THE MONTH OF VALENTINE’S LOVE JUST GOT EVEN HOTTER!
88 FILMS BRINGS YOU A QUADRILOGY OF CULT CLASSICS!
FROM A FLESH-FLAUNTING FAVOURITE TO THREE FEAR-PACKED POT BOILERS, FEBRUARY IS AN EXCITING MONTH AT 88 FILMS!
Now in our third year, 88 Films is looking towards 2015 with the hopes of bringing our fans yet more in the way of under-looked genre gems, certified masterworks of marginal cinema and an array of slice and dice standouts with our Slasher Classics sub-label. This month, 88 Films drives their proverbial movie machine into top gear with four famous popcorn flicks that we believe few fans of cult craziness will want to avoid!
First up is ESKIMO NELL - one of the most celebrated British sex comedies of the 1970s. Featuring a witty script from MARK OF THE DEVIL’s Michael Armstrong (who also stars) and directed by a young Martin Campbell - years before he helmed the James Bond gems GOLDENEYE and CASINO ROYALE – ESKIMO NELL is a hilarious satire on the low-budget British skin-flick industry of the time. The story focuses on three inexperienced filmmakers (Armstrong, Christopher Timothy and Terence Edmond) who attempt to make a movie version of the notoriously rude poem ‘The Ballad of Eskimo Nell’, with disastrous results. This classic British rib tickler features a cast of famous faces including Roy Kinnear (THE THREE MUSKETEERS), Katy Manning (DOCTOR WHO), Christopher Biggins (THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW), Diane Langton (CARRY ON ENGLAND) and a cameo from the decade’s premiere sex kitten Mary Millington in her début movie appearance. Digitally re-mastered from the original film elements, and with a host of special features, ESKIMO NELL makes its way onto British BluRay for the very first time.
ESKIMO NELL SPECS:
Available: 16/02/2015, RRP 19.99 Blu-ray, £12.99 DVD
- New HD Transfer from preserved 35mm Film Elements Transferred and restored at Pinewood Studios
- Brand-new audio commentary with Michael Armstrong and historian Simon Sheridan
- Reversible sleeve with alternate poster art - Booklet notes by Simon Sheridan
- WILD LOVERS Bonus short Mary Millington film - Stills Gallery
- Theatrical trailer
- All Regions
Next up is the continuation of our Slasher Classics line with three timeless terror totems.
Leading the lacerations is one of the most notorious and controversial horror shockers of all time: 1980’s matriarchal masterpiece MOTHER’S DAY. In this frequently censored frightener, we are introduced to three twenty-something women who are about to embark on a camping trip to hell. Our helpless heroines are stalked and snatched by a pair of psychosexual brothers and their insane parent - but oestrogen proves tough to overcome and MOTHER’S DAY ultimately provides us with a chair-gripping, sanguine- stained battle of the sexes. Prepare to be disoriented and disturbed by one of the true greats of eighties independent terror! Considered to be an essential entry in the backwoods-slasher genre, MOTHER’S DAY debuted in 1980 to critical confusion - but gained a fan following that includes such Hollywood heavyweights as Eli Roth (HOSTEL) and Brett Ratner (RUSH HOUR). Indeed, Ratner would eventually produce a lavishly budgeted 2010 remake, starring Rebecca De Mornay, although - as in most cases - it is the original which is most potent and powerful! Thirty-five years after its premiere, MOTHER’S DAY has lost none of its knife-sharp satire and this influential splatter outing remains recommended to the most seasoned of scary movie fans.
MOTHER’S DAY SPECS
Available: 23/02/2015, RRP 19.99 Blu-ray
- Fully Uncut!
- Audio Commentary by Charles Kaufman and Rex Piano
- Charles Kaufman Intro -Rex Piano Intro - Behind the Scenes Super 8 Footage
- Eli Roth on Mother’s Day
- Charles Kaufman and Saw’s Darren Lynn Bousman talk Mother’s Day
- Theatrical Trailer
- TV Spot
- Graduation Day Trailer
- 88 Films Trailer Reel
- Booklet by Dr. Calum Waddell featuring a conversation with star Nancy Hendrickson
- All Regions
Also arriving with a bloodstained bang in February is 1987’s SLAUGHTERHOUSE! And if you loved THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE and THE HILLS HAVE EYES then you are sure to pig-out with the sicko-shocks of eighties fright-favourite SLAUGHTERHOUSE. This corpse-ridden classic introduces one of the screen’s most memorable madmen in Buddy a cleaver-wielding backwoods baddie who, along with his father Lester, doesn’t take kindly to trespassers. Buddy was brought up killing and packing meat, but now his rage turns to teens and market-capitalists seeking to buy-out his dad’s property. The end result is a tongue-in-cheek terror totem that returns from the dusty VHS vaults to BluRay in this great new worldwide premiere HD master - scanned from the original negative by director Rick Roessler!
SLAUGHTERHOUSE SPECS
Available: 23/02/2015, RRP 19.99 Blu-ray
- Brand New Director Approved UNCUT HD Transfer
- Rick Roessler Interview
- Audio Commentary by Rick Roessler and executive producer Jerry Encoe
- Jerry Encoe Interview
- Raw On-set Footage
- Buddy Meets the Public Classic Featurette
- Theatrical Trailers
- TV Spots
- Collector’s Booklet By Dr. Calum Waddell
- All Regions
Last but certainly not least we come to one of the original UK video nasties: 1981’s DON’T GO IN THE WOODS. This delirious camper-crippling offering doubtlessly attracted the attention of the anti-horror brigade due to its misanthropic madness and non-stop splatter action. A must-see slasher shocker, DON’T GO IN THE WOODS is a Utah-lensed, limb-lopping bout of slice and dice lunacy which also packs in plenty of comedic carnage and a natural park setting that provides a touch of creepy claustrophobia. Once banned but now available in all of its uncut outrageousness, 88 Films is proud to present DON’T GO IN THE WOODS with a new HD transfer overseen and approved by director James Bryan!
Available: 23/02/2015, RRP 19.99 Blu-ray
- Fully Uncut!
- Brand New 2K transfer overseen and approved by director James Bryan
- Audio Commentary by Director James Bryan
- Group Commentary by Deron Miller, Mary Gail Artz and James Bryan
- The Making of Don’t Go in the Woods -Talk Show Appearance -Theatrical Trailer
- Poster & Production Stills Gallery -88 Films Trailer Reel -Reversible Sleeve
- Collector’s Booklet By Dr. Calum Waddell featuring an interview with James Bryan
- All Regions
Out on 31st March on Imagine on DVD
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: HIM & HER
Director: Ned Benson
Stars: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis
One couple's story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Vanaf 31 maart in de winkel.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: HIM & HER
Ned Benson, USA 2014
Eleanor (Jessica Chastain) houdt van Conor (James McAvoy) en Conor houdt van Eleanor. Maar wat gebeurt er als een harmonieus koppel geconfronteerd wordt met een tragische gebeurtenis? In de twee films die samen The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby vormen, vertellen beide protagonisten dezelfde liefdesgeschiedenis maar dan in spiegelbeeld, Conors standpunt in Him en Eleanors in Her.
Awards
Uit de officiële selectie van het Internationale Filmfestival van Toronto 2013
Pers
"Liefde in spiegelbeeld: intrigerend! Jessica Chastain is (alweer) fantastisch." - De Morgen ★★★★
"Het is geleden van Blue Valentine dat er nog zo’n onverbiddelijke observatie van moderne liefde de cinemarevue passeerde." - Vertigo ★★★
"Subliem, hartveroverend en hartverscheurend." - FilmMagie ★★★★
"Een aangrijpende ervaring. James McAvoy en Jessica Chastain worden na drie uur film twee goede vrienden, aan wie je terugdenkt met een wee gevoel in de maag. Twee vrienden waartussen we niet willen kiezen, ook al zou hun liefdesbreuk ons daartoe verplichten." - De Standaard ★★★
USP
Dit bijzondere regiedebuut neemt een een opvallend perspectief in: twee verhalen over één liefde. Deze dubbel-DVD heeft oscargenomineerde Jessica Chastain (Interstellar, Zero Dark Thirty) en James McAvoy (X-men, Wanted) in de hoofdrol.
Out in March on Dalton : Feel My Love
Feel My Love is a touching and deeply human observation on people, people living with dementia. Over a period of four seasons we follow the residents of Huis Perrekes (Oosterlo, BE) in their daily lives, living together and carried by each other and their environment. Feel My Love is about love and letting go. It is a film that looks beyond what is lost, at what is still there. With a touch of lightness the daily lives of persons with dementia are portrayed, accompanied by music as a theme.
Een ontroerend portret van mensen, mensen die leven met dementie. Doorheen de vier seizoenen volgen we de bewoners van Huis Perrekes in hun dagelijkse leven, gedragen door elkaar en hun omgeving.‘Feel my love’ gaat over liefde en loslaten. Het is een film die kijkt naar wat er nog is, niet naar wat verloren ging. Op een lichte toon wordt het alledaagse leven van mensen met dementie in beeld gebracht, met muziek als rode draad.
Regisseur Griet Teck heeft met een liefdevolle blik een indringend en aangrijpend portret gemaakt over mensen die leven met dementie. Met aandacht voor de complexiteit van dementie en met empathie voor de bewoners die een dagelijkse strijd voeren tegen de ziekte, slaagt Griet erin om zowel de medewerkers als de bewoners in hun integriteit te respecteren.
Pers
"Een erg mooie, tedere, respectvolle en ook wel grappige docu." - De Morgen
"Griet Teck weet de juiste snaar te betokkelen waardoor haar hartverwarmende sfeerportret o zo menselijk is, o zo authentiek, o zo raak en dus o zo diep treft." - Filmmagie
"Grappig zonder lacherig te zijn. Traag zonder saai te zijn. Poëtisch zonder pretentieus te zijn.” - Focus Knack
"Feel my love is wondermooie cinema." - Dewereldmorgen
USP
Deze vertederende Vlaamse film werd lovend onthaald door de Nederlandse pers op het Filmfestival van Rotterdam.
Out in the theatres on 11th March : SELMA
Director: Ava DuVernay
Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth
The unforgettable true story chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay's "Selma" tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history
Vanaf 11 maart in de bioscoop: SELMA
De film handelt over Martin Luther King en de drie vreedzame protestmarsen van Selma (Alabama) naar Montgomery (Alabama) in 1965. Hierbij kwam de Afro-Amerikaanse bevolking op straat om te ijveren voor stemrecht en tegen racisme. Bij de eerste mars op 7 maart 1965 werd gewelddadig ingegrepen door de politie waarna deze de geschiedenis inging als het Bloody Sunday-conflict.
Out now is a fresh 12 inch release from the Belgian/Flemish act Embers on the Dutch label Enfant Terrible productions. The 12-track record "Kout" is Embers' second release. Limited to an edition of 200 copies, it comes in fold out cover and includes a double sided printed insert.
The duo hammers away on drums, plays around with electronics, jams on guitars and sings in their own West-Flemish dialect on this release. Quite a unique approach to say the least.
Source: Side-Line
