88 Films chews the scenery with CRAZE (review)

Jack Palance is an antiques dealer who believes sacrificing victims to a statue of an African god will bring him great fortune in Freddie Francis' sleazy British horror film CRAZE from the producer of HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM.  Also starring Michael Jayston, Martin Potter, Diana Dors, Trevor Howard, David Warbeck, Suzy Kendall, and Julie Ege.

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

CRAZE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Audio Commentary by film historians Troy Howarth and Nathaniel Thompson
• "Crazy Days: The Making of CRAZE" interview with writer/critic Jonathan Rigby
• "Vicious Voodoo: Kim Newman on CRAZE" writer/critic interview
• Theatrical Trailer
• Freddie Francis Trailer Reel
• Comes with a reversible cover.
• The first pressing includes an O-ring slipcover and booklet. 

Acorn Media investigates ART DETECTIVES (review)

The Metropolitan Police's Heritage Crime Unit consists solely of Mick Palmer until he recruits DC Shazia Martin for a series of murder investigations across the UK involving art and artifacts, fraud and forgeries.  TRUE BLOOD's Stephen Moyer, Nina Singh, and COUPLING's Sarah Alexander star.

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

ART DETECTIVES - SERIES 1 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
• "Stephen Moyer on ART DETECTIVES" interview 

88 Films fights for the future in CRASH AND BURN (Review)

The inhabitants of a pirate television station in the middle of the desert in an apocalyptic future are stalked by a robot that has had its prime directive not to harm humans removed in one of the earliest Full Moon sci-fi flicks.  Bill Moseley, Megan Ward, and Ralph Waite star.

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

CRASH AND BURN 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 SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Charles Band and actor Bill Molseley
• Audio Commentary by film journalists Dave Wain and Matty Budrewicz
• Behind the Scenes
• Blooper Reel
• Theatrical Trailer
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring new art by Joel Robinson.
• The first pressing includes an O-ring slipcover featuring original and newly-commissioned art by Joel Robinson. 

Second Sight opens itself up to POSSESSION in 4K (review)

A fraught marital separation and custody battle between a secret agent and a housewife with a new age lover expands from a love triangle to include a flesh-devouring monster in Andrzej Zulawski's hysterical Cannes sensation POSSESSION starring Sam Neill, Isabelle Adjani, and Heinz Bennett.

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

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• Director's Cut:
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.66:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10)
• English LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Alison Taylor
• Audio Commentary by director Andrzej Żuławski, moderated by biographer Daniel Bird
• Audio Commentary by co-screenwriter Frederic Tuten, moderated by Daniel Bird   
• U.S. Theatrical Version:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 1.0 
• "The Horror of Normality: Guillermo del Toro on Possession" filmmaker appreciation
• "The Shadow We Carry: Kat Ellinger on Possession" critic appreciation
• "Repossessed: The Re-Editing of Possession" documentary
• "Andrzej Żuławski: Director" documentary
• "A Divided City: The Berlin Locations Possession" documentary
• "The Sounds of Possession" interview with composer Andrzej Korzynski
• "Our Friend in the West" interview with critic and producer Christian Ferry
• "Basha: The Unsung Heroine of Polish Poster Art" documentary about artist Barbara Baranowska
• "The Other Side of the Wall: The Making of Possession" documentary
• Interview with director Andrzej Żuławski
• Deleted Scenes
• International Trailer
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 presentation of the director's cut and extras 
• Disc Three (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 presentation of the U.S. theatrical cut 
• Comes in a rigid slipcase with Basha's original theatrical artwork, a 220-page hardback book with new essays by Daniel Bird, Elena Lazic and Alison Taylor, ‘The Creature: Preliminary Sketches’, ‘Filming Possession’, ‘The Poster of Possession’, pressbook feature, archive articles and interviews and Behind the Scenes gallery, a 211-page original shooting script book with notes by Andrzej Żuławski and Frederic Tuten, and 6 collectors' art cards. 

FANTOMAS RETURNS! to Eureka's Masters of Cinema (review)

Turn-of-the-century pulp master criminal FANTOMAS RETURNS in this dazzling sixties trilogy of French caper films starring Jean Marais as Fantomas and his journalist foe Fandor and Louis de Funes as the bumbling Inspector Juve.  In FANTOMAS, Fantomas uses both Fandor's and Juve's faces to frame them for major heists.  In FANTOMAS UNLEASHED, Fandor and Juve don disguises themselves to prevent Fantomas from getting his hands on a mind control device.  In FANTOMAS VS SCOTLAND YARD, Fandor and Juve pursue Fantomas through a haunted castle where he is extorting the wealthiest men in the world for their very lives.

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

FANTOMAS RETURNS! THE FANTOMAS TRILOGY 1964-1967 Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One:
• Fantomas:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 2.0 Mono (theatrical and home video mixes)
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Video Watchdog's Tim Lucas 
• Theatrical Trailer 
• "International Supercrooks" interview with film historian Leon Hunt
• "Juve and De Funès" interview with French cinema expert Mary Harrod
• "Reigns of Terror" video essay by Radio Times editor Calum Bake
• Disc Two:
• Fantomas Unleashed:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 2.0 Mono (theatrical and home video mixes)
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian David Kalat
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard: 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 2.0 Mono (theatrical and home video mixes)
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian David Kalat 
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Limited edition hardbound set of 3,000 copies with package design by Nick Wrigley including a 60-page book featuring new writing on the Fantômas trilogy by film writer and programmer Ryan Finnigan, spy cinema expert Llewella Chapman and Krimi! magazine co-editors Boris Brosowski and Holger Haase.
   

88 Films warns DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS (review)

This Christmas, it's Santa who has to worry about whether he has been naughty or nice when a serial killer targets anyone in a Santa suit in the eighties slasher DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS from producers Dick Randall (PIECES) and Steve Minasian (FRIDAY THE 13TH) and starring Edmund Purdom and Caroline Munro.

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

DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English HoH Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by film historians Troy Howarth and Eugenio Ercolani
• "Naughty or Slice" interview with critic Kim Newman
• "Santa’s Substitute" interview with additional scenes director/writer Alan Birkinshaw 
• "Screaming Cameo" interview with actress Caroline Munro 
• "Edmund the Conqueror" interview with Lilan Purdom, daughter of director/star Edmund Purdom 
• Theatrical Trailer
• The first pressing includes an O-ring slipcover and booklet.
   

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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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