The Penelope Spheeris Collection

Suburbia is director Penelope Spheeris's study of the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the early 1980s. Evan and his younger brother leave their broken home in an attempt to escape their alcoholic mother. They fall in with "The Rejected" (aka T.R.), a group of punks who live as squatters in an abandoned shack by the side of the highway. With the T.R.s, the boys find a...Read More

The first entry in the Decline series sheds a light on Los Angeles’ punk scene of the late 1970s. Featuring interviews and performances by some of the most seminal acts of the era like Black Flag and The Germ, Spheeris’ intimate conversations set the stage for a series that would feature all the highs and lows, as well as few breakfasts, of the bleeding edge of of L...Read More

Decline of Western Civilization Part Two: The Metal Years was Penelope Spheeris’ followup to the original Decline. Shifting her focus to Los Angeles’ metal scene and the clubs and bands that supported it, The Metal Years features interviews with stars like Ozzy, Lemmy and Megadeth, while also turning its eye to a number of aspiring club bands like London, many of wh...Read More

Decline of Western Civilization III, the final entry in Spheeris’ influential documentary series, follows the lives of the homeless teenagers that made up the Los Angeles gutter punk scene. The film’s harrowing depiction of poverty among teenagers and the relationships she formed during its production moved the director to become a foster parent.

Two city street kids (Jon Cryer of Pretty in Pink and Daniel Roebuck of The Fugitive) along with their best friend, head west to look for the good life in California. On the way, the threesome come across a vicious biker gang leader (Lee Ving, Streets Of Fire) and a pistol-packin' beauty (Catherine Mary Stewart, Night Of The Comet), who takes them from heaven to hel...Read More

"Sex, Drugs, Blood and Guts — It's all in a nights work!" A concerned mother asks the Vice Squad to rescue her runaway daughter from a life of junkie prostitution in this action-packed dive into the seedy X-rated crime of Hollywood. Featuring Carrie Fisher, Penelope Spheeris's lurid LA crime tale based on "actual cases" features music from Keith Levene (The Clash...Read More

Maxwell Caulfield and Charliee Sheen star as high-school outcasts who head to Los Angeles for a spree of petty crime, senseless violence and savage murder from the director of THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION Trilogy. Featuring music by Iggy Pop, Tex & The Horseheads and The Cramps and scanned in 4k from the original negative.