Umberto Lenzi, legendary director of CANNIBAL FEROX, kicked off the Italian police film craze with this hyper-kinetic, ultra-violent, brain-blasting action thriller. Maurizio Meril stars as an Italian DIRTY HARRY, punching and shooting his way through the sleazy drug, sex and crime infested cesspool of mid-'70s Rome, on the trail of a sadistic, machine gun-toting hunchback, played by Tomas Milian (star of THE BIG GUNDOWN).

Kirk Douglas (The Fury) stars as industrialist Robert Caine, who with his son Angel (Simon Ward, Supergirl), is finally about to realize his biggest dream: a massive nuclear power plant in the Holy Land. But soon, Caine's dream becomes a horrific nightmare as person after person associated with the project meets a violent, gruesome death. When clues to this inexplicable turn of events point to the devil, Caine comes to the terrible realization that he might be linked to the Antichrist ... perhaps even through his unborn child. Also known as Holocaust 2000 and Rain Of Fire, this riveting thriller in the vein of The Omen "is probably the best made and best budgeted of the Italian occult films of the 1970s" (The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review) and was directed by cult filmmaker Alberto De Martino (The Antichrist, Blood Link and Strange Shadows In An Empty Room).

Weary of the rigid codes of the underworld, gambler Tokijiro (Kinnosuke Nakamura, Goyokin) wanders Japan in search of freedom. But escape proves to be impossible when an obligation to a gang boss leaves him with no choice but to kill a man. To atone for his crime, he vows to take care of his victim’s widow and young son. But the gang won’t rest until they’ve killed the entire family - including the man who stands in their way. With this breathtakingly stylised film, Tai Kato broke all the conventions of the yakuza genre, fusing blood-spurting action with melodrama worthy of Japanese cinema’s greatest masters.

“Take Off” to Animation is one of the most beloved original Night Flight formats, as true today as it was in the 1980s. Like our other animation specials, this 1987 arrival from the vault is a one-of-a-kind time capsule from an era when music videos and animation technologies were evolving side by side. Featuring Grace Jones’ multi-media visual spectacle, vibrant cel animation for Wally Badarou’s “Highlife,” and David Bowie’s rotoscoped video for “Underground” from Labyrinth (also streaming on Night Flight Plus), the episode highlights hybrid formats and emerging tools like early 3D computer animation at the height of the cultural zeitgeist.

For his final work, Godfather Of Mondo Franco E. Prosperi took on the ‘Nature Strikes Back’ genre and delivered perhaps the most shocking movie of his controversial career: When PCP gets into the water supply of a city zoo, the drug-crazed beasts – including tigers, lions, cheetahs, hyenas and elephants, as well as seeing eye dogs and sewer rats – go berserk and rampage through the streets of Rome. What follows is a terrifying mix of actual animal attacks (supervised by professional circus trainers) and over-the-top ‘80s Italian gore that remains the greatest eco-revenge shocker in EuroCult history.

In turn-of-the-century Scotland, a young wife (Barbara Steele) conspires with her lover to murder her wealthy, paralyzed surgeon husband. But when the dead spouse's spirit returns to haunt the couple, it will unleash a nightmare of spectral terror, sudden violence and depraved vengeance! With nods to Shakespeare, Sartre and Clouzot, the cunning screenplay argues science over faith, embraces paranormal phenomena and delivers a poetically nihilistic final twist.

MEET THE MANIAC & HIS FRIEND. Nearly a decade before he donned Freddy Krueger's famous red and green sweater, horror icon Robert Englund delivered a supremely sleazy performance in Eaten Alive - another essay in taut Southern terror from Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Oozing atmosphere from its every pore (the entire film was shot on a sound-stage at the famous Raleigh Studios, which lends it a queasy, claustrophobic feel) Eaten Alive matches The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for sheer insanity - and even drafts in Chain Saw star Marilyn Burns as the terrorised woman-in-peril, alongside William Finley and Mel Ferrer.

Rubber Nose Massacre follows the story of a mysterious clown who is on the loose kidnapping young women for a deadly underground game show. Two Florida Man vigilantes, Everett and Diesel, suspect their new neighbor, Snappy the Clown to be the culprit and take it upon themselves to uncover the mystery while leaving a trail of blood and destruction in their wake.

From director Ulli Lommel (The Boogeyman) comes one of the more notorious witchcraft themed horror films of the 1980s, The Devonsville Terror. Starring, and co-written by Suzanna Love (Olivia), and featuring Robert Walker Jr. (Easy Rider), Donald Pleasence (Halloween) and character actor Paul Willson (Office Space), this unnerving study in superstition, with a touch of social commentary, builds to a legendary meltdown of epic proportions.

Best bits of the Midnight Rider late night variety stoner comedy show featuring stand up preformances, short cartoons, voice dubbed sketches & independent short films.

In 1985, the music industry and the world came together in an unprecedented outpouring of generosity in response to the tragic famine wreaking havoc in Africa at the time. The biggest names in music checked their egos at the door to create what was and still is a worldwide phenomenon. The recording of the original "We Are The World" sold more than 7 million records worldwide. 

When a smooth jazz guitarist is demonically possessed by the ghost of Teddy Homicide, a notorious, violent punk rocker, all hell and guitar strings are sure to break loose! This is grindhouse grand-diva Roberta Findlay's, one of the lone femme auteurs of the exploitation film industry, last feature film. The mostly unseen cult film that has steadily gained in reputation since it was completed and unceremoniously shelved in 1989.  A punk era time capsule waiting to detonate! 

In a violent age of civil war and warlords, Yasaburo is a ninja without a mission and the only survivor of his clan. He meets Rangiku, a young girl of noble descent whose family was slaughtered by the henchmen of General Karimata. Together with Yasaburo, the Princess and her army of pulverizing puppets cut a bloody path through 16th Century Japan and drench the dusty streets in blood!

In this essential Night Flight interview, John Waters reflects on the transgressive ethos that defines his filmmaking. He recounts his humble beginnings touring prints from the trunk of his car, the neighborhood Baltimore crew of collaborators including Divine (“I don't trust anybody that hasn't been arrested at least once”), and a career built on offending multiple generations. A timeless snapshot of a Night Flight icon, and the perfect way to celebrate ten years of the streaming channel!

“Take Off” to Animation is one of the most beloved original Night Flight formats, as true today as it was in the 1980s. Like our other animation specials, this 1987 arrival from the vault is a one-of-a-kind time capsule from an era when music videos and animation technologies were evolving side by side. Featuring Grace Jones’ multi-media visual spectacle, vibrant cel animation for Wally Badarou’s “Highlife,” and David Bowie’s rotoscoped video for “Underground” from Labyrinth (also streaming on Night Flight Plus), the episode highlights hybrid formats and emerging tools like early 3D computer animation at the height of the cultural zeitgeist.

Delusion, also known as House Where Death Lives, is an obscure and under-seen psychological slasher. Meredith is a young nurse employed as caregiver to a rich, elderly man.  Eventually, Meredith discovers that his grandson has been locked away in a room, doomed to stare at visitors from his window. Suddenly, strange murders unfold, revealing dark family secrets!

For his final work, Godfather Of Mondo Franco E. Prosperi took on the ‘Nature Strikes Back’ genre and delivered perhaps the most shocking movie of his controversial career: When PCP gets into the water supply of a city zoo, the drug-crazed beasts – including tigers, lions, cheetahs, hyenas and elephants, as well as seeing eye dogs and sewer rats – go berserk and rampage through the streets of Rome. What follows is a terrifying mix of actual animal attacks (supervised by professional circus trainers) and over-the-top ‘80s Italian gore that remains the greatest eco-revenge shocker in EuroCult history.