Shot-on-Video and DIY Horror

In the quiet town of Marblehead, a chilling pattern emerges as the body count steadily rises. At the heart of these bizarre killings stands CJ Wyatt (Elizabeth Davoli), a student grappling with the recent loss of her boyfriend, the latest victim of a ruthless murderer. Each murder among her circle of friends draws the killer ominously closer to CJ. Amidst mounting p...Read More

In 1989, it became the first Canadian shot-on-Super 8 gore shocker commercially released on VHS. Today, it remains perhaps the most bizarre, depraved and mind-boggling chunk of 'Canuxploitaion' ever unleashed upon humanity. Adult film superstar Amber Lynn and co-writer/producer Barry J. Gillis star in this surreal saga about two friends who visit a remote cabin, onl...Read More

When a deranged killer (David Wilkinson) escapes from prison, he inexplicably invades the home of Joey Hammond (Joseph Shaugnessy) who must fight for his life in order to stay alive. Shot on VHS back in 1988 (with additional footage added in 2003) by a teenage Eric D. Wilkinson (who went on to produce Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth, Mischief Night, Sparks), the s...Read More

In a dystopian future, political prisoner Jacob Stryker is transformed into a werewolf super soldier by government scientists. He escapes captivity and searches for his son, who may be the messiah, and joins an army of karate kicking rebellion fighters poised to overthrow the United Nations of America. Along the way, Jacob is hunted by a group of cyborg and mutant b...Read More

A group of friends come together to support a man who has just lost his wife. After the funeral, the group decide to stay at the widower's house for a long weekend. However, a black gloved killer is stalking the property and knocking off the friends one by one. A 90's shot on video (SOV) essential, co-starring Mark Polonia, produced by the Polonia Bros.

Bob (Damon Packard), an obese watch-seller dying of sucrose intolerance, is the hero of this '00s extreme cult oddity that Henry Rollins calls “nothing short of genius." Bob survives by tramping the streets of LA, selling watches to anyone who will listen to his apologetic sales pitch and his days are repeatedly punctuated by irrational rage and displays of self-loa...Read More

The plot is familiar: A group of friends comes to party at a backwoods house where a legacy of brutality awaits. But within this minimalist '80s mélange of food fights, feathered hair and abusive slow-motion lurks a relentless synth score, bizarre sexual subtexts and a disturbing shape-shifting behemoth killer. The result is 87 minutes of fever-dream depravity. Form...Read More

"A jaw-droppingly gory trash fest" - NY TIMES. An often referenced and notorious underground classic for the last 25 years, this "American Video Nasty" is finally available to a mass audience and for the first time ever in BR format. A serial killer rises from the grave as a flesh-eating zombie maniac! Two Seattle cops, a satanic cult and a flying demon baby try to ...Read More

The "TITANIC of homemade zombie films" (Fangoria). In 1997, 17-year-old suburban Buenos Aires filmmakers Pablo Parés and Hernan Sáez pooled $450 to co-write/produce/direct and star in a shot-on-VHS zombie epic of such flesh-ripping, gore-spewing greatness that it instantly drew global cult acclaim and redefined the possibilities of extreme DIY horror.

In 1994, aspiring Niagara, Ontario filmmaker Erica Benedikty was working part-time at a community cable channel. Over the course of a year – and aided by a dedicated team of friends, volunteers and fellow film rebels – she wrote, produced, directed and edited a wildly ambitious, feature-length sci-fi action thriller for only $250. But when she convinced her employer...Read More

In 1997, writer/director/special effects master Olaf Ittenbach changed the face of video horror, force-fed its ripped-out eyeballs to screaming audiences, then used a drill, machete and shotgun on its still-twitching torso: Ittenbach himself stars as a degenerate junkie who babysits his young sister with two bedtime stories of the damned. First, an escaped serial ki...Read More

One by one the teens of Kangaloola High are visited by a skull-faced Aboriginal apparition in their nightmares, and one by one they meet a violent end. In their dreams, a kadaicha stone is thrust into their hand--a stone which follows them into the waking world and condemns them to death for breaking tribal law. When Gail Sorensen, the daughter of a land developer w...Read More

Two sisters are thrown out of their isolation and onto opposite coasts of America by a terrifying cosmic entity. While one sister suffers from memory loss and the other is too young to understand her own past, the girls discover they possess supernatural powers as they are pursued by the mysterious and unearthly being hell–bent on their destruction. Spirit Riser is ...Read More

More than 30 years later, it remains one of the most ambitious, sought-after and totally bizarre low-budget Canadian features of all: Yugoslavian-born actor Lazar Rockwood in a debut performance Canuxploitation.com calls "creepy, astonishingly uncharismatic, and displaying a complete disregard for the craft of acting" is Boris, an ex-con and career thief who convinc...Read More

A film which truly justifies the term 'unclassifiable,' and the sole feature from writer and director Christopher Thies, Winterbeast was shot on and off for nearly half a decade and in a mix of super 8mm and 16mm, resulting in a one of a kind piece of outsider art horror filmmaking that must be seen to be believed. Weird things are happening in and around the Wild G...Read More

"Truly no-budget-bonkers..."—Bloody Disgusting. Amityville investigator Father Benna fights his last battle with the ultimate evil, this time in space when the infamous murder house and its spirits are thrust into space and end up in the 23rd century, where it is found by a salvage crew.