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ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II (76) Finally available! A milestone of "What were they THINKING?!?" filmmaking that fuses together two unlikely elements (Beatles tunes + World War II stock footage) to create a mind blowing misfire of musicality. This Shocking Videos exclusive (well, for the moment anyway) boasts astonishingly good picture and sound quality for such a rare title (only slightly marred by a few minutes of minor tape damage on the master at the beginning of the film) and comes complete with the original theatrical trailer! Order

AMERICAN NIGHTMARES (84) aka Combat Shock. Don’t be fooled by the so-called "director’s cut" Here’s the original LONG version of Buddy Giovinazzo’s unblinking look at Hell on Earth This truly UNCUT print sports the original title AND comes with 30 bonus minutes of ultrarare Buddy G. shorts and music videos! Order

APOCALYPSE NOW WORKPRINT (79) Here it is! The FIVE HOUR long workprint to Coppola’s masterpiece! That’s right, FIVE HOURS! So huge it takes up TWO DVDs! Many never before seen scenes including Robert Duvall saving a little Cong baby, the river boat crew first rescuing and then later having sex with the USO showgirls, the once lost French compound dinner scene, Dennis Hopper being shotgunned to death, plus helicopters, helicopters and MORE helicopters! Letterboxed, timecoded throughout, and with relatively good picture quality, this one’s so rare even WE didn’t expect to find a copy! Plus, to top it all off, we’re also throwing in an alternate, lewder, and far more racist version of the USO cowgirl stageshow culled from a different workprint AND the brilliant parody short Apocalypse Pooh at no extra charge! Double disc set. Order

CAPTIVE (74) aka Two. A deranged Vietnam veteran (Douglas Travis) abducts a brittle, rootless young woman (Sarah Venable) from a small New Hampshire town and keeps her in an isolated forest cabin. After numerous threatening gestures, the two fall in love. The couple tentatively plan a future together, and Travis rolls into town for some last-minute grocery shopping and a bank heist. Is it all just a case of Stockholm syndrome? Or is the young lady merely biding her time? Produced and directed by Charles Trieschmann this gripping yarn, much like its’ twisted protagonist, always manages to stay one step ahead of the viewer. The shock ending will floor you! (review by Greg Goodsell) Order

DARK OF THE SUN Letterboxed Includes trailer. Order

DAYTON’S DEVILS (68) Order

DEADLY PREY (88) Breathtakingly inept, cheapjack Rambo wannabe guaranteed to induce hilarity and/or seizures, possibly both. An evil cadre of killers at a not-so-secret mercenary training camp (cleverly hidden in the wilds of Los Angeles) use people kidnapped off the street as fodder in their live fire exercises. All well and good until they mistakenly scoop up Mike Danton, the world’s most badass Special Forces dude ever (don’t ask why if he’s so badass he was so easy to capture smart guy, just play along) who responds by wiping out absolutely every single mother lovin’ one of them. Think Stallone was tough? Well, Was Stallone able to survive not one, not two, but THREE grenade attacks with absolutely no wounds whatsoever? Hmm? Did Stallone ever cut off an attacker’s arm, beat him to death with the bloody stump and then scalp the corpse?!? No, we didn’t think so! HIGHLY recommended (for all the wrong reasons). Order

84 CHARLIE MOPIC (89) Grim and gripping Vietnam action flick shot in first person POV is a brilliant depiction of small unit dynamics and the combination of fear, boredom and frustration experienced by grunts everywhere. Sure to be appreciated by swinging dicks of all ages. In fact, if you can’t get behind this one you’re either a REMF or a FNG! Brilliant laser sharp print. Order

GOLD RAIDERS (83) aka Fire Game. Robert Ginty tears it up in this hilariously inept action flick about a crack commando team's efforts to recover a cargo plane load of gold bullion shot down over the Golden Triangle. If SCUBA diver knife fights and harpoon battles, an evil, bullwhip brandishing peg legged warlord and Sarah Langenfeld in a wet t-shirt aren't enough for you, wait until you see the patently fake "shark fish," the cave full of mechanical vampire bats with red LEDs for eyes and, best of all, Ginty's preferred mode of transportation throughout the picture: a jerry rigged hang glider/dirt bike contraption kitted out with rocket launchers under the handlebars! Not to be missed! Letterboxed. Order

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HANNIBAL BROOKS (69) Macho WW II British soldier Stephen Brooks (Oliver Reed) is captured by the Nazis and forced into doing menial labor at the Berlin Zoo. While there he falls in love and forms a bond with the zoo’s elephant, Lucy. When the zoo is bombed by Allied Forces, Reed is commanded to take the elephant to Innsbruck. With all available trains and trucks commandeered by Hitler’s forces, Reed must walk the elephant to her destination. Accompanied by an Austrian soldier and a Polish girl, Reed sets off on his task plotting his escape along the way. Talk about strange bedfellows. Directed by Michael Winner of Death Wish infamy, starring notorious boozer and brawler Reed and featuring counter-cultural actor Michael J. Pollard of Bonnie and Clyde, this is a lavish, big-budget war epic the entire family can enjoy. Also included on this disc is the short promo documentary, Some Kind of Hero, about the making of the film and, believe it or not, positioning the gnome-like Pollard as leading man material and “Next Big Thing” set to follow in the footsteps of such male icons as Cary Grant and Clark Gable. HA HA! (review by Greg Goodsell) Order

HELL CAMP (86) aka Hellcamp; Opposing Force. Remember the part in G.I. Jane (oh hush up, we know you saw it) where the trainees are sent to Escape and Evasion school, tortured mercilessly until they cry like the little babies they are and Demi Moore's character is nearly raped? Wouldn't it be great if there was a whole movie just about that? Well, welcome to Hell Camp, recruit! Made over ten years prior to Ridley Scott's flick and with a better cast (Tom Skerritt, Anthony Zerbe and Richard Roundtree for starters) this badass little mofo about a mock torture camp gone haywire doesn't pull any punches. Or kicks. Or rifle butts to the ribcage. And as for the fate of the obligatory rape bait (Lisa Eichhorn)? Well, let's just say the mission is completed in this one. Order

HELL RAIDERS (8?) Barry Prima stars in "one of the greatest War Adventure Stories of all time," the story of Indonesia’s fight for independence from the Dutch. Two solid hours of explosions, gunfire, mayhem, atrocities, ransacked villages, people running around like chickens with their heads cut off, you know, FUN! English language print with small Greek subtitles. Order

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JUNGLE WARRIORS (84) aka Euer Weg Fuhrt Durch die Holle. It's jungle jitters (or is that jiggles?) when a plane-load of high fashion models is shot down over the Peruvian jungle by a cocaine warlord. Captured by the evil mofo's private army the girls, along with their photographer and manager (what, no stylist?) are taken to his private fortress where they're imprisoned, tortured and raped at the hands of his incestuous half-sister "Angel" (Sybil Danning! Yay!) Caught in the middle of a colossal coke deal that's about to go very bad our divas in distress must learn to fight to stay alive. They must learn to become... Jungle Warriors! Fun stuff with John Vernon, Woody Strode, Alex Cord, Marjoe Gortner, Nina Van Pallandt and Paul L. Smith. Order

THE LAST HUNTER (80) aka Hunter of the Apocalypse; L' Ultimo Cacciatore; Cacciatore 2. Unashamedly derivative pasta action flick finds good-natured David Warbeck running around behind enemy lines while director Anthony Dawson vacillates between using his chump change budget to remake Apocalypse Now or The Deer Hunter. "Hey David, I know! Letsa makea 'dem both!" Plenty of blood, guts, and unintentional laughs in this one! Order

MANILA, OPEN CITY (68) Violent Philippines war action from Eddie Romero starring John Ashley (of course) and Charito Solis. "Filmed in luxurious FAMEColor." English language print with small Greek subtitles. Includes trailer. Order

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MERCENARY (83) aka Mercenary Cannibal; Cannibal Mercenaries. Complete long version of this wild and wooly Asian Apocalypse Now rip off that's ram-packed with violence, torture, explosions, gunfire, renegade commandos so bloodthirsty they're known as "The Dracula," and some of the longest, most annoying "editing for effect" sequences ever spliced together (even longer than this run on sentence)! Must be seen to be disbelieved! Order

MERRILL’S MARAUDERS (62) Sam Fuller goes commando and Jeff Chandler gives ‘em Hell in the Pacific in this Hollywoodized (Hey, what do you expect? We’re talking 1962) look at the famed jungle fighting unit. Nice letterboxed print. Order

MY FRIENDS NEED KILLING (76) Extremely rare grindhouse obscurity directed by Paul I Dismember Mama Leder. Greg Mullavey stars as a traumatized veteran who’s on a mission to kill his old G.I. buddies because they forced him to participate in atrocities over in ‘Nam. He drains the blood from one ala The Abominable Dr. Phibes, rapes another guy’s wife in front of him and then shoots them both, helps a remorseful one commit suicide, and stabs his ex-sergeant to death with a bayonet! Never released to video in the U.S. this is a really bleak, twisted little movie with a bizarre surprise ending. English language print with small Danish subtitles. Order

MY OLD MAN’S PLACE (72) aka Glory Boy. Michael Moriarty (Law and Order) made his screen debut in this excellent and undeservedly obscure picture about three GIs who return home from Vietnam bringing their problems with them. Moriarty is the quiet introspective one (of course), William DeVane plays a horny, immature loudmouth and Mitchell Ryan is the obligatory violent psycho. The trio head to Moriarty’s estranged father’s house in the country with a hippie chick from the city in tow. Once there it’s psychodrama-au-go-go as old wounds are opened and new ones are inflicted. Order

THE NO MERCY MAN (75) aka Trained to Kill U.S.A.; Fire in the Wind; The Vietnam Soldier. Hulking Steve Sandor (probably best remembered for his performance as "Stanley," the eyeliner wearing biker in The Ninth Configuration) broods and sulks up a storm in this crackersploitation mini-epic about a troubled ‘Nam vet who returns to The World and finds a new battle waiting for him on the homefront. Only this time he’s facing an even greater adversary than Charlie: A bunch of vicious carnies led by Sid Haig! Steve’s kind of busy though, what with the flashbacks and wrestling with his conscience and all, so he calls in a few of his still fully desensitized Ranger buddies to pick up the slack. Unfortunately they all must die horribly in the climactic "townies vs. carnies" gun battle and his family members have to be beaten and nearly raped before Steve can finally, finally snap out of it and become the crazed psycho killer we’ve all been waiting for. Need to work on that timing, big fella. Order

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OPERATION DAMES (59) aka Girls in Action. The pneumatic Eve Meyer ("I'm an entertainer. It's my business to look attractive.") is givin' all the boys a bad case of bosomania as the primo dancer in a traveling USO troop during the Korean Conflict. Their truck gets attacked, military escorts get killed, and they barely make it out intact enough to go wandering for shelter, eventually meeting up with a small US patrol of battle-fatigued horndogs. Eve makes it slow, deep and hard with the patrol sergeant, and one of the USO matrons gets sniped while taking a shit, which causes her accompanying husband to lose his marbles. He straps on satchels full of grenades, finds the rotten bucketheads who killed her, pulls a pin and goes in for the ultimate lay down! Hard-boiled low budget grit from AIP in glorious black and white. (review by Scott Wallis) Order

PHANTOM SOLDIERS (87) English language print with small Japanese subtitles. Order

THE RED BERETS (69), aka Sette Bascho Rossi; Congo Hell; Seven Red Berets. Eurocult faves Ivan Rassimov and Kirk Morris star in this jungle adventure story. A group of rotten, racist mercenaries trek across the expansive African landscape in order to retrieve incriminating documents from a Congo tribe. Along the way, they mow down scores of unarmed tribesman, fight and bicker and help themselves to the available women (although they do rescue two cute, adorable native children to maintain audience sympathy). Boasting authentic locales, impressive widescreen photography and a lilting Italiano music score, this one plays like a story torn from the pages of an old Argosy magazine! Letterboxed. (review by Greg Goodsell) Order

REVENGE IS MY DESTINY (71) "The war took his eye, his wife took his heart, all he had left was a hunger for revenge!" Hunky Chris Robinson plays a one-eyed Vietnam vet who returns from the war just in time to get mixed up in his stripper wife's murder and a complicated blackmail scheme. A great trashy little movie that took us literally YEARS to find and is so cool that we made it the namesake for our website (duh)! Directed by Joseph Adler. Co-stars Elisa Ingram, Sidney Blackmer and (Ooh! Ooh!) Joe E. Ross as a sleazy nightclub owner! Order

ROLLING THUNDER (77) After seven long years in the Hanoi Hilton William Devane comes back to The World only to have a bunch of greasers blow away his wife and kid and grind up his hand in a garbage disposal. Needless to say, Bill is fucking pissed and with the help of his friends Linda Haynes, Tommy Lee Jones and Smith and Wesson he proceeds to kill a bunch of people. An outstanding tough-as-nails action picture written by Paul Taxi Driver Schrader. Great looking WIDESCREEN print includes original trailer. HIGHLY Recommended! Order

THE SIEGE OF FIREBASE GLORIA (89) "January 1968. On a forgotten outpost, surrounded and outnumbered, one unit struggled for their lives on the last piece of ground they had." Hafner and DiNardo (R. Lee Ermey & Wings Hauser) lead the way through piles of human wreckage to a shithole named "Gloria" in South Vietnam. Hafner takes command of the firebase away from the current C.O. (found naked & masturbating to a centerfold of Cynthia Myers!) and declares to "protect it like it's your daughter's cherry" from the slithering Viet Cong regulars. Streams of great dialogue share the field with extreme information extraction, bloody stumps, and some very in your face asshole-puckering battle sequences. The highlight among highlights is Sgt. Hafner strolling around his entrenched troops one night with a severed head of two recently fallen Government Issues in each hand, giving the best motivational speech ever: "Stay alert and stay alive! It's as simple as that!" Letterboxed and highly recommended, numb nuts! (review by Scott Wallis) Order

SKIN 'EM ALIVE (7?) aka Infierno Africano. White mercenaries go coonhunting in the Congo in this Italian Dark of the Sun knock off directed by Mario Siciliano. Lots of sweaty action, mean-spirited violence, and a GREAT looking UNCUT print that’s a joy to behold! Rare English language print with small Danish subtitles. Order

S.T.A.B. (SPECIAL TACTICAL AIRBORNE BRIGADE) aka The Boys From Commando Hill. Order

THE STICK (1987) This searing South African horror film will stay with the viewer a very, very long time. A ragtag group of soldiers are sent into the bush to seek out a tribal group that killed an earlier patrol. The racist, inhuman bastards plunder a village, kill dozens of unarmed women and children and the local witch doctor. Pretty soon, members of the platoon are picked off one-by-one by an unseen, supernatural force and their trek against the arid landscape is soon joined by their missing comrades, albeit as rotting, reanimated corpses! Brutal and uncompromising, this film didn't sit very well with the South African government, being as they were in the dying throes of Apartheid at the time and it's only now years later that it's finally garnering the audience and praise it deserves. English language with Japanese subtitles. (review by Greg Goodsell) Order

TRIP TO KILL (71) aka Clay Pigeon. Ex-Nam vet turned hippie Tom Stern is recruited by FBI agent Telly Savalas to infiltrate a dope ring run by ever-evil Robert Vaughn. Nice’n’gritty with plenty o’ violence. Order

WELCOME HOME, SOLDIER BOYS (72) Leonard Maltin's Movie & TV Guide calls this lost drive-in classic a "sensationalistic melodrama about four ex-Green Berets who adjust to civilian life by gang raping a girl and burning down a town." Which is a pretty unfair analysis of this gritty 'Nam vet road picture but ya gotta admit, it sparks your interest! Directed by Richard Compton, starring Joe Don Baker, Billy "Green" Bush, Paul Koslo, Geoffrey Lewis and Jennifer Billingsley. Rare English language print with small Japanese subtitles. Order

WILD TEAM (85) Umberto Lenzi Ivan Rassimov, Antonio Sabato Letterboxed English language print with small Japanese subtitles. Order

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