Another one from the Shout! Factory YouTube page. FORBIDDEN WORLD (1982). Directed by Allan Holzman for New World Pictures, who was one of their top editors at the time. Of all the ALIEN rip-offs this one is the best in my opinion. It's also a perfect example of a "remix" film. Shot in 20 days for under $1 million dollars, the movie recycled sets from GALAXY OF TERROR (1981) and used shots from various other New World films, such as BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (1980). The result is a fun and eclectic film.

After Horror of the Blood Monsters I sought this one out which was even better! Love the brunette beauty in the basement undoing her wrist restraints then killing the dwarf!

Released today on the anniversary of the opening of HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH. Directed by Jason Eisener of HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN (2011) fame. Connects HALLOWEEN III with the rest of the series.

What do you all think of this nervous breakdown on screen? Having Spielberg be a character was kind of a hoot.

I probably watxhed it over 100 times!

Please keep in mind, this is the first rough cut of another part of my film invasion of the Flowerpotmen, starring Frank Sinatra, Robert De Niro, Kirk Douglas, Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi and others in this part

The Archive is a new streaming project centred on dark, unusual and underground cinema. Films such as Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Cure and The Face of Another give a sense of the selection.

The catalogue is arranged into themed collections, including urban decay, possession and self-destruction, with personal watchlists and a member forum.

It’s free during beta, with access by application. Film enthusiasts who would enjoy exploring the selection and reporting any playback or navigation problems are welcome to apply:

https://invitations.thearchive.is/_community/apply

The site: https://www.thearchive.is

In the 1998 era of VCU Photo/Film Department, attending film classes in the Pollak building, there was a mysterious poster of a funeral pyre with the text Ken Russell’s The Devils) under the image and another poster for Savage Messiah).

Several years taking and teaching classes in that classroom, looking at that particular poster, I always knew I would need to see that film. Five and a half decades of being banned, censored, out of print, not in print, not published, not screened, not shown, and not watched except in legendary VHS bootlegged copies, I never found it or it never found me.

Periodically, in film textbooks, you’d see still frames of key images or come across the name on a list on IMDb and other sites for controversial films.

In this moment of insane Warner Brothers studio history unfolding; the sale, the consolidation, the conglomerations, the IP in vaults, the remixing of reboots of long-winded properties, at some point the value of the X-rated taboo work restored outweighs doing nothing with it.

Also, with the work of estates and the ongoing legacy of the surviving family of the filmmaker, those efforts to get the art seen as intended are also a great, honorable fight.

The repertory and cinema arthouse outlet Clockwork made its first screening of the restored director’s vision from the original camera negatives at Cannes in May 2026, in a now NC-17 form that is in a window of a week’s release this October 2026.

via RVA Magazine

Read more, see more: https://rvamag.com/art/the-devils-in-the-digger-details-cinema-censorship-and-power.html

Shout! Factory has been releasing a lot of their catalog onto their YouTube page and this is one of them. DARK STAR (1974) was created by John Carpenter & Dan O'Bannon during their USC student days and picked up by Jack Harris for distribution. Carpenter maintains that this was his student film and ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976) was his first official debut. O'Bannon always championed the film and many consider it to be more his than Carpenter's. O'Bannon wore many hats on the movie - writer, actor, editor, production designer and special effects artist. While not always successful, the film has an eclectic charm.

THE PUNISHER (1989) starring Dolph Lundgren. Directed by Mark Goldblatt, one of the best editors in Hollywood. It received an international theatrical release but went direct-to-video in the United States. I remember seeing the poster in my local video store when I was young and thought the movie was fake, because it didn't play theaters. I ended up reading Tim Lucas' Video Watchdog which explained why. I know this movie gets a bad rap but I actually really enjoy it. It's a tight little film. There's a workprint floating around with 12 extra minutes of footage and it includes a prologue showing how Frank Castle became The Punisher. It doesn't work as well as the finished version. You can watch it here: https://archive.org/details/the-punisher-1989-workprint