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The Linguini Incident

NIGHT FLIGHT PLUS STREAMING PREMIERE: Rosanna Arquette and David Bowie star in this romantic caper from director Richard Shepard! Lucy (Rosanna Arquette, Pulp Fiction) is an underpaid waitress at "Dali", a terminally hip New York City restaurant, who's seriously in need of cash. Dali's new, mysterious, charming (and very in debt) bartender, Monte (David Bowie, The ...Read More

Night Flight - Cursive Video Profile

Cursive’s core trio of Tim Kasher, Matt Maginn, and Ted Stevens formed in 1995 and has since developed into one of the most consistent and ambitious bands in post-hardcore. Their latest album Devourer, the first for stalwart indie label Run for Cover, explores new territory within their iconic sound and features a suite of horror-themed music videos including the on...Read More

Nemesis

Los Angeles, 2027. Troubled cyborg cop Alex (Olivier Gruner, Angel Town) is ordered by police commissioner Farnsworth (Tim Thomerson, Near Dark) to apprehend his former partner and lover Jared (Marjorie Monaghan, Regarding Henry), accused of smuggling data to information terrorists plotting to kill government officials. Systems cowboys, bio enhanced gangsters and cy...Read More

Nothing Underneath

Bob Crane has long maintained a psychic connection to his twin sister, Jessica, who works as a fashion model in Milan. When Bob senses that his sister might be injured or killed, he travels to Italy to look for her, only to discover that she's vanished without a trace. Enlisting the help of about-to-retire Commissioner Danesi, Bob soon finds himself embroiled in a w...Read More

Pater Noster and the Mission of Light

Pater Noster and the Mission of Light tells the story of Max, a young record store clerk who stumbles upon a rare vinyl LP and is drawn into the world of a 1970s hippie commune. An invitation to the remnants of the outlandish cult and their unholy spawn leads to grave and grisly circumstances for Max and her friends. The film's producers, led by cult director Chr...Read More

Too Beautiful to Die

A group of high fashion models have been invited to an isolated house to attend a party. As the night wears on, one of the models falls victim to a deadly 'accident,' which sets into motion a series of brutal murders, all traced back to a shocking secret... An in name only sequel to Nothing Underneath, prolific commercial director Dario Piana's feature film debut, T...Read More

The Tune

Legendary animator and cartoonist Bill Plympton’s first feature, The Tune is a wildly surreal animated musical comedy about a struggling songwriter named Del (voiced by Daniel Neiden), desperate to write a hit tune to save his relationship with his pert, long-suffering girlfriend Didi (voiced by Maureen McElheron, who co-wrote the script and composed the music). ...Read More

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

Scott Walker: 30th Century Man shows a rare glimpse into the creative world of the most enigmatic figure in rock history. Tracing the undeniable impact Scott Walker has had on popular music through casual interviews with some of his biggest, highest profile fans, we explore his fascinating trajectory. From jobbing bass player on LA's Sunset Strip, to his domination ...Read More

Nemesis 2: Nebula

A genetically altered female is transported back in time in an effort to protect her from killer cyborgs.

We Kill for Love: The Lost World of the Erotic Thriller

We Kill for Love goes in search of the forgotten world of the direct-to-video erotic thriller, an American film genre that once dominated late night cable television and the shelves of neighborhood video stores. Through interviews with the many directors, writers, and actors who fanned the flames of this sexy subgenre, to academics and film historians whose books ha...Read More

Battles Without Honor And Humanity

When Battles Without Honor and Humanity first hit Japanese screens in January 1973, partially inspired by the success of The Godfather, it blasted out a new Ground Zero for crime cinema not only in Japan, but in the rest of the world, and spawned a legendary series that would lead to additional episodes, spin-offs, and countless imitations. Based on the true account...Read More

Nemesis 3: Time Lapse

In the desolate future, a mutant warrior becomes mankind's final hope in the war against power-hungry cyborgs.

VHYes

A bizarre retro comedy shot entirely on VHS, VHYes takes us back to a simpler time, when twelve year-old Ralph mistakenly records home videos and his favorite late night shows over his parents’ wedding tape. The result is a nostalgic wave of home shopping clips, censored pornography, and nefarious true-crime tales that threaten to unkindly rewind Ralph’s reality.

Cemetery Man

The magnum opus of director Michele Soavi (The Church, Stage Fright). Rupert Everett stars as cemetery watchman Francesco Dellamorte, tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves. But when he falls in love with a beautiful young widow (Anna Falchi), will his resurrected lust for life become greater than his bond with death? François...Read More

Trekkies

Get ready to beam up to a galaxy where autograph hounds abound, dentists drill in Federation garb and the debate over "Trekkies" vs. "Trekkers" rages on. Denise Crosby of Star Trek: The Next Generation hosts this often hilarious documentary about the Star Trek "fan-nomenon." Featuring interviews with hundreds of devoted fans and such Star Trek cast members as Leonar...Read More

The Juniper Tree

Set in medieval Iceland, The Juniper Tree follows Margit (Björk in a riveting performance) and her older sister Katla (Bryndis Petra Bragadottir) as they flee for safety after their mother is burned to death for witchcraft. Finding shelter and protection with Johan (Valdimar Orn Fygenring), and his resentful young son, Jonas (Geirlaug Sunna Pormar), the sisters help...Read More

Big Bad Mama

When Wilma (Angie Dickinson) finds there is no money to be made in bootlegging, a chance meeting with bank robber Fred Diller (Tom Skerritt) leads to a new career. Along with her daughters, Wilma joins Fred on his next big heist. After meeting slick gambler William J. Baxter (William Shatner), Wilma recruits him and the rest of her gang to kidnap a millionaire's dau...Read More

Poison for the Fairies

Fabiola, a lonely young schoolgirl, befriends Graciela, an orphan who is obsessed with witchcraft. Graciela convinces Fabiola that she is a witch and to enhance her evil powers, they need to search for poison for the fairies. The games grow increasingly gruesome and dangerous resulting in bloodshed and mayhem.

Big Time Gambling Boss

An atmospheric tale of gangland intrigue written by Kazuo Kasahara (Battles Without Honour and Humanity) and starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, (Lone Wolf and Cub, The Bounty Hunter Trilogy) and genre legend Koji Tsuruta, Big Time Gambling Boss is one of the all-time classics of the yakuza genre. Paul Schrader called it the richest and most complex film of its type, whil...Read More

The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (Montreux Jazz Festival 1975)

A bebop session staged by its creator Dizzy Gillespie, backed by his early mate Milton ''Bags'' Jackson on vibes and the famous rough duo tenorists Eddie ''Lockjaw'' Davis and Johnny Griffin with support from an incredible rhythm section with Tommy Flanagan, Niels-Henning, Ørsted Pedersen, and Mickey Roker... Seven masters of this music! Norman Granz is one of th...Read More

Haunting Fear

Produced in 1990 during the resurgence of motion pictures inspired by the nightmarish works of Edgar Allan Poe, Haunting Fear digs deep into the paranoid delusions of the author's classic story "The Premature Burial." Directed by Fred Olen Rey and sporting an all-star cult cast featuring the Brinke Stevens (The Slumber Party Massacre), Karen Black, and Michael Be...Read More

Streetwalkin'

Academy Award®–winning actress Melissa Leo (The Fighter) stars as Cookie, a teen runaway who escapes her abusive stepfather and heads for the Big Apple along with her younger brother. When she arrives at the Port Authority bus terminal, Cookie meets a charming but sadistic pimp named Duke (Dale Midkiff, Pet Sematary). With nowhere to go, Cookie is soon working for D...Read More

Arabella Black Angel

Arabella is an insatiable nymphomaniac with a crippled writer husband, Francesco, who is unable to pleasure her. So she searches for lovers in elicit dens of debauchery. However, when Francesco discovers Arabella having sex with a stranger in their shed, she panics and kills the man—only to discover that her sudden act of violence arouses creative inspiration in her...Read More

Little Sister

October, 2008. Young nun Colleen (Addison Timlin) is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother (Ally Sheedy) announces, Your brother is home. On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but unea...Read More

Ghost Galleon

Maria Perschy (Castle of Fu Manchu) and Jack Taylor (Pieces) star in writer/director Amando de Ossorio's chilling tale about a boatload of stranded swimsuit models who discover a mysterious ghost ship. But this phantom galleon carries the coffins of the satanic Templar, eyeless zombies who hunt humans by sound. Even if these frightened lovelies can survive their own...Read More

Samurai Cop

Amir Shervan’s so-bad-it's-good epic cult-classic has arrived on Night Flight Plus in a new remastered version! A deadly "Code of Silence" sweeps through Los Angeles as gang violence erupts, taking no prisoners and leaving no witnesses alive. The police find themselves outgunned and out-sword-ed by Fujiyama's infamous Katana gang. Only one man has the training, expe...Read More

Night Flight - Billy Idol Video Profile (1983)

Join us for an exclusive interview with Billy Idol on Night Flight during the show's 1983 season (he came back for a second interview in 1985, which is also streaming now!) Promoting his self-titled solo debut, Idol discusses why he left Generation X to go solo, his early rock 'n' roll influences, and the English class system. Also featuring a 1972 Beat Club perform...Read More

Shadow Builder

From the mind of the master, Bram Stoker, the creator of "Dracula" comes the epic struggle between good and evil in Shadow Builder, featuring an all-star cast that includes Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy), Leslie Hope (Crimson Peak), Kevin Zegers (Dawn of the Dead) and Tony Todd (Candyman). A demon is summoned to take the soul of a young boy, who has the...Read More

Time of Roses

Finnish director Risto Jarva’s fascinating, futuristic sci-fi mystery is set in a dystopian, Pop Art-designed world of gleaming white towers, Sony video monitors and inflatable furniture, where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of LOGAN’S RUN. A historian of late 20th century culture - “before class bou...Read More

Knocking

After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly (Cecilia Milocco) moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night. Molly’s new life begins to unravel as the screams intensify and no one else in the building believes or is willing to help her.

Project: ALF

After his series ended, our lovable extraterrestrial, ALF, is found living in captivity at Edmonds Air Force Base where the Allen Task Force has him under lock and key. It's commanding office, General Milfoil (Martin Sheen) is sick and tired of babysitting and plans on eliminating ALF under the guise of "a beauty treatment." When two Air Force scientists catch w...Read More

Sex Madness Revealed

Playfully exploring the outer reaches of cult film fandom, Sex Madness Revealed is both an ingenious twist on the audio commentary and a satire of the wisecrack track (featuring the voice of MST3K regular Patton Oswalt). Using as it foundation a low-budget sex hygiene picture from 1938 (Sex Madness, aka Human Wreckage), we listen in as Jimmy Morris (Oswalt), of the ...Read More

Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow

Bouncer. Novelist. Composer. Producer. Star. To '80s UK audiences, Cliff Twemlow was all of these and then some. Between 1982 and 1993, Twemlow gathered a devoted team of local doormen, martial artists, variety performers, girlfriends, gym friends, family members and B-listers to create his own cut-rate Hollywood empire. Shooting on early video tech and composing al...Read More

Mikey

Mikey Kelvin (Brian Bonsall, Blank Check, "Family Ties") has been a bad boy, only nobody knows exactly how bad. Tragic and Deadly "accidents" seem to happen all around Mikey. So, from foster family to foster family and from school to school he goes, leaving a trail of unanswered questions. Of course, everyone knows Mikey is just a sweet, misunderstood little boy. Bu...Read More

Heroic Times

“A crime is a crime, even if committed by kings,” intones the narrator of director József Gémes’s animated portrait of the supposedly “heroic” age of medieval knights and kings, a sprawling and bloody tapestry of ruthless combat. Based on an epic narrative poem by 19th century Hungarian writer János Arany, Heroic Times has a unique visual style combining gorgeous oi...Read More

When The Wind Blows

“There have been enough post-holocaust nuclear winter films to constitute a genre” says Time Out, “but there has never been anything quite like this.” When the Wind Blows is Director Jimmy T. Murakami's animated classic about an elderly couple – voiced by Academy Award® winners Sir John Mills and Dame Peggy Ashcroft – attempting to survive the aftermath of a nuclear...Read More

Night Flight - Peter Tosh Video Profile

Immerse yourself in the roots of reggae with Night Flight's Video Profile of Peter Tosh, an icon of the genre and founding member of The Wailers. Tonight's new arrival from the vaults features a raw performance from the reggae star in 1983 showcasing his powerful melodies and uncompromising spirit.

Dance Me Outside

Silas Crow (Ryan Black) and Frank Fencepost (Adam Beach) are two average 18 year olds who live on a reservation in Northern Ontario. They hope to get into a Toronto mechanic's school, but must write a story for their entrance exam first. The whole community is then shocked when one of their friends is killed by a drunken punk at a local hangout. When he gets out of ...Read More

The Ark of the Sun God

Expert safe-cracker Rick Spear (David Warbeck, The Beyond) arrives in Istanbul for what to him is a routine heist but, with his hands on the merchandise, Rick discovers he has been set-up. He's been tricked by an old friend, who requires Rick's skills in his quest for the legendary lost treasure of Semiramis, Queen of Babylonia, and the most coveted artifact of all:...Read More

The Bat Whispers

An infamous burglar and jewel thief known as "The Bat" plays cat and mouse with the police and terrorizes the occupants of a mansion, leased from a bank president who is in Europe. After the town bank is robbed, "the Bat" and a cashier named, Brook, who disappeared afterwards, are the main suspects.

Terminal Island

Carmen Simms has just been sentenced to death; that is, life imprisonment on Terminal Island - an island located miles off the mainland of California, which was created to house murderers and vicious criminals in the wake of prison overcrowding. With no guards, no cells, and no laws, Terminal Island has morphed into a defacto society, whose self-appointed leader, th...Read More

Witchboard

NEVER PLAY IT ALONE! It’s called a Ouija Board and it’s been used for thousands of years to communicate with the souls of the afterworld. For beautiful Linda Brewster (Tawny Kitaen, Bachelor Party), it brings the playful ghost of a dead ten-year-old boy. But when the friendly spirit develops a sudden taste for violent murder and demonic possession, Linda’s boyfriend...Read More

No Ordinary Man

American jazz musician Billy Tipton developed a reputable touring and recording career in the mid-twentieth century, along with his band The Billy Tipton Trio. After his death in the late 80s, it was revealed that Tipton was assigned female at birth, and his life was swiftly reframed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. T...Read More

a-ha: The Movie

a-ha -The Movie follows the band over their entire career, telling the full story of how three young men followed their impossible dream of becoming worldwide pop stars and what happened after that. a-ha still creates magic on stage with their melancholic and timeless music. They tour the world but drive in separate cars and stay apart backstage. They only meet on s...Read More

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

It remains the most joltingly violent, psychosexual grindhouse shocker of the '80s, directed by a veteran of I Love Lucy and starring a frequently shirtless former teen idol with an epically demented performance by an Oscar® nominee. Jimmy McNichol stars as an orphaned high-school student raised by his strangely overprotective aunt (Susan Tyrrell of Fat City fame) w...Read More

Crypt Of Dark Secrets

Perhaps the most bizarre film by New Orleans writer/producer/director Jack Weis (Mardi Gras Massacre), Crypt of Dark Secrets is "71 minutes of supernatural sleaze" (Every '70s Movie) featuring voodoo vengeance, a possessed swamp stripper, and multiple feats of knuckleheaded folk horror, newly mastered from the original negative.

Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour

Who Took the Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour follows iconic feminist electronic band Le Tigre on their 2004-2005 international tour. Le Tigre confronts sexism and homophobia in the music industry while tearing up the stage with their no-holds-barred lyrics, punk rock ethos, and whip-smart wit.

In The Soup

Broke and desperate filmmaker Adolpho Rollo (Steve Buscemi) is a Manhattan wannabe in love with the mysterious woman next door, Angelica Peña (Jennifer Beals). He puts out an ad offering to sell his 'fabulous' movie script for $500, and gets a response from Joe (Seymour Cassel), who gives him a thousand and says he'll raise the 250,000 to make the picture. The probl...Read More

Terror At Tenkiller

Leslie and Jana take off on a vacation and strange things start to happen at their remote cabin. Soon corpses begin turning up near the lake. One by one the locals disappear, but the horror of these murders does not fully dawn on our heroine until she comes across the mutilated body of Jana.

Skateboard: The Movie

Skateboard was the first feature film to depict the height of the 70s skateboard craze. Many refer to it as the Bad News Bears of the sport. It’s star studded cast includes Alan Garfield, 70s teen idol Leif Garrett, skateboarding legend Tony Alva, and iconic female freestyler and member of the Skateboarding Hall of Fame Ellen O’Neal.

Weekend With Bob

You've seen him dance, host and perform "lightning lip-syncs" on national television on USA Network's "Dance Party USA" and WPHL-17's "Dancin' On Air". You've read about him and seen his posters in "Flip" magazine. Now, take a trip back to Wildwood, New Jersey during the summer of 1987 to see Bobby Catalano as you've never seen him before as he stars in his own excl...Read More

Alien From The Abyss

For one of the final films of his legendary career, director Antonio Margheriti (Castle of Blood) headed to the Philippines to deliver "the perfect '80s Italian popcorn flick" (Mondo Digital): When environmental activists attempt to expose an evil corporation dumping nuclear waste into the local volcano, they'll instead discover graphic gore, exploding miniatures an...Read More

Extra Terrestrial Visitors

From Juan Piquer Simón – the infamous writer/director of PIECES and SLUGS – comes The Restored Director’s Cut of the French/Spanish co-production that remains the most singularly screwy E.T.-influenced film in EuroCult history: When snorkel-nosed furry aliens arrive on Earth, they’ll encounter a foggy wilderness filled with sociopathic poachers, Simón’s twisted visi...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Reggae (1983)

Night Flight covers the origins and politics of reggae music, featuring interviews and performances from artists such as Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley. English musicians influenced by reggae such as UB40 and The Police are also featured.

Humanoids from the Deep

Something evil is happening in the sleepy fishing village of Noyo. Fishlike humanoid creatures, spawned by mutant DNA, begin rising from the ocean looking to mate with the local women. Scientist Susan Drake (Ann Turkel) along with local fisherman Jim Hill (Doug McClure, The Land That Time Forgot) seek to investigate the cause of this invasion of creatures from the o...Read More

Willard

Willard Stiles (Bruce Davison) is a young man with a big problem. He lives alone in a crumbling house with his ailing mother (Elsa Lanchester, Arnold, Bride Of Frankenstein). His boss, Al Martin (Ernest Borgnine, Escape From New York) is a vulgar, cruel man who stole his business from Willard's father and is now working Willard to death at his factory job. Lonely, d...Read More

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2

IT'S GARBAGE DAY! Ricky is being released from a mental hospital. He takes with him the terrifying memory of his brother Billy's death and the memory of Mother Superior who brought about his brother's demise. For Ricky, starting a new life means avenging his brother's death, which sets him on a blind journey of relentless revenge, leading ultimately to Mother Superi...Read More

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Fifty By Four

The incredible story of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, featuring exclusive interviews, rare performance footage and more. Alongside occasional collaborator Neil Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash refused to be labelled 'a band', describing themselves as a loose collective of musical friends free from the inhibiting confines of the music business. This is the story of CSN...Read More

The Great Alligator

Director Sergio Martino combines a monster reptile with an all-star EuroCult cast for one of the most outrageously entertaining Italian Jungle Carnage movies of them all! At the opening of a tropical resort, a photographer, an anthropologist and an arrogant hotelier are besieged by hostile natives, obnoxious tourists and a gargantuan river beast that intends to devour them all.

Cruel Jaws

He defied all laws of good taste and international copyright with Shocking Dark and Robowar. He reset the bar for batsh*t crazy ItaloHorror with Rats: Night of Terror and Hell of the Living Dead. And in 1995, legendary director Bruno Mattei – here as ‘William Snyder’ – stunned the civilized world with this ultimate sharksploitation saga that liberally borrows charac...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Politics (1984)

This 1984 episode of Night Flight focuses on the socially conscious side of rock music. From nuclear war to Latin America, these music videos run the gamut of political commentary from artists like The Rolling Stones, Killing Joke, and Rush.

Ben

When detective sergeant Cliff Kirtland (Joseph Campanella, Meteor) investigates the horrifying murder of Willard Stiles by a band of rats, he discovers that the rats are now an organized army, and he must destroy the murderous rodents before it is too late. But the rats, led by Ben, the only survivor of the Willard attack, take to the challenge with full force and l...Read More

Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except

Vietnam, 1969. War is Hell. For Marine Sergeant Jack Stryker (Brian Schulz), however, Hell is just the beginning. Trapped outside a Viet Cong village, Stryker takes two bullets to the leg. Sent home from the war, he discovers his ex-girlfriend (Cheryl Hausen) has been kidnapped by a religious cult with a vicious Manson-like leader (played by THE EVIL DEAD and SPIDER...Read More

The Sect

The third feature by director Michele Soavi - his second collaboration with producer/co-writer Dario Argento - has been called "deranged" (We Are Cult), "disturbing" (Blu-ray.com) and "long overdue for reevaluation" (Bloody Disgusting). Now it can be experienced like never before: As a global satanic cabal grows in ferocity, an unwitting young schoolteacher (Kelly C...Read More

Darker Than Night

A young woman named Ofelia inherits a creepy old house from her Aunt Susana with the stipulation she is to care for the aunt's beloved pet, which so happens to be a black cat. Not wanting to live there alone, Ofelia invites three of her friends, Aurora, Marta & Pilar to move into the house with her. Soon after the girls are settled in, they find the cat dead. This g...Read More

The Invisible Maniac

The randy horror-farce from Adam Rifkin based on the H.G. Wells classic, The Invisible Man. Physicist Kevin Dornwinkle (Noel Peters) didn't like it when his colleagues laughed off his theories on invisibility... so he killed four of them. Escaping the asylum and finagling a job as a high school science teacher, he's still hearing the snickers from his nubile young c...Read More

The Stepfather

Jerry Blake (Terry O'Quinn, ABC's Lost) is a man obsessed with having the perfect American Dream life - including the house with the white picket fence in the suburbs, complete with an adoring wife and loving children. He believes he's found it when he marries Susan Maine and becomes the stepfather to Susan's 16-year-old daughter, Stephanie. But Stephanie gets an un...Read More

Black Eagle

After an F-11 gets shot down over the Mediterranean Sea, The United States government cannot afford to lose the top-secret laser tracking device that was on board. But unfortunately, the KGB team, lead by the infamous Andrei (Jean-Claude Van Damme, The Expendables 2, Universal Soldier), are beating the CIA in the race to find it. The CIA has no choice but to call in...Read More

Hell Riders

A spectacularly trashy and weird 80s biker film from the exploitation dream team of James Bryan (Don't Go in the Woods, Executioner Part 2) and Renee Harmon (Frozen Scream, Escape From the Insane Asylum), HELL RIDERS is loaded to the gills with jaw dropping, head scratching, and mind numbing thrills. Featuring Adam West (Batman) and Tina Louise (Gilligan's Island) a...Read More

Black White + Gray

A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe. Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Sam Wagstaff transformed himself from innovative museum curator to Robert Mapplethorpe's lover and patron. During the heady years of the 1970s and 1980s, the New York City art scene was abuzz with a new spirit, and Mapplethorpe would be at the center of it. W...Read More

Spookies

Of all of the bizarre horror films made in the 1980s, SPOOKIES easily ranks among the weirdest. Produced by Michael Lee, founder of the adored UK home video distributor VIPCO, the film became a fan favorite thanks to its expertly rendered creature effects and notorious for its bizarre production history in which its original creators, co-writers/directors Brendan Fa...Read More

Alligator

From director Lewis Teague (Cujo) and screenwriter John Sayles (The Howling) comes an unstoppable thriller with bite. A family returning from Florida decides their pet baby alligator is too much to handle and flushes him down the toilet. Meanwhile, Slade Laboratories is conducting secret experiments with animals and disposing of them in the sewer. The alligator, fen...Read More

Brain Dead

The Eunice Corporation is on the ground floor of an exciting growth industry, utilizing a memory re-sculpting technique pioneered by eccentric neurosurgeon Rex Martin (Bill Pullman). It envisions nationwide clinics where anyone can lose the hang-ups of an unhappy childhood, a failed romance or a botched career. At Eunice's "New You" outlets, a simple operation will ...Read More

Inseminoid

An alien creature has been waiting millions of years for a chance to breed, and its time has finally come when a group of space explorers unwittingly lands on its home planet. The 12-member crew is investigating for possible origins for the planet's vanished civilization. Instead, they awaken the planet's creature and discover that the horror to come is more terrify...Read More

Elegant Beast

The Maeda family hide behind their modest façade. One by one those affected by their schemes show up at their door. But each of these visitors has their own duplicitous agendas. Director Yuzo Kawashima, mentor of Shohei Imamura and a major influence on the Japanese New Wave, makes magnificent widescreen use of the single apartment setting to deliver a ferocious sati...Read More

The Jam - Punk Icons

This is the first comprehensive, independent critical review of the work of English punk rock/mod revival band The Jam, drawing upon rare footage of that was previously unavailable and interviews.

Black Tight Killers

After wooing stewardess Yoriko (Chieko Matsubara, Tokyo Drifter), war photographer Hondo (Akira Kobayashi, Battles Without Honor and Humanity) sees her kidnapped by a team of deadly female assassins who use vinyl records as weapons. Investigating her whereabouts, Hondo uncovers a conspiracy to steal a buried stash of WWII-era gold. Soon he must dodge go-go dancing n...Read More

The Bees

Evil corporations have smuggled a deadly strain of South American killer bees into the United States and now the entire world may be on the brink of imminent destruction! As cities tumble, body counts rise, and mass hysteria ensues, scientist John Norman (John Saxon) thinks he might have discovered the secret strategy to stop THE BEES! Directed by Alfredo Zacarias (...Read More

Tina Turner: Videobiography

She's the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll. This definitive review of Tina Turner encompasses her entire career; from her resilience during the tumultuous early years to triumphant superstardom: no stone is left unturned. A team of critics analyzes the cream of a career spanning over 55 years at the top and draws on live performance footage. Performance clips include: Sexy Id...Read More

Silent Madness

One of the few slashers produced during the short-lived, early 80s revival of 3D movies, Simon Nuchtern’s (Savage Dawn) SILENT MADNESS knows exactly what audiences want, and delivers. Heavily gelled lighting and excellent use of 3-D photography, from Gerald Feil (Friday the 13th Part III), elevate the high body count drive-in classic, which stars Belinda Montgomery ...Read More

Madonna: Like a Virgin

A team of industry experts analyze Madonna’s Like a Virgin, the album that announced the true arrival of the Queen of Pop. Featuring track by track analysis, rare interviews and performance footage from archives worldwide.

Tammy and the T-Rex

Tammy is a popular high school cheerleader whose new boyfriend, Michael, might be the love of her life. But Tammy’s jealous ex, Billy, won’t stand for anyone coming between him and ‘his’ girl, so he and his friends kidnap Michael, leaving him to be mauled by a lion in a local wildlife reserve. Comatose and at death’s door, Michael’s body is stolen from the hospital ...Read More

Auntie Lee's Meat Pies

Auntie Lee and her quartet of voluptuous “nieces” are known for making the tastiest meat pies around, all from Auntie’s top secret recipe which calls for a most unusual type of meat: human. In order to acquire the juiciest flesh, the girls employ their lusty charms; luring unsuspecting male strangers into a carnal - and deadly - trap, in which they’re chopped, quart...Read More

Life is Flashing Before Your Eyes

Animation by Vince Collins. Restored by Mark Toscano the Academy Film Archive. ”Cheery pop images and mellow lyrics" - Timothy Leary. NOTE: This video contains flashing images. Viewer discretion is advised.

Cutting Class

High school can be murder. Just ask Paula (Jill Schoelen, The Stepfather). Her overprotective father disappears during a weekend hunting trip. She's being romantically pursued by Brian Woods (Donovan Leitch, The Blob), a creepy classmate who recently graduated from a mental institution. Her jealous jock boyfriend Dwight (Brad Pitt, Moneyball) is looking for any reas...Read More

Closed Circuit

Following the international hits GRAND SLAM and MACHINE GUN McCAIN, director Giuliano Montaldo set his sights on a different kind of project, a feature for RAI-TV that remains one of the most unique and criminally underseen thrillers of the ‘70s: At the local cinema, an audience watches a Spaghetti Western matinee. During the film’s on-screen climactic duel, a bulle...Read More

Alligator 2: The Mutation

Deep in the sewers beneath the city of Regent Park, a baby alligator feeds on the experimental animals discarded by Future Chemicals Corporation. Nourished by the toxic growth hormones and other mutating chemicals, the gator grows immense in size ... and voracious in appetite. Now, it must kill to survive! It's a classic confrontation between man and beast. This seq...Read More

Messiah of Evil

A woman arrives in a sleepy seaside town after receiving unsettling letters from her father, only to discover the town is under the influence of a strange cult that weeps tears of blood and hunger for human flesh. From Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, the writers of American Grafitti, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Howard the Duck, this dreamy and atmospheri...Read More

Fatal Exam

A group of college students have been given a very unusual assignment: spend the night inside of a supposedly haunted house, as part of their studies into the supernatural and occult. Although the rag tag team of collegiates would much rather party and get stoned than look for ghosts, it's not long before unexplained events begin to occur. Initially suspecting that ...Read More

Magic

This 1978 psychological thriller features a mesmerizing performance by a young Anthony Hopkins. Directed by Sir Richard Attenborough and based on William Goldman's (The Princess Bride) novel, "Magic" follows Corky, an introverted magician, and his foulmouthed ventriloquist dummy Fats, on their rise to overnight stardom. When Corky seeks to reignite a romance wit...Read More

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

A unique and almost indescribable mix of Gothic fiction, steampunk gadgetry (designed by Czech animation wizard Jan Švankmajer), slapstick comedy and romantic opera, director Oldřich Lipský's wonderfully bonkers delight has elements of THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, Terry Gilliam, Mel Brooks and "The Benny Hill Show." Based on an 1892 Jules Verne novel The Carpathian...Read More

The Spider Labyrinth

For more than three decades, the remarkable debut feature – and sole horror film – by award-winning director Gianfranco Giagni has been one of the most elusive Italian horror titles in home video history…until now: When an American professor is sent to Budapest to complete a mysterious research project, he’ll become ensnared in a mind-bending web of sexual provocati...Read More

Burial Ground

For his only foray into the zombie genre, psychosexual sleaze maestro Andrea Bianchi unleashed the barrage of flesh-ripping, gut-chomping and depraved oedipal mayhem that set insane new standards in Italian horro. Mariangela Giordano (of SATAN’S BABY DOLL) stars in the ‘80s splatter classic about a cursed country estate besieged by horny houseguests, undead Etrusca...Read More

21st Century Schizoid Band: Live In Japan

Current and former members of King Crimson reunite in Tokyo for this memorable 2002 concert featuring stellar performances of classic King Crimson.

Rats: Night of Terror

In the year 225 A.B. (After the Bomb), a group of post-apocalyptic bikers discover an abandoned research laboratory filled with food, water... and thousands of rats. But these are no ordinary vermin; these are super-intelligent mutant rodents with a ravenous appetite for human flesh. Can a bunch of heavily armed but not-too-bright human scavengers survive a night of...Read More

Hardware Wars

Fluke Starbucker (Scott Mathews) must learn to master the power of 'The Farce' with help from Artie Deco, 4-Q-2 (Frank Robertson), Princess Anne-Droid (Cindy Furgatch), Ham Salad (Bob Knickerbocker), and the rest of the Red Eye Knights. In 1978 writer / director Ernie Fosselius (former member of 'The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo') created the very first 'St...Read More

Drowning By Numbers

Peter Greenaway – “one of the most distinctive, provocative talents of his generation” (The Guardian) – shocked/delighted international audiences with this slyly deranged black comedy classic: Oscar® nominee Dame Joan Plowright (Enchanted April), four-time BAFTA Award nominee Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply) and two-time Golden Globe nominee Joely Richardson (T...Read More

The Astrologer

Before he became NYC's favorite '80s action auteur with hits like The Exterminator, The Protector and Shakedown, as well as executive producer of grindhouse classics that included Maniac Cop, Frankenhooker and Basket Case 2 & 3, writer/director James Glickenhaus made his feature debut with this bizarre tale of government skullduggery, satanic killings, zodiacal mayh...Read More

Piranha

Lost river lake was a was a thriving resort - until they discovered... Piranha! Featuring a stellar group of talent in front of as well as behind the camera. With cult luminary Joe Dante directing and Pino Donaggio behind the score, the first-class cast of cult stars includes Kevin McCarthy (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers), Barbara Steele (Black Sunday), Belinda Bal...Read More

It All Comes Down to… ACR

A NIGHT FLIGHT PLUS PREMIERE: An absurdist view of the recording process for musicians A Certain Ratio, collaborating with Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey. Occurring 45 years after the release of their first album, this view offers everything and nothing. It All Comes Down to This, and the pursuit of such. "It All Comes Down to This," the new album from A Certain Ra...Read More

Iron Maiden: Ultimate Critical Review

With the release of the classic self-titled album in April 1980, Iron Maiden set themselves at the forefront of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. This documentary tells the story of the making of a classic heavy metal album. It includes a unique, frank interview with original Maiden front man and bad-boy Paul Di'Annio - known affectionately as 'The Beast' - who s...Read More

Octaman

Something strange is happening in the wilds of Mexico. Radioactive waste has contaminated the major waterways and once harmless sea creatures have developed frighteningly complex intelligence systems... the OCTAMAN is on the prowl! From the co-writer of the original "Creature From the Black Lagoon" and the makeup effects wizard of An American Werewolf in London come...Read More

The Stunt Man

Lights, Camera, Action! In The Stunt Man, a Vietnam Vet on the run from the law becomes entangled in a movie shoot when he disrupts a staged accident and causes the death of the stunt man. Instead of turning him in, megalomaniac director Eli Cross (portrayed by Peter O'Toole in an Oscar®-nominated performance) offers Cameron an irresistible proposition: replace the ...Read More

Jimi Hendrix: Smash Hits

Smash Hits was the only compilation made prior to Hendrix’s death and in this retrospective, you can experience the best of the music in the company of Jimi’s contemporaries and leading critics.

Solomon King

A new restoration from cult label partner Deaf Crocodile of the long-lost, independently financed Blaxploitation film Solomon King is streaming now! In the vein of Shaft and Dolomite, Solomon King stars Sal Watts (who also directs, wrote and produced) as an ex-CIA nightclub owner seeking violent revenge for the murder of his girlfriend by hitmen working for an oil-o...Read More

Night Flight - The Video Artist (Ernest Gusella)

Experimental animator (and bio-chemist/philosopher) Ernest Gusella stops by the Night Flight studios to talk about his analog and digital video synthesis projects, which were inspired by Terry Riley, Nam June Paik and Gene Youngblood's influential book "Expanded Cinema."

Rapina

Impoverished woodcutters and neighbors, Evodio, and Porfirio, witness a plane crash and when they discover the planes occupants are all dead, they hurriedly steal their belongings before the authorities arrive to the scene. Unbeknownst them them, two charcoal burners, had also seen the crash. When they try to cash in on the booty too, they are killed by Porfirio, wh...Read More

Nirvana - In Utero: Under Review

Featuring live and studio performances by Nirvana, rare interviews, and a host of other features, all interspersed with independent review and criticism from a panel of experts. These include; original Nirvana drummer Chad Channing; Jack Endino, producer of Nirvana's Bleach and owner of the studios in which the band started early work on In Utero; former girlfriend ...Read More

Night Flight - Sold American

Night Flight presents "Sold American," an eye-opening documentary about Marijuana production in California in the early 1980s - from seed to bud. The film explores political and economic ramifications of growing cannabis and features interviews growers, narcotics enforcers, and politicians.

The Young Poisoner's Handbook

Based on the true story, The Young Poisoners Handbook is a black-comedy satire about the exploits of a brilliant and disturbed teenage chemistry prodigy. Growing up in a dreary London suburb in the early 50s, Graham Young is an outcast among fellow students and a pariah at home. His gift for chemistry evolves into a fascination with toxic substances and he soon emba...Read More

Night Flight - New Sounds (March 1988)

Welcome to Night Flight’s New Sounds! This original ‘80s episode format featured a curated mix of videos from emerging artists. Tonight's episodes features The Proclaimers, Richmond, Virginia’s rock duo House of Freaks, The Christians, and to kick things off... Moz! Yep, Morrissey's immaculate post-Smiths debut single “Suedehead” and it's accompanying James Dean tribute video.

Quasi at the Quackadero

This cult cartoon follows two ducks, Quasi and Anita, and a pet robot at an amusement park in the future where time travel is exploited. Hugely popular in the 1970s, it was named to the National Film Registry in 2009.

A Blade in the Dark

When The Lights Go Out, The Knife Goes In…! In Lamberto Bava’s Blade in the Dark, Bruno is hired to compose the music for a new horror movie and rents an isolated villa to concentrate on his work. But when several beautiful young women are brutally murdered within the house, Bruno becomes obsessed with solving the savage crimes. Is a clue to the killer's identity hi...Read More

Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema

Welcome to your crash course on the history of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema, one of the most curious and invigorating periods in exploitation filmmaking. This new documentary arrival covers the rise and fall of Hong Kong's notorious Category III (think UK Video Nasties or US's NC-17) cinema which reached a peak during the years 1988 and the lead-up to the Handover ...Read More

Animals

ANIMALS tells the story of a young couple that exist somewhere between homelessness and the fantasy life they imagine for themselves. Though they masterfully con and steal in an attempt to stay one step ahead of their addiction, they are ultimately forced to face the reality of their situation.

Black Circle

Two sisters, Celeste and Isa, fall under the terrifying spell of a mysterious vinyl record from the 1970s. Used to help with stress and bring the listener to a state of calming self-hypnosis, the recording has the unfortunate side-effect of manifesting a doppelgänger of the listener into our world. Directed by internationally acclaimed horror master Adrian Garcia B...Read More

Castle of Blood

It was begun by Sergio Corbucci (Django), completed by Antonio Margheriti (The Long Hair of Death) and remains one of the true masterpieces of Gothic Horror. When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won’t survive the night in a haunted castle, it will unlock an odyssey of sexual torment, undead vengeance and a dark seductress (the legendary Barbara Steele) ...Read More

Two Evil Eyes

The masters of modern horror George Romero and Dario Argento bring you an unprecedented pair of shockers inspired by the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. In Romero's The Facts In The Case Of Mr. Valdemar, a conniving wife (Adrienne Barbeau of THE FOG) and her lover use a hypnotic trance to embezzle a fortune from her dying husband, only to receive some chilling surprises f...Read More

The Thin Lizzy Story

Documentary tracing the career and music of Dublin rock band Thin Lizzy during the years when the band was fronted by the legendary Phil Lynott. Featuring live performances from the legendary rock group plus interview clips with the members who survived Phil Lynott. 

Skin: A History Of Nudity In The Movies

A definitive documentary on the history of nudity in the movies from the early silent days to the present, examining the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped this rich history. Skin delves into the gender bias concerning nudity in motion pictures and will follow the ...Read More

Slumber Party Massacre II

In this freaky follow-up to Slumber Party Massacre (written and directed by Deborah Brock), Courtney (Crystal Bernard) is tormented by dreams of the infamous Driller Killer returning to wreak havoc... only to find that (bad) dreams really do come true when the murderous monster is reincarnated as an evil rocker!

Fire And Ice

It began as a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between two of the greatest icons of the fantasy genre: Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi (director of Fritz the Cat and the original The Lord of the Rings) and legendary illustrator Frank Frazetta (creator of the iconic Conan The Barbarian, and countless Edgar Rice Burroughs book covers). It became - and remains - on...Read More

The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra

After a mysterious mold starts spreading across the surface of an abandoned mattress, a sentient creature begins to take shape from within. Feasting on its unsuspecting victims' vertebrae while they rest, the creature grows stronger, finding nourishment not only in the bones and sinew it assimilates but also in the hopes, fears, and emotions of all those it encounters.

Jan Terri: No Rules

A NIGHT FLIGHT PLUS STREAMING EXCLUSIVE: This is the story of Jan Terri, an irrepressible and delightfully perplexing musical personality. As a child, Jan would dance and sing for anyone who would listen. As a teenager, she began writing and performing her own songs. In her 20’s and 30’s, she used the income from her job as a full-time limo driver to hire a freelanc...Read More

Rush: In Performance

This is the ultimate critical review of the music of Rush on record, on film and on stage. Drawing on rare archive footage, and an in depth interview with Alex Lifeson, a leading team of music critics and working musicians revisits and reviews every Rush album from 1974 through to Exit Stage Left.

Turn of the Century: Pilot

Dame Darcy Isabelle Bajo, Risque’ Reverie, Gluttony, The Elaborate Empire of Ache, Midnight Mirage w/Dame Darcy, Dutchess and the Doppleganger, The Sirens and The Sailor, The Foundling, Dame Darcy, Doll Craftin’ with Courtney Love -short version, Dame Darcy Banjo + Saw.

The Girl From Rio

A Carnivàle Of Sex, Violence And Outrageous Style From Jess Franco! In the tradition of BARBARELLA and DANGER: DIABOLIK comes this swinging ‘60s action orgy as Sumuru (the luscious Shirley Eaton of Goldfinger) launches a diabolical plan to enslave the male species with her army of lusty warrior women. But when Sumuru kidnaps a fugitive American playboy, she crosses ...Read More

Bob Marley - The Lost Tapes

Born on February 6th, 1945, in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, Robert Nesta Marley brought the reggae music sound to the world and dedicated his life to global freedom. With over 75 million albums sold worldwide, Bob Marley remains one of history's top-selling artists. In this new documentary arrival, we delve into Marley's revolutionary ideals through 60 minutes of rare...Read More

U2: War

With the help of immaculately researched archival performance footage, War is analysed by a team of critics and insiders. Featuring highlights from New Years Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday and more.

Nightmare

Now “the most repulsive, degrading and horrifying movie ever made” (NY Daily News) can be experienced like never before: When a homicidal mental patient (an enduringly disturbing performance by Baird Stafford) flees an experimental drug program, he’ll leave a 5-day trail of psychosexual carnage from the peep shows of 42nd Street to the gore-soaked shores of Florida....Read More

Visitors From The Arkana Galaxy

A truly gonzo Croatian sci-fi / fantasy / comedy about a struggling writer named Robert who dreams up a story of gold-skinned alien androids named Andra, Targo and Ulu from a distant planet. Incredibly, his fictional alien creations become reality, causing chaos in his relationship with his girlfriend Biba and threatening his small seaside village. The alluring lead...Read More

The Psychic

Shortly before he surrendered to the gory excesses of horror, Lucio Fulci - the notorious director of ZOMBIE and PERVERSION STORY - crafted one last brilliant thriller with a killer twist. Jennifer O'Neill of SCANNERS stars as a clairvoyant tormented by visions of a violent murder. But will her own investigation into the crime lead to the most shocking discovery of ...Read More

Forevermoore: The Angelo Project

The documentary "ForeverMoore; The Angelo Project" follows the life of Angelo Moore of Fishbone featuring appearances by members of the band. Angelo Moore devotes his life to weaving a legacy; crafting art through spoken word, music, and fashion. As an African American forerunner in the early 80's LA punk rock scene, he inspired others to embrace nonconformity. Livi...Read More

The Miami Vice Incident

The Miami Vice Incident explores a 35-year rift in a family caused by an episode of Miami Vice.

Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein

Inspired by Universal’s 1940s monster mash-ups, writer/director Jess Franco instead delivered “a weird and wonderful masterpiece that transports you to a world like no other” (Scream Magazine). With minimal dialogue and maximum gothic atmosphere, Franco crafts a fever dream of erotic horror in which Count Dracula (Howard Vernon), Dr. Frankenstein (Dennis Price), his...Read More

Benny's Bathtub

Populated by singing (and barely dressed) Mermaids, a funky hepcat Octopus and whiskey-drinking Skeleton Pirates, the underwater kingdom is the grooviest scene this side of Yellow Submarine, with helpings of Dr. Seuss, Sid & Marty Krofft and Harry Nilsson's The Point thrown in. (Danish kids' entertainment in the early 1970s was truly outtasite!) In addition to the c...Read More

Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession

An American psychiatrist (Art Garfunkel) working in Vienna is drawn to a beautiful but self-destructive married woman (Theresa Russell), but their torrid affair threatens to destroy them body and soul in this erotically charged tale also starring Harvey Keitel and Denholm Elliott. Described by its own distributors as "a sick film made by sick people for sick people,...Read More

Night Flight - Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis Video Profile

Tonight’s Video Profile looks at Minneapolis writers, performers, and legendary super producers: Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Bassist Terry Lewis met Keyboard player Jimmy Harris when they were handpicked by Prince for one of Minneapolis's great spinoff bands: The Time. "C...O...O...L"! Night Flight takes us through a tour of classics the pair wrote and produced from ...Read More

Monster from the Ocean Floor

B-movie maverick Roger Corman started his own production career with this entertaining sci-fi shocker! While vacationing in a coastal Mexican village, artist Julie Blair learns of a local superstition involving a man-eating "sea devil". Little does she know, the locals have set her up as the monster's next sacrificial victimand it's only a matter of time before the ...Read More

Tender Dracula

The first and only film in which Peter Cushing portrayed a vampire is also the most unapologetically bizarre movie of his entire career. When horror’s biggest star (Cushing) announces his retirement from the genre, two dimwit screenwriters and a pair of sexy actresses are dispatched to the actor’s castle for a lavish farce d’horreur érotique of violence, whippings, ...Read More

Nezura 1964

1963 Summer. Nagano, the president of the Daiei Film Company, is in need of a new hit movie. He’s convinced by his special effects director Tsukaji to make a giant monster motion picture - but to outdo the studios’ competitors, not just any monster movie, but a “Giant Horde Beast” feature. Along with veteran director Muraoka, assistant director Yukawa, and producer ...Read More

Cat City

Unflappable and unstoppable mouse secret agent Nick Grabovsky (László Sinkó) with his deadpan voice, baggy pants and a big "G" on his shirt, goes up against the criminal cat gang run by the sinister, metal-pawed Mr. Teufel (Miklós Benedek), in Hungarian director Béla Ternovszky's surreal, animated sci-fi treasure. Set in the year 80 AMM ("After Mickey Mouse") on Pla...Read More

Kill Zone

The savagery of "The Deer Hunter", the brutality of "First Blood" and the unbridled power of "Rambo" come together to create the most intense film yet about the effects of the Vietnam War - KILL ZONE. Colonel Crawford (David Campbell, Killer Workout), the sadistic commander of an advanced military training center known as "Scare Camp", has created the most grueli...Read More

Megazone 23

THE ULTIMATE VIRTUAL REALITY TRIP! Something strange is happening in Tokyo and it's up to Shogo to unravel the mystery! When the young rebel stumbles upon a top secret weapon, he can't possibly know what dangers await him. Determined to learn the truth behind this bizarre war machine -and avenge his friend's murder- Shogo is thrust into a complex web of political in...Read More