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It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, and an 'archeological' dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the mis...Read More

Night Flight presents a special 30 minute video documentary profiling Cabaret Voltaire, who original host Pat Prescott describes as “England’s most provocative experimental band.” This seminal 1984 Video Profile features interviews with members Steven Mallinder and Richard H. Kirk, as well as exclusive edits of the Sheffield band's enigmatic music videos.

The 1983 made-for-TV high school comedy starring Michael J. Fox arrives on Night Flight Plus! Excelsior Union High senior J.J. Manners (Fox) must navigate Hight School cliques and rivalries as he pursues Beth Franklin (Nancy McKeon), who just so happens to be dating quarterback and class president Beau Middleton (Anthony Edwards). When tensions between J.J. and Beau...Read More

Birdie is a fragile and introverted teenager with a dark imagination. At an imposing, nearly-empty convent perched on the edge of a frozen lake, Birdie is unceremoniously placed into the care of the nuns where she develops unusual obsessions that will mark her as either a saint or a heretic.

The film that Martin Scorsese calls "one of the scariest movies ever made" finally arrives on Night Flight Plus: Academy Award® winner George C. Scott delivers an unforgettable performance as a Manhattan composer consumed by grief after his wife and daughter are killed in a shocking accident. But when he moves to a secluded Victorian mansion, he will find himself ha...Read More

Chris Poggiali, co-author of These Fists Break Bricks, narrates the early years of Kung Fu film distribution in the U.S. in a new documentary, now streaming in our "Midnight Makers: Cult & Horror Docs" section. In the 1960s, martial arts films were a rarity in the United States, with only a select few theaters showcasing them. Japanese cinemas featured samurai e...Read More

Fascinating and imaginative, this riveting fantasy thriller from director Neil Jordan (Interview With The Vampire) brings the timeless tale of "Little Red Riding Hood" and werewolf fables together in a haunting, compelling, and eerie way. A wise grandmother (Angela Lansbury) tells her granddaughter Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson) a disturbing tale of innocent maidens fal...Read More

Known as the “Father of Claymation,” Will Vinton revolutionized the animation business during the 1980s and 90s, creating such iconic characters as the California Raisins and Domino’s The Noid. But after thirty years of being the unheralded king of clay, Vinton’s carefully sculpted American dream came crumbling down. Structured around interviews with this charismati...Read More

In the mid-'90s, Dario Argento approached a physically and professionally ailing Lucio Fulci to direct one final production, an over-the-top shocker about grisly murders at a Paris wax museum. But when Fulci passed away only weeks before filming began, Argento turned to Sergio Stivaletti - the FX genius on Demons and Cemetery Man - to make his feature-directing debu...Read More

Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom, though many have tried. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home to settle her affairs. But when the half sisters jokingly summon a local ghost, their relationship begins to unravel and they find themselves drawn deeper into the mysteries of the lake.

Tonight's new Short Cut dives into the theme of money in music, showcasing cash-and-capitalism themed videos from Talking Heads, the pioneering 3D-animated classic "Adventures in Success" by Will Powers, playwright Sarah Tuft's commercial collage, and the Pheromones' send-up of the '80s yuppie class in "Yuppiedrone."

Wings of Hope (1998) revisits the harrowing true story of Juliane Koepcke, the sole survivor of a 1971 plane crash that vanished into the Peruvian jungle with 92 passengers aboard. After search efforts were called off, 17-year-old Juliane emerged alive, having endured 12 days in the Amazon. Directed by Werner Herzog (Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Grizzly Man), the film...Read More

The Who: Videobiography traces The Who's evolution from their early days as The High Numbers to achieving global fame. With rare archival footage and expert commentary it explores their groundbreaking music, chaotic energy, and the profound impact of Keith Moon's untimely death.

WILD COMBINATION is director Matt Wolf’s visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Now, over fifteen years since his passing, Art...Read More

Joined by his longtime stage partner, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells leads a razor-sharp Chicago blues ensemble to create an unforgettable evening of electric Delta blues at the Nightstage in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

They said it couldn’t be done, and yet here it is! It’s the second installment of Dinosaur Dinner Theatre’s Nonsense series! But this time, instead of being called Nonsense: Volume 1, it’s called Nonsense: Volume 2! And instead of being the same collection of Dinosaur Dinner Theatre clips strung together into a comedy supercut, it’s ALL NEW Dinosaur Dinner Theatre c...Read More

Night Flight transports you to the wacky world of celebrity rap singles, featuring bars from such hip hop luminaries as Mel Brooks, Rodney Dangerfield, the Chicago Bears and Mr. T. Don’t miss Night Flight's wild ride through this uniquely '80s genre phenomenon!

This late '70s doomsday drama from director Bill Rebane is about an alien organism from Mars with the potential to destroy all living things. When an accidental infection at a remote Midwest facility reveals the organism's deadly nature, those exposed are warned not to fall asleep, as the strain attacks only when its host rests!

Based on police reports of the real-life bandit who terrorized ‘60s São Paulo, a charismatic crook (Paulo Villaça) robs the rich, taunts law enforcement and becomes a public hero in an anarchic odyssey that’s equal parts crime thriller, urban western, grindhouse roughie, twisted comedy, cultural grenade and still unlike anything you’ve ever seen.

A heretic priest (Christopher Lee) plots to use a teenage nun (Nastassja Kinski) in a depraved pact with the forces of darkness. But when an American occult novelist (Richard Widmark) uncovers the conspiracy, he must battle an international cabal of evil for the body and soul of the Devil's bride! Honor Blackman and Denholm Elliott co-star in this notorious shocker ...Read More

After a long absence, legendary Kaiju terrapin Gamera returned to the big screen in the ‘90s with Gaurdian of the Universe (just in time for his 30th anniversary), with upgraded special effects and a more serious tone. Gamera, the original "hero in a half-shell" (Arrow Video) has been the definitive box-office rival to Godzilla for decades. In Guardian, Gamera faces...Read More

Night Flight returns to animated shorts, featuring Frank Zappa's experiments with stop-motion and a classic 1935 cartoon by Ub Iwerks.

From award-winning filmmaker and rockumentarian Glenn Aveni, Santana: Live At US Festival offers a tremendous performance from the legendary Carlos Santana, rivaling his set at Woodstock for its energy, excitement, and inspiring musicianship. Conceived by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and music impresario Bill Graham, the US Festival was one Santana's most trans...Read More

The Forgotten Pistolero, a Spaghetti Western directed by Ferdinando Baldi, reimagines the Greek myth of Orestes in a dark frontier setting. Leonard Mann, in his first leading role, stars as a gunman who discovers that his father was murdered by his own mother and her lover. To complicate matters, his sister remains under the oppressive control of their scheming moth...Read More

In this 1967 Italian Eurospy thriller, dashing secret agent Bart Fargo (played by Gordon Scott, Tarzan) is sent to Barcelona to rescue a kidnapped scientist from the henchmen who are after his death ray.

The ever-prolific Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) returns with this intergalactic epic in which a team of space explorers find themselves pitched against a horde of oversized anthropomorphic cockroaches. Based on the popular Manga series of the same name, Terra Formars is an action-packed space adventure brought to life by one of Japan’s most celebrated co...Read More

Discovery Zone is the alter ego of New York and Berlin-based artist JJ Weihl. Her 2024 release Quantum Web combines retro textures, pop songwriting, and lush ambience.

The masterpiece of Japanese Cyberpunk Body Horror. A strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning...Read More

In 1995 a four-man team from the cable-access program Fact or Fiction braved the desolate New Jersey Pine Barrens determined to deliver a live broadcast of legendary monster, the Jersey Devil. Only one came out alive. The lone survivor was sentenced to life in prison, but filmmaker David Leigh is convinced that he's innocent. Could the Jersey Devil still haunt the barrens?

In Rick Sloane's (Hobgoblins) 1984 debut, Blood Theatre, an old movie house in which a massacre occurred decades earlier, finally re-opens only to be once again targeted by a bloodthirsty maniac intent on murdering anyone who makes the mistake of buying a ticket! Packed with low rent bloodshed, BLOOD THEATRE exemplifies the no-budget aesthetic Sloane relished and fe...Read More

In this the third film in the continuing saga of the undead from writer/director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, Survival of the Dead), a small group of scientists and soldiers have taken refuge in an underground missile silo where they struggle to control the flesh-eating horror that walks the earth...Read More

THIS DOCTOR'S GOT A DEADSIDE MANNER. No need for an appointment. Forget about your co-pay. Healthcare won't save you ... from Dr. Giggles. Larry Drake (Darkman) plays the night-prowling surgical psychopath who wreaks havoc on the residents of a once-peaceful town. From an old haunted house to a midway funhouse, from unwanted house calls to the operating table, the d...Read More

Duane Bradley is a pretty ordinary guy. His formerly conjoined twin Belial, on the other hand, is a deformed, fleshy lump whom he carries around in a wicker basket. Arriving in the Big Apple and taking up a room at the seedy Hotel Broslin, the pair set about hunting down and butchering the surgeons responsible for their separation. But tensions flare up when Duane s...Read More

"A jaw-droppingly gory trash fest" - NY TIMES. An often referenced and notorious underground classic for the last 25 years, this "American Video Nasty" is finally available to a mass audience and for the first time ever in BR format. A serial killer rises from the grave as a flesh-eating zombie maniac! Two Seattle cops, a satanic cult and a flying demon baby try to ...Read More

Witch's Night Out is a classic animated television Halloween special that premiered on NBC October 27, 1978, featuring the voice talent of SNL star Gilda Radner (Haunted Honeymoon) and SCTV's Catherine O'Hara (Home Alone). When a witch hears of a party being held at her haunted mansion, she decides to bring on the fun by showing off her magical tricks and turning th...Read More

In a dystopian future, political prisoner Jacob Stryker is transformed into a werewolf super soldier by government scientists. He escapes captivity and searches for his son, who may be the messiah, and joins an army of karate kicking rebellion fighters poised to overthrow the United Nations of America. Along the way, Jacob is hunted by a group of cyborg and mutant b...Read More

"A jaw-droppingly gory trash fest" - NY TIMES. A rarely seen, super obscurity of the shot on video era, and arguably the most insane and ambitious micro budget horror action movie ever made! In the rural recesses of Hawaii, a pair of friends must fight an ancient evil force brought to life by an occult book that possesses a group of construction workers. Packed from...Read More

Experience the notorious 1969 horror epic that’s been barely seen since its fly-by-night VHS release while existing mostly via sordid rumors for more than 50 years: Anthony Eisley (Dracula Vs. Frankenstein) stars in this brain-melting mash-up of dubious Egyptology, risible werewolf transformations, H.G. Lewis-level gore, cut-rate psychedelia and an oven-mitted mummy...Read More

A former priest, Frederic Mason (Henry Czerny), anguished by the tragic death of his young daughter, finds himself wrestling with his religious convictions when a mysterious young man (Mark O'Brien) appears wounded on his doorstop in need of assistance. After he and his wife Ethel (Mimi Kuzyk) welcome him across the threshold and into their household, Frederic sees ...Read More

Meet Elmer. He's your friendly neighborhood parasite with the ability to induce euphoric hallucinations in his hosts. But these LSD-like trips come with a hefty price tag: when young Brian comes under Elmer's addictive spell, it's not long before he finds himself scouring the city streets in search of his parasite friend's preferred food source - brains!

With its super-saturated color palette, tenebrous art design and electrifying soundtrack, Two Witches presents two truly terrifying conjoined tales of witchery, paranoia and terror that hark back to the gory thrills of classic Euro horrors such as Suspiria, Shock  and The Beyond. Expectant young mother Sarah is convinced she has been given the evil eye from a myster...Read More

In the small town of Copperton, Ohio, Paul Henson, a former big-city journalist, buys a small local newspaper. He quickly falls into a wide-reaching conspiracy of ritualistic murder and cult mind control when he discovers that the entire town may be under the spell of a Satanic reverend and his flock. As the clues and corpses pile up, Henson and his family are thrus...Read More

Gregory (Clint Howard), the local ice cream man, just wants people to be nice to him and to sell the neighborhood children his ice cream treats. Unfortunately, the adults disrespect him, and the kids fear him, so, as any recently released mental patient would do, Gregory begins brutally murdering anyone who prevents him from having a happy, happy, happy day... On...Read More

Terror strikes in paradise as Academy Award-winning actors James Earl Jones, José Ferrer and Lila Kedrova star in this thrilling tale of sea monsters and sacrificial virgins, from the people that brought you the notoriously gruesome Island of Death! When treasure hunter Frye (James Earl Jones) accidentally awakens an ancient sea monster that has been lying dormant o...Read More

A Scotland Yard inspector's search for a missing film star leads him to a haunted house. The house sets the framework for four separate tales of terror written by the author of Psycho, Robert Bloch, and starring horror icons Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Ingrid Pitt. All four stories center on the mysterious fates of tenants who have leased the mansion over the years.

A series of gruesome and gory horror shorts, including Alex Winter and Tom Stern's wacky "Aisles of Doom," and the hilarious zombie parody "Dawn of the Night of the Dead: The Musical."

From the punishing mind of writer/producer/director Jim Van Bebber comes his epic of hallucinatory horror like you’ve never seen it before: This is the ultimate account of Charles Manson and his followers, a blood-soaked saga that takes you from their drug-fueled orgies, to their grisly massacres, and into the legacy of depravity that survives today. It is a sing...Read More