Category: Cult Cinema Icons
American Genre Film Archive reveals details for cult classic The Zodiac Killer Blu-ray release
American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), a non-profit that preserves the legacy of genre films, has announced details for The Zodiac Killer Blu-ray, which will be released on July 25th. Zodiac Killer is the first title of dozens in AGFA’s collaboration with Something Weird Video following a successful 2015 Kickstarter campaign. Directed by Tom Hanson, who …
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RZA to premiere live re-score of cult classic 36th Chamber of Shaolin during Beyond Fest in Hollywood
Wu-Tang Clan, award winning musician and filmmaker RZA will premiere his live re-score of the martial arts epic, Lau Kar-leung’s The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, during next month’s Beyond Fest, the highest attended genre film festival in the U.S. According to Beyond Fest’s website, RZA first saw The 36th Chamber of Shaolin on television when …
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Vestron Video is back and they’re giving the Blu-ray treatment to their classic titles
Vestron Video has been a leader in providing the most unique and wide-ranging selection of films. The company was huge during the VHS home video era and many of us fans remember seeing the company’s logo on many of the horror and b-grade sci-fi that lined the shelves of our local video shop. Lionsgate honors …
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Cult classic Phantasm and new sequel Phantasm: Ravager heading to theaters
Well Go USA Entertainment announced that the company has nabbed North American rights for Don Coscarelli’s iconic Phantasm series, including an all-new 4K restoration of the original 1979 cult classic Phantasm: Remastered, never-before-seen HD restorations of 1994’s Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead and 1998’s Phantasm IV: Oblivion, and the long-anticipated debut of the fifth …
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Game of Death villain Mel Novak and The Blacklist’s Harry Lennix to appear at first-ever Martial Con
Cult Cinema Icon Mel Novak, the quintessential action movie villain, will appear at the inaugural edition of Martial Con this August in Long Beach, California. Novak has battled many legendary Hollywood heroes and is best known as the iconic Stick the Assassin in Bruce Lee’s Game of Death. Novak also starred in Black Belt Jones …
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Details on Shout Factory’s feature-rich Return of the Living Dead Limited Edition release
Filmmaker Dan O’Bannon (Alien, Lifeforce) puts an uproarious spin on the zombie apocalypse movie in 1985’s cult classic The Return of the Living Dead, starring Clu Gulager (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge), James Karen (Mulholland Drive) and Don Calfa (Weekend at Bernie’s). Considered one of the campiest undead romps of its time, …
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Malcolm McDowell comes aboard Roger Corman’s Death Race 2050
An outrageous action-packed film and reboot of the original Death Race 2000, Roger Corman’s Death Race 2050 began filming this month in Peru. Described as being filled with full-throttle mayhem and black-hearted humor, the all-new film drops the flag on a phalanx of automotive gladiators who earn points for killing pedestrians — and their fellow …
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Edgy trailer for The Purge: Election Year
Universal Pictures and filmmaker James DeMonaco present The Purge: Election Year will expand the universe introduced in The Purge and The Purge: Anarchy, two films that electrified the culture. The new film reveals the next terrifying chapter that occurs over 12 hours of annual lawlessness sanctioned by the “New Founders of America” in order to …
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