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Army of Darkness (1993)
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.
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Darkman (1990)
Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.
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American Grindhouse (2011)
This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.
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Maniac Cop (1988)
A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
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Vigilante (1983)
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. When a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, he goes berserk and vows revenge.
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In Search of Darkness: Part III (2022)
The conclusion to the ‘In Search of Darkness’ '80s trilogy. In this epic final chapter, our focus turns to the straight-to-video horror classics that populated the bottom shelves at the video rental store. Imaginative, gory, experimental—but always entertaining—these hidden gems are ripe for rediscovery.
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Relentless (1989)
Two Los Angeles police detectives hunt for a serial killer who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
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Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth (2000)
A documentary primarily focusing on the filming and release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2001)
Documentary that explores Argento's film career.
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42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015)
The story behind the rise and fall of New York's 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the people, the crime and the rebirth of the block as "New 42nd Street" - this is the document of the world's most notorious movie strip.
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VHS Revolution (2017)
Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched examples of canine television games, seduction manuals, aerobics class while holding a baby, among others.
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Masters of the Grind (2023)
The shocking true story behind the most outrageous movies of all time and the directors who made them.
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Maniac: The Making of Documentary (2013)
Behind the scenes documentary on the 2012 film MANIAC directed by Franck Khalfoun.
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Hollywood Rated 'R' (1997)
A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach movies, H.G. Lewis' gore-fests, William Castle's schlocky theatrical gimmicks, to 1970s blaxploitation, pre-"Deep Throat" sex tease films, Russ Meyer's bosom-heavy masterpieces, etc, etc. Over 25 interviews of the greatest purveyors of weird films of all kind from 1940 to 1975. Illustrated with dozens of films clips, trailers, extra footage, etc. This documentary as a shorter companion piece focusing on exploitation king David F. Friedman.
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Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film (2000)
Documentary tracing the rise of the 'slasher' movie.
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Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare (2009)
This thirty minute documentary features interviews with Giovinazzo's key contemporaries discussing the continued impact and influence of Combat Shock twenty-five years later.
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Direct Your Own Damn Movie! (2009)
Legendary director Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and Creator of the Toxic Avenger, reveals 40 years worth of maverick cinematic know-how in Direct Your Own Damn Movie! Lloyd offers you the magic key to operating outside the film studio system as well as providing you with the roadmap to script writing, pre-production, casting, managing your set, post-production and the secrets of selling you movie!
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Trepanator (1992)
Dr. Herbert East is working in his uncle's clinic and experimenting with brain transplants.
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Tax Shelter Terrors (2017)
The first feature-length documentary that fully explores how the toxic social and political Canadian context after 1968 created some of the most nihilistic and imaginative Canadian cult films of the 1970s and 80s and beyond.
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The Joe Spinell Story (2001)
The Joe Spinell Story is a An outstanding and eye-opening documentary, made in 2001 for the Anchor Bay DVD release of Maniac (1980). His most notable roles were as mafioso Willi Cicci in The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, and as loan shark Tony Gazzo in Rocky and Rocky II. Although primarily known as a character actor, Spinell co-wrote and starred as a serial killer in the 1980 film, Maniac.
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13 Scarier Movie Moments (2009)
Final entry in the Bravo scary movie moments countdowns that aired in 2009.
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The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti (2013)
Documentary on the life and films of Antonio Margheriti.
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Returning to the scene of the crime (2018)
Four decades after directing "Maniac" Bill revisits the filming locations to reflect on 1970s New York & his leading man, Joe Spinell.
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Maniac: The making of a living pulp novel (2020)
An interview with William Lustig about Maniac.
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Maniac Men (2010)
Documentary about the origins of the song "Maniac".


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