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Let the sleaze begin!

CAV Distributing announced the release of Severin Films’ three-film DVD set entitled THE EURO SLEAZE COLLECTION – the most depraved European films ever!

With a street date of February 12, 2013, the set will contain THE SISTER OF URSULA (1978), THE SINFUL DWARF (1974) and HANNA D: THE GIRL FROM VONDEL PARK (1982).

If you are a fan of the Euro sleaze genre and cannot wait, pre-order it here from Boulevard Movies:

http://www.boulevardmovies.com/Euro-Sleaze-Collection-Severin-Films-3-Disc-DVD-Set-p-22472.html

Mier Zarchi’s iconic Grindhouse/Video Nasty classic (it’s still censored in the UK) gets the remake treatment and its out on DVD courtesy of Anchor Bay Entertainment, unrated (c’mon, you didn’t think Boulevard Movies was gonna try to stick you with an R-rated version, did ya?).

This time around, Sarah Butler is Jennifer Hills.  Once again, she goes to the country to write her book and runs into a gaggle of rape-happy rednecks, lead by Johnny (soap opera star Jeff Branson, could you picture the original film’s Eron Tabor as a soap hunk?).  Once again, Jennifer recovers physically and then tracks down each of the men for gory revenge.  The twist here is that director Steven R. Monroe doesn’t shove the revenge into the last ten minutes.  In fact, thanks to advanced special make-up effects and the film’s unrated status (not to mention modern audiences ravenous for HOSTEL-type gore), Jennifer wields a knife, a shotgun, bear traps, pliers, and lets’ not forget about the fishhooks (for one guy, she even sticks the shotgun where the sun don’t shine).  Of course, she saves the worst for Johnny (and goes farther than Camille Keaton did in the original).  Chad Lindberg (NBC’s THE CAPE) plays the slow Matthew (and is far less annoying that the guy in the original).  Daniel Franzese (BLOOD FEAST 2), Rodney Eastman (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 and 4), and Andy Howard (TRANSFORMERS 2) also star.

Anchor Bay’s DVD presents the unrated 108 minute version in an anamorphic 16:9 2.35:1 widescreen transfer with English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.  As for the extras: did you really think Anchor Bay Entertainment would give us a special edition of the original film and then skimp on extras for the remake?  First off, there’s an audio commentary with director Monroe and producer Lisa Hansen.  Then there’s “The Revenge of Jennifer Hills,” a behind the scenes feature on the remake.  We get a selection of deleted scenes (don’t worry, Monroe wasn’t forced to cut any of the gore), a teaser trailer, theatrical trailers, and a radio spot (hmm, I think I would have remembered a radio spot for I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE).  Anchor Bay UK put out double disc DVD and Blu-Ray sets featuring the original and the remake, but don’t bother with those because both the original and the remake were cut by the British Board of Film Classification.

Lurking under this nondescript title is yet another one of Renato Polselli’s until-now-lost bits of zany and bizarre Italian erotica titled TORINO: CENTRALE DEL VIZIO (TURIN: CENTER OF VICE) which has been on the want-lists of many an Italian exploitation enthusiast. Now MYA has brought it to DVD with English subtitles.

Rita Caleroni (of Polselli’s DELIRIUM and REINCARNATION OF ISABEL) is the original desperate housewife. She’s sexually starved and being pimped out to society sleaze balls by her husband just isn’t cutting it. Their latest swinging exploit, however, might just be their last when they get caught up in rape, murder, drugs, and a series of betrayals. As if Calderoni wasn’t enough to raise the blood pressure, check out Marina Daunia (SATAN’S WIFE), Christina Hui (MOONRAKER), and Albertina Capuani (DEATH CARRIES A CANE).

Producer Bruno Vani is credited as director but this is Polselli all the way. Scored by Stelvio Cipriani (TENTACLES), LUST is a nice little obscure slice of Italian sleaze that paints the sainted city of Turin as a hotbed of perversion and depravity. MYA’s DVD features a letterboxed transfer in Italian with English subtitles (the film was too weird for the English market).

That NC-17 rated guilty pleasure of the nineties is given its 15th anniversary on special edition Blu-Ray in its fully uncut and uncensored edition from MGM. Elizabeth Berkeley (of TV’s SAVED BY THE BELL) simultaneously destroyed and reinvented her career by taking it all off for BASIC INSTINCT director Paul Verhoeven’s NC-17 rated tale of the cut-throat lives of Las Vegas showgirls. Nomi (Berkeley) wants to make it big in Vegas but ends up pole dancing until she is noticed by Stardust headliner Cristal (Gina Gershon) who gets her into the show. Soon Nomi realizes that she have to sleep and claw your way to the top until she no longer recognizes herself. Kyle MacLachlan (TWIN PEAKS) and Glenn Plummer (STRANGE DAYS) also star.

MGM’s BluRay gives the film a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 upgrade (the original stereo surround mix is also available in Dolby Digital 2.0 in English, French, and Spanish and subtitles in those languages) as well as a subtitle trivia track and audio commentary by pole dancing experts. The film gets the dual-layer treatment on a BD disc by itself with the extras on a second standard DVD featuring several video diaries for the shoot, lap dancing tutorials, and the film’s famous “red band” trailer that was shown with R-rated films only.

Gangs, motorcycles, groovy music, dynamite action and chicks!!

From Mill Creek Entertainment, get ready for a marathon of 12 movies from a by-gone era of drive-in’s and grindhouse cinema. With crazy titles like HELL ON WHEELS, WILD RIDERS and THE PINK ANGELS, you can be sure of hours and hours of wild and crazy fun!

The 12 feature film playlist are:

1. HELL ON WHEELS (1967)
2. LITTLE LAURA & BIG JOHN (1973)
3. THE WILD REBELS (1967)
4. WILD RIDERS (1971)
5. THE PINK ANGELS (1971)
6. BURNOUT (1979)
7. DEATH RIDERS (1965)
8. THE SIDE HACKERS (1969)
9. DANGEROUS CHARTER (1962)
10. HELLCATS (1967)
11. DEATH MACHINES (1976)
12. BEST FRIENDS (1975)

Checkout a sample trailer of THE HELLCATS, below.

Thank God she only had two!

At last! A gem of a grindhouse exploitation cinema from the 1970′s have been resurrected by Dark Sky Films.

BONNIE’S KIDS focuses on two sisters, Ellie (Playboy’s Tiffany Bolling) and Myra (Robin Mattson), who suffers abuse from their stepfather, Charley (Leo Gordon). When Charley attempts to rape Myra, Ellie kills him with a gun and the two sisters run off to their rich uncle Ben (Scott Brady) to escape the law. While in hiding the two girls become mixed up with various sleazy characters and situations including lesbian come-ons, stolen money, double-cross and hitmen!

This uncut cult film is presented in a new HD transfer from the original negative with a 105 minute running time. The video is in color with anamorhpic widescreen of 1.85:1. This is the film that inspired Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Grab a copy for yourself before they are all gone!