Radiance Films schemes with TEN WOMEN IN BLACK (review)

A handsome television producer gets paranoid when he discovers that ten women in his life want him dead, and one of them is his wife in this bitter comedy drama from Kon Ichikawa.

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

TEN WOMEN IN BLACK Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Appreciation by musician Yasuharu Konishi (Pizzicato Five)
• "The Kon Ichikawa Story" 2006 documentary directed by Shunji Iwai
• Theatrical Trailer
• 1997 Re-Release Trailer
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, with a reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters and a booklet featuring new writing by Yuka Kimbara, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

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Cult Epics unmasks KRIMINAL in 4K! (review)

After stealing the Crown Jewels, master thief Kriminal evades the gallows and takes off for Istanbul on the trail of a cache of diamonds exchanging hands through various double crosses in this comic strip adaptation from Umberto Lenzi.

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

KRIMINAL 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 2.39:1 Widescreen (HDR10)
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth
• Italian Theatrical Trailer 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth
• "Armed to the Teeth: The Cinema of Umberto Lenzi" feature-length documentary by Eugenio Ercolani and Andrea Moroni
• "Camera Nostalgia" interview with actor Glenn Saxson
• "The Sound of Krime" interview with film music historian Pierpaolo De Sanctis 
• Isolated Score (28 tracks)
• Italian Credits
• Promotional Gallery 
• Italian Theatrical Trailer
• Cult Epics Trailers 
• Comes with a reversible cover and slipcover.

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Also available as a Blu-ray single-disc edition. 

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88 Films takes a bite out of AMAZONIA: THE CATHERINE MILES STORY in 4K (review)

English schoolgirl Catherine Miles travels down to the Amazon to spend the holidays on her parents' rubber plant.  On a birthday trip up the Amazon river, their boat is ambushed and her parents are killed.  Abducted by a headhunting tribe, Catherine plots her escape even as she is ritually initiated into the tribe and develops a murderous hunger for revenge against her parents murderers.  Released by Charles Band's Empire Pictures in the United States as WHITE SLAVE.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (U.K.) Region 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

AMAZONIA: THE CATHERINE MILES STORY 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision)
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English and English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film critics Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English and English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film critics Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti
• "Nothing to be Ashamed Of" interview with composer Franco Campanino 
• "The Man from the High Crane" interview with camera operator Federico del Zoppo
• "Capitalizing on Cannibals" interview with expert Eugenio Ercolani 
• "Body Trade in Amazonia" visual essay by film historian Rachael Nisbet 
• "No Meat on These Bones" visual essay by film historian Mike Foster 
• "Ecological with the Truth" visual essay by The Nasty Pasty
• Theatrical Trailer
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring new art by Chris Barnes and alternate original artwork. 
• The limited edition also includes a slipcover with artwork by Chris Barnes, a U-card leaving the slipcover free of certificates and markings, and booklet notes by Francesco Massaccesi. 

88 Films frames Serena Grandi in 4K with DELIRIUM (review)

Tinto Brass starlet Serena Grandi plays Gloria, the top-heavy former model and owner of Pussycat Magazine.  When she recreates one of her own layouts with a new model, she triggers the psychotic impulses of a killer who starts stalking her models and presenting their corpses in photographs as a macabre tribute to Gloria.  David Brandon, Daria Nicolodi, George Eastman, and Capucine also star.  Directed by Lamberto Bava.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (U.K.) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

DELIRIUM 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• DISC ONE (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10)
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH subtitles for the English dub and English subtitles for the Italian dub
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti
• English Opening and Closing Titles 
• DISC TWO (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH subtitles for the English dub and English subtitles for the Italian dub
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti
• "Mixed Feelings for Gioia" interview with director Lamberto Bava
• "The Belittling Giant" interview with actor Luigi Montefiori a.k.a. George Eastman
• "Suspicious Cheekbones" interview with actor David Brandon
• "Latex Magrittian Visions" interview with production designer Massimo Antonello Geleng
• "Gioia's Emotional Curves" interview with first assistant director Roberto Palmerini
• "Crime and Passion Back in Fashion" interview with costume designer Nicoletta Ercole
• "Bees and Wulruses" interview with cinematographer Gianlorenzo Battaglia
• English Opening and Closing Titles
• The limited edition includes a slipcover with artwork by Ilan Sheady, a removable U-card leaving the slipcover free of certificates and markings, and booklet notes by James Oliver. 

Radiance Films exposes THE INUGAMI FAMILY (review)

A quirky private detective is called is hired to look into the mysterious Inugami family who have been turned against one another by the very peculiar terms of their patriarch's will that gives someone or more than one persona motives for murder in this Kon Ichikawa box office hit based on the novel by Seishi Yokomizo.

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

THE INUGAMI FAMILY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.50:1 Pillarboxed Widescreen
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Interview with film historian Aaron Girow
• "The Secret of Kon Ichikawa's Visual Style" 1991 documentary featuring an interview with director Kon Ichikawa
• "Off Shots: The Day of Filming THE SECRET OF KON ICHIKAWA'S VISUAL STYLE" featurette
• "Verification: How THE INUGAMI FAMILY  Was Made" behind the scenes retrospective documentary
• "The Birth of Kosuke Kindaichi" interview with actor Koji Ishizaka
• "The Path of the 4K Digital Restoration" featurette
• Theatrical Trailer
• Theatrical Teaser
• Includes a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow. 
• First pressing includes a booklet featuring new writing by Midori Suiren and Akihiko Ito, in a in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, limited to 3000 copies.

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Radiance Films deciphers THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT in 4K (review)

Based on the labyrinthine gothic novel by Jan Potocki, THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT follows the travails of a French soldier in the Sierra Morena mountains of Spain, his supernatural encounter with a strange pair of sisters, the web of events that prevent him from trying to escape his uncertain fate.

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

THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC Dolby Vision and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.38:1 Widescreen Presentations of the film as a single feature (184 minutes) or in two parts (103 minutes and 81 minutes)
• Extras on the Blu-ray copy of the film:
• "The Saragossa Labyrinth" visual essay by Polish film expert Michael Brooke (69 minutes)
• "Saragossa" 1998 making-of documentary made for Polish television 
• Limited edition of 5,000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings including a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and a booklet featuring new writing by author David Hering and archival writing by Annette Insdorf. 

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Troma slashes its way through GRADUATION DAY (review)

"The Class of '81 is getting fitted for caps and gowns... and coffins!" in Herb Freed's memorable eighties slasher.  Just before graduation, the members of the varsity track team start dying in grisly manners.  Is it related to the accidental death of the team's star four months earlier, or is someone on the faculty just sick of the obnoxious seniors?  Christopher George, Michael Pataki, and Vanna White star.

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

GRADUATION DAY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by producer David Baughn
• Audio Commentary by The Hysteria Continues Podcast
• Introduction by Troma's Lloyd Kaufman
• "Acting Out in School" interview with actress Patch MacKenzie
• "Surviving the Class of '81" interview with director Herb Freed
• "Graduation Day Blues" interview with producer David Baughn
• "Cutting Class" interview with editor Martin Jay Sadoff
• Theatrical Trailer
• "Sgt. Kabukiman Interview with Scream Queen Linnea Quigley"
• "The Cannibal Lesbian Hoedown" Music Video
• INNARDS! Music Video
• Radiation March
• Troma in Time Square
• Troma in 4K!
• Coming Distractions

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