Eureka's Masters of Cinema stands with APACHE (review)

When Geronimo surrenders, Massai (Burt Lancaster) takes up the mantle as "The Last Apache Warrior" in a one man war against the U.S. Army in Robert Aldrich's third feature film also starring Jean Peters and Charles Bronson.

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

APACHE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• "The Story of Massai" interview with Austin Fisher, author of "Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western"
• "The Last Sunset in Vera Cruz" interview with film historian Sheldon Hall on Robert Aldrich and the Western
• Theatrical Trailer
• The first pressing of 2,000 copies includes a limited edition O-card slipcase featuring original poster artwork and booklet featuring new writing on Apache by Western scholar Jenny Barrett and film writer Richard Combs. 

Arrow Video dares enter THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS (review)

THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS' Lino Capolicchio is an art restorer called to a remote village in the Po Valley to restore a rotting fresco that depicts a macabre rendition of the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian and gradually discovers that something is very wrong in the village related to the fresco's mysterious painter in this rural giallo from ZEDER director Pupi Avati.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video (US) Region ALL 4K UltraHD (DVDCompare)

THE HOUSE WITH LAUGHING WINDOWS 4K UltraHD specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (HDR10)
• Italian LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson
• Audio Commentary by critics Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth
• "Painted Screams" 2025 documentary by Federico Caddeo featuring interviews with co-writer/director Pupi Avati, co-writer Antonio Avati, assistant director Cesare Bastelli, actors Lino Capolicchio, Fancesca Marciano, Giulio Pizzirani, and Pietro Brambilla, production designer Luciana Morosetti, assistant camera operation Toni Scaramuzza, sound mixer Enrico Blasi, and Emanuele Taglietti (son of assistant production designer Otello Taglietti (94 minutes)
• "La Casa e Sola" visual essay by critic Chris Alexander
• "The Art of Suffering" visual essay by critic Kat Ellinger
• Italian Theatrical Trailer
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain, double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain, and an illustrated perfect bound collector's booklet featuring new writing by Matt Rogerson, Willow Maclay, Alexia Kannas, Anton Bitel, and Stefano Baschiera. 

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Also available on Region A Blu-ray. 

Acorn investigates MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG (review)

When Canon Daniel Clement finds a murdered man in the pews, he and Detective Sergeant Vanloo must find out why he was murdered or whether Daniel himself was the intended victim in this mystery series based on the novel by The Reverend Richard Coles.

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

MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG DVD specs:

• Six episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 Anamorphic 2.00:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Featurettes:
• "Adapting MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG"
• "Inside Series One"
• "1980s England" 
• Image Gallery 

88 Films celebrates DRAGONS FOREVER in 4K (review)

"Brothers" Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao reunite for a final time in DRAGONS FOREVER as a shady lawyer, a private detective, and a schizophrenic electronics wizard who get involved in intrigue between a fishing company suing a factory run by a vicious gangster.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (US) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Region A/B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

DRAGONS FOREVER 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10) 4K UltraHD and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen Blu-rays of the Hong Kong Version (95 minutes), Japanese Version (98 minutes), and Export Version (94 minutes)
• Cantonese Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono tracks on the Hong Kong Version
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 on the Hong Kong Version
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 on the Hong Kong Version, the Japanese Version, and the English Export Version
• Optional English Subtitles on the Hong Kong Version and the Japanese Version
• Optional English SDH Subtitles on the English Export Version
• Audio Commentary on the Hong Kong cut by Hong Kong cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema
• Audio Commentary on the Japanese cut by Frank Djeng and FJ De Santo
•  "Elite Stuntman" interview with Chin Kar-lok
• "Writing for the Dragons" interview with Szeto Cheuk-hon
• "Benny Forever" interview with actor Benny "The Jet" Urquidez
• "Discussing Dragons Forever" interview with academic David Desser
• "Hong Kong Cinema Forever" interview with film historian Mike Leeder 
• "Working with the Dragons" interview with martial artist Jude Poyer
• "Double Jeopardy" interview with martial artist Brad Allen
• "Beyond Gravity" interview with martial artist Joe Eigo
• "Kick Fighter" interview with martial artist Andy Cheng
• "Thai Breaker" interview with martial artist Billy Chow
• "The Legacy of Dragons Forever" featurette with today's actors and martial artists including Troy Sandford, Chris Jones, Ross Boyask, Maria Tran, Mike Leeder, Jean-Paul Ly, Mark Strange, Mike Moeller, George Clarke, Jude Poyer, and Steve Lawson
• Behind the Scenes Footage and Outtakes
• Music Video in English and Cantonese
• Additional Cantonese Dialogue
• English Export Theatrical Trailer
• Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer
• Comes in a keep case with six art cards, a reversible cover, an 88-page booklet, and a double-sided fold-out poster, all housed inside a rigid slipcase.

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Alternative Cinema goes blue with the MORE, MORE, MORE: ANDREA TRUE COLLECTION (Review)

"Before her 1976 breakout disco hit "More, More, More", Andrea True starred in some of the most unusual and popular adult films of the early 1970s, honing her craft alongside actors who would go on to become legends in the genre."  In DEVIL'S DUE, a virginal student is taken advantage of by her dean and her boyfriend and then betrayed by her father.  She runs away to New York and finds liberation in a Satanic cult.  In MEATBALL, a mad scientist and his nurse develop a potion for growing food supplies but it has an unusually horny side effect.  Harry Reems, Tina Russell, Jamie Gillis, Georgina Spelvin, and Marc Stevens also star.

REVIEW LINK: Alternative Cinema (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

MORE, MORE, MORE: ANDREA TRUE COLLECTION DVD specs:

• Devil's Due:
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono 
• Meatball:
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono 
• Sweet Wet Lips:
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono 

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Cult Epics takes aim at a SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS (review)

A shy but popular schoolgirl develops telepathic powers just as her school is under threat of an alien invasion in SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS from the director of HAUSU (and the Mandom Charles Bronson commercials).

REVIEW LINK: Cult Epics (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby Digital 5.1, and Japanese LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film critic Max Robinson
• "Sailor Suits and Sound" visual essay by Phillip Jeffries
• Obayashi Film Poster Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers
• First pressing includes a repro Japanese booklet (pamphlet)

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Radiance Films fights back against THE BETRAYAL (review)

A noble young samurai is asked to take responsibility for an accidental killing to preserve the honor of his clan only to be betrayed by his masters and his friends in this "critical chanbara" from the director of THE DEMON OF MOUNT OE and THE SNOW WOMAN.

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

THE BETRAYAL Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Select Scene Audio Commentary by Japanese film historian Tom Mes
• "The Path to Betrayal" visual essay by film historian Philip Kemp
• "The Four Elements of Tokuza Tanaka" visual essay by Japanese film historian Tom Mes
• Comes with a reversible cover.
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings and a booklet featuring new writing by Alain Silver.

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88 Films gets soapy with Joe D'Amato and ELEVEN DAYS, ELEVEN NIGHTS 2 (review)

Sensationalist author Sarah Asproon gets out of another divorce and winds up the executor of a fortune from a crazy millionaire she once had an affair with, tasked with determining who is the most worthy heir in a nest of vultures.  She decides she is willing to bare it all in order to fulfill her obligation while digging up dirt on a family that would make the Carringtons from DYNASTY blush with all their bed-hopping and dirty secrets in this Joe D'Amato cable favorite starring Playboy Playmate Kristin Rose.

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

ELEVEN DAYS ELEVEN NIGHTS 2 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• DISC ONE (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.66:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10)
• English and Italian LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH and English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Italian cinema experts Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti
• Italian Opening and Closing Titles 
• DISC TWO (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH and English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by Italian cinema experts Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti
• "Filmirage: From Dawn Till Dusk" interview with dubbing director Mark Thompson Ashworth 
• "Seven Notes, Eleven Nights" interview with composer Piero Montanari 
• "Eros in the Plastic Age" 2025 interview with music historian Pierpaolo De Sanctis
• Italian Opening and Closing Titles 
• Comes with a reversible cover. 
• The first pressing includes an O-ring slipcover with artwork by Sean Longmore and a booklet. 

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

Deaf Crocodile cuddles up with INFLATABLE SEX DOLL OF THE WASTELANDS (review)

A hitman hired to take out a local gang who kidnapped and might have murdered the lover of a local businessman is drawn into an infernal web when he discovers that his chief target is a man he is already sworn to kill for personal reasons in this Pink Film from the writer of Seijun Suzuki's BRANDED TO KILL.

REVIEW LINK: Deaf Crocodile (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

INFLATABLE SEX DOLL OF THE WASTELANDS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians Mike Leeder and Arne Venema
• Interview with film professor Alexander Zahlten on the Pink Film subgenre in Japanese cinema, moderated by Dennis Bartok of Deaf Crocodile (82 minutes)
• "Tomorrow Won't Be a Dream: Duality and Triangles in Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands" video essay by journalist and physical media expert Ryan Verrill (The Disc Connected) and film professor Dr. Will Dodson
• Restoration Demo
• Includes an insert with a URL to a PDF for the video essay.

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Also available in a DELUXE LIMITED EDITION from Deaf Crocodile. 

Celluloid Dreams rediscovers A HYENA IN THE SAFE (review)

Seven thieves meet at a mysterious villa to recover their stashed loot from a diamond heist only to fall victim one-by-one to a killer in this giallo caper film from the director of THE NUDE PRINCESS, MATALO, and GESTAPO'S LAST ORGY.

REVIEW LINK: Celluloid Dreams (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

A HYENA IN THE SAFE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Celluloid Dreams' Guido Henkel
• "7 Guests for a Massacre" interviews with director Cesare Canevari, actor Sandro Pizzochero, producer Ninì Della Misericordia, and journalists Adriana Morlacchi and Diego Pisati
• "Schrödinger's Diamonds: The Duplicitous Mystery of HYENA IN THE SAFE" visual essay by Andy Marshall-Roberts
• "The Mysteries of Villa Toeplitz" location tour by Francesco Pollanetti
• Image Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover 

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For Rustblade, THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN (review)

When philandering businessman Giorgio catches a killer in the act of disposing of his latest victim, he hires the man to murder his wealthy wife and stage a kidnapping for ransom.  Things go wrong quickly when a young couple steal his car with the body in the trunk and the killer pursues them to a remote seaside villa in Luigi Cozzi's early giallo starring George Hilton, Eduardo Fajardo, Alessio Orano, Cristina Galbo, and Antoine Saint-John.

REVIEW LINK: Rustablade Records (IT) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.24:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Interview with director Luigi Cozzi
• Analysis by Federico Frusciante
• Locations Visit
• Theatrical Trailer

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Arrow Video goes pan-Asian with horror in THREE/THREE... EXTREMES (Review)

Six Asian directors put their own spins on horror in the two anthology films THREE and THREE... EXTREMES dealing with missing persons, cursed puppets, abductions, miracle rejuvenation treatments with gruesome side effects, and vengeful ghosts from makers of OLDBOY, A TALE OF TWO SISTERS, and AUDITION among others.

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

THREE/THREE... EXTREMES Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - THREE:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Korean/Thai/Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Cross-Pollination Horror Part 1" interview with producer and "Going Home" director Peter Ho-Sun Chan
• "Recalling Memories" interview with "Memories" director Kim Jee-woon
• "Making Memories" interview with "Memories" cinematographer Hong Kyoung-pyo
• "Terror Without Borders" interview with Peter Ho-Sun Chan by Frédéric Ambroisine
• "Between Life and Death" interview with "Going Home" star Eugenia Yuan by Frédéric Ambroisine
• "Peter Ho-Sun Chan: Cinema Without Borders"
• "Kim Jee-woon: Memories from Beyond the Grave"
• Making-of featurette
• Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Two - THREE... EXTREMES:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Cantonese/Mandarin/Korean/Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary on the segment "Box" by director Takashi Miike 
• "Cross-Pollination Horror Part 2" interview with producer Peter Ho-Sun Chan
• "Cooking Dumplings" interview with "Dumplings" director Fruit Chan
• "Something a Little More Beautiful" interview with "Box" director Takashi Miike
• "Taste, Taboo and Truth" interview with Fruit Chan by Frédéric Ambroisine
• "More That Skin Deep" interview with "Dumplings" star Bai Ling by Frédéric Ambroisine
• Making-of featurettes:
• "Dumplings"
• "Cut"
• "Box"
• Trailers:
• "Three... Extremes"
• "Dumplings"
• Comes in a slipcover with a reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork for both films by Xinmei Liu, an illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the films by Stacie Ponder and David Desser, and a double-sided foldout poster featuring newly commissioned artwork by Xinmei Liu.

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Cleopatra Records reflects on MIRROR LIFE: MODERN ZOMBIES (review)

A filmmaker makes a documentary about the search for her cousin who vanished after volunteering for a month-long top secret experimental drug trial that may be responsible for the increasingly violent behavior spreading across the country like an epidemic.

REVIEW LINK: Cleopatra Records (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

MIRROR LIFE - MODERN ZOMBIES DVD specs:

• 16:9 Anamorphic 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Audio Commentary by writer/director/co-star Kazy Tauginas and senior editor Aidan Kane
• Deleted Scenes
• Outtakes
• Image Gallery
• Trailer

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88 Films seeks ABSOLUTION (review)

Richard Burton (EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC), Dominic Guard (PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK), and Billy Connolly (TV's HEAD OF THE CLASS) star in this low-key thriller from THE WICKER MAN's Anthony Shaffer.  When a hippie vagrant squats in the woods near an elite Catholic boys school, repressed Father Goddard's influence starts to wane on his brightest pupil setting off a battle of wills and manipulation and deadly secrets protected by the seal of confession.

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

ABSOLUTION Blu-ray specs:

• Theatrical Cut (95 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians Kim Newman and Sean Hogan
• Audio Commentary by film historian Kevin Lyons 
• Director's Cut (85 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono 
• "Anthony Page on ABSOLUTION" director interview
• "Dominic Guard on ABSOLUTION" actor interview
• Image Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• The first pressing includes an O-card slipcover and a booklet. 

88 Films gets "Nasty" with SS EXPERIMENT LOVE CAMP (review)

One of the most notorious Video Nasties SS EXPERIMENT LOVE CAMP details the cruel and kinky extracurricular activities of soldiers and scientists at the titular facility.  From the director of THE HAND THAT FEEDS THE DEAD and DJANGO THE BASTARD.

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

SS EXPERIMENT LOVE CAMP 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10) 4K UltraHD and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen Blu-ray discs
• English and Italian LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH and English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti
• "SSadistically Yours, Sergio G." interview with director Sergio Garrone
• "SSadist Sound" interview with soundtrack historian Pierpaolo de Sanctis
• "The Alabiso Dynasty" interview with editor Eugenio Alabiso
• "Framing Exploitation" interview with cinematographer Maurizio Centini
• Italian Opening and Closing Titles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Comes with a reversible cover.
• The first pressing includes a double-walled slipcover with artwork by Joel Robinson and a booklet by Tim Murray and Rachael Nisbet. 

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Also available on Blu-ray! 

Radiance Films becomes trapped in MALPERTUIS (review)

A sailor on shore leave becomes trapped in the damned house of his mysterious uncle who wants him to continue his mysterious life's work in this surreal thriller from the director of DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS starring Orson Welles, Mathieu Carriere, Susan Hampshire, and Michel Bouquet.

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

MALPERTUIS Blu-ray specs:

• Director's Cut (125 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Dutch LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Harry Kümel, moderated by Françoise Levie
• Cannes Cut (104 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen (upscaled from standard definition)
• English and French Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH and English Subtitles
• "Harry Kümel on MALPERTUIS"
• "Jonathan Rigby on MALPERTUIS"
• "MALPERTUIS Archives" documentary
• "Orson Welles Uncut" documentary
• "Susan Hampshire: One Actress, Three Parts"
• 1971 television interview with director Harry Kümel and actor Michel Bouquet
• "Jean Ray: John Flanders" documentary 
• "MALPERTUIS Revisited" locations visit
• French Theatrical Trailer
• "The Warden of the Tomb" 1965 short film by Harry Kümel
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow. 
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in rigid box and full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, and including an 80-page perfect bound booklet featuring new writing by Lucas Balbo, Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, David Flint, Willow Catelyn Maclay, Jonathan Owen.

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88 Films sees double with THE BARBARIANS (Review)

David and Peter Paul "The Barbarian Brothers" play twins separated as children who grow into slaves of the evil Kadar (Richard Lynch) who meet again in the arena to kill each other but then decide to rebel and rescue their abducted queen and their tribe in this lush eighties fantasy film comedy from Ruggero Deodato and Cannon Films.

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

THE BARBARIANS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians Troy Howarth and Eugenio Ercolani
• Audio Commentary by film historians Kim Newman and Nick De Semelyn
• "Barbaric Cuts" interview with editor Eugenio Alabiso
• "Falling for Ruggero" interview with Stuntman Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
• "From Cannibals to Barbarians" interview with film historian Eugenio Ercolani
• "Light My Biceps" interview with cinematographer Gianlorenzo Battaglia 
• "Weightlifting with Ruggero" interview with first assistant director Roberto Palmerini
• "Trash Tube" interview with director Ruggero Deodato
• "The Barbarians: Rip(off) and Tear" video essay by Mike Foster
• "Natural Born Influencers" video essay by Nanni Cobretti
• "Golan, Globus and Heroes" video essay by Heather Wixson
• "Revenge of the C(l)onans" video essay by Pier Maria Bocchi
• "Scooter" 1995 short film by Roberto Palmerini with introduction
• "La Mancia" 1996 short film by Roberto Palmerini with introduction
• TV Advert
• Theatrical Trailer
• The first pressing includes a double-walled O-ring slipcover and premium art cards.

88 Films tames the HEART OF DRAGON (review)

Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung get serious in the comic drama HEART OF DRAGON in which Chan is a cop who must take care of his mentally disabled brother (Hung), especially when the boy in a man's body winds up with stolen diamonds and smugglers after him.

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

HEART OF DRAGON 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• Hong Kong Version:
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10)
• Cantonese and English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Japanese Extended Cut:
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10)
• Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (with Japanese soundtrack and songs)
• Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (with Hong Kong theatrical soundtrack and no music for the parking lot fight scene)
• Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (with Hong Kong theatrical soundtrack but Japanese soundtrack for parking lot fight scene)
• Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (with Hong Kong theatrical soundtrack and Japanese songs) 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (hybrid classic English dub With Cantonese audio for the extra Japanese scenes)
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by film historian David West 
• Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• Hong Kong Version and Japanese Extended Cut in 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen with the same audio and subtitle options as the 4K disc
• Audio Commentary on the Japanese Extended Cut by film historian David West
• "The First Mission - Making of Special
• "The First Mission" behind the scenes originally used at a pre-release event screening at Shinjuku Shochiku in August 1985
• "Radical Reinvention" interview with film historian Victor Fan
• Archival interview with actor Jackie Chan
• Archival interview with stuntman Rocky Lai
• Archival interview with actor Sammo Hung
• "Different Strokes" interview with actor Sammo Hung 2
• "Spotlight on Action" interview with cinematographer Arthur Wong
• Extended Version Fullscreen Outtakes
• Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer
• "Raging Force" English Export Trailer
• Fortune Star Trailer
• Japanese Teaser Trailer #1
• Japanese Teaser Trailer #2

• Japanese Theatrical Trailer
• Comes in a rigid slipcase with brand-new artwork by Sean Longmore, double-sided foldout poster, six replica lobby cards, and an 80-page fully illustrated book featuring articles by C.J. Lines, Matthew Edwards, and Fraser Elliott. 

Arrow Video gets swallowed up IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (review)

An insurance investigator and a book editor trace a missing horror author to the town of his major horror works that turns out to be as real as his monsters in John Carpenter's Lovecraftian IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, and Charlton Heston.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video (US/UK) Region ALL 4K UltraHD (DVDCompare)

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS 4K UtlraHD specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC 2.39:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10)
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director John Carpenter and producer Sandy King Carpenter
• Audio Commentary by John Carpenter and cinematographer Gary B. Kibbe
• Audio Commentary by filmmakers Rebekah McKendry & Elric Kane, co-hosts of Colors of the Dark podcast
• "Making Madness" interview with producer Sandy King Carpenter
• "Do You Read Sutter Cane?" interview with actor Jürgen Prochnow
• "The Whisperer of the Dark" interview with actress Julie Carmen
• "Greg Nicotero's Things in the Basement" interview with make-up effects creator Greg Nicotero
• "Horror's Hallowed Grounds" locations visit hosted by Sean Clark
• "We Are What He Writes" tribute of John Carpenter and IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
• "Reality Is Not What It Used To Be" appreciation by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• "Home Movies From Hobb's End" behind the scenes video
• "The Making of IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS" promotional piece
• Theatrical Trailer
• TV Spots
• Image Gallery
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Francesco Francavilla.
• The first pressing includes a slipcover, a double-sided foldout poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Francesco Francavilla, and a perfectbound collector's book featuring new writing on the film by Guy Adams, Josh Hurtado, Richard Kadrey, George Daniel Lea, Willow Catelyn Maclay, and Alexandra West.

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88 Films visits THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (review)

The director of THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK turns to true crime with the still-unsolved Phantom of Texarkana crimes in THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN starring Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, and Dawn Wells.

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

THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by filmmaker and author Sean Hogan and novelist and critic Kim Newman
• Audio Commentary by film journalists Dave Wain and Matty Budrewicz
• "Piercing Insights" interview with NIGHTMARE U.S.A. author Stephen Thrower
• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery
• The first pressing comes with a double-walled slipcover and a foldout poster. 

88 Films chuckles and chills with EVIL LAUGH (review)

A cackling killer stalks a group of med students who are fixing up a mansion that was once the site of an orphanage where a massacre occurred in the eighties slasher comedy EVIL LAUGH.

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

EVIL LAUGH Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by The Hysteria Continues
• "The Joy of Laughter: Making EVIL LAUGH" documentary including interviews with producer/co-writer/actor Steven Baio, actors Jerold Pearson, Karyn O'Bryan and Tom Shell, director of photography/second unit director Steef Sealy, first assistant director Eric Brown, associate producers Joe Barnard and James Daurio, make-up effects artist David Cohen and assistant to the producer/casting assistant/actor Johnny Venokur
• Comes with a reversible cover.
• The first pressing includes a slipcover and booklet by Callum Wadell. 

Full Moon's beauty meets her beast in MERIDIAN (review)

TWO MOON JUNCTION's Sherilyn Fenn and PUPPET MASTER II's Charlie Spradling star in Charles Band's MERIDIAN: KISS OF THE BEAST.  A young American woman inherits her family's ancestral Italian castle along with a family curse involving a very beastly lover.  Hilary Mason (DON'T LOOK NOW) and Phil Fondacaro (TROLL) also star.  Make-up effects by Greg Cannom (BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA) and music by Pino Donaggio (BODY DOUBLE).

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

MERIDIAN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Videozone Making-of
• Trailer
• Other Trailers

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Acorn Media investigates THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES: SERIES 11 (review)

Detective Mike Shepherd and his team are investigating more twisty murders in the New Zealand town of Brokenwood including an eighties band groupie who takes a fatal plunge, a radio star killed in an exploding pool shed, a victim killed during a seance, the victim of a killer chandelier, a body hanging at the end of a zip line, and a corpse dressed as Santa Claus.

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

THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES SERIES 11 DVD specs:

• Six feature-length episodes on three dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 Anamorphic 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Image Gallery 

Cauldron Films hunts down MAD FOXES in 4K (review)

A jerk with a cool Stingray is pushed to his limits by murderous bikers in this cartoonishly violent vigilante film from Swiss producer Erwin C. Dietrich.

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

MAD FOXES 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray Combo specs:

• Disc One - 4K UltraHD:
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/ HDR-compatible)
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Mono, Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles for the English dub and optional English subtitles for the Spanish dub
• Audio Commentary by film historians Nanni Cobretti and Merlyn Roberts 
• Disc Two - Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Mono, Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles for the English dub and optional English subtitles for the Spanish dub
• Audio Commentary by film historians Nanni Cobretti and Merlyn Roberts 
• "The Untold Story of Robert O’Neal" interview with actor José Gras
• "Erwin and the Foxes" interview with producer Erwin C. Dietrich and actors Helmi Sigg and Eric Falk
• "Mad Eric" interview with actor Eric Falk 
• "Nazi Fox Bikers Must Die" video essay by film historian Troy Howarth
• Image Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Comes in a rigid slipcase with artwork by Justin Coffee and includes a foldout poster. 

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Eureka ventures into danger with MARTIAL LAW - LO WEI'S WUXIA WORLD (review)

Before he moved to Golden Harvest and made stars of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, Lo Wei worked decades at Shaw Brothers in various genres, directing the first wuxia films before Chang Cheh and King Hu and finishing off his tenure at the company with an impressive trio.  The BLACK BUTTERFLY is a Robin Hood-esque thief who steals from the rich to help the poor victims of a natural disaster but soon finds herself up against her own father when he is hired to protect his village's wealthy businessmen.  In DEATH VALLEY, a duplicitous woman kills her wealthy uncle and sets about seducing and manipulating various martial artists out to avenge their master into fighting each other.  In VENGEANCE OF A SNOWGIRL, a disabled girl goes on a mission of vengeance against the men who killed her parents with the help of a legendary jade sword.

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

MARTIAL LAW - LO WEI'S WUXIA WORLD Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One:
• Black Butterfly:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Mandarin LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema 
• Death Valley: 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Mandarin LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema 
• Disc Two: 
• Vengeance of a Snowgirl:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Mandarin LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema 
• "A Dish Best Served Cold" interview with Hong Kong cinema scholar Wayne Wong 
• The first pressing includes a limited edition O-card slipcase featuring new artwork by Grégory Sacré (Gokaiju) and a  collector’s booklet featuring new writing on all three films in this set by Hong Kong cinema expert Camille Zaurin.

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88 Films' UNCLE SAM wants you... dead! (review)

When flag burners, draft dodgers, corrupt politicians, tax cheats, lazy cops, and even pot smoking teens disrespect the Fourth of July, an undead Iraq War soldier comes back to life to make this a holiday his home town will never forget.  From director William Lustig (MANIAC) and writer Larry Cohen (GOD TOLD ME TO).

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

UNCLE SAM Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director William Lustig, screenwriter Larry Cohen, and producer George Braunstein
• Audio Commentary by director William Lustig and actor Isaac Hayes
• Fire Stunts Behind the Scenes with audio commentary by stunt coordinator Spiro Rizatos
• Gag Reel
• Poster and Still Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• The first pressing includes an O-Ring slipcover and booklet liner notes. 

88 Films gets tickled by PLAYFUL WHITE FINGERS (review)

Country bumpkin Yuki arrives in the city and falls for charming thief Jiro.  When he is caught and imprisoned, Yuki falls in with the man's other lover Yoko and former cellmate Taku, embracing a life of pleasure and crime in the directorial debut of Toru Murakawa, director of "The Game Trilogy".

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

PLAYFUL WHITE FINGERS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.45:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by writers Amber T and Jasper Sharp
• "Desire Within" interview with director Toru Murakawa
• "Touchy Feely" introduction by critic Kei Chiba
• Still Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer 

Radiance Films gives the chills with DAIEI GOTHIC VOLUME 2 (review)

DAIEI GOTHIC VOLUME TWO brings us three more adaptations of popular Japanese ghost stories and legends.  In THE DEMON OF MOUNT OE, Genji knights must infiltrate the mountain stronghold of bandits lead by a demonic entity.  In THE HAUNTED CASTLE, a governor is bedeviled by a ghost cat that can assume human form.  In THE GHOST OF KASANE SWAMP, the murder of a blind masseur is visited upon the next generation of both the killer's and the victim's family.

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

DAIEI GOTHIC VOLUME 2 Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - Demon of Mount Oe:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Taichi Kasuga on THE DEMON OF MOUNT OE" film historian interview
• "Bride of the Demon-Slayer" visual essay by Japanese film expert Tom Mes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Two - The Haunted Castle:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Mari Asato on THE HAUNTED CASTLE filmmaker interview
• "The Strange Case of Ikuko Mori" visual essay by Japanese film expert Tom Mes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Three - The Ghost of Kasane Swamp:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Select-Scene Audio Commentary by horror film scholar Lindsay Nelson
• "Norio Tsuruta on THE GHOST OF KASANE SWAMP" filmmaker interview
• "Legacy of Ghosts" visual essay by ghost story scholar Zack Davisson
• Theatrical Trailer
• Limited Edition of 4,000 copies presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases for each film and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, including an 80-page perfect bound book featuring new writing by Amber T, Jasper Sharp, and Tom Mes, plus archival writing by Daniel O’Neill and original ghost stories The Goblin of Oeyama and The Vampire Cat.

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Second Run asks WHO WANTS TO KILL JESSIE? (review)

When a scientist who has developed a drug that can influence dreams catches her husband dreaming about the beautiful comic strip heroine Jessie, she uses the drug to rid him of his dreams but it has the side effect of pulling his dreams into reality including Jessie and her villainous foes.

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

WHO WANTS TO KILL JESSIE? Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Czech LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Projection Booth podcast commentary by podcasters Mike White, Jim Laczkowski, and Jonathan Owen
• "Those Crazy Czechs" video essay by film historian Michael Brooke
• "Directive [Direktiva]" 1955 short film by Václav Vorlíček
• Comes with a 24-page booklet with new writing on the film by author and Czech cinema expert Jonathan Owen.
   

Radiance Films is overcome by SENSO (review)

An unhappily married young Countess enters a forbidden relationship with an Austrian soldier during the occupation of Venice in 1866 in Luchino Visconti's first Technicolor film SENSO starring Alida Valli and Farley Granger.

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

SENSO Blu-ray specs:

• DISC ONE:
• Italian Version:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Fullscreen
• Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles 
• English Version:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Fullscreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles 
• Interview with critic and fashion historian Matteo Augello 
• 1969 French television interview with interview with Luchino Visconti and Maria Callas 
• "Luchino Visconti" 1999 documentary by Carlo Lizzani  
• DISC TWO:
• Widescreen Version:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Limited edition of 3,000 copies comes with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and booklet featuring new writing by Christina Newland, housed in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings. 

88 Films beams in BAD CHANNELS (review)

When KDUL ditches its "All Polka" music format for rock and roll, an alien decides the station would be the perfect place to capture hot babes using the music of Blue Oyster Cult ("Don't Fear the Reaper").  Paul Hipp, Martha Quinn, and Charlie Spradling star in this Full Moon production from Ted Nicolaou (SUBSPECIES).

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

BAD CHANNELS Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Ted Nicolaou
• Audio Commentary by film journalists Dave Wain and Matty Budrewicz
• "Ted Talk BAD CHANNELS" interview with director Ted Nicolaou
• Archival interview with director Ted Nicolaou
• "The Making of BAD CHANNELS
• "VideoZone making-of
• Video Trailer
• Rare Trailer
• The first pressing includes a rigid slipcover with new artwork.

88 Films discovers that humans are easy alien PREY (review)

Long before Stuart Gordon's FROM BEYOND, British-accented aliens discovered that humans are high in protein and "easy PREY" in Norman J. Warren's sex and gore pre-ALIEN sci-fi flick about an alien who takes the form of a man who becomes embroiled in a psychosexual triangle with two women.

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

PREY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
• "Stephen Thrower on PRAY" interview
• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery 

Blue Underground hops the "death line" for some RAW MEAT (review)

People are disappearing at London's Russell Square Tube Station in a film that gives a new meaning to the Underground in RAW MEAT, starring Donald Pleasance and Christopher Lee, directed by Gary Sherman (POLTERGEIST III, DEAD AND BURIED, VICE SQUAD).

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

RAW MEAT 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray combo specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision)
• English Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 1.0 MonoFrench DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Gary Sherman, producer Paul Maslansky, and assistant director Lewis More O'Farrall, moderated by David Gregory
• Audio Commentary by critics Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth
• Trailers:
• DEATH LINE U.K. Theatrical Trailer
• RAW MEAT U.S. Theatrical Trailer
• Three U.S. TV Spots
• Two U.S. TV Spots
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 1.0 MonoFrench DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Gary Sherman, producer Paul Maslansky, and assistant director Lewis More O'Farrall, moderated by David Gregory
• Audio Commentary by critics Nathaniel Thompson and Troy Howarth
• "Tales from the Tube" interview with director Gary Sherman and executive producers Jay Kanter and Alan Ladd Jr.
• "From the Depths" interview with interview with star David Ladd and producer Paul Maslansky
• "Mind the Doors" interview with actor Hugh Armstrong
• Trailers:
• DEATH LINE U.K. Theatrical Trailer
• RAW MEAT U.S. Theatrical Trailer
• Three U.S. TV Spots
• Two U.S. TV Spots
• Poster and Still Gallery
• Comes with a reversible cover.

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Acorn Media snoops with THE MADAME BLANC MYSTERIES: SERIES 4 (review)

SCOTT AND BAILEY's Sally Lindsay is back as English ex-pat Jean White running an antiques shop in picturesque Sainte-Victoire and helping the local police with murder investigations involving antiques.

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

THE MADAME BLANC MYSTERIES - SERIES 4 DVD specs:

• Seven episodes on two DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Picture Gallery 

Troma gets "Tromatic" for THE LAST HORROR FILM (review)

MANIAC's Caroline Munro and Anthony Spinell reunite in Cannes to shoot THE LAST HORROR FILM.  New York cabbie Vinny dreams of making a horror film starring scream queen Jana Bates.  Camera-in-hand, he jets off to Cannes to find her but is blocked at every turn.  When people around her start dying and disappearing, everyone believes it to be an elaborate publicity stunt to promote her new slasher film; but has Vinny been pushed too far?

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

THE LAST HORROR FILM Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by associate producer and Joe Spinell's friend Luke Walter, moderated by Troma Films' Evan Husney (2009)
• Audio Commentary by actress Caroline Munro, moderated by journalist Alan Jones (2023)
• Audio Commentary by associate producer and Joe Spinell's friend Luke Walter, moderated by Severin Films' David Gregory (2025)
• "Like a Father Figure" Sal Sirchia Remembers Joe Spinell
• "My Last Horror Film Ever" archival audio interview with producter Judd Hamilton
• "The Last Horror Film New York and Cannes Locations Visit" hosted By Rue Morgue's Michael Gingold and Severin Films' David Gregory
• "Mister Robbie" promotional trailer for the never produced "Maniac II: Mister Robbie" directed by Buddy Giovinazzo
• Trailers
• Tromatic Extras
• Tromatic Trailers

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88 Films goes extraterrestrial with THE CAT (review)

Based on the serialized novel by Hong Kong fantasy author Wisely, THE CAT follows a writer investigating the grisly deaths surrounding an old man, a beautiful young woman, and her pet cat.  From the director of DEVIL FETUS and THE STORY OF RICKY.

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

THE CAT Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Cantonese LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Frank Djeng, New York Asian Film Festival
• Full Japanese Version with Alternate Footage and Cast in Standard Definition
• Interview with screenwriter Gordon Chan
• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery
• Reversible Cover
• Comes in a rigid slipcase with slipcover, a 40-page perfect-bound book, and a premium art card.

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Radiance Films in post-war WORLD NOIR VOL. 3 (review)

Radiance Films' WORLD NOIR VOL. 3 looks at noir in postwar Europe starting with NOT GUILTY in which a socially-ostracized, alcoholic doctor (Michel Simon) gets a new lease on life when he covers up a fatal accident and sets about committing the perfect murder.  In THE LOST ONE, Peter Lorre writes, directs, and stars as a German doctor living under an assumed name in a refugee camp when a face from the past reappears to collect a favor.  In GIRL WITH HYACINTHS, a writer and his wife attempt to discover the reason that their beautiful young neighbor took her own life.

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

WORLD NOIR VOL. 3 Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - Not Guilty:
• Branching Options for the Film with Original or Alternate Ending
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• French DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "The Perfect Crime: Henri Decoin and NOT GUILTY" visual essay by critic Imogen Sara Smith
• 1947 radio interview with actor Michel Simon
• 1947 behind-the-scenes radio documentary
• Alternate Ending
• Photo Gallery
• Disc Two - The Lost One:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by critic and programmer Tony Rayns
• Iinterview with critic and historian Pamela Hutchinson
• Interview with programmer and historian Margaret Deriaz
• Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Three - Girl with Hyacinths:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Swedish LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Peter Jilmstad
• "Meeting with Hasse" 1993 TV documentary on filmmaker and actor Hasse Ekman
• "Golden Streaks in My Blood: Seeing and Not Seeing in GIRL WITH HYACINTHS" visual essay by author Julia Armfield
• Limited Edition of 3,000 copies presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases for each film and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork, and an 80-page perfect bound book featuring archival pieces and new writing by critics and experts including Farran Nehme, Martyn Waites, Elena Lazic, Jourdain Searles, and more. 

Cult Epics goes full throttle with HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (review)

Fleeing an unhappy relationship for time with his true love - his motorbike - Ko ends up in the countryside where he meets the beautiful free spirit Miyoko.  They begin a whirlwind relationship but reality sets in as Miyoko comes between Ko and his motorbike with her own full throttle desires.  From Nobuhiko Obayashi, director of HAUSU.

REVIEW LINK: Cult Epics (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Samm Deighan
• "Becoming the Wind: His Motorbike, Her Island and the Biker Movie" visual essay by Esher Rosenfield
• "Her Island: Onomichi Pt. 1" visual essay by Alex Pratt
• Director Nobuhiko Obayashi Interview
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers 
• Reversible Cover 
• The first pressing includes a slipcover and a reproduction of a 24-page Japanese booklet.

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Second Sight spends the night with THE INNKEEPERS (review)

With only a couple guests for it last weekend of operation, two slacker clerks of the historic Yankee Pedlar Inn decide to use their free time to prove the existence of its ghostly reputation in Ti West's follow-up to HOUSE OF THE DEVIL.  Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, and Kelly McGillis star.

REVIEW LINK: Second Sight (UK) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE INNKEEPERS 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC 2.40:1 Dolby Vision Widescreen 4K UltraHD and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 Widescreen Blu-ray Discs
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by writer/director/editor Ti West, producers Larry Fessenden and Peter Phok, and sound designer Graham Reznick
• Audio Commentary by writer/director/editor Ti West and actors Sara Paxton and Pat Healy
• "A Lasting Memory" interview with writer/director/editor Ti West
• "Let's Make This Good" interview with actor Pat Healy
• "Our Dysfunctional World" interview with producer Larry Fessenden
• "Living in the Process" 2025 interview with director of photography Eliot Rockett
• "Cast a Wide Net" interview with composer Jeff Grace
• "A Validating Moment" interview with line producer Jacob Jaffke
• THE INNKEEPERS Behind the Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Comes in a rigid slipcase with new artwork by Nick Charge, a 120-page book with new essays by Becky Darke, Barry Forshaw, Prince Jackson, Craig Ian Mann, Rebecca Sayce and Heather Wixson. and six collectors' art cards.

MVD Visual finds out WHAT LIVES HERE (review)

A junk removal crew get more than a few trinkets when they agree to clear out a notoriously haunted mansion where the elderly owner was just brutally murdered in this New Jersey slasher shot in the same Victorian mansion as DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE.

REVIEW LINK: MVD Visual (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

WHAT LIVES HERE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Trailer

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Eureka Video and Masters of Cinema stand off at HIGH NOON (review)

Gary Cooper stars as a sheriff left in the lurch at HIGH NOON in one of the most iconic Hollywood westerns.  Grace Kelly, Katy Jurado, Lee Van Cleef, and Lloyd Bridges also star.

REVIEW LINK: Eureka Entertainment (UK) Region ALL 4K UltraHD (DVDCompare)

HIGH NOON 4K UltraHD specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen (Dolby Vision)
• English LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by historian Glenn Frankel, author of "High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic" 
• Audio Commentary by western authority Stephen Prince 
• "Women of the West: A Feminist Approach to HIGH NOON" video essay by Western scholar J. E. Smyth 
• 1969 audio interview with writer Carl Foreman from the National Film Theatre in London 
• Interview with film historian Neil Sinyard, author of "Fred Zinnemann: Films of Character and Conscience" 
• "The Making of High Noon" documentary hosted by critic Leonard Maltin 
• "Inside HIGH NOON" documentary narrated by actor Frank Langella 
• "Behind HIGH NOON" featurette hosted by Gary Cooper's daughter Maria Cooper-Janis 
• Theatrical Trailer
• The first pressing comes in a limited edition O-card slipcase with a collector’s booklet featuring the original short story The Tin Star by John W. Cunningham, a 1974 essay by screenwriter Carl Foreman and a retrospective review of the film from 1986.