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American Silent Horror Collection
4 Horror Gems from the silient era plus an original documentary. This includes an all new restoration of THE CAT AND THE CANARY and for the first time on DVD, Bret Wood's KINGDOM OF SHADOWS. |
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The Asphyx
Blending elements of Gothic horror with the more contemporary ingredients of steampunk, THE ASPHYX has emerged from obscurity to become a cult favorite of the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Utilizing an experimental photographic device, a scientist (Robert Stephens) captures what appears to be the image of the Asphyx—the ancient Greek spirit of the dead. |
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The Avenging Conscience
Griffith indulged his lifelong fascination with Edgar Allan Poe in one tragedy-laden narrative of a young man who yearns to escape from his overbearing, one-eyed uncle. Includes Griffith's 1909 short film EDGAR ALLAN POE. |
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Benny's Video
The bored 14 year old son of an affluent Viennese family escapes from his mundane life into the titillating solitude of his video-equipped bedroom, where he relives a number of shockingly violent acts on playback. Without lapsing into didacticism or waiving his own complicity, Haneke makes one of the cinema's most powerful investigations into the nature of our mediated world and the seemingly insatiable appetite for bloodly spectacle. |
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Black Sunday
In an absolutely mesmerizing performance, BLACK SUNDAY stars Barbara Steele as Asa Vajda, a beautiful woman tortured and executed as a witch — but not before pronouncing a curse upon those who have condemned her, a curse that is fulfilled some 200 years later. |
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The Blood Beast Terror
This classically told monster movie directed by Vernon Sewell is set in motion when mutilated bodies begin appearing in the English countryside, drained of blood. Horror icon Peter Cushing stars as Detective Inspector Quennell, brought in to investigate the deaths. |
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Burke & Hare
A colorful, early ’70s rendition of life in the taverns, brothels, and surgical theatres of 1820s Scotland, blending dark comedy with bawdy eroticism, seasoning it with the grotesque, then crowning it with a playful theme song by the pop band The Scaffold. |
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The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
A masterpiece of psychological horror and the film that has come to epitomize the mysterious highly stylized German Expressionist cinema. A demented hypnotist and his ghastly henchman spread death througout the German countryside. Newly remastered from the archival German material and tinted according to original instructions with evocative score. Germany. 1919. 73 min. Color tinted. |
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The Cat and the Canary
A decaying mansion and a stormy night are the archetypal setting for mystery and chaos when a pack of greedy relatives gather for the reading of a twenty-year-old will. But before the West fortune can be handed down, the family must endure a night in the cavernous manor. THE CAT is a milestone of the American horror film, thanks to the ingenuity of its director, Paul Leni. One of the first film artists imported from Germany by Hollywood, Leni invigorated this stage-bound genre with expressionist flair, transforming conventional material into a visual feast. Meticulously restored from original nitrate prints by Photoplay productions and a new score by Neil Brand. |
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The Cinema of Jean Rollin (10 Blu-ray Bundle)
Revered by enthusiasts of fantasy and horror films, but largely overlooked by the critical mainstream, French filmmaker Jean Rollin (1938-2010) is finally being given the recognition he deserves. |
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The Cinema of Jean Rollin (10 DVD Bundle)
Revered by enthusiasts of fantasy and horror films, but largely overlooked by the critical mainstream, French filmmaker Jean Rollin (1938-2010) is finally being given the recognition he deserves. |
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Dementia (plus Daughter of Horror)
An entirely unique and utterly bizarre rediscovery, John J. Parker's DEMENTIA is a 1950s-style foray into the mind of psycho-sexual madness. Set entirely in a nocturnal twilight zone that blends dream imagery with the cinematic stylings of film noir, the film follows the tormented existence of a young woman haunted by the horrors of her youth, which transformed her into a stiletto-wielding, man-hating beatnik. |
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The Demoniacs (Unrated Extended Cut)
A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, THE DEMONIACS (Les Démoniaques) concerns a band of "wreckers" who rape and murder two young sisters, the survivors (Lieva Lone, Patricia Hermenier) of a ship they have lured into coastal rocks and plundered. |
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Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
This first great American horror film follows the transformation of a prominent London physician, Dr. Jeckyll, into the murderous Mr. Hyde while he explores the dual nature of man. |
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Exorcism
Made during the height of the demon possession film craze, EXORCISM stars the incomparable Lina Romay as a performance artist who stages faux satanic rituals for the gratification of the Parisian elite. When a defrocked priest with a penchant for S&M witnesses one of Anna's erotic spectacles and mistakes it for an actual black mass, the moral crusader launches a one-man Inquisition upon the sexually liberated women of Paris. |
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Fascination
The masterpiece of renowned French filmmaker Jean Rollin, FASCINATION follows a swaggering thief who hides out in a lavish chateau, holding the occupants at gunpoint. When night falls, he discovers that these two maids are in fact the gatekeepers to a ring of bloodthirsty women. |
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Female Vampire
Lina Romay (filmmaker Jess Franco's wife) stars as the mysterious Countess Irina Karlstein, a beautiful vampiress who feeds on victims at their moments of sexual climax. Because she destroys those whose essence she consumes, Irina is doomed to a life of solitude, wandering through the Western Coast of Europe in a dreamlike state. |
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The Films of Michael Haneke
A Seven DVD Box containing all of Kino's Haneke Releases! "Unquestionably in the same class as Antonioni, Fassbinder, or Godard. His films are classics: They are perfect and they are profound" - The Guardian UK. |
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Funny Games
The summer home of a vacationing couple and their son is infiltrated by a seemingly urbane pair of men -- who proceed to hold the family hostage and initiate a series of violent and diabolically sadistic "games." In his characteristic style, director Haneke leaves most of the bloodshed to the viewer's imagination, making this film a more harrowing experience than any splatter film. |
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Ganja & Hess
Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and the horror cinema, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independent film GANJA & HESS is a highly stylized and utterly original treatise on sex, religion, and African American identity. |
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German Expressionism Collection | 4-DVD Set
Four films representing one of the greatest bursts of creative energy in the history of cinema. |
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German Horror Classics DVD Box Set
The restored authorized editions of four complete feature films: NOSFERATU, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE GOLEM, and WAXWORKS -- plus over two hours of supplemental material! |
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The Golem
Recognized as the source of the Frankenstein myth, an ancient Hebrew legend provides the substance for one of the most adventurous films of the early German cinema and a landmark in the evolution of the horror film. Suffering under the tyrannical rule of a merciless despot, a 16th century Talmudic rabbi creates a giant clay warrior that comes to life in a grand scale climax. |
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Griffith Masterworks 2
Kino International is proud release D. W. GRIFFITH
MASTERWORKS 2, comprised of five newly restored Griffith features. Includes Abraham Lincoln, The Struggle, The Avenging Conscience, Edgar Allen Poe, Sally of the Sawdust, Way Down East. plus the Kevin Brownlow and David Gill's three-part documentary D.W. GRIFFITH: FATHER OF FILM. |
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The Hands of Orlac
HANDS OF ORLAC is a deliciously twisted thriller that blends grand guignol thrills with the visual and performance styles of German Expressionism. |
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Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Seven years after innovating the grisly Italian genre known as giallo, Mario Bava returned to the form to create one of its deliriously frightening examples: HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (Il rosso segno della follia). |
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The Haunted Castle (Restored Authorized Edition)
Before plumbing the depths of horror and despair with such films as Faust and The Last Laugh, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a storm-bound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within. |
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The Hills Have Eyes Part 2
The Hills Have Eyes Part 2 (1985) is director Wes Craven's notorious and bloody sequel to his 1977 horror classic. Two survivors from the original, Bobby (Robert Houston) and Rachel (who changed her name from Ruby, played by Janus Blythe), now own a dirt-bike team, whose first race will be held in the same desert from which they escaped death eight years before. |
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I Can See You
When the three-man staff of a boutique ad firm trades their Brooklyn home base for a rural backwater campsite, a classic "city slickers in peril" scare-film set-up is reborn. But in I Can See You, Graham Reznick's "surprising horror debut" (Village Voice), nothing is what it seems for even the blink of an eye. |
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The Iron Rose
Two lovers have a tryst in a vacant tomb, only to find themselves trapped within the graves and crypts of the massive cemetery. One of cult director Jean Rollin’s most unconventional films, THE IRON ROSE vividly depicts the young couple’s steady descent into madness. |
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The John Barrymore Collection
4 epic films from one of the greatest stars of the silent screen in a specially priced Box Set. Includes the rarely seen, SHERLOCK HOLMES!
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Killer's Moon
An important film in the evolution of “video nasties” (especially violent films that brought about stricter censorship in the UK in the early 1980s), KILLER’S MOON sets a quartet of drug-addled psychopaths against a group of vacationing schoolgirls. |
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The Kingdom: Series One
Acclaimed director Lars von Trier (Dogville, Dancer in the Dark) delves into the world of the supernatural with the acclaimed series that inspired Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital. |
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The Kingdom: Series Two
Acclaimed director Lars von Trier (Dogville, The Five Obstructions) presents Series Two of his supernatural thriller set inside Denmark's most esteemed but cursed medical institution. |
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Lips of Blood
In the most personal of Jean Rollin's moody, erotic horror films, a man tries to solve the riddle of a vague childhood memory, which leads him in pursuit of a beautiful vampire, and the revelation of a horrible family curse. |
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Lisa and the Devil & The House of Exorcism
Regarded as Mario Bava's most personal and unconventional film, LISA AND THE DEVIL is a diabolical thriller flavored with the dreadful imagery and tormenting logic of an endless nightmare. It was later re-edited and re-released as THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM to capitalize on the popularity of demon possession films. |
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The Man Who Laughs
Paul Leni's adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel tells the story of Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt), a tortured man with a permanent smile carved on his face. Batman creator Bob Kane has cited Leni's film as inspiration for his classic villain The Joker. |
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Mr. Hush
How does a man react when he loses everything he loves? MR. HUSH has an answer: with brutal, terrifying violence. A frightening throwback to the slasher films of the 1980s,
this is a classic horror flick that is hard to shake. |
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Murnau (6-DVD Thinpak Box Set)
Kino International is proud to release a new six-film, thinpak box set dedicated to the German films of legendary UFA director F. W. Murnau. Contains FAUST, THE HAUNTED CASTLE, THE FINANCES OF THE GRAND DUKE, TARTUFFE, THE LAST LAUGH, and NOSFERATU. |
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Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
NIGHTMARES IN RED, WHITE AND BLUE is a comprehensive history of
the American horror film. Starting with Thomas Edison’s version of Frankenstein
and slashing its way through to Saw and beyond, this incisive documentary
examines how these monstrous creations were gruesome reflections of their time.
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Nosferatu
This new presentation of Murnau's classic is mastered from original German material recently made available to Kino and is the most complete version available. An expressionist retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula so faithful to the original tale of vampirism that Stoker's widow sued. |
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Nosferatu (Ultimate Edition)
F.W. Murnau's NOSFERATU is triumphantly
reborn in this breathtaking new restoration by the F.W. Murnau Foundation. |
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The Nude Vampire
A surreal blend of horror, espionage, and erotica, THE NUDE VAMPIRE follows the son of a wealthy businessman as he is lured into a secret cult that is conducting experiments on a mute vampire woman being held in captivity. |
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The Old Dark House
In this artful mixture of chills and ghoulish gallows humor (starring Boris Karloff), a group of weary travelers find themselves trapped in a windswept Welsh manor with the psychotic Femm family. U.S. 1932. 71 min. B&W. |
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The Penalty (Deluxe Collector's Edition)
In a role that established him as one of the most dynamically terrifying performers of the silent screen, Lon Chaney stars in THE PENALTY, a grotesque thriller from director Wallace Worsley. |
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The Rape of the Vampire
A psychiatrist (Bernard Letrou) ventures to a remote castle to convince a brood of four vampire sisters that they are misguided, brainwashed by superstitious villagers, and not truly creatures of the Supernatural. |
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The Shiver of the Vampires
When a honeymooning couple visit the crumbling estate of the bride’s ancestors, they discover her closet is filled with more than skeletons: a sinister lesbian vampire, a pair of nubile handmaidens, and two vampire hunters who have been recruited into the ranks of the undead. |
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Tell Me Something
A standout among the new wave of suspense thrillers that have broken box-office records in Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong. Dismembered corpses are being found throughout the city, and the killer's motive is a complete mystery. A break opens when Detective Cho is led to a beautiful and enigmatic young artist with whom all the victims have had relations. |
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Virgin Witch
Capitalizing on the pop cultural fascination with the occult, while taking advantage of the era's relaxed censorship, VIRGIN WITCH was one of the more notorious British horror films of the early seventies. |
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Warning Shadows
Arthur Robison's classic take of psychological horror, celebrated for its outrageous visual style and notorious for its attempt to make a purely visual feature film. |
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Waxworks
In this rarely seen masterwork of German expressionism, a trilogy of terror is woven around the wax figures of a carnival side show. Jack the Ripper (Werner Krauss); Ivan the Terrible (Conrad Veidt), and Haroun al Raschid all spring to life through a variety of visual techniques. |
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