"Director: Jack Hill"

• Carnivale - Series 2 | DVD | (08/07/2005) from £13.85   |  Saving you £26.14 (188.74%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Into each generation is born a creature of light and a creature of darkness. 1934. The Dustbowl. The last great age of magic. In a time of titanic sandstorms vile plagues drought and pestilence - signs of God's fury and harbingers of the Apocalypse - the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the Heartland of an empire called America. And when it is over man will forever trade away wonder for reason. A sweeping epic that is bot

• Foxy Brown | Blu Ray | (24/06/2013) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's clear that Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan: he cast Grier in the title role of his direct homage Jackie Brown, while the one-woman revenge scenario that fuelled the Kill Bill films didn't just come from the Far East. When Foxy Brown's undercover-agent boyfriend is gunned down on the orders of evil drug kingpins, she stops at nothing to exact a thrillingly brutal revenge. This is one of the all-time great blaxploitation films, pulling out all the stops at a time long before anyone thought of inventing political correctness. Pam Grier was given the role of a lifetime as the street-smart yet intensely sexy Foxy, modelling a stupendously varied range of Seventies threads while righteously kicking villainous white butt at every opportunity. She's also given sterling support from Antonio 'Huggy Bear'Fargas as her no-good younger brother and a memorably funky soundtrack. Special Features: Restored High Definition Blu-ray presentation (1080p) Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary with director Jack Hill From Black and White to Blaxploitation - Actor Sid Haig speaks about his long and influential friendship with Jack Hill A Not So Minor Influence - An Interview with Bob Minor, the first African-American member of the Stuntman's Association, and co-star of Foxy Brown Back to Black - Legendary actors Fred 'The Hammer' Williamson (Black Caesar) and Austin Stoker (Sheba Baby, Assault on Precinct 13), alongside Rosanne Katon (Ebony, Ivory, and Jade) and film scholar Howard S. Berger speak about the enduring popularity of the Blaxploitation film Photo gallery of behind-the-scenes and publicity images Original Theatrical Trailer Trailer Reel - Trailers for all the major works by Jack Hill including Foxy Brown, Coffy and Switchblade Sisters Reversible sleeve artwork featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Red Dress Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Josiah Howard, author of Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide, a new interview with Pam Grier by Jack Hill biographer Calum Waddell, illustrated with original archive stills and posters

• Switchblade Sisters | Blu Ray | (19/04/2021) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE WILDEST GIRL GANG THAT EVER BLASTED THE STREETS! From Jack Hill, legendary director of Spider Baby, Coffy, Foxy Brown, and The Swinging Cheerleaders comes another iconic cult classic, Switchblade Sisters! Lace (Robbie Lee), the leader of inner city girl gang The Dagger Debs, meets her match when new girl Maggie (Joanne Nail) moves into the neighbourhood. Mistrust and conflict turn to friendship as the girls end up in Juvenile Detention together at the mercy of abusive guards. Meanwhile, The Dagger Debs' male counterparts The Silver Daggers have to contend with the arrival of a new gang, led by the villainous Crabs (Chase Newhart). But when the girls get back on the streets, a planned retaliation strike in tandem with The Silver Daggers backfires and puts Lace in hospital. Maggie assumes control, teaming up with Muff (Marlene Clark) and her gang of African-American militants from across town to declare all out war. But there's a traitor in their midst... Filled with sharp, clever dialogue and tongue in cheek humour, this Shakespeare-influenced girl gang/women in prison/action movie medley is a stone cold grindhouse classic! SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original uncompressed mono audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Brand new audio commentary by historians/critics Samm Deighan & Kat Ellinger We Are The Jezebels, an archival documentary featuring director Jack Hill, producer John Prizer, casting director Geno Havans, production designer B.B. Neel, stunt coordinator Bob Minor, and stars Joanne Nail, Asher Brauner, and Chase Newhart Gangland: The locations of Switchblade Sisters, an archival documentary in which Jack Hill and filmmaker Elijah Drenner revisit the shooting locations of Switchblade Sisters Jack Hill and Joanne Nail at the Grindhouse Film Festival, a 2007 archival interview with the director and actor Interview with Jack Hill, Robbie Lee, Joanne Nail, an archival 1990's interview with the director and stars in conversation with Johnny Legend Galleries of behind the scenes stills, international posters, video covers, and lobby cards Theatrical trailers Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by The Twins of Evil FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Heather Drain

• Coffy | Blu Ray | (20/04/2015) from £16.39   |  Saving you £3.60 (21.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

  THE ONE CHICK HIT SQUAD! Regarded as one of the best of the Blaxploitation genre along with Shaft and Superfly Coffy has been described as “one of the most entertaining films ever made” by Quentin Tarantino. With Coffy Pam Grier was catapulted to stardom and iconic status following solid roles in earlier ‘chicks in chains’ films. Here she plays nurse ‘Coffy’ Coffin seeking vigilante justice when her little sister is hospitalised by a smack pusher. Coffy uses her body bullets and blades to get justice working her way to the top of the criminal ring. But as she nears the top she finds the level of corruption is closer to home than she thinks. When American International Pictures lost the chance to make Cleopatra Jones the studio looked for another project and turned to up and coming B-movie auteur Jack Hill (Spider Baby Pit Stop). Coffy was such a success that the studio fast tracked Grier’s next movie (Foxy Brown) with Hill straight away. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS: Restored High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation on Blu-ray for the first time in the world! Original uncompressed mono PCM audio Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary by writer-director Jack Hill A Taste of Coffy – A brand new interview with Jack Hill The Baddest Chick in Town! – A brand new interview with Pam Grier on Coffy and its follow up Foxy Brown Blaxploitation! – A video essay by author Mikel J. Koven (Blaxploitation Film) on the history and development of the genre Original theatrical trailer Image Gallery Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx Booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic Cullen Gallagher and a profile of Pam Grier by Yvonne D. Sims author of Women in Blaxploitation illustrated with archive stills and posters

• The Best Of Soul Cinema - Foxy Brown/Coffy/Black Mama, White Mama | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (80.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Back in the day Pam Grier was the baddest nubian princess on the block and the undisputed queen of the Blaxpoitation genre. This box set brings together three of her finest movies in which Ms. Grier gets to kick plenty of booty! Foxy Brown: She's brown sugar and spice... and if you don't watch it she'll put you on ice! Grier portrays one of the screen's first action heroines with humor sensitivity and steely determination. This electrifying revenge thriller explodes with all the sex appeal and cooler-than-cool attitude of its irresistible leading lady. Foxy Brown (Grier) has found her soul mate in an undercover narcotics investigator but when he is brutally murdered she swears vengeance against the crime ring responsible. Posing as a call girl to gain access to the ring's inner circle Foxy discovers just how high the corruption extends igniting a blistering war that takes her from the city streets to a remote drug laboratory to a breathtaking mid-air battle behind the controls of an airplane! But the most startling confrontations are yet to come as she schemes to bring down her boyfriend's killers in ways they never could have imagined. Coffy: She's the ultimate tough and sexy heroine. She's Soul Cinema superstar Pam Grier and whether delivering her justice with a shotgun a razor or just her bare hands she doesn't miss a beat in this no-hold-barred tale of retaliation from exploitation writer/director Jack Hill. Grier is Coffy nurse by day and avenging angel by night. When she discovers that her little sister has been doped up - and freaked out - by a greedy drug pusher she not only puts an end to his miserable days but she vows to follow his trail of corruption up to the top - the very top. But what Coffy doesn't realise is that all is not what it seems - and that the leafy green behind the pushers' scene just may come from someone she knows! Black Mama White Mama: Grier is Lee Daniels a prostitute doing hard time in an island prison camp for women where the guards have a new way to punish inmates who fight: by cuffing 'em together! Chained to her bitter rival white revolutionary Karen (Margaret Markov) Lee finds herself literally linked to the revolutionary cause - and on the fly - when Karen's guerrilla friends stage a coup! But this foxy inmate's got a cause of her own in the form of a secret stash of cold hard cash and a getaway boat! Brawling with her white counterpart over which way to go and tracked like a dog by guards guerrillas and a gangster after the loot she's gotta make her escape - before both mamas' enemies bring them down for good!

• Blood Bath Blu-Ray | Blu Ray | (30/05/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.00

  The films of Roger Corman are often as well-known for their behind-the-scenes stories as they are the ones unfolding on the screen. He famously made Little Shop of Horrors in just two days using sets left over from A Bucket of Blood and shot The Terror over a long weekend because bad weather prevented him from playing tennis. But none of these tales is quite so complex, or quite so extraordinary, as the making of Blood Bath. The saga began when Corman invested in a Yugoslavian Krimi-like picture entitled Operation Titian just prior to it going into production. Insisting it be filmed in English, he sent actors William Campbell and Patrick Magee, and uncredited story editor Francis Ford Coppola (all fresh from Dementia 13), to Dubrovnik to make a US-friendly movie but wasn't satisfied with the end results. First it was re-cut and re-scored to create Portrait in Terror, a film more in line with drive-in tastes, then it was handed over to Jack Hill (Spider Baby), followed by Stephanie Rothman (Terminal Island), each undertaking reshoots that resulted in a vampire picture by the name of Blood Bath. One final twist was provided when a TV version was required, chopping scenes and adding others to create Track of the Vampire. For this release Arrow Video has searched through the vaults to bring you all four versions of Blood Bath, newly restored from the best materials available to provide a definitive release of one of Corman's craziest ventures.

• Spider Baby | Blu Ray | (24/06/2013) from £10.36   |  Saving you £12.62 (171.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This was the first solo feature by Jack Hill (Coffy, Switchblade Sisters, Foxy Brown), whom Quentin Tarantino dubbed 'the Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking', and it remains one of his wildest and weirdest. The credits dub this 'the maddest story ever told', a promise that's well on the way to being fulfilled in the opening scene alone, when Virginia traps and kills a hapless deliveryman in her makeshift web. She's one of three siblings who suffer from a unique genetic disorder that causes them to regress back to childhood, while retaining the physical strength and sexual maturity of adults. Lon Chaney Jr gave one of his most memorable late performances as Bruno, their guardian and protector, who has managed to cover up their crimes until two distant relatives lay claim to their house. When they insist on moving in, Bruno has to cross his fingers and hope that the 'children' behave towards their new guests... Special Features: High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of the main feature, available in the UK for the first time High Definition transfer of the feature approved by director Jack Hill Isolated Music and Effects track English SDH subtitles for deaf and hearing impaired Audio commentary featuring Jack Hill and star Sid Haig The Hatching of Spider Baby - Interviews with Jack Hill, Sid Haig, star Mary Mitchel, fan Joe Dante and more on the making of the film Spider Stravinsky: The Cinema Sounds of Ronald Stein - The composer of 'The Terror' and 'Attack of the 50 Foot Woman' among others is remembered by Harlene Stein, Jack Hill, American Cinematheque's Chris D. and others The Merrye House Revisited - Jack Hill revisits the original house that was used as the main location in the film Alternate opening title sequence Extended scene Gallery of behind-the-scenes images The Host (1960) - Jack Hill's early short film featuring Sid Haig in his first starring role Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humpreys Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by artist and writer Stephen R. Bissette, classic articles and more, illustrated with original stills and artwork

• Coffy | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £8.60   |  Saving you £4.39 (51.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  She's the ultimate tough and sexy heroine. She's Soul Cinema superstar Pam Grier and whether delivering her justice with a shotgun a razor or just her bare hands she doesn't miss a beat in this no-hold-barred tale of retaliation from exploitation writer/director Jack Hill. Grier is Coffy nurse by day and avenging angel by night. When she discovers that her little sister has been doped up - and freaked out - by a greedy drug pusher she not only puts an end to his miserable days b

• Foxy Brown | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £11.78   |  Saving you £7.20 (81.91%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This hip violent fast-moving film firmly established Pam Grier as the goddess of Blaxploitation. She plays Foxy a toughened woman living in a drug-plagued L.A. ghetto who goes on a one woman mission of vengeance after her undercover cop boyfriend (Terry Carter) is shot down in the street. The badass lass goes undercover herself as a call girl for the evil mistress of the drug cartel (Kathryn Loder) and with the help of a neigborhood vigilante committee wreaks some hell on the ba

• Foxy Brown | Blu Ray | (24/06/2013) from £18.88   |  Saving you £6.11 (24.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  It’s clear that Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan: he cast Grier in the title role of his direct homage Jackie Brown, while the one-woman revenge scenario that fuelled the Kill Bill films didn’t just come from the Far East. When Foxy Brown’s undercover-agent boyfriend is gunned down on the orders of evil drug kingpins, she stops at nothing to exact a thrillingly brutal revenge. This is one of the all-time great blaxploitation films, pulling out all the stops at a time long before anyone thought of inventing political correctness. Pam Grier was given the role of a lifetime as the street-smart yet intensely sexy Foxy, modelling a stupendously varied range of Seventies threads while righteously kicking villainous white butt at every opportunity. She’s also given sterling support from Antonio ‘Huggy Bear’ Fargas as her no-good younger brother and a memorably funky soundtrack. Special Features: Limited Edition SteelBook packaging with exclusive artwork Restored High Definition Blu-ray presentation (1080p) Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Audio commentary with director Jack Hill From Black and White to Blaxploitation Actor Sid Haig speaks about his long and influential friendship with Jack Hill A Not So Minor Influence An Interview with Bob Minor, the first African-American member of the Stuntman’s Association, and co-star of Foxy Brown Back to Black – Legendary actors Fred “The Hammer” Williamson (Black Caesar) and Austin Stoker (Sheba Baby, Assault on Precinct 13), alongside Rosanne Katon (Ebony, Ivory, and Jade) and film scholar Howard S. Berger speak about the enduring popularity of the Blaxploitation film Photo gallery of behind-the-scenes and publicity images Original Theatrical Trailer Trailer Reel - Trailers for all the major works by Jack Hill including Foxy Brown, Coffy and Switchblade Sisters Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Josiah Howard, author of Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide, a new interview with Pam Grier by Jack Hill biographer Calum Waddell, illustrated with original archive stills and posters

• The Swinging Cheerleaders Dual Format Blu-ray + DVD | Blu Ray | (04/07/2016) from £9.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THEY GAVE THEIR ALL FOR THE TEAM! Jack Hill spent the seventies specialising in tough female characters. He made movies about girl gangs (Switchblade Sisters) and women in prison (The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage), turned Pam Grier a star with Coffy and Foxy Brown, and contributed to the Cheerleaders line of drive-in favourites with The Swinging Cheerleaders. Kate, an undergraduate at Mesa University, goes undercover as a cheerleader for her college newspaper in order to expose ˜female exploitation in contemporary society'. But instead of oppression she finds love, friendship and a bigger fish to fry: corruption in the football team, headed up by the coach and his pals. A favourite of Quentin Tarantino, who screened it at the very first Tarantino Film Fest, The Swinging Cheerleaders features a cast of cult favourites including Colleen Camp (Wayne's World, Game of Death), Rainbeaux Smith (Caged Heat, The Incredible Melting Man) and future Playmate of the Month Rosanne Katon.

• Pit Stop | Blu Ray | (07/04/2014) from £16.39   |  Saving you £8.60 (52.47%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Raw guts for glory! Flesh against steel! The most dangerous game ever devised to pit man against man flesh against steel - the figure-8 race! Jack Hill (Coffy Foxy Brown) follows up Spider Baby once again teaming up with Sid Haig (House of 1000 Corpses) in one of his greatest roles for this action-spectacular crash-o-rama! Richard Davalos (East of Eden) stars as Rick Bowman a street punk who winds up in jail after a street race goes wrong. Bailed out by race promoter Grant Willard Davalos is put in the deadly track where he comes up against Haig's maniacal winner Hawk Sidney. Featuring an outstanding supporting cast including Brian Donlevy (The Quatermass Xperiment) in his last film appearance Ellen Burstyn billed as Ellen McRae (The Exorcist) and Beverly Washburn (Spider Baby) Pit Stop is one of Hill's lesser known films but arguably his greatest. Filmed on a real figure-8 track Hill and his crew were able to capture gripping real-life car wreck scenes lending the film a brilliant sense of realism. You've never seen a motion picture like this before - can you take it? Special Features: New high definition digital transfer Newly commissioned artwork Collector's booklet More to be announced!

• The Big Doll House | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Director Jack Hill (COFFY SPIDER BABY) launched both a cycle of women-in-prison films and the stardom of Pam Grier with this sexy funny thrilling exploitation classic. At a prison farm in the Philippines new girl Collier (Judy Brown) is locked up with bitter lesbian Grear (Grier) rebel girl Bodine (Pat Woodell) tough blonde Alcott (Roberta Collins) and Harad (Brooke Mills) a strung-out junkie. The girls race cockroaches fight in the mud shower and get it on while the sadistic head guard (Kathryn Loder) conducts nightly torture sessions for the pleasure of the mysterious Colonel Mendoza. Eventually the girls escape and all hell breaks loose as they race to join the rebels their machine guns blazing a path through the jungles.

• The Terror | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A lieutentant in Napoleon's army (a young Jack Nicholson) traces a mysterious woman to a castle on the Baltic coast and finds himself trapped by a mad baron (Boris Karloff). This highly enjoyable atmopsheric slice of low-budget horror from the great Roger Corman was also reportedly directed at points by future talents Francis Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich.

• The Big Bird Cage | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Women so hot with desire they melt the chains that enslave them. Inside the women prison hell called The Big Bird Cage... inmates like The Price is Right's Anitra Ford struggle to survive. They get their chance at escape when scheming revolutionary Pam Grier engineers a prison break... from the outside in!

• The Big Bird Cage | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Terry a social - climbing young woman accidentally gets caught up in the activities of two revolutionaries Blossom and Django and finds herself in a concentration camp for women. In the centre of the camp is a towering wooden machine (The Big Bird Cage) in which the women risk their lives processing sugar as the evil warden looks on. The prisoners are subjected to sadistic cruelty from the guards and fellow prisoners and all attempts at escape are dealt with... permanently. Terry's only hope for escape lies in Blossom and her revolutionary allies.

• The Big Bird Cage | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-11.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Written and directed by one of Quentin Tarantino's heroes Jack Hill (Switchblade Sisters Foxy Brown Coffy) The Big Bird Cage is considered one of the definitive exploitation movies of the 1970s and stars Pam Grier as Blossom and Sid Haig as Django a pair of revolutionaries whose heist on a tropical nightclub doesn't quite go according to plan. The ensuing confusion leads to the wrongful arrest of a scandalous social climber Terry (Anitra Ford) who finds herself incarcerated in a notorious jungle prison populated by scantily-clad inmates. Brutalized and subjected to numerous indignities Terry and her fellow inmates' only hope for survival lies in a rescue plot hatched by Blossom and Django.

• Track Of The Vampire / Nightmare Castle | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-0.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Track Of The Vampire: An artist in Venice California named Antonio Sordi (William Campbell) becomes convinced he is the descendant of 15th century vampires in this strange film partially directed by Jack Hill (Spider Baby Foxy Brown). It's an interesting surreal piece of low-budget exploitation as Sordi murders women drains them of their blood and then dips them in wax and paints them. Marissa Mathes plays one of the victims as does Sandra Knight. Lori Saunders is a ballerina whom Sordi becomes convinced is the reincarnation of his ancestor's dead lover. If the film seems at times bizarre it may be because Hill centered it around footage from a 1963 Yugoslavian picture called Operation Titian to which he then added English-speaking scenes. After conflicts with producer Roger Corman Hill left the film and fellow Corman protegee Stephanie Rothman completed the work and added the vampire element. Regardless of authorship and some disjointed elements the film maintains an eerie tone and should find a place in the hearts of low budget horror fans. Corman regulars Jonathan Haze and Sid Haig also appear in supporting roles. Nightmare Castle: A jealous mad scientist savagely murders his faithless wife and her lover. Using the dead couple's blood he conducts a bizarre experiement on rejuvenation. To complete his revenge he then seeks to marry his late wife's sister after realizing that she has been left with the inheritance. In time the perturbed ghosts of the late lovers appear and seek their own revenge.

• Dripping Blood Collection | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This classic horror box-set contains ten gore fest titles on 5 discs. Includes: 1. Tormented (Dir. Bert I. Gordon) 2. Screaming Skull (Dir. Alex Nicol) 3. Nightmare Castle (Dir. Allan Grunewald) 4. Track of the Vampire (Dir. Stephanie Rothman & Jack Hill) 5. Revolt of the Zombie (Dir. Victor Halpem) 6. Werewolf vs. Vampire Women (Dir. Leon Klim) 7. Blood Creature (Dir. Gerry de Lion) 8. Werewolf in a Girls Dormitory (Dir. Richard Benson) 9. Giant Gilla Monster (Dir. Ray Kell

• Classic Sherlock Holmes | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  3 Classic Sherlock Holmes movies of the silver screen starring Basil Rathbone and 8 classic TV episodes starring Ronald Howard.