88 Films and THE INSPECTOR WEARS SKIRTS 2 (review)

The all-female Banshee Squad is back and pranking newbies while fighting and flirting with the all-male Tiger Squad before they have to band together to take on terrorists in the POLICE ACADEMY-inspired THE INSPECTOR WEARS SKIRTS 2.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (US/UK) Region A/B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE INSPECTOR WEARS SKIRTS 2 Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Cantonese and English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Asian film expert Frank Djeng 
• "Leading the Top Squad" interview with director Wellson Chin 
• Interview with stuntman Go Shut Fung 
• Interview with stuntman Mars 
• Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer 
• Stills Gallery 
• Comes with a reversible cover with new artwork by Sean Longmore and original HK poster art. 
• The first pressing includes a double-walled O-ring slipcover featuring new artwork by Sean Longmore and a double-sided foldout poster featuring new and classic poster art.

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Cult Epics gets cheeky with FRIVOLOUS LOLA (review)

In Tinto Brass' FRIVOLOUS LOLA, young Lola is on the verge of getting married when she starts to wonder what delights she might be wishing if she does not get rid of her innocence before the wedding day.

REVIEW LINK: Cult Epics (US) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray Combo (DVDCompare)

FRIVOLOUS LOLA 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray Combo specs: 

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (HDR10) 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo 
• Italian DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Stereo 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Nathaniel Thompson 
• Tinto Brass Trailers
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo 
• Italian DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Stereo 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Nathaniel Thompson 
• 2004 interview with director Tinto Brass 
• Photo Gallery 
• Tinto Brass Trailers
• The first pressing comes in a slipcover with a reversible cover, four Italian lobby card reproductions (UHD combo only), and 20-page booklet by Eugenio Ercolani and Domenico Monetti.

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Eureka Classics and Joseph Kuo's THE SWORDMEN OF ALL SWORDSMEN solves THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING (review)

In Joseph Kuo's first martial arts film THE SWORDSMAN OF ALL SWORDSMEN, a boy grows into adulthood training to avenge the murders of his family by five men.  Also included is THE MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING, the film that inspired Wu Tang Clan and the rappers Ghostface Killah and Ol' Dirty Bastard!

REVIEW LINK: Eureka Video (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE SWORDSMAN OF ALL SWORDSMEN Blu-ray specs: 

• Disc One - The Swordsman of All Swordsman:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen 
• Mandarin and English LPCM 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by Asian film expert Frank Djeng and film writer John Charles 
• "The Return of the Master" archival interview with director Joseph Kuo
• Disc Two (Bonus Blu-ray) - The Mystery of Chess Boxing:
• Only surviving 35mm print 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.32:1 Widescreen 
• Mandarin, Cantonese, and English LPCM 2.0 Mono 
• Burnt-in Chinese and English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by Asian film expert Frank Djeng and martial artist/filmmaker Michael Worth 
• Audio Commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema
• Limited edition of 2,000 copies comes with bonus disc, O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Grégory Sacré (Gokaiju), collector’s booklet featuring new writing on both films by James Oliver, set of facsimile lobby cards and Double-sided poster featuring original release posters, and reversible artwork by Darren Wheeling.

Film Masters is TORMENTED (review)

Richard Carlson (CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON) stars as a man TORMENTED by the ghost of an old flame before his wedding in this supernatural thriller from Bert I. Gordon (FOOD OF THE GODS).  Also stars Lugene Sanders, Susan Gordon, Juli Reding, and Joe Turkel.

REVIEW LINK: Film Masters (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

TORMENTED Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian/writer/filmmaker Gary Don Rhodes 
• "Untold Ghost Stories" unaired TV pilot of FAMOUS GHOST STORIES, made by Bert I. Gordon and hosted by Vincent Price 
• "Bert I. Gordon in the 1950s & 1960s: Bigger Than Life" 2024 documentary by filmmaker C. Courtney Joyner 
• "The Spirit Is Willing: CineMagic and Social Discord in Bert I. Gordon's TORMENTED" visual essay by The Flying Maciste Brothers 
• "Bert I. Gordon: The Amazing Colossal Filmmaker" archival interview with writer/producer/director Bert I. Gordon 
• "Mystery Science Theater 3000" episode of TORMENTED from 1992 
• Original Trailer 
• 2024 Recut Trailer 
• Includes a 24-page booklet with an essay titled by film historian Tom Weaver and "The Boy and His Film Favorite" by novelist-filmmaker John Wooley on TORMENTED star Susan Gordon.

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MVD Visual tugs on JOYSTICKS (review)

When a conservative businessman wants to shut down the local video arcade, the geeks, the girls, and the jocks must band together against his nefarious schemes in the eighties sex comedy JOYSTICKS.

REVIEW LINK: MVD Visual (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

JOYSTICKS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by MVD Rewind Collection's Eric D. Wilkinson, Cereal at Midnight host Heath Holland and Diabolik DVD's Jesse Nelson
• Audio Commentary by director Greydon Clark 
• Interview with director Greydon Clark 
• "Coin Slots" – Faux "Trailer" short written and directed by Newt Wallen and starring Mr. Lobo and Eric D. Wilkinson 
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Bonus Trailers 
• Comes with a reversible cover, two-sided foldout poster, and slipcover (first pressing only). 

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Severin Films gets lost in THE SPIDER LABYRINTH (review)

A young professor becomes entangled in a supernatural conspiracy when he travels to Budapest in search of a colleague studying an ancient religion that may not have entirely died out in this eighties Italian horror film with special effects by Sergio Stivaletti.

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

THE SPIDER LABYRINTH 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs: 

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen 
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English SDH Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by Dr. Will Dodson, Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies, and Ryan Verrill, host of The Disc Connected 
• International 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 SDH Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by Dr. Will Dodson, Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies, and Ryan Verrill, host of The Disc Connected 
• "Caught in a Web" interview with director Gianfranco Giagni 
• "Arachne" interview with screenwriter Gianfranco Manfredi 
• "All the Colors of a Spider" interview with cinematographer Nino Celeste 
• "Smile of the Spider Woman" interview with actress Paola Rinaldi 
• "Death in Stop Motion" interview with special make-up effects artist Sergio Stivaletti 
• "Web of the Weird: Placing Spider Labyrinth in the Weird Genre" discussion with Dr. Will Dodson, Ryan Verrill and Erica Shultz, author of "The Sweetest Taboo: An Unapologetic Guide to Child Kills in Film" 
• International Trailer

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Grindhouse Releasing gives in to IMPULSE (review)

William Shatner plays a gigolo and con man whose traumatic childhood expresses itself in violent psychotic rages in the William Grefé thriller IMPULSE.

REVIEW LINK: Grindhouse Releasing (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

IMPULSE Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - The Film:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen 
• English and French DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English SDH Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by director William Grefé 
• "The Making of IMPULSE" documentary 
• "Shatner Saves Sakata" 16mm behind the scenes clip with audio commentaries by director William Grefé and actor William Shatner 
• 40th Anniversary Screening: Tampa Theater, Nov. 7, 2015 
• Theatrical Trailers 
• Bonus Features: 
• THE DEVIL'S SISTERS (1966):
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.66:1 Widescreen (480i MPEG-2) 
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono 
• Audio Commentary by director William Grefé 
• "THE DEVIL'S SISTERS Resurrected" introduction by director William Grefé 
• "THE DEVIL'S SISTERS Revisited" interview with director William Grefé 
• "Bill Grefé and THE DEVIL'S SISTERS" new interview 
• 1968 Reissue Radio Spot 
• Photo Gallery 
• THE GODMOTHERS (1973):
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen (480i MPEG-2) 
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono 
• Introduction by director William Grefé 
• Easter Eggs
• Disc Two - Extras:
• Interviews: 
• "Between the Treks: Shatner in the 1970s" interview with filmmaker C. Courtney Joyner 
• "Kingdom of the Shatner: William Shatner Live in Santa Monica Oct. 9, 2022" 
• "Doug Hobart: The Corpse Speaks" 
• "Bill Grefé is Furious" 
• "Bill's Miami Stories" 
• "Bill's Sea Stories" 
• Bill Grefé 2011 interview 
• "LIVE AND LET DIE News Report" 
• "Legend Award" 
• Filmmaking Seminars – Bill Grefé's Seminars on Independent Film-making 
• Bill Grefé Industrials: 
• "Bacardi & Shatner" (1978) 
• "Fame with William Shatner" (1987) 
• "Investing in Movies with Lauren Bacall" 
• Bill Grefé Short Films
• Extensive Still Galleries 
• Grindhouse Releasing Prevues 
• Disc Production Credits 
• Easter Eggs
• Comes in a slipcase with a reversible cover, a booklet by underground filmmaker Jacques Boyreau, and a mini-poster of Wililam Shatner.

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Cult Epics exposes ALL LADIES DO IT! (review)

Happily-married Diana has her eyes and thighs opened up to the wonders of "happy banging" in Tinto Brass' erotica classic.

REVIEW LINK: Cult Epics (US) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray Combo (DVDCompare)

ALL LADIES DO IT 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray Combo specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (HDR10) 
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo and Mono Tracks 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by critics Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth Tinto Brass 
• Trailers: 
• "All Ladies Do It" 
• "Frivolous Lola"
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen 
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo and Mono Tracks 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by critics Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth 
• 2001 interview with director Tinto Brass 
• Outtakes 
• Still Gallery 
• Tinto Brass Trailers: 
• "All Ladies Do It" 
• "Frivolous Lola" 
• "Paprika" 
• "P.O. Box Tinto Brass" 
• "IsTintoBrass"
• Comes with a reversible cover, slipcover, 20-page illustrated booklet featuring Eugenio Ercolani and Domenico Monetti's essay "From Demon to Saint: The Career of Claudia Koll" and credits, and four collectible lobby cards.

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Blue Underground stalks the NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTER (review)

Christopher Lee strikes terror as the "Bloody Judge" putting to death supposed traitors to the Crown and burning witches at the stake in Jess Franco's horrific, erotic, historical drama NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTER (aka THE BLOODY JUDGE aka THE WITCH-KILLER OF BLACKMOOR).

REVIEW LINK: Blue Underground (US) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray Combo (DVDCompare)

NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTER 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 2.35:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10) 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono 
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by critics Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson 
• Audio Commentary by film historians Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw 
• Audio Commentary by film historians David Flint and Adrian Smith
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono 
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by critics Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson 
• Audio Commentary by film historians Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw 
• Audio Commentary by film historians David Flint and Adrian Smith 
• "Bloody Jess" interview with director Jess Franco and actor Christopher Lee 
• "Judgement Day" interview with Stephen Thrower, author of "Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jess Franco" 
• "In The Shadows" interview with filmmaker Alan Birkinshaw and author Stephen Thrower on producer Harry Alan Towers 
• Deleted and Alternate Scenes 
• Trailers and TV Spot 
• Still Galleries
• Reversible Cover
• Slipcover 

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Vinegar Syndrome Labs deals 5 CARD STUD (review)

Dean Martin is a poker player who must discover who is targeting the members of a card game who strung up a card sharp in the whodunit western 5 CARD STUD from Henry Hathaway (TRUE GRIT).

REVIEW LINK: Vinegar Syndrome (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

5 CARD STUD Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by author and film historian Brian Hannan 
• "Jack of All Trades" interview with film critic Walter Chaw on the films of Henry Hathaway 
• "A Woman of True Grit" interview with filmmaker Lizzie Francke on screenwriter Marguerite Roberts' legacy 
• Comes with a reversible cover and a 16-page booklet with an essay by Jim Healy. 
• A limited edition of 4,000 copies ordered directly from Vinegar Syndrome includes a spot gloss slipcover designed by Tony Stella.

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Acorn Media and Shudder go analog with V/H/S/85 (review)

The latest of Shudder's V/H/S short horror collections features a strange child who is the subject of a scientific experiment gone wrong, an ill-advised visit to an eerie lake by a group of college students, an earthquake that unearths an ancient evil, a performance artist who invokes the "God of Technology" into corporeal form, a strange and deadly family gathering, and a detective who receives videos of murders before they happen.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

V/H/S/85 Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1/1.33:1 Widescreen
• English/Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by producer Josh Goldbloom, directors David Bruckner, Mike P. Nelson, Gigi Saul Guerrero, and Natasha Kermani, and writers Zoe Cooper, Evan Dickson and C. Robert Cargill, moderated by Bloody Disgusting's "Boo Crew" podcast
• Uncut Super 8 "Dreamkill" Footage 
• Uninterrupted "Total Copy" 
• Uninterrupted "No Wake/Ambrosia"
   

Second Sight says a final prayer in THE BORDERLANDS (review)

When a Vatican team is sent to investigate paranormal activity in an medieval church in the English countryside, they discover not a miracle but an ancient and deadly force in this creepy found footage horror film released in the United States as FINAL PRAYER.

REVIEW LINK: Second Sight (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE BORDERLANDS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by actors Robin Hill and Gordon Kennedy, producer Jennifer Handorf and special effects artist Dan Martin 
• "Dressed the Part" interview with actors Robin Hill and Gordon Kennedy 
• "Losing Faith" interview with producer Jennifer Handorf 
• "Monster Goo" interview with special effects designer Dan Martin Behind the Scenes 
• Comes in a rigid slipcase with new artwork by Christopher Shy, a seventy-page book with new essays by Tim Coleman, Martyn Conterio, Shellie McMurdo and Johnny Walker, as well as six collectors' art cards
   

Full Moon Features plants SEEDPEOPLE (Review)

Meteor hunters who go into the orchards of Comet Valley come out changed in strange and deadly ways in Full Moon's "body snatcher" tale from the nineties with creature effects by John Carl Buechler.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Features (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SEEDPEOPLE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• VideoZone Making-of
• Full Moon Trailers
  

Radiance Films investigates THE FACTS OF MURDER (review)

 When a wealthy housewife is murdered, a detective must discover whether her death was a robbery gone wrong or something more sinister involving a range of suspects from the respectable to the seediest of Rome's underbelly in this giallo noir from Pietro Germi.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (US) Region A/B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE FACTS OF MURDER Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
  
• Italian LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Interview with Pietro Germi expert Mario Sesti 
• "The Man With the Cigar In His Mouth" 1997 documentary by Mario Sesti about Pietro Germi featuring interviews with his colleagues and collaborators including Mario Monicelli, Claudia Cardinale, Stefania Sandrelli, Giuseppe Tornatore among others 
• "What's Black and Yellow All Over? All Shades of Italian Film Noir" visual essay by Paul A. J. Lewis 
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork and a limited edition booklet featuring writing by Pasquale Iannone on the hybrid nature of Italian cinema. 
• Limited Edition of 3000 copies, presented in a full-height Scanavo case with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

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Second Run rebels with JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI: WALKOVER, BARRIER, DIALOGUE 20 40 60 + SHORT FILMS (review)

Jerzy Skolimowski brought to the screen Poland's very own version of the "angry young man" played by himself in WALKOVER as a boxer who must choose between a safe future and a shiny prize.  In BARRIER, Jan Nowicki is a student who quits medical school and romances a tram operator only to be swallowed up by his own escape from reality.  In the experimental portmanteau DIALOGUE 20-40-60, Skolimowski, Peter Solan, and Zbynek Brynych each explore love and relationships using the same dialogue script.

REVIEW LINK: Second Run (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI: WALKOVER, BARRIER, DIALOGUE 20 40 60 + SHORT FILMS Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - Walkover (Walkower):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen 
• Polish LPCM 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by film historian Michael Brooke 
• Introduction by critic, curator and scholar Michał Oleszczyk
• Disc Two - Barrier (Bariera):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen 
• Polish LPCM 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by film historian Michael Brooke 
• Introduction by critic, curator and scholar Michał Oleszczyk
• Disc Three - Dialogue 20 40 60 (Dialóg 20-40-60):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen 
• Slovak LPCM 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Short Films:
• "The Menacing Eye [Oko wykol]" (1960) 
• "Little Hamlet [Hamleś]" (1960) 
• "Erotyk" (1961) 
• "Your Money or Your Life [Pieniądze albo życie] (1961)
• Collector's booklets for each film by David Thompson.
  

Severin Films feeds THE SCAVENGERS (review)

Cut off from their comrades, a troop of Confederate soldiers lead by a sadistic captain invade a town that serves as a Union relay spot to commandeer a cache of gold and have a good time at the local brothel.  Refusing to believe that the war is over and the South has surrendered, the captain and his men brutalize the Union lieutenant, his wife, and her maid to find the location of the gold before things escalate into an all-out massacre in this western roughie from Bob Cresse and Lee Frost.

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

THE SCAVENGERS Blu-ray specs:

• Unrated "Hot" Version (104 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary on the unrated version by Vinegar Syndrome's Joe Rubin, Severin Films' Andrew Furtado and Temple Of Schlock's Chris Poggiali
• R-rated Version (94 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer - R-rated Version 
• Theatrical Trailer - Hot Version
• "Our Family Album" promotional program replica booklet as well archival marketing programs printed on the reverse of the cover sleeve.

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Severin Films wears a HOT SPUR (review)

It's "91 minutes of Freudian fury" when an abused stable boy abducts the wife of a cruel rancher and uses her to bait the ranch hands into a bloody trap.  A classic "roughie" from Lee Frost and Bob Cresse.

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

HOT SPUR Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Vinegar Syndrome's Joe Rubin, Severin Films' Andrew Furtado and Bob Cresse friend/former Something Weird general manager Tim Lewis
• Recently-discovered audio discussion on director Lee Frost/producer Bob Cresse by producer David F. Friedman and Something Weird founder Mike Vraney
• "Hollywood's World of Flesh" 1963 Lee Frost/Bob Cresse feature
• "The Casing Director" 1968 short film starring Bob Cresse, directed by David F. Friedman
• Theatrical Trailer
• Teaser Trailer

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Raro Video resurrects DEATH OCCURRED LAST NIGHT (review)

A desperate father implores a police commissioner to find his missing daughter who has the body of a twenty-five year old and the mental age of a child who may have fallen into the hands of pimps in this thriller based on the novel by Giorgio Scerbanenco.

REVIEW LINK: Raro Video/Radiance Films (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

DEATH OCCURRED LAST NIGHT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.71:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English HoH and English Subtitles
• Video Introduction by Fangoria editor Chris Alexander
• Video Essay by Francesco Massaccesi (narrated by Howard S. Berger)
• English Export Trailer
• Limited edition of 3,000 copies including a reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters and the 12-page booklet "Death Occurred Many Times: The Thrillers of Duccio Tessari" by David Sodergren.
   

Radiance Films celebrates the second coming of MESSIAH OF EVIL (review)

When the moon turns red and peoples' eyes start to bleed, the Dark Stranger will return to Point Dume and bring about a flesh-eating nightmare in the seventies counter-culture horror classic MESSIAH OF EVIL from the writers of AMERICAN GRAFFITI and the future director of HOWARD THE DUCK!

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (US/UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

MESSIAH OF EVIL Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by critics and horror experts Kim Newman and Stephen Thrower 
• Archival interview with co-writer/director Willard Huyck by Mike White from the Projection Booth Podcast 
• "What the Blood Moon Brings: MESSIAH OF EVIL, A New American Nightmare" documentary exploring the film in the context of American independent cinema of the 70s, as well as examining the film's allegiance to several subgenres of horror 
• Visual essay on the American Gothic by critic Kat Ellinger 

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Eureka Classics hires BODYGUARD KIBA (review)

Before he was THE STREET FIGHTER, Sonny Chiba was BODYGUARD KIBA, a martial artist attempting to redeem himself and his school and getting caught up with gangsters and drug dealers in two separate adventures.

REVIEW LINK: Eureka Video (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

BODYGUARD KIBA 1 and 2 Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - Bodyguard Kiba:
• Japanese Version: 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen 
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema 
• U.S. Version: 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen (with standard definition inserts) 
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono 
• "Talking Chiba" interview with action choreographer and director Kenji Tanigaki 
• Japanese Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Two - Bodyguard Kiba 2:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen 
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema 
• "Kiba or Chiba" interview with Japanese film experts Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp 
• Japanese Theatrical Trailer
• The first 2,000 copies include an O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Chris Malbon and a collector's booklet featuring new writing by Jasper Sharp.
  

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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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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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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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
   

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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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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Radiance Films unleashes an ELEGANT BEAST (review)

A traditional-seeming Japanese family of four living in a cramped apartment strive for a better life and employ (and deploy) various unscrupulous methods to achieve it in this biting Japanese drama from Yuzo Kawashima written by Kaneto Shindo.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (US/UK) Region A/B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

ELEGANT BEAST Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "The Cool Elegance of Yuzo Kawashima" interview with film critic Toshiaki Sato 
• Appreciation by filmmaker Toshiaki Toyoda 
• "The Age of the Danchi" visual essay by critic Tom Mes on post-war architecture in Japanese cinema 
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Includes a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork. 
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Midori Suiren and contemporary archival writing.

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Severin Films digs up BURIAL GROUND in 4K (review)

Weekend jet setters become a living smorgasbord for the ancient walking dead in the Italian sleazy gore classic BURIAL GROUND.

REVIEW LINK: Severin Films (US) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray Combo (DVDCompare)

BURIAL GROUND 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - 4K UltraHD:
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.66:1 Widescreen (DolbyVision) 
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English SDH and English (for Italian audio) Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by critics Nathaniel Thompson, Troy Howarth, and Eugenio Ercolani 
• Audio Commentary by Italian cinema experts Calum Waddell and John Martin 
• Italian Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Two - Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen 
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English SDH and English (for Italian audio) Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by critics Nathaniel Thompson, Troy Howarth, and Eugenio Ercolani 
• Audio Commentary by Italian cinema experts Calum Waddell and John Martin 
• "Villa Parisi: Legacy of Terror" location featurette 
• "Return to the BURIAL GROUND" interview with actor Peter Bark 
• "Peter Still Lives" 2013 festival Q and A with actor Peter Bark 
• "Just for the Money" interview with actor Simone Mattioli 
• "The Smell of Death" interviews with producer Gabriele Cristiani and actress Mariangela Giordano 
• Deleted/Extended Scenes/Shots 
• Italian Theatrical Trailer
• Collector's slipcover.

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Severin Films and Jess Franco liberate DRACULA PRISONER OF FRANKENSTEIN (review)

Dr. Frankenstein brings Dracula back from the grave to gain control over the world of monsters and subdue mortals with the help of his own man-made monster.  Throw in a vampire hunter, a gypsy woman, an insane psychic, and a werewolf and you have Jess Franco's mishmash of Universal horror tributes DRACULA PRISONER OF FRANKENSTEIN.

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

DRACULA PRISONER OF FRANKENSTEIN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.50:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• French, German, Italian, and Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Individual English Subtitle Tracks for French, German, Italian, and Spanish Audio Tracks
• "Prisoner of Franco-Stein" interview with film historian Stephen Thrower
• "In the Land of Franco Part 10" locations visit with Stephen Thrower and actor Alain Petit
• Deleted Scene from English Language Version
• Italian Theatrical Trailer
• Collector's Slipcover

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Full Moon and Jess Franco heat up VOODOO PASSION (review)

When a bride arrives in Haiti to meet her embassy worker husband, her fascination with voodoo becomes deadly as she starts having dreams in which she participates in secret sexual rites and commits bloody murder.  Jess Franco directs.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Entertainment (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

VOODOO PASSION Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English and German Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• "Franco, Bloody Franco" 1976 audio interview with director Jess Franco (in French with English subtitles)
• German Theatrical Trailer
• Photo Slideshow
• Vintage Jess Franco VHS Trailer Reel
• Eurocult Trailers

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Film Masters' introduces THE TERROR into the LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (review)

Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson star in a Gothic horror film ostensibly directed by Roger Corman but featuring the contributions of the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Hill, Monte Hellman, as well as Nicholson himself in the director's chair.

REVIEW LINK: Film Masters (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE TERROR Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - The Terror (1963):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Maste Audio and Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians C. Courtney Joyner and Dr. Steve Haberman
• "Ghosts in the Machine: Art and Artiface in Roger Corman's Celluloid Castle" visual essay by film historian C. Courtney Joyner
• 2023 Re-cut Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Two - Little Shop of Horrors (1960):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Maste Audio and Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film star Jonathan Haze, moderated by author Justin Humphreys
• "Hollywood Intruders: The Filmgroup Story - Part 2" documentary
• 2023 Re-cut Theatrical Trailer
• 22-page collector's booklet featuring essays by C. Courtney Joyner and Mark McGee.

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Unearthed Films gets brutal with MEXICO BARBARO II (review)

Nine directors present eight short horror films based on Mexican folklore and urban legends involving vengeance from beyond the grave, familial dysfunction, devil worship, and things that go bump in the night.

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

MEXICO BARBARO II Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Featurettes: 
• "La Leyenda De Juan Soldado" 
• "Bolas De Fuego" 
• "Vitriol" Behind the Scenes and Still Gallery 
• "No Te Duermas" 
• "Exodoncia" 
• Stills Gallery 
• Theatrical Trailer 

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Unearthed Films tenses up with FULL BODY MASSAGE (review)

When her regular masseur cancels, a successful art dealer spends a challenging evening with a replacement whose focus on spiritual healing spurs erotic intimacy in Nicolas Roeg's Showtime TV movie starring Mimi Rogers and Bryan Brown.

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

FULL BODY MASSAGE Blu-ray specs:

• Theatrical Version:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English and English SDH Subtitles
• TV Version:
• 720p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English and English SDH Subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers 

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Eureka finds life (and death) ON THE SILVER GLOBE (review)

A precursor to David Lynch's big screen release of DUNE - and made around the same time Alejandro Jodorowsky was preparing his own adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel - ON THE SILVER GLOBE is based on a turn-of-the-century sci fi novel by director Andrzej Zulawski's great uncle Jerzy Zulawski about the discovery of life on another planet and its effect on the human visitors attempting to undo the ills of human existence and start anew only to repeat the same mistakes on a tragic scale.

REVIEW LINK: Eureka Entertainment (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

ON THE SILVER GLOBE Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - On the Silver Globe:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen 
• Polish LPCM 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by film historian Daniel Bird 
• "Adam Żulawski on Jerzy Żulawski" interview with the author's grandson 
• "Return to the Silver Globe" locations visit with cinematographer Andrzej Jaroszewicz 
• "The Cinematography of On the Silver Globe" documentary by film historian Daniel Bird 
• "Lunar Futurism" documentary by film historian Daniel Bird
• Disc Two - Escape to the Silver Globe:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen 
• Polish LPCM 2.0 Stereo 
• Optional English Subtitles
• Comes with a collector's booklet featuring writing by Daniel Bird and Andrew Graves, as well as archival writing from the time of the films’ production.
  

Eureka summons THE DEVIL at THE THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT (review)

The first two films of exiled Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski take a subversive look at his country's history in fantastical forms.  In THE THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT, a Polish Jewish man from an aristocratic family flees the murder of his wife and child by Soviet soldiers only to become involved with a woman who is his wife's exact double, forcing him to reflect on his past life and things he has blocked out about it.  Banned until 1987, THE DEVIL is the tale of a young aristocrat imprisoned for an assassination attempt and freed by a Satanic figure who follows him home and exposes the web of betrayal, perversion, and murder behind the image of his noble family.

REVIEW LINK: Eureka Entertainment (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE THIRD PART OF THE NIGHT/THE DEVIL Blu-ray specs: 

• Disc One - The Third Part of the Night:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen 
• Polish LPCM 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• "Michael Brooke on The Third Part of the Night" film historian interview
• Disc Two - The Devil:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen 
• Polish LPCM 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• "Michael Brooke on The Devil" film historian interview 
• "Lukasz Żulawski on The Devil" actor interview
• Comes with a collector's booklet featuring writing by Philip Kemp.
  

Acorn Media traces the legacy of ANNE RICE'S MAYFAIR WITCHES (review)

A California surgeon starts to develop strange and deadly powers.  Tracing her family legacy back to New Orleans, she discovers that she is being stalked by a demon that has been bound to her family for centuries in AMC's adaptation of Anne Rice's "The Witching Hour".

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

ANNE RICE'S MAYFAIR WITCHES Blu-ray specs:

• Eight episodes on two Blu-rays
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English and Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH and Spanish Subtitles
   

For Acorn Media, MY LIFE IS MURDER: SERIES 3 (review)

Lucy Lawless plays an ex-detective turned home baker who gets tangled up in murder mysteries as a police consultant in MY LIFE IS MURDER.

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

MY LIFE IS MURDER Series 3 DVD specs:

• Ten episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH Subtitles (episodes and extras)
• Interview with actress Lucy Lawless
• Interview with actor Temuera Morrison
• Photo Gallery
  

Arrow Films exposes THE SHAOLIN PLOT (review)

A young man must master Shaolin fighting techniques to avenge two masters in THE SHAOLIN PLOT which features Sammo Hung as a Tibetan warrior monk who uses golden cymbals to decapitate enemies.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE SHAOLIN PLOT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Mandarin and English LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English and English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Asian film experts Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) and Michael Worth 
• Audio Commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema 
• Alternate English Export Credits 
• Trailers: 
• Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer 
• English Export Trailer 
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady. 
• The first pressing includes a double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady, and an illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Peter Glagowski.

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Neon Eagle commands Juliet Chen to KILL BUTTERFLY KILL (review)

A woman seeks revenge against her rapists with the help of a hitman in this rare Taiwanese thriller released in the U.S. first as KILL BUTTERFLY KILL and then later as AMERICAN COMMANDO 6: KILL BUTTERFLY KILL with new footage that turns the revenge plot into a mob war as only Godfrey Ho and Joseph Lai could do it.

REVIEW LINK: Neon Eagle Video (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

KILL BUTTERFLY KILL Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One:
• "Kill Butterfly Kill" English Version:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Kenneth Brorsson and Paul Fox of the Podcast on Fire Network
• Theatrical Trailer
• Photo Gallery
• "Underground Wife" Original Taiwanese Cut
• Disc Two:
• "American Commando 6: Kill Butterfly Kill" IFD Re-Edit:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• IFD Trailer Compilation

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