Radiance Films plays WICKED GAMES: THREE FILMS BY ROBERT HOSSEIN (review)

Stage actor-turned-film star and director Robert Hossein shows his range in three early works.  In THE WICKED GO TO HELL, he takes a minor part in the tale of two escaped criminals who invade the isolated home of an artist and his not-so-helpless model (Marina Vlady).  In NUDE IN A WHITE CAR, Hossein is a down-on-his-luck poet who becomes entangled in the twisted relationship between two sisters.  In THE TASTE OF VIOLENCE, Hossein is a revolutionary tasked with escorting a hostage across treacherous terrain with two untrustworthy partners and a price on their heads.

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

WICKED GAMES: THREE FILMS BY ROBERT HOSSEIN Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - The Wicked Go to Hell:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• French LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Video Watchdog's Tim Lucas
• "Picking Strawberries" documentary with historian Lucas Balbo featuring archival interviews with filmmakers Robert Hossein and Jean Rollin 
• "Behind Marked Eyes: The Cinematic Stare of Robert Hossein" documentary by Howard S. Berger
• Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Two - Nude in a White Car:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Video Watchdog's Tim Lucas
• Interview with actress Marina Vlady
• "The Evolution of the Femme Fatale in Classic French Cinema" visual essay by critic Samm Deighan
• Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Three - The Taste of Violence:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by critic and author Tim Lucas
• Appreciation by filmmaker and Western authority Alex Cox
• Interview with author C. Courtney Joyner
• Theatrical Trailer
• Limited edition of 3,000 copies presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow, and a booklet featuring new writing by Walter Chaw and newly translated archival writing by Lucas Balbo.
   
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Acorn Media is on the case with HARRY WILD: SERIES 3 (review)

A retired English professor and a sixteen-year-old student partner up to solve mysteries in Dublin in this Acorn cozy mystery starring Jane Seymour.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (U.K.) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDCompare)

HARRY WILD: SERIES 3 DVD specs:

• Six episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 2.00:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH Subtitles 

Acorn Media seeks tricks and treats from V/H/S/HALLOWEEN (review)

Learn what happens when you break the rules of trick or treating or take candy from strangers in the gory anthology V/H/S/HALLOWEEN.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

V/H/S/HALLOWEEN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English/Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH and French Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by "Diet Phantasma" director Bryan M. Ferguson, "Coochie Coochie Coo" director Anna Zlokovic, "Fun Size" director Casper Kelly & actors Lawson Greyson, Jenna Hogan, Jake Ellsworth, and Riley Nottingham, and editor Phil Samson, "Kidprint" director Alex Ross Perry, and "Home Haunt" director R.H. Norman and Micheline Pitt-Norman
• "Carbonated Carnage" behind the scenes featurette for "Diet Phantasma"
• Behind the scenes for "Coochie Coochie Coo"
• "Kidprint" deleted scene
• "Diet Phantasma" uninterrupted cut
• "Diet Phantasma" Commercial
• "Diet Phantasma" Image Gallery     

Unearthed Films sews the GARDEN OF LOVE (review)

The only survival of a commune massacre, Rebecca grows up with amnesia of the event until the ghost of her father starts beckoning her to help him find their killers so they can tear them limb-from-limb in this German splatterfest by Olaf Ittenbach (THE BURNING MOON).

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

GARDEN OF LOVE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Making GARDEN OF LOVE" effects documentary
• "Behind the Scenes of GARDEN OF LOVE" documentary
• Original Opening
• Outtakes
• Theatrical Trailer
• The first pressing includes a slipcover.

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88 Films crowns the PEACOCK KING (review)

When the Gates of Hell are opened, a Tibetan monk and a Japanese monk are separately tasked with preventing the return of the Hell King to Earth, if they can stay out of each others' way in this Golden Harvest special effects-heavy adaptation of the popular Japanese manga.

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

PEACOCK KING Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Mono
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (DVD dub) and LPCM 2.0 Mono (original dub)
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Frank Djeng and filmmaker F.J. DeSanto
• "Yuen Biao on PEACOCK KING" interview
• "Tony Rayns on PEACOCK KING" interview
• Scenes from the Japanese Version
• English Opening and Closing Credits
• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery 

Radiance Films stokes its LIBIDO (review)

Returning to the seaside villa where as a child he witnessed his father kill his mistress, Christian is on the verge of coming into his inheritance when his sanity is tested by bumps in the night and a few dead bodies in this Gothic/giallo hybrid directed by prolific genre screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi starring a young, then-unknown Giancarlo Giannini.

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

LIBIDO Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH and English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Samm Deighan
• Interview with co-screenwriter/co-director Ernesto Gastaldi
• Interview with Italian cinema expert Richard Dyer
• English Export Trailer
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista and artwork based on original posters by Renato Casaro.
  Limited edition of 3,000 copies, presented in full height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, and a booklet featuring new interviews with star Dominique Bosquero and script supervisor Patrizia Zulini. 

MVD Visual exposes KNOCK OFF in 4K (Review)

Jean Claude Van Damme, HK director Tsui Hark, and Rob Schneider(!) take on terrorists operating within Hong Kong's knock off industry in the nineties action flick KNOCK OFF.

REVIEW LINK: MVD Visual (US) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

KNOCK OFF 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 2.35:1 Widescreen (HDR10)
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• Same content as the 4K disc in 1080p plus:
• 2026 interview with writer Steven E. de Souza
• 2026 interview with producer Moshe Diamant
• 2020 interview with writer Steven E. de Souza
• Archival making-of featurette
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Comes with a reversible cover.
• The first pressing includes a slipcover.

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Also available in a Blu-ray-only edition.