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From the early 1990s, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky stands as one of the most camp, OTT & extreme prison films of all time. The dystopian future-set picture features a muscley, ragged-haired, and seemingly unkillable martial arts master who has been sent to a corrupted private prison. The film is an eventful comic book and dark comedy-edged affair, full of eye-popping, guts-pulling, head-crushing, and limb-ripping violence. Here from 88 Films is a dual-format UHD & Blu-ray release of the picture. Taking in a brutally vibrant new 4k scan, three new commentary tracks, and a mix of new/ archive extras.
29 Jul 2026
Vacant Align Interview
Active since October 2025, Wisconsin’s Vacant Align is one of the more atmospheric and texturally inventive wall noise projects to appear in some time. It’s a project that takes its time in releasing work, and you can certainly hear it, as each of their releases so far is a perfectly crafted blend of expressive and engaging textures. Behind the project is John Engman, who very kindly agreed to give us an email interview
24 Jun 2026
Here’s a release that ties together unrelentingly juddering wall noise with distant, harmonically edged ambient. It’s not clear where the projects from, but the release appears on London’s HNW label- so we know it’s going to be of a certain standard.
Static Terrain is a forty-minute slice of crudely galloping ‘n’ nastily spluttering HNW from this highly prolific and long-running Californian project. It’s a simple/ no-nonsense example of the form.
The Beast is an exercise in manically nerve-racking, and totally unforgiving junk noise walling from Whores Breath (aka David Hilshorst). The just over twenty-seven-minute track finds this Cincinnati project truly going all out to create an impenetrable mass of ratting, forking, luching, and grating noise
James M Creed — Tending
27 Jul 2026Sylvia Lim — Flare
27 Jul 2026The Mortuary Assistant — The Mortuary Assistant ( Blu Ray)
24 Jul 2026Dirk Serries & Asmus Tietchens — Die Regeninsel
23 Jul 2026The Screaming — The Screaming( Blu Ray & CD)
23 Jul 2026Creepy-Creatures Double-Feature (The Slime People + The Crawling Hand) — Creepy-Creatures Double-Feature (Blu Ray/ DVD)
23 Jul 2026Soylent Green — Soylent Green( Blu Ray/ UHD)
22 Jul 2026Falling Down — Falling Down( UHD/ Blu Ray)
22 Jul 2026
Jasper Sharp interview
In the year 1971, Nikkatsu, the oldest/ at one point, the biggest film production company in Japan. Did something quite daring/ some would say crazy- they completely switched over their production to softcore adult films, which would become known as Roman Porno. Between 1971 and 1988, the company produced around 850 of these titles. The thing that made these films stand out from general softcore films is the often creative & inventive choices made- yes, the films primal focus is sleaze, but great examples of the genre are so much more than that. In the last year or so, there has been a spate of reissues of films in the genre from labels such as 88 Films, Third Window Films, and Klubb Super 8. One of the key figures/contributors behind these releases is Jasper Sharp- one of the world's experts on the genre, and the wider Pink genre it’s connected to. Jasper kindly agreed to give us an email interview discussing his history with the genre, his contributions to releases, and the new/updated edition of his book Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema on Fab Press.
King Futile Interview
King Futile is the new project from Scotland-based Lea Cummings( Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc), and it’s a big departure from his normal noise or retro sample & electronica sound. It's lo-fi acoustic music, with an outsider feel, and often quite tongue-in-cheek/ sharply sarcastic tone to the lyrics. So far, the project has put out three albums- Casual Misery, How To Have Fun, and Zen As Fuck. I tracked down Lea for an email interview.
Cliff Twemlow On Severin
One of last year’s real big surprises in the world of Blu-ray box sets was Bloody Legend: The Complete Twemlow Collection, as it was a wholly entertaining, fascinating, and at times heart-warming set. The Severin released boxset brought together the work of one of the UK’s unlikeliest movie moguls- Cliff Twemlow, a Mancunian bouncer/ body builder, who went on to write/star in/produce a series of low-budget/ largely SOV films in the early 80s to early 90s- these moved between action, thriller, sci-fi, and horror. His most notable/notorious film was 1983’s G.B.H., which landed on the video nasty list, though he was connected to other ten feature films, many of which got their first real full/proper release on the boxset. Opening up the set was the excellent 2023 documentary Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow, which really pulls you into the set. I caught up with Severn’s David Gregory and Jake West, director of Mancunian Man, to discuss the boxset and all things cliff.
The Fall
MES( Mark E Smith- The Falls main creator) possessed the ability to cram phrases into impossible spaces - “I’m hunting and I’m trying to find” delivered as “hut’na tryna find”; the eight-syllable “mere pseud mag editor’s father” hastily squeezed into a manipulation of time and space, heralded by the prior line “twice each at least”, the latter naturally repeated thrice.
