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18 March 2024

Acorn Media investigates THE MADAME BLANC MYSTERIES: SERIES 3 (review)

British antiques dealer Jean White settles in the French village of Sainte-Victoire where she becomes entangled in various mysteries thanks to her expertise and penchant for getting into trouble.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDCompare)

THE MADAME BLANC MYSTERIES - SERIES 3 DVD specs:

  • The Christmas Special and Six Episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
  • 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
  • English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
  • Optional English HoH Subtitles
  • Picture Gallery
     

Severin Films finds love and death under a BLOODMOON (review)

The girls of St. Elizabeth's private school are disappearing one by one from lover's lane.  Are they running away with their boyfriends as everyone believes or can they be found six feet under in this classic Australian slasher.

REVIEW LINK: Severin Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

BLOODMOON Blu-ray specs:

  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
  • English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
  • Optional English SDH Subtitles
  • Playable with or without theatrical "Frightbreak"
  • Audio Interview with actor Leon Lissek, conducted by NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD's Mark Hartley
  • Interview with actress Christine Amor
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • "Fright Break" Trailer

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08 March 2024

Arrow Video peeks INSIDE THE MIND OF COFFIN JOE (review)

Brazil's own all-in-one horror filmmaker/TV horror host/underground filmmaker/cult leader/pop culture boogeyman Jose Mojica Marins and his alter ego Zé de Caixao/Coffin Joe get a loving tribute in a ten film set overview of his career including the Coffin Joe trilogy and a selection of films involving drug addicts, scheming lovers, messianic madmen, cannibals, and more when you peek INSIDE THE MIND OF COFFIN JOE.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video (US/UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

INSIDE THE MIND OF COFFIN JOE Blu-ray specs:

  • DISC ONE - At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul: 
    • 1080p24 AVC MPEG-4 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen 
    • Portuguese LPCM 1.0 Mono
    • Optional English Subtitles 
    • Audio Commentary by writer, director and star José Mojica Marins, filmmaker Paulo Duarte and film scholar Carlos Primati 
    • "Coffin Joe's Sadean Underworld" video essay by film scholar Lindsay Hallam 
    • "Damned: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins" 2001 documentary by André Barcinski and Ivan Finotti 
    • "Bloody Kingdom" 1950 short film by José Mojica Marins with non-optional director's commentary 
    • Excerpts from early works by José Mojica Marins:
      • "The Adventurer's Fate"
      • "My Destiny in Your Hands"
    • Trailers 
  • DISC TWO:
    • This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse:
      • 1080p24 AVC MPEG-4 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen 
      • Portuguese LPCM 1.0 Mono
      • Optional English Subtitles 
      • Audio Commentary by writer, director and star José Mojica Marins, filmmaker Paulo Duarte and film scholar Carlos Primati 
      • Theatrical Trailer 
    • The Strange World of Coffin Joe:
      • 1080p24 AVC MPEG-4 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen 
      • Portuguese LPCM 1.0 Mono
      • Optional English Subtitles 
      • Audio Commentary by writer, director and star José Mojica Marins, filmmaker Paulo Duarte and film scholar Carlos Primati 
      • Alternate Ending with optional audio commentary by writer, director and star José Mojica Marins 
      • Theatrical Trailer 
    • "Eccentric of Cinema" retrospective with author Stephen Thrower
    • "On Tonight’s Horror Show!" video essay by film scholar Miranda Corcoran
  • DISC THREE:
    • The Awakenings of the Beast:
      • 1080p24 AVC MPEG-4 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen 
      • Portuguese LPCM 1.0 Mono
      • Optional English Subtitles 
      • Audio Commentary by writer, director and star José Mojica Marins, filmmaker Paulo Duarte and film scholar Carlos Primati 
      • Alternate "O Ritual dos Sádicos" Opening Titles 
      • Theatrical Trailer 
    • The End of Man:
      • 1080p24 AVC MPEG-4 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen 
      • Portuguese LPCM 1.0 Mono
      • Optional English Subtitles 
      • Audio Commentary by writer, director and star José Mojica Marins, filmmaker Paulo Duarte and film scholar Carlos Primati 
      • Theatrical Trailer 
    • "The Strange Mind of Coffin Joe" interview with author Guy Adams 
    • "A Woman for Joe: The Gender Politics of Coffin Joe" video essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas 
  • DISC FOUR:
    • When the Gods Fall Asleep: 
      • 1080p24 AVC MPEG-4 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen 
      • Portuguese LPCM 1.0 Mono
      • Optional English Subtitles 
    • The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures: 
      • 1080p24 AVC MPEG-4 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen 
      • Portuguese LPCM 1.0 Mono
      • Optional English Subtitles 
      • Theatrical Trailer 
    • "The Demonic Surrealism of Coffin Joe" interview with scholar and filmmaker Virginie Sélavy 
    • "Delirium, Surrealism, and Vision" interview with author Jack Sargeant 
    • "Apostle of Evil" interview with "Embodiment of Evil" co-writer Dennison Ramalho 
    • "Mojica in the Snow: Tonight I Incarnate at Sundance!" archival footage 
    • "A Blind Date for Coffin Joe" short film by Raymond "Coffin Ray" Castile 
  • DISC FIVE:
    • Hellish Flesh: 
      • 1080p24 AVC MPEG-4 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen 
      • Portuguese LPCM 1.0 Mono
      • Optional English Subtitles 
      • Theatrical Trailer 
    • Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind: 
      • 1080p24 AVC MPEG-4 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen 
      • Portuguese LPCM 1.0 Mono
      • Optional English Subtitles 
      • Audio Commentary by writer, director and star José Mojica Marins, editor Nilcemar Leyart, filmmaker Paulo Duarte and film scholar Carlos Primati 
      • Theatrical Trailer 
    • "Aesthetics of Garbage: José Mojica Marins, a Complicated Icon" interview with filmmaker Andrew Leavold 
    • "Beyond Good and Evil" video essay by film critic Kat Ellinger 
  • DISC SIX - Embodiment of Evil:
    • 1080p24 AVC MPEG-4 1.78:1 Widescreen 
    • Portuguese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo 
    • Optional English Subtitles 
    • Audio Commentary by producer Paulo Sacramento and co-screenwriter Dennison Ramalho 
    • "Learning from the Master" interview with screenwriter Dennison Ramalho 
    • "Fantasia Film Festival Premiere Footage" 
    • "Apprenticeship of Evil" interview with screenwriter Dennison Ramalho 
    • Official Making Of 
    • Experimental Making Of 
    • Deleted Scenes with commentary by director José Mojica Marins 
    • "Visual Effects: Purgatory" featurette with commentary by director José Mojica Marins 
    • "Storyboards" featurette with commentary by director José Mojica Marins 
    • Theatrical Trailer 
  • Comes in a slipcase with: 
    • "Coffin Joe: Against the World!" an illustrated collector’s book featuring new writing by Tim Lucas, Carlos Primati, Jerome Reuter, Amy Voorhees Searles, Kyle Anderson, and Paula Sacramento; 
    • reversible sleeves featuring newly commissioned artwork by Butcher Billy; 
    • double-sided foldout poster featuring newly commissioned artwork by Butcher Billy; 
  • 12 postcard-sized double-sided art cards.

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06 March 2024

MVD Visual gets caught CUTTING CLASS (review)

THE STEPFATHER's Jill Schoelen is a high school student being menaced by a killer and she can't figure out who is more dangerous: the new guy who just got out of an institution for murder (THE BLOB's Donovan Leitch) or her increasingly unstable and violent boyfriend (SE7EN's Brad Pitt in his first major role) in the late eighties slasher CUTTING CLASS.

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

CUTTING CLASS 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray Combo Specs:

  • Disc One (4K UltraHD):
    • Unrated Version:
      • 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (HDR10)
      • English LPCM 2.0 Mono and Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
      • Optional English Subtitles 
    • Theatrical Trailer
  • Disc Two (Blu-ray):
    • Unrated Version: 
      • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen 
      • English LPCM 2.0 Mono and Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo 
      • Optional English and Spanish Subtitles 
    • R-rated Version: 
      • 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 Widescreen (NTSC) 
      • English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono 
    • "Un-Cutting Class" interview with lead actress Jill Schoelen 
    • "Donovan Makes the Cut" interview with actor Donovan Leitch 
    • "Find The Killer and Win" VHS Video Store Retailer Promo (SD) 
    • Kill Comparisons: Unrated VS. R-rated Versions 
    • Theatrical Trailer 
    • Bonus Trailers
  • Reversible Clover
  • Foldout mini-poster
  • Collector's slipcover 

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04 March 2024

Acorn Media teams up with DARBY AND JOAN: SERIES 1 (review)

When retired British nurse Joan Kirkhope (Greta Scacchi) discovers that her husband (John Waters) who was supposed to be on business in Spain has been found dead in the Queensland Outback, she heads down under to retrace his steps and literally runs into retired cop Jack Darby (Bryan Brown) and the two wind up getting involved in various mysteries as they try to discover what happened to her husband.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDCompare)

DARBY AND JOAN - SERIES 1 DVD specs:

  • Eight episodes and two dual-layer DVDs
  • 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
  • English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
  • Optional English HoH Subtitles
  • Behind the Scenes
     

02 March 2024

Synapse Films whips up a BLOOD FEAST (review)

Fuad Ramses moves his family to France to capitalize on the American diner fad in Paris.  Business is not moving so Fuad takes a second job as a nightwatchman in a museum where the spirit of the goddess Ishtar beckons him to provide a feast of human flesh to resurrect her.  Soon, his college coed daughter's best friends are disappearing and Fuad is cooking up a storm for a very special party in this remake of the Herschell Gordon Lewis classic.

REVIEW LINK: Synapse Films (US) Region ALL 4K UltraHD (DVDCompare)

BLOOD FEAST 4K UltraHD specs:

  • 2160p24 HEVC 2.40:1 Widescreen
  • English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
  • Optional English SDH Subtitles
  • Indiegogo Promotional Teaser 
  • Theatrical Trailer 
  • "Making of" featurette 
  • Chilli Con Curtis "Tonite" Music Video 
  • Red Carpet Premiere 2018 
  • Scare Cam 
  • Slipcover

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29 February 2024

Cinephobia Releasing confronts memories in LIE WITH ME (review)

After thirty-five years, a writer returns to the village of his birth haunted by memories of his forbidden first love and is forced to relive them when he meets the dead man's son who has questions about a man neither of them really knew.  Based on a novel by the author of SON FRÉRE.

REVIEW LINK: Cinephobia Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

LIE WITH ME DVD specs:

  • 16:9 anamorphic 2.23:1 widescreen
  • French Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
  • Optional English and English SDH Subtitles
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Start-up Trailers

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