New Arrivals

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliche

Poly Styrene was the first woman of colour in the UK to front a successful rock band, and a key influence on the riot grrrl and Afropunk movements. But Poly didn’t just leave behind a cultural footprint. She was survived by a daughter, Celeste, who became the steward of her mother’s legacy and demons, which plagued Poly’s life and scarred the pair’s relationship. Wi...Read More

Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters

Tetris. We've all played it, rotating the pieces and dropping them in the perfect place, or despairing as we discover a piece won't fit. Ecstasy of Order tracks down a group of record-holding Tetris Masters as they prepare to compete in the Classic Tetris World Championship. Get an up-close look at the Masters as they recount their decades-long obsession with the ga...Read More

Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire

On March 18th 1972, Leonard Cohen began a 20-city European tour, beginning in Dublin and ending in Jerusalem on April 21st.  Director Tony Palmer’s intimate concert portrait captures both the artistry of a musician at a moment when his work had assumed profound cultural and personal significance. Long lost 16mm prints were restored for this release, not seen since 1972.

Murder-Rock: Dancing Death

Shortly after a trio of new students are accepted into Candice’s tutelage, a young female pupil is found murdered on campus, stabbed through the heart with a long pin. With the backbiting staff and students alike all rendered possible suspects, Candice is also plagued by haunting dreams involving a sinister man. Director Lucio Fulci’s (City of the Living Dead, Th...Read More

Martha: A Picture Story

In 1970s New York, trailblazing street photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a time when the city had declared war on it. Decades later, Cooper has become an influential figure to the global movement of street artists. “1977, the Bronx was burning down. No one really wanted to write that graffiti was an interesting thing. But I ...Read More

Watchers

"It started as a secret experiment… It ended up as a new breed of terror!" When a classified laboratory explodes, a mutated killing machine escapes into the woods, hunting a super-intelligent golden retriever bred in the same secret experiment. After a young boy discovers the dog’s incredible abilities, the pair become locked in a deadly game of survival against the...Read More

Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass

Twenty years after their last feature, the Quay Brothers return to the work of Polish author and visual artist Bruno Schulz (The Street of Crocodiles) for inspiration. A son's visit to his dying father begins with a phantom train ride to a decaying, otherworldly sanatorium, where he experiences seven fragmented "manifestations" of a parental entity. Presented by Aca...Read More

Hal

Although Hal Ashby directed a remarkable string of acclaimed, widely admired classics throughout the 1970s—Harold and Maude, Being There, Shampoo—he is often overlooked amid the crowd of luminaries from his generation. Amy Scott’s exuberant portrait explores that curious oversight, using rare archival materials, interviews, personal letters, and audio recordings to ...Read More

Voices From Beyond

When the scion of a wealthy family dies under shocking circumstances, every heir has a motive for murder. But will the restless spirit of the deceased now seek vengeance from beyond the grave? The penultimate film from writer/director Lucio Fulci, Voices from Beyond is "the highlight of his twilight era" (Mondo Digital), and stars Karina Huff and Pascal Persiano (Pa...Read More

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Frank Zappa"

Circa 1986, this Night Flight Short Cut captures Frank Zappa at the height of the PMRC controversy, challenging censorship, and arguing that every form of music has a right to exist:  "If you can't have it in every degree from the cheesiest to the most exalted because they all need to exist together. Without Louie Louie, a symphony is not quite so grand."

The Crippled Masters

More than four decades ago, "one of the strangest and most shocking martial arts movies ever witnessed" (DVD Talk) drove 42nd Street audiences into a stunned frenzy. Newly restored by Severin Films, the legendary kung fu oddity The Crippled Masters is now streaming. When a crime boss chops off the arms of a peasant (Sung-Chuan Shen, born with Thalidomide Syndrome) a...Read More

Mellodrama

Mellodrama explores the rising and falling fortunes of the Mellotron, from its birth in a California garage in the 1950s, through its dominance on concert stages in the 1970s, through its almost religious cult of followers in the twenty-first century. The first musical keyboard to "sample" the sounds of other instruments, the Mellotron became the "instant magic soun...Read More

Mixed Blood

Written and directed by exploitation cinema luminary Paul Morrissey, Mixed Blood is a characteristically grimy descent into urban malaise that is often punctuated by moments of gallows humor. Featuring an eclectic ensemble cast that includes the screen debut of John Leguizamo and Warhol superstar Geraldine Smith (Bad), Mixed Blood is an essential, but often overl...Read More

Virtual Girl

In this '90s softcore thriller, a computer cybervixen terrorizes the programmer who summons it. John Lewis, a programming genius, has it all: a beautiful wife and a child, a lavish home and he's on the brink of making it big after he finishes one last project, a CD-Rom Sex Game called Virtual Girl.

Falcon Lake

Director Charlotte Le Bon’s Falcon Lake is both a love story and a ghost story. During a lakeside vacation, a shy teenager experiences the joy and pain of first love when he forms a bond with an older girl. Falcon Lake was a selection of the 2022 Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls

REMASTERED: David Markey's Desperate Teenage Lovedolls chronicles the rise and fall of the fictitious all girl band, the Lovedolls. "Kind of an all-girl Spinal Tap" said the Los Angeles Reader at the time of release. The positive critical response didn't stop there. "This is worthy of a Joan Crawford vehicle" chimed The Village Voice. Made on a micro-budget and cast...Read More

Lovedolls Superstar

REMASTERED: David Markey's 1986 sequel to his seminal Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, presented for the rebuilt and remastered in 4K. A scene of no values, where climbing to the top means climbing into bed, cheap thrills fill the date book, and Rock 'n' Roll is Death & Destruction! The epic continues when Patch Kelley (Janet Housden) becomes Patch Christ, the leader of...Read More

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Julian Lennon"

Circa March 1986, this Night Flight Short Cut finds Julian Lennon in conversation with Lisa Robinson about fame and the Lennon name, London nightlife, and his early days running with biker and heavy metal crowds before starting his music career.

TURA!

TURA! tells the shocking true story of Asian American cinema icon Tura Satana, star of the Russ Meyer cult classic, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965). Narrated by Margaret Cho, with interviews from John Waters, Dita Von Teese, and more, TURA! is a thrilling, heartfelt look at a burlesque legend and cult film star whose legacy of female empowerment lives on.

The Hands of Orlac

In this third film adaptation of the Maurice Renard novel, Mel Ferrer (Eaten Alive) stars as a famed concert pianist whose hands are destroyed in a plane crash. But when he receives transplants from a recently executed strangler, his murderous new mitts attract the attention of a sleazy illusionist turned blackmailer (a scene-stealing Christopher Lee).

Night Flight - Visions 1984

In this special 1984 edition of Visions, Night Flight, then in its third season, looks ahead to the year in music video and film with Donna Summer, Big Country, Will Powers, Herbie Hancock, and Mary Jane Girls performing “Candyman.” Also featuring vintage preview segments with scenes from Scarface and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

Blood Nasty

Everybody wants Roy dead! Wanda, the psychic stripper, Barry, the conniving insurance agent, cash-hungry Mom and Sis... even Roy himself. Every BODY, that is, except diabolical demon Blade Orlando who just won't let Roy rest in pieces! Watch as family values plunge knee-deep into gore in this outrageous, spine- tickling thriller where things get nasty... Linnea Quig...Read More

Hoagie

NIGHT FLIGHT PLUS EXCLUSIVE: A mysterious egg contains an impish creature who can grant great power, for good or evil. Brendan Bean, a kindly family man, finds himself face to face with the bizarre creature, and before long a friendship for the ages develops. Meanwhile, the depraved Benny Piazza leads his deranged militia on a violent quest to reclaim the magical ho...Read More

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

From his curious boyhood and mysterious military service through his legendary film career and beyond, "few people in the history of the world have lived such eventful lives as the late, great Christopher Lee" (Eye for Film). In this "fascinating and brilliantly crafted documentary" (CineDump), writer/director Jon Spira utilizes archival footage, unique animations, ...Read More

Witch Story

The directorial debut of Alessandro Capone, who had previously penned Ruggero Deodato’s slice-and-dice effort Body Count, Witch Story is a prime example of late '80s Italian splatter, featuring an astonishing array of nastiness with numerous bodies being hacked, slashed and generally beaten to a pulp. A sister and brother take a group of friends to rural Florida to ...Read More

Prime Rose: A Time Slip Of 10,000 Years

An entity known as Death Mask hurls Kujukuri City and Dallas, Texas 10,000 years into the future, reshaping them into a ruthless battleground. Determined to shatter this tyrant's hold on time itself, Gai Tanbara ventures into the dystopian future. Prime Rose was Created by "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka and featuring storyboards by the legendary Noboru Ishiguro!

Stravinsky: Once at a Border...

This biographical film from director Tony Palmer tells the story of one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Featuring rare documents, photographs, and previously unseen film footage, the documentary includes reflections from Igor Stravinsky’s three children, along with contributions from the late Madame Vera Stravinsky. Included in t...Read More

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Eazy-E"

In this uncut 1990 Slammin’ Rap interview, Eazy-E sits down with Tairrie B to discuss the future of N.W.A., building Ruthless Records alongside Dr. Dre, media backlash surrounding gangsta rap, and life after Ice Cube’s departure. 

Psycho Gothic Lolita

Yuki once led a peaceful life with her loving parents, but her family's happiness was taken away suddenly one day by a group wearing black cloaks. Fashioning herself into an elegant, parasol-twirling, goth-styled demon of vengeance, Yuki sets off to enact the ultimate payback. Outrageous, eye-popping special effects were created by the master of visceral visuals, Yo...Read More

Poppers

This rarely seen stunner captures the essence of Spain's early '80s political/cultural transformation through the lens of a New Wave revenge film. When a young rock musician is released from a two-year prison term after accidentally killing a romantic rival, he's lured into becoming the prey for a hunting expedition by a depraved group of wealthy industrialists on t...Read More

Art and Craft

Mark Landis has been called one of the most prolific art forgers in US history. His body of work spans thirty years, covering a wide range of painting styles and periods that including 15th Century Icons, Picasso, and even Walt Disney. Art and Craft starts out as a cat-and-mouse art caper – but what emerges is an story of obsession and the universal need for communi...Read More

Delirium

Long considered one of the most shocking and controversial gialli to emerge from the genre’s golden age, Italian provocateur Renato Polselli’s (Monster of the Opera) Delirium has come to be considered a high point of on-screen perversity in the annals of giallo history. Featurin Rita Calderoni (The Reincarnation of Isabel), who co-stars alongside all-around exploita...Read More

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Alice in Chains"

In this new Short Cut arrival, Alice in Chains’ Jerry Cantrell and Layne Staley trade jokes about Hollywood and growing up as KISS heads. They reminisce about the first time hearing Metallica and touring with Iggy Pop. An essential snapshot of the Seattle band.

Class of '74

Underclassman Gabriella, lacking confidence in the ways of the world, is taken in by three older students who are eager to share their experiences and broaden her horizons. Heather (Pat Woodell), Carla (Marki Bey), and Maggie (Sandra Currie) bring Gabriella into their worlds as they teach her how a woman can empower herself in this pro-feminism '70s era film. A time...Read More

Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner...Read More

K-19: The Widowmaker

Harrison Ford delivers one of his most powerful performances in this riveting action-drama inspired by true events and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. At the height of the 1960s Cold War, Russia launches its flagship nuclear submarine, the K-19. In command is iron-willed Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Ford). Also aboard is the popular executive officer Mikhail Polenin (Liam...Read More

Dark Days

For years, a homeless community took root in a train tunnel beneath New York City, braving dangerous conditions and perpetual night. Dark Days explores this surprisingly domestic subterranean world, unearthing a way of life unimaginable to those above. Through stories simultaneously heartbreaking, hilarious, intimate, and off the cuff, tunnel dwellers reveal their r...Read More

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Art of Noise"

In this rare Radio 1990 interview with Lisa Robinson, Art of Noise’s J.J. Jeczalik and Anne Dudley reflect on the mystery behind the group’s masked identity (and why they chose to step into view), the art of programming synthesizers, and their label’s reaction to the original “Close (To The Edit)” video.

The Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle

The Rare Blue Apes of Cannibal Isle is an impossible to describe musical, shot in Malaysia by veteran sexploitation director Donn Greer (Alice in Acidland). Cannibal Isle offers a jaw-dropping barrage of singing crocodiles and monkeys, deadly and psychedelic booby traps, barren hellscapes, and a lovable duck named Mr. Quack Quack… We guarantee you’ve never seen anyt...Read More

X-Cross

From the director of Battle Royale 2 and the screenwriter of the Death Note movies, X-Cross is a "demented slice of midnight movie bliss" (Dread Central)! Shiyori, a young lady trying to mend her broken heart after the end of a relationship, is off to the hot springs for a therapeutic soak with her friend Aiko. The quiet country village turns out to be home to a cul...Read More

Freeway

Street-smart Vanessa (Reese Witherspoon) takes to the freeway, on the run from the authorities and an abusive household, in search of a grandmother that she has never met. On her way she runs into Bob Wolverton, (Kiefer Sutherland) who reveals himself to be the "Hi-5" serial killer and Vanessa is to become his next victim... Or is she? Written and directed by Matthe...Read More

Night Flight - John Waters Interview

In this essential Night Flight interview, John Waters reflects on the transgressive ethos that defines his filmmaking. He recounts his humble beginnings touring prints from the trunk of his car, the neighborhood Baltimore crew of collaborators including Divine (“I don't trust anybody that hasn't been arrested at least once”), and a career built on offending multiple...Read More

Death: The Ultimate Mystery

Death: The Ultimate Mystery is a ’70s schlockumentary narrated by none other than Cameron Mitchell, equal parts graveyard philosophy and midnight-movie absurdity. This hazy excursion into the one journey we’re all destined to take ranges from reincarnation to regression and other life-after-death detours.

Buzzard

Marty is a caustic con artist drifting from one scam to the next. When his latest ruse goes awry, mounting paranoia forces him from his temp job to the streets of Detroit with nothing more than a pocket full of bogus checks and a dangerously altered Nintendo® Power Glove. Albert Camus meets Freddy Krueger in Buzzard, a hellish and hilarious riff on the struggles of ...Read More

Weed (New Restoration)

Newly restored by Vinegar Syndrome, Weed is a strangely compelling time capsule that documents the marijuana culture and economy of the early 1970s... hosted, improbably, by notorious adult filmmaker Alex De Renzy! The documentary follows all sides of the burgeoning “Legalize It” movement, including law enforcement, pharmacists, and hippies, while its globe-trotting...Read More

The Black Room

Written and co-directed by Norman Thaddeus Vane (writer/director of 1983’s Frightmare) and directed by Elly Kenner, 1982’s The Black Room is a seductive and utterly unique horror yarn.  The erotic-horror thriller offers up a distinctive and modern take on the then-tired vampire mythos, whilst doubling down on all the requisite sex and bloodletting one would expect, ...Read More

Bigger Than Life: Bert I. Gordon In The 1950s & 1960s

Bigger Than Life dives in to life and career of director Bert I. Gordon, known for many sci-fi and monster films including Tormented, King Dinosaur, Attack of the Puppet People and many more. Often working with his wife, Flora Gordon, the two specialized in early special effects.

Circle Jerks: Live at the House of Blues

Shot with multiple Panasonic DVX100 cameras, this blistering House of Blues set captures the Circle Jerks at full force. Featuring front-man Keith Morris (ex-Black Flag) at the top of his game, the band tears through 25 tracks spanning their career.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Politics 4

“Rock music continues to have a close connection with contemporary politics,” host Pat Prescott says at the top of this newly restored "Take Off" episode. From Bob Dylan’s political symbolism to Nena’s apocalyptic pop, this 1984 episode traces the music and politics across a rapidly shifting global landscape.

Jim Morrison: Rock Poet

This music documentary explores Jim Morrison’s roots as a poet, tracing how he absorbed the ethos of the Beat Generation and carried it into his work with The Doors. Directed by Jon Brewer, it offers a fresh perspective of Morrison beyond the myth with new accounts from those present in his final days.

Tripping with Caveh

Independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi approaches legendary songwriter Will Oldham (Bonnie "Prince" Billy) with the unusual proposition of taking psychedelic mushrooms together, and filming the results. Surprisingly, Will accepts.

Jack Bruce: Rope Ladder to the Moon

Only on Night Flight Plus: Music filmmaker par excellence Tony Palmer crafts an intimate and deeply personal portrait of British bassist (and former Cream member) Jack Bruce. In 1969, Bruce released Songs for a Tailor, a jazz-oriented LP of original compositions. Filmed at the same time, this 55-minute documentary traces his journey from the Gorbals, through Cream, ...Read More

Devilman

Devilman is a live action film directed by Hiroyuki Nasu, based on the manga by Go Nagai. Best friends Akira and Ryo are your average high school students, that is, until they learn that Ryo’s scientist father stationed in Antarctica has accidentally unleashed a horde of demons upon the earth! 

Fudoh: The New Generation

Hailed by critics, Fudoh: The New Generation is the film that brought director Takashi Miike to the attention of international cinema audiences. Prepare yourself to experience Miike's extreme and virtuoso filmmaking in this gangster thriller that set the pace for his later classics like Audition and Ichi The Killer. Riki Fudoh appears to be an ordinary high school s...Read More

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Wendy O. Williams"

In her official Night Flight interview, Wendy O. Williams stakes her claim as the “heaviest woman in heavy metal,” establishing a metal creed rooted in raw energy and self-expression. From recording with Gene Simmons to trading vocals with Lemmy, this treasure from the Night Flight vault finds the icon channeling a loud, unfiltered worldview that's entirely her own.

FleshEater: Revenge of the Living Dead

A lo-fi gore epic directed by actor and cinematographer Bill Hinzman, star zombie in the classic Night of the Living Dead, FleshEater is a fitting tribute to Romero’s masterpiece that updates the setting to the late 1980s while piling on the gut munching, throat ripping, and limb tearing action! While assisting on a dig, a construction worker accidentally destroys t...Read More

Terminal Force

After spending decades overseas making dozens of action features, actor Richard Harrison returned to America. His first starring role would be in Fred Olen Ray's Terminal Force (1989), a Euro-styled cop drama that would focus on Harrison's foreign star power! Teamed up with a solid supporting cast that featured Jay Richardson (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers), Dawn Wilds...Read More

The Facts of Murder

Inspector Ingravallo has been called to a Roman apartment building to investigate a robbery. Once there he questions the tenants but soon realises something is amiss... Directed by and starring Pietro Germi as the growling Inspector, The Facts of Murder is shot with inky shadows reminiscent of film noir, while the mystery element prefigures the giallo.

Banned

When a smooth jazz guitarist is demonically possessed by the ghost of Teddy Homicide, a notorious, violent punk rocker, all hell and guitar strings are sure to break loose! This is grindhouse grand-diva Roberta Findlay's, one of the lone femme auteurs of the exploitation film industry, last feature film. The mostly unseen cult film that has steadily gained in reputa...Read More

The Devonsville Terror

From director Ulli Lommel (The Boogeyman) comes one of the more notorious witchcraft themed horror films of the 1980s, The Devonsville Terror. Starring, and co-written by Suzanna Love (Olivia), and featuring Robert Walker Jr. (Easy Rider), Donald Pleasence (Halloween) and character actor Paul Willson (Office Space), this unnerving study in superstition, with a touch...Read More

Puppet Princess

In a violent age of civil war and warlords, Yasaburo is a ninja without a mission and the only survivor of his clan. He meets Rangiku, a young girl of noble descent whose family was slaughtered by the henchmen of General Karimata. Together with Yasaburo, the Princess and her army of pulverizing puppets cut a bloody path through 16th Century Japan and drench the dust...Read More

Harley Flanagan: Wired For Chaos

Harley Flanagan is a Punk Rock/Hardcore legend, known as the father of New York City Hardcore and the founder of the pioneering band Cro-Mags. He has had a cult following since the 80s. This is a film about an extraordinary life, and the survival of astounding circumstances against crazy odds. As Harley visits his friends throughout the film (Flea, Henry Rollins, Ro...Read More

Rubber Nose Massacre

Rubber Nose Massacre follows the story of a mysterious clown who is on the loose kidnapping young women for a deadly underground game show. Two Florida Man vigilantes, Everett and Diesel, suspect their new neighbor, Snappy the Clown to be the culprit and take it upon themselves to uncover the mystery while leaving a trail of blood and destruction in their wake.

The Best of Midnight Rider

Best bits of the Midnight Rider late night variety stoner comedy show featuring stand up preformances, short cartoons, voice dubbed sketches & independent short films.

We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song

In 1985, the music industry and the world came together in an unprecedented outpouring of generosity in response to the tragic famine wreaking havoc in Africa at the time. The biggest names in music checked their egos at the door to create what was and still is a worldwide phenomenon. The recording of the original "We Are The World" sold more than 7 million records worldwide. 

964 Pinocchio

Shozin Fukui’s live-action, underground cyberpunk masterpiece depicts the nightmarish journey of a discarded cybernetic sex android that is expelled from a brothel and left to fend for himself. Aimlessly wandering around the city, Pinocchio meets Kyoto, an amnesiac homeless girl with a horrible secret of her own. Together, they try to piece together their past lives...Read More

The Electric Urn

Jim and Johnny, two starving rock musicians, are on the run from the Mexican mafia. They hitchhike across the United States, just escaping their assailants, and travel to New York City’s East Village art community where they find other outsiders of society: a prostitute with a heart of gold, a mysterious beautiful woman who wants to stop them, and an ex girlfriend f...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Animation VII

“Take Off” to Animation is one of the most beloved original Night Flight formats, as true today as it was in the 1980s. Like our other animation specials, this 1987 arrival from the vault is a one-of-a-kind time capsule from an era when music videos and animation technologies were evolving side by side. Featuring Grace Jones’ multi-media visual spectacle, vibrant c...Read More

The Tough Ones

Umberto Lenzi, legendary director of CANNIBAL FEROX, kicked off the Italian police film craze with this hyper-kinetic, ultra-violent, brain-blasting action thriller. Maurizio Meril stars as an Italian DIRTY HARRY, punching and shooting his way through the sleazy drug, sex and crime infested cesspool of mid-'70s Rome, on the trail of a sadistic, machine gun-toting hu...Read More

Eaten Alive

MEET THE MANIAC & HIS FRIEND. Nearly a decade before he donned Freddy Krueger's famous red and green sweater, horror icon Robert Englund delivered a supremely sleazy performance in Eaten Alive - another essay in taut Southern terror from Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Oozing atmosphere from its every pore (the entire film was shot on a sound-...Read More

The Chosen

Kirk Douglas (The Fury) stars as industrialist Robert Caine, who with his son Angel (Simon Ward, Supergirl), is finally about to realize his biggest dream: a massive nuclear power plant in the Holy Land. But soon, Caine's dream becomes a horrific nightmare as person after person associated with the project meets a violent, gruesome death. When clues to this inexplic...Read More

Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues

Dr. Brian Lockhart, a professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas, receives a call from the sheriff reporting a Bigfoot-like creature in a secluded town in Southwest Arkansas. Lockart brings along three students from the university to help investigate. The group sets up camp near Boggy Creek and ends up helping an animal that resembles a young version of...Read More

Wild Beasts

For his final work, Godfather Of Mondo Franco E. Prosperi took on the ‘Nature Strikes Back’ genre and delivered perhaps the most shocking movie of his controversial career: When PCP gets into the water supply of a city zoo, the drug-crazed beasts – including tigers, lions, cheetahs, hyenas and elephants, as well as seeing eye dogs and sewer rats – go berserk and ram...Read More

Delusion

Delusion, also known as House Where Death Lives, is an obscure and under-seen psychological slasher. Meredith is a young nurse employed as caregiver to a rich, elderly man.  Eventually, Meredith discovers that his grandson has been locked away in a room, doomed to stare at visitors from his window. Suddenly, strange murders unfold, revealing dark family secrets!

Night Flight - Les Paul Exclusive Performance

An intimate performance and conversation with legendary guitarist and inventor Les Paul, filmed August 21, 1991, at New York’s famed Fat Tuesday’s. In this candid interview with the guitar icon, Paul explains the philosophy that led to the solid-body guitar that bears his name and reshaped modern music: “All the inventions that I made were made out of necessity beca...Read More

Night Flight - Buddy Guy Exclusive Performance

An extraordinary intimate performance and conversation with Buddy Guy, filmed September 3, 1991, in one of the final sessions for Stuart S. Shapiro's Metal Head Video Magazine. The guitar legend trades stories and riffs with fellow player John Jorgenson and reflects on the mentorship of Muddy Waters, Chicago’s legendary jam sessions, and the art of playing by instin...Read More

Mechanical Violator Hakaider

From director Keita Amemiya: The darkest force of destruction is now the only hope for salvation! In the far future, peace and violence walk hand in hand in Jesus Town, a false utopia ruled by the iron fist of Gurjev and his cyborg enforcer Michael. After a long imprisonment, Hakaider the destroyer, is enlisted in the rebel fight. Suddenly aware of the new menace, G...Read More

Pacific Heights

Michael Keaton stars in this '90s psychological thriller about two young homeowners battling a pathological tenant. Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) take a bold step when they purchase and renovate a handsome San Francisco Victorian house. All goes well until Carter Hayes (Keaton) moves into the downstairs studio. Though he offers a...Read More

Shepard & Dark

A documentary portrait of the unlikely decades-long friendship between actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard and reclusive oddball Johnny Dark, through a correspondence of handwritten letters dating back to the 1960s.

Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza

Weary of the rigid codes of the underworld, gambler Tokijiro (Kinnosuke Nakamura, Goyokin) wanders Japan in search of freedom. But escape proves to be impossible when an obligation to a gang boss leaves him with no choice but to kill a man. To atone for his crime, he vows to take care of his victim’s widow and young son. But the gang won’t rest until they’ve killed ...Read More

The White Reindeer

The debut feature film by acclaimed Finnish cinematographer and documentarian Erik Blomberg, this "fascinating, intoxicating and truly haunting folk horror fairy tale" (Behind The Couch) remains a pioneering shocker of shamanism, vampirism and female sexuality: Unknowingly born a witch, a frustrated young Lapland wife shapeshifts into a bloodthirsty white reindeer w...Read More

The Black Six

Starring NFL legends like Mean Joe Greene and Gene Washington, The Black Six (directed by GLOW creator Matt Cimber) is an explosive cult classic blending biker action and social commentary. When football star Bubba Daniels learns his brother was murdered by a vicious white supremacist biker gang, he and five of his closest Vietnam vet brothers hit the road--on motor...Read More

Zëiram

Two happy-go-lucky electricians go out on a job expecting it will be just like any other work day only to find themselves suddenly zapped into a violent virtual reality war zone! The Zone is an alternate dimension created by Iria, a cute but badass bounty hunter, and Bob, her computer side-kick, to capture and destroy Zeiram, an evil alien creature! Soon, the bumbli...Read More

Yes: Their Fully Authorised Story

The Story of Yes is as controversial as their music. The twists and turns of the band's career is now told for the first time in a series of exclusive interviews with Yes members past and present for this definitive and fully authorized documentary. Praised and criticized for defining progressive rock, Yes have been surprising and delighting worldwide audiences for ...Read More

The Ghost

In turn-of-the-century Scotland, a young wife (Barbara Steele) conspires with her lover to murder her wealthy, paralyzed surgeon husband. But when the dead spouse's spirit returns to haunt the couple, it will unleash a nightmare of spectral terror, sudden violence and depraved vengeance! With nods to Shakespeare, Sartre and Clouzot, the cunning screenplay argues sci...Read More

The Fall - Perverted By Language

Perverted By Language has it all, from the paired rockabilly cacophony of their most loved early work to the spitfire, sneering wit of Mark E. Smith letting off steam between takes. Bonus footage featuring their barn-storming show recorded at Leeds University in 1981 with Mark E. Smith, Craig Scanlon, Steve Hanley, Paul Hanley and Karl Burns.

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Heavy Metal (1987)

Fresh from the Night Flight vault: a white hot half hour of heavy metal madness featuring Europe, Great White, Rough Cutt, and more. From arena-sized bangers like “The Final Countdown” to the Sunset Strip’s signature swagger, this episode captures ’80s metal at its loud, unapologetic peak.

Vampyros Lesbos

From Jess Franco, the filmmaker The Vatican called the most dangerous director in the world, comes his legendary “fever dream of blood and lust” (The New York Times). Soledad Miranda stars as a vixen vampire who lures women to a Mediterranean island to satisfy her insatiable lust for female flesh and blood, seductively corrupting the Dracula mythos forever. It's a m...Read More

Caligula: The Untold Story

Only legendary maestro di sleaze Joe D’Amato could outdo the original Caligula for twisted sex, maniacal violence, and eye-popping perversion: David Brandon stars as the insane young emperor whose love of brutality and degradation is surpassed only by his hunger for enslaved virgins, cruel vengeance, extreme acts of ‘horseplay’ and beyond.

Russ Meyer's Up

No fairy tale…this! In 1976, Russ Meyer delivered his penultimate feature film. Welcome to a sex-blasted burg in Northern California where sodomized Führers, ravenous piranha, sapphic ecstasy, murder mystery, Shakespearean appropriation and the remarkable Raven De La Croix collide, with Kitten Natividad – in her RM Productions debut – as The Greek Chorus of it all.

History of the Erotic Cinema

From Thomas Edison's THE KISS and D.W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE to the uninhibited freedoms of modern erotica, discover how cinema shed its inhibitions and defied taboos via clandestine clips culled from international film archives and private collections.

Tokyo Gore Police

Blood and guts are the ultimate weapon! In the near future, the Tokyo Police Corporation is locked in a bloody war with the engineers. These genetically modified super-criminals can bio-fuse their open wounds with weapons, turning self-mutilation into a combat form. Ruka, the daughter of a murdered police officer, is now the top engineer hunter. With cold-blooded ef...Read More

Heart And Soul: A Love Story

Heart & Soul: a Love Story takes us on an intimate journey of the artists and the impact of Doo-Wop, the vocal harmony masterpieces of teenage artists from the 1950s and 60s, fast fading from history, that formed the bridge to today's popular music and youth culture. The film shows how these young, diverse street artists broke new ground, creating harmony by singing...Read More

The Mask of Satan

From writer/director Lamberto Bava (Demons) comes a modern-day reimagining of his father’s classic Black Sunday featuring FX by Sergio Stivaletti (Cemetery Man), music by Simon Boswell (Santa Sangre) and hailed as “an impressive evolution of ‘80s Italian horror that not enough fans have seen” (At The Mansion Of Madness). When a group of skiers becomes trapped in a c...Read More

The Gits

In 2025, The Gits returns with a 20th Anniversary Edition, reigniting the powerful legacy of one of punk rock’s most urgent and under-recognized bands. This gripping documentary traces the meteoric rise of The Gits and their magnetic frontwoman, Mia Zapata — whose fearless voice and raw presence left an indelible mark on the Seattle music scene before her life was t...Read More

I Dream of Wires

I Dream of Wires is a documentary about the rise, fall and rebirth of the machine that shaped electronic music: the modular synthesizer. Exploring the synthesizer's history, the film reveals how innovators like Robert Moog developed the first room-sized prototypes. It shows the meteoric rise in popularity of the synthesizer - later made obsolete by a flood of cheap ...Read More

Don't Torture a Duckling

From Lucio Fulci, the godfather of gore (The Psychic, The Beyond), comes one of the most powerful and unsettling giallo thrillers ever produced. When the sleepy rural village of Accendura is rocked by a series of murders of young boys, the superstitious locals are quick to apportion blame, with the suspects including the local "witch", Maciara (Florinda Bolkan, A Li...Read More

Night Flight - Fisher and Preachman

An off-kilter "Behind the Scenes" Night Flight episode from 1987 spotlighting the directing “duo” Fisher & Preachman, featuring George Clinton’s “Do Fries Go With That Shake," Suicidal Tendencies’ “Institutionalized," and the Ramones’ We Are The World parody, stacked with cult cameos.

Blood Tracks

Heavy metal band Solid Gold are heading up into the snowy mountains to shoot their latest music video, accompanied by their crew and a host of scantily-clad dancers. However, it’s not long before a huge avalanche rocks the area, trapping the rockers on the mountain! The group attempts to radio for help, unaware that its troubles have only just begun - for nearby, a ...Read More

Judgment Night

Emmy-winning director Stephen Hopkins navigates this harrowing journey of four suburban men into the nightmarish neighborhood of Chicago's crime-infested underworld. When four young men take a wrong turn, they witness a murder. Now, the killers cannot let them live... With a powerhouse cast including Young Guns' Emilio Estevez, Oscar winner Cuba Gooding, Jr., a mani...Read More

Fearless Dragons

From iconic ‘70s Hong Kong studio Goldig Films Ltd. (The Dragon Lives Again) comes one of the favorite action comedies in the history of the genre: When two wily con men – martial arts movie legends Phillip Ko and Bryan Leung – are framed for hijacking a trunkful of charity funds, they’ll join forces to find the real bandits in a wild series of adventures that lead ...Read More

Gwen and the Block of Sand

"Why search the sand for answers? It has told us everything," whispers Roseline, the 173-year old desert nomad narrator of French director Jean-François Laguionie's hauntingly poetic animated feature of life after the apocalypse. Into this desolate science-fiction landscape (part-Dune, part-Fury Road) emerges the story's teenage heroine, Gwen, who refuses to hide in...Read More

The Cannibal Man

Marcos, a young man working in a meat factory, accidentally kills a taxi driver. When his girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police, he has to kill her as well. Gradually, Marcos begins to kill other people close to him who have become suspicious, in order to cover up his original crime. When the corpses start to pile up in his bedroom, he has to find a way to get rid of them.

Beast Wishes

The story of Bob and Kathy Burns: the Burbank duo who amassed one of the largest collections of horror and sci-fi props in movie history. Beast Wishes is the heartwarming, creature-filled documentary that celebrates the lives of Bob and Kathy Burns, the husband-and-wife duo beloved by generations of monster fans, filmmakers, and collectors. Known for their legendary...Read More

Robotica Destructiva

From director Sam Gaffin, winner of the 2025 Night Flight Music Video Film Festival: A trio of android warrior sisters, The Destructivas, are awakened after a 10,000-year sleep to rescue a world in peril! The interstellar pirate, Captain Krogarr, has stolen a doomsday weapon called The Arculon Destroyer and the Destructivas must battle their way across time and spac...Read More

Michael Hutchence: The Loved One

Charismatic and enigmatic, Michael Hutchence was the personification of the classic rock and roll star. His untimely death surrounded by unanswered circumstances left friends, family and fans to speculate and mourn the loss of the warm and down-to-earth artist and his unique musical talent. 'The Loved One' traces Hutchence and INXS's rise from Sydney bar rooms and c...Read More

Daughters of Darkness

International screen icon Delphine Seyrig stars as Elizabeth Bathory, an ageless Countess with a beautiful young ‘companion’ (Goth goddess Andrea Rau) and a legendary legacy of perversion. But when the two women seduce a troubled newlywed couple, they unleash a frenzy of sudden violence and depraved desire that shocked both art house audiences and grindhouse crowds ...Read More

Night Flight - "Take Off" to Afrobeat

This new Night Flight Video Profile arrival from the vault traces the Afrobeat sound as a revolutionary sound and a political force, linking African rhythm to global pop and protest.  “I have death in my pouch… I can't die, you can’t kill me,” says Nigerian artist and social dissident Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti at the start of this episode. The profile also features Senega...Read More

Merlin - Part 1

PART 1. In a time long past, when magic was fading from the world of men, the malevolent sorceress Mab (Miranda Richardson) summoned forth a mighty wizard to keep the power of the Old Ways alive. The wizard's name....was Merlin (Sam Neill). But when his heart is touched by the love of the beautiful Nimue (Isabella Rossellini), Merlin turns away from Mab's dark encha...Read More

Merlin - Part 2

PART 2. In a time long past, when magic was fading from the world of men, the malevolent sorceress Mab (Miranda Richardson) summoned forth a mighty wizard to keep the power of the Old Ways alive. The wizard's name....was Merlin (Sam Neill). But when his heart is touched by the love of the beautiful Nimue (Isabella Rossellini), Merlin turns away from Mab's dark encha...Read More

Mountain Onion

11-year-old Jabai sells mountain onions with his sister on the border highway of Kazakhstan. One day, he catches his mom having an affair with a trucker. But soon he discovers the powers of Viagra, and goes on a misadventure to get some for his dad.

Clockwatchers

Clockwatchers is the "sharp-edged black comedy" (Roger Ebert) about four office temps trying to maintain both their upward mobility and their sanity. The four women—shy Iris (Toni Collette, Hereditary), brash Margaret (Parker Posey, Party Girl), wannabe starlet Paula (Lisa Kudrow, Friends), and pampered Jane (Alanna Ubach, Bombshell)—become fast friends while tempin...Read More

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Yoko Ono"

In this Night Flight Short Cut, Yoko Ono joins Lisa Robinson for a candid conversation filmed in the kitchen of Ono’s apartment in the 1980s. Moving from banter with Robinson to reflections on life and music, Ono talks about art, the Beatles, and how the culture of the time eventually caught up with the experimentation she was pursuing.

Dinosaur Dinner Theatre - Nonsense Vol. 3

The dinos are back with Nonsense: Volume 3, and this time we pulled out all the stops! It’s got everything you could possibly want from a Dinosaur Dinner Theatre compilation: clips about washing machines, bicycles, bowling… SHOES, even! Sometimes there is talking, and there is nearly always something on the screen to look at! If you’ve got a short attention span and...Read More

Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel

"Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories)" explores the rich history, cultural significance and otherworldly occurrences of the famous Hotel Chelsea in New York City. The hotel gets its due in this smart and creative film as a place where anything could happen, where creativity thrived and where people from all walks of life came together in a cha...Read More

Deadline

Steven Lessey (Stephen Young; Soylent Green) makes his living as a horror writer who has learned that the bloodier the story, the bigger the market. But Steven has also hit a personal crisis wherein he yearns for artistic recognition and an escape from the brutality he conjures up to earn a living. All the while, his horrifying and murderous fantasies begin to blend...Read More

Nightbreed

Boone (Craig Sheffer) may be a troubled young man, but his troubles are just beginning. Set up as the fall guy in a string of slasher murders, he decides he’ll hide by crossing the threshold that separates “us” from “them” and sneak into the forbidden subterranean realm of Midian. Boone will live among the monsters. Hellraiser creator Clive Barker writes (adapting h...Read More

Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death

Dr. Henry Jekyll is the last in his family's line of mad, but brilliant scientists. Holed up in his ornate Victorian mansion in San Francisco, he has concocted a serum that, when injected, turns humans into crazed and violent fighters, with unstoppable strength and unquenchable bloodlust! From mysterious filmmaker James Wood, Dr. Jekyll's Dungeon of Death travers...Read More

Find a Place to Die

A geologist and his sister (Pascale Petit) discover gold in an abandoned mine located on the untamedborder between the U.S. and Mexico, where brute force is the only law. When the brother is fatally wounded by a band of gold-hungry outlaws, the determined young woman enlists the aid of an outcast soldier (Jeffrey Hunter, The Searchers).

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Penn & Teller"

In this Night Flight Short Cut, Penn & Teller welcome the camera into Penn’s home as he recalls how they met (“we both thought magic sucked”), their shared love of The Residents, and making movies for people tired of sequels. Shot for Gorgon Home Video, it’s pure P&T - rambling, profane, and unhinged.

Munchies

Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepreneur, kidnaps the creature. What Cecil does not know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures -- and are they mean!

Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh

After his seminal novel Trainspotting was published in 1993, the debut work of Irvine Welsh quickly became a cultural phenomenon, spawning theatre productions, the iconic film by Danny Boyle, sequels, and soon a stage musical. In Beyond Trainspotting, Welsh himself looks back on his beginnings - and glances off some personal tragedies he experienced along the way fr...Read More

The Cure: Out Of The Woods: Unauthorized

For the first time The Cure: Out Of The Woods goes behind the scenes and under the greasepaint to discover the truth about this astonishing band. Revealing how these performers of melancholy music achieved their success, how theyve continued to be at the cutting edge of innovative music for more than 25 years, and why they remain hugely relevant in todays fickle mu...Read More

Andy Warhol's Factory People: Inside The Sixties Silver Factory

"Andy Warhol's Factory People" tells the story of the 60's Silver Factory that Andy founded in 1964 in an abandoned hat factory on East 47th Street in New York City. The Silver Factory lasted until 1968 when Andy gave up the lease and moved to the White Factory on Union Square. Shortly after moving in the Spring of '68, Andy was shot by Valerie Solanas, and this eve...Read More

Subotnick: Portrait of an Electronic Music Pioneer

Subotnick is a revealing documentary portrait of seminal electronic music pioneer, Morton Subotnick -- recounting his early years as a fine-art composer & key figure in the '60s avant-garde, while exploring his newly acquired status as "founding father of electronica." Through personal recollections, live performances, and archival films & images, the film traces th...Read More

Mean Guns

The world's most dangerous criminals are summoned to a new prison on the eve before its grand opening by Moon (Ice-T, New Jack City), the ruthless leader of the world's most powerful crime syndicate. Chaos ensues when weapons and ammunition are passed around and the group, including Lou (Christopher Lambert, Highlander) begin their fight to survive. The last three m...Read More

Weeds

Lee Umstetter (Academy Award® nominee* Nick Nolte, 48 Hrs., Warrior) is serving 'life without possibility' at San Quentin - a life sentence, with no possibility of parole. While other men might give up hope, Lee puts pen to paper and writes a play about living behind bars. Performed with his fellow inmates it causes a sensation, winning him the heart of a local dram...Read More

Silent Night, Deadly Night

UNRATED. 40 years ago, community leaders tried to stop its release. The P.T.A. fought to ban it. But no one can keep an axe-wielding Santa from coming to town! Silent Night, Deadly Night is the heartwarming holiday story of little Billy Chapman, who was traumatized by his parents' Christmas Eve murder, then brutalized by sadistic orphanage nuns. But when grown-up Bi...Read More

Don't Open Till Christmas

It’s just days before Christmas in London, but not everyone is full of good cheer. A maniac with a pathological hatred of Santa Claus stalks the streets, butchering any man that’s unlucky enough to be wandering around dressed as Old Saint Nick! Don't Open till Christmas was the second stalk-and-slash collaboration between legendary exploitation producer Dick Randall...Read More

John Lennon - In Performance

With rare concert footage and insights from colleagues, this documentary is a look back at the amazing career of former Beatles member John Lennon.

The Dark Crystal

“Another world, another time… in the Age of Wonder.” From the imaginations of Jim Henson and Frank Oz, The Dark Crystal is a puppetry fantasy classic that tells a timeless tale of good versus evil. Directed by Henson and Oz, the film features innovative animatronics and uniquely memorable characters created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. Since its 1982 release, ...Read More

Night Flight - Supercut Feature #1

Night Flight Supercut Feature #1 (2025) an epic supercut of vintage chaos and cable-era insanity which premiered last month at Nitehawk as part of the Third Annual Music Video Festival. From Night Flight creator and CEO Stuart S. Shapiro: "Mash-ups and quick-cut juxtapositions have always been part of Night Flight’s DNA, it's something Stuart Samuels and I leane...Read More

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Scorpions"

What begins as backstage banter and a photoshoot turns into a fun interview packed with Scorpions lore in this new Night Flight Short Cut. The band goes celebrating Rudolph's birthday to a candid recollection of playing Roger Waters’ The Wall concert in a newly unified Berlin, originally shot for Stuart S. Shapiro’s MetalHead Magazine.

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Kate Bush"

Shot at our studios 40 years ago, this vintage Night Flight interview features Kate Bush discussing the obsessive creative process behind Hounds of Love, building her countryside studio, and how she infuses each album with new energy.

Devil Times Five

A drive-in horror classic notorious not only for its savage violence and distinctly ’70s mean-spiritedness, but also for its status as one of the greatest killer-kids films ever made! Devil Times Five was produced by attorney-to-the-stars Jordan M. Wank and features an early performance from future teen idol Leif Garrett (Skateboard: The Movie) along with character ...Read More

The Doors - Videobiography

Videobiography offers a deep-dive look at the band’s evolution with commentary from some of rock’s most respected critics.

Fugitive Girls

Director A.C. Stephen's most accomplished film, FUGITIVE GIRLS is a quick paced hybrid of action and sexploitation, which co-stars the beautiful Rene Bond and Tallie Cochran, and featuring a typically jaw-dropping screenplay from Ed Wood (who also appears in the film!). Long available only in poor quality bootlegs or heavily censored versions, Vinegar Syndrome bring...Read More

Hollywood 90028

Hollywood 90028 shows the dark side of the L.A. dream in the bleak and downbeat story of an aspiring movie cameraman turned serial murderer. Written and directed by esteemed experimental filmmaker Christina Hornisher, and beautifully captured through the lens of camera operator Jean-Pierre Geuens, Hollywood 90028 offers a vivid time capsule of Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

Queen: One Vision

From their self-titled debut to Innuendo, explore all of the Queen albums in painstaking detail with a team of critics and music journalists.

Night Flight - Music Video Festival 2025

The third annual music video festival finalists are now streaming on Night Flight Plus. Vote for your favorite and enter to win a Night Flight bundle, including a free annual membership, T-shirt, and book. We're showcasing 12 standout finalists from this year’s competition, including the Grand Prize winner from our Nitehawk Screening:  “Electro Psycho Transmutation ...Read More

Noroi: The Curse

Noroi: The Curse, directed by Kôji Shiraishi, is a bone-chilling masterpiece of found-footage horror presented in a pseudo-documentary format. The film follows Masafumi Kobayashi, a seasoned investigative reporter specializing in paranormal phenomena, as he embarks on what becomes his most harrowing case yet. Through unsettling archival footage, interviews, and firs...Read More

They Call Her Death

On the wild frontier of the American prairie, Molly Pray is on a bloody crusade against the criminal forces that have wronged her. She shows no mercy, leaving a trail of bodies in her wake on a mission that ultimately strikes at the heart of the American identity and the notion of manifest destiny. But for Molly Pray – who has the embodied specter of death on her si...Read More

Death Promise

A genre blending grindhouse classic that perfectly embodies the mid 70s, NYC lensed exploitation film aesthetic, Robert Warmflash's DEATH PROMISE oozes sublime 70s sleaze from beginning to end. The residents of a dilapidated New York tenement building are being harassed and threatened by Iguana Realty, the dummy corporation which owns the land, in an effort to force...Read More

Louis Prima In Person!: Wildest Performances 1936-1973

A retrospective of rare performances highlighting the many phases of Prima's remarkable 50+ year career. Culled from the basements and shelves of TV and motion picture archives, this DVD presents the very best of those performances - not only the BEST, but the rarest! Featured artists include Keely Smith, Gia Maione, Sam Butera, Jimmy Vincent, The Witnesses, and Sarah Spiegel.

Byleth: The Demon of Incest

In one of the most bizarre EuroSleaze sickies of the ‘70s, Mark Damon delivers an atypically unhinged performance as a duke consumed by unnatural lust for his beautiful sister. Toss in depraved dollops of sex, voyeurism, demonic possession and giallo-style violence, and you get the sumptuous-yet-insane rarity The Wild Eye calls “intriguingly different and endearingl...Read More

Link Wray - The Rock Prophet

The Rock Prophet is the best kept secret of Rock N Roll, and only Rock's mighty heroes know about Link Wray and his infamous 3 chords. An unlikely figure responsible for the birth of Rock N Roll, music superstars such as James Brown, Jimi Hendrix idolized him, and Jimmy Page said he would have never picked up a guitar if he hadn't heard him on the radio. The Nati...Read More

Freckled Max and The Spooks

Director Juraj Jakubisko's Gothic horror comedy about an orphan who hides out in Frankenstein's castle with a lovable rogues' gallery of monsters. A bittersweet, slapstick cross between Monster Squad, Young Frankenstein and the Island of Misfit Toys, Freckled Max is a nostalgic Gothic fairytale about broken hearts and monsters who long to be loved for who they are -...Read More

James Brown: The Golden Greats

James Brown never performed a song the same way twice. This powerhouse collection of the musical icon's greatest hits takes us from his explosive 1966 performance of “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” on The Ed Sullivan Show to “I Got You” on Saturday Night Live in 1980.

Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic

She starred in 42 classic movies and was hailed as 'The Queen of Indonesian Horror,' but who really was Suzzanna Martha Frederika van Osch, long-beloved by the Asian world as Suzzanna, yet virtually unknown outside of it? In this fascinating new documentary by Severin's David Gregory, discover the enigmatic horror star best known for portraying vengeful spirits from...Read More

Kin-dza-dza!

Night Flight invites you into the the existential weirdness of the wonderfully loopy Soviet-era sci-fi comedy KIN-DZA-DZA, recently restored by Mosfilm for its first-ever U.S. release by Deaf Crocodile. Two average Muscovites are teleported across the universe to the planet Pluke, a Tatooine-like desert world whose inhabitants are hilariously noncommunicative and wh...Read More

The Sword and The Sorcerer

The 1982 sword-and-sorcery adventure film co-written and directed by cult director Albert Pyun arrives on Night Flight Plus! Meet Talon, a daring mercenary who conquers castles and dungeons alike with his lethal three-bladed sword. But when Talon becomes the prince of a kingdom controlled by an evil sorcerer, he is thrust into the wildest fight of his life. Can Talo...Read More

The Crucible

Arthur Miller's The Crucible is regarded as a central work in the canon of American drama. Written in response to the Congressional investigations into American Communism in the 1950's, it is a semi-fictional dramatic play intended to parallel the Salem witch trials of the late 1600's. This landmark 1967 TV adaption starring George C Scott, Colleen Dewhurst, and Mel...Read More

Comedy Club Superstars

Ten of America's top comedians share how they got into comedy, early influences, and their parents' reactions. Round-table segments with Paul Reiser, Bill Maher, Carol Liefer, Larry Miller, and George Wallace feature stories on tough crowds, hecklers, and big breaks. Includes classic clips from Andy Kaufman, Robert Klein, Jackie Vernon, George Carlin, Joan Rivers, a...Read More

Watchers II

The Watchers saga continues with Watchers II, a tale of genetically altered beasts unleashed upon the world! A shadowy government agency's sinister experiments have resulted in a pair of unnatural creatures: one is a benign, super-intelligent golden retriever, and the other an inhuman killing machine. Linked by a psychic bond, the dog and monster escape the watchful...Read More

Jimi Hendrix: The Guitar Hero

The Guitar Hero looks at Hendrix the master of electric guitar, as told by a selection of the world's greatest guitarists, some who were his mentors, some his contemporaries, some who emerged in his wake, explaining why Hendrix's work remains at the zenith of rock music to this day. Moving beyond the icon and the myth, this documentary brings alive the images an...Read More

Night Flight Short Cuts - Mark Knopfler

In this new short cut, Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler drops by the 1983 Night Flight studio to talk about his new EP Twisting by the Pool, knocked out by the band in just a few days. Knopfler candidly reflects on his evolution as a musician while describing how he stays humble about his playing: “I’m a perpetual student of music.” 

The Lawnmower Man

Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) is a brilliant scientist obsessed with perfecting virtual reality software. When his experiments on animals fail, he finds the ideal substitute – Jobe Smith (Jeff Fahey), a slow-witted gardener. Dr. Angelo's goal is to benefit his human guinea pig and ultimately mankind itself, but evil lurks the guise of "the Shop," a shadowy gr...Read More

Lead Belly: The Man Who Invented Rock & Roll

Iconic blues and folk musician Lead Belly's captivating story is brought to life in the awe-inspiring documentary, with extraordinary guest stars. George Harrison famously claimed, "No Lead Belly, no Beatles." Revered by countless musicians - the 1st record Janis Joplin ever bought was Lead Belly. This is the definitive bio, with historic performances and extraordin...Read More

Embrace of the Serpent

At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in Embrace of the Serpent, the third feature by Ciro Guerra and a 2016 Academy Award-nominee. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, Embrace of the Serpent centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists w...Read More

Barking in the Dark

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Filmmaker and visual artist Marie Losier invites us into the mysterious and unclassifiable world of the Residents, the emblematic figures of the American musical avant-garde for over 50 years and the band perhaps most symbiotic with Night Flight. This playful, intimate portrait celebrates the extraordinary freedom of a band that never followed th...Read More

Flash Frames

This time capsule compilation from Night Flight creator Stuart Shapiro and Laurie Dolphin celebrates the work of 40 innovative media artists using Flash in the early 2000s. At the time, Flash animation was the heartbeat of a new generation of pop culture enthusiasts at the beginning of the Internet. Whether creating their own independent animated clips or working wi...Read More

Shelf Life

After decades underground, the final film from legendary director Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul, Death Race 2000) has arrived on Night Flight Plus! It's 1963 and JFK has been assassinated. Three young siblings—Tina, Pam, and Scotty—are ushered into Mom and Dad’s well-stocked bomb shelter. 30 years later and 40 feet under, with their parents long dead, the kids are adult...Read More

The House of the Dead

Directed by Sharron Miller (ABC Afterschool Specials) and featuring atmospheric photography by Ken Gibb (Drive-In Massacre), this low budget, Oklahoma made horror anthology features a collection of ghoulish vignettes ranging from wryly comedic to genuinely grim and unsettling. Barely released theatrically and only available in murky video sourced editions, Night Fli...Read More

Evilspeak

Life sucks for Stanley Coopersmith (Clint Howard, Ice Cream Man), a teenage outcast who's bullied by everybody at the strict military academy he was sent to after his parents died. But when Stanley discovers the crypt of a 16th Century Satanist beneath the school's chapel, he creates a computerized Black Mass that unleashes unholy revenge upon his tormenters. Now, a...Read More

L.A. Guns - The Hollywood Years: Live & Loaded

Come along on this wild, gasoline-soaked, intoxicating rocket ride of pure 80's metallic mayhem. Tracii, Phil, Steve, Kelly and Mick (the original gunners) lay it on the line in this down & dirty sunset strip raw concert footage of the Guns in their prime.

Joe Coleman's Carnival

Night Flight takes you for an exclusive look inside "Joe Coleman’s Carnival," the artist’s curated exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch Projects in New York City. Filmed on-site in June 2025, this special hour-long presentation follows Coleman as he personally guides Night Flight through the gallery, revealing works that directly connect him to the carnival world, including...Read More

Deathsport

One thousand years into the future, following the Great Neutron Wars, the world is divided into desert wastes and isolated city-states. Lord Zirpola captures the notorious "Desert Ranger" Kaz (David Carradine) to fight to the death in his game, Deathsport. Now Kaz must face his past and fight to save himself and his city from the war that Lord Zirpola is about to wa...Read More

Fade to Black

Eric Binford (Dennis Christopher, Breaking Away, It) lives for the movies. He works at a 35mm print depot as a delivery boy, but spends all of his free time watching classic films and collecting Hollywood memorabilia. Endlessly tormented by his colleagues, Eric drifts further and further into a dream world where he embodies the screen characters that he so deeply wo...Read More

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Grace Slick"

In this new Night Flight Short Cut, we spotlight rock icon Grace Slick. In a candid 1983 interview filmed on the Night Flight set during our second season, the Jefferson Airplane and Starship singer defends the band against its critics, muses on the imperfections of art and artists, and shares her excitement for the dawning era of music video.

Tornado: The Last Blood

An army sergeant attacks his corrupt captain and is court-martialed but before being executed he escapes and, in the enemy-infested jungles of Vietnam, begins a private war against his fellow soldiers and Vietnamese army soldiers. Check out a new section dedicated to the films of director Antonio Margheriti featuring Castle of Blood, Cannibal Apocalypse, and more.

Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys

This biopic chronicles the rapid rise to fame of the beloved California rock band, The Beach Boys. However, their time spent together isn't without its hurdles and speed bumps. Amid strained relationships and struggles with substance abuse, Dennis and Brian Wilson resist their father's sweeping attempts to control the group as their manager.

Night Flight - Mark Stewart Video Profile

Night Flight Plus and Mute present a special Night Flight Video Profile dedicated to the "revered countercultural musician" (The Guardian) and enduringly influential artist, Mark Stewart. Across an illustrious career that began with post-punk icons The Pop Group and evolved into a prolific solo output, Stewart produced a seminal body of work that frequently stood at...Read More

Hollywood Horror House

Vic Valance (David Garfield) is an enigmatic young man who has manipulated his way into working at the decaying mansion of a once prolific, but now reclusive and alcoholic, movie star named Katharine Packard (Miriam Hopkins). As Vic begins behaving in more and more erratic ways, it becomes clear that he's far more sinister than his demeanor implies and might in fact...Read More

Deathstalker

Deathstalker tells the tale of a mighty warrior (Richard Hill) tasked to battle the dark forces within a fantastic kingdom. Embarking on a journey to a brutally challenging tournament, Deathstalker seeks its magnificent spoils: the throne of the wicked wizard Munkar, an unstoppable mystical power, and the love of the beautiful Princess Codille (Barbi Benton). But fi...Read More

The King

Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki’s new film takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind. In this groundbreaking film, Jarecki paints a ...Read More

New York Ninja

New York Ninja is a truly one-of-a-kind cinematic experience. Witness the painstaking reconstruction of a lost '80s martial arts treasure from Night Flight's cult label partner, Vinegar Syndrome! Originally directed by and starring martial arts actor John Liu in his only American production, New York Ninja was filmed entirely on 35mm in 1984. The project was complet...Read More

Olivia

When she was a child, Olivia (Suzanna Love) witnessed the horrifying and violent murder of her prostitute mother at the hands of an angry John. Now an adult, she's married to an abusive and controlling factory worker, that is, until her mother appears to her and demands that Olivia avenge her death by seducing and then slaying men. Perhaps the most offbeat film in t...Read More

Welcome to the Darkness

This is a documentary about fame, the meaning of success, identity and relationships set against the backdrop of the career trajectory of the band, The Darkness. Their rise to worldwide fame was sudden, the implosion was brutal, there were some strange wilderness years apart and the comeback has been a work in progress since 2011. The story is told over a period of ...Read More