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Cinmea Strikes Back reviews The Uninvited

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:42:21 -0600

Continuing their efforts to produce the most unorthodox DVD packages on the market, Panik House has put the DVD snapper case in an attractive sleeve with an embossed image of Ji-hyun Jun as well as a nice array of extras. . .

Female Yakuza Tale (1973, Japan)

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:43:02 -0600

(Yasagure Anego Den - Sokatsu Rinchi! aka Story of A Wild Elder Sister - Widespread Lynch Law!)

"Teruo Ishii is a fantastic director, a great director! I love Teruo Ishii."
~ Quentin Tarantino

Female Yakuza Tale - Inquisition And Torture is an anarchistic apex in the career of Japanese cult director, Teruo Ishii, whose fifty year resume includes Horror of Malformed Men and Blind Beast Vs. Killer Dwarf. Notoriously lacking restraint, sexy 'pinky violence' star, Reiko Ike, returns in this gonzo sequel to Sex & Fury following the further exploits of Ocho, a thief and gambler running afoul of evil yakuza in Meiji Era Tokyo. Aided by a lone wolf adventurer (Ryohei Uchida), Ocho investigates a ruthless gang of cutthroats who are using indentured prostitutes as drug mules to smuggle heroin from China. Director Ishii throws everything but the kitchen sink into this mind-altering sexploitation action saga, all culminating in a bloody mobster massacre replete with sultry swordswomen. Full of intoxicating mayhem and uproarious kabuki-striptease antics, Female Yakuza Tale - Inquisition & Torture is freak-out filmmaking at its finest!

PiFan Commemorates Teruo Ishii with Film Retrospective

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:07:23 -0600

Korea's Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) will kick off its 10th edition this year on July 13th and includes a retrospective spotlighting recently deceased Japanese cult director Teruo Ishii. Other such honorees include Fritz Lang, Jacques Tati and Audrey Hepburn, so the Pinky Violence Godfather is obviously held in high esteem. The timing is impeccable, with the Panik House releases of Screwed and Blind Beast Vs. Killer Dwarf scheduled less than two weeks later on July 25th. Female Yakuza Tale will be available again at this time giving audiences a healthy sampling of the many aspects of this legendary director's career.
Stateside, there will be a few private screenings of Ishii's (and other Panik House) films at the 15th Annual Anime Expo in Anaheim, California July 1 - 4 and then in the film program at both Gen Con Indy (in Indianapolis) August 10 - 13 and Gen Con So Cal (in Anaheim) November 16 - 19.
It's shaping up to be a Pink summer, people!
Stay Tuned!

Horrorview Praises The Uninvited

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:16:52 -0600

The dedicated people at Panik House Entertainment have brought The Uninvited to DVD in what is being called "the world definitive edition." Given the packaging, presentation and immensity of extras, it would indeed be difficult to argue with this claim. . .

TWITCH Reviews The Uninvited

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:13:01 -0600

The new North American release of the film hits store shelves today via PanikHouse and it lives up to their normal high standards. . .

Screwed (1998, Japan)

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:34:17 -0600

“Asano is something of a director’s fantasy; he can look tough and threatening or sensitive and delicate in equal measure.”
- Initerview

"Teruo Ishii is a fantastic director, a great director! I love Teruo Ishii."
-Quentin Tarantino

THE ULTIMATE JAPANESE CULT FILM!

What do you get when you bring together the King of Cult Movie Directors, the King of Underground Comic Books and the King of Independent Cinema? You get SCREWED! Long considered the primary force in the cinema of transgression, Director Teruo Ishii serves up a fever dream of psychedelic sexuality and hyperbolic insanity that could only come from the mind of Japanese Manga God Yoshiharu Tsuge. Tadanobu Asano (Ichi The Killer) stars in this sexy, bizarre, and hypnotic adaptation of Neji-shiki (Wind-Up Type) that helped establish his position in the firmament of Asian and global cinema.

PANIK HOUSE is proud to present SCREWED in a newly restored edition of the unedited director’s cut. You have been warned!

DVD Features

• Audio Commentaries in English & Spanish
• Bilingual Menus with Optional English and Spanish Subtitles
• Trailers
• Poster and Still Galleries
• Production Notes
• Filmmaker and Star Bios
• Bonus Virtual Comic Book with text in English & Spanish
• Special Red Foil Package for the initial print run of 7500
• Sticker

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Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf (2001, Japan)

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:33:27 -0600

"Teruo Ishii is a fantastic director, a great director! I love Teruo Ishii."
- Quentin Tarantino

BANNED FOR TWO YEARS! LEGENDARY DIRECTOR TERUO ISHII’S FINAL DISTURBING MASTERPIECE!

When prolific Japanese Cult Director Teruo Ishii passed away in 2005, BLIND BEAST VS. KILER DWARF became his epitaph. This film stands as the culmination of his life’s work and includes the bizarre and shocking excesses that one can come to expect from the director of FEMALE YAKUZA TALE: naked Japanese girls and lots of blood! Throw into the mix the deranged, depraved and deformed and you’re starting to get the picture. Borne of a lifelong obsession with the writings of Edogawa Rampo, Teruo Ishii ‘s swan song is a veritable circus of the insane.

PANIK HOUSE is proud to present BLIND BEAST VS. KILLER DWARF in the director’s final, approved edition –sparing none of its macabre sex or over-the-top violence!

DVD Features
• Behind-The-Scenes: The Making of Blind Beast Vs. Killer Dwarf documentary featurette
• Audio Commentaries in English & Spanish
• Bilingual Menus with Optional English and Spanish Subtitles
• Trailers
• Poster and Still Galleries
• Production Notes
• Filmmaker and Star Bios
• Special Numbered Insert Cards featuring the personal stamp of Little Frankie aka The Killer Dwarf, now deceased
• Sticker

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A SNEAK PEEK AT THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE!

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:02:58 -0600

Well, we have wrapped up the super deluxe DVD of THE UNINVITED, which will be in stores on May 30th. I’ll be giving you the skinny on that when I get the finished product early next month. The packaging is quite possibly the best we’ve done yet, but I’ll speak more about that later. I want to give everybody a sneak peek of our two upcoming July titles, both from the chaotic camera of the late, great (and wonderfully deranged) Teruo Ishii. The first is SCREWED, an insane adaptation of cult manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge’s Neji-shiki (aka Wind-up Type). Tadanobu Asano (of Ichi The Killer) stars in the director’s final 35mm film.
The companion release for July 25th will be the director’s swan song:
BLIND BEAST Vs. KILLER DWARF
What’s in a name you ask? Well let me run down the checklist:
Naked Japanese Girls
Dwarves
Lots Of Blood

This release will sport exclusive artwork created specifically for Panik House by underground New York artist GEA* (currently on exhibit at the prestigious V-Gallery in Switzerland).

Edogawa Rampo would be proud!

SEX IS ZERO CHARTS HIGH AT AMAZON!

Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:09:14 -0600

This weekend we received word that SEX IS ZERO had broken into the top 1000 titles on Amazon.com, and at one point had been close to breaking into the top 900! Not bad for a foreign comedy with no marquee names. It just goes to show that people like a good laugh every once in a while, and this film delivers on that. The trailer is up on the Panik House MySpace page, and we encourage you to be a Panik House friend. Sign on and check out the comments that people are leaving us, and be sure to leave your own. In other MySapce news, Jane, the reigning Miss Pinky Violence has her own MySpace page, and will soon have her own dedicated website, so check back here for the official launch next week.

www.myspace.com/panikhouse
www.myspace.com/misspinkyviolence

Are You Ready for Spring Break...Panik House style?

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:17:53 -0600

SEX IS ZERO hits stores today! This hilarious teen sex comedy was the all time box office champ in it's native Korea, and it's easy to see why. It's hysterically funny. This title took a lot of effort to bring to the US as foreign censors attempted to prevent it's export, so fight censorship by running out and buying one! It's now available for purchase online and in most major retail chains and also available for rent at Hollywood Video.

This disc is absolutely bursting with special features –I've never seen so many on a single disc release! The cast interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, bloopers, deleted scenes and alternative takes are over an hour and a half long, and there are two entirely different commentary tracks for English and Spanish speaking fans. Mike McPadden and Mr. Skin of the Howard Stern Show handle an informative and hilarious track that features a few interjections from a certain DVD company president who shall remain nameless. So scoop these babies up! They're worthwhile for the booklet alone! Screen it at your next Fraternity or Sorority party!

You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll never eat a fried egg sandwich again!

A Full-On Media Frenzy, I Tell You

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:29:12 -0600

On Friday I received an anonymous link to some fan trailers of various Panik House titles. There were trailers for Sex Is Zero, The Uninvited, and a long form music video entitled This Is Pinky Violence, which gathered footage from all of our Japanese 70s sexploitation releases thus far. They were posted on YouTube and were really kick-ass, so I sent the link to a handful of friends.

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:27:47 -0600

The winner of the Miss Pinky Violence Contest is…

Jane!
Age 22, from Ayuthaya, Thailand. Her interests are karaoke, scooter racing, sushi, origami, switchblades, chain fighting, hair salons, small furry animals and revenge!
Jane flew all the way from Thailand to enter the Miss Pinky Violence contest, and we liked her right off the bat. With the perfect mix of sweet & sexy, Jane best embodies the qualities that Panik House’s Women of Pinky Violence represent.

We've expanded the Miss Pinky Violence contest!

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:34:13 -0600

Many contestants have been writing to ask if entry in the Miss Pinky Violence contest is limited to attendees at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors in Chicago on March 4th and 5th. Well, I've got some good news for all of you.

If you are unable to attend, you can submit your photograph by mail (see below) or email to info@panikhouse.com where a crack team of fully qualified judges (that would be me and the rest of the Panik House team) will narrow down these submissions to five photo finalists who will compete against the live convention contestants for the Miss Pinky Violence crown. A special celebrity guest judge will pick the winner at the Panik House booth on Sunday afternoon, and runner-ups will be given special convention exclusive swag. This should ensure that the competition is tough, and the winner worthy.

Images sent by email must be no larger than 2MB in size, and should be either Jpegs or Pdfs. If your images are web hosted, you can email a link.

Mailed in Submissions should be sent to:

Panik House Entertainment
Miss Pinky Violence Contest
1625 N. Damen Ave. 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60647 USA

And now a word from our lawyers:

All images submitted must be the legal property of the contestant. Submission of any and all images will constitute a grant of rights to Panik House Entertainment, and we reserve the right to exploit any such images as we please. This contest is open to all female individuals over the age of 18 except where prohibited by law.

Miss Pinky Violence is a registered trademark of Panik House Entertainment. All rights reserved.

Our First Review of Tokyo Psycho

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:26:50 -0600

Panik House’s DVD release of the film offers a nice package of special features, including a very brief look behind the scenes, that really just serves up a few frames of the actors on set and tosses off a couple of quips here and there....

Attention Pinky Violence Girls!

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:11:04 -0600

The first ever Pinky Violence Babe Search is on!

Are you a red hot, butt kicking megababe? Do you deserve the title Miss Pinky Violence?

Come strut you stuff past the Panik House table at the upcoming Fangoria Weekend of Horrors where we will crown our new site hostess. We are looking for go-go girls or biker chicks dressed like Reiko Ike, Reiko Oshida, and Miki Sugimoto, and we'll be handing out Panik House swag to winners and runner-ups. The Grand Prize Winner will receive her own website, and hold the title of Miss Pinky Violence for one entire year. More details to follow.

Don't you just love a contest?