Snake Woman's Curse (1969, Japan)

(Japanese title: Kaidan hebi-onna)
Released in partnership with Synapse Films, this film was directed by Nobuo Nakagawa, whose JIGOKU is considered one of the all-time Japanese Horror classics. It stars Pinky Violence actress Akemi Negishi (Sex & Fury, Lady Snowblood) in an unforgettable performance!  

Horrors of Malformed Men (1969, Japan)

(Japanese title: Edogawa ranpo taizen: Kyofu kikei ningen)
Released in partnership with Synapse Films, this is the most notorious film in the history of Japanese cinema. Teruo Isshi's Pièce de résistance was banned upon it's release in 1968 and has never screened again. The Synapse folks handled the restoration of this lost classic, and it has never looked better. It is also packed with extra features including one of the final interviews that director ever gave. You owe it to yourself to see this film!  

Asian Horror 2 for 1: The Pang Brothers

"From the hub of modern horror... and pretty damn disturbing. The future of Hollywood Horror starts here." ~ BBC Review

From Danny and Oxide Pang, the directors of The Eye, Bangkok Dangerous and the upcoming Sam Raimi produced The Messengers, Panik House is proud to present a two disc set of unparalleled horror.  

BANGKOK HAUNTED TRAILER: low (7.0 megs) | high (13.3 megs) | ipod (8.6 megs)

OMEN TRAILER: low (7.4 megs) | high (14.5 megs) | high (8.7 megs)

Girl Boss Guerilla (1972, Japan)

(Japanese title: Sukeban Gerira)

Female bikers! Catfights! Gang violence! Girl Boss Guerilla expands on classic exploitation "bad girl" archetypes with an explosive abandon. Fans of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Switchblade Sisters should brace themselves for the be-all, end-all and show-all of what's possible in the realms of grindhouse girls gone way-past-wild.  

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Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom (1973, Japan)

(Japanese title: Kyoufu Joshi Koukou Boryoku Rinchi Kyoushitsu)

Terrifying Girls' High School opens with a female school clique bloodletting a fellow student amidst verbal abuse and harsh accusation. The terrified girl breaks free of the life-draining vacuum syringe and races to the roof, where her tormentors force her off the ledge and stomp on her fingers until she falls to her death. This is all before the main titles! And that clique? They aren't even the real bad girls! This is reform school, and the new crop of inmates (whose apprehension we witness) includes Miki Sugimoto and Reiko Ike. This is like Mean Girls via Caged Heat as written by Jess Franco and directed by Russ Meyer. All those Takashi Miike fans need to check out this film.  

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Female Yakuza Tale (1973, Japan)

(Japanese title: Yasagure Anego Den - Sokatsu Rinchi! aka Story of A Wild Elder Sister - Widespread Lynch Law!)

"Teruo Ishii is a fantastic director, a great director! I love Teruo Ishii." - Quentin Tarantino

Heroin is the contraband. Prostitutes-turned-drug-mules are the Japanese mob's new means of transporting the narcotic. Avenging angel Reiko Ike, once again, stands in the way of the Yakuza's evil machinations - wielding a blade nearly as lethal as her killer beauty. Stunning, glorious swordplay inundates this high-octane tale of gambling, smuggling and hookers gone wild.  

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Sex & Fury (1973, Japan)

(Japanese title: Furyou Anegoden Ino Shika Chou or literally: Story of Bad Elder Sister: Boar, Deer & Butterfly)

Widely considered to be the Absolute Best Japanese Exploitation film!

A frenetic, thrill-packed ride of wild period action set in Edo-era Japan, Sex & Fury is known the world over for the indelible image of stark-naked, sword-wielding Reiko Ike slashing her way through dozens of gangsters to the groovy strains of lounge-jazz on the soundtrack. Sex & Fury also features Swedish sexbomb Christina Lindbergh (Thriller: A Cruel Picture) in a typically revealing role.  

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Screwed (1998, Japan)

“Asano is something of a director’s fantasy; he can look tough and threatening or sensitive and delicate in equal measure.” - Interview

THE ULTIMATE JAPANESE CULT FILM!

What do you get when you bring together the King of Cult Movie Directors, the King of Underground Comic Books and the King of Independent Cinema? You get Screwed! Long considered the primary force in the cinema of transgression, Director Teruo Ishii serves up a fever dream of psychedelic sexuality and hyperbolic insanity that could only come from the mind of Japanese Manga God Yoshiharu Tsuge. Tadanobu Asano (Ichi The Killer) stars in this sexy, bizarre, and hypnotic adaptation of Neji-shiki (Wind-Up Type) that helped establish his position in the firmament of Asian and global cinema.  

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Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf (2001, Japan)

"Teruo Ishii is a fantastic director, a great director! I love Teruo Ishii." - Quentin Tarantino

BANNED FOR TWO YEARS! LEGENDARY DIRECTOR TERUO ISHII’S FINAL DISTURBING MASTERPIECE!

When prolific Japanese Cult Director Teruo Ishii passed away in 2005, Blind Beast vs. KIller Dwarf became his epitaph. This film stands as the culmination of his life’s work and includes the bizarre and shocking excesses that one can come to expect from the director of Female Yakuza Tale: naked Japanese girls and lots of blood! Throw into the mix the deranged, depraved and deformed and you’re starting to get the picture. Borne of a lifelong obsession with the writings of Edogawa Rampo, Teruo Ishii ‘s swan song is a veritable circus of the insane.  

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The Uninvited (2003, Korea)

"The Uninvited is passionately accomplished: its sound design, script, cinematography and acting are all masterfully fabricated."
– Variety

Award Winner Fantasia International Film Festival
Award Winner Pacifc Media Expo
Webby Award Winner for Best Film

The term "modern classic" is admittedly overused, but an understatement in the case of Lee Su-Yeon's The Uninvited.

Make no mistake: this is a whole new type of horror film -one of utter emotional isolation and character development unseen in horror since The Exorcist or Rosemary's Baby. The harrowing finale had audience members fainting in the aisles in its homeland, and the film has been collecting awards at film festivals worldwide for the past two years.  

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Sex is Zero (2002, Korea)

Spring Break With a Panik House Twist!

Very few comedies have grossed over one hundred million dollars at the box office, and those that have are the absolute honor roll: Animal House, Porky's, There's Something About Mary, American Pie and Sex Is Zero! Who knew they made comedies in Korea? Well this film out performed Titanic 3 to 1 in its homeland -eventually becoming the highest grossing Korean comedy of all time. Ever wonder what Fast Times At Ridgemont High would have been like if the Farelly Brothers directed it? Wonder no more! This is the most Western-friendly comedy to ever come out the East, and this Asian import will have you rolling on the floor just in time for spring break!  

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Tokyo Psycho (2004, Japan)

Valentines Day Panik House Style!

A shocking tale of real life horror from the director of Tomie!

Ataru Oikawa serves up a forbidding vision of horrific obsession – and you can bet there will be blood!

Ripped from the headlines, Tokoyo Psycho retraces the steps of a real Japanese serial killer. It's a haunting take on the stalker film that matches the exquisite minimalism of Stanley Kubrik with the macabre voyeurism of David Lynch. Graphic, shocking and unrelenting! A new wave Asian horror classic!  

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The Pinky Violence Collection (boxset)

Female bikers! Catfights! Gang violence! Panik House's Pinky Violence collection expands on classic exploitation "bad girl" archetypes with an explosive abandon. Fans of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Switchblade Sisters should brace themselves for the be-all, end-all and show-all of what's possible in the realms of grindhouse girls gone way-past-wild.  

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Omen (2003, Thailand)

Three young friends who share an office - Dan, Beem and Big (played by popular Thai boy band D2B) - encounter a spooky old woman who makes grim predictions for their futures. Disturbed by her declarations, each of the men is thereafter confronted by unsettling occurrences. Are they omens of inevitable doom? Can the friends take any action to change their fates?  

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Bangkok Haunted (2001, Thailand)

Three women converge in a Bangkok pub to share individual tales of the supernatural. Drinks flow, secrets are revealed and a trio of stories illuminates what looms on The Other Side.   

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