In the early days of VHS, Charles Band's Wizard Video blazed trails, importing strange, unusual and exciting international horror, action and exploitation for the rental market, some for the very first time in North America. Many of these weird and wonderful titles were licensed from iconic French genre film studio Eurocine, including key pictures from directors like Jess Franco, Jean Rollin, Jose Luis Merino and more.

To honor our long, storied history with Eurocine, Full Moon has resurrected Wizard Video and collected six stunning films together on 6 Blu-rays, packed into one deluxe Wizard "Big Box"! See Sybil Danning pulverize her enemies in PANTHER SQUAD! Jess Franco turns his eye to action with COUNTDOWN TO ESMERALDA BAY, NIGHT OF THE EAGLES and DOWNTOWN HEAT! The stylish and unnerving ANGEL OF DEATH has Franco sharing directorial duties with BURIAL GROUND legend Andrea Bianchi! And Bianchi goes solo for the insane Chuck Conners slasher chiller MANIA KILLER! 

These six startling classic Eurocult films come loaded with features and are fully remastered in HD and as an extra bit of awesomeness, the box comes with a set of gorgeous postcards!

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Jess Franco's Angel of Death

When an attractive pair of young Nazi hunters exploring Uruguay accidentally stumble upon the lair of the maniacal war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele, they immediately live to regret it. There, deep in the sweltering jungles, Mengele has continued his hideous human experiments, torturing, murdering and mutilating nubile virgins in the name of creating some sort of master race. Soon, mercenaries, monstrosities, femme fatales and vengeful concentration camp survivors face off, with bullets and bodies flying everywhere and Mengele holding cretinous court.

Written by (under the name D. Khunn) and co-directed by Franco and completed by Italian trash movie maverick Andrea Bianchi (BURIAL GROUND: NIGHTS OF TERROR), the pair signed off on the film as "Frank Drew White", apparently too nervous to take credit for making this truly daft piece of unsavory exploitation. ANGEL OF DEATH is a fast-paced slice of vintage Eurocine mayhem, with an international cast that includes Franco regulars Jack Taylor, Antonio Mayans and Howard Vernon (as Mengele) along with Robert Mitchum's son Christopher and Shirley Knight from Franco's equally insane WHITE CANNIBAL QUEEN.

Jump into the jungle with Jess and get ready for some prime cinematic insanity! Get ready for ANGEL OF DEATH, presented here in a beautiful, uncut master culled from the original 35mm camera negative.

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Night of the Eagles Blu-Ray

From the studio that brought you ZOMBIE LAKE and PANTHER SQUAD and the director of FEMALE VAMPIRE and BARBED WIRE DOLLS, comes Jess Franco's NIGHT OF THE EAGLES, a stark WWII drama starring iconic genre actors Christopher Lee (HORROR OF DRACULA, THE BLOODY JUDGE and the STAR WARS prequels) and Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill (the original and most recent STAR WARS films).

Lee plays Strauss, a wealthy German businessman whose comely, loving daughter Lillian (Alexandra Ehrlich) is torn between two lovers, Peter (Hamill) and Karl (Ramon Estevez, brother of Charlie Sheen). Unable to choose between her paramours, Lillian's life changes forever when her beaus are shipped off to fight on the frontlines and she is forced to take a job as dancehall singer in a sordid niteclub. With her country and its people torn to pieces by the ravages of war and her once prosperous father relegated to a life of poverty and despair, Lillian must make unthinkable choices in the name of survival.

A sober, sophisticated and far less exploitative latter-day offering from Franco, NIGHT OF THE EAGLES is one of Eurocine's most expensive pictures, made shortly after the studio's perverse 1988 Franco masterpiece FACELESS, and boasts handsome production design, authentic costumes, bloody battles and a magnetic supporting performance by Lee as a man who helplessly watched as his dreams unravel. Full Moon is proud to present this underrated, unique Franco film for the first time in America, totally uncut and remastered from the original 35mm camera negative.

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Mania Killer Blu-ray

A malevolent religious cult stalks a French village, kidnapping prostitutes and subjecting them to unimaginable torments under the guise of saving their souls. When a young man's girlfriend is taken by the sect, he teams up with a mob of angry pimps to track down the maniacal, holy rolling killers and put an end to their bloody mission, once and for all.

A tense, stylish thriller from the legendary French studio that brought you ZOMBIE LAKE and PANTHER SQUAD and directed by the man behind the notorious BURIAL GROUND, MANIA KILLER stars exploitation movie heavyweights Bo Svenson (WALKING TALL PART 2), Robert Ginty (THE EXTERMINATOR and Chuck Connors (TOURIST TRAP).

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