Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Based on the real life story of Sagawa, a japanese student who killed, dismembered and ate a young dutch girl in Paris. REVIEW: Adoration is another of the short films that comes in the Cult Epics collection, “Cinema of Death” (also included in the set are films by Nico B. (Pig and Hollywood Babylon), Brian M. Viveros …
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Film Review: Nekromantik (1988)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Nekromantik is about a middle aged man called Robert Schmadtke who works at a Street Cleaning Agency, that is his job is to take care of the remains of dead bodies in accidents etc. He has a hobby of collecting body parts and conserving them in booze. One day he gets to take care of a rotting …
Read More »Film Review: Der Todesking (The Death King) (1990)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death. REVIEW: From the years 1988 to 1994, you’d have been hard pressed to find a more disturbing, yet artistic, filmmaker than Jorg Buttgereit. In just six years, the man released some of the most depressing, moody, and …
Read More »Film Review: Schramm (1993)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Journey into the twisted mind of a serial killer with this exploration of the true-life German “Lipstick Killer.” Suspected of murdering more than a dozen women, psychopath Lothar Schramm (Florian Koerner von Gustorf) paints the lips of the women he’s killed and rapes them after death. With shocking images of brutal violence, filmmaker Jörg Buttgereit imagines …
Read More »Film Review: Hysteria (1997)
SYNOPSIS: The inmates of an insane asylum are subjected to experiments using collective consciousness and surgically implanted chips in an attempt to create perfect citizens. REVIEW: Trying to track down much about 1997’s Hysteria was “mostly” a dead end. This asylum-themed film is most noted for the role of Myrna Malloy played actress Amanda Plummer. Her lines are delivered poetically …
Read More »Film Review: Angst (1983) – Review 2
Synopsis: A newly paroled murderer finds it impossible to resist the urges to kill that he has repressed for ten years and sets out to wreak as much havoc as possible before being recaptured and sentenced to life in prison. REVIEW:
Read More »SEX MURDER ART: and SCHRAMM on Bluray
Hankering for some nasty bits to watch in high def? then you’ll want to head on over to Cult Epics who have announced new products; SEX MURDER ART: THE FILMS OF JORG BUTTGEREIT and SCHRAMM www.cultepics.com
Read More »Film Review: Angst (1983)
SYNOPSIS: A psychopathic killer is released from prison after a ten-year term. Unable to restrain himself, he immediately sets out on a path of further mutilation and destruction. After botching an attempt at slaying a taxi driver, he escapes on foot into the woods. Discovering a secluded mansion, he breaks in, proceeding to terrorize the family living there. REVIEW:
Read More »Film Review: Viva La Muerte (1971)
SYNOPSIS: At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father’s arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father’s arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for …
Read More »Film Review: Dislandia (short film) (2005)
SYNOPSIS: A disturbing observance of Lindsey, a child existing in an indistinguishable time and place, haunted by surrealist visions. REVIEW: Dislandia is a short film (just about 30 minutes long) written and directed by artist Brian M. Viveros. It can be found in the Cult Epics “Cinema of Death” collection alongside short films by Nico B., Bogdan Borkowski, and Olivier …
Read More »Extreme Film DER TODESKING (THE DEATH KING) To Limited Edition Bluray
Cult Epics had just Announced a LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY to arrive June 9, We got the covers and details THE FIRST 3000 COPIES INCLUDE COLLECTIBLE ARTWORK 25TH ANNIVERSARY (SILVER FOIL) O-RING AND CORPSE FUCKING ART POSTCARD Uncut and Uncensored!
Read More »Film Review: 1334 (2012)
SYNOPSIS: 1334, a ghost story that reveals the haunting disturbances that began to plague the ones left behind following the completion of PIG (1998) and the death of Rozz Williams, where reality turns into darkness, with the effect upon no return, based on true occurrences.
Read More »Film Review: Pig (1998)
SYNOPSIS: A young man journeys through a desert, where he is kidnapped by a sadistic stranger clad in a pig mask. The stranger proceeds to brutally torture the young man, who then finds himself escaping into his imagination, with fantasy and reality intersecting. REVIEW: It was the special bluray edition release by Cult Epics that finally gave me a resource …
Read More »Film Review: Death Bed -The Bed That Eats (1977)
SYNOPSIS: A truly unusual shocker about a killer bed that devours its users REVIEW: Every now and then you come across an odd movie or 2. Some films take all kinds of directions to fill the viewers time with abstract visions and fantastical scenery. “Death Bed: The Bed That Eats” is not that kind of movie. I was at the …
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