAN FROM DEEP RIVER introduces us to a British expat (essayed by genre veteran Ivan Rassimov) who gets into some bar-brawling trouble in Bangkok and flees to the Burmese border. Unfortunately once there he is captured by a primitive tribe who do not take too kindly to trespassers. On the plus side though at least he has the lovely tribal babe Me Me Lai (LAST CANNIBAL WORLD) to keep him company… but will their ‘forbidden’ love meet with further flesh-filleting fear? Filled with sicko-splatter sequences of torture and terror THE MAN FROM DEEP RIVER was an original UK Video Nasty – and it returns to British shelves in sanguine-splashed HD for a very special 88 Films edition! Features: BRAND NEW HD Master Uncompressed LPCM English Soundtrack Uncompressed LPCM Italian Soundtrack with English Subtitles Reversible Sleeve with alternative art Includes a Collectible 300gsm Original Poster Post Card Booklet Notes by Calum Waddell
The renowned Italian director Umberto Lenzi tells a tale of cannibals at play in the Jungles of New Guinea starring Robert Kerman Janet Agren and Mel Ferrer. When a young woman's sister disappears the only clue to her whereabouts is a glimpsed appearance in a bizarre film showing scenes of cannibalism left behind by a hitman murdered on the streets of New York. The trail soon leads to New Guinea where the subject of the film the self-styled spiritual leader ""Mr Jonas"" is te
Around the globe attractive and athletic young girls are disappearing. Behind these abductions is the ruthless Madame M (Almen Wong) head of a covert international assassination squad. Imprisoned on a remote island the girls are trained military-style learning combat weapons and survival skills as well as the ancient arts of seduction. Madame M's aim is to create the ultimate female assassin. After six years of intensive training the girls are finally forced to fight each other
Space Dandy is a dandy in space! This dreamy adventurer with a to-die-for pompadour travels across the galaxy in search of aliens no one has ever laid eyes on. Each new species he discovers earns him a hefty reward but this dandy has to be quick on his feet because it’s first come – first served! Accompanied by his sidekicks a rundown robot named QT and Meow the cat-looking space alien Dandy bravely explores unknown worlds inhabited by a variety aliens. Join the best dressed alien hunter in all of space and time as he embarks on an adventure that ends at the edge of the universe! Contains Seasons 1 & 2 of Space Dandy (Episodes 1-26) with both the English dub and the original Japanese track with English subtitles.
Way, way before he dreamt up his famous Dogme manifesto, Lars von Trier launched his feature-film career with The Element of Crime and proved that, 400 years after Hamlet, the Danes can still do melancholy like nobody else. Less a film noir than a film jaune sale, this ultra-enigmatic thriller is shot entirely in tones of grimy sepia in a world where nightfall seems to be an unceasing condition. A police detective, Fisher (Michael Elphick), is summoned from Cairo to "Europe" (the location never gets any more specific than that) to investigate a series of gory child-murders. He comes to suspect that the killer may be a mysterious character called Harry Grey and sets out to retrace Grey's movements. The film takes its title from a treatise written by Fisher's old mentor Osborne (Welsh actor Esmond Knight, a veteran of Powell and Pressburger's films), but it might as well refer to water. Von Trier conjures up a world not only permanently benighted, but dank, sodden and dripping both indoors and out, cluttered with mouldy, antiquated industrial machinery. There are echoes (or pre-echoes) here of half-a-dozen other movies--Blade Runner, City of Lost Children, Tarkovsky's Stalker, Welles' The Trial--and at times it feels as though von Trier has just set out to show he can do art house as well as anybody and possibly better. The plot makes no sense whatever and clearly isn't meant to, and Elphick's bemused expression, one suspects, derives from the actor as much as from the character he's playing. As always with von Trier you can't help wondering if whole thing isn't an elaborate put-on, especially since the director himself shows up, epicene and shaven-headed, playing a personage called "Schmuck of Ages". But what it lacks in coherence (either narrative or visual) Element of Crime makes up for in atmosphere, which it has, literally, by the bucketful. This release, incidentally, is the English-language version. --Philip Kemp
An oil prospector and his partner along with a young lady and the plane pilot fly deep into an inhospitable jungle to meet up with a group already there... landing but losing a wheel in the process they find themselves stranded and the camp abandoned. They also find evidence that the group had been massacred. Unable to leave they decide to search for their missing compatriots but what they will find will shock you as they come face to face with flesh eating cannibals...
Fleeing from underworld justice a photojournalist takes to the jungle where he goes native and finds love. However this comes with a high price when he finds that he is living with natives who are not only prized for their women but also for their potential as food stock for the local cannibals!
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