Thriller

While She Was Out

While She Was Out poster While She Was Out is an intense suspense thriller about one women, a night full of terror and the ultimate breaking point that lives in us all. We follow the story of Della (Kim Basinger), a suburban housewife hell bent on survival as she is mercilessly stalked by a group of teenage thugs led by a manipulative psychopath (Luke Haas).

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Edgar Allan Poe’s Ligeia

Ligeia poster Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She’s fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy. She steals other people’s souls and on her quest to immortality she tricks Jonathan into supporting her work, breaking him apart from his fiancé Rowena and pulling him into her dark, mysterious world. They settle down in an old manor by the Black Sea where Ligeia’s everlasting presence slowly drives Jonathan to madness…

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Giallo

Giallo poster When American model Celine is kidnapped off the streets during fashion week in Milan and put through a series of terrifying, humiliating and painful ordeals, her sister Linda desperately recruits Inspector Enzo Lavia to find Celine before she suffers the same awful fate as the other beautiful victims…

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The Objective

The Objective Afghanistan, November 2001. Two months after the attacks on the World Trade Center. A highly trained special forces team is into the Afghnistan desert to make contact with a man known as ‘Mohammed Aban’. Instead they find something else…something that even their elite training hasn’t prepared them for.

From the director of the Blair Witch Project. The Objective follows Ben Keynes (Jonas Ball), A CIA operative allegedly sent to ‘pave the way’ for success in the war in Afghanistan. Part covert military operation, part professional journey, Ben leads his assigned team into one of the most uninhabitable and isolated regions on the planet.

As the situation rapidly begins to disintegrate, each member of the team finds themselves asking the same question, who is the real enemy?

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Nobel Son

Nobel Son trailer Directed by Randall Miller and written and produced by Miller and Jody Savin, Nobel Son is a venomous tale of familial dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge.

Barkley Michaelson (Bryan Greenberg) is struggling to finish his Ph.D. thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman), wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. But Eli’s past indiscretions begin to collide with the present. When Barkley is kidnapped on the eve of his father accepting the prize, Eli refuses to pay the ransom. So starts a game of intrigue and deception that proves that payback’s a bitch.

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Valkyrie

Valkyrie poster In a country in the grips of evil, in a police state where every move is being watched, in a world where justice and honor have been subverted, a group of men hidden inside the highest reaches of power decide to take action. Tom Cruise stars in the suspense film, Valkyrie, based on the true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise) and the daring and ingenious plot to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known. Director Bryan Singer re-teams with Academy Award-winning usual Suspects screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie to bring to life the story of the men who led the operation to assassinate Hitler. The film also stars an acclaimed cast including Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten, Thomas Kretschmann, Eddie Izzard, Christian Berkel and Terence Stamp.

A proud military man, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg is a loyal officer who serves his country all the while hoping that someone will find a way to stop Hitler before Europe and Germany are destroyed. Realizing that time is running out, he decides that he must take action himself and joins the German resistance. Armed with a cunning strategy to use Hitler’s own emergency plan – known as Operation Valkyrie – these men plot to assassinate the dictator and overthrow his Nazi government from the inside.

With everything in place, with the future of the world, the fate of millions and the lives of his wife and children hanging in the balance, von Stauffenberg is thrust from being one of many who oppose Hitler to the one who must kill Hitler himself.

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Moscow Zero

Moscow Zero DVD The walking dead venture through eternity in the horrifying caverns and catacombs below the thriving Russian capital of Moscow. Owen (Vincent Gallo), an American researcher, enters this asylum looking for his lost archaeologist friend only to discover that venturing into the darkness means that he will have to get past the gatekeeper of Hell, Andrey (Val Kilmer). Seduced by the terrifying secrets and desperate to continue on, Owen strikes a deal with Andrey – but is it a gentlemen’s agreement or a pact with the Devil himself?

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Franklyn

Franklyn poster Franklyn is a split narrative set simultaneously in contemporary London and in a future metropolis ruled by religious fervor. It’s the story of four lost souls, divided by two parallel worlds, on course for an explosive collision when a single bullet will decide all their fates

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New Town Killers

New Town Killers poster Two private bankers, Alistair and Jamie, who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She’s in debt, he’s going nowhere fast. Sean agrees to play for cash. He soon realises he’s walked into twelve hours of hell where survival is the name of the game.

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Strip Nude For Your Killer

DVD sleeve Disappointed by films that just don’t live up to their promise? Well baby this one does what it says on the box so strap yourself in for sleazy, nudity-filled gore a go-go giallo fun!

The death of a fashion model leads to a revenge-driven trail of death that soon has the modelling agency she worked for in a frenzy of panic as the clothes get slashed and the sluts get slayed. In the middle of this kink-fest is the dependably beautiful Edwige Fenech doing all she can to avoid being the next to shed her clothes for a killer who likes their victims easy on the eye and stripped for the kill.

From the mind of Burial Ground director Andrea Bianchi comes a gloriously trashy movie riddled with unnecessary but very welcome top-drawer nudity and awash with neon red blood but most importantly a well-made film that delivers wave after wave of guilty exploitation pleasure.

Andrea Bianchi’s 1975 giallo, Strip Nude For Your Killer will be released in the UK uncut on DVD courtesy of those fine folks at Shameless Screen Entertainment.

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