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#1 - Lorna The Exorcist (1974)

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

Coming October 24th!

LORNA THE EXORCIST (1974) KINO CULT #1
• NEW Audio Commentary by Novelist and Critic Tim Lucas
• Interview with Actress Pamela Stanford
• Interview with Filmmaker Gérard Kikoïne
• Introduction by Stephen Thrower, the Author of Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
• Includes Both English and French Audio Tracks
• Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
• Optional English Subtitles

Color 99 Minutes 1.66:1 Not Rated
A Film by legendary cult director Jesús ‘Jess’ Franco (The Diabolical Dr. Z, The Blood of Fu Manchu, Venus in Furs, Count Dracula, Jack the Ripper). Haunted by erotic visions, a young woman (Lina Romay) comes to discover that her sexual possession is the result of a bargain struck nineteen years earlier between her playboy father (Patrick Mariel) and an ethereal, pansexual seductress (Pamela Stafford). In a parallel narrative, a visionary doctor (Jess Franco) tries to unravel the particular form of psychopathia sexualis that torments a beautiful patient (Catherine Lafferière). In the 1970s, Franco’s films reached a level of voyeuristic extremes, especially when collaborating with Romay, his soulmate and creative muse. Along with Shining Sex and Female Vampire, Lorna the Exorcist (Les possédées du diable) demonstrates the outer limits the erotic horror film: hallucinatory films with languorous love scenes, drenched with lyrical music, and punctuated with moments of stark horror.

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#2 - Alien Outlaw (1985)

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

Coming October 24th!
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ALIEN OUTLAW (1985) KINO CULT #2
• 4K Restoration from the Original Negative
• Audio Commentary by Director Phil Smoot
• Audio Commentary by Cast and Crew
• THEY CAME FROM THE SWAMPS: Featurette with Director Phil Smoot and Cast
• Interview with Editor Sherwood Jones
• News Conference
• Behind-the-Scenes
• Archival Interview
• Home Movie
• Reversible Art
• Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
• Optional English Subtitles

Color 91 Minutes 1.78:1 Not Rated
Aliens have landed! And these aliens hunt…for sport! When a UFO crash lands in the Appalachian back country, it releases a squad of interstellar predators, playing The Most Dangerous Game with any Earthlings who cross their path. But these alien outlaws encounter unexpected resistance in the form of a gun-toting blonde (Kari Anderson) and her mentor (Western legend Lash La Rue). Phil Smoot’s second creature feature (following The Dark Power) is both a clever send-up of the 1950s rubber-suit monster genre, and a loving homage to the 1940s B Western (with a special appearance by Sunset Carson). Photographed by Paul Hughen (The Book of Boba Fett), Alien Outlaw is presented here in a director-approved 4K restoration from the original camera negatives.

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#3 - The Dark Power (1985)

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

Coming October 24th on Blu-ray!
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THE DARK POWER (1985) KINO CULT #3
• 4K Restoration from the 16mm Original Camera Negative
• Audio Commentary by Director Phil Smoot
• Audio Commentary by Cast and Crew
• THE TERROR OF THE TARHEEL STATE: Featurette with Director Phil Smoot and Cast
• Interview with Editor Sherwood Jones
• Image Gallery
• Limited Edition O-Card Slipcase
• Optional English Subtitles

Color 87 Minutes 1.78:1 Not Rated
Weekend party plans are derailed when an ancient Toltec curse unleashes an army of zombies upon a houseful of college coeds. But the odds are evened when whip-cracking lawman Ranger Girard (Western legend Lash La Rue) arrives to stage a showdown with the evil dead. The first of two films by North Carolina horror auteur Phil Smoot (Alien Outlaw), The Dark Power manages to be both nostalgic and irreverent as it revisits the creature feature phenomenon. This director-approved 4K restoration of The Dark Power showcases the early work of special effects masters Tony Elwood (Cold Storage) and Emmy Award-Winner Dean Jones (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) as well as, ahem, eye-popping cinematography by Paul Hughen (The Mandalorian).

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#TBD - Underworld (1985)

From the strange imagination of Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) comes a neo-noir Underworld—a realm of hidden dimensions, dark, dangerous waters and a labyrinth of tunnels, inhabited by the ghoulish victims of a cruel chemical experiment. When high-class hooker Nicole is kidnapped, businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex-lover, the hardboiled gumshoe Roy Bain, to find her. Bain traces her disappearance to the diabolical Dr. Savary, who supplies a weird white powder to a secret cabal of mutant sewer-dwellers. Under the city, out of sight—they wait! Plunge—if you dare—into the spine-tingling and neon-drenched Underworld, directed by George Pavlou (Rawhead Rex) and starring Denholm Elliott, Steven Berkoff, Larry Lamb, Miranda Richardson, Art Malik, Nicola Cowper, Irina Brook and horror goddess Ingrid Pitt.

Extras:

Disc 1 (4KUHD):

• Brand New HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary with Director George Pavlou, Moderated by Stephen Thrower, the Author of Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
• Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

Disc 2 (BLU-RAY):

• Brand New HD Master – From a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative
• NEW Audio Commentary with Director George Pavlou, Moderated by Stephen Thrower, the Author of Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
• Transmutations (103 Minute Alternate Cut) 1080 SDR Hybrid
• Archival Behind-the-Scenes Footage (3:53)
• Image Gallery of Stills, Storyboards, Make-Up Tests and Clive Barker Designs
• Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
• Optional English Subtitles

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#TBD - Ilsa: She Wolf Of The SS (1975)
#TBD - Ilsa, Harem Keeper Of The Oil Sheiks (1976)
#TBD - Ilsa The Tigress Of Siberia (1977)
#TBD - Ilsa, The Wicked Warden (1977)

Coming in 2024 to 4KUHD/Blu-ray from KINO CULT!
Brand New HDR Dolby Vision Masters!

• Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS (1975)
Starring Dyanne Thorne – Directed by Don Edmonds
• Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976)
Starring Dyanne Thorne – Directed by Don Edmonds
• Ilsa the Tigress of Siberia (1977)
Starring Dyanne Thorne – Directed by Jean LaFleur
• Ilsa, the Wicked Warden (1977) Wanda, the Wicked Warden | Greta, the Mad Butcher
Starring Dyanne Thorne – Directed by Jess Franco

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