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REVIEW LINK: Eureka Video (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)
WILD SEARCH Blu-ray specs:
Arrow Video presents five idiosyncratic Italian crime films that encompass the cultural anxiety of the "Years of Lead" marked by a spike in crime and domestic terrorism in Italy from the late sixties to the early eighties. In SAVAGE THREE, a trio of workers for a computer company embark on a crime spree and the police are baffled at the lack of discernable motive connecting the crimes. In LIKE RABID DOGS, three well-to-do students go on a robbery, rape, and murder spree and the only cop who suspects them runs repeatedly into red tape because of the lead suspect's social connections. In COLT 38 SPECIAL SQUAD, a cop whose wife has been murdered by a master criminal heads a special squad to combat crime just in time for a spate of bombings all over the city. In HIGHWAY RACER, a hotheaded cop may be the police force's only hope of infiltrating a criminal gang that use racing car maneuvers to evade capture. In NO, THE CASE IS HAPPILY RESOLVED, a railway worker witnesses a mild-mannered schoolteacher brutally murder a prostitute. He does not want to get involved until he discovers that the killer has gone to the cops and fingered him as the killer.
REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video USA (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)
YEARS OF LEAD: FIVE CLASSIC ITALIAN CRIME THRILLERS 1973–1977 Blu-ray specs:
REVIEW LINK: Severin Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)
STRIKE COMMANDO 2 Blu-ray specs:
REVIEW LINK: Severin Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)
STRIKE COMMANDO Blu-ray specs:
When a tattoo artist inks his masterpiece on a girl sold into sexual slavery, he unleashes predatory vegeance on all men in this adaptation of a Janichuro Tanizaki short story scripted by the director of ONIBABA and directed by the filmmaker behind HANZO: THE RAZOR.
REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video USA/MVD Visual (US) Region ALL Blu-ray
IREZUMI Blu-ray specs:
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sorority's final prank goes seriously wrong and they wind up with a
body in the pool just before their big bash. They may be getting an
earlier sendoff than intended as a killer starts stalking them.
REVIEW LINK: MVD Visual (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)
THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW Blu-ray specs:
"The most dangerous JAWS on land" comes to Blu-ray as a national park is
beset by a series of grisly grizzly killings of unsuspecting tourists.
the park ranger wants to shut the site down but the tourism-minded park
supervisor puts more people in danger by making the grizzly hunt a
hillbilly free-for-all. Christopher George, Andrew Prine, Richard
Jaeckel, and Joan McCall star.
REVIEW LINK: Severin Films (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)
GRIZZLY Blu-ray specs:
REVIEW LINK: Eureka (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)
MILLIONAIRES' EXPRESS Blu-ray specs:
REVIEW LINK: Kino Lorber (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)
SUBLET DVD specs:
REVIEW LINK: Kino Lorber (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)
SLALOM DVD specs:
MVD Visual's Rewind Collection digs up another Film Ventures gem with MORTUARY. Mary McDonough (THE WALTONS), David Wallice (HUMONGOUS), and Bill Paxton (ALIENS) star in this creepy tale of a young woman stalked by a hooded figure following the mysterious death of her father. Could the answers lie in the local mortuary? Christopher George (in his last role) and Lynda Day George also star.
REVIEW LINK: MVD Visual (US) Region ALL Blu-ary (DVD Drive-in)
MORTUARY Blu-ray specs:
"The stupidest movie ever made" comes to Blu-ray in its long-unavailable director's cut (100 minutes) and its drastically-altered theatrical cut (85 minutes). When the beach is closed after surfers wash up in pieces, two surfers, their girlfriends, their chemistry teacher, and a bodacious beach babe discover a conspiracy involving soda pop and zombie punks.
REVIEW LINK: Vinegar Syndrome (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)
SURF II Blu-ray specs:
From the small screen comes a trio of TELEVISED TERROR remastered in high definition for Blu-ray. In ARE YOU IN THE HOUSE ALONE?, high school student Gail is being stalked by someone leaving threatening notes and making obscene phone calls. When she is raped by someone she knows, no one will believe her and she must turn the tables on her attacker to expose him. In THE CALENDAR GIRL MURDERS, someone is killing a magazine's centerfolds and the lead detective has more to deal with when the former cover girl puts herself in harm's way. Tom Skerritt and Sharon Stone star. In CHILD IN THE NIGHT, psychologist JoBeth Williams and detective Tom Skerritt must interpret what young murder witness Elijah Wood really saw he claims that his father was killed by Captain Hook. Darren McGavin and Season Hubley co-star.
REVIEW LINK Vinegar Syndrome (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)
TELEVISED TERROR VOLUME 1 Blu-ray specs:
Something lurks in the cellar of a ranch house in the Texas wastelands waiting for fresh souls in this direct-to-video eighties horror film from the director of WITCHBOARD and NIGHT OF THE DEMONS.
REVIEW LINK: Vinegar Syndrome (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)
THE CELLAR Blu-ray specs:
