Acorn Media turns up crimes for the QUEENS OF MYSTERY: SERIES 2 (review)

Detective Matilda Stone and her three crime-writing aunts get tangled up in various murders in their quaint village of Wildemarsh in series two of QUEENS OF MYSTERY.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (U.K.) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDCompare)

QUEENS OF MYSTERY: SERIES 2 DVD specs:

• Six episodes on two dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 PAL widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• "Solving Series 2" behind the scenes
• Picture Gallery 

Second Run returns to childhood with LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC! (review)

Bullied by his father and his classmates alike, small and frail Oldrich lives a rich fantasy life to survive the uneasy and violent existence of his village in between Nazi occupation and Russian liberation in this surreal film from the director of THE EAR and COACH TO VIENNA.

REVIEW LINK: Second Run (U.K.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC! Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen
• Czech LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "The City Cinematheque Interview with Karel Kachyňa" from CUNY TV 1998
• "A Memory of the Present [Paměť našeho dne]" 1963 short film by Jan Nemec
• Comes with a 20-page booklet with an essay by film critic Peter Hames. 

SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY in 4K for Severin Films (review)

When her scientist husband commits suicide, a grieving widow takes seductive and deadly revenge on the people she holds responsible in Jess Franco's reworking of THE BRIDE WORE BLACK starring Soledad Miranda, Howard Vernon, and Paul Muller.

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

SHE KILLED IN ECSTASY 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.66:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision)
• German DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• German DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Ecstasy in Rage" interview with author Stephen Thrower
• "In the Land of Franco Part 13" locations visit with author Stephen Thrower
• "Jess Killed in Ecstasy" interview with writer/director Jess Franco
• "Sublime Soledad" interview with Soledad Miranda historian Amy Brown
• "Paul Muller on Jess Franco" interview
• German Theatrical Trailer
• Comes with a collector's slipcover (U.S. website exclusive and U.K. retail editions only)

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Severin Films tangos with VAMPYROS LESBOS in 4K (review)

Jess Franco's first muse Soledad Miranda stars as the original VAMPYROS LESBOS, the heiress of Count Dracula who seduces a young woman to initiate her into the vampiric circle in this psychedelic classic.

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

VAMPYROS LESBOS 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.66:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision)
• German DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Kat Ellinger, author of "Daughters of Darkness"
• Audio Commentary by film professor Aaron AuBuchon and Oscarbate Film Collective's John Dickson and Will Morris
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• German DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Kat Ellinger, author of "Daughters of Darkness"
• Audio Commentary by film professor Aaron AuBuchon and Oscarbate Film Collective's John Dickson and Will Morris
• "Fever Dracula" interview with Stephen Thrower, author of "Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco"
• "The Red Scarf Diaries" Jess Franco career appreciation by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Sean Baker
• "In the Land of Franco Part 12" locations visit with film historian Stephen Thrower
• "Vampyros Jesús" interview with writer/director Jess Franco
• "Sublime Soledad" interview with Soledad Miranda historian Amy Brown
• "Jess Is Yoda" featurette
• German Opening Title Sequence
• German Theatrical Trailer
• Collector's slipcover (U.S. website exclusive and U.K. retail editions only)

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88 Films is STRIPPED TO KILL (review)

When a stripper at the Rock Bottom club is brutally murdered, a female detective goes undercover as a stripper and finds both liberation and danger in this Roger Corman production directed by Katt Shea (THE RAGE: CARRIE 2) starring Kay Lenz and Greg Evigan.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

STRIPPED TO KILL Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film journalists Dave Wain and Matty Budrewicz
• Audio Commentary by The Hysteria Continues! and film scholar Amanda Reyes
• Audio Commentary by director Katt Shea, moderated by Scorpion Releasing's Walt Olsen
• Audio Commentary by director Katt Shea and actress Kay Lenz 
• "Directing Stripped to Kill" interview with director Katt Shea 
• "The Contradiction" video essay by film historian Mike Foster 
• "Stripped: Katt Shea" interview 
• "Stripped: Roger Corman" interview 
• Theatrical Trailer 
• The first pressing comes with a slipcover featuring original artwork and liner notes by Calum Waddell.

Film Masters unleashes the MONSTER MAYHEM COLLECTION (review)

Four low-budget fifties shockers crawl back from the grave in the MONSTER MAYHEM COLLECTION.  In MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL, animal test subjects launched up into space land back on Earth in Africa mutated into a giant beast.  In THE BRAIN FROM PLANET AROUS, a scientist is possessed by a malevolent alien force.  In FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER, the mad scientist's grandson tests experimental drugs on the daughter of his research partner while trying to build his own monster.  In GIANT FROM THE UNKNOWN, a geologist, an archaeologist, and his daughter travel up into the mountains of Big Bear in search of the remains of the conquistador Diablo Giant only to discover he is still quite fresh.

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

MONSTER MAYHEM COLLECTION Blu-ray specs:

• DISC ONE:
• Monster from Green Hell:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles (for film and commentary)
• Audio Commentary by film historian Stephen R. Bissette
• "Missouri Born: The Films of Jim Davis" career retrospective with author/film historian C. Courtney Joyner
• The Brain from Planet Arous:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles (for film and commentary)
• Audio Commentary by author/film historian Tom Weaver, film music historian David Schecter, filmmaker Larry Blamire, and actress Joyce Meadows
• "The Man Before the Brain: Director Nathan Juran" visual essay narrated by film historian Justin Humphreys
• "The Man Behind the Brain: The World of Nathan Juran" visual essay by filmmaker C. Courtney Joyner 
• DISC TWO:
• Frankenstein's Daughter:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles (for film and commentary)
• Audio Commentary by film historian Tom Weaver, filmmaker Larry Blamire, and film music historian David Schecter
• "Filmmaker of the Unknown" 1983 interview with director Richard E. Cunha 
• Giant from the Unknown:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles (for film and both commentaries)
• Audio Commentary by actor/screenwriter Gary Crutcher
• Audio Commentary by film historian Tom Weaver, director Richard E. Cunha, actor Ewing Miles Brown, producer Arthur A. Jacobs, Richard E. Cunha's son Rick, filmmaker Larry Blamire, and journalist Steven Cronenberg 
• 17-page booklet by Tom Weaver. 

Full Moon charges up MANDROID (review)

A secret robotics experience being carried out behind the Iron Curtain goes awry when a mad scientist sets it loose on its creators in this Full Moon production that originally started out as an eighties Empire Pictures project with concept art by Jack Kirby.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Features (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

MANDROID 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 Behind the Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers 

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88 Films duels with SHANGO (review)

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an amnesiac Texas Ranger runs into a group of Confederates and Bandidos who are convinced the war is not over and terrorizing a small village in search of Union gold in this spaghetti western starring Anthony Steffen, Eduardo Fajardo, and Maurice Poli.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SHANGO Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian and writer Lee Broughton
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth
• "The Career of Edgar G." interview with film historian Eugenio Ercolani
• "Son of a Gun" interview with actor Anthony Steffen's son Manuel De Teffé
• Theatrical Trailer
• The first pressing comes in a slipcover with a rigid slipcase designed by Joel Robinson and liner notes by Daniel Burnett and Lee Broughton.
   

Radiance Films has a "bullfight of love" with Almodovar's MATADOR (review)

What happens when a gored bullfighter who takes killing from the arena into the bedroom and a man-eater of an attorney realize they share the same twisted desires?  More than you can imagine in this Pedro Almodovar erotic thriller starring Antonio Banderas, Assumpta Serna, Nacho Martinez, Eusebio Poncela, and Carmen Maura.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.K.) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

MATADOR 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (SDR)
• Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Interview with Almodóvar expert José Arroyo
• "Jonathan Ross Presents For One Week Only" 1991 episode on Almodóvar's cinema, featuring interviews with Pedro Almodóvar, producer Agustín Almodóvar, stars Antonio Banderas and Carmen Maura, and more
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and limited edition booklet featuring new writing by critic Guy Lodge and an archival interview with Almodóvar. 

Radiance Films exposes the trickery of SPECIAL EFFECTS (review)

Mary Jean is just dying to get into movies.  When she turns up dead, the director who killed her decides to turn make a film about it, drawing in her prime suspect husband, the investigating detective, and a mysterious young woman who is the dead woman's "dead ringer" in this Larry Cohen Hitchcockian thriller.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SPECIAL EFFECTS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Larry Cohen, moderated by Larry Cohen biographer Steve Mitchell 
• Audio Commentary by Larry Cohen biographer Steve Mitchell
• Interview with actor Eric Bogosian
• "Cohen on Cohen" feature-length archival interview
• Interview with critic Christina Newland on Zoë Tamerlis Lund
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented with o-card and full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings in an O-card slipcover featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Eric Adrian Lee and a booklet featuring new writing from Juan Barquin.
    

Deaf Crocodile is scorched by the WHITE SUN OF THE DESERT (review)

In the aftermath of the Russian Civil War, a soldier starts home on foot across the Caspian Sea Lowland Desert only to be charged with escorting the surviving members of a ruthless smuggler's harem to safety in this Russian "Eastern" Western.

REVIEW LINK: Deaf Crocodile (U.S.) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

WHITE SUN OF THE DESERT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Russian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Rolf Giesen
• Visual essay by film historian Evan Chester
• Interview with expert on Russian Red Westerns, author Sergey Lavrentyev
• 2025 Trailer

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Full Moon butters up a LAST FOXTROT IN BURBANK (review)

The long-lost, long-buried career embarrassment of director Charles Band LAST FOXTROT IN BURBANK sends up the Bernardo Bertolucci sizzler, substituting margarine for butter.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

LAST FOXTROT IN BURBANK Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Mono
• "Burbank Memories" introduction by director Charles Band
• "Trailers from Hell" episode with writer Larry Karaszewski
• Original Theatrical Trailer
• 2022 Trailer
• Bonus Trailers

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Visual Vengeance has a BLOOD CRAVING on a DATE WITH A VAMPIRE (review)

A one night stand could become something intimate if a lonely vampire can stop playing with her food in this SOV erotic vampire flick from the director of NIGHT OWL.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

DATE WITH A VAMPIRE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Jeffrey Arsenault
• Interview with director Jeffrey Arsenault
• Interview with screenwriter Kevin J. Lindenmuth
• Interview with actress Cynthia Polakovich
• Interview with ‘Basement Vampire’ actor Joe Zaso
• "Location Manager Nathan Thompson: DATE WITH A VAMPIRE Memories"
• Buckingham Manor Location Video with Nathan Thompson
• Image Gallery
• Video Trailer
• Visual Vengeance Trailer
• Bonus Film BLOOD CRAVING:
• Audio Commentary by director Jeffrey Arsenault
• Interview with director Jeffrey Arsenault
• Image Gallery
• Original First Draft Trailers
• Video Trailer
• Visual Vengeance Trailer 
• After Midnight Trailer Reel
• Comes with a reversible cover and foldout miniposter.
• The first pressing includes an O-ring slipcover designed by Rick Melton.

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Radiance Films exposes UNDERWORLD CHRONICLES: THREE YAKUZA FABLES BY TAKASHI MIIKE (review)

Takashi Miike had been making Yakuza films as part of Japan's direct-to-video V-Cinema boom but his video-bound project FUDOH: THE NEW GENERATION was given a theatrical launch and ended up with wider exposure through the festival circuit.  Ten years after his gang boss father sacrifices his older brother for a rival gang dispute, teenage Riki trains his classmates for revenge against all responsible.  In AGITATOR, a low-level gang chief takes on three powerful organizations when he realizes he has been used as a pawn in a plot for three gang bosses to move up in their families.  In DEADLY OUTLAW: REKKA, a hotheaded gang chief acquires a rocket launcher to avenge his godfather.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.K.) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

UNDERWORLD CHRONICLES - THREE YAKUZA FABLES BY TAKASHI MIIKE 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - Fudoh: The New Generation (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (HDR10)
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Takashi Miike and actor Shosuke Tanihara
• Optional introduction by director Takashi Miike 
• Disc Two - Fudoh: The New Generation (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Takashi Miike and actor Shosuke Tanihara
• Optional introduction by director Takashi Miike
• Interview with director director Takashi Miike
• Interview with actor Shosuke Tanihara 
• Disc Three - Agitator (Blu-ray):
• Theatrical Cut (150 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 1.0
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Tom Mes 
• Two-Part Television Cut (200 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (upscaled from standard definition)
• Japanese Dolby Digital 1.0
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Interview with director Takashi Miike
• Theatrical Trailer  
• Disc Four - Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Tom Mes
• Interview with director Takashi Miike
• "Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!" documentary 
• Limited edition of 5,000 copies, presented in rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings with reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and an 80-page bound book featuring new writing by Tom Mes and Colin Geddes, and archival writing from Tony Rayns. 

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Radiance Films incites Takashi Miike's AGITATOR (review)

When a low-level Yakuza gang boss realizes that he has been used in an underhanded plot of syndicate intrigue that has betrayed his Big Brother and his gang's godfather, he takes on three different organizations on his own in this Takashi Miike epic.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.S.) Region A/B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

AGITATOR Blu-ray specs:

• Theatrical Cut (150 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Japanese cinema expert Tom Mes 
• Television Cut (200 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (upscaled from standard definition)
• Japanese Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Interview with director Takashi Miike
• Theatrical Trailer
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and a booklet featuring new writing by Tom Mes.

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88 Films initiates a SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE in 4K (review)

A young coed has haunting visions of brutal murder when she moves into the Theta Sorority House.  Left with a few friends for the holiday weekend, only she realizes that there is a knife-wielding killer stalking them one by one in this Roger Corman production.

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

SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray Combo specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10)
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by The Hysteria Continues! podcast and Made for TV Mayhem podcaster Amanda Reyes 
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth 
• Audio Commentary by film journalists Dave Wain and Matty Budrewicz Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by The Hysteria Continues! podcast and Made for TV Mayhem podcaster Amanda Reyes 
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth 
• Audio Commentary by film journalists Dave Wain and Matty Budrewicz 
• Extended UK VHS Cut 
• "Final Girl Memories" interview with actress Angela O'Neill
• "Concorde Affair" interview with Ryan Gowland of the New World Pictures Podcast
• "No Alphas or Omegas Here" video essay by film historian Heather Wixson
• "A Nightmare on Sorority Row" audio interview with actress Angela O'Neill
• "A Slash Course In Terror: Inside SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE" interview with author/film historian Amanda Reyes 
• "The Final Girl: A Guide to Surviving Slasher Films" video essay with film historians Dr. Richard Howell and Amanda Reyes 
• "Sorority Pledge" interview with producer Roger Corman 
• "Sorority Sister" interview with actress Nicole Rio 
• "Sorority Brother" interview with actor Vinnie Bilancio 
• Theatrical Trailer
• Comes with a slipcase.
• The first pressing features an O-ring slipcover featuring original artwork and a booklet by Calum Waddell. 

Cult Epics probes taboos in 4K with THE KEY (review)

A husband and a wife each discover their other half's forbidden secrets and desires in Tinto Brass' THE KEY, the film that made him a household name as the auteur of classy Italian erotica based on the novel by Jun'ichirô Tanizaki and starring Frank Finlay and Stefania Sandrelli with a score by Ennio Morricone.

REVIEW LINK: Cult Epics (U.S.) 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE KEY 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.66:1 Widescreen (HDR10)
• English/Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles (for Italian dialogue-only)
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Marcus Stiglegger
• Theatrical Trailer
• Tinto Brass Trailers 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English/Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles (for Italian dialogue-only)
• Audio Commentary by film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Marcus Stiglegger
• "Brass' Talisman" interview with actor Franco Branciaroli
• "Keyhole Venice" film locations visit
• "Sensuous Morricone" interview with music historians Pierpaolo de Sanctis and Claudio Fiuano
• Isolated Score by Ennio Morricone
• Archival interview with director Tinto Brass
• Outtakes
• "The Key" Photo Gallery
• Tinto Brass Photo Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Tinto Brass Trailers 
• Comes with a reversible cover, a slipcover, and a 20-Page illustrated booklet by Eugenio Ercolani. 

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Eureka Classics face off against THE INVINCIBLE EIGHT (review)

The children of eight murdered general band together to avenge themselves on a corrupt general in Lo Wei's THE INVINCIBLE EIGHT, his first film for Golden Harvest starring Angela Mao and Nora Miao.

REVIEW LINK: Eureka Video (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE INVINCIBLE EIGHT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen
• Mandarin LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Frank Djeng, New York Asian Film Festival
• "Whip Smart" interview with writer Wayne Wong
• Theatrical Trailer
• The first pressing of 2,000 copies comes in a limited edition O-card slipcase featuring new artwork by Grégory Sacré (Gokaiju) with a collector’s booklet featuring new writing on "The Invincible Eight" and Golden Harvest by East Asian cinema expert Camille Zaurin. 

Eureka's Masters of Cinema makes a pact with THE DEVIL'S HAND (review)

A failed painter may lose more than his hand when he makes a deal with the Devil for talent in this French work of fantastic cinema made under Nazi occupation.

REVIEW LINK: Eureka Video (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE DEVIL'S HAND Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• French LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film critic James Oliver
• "The Devil's in the Details" video essay by film historian Samm Deighan
• "Continental: French Cinema in the Devil's Hand" documentary
• The first pressing of 2,000 copies comes in a limited edition O-card slipcase featuring new artwork by John Dunn with a collector's booklet featuring new writing on director Maurice Tourneur by French cinema expert Barry Nevin.
   

Arrow visits SALEM'S LOT in 4K (review)

A vampire plague drifts into a small New England town with the fog and the only people who can stop it are a novelist and a horror-obsessed teenager in Tobe Hooper's iconic miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling novel.

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

 SALEM'S LOT 4K UltraHD specs: 

• DISC ONE:
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.33:1 Fullscreen Dolby Vision presentations of the two-part miniseries and the extended movie version
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Tobe Hooper
• Audio Commentary by film critics Bill Ackerman and Amanda Reyes
• Alternate TV Footage
• Screenplay Gallery 
• DISC TWO: 
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.33:1 Fullsceen Dolby Vision presentation of the international theatrical version
• English LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Chris Alexander
• "King of the Vampires" interview with Stephen King biographer Douglas Winter
• "Second Coming" appreciation by author and critic Grady Hendrix
• "New England Nosferatu" interview with filmmaker Mick Garris
• "Fear Lives Here" look at the locations of "Salem's Lot" today with filmmaker Elijah Drenner
• "We Can All Be Heroes" appreciation by film critic Heather Wixson, co-author of "In Search of Darkness"
• "A Gold Standard for Small Screen Screams" appreciation by film critics Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman, co-hosts of the podcast "Horror Queers"
• Trailers
• Image Gallery
• Comes in a slipcase with a reversible sleeve featuring two original artwork options, "Salem's Lot" town sign sticker, a double-sided foldout poster featuring two original artwork options, and a collectors' perfect-bound booklet

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Breaking Glass Pictures look for love in SAUNA (review)

A young gay man runs away to the city and lives it up by night while cleaning a sauna by day.  When he meets a trans man on Grindr, a hookup turns into a tumultuous relationship as both try to fit into one anothers' worlds and find out who they are as individuals.

REVIEW LINK: Breaking Glass Pictures (U.S.) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

SAUNA DVD specs:

• 16:9 Anamorphic 1.55:1 Widescreen
• Danish Dolby Digital 5.1
• Burnt-in English Subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Slide Show
• Trailers 

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88 Films wages war in THE DELIGHTFUL FOREST (review)

After avenging his brother's murder on his sister-in-law and her lover, the hero Wu Song accepts his prison sentence only to become entangled in a web of betrayals as rival gangs struggle over a nearby territory.  Ti Lung stars in this Shaw Brothers classic based on the famous novel "The Water Margin" directed by Chang Cheh.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE DELIGHTFUL FOREST Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Mandarin and English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian David West
• "Warrior Lady" interview with actress Yu Feng
• Image Gallery
• Re-issue Trailer
• Comes with a reversible sleeve with brand-new artwork from Aurelio Lorenzo and original Hong Kong art. 
• The first pressing includes a slipcover by Aurelio Lorenzo. 

88 Films infiltrates the SECRET SERVICE OF THE IMPERIAL COURT (review)

Through the manipulation of the court eunuch, the assassination squad of the Ming Dynasty has been turned towards eliminating his enemies.  When the Sergeant of the Guard instead protects the persecuted, the Commander - his own father - orders his death at the hands of his men in this Shaw Brothers classic of court intrigue and mass slaughter. 

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SECRET SERVICE OF THE IMPERIAL COURT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Cantonese and Mandarin LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Still Gallery
• Comes with a reversible sleeve with brand-new artwork from R.P. “Kung Fu Bob” O’Brien and original Hong Kong art.  
• The first pressing includes a slipcover by "Kung Fu Bob" O'Brien. 

Altered Innocence cruises with TAXI ZUM KLO (review)

By day, Frank is a schoolteacher, by night he cruises the toilets in this German New Wave film about a double life during the early days of gay rights in West Germany based on the life of its star and director Frank Ripploh.

REVIEW LINK: Altered Innocence (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

TAXI ZUM KLO Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.26:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• German DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English and Spanish Subtitles
• "This or That" video essay by film historian KJ Shepherd
• "From the Classroom to the Tearoom" video essay by film historian Elizabeth Purchell
• Restoration Trailer
• Other Trailers
• Comes with a booklet featuring an essay by Bradford Nordeen.

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Cinephobia Releasing finds love and loss in #300LETTERS (review)

Just as Jero is about to celebrate Valentine's Day on social media, his boyfriend Tom breaks up with him, leaving him three-hundred letters for each day of their relationship explaining what went wrong.  His friend advises him to move on, but Jero cannot resist knowing the truth.. or a version of it in this Argentinian romantic comedy.

REVIEW LINK: Breaking Glass Pictures (U.S.) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

#300LETTERS DVD specs:

• 16:9 Anamorphic 2.40:1 Widescreen
• Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English and English SDH Subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Start-up Trailers

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It's a DUEL TO THE DEATH between Golden Harvest and 88 Films (review)

A Chinese scholar monk and a Japanese samurai compete in a swordplay competition unaware that forces behind the scenes are attempting to "trim down" the competition for what will become a DUEL TO THE DEATH.  From the director of A CHINESE GHOST STORY.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (U.S.) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

DUEL TO THE DEATH Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen
• Cantonese and English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Frank Djeng, New York Asian Film Festival
• Interview with actor Eddy Ko
• Interview with screenwriter Manfred Wong
• "Duel Idenity" interview with actor Norman Tsui
• Interview with actress Flora Cheung
• English Opening/Closing Credits
• Image Gallery
• Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer
• Reconstructed U.S. Home Video Trailer
• Comes with a reversible cover.
• The first pressing comes with an O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Kung Fu Bob and a 31-page booklet with two essays by The Fanatical Dragon.

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Full Moon and Surrender Cinema entice you into the DEVIANT DUNGEON PACK (review)

Enter castles full of time traveling babes and supernatural curses courtesy of Full Moon's nineties erotica label Surrender Cinema.  In DUNGEON OF DESIRE, a photographer and two models get sent back in time by a magic chastity belt and involved in castle intrigue around a pleasure-loving evil queen and two forbidden lovers.  In LURID TALES: THE CASTLE QUEEN, a history student trying out a VR program for relaxation ends up back in the past as the special guest of a beautiful widow and her two sexy sisters.  In HIDDEN BEAUTIES: THE AWAKENING, a pair of siblings and their friends are drawn to a European castle to free three maidens from a gypsy curse.

REVIEW LINK: Full Moon Entertainment (U.S.) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

DUNGEON OF DESIRE DVD specs:

• Disc One (Dungeon of Desire):
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Bonus Trailers 
• Disc Two (Lurid Tales - The Castle Queen):
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Bonus Trailers 
• Disc Three (Hidden Beauties - The Awakening):
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Bonus Trailers 

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MVD Visual and Skinmax offer up a duo of MIDNGHT TEMPTATIONS (review)

In this retro duo of nineties Skinmax softcore erotica, MIDNIGHT TEMPTATIONS is about a fashion designer who gets implicated in the murder of a man she slept with but cannot remember and in MIDNIGHT TEMPTATIONS 2, a young woman undergoes past life regression to discover her past loves and the identity of her mysterious Mr. Right.

REVIEW LINK: MVD Visual (U.S.) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

MIDNIGHT TEMPTATIONS/MIDNIGHT TEMPTATIONS 2 DVD specs:

• Midnight Temptations:
• 16:9 Anamorphic 1.33:1 Windowboxed Presentation
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles 
• Midnight Temptations 2:
• 16:9 Anamorphic 1.33:1 Windowboxed Presentation
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles 
• Bonus Trailers

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Second Sight beautifies THE UGLY STEPSISTER in 4K (review)

Besotted with a handsome young prince, young, naive Elvira becomes increasingly aware that she does not possess even skin deep beauty compared to her beautiful new stepsister, Elvira is subjected and subjects herself to a series of brutal procedures in this brutal mix of fairy tale deconstruction and body horror.

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

THE UGLY STEPSISTER 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray combo specs: 

• 2160p24 HEVC 1.66:1 Dolby Vision and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen Presentations
• Norwegian/Polish/Swedish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Emilie Blichfeldt and filmmaker Patrik Syversen
• Audio Commentary by film historian Meagan Navarro
• "This is My Ball" interview with director Emilie Blichfeldt
• "Generational Trauma" interview with actor Lea Myren
• "Take Up Space" interview with actor Thea Sofie Loch Næss
• "Character and Gore" interview with effects artist Thomas Foldberg
• "The Beauty of Ugly: The Effects of The Ugly Stepsister"
• "A Cinderella Story: Kat Hughes on The Ugly Stepsister"
• Deleted Scene
• Short Films:
• "How Do You Like My Hair?"
• "Sara's Intimate Confessions"
• Comes in a rigid slipcase with new artwork by Ann Bembi, a 120-page book with "Cinderella’s Stepsister" by Emelie Blichfeldt, storyboard comparisons, and new essays by BJ Colangelo, Michelle Kisner, Kimberly Leszak, Jolene Marie Richardson, Katie Rife and Amber T, as well as six collectors' art cards. 

MVD sees Van Damme x2 in DOUBLE IMPACT (review)

It's twice the Van Damme as a pair of twins separated as infants and growing up on opposite sides of the globe come together to avenge the murders of their parents.

REVIEW LINK: MVD Visual (U.S.) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

DOUBLE IMPACT 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (HDR10)
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish Subtitles 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray) - identical to the 2019 Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Stereo and Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish Subtitles
• "The Making of Double Impact" two-part documentary (100+ minutes)
• Deleted/Extended Scenes (54 minutes)
• "Anatomy of a Scene" interview with director Sheldon Lettich
• Behind the Scenes with actor Jean-Claude Van Damme and executive producers Charles Layton and Moshe Diamant
• B-Roll Selections
• Promotional Film Clips
• Press Kit Interviews with actor Jean-Claude Van Damme and executive producers Charles Layton and Moshe Diamant
• MVD Rewind Collection Promo with Jean-Claude Van Damme
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers
• Comes with a reversible cover and folded mini-poster.
• The first pressing includes a slipcover.

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88 Films takes aim at SHE SHOOTS STRAIGHT (review)

After gang members murder her husband, detective Mina and her sister-in-law Ling go on a mission of revenge that could cost them their jobs and their lives in this Sammo Hung production starring his future wife Joyce Godenzi and Carina Lau.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (U.S.) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SHE SHOOTS STRAIGHT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Cantonese LPCM 2.0 Stereo and Original Mono
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (DVD dub) and LPCM 2.0 Mono (original dub)
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Frank Djeng, New York Asian Film Festival
• Interview with screenwriter Yuen Kai-Chi
• Alternate LETHAL LADY English Opening/Closing Credits 
• Image Gallery
• Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer
• Comes with a reversible cover. 
• The first pressing includes an O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Sean Longmore. 

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MVD Rewind pits a thousand against FORCE: FIVE (review)

When a young heiress is recruited into a religious cult, secret agent Jim Martin recruits a team of four (including THE OCTAGON's Richard Norton) to rescue her from the clutches of its corrupt leader and his karate kicking minions. From the people who brought you ENTER THE DRAGON and BLACK BELT JONES.

REVIEW LINK: MVD Visual (U.S.) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

FORCE: FIVE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Archival interview with actor/martial artist Joe Lewis
• Archival interview with actor/martial artist Benny Urdiquez
• Archival "Benny Urdiquez" Fight Featurette
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers

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88 Films crowns Jackie Chan as the DRAGON LORD in 4K (review)

Jackie Chan is in love and it hurts in DRAGON LORD in which he plays the son of a landowner who neglects his training and studies for love only to run afoul of a gang of thieves who will kill to keep their operations secret.

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

DRAGON LORD 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Four-disc set (two 4K UltraHD discs and two Blu-rays) 
• 2160p24 HEVC 2.35:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10) and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC Widescreen presentations of the Hong Kong version (96 minutes), the English export version (91 minuets), and the extended Taiwanese version (103 minutes)
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35 1 Widescreen presentation of the hybrid cut (109 minutes) on both 4K and Blu-ray discs
• Original theatrical and alternate home video mixes of the Cantonese track in LPCM 2.0 mono on the Hong Kong Version
• Classic English dub in LPCM 2.0 mono and Fortune Star DVD English dub in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 on the Hong Kong Version
• Cantonese LPCM 2.0 mono audio on the extended and hybrid cuts
• Classic English dub in LPCM 2.0 mono on the English export version
• Optional full English subtitles for the Cantonese track and simplified English subtitles for the shuttlecock sequence
• Audio Commentary on the Hong Kong Version by Asian film expert Frank Djeng and filmmaker F.J. DeSanto"Mars Cheung on DRAGON LORD" new interview
• "Dragon Tidbits" interview with assistant director Angie Chen
• "The Insider" interview with production manager Louis Sit
• "The Fall Guy" archival interview with actor/stuntman Mars Cheung
• "The Master Returns" interview with actor/action choreographer Whang In-Sik 
• Behind the Scenes Teaser
• Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer
• U.S. Theatrical Trailer (1:31)
• Comes with a reversible sleeve with alternative Hong Kong artwork.
  The first pressing includes a slipcase featuring classic Japanese and International Artwork, rigid slipcase featuring new artwork by Sean Longmore, collectable double-sided postcard, and a 40-page perfect-bound book featuring new writing on the film by Thorsten Booze, Will Blaik, David West, Andrew Heskins & CJ Lines.
• A website-exclusive edition includes the limited edition extras but a different slipcover. 

88 Films gives us twice the Van Damme in DOUBLE IMPACT (review)

It's twice the Van Damme as a pair of twins separated as infants and growing up on opposite sides of the globe come together to avenge the murders of their parents.

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

DOUBLE IMPACT 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10)
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by filmmaker Sean Hogan and critic Kim Newman 
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo 
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by filmmaker Sean Hogan and critic Kim Newman
• "Seeing Double" interview with stunt coordinator Vic Armstrong
• "Double Entendre" interview with director Sheldon Lettich
• "The Making of Double Impact" two-part documentary
• Deleted and Extended Scenes
• "Anatomy of a Scene" interview with director Sheldon Lettich
• B-Roll Selections
• Press Kit Interview
• Promotional Film Clips
• Behind the Scenes
• Stills Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Comes in a slipcase with a reversible cover and a 20-page booklet. 

Radiance Films plays WICKED GAMES: THREE FILMS BY ROBERT HOSSEIN (review)

Stage actor-turned-film star and director Robert Hossein shows his range in three early works.  In THE WICKED GO TO HELL, he takes a minor part in the tale of two escaped criminals who invade the isolated home of an artist and his not-so-helpless model (Marina Vlady).  In NUDE IN A WHITE CAR, Hossein is a down-on-his-luck poet who becomes entangled in the twisted relationship between two sisters.  In THE TASTE OF VIOLENCE, Hossein is a revolutionary tasked with escorting a hostage across treacherous terrain with two untrustworthy partners and a price on their heads.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.S./U.K.) Region A/B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

WICKED GAMES: THREE FILMS BY ROBERT HOSSEIN Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - The Wicked Go to Hell:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• French LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Video Watchdog's Tim Lucas
• "Picking Strawberries" documentary with historian Lucas Balbo featuring archival interviews with filmmakers Robert Hossein and Jean Rollin 
• "Behind Marked Eyes: The Cinematic Stare of Robert Hossein" documentary by Howard S. Berger
• Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Two - Nude in a White Car:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Video Watchdog's Tim Lucas
• Interview with actress Marina Vlady
• "The Evolution of the Femme Fatale in Classic French Cinema" visual essay by critic Samm Deighan
• Theatrical Trailer
• Disc Three - The Taste of Violence:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by critic and author Tim Lucas
• Appreciation by filmmaker and Western authority Alex Cox
• Interview with author C. Courtney Joyner
• Theatrical Trailer
• Limited edition of 3,000 copies presented in a rigid box with full-height Scanavo cases and removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow, and a booklet featuring new writing by Walter Chaw and newly translated archival writing by Lucas Balbo.
   
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Acorn Media is on the case with HARRY WILD: SERIES 3 (review)

A retired English professor and a sixteen-year-old student partner up to solve mysteries in Dublin in this Acorn cozy mystery starring Jane Seymour.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (U.K.) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDCompare)

HARRY WILD: SERIES 3 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 

Acorn Media seeks tricks and treats from V/H/S/HALLOWEEN (review)

Learn what happens when you break the rules of trick or treating or take candy from strangers in the gory anthology V/H/S/HALLOWEEN.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

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

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English/Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH and French Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by "Diet Phantasma" director Bryan M. Ferguson, "Coochie Coochie Coo" director Anna Zlokovic, "Fun Size" director Casper Kelly & actors Lawson Greyson, Jenna Hogan, Jake Ellsworth, and Riley Nottingham, and editor Phil Samson, "Kidprint" director Alex Ross Perry, and "Home Haunt" director R.H. Norman and Micheline Pitt-Norman
• "Carbonated Carnage" behind the scenes featurette for "Diet Phantasma"
• Behind the scenes for "Coochie Coochie Coo"
• "Kidprint" deleted scene
• "Diet Phantasma" uninterrupted cut
• "Diet Phantasma" Commercial
• "Diet Phantasma" Image Gallery     

Unearthed Films sews the GARDEN OF LOVE (review)

The only survival of a commune massacre, Rebecca grows up with amnesia of the event until the ghost of her father starts beckoning her to help him find their killers so they can tear them limb-from-limb in this German splatterfest by Olaf Ittenbach (THE BURNING MOON).

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

GARDEN OF LOVE 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 Subtitles
• "Making GARDEN OF LOVE" effects documentary
• "Behind the Scenes of GARDEN OF LOVE" documentary
• Original Opening
• Outtakes
• Theatrical Trailer
• The first pressing includes a slipcover.

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88 Films crowns the PEACOCK KING (review)

When the Gates of Hell are opened, a Tibetan monk and a Japanese monk are separately tasked with preventing the return of the Hell King to Earth, if they can stay out of each others' way in this Golden Harvest special effects-heavy adaptation of the popular Japanese manga.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

PEACOCK KING Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Mono
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (DVD dub) and LPCM 2.0 Mono (original dub)
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Frank Djeng and filmmaker F.J. DeSanto
• "Yuen Biao on PEACOCK KING" interview
• "Tony Rayns on PEACOCK KING" interview
• Scenes from the Japanese Version
• English Opening and Closing Credits
• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery 

Radiance Films stokes its LIBIDO (review)

Returning to the seaside villa where as a child he witnessed his father kill his mistress, Christian is on the verge of coming into his inheritance when his sanity is tested by bumps in the night and a few dead bodies in this Gothic/giallo hybrid directed by prolific genre screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi starring a young, then-unknown Giancarlo Giannini.

REVIEW LINK: Radiance Films (U.K.) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

LIBIDO Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH and English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Samm Deighan
• Interview with co-screenwriter/co-director Ernesto Gastaldi
• Interview with Italian cinema expert Richard Dyer
• English Export Trailer
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Filippo Di Battista and artwork based on original posters by Renato Casaro.
  Limited edition of 3,000 copies, presented in full height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, and a booklet featuring new interviews with star Dominique Bosquero and script supervisor Patrizia Zulini. 

MVD Visual exposes KNOCK OFF in 4K (Review)

Jean Claude Van Damme, HK director Tsui Hark, and Rob Schneider(!) take on terrorists operating within Hong Kong's knock off industry in the nineties action flick KNOCK OFF.

REVIEW LINK: MVD Visual (US) Region ALL 4K UltraHD/Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

KNOCK OFF 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 2.35:1 Widescreen (HDR10)
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• Same content as the 4K disc in 1080p plus:
• 2026 interview with writer Steven E. de Souza
• 2026 interview with producer Moshe Diamant
• 2020 interview with writer Steven E. de Souza
• Archival making-of featurette
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Comes with a reversible cover.
• The first pressing includes a slipcover.

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88 Films brings back SWAMP THING in 4K (review)

Wes Craven tries his hand at DC Comics with his adaptation of SWAMP THING.  TWIN PEAKS' Ray Wise is a scientist who becomes mutated by his own creation.  Also starring Adrienne Barbeau, Louis Jordan, Nicholas Worth, and David Hess.

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

SWAMP THING 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs: 

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• U.S. Theatrical Cut:
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10)
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Wes Craven, moderated by Sean Clark
• Audio Commentary by make-up artist William Munns, moderated by Michael Felsher  
• International Cut:
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10)
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film journalists Dave Wain and Matty Budrewicz 
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• Same content as the 4K disc in 1080p plus:
• "The Movie that Started Everything: Mimi Craven on Swamp Thing"
• "Tales from the Swamp" interview with actress Adrienne Barbeau
• "Hey Jude" interview with actor Reggie Batts
• "That Swamp Thing: A Look Back with Swamp Thing creator Len Wein"
• "Swamp Screen: Designing DC's Main Monster" interview with art director Robb Wilson King
• "From Krug to Comics: How the Mainstream Shaped a Radical Genre Voice" video essay by critic Kim Newman 
• Comes with a reversible sleeve. 
• The first pressing includes a slipcover. 
• A website-exclusive edition includes a slipcase with artwork by Ilan Sheady, slipcover with original artwork, four art cards, and a double-sided poster.