Tales from the Video Vault

'Mad Love'

MGM, 1935: When a brilliant but off-kilter surgeon grafts the hands of a knife-throwing murderer onto a former pianist's arms, the musician discovers abilities he never before possessed.

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'Inga'

Cinemation Industries, 1968: After her mother’s death, young Inga (Liljedahl) moves in with her equally sexy aunt Greta (Strömmerstedt). Although Inga is serious and shy, she seems to incite the sexual imagination of every man she meets—a Swedish Lulu combined with Little Annie Fanny.

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'Vampyres'

Essay Films, 1974: Fran and Miriam are two beautiful bisexual vampires who roam the English countryside looking for prey. They lure their victims back to their opulent estate for orgies of sex and bloodsucking. All goes according to plan until a young vacationing couple, John and Harriet, decide to park their camper near the castle for a few days.

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'Black Roses'

Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment, 1988: Moral crusaders of the ’80s hated horror and heavy metal in equal measure, and you’d think producers of the time would have seized on this notion with aplomb, but the combination of metal and horror is remarkably rare. It’s rarer still to find these films on modern video formats.

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'The Woman in Black’

Central Films, 1989: Based on Susan Hill’s popular 1983 novel, the atmosphere of post-Edwardian England (staged with typical British excellence in costume and scenic design) is clammy and dank, even in the “cheerful” London scenes.

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