Category: Cult

The Day Of The Triffids

The Day of the Triffids on VHS. Starring Howard Keel, Kieron Moore, Janette Scott, Nicole Maurey. Based on the novel by John Wyndham. Directed by Steve Sekely. 1962.

The Day of the Triffids on VHS. Starring Howard Keel, Kieron Moore, Janette Scott, Nicole Maurey. Based on the novel by John Wyndham. Directed by Steve Sekely. 1962.

From the VHS cover:

BEWARE THE TRIFFIDS… they grow…know…walk…stalk… and KILL!

Stay inside and lock the doors for The Day Of The Triffids is coming! For reasons unexplained by science, hundreds of meteorites begin to fall to Earth and blind those who witness the phenomenon. The few who retain their sight are horrified to encounter dandelion-like fluff known as triffids. These triffids multiply and grow into man-eating plants that begin to march on civilization, destroying everyone in their path. Join four survivors of the terrifying onslaught of triffids as they search for a means of destroying the menacing plants.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie on VHS. Starring Trace Beaulieu, Michael J. Nelson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, John Brady. MST3K Created by Joel Hodgson. Directed by Jim Mallon. 1996.

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie on VHS. Starring Trace Beaulieu, Michael J. Nelson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, John Brady. MST3K Created by Joel Hodgson. Directed by Jim Mallon. 1996.

From the VHS cover:

Every Year Hollywood Makes Hundreds Of Movies. This Is One Of Them!

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie delivers laughs that are out of this world! A demented scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester, has concocted a diabolical scheme for world domination. He’s going to subject the human race to the worst movies ever made! But his test subject, Michael J. Nelson, possesses mankind’s ultimate defense: a sense of humor. So as the classic sci-fi “B” movie This Island Earth unspools, Mike and his robot companions, Tom Servo and Crow, heckle the film mercilessly, providing a hilarious running commentary!

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Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things

Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things on VHS. Starring Alan Ormsby, Jane Daly, Valerie Mamches, Jeffrey Gillen, Anya Ormsby, Paul Cronin, Seth Sklarey. Directed by Bob Clark. 1973.

Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things on VHS. Starring Alan Ormsby, Jane Daly, Valerie Mamches, Jeffrey Gillen, Anya Ormsby, Paul Cronin, Seth Sklarey. Directed by Bob Clark. 1973.

From the VHS clamshell box cover:

You’re Invited To Orville’s “Coming-Out” Party… It’ll Be A Scream!!!

A group of five young actors, led by their decidedly bizarre director, Alan (Alan Ormsby), go to an abandoned burial island somewhere off the east coast to act out a satanic rite with a freshly exhumed corpse named Orville. The “children,” as Alan calls them, don’t believe the ritual ceremony to raise the dead will work, and they return to their cottage to play party games with Orville. Little do they know, the dead things follow, driven by a supernatural force and hungry for revenge.

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Psychomania

Psychomania aka The Death Wheelers on VHS. Starring George Sanders, Beryl Reid, Nicky Henson. Directed by Don Sharp. 1973.

Psychomania aka The Death Wheelers on VHS. Starring George Sanders, Beryl Reid, Nicky Henson. Directed by Don Sharp. 1973.

From the VHS box:

Violence, excitement and a complete disregard for the conventions of society — this is the way of life for a group of motorbike riders who call themselves “The Living Dead.”

Leader of the gang is Tom, whose mother is a medium holding seances in her home. Together with a sinister butler, Tom’s mother exercises a strange communion with the dead. Through her, Tom learns a terrible secret — how to cross over the barrier between life and death. He suggests to his fellow riders that they put this new-found knowledge to the test.

One by one, they choose their own way to commit suicide with a difference — for each is certain he will arise from the dead.

At a secret place, a Druid’s circle of seven stones called “The Seven Witches,” the members of the gang return. Or do they? Is the butler really a domestic in a mystical household, or is he in reality Satan himself?

“Psychomania” is a powerful drama of the supernatural, the occult, and the violence which lies just beyond the conventions of society.

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Creature From The Black Lagoon

Creature From The Black Lagoon on VHS. Classic horror movie starring Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, Whit Bissell. Special appearances by Ricou Browning, Ben Chapman. Directed by Jack Arnold. 1954.

Creature From The Black Lagoon on VHS. Starring Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, Whit Bissell. Special appearances by Ricou Browning, Ben Chapman. Directed by Jack Arnold. 1954.

From the box:

Terrifying Monster Ravages Mankind!

A member of a scientific expedition traveling the dangerous Amazon River discovers an unidentifiable and mysterious web-fingered skeleton hand. The team searches further in this treacherous region to recover the rest of this terrifying beast. The search ends when they encounter a gruesome half man/half fish creature… who is alive! [The adventures of the Gill-man continue, but you won’t read it here as the remaining description just gives away the whole plot.]

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The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man VHS cover. Horror mystery cult classic movie starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt. Directed by Robin Hardy. 1973.

The Wicker Man on VHS. Starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt. Directed by Robin Hardy. 1973.

From the VHS box:

The 20th Century never touched Summerisle, where pagan fertility rites — and blood sacrifice — live on!

This eerie, evocative tale ensnares you in a world where pagan gods still rule. The search for a missing child sends a British police sergeant (Edward Woodward) to the isolated island of Summerisle. Here he is drawn into an ancient fertility cult led by the obsessed Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee) and a sensual Aphrodite (Britt Ekland). Modern police techniques are no match for pagan magic when the sergeant finally learns the unspeakable secret of the Wicker Man. “Pure, brilliant, spine-tingling fun,” said The Boston Globe about this award-winning cult classic.

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Dolemite 2: The Human Tornado

Dolemite 2: The Human Tornado on VHS. Cult action movie starring Rudy Ray Moore. With Lady Reed, Jimmy Lynch, Howard Jackson, Gloria Delaney, Lord Java. Directed by Cliff Roquemore. 1976.

Dolemite 2: The Human Tornado on VHS. Starring Rudy Ray Moore. With Lady Reed, Jimmy Lynch, Howard Jackson, Gloria Delaney, Lord Java. Directed by Cliff Roquemore. 1976.

From the box:

Nerve-Shattering
…Brain Battering
…Mind Splattering
…A ONE MAN DISASTER

Once again the name Rudy Ray Moore spells action! In this sequel to the cult smash DOLEMITE, THE HUMAN TORNADO finds Dolemite on the run from a redneck sheriff who has caught Dolemite “messin’ with his woman.” Dolemite and his posse dodge the sheriff and his bullets in an exciting high speed chase that leads to California.

There’s even more trouble in store for Dolemite when he finds his old friend Queen Bee (Lady Reed) and her Kung-Fu girls getting muscled out of the nightclub business by a ruthless and evil mobster. When the mobster has his goons kidnap two of Queen Bee’s most beautiful girls, Dolemite and his men are off to the rescue.

Rudy Ray Moore is at his best in this action-packed Dolemite episode. THE HUMAN TORNADO is loaded with martial arts, sexual high-jinx, and Dolemite’s special brand of humor.

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Serial Experiments Lain: Knights

Serial Experiments Lain: Knights on VHS. Anime starring Bridget Hoffman. Character Design by Yoshitoshi Abe. 1998.

Serial Experiments Lain: Knights on VHS. Starring Bridget Hoffman. Character Design by Yoshitoshi Abe. 1998.

From the box:

Close the world, Open the nExt.

Fulfill the Prophecy…

“KNIGHTS” — a super hacker group that has large effects in the wired. No one knows who the members are, but they control information and sometimes develop and distribute illegal information equipment. The KNIGHTS are trying to make Lain do something… When Lain metaphorizes her physical self into the wired to search for an answer of incidents that kids commit suicide. She finds that the KNIGHTS are behind this incident. One day, a group of men in black suits make a contact Lain. They ask “Are those people who you live with really your parents?” “Are you Lain of the wired?” and “Who are you really?”

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Serial Experiments Lain: Navi

Serial Experiments Lain: Navi on VHS. Japanese anime starring Bridget Hoffman. Character Design by Yoshitoshi Abe. 1998.

Serial Experiments Lain: Navi on VHS. Starring Bridget Hoffman. Character Design by Yoshitoshi Abe. 1998.

From the box:

Close the world, Open the nExt.

We’re All Connected

There is a world around us, a world of people, tactile sensation, and culture. There is the wired world, inside the computer, of images, personalities, virtual experiences, and a culture all of its own. The day after a classmate commits suicide, Lain, a thirteen year-old girl, discovers how closely the two worlds are linked when she receives an e-mail from the dead girl: “I just abandoned my body. I still live here…” Has the line between the real world and the wired world begun to blur?

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Screaming Ninja

Screaming Ninja aka Wang Yu, King of Boxing on VHS. Classic 70s martial arts movie starring Jimmy Wang Yu, Zhang Qing-Qing, Kang Hai, Zi Lan, Lung Fei. Directed by Jian Lung. 1973.

Screaming Ninja aka Wang Yu, King of Boxing on VHS. Starring Jimmy Wang Yu, Zhang Qing-Qing, Kang Hai, Zi Lan, Lung Fei. Directed by Jian Lung. 1973.

From the box:

AKA Wang Yu, King of Boxing

Rare was the film in 1973 that incorporated the star’s name in the title. One of the few such film was Screaming Ninja, aka Wang Yu, King of Boxing. The story is set in China in the early 1900s. Essentially playing an extension of himself, action-star Wang-Yu spends much of the time defending himself against evil martial-arts masters. He also tries to make sense of a tragic incident in his past.

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