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23/06/2023

❝what to see before you see a movie❞

Mr. Movies himself, Bill Collins, gives you a heads up as what to anticipate when you rent an (M) rated movie.

Produced by The Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) in Australia.

Bill Collins tells you what to expect when you plan to watch an (M) rated feature. Produced by The Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) in Aus...

27/07/2022

THE SCAREMAKER recently made its Blu-ray debut courtesy of Arrow Video, where it's been released under its North American title GIRLS NITE OUT.

Here's the 7K Seven Keys Video trailer for the Aussie [VHS] release that dropped in 1986 📼

15/07/2022

Ratings Advice. It's on every video...USE IT 📼

09/07/2022

'Turn on to Video Anytime' promo from a 1992 First Release Home Entertainment title promoting DROP DEAD FRED and FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE, complete in with Video Store Vox Pops 📼

Australian 'Turn On To Video Anytime' teaser for DROP DEAD FRED & FREDDY'S DEAD: THE FINAL NIGHTMARE with Vox Pops.

01/08/2021

More of the Night HE Came Home 🎃

HALLOWEEN II was released to home entertainment by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1983 📼

Picking up exactly where the first film left off, Halloween II follows the same ill-fated characters as they once again encounter the knife-wielding maniac t...

28/07/2021

Produced by Andy Warhol, directed by Paul Morrissey and starring Udo Kier & Joe Dallesandro 🧛‍♂️

BLOOD FOR DRACULA was released to home entertainment by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1984 📼

Deathly ill Count Dracula (Udo Kier) and his slimy underling, Anton (Arno Juerging), travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the c...

25/07/2021

Love live FULCI 👁

THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY was released to home entertainment by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1985 📼

The Boyles (Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni) of New England have mad Dr. Freudstein in their basement.Released to home entertainment by Roadshow ...

13/06/2021

Joel M. Reed's deliciously disturbing BLOOD SUCKING FREAKS was a rite of passage for most Aussie teens on VHS throughout the 1980s-1990s but the only thing that outweighed how many teens saw it was how many titles the film had overseas...

Also known as THE INCREDIBLE TORTURE SHOW, SARDU: MASTER OF THE SCREAMING VIRGINS, THE HERITAGE OF CALIGULA: AN O**Y OF SICK MINDS, SARDU: MASTER OF THE THEATRE OF THE MACABRE and several others...

Released to home entertainment by Palace Explosive Video in Australia in 1984 📼

BLOODSUCKING FREAKS takes you to a bizarre off-Broadway theatre of the macabre, operated by a deranged impresario. Inside, sadistic entertainments are staged...

11/06/2021

JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER.

Meir Zarchi's I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE from 1978 caused such a fuss on home video in Australia, that conservatives attempted to have it banned several times throughout the 1980s and they were finally successful in having the film removed from rental in 1997 🔪

Of course cooler heads prevailed and the film has been available uncut for sale and rental since 2004.

Released to home entertainment by Palace Explosive Video in Australia in 1984 📼

Camille Keaton stars as Jennifer Hills, a young and beautiful career woman who rents a back-woods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of loca...

09/06/2021

How do upstage a Black Mamba? Well 1981's creature-feature VENOM throws in Klaus Kinski & Oliver Reed with great effect 🐍

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1983 📼

It was supposed to be the perfect crime: the s*xy maid (Susan George of STRAW DOGS), a psychotic chauffeur (Oliver Reed of REVOLVER) and an international ter...

07/06/2021

Filmmaker Don Coscarelli would follow-up his legendary 1979 feature PHANTASM (aka THE NEVER DEAD) with the 1982 sword and sandal epic THE BEASTMASTER staring Marc Singer & Tanya Roberts ⚔️

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1983 📼

The Beastmaster tells the story of Dar (Marc Singer), the royal son of a king named Zed (Rod Loomis) who was stolen from the womb of Zed's queen (Vanna Bonta...

05/06/2021

David Cronenberg's second body-horror feature, 1977's RABID, saw notorious p**n actress Marilyn Chambers play the lead role of the afflicted and infected Rose 🌹

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1983 📼

After undergoing radical emergency surgery, Rose (former adult film star Marilyn Chambers in her first leading role in a mainstream film) develops an insatia...

17/05/2020

Richard Gere and Kim Basinger would collaborate once more following 1986's NO MERCY with the erotic thriller FINAL ANALYSIS in 1992 🧐

Released by CBS Fox Video in Australia in 1987 📼

In this rip-roaring thriller a Chi-town cop heads for the Big Easy to look for those who murdered his partner and ends up involved with the killer's Cajun lo...

16/05/2020

For what MIRACLES writer/director Jim Kouf lacks in the directorial department, he more than makes up for in the writing. Jim's responsible for the screenplays to CLASS, UP THE CREEK, AMERICAN DREAMER, STAKEOUT and THE (FU***NG) HIDDEN 🤘

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1987 📼

A doctor (Tom Conti) and his wife (Teri Garr), recently divorced, are kidnapped and brought to South America by an inept jewel thief (Paul Rodriguez), just i...

15/05/2020

Watch out, Kiddos! Mr. Kelly is right behind you...

Not really but here's an advertisement for sell-thru Walt Disney titles when Roadshow Home Video was handling the Australian distribution of the home entertainment catalogue 📼

Walt Disney's 'Take Disney Home for Good' advertisement featured on select Roadshow Home Video releases through 1987 in Australia. ...

08/05/2020

Prior to RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD PART II, filmmaker Ken Wiederhorn faced the challenge of directing a sequel to another beloved film, MEATBALLS PART II 🧟‍♂️

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1988 📼

The zombies have returned! The horror begins again as mysterious barrels bounce off an Army transport as it passes through a new housing development and land...

07/05/2020

IN THE MOOD was retitled to THE WOO WOO KID in Australia and was also known as A BUM-BUM KÖLYÖK in Hungry 🤔

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1988 📼

aka In The Mood It’s 1944 and Americans are in the mood for something to take their minds off the challenges of World War II – something like a juicy s*x sca...

06/05/2020

STAKEOUT was the third theatrical feature Richard Dreyfuss had in 1987, following TIN MEN and NUTS 🕵🏻‍♂️

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1988 📼

Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her. Released to home entertainment by Roadsho...

05/05/2020

According to Adrian Cronauer, the person on which Robin William's character is based in GOOD MORNING VIETNAM, the film is roughly 45% accurate 🎙

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1988 📼

In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Viet...

04/05/2020

Ennio Morricone's score to THE MISSION is not only among the best in his oeuvre but one of the finest scores in the history of cinema. Morricone can really rock a fu***ng panpipe 🤘

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1987 📼

Eighteenth century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal. Released to home...

03/05/2020

Ever wondered why ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR had such a lacklustre trailer?

Being a made-for-tv feature, the international sales agent likely had limited assets to supply to distributors to market the film. In this instance it appears local distro Roadshow cobbled together a montage-like trailer of their own to preview the feature.

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1987 📼

During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would ne...

02/05/2020

ANGEL OF DEATH (aka COMMANDO MENGELE) is an Italian N**ipolitation film directed by Andrea Bianchi, the director responsible for BURIAL GROUND, MALABIMBA and STRIP N**E FOR YOUR KILLER 🇮🇹

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1987 📼

aka Commando Mengele A Jewish commando unit hunting N**i war criminals tracks down the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele in the jungle, and find that he is torturin...

01/05/2020

Whilst best known for his vast catalogue of genre films like OVERKILL, Ulli Lommel began his career in arthouse cinema, working with filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Germany and later Andy Warhol in the United States 🧐

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1987 📼

A Tokyo cop is sent to the United States to help an LAPD detective break up a Yakuza ring operating in Los Angeles. Released to home entertainment by Roadsho...

30/04/2020

Rock icons Red Hot Chili Peppers cameo in TOUGH GUYS, performing the track 'Set it Straight', to which Kirk Douglas dances along to 🌶

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1987 📼

Hollywood legends Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas star in this upbeat, action-packed comedy adventure. Set free after 30 years in prison, train robbers Harry...

29/04/2020

HOUSE Screenwriter Ethan Wiley would make his directorial debut with HOUSE II: THE SECOND STORY 🏚

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1987 📼

Jesse (Arye Gross) moves into an old family property where his parents were mysteriously murdered years before. Joined by pal Charlie (Jonathan Stark), the p...

28/04/2020

EXTREME PREJUDICE marks the third collaboration between actor Nick Nolte and director Walter Hill following 48 HRS. & ANOTHER 48 HRS. 🌵

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1987 📼

A tough Texas Ranger stands on one side of the border. Jack Benteen's goal is to clean up the Mexican drug traffic. On the other side of the Rio Grande stand...

27/04/2020

Paul Newman would revisit one of his most memorable characters, Fast Eddie Felson, for Martin Scorsese's THE COLOR OF MONEY 🎱

Released by Roadshow Home Video in Australia in 1987 📼

Revisiting one of his most memorable roles, Paul Newman stars as Fast Eddie Felson from THE HUSTLER. Eddie forms a profitable alliance with the flashy and ta...

26/04/2020

Michael Winner (DEATH WISH, THE SENTINEL) directs THE NIGHTCOMERS, an erotically-charged prequel to Henry James' classic novella THE TURN OF THE SCREW, starring Marlon Brando as a sadomasochistic gardener 🧐

Released by Embassy Entertainment in Australia in 1986 📼

THE NIGHTCOMERS sketches a prequel to Henry James' classic Gothic novella The Turn of the Screw, with Brando in typically compelling form as the servant whos...

25/04/2020

❝You want books, I got books. I got chicken blood, I got dog embryos, I got black candles, I got wolf-bane. Look at this...silver bullets❞

Dick Miller reprises the Walter Paisley name for his character of a bookstore owner in Joe Dante's THE HOWLING 🐺

Released by Embassy Entertainment in Australia in 1986 📼

Severely shaken after a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer, TV newscaster Karen White (Dee Wallace, E.T.) takes some much-needed time off. Hoping to c...

24/04/2020

Director William Girdler would tragically die in a helicopter crash scouting locations for next film before THE MANITOU would open theatrically.

Released by Embassy Entertainment in Australia in 1987 📼

A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit. Released to home entert...

23/04/2020

❝Dillon! You son of a bitch❞

Arnold Schwarzenegger wages an all-out war against an extraterrestrial that hunts humans for sport in PREDATOR 💪

Released by CBS Fox Video in Australia in 1987 📼

Arnold Schwarzenegger wages an all-out war against an extraterrestrial that hunts humans for sport. Released to home entertainment by CBS Fox Video in Austra...

23/04/2020

From Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning director of KRAMER VS. KRAMER and PLACES IN THE HEART comes NADINE, a crime caper starring Jeff Bridges & Kim Basinger 🔍

Released by CBS Fox Video in Australia in 1988 📼

In 1950s Texas, a woman trying to recover s*xy photos of herself and divorce her husband witnesses a murder and uncovers corrupt land dealings. Released to h...

22/04/2020

Following his 1979 masterpiece APOCALYPSE NOW, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola would revisit the Vietnam war for his underrated 1987 feature GARDENS OF STONE 🎖

Released by CBS Fox Video in Australia in 1988 📼

A Sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Viet Nam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about ...

21/04/2020

Matthew Broderick is an Air Force pilot who joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps in PROJECT X 🐒

Released by CBS Fox Video in Australia in 1988 📼

An Air Force pilot joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X"...

20/04/2020

The late great Brian Dennehy stars in this modern take on THE AFRICAN QUEEN, THE LION OF AFRICA, an American made-for-tv feature that was released directly to video in Australia 🦁

Released by CBS Fox Video in Australia in 1988 📼

An idealistic young female doctor hires a hard drinking cynical truck driver to take her to town to buy medical supplies for a tribe stricken with cholera. S...

19/04/2020

❝What Evelle here is trying to say is that we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us❞

The Coen Brothers followed up their 1984 breakthrough feature BLOOD SIMPLE with this, the Nicolas Cage & Holly Hunter starring RAISING ARIZONA 👶🏻

Released by CBS Fox Video in Australia in 1987 📼

Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter and John Goodman lead an all-star cast in Ethan and Joel Coen’s celebrated comedy. Once he decides to give up crime, a small-time ...

18/04/2020

After writing sequels to THE JERK and PORKY'S, writer Ziggy Steinberg was given his one and only opportunity to direct with THE BOSS' DAUGHTER 🧐

Released by CBS Fox Video in Australia in 1987 📼

The wife (Arielle Dombasle) of the boss (Christopher Plummer) tries openly and avidly to seduce a married stockbroker (Daniel Stern) at a company function. R...

17/04/2020

Aussie action icon Vernon Wells plays lead in this bare-knuckle brawler known under various titles in different territories though in Australia it was CIRCLE MAN 👊

Released by CBS Fox Video in Australia in 1987 📼

aka LAST MAN STANDING aka MANFIGHTER Roo Marcus has recently been released from the inhumane conditions of a mental institution and enters into the world of ...

15/04/2020

❝it's possible you're viewing an inferior pirated copy❞

CBS Fox Video piracy warning on VHS & BETA releases in 1987 ☠️

Piracy Warning found on CBS Fox Video VHS & Beta Cassette releases in Australia in 1987.

31/03/2020

HOWLING II was largely consider an abomination at the time of its release yet the powers that be let director Philippe Mora return to direct this third instalment, HOWLING III: THE MARSUPIALS 🐺

Released by CBS Fox Video in Australia in 1987 📼

A strange race of human-like marsupials appears suddenly in Australia and begins to create havoc. A sociologist who studies these strange creatures falls in ...