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02 Oct 2006: Mondo Erotico will be back soon. A new completely re-designed and interactive update, complete with a discussion forum, will be making its appearance very soon. My apologies for not keeping this site up to date in the meantime.

12 Mar 2006: News. I'm sorry about the lack of updates here of late. I've been busy working hard on our next two Nucleus Films UK DVD releases, which are the Spanish horror/thriller Fausto 5.0 (in May) and Just Jaeckin's camp classic Gwendoline (in June). Both come with a wealth of bonus materials - for trailers and current DVD Specs, take a look here:

14 Oct 2005: US News. Sorry about the lack of updates here recently - running a DVD releasing label and producing DVD extras is extremely time consuming, as you might have guessed. I have however kept the DVD release info up to date by posting release info down the sidebars of this opening page.

Right, now on with the the latest US news. I trust you all by now have the Giallo trilogy from Blue Underground? These are all must-haves; Dario Argento's Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Antonio Margheriti's Seven Deaths In The Cat's Eyes and Andrea Bianchi's extremely scuzzy Strip Nude For Your Killer. Coming next from Blue Underground are two limited edition sets; Shockumentary Vol. 1 (Mondo Cane, Mondo Cane 2 and Women of the World) and Shockumentary Vol. 2 (Africa Addio (English version), Goodbye Uncle Tom (English version) and David Gregory's documentary The Godfathers of Mondo). Those that missed out on the limited edition Mondo Cane Collection of 2003 willmost likley want topick these up, although the Italian versions of some of the movies are not included this time around. Also due from BU is Phillip Noyce's award winning drama Newsfront.

Mondo Macabro have been as busy as ever too, and their Turkish pop double-bill of Deathless Devil + Tarkan vs The Vikings is one that hammers home what the label is about - the truly whacked-out and weird! But wait! Things get even more whacky with their next release, which is part two in their ongoing Dick Randall Collection - For Your Height Only + Challenge of the Tiger. If you long to see a midget flying through the air with the aid of a jet-pack and charming the ladeez, then Weng Weng, the star of For Your Height Only is your man!

MPI's Dark Sky Films have two cool biker movies heading our way; Jack Starrett's Vietnam biker flick The Losers, and Michel Levesque's bizarre Werewolves on Wheels - but that's not all! Dark Sky, as part of their Swingin' Cinema series, will also unleash the seldom seen Dog Eat Dog starring Jayne Mansfield!

Media Blasters will soon be issuing Joseph Ellison's very nasty Don't Go in the House in video art taken from the old UK video release (courtesy of your's truly). Pete Walker's The Comeback is also on the way too.

Panik House's first releases have literally blown most of us away. As I predicted back in June, this label is definitey one to watch. If you haven't already picked up their stunning Pinky Violence discs of Sex & Fury and Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture then you're really are missing out. Those that did pick these up won't want to miss the latest, The Pinky Violence Collection! This set includes Criminal Woman: Killing Melody + Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom + Girl Boss Guerilla + Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless To Confess and a bonus CD; Reiko Ike Sings!. Cool indeed.

Synapse Films have been hard at work re-mastering a whole heap of trailers for inclusion on their 42nd Street Forever Vol 1 trailer compilation, a joint efforst between Don May and Ban 1 Productions. The extremely inept (but fun) Nail Gun Massacre has also got a special Synapse treatment workover, as has Dusty Nelsons's long lost horror cult classic Effects and Adrian Kays' thriller Stillwater.

NoShame too have been gearing upfor the Chriastmas rush, and their latest titles will no doubt be finding their way into many a Christmas stocking this year, so put these Italian crime gems on your wish list; Stelvio Massi's Emergency Squad (with Tomas Milian) and The Last Round (with Luc Merenda), plus Michele Massimo Tarantini's A Man Called Magum (with Luc Merenda).

Although they've been available on UK DVD for quite some time, Lions Gate Films have signed a distribution deal to issue the Sam Arkoff library titles on American DVD for the first time. These kick off in January with the first two double-bills; How to Make a Monster + Blood of Dracula and Earth Vs the Spider + War of the Colosal Beast. Let's hope that instead of using those same old masters, Lions Gate decide to strike new masters from the original film elements. These movies really would look marvelous in their original aspect ratios etc.

As usual there's more sleaze from Something Weird Video; My Baby Is Black + Checkerboard, Hollywood Burlesque + Peek a Boo and an amazing tripple-bill of smut featuring Ultimate Degenerate + The Lusting Hours + In Hot Blood.

There's also the Fernando Arrabal Collection due from Cult Epics which as well as including the previously available Viva la muerte and J'Irai Comme un Cheval Fou exlusively includes The Guernica Tree (L'albero di Guernica) with this set.

29 Sep 2005: US News. By far the most anticipated news is that Grindhouse have finally (!) set a release date for Cannibal Holocaust (2 disc special edition). Let's hope Grindhouse pull their finger out and get cracking on some of the other titles they have too.

9 Aug 2005: US News. There are a number of cool box sets coming our way this fall but the one most fan's can't wait to get their hands on is Blue Underground's Blind Dead Collection, which includes all five of Amando de Ossorio's Knights Templar movies, beautifully restored to perfection; Tombs of the Blind Dead, The Return of the Evil Dead, The Ghost Galleon and Night of the Seagulls, plus a fifth bonus disc of extras. Blue Underground will also be issuing DTS upgrades of Dead & Buried and Two Evil Eyes.

Ursula Andress and Jack Palance star in NoShame's Aug 30 release of Nello Rossati's sexy The Sensuous Nurse (L'infermiera, 1975), which streets the same day as Giuliano Carnimeo's Secrets of a Call Girl (Anna, quel particolare piacere, 1973) and Marco Bellocchio's Devil in the Flesh (Il Diavolo in corpo,1986). For September look out for Sergio Martino's Big Alligator River (Il fiume del grande caimano / The River of the Great Alligator, 1979) with Barbara Bach (!) and Marcello Aliprandi's gothic A Whisper in the Dark (1976) which stars John Phillip Law and Natalie Delon. Their most anticipated release of the bunch though must be Sergio Martino's highly sough-after giallo Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Il tuo vizio é una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave / Gently Before She Dies, 1972). Bring it on!

On the subject of highly anticiptaed DVD releases, because of Media Blasters' negotiations with MGM regarding Fulci's A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, they were able to pursuade them to sub-licnese Joe D'Amato's Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper, which will be issued on the Shriek Show label as a two disc set. Other releases to look out for include Mario Gariazzo's Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story which was cheekily issued in some countries as Cannibal Holocaust Part 2! There's also Enrique López Eguiluz's Paul Naschy-starring Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (La Marca del Hombre-lobo / The Mark of the Wolf Man (1970), and Tobe Hooper's ill-fated The Dark - on which an uncredited Hooper was replaced by John 'Bud' Cardos. From Media Blasters' Exploitation Digital label comes Ilias Milonakos' Greek/Italian co-production Emanuelle's Daughter: Queen of Sados which will go down well with sleaze fans for sure. On their Japan Shock label has Inoshiro Honda's hilarious Space Ameoba on the way, which is better known to all as Yog: Monster from Space. I remember supplying clips of this one to the producer's of Ministry's N.W.A. music promo video many moons ago!

Mondo Macabro's latest is a slice go Gallic horror from Bruno Gantillon; Girl Slaves of Morgana Le Fay was originally issued in the UK, but this is a much souped-up and remastered edition. From Synapse comes a welcome release of Jim Muro's melt movie Street Trash, along with Colin Eggleston's superb thriller Long Weekend and the softcore version of Alex Fridolinski's Thriller: They Call Her One Eye which is beng issued primarily to get into the mainstream stores.

Freddie Francis' Amicus production Torture Garden is heading our way courtesy of Columbia Tristar, along with Nick Grinde's The Man With Nine Lives from 1940, with Boris Karloff. From the former MGM (now owned by Sony/Columbia) comes Nicholas Gessner's 1976 Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane with Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen, along with Peter Collinson's 1975 remake of The Spiral Staircase which stars Jacqueline Bisset. There's also a nice re-mastered edition of John carpenter's The Fog, plus Frank Laloggia's ghost story The Lady in White.

Criterion have Nic Roeg's Bad Timing and The Man Who Fell to Earth, along with Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Feminin, Mike Leigh's Naked and Jane Campion's An Angel at My Table.

Al Pacino stars in Jerry Schatzberg's must-see The Panic in Needle Park from Fox, who also have a five disc set of Bruce Lee: Ultimate Collection on the way. I guess the time is right for Paramount to re-release a special collector's edition of George Pal's The War of the Worlds, and Lions Gate have bowed to pressure and have announced an uncut release of the smash hit Saw.

Hitchcock fans may well be tempted to go for Universal's Alfred Hitchcock - Masterpiece Collection (which includes Saboteur (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Trouble With Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Torn Curtain (1966), Topaz (1969), Frenzy (1972), Family Plot (1976)). A worthy addition to any collection methinks.

30 July 2005: UK News. New UK DVD companies! I'd like to personally announce the first two releases from Nucleus Films, a new DVD label set up by director Jake West and myself. For the past two years we have been busy providing quality DVD extras for the likes of Anchor Bay etc. It was always our intention to issue quality movies onto DVD, so coming your way in September you can look forward to seeing Mañuel Gómez Pereira's psycho sexual thriller Between Your Legs Entre las piernas, 1999) starring Victoria Abril and Javier Bardem), and Miguel Bardem's twisted sci-fi extravaganza The Ugliest Woman in the World (La mujer más fea del mundo, 1999) starring the stunning Elia Galera. Future Nucleus Films releases include a stunning uncut edition of Just Jaeckin's Gwendoline with both English and French soundtracks plus optional English subtitles, and the amazing Spanish thriller Fausto 5.0 - with many more titles to be announced soon!

The same month, London's FrightFest festival are set to launch their own label too - FrightFest presents... which will be handled exclusively by Revolver Entertainment. Initial releases are set to include Conor McMahon's Irish zombie movie Dead Meat, Eros Puglielli's recent giallo, Eyes of Crystal (Eros Puglielli) and Andreas Marschall's Tears of Kali. Look out for Eric Valette's Malefique too.

Another new UK label to emerge is Second Run DVD. Catering to world cinema tastes, their first batch of titles includes such rarities as Jerzy Kawalerowicz's Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniolow, 1961), Nicolas Philibert's In the Land of the Deaf (Le Pays des sourds, 1992), Karoly Makk's Love (Szerelem, 1971), Milos Forman's Audition/Talent Competition (Konkurs, 1963), and two rare 'gay cinema' British dramas, Ron Peck's Nighthawks (1978) and Strip Jack Naked (Nighthawks II, 1991).

Other goodies are the way from Momentum. Recent must-have's include Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects, Panna Rittikrai's Born to Fight (Kerd ma lui,2004), with some cool re-release titles including William Girdler's fun-tastic The Manitou (1977), Jack Sholder's Alone In The Dark, Mike Hodges's hilariously camp Flash Gordon and James W. Roberson's Superstition (aka The Witch), Christopher Coppola's Dracula's Widow (1989) and Alec Mills's dire Bloodmoon.

Neil Marshall's follow-up to his 2002 hit Dog Soldiers is the far more entertaining The Descent, which will be heading to a store near you in October from Pathé.

MGM UK are due to issue the following The Masque Of The Red Death, The Tomb Of Ligeia, Frogs, a Spaghetti Westerns set in addition tot he usual run of the mill titles.

The back catalogue of Pedro Almodovar has been out of print for some time in the UK, so it's great to see that these are getting the DVD releases they deserve from Optimum. There's an Almodovar box set, and individual releases of Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Matador, The Flower of My Secret, Kika, Law of Desire and his most recent, Bad Habits. Optimum, also have more Sonny Chiba titles, this time some rarities; Junya Sato's Bullet Train (Shinkansen daibakuha, 1975), G.I. Samurai (Sengoku jieitai 1979) and Golgo 13 (1973) - all three will also be available in the Sonny Chiba Collection Vol. 2. Lastly, there's a re-release of Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, and a debut of Shusuke Kaneko's Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005)

There are a number of classic Japanese titles on the way from Eureka which will appear on their Masters of Cinema branded label; Kaneto Shindô's Kuroneko, Onibaba and The Naked Island (Hadaka no shima, 1960), Shohei Imamura's Vengeance Is Mine (Fukushû suruwa wareniari, 1979), Akira Kurosawa's The Idiot (Hakuchi, 1951) and Scandal (Shubun, 1950) along with Sadao Yamanaka's Humanity And Paper Balloons (Ninjo kami fusen, 1937). Additionally, there's Roberto Rossellini's Francesco, giullare di Dio (1950), Joe May's Asphalt (1929), Fritz Lang's Spione (1928) and others.

23 July 2005: US News. New releases from Image Entertainment include Jess Franco's Devil's Island Lovers (Los amantes de la isla del Diablo / Quartier des femmes, 1972) - with cover art supplied by Mondo Erotico. There's also Brit Sci-Fi Horror with Harry Bromley Davenport's original Xtro, and a couple of Robert Hartford-Davis oldies from Redemption USA; The Black Torment (1964) and Bloodsuckers (Incense for the Damned, 1970) - my tip is to go for the longer Something Weird edition. There's also a nice special edition of Jack Sholder's Alone in the Dark, on the way, along with re-releases of Paul Morrissey's essential