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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WIZARDS OF THE LOST KINGDOM 1 and 2 (DVDs) hooray?!

We had more than a few requests for both of these unbelievable excursions into the land of cheese.  They are definitely in the sooo-bad-it's-perhaps-good category of film, so be prepared and have an arsenal of supplies to help with the intake of these beauties. On the other hand, maybe these are best left a childhood memory.........

WIZARDS OF THE LOST KINGDOM (1985)

     The young son of a wizard flees his beloved kingdom after an evil magician kills the king and takes over the power of the realm. Schooled in the arts of magic, the boy wants to go back to save his people. First he must find the Ring of Magic and the Sword of Power if he is going to stand a chance.

     Traveling together with his creature friend, an albino version of Chewbacca, they run into a lone warrior named Kor. Kor hasn't been very noble in his past and decides to turn a leaf and help the boy with his quest. The group continue on a long and devastating journey full of dangerous encounters on their way to the ultimate showdown with the evil wizard.

     Director Héctor Olivera creates one of the cheesiest sword and sorcery adventures to ever come out of the '80s. Look for Bo Svenson (Inglorious Bastards, Thunder, Deadly Impact) as the mighty Kor and Thom Christopher (Hawk from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) as the evil wizard, along with an early score by Christopher Young.

WIZARDS OF THE LOST KINGDOM II (1989)

   
  Three fantastic kingdoms have been enslaved by evil tyrants and become the stomping grounds for giant man-rats, battling gladiators and tentacled monsters. It is all up to a young boy wizard, the Chosen One, who is charged with the perilous task of vanquishing the powers of darkness and freeing the kingdoms.

      A bumbling old wizard helps guide boy as they search to find a hero in each of the kingdoms to represent their land. In order to restore peace, the gathered heroes must come together and fights alongside the young boy who is starting to become a powerful wizard in his own right.

     The first film in this series seems like Citizen Cane in comparison, but there is an under-current of comedy attached to each and every scene that can make for more than a few laughs depending how drunk you are. Look for David Carradine (Kill Bill, Kung Fu) and Sig Haig (Hoouse of 1000 Corpses, The Aftermath) who both must have really needed some cash.


WIZARDS OF THE LOST KINGDOM 1 and 2  are 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.


If you would like to purchase both DVDs, email us and let us know and we can send you a customized discounted invoice for the combo price of $24.99.

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TOUGHER THAN LEATHER (DVD) RUN DMC star in Rick Rubin's revenge flick

We have something very different this week.  This is one that I've been wanting to see since it was released back in the day in the theater and I never saw it available on video anywhere afterwards.  To me it seemed liked it vanished right after it came out - almost like someone is trying to forget it was ever made. But this is it!  A kind of New York style spaghetti western directed by the mighty Rick Rubin and starring the legendary RUN DMC at their height of success.  If you are a fan of the music and the people involved, you will not be disappointed......

TOUGHER THAN LEATHER (1988)

     Trouble is just a beat away when RUN DMC are signed by Strut Productions, a small time music booking agency whose real purpose is to launder drug money. The band soon after hires their close friend Runny Ray to help out on tour, but he stumbles upon some shady business and is callously murdered.

     With their friend's death covered up as a crack deal gone wrong and the case closed, the devastated musicians vow to clear his name. They take the law into their own hands and hit the streets to find and punish the people responsible for the murder, encountering racist bikers, blonde bimbos, and The Beastie Boys along the way.

     Legendary music produced Rick Rubin co-writes, co-produces, co-stars, and directs this tight action revenge thriller and even gets his father Mickey to star as the mafia kingpin. Live footage of historic hip-hop proportions are throughout the film including RUN DMC, Slick Rick and The Beastie Boys performing "Scenario", a missing track from "License to Ill".

TOUGHER THAN LEATHER 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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MOONTRAP (DVD) robotic alien creature feature with Chekov and Bruce Campbell

This week we have a pretty cool sci-fi flick that really does a great job on a smaller budget.  The aliens are pretty interesting where they make themselves bigger by using both spare mechanical parts as well as flesh parts from its victims, creating truly unique creature designs.  Throw in Chekov from Star trek and Ash from Evil Dead, you can't really go wrong........

MOONTRAP (1989)

     NASA astronauts encounter a damaged alien space craft while orbiting the moon and discover inside it a mysterious alloy shell as well as the skeletal remains of humanoid that carbon dates to 14000 years old. The shell hosts a hostile robotic species with an incredible intellect that can use pieces from whatever is lying around to create a body so it can move about.

     After returning to earth, the robotic monster goes on a rampage, laser blasting military personnel and anyone else in its way. When it is finally subdued, the astronauts go back to the moon to see if there's any other signs of life. They find the remains of a once thriving alien civilization that has been reduced to rubble. What they don't realize is that the species which left the humanoids dead so long ago have waited for the right kind of parts needed to juice up their ship and attack Earth.

     Walter Koenig (Star Trek's Mr. Chekov) and Bruce Campbell (The Evil Dead) star in this very entertaining sci-fi B-movie. Wacky, gory, and strangely humorous, it is also has impressive recreations of various equipment associated with NASA which is a testament to what you can do with ingenuity and creativity on a tight budget.

MOONTRAP 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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