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From the shop!Nosferatu: the Vampyre (VHS, 1999) English Version
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (VHS, 1999) German Version...
08/30/2026

From the shop!

Nosferatu: the Vampyre (VHS, 1999) English Version
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (VHS, 1999) German Version

Nosferatu the Vampyre stars Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, and Bruno Ganz in Werner Herzog’s haunting reimagining of F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic. Rather than treating the story as a straightforward remake, Herzog approached Nosferatu as an homage, recreating elements of Murnau’s iconic imagery while giving the story a more melancholic and tragic tone.

Herzog shot separate German and English-language versions of the film simultaneously, with scenes performed twice rather than simply dubbing one version. The demanding production also added fuel to Herzog and Kinski’s famously volatile creative partnership. Despite the constant conflict, Herzog and Kinski continued to work together across five films, producing some of the most significant work in German cinema at the time.

The films interpretation of Dracula has influenced generations of filmmakers and helped establish a uniquely tragic version of the iconic figure. Kinski’s unforgettable performance continues to define the film, ensuring that Herzog’s version has never been overshadowed by the countless adaptations that have followed.

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Back in stock:French-Canadian dubbed releases of Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2.Tuer Bill Vol. 1 (VHS, 2003) + Tuer Bill Vol. 2 (V...
08/26/2026

Back in stock:

French-Canadian dubbed releases of Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2.

Tuer Bill Vol. 1 (VHS, 2003) + Tuer Bill Vol. 2 (VHS, 2004)

Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill remains one of his greatest cinematic love letters to the many films and genres that shaped him. Across the two volumes, Tarantino pulls from Japanese samurai cinema, Hong Kong kung fu, spaghetti westerns, blaxploitation, anime, and the grindhouse films of the 1970s.

Tarantino and Uma Thurman had been developing the Bride together since the making of Pulp Fiction, with Thurman’s character eventually becoming the centre of one of the most iconic female action roles of the 2000s. The production stretched across locations in China, Japan, Mexico, and the United States, with martial arts legend Sonny Chiba helping train the cast in sword fighting.

The films have since become hugely influential in their own right, introducing a new generation to many of the older films and genres Tarantino was drawing from. Kill Bill helped bring the visual language of Shaw Brothers kung fu, Japanese sword films, exploitation cinema, and spaghetti westerns to a whole new audience.

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Just added this neat Russian import added to the shop:Ring 0: Birthday (VHS, 2000) Russian Subtitled Edition [PAL]Direct...
08/25/2026

Just added this neat Russian import added to the shop:

Ring 0: Birthday (VHS, 2000) Russian Subtitled Edition [PAL]

Directed by Norio Tsuruta and adapted from Koji Suzuki’s Ring universe, Ring 0: Birthday stars Yukie Nakama as Sadako Yamamura. Set decades before the events of Ring and Ring 2, the film follows Sadako as a young actress whose strange abilities and increasingly disturbing circumstances begin to consume her life.

The film explores Sadako before she became the vengeful figure audiences already knew, giving the character a degree of vulnerability that fundamentally changes how the mythology can be viewed. By the time of its release, Ring had already become a cultural phenomenon and helped establish the cursed-media concept as one of the defining ideas of modern Japanese horror.

The film has since developed a particularly strong reputation among fans of the original series for its unusual mixture of supernatural horror, psychological drama, and tragic romance. Yukie Nakama’s performance gives Sadako a very different presence from the one created by Rie Inou in the earlier films.

As the final entry in the original trilogy, Ring 0: Birthday remains an essential piece of the franchise’s mythology and one of the more unconventional films to emerge from Japan’s J-horror boom.

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PAL VHS only work in dedicated PAL / Multi-System VCRs. These tapes do not play in standard North American NTSC machines. If you’d like a watchable copy of this tape, just add our PAL-NTSC Transfer Service to your order. Please note, this tape is factory sealed & the seal would have to broken in order to transfer the tape.

New in the shop:Trainspotting (1996) French Version [SECAM]Directed by Danny Boyle and adapted from Irvine Welsh’s 1993 ...
08/23/2026

New in the shop:

Trainspotting (1996) French Version [SECAM]

Directed by Danny Boyle and adapted from Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel, Trainspotting stars Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kevin McKidd, and Kelly Macdonald.

Produced for roughly £1.5 million, Trainspotting was shot in just seven weeks. Despite being set in Edinburgh, most of the production took place in Glasgow, with the crew working under a tight schedule that often meant shooting scenes in a single take. Boyle and cinematographer Brian Tufano gave the film a frantic visual style influenced by music videos and ‘60s counterculture cinema. The result was something far removed from the restrained social realism traditionally associated with British film.

Upon release, Trainspotting became a defining piece of Britpop-era culture, placing British youth, Scottish working-class life, electronic music, and alternative fashion at the centre of mainstream cinema. The film’s kinetic editing and pop-driven soundtrack helped establish a new model for British filmmaking, influencing films such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Human Traffic, and Twin Town.

Trainspotting ultimately grossed around £48 million worldwide against its modest budget, becoming one of the most successful fully British films of its era.

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New in the shop:Happiness (VHS, 1998) Promotional ScreenerWritten and directed by Todd Solondz, Happiness features an en...
08/19/2026

New in the shop:

Happiness (VHS, 1998) Promotional Screener

Written and directed by Todd Solondz, Happiness features an ensemble cast including Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Cynthia Stevenson.

Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in 1998, Happiness quickly became one of the most controversial independent films of the decade. Its subject matter truly pushed the limits of what audiences were willing to accept from a dark comedy, yet Solondz approaches even its most disturbing characters with an unsettlingly deadpan tone.

The deeply uncomfortable aspects of Happiness are a major part of how it has maintained such a powerful reputation over the last 25 years. The film is arguably the work most closely associated with Solondz’s singular reputation for finding humour in places most filmmakers don’t risk exploring.

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New in the shop:Henry Fool (VHS, 1997)Written and directed by Hal Hartley, Henry Fool stars Parker Posey, Thomas Jay Rya...
08/19/2026

New in the shop:

Henry Fool (VHS, 1997)

Written and directed by Hal Hartley, Henry Fool stars Parker Posey, Thomas Jay Ryan, and James Urbaniak in a sprawling, darkly comic story about an unlikely friendship between the eccentric Henry Fool and shy garbage man Simon Grim. After Henry encourages Simon to begin writing, Simon unexpectedly discovers a talent for poetry, setting off a chain of events that brings literary fame and a growing question over who Henry Fool really is.

Hartley spent years developing the script, drawing inspiration from figures including Falstaff and Mephistopheles, with Henry emerging as a kind of chaotic mentor whose influence is never entirely clear. The film was originally conceived as a standalone story, but Hartley eventually returned to the characters nearly a decade later with Fay Grim, followed by Ned Rifle in 2014.

Henry Fool also proved strangely prophetic in its depiction of Simon becoming an overnight literary celebrity after his work is posted online, foreshadowing the internet’s future role in creating unexpected cultural figures.

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Two unique import editions of Pulp Fiction (1994) added to the shop:French Dubbed Edition [SECAM] + Greek Subtitled Edit...
08/18/2026

Two unique import editions of Pulp Fiction (1994) added to the shop:

French Dubbed Edition [SECAM] + Greek Subtitled Edition [PAL]

Following the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino’s second feature became a genuine cultural phenomenon. The film premiered at Cannes, where it won the Palme d’Or, before becoming an enormous critical and commercial success and earning seven Academy Award nominations, including a win for Best Original Screenplay for Tarantino and Roger Avary. It also played a major role in reviving John Travolta’s career and helped establish Tarantino as one of the most influential filmmakers of his generation.

Part of Pulp Fiction’s lasting mythology comes from the details Tarantino deliberately left unexplained, most famously the glowing briefcase. Its contents are never revealed, and the mystery has fueled fan theories for decades.

The films soundtrack also introduced a new generation to artists like Dick Dale, Urge Overkill, and Kool & the Gang. Few films from the era have been quoted, parodied, copied, and dissected to the same extent.

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SECAM/PAL VHS only work in dedicated SECAM/PAL or Multi-System VCRs. If you’d like to transfer your PAL tape to a playable NTSC tape, select the ‘Tape Transfer’ service on the product page. SECAM transfer is currently unavailable.

Back in stock!Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (VHS, 1999) Japanese Subtitled EditionRobert Zemeckis’ 1988 masterpiece, Who Fram...
08/15/2026

Back in stock!

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (VHS, 1999) Japanese Subtitled Edition

Robert Zemeckis’ 1988 masterpiece, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, starring Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, and Joanna Cassidy. Set in a version of 1940s Hollywood where cartoon characters live alongside humans, the film follows private detective Eddie Valiant as he is pulled into a murder mystery involving the chaotic Roger Rabbit.

At the of its release time, animation was still largely associated with children’s entertainment, but animator Ralph Bakshi had already spent years pushing the medium in a very different direction through films like Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic, and American Pop. His work explored animation that was darker, more adult, and stylistically unconventional.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? demonstrated animation’s potential in another way, with its noir influences, technical ambition, and fully realized world of animated characters. Decades later, the film remains a landmark of blockbuster filmmaking and one of the most technically ambitious films of its time.

Also in-stock:
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Original 1988 Japanese Chirashi Flyer (7x10”)

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Some of the International titles added to the shop last week:1. Cyclo (VHS, 1997) Vietnamese w/ Eng. Subs2. Xiu Xiu: The...
08/11/2026

Some of the International titles added to the shop last week:

1. Cyclo (VHS, 1997) Vietnamese w/ Eng. Subs
2. Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (2000) Mandarin w/ Eng. Subs
3. A Taxing Woman (1987) Japanese w/ Eng. Subs
4. The Funeral (1988) Japanese w/ Eng. Subs
5. Insect Woman (1991) Japanese w/ Eng. Subs
6. Man Bites Dog (1992) French w/ Eng. Subs
7. Alphaville (1988) French w/ Eng. Subs
8. Pierrot le Fou (1998) French w/ Eng. Subs
9. Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000) French w/ Eng. Subs
10. Rosie (1998) Dutch w/ Eng. Subs
11. Taxi Blues (1992) Russian w/ Eng. Subs
12. Stroszek (1990) German w/ Eng. Subs
13. Cabaret Balkan -Screener (2000) Serbian w/ Eng. Subs
14. Kika (1996) Spanish w/ Eng. Subs
15. Black Tears (1998) Spanish w/ Eng. Subs

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Another neat tape from France added to the shop:Disturbing Behavior (VHS, 1998) French Promotional ScreenerReleased as C...
08/08/2026

Another neat tape from France added to the shop:

Disturbing Behavior (VHS, 1998) French Promotional Screener

Released as Comportements Troublants in France, Disturbing Behavior hit theatres in the middle of a massive teen horror boom following films like Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and The Faculty.

Unfortunately, the film failed to reach the same level of mainstream success as many of its contemporaries. On top of being outshined by the other releases, director David Nutter’s original cut was significantly reworked by the studio before release, including a shortened runtime and a different ending.

Despite this shaky release, Disturbing Behavior has built a steady reputation as one of the most underrated teen horrors of its era. The ‘90s alternative/grunge aesthetic has become an important part of the film’s cult appeal and stands apart from many of the more polished teen horrors of the period.

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