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studiocanal’s cult classics range is a treasure chest of offbeat gems that have hooked die-hard fans, we’re celebrating the best of this range with a blu-ray 2 for £18 multibuy offer.
extreme prejudice
The classic cult film based on a story by John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Magnum Force) and directed by Walter Hill (Red Heat, The Driver), EXTREME PREJUDICE is a 1987 Neo-western action thriller punctuated with intense violence.
Nick Nolte (Cape Fear, 48 Hrs.) stars as tough Texas Ranger Jack Benteen, on a bloody crusade as he fights to bring down his childhood friend Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe: Sin City, Tombstone), now a ruthless drug baron operating across the Mexican border.
Jack is recruited by the CIA after his intervention in an attempted bank robbery to terminate Cash with extreme prejudice. He must also reckon with the clandestine Zombie Unit – an army of veterans officially killed-in-action but now on a top-secret assignment led by Major Paul Hackett (Michael Ironside: Total Recall, Top Gun) – who are on his turf in pursuit of the narcotics kingpin, leading to an epic showdown.
Also starring Maria Conchita Alonso (The Running Man, Vampire’s Kiss) as Sarita, the lover caught between the two men and Rip Torn (Cross Creek, Men In Black) as the local Sheriff.
Part of the STUDIOCANAL Cult Classics collection, featuring an exclusive set of art cards and available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.
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Audio Commentary with Film Historians C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke
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Isolated Score Selections with Audio Interview from Music Historian John Takis
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The Major’s Agenda – An Interview with Actor Michael Ironside
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The War Within – An Interview with Actor Clancy Brown
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Capturing The Chaos – An Interview with Director Of Photography Matthew F. Leonetti
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Original Trailers, Vintage EPK & Stills Gallery
orca – the killer whale
The classic cult film based on a story by John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Magnum Force) and directed by Walter Hill (Red Heat, The Driver), EXTREME PREJUDICE is a 1987 Neo-western action thriller punctuated with intense violence.
Nick Nolte (Cape Fear, 48 Hrs.) stars as tough Texas Ranger Jack Benteen, on a bloody crusade as he fights to bring down his childhood friend Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe: Sin City, Tombstone), now a ruthless drug baron operating across the Mexican border.
Jack is recruited by the CIA after his intervention in an attempted bank robbery to terminate Cash with extreme prejudice. He must also reckon with the clandestine Zombie Unit – an army of veterans officially killed-in-action but now on a top-secret assignment led by Major Paul Hackett (Michael Ironside: Total Recall, Top Gun) – who are on his turf in pursuit of the narcotics kingpin, leading to an epic showdown.
Also starring Maria Conchita Alonso (The Running Man, Vampire’s Kiss) as Sarita, the lover caught between the two men and Rip Torn (Cross Creek, Men In Black) as the local Sheriff.
Part of the STUDIOCANAL Cult Classics collection, featuring an exclusive set of art cards and available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.
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Audio Commentary with Film Historians C. Courtney Joyner and Henry Parke
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Isolated Score Selections with Audio Interview from Music Historian John Takis
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The Major’s Agenda – An Interview with Actor Michael Ironside
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The War Within – An Interview with Actor Clancy Brown
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Capturing The Chaos – An Interview with Director Of Photography Matthew F. Leonetti
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Original Trailers, Vintage EPK & Stills Gallery
jacob’s ladder
After returning home from the Vietnam War, Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is plagued by strange, fragmentary visions and increasingly bizarre hallucinations. As his sanity wanes and his world collapses around him, Singer desperately seeks out the truth behind his condition and what really happened to his unit in Vietnam. Despite the modest reception towards Jacob’s Ladder upon release, its fever dream narrative, nightmarish imagery, and incredible special effects have ensured that the legacy of Adrian Lyne’s psychological horror has far outgrown its initial impact.
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Documentaries: On the Rungs of Jacob’s Ladder.
soldier blue
After a convoy and its U.S. cavalry escort are attacked by Cheyenne Native Americans, only Private Honus Gant (Peter Strauss) and a young woman under the cavalry’s protection (Candice Bergen) survive. Forced to travel across the American frontier’s unforgiving wilderness in search of refuge, their journey reaches a tragic climax as they witness the vengeful U.S. army’s cold-blooded slaughter of the Cheyenne tribe. Controversial upon its release and reflecting the political climate of the time, Ralph Nelson’s Soldier Blue (1970) is uncompromising in its anti-war stance and in its graphic depiction of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre. By shedding light on America’s dark history and the inhumane actions of the U.S. army, this revisionist western is one of the most radical films in American cinema’s history.
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Bonus footage
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Trailers
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Audio Commentary by Steve Mitchell (critic) and Howard S. Berger (critic)
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Interview with Candice Bergen (actor)
Horrors of the Black Museum
Horrors of the Black Museum kicks off the notorious “Sadian Trilogy,” followed by Circus of Horrors and Peeping Tom. Set against a backdrop of grisly and macabre murders, the film immerses viewers in a London terrorized by a series of brutal killings that baffle Scotland Yard. Central to this sinister narrative is Bancroft, a malevolent crime journalist who exploits his assistant through the dark art of hypnosis to orchestrate these horrific crimes. Bancroft delights in the escalating frustration and embarrassment of Scotland Yard, further intensifying the film’s chilling atmosphere and showcasing his twisted sense of satisfaction.
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Bonus Footage
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Commentary: Kim Newman and Steve Jones (writer/editor)
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Image Gallery
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Interviews:
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Kim Newman (novelist/critic)
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Exclusive Art Cards
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Hypnovista Introduction
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Trailers
Devil girl from Mars
One frigid winter evening at a remote Scottish inn, guests find themselves trapped when Nyah, a ruthless Martian with a sinister robot minion, arrives and encloses them within an invisible barrier. With Martian males extinct following a catastrophic battle of the sexes, Nyah’s mission is to capture Earth’s human breeding stock. As their escape attempts repeatedly fail, the trapped humans face a harrowing dilemma: decide who among them will sacrifice their life to save the others and potentially the world. Amid growing desperation and fear, they must confront the grim reality of their situation and make an impossible choice.
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Commentary: Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw (writer/journalist)
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Image Gallery
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Interviews:
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Kim Newman (novelist/critic)
The Final Programme
The Final Programme
In a far-off future, mankind is in a state of decay. But a group of scientists believe they have found the means to move humanity on to its next level in the creation of an ideal, self-replicating – and thus immortal – human being. Jerry Cornelius, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and playboy adventurer, is vital to the project’s success: his recently deceased father devised the formula of this ‘final programme’. However, the formula is captured on a microfilm hidden in the vaults of the family’s mansion, and jealously guarded by Jerry’s drug-addicted, psychopathic brother, Frank…
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Bonus Footage
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Interviews:
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Jenny Runacre (actor)
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Exclusive set of art cards
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Kim Newman on Fuest and The Final Programme
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Italian title sequence
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Trailers
Blazing Magnum
Blazing Magnum
A new restoration of the 1976 cop thriller Blazing Magnum (also known as Shadows in an Empty Room), directed by Alberto De Martino, features an all-star cast including Stuart Whitman, John Saxon (A Nightmare on Elm Street), and Oscar-winner Martin Landau (North by Northwest). The film follows tough cop Tony Saitta, who, after his sister is poisoned, embarks on a violent quest to find her killer. His pursuit spirals into a whirlwind of revenge and betrayal, as he delves deeper into a dangerous underworld, uncovering shocking truths and facing formidable adversaries along the way.
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NEW SPECIAL SENTIMENTS: Alberto De Martino’s Magnum Memories
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NEW CITY HUNTER: Interview with film historian Kim Newman
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Theatrical trailer
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Blu-Ray includes an exclusive set of artcards
night of the eagle
Based on the novel Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber, Night of the Eagle is a taut, atmospheric and terrifying film that remains a much-loved cult classic to this day. Professor Norman Taylor (Peter Wyngarde) seemingly has it all: a great job, the envy of his colleagues, a happy marriage, and a healthy scepticism when it comes to the supernatural. However, things begin to unravel when Taylor discovers that his wife Tansy (Janet Blair) has been practicing witchcraft apparently in an effort to progress his career and to protect him from jealous colleagues. Despite Tansy’s warnings, Taylor insists on destroying all of her magic paraphernalia and tries to carry on as normal, refusing to believe that his wife’s witchcraft could have been behind his success. That is, until the very next day when things in his life start going very wrong.
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Behind the Scenes
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Bonus Footage
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Commentary: Richard Matheson (screenwriter)
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Documentaries: “Burn Witch, Burn”: Anna Bogutskaya on Night of the Eagle
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Image Gallery
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Interviews: Peter Wyngarde (actor)
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Trailers
baby blood
Yanka (Emmanuelle Escourrou) works for a traveling circus with her abusive husband. When the circus’ new leopard suffers a sudden violent death, a parasitic creature bursts out of the animal’s body and crawls up into Yanka’s uterus. The parasite demands that Yanka brings it blood, so that it can feed and grow. Soon, Yanka is a killer on the run as she hunts down victims for her new ‘baby’. With incredible special effects and boundary-pushing gore, Baby Blood is one of the most underrated body horror films of all time.
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Bonus Footage
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Commentary: Lee Gambin (film historian) and Jarret Gahan (film critic); Alain Robak and Emmanuelle Escourrou
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Interviews: Alain Robak (director); Emmanuelle Escourrou (actor); Dernard Déchet (cinematographer); Jean-François Gallotte (actor); Christian Sinniger (actor)
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4 art cards
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“The Concepts Behind French Horror Baby Blood With Kim Newman”
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Trailers
red sun
Billed as the first East meets West Western, and directed by Terence Young, RED SUN is based on a true story from the American Wild West of 1870. When outlaw Link (Charles Bronson) is betrayed by his gang during a train robbery, he is forced by the Japanese Ambassador to help regain a priceless sword stolen by Link’s double-crossing partner Gauche (Alain Delon). Link and the Ambassador’s bodyguard, Kuroda (Toshiro Mifune), travel the West in pursuit of Gauche, attempting to lure him out by taking his girlfriend (Ursula Andress) as hostage. Although Kuroda plans to kill Gauche straight away, Link needs him alive to find the loot from their last robbery. Joined in an uneasy alliance, they have only seven days to find Gauche or Kuroda must follow his samurai code of honour and die by his own sword.
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Bonus Footage
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Interviews: Steven Okazaki (film-maker)
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On the set of Red Sun – Extract from Pour le cinema (Director: Pierre Mignot c. INA – 1971)
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Exclusive art cards
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Trailers
the hellbenders
From cult spaghetti western director Sergio Corbucci (Django) comes The Hellbenders, starring Joseph Cotten (The Third Man, Duel in the Sun) and featuring a brilliant score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly). After the Civil War, a Unionist convoy transporting one million dollars is attacked by the ex-Confederate Colonel Jonas (Cotten) and his three sons. The fanatical Jonas wants the money to re-form his regiment and to re-ignite the war against the North. However, first they have to smuggle a coffin crammed with the stolen cash across a perilous frontier full of rivalries, treason, and violence.
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Bonus Footage
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Commentary: Alex Cox (film-maker)
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Documentaries: “Hell On Wheels”
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Image Gallery
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Interviews: Ruggero Deodato (assistant director)
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4 art cards
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Introduction by Jean-Baptiste Thoret
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Trailers
high crime
A new 4K restoration of the classic crime thriller which helped to popularise the Italian Poliziotteschi subgenre, inspired by the social unrest and criminality in 1970’s Italy. HIGH CRIME, directed by ENZO G. CASTELLARI (Kill Them All and Come Back Alone, The Inglorious Bastards), now available on DVD & Blu-ray in the UK for the first time.
Vice-Commissioner Belli (Franco Nero) is investigating a series of crimes committed by a drug-running gang in Genoa. He approaches the apparently reformed old-fashioned gangster Cafiero (Fernando Rey) for information on the new gang in town, not knowing that Cafiero plans to take care of them himself. Belli’s boss, Commissioner Aldo Scavino (James Whitmore), takes a dossier to the DA on the possible Mafia connections of the gang but is intercepted and the dossier stolen. Belli is forced to step up as the Commissioner and must fight to defend his family from threats by the criminals, before learning of a deal in Marseilles where he may have a chance to take down the underworld organisation once and for all.
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A Criminal Conversation – Enzo G. Castellari Remembers High Crime
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The Scene of the Crime – An Interview with Roberto Girometti
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High and Dry – The Stuntwork of Massimo Vanni
kill them all and come back alone
In 1864, mercenary Clyde McKay leads a squad of determined daredevils tasked with a dangerous mission by Captain Lynch of the Confederate high command: to infiltrate and raid a Unionist army fortress where a million dollars in gold has been hidden in boxes of dynamite.
A single Colt bullet could send the whole treasure sky high but for these scoundrels – Lynch the killer, Deker the dynamite specialist, Hoagy the hit man, Blade the knife expert, the vicious Kid and Bogard with his brute strength – nothing is impossible. Only madmen could pull off such a job, piercing the enemy lines at the only river crossing and creating a diversion for the garrison where the arsenal is situated. But before long the betrayals begin as the men attempt to double cross each other in order to take the money for themselves in this bloodthirsty Civil War tale of revenge.
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Audio commentary with filmmaker and fan Alex Cox (British filmmaker Alex Cox (Sid & Nancy, Repo Man) and presenter of the BBC series Moviedrome dissects the film in an audio commentary)
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Shoot to Kill, Aim to Thrill – An Interview with Enzo G. Castellari (a newly filmed interview with the director, looking back at the making of the film)
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Shoot-Outs in the Old Spaghetti West – Romolo Guerrieri on a Family of Filmmaking (a featurette on how Enzo G. Castellari was born into a family of filmmakers)
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Italy’s Cult Auteur of Action Cinema – A Critical Retrospective of Enzo G. Castellari (a critical retrospective on the director and his place in film history)
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Stills Gallery (a selection of on-set photography from the film)
i, the jury
It’s nearly Christmas in New York City but private investigator Mike Hammer (Biff Elliot) is out for vengeance when his closest friend Jack Williams (Robert Swanger) is murdered. Hammer vows to identify the killer ahead of the police, working his way through an increasingly large number of suspects. His starting point includes Jack’s fiancée, a beautiful psychiatrist, twin socialite sisters, and a gangster. But as he tracks them down, so too does the murderer, creating a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
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Commentary: Biff Elliot (actor); Max Allan Collins (author)
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Interviews: Biff Elliot (actor)
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Set of art cards
linie 1
1980s German musical directed by Reinhard Hauff. The film follows Sunnie (Inka Victoria Groetschel) as she travels to Berlin in search of a rock star named Johnnie (Johannes Krisch) with whom she had a one-night stand. Arriving at the city’s Zoo station, Sunnie has a series of urban encounters as she desperately searches for the man who got her pregnant.
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Bonus Footage
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Interviews: Reinhard Hauff (director); Eberhard Junkersdorf (producer); Petra Zieser (actor); Rainer Strecker (actor)
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Exclusive set of art cards
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Trailers