A young woman and her father seek a cure for her illness via a strange and dangerous witch in The Adams Family’s affecting folk horror Mother of Flies, now streaming on Shudder.
The Bootleg Files: Uncle Walt
BOOTLEG FILES 927: “Uncle Walt” (1964 student film that was unavailable for many years).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube and Internet Archive.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: A student film made without the clearance of the rights owners of the original classic.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Nope.
One of the sad truths of locating films that are either lost or have been otherwise unavailable for decades is that the discovered titles are often far less interesting than the mystique that surrounded them during their absence from view.
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Cheap Thrills [2013] [Arrow Video LE Blu-Ray]
Two down on their luck guys perform increasingly dangerous dares for cash in E. L. Katz’s wonderfully nasty 2013 dark comedy Cheap Thrills, now with a new LE Blu-Ray from Arrow Video.
Night Patrol [2026]
In Ryan Prows’s total mess Night Patrol, a new LAPD cop tries to join the eponymous elite, racist vampire squad targeting minorities, especially one who witnessed a murder they committed.
Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Bonanza Bugs (1959)
It is a winter’s night in Dawson City during the midst of the 1896 Gold Rush when a snow-covered Bugs Bunny walks into a saloon and orders a glass of carrot juice. He is carrying a bag of large gold nuggets, but believes they have no value – he mistakes the “karats” of the rocks with the carrots that make up his diet. The villainous Blacque Jacques Shellacque – who is wanted for such crimes as for claim-jumping, pogo-sticking, and square-dance calling – makes multiple attempts to take Bugs’ bag of gold nuggets, but ultimately winds up running off a with a bag of gunpowder that Bugs ignites. Bugs ultimately admits the rocks were merely covered in paint and he drives off in a sled powered by a chihuahua.
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Fruitvale Station (2013) [Underrated Gems]
What begins as an ordinary day filled with small routines in preparation for New Year’s Eve, slowly unfolds into an intimate, devastating portrait of a life cut short.
Frightmare [1981] [Troma Blu-Ray]
A group of 20-somethings steals the body of a dead horror star. The horror star doesn’t like that and gets his revenge in Norman Thaddeus Vane’s 1981 midnight movie Frightmare, rereleased on Blu-Ray from Troma Entertainment.