Graveyard Shift (DVD)
Silvio Oliviero (DOUBLE TAKE) stars in this excellent low budget vampire movie as Stephen Tsepes, an NYC cab driver who is also a vampire. Tsepes, who works the night shift, uses his job to carefully select the people he vampirizes, people who must be ready to die and who be almost as selective of their victims as he is. Selecting only female victims, one of Tsepes` victims has become careless, causing the NYPD to believe to hunt what they believe to be a deranged female serial killer. Making matters worse, Tsepes has fallen in love with one of his potential victims, who has unleased a human passion in him that he has never felt before, something that may be connected to the brutal murders perpetrated by his ring of vampires.R"
Director: Gerard Ciccoritti
ACTORS: Silvio Oliviero, Helen Papas, Cliff Stoker
Blind Melon - Letters From a Porcupine (DVD)
This posthumous tribute to Blind Melon documents the band`s ascendancy to the top of the charts, including extensive footage of live club performances, their set at Woodstock `94, late-night television appearances, and behind-the-scenes footage of the recording sessions for their final album. Songs include Soup, Toes Across the Floor, St. Andrews Hall, Soul One and No Rain (Ripped Away Version). NR"
Director: Steve MacKorkle
ACTORS: Blind Melon
Patrick (DVD) Uncut Version After violently murdering his mother and her lover, a comatose patient named Patrick uses his psychokinetic powers to terrorize the staff of the hospital in which he is confined. When a pretty young nurse, just separated...
After violently murdering his mother and her lover, a comatose patient named Patrick uses his psychokinetic powers to terrorize the staff of the hospital in which he is confined. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins working at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is trying to communicate with her, while others are being killed in the cruelest ways. What is Patrick`s secret? An incredibly creepy ending helped to insure this film its cult classic status.
NR"
Director: Richard Franklin
ACTORS: Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, Julia Blake
Linda Richman: I`d Rather Laugh (DVD)
Linda Richman, Summa cum Laude graduate of the School of Hard Knocks and inspiration for the SNL sketch Coffee Talk (she`s Mike Myers` mother-in-law), hosts this program, designed to help those experiencing personal hardships. Ms. Richman shares her own experiences, and in doing so, she offers valuable advice on how to weather stress, life altering transitions, and loss, aided by her distinct and empowering sense of humor. Originally a PBS special, this version includes footage that never aired with the original program.NR"
ACTORS: Linda Richman
In the Realm of the Senses (DVD) English Dubbed In 1936, in the midst of rising Japanese militarism, a former prostitute, Sada, goes to work as a maid in a brothel. The house`s handsome owner, Kichizo, soon begins to court her, and Sada eagerly returns his attentions.
In 1936, in the midst of rising Japanese militarism, a former prostitute, Sada, goes to work as a maid in a brothel. The house`s handsome owner, Kichizo, soon begins to court her, and Sada eagerly returns his attentions. Their subsequent affair and constant lovemaking grow more and more intense, and their sexual obsession threatens to destroy them both. Nagisa Oshima`s long-awaited erotic Japanese masterpiece (initially banned from the New York Film Festival in 1976) is finally available. Contains highly explicit content, recommended for adult audiences only.
NC-17"
Director: Nagisa Oshima
