Window 3 has cracked open in the House with Laughing Windows… revealing Lucio Fulci’s Contraband. Fulci goes full Eurocrime here: sleaze, splatter and shotgun justice on the Naples docks... a bloody, bullet-soaked descent into smuggling, vengeance and absolute mayhem. 🛳️🔫💥

The first two windows have finally creaked open: Window 1: Anna Biller’s Viva Window 2: A Formula for a Murder Two down, twenty-two to go. Step inside… if you dare. https://t.co/QeW4Lk1TCB #shamelessadventcalendar #cultcinema #viva #aformulaforamurder #countdowntochristmas

This December, we’re opening the doors and windows of the House with Laughing Windows for a very Shameless Advent Calendar. Behind each window sits a cult favourite from our catalogue, and we’ll be counting down to Christmas Eve with daily doses of pure cult-cinema carnage.

STATELINE MOTEL is one of the most unusual films of early 70s Italian cinema: a snow-bound heist that turns into a psychological noir, shot in Quebec and anchored by Ursula Andress & Fabio Testi’s combustible chemistry. Our new 2K restoration finally lets this hybrid gem shine:

Born on this day in 1941, Laura Antonelli ✨ Her turn in VENUS IN FURS is one of her most intriguing: a dreamy psychodrama later retitled LE MALIZIE DI VENERE to ride her Malizia fame, re-edited and padded with new giallo-style scenes to match the box-office fever she inspired.

Fabio Testi back on screens in Reflection in a Dead Diamond? 💎 We’ll never complain about a Testi renaissance! If this has whetted your appetite, revisit him in peak form with our releases of Contraband and Stateline Motel: swagger, danger, and that unmistakable 70s magnetism.

Remembering Aldo Lado (1934–2023), a filmmaker who brought elegance and emotional weight to Italian genre cinema. His haunting thriller WHO SAW HER DIE? remains a standout, depicting Venice as a labyrinth of grief, suspicion, and quiet dread shaped by his unmistakable atmosphere

Low-numbered copies of THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN, FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON, and CONTRABAND are disappearing fast. If you want one of the early, exclusive numbers, move before they vanish for good... 📀💨 https://t.co/yxCmz5RSwS

RIP Udo Kier (1944–2025) A legend of cult cinema. Kier’s turn as Dr. Frank Mandel in Suspiria: the calm, clinical voice trying to make sense of a world steeped in witchcraft, brings a strange rationality to Argento’s fever-dream film. Few actors could make reason feel so uncanny.

“In a world of crime, corruption and cannibals… only one woman reigns supreme.” Ursula Andress dominates Stateline Motel, The Nurse, and The Slave of the Cannibal God. Three iconic Shameless titles. One unforgettable screen siren. All on Blu-ray.

The killer’s mannequin mask in Four Flies on Grey Velvet brushes against automatonophobia: the fear of human shapes that shouldn’t move… until they do. A plastic smile built for nightmares. 🎭 https://t.co/84vmNYHymX

Pope Leo XIV’s audience with global filmmakers, held at the Vatican as part of the Jubilee year, made headlines, but Italian coverage highlighted two names especially close to us at CultFilms: Dario Argento and Liliana Cavani, both in attendance.

Born on this day in 1941, we remember David Warbeck: New Zealand-born leading man of Euro-horror. Revisit him in The Beyond, A Formula for a Murder and Ratman, all streaming now via Shameless Films: https://t.co/S9XjmltRFI

Released in Italy on this day in 1978: Joe D’Amato’s Papaya, Love Goddess of the Cannibals 🍍💋 Sun-drenched seduction, voodoo rituals and revolutionary fever, pure tropical exploitation! On Blu-ray from Shameless Films: https://t.co/QeW4Lk1TCB

The ultimate Bond girl goes rogue 💋 Ursula Andress smoulders in Stateline Motel (1973) a slick, steamy crime thriller of double-crosses and diamonds. Out now on Blu-ray from Shameless Films: https://t.co/rqqPPXpfSs

Happy birthday to Laura Belli, unforgettable in Umberto Lenzi’s Almost Human. A violent, stylish slice of Italian crime cinema on Blu-ray from Shameless Films. Celebrate with car chases, kidnappings & Tomas Milian: https://t.co/UkeKSuWFpx

🎂 Happy 87th Birthday to Nieves Navarro — aka Susan Scott! 🎂 Magnetic, elegant, and dangerous in equal measure, she delivered one of her most fascinating turns as Barbara in ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARKcalm, collected… but is Jane’s sister truly innocent? 👁️

OASIS OF FEAR (1971) Two free-spirited hippies fund their travels by selling erotic photos… until a detour to an isolated villa turns deadly. 🎵 Trivia: Lenzi first planned it as a “hippie road movie” à la Easy Rider — producer Carlo Ponti pushed for a giallo instead.

STATELINE MOTEL on Blu-ray from Shameless Films! Ursula Andress & Fabio Testi star in a snow-soaked Euro-crime of passion, greed & double-crosses on the Canadian border. 🎬 Buy direct for free UK P&P & low-numbered editions:

🎃 It was a dark and stormy night... 🎃 On Halloween night, The House with Laughing Windows returned to the big screen... Even the cinema held its breath, awed by the restoration’s beauty! A sneak preview ahead of the 50th-Anniversary Shameless 4K UHD release. Coming soon...