Blue Underground clashes with FIRE AND ICE in 4K (review)

The kingdom of Firekeep is under threat by the deadly Nekron and his witch mother of Icepeak in this ice age clash of good and evil in this animated cult adventure film based on the paintings of iconic artist Frank Frazetta and directed by FRITZ THE CAT's Ralph Bakshi.

REVIEW LINK: Blue Underground (U.S.) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

FIRE AND ICE 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC Dolby Vision and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen presentations on 4K UtlraHD and Blu-ray discs
• English Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director/co-producer/co-writer Ralph Bakshi, moderated by Lance Laspina
• "The Art of Fire and Ice: The Frank Frazetta Legacy" interview with Sara Frazetta, granddaughter of Frank Frazetta
• "Frank Frazetta's Fire and Ice" appreciation by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez
• "The Making of Fire and Ice" 1982 featurette by Mike Bakshi
• "Bakshi on Frazetta" interview with director/co-producer/co-writer Ralph Bakshi 
• "Sean Hannon's Diary Notes" interview with actor Sean Hannon
• Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery
• Image Galleries:
• Posters
• German Lobby Cards
• Color Stills
• Frank Frazetta Artwork Portfolio
• Ralph Bakshi Artwork Portfolio
• Sketches
• Animation Cells and Backgrounds
• Video, Comics, and More 
• Theatrical Trailer
• Complete CD Soundtrack by William Kraft
• Collector's steelbook packaging and transparent slipcover 

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Radiance Films gets radicalized by HI, MOM! (review)

Robert De Niro is back from Vietnam and tries his hand at pornographic filmmaking and experimental theater on his way to becoming a TAXI DRIVER in Brian De Palma's early comic satire of American television and race relations.  Jennifer Salt and Gerrit Graham also star.

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

HI, MOM! 4K UtlraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UtlraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Dolby Vision Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by author Travis Woods 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by author Travis Woods
• "Dionysus in 69" experimental theater production of Euripides' 'The Bacchae' filmed by Brian de Palma in 1970 (85 mins)
• "Son of GREETINGS" 1970 behind-the-scenes footage by filmmaker Peter Davis (76 mins)
• Producer Charles Hirsch on HI, MOM!
• Critic Ellen E. Jones on HI, MOM!
• Theatrical Trailer 
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• Limited edition of 5,000 copies presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings and comes with a reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters as well as a booklet featuring new writing by Matt Zoller Seitz.

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Deaf Crocodile faces nuclear annihilation in 4K with KRAKATIT (review)

A chemist invents an incredibly powerful and unpredictable explosive material and fears its abuse as he is pursued by corrupt and dangerous parties in the Czech surreal noir KRAKATIT from author Karel Capek who first coined the term "robot" in his turn-of-the-century science fiction.

REVIEW LINK: Deaf Crocodile (U.S.) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

KRAKATIT 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC Dolby Vision and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen Transfers on 4K UltraHD and Blu-ray discs
• Czech DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Peter Hames and Czech film expert Irena Kovarova
• "Krakatit: Moral Vertigo in the Nuclear Age" visual essay by film historian Clayton Dillard
• Interview with film archivist and head of restoration at the Národní Filmový Archiv Tereza Frodlova 

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Blue Underground takes THE LIFT to Hell (review)

THE LIFT gives you a good reason to take the stairs when a lightning strike causes a high-tech microchipped elevator system to go crazy and brutally murder passengers.  From the director of AMSTERDAMNED.

REVIEW LINK: Blue Underground (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE LIFT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• Dutch DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Mono, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH, English (for Dutch track), and French Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Dick Maas and producer Hans van Dongen
• "Going Up"  interview with actor Huub Stapel
• "Long Distance" 2003 short film by Dick Maas (4:13)
• Dutch and American Theatrical Trailers
• Poster and Still Gallery

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Blue Underground swims with sharks and a ZOMBIE (review)

ZOMBIE is going to eat you in HD in Blue Underground's 4K restoration of Lucio Fulci's splatter classic.  A reporter and a young woman travel to a tropical island in search of answers and discover open graves and gushing throat wounds.  Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, and Richard Johnson star.

REVIEW LINK: Blue Underground (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

ZOMBIE Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 and 1.0 Mono, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 and 1.0 Mono, and French Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH, English (for Italian track), Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, and Thai Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by author Troy Howarth
• Audio Commentary by actor Ian McCulloch, moderated by Diabolik Magazine editor Jason J. Slater (1998)
• Introduction by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
• "When the Earth Spits Out the Dead" interview with "Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci" author Stephen Thrower
• Theatrical Trailers
• TV Spots
• Radio Spots
• Poster & Still Gallery
• Disc Two:
• "Zombie Wasteland" interview with stuntman Ottaviano Dell'acqua and actors Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, and Al Cliver
• "Flesh Eaters on Film" interview with co-producer Fabrizio de Angelis
• "Deadtime Stories" interview with co-writers Elisa Briganti and (uncredited) Dardano Sacchetti
• "World of the Dead" interview with cinematographer Sergio Salvati and production designer Walter Patriarca
• "Zombi Italiano" interview with special make-up effects artists Giannetto de Rossi and Maurizio Trani 
• "Notes on a Headstone" interview with composer Fabio Frizzi
• "All in the Family" interview with Lucio Fulci's daughter Antonella Fulci
• "Zombie Lover" appreciation by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
• Easter Egg

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Eureka's Masters of Cinema answers when ADVENTURE CALLS! KARL MAY AT C.C.C. (review)

Although little known in English-speaking territories, Karl May was as famous in Germany for his westerns and other globe-hopping adventures as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie in the rest of the world, still selling millions of copies to this day.  In the sixties, competing studios Rialto Film and C.C.C. undertook a series of Karl May adventures including the characters of Old Shatterhand and his Native American blood brother Winnetou, Balkan explorer Kara Ben Nemsi, and Dr. Karl Sternau searching for Aztec treasure amidst the Mexican Civil War.  Lex Barker stars in seven films from the C.C.C. series with Rialto's famous Winnetou actor Pierre Brice in two films made at the start and end of the cycle.

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

ADVENTURE CALLS! KARL MAY AT C.C.C. Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One:
• Old Shatterhand:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English and German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian David Kalat
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Daliah Lavi Featurette
• U.S. Theatrical Trailer 
• Winnetou and Old Shatterhand in the Valley of Death:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English and German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Archival Making-of Documentary on "Old Shatterhand" and "Winnetou and Old Shatterhand in the Valley of Death" 
• Disc Two:
• The Shoot:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English and German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Archival Newsreel
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Through Wild Kurdistan:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Theatrical Trailer
• "Making Karl May's Orient Cycle" archival documentary 
• Disc Three:
• In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Theatrical Trailer 
• "Heroes on Horseback: Karl May at CCC" interview with producer Alice Brauner, managing director of CCC Film and daughter of CCC founder Artur Brauner
• "Prodigal Son" interview with film historian Sheldon Hall on the late career of Robert Siodmak
• Restoration Featurette 
• Disc Four:
• The Treasure of the Aztecs:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian David Kalat
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Theatrical Trailer 
• The Pyramid of the Sun God:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Archival interview with Bernhard Schmid, co-editor and contributor to Karl-May-Verlag 
• Limited hardcase edition of 2,000 copies including a 60-page collector's book featuring new writing on Karl May on page and screen by German popular cinema experts Tim Bergfelder and Holger Haase, a profile of Lex Barker by Boris Brosowski and an essay on Old Shatterhand and Winnetou by Lee Broughton, author of "The Euro-Western".

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Visual Vengeance investigates THE PARANORMAL (review)

A parapsychologist and a skeptical physicist investigate strange activity at an old movie theater and become trapped with the owner and the projectionist with a zombie film on the screen that is becoming increasingly interactive in this regional Missouri nineties shot-on-video horror flick.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE PARANORMAL Blu-ray specs:

• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director/co-writer/editor Todd Norris
• Audio Commentary by dierctor/co-writer/editor Todd Norris and composer Paul Roberts
• Cast and Crew Interviews
• "The Two Todds" interview with filmmakers Todd Norris and Todd Sheets
• "The Paranormal" Channel 5 TV Ad Bumpers
• Bloopers
• Deleted Scenes
• Original Script Excerpts
• Storyboard Gallery
• Todd Norris Short Films:
• "The Closet"
• "L..."
• "Night of the Growling"
• "Parallax" 
• Visual Vengeance Trailer for "The Paranormal"
• Comes with a folded mini-poster with art by Giorgio Credaro, a reversible sleeve featuring original VHS art, and a "Stick Your Own" VHS sticker set.

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