And peace ain’t all its cracked up to be either. Here’s where we keep all of our mercenaries, freedom fighters, jungle warriors, baby burners, guerillas, commandos and just plain grunts. You’ll find the shell shocked and the psycho ‘nam vets here as well. Hooyah!

ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II (76) Finally available! A milestone of "What were they THINKING?!?" filmmaking that fuses together two unlikely elements (Beatles tunes + World War II stock footage) to create a mind blowing misfire of musicality. This Shocking Videos exclusive (well, for the moment anyway) boasts astonishingly good picture and sound quality for such a rare title (only slightly marred by a few minutes of minor tape damage on the master at the beginning of the film) and comes complete with the original theatrical trailer! BUY

AMERICAN NIGHTMARES (84) aka Combat Shock. Don’t be fooled by the so-called "director’s cut" Here’s the original LONG version of Buddy Giovinazzo’s unblinking look at Hell on Earth This truly UNCUT print sports the original title AND comes with 30 bonus minutes of ultrarare Buddy G. shorts and music videos! BUY

APOCALYPSE NOW WORKPRINT (79) Here it is! The FIVE HOUR long workprint to Coppola’s masterpiece! That’s right, FIVE HOURS! So huge it takes up TWO T-160 tapes! Many never before seen scenes including Robert Duvall saving a little Cong baby, the river boat crew first rescuing and then later having sex with the USO showgirls, the once lost French compound dinner scene, Dennis Hopper being shotgunned to death, plus helicopters, helicopters and MORE helicopters! Letterboxed, timecoded throughout, and with relatively good picture quality, this one’s so rare even WE didn’t expect to find a copy! Plus, to top it all off, we’re also throwing in an alternate, lewder, and far more racist version of the USO cowgirl stageshow culled from a different workprint AND the brilliant parody short Apocalypse Pooh at no extra charge! Double disc set. BUY

DEADLY PREY (88) Breathtakingly inept, cheapjack Rambo wannabe guaranteed to induce hilarity and/or seizures, possibly both. An evil cadre of killers at a not-so-secret mercenary training camp (cleverly hidden in the wilds of Los Angeles) use people kidnapped off the street as fodder in their live fire exercises. All well and good until they mistakenly scoop up Mike Danton, the world’s most badass Special Forces dude ever (don’t ask why if he’s so badass he was so easy to capture smart guy, just play along) who responds by wiping out absolutely every single mother lovin’ one of them. Think Stallone was tough? Well, Was Stallone able to survive not one, not two, but THREE grenade attacks with absolutely no wounds whatsoever? Hmm? Did Stallone ever cut off an attacker’s arm, beat him to death with the bloody stump and then scalp the corpse?!? No, we didn’t think so! HIGHLY recommended (for all the wrong reasons). BUY

GOLD RAIDERS (83) aka Fire Game. Robert Ginty tears it up in this hilariously inept action flick about a crack commando team's efforts to recover a cargo plane load of gold bullion shot down over the Golden Triangle. If SCUBA diver knife fights and harpoon battles, an evil, bullwhip brandishing peg legged warlord and Sarah Langenfeld in a wet t-shirt aren't enough for you, wait until you see the patently fake "shark fish," the cave full of mechanical vampire bats with red LEDs for eyes and, best of all, Ginty's preferred mode of transportation throughout the picture: a jerry rigged hang glider/dirt bike contraption kitted out with rocket launchers under the handlebars! Not to be missed! Letterboxed. BUY

HELL CAMP (86) aka Hellcamp; Opposing Force. Remember the part in G.I. Jane (oh hush up, we know you saw it) where the trainees are sent to Escape and Evasion school, tortured mercilessly until they cry like the little babies they are and Demi Moore's character is nearly raped? Wouldn't it be great if there was a whole movie just about that? Well, welcome to Hell Camp, recruit! Made over ten years prior to Ridley Scott's flick and with a better cast (Tom Skerritt, Anthony Zerbe and Richard Roundtree for starters) this badass little mofo about a mock torture camp gone haywire doesn't pull any punches. Or kicks. Or rifle butts to the ribcage. And as for the fate of the obligatory rape bait (Lisa Eichhorn)? Well, let's just say the mission is completed in this one. BUY

HELL RAIDERS (8?) Barry Prima stars in "one of the greatest War Adventure Stories of all time," the story of Indonesia’s fight for independence from the Dutch. Two solid hours of explosions, gunfire, mayhem, atrocities, ransacked villages, people running around like chickens with their heads cut off, you know, FUN! English language print with small Greek subtitles. BUY

INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (77) aka Hell's Heroes; Deadly Mission; Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato and sadly, G.I. Bro. Classic Dirty Dozen-style Italian war action from Enzo Castellari, starring Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson and Peter Hooten. See why Quentin Tarantino has a remake of this slated as his next feature! Letterboxed. Includes trailer. BUY

JUNGLE WARRIORS (84) aka Euer Weg Fuhrt Durch die Holle. It's jungle jitters (or is that jiggles?) when a plane-load of high fashion models is shot down over the Peruvian jungle by a cocaine warlord. Captured by the evil mofo's private army the girls, along with their photographer and manager (what, no stylist?) are taken to his private fortress where they're imprisoned, tortured and raped at the hands of his incestuous half-sister "Angel" (Sybil Danning! Yay!) Caught in the middle of a colossal coke deal that's about to go very bad our divas in distress must learn to fight to stay alive. They must learn to become... Jungle Warriors! Fun stuff with John Vernon, Woody Strode, Alex Cord, Marjoe Gortner, Nina Van Pallandt and Paul L. Smith. BUY

THE LAST HUNTER (80) aka Hunter of the Apocalypse; L' Ultimo Cacciatore; Cacciatore 2. Unashamedly derivative pasta action flick finds good-natured David Warbeck running around behind enemy lines while director Anthony Dawson vacillates between using his chump change budget to remake Apocalypse Now or The Deer Hunter. "Hey David, I know! Letsa makea 'dem both!" Plenty of blood, guts, and unintentional laughs in this one! BUY

MANILA, OPEN CITY (68) Violent Philippines war action from Eddie Romero starring John Ashley (of course) and Charito Solis. "Filmed in luxurious FAMEColor." English language print with small Greek subtitles. Includes trailer. BUY

MERCENARY (83) aka Mercenary Cannibal; Cannibal Mercenaries. Complete long version of this wild and wooly Asian Apocalypse Now rip off that's ram-packed with violence, torture, explosions, gunfire, renegade commandos so bloodthirsty they're known as "The Dracula," and some of the longest, most annoying "editing for effect" sequences ever spliced together (even longer than this run on sentence)! Must be seen to be disbelieved! BUY

MERRILL’S MARAUDERS (62) Sam Fuller goes commando and Jeff Chandler gives ‘em Hell in the Pacific in this Hollywoodized (Hey, what do you expect? We’re talking 1962) look at the famed jungle fighting unit. Nice letterboxed print. BUY

MY FRIENDS NEED KILLING (76) Extremely rare grindhouse obscurity directed by Paul I Dismember Mama Leder. Greg Mullavey stars as a traumatized veteran who’s on a mission to kill his old G.I. buddies because they forced him to participate in atrocities over in ‘Nam. He drains the blood from one ala The Abominable Dr. Phibes, rapes another guy’s wife in front of him and then shoots them both, helps a remorseful one commit suicide, and stabs his ex-sergeant to death with a bayonet! Never released to video in the U.S. this is a really bleak, twisted little movie with a bizarre surprise ending. English language print with small Danish subtitles. BUY

MY OLD MAN’S PLACE (72) aka Glory Boy. Michael Moriarty (Law and Order) made his screen debut in this excellent and undeservedly obscure picture about three GIs who return home from Vietnam bringing their problems with them. Moriarty is the quiet introspective one (of course), William DeVane plays a horny, immature loudmouth and Mitchell Ryan is the obligatory violent psycho. The trio head to Moriarty’s estranged father’s house in the country with a hippie chick from the city in tow. Once there it’s psychodrama-au-go-go as old wounds are opened and new ones are inflicted. BUY

THE NO MERCY MAN (75) aka Trained to Kill U.S.A.; Fire in the Wind; The Vietnam Soldier. Hulking Steve Sandor (probably best remembered for his performance as "Stanley," the eyeliner wearing biker in The Ninth Configuration) broods and sulks up a storm in this crackersploitation mini-epic about a troubled ‘Nam vet who returns to The World and finds a new battle waiting for him on the homefront. Only this time he’s facing an even greater adversary than Charlie: A bunch of vicious carnies led by Sid Haig! Steve’s kind of busy though, what with the flashbacks and wrestling with his conscience and all, so he calls in a few of his still fully desensitized Ranger buddies to pick up the slack. Unfortunately they all must die horribly in the climactic "townies vs. carnies" gun battle and his family members have to be beaten and nearly raped before Steve can finally, finally snap out of it and become the crazed psycho killer we’ve all been waiting for. Need to work on that timing, big fella. BUY

THE RED BERETS (69), aka Sette Bascho Rossi; Congo Hell; Seven Red Berets. Eurocult faves Ivan Rassimov and Kirk Morris star in this jungle adventure story. A group of rotten, racist mercenaries trek across the expansive African landscape in order to retrieve incriminating documents from a Congo tribe. Along the way, they mow down scores of unarmed tribesman, fight and bicker and help themselves to the available women (although they do rescue two cute, adorable native children to maintain audience sympathy). Boasting authentic locales, impressive widescreen photography and a lilting Italiano music score, this one plays like a story torn from the pages of an old Argosy magazine! Letterboxed. BUY

REVENGE IS MY DESTINY (71) "The war took his eye, his wife took his heart, all he had left was a hunger for revenge!" Hunky Chris Robinson plays a one-eyed Vietnam vet who returns from the war just in time to get mixed up in his stripper wife's murder and a complicated blackmail scheme. A great trashy little movie that took us literally YEARS to find and is so cool that we made it the namesake for our website (duh)! Directed by Joseph Adler. Co-stars Elisa Ingram, Sidney Blackmer and (Ooh! Ooh!) Joe E. Ross as a sleazy nightclub owner! BUY

THE SECRET INVASION (64) Hard hitting WWII action from the mighty Roger Corman about an Army Major leading a rag tag band of convicts on a suicide mission behind enemy lines. Sound like a "Dirty Dozen" rip off? Maybe so, except this little butt kicker was released TWO YEARS earlier! Great performances (check out this cast: Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, Mickey Rooney, Edd Byrnes, Henry Silva and Mia Massini!), solid action and some surprising plot twists. A real treat for any WWII buff or action film fan. Great quality. BUY

SKIN 'EM ALIVE (7?) aka Infierno Africano. White mercenaries go coonhunting in the Congo in this Italian Dark of the Sun knock off directed by Mario Siciliano. Lots of sweaty action, mean-spirited violence, and a GREAT looking UNCUT print that’s a joy to behold! Rare English language print with small Danish subtitles. BUY

TRIP TO KILL (71) aka Clay Pigeon. Ex-Nam vet turned hippie Tom Stern is recruited by FBI agent Telly Savalas to infiltrate a dope ring run by ever-evil Robert Vaughn. Nice’n’gritty with plenty o’ violence. BUY

WELCOME HOME, SOLDIER BOYS (72) Leonard Maltin's Movie & TV Guide calls this lost drive-in classic a "sensationalistic melodrama about four ex-Green Berets who adjust to civilian life by gang raping a girl and burning down a town." Which is a pretty unfair analysis of this gritty 'Nam vet road picture but hey, it definitely sparks your interest doesn't it? Directed by Richard Compton, starring Joe Don Baker, Billy "Green" Bush, Paul Koslo, Geoffrey Lewis and Jennifer Billingsley. Rare English language print with small Japanese subtitles. BUY

Additional Titles (Available for purchase but not yet reviewed):

DARK OF THE SUN Letterboxed Includes trailer. BUY

DAYTON’S DEVILS (68) BUY

HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE BUY

MEN IN WAR B&W BUY

PHANTOM SOLDIERS (87) English language print with small Japanese subtitles. BUY

THE ODD ANGRY SHOT Letterboxed BUY

S.T.A.B. (SPECIAL TACTICAL AIRBORNE BRIGADE) aka The Boys From Commando Hill. BUY

WILD TEAM (85) Umberto Lenzi Ivan Rassimov, Antonio Sabato Letterboxed English language print with small Japanese subtitles. BUY