Film Masters unleashes the MONSTER MAYHEM COLLECTION (review)

Four low-budget fifties shockers crawl back from the grave in the MONSTER MAYHEM COLLECTION.  In MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL, animal test subjects launched up into space land back on Earth in Africa mutated into a giant beast.  In THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS, a scientist is possessed by a malevolent alien force.  In FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER, the mad scientist's grandson tests experimental drugs on the daughter of his research partner while trying to build his own monster.  In GIANT FROM THE UNKNOWN, a geologist, an archaeologist, and his daughter travel up into the mountains of Big Bear in search of the remains of the conquistador Diablo Giant only to discover he is still quite fresh.

REVIEW LINK: Film Masters (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

MONSTER MAYHEM COLLECTION Blu-ray specs:

• DISC ONE:
• Monster from Green Hell:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles (for film and commentary)
• Audio Commentary by film historian Stephen R. Bissette
• "Missouri Born: The Films of Jim Davis" career retrospective with author/film historian C. Courtney Joyner
• The Brain from Planet Arous:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles (for film and commentary)
• Audio Commentary by author/film historian Tom Weaver, film music historian David Schecter, filmmaker Larry Blamire, and actress Joyce Meadows
• "The Man Before the Brain: Director Nathan Juran" visual essay narrated by film historian Justin Humphreys
• "The Man Behind the Brain: The World of Nathan Juran" visual essay by filmmaker C. Courtney Joyner 
• DISC TWO:
• Frankenstein's Daughter:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles (for film and commentary)
• Audio Commentary by film historian Tom Weaver, filmmaker Larry Blamire, and film music historian David Schecter
• "Filmmaker of the Unknown" 1983 interview with director Richard E. Cunha 
• Giant from the Unknown:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles (for film and both commentaries)
• Audio Commentary by actor/screenwriter Gary Crutcher
• Audio Commentary by film historian Tom Weaver, director Richard E. Cunha, actor Ewing Miles Brown, producer Arthur A. Jacobs, Richard E. Cunha's son Rick, filmmaker Larry Blamire, and journalist Steven Cronenberg 
• 17-page booklet by Tom Weaver. 

Full Moon charges up MANDROID (review)

A secret robotics experience being carried out behind the Iron Curtain goes awry when a mad scientist sets it loose on its creators in this Full Moon production that originally started out as an eighties Empire Pictures project with concept art by Jack Kirby.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Features (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

MANDROID Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• VideoZone Behind the Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers 

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88 Films duels with SHANGO (review)

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an amnesiac Texas Ranger runs into a group of Confederates and Bandidos who are convinced the war is not over and terrorizing a small village in search of Union gold in this spaghetti western starring Anthony Steffen, Eduardo Fajardo, and Maurice Poli.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SHANGO Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian and writer Lee Broughton
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth
• "The Career of Edgar G." interview with film historian Eugenio Ercolani
• "Son of a Gun" interview with actor Anthony Steffen's son Manuel De Teffé
• Theatrical Trailer
• The first pressing comes in a slipcover with a rigid slipcase designed by Joel Robinson and liner notes by Daniel Burnett and Lee Broughton.
   

Radiance Films has a "bullfight of love" with Almodovar's MATADOR (review)

What happens when a gored bullfighter who takes killing from the arena into the bedroom and a man-eater of an attorney realize they share the same twisted desires?  More than you can imagine in this Pedro Almodovar erotic thriller starring Antonio Banderas, Assumpta Serna, Nacho Martinez, Eusebio Poncela, and Carmen Maura.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.K.) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

MATADOR 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (SDR)
• Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Interview with Almodóvar expert José Arroyo
• "Jonathan Ross Presents For One Week Only" 1991 episode on Almodóvar's cinema, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar, producer Agustín Almodóvar, stars Antonio Banderas and Carmen Maura, and more
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and limited edition booklet featuring new writing by critic Guy Lodge and an archival interview with Almodóvar. 

Radiance Films exposes the trickery of SPECIAL EFFECTS (review)

Mary Jean is just dying to get into movies.  When she turns up dead, the director who killed her decides to turn make a film about it, drawing in her prime suspect husband, the investigating detective, and a mysterious young woman who is the dead woman's "dead ringer" in this Larry Cohen Hitchcockian thriller.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SPECIAL EFFECTS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Larry Cohen, moderated by Larry Cohen biographer Steve Mitchell 
• Audio Commentary by Larry Cohen biographer Steve Mitchell
• Interview with actor Eric Bogosian
• "Cohen on Cohen" feature-length archival interview
• Interview with critic Christina Newland on Zoë Tamerlis Lund
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented with o-card and full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings in an O-card slipcover featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Eric Adrian Lee and a booklet featuring new writing from Juan Barquin.
    

Deaf Crocodile is scorched by the WHITE SUN OF THE DESERT (review)

In the aftermath of the Russian Civil War, a soldier starts home on foot across the Caspian Sea Lowland Desert only to be charged with escorting the surviving members of a ruthless smuggler's harem to safety in this Russian "Eastern" Western.

REVIEW LINK: Deaf Crocodile (U.S.) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

WHITE SUN OF THE DESERT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Russian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Rolf Giesen
• Visual essay by film historian Evan Chester
• Interview with expert on Russian Red Westerns, author Sergey Lavrentyev
• 2025 Trailer

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Full Moon butters up a LAST FOXTROT IN BURBANK (review)

The long-lost, long-buried career embarrassment of director Charles Band LAST FOXTROT IN BURBANK sends up the Bernardo Bertolucci sizzler, substituting margarine for butter.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

LAST FOXTROT IN BURBANK Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Mono
• "Burbank Memories" introduction by director Charles Band
• "Trailers from Hell" episode with writer Larry Karaszewski
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• 2022 Trailer
• Bonus Trailers

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