New Arrivals

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

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 - 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

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

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.

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

Night Flight VOTE - Music Video Festival 2025

FREE TO WATCH: 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...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

The Boogeyman

One of the major independent horror blockbusters made in the wake of Halloween, Ulli Lommel's The Boogeyman (Blank Generation) catapulted its director out of the arthouse circuit and solidified him as a master of horror. When she was young, Lacey witnessed, by mirror reflection, the brutal murder of her stepfather at the hands of her brother, Willy. Years later, La...Read More

Reflections of Evil

Bob (Damon Packard), an obese watch-seller dying of sucrose intolerance, is the hero of this '00s extreme cult oddity that Henry Rollins calls “nothing short of genius." Bob survives by tramping the streets of LA, selling watches to anyone who will listen to his apologetic sales pitch and his days are repeatedly punctuated by irrational rage and displays of self-loa...Read More

The Wolf House

"There's nothing else that's ever been made that's like The Wolf House." — Ari Aster (Hereditary). A fraught fever dream of a fairy tale from Chile inspired in part by the nightmarish goings-on at the Pinochet regime's "Colonia Dignidad," The Wolf House is something like a Little Red Riding Hood narrated by the wolf. The Wolf House is a film of constant disorienting...Read More

Topology of Sirens

Cas, an academic assistant and amateur musician, moves into her aunt’s old home. In the bedroom closet, she finds a cache of mysteriously labeled microcassette tapes, containing cryptic recordings of sounds ranging from everyday objects to abstract soundscapes. Cas’s curiosity to discover the origin of these tapes leads her on a meditative journey through unknown ve...Read More

Don't Change Hands

From iconoclastic French writer/director Paul Vecchiali comes the wickedly perverse thriller that subverts the conventions of film noir by slyly flipping its traditional gender roles: When a prominent politician receives a Illicit film starring her son, she hires a hard-boiled private detective (Myriam Mézières) to track down the blackmailer. But as bodies strip dow...Read More

Goodbye & Amen

Director Damiano Damiani (A Bullet for the General) wields expert tension in this gripping espionage thriller, twisting and turning its tight plot to its sensational finale. Featuring a supporting cast including Claudia Cardinale (Fitzcarraldo) and John Steiner (Tenebrae), Goodbye & Amen is one of the great 1970s Italian action thrill rides set to a haunting score b...Read More

Psycho Ape!! Part II: The Wrath of Kong

Twenty five years ago, a psychopathic Ape escaped from the Detroit Zoo and tore apart a teenage slumber party. He left one alive to tell the tale, the spunky Nance Banana. Now the Ape and Nancy must evade the ruthless zookeeper Dr. Zoomis in this madcap romp that's ripe with send-ups. Psycho Ape! 2 is a DIY, micro budget, gore-illa filmmaking gore-fest!

Bill Evans Trio - Oslo Concerts

Bill Evans was one of the most distinctive and influential jazz pianists of all time with a rich legacy that remains undiminished since his untimely death in 1980. This program brings you the 1966 Bill Evans Trio Concert, featuring Evans in prime form. Bill Evans was a major side-man with Miles Davis and played and equal role with Miles in composing Kind of Blue the...Read More

Funny Car Summer

Jim Dunn is an Orange County, California fireman nine months out of the year. But every summer, for the past twenty years, Jim and his family pack up their suitcases and hook up their trailer to haul a funny-looking dragster to twenty different races in twenty different states. The film follows the Dunns' from their Southern California home life to the dangerous, of...Read More

Night Flight - Born Again 2

Ever wish you could step into a modern, feature-length fever-dream of classic Night Flight editing and curation? Well, that's exactly what Night Flight - Born Again 2 delivers: iconic material from the original archives alongside our 21st century streaming DNA. This meticulously curated video acid-trip from editor John Mark Lapham has played at independent theaters ...Read More

Men of War

Nick Gunar (Lundgren) is part of a topflight team of ex-Special Forces agents hired by ruthless con men. Their mission: to carry out a secret operation and overtake an exotic island that's loaded with precious jade. But once there, the agents -- led by Lundgren -- defect to defend the islanders against the savage attackers! It's nonstop action as Lundgren and his el...Read More

Dark Sanctuary: The Story of the Church

A feature-length documentary about the historic Dallas, TX Goth club - The Church, Dark Sanctuary exposes the incredible, shocking history of one of the longest running goth clubs in the U.S. as well as the world-renowned artists who performed there. Through interviews with world-famous music artists, local bands, and patrons, the film tells the story of the communi...Read More

Brighton Beach

Set against the iconic Coney Island boardwalk, Brighton Beach is a neighborhood that is constantly reinventing itself to fit each new wave of immigrants. From directors Susan Wittenberg and Carol Stein, Brighton Beach is an unposed, seductively shot, color film about life's simple pleasures and the creating of a community. It's a vérité portrait of the immigrant com...Read More

Night of the Blood Beast

Astronaut John Corcoran, dies upon returning to Earth after a space mission, but his body is found to harbor an alien parasite that brings him back to life! As the scientists at a remote space research station investigate Corcoran's mysterious revival, they discover that the alien lifeform inside him is using his body as a host to incubate its offspring. The alien c...Read More

Flesh-Eating Mothers

Something strange is happening to the mothers in a small town in upstate New York... Small and subtle changes appear at first, but soon the women are transformed into deranged, demented, and cannibalistic Flesh-Eating Mothers! With no one safe from ending up as a key ingredient in the next tupperware party luncheon, it's up to the town's young people to uncover the ...Read More

Kill the Moonlight

A twisted 16mm Gen X comedy disguised as a 1970s drive-in flick, KILL THE MOONLIGHT is the story of Chance, a fish hatchery worker, toxic waste cleaner and aspiring race car driver whose goal in life is to fix up his Camaro and follow his dreams of championship glory. As the film unfolds, Chance unravels in strange ways after getting contaminated by toxic waste.

Attack of the Giant Leeches

Massive bloodsucking monsters are at large in this Drive-in schlock classic from producers Roger and Gene Corman. The legendary Yvette Vickers (Attack of the 50-foot Woman) stars along with Jan Shepard, Ken Clark, and some nasty giant leeches! Basically, they're just a bunch of actors in plastic costumes, but director Bernard Kowalski (Hot Car Girl, Night of the Blo...Read More

Fatal Games

The young athletes of Falcon Academy are training hard to earn their place in the nationals. Little do they realize that a javelin-wielding killer with a strong throwing arm and a deadly grudge against athletic excellence is on the prowl! Fatal Games is a deliriously entertaining early ’80s stalk-and-slash effort stacked with gratuitous nudity, physics-defying death...Read More

Underworld Beauty

Retrieving the diamonds he stashed before his arrest, thief Miyamoto hopes to help his old partner Mihara, crippled during the heist. Their former boss, crime lord Oyane, offers to mediate with a foreign buyer, but secretly wants the stones for himself. The deal goes awry when gunmen appear on the scene. Mihara swallows the diamonds but dies in the chase, leaving a ...Read More

Cafe Society

A society playboy with a taste for the lowlife is set up for exploitation by an unscrupulous undercover cop and his shadowy political masters.

Pusherman: Frank Lucas & The True Story Of American Gangster

Pusherman is the real-life story of Frank Lucas, the Harlem dope-dealer who smuggled pure heroin from Southeast Asia's "Golden Triangle" into the U.S. inside the coffins of dead GI's flown back from Vietnam. Narrated by Mark Jacobson, who wrote the original story for New York magazine, that the hit movie, "American Gangster," was based on, and produced by Legs McNei...Read More

The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff

In this eerie and (comparatively) restrained slice of ’70s Eurocult from Jess Franco, a paralyzed heiress falls under the spell of the diabolical Dr. Orloff and is compelled to carry out his unspeakable crimes! William Berger delivers a commanding performance as the sinister Orloff, whose twisted goal is to wipe out the lineage of Lord Comfort and seize the family's...Read More

Felidae

A combination feline detective story, Gothic mystery and occult horror, Felidae follows green-eyed protagonist Francis and his grizzled, one-eyed companion Blaubart as they unravel the killings stretching back decades, involving death cults, genetic experimentation and a mysterious martyr religion. One of the most sought-after titles among world animation fans a...Read More

Albert Collins & The Icebreakers: Live At Rockpalast

"Dear friends, today live at Rockpalast: The Icebreakers!" With these words, "The Iceman" Albert Collins and his band were introduced to the audience of the Westfalenhalle 2 in Dortmund. The Texas-born guitarist treats the six strings of his instrument in an inimitable manner in this high-energy performance. Long improvisations and solos evenhandedly emphasize hi...Read More

Evil Laugh

A group of medical students have decided to spend the weekend helping their friend, Jerry, fix up the old foster home he’s bought and is planning to reopen. Little do they know that, ten years ago, a terrible massacre occurred there which saw a number of young children brutally slaughtered. Things get off to an ominous start; when the group arrives, Jerry is nowhere...Read More

Spirit Riser

Two sisters are thrown out of their isolation and onto opposite coasts of America by a terrifying cosmic entity. While one sister suffers from memory loss and the other is too young to understand her own past, the girls discover they possess supernatural powers as they are pursued by the mysterious and unearthly being hell–bent on their destruction. Spirit Riser is ...Read More

Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers

"They charge an arm and a leg!" Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers stars Gunnar Hansen, the original "Leatherface" and scream queen Linnea Quigley! When private investigator Jack Chandler takes on a case to locate a missing teenager (Quigley), he gets more than he bargained for and literally has trouble keeping his head. After hitting the streets and talking to some high-c...Read More

Psychomania

aka The Death Wheelers. 'Seven suicides!' screamed the posters, 'and they roared back as The Living Dead!' In this cult classic, Nicky Henson stars as the leader of motorcycle gang whose pact with Satan grants life him after death. After convincing his cohorts to commit their own creative self-destructions, the bikers burst from their graves to wreak havoc, taunt th...Read More

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space

Arguably the only anime ever made inspired by both Hello Kitty and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, TAMALA 2010 is a futuristic techno fever dream that flows back and forth in time, following the adorable wide-eyed kitty Tamala. Escaping into space, she’s waylaid by the God of Death and crash-lands near Hate City on the Planet Q, where she meets a new boyfrien...Read More

Warm Blood

Set in the underbelly of 1980s Modesto, California, Warm Blood uses the real-life diary of a teenage runaway named Red (newcomer Haley Isaacson) returning home to find her father. In his narrative feature debut, director Rick Charnoski’s history as a skate video director informs the frenetic storytelling style, as he combines Red’s nihilist musings with a collage of...Read More

Macumba Sexual

Lina Romay (in her ‘Candy Coster’ guise) stars as a sexually repressed wife tormented by visions of ‘the goddess of unspeakable lust’ Princess Obongo (an unforgettable performance by pioneering transgender actress Ajita Wilson of Sadomania fame) in a fever dream of erotic cruelty, carnal duality and nonstop Franco-style insanity.

The River: A Songwriter's Stories of the South

The River is a kaleidoscopic journey exploring the lives, lore, and locales along three great rivers of the American South via musical performances, storytelling, and cultural history from the band Coyote Motel. Starting at Nashville's Cumberland and weaving south along the Mississippi and Tallahatchie, The River introduces viewers to muleskinners, coal miners river...Read More

The River: Ted Drozdowski & Laurie Hoffma Interview

For an exclusive bonus feature on Night Fligth Plus, Stuart S. Shapiro interviews Coyote Motel members Ted Drozdowski & Laurie Hoffma to discuss the film, and its musical and historical influences.

The Bear

Notable for its stunning cinematography, minimal dialogue, and outstanding animal performances, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's (Quest For Fire, The Name of the Rose) astonishing tale of wilderness survival has thrilled and charmed audiences and critics all over the world. Set in 19th-century British Columbia, The Bear follows the story of a young cub and an adult...Read More

Autopsy

A wave of sudden, violent suicides have gripped Rome and are being blamed on sun spots. Simona, a young pathologist with an unhealthy obsession with death, has become increasingly interested in this strange phenomenon. But with the discovery of the body of a young woman, an apparent victim of a self inflicted gunshot, Simona finds herself thrust into a terrifying my...Read More

Crass: The Sound of Free Speech

Celebratory, shocking and raw, this film is as close to the story of the anarcho-punk band as you're going to get... Crass were an art collective and punk band that formed in Essex in 1977, and disbanded in 1984. They promoted anarchism and a movement of resistance that awakened and appealed to many. Director Brandon Spivey tells the tale of Crass's "Reality Asylum...Read More

Fast Company

In between Rabid and The Brood, director David Cronenberg immersed himself in the gritty world of drag racing to make Fast Company. Genre icons William Smith, John Saxon and Claudia Jennings (in her final role before her tragic death) star in this story of a racing team and the obsessions that speed them through lives of fast cars, fast cash and FAST COMPANY.

The Witchmaker

aka The Naked Witch. A remote, crocodile-Infested bayou in Louisiana is the scene of a group of bizarre murders with beautiful young women as the victims. In every case the body was found swinging upside-down from a tree with a mysterious cross inscribed across the torso. There is a suspicion of occult activity in connection with these killings and a research team t...Read More

Rhythm of Resistance: Black South African Music

Rhythm of Resistance features the sorrow and joy of South African Music with performances by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Philip Tabane and Malombo, the Mahotella Queens, Abafana and more! Travel across the boundaries of 1970s apartheid to experience music that has been ignored, suppressed or ghettoized, some filmed clandestinely in this essential music documentary.

Little Feet

Determined to set their pet goldfish free, Lana and Nico embark on a magical urban odyssey from their Los Angeles home to the ocean. Their adventure, seen through the eyes of the brother/sister team, is filled with an array of wild and sometimes frightening encounters! Little Feet is a the return of director Alexandre Rockwell to his black and white 16mm roots that...Read More

Psycho Cop Returns

Officer Joe Vickers (Robert R. Shafer) is the meanest and deadliest cop in LA, leaving behind a never-ending stream of bloodied bodies, in the name of justice. The fact that he also happens to be a Satan worshiping member of the undead doesn't help much either. After overhearing some office workers discussing a secret drug and sex filled after-hours party they're pl...Read More

Calvaire

In director Fabrice du Welz's Calvaire, a traveling entertainer is on his way home for Christmas when his van breaks down in the middle of a village, where he quickly falls victim to a dangerously unhinged innkeeper determined to keep him captive. This dark, unsettling film from the New French Extremity movement is available for the first in the US in high definitio...Read More

The Waterboys: A Wild and Beautiful Ride

NIGHT FLIGHT PLUS EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: The Waterboys's A Wild and Beautiful Ride is a new 48-minute documentary exploring the creation of The Waterboys’ latest album Life, Death and Dennis Hopper. Directed by Mick Puck and Duende Visions, the film takes viewers behind the scenes of a bold musical and spiritual journey inspired by the life and career of Dennis Hopper....Read More

Sator

Secluded in a desolate forest home to little more than the decaying remnants of the past, a broken family is further torn apart by a mysterious death. Adam, guided by a pervasive sense of dread, hunts for answers only to learn that they are not alone; an insidious presence by the name of Sator has been observing his family, subtly influencing all of them for years i...Read More

Empire of the Dark

A private detective searching for a killer comes across a satanic cult from another dimension, monsters are called up from hell & legions of murderous undead ninja assassins are on the attack!  One reviewer described what follows as “Rambo in HELL! “An Orgy of Action” from Steve Barkett, director & star of The Aftermath. 

Night of the Blood Monster

Aka The Bloody Judge. Christopher Lee (The Wicker Man) gives one of his most unforgettable performances as Judge Jeffreys, the infamous 17th Century witch-finder whose unholy obsession with a luscious wench (Maria Rohm of Eugiene) fuels a jaw-dropping spree of torture, brutality and flesh-ripping perversion. Howard Vernon (Succubus), Margaret Lee (Five Golden Dragon...Read More

Pets

Teenage Runaway Bonnie (Candice Rialson) has escaped the clutches of her controlling brother, only to become immediately embroiled in a twisted web of sexual manipulation. Initially convinced to aid in a carjacking, Bonnie is then taken in by a lecherous lesbian artist who hopes to groom her into a sapphic lover, only to have her plans thwarted by the perverse advan...Read More

B.B. King: On the Road

This feature documentary organically arose after the passing of King in 2015, when a legion of his past band members, family and companions reached out in an effort to share these stories from the numerous Tours over decades, recounting the journey they shared with 'B.B.' through civil unrest, historical moments in music and in stage, from 'Chitlin' Circuit to Stadi...Read More

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Master filmmaker Sidney Lumet (The Verdict, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico) delivers "one of his greatest achievements" (Roger Ebert) with this riveting and compelling suspense thriller. Oscar®-winner* Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) is Andy, an overextended payroll executive who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan Hawke, Training Day), into a larcenous scheme: the p...Read More

Tunnel Vision: Stuart Shapiro and Neal Isreal Interview

In this candid and often hilarious conversation recorded for the brand-new 4K restoration, Tunnel Vision producer/distributor Stuart Shapiro and director Neal Israel reflect on the punk spirit behind their scrappy and influential 1976 satire. They delve into the political irreverence that defined the film, its boundary-pushing humor, and the ways its sharp satire re...Read More

Motorpsycho

Just prior to Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, producer/director/co-writer and cinematographer Russ Meyer first unleashed his singular vision of full-throttle violence and vengeance with this 1965 shocker: When a trio of psycho bikers launches a sexual assault and murder spree in a desert town, the local veterinarian (Alex Rocco of The Godfather fame in his screen deb...Read More

The Low Life

Great young stars, rave reviews and powerhouse performances give you an edge on business.Tell your customers to get a life: The Low Life. Starring Kyra Sedgwick, Rory Cochrane, Sean Astin, and more.

Blind Beast

Blind Beast is a masterpiece of erotic horror that explores the all-encompassing and overwhelming relationship between the artist and his art and the obsessive closed world that the artist inhabits, with maestro director Yasuzō Masumura (Giants and Toys, Irezumi) conjuring up a hallucinogenic dreamworld in which sensual and creative urges combine with a feverish int...Read More

Thunder Alley

This 1985 Cannon release follows a rock band's struggle for success along with the pitfalls of life on the road: the drugs, unscrupulous managers, and grueling one-night stands!  Thunder Alley features an energetic young cast starring Roger Wilson, (of Porky's fame), teen heartthrob Leif Garrett (Skateboard: The Movie) as the lead vocalist and Jill Schoelen (The Stepfather).

Deadly Games

Steve Railsback (famed for his unhinged performance as Charles Manson in 1976’s TV mini-series Helter Skelter) is at his sinister best as a troubled Vietnam Vet in 1982’s Deadly Games - a tale of madness, murder and adultery from writer/director Scott Mansfield. A masked maniac with a penchant for a horror-themed board game is playing his own twisted game with the w...Read More

Christian Death - Live At The Los Angeles Patriot Hall

Ten years after the influential Los Angeles goth rock band broke up, the original Christian Death line-up featuring Rozz Williams performed live at the Patriot Hall in Los Angeles in 1993. Watch the complete concert film tonight.

Forgotten Stooges

A fascinating collection of forgotten Stooge rarities including outtakes, home movies, newsreel footage, as well as promotional and short subject films featuring The Three Stooges: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Shemp Howard, Joe Besser, and Curly-Joe DeRita!

Billy Idol: State Line Live at the Hoover Dam

A spectacular special event, immortalized for the big screen: legendary punk icon Billy Idol makes history by playing the first ever concert in front of the world famous Hoover Dam. Kicking off his sell-out 2023 North American spring and summer tour, the once in a lifetime performance features a career-spanning run of chart-topping hits including 'Dancing with Mysel...Read More

The Ninth Configuration

A stunning meditation on the existence of God, The Ninth Configuration is a psychologically challenging exploration of faith, suffering, and madness from The Exorcist’s William Peter Blatty. In the final days of the Vietnam War, a psychiatrist, Col. Kane, takes charge of an experimental military facility studying soldiers who appear to have suffered a psychotic break.

Ruslan And Ludmila

The final film from Russian fantasy master Aleksandr Ptushko, Ruslan & Ludmila was a glorious and magical summation of his career. The 2-1/2 hour film based on an epic fairy tale written in 1820 by Alexander Pushkin is filled with the sweeping lyricism, bejeweled visual F/X and mythic storytelling that put him on par with Walt Disney, Ray Harryhausen and Mario Bava....Read More

Return to Waterloo

Ray Davies of the Kinks made his filmmaking debut in 1984 as director, writer, and composer of Return to Waterloo, a music-driven feature where songs replace dialogue. The story follows Ken Colley on a haunting, surreal journey blending fantasy and reality, with appearances by Tim Roth and Davies himself. Return to Waterloo embraces Davies’ satirical (and occasional...Read More

Lux Æterna

Warning: This film contains extended sequences of flashing lights that may impact people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised. New French Extremity auteur Gaspar Noé’s Lux Æterna (2019) is a hypnotic, nerve-frying descent into meta-filmmaking chaos. As Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg prepare for a shoot, they discuss filmmaking war stor...Read More

Beyond the Door III

Shy American college coed, Beverly Putnic, has been invited to go on a class trip to a remote part of Yugoslavia to witness and take part in an ancient cultural rite. But what Beverly doesn't know is that she's actually being lured to Europe in order to be made the bride of Satan! Narrowly escaping from the clutches of a witch, Beverly and her classmates take refuge...Read More

Bloodmoon

Though it arrived near the end of the cycle, it remains the most satisfyingly depraved – yet least-seen – old-school slasher in Ozploitation history: Someone is butchering students at St. Elizabeth’s Girls School, complete with gratuitous nudity, graphic gore, obnoxious teens, creepy cuckolds, barbed wire garroting, ‘80s Aussie glam-metal band Vice, an acid-flinging...Read More

Deconstructing Dunning

This documentary chronicles the captivating, funny, outrageous and ultimately tragic true Hollywood story of Douglas Dunning, actor. Dunning of suspect British descent, burst on to the scene in the 80's on the hit TV series G.L.O.W. (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling) playing wrestling announcer character Sir Miles Headlock and directed by Matt Cimber (Hundra). Even thou...Read More

Mardi Gras Massacre

New Orleans-based writer/producer/director Jack Weis became one of the most enigmatic figures in '70s exploitation. And for his final trashterpiece, Weis delivered a filth-fueled, disco-drenched and gore-soaked epic of butchered hookers, hard-boiled homicide cops and a prissy psycho with an Aztec sacrifice fetish that remains a once-in-a-lifetime sleaze experience. ...Read More

Louder Than You Think: A Lo-Fi History of Gary Young and Pavement

An up-close cinematic walkabout through the life of Gary Young, the original (and highly unlikely) drummer of indie rock royalty Pavement. His booze and drugs-fueled antics (on-stage handstands, gifting vegetables to fans) and haphazard production methods (accidentally helping launch the lo-fi aesthetic) were both a driving force of the band's early rise and the cau...Read More

Weather Report - Rockpalast, Offenbach 1978

By September of 1978 Weather Report's headlining status afforded them the opportunity to play a very long set amounting to two hours in length. In this concert, fans were treated to material from right across the bands career and solo spots by everybody. An explosive tenor and drum duet by Shorter and Erskine also forms part of this and must have surely put an end t...Read More

The Prisoner: Episode 1 - Arrival

A secret agent resigns from a high-security organization, but he is then abducted and awakens to find himself imprisoned in a village from which there is no escape.

Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again

Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again is a 1990 made for TV movie based on Archie Comics, premiering on NBC Sunday Night at the Movies on May 6, 1990. The classic comic-book characters created by John L. Goldwater are brought to TV as adults returning to their high-school reunion, remembering old times and romances from good old Riverdale High.

The Devil's Lover

Previously available only in edited versions and poor-quality transfers, it remains one of the most obscure and bizarre Italian gothics of the '70s: When a trio of free-spirited young women - led by a smoldering Rosalba Neri of Lady Frankenstein fame - insists on spending the night in a castle rumored to be owned by the Devil himself, their cobweb-and-candelabra lar...Read More

Venus in Furs

Jess Franco'ss Supernatural Sex Stunner! Of the all the twisted hits from cult director Jess Franco, this is the one that fans and critics alike call his masterpiece! James Darren stars as a traumatized trumpeter sucked into a whirlpool of psycho-sexual horror. Klaus Kinski, Dennis Price, and Barbara McNair co-star in this infamous erotic shocker that also features...Read More

Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

Within that bizarre flower lies a huge enigma,” muses Nick Carter, America’s Greatest Detective, called to Prague to investigate the case of a missing dog and instead winding up in the jaws of a giant carnivorous plant controlled by his old nemesis, The Gardener, in Czech director Oldřich Lipský’s beloved cult hit. Inspired by the Nick Carter dime novel detective st...Read More

Argoman the Fantastic Superman

A 1967 Italian Eurospy-superhero hybrid that follows a morally ambiguous super-powered hero enlisted by British authorities. When the self-proclaimed Queen of the World, Jenabelle, nabs the world's largest diamond, Argoman springs into action—balancing high-stakes adventure with his own shaky moral compass!

Tubular Bells: 50th Anniversary Tour Live Concert

Mike Oldfield's iconic Tubular Bells took the world by storm in 1973. The 50th anniversary celebration of his masterpiece continues with this incredible 4K live concert recording with dance and acrobatic feats by the Circa Contemporary Circus at London's infamous Royal Festival Hall in London, with Samuel West as MC.

Cane River

Written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian, Horace B. Jenkins, and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, CANE RIVER is a racially-charged love story in Natchitoches Parish, a “free community of color” in Louisiana. A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves b...Read More

1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever

Night Flight Plus is proud to present "1982: GREATEST GEEK YEAR EVER!" in its original, unedited feature length form for the first time on streaming! This epic documentary spotlights the pop culture milestones of 1982 including notable motion pictures, TV, music and video games of that seminal year. Featuring stars, directors, writers, producers and pop culture hist...Read More

Dogra Magra

A man wakes in an asylum with no memory. Dr Wakabayashi helps him to recall his past in which he killed his bride on their wedding day. Part of his memory becomes linked to another doctor, Dr Masaki, and a manuscript, Dogra Magra. The final feature film by Toshio Matsumoto (Funeral Parade of Roses) is an adaptation of the celebrated novel by Kyusaku Yumeno, a period...Read More

Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest: Stanley Brothers & Doc Watson

Rainbow Quest was a TV series hosted by Pete Seeger and filmed in the mid 1960s when folk music had enormous popularity. This episode features the Stanley Brothers and Doc Watson. The Stanley Brothers were one of the great classic bluegrass groups. While Ralph Stanley has enjoyed newfound popularity following "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou", Carter Stanley died within ...Read More

Culture Club - Live At Wembley

The iconic multi-platinum selling '80s pop legends, Culture Club return home for the holidays and perform "Live At Wembley," after a hugely successful 60 city world tour featuring ALL ORIGINAL MEMBERS including Boy George, Roy, Mikey and John. Along with an explosive horn section and mind-blowing backup soul singers, the band ignites the stage before a sold out home...Read More

The Last Will and Testament of U.K. Subs

Punk legends THE U.K. SUBS deliver a blistering live set of their classic hits at the 100 Club in London, England in the fall of 2023. Charlie Harper, Alvin Gibbs, Steve Staughan and Stefan Haublein deliver a blistering 70 minute live set in front of their rabid and loyal fans.

The Phantom Empire

In The Phantom Empire from director Fred Olen Rey, lost-city explorers find mutants, cavegirls, dinosaurs and a leather-clad space queen played by Sybil Danning (Reform School Girls). When a man-eating cave creature appears with a fortune in uncut diamonds around his neck, Dr. Chambers' daughter Denae hires adventurers C & C Salvage to find the underground source...Read More

The Bride From Hades

Noble samurai Shinzaburo (Kojiro Hongo, Gamera) is visited one night by the beautiful courtesan Otsuyu (Miyoko Akaza, Lady Snowblood). She pleads with him to marry her and save her from life in a brothel. Instantly captivated by her beauty, Shinzaburo agrees and a cautious love affair develops, but in his infatuation, he fails to realise that Otsuyu is a ghost. His ...Read More

No Escape

The Year is 2022. John Robbins (Ray Liotta), a former Marine Captain, has been sentenced for assassinating his commanding officer and is banished to a secret and remote prison island run by The Warden (Michael Lerner). In this prison of the future, inhabited by society's most violent and feared criminals, Robbins is left to the mercy of the elements and his fellow m...Read More

Foghat - Slow Ride: Live In Concert

Slow Ride: Live in Concert gives us undistilled Foghat, recorded and filmed live over two months in Texas in 1999, shortly before frontman Dave Peverett's premature death at the age of 56. The power and drive of these classic songs come ringing through and are a celebration of Foghat's vision and talent, many years since the band exploded onto the world in 1970.

The Snow Woman

Two woodcutters head into the mountains to fell an ancient tree. Caught in a snowstorm, they spend the night in a mountain lodge, where a female spirit appears and takes the life of one of the men. She spares the other man's life on the condition that he never tell anyone what happened that night. The woodcutter (Akira Ishihama, Harakiri) goes on to marry the myster...Read More

The Ghost of Yotsuya

Director Kenji Misumi (Lone Wolf and Cub) and writer Fuji Yahiro (Sansho the Bailiff, A Bloody Spear at Mt. Fuji) turn the quintessential Japanese ghost story into a profoundly resonant doomed romance, with chilling ghost scenes that would leave a deep mark on the creators of J-horror. Samurai Iemon (Kazuo Hasegawa, Gate of Hell) has grown distant from his wife O...Read More

.com for Murder

In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream! This turn-of-the-millennium cyber psycho-thriller from Nico Mastorakis showcases the usual gleeful eye for excess and inspired casting (incl.rock stars Roger Daltrey and Huey Lewis) one has come to expect from the cult director. Nastassja Kinski (Cat People) stars as a a young woman confined to a wheelchair who decides to h...Read More