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.