Artificial Eye gives us ATTENBERG (review)

From the makers of DOGTOOTH comes another bit of Greek psychosexual weirdness.  Marina lives with her dying father.  Her only knowledge of sexuality comes from nature documentaries narrated by David Attenborough and the fleshy demonstrations of her predatory friend Bella.  Yorgos Lanthimos, Oscar-nominated director of DOGTOOTH co-stars.

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

ATTENBERG DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• Greek Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Director Interview
• Trailer

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Isis has CANO DORADO ("The Golden Gun") (review)

In this Argentinian action drama, Panceta is a pipe cutter who has learned from his late father how to fashion make-shift guns with scrap material, which he sells to small-time kingpin Tacom.  When he falls for Tacom's girl and takes her on an idyllic fishing trip, all hell breaks loose back at home and he may have to put one of his guns to good use in retaliation.

REVIEW LINK: Isis (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

CANO DORADO DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Trailers for other Isis releases

Olive Films is BREAKING GLASS (review)

Rocker Hazel O'Connor stars in the British eighties music cult classic BREAKING GLASS as Kate, a singer who faces the compromises and shady dealings of the music business on her rise from New Wave rocker to mainstream pop star.  Jon Finch, Phil Daniels, and Jonathan Pryce also star.

REVIEW LINK: Olive Films (USA) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

BREAKING GLASS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo

Intervision under a BURNING MOON (review)

A drug-addicted German punk reluctantly stays home to babysit his little sister.  He shoots up and decides to tell her some "deadtime" stories involving multiple mutilations, burnings, slashings, decapitations, zombies, and visions of hell itself in Olaf Ittenbach's banned shot-on-video 1997 gorefest THE BURNING MOON, on special edition DVD from Intervision Picture Corp.



REVIEW LINK: Intervision Picture Corp. (USA) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-In)


THE BURNING MOON DVD specs:

• 4:3 fullscreen 1.33:1 original aspect ratio
• German Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• The Making of BURNING MOON
• Trailer
• Intervision Trailers

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Scorpion Releasing and Katarina Leigh Waters get a DOUBLE EXPOSURE (review)

Michael Callan (CAT BALLOU) produces and stars in this Crown International thriller in which a photographer has violent fantasies about killing his models (who then turn up dead in the exact same manners).  James Stacy (SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES), Joanna Pettet (THE EVIL), and Don Potter also star.

REVIEW LINK: Scorpion Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-In)

DOUBLE EXPOSURE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary with cinematographer R. Michael Stringer and script supervisor Sally Stringer, moderated by Katarina Leigh Waters
• Audio Commentary with actor Michael Callan, moderated by Katarina Leigh Waters and Scott Spiegel
• Interview with Michael Callan
• Theatrical Trailer
• Playable with optional KATARINA'S NIGHTMARE THEATER segments
• Other Katarina Trailers

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Artificial Eye broadcasts from PEEPLI [LIVE] (review)

In this funny Bollywood satire, the residents of dying village Peepli become the focus of a media circus when farmer Natha decides to commit suicide to get compensation for his family farm which is at risk of being auctioned off when they cannot pay back their loan.  Rival political parties weigh in on the issue and soon it may no longer be Natha's choice whether he lives or dies!

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

PEEPLI [LIVE] DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• Hindi Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio
• Optional English subtitles
• Making of PEEPLI [LIVE]
• Deleted Scenes
• Four Behind the Scenes Featurettes
• Trailers
• Still Gallery

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Showbox submits EVIDENCE (review)

Four young people head out into a no trespassing area to "rough it" while one shoots a documentary about another's first camping experience.  Soon, they are running for their lives from a beastly presence that is hunting them down one by one, and the survivors discover that it's not the old "Blair Witch" on their tails in EVIDENCE.

REVIEW LINK: Showbox Media Group (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

EVIDENCE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Theatrical Trailer
• Other Showbox Trailers

Scorpion Releasing and Katarina's Nightmare Theater present Dean Koontz's WHISPERS (review)

Victoria Tenant (FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC), Jean LeClerq (STRANGE SHADOWS IN AN EMPTY ROOM), and Chris Sarandon (FRIGHT NIGHT) star in a Canadian adaptation of Dean Koontz's bestselling novel.  A writer is attacked and almost raped by a man she once interviewed.  She kills him, but he seems to come back to life to stalk her again and again.

REVIEW LINK: Scorpion Releasing (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-In)

WHISPERS DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Playable with optional KATARINA'S NIGHTMARE THEATER segments
• Other Katarina Trailers

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SIDELONG GLANCES OF A PIGEON KICKER from Scorpion (review)

CULT OF THE DAMNED's Jordan Christopher trades in a rock band and riches for a New York cab and an ant-infested apartment in John Dexter's arty seventies flick THE SIDELONG GLANCES OF A PIGEON KICKER (based on the novel by David Boyer).  Jill O'Hara, Robert Walden (TV's LOU GRANT SHOW), model Melba Moore, Broadway actress Elaine Stritch, and Lois Nettleton also star.

REVIEW LINK: Scorpion Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-In)

SIDELONG GLANCES OF A PIGEON KICKER DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Scorpion Releasing Trailers

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Artificial Eye's POLICE, ADJECTIVE (review)

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

POLICE, ADJECTIVE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• Romanian Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Director Interview
• Theatrical Trailer

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Elliot Gould and Robert Blake are BUSTING! (review)

Elliot Gould (MASH) and Robert Blake (IN COLD BLOOD) are two vice cops who have had it with corruption and inside deals in Peter Hyams' BUSTING, on DVD-R courtesy of MGM's manufactured on demand line.  Allen Garfield, Sid Haig, and Antonio Fargas also star.

REVIEW LINK: MGM (US) Region 1 NTSC MOD DVDR (DVD Drive-In)

BUSTING DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Theatrical Trailer

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Other MGM manufactured-on-demand DVDRs:

• ACT OF VENGEANCE at DVD Drive-In
• BOBBIE JO AND THE OUTLAW at DVD Drive-In
• BURIED ALIVE at DVD Drive-In
• KILL A DRAGON at DVD Drive-In
• A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY at DVD Drive-In
• ZONE TROOPERS at DVD Drive-In

From The Global Lens Initiative: ADRIFT and MY TEHRAN FOR SALE (review)

In this controversial film, actress Marziah wants to immigrate to Adelaide with her boyfriend; however, the discovery of a grave illness destroys her relationship and her chances of obtaining a travel visa, and she is forced to seek asylum in Australia as her health deteriorates.

REVIEW LINK: The Global Lens Initiative (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

MY TEHRAN FOR SALE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• Farsi and English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• PDF Discussion Guide
• Global Lens collection trailer

In ADRIFT, young Duyen is newly married and finds that her husband Hai is more interested in his work and his buddies to consummate their marriage (which is just fine with his doting mother).  Duyen confides in her writer friend Cam, who secretly desires her yet pushes her into the arms of handsome travel guide Tho.  This ill-advised relationship threatens more than Duyen's marriage when a vacation trip to the seaside ends in tragedy.

REVIEW LINK: The Global Lens Initiative (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

ADRIFT DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.00:1 widescreen
• Vietnamese Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• Film Discussion PDF

Other Global Lens Collection titles reviewed:
ORDINARY PEOPLE
THE SHAFT

DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE is Shameless' THE CEMETERY MAN (review)

Long before he hooked up with that vampire Madonna, Rupert Everett (THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS) was rekilling the living dead as Francesco Dellamorte, the Cemetery Man in Michele Soavi's fourth film DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE.  The residents of the Buffalora cemetery don't stay dead for long and someone has to clean up the mess once they've taken bullets and shoves to the brain.  Anna Falchi, Barbara Cupisti, and Francois Hadji Lazaro co-star.

REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entertainment (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE - THE CEMETERY MAN DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.67:1 widescreen
• English and Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo audio tracks
• Optional English subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Michele Soavi and writer Gianni Romoli (with optional English subtitles)
• Theatrical Trailer
• Photo Gallery
• Shameless Trailer Park
• Liner Notes Booklet by Alan Jones

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ArrowDrome in the PENITENTIARY (review)

CHEERLEADERS' WILD WEEKEND's Leon Isaac Kennedy is in the wrong place at the wrong time and winds up in the PENITENTIARY in Jamaa Fanaka's grindhouse classic.  Set up for a murder he didn't commit, the only way for "Too Sweet" Gordone Martel to get out of prison is to fight his way out in the boxing ring.  When his mortal enemy "Half Dead" Johnson (Ernie Hudson, GHOSTBUSTERS) gets out of prison and targets his family, "Too Sweet" must get back into the ring with the training of Mr. T himself in PENITENTIARY II.  Pick up these two in a double feature disc from Arrow Video's ArrowDrome budget line with commentary on the first film by director Jamaa Fanaka.

REVIEW LINK: ArrowDrome (UK) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

PENITENTIARY DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.71:1 widescreen transfer
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary by director Jamma Fanaka
• Bonus Feature: PENITENTIARY II (4:3 non-anamorphic 1.72:1 widescreen)
• Trailers for PENITENTIARY and PENITENTIARY II
• Reversible Cover
• Liner Notes Booklet by Calum Waddell

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Right out of Weird War Tales: ZONE TROOPERS (review)

Before Tim Thomerson made cult movie fame in TRANCERS, Thomerson, writer/director Danny Bilson, producer Paul DiMeo, and executive producer Charles Band of Empire Pictures made ZONE TROOPERS.  American soldiers stationed in the middle of nowhere in Italy barely survive a Nazi attack and get lost in the woods where they discover a crashed spaceship.  An alien on the loose may be the least of their problems when the Nazis are hunting them and alien technology to use to win the war!  Timothy Van Patten (CLASS OF 1984), Art LaFleur (THE WRONG GUYS), and Biff Manard (TRANCERS) also star.

REVIEW LINK: MGM MOD (USA) Region 1 NTSC DVD-R (DVD Drive-In)

ZONE TROOPERS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Theatrical Trailer

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Other MGM MOD reviews:
ACT OF VENGEANCE at DVD Drive-In
BOBBIE JO AND THE OUTLAW at DVD Drive-In
BURIED ALIVE at DVD Drive-In

KILL A DRAGON at DVD Drive-In
A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY at DVD Drive-In

Scorpion Releasing presents DEVIL'S MEN/TERROR (review)

Scorpion Releasing and Katarina Leigh Waters present a double bill of the UK/Greek chiller THE DEVIL'S MEN (with Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance) and Norman J. Warren's TERROR.  Young people disappear in the Greek mountains and fall victim to a minotaur worshipping cult.  It is up to an Irish priest and a New York detective to stop THE DEVIL'S MEN.  When a man makes a horror movie about the witch that cursed his family centuries ago, people connected with the production start to meet violent and gory deaths.

REVIEW LINKS:



DEVIL'S MEN (Scorpion Releasing [USA] Region 0 NTSC DVD vs BCI [USA] Region 0 NTSC DVD [DVDBeaver])

TERROR (Scorpion Releasing [USA] Region 0 NTSC DVD vs BCI [USA] Region 0 NTSC DVD vs Anchor Bay [UK] Region 2 PAL DVD [DVDBeaver])

DEVIL'S MEN/TERROR DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.66:1 widescreen on DEVIL'S MEN
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen on TERROR
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Both Films Playable with optional KATARINA'S NIGHTMARE THEATER hostess segments
• "Bloody Good Times" documentary for TERROR
• Deleted Scenes for TERROR
• US and French theatrical trailers for TERROR
• Other Katarina Trailers

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