Directed By: Fred Lincoln
Starring: Serena, China Leigh, Jamie Gillis
Studio: Synapse Films & Impulse Pictures
Release Date: February 12, 2013

What do you get when you cross a classic children’s story with seventies adult entertainment?  SERENA – AN ADULT FAIRY TALE, of course!  Poor Serena!  Sold into prostitution by her evil stepfather, she’s forced by her new masters to cook, clean and perform sex acts whenever they please, in a quiet modern home in the Hollywood Hills.  There’s a big party for the “Prince” happening soon and everyone will be having fun except her.   

Directed By: Noribumi Suzuki
Starring: Masataka Naruse, Christina Lindberg, Reiko Ike
Studio: Panik House/Synapse Films  

Sex & Fury, one of the wildest, most violent, just-plain-entertaining Japanese sexploitation pictures from the 1970, stars smoldering young Pinky Violence actress Reiko Ike (veteran of the Girl Boss aka Sukeban film series) as Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. After sheltering a fleeing anarchist, Ocho encounters the three villains responsible for her father's murder, and runs afoul of various yakuza who want her dead. A European spy (beautiful Christina Lindberg, star of Thriller - A Cruel Picture), whose sadistic diplomat boss has his own nefarious plans, complicates matters. A rip-roaring action saga filled with beautiful bodies, bloody swordplay, and psychedelic imagery - all beautifully photographed in a number of astonishing setpieces. 

Directed By: Noribumi Suzuki
Starring: Masataka Naruse, Christina Lindberg, Reiko Ike
Studio: Panik House/Synapse Films  

Sex & Fury, one of the wildest, most violent, just-plain-entertaining Japanese sexploitation pictures from the 1970s stars smoldering young Pinky Violence actress Reiko Ike (veteran of the Girl Boss aka Sukeban film series) as Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. After sheltering a fleeing anarchist, Ocho encounters the three villains responsible for her father's murder, and runs afoul of various yakuza who want her dead. A European spy (beautiful Christina Lindberg, star of Thriller - A Cruel Picture), whose sadistic diplomat boss has his own nefarious plans, complicates matters. A rip-roaring action saga filled with beautiful bodies, bloody swordplay, and psychedelic imagery -- all beautifully photographed in a number of astonishing setpieces.  

Directed By: Sawada Yukihiro
Starring: Aoyama Miyoko, George Harrison, Isayama Hiroko
Studio: Synapse Films & Impulse Pictures
Release Date: December 11, 2012

From the Nikkatsu Erotic Films Collection!  While rotting away in jail, Okamoto learns of the death of his beloved sister, Natsuko.  1Violently assaulted by a group of U.S. military men during a drunken joyride, she was found dead by local authorities.  Haunted by the tragedy, Okamoto escapes from jail to hunt down and kill those who destroyed the life of his sister.   

Directed By: Je-Gyun Yun
Starring: Dar-Whan Cho, Tae-Hak Lee, Yi Shin, Chai-Yeong Yu, Shi-Ooh Yun
Studio: Panik House/Synapse Films  

Sex Is Zero is to South Korea what Porky's, American Pie, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High are to the United States. The Korean film has all the classic elements of a sex comedy: gratuitous breast shots, unusual use of bodily fluids, and a plot that's secondary to the physical comedic skills of the actors. Eun-Sik (Chang Jung Lim) is a 28-year-old sad sack of a college student. Though he's served in the military and is a skilled martial artist, he's insecure and socially inept. He accidentally wolfs down a sandwich made from rat poison and fried, um, sticky fluids (courtesy of his bizarre roommates). He ingests a drugged beverage intended to make women frisky. And when part of his dinner lands on a pin-up poster, what's a guy to do but lick it off. When the girl of his dreams suffers from a complicated abortion (after an affair with the selfish campus playboy), Eun-Sik matures into a caregiver. The highest-grossing comedy in South Korea.

Directed By: Bob Hollowich

Starring: Debbie Collins, Jamie Orlando, John Alexander
Studio: Impulse Pictures and Synapse Films
Release Date: April 9, 2013

Contains Some Adult Material / You Must Be 18 Years or Older to Order this Title

"Those Evil Deeds of the Countess...SEXCULA!"

SEXCULA is a skin flick of legendary lost status. Shot in Vancouver, British Columbia, it was screened once before disappearing and sought after by cult aficionados for decades. Now, Impulse Pictures is proud to bring you the world premiere of SEXCULA.  Sex film fans can finally get a look at this elusive crazy Canadian erotic/horror hybrid for the first time ever. 

Directed By: Shingo Yamashiro
Starring: Ai Saotome, Koichi Iwaki, Yoshie Otsuka
Studio: Synapse Films & Impulse Pictures
Release Date: May 7, 2013

Dr. “Cat” Kagami was hoping to leave her torrid past behind, but a failed assassination attempt has now put her square in the crosshairs of a team of brutal killers.  Now no one is safe, including her lesbian co-worker and a mysterious woman with a terrible secret that could bring down an entire Japanese company.   

Directed By: Eben McGarr
Studio: Synapse Films

Young Izzy (Leslie Andrews) is a girl with issues. Her parents may be dead. Her older brother is fighting in Iraq and she’s raising her younger brother, Kevin, all by herself. Things are tough but, with the help of her motorcycle-riding friend Barney, she deals with her situation the best she can. Unfortunately, Izzy isn’t exactly stable… and her way of dealing with life’s problems includes finding people to torture and kill in the barn near the family home! When a trio of bullies picks on her brother Kevin at school, all hell breaks loose. The two that die are the lucky ones…

Directed By: Nikos Nikolaidis
Studio: Synapse Films

Trapped in a Deadly Game of Torture and Murder!

A detective searches for his lost love and his travels lead him to two women living in a secluded country villa. When they find him, barely conscious and bleeding, he doesn't speak, so they nickname him "Singapore Sling". Their hospitality soon turns horrific as he discovers they may be a mentally deranged mother/daughter team interested in bondage, sex and torturous games? and they also may be responsible for his lover's death! Wounded by a gunshot and imprisoned in a nightmare that he may never escape, "Singapore Sling" becomes the pawn in a deadly game of sexual domination, gluttonous binges and even erotic regurgitation!

Directed By: Tim Johnson
Studio: Synapse Films

“…pants-peeing funny” ~Chris Parcellin, Film Threat

Synapse’s DVD of SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL won a 2001 DVD Association Award!

Did you know that a UFO sighting occurs somewhere every three minutes? If you have ever questioned whether real life is stranger than fiction, put your doubts behind you as the filmmakers who brought you the comedy hit TREKKIES take on Roswell, New Mexico.

SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL probes both the fanatic-like following that has sprung up around reported extra-terrestrial encounters, as well as featuring top alien experts like Whitley Streiber (COMMUNION), Stanton T. Friedman and Don Schmitt (THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ROSWELL CRASH). 

 

Directed By: various
Studio: Synapse Films

Montreal's legendary Fantasia International Film Festival is North America's largest fantasy / horror film event and one of the most influential fantastic film festivals in the world. It is where Hideo Nakata's RINGU was introduced to the West, where Jaume (DARKNESS) Balaguerro first screened THE NAMELESS to an English speaking audience, where Nacho (AFTERMATH) Cerda attained worldwide fandom infamy and was the first festival in North America to show a film by Takashi (AUDITION, ICHI THE KILLER) Miike. Since its inception in 1996, Fantasia has been hugely supportive of short films, with their most recent installment showcasing over 100 selections.

Directed By: Nobuo Nakagawa
Studio: Synapse Films

From Nobuo Nakagawa, the acclaimed director of Jigoku and the father of the Japanese horror film, comes a chilling tale of revenge from beyond the grave, fully uncut and newly remastered. Never before released on video in the U.S., this sumptuous tale of a calamity of snakes is sure to satisfy fans of classic Japanese cinema and horror tales alike.

Chobei, the wealthy landlord of a rural village, incurs a ghostly wrath after he causes the death of a poor farmer living on his land. One day, after forcing the man’s wife and beautiful daughter to work as servants in his household, he kills a snake that the farmer’s wife had tried to protect, and finds himself slowly going mad, glimpsing rotting corpses and deathly spirits all around him.  

Directed By: Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Studio: Synapse Films

SCHOOL'S OUT... FOREVER!

In the early 21st century, teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 17 begin dying all over the world. Shortly before they die, girls succumb to NDH (Near Death Happiness), a "pre-death" state of absolute bliss and joy. Once dead, a girl comes back as a flesh-eating zombie nicknamed a "Stacy."

The world is in chaos. Countries suffer from famine, war and zero-population growth because of this teenage death-epidemic. To keep the zombies from returning and eating innocent people, families are urged to kill their daughters before they are allowed to die by this mysterious disease (chopping them up and leaving them in garbage bags for government-sanctioned pick up).

Directed By: Sebastian Dehnhardt, Christian Deick and Jorg Mullner
Studio: Synapse Films

The Eastern Front experienced the viciousness of war on a scale of unimaginable horror and brutality. The bloodiest and most savage fighting took place in Stalingrad between August 1942 and February 1943. Stalin's city on the Volga had military significance for Hitler. It carried the name of his enemy and therefore had to be destroyed. The ensuing battle sealed the fates of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians and marked the turning point of World War II. It was the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. In their three-part, 16:9 HDTV documentary, internationally recognized, award-winning, documentary filmmakers Sebastian Dehnhardt, Christian Deick and Jorg Mullner reveal new historical facts while touching the emotions of their audience with new, moving eyewitness accounts and confessions from some of the last survivors.

Directed By: Peter Scheurmann
Studio: Synapse Films

"Outrageously funny and visually appealing! One of the best parodies I've seen! You don't need to be a Star Wars fan to fully appreciate this film." ~ Eric B Stein, CINEMANOW

EVERY GENERATION HAS A STRANGE LEGEND.
EVERY EPIC HAS A FANTASTIC BEGINNING.
EVERY TRIP HAS A FALL.

Go to a galaxy so close, yet so far away. A wacky universe you have NEVER imagined! The space-time continuum has been torn by a mysterious object... a MONOLITH with the power to throw the delicate celestial balance of good and evil into chaos. 

 

Directed By: Jeff Burr
Studio: Synapse Films

Tonight, daddy’s coming home to slice up more than just the cake... After a daring escape from a psychiatric hospital, the Stepfather (Terry O’Quinn – TVs LOST) assumes a new identity and sets out in search of a new family to marry into... and kill! He finds the perfect victims: attractive and recently divorced Carol Greyland (Meg Foster – THEY LIVE) and her son Todd (Jonathan Brandis – HART’S WAR). Posing as a caring family therapist named Gene, he appears to be the ideal second husband and father for these two lonely people. But Carol’s best friend Matty (Caroline Williams – Rob Zombie’s H2) suspects that Gene is too good to be true.  

Directed By: Adrian Kays
Studio: Synapse Films

In his breathtakingly visual debut feature film, Adrian Kays creates a haunting depiction of a troubled young man searching for his past. Set in the Deep South, Stillwater explores the experiences of Andrew Morrison, a recent college graduate struggling to discover his familial roots while dealing with the shocking discovery of his own adoption.

Utilizing the beautiful and elusive imagery of the south, candid performances and unexpected horror, Stillwater deftly examines a dark and seductive southern landscape that surrounds a young man's journey into a past that haunts his existence, a reality that proves to be both raw and deeply disturbing.

Directed By: Michael Laughlin
Studio: Synapse Films

In the peaceful town of Galesburg, Illinois, a brutal serial killer targets the local teenagers. As the bodies pile up, Sheriff John Brady (Michael Murphy) suspects the killer is connected with the high school’s Psychology department. There is something sinister about the school “research” program on behavioral control and Brady is determined to uncover the truth. But he better find the answers fast before his own son (Dan Shor) gets drawn into the strange experiments himself! Co-Written by Oscar Winner Bill Condon (GODS AND MONSTERS, KINSEY), STRANGE BEHAVIOR is a frighteningly gory homage to 50’s “pulp” horror films.  

Directed By: James Muro
Studio: Synapse Films

In the sleazy, foreboding world of winos, derelicts and drifters in lower Manhattan, two young runaways - eighteen-year-old Fred (MIKE LACKEY) and his younger brother, Kevin (MARK SFERRAZZA), live in a tire hut in the back of a vast auto wrecking yard. Fred is burnt-out by the forces that destroyed his family life, whereas Kevin, having missed much of their childhood trauma, yearns to get back into society and lead a normal life. The most lethal threat to the boys is the case of Tenafly Viper in Ed's liquor store window. Ed found the cheapo wine behind a wall in his basement. The stuff's forty years old, and it's gone real bad. Anyone who drinks it melts within seconds... and it's only a dollar a bottle!!

Directed By: James Muro
Starring: James Lorinz, Mike Lackey, Mark Sferrazza, Bill Chepil
Studio: Synapse Films
Release Date: July 9, 2013

In the sleazy, foreboding world of winos, derelicts and drifters in lower Manhattan, two young runaways – eighteen-year-old Fred and his younger brother, Kevin – live in a tire hut in the back of an auto wrecking yard.  Life is hard, but the most lethal threat to the boys is the mysterious case of “Tenafly Viper” wine in Ed’s liquor store window.  The stuff is forty years old… and it’s gone bad.  REAL bad!  Anyone who drinks it melts in seconds, and it’s only a dollar a bottle! 

Directed By: Rocco Simonelli
Starring: Joan Jett, James Lorinz, Barbara Sicuranza
Studio: Synapse Films
Release Date: July 12, 2011

Sensitive but unsuccessful New York magazine columnist Michael (James Lorinz – King of New York, Frankenhooker) looks on with hopeless envy as his self-confident, shallow brother Frankie catches all the women, makes all the money and never feels a pang of remorse at his amoral behavior.

Enter Lila (Barbara Sicuranza – Anamorph), a tough, sexy bartender.  Initially Frankie’s got her, and Michael gets fixed up with her biker chick roommate (Joan Jett, of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts).  Then, through a twist of fate, Michael finds himself vying with Frankie for Lila’s affections, and the results are both riotously funny and touching.

Filmmakers Roy Frumkes (Document of the Dead) and Rocco Simonelli, writers of the cult hit The Substitute, have created a romantic comedy… for people who hate romantic comedies! 

Directed By: George Elanjian, Jr.
Studio: Synapse Films

Norton Cyberdyne, a multinational corporation, produces high-tech military technology. Their latest super-weapon is the “SYNGENOR” (SYNthesized GENetic ORganism), a perfect “super-soldier” killing machine. Unfortunately, the prototype is loose and leaving a trail of bodies in a gruesome killing spree! As the bodies pile up, newly-spawned SYNGENORs emerge from the basement of the building and a battle rages between the mutants and the humans.