Shameless Films is a highly visible, pulp-inspired, exploitation brand of discovery offering up carefully curated films that will delight horror and exploitation fans. Shameless unashamedly use the colour yellow in homage to the original Italian “Giallo” (which means yellow) pulp-fiction book covers… completely unique in the world of collectable blu-ray. Each release from Shameless Films undergoes careful restoration to ensure high-quality transfers, complemented by special features that provide insight into the films and their cultural impact. Whether you’re a seasoned collector or a curious cinephile looking to explore the edgier side of cinema, Shameless Films offer a curated selection that combines entertainment with a deep respect for exploitation cinema.

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Almost Human

 

Maestro of mayhem Umberto Lenzi (CANNIBAL FEROX, OASIS OF FEAR) takes you on a tour of Italy’s mean streets in this hyper-violent, white-knuckle 1970s crime classic. For the first time ever on Blu-ray, Shameless proudly presents Almost Human…restored, uncut and unhinged! Tomas Milian stars as Giulio Sacchi, a sadistic petty crook who aspires to criminal greatness. With his gang of impressionable weirdos in tow, Sacchi kidnaps the pretty young daughter of a wealthy businessman but hardboiled cop Grandi (the one-and-only Henry Silva – ESCAPE FROM THE BRONX) is in hot pursuit. The dogged detective is all that stands between Sacchi’s gang and the ransom money, and he’s the only hope their teenage hostage has got… Almost Human is a notoriously nasty crime thriller, a cult serving for cognoscenti, with a stand-out score from Ennio Morricone, presented for the first time ever in glorious HD and restored from original vault materials. If you like your cops proper badass, and your villains ever badder psychos, this is the one high-octane, edge-of-the-seat experience you cannot miss!

 

• Brand new Umberto Lenzi Shameless interview

• “Milian Unleashed” interview with Tomas Milian

• Period interview with Umberto Lenzi, star Ray Lovelock, and writer Ernesto Gastaldi

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Baba Yaga

 

Director Corrado Farina re-edited his film as an exclusive 1st for Shameless in order to show his vision of his film as he intended it to be before his producers hacked it to bits behind his back the day before the film opened in cinemas. Director Corrado Farina re-inserted the footage cut by the producers and took that opportunity to also reinsert prior censors cut. This is Director Corrado Farina’s avowed “own BABA YAGA”, which he had re-edited for Shameless, now this extended “redux” version is presented for the 1st time on blu-ray, finally doing justice to the filmmaker’s unique original vision. Perverted dreams and fevered reality are blurred when beautiful witch Baba Yaga (Carroll Baker) gets her sapphic claws into a beautiful young photographer in this rampant adaptation of the classic Guido Crepax comic-book.

 

• Director’s own re-edit of film, now with improved visuals

• Corrado Farina Interview and Introduction

• Audio Commentary by author, editor & critic Kat Ellinger

• Fact Track by The Wilson Bros

• Two Guido Crepax documentaries by Corrado Farina: COMIC-STRIP FREUD,  COMIC-STRIP PHOBIA

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Four Flies on Grey Velvet

 

The rarest of Dario Argento’s giallo thrillers, released in its original glory from restored vault materials, finally comes to Blu-ray. Who is the deranged maniac persecuting and mentally torturing celebrated rock musician Roberto Tobias (Michael Brandon)? First he’s implicated in a horrifying stabbing and is soon surrounded by other senseless slaughter. The last strange image captured on one murder victim’s eye retina contains the only clue to the demented criminal manipulator. And their identity will take Roberto over the edge of sanity to a shock horror peak in Dario Argento’s classic giallo chiller.

This homicidal frenzy completed Argento’s revered ‘Animal’ trilogy (alongside THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE and CAT O’ NINE TAILS) that dubbed him ‘The Italian Hitchcock’, leading to SUSPIRIA and his worldwide ‘Master of Horror’ reputation. And Argento’s unmistakable flair for creating fear in lavish style is on stunning show in this slick, sick primal scream – with a shattering slow-motion climax given further operatic violence by one of genius Ennio Morricone’s most memorable scores.

 

•  Introduction & Exclusive interview with Writer & Assistant Director Luigi Cozzi

•  Trailers & Photo gallery

 

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The Nurse

 

From the producers of ‘Doctor Zhivago’ comes a film that finally reveals URSULA ANDRESS in all her glory! Voted the TOP BOND GIRL of all time, Ursula Andress made cinematic history when she emerged from the sea in that bikini. Not only was this iconic scene crowned “No1 of the 100 Greatest Sexy Screen-Moments” and earned Andress a Golden Globe, but it heralded a new generation of women who wanted and expected more: the ‘sexual revolution’ had started. Andress stars as The Sensuous Nurse, spending most of this romp-com undressed. Screen legend Jack Palance (City Slickers) plays an American tycoon aiming to buy a vineyard in the beautiful Italian Veneto. But the hitch is that the aging owner won’t sign, despite his madcap family’s eagerness to sell and get rich. The old man, recovering from a bonk-induced heart attack, is a randy lecher. So, the family’s outrageous stratagem is to hire Nurse Andress, not to cure the old boy, but for her to… ahem… undress and, hopefully, induce another – this time fatal – cardiac arrest. It’s all barmy, fizzy fun, and the clincher? A SECOND Bond Girl! Luciana Paluzzi, the one in skin-tight black leathers on the rocket-launching motorbike in ‘Thunderball’. Here without leathers. Or anything.

 

• Interview with Director Nello Rossati and Set & Costume Designer on working with Bond lovelies

• New English subtitles on the alternative Italian track

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The Sect

 

Satanic sacrifice, face-ripping gore and a channel-hopping bunny! Directed by Michele Soavi (THE CHURCH, CEMETERY MAN) and co-scripted and produced by Dario Argento: We know their names, let’s experience the nature of their games! 

Watch with glee while schoolteacher (Kelly Curtis) becomes the target of a devil-worshipping sect… Soon her friends either disappear, become crazed zombie-like murderers or… get their heart ripped out. Still beating. Some even jerk back to life in an undead bloodletting frenzy! Is Jamie-Lee Curtis’ pretty sister loosing her mind or has the devil come into her? Shameless is pleased to introduce the first ever 2K HD restored and longest ever version of THE SECT, entirely faithful to Soavi’s original vision of occult and zoogenic mayhem. Adding 666 degrees of terror to a Rosemary’s Baby scenario, Soavi blowtorches a diabolic opus that will get you to claw your own face off with fear!

 

• An exclusive interview with Michele Soavi

• 2K pristine restored and remastered

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Amsterdamned

 

A predator has surfaced from the canals of Amsterdam leaving a trail of gruesomely dismembered bodies in Dick Maas’ high-octane, heart-stopping cult slasher-thriller.

As the victims pile up in a series of startling, violent, Jaws-style set pieces, a detective is assigned to hunt down the hidden killer before news of the carnage causes mass hysteria and hurts the tourist trade.

The masterful, clever & darkly witty direction of Dick Maas (Award winner of the prestigious, horror, Avoriaz Fantastic Festival) is mainstream enough to appeal to action thriller fans but also nasty enough to satisfy slasher aficionados ..
This edition includes an in-depth making-of by the Director himself, witnessing the film’s legendary boat chase and other amazing stunts (no CGI here!) which infuses the film with a sense of tangible danger – and indeed sent the film’s lead to hospital for 3 weeks after crashing his boat !
This rarely seen gem has attained a deserving cult status; originally cut by the BBFC, it is now presented as instructed by Dick Maas: uncut and in his original film format.

 

• Bonus Footage

• Image Gallery

• Interviews: Dick Maas (Director)

• Making of Documentary

• Trailers

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Footprints on the Moon

 

Director Luigi Bazzoni’s unique vision of ‘FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON‘ is brought to life by the striking cinematography of Vittorio Storaro (three-time Oscar® winner  including ‘Apocalypse Now’). Florinda Bolkan (‘Flavia The Heretic‘) delivers a masterful, nuanced performance bringing captivating depth to the character of Alice – a young translator grappling with memory loss.

 

• ‘Remembering the Moon’ introduction by star Florinda Bolkan

• ‘Master of Light’ interview with Vittorio Storaro

• ‘To the Moon’ interview with Ida Galli aka Evelyn Stewart

• Audio commentary by Film-Critic Genre-Expert Rachael Nisbet

• Original Italian theatrical trailer

• New English Subtitles over the Optional Original Italian + switchable SDH over the English language version

• Full HD 1080P encode from restored 4K scans of the original camera negative in 1.85:1 WIDE-SCREEN

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Formula for a murder

 

Legendary cult-icon David Warbeck (THE BEYOND, LAST HUNTER) gives an explosive performance in this long-lost Giallo never released in UK. This Shameless edition is remastered from new restored HD materials in the film’s original widescreen format. Joanna – who is wheelchair-bound after a horrific childhood attack – is a philanthropist who has funded a sports centre for paraplegics. She now plans to donate a large part of her wealth to the local church, but visions of a priest-looking figure carrying a blood-soaked doll start to haunt her… and whilst the apparitions seem to stem from Joanna’s traumatized psyche, they soon become horribly real!
Watch Warbeck put on his yellow mac and turn from Joanna’s debonair fitness instructor into a conniving, violent, sadistic criminal .. Grimacing and slashing. Unstoppable. Shameless.

 

• Bonus Footage

• Commentary: Making of Audio Commentary

• Trailers

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the frightened woman

 

The director of THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN, Piero Schivazappa, praised the version released by Shameless – saying: “..this is the version which you should watch” – when Shameless initially reconstructed and released this version, revealing the film as he’d originally intended. This is the version which is now presented on Blu-ray – pristinely restored from a 4K scan – finally doing justice to the exuberant 60s pop-art images and set design.

This definitive edition is further enhanced by a unique new interview with the iconic Dagmar Lassander where she relates the groundbreaking and provocative nature of the film.

 

• Dagmar Lassander World-Exclusive Interview

• Piero Schivazappa Interview

• New 4K-Restored Version

• English Language + separate original Italian

• New Eng. Subtitles & additional SDH

• Bonus Footage

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killer nun

 

• Unique Interview with Fellini’s Muse and iconic silver-screen Sex-Symbol, Anita Ekberg

• Interview with director Giulio Berruti ”God is the Drug”

• Audio commentary by UK Film-Critic and Genre-Expert Rachael Nisbet

• English + separate alternative Original Audio version.
   New Full 1080P 1.85:1 Widescreen Blu-ray Encode

• The Director of Public Prosecution’s Video Nasty is now fully uncut and pristinely restored from 2K scanned original negative

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Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals

 

• Alternative Italian opening credits + English opening credits

• ‘Love Goddess of the Cannibals’ & Alternative Trailers

• Legacy Shameless Trailer

• Full-HD 1080P Encode, Uncut 2K-Restored

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Ratman

 

• Shameless Original Trailer Gallery

The Strange Vice Of Mrs Wardh

 

• All-new interview with director Sergio Martino

• Sergio Martino introduction

• Fact track by Justin Harries

• Edwige Fenech bio presentation

Torso

 

•  “Dismembering Torso”  an exclusive interview with director Sergio Martino.

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Viva

 

• Anna Biller’s behind the scene featurette

• Audio commentary by critic Heather Drain

• Anna’s photos from the set

• Theatrical Trailer

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What have they done to your daughters

 

• Shameless Original Trailer Gallery

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