Arrow Video goes to the Outback to WAKE IN FRIGHT in 4K (review)

A city slicker teacher exiled to the Australian Outback plans to spend the holidays in Sydney but a series of bad choices plunges him into a beer-swilling, roo-shooting backwoods nightmare in this Australian thriller from Ted Kotcheff (FIRST BLOOD) starring Gary Bond and Donald Pleasence.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video (U.S./U.K.) Region ALL 4K UltraHD (DVDCompare)

WAKE IN FRIGHT 4K UltraHD specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Dolby Vision Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Ted Kotcheff and editor Anthony Buckley
• Audio Commentary by Peter Galvin, author of "The Making of Wake in Fright"
• "Return to the 'Yabba" documentary on the film's Broken Hill locations
• "Take in Fright" interview with director of photography Brian West
• "Sounds of the Outback" interview with sound editors Keith Palmer and Eddy Joseph
• "The Cinema's Great Squeaky Bald Git: Kim Newman Discusses the Career of Actor Donald Pleasence"
• "The Filmmaker and the Filmbuff: Philippe Mora and Paul Harris Discuss Wake in Fright"
• Archive Interviews:
• "Yer Mad, Ya Bastard!" interview with director Ted Kotcheff
• "Not Quite Hollywood" interview with actor Jack Thompson
• 2009 Q&A with Ted Kotcheff at the Toronto International Film Festival
• 2009 audio interview with director Ted Kotcheff, conducted by Paul Harris
• 2025 audio interview with composer John Scott, conducted by music historian Daniel Schweiger
• Alternate Scenes from "Outback"
• TV Reports:
• 2009 "7:30 Report" on the Rediscovery and Restoration of "Wake in Fright"
• "Who Needs Art?" 1971 TV Segment on "Wake in Fright"
• Chips Rafferty Obituary by Ken G. Hall
• Trailer Gallery:
• U.S. Theatrical Trailer
• U.S. TV Spot
• Restoration Trailer
• Foreign Visions of Local Stories: A Trailer Reel of Australian Films Helmed by Overseas Filmmakers
• Image Gallery
• Comes with a slipcover, a collectors' booklet featuring new writing on the film by Jay Slater, Paul Lê and David Michael Brown plus archive materials, and a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jeff Marshall.

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Also available on Blu-ray. 

Cult Epics gets VD (review)

The producers and director of BLUE MOVIE follow up that pioneering effort of "The Dutch Sex Wave" with a caustic family melodrama of incest, greed, red meat, and contraceptives.

REVIEW LINK: Cult Epics (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

VD Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Dutch DTS-HD Master Audio and LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Peter Verstratten
• "Festival of Love" 1969 short film by Wim Verstappen
• Photo Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Scorpio Film Trailers
• Comes with a slipcase with new artwork design by Juan Estaban R. and a reversible cover with original Dutch poster art.

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Radiance Films gets spooked in THE HAUNTED CASTLE (review)

When a petulant lord murders a respected elder retainer over a board game, the man's daughter commits suicide and returns as a ghost cat to torment the lord and possess his loved ones in this Daiei Gothic ghost story.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.S.) Region A/B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE HAUNTED CASTLE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Mari Asato on The Haunted Castle" 
• "The Strange Case of Ikuko Mori" visual essay by Japanese film expert Tom Mes 
• Theatrical Trailer

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Radiance Films shows Franco Nero HOW TO KILL A JUDGE (review)

A filmmaker (Franco Nero) in Sicily making a film about a corrupt judge is threatened with a lawsuit by the man who inspired the character.  When the judge is murdered just as he was in the film, the director attempts to prove that the movie was a smokescreen for another motive in this crime thriller from Damiano Damiani also starring Francoise Fabian.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.S.) Region A/B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

HOW TO KILL A JUDGE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH and English Subtitles"Franco Nero on How to Kill a Judge"
• "Lessons in Violence" video essay by filmmaker David Cairns
• "Alberto Pezzotta on Damiano Damiani and How to Kill a Judge" interview with the author of "Directed by Damiano Damiani"
• International Trailer
• Italian Theatrical Trailer

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Radiance Films haunts THE GHOST OF KASANE SWAMP (review)

The murder of a blind masseuse debt collector by a scheming husband who also murders his wife creates a grudge haunts all of their children in this Daiei supernatural Gothic.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.S.) Region A/B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE GHOST OF KASANE SWAMP Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Select-Scene Audio Commentary by horror film scholar Lindsay Nelson
• "Norio Tsuruta on The Ghost of Kasane Swamp"
• "Legacy of Ghosts" visual essay by ghost story scholar Zack Davisson
• Theatrical Trailer

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Radiance Films warns Franco Nero THE CASE IS CLOSED, FORGET IT (review)

In prison awaiting a trail for a hit-and-run he swears he did not commit, architect Vanzi (Franco Nero) becomes reluctantly entangled in various intrigues including a mentally-ill prisoner who might really possess incriminating evidence against the mafia in this dark drama from Damiano Damiani.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.S.) Region A/B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE CASE IS CLOSED, FORGET IT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH and English Subtitles
• "Franco Nero on The Case is Closed, Forget It" 
• "Behind Bars" interviews with assistant director Enrique Bergier, editor Antonio Siciliano, and actor Corrado Solari
• "Italy's Cinematic Civil Conscience: An Examination of the Life and Works of Damiano Damiani" video essay by critic Rachael Nisbet
• Italian Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover

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Radiance Films battles THE DEMON OF MOUNT OE (review)

When mountain bandits lead by a merciless demon terrorize the villages below, royal warriors try to infiltrate his lair but his weakness may lie with a mysterious young concubine with a dark secret.  From Tokuzo Tanaka (THE HAUNTED CASTLE).

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.S.) Region A/B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE DEMON OF MOUNT OE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Taichi Kasuga on The Demon of Mount Oe"
• "Bride of the Demon-Slayer" 2025 visual essay by Japanese film expert Tom Mes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover    

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