New Arrivals

Gwar in Concert (1989)

Filmed in 1989 at Fender’s Ballroom in Long Beach, California, this previously unreleased GWAR concert captures the legendary group in all its blood-soaked glory. Originally recorded for Stuart S. Shapiro’s Gorgon Video Magazine, the full concert is presented exclusively on Night Flight Plus, directly from the original Betacam SP master tapes and preserved without a...Read More

Spooktacular!

Spooktacular! dives into the origins of America’s first horror theme park, Spooky World. Launched in 1991 by David Bertolino, it drew over a million thrill-seekers in 11 years and defined ‘90s horror culture. Featuring icons like Tom Savini, Alice Cooper, Elvira, and Linda Blair, this doc is a nostalgic scream-fest for horror fans.

The Halfway House

From director and FX fabricator Kenneth J. Hall (Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout) comes the ultimate union of graphic gore, evil nuns, relentless nudity, Lovecraftian carnage and unapologetically over-the-top exploitation bliss. When a missing teen's sister goes undercover at a Halfway House for Troubled Girls, she'll expose an unholy conspiracy where naked runaways...Read More

Wicked City

In Wicked City, director Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust) blends graphic horror, stylish eroticism, and pulse-pounding action in a '80s genre classic. For centuries, a secret peace treaty has existed between Earth and the Black World, a parallel dimension populated by shape-changers possessing supernatural powers.

Confessions of a Serial Killer

Confessions of a Serial Killer is based on the grisly true story of Henry Lee Lucas, one of America's most notorious killers. Daniel Ray Hawkins, a character based on Lucas, confesses to and relives his most violent murders in this grim account of human depravity, recounting more than 200 killings during a bloody journey across America.

Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue

Shin Kazumatsui is a motorcycle racer who unwittingly becomes the test subject for an insidious experiment to create a race of super cyborg soldiers by fusing the DNA of a grasshopper! When a creature arrives and begins a wave of mass murder, Shin rises to the occasion and utilizes his newfound superpowers to fight evil!

Last Cannibal World

For the first film in his unofficial 'Cannibal Trilogy,' director Ruggero Deodato delivered a depraved adventure that’s been called “gripping and shocking” (Monster Hunter) and “easily the most savage of the entire genre” (Fantastic Movie Musings). In a jungle hell that has no pity for man, the survivors of a plane crash are hunted by a tribe with a taste for tormen...Read More

Blue Monkey

From Canadian horror director William Fruet (Funeral Home), this '80s horror flick (also known as Insect) blends gore with an endearing '50s-style oversized killer bug. Steve Railsback (The Stunt Man) turns in a great performance as Detective Jim Bishop who must find a way to stop a giant monstrous insect that's eating people in a quarantined hospital!

Kamen Rider ZO

Keita Amemiya’s Kamen Rider ZO (1993) is a Japanese superhero Tokusatsu film serving as the 12th installment of the Kamen Rider Series. Masaru Aso was Doctor Mochizuki’s human guinea pig in a series of experiments that led to the transformation of Masaru into a grasshopper-like being called Kamen Rider ZO. He flees to the mountains and is awakened from a coma two ye...Read More

Kamen Rider J

In Keita Amemiya’s Kamen Rider J, Koji Segawa is a nature photographer who loses his life saving a young girl from an evil organization called "FOG." When the Earth Spirits resurrect Koji as Kamen Rider J, he vows to use his new powers to destroy "FOG" and save the human race.

Night Flight - Chat Pile Video Profile

Oklahoma City noise rock band Chat Pile takes over an all-new episode of Night Flight. From their debut God’s Country to their latest album Who Loves the Sun, we dig into the band’s punishing brand of politically charged, dystopian sludge in an all-new video profile featuring music videos and never-before-seen live footage. Hosted by Night Flight’s original host, Pa...Read More

Sleepless

Returning to the atmosphere and themes of his landmark giallo Deep Red (1975), 2001’s SLEEPLESS saw the welcome return of horror maestro Dario Argento (Suspiria, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) to the subgenre with which he had made his name. Starring Max von Sydow (The Exorcist) and featuring a host of splatterific set pieces courtesy of practical FX wizard Serg...Read More

The Ugly

One of the most stylish shockers of the late '90s, this acclaimed New Zealand descent into madness features startling makeup effects from the future Oscar®-winning Wētā Workshop team (The Lord of the Rings trilogy). Both touching and haunting, this film marked the impressive debut for director Scott Reynolds (When Strangers Appear) and, after a long period of unavai...Read More

Alison's Birthday

When a séance warns Alison not to return home for her 19th birthday, it will unlock an occult conspiracy of fear, violence and demonic deliverance in one of the most chilling, and criminally underseen, Ozploitation shockers of the '80s. Featuring Joanne Samuel (Mad Max), John Bluthal (Labyrinth) and Vincent Ball (Breaker Morant), Alison's Birthday is a "remarkably i...Read More

Jack-O

Grave robbers unwittingly awaken two evil spirits, one a warlock hanged for murder nearly 100 years earlier.

Moon Garden

When a little girl has a terrible accident and slips into a coma, she finds herself thrust into a darkly surreal industrial dreamworld. Haunted by a nightmarish spectre that feeds off her tears, she must follow her mother’s radio-static voice to find her way back to consciousness. Shot on expired 35mm film stock with vintage rehoused lenses, Moon Garden is a handcra...Read More

Criminally Insane

Criminally Insane is a charmingly depraved proto-slasher anchored by a captivating performance from its star, Priscilla Alden (Sodom and Gomorrah: The Last Seven Days). Director Nick Millard’s cult favorite bursts with wild plot twists, regional charm, and plenty of gruesome kills. Ethel Jankowski has just been released from an asylum. She moves in with her grandmot...Read More

Fulci Talks

In this extensive interview recorded in Rome in June 1993, legendary Italian director Lucio Fulci offers insight into his prolific career. The maestro relates anecdotes about his early life, his entrance into the world of cinema, the various film genres in which he worked, his contentious relationship with fellow legend Dario Argento and other topics.

Savage Streets

Linda Blair (The Exorcist) is Brenda, vivacious leader of the “Satins”, a fun-loving group of pretty high school girls. The Satins are in for trouble when they play a harmless prank on the “Scars," a vicious gang who runs loose on the Hollywood streets. The Scars take their revenge seriously, first with Brenda’s deaf-mute sister (Linnea Quigley) and then her soon-to...Read More

I Bury The Living

Out of a time-rotted tomb crawls an unspeakable horror! A new manager at a local cemetery (Richard Boone) uses a huge map to keep track of the plots that are open or filled—black pins for occupied, white for sold but unoccupied. Boone notices that if he pushes a black pin into a plot where the owner is still living, that person dies within 24 hours. Bikel, the cemet...Read More

Season of the Witch

Aka Hungry Wives. Perhaps the most unclassifiable of filmmaker George A. Romero's works, 1972's Season of the Witch sees the Night of the Living Dead filmmaker returning to the realm of the supernatural for this bewitching tale of a housewife driven to an interest in the dark arts. On the surface, Joan Mitchell has it all - family, friends, and a beautiful home equi...Read More

Oil Capital Underground: The Genesis & Evolution of Punk Rock in Tulsa-Late '70s to Mid '90s

Oil Capital Underground documents a largely overlooked chapter of American underground music history: the punk, new wave, hardcore and thrash scenes that developed in Tulsa, Oklahoma from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. Director Bryan Crain traces how musicians created an alternative culture within a city better known for the Tulsa Sound and its oil-industry h...Read More

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

Sequel to 'Tetsuo', this time has the Iron Man transforming into a cyber-kinetic gun when a gang of vicious skinheads kidnap his son. When the skinheads capture him, they begin to experiment on him... speeding up the mutative process!

Night Flight presents: The Residents’ Eskimo Folk Tales

We’re celebrating one of the longest-running creative partnerships in Night Flight’s 45-year history with an episode dedicated to The Residents and their latest EP and tour. The anonymous avant-garde collective revisits material originally intended for their landmark 1979 album Eskimo on their new EP, Eskimo Folk Tales, ahead of a 2026 North American tour running fr...Read More

Stale Popcorn and Sticky Floors

Take a front-row seat as we sit down to chat with some of the creators and stars of the best and most beloved exploitation and grindhouse films of the 1970s and '80s. Featuring interviews with John Dugan (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Lynn Lowry (I Drink Your Blood), Kevin Van Hentenryck (Basket Case), John Russo (Night of the Living Dead), and many more independent...Read More

My Samurai

When young Peter McCrea (John Kallo) witnesses a gang murder, he is thrust into a dangerous world where strength and power are the keys to survival. His only hope is Young Park (Julian Lee, Assassin's Code), a powerful martial arts master with a gift for destroying any opposition. My Samurai is the solo directorial debut of Fred H. Dresch after making his mark as an...Read More

Castle of the Creeping Flesh

Castle of The Creeping Flesh is a bizarre and atmospheric slice of late-60s European horror, blending mad science, gothic dread, and exploitation shock value. In a remote European countryside, an isolated scientist resides in a decaying castle, obsessed with bringing his dead daughter back to life. A group of drunken travelers, wandering after a night of revelry, st...Read More

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

Turn It Around: The Story Of East Bay Punk spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a central focus on the emergence of Berkeley's inspiring 924 Gilman Street music collective. Narrated by Iggy Pop and executive produced by Green Day, Turn It Around is the definitive telling of this vibrant story, drawing from a wide variety of voices...Read More

Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer

A pair of fans of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden launch a crowdfunding campaign to help Paul Di'Anno (aka The Beast), the band's iconic original singer (on the band's first two albums, "Iron Maiden" and "Killers"), get back on his feet literally, emotionally and professionally. Neglected by healthcare workers in the U.K., wheelchair-bound Di'Anno leaves his home i...Read More

Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie

Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie is a documentary set in southern Ohio, where Dallas Gilbert and Wayne Burton have spent years searching for evidence that Bigfoot exists. What begins as a film about two amateur Bigfoot researchers gradually opens into a portrait of friendship, belief, and the dreams people build together. Find it in our Bigfoot Hunter section on the apps!

The Face With Two Left Feet

The most infamous Italian Discosploitation film of all time has arrived on Night Flight Plus! In his sole leading role, Giuseppe Spezia stars as clumsy wallflower Gianni who spends his nights at John's Fever hopelessly in love with the club's beautiful DJ (adult film star Ilona Staller). But after his friends give him a complete makeover, Gianni becomes a dead ringe...Read More

Scream

Shot in 1981 but not released theatrically until 1983, Scream (aka The Outing) marks the feature directorial and writing debut of Byron Quisenberry (the stunt coordinator from the cult classic The Return of the Living Dead). A group of friends on a rafting excursion happen upon a deserted town and decide to spend the night. But after someone is murdered, it appears ...Read More

Fangs

Fangs is a "slickly produced and darkly humorous horror-thriller" (Dark Force) directed by sound mixer Art Names (in his only turn as director) and starring a stacked cast of character actors including Les Tremayne (The Slime People), Bruce Kimball (Drive-In Massacre), and Alice Nunn (Dark Night of the Scarecrow). This serpentine drive-in-sleaze is full of surprises...Read More

Ms. 45

American independent film icon Abel Ferrara's 1981 revenge thriller classic MS. 45 follows a mute garment-district seamstress (played by the late Zoe Lund) who, after falling victim to multiple unspeakable assaults, ignites her one-woman homicidal rampage against New York City's entire male population. MS. 45 rages from the cult underground to arrive on Night Flight...Read More

Raven

For years, the government paid him to kill. Now he’s self-employed. Academy Award® Nominee Burt Reynolds is the leader of the elite mercenary team Raven, on a deadly mission to obtain a powerful Soviet satellite decoder! But when the operation is sabotaged by U.S. officials, he sets out on a personal mission to eliminate the enemies and render his own brand of outla...Read More

Night Flight x Sub Pop Supercut: J.R.C.G

Night Flight cooks up a new Supercut with Sub Pop from Tacoma-based Justin R. Cruz Gallego’s album Sub Pop, Grim Iconic…(Sadistic Mantra). Scouring electronics and pummeling drums fuel a sweaty, sleazy video vignette filled with blood showers, lumbering zombies, chopped limbs, and folk-horror demons. Edited by John Mark Lapham.

Elementary Cinema: The Early Films of Sherlock Holmes

Venture into the early years behind one of the most well known characters in history. From the pages, to the stage, and finally to the big screen, Sherlock Holmes has been reimagined time and time again. In this new documentary produced by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures, Mark Redfield narrates and weaves together a comprehensive picture of the origins of Sherlock Holmes a...Read More

Wild Style

Universally hailed as the first hip-hop movie, director Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style captures New York’s hip-hop culture circa 1981 in timeless fashion. The groundbreaking film features a pantheon of prominent figures including Busy Bee Starski, Fab Five Freddy, The Cold Crush Brothers, and one of the godfathers of hip-hop, Grandmaster Flash. Wild Style follows th...Read More

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Adapting sci-fi author Yasutaka Tsutsui's famous 1967 novel, legendary director Nobuhiko Obayashi's (House)'s The Girl Who Leapt Through Time cast Tomoyo Harada in her feature film debut and launched the Kadokawa pop idol into superstardom. After suffering a fainting spell in her school's laboratory, 16-year-old Kazuko Yoshiyama (Harada) begins to experience a stran...Read More

Boardinghouse

The first ever shot-on-video horror film to be blown up to 35mm for theatrical release arrives on Night Flight Plus! Can a house be alive and have a personality of its own? Can demonic powers and evil energies influence and finally take over a person’s thoughts and actions? Of course not. At least, that’s what all the beautiful young women thought before answerin...Read More

40 Watts from Nowhere

NIGHT FLIGHT PLUS EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Frustrated by what she was hearing on commercial radio, Sue Carpenter built a 40-watt FM station in 1995 and ran it out of her apartment in Los Angeles, exploiting a legal case that allowed hundreds of low-power illegal radio operators to proliferate throughout the country and gave birth to the legal LPFM movement. Carpenter was...Read More

Night Flight x Sub Pop Supercut: Guerilla Toss

Night Flight x Sub Pop: Supercuts is a new original series that feeds bands from the Sub Pop roster into Night Flight’s Cult-Media Meat Grinder to produce a kaleidoscopic video collage of music, cult film, and classic Night Flight moments. Check out the premiere episode now, featuring NYC-based experimental dance punks Guerilla Toss. Tracks from the band’s latest LP...Read More

Gary Busey: Pet Judge (Episode 1)

A man sues his wife over funeral arrangements for their cat. A widow sues her employer for not insuring her dog, which she believes is the reincarnation of her husband.

The Lamp (aka The Outing)

Primed with an assortment of gruesome deaths and a very dark sense of humor, Tom Daley’s supernatural slasher The Lamp (aka The Outing) is a wild, Texas-lensed, mid-’80s horror gem. A group of thieves unwittingly free a vengeful genie named Jinn, who has been held captive for centuries in an ancient oil lamp. After the lamp is acquired by a local museum, Alex Wal...Read More

The Unearthly

This rare horror/sci-fi oddity from Republic Pictures stars John Carradine as Dr. Conway, a mad scientist who uses patients at his isolated psychiatric institute as subjects in gruesome experiments. The all-star cast also includes Allison Hayes, Myron Healey, and cult horror icon Tor Johnson as Dr. Conway’s hulking assistant.

Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge

"PRICES AREN’T THE ONLY THING BEING SLASHED!" For high school sweethearts Eric and Melody, love's young dream turns into a nightmare when Eric apparently dies in a fire which engulfs his family home. One year later and Melody is trying to move on with her life, taking up a job at the new Midwood Mall along with her friends... but the mall, which stands on the very s...Read More

Negatives

With his feature film directorial debut, Hungarian émigré Peter Medak created a provocative UK classic and launched one of the most unique careers in cinema history: When a young couple – Peter McEnery of ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE and 2x Academy Award® winner Glenda Jackson in her film debut – grows bored with their kinky roleplay games, they invite an uninhibited pho...Read More

John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection

Written and directed by Faraut and narrated by Mathieu Amalric, In the Realm of Perfection revisits the rich bounty of 16-mm-shot footage of the left-handed tennis star John McEnroe, at the time the world’s top-ranked player, as he competes in the French Open at Paris’s Roland Garros Stadium in 1984. Close-ups and slow motion sequences of McEnroe competing, as well ...Read More

Deadbeat at Dawn

Jim Van Bebber's notorious, blood-drenched cult classic Deadbeat at Dawn arrives on Night Flight Plus. Written by, directed by and starring Van Bebber (The Manson Family), Deadbeat follows the story of Goose - a gang leader whose girlfriend is brutally slaughtered when he attempts to leave the thug life behind. Pulled back into the gang, who've now formed an uneasy ...Read More

20,000 Days on Earth

20,000 Days on Earth is an inventive, lyrical ode to creativity and an intimate examination of the artistic process of musician and cultural icon Nick Cave. In their debut feature directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard fuse drama and documentary, weaving a staged day in Cave's life with never-before-seen veritè observation of his creative cycle.

Midnight Rider - Episode 1

Episode #1 of Midnight Rider, a late-night DirecTV series that brought Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro back to producing an irreverent mix of music, comedy, and cult programming.

Midnight Rider - Episode 2

Episode #2 of Midnight Rider, a late-night DirecTV series that brought Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro back to producing an irreverent mix of music, comedy, and cult programming.

Bangkok, Date with Death

A taut and twisty '80s crime drama from writer/director Jess Franco? The second of his two filmed-in-Spain-but-with-Bangkok-exteriors productions is seriously fun and full of surprises: When a teenage heiress is kidnapped from her boyfriend's yacht, it will pull the trigger on a lethal spree of evil playboys, kung fu killers, beauty salon torture devices, the hard-b...Read More

Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included

Breezy '80s pulp adventure, Jess Franco style! The first of writer/director Franco's filmed-in-Spain-but-with-Bangkok-exteriors productions is a cheeky throwback to his '60s Eurospy hits and loosely based on a novel by Edgar Wallace: When the British ambassador is assassinated in Singapore, a curmudgeonly secret agent will uncover a deadly conspiracy that takes him ...Read More

Burst City

Burst City is an explosive Molotov cocktail of dystopian sci-fi, Mad Max-style biker wars against yakuza gangsters and the police, and riotous performances from members of the real-life Japanese punk bands The Stalin, The Roosters, The Rockers and INU. In a derelict industrial wasteland on the outskirts of Tokyo, two rival punk bands and their unruly mobs of fans ga...Read More

Air Doll

A present-day fable for the increasing disconnect we find in urban life, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Air Doll transports the Galatea myth to present day Tokyo. A life-size air doll (Bae Doona, The Host) lives in a shabby apartment in Tokyo with her middle-aged owner. Her routine life is disrupted when fantasy turns into reality. The air doll suddenly comes to life, filled w...Read More

Tugging The Worm

In this hand-drawn short, a bird-like creature is drawn into an astral dimension rife with violence, vice, and vehicular homicide, rendered on black in electric lime greens and acid yellows. Animator James Duesing writes, "'Tugging the Worm' is an animation which is made up of 3500 drawings... the completed piece took approximately four years and a lot of Prismacolo...Read More

The Rise and Fall of the Clash Redux

The Rise and Fall of The Clash Redux is a newly edited version of the only personal and up-close film about the juggernaut band The Clash, and their meteoric trajectory through rock ’n’ roll history. The new music documentary arrival features previously unseen footage of the band at work and at play as well as interviews with band members and with other insiders. Da...Read More

Angel Eyes

Steven (John Phillip Law), a real estate speculator, is under the gun to pay off ruthless loan shark Johnny Ventura (Erik Estrada) when into his life comes the seductive Angel. Claiming to be his stepdaughter, she convinces Steven to take her in, over the objection of his girlfriend Michelle (Rachel Vickers). But Angel is anything but innocent...

Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect

Rarely has an architect caused as much sensation outside of the architecture community as Rem Koolhaas. His outstanding creations, such as the Dutch Embassy in Berlin and the Casa da Música concert hall in Porto, are working examples of the Dutchman's visionary theories about architecture and urban society. A Kind of Architect is an engaging portrait of Koolhaas tha...Read More

Switchblade Sisters

Filled with sharp, clever dialogue and tongue in cheek humor, this Shakespeare-influenced girl gang/women in prison/action movie medley from exploitation director Jack Hill is a stone cold grindhouse classic! Lace (Robbie Lee), leader of inner-city girl gang the Dagger Debs, meets her match when newcomer Maggie (Joanne Nail) arrives in the neighborhood. After a stin...Read More

Flipside

When filmmaker Chris Wilcha (The Target Shoots First) revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdness from his youth slowly falling apart and out of touch with the times. Flipside documents his tragicomic attempt to revive the store while revisiting other documentary projects he has abando...Read More

The Secret Lives of Bill Bartell

Bill Bartell was a Punk Rock Zelig. From director David Markey, this is his never-before-told story. From forming his band White Flag in the early 1980s to starting his own record company Gasatanka Records, Bill was relentless. His ability to side up to his idols (from original LA Punk Scene to arena Metal) was astonishing, as was his indelible influence on his hero...Read More

Dark Universe

From the darkest corner of the universe comes an alien terror with a cold-blooded mission... conquer the earth and harvest its inhabitants as a food source. Can our world survive this nightmare from deep space!? In Dark Universe, from director Steve Latshaw and producers Fred Olen Ray and Jim Wynorski, a group of scientists search the swamps of Florida for a crashed...Read More

Once Within a Time

Celebrated director Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi) returns after ten years with a new experimental film unlike any other from his already daring career. Once Within a Time is a bardic fairy tale about the end of the world and the beginning of a new one, tinged with apocalyptic comedy, rapturous cinematography, unforgettable vistas, and the innocence and hopes of a n...Read More

The Music Machine

Immediately after Saturday Night Fever swept the world, the ‘discosploitation’ genre was born. In the U.K.’s first polyester imitator, director Ian Sharp crafts a gritty time capsule of late '70s London in which an unemployed bloke (Gerry Sundquist of Don't Open till Christmas) tries to win the big dance competition at Camden Town’s iconic club, The Music Machine!

On Her Bed of Roses

Directed by Albert Zugsmith (Confessions of an Opium Eater), On Her Bed of Roses is an odd blending of post-noir, Vietnam era character drama and drive-in sleaze. Presented by Vinegar Syndrome in its rarely seen international 'hot' version and restored from the original 35mm negative. A deranged sniper shoots at cars on a freeway, only to commit suicide as the polic...Read More

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Wendy O. Williams & Mötley Crüe"

In this 1985 Night Flight interview, Wendy O. Williams announces, “When I feel buzzed and when I feel fried, I like to watch… Night Flight!” before conducting an only-on-NF interview with Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee and Vince Neil. The band discusses their early influences and their use of the pentagram before Williams steers the conversation toward appropriately unf...Read More

Motorhead: Overkill

Explore a review of Motörhead's creative output with a look behind the scenes from the early days at Chiswick Records to the smash album Orgasmatron.

Redlands

The lives of three residents of Redlands, California, intersect and ultimately collide in this claustrophobic exploration of radical creativity, sexuality and violence in America. From director and photographer John Brian King (Punk Daze: Los Angeles 1977–84) comes an arthouse take on a film noir storyline with elements of black humor. Redlands is a dark, voyeuristi...Read More

That Guy Dick Miller

Dick Miller was the last of the great American character actors. Whether he was sharing the screen with Nicholson, DeNiro, Schwarzenegger or The Ramones, Dick has been stealing scenes since his screen debut in 1955. Every moviegoer knows his face, but few know his name and even fewer know his story—an aspiring writer turned accidental actor. Explore the full stor...Read More

Blast

From legendary cult movie writer and director Albert Pyun, Blast features an all-star cast that includes Rutger Hauer, Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster), and Shannon Elizabeth (American Pie) in this 90's action thriller. The world's finest athletes have once again gathered for the summer games. Security is airtight as world leaders set aside global conflicts to celebrate s...Read More

A Bay of Blood

It redefined the giallo, birthed the slasher genre, and remains “the film that changed the face of horror forever” (DVD Talk). When a wealthy countess is murdered for her bayfront real estate, it will lead to the systematic slaughter of ruthless developers, greedy heirs, and bad neighbors.

Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story

Born Innocent makes the case for Redd Kross as the seminal West Coast band of the last half century. Their influence reaches across the genres of punk, college rock, grunge, metal and indie rock. Through more than four decades Redd Kross have been nothing but happily, outrageously, and courageously themselves. Director Andrew Reich conducted dozens of new interviews...Read More

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "RATT"

In this Night Flight interview, Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy and Robbin Crosby discuss the band’s explosive rise following the double-platinum success of Out of the Cellar. The conversation spans their early days living and rehearsing together in a rat-infested Los Angeles apartment, the breakout success of “Round and Round,” and Milton Berle’s unlikely appearance in their...Read More

Tattooed Life

Tetsuo (Hideki Takahashi, Fighting Elegy), a low-level yakuza is double-crossed by his boss and attacked. After his younger brother Kenji comes to his aid and kills Tetsuo's assailant, they flee to Manchuria where they risk coming under suspicion of rival gangs. Seijun Suzuki remains loyal to the conventions of the yakuza film, but Tattooed Life contains flashes of ...Read More

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Mark Hamill"

Mark Hamill joins Radio 1990’s Lisa Robinson to discuss moving beyond Luke Skywalker following the original Star Wars trilogy. The conversation spans his Broadway comedy Room Service, his stage work in Amadeus (including why he wasn’t cast in the film), and George Lucas’s then-plans for future Star Wars films.

Beyond Graceland: Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Beyond Graceland tells the story of South African musician Joseph Shabalala and his band Ladysmith Black Mambazo, who became worldwide sensations after powering Paul Simon's landmark and massively successful Graceland album. Bathed in Ladysmith's powerful music, the documentary covers the full breadth of the band's career, from early years in rural South Africa to t...Read More

Vulcanizadora

In director Joel Potrykus's Vulcanizadora, two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can't stay hidden for long.

Mondo Suburbia

Mondo Suburbia follows Zabrecky as he ventures beyond the manicured lawns and quiet cul-de-sacs to uncover strange neighbors, kooky rituals, and unexpected stories hiding in plain sight.

Baba Yaga

Academy Award® nominee Carroll Baker (Andy Warhol's BAD) stars as the titular witch who seduces a swinging photographer into a maelstrom of sexual obsession, pop art perversity, and some of the most uniquely unnerving images in the entire genre.

Knock Off

Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in an explosive thriller set in Hong Kong's shady manufacturing scene during the 1997 handover to China! When a shipment of jeans to the U.S. proves counterfeit, Marcus Ray, the "King of the Knock-Offs" (Van Damme) finds himself at the center of a Russian Mafia plot to hold the United States security for ransom.

Double Dragon

"It's Not Just a Game Anymore... Evil Has Just Met Its Match!" It's the year 2007, and what remains of L.A. is now ''New Angeles'', a city ravaged by earthquakes, tidal waves and vicious gangs. The evil tycoon Koga Shuko (Robert Patrick, Terminator 2: Judgment Day) is obsessed with finding the two halves of a mystical talisman known as the "Double Dragon." Two teena...Read More

The Lost Okoroshi

In The Lost Okoroshi, Abba T. Makama plays with different influences, from Nollywood to North American music videos, and the result is a surreal, visually eclectic film unlike any being produced by his contemporaries. But style never trumps substance, as beneath the formal play, Makama is probing pressing questions about modernity and masculinity that, when the l...Read More

OBEX

NIGHT FLIGHT PLUS STREAMING PREMIERE: In pre-internet 1987, Conor and his dog Sandy live a life of seclusion, lost in the slow-rendering graphics of early Macs and televisions aglow with late night horror movie marathons. But when he begins playing OBEX, a new and mysterious, state-of-the-art computer game, he finds himself trapped in a low-tech, but high-stakes ana...Read More

There's Nothing Out There

Made by then 19 year old cinematic wunderkind Rolfe Kanefsky, There’s Nothing Out There is a gag and gore filled horror comedy which lovingly riffs on some of the genre's most used tropes.  Mike's obsession with horror movies and their rules dictates that no matter where he goes, he can't help but expect to find a monster lurking around every corner. But this time, ...Read More

Suzi Q

Suzi Q tells the incredible story of Suzi Quatro, who in 1973 became one of the first women to front a rock band, play an instrument, sing lead, write songs, and have international hits. She's inspired and paved the way for subsequent generations of female rockers including Blondie, The Runaways, The GoGo's, and beyond. Featuring interviews with Debbie Harry, Alice ...Read More

Split Second

In the year 2008, the cops are better armed than before, but nothing has prepared them for this. Swift, sharp-clawed and deadly, something moves among them on the streets, in the alleyways, on the rooftops, tearing out human hearts and devouring them. Maverick cop 'Harley' Stone (Rutger Hauer, Blade Runner) lost his partner to the beast, and now it looks like his gi...Read More

Night Flight - Heavy Metal Half Hour

From Night Flight’s second-to-last season, start the "final countdown" with a hot blast of ’80s metal featuring Blacklace, Europe, Queensrÿche, Great White, and Rough Cutt. This Night Flight episode from the vault captures heavy metal at its most theatrical and gloriously excessive.

Vampire Zombies…from Space!

Vampire Zombies…from Space! is an over-the-top comedy which satirizes and pays homage to drive-in, creature-feature horror films of the 1950s and features a horde of appearances by cult icons including NotLD’s Judith O’Dea, Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman, and Tim & Eric’s David Liebe Hart. From the depths of space, Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan yet; turning the...Read More

Night of the Sharks

Life in a quiet Mexican fishing village is ripped to pieces when a laidback guide (Treat Williams) and his business partner (Blaxploitation legend Antonio Fargas) become entangled with international assassins, $2 million in diamonds, and a local shark named Cyclops! This "insane and weirdly good-natured" (Oh, The Horror!) action thriller is adapted from a screenplay...Read More

The Shark Hunter

The "other" shark movie from legendary action director Enzo G. Castellari brings him together with his  Franco Nero (Texas, Adios) for a high-speed, double-barreled, shark-punching blast. In a Mexican seaside village, a reclusive fisherman (Nero) with a haunted past battles cold-blooded treasure hunters to retrieve $100 million from an underwater grotto infested wit...Read More

Monster Shark

From director Lamberto Bava and featuring a killer score by Fabio Frizzi (The Beyond), this Italian Sharksploitation favorite has a certified monster pedigree! When several locals in a coastal Florida town are found with limbs chomped off, an electronics expert joins a team of marine biologists to hunt a creature that is part shark, part octopus and 100% prehisto...Read More

The American Brew

Grab a pint and a seat as we tell the story of America's favorite drink. From colonial settlers to the struggles of prohibition, through the rise of microbrews and the unending success of national breweries, Roger Sherman's The American Brew explores the evolution of beer throughout the centuries.

Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer

In the infancy of hip-hop, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz documented the pioneers of music and style who would launch an enduring worldwide phenomenon. Charlie Ahearn (director of the seminal graffiti movie Wild Style) pays tribute to both Shabazz and those who defined hip-hop before it had definition. More than just vintage shots of kids rocking sneakers ...Read More

Demonwarp

Based on an original story by John Carl Buechler—director of Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood—and helmed by Emmett Alston (New Year’s Evil), Demonwarp is a delirious late 80s creature feature that throws in everything but the kitchen sink, from hulking Sasquatches, ghoulish zombies, bloody sacrifices and alien overlords. Featuring Academy Award-winner George ...Read More

Medal of Honor

Originally produced for PBS, Roger Sherman's Medal of Honor traces the history of America’s highest award for valor in combat through stories of those who have received this honor, and asks fundamental questions about what it means to have the courage of a hero.  Going back to its creation during the Civil War, the film explores the extraordinary acts of heroism for...Read More

Sabotage

In Sabotage, a bodyguard draws on his Navy commando training to hunt down the killers of the arms dealer he was hired to protect. Directed by Tibor Takács (The Gate), this overlooked ’90s action thriller stars Mark Dacascos alongside pre-The Matrix Carrie-Anne Moss, Tony Todd (Candyman), and Graham Greene (Clearcut).

Delirium: Photo of Gioia

One of director Lamberto Bava's bloodiest and most memorable gialli, Delirium: Photo of Gioia offers an intricate mystery supplemented by plentiful kills punctuated by touches of unexpected, nightmarish surrealism. Delirium stars Serena Grandi (Anthropophagus), Daria Nicolodi (Tenebrae), David Brandon (Caligula: The Untold Story), and features a score by legendary c...Read More

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

The Suckling

At Big Mama's underground abortion clinic and brothel, a young woman's extracted fetus is flushed into the sewer system wherein it's exposed to toxic waste and begins to mutate into a bloodthirsty monster! An offbeat and gleefully violent monster horror-comedy from director Francis Teri, The Suckling blends gratuitous gore, nonchalant T&A, and a sly side helping of ...Read More

Demon Witch Child

One of the first and most shameless European “re-imaginings” of The Exorcist, career horror filmmaker Amando de Ossorio (The Ghost Galleon) revels in over-the-top trashiness as innocent tween becomes possessed by demonic forces after a witch gives her a cursed doll. From low-fi spinning torsos to late-night human sacrifices, de Ossorio keeps the entertainment value ...Read More

Zapruder & Stolley: Witness to an Assassination

On November 22, 1963, Life Magazine’s LA bureau chief Richard Stolley learned via teletype that President John F. Kennedy had been shot. Racing to the scene in Dallas, he accomplished what is now considered one of the most significant journalistic coups of the 20th century. Stolley found Abraham Zapruder and purchased the right to reprint stills from footage of the ...Read More

Night Flight Short Cuts - "Dee Snider" (2026)

“Wake up all you S.M.F.s! I’m Dee Snider from Twisted Sister!” In this original Night Flight interview from 1984, the simultaneously irreverent and self-aware Twisted Sister frontman reflects on the theatrical roots of the band’s image, the making of “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” and why heavy metal "will always sell."

Residency

It’s a documentary about making a horror film …or is it a horror film about making a documentary?! During a winter-long residency in Brooklyn, ten obsessive female artists succumb to the darkness of their creative fascinations.

Night Flight - Short Cuts "Garrett Morris"

In this candid Night Flight interview, Morris reflects on his unlikely path to Saturday Night Live, the early years alongside John Belushi and Gilda Radner, and why competition was built into both comedy and fabric of American culture itself.

Shit & Champagne

When the drug-lords of the underworld kill your fiancé and your sister, and the cops stand idly by and do nothing, there's only one thing left to do...dance! D'Arcy Drollinger's tribute to female empowerment, television heroines and the low-budget exploitation films of the 1970s (see below), delivers high-kicking, ass-whooping comedy. After her fiancé and half-siste...Read More

Too Hot to Handle

Cheri Caffaro is 100% blonde dynamite in Too Hot to Handle! Contract killer Samantha Fox (Caffaro) accepts a mission to kill a group of gangsters in the Philippines, but problems arise when she falls for the Manila detective investigating the murders.

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

Night Flight - Short Cuts: "Boy George"

Circa 1983, Boy George sits down with Lisa Robinson for a special Radio 1990 interview to discuss celebrity and individuality amid the media frenzy surrounding Culture Club. “I’m direct, and I think a lot of people are very evasive, especially rock stars,” George says.

The Second Life of Jamie P

Jamie Peebles always thought she was a man. Then, “like a bolt of lightning,” at age 63, she realized she was a woman. Director and friend of Night Flight, Roger Sherman, follows her emotional, revelatory, and often funny transition over the course of a year in tonight’s new documentary arrival.

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