88 Films and Jackie Chan join the MAGNIFICENT BODYGUARDS (review)

Jackie Chan, James Tin, and Bruce Leung are the MAGNIFICENT BODYGUARDS escorting a beautiful lady, her sick brother, and lethal twin swords women across deadly mountain terrain teeming with bandits and witches in the first Hong Kong 3D production.  Directed by Lo Wei.

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

MAGNIFICENT BODYGUARDS Blu-ray specs:

• Three-disc set featuring 1080p24 MVC Real3D and 2D and anaglyph 3D MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen transfers
• Cantonese, Mandarin, and English LPCM 2.0 Mono Tracks
• Alternate English LPCM 2.0 Mono Track with alternate music cues
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by NY Asian Film Festival's Frank Djeng and filmmaker F.J. DeSanto
• "Punching Into the 3rd Dimension - James Mudge on Magnificent Bodyguards"
• "Magnificent Bodyguards - A New Dimension in Action?" visual essay by film historian Steve Lawson
• Mandarin Theatrical Trailer
• English Theatrical Trailer 
• Comes with a reversible cover, lenticular slipcover, one pair of anaglyph 3D glasses, and booklet by Thorsten Boose and "Kung Fu Bob" O'Brien.

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Deaf Crocodile checks into DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL (review)

A police detective called deep into the mountains to a ski resort for a crime that has not happened has his rational mind tested by mysterious happenings in this Estonian adaptation of a novel by the Strugatskiy Brothers (STALKER, HARD TO BE A GOD).

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

DEAD MOUNTAINEER'S HOTEL 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC Dolby Vision and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Estonian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Michael Brooke
• "Snow Job: A Routine Investigation in Dead Mountaineer's Hotel" visual essay by Ryan Verrill & Dr. Will Dodson of Someone’s Favorite Prod.
• "Bonus Track" excerpt from the 2016 Riho Vastrik documentary on composer Sven Grünberg and his score for the film
• "Closeup: The Dead Mountaineer's Hotel" 2010 Estonian Public TV documentary
• "Soviet Estonia Newsreel # 6 - The Dead Mountaineer's Hotel" 1979 Soviet Estonian Newsreel

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Radiance Films exposes THE PORNOGRAPHERS (review)

Under the guise of selling medical supplies, Sabu is a pornographic filmmaker and dealer who believes he is performing a public service but he is surrounded by greed inside and outside of his dysfunctional surrogate family in Shohei Imamura's first independent directorial effort.

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

THE PORNOGRAPHERS 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 2.35:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10)
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Masaomi Kondô on The Pornographers" 
• "Steve Corbeil on Akiyuki Nosaka"
• "Tony Rayns on The Pornographers"
• Theatrical Trailer
• Limited edition of 5000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, including a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow, and a booklet featuring new writing by Jasper Sharp. 

Troma bakes up SUGAR COOKIES (review)

When producer Max Pavell kills porn star Alta Lee in a sexualized game of Russian roulette, Alta's bisexual lover Camelia provides an alibit.  When she meets aspiring actress Julie - an exact double of Alta - she sets about remaking the starlet in order to draw Max into a sexy and deadly game.  Mary Waranov, Lynn Lowry, and George Shannon star.  Directed by Theodore Gershuny (SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT).

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

SUGAR COOKIES Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Introduction by Lloyd Kaufman President of Troma and Executive Producer
• "Making SUGAR COOKIES" interview with actress Lynn Lowry
• "Remembering SUGAR COOKIES" interview with producer Lloyd Kaufman Interview with actress Lynn Lowry Interview with actress Mary Waranov 
• Troma Video Release Trailer
• Theatrical Trailer
• "Looking for Oliver Stone, Associate Producer of SUGAR COOKIES"
• "Troma's JFK Asassination Theory"
• "Entombed: Seeing Red" music video
• "Toxic Advice"
• INNARDS! Music Video
• Radiation March
• "Spice Up Your Sleepover with Troma Now!" promo
• "TA in 4K!" Toxic Avenger 4K Promo
• Coming Distractions

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MVD Visual gets terrorized by TROLL (review)

A family move into a San Francisco apartment building where a magical troll is planning to open the gate to his dimension by transforming the unfortunate tenants into fairie creatures in this Empire Pictures production from Charles Band directed by special effects designer John Carl Buechler.  Starring Michael Moriarty, Noah Hathaway, Julie Louis-Dreyfuss, Gary Sandy, Sonny Bono, Phil Fondacaro, and June Lockheart.

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

TROLL Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• "Troll Empire: The Making of TROLL" documentary
• Theatrical Trailer
• Photo Gallery
• Bonus Trailers
• Comes with a reversible cover and slipcover.

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Eureka's Masters of Cinema chases Buster Keaton on THE GENERAL in 4K (review)

Buster Keaton went over-schedule and over-budget on the epic comedy THE GENERAL in which he played a Southern train engineer who single-handedly attempts to foil a Northern plot and rescue his two great loves: his girl and his engine.

REVIEW LINK: Eureka (U.K.) Region ALL 4K UltraHD (DVDCompare)

THE GENERAL 4K UltraHD specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC Dolby Vision 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Music Score by Carl Davis in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Original English Intertitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian David Kalat
• "Bound for Glory: The General as Keaton's Cinematic Manifesto" video essay by Imogen Sara Smith, author of "Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy"
• "A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride" video essay on locomotives in the films of Buster Keaton by film critic and editor Luke Ryan
• "Peter Kramer on The General" interview 
• "The Silent Years" 1971 TV Introduction by Orson Welles
• "Silents Please" 1960 TV Introduction by Gloria Swanson
• "Filming Locations" featurette
• "Video Tour of The General" featurette
• Home Movie Footage
• The first pressing of 2,000 copies comes with a limited edition O-card slipcase featuring package design by Nick Wrigley and a booklet featuring archival material and essays by critic Philip Kemp and animator Richard Haynes.

Radiance Films revitalizes the sea with WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE (review)

A laid-off salary man supporting a wife and child who live away from him has no choice but to head to a seaside village to find a possibly imaginary treasure left behind by a recently-deceased older friend.  He gets distracted from his goal when he meets a young woman with strange sexual powers in the final feature film by Shohei Imamura.

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

WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Introduction by filmmaker Takashi Miike
• Interview with screenwriter Daisuke Tengan
• Making-of Video Documentary
• 2001 discussion between director Shohei Imamura and former assistant Takashi Miike
• Theatrical Trailer (2:05)
  Teaser Trailer with introduction by filmmaker Takashi Miike
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, including a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow, and a booklet featuring new writing by Bastian Meiresonne. 

Acorn and Shudder peek into THE CREEP TAPES: SEASON TWO (review)

Serial killer Josef and his adorable alter ego Peach Fuzz the wolf lure more unsuspecting filmmakers to their doom in season two of the Shudder series spin-off of CREEP and CREEP 2 starring Mark Duplass with a special appearance by LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL's David Dastmalchian.

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

THE CREEP TAPES - SEASON TWO Blu-ray specs: 

• Six episodes on one Blu-ray disc
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary on all episodes by actor/co-writer Mark Duplass, co-writer/creator/director Patrick Brice, and editor Chris Donlan
• Start-up Promos  

Arrow Video goes to the Outback to WAKE IN FRIGHT in 4K (review)

A city slicker teacher exiled to the Australian Outback plans to spend the holidays in Sydney but a series of bad choices plunges him into a beer-swilling, roo-shooting backwoods nightmare in this Australian thriller from Ted Kotcheff (FIRST BLOOD) starring Gary Bond and Donald Pleasence.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video (U.S./U.K.) Region ALL 4K UltraHD (DVDCompare)

WAKE IN FRIGHT 4K UltraHD specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Dolby Vision Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Ted Kotcheff and editor Anthony Buckley
• Audio Commentary by Peter Galvin, author of "The Making of Wake in Fright"
• "Return to the 'Yabba" documentary on the film's Broken Hill locations
• "Take in Fright" interview with director of photography Brian West
• "Sounds of the Outback" interview with sound editors Keith Palmer and Eddy Joseph
• "The Cinema's Great Squeaky Bald Git: Kim Newman Discusses the Career of Actor Donald Pleasence"
• "The Filmmaker and the Filmbuff: Philippe Mora and Paul Harris Discuss Wake in Fright"
• Archive Interviews:
• "Yer Mad, Ya Bastard!" interview with director Ted Kotcheff
• "Not Quite Hollywood" interview with actor Jack Thompson
• 2009 Q&A with Ted Kotcheff at the Toronto International Film Festival
• 2009 audio interview with director Ted Kotcheff, conducted by Paul Harris
• 2025 audio interview with composer John Scott, conducted by music historian Daniel Schweiger
• Alternate Scenes from "Outback"
• TV Reports:
• 2009 "7:30 Report" on the Rediscovery and Restoration of "Wake in Fright"
• "Who Needs Art?" 1971 TV Segment on "Wake in Fright"
• Chips Rafferty Obituary by Ken G. Hall
• Trailer Gallery:
• U.S. Theatrical Trailer
• U.S. TV Spot
• Restoration Trailer
• Foreign Visions of Local Stories: A Trailer Reel of Australian Films Helmed by Overseas Filmmakers
• Image Gallery
• Comes with a slipcover, a collectors' booklet featuring new writing on the film by Jay Slater, Paul Lê and David Michael Brown plus archive materials, and a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jeff Marshall.

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Cult Epics gets VD (review)

The producers and director of BLUE MOVIE follow up that pioneering effort of "The Dutch Sex Wave" with a caustic family melodrama of incest, greed, red meat, and contraceptives.

REVIEW LINK: Cult Epics (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

VD Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Dutch DTS-HD Master Audio and LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Peter Verstratten
• "Festival of Love" 1969 short film by Wim Verstappen
• Photo Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Scorpio Film Trailers
• Comes with a slipcase with new artwork design by Juan Estaban R. and a reversible cover with original Dutch poster art.

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Radiance Films gets spooked in THE HAUNTED CASTLE (review)

When a petulant lord murders a respected elder retainer over a board game, the man's daughter commits suicide and returns as a ghost cat to torment the lord and possess his loved ones in this Daiei Gothic ghost story.

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

THE HAUNTED CASTLE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Mari Asato on The Haunted Castle" 
• "The Strange Case of Ikuko Mori" visual essay by Japanese film expert Tom Mes 
• Theatrical Trailer

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Radiance Films shows Franco Nero HOW TO KILL A JUDGE (review)

A filmmaker (Franco Nero) in Sicily making a film about a corrupt judge is threatened with a lawsuit by the man who inspired the character.  When the judge is murdered just as he was in the film, the director attempts to prove that the movie was a smokescreen for another motive in this crime thriller from Damiano Damiani also starring Francoise Fabian.

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

HOW TO KILL A JUDGE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH and English Subtitles"Franco Nero on How to Kill a Judge"
• "Lessons in Violence" video essay by filmmaker David Cairns
• "Alberto Pezzotta on Damiano Damiani and How to Kill a Judge" interview with the author of "Directed by Damiano Damiani"
• International Trailer
• Italian Theatrical Trailer

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Radiance Films haunts THE GHOST OF KASANE SWAMP (review)

The murder of a blind masseuse debt collector by a scheming husband who also murders his wife creates a grudge haunts all of their children in this Daiei supernatural Gothic.

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

THE GHOST OF KASANE SWAMP Blu-ray specs:

• 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"
• "Legacy of Ghosts" visual essay by ghost story scholar Zack Davisson
• Theatrical Trailer

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Radiance Films warns Franco Nero THE CASE IS CLOSED, FORGET IT (review)

In prison awaiting a trail for a hit-and-run he swears he did not commit, architect Vanzi (Franco Nero) becomes reluctantly entangled in various intrigues including a mentally-ill prisoner who might really possess incriminating evidence against the mafia in this dark drama from Damiano Damiani.

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

THE CASE IS CLOSED, FORGET IT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH and English Subtitles
• "Franco Nero on The Case is Closed, Forget It" 
• "Behind Bars" interviews with assistant director Enrique Bergier, editor Antonio Siciliano, and actor Corrado Solari
• "Italy's Cinematic Civil Conscience: An Examination of the Life and Works of Damiano Damiani" video essay by critic Rachael Nisbet
• Italian Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover

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Radiance Films battles THE DEMON OF MOUNT OE (review)

When mountain bandits lead by a merciless demon terrorize the villages below, royal warriors try to infiltrate his lair but his weakness may lie with a mysterious young concubine with a dark secret.  From Tokuzo Tanaka (THE HAUNTED CASTLE).

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

THE DEMON OF MOUNT OE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Taichi Kasuga on The Demon of Mount Oe"
• "Bride of the Demon-Slayer" 2025 visual essay by Japanese film expert Tom Mes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover    

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Radiance Films and Franco Nero versus the Mafia in DAY OF THE OWL (review)

Franco Nero plays a new Italian police commissioner who arrives in Sicily to investigate the murder of a laborer he suspects was committed by one of the local mafia gangs.  Claudia Cardinale stars as the dead man's widow who tries to use what she knows to her advantage.  Lee J. Cobb also stars.  Directed by Damiano Damiani (CONFESSIONS OF A POLICE COMMISSIONER).

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

THE DAY OF THE OWL Blu-ray specs:

• Italian Version (109 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles 
• English Version (103 minutes):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles 
• "Franco Nero on The Day of the Owl" interview including archival interview excerpts with Nero, director Damiano Damiani and original novel author Leonardo Sciascia
• "Franco Nero, Ugo Pirro, Lucio Trentini" 2006 documentary
• "Claudia Cardinale" 2017 Belgian TV interview
• "Identity Crime-Sis: An Italian Genre Finds Itself with Mike Malloy"
• "Casting Cobb: A Tale of Two Continents by Howard S. Berger and David Nicholson-Fajardo"
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover

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Eureka Classics battles the EMPIRE OF THE ANTS (review)

Joan Collins takes a group of real estate customers on a weekend of terror when toxic waste canisters dumped into the ocean turn an island into the EMPIRE OF THE ANTS based on the short story by H.G. Wells.  Directed by Bert I. Gordon (FOOD OF THE GODS).

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

EMPIRE OF THE ANTS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Bert I. Gordon, moderated by Kevin Sean Michales
• Audio Commentary by film historian David Del Valle and filmmaker Michael Varrati
• Optional introduction by Chris Cooke, filmmaker and co-director of Mayhem Film Festival
• "The B.I.G. Picture" interview with film historian Kim Newman
• Radio Spot
• Theatrical Trailer
• Limited edition of 2,000 copies comes with an O-card slipcase featuring original poster artwork and a booklet featuring new writing on "Empire of the Ants" and ecological horror by genre film expert Liam Hathaway. 

Eureka Classics and Vincent Price invite you to the MADHOUSE (review)

Vincent Price is horror star Paul Toombes whose hit creation Dr. Death takes on a life of his own and starts killing people on his comeback production in this American International/Amicus co-production also starring Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, and Adrienne Corri.

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

MADHOUSE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian David Del Valle
• Optional Introduction by horror novelist Stephen Laws
• "The Revenge of Dr. Death: Making MADHOUSE" documentary
• "Lights, Camera, Murder!" visual essay by horror and Gothic scholar Mary Going
• Still Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Limited edition of 2,000 copies comes with an O-card slipcase featuring original poster artwork and a booklet featuring new writing on Madhouse by genre film expert Christopher Stewardson and an archival interview with director Jim Clark conducted by John Hamilton, originally published in The Dark Side. 

Eureka's Masters of Cinema seeks out TERROR IN THE FOG: THE WALLACE KRIMI AT CCC (review)

Prolific turn-of-the-century British thriller writer Edgar Wallace remained popular in Germany throughout the twentieth century from the continued reprints of his novels to an authorized cycle of films from Rialto Film that Artur Brauner's CCC company attempted to rival with a series of films based on the novels of Wallace's lesser-known son Bryan Edgar Wallace.  In CURSE OF THE YELLOW SNAKE, an adventurer attempts to keep a cursed golden statue out of the hands of a cult bent on world domination.  In THE STRANGLER OF BLACKMOOR CASTLE, a killer stalks the estate, strangling and decapitating victims.  In THE MAD EXECUTIONERS, someone has appointed themselves judge, jury, and executioner, taking the law into their own hands and going after criminals Scotland Yard cannot catch.  In THE PHANTOM OF SOHO, a knife-wielding killer stalks the alleys of the red light district.  In THE MONSTER OF LONDON CITY, a series of copycat Jack the Ripper murders terrorizes the city at the same time an actor is playing the killer on the stage, making him the prime suspect.  In THE RACETRACK MURDERS, a series of murders occurs just before Derby Day.

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

TERROR IN THE FOG - THE WALLACE KRIMI AT CCC: Standard Edition Blu-ray specs: 

• Disc One:
• The Curse of the Yellow Snake:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English and German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by authors Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw
• Introduction by film historian and author Tim Lucas
• German Theatrical Trailer
  
• The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English and German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by authors Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby
• Introduction by film historian and author Tim Lucas
• "What is a Krimi" introduction by film historian and author Tim Lucas
• Disc Two:
• The Mad Executioners:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English and German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by authors Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby
• Introduction by film historian and author Tim Lucas
• German Theatrical Trailer
• U.S. Theatrical Trailer
  
• The Phantom of Soho:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen (upscaled from standard definition)
• English and German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by authors Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw
• Introduction by film historian and author Tim Lucas
  
• German Theatrical Trailer
• U.S. Theatrical Trailer
• International Trailer
  
• "Bryan Edgar Wallace: An Era" interview with Alice Brauner, producer and managing director of CCC Film and daughter of Artur Brauner
• Disc Three - The Monster of London City:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English and German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by authors Kim Newman and Stephen Jones
• Introduction by film historian and author Tim Lucas
• German Theatrical Trailer
• "Passing the Blade: From Krimi to Slasher" video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
  
• Disc Four - The Racetrack Murders:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English and German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by authors Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby
• Introduction by film historian and author Tim Lucas
• "Terror in the Fog" discussion between film historians Tim Lucas and Stephen Bissette (alternate audio track on the film)
• German Theatrical Trailer
  
• Standard edition double-walled slipcase featuring artwork by Poochamin.

Currently available only from Eureka Entertainment in the U.K. 

Second Run peeps in on EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974 (review)

When his girlfriend and mother of his child decides she wants her independence, filmmaker Kazuo Hara attempts to stay close to her and explore his feelings by making a film about her only to discover that she is pushing back against more than his smothering behavior and forging a nontraditional path for herself and her children.

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

EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974 Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Introduction by writer Chris Fujiwara
• Interview with director Kazuo Hara at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam 2018
• Theatrical Trailer
• Booklet featuring essays by critics Tony Rayns and Ela Bittencourt. 

Radiance Films explores the labyrinthine 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.

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Radiance Films falls for an UNDERWORLD BEAUTY (review)

Just out of prison, Miyamoto decides to sell the diamonds he stashed before he was arrested for the benefit of his partner Mihara who lost his leg in the heist but other parties want the loot and Mihara's younger sister Akiko gets caught in a deadly game of double crossing in Seijun Suzuki's first widescreen film.

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

UNDERWORLD BEAUTY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Interview with critic Mizuki Kodama
• Theatrical Trailer
• "Love Letter" 1959 short film by Seijun Suzuki:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Suzuki biographer William Carroll
• Theatrical Trailer
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow. 

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Radiance Films gets lost in THE SHAPE OF NIGHT (Review)

Yoshie goes to the city to study dressmaking and works part-time in a bar where she meets a handsome businessman.  Unfortunately, he turns out to be a low-level gangster who manipulates her into a life of prostitution.  When one of regular clients falls for her and offers her a new chance at a happy life, it may all be too late for her and she may have to take drastic measures to truly free herself.

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

THE SHAPE OF NIGHT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Interview with Yoshio Nakamura, son of director Noboru Nakamura 
• "Major Changes" visual essay film historian by Tom Mes 
• Easter Egg 
• Includes a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow.

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Acorn Media investigates ELLIS: SERIES 2 (review)

Sharon D. Clarke (HOLBY CITY) and Andrew Gower (OUTLANDER) are back as Ellis and her partner Harper being sent to remote British villages to take on sensitive cases in series two of ELLIS.

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

ELLIS: SERIES 2 DVD specs:

• 16:9 Anamorphic 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Behind the Scenes
• On Location with Andrew Gower
• Still Gallery 

88 Films fights mutants in the FORBIDDEN WORLD (review)

Summoned to a top secret lab on a distant planet, a space marshal discovers that a genetic engineering experiment to create a new food source has gone horrible wrong and a rapidly-evolving organism is stalking the crew one-by-one in this super gory, nudity-filled Roger Corman cheapie knockoff of ALIEN.

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

FORBIDDEN WORLD 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray combo specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC Dolby Vision and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen presentations of the FORBIDDEN WORLD theatrical cut (77 minutes) and the MUTANT director's cut (82 minutes) on 4K UltraHD and Blu-ray discs
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Two audio commentaries on the theatrical cut by:
• critic Kim Newman and writer Sean Hogan;
• film historians Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth; 
• Audio Commentary on the director's cut by editor/director Allan Holzman, moderated by Mondo Digital's Nathaniel Thompson
• "Confessions of a Teenage Mutant" interview with director Allan Holzman
• "Don't Laugh at Mutants: Another interview with Allan Holzman"
• "Newer Horizons" video essay by film historian Mike Foster
• "The Making of Forbidden World" 2010 documentary featuring interviews with director/editor Allan Holzman, special visual effects artist/production designer Robert Skotak, actor Jesse Vint, composer Susan Justin, and more
• Interview with producer Roger Corman
• Interview with effects artist John Carl Buechler
• Image Gallery
• Radio Spot
• 3 TV Spots
• 5 Theatrical Trailers
• The first pressing includes a slipcover with artwork by Joel Robinson and a booklet with notes by James Whittington.

Radiance Films takes aim at LE PROFESSIONNEL (review)

Left to rot in an African prison by the government who hired him, hitman Joss Beaumont escapes and returns to France to finish the job and take revenge on his former employers.  Jean-Paul Belmondo and Robert Hossein star.

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

LE PROFESSIONNEL Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians Howerd S. Berger, Steve Mitchell, and Nathianiel Thompson
• "Ginette Vincendeau on Jean-Paul Belmondo"
• "Lovely Jon on Ennio Morricone's Score"
• 1981 French television interview with actor Jean-Paul Belmondo
• 1982 French television interview with René Chateau, Belmondo's agent, producer, and associate
• Theatrical Trailer
• Comes with a reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters. 
• 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 archival interview with director Georges Lautner.

Arrow Video becomes trapped in 4K in THE CELL (review)

Jennifer Lopez plays a child psychiatrist who uses advanced technology to enter the minds of her patients.  When the FBI are racing against time to find the abducted victim of a killer who has gone into a coma, she finds it easily enough to get into the killer's mind but becomes trapped when she no longer knows what is real in the debut feature film from music video director Tarsem Singh.  Vince Vaughn and Vincent D'Onofrio also star.

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

THE CELL 4K UltraHD specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD):
• Theatrical Cut:
• 2160p24 HEVC 2.39:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision)
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles 
• Director's Cut:
• 2160p24 HEVC 2.39:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision)
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film scholars Josh Nelson & Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• Audio Commentary by screenwriter Mark Protosevich, moderated byfilm critic Kay Lynch
• Audio Commentary by director Tarsem Singh
• Audio Commentary by director of photography Paul Laufer, production designer Tom Foden, makeup supervisor Michèle Burke, costume designer April Napier, visual effects supervisor Kevin Tod Haug, and composer Howard Shore 
• "Projection of the Mind's Eye" interview with director Tarsem Singh (90 minutes) 
• "Between Two Worlds" interview with director of photography Paul Laufer
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• Open-Matte Theatrical Cut with Alternate Grading:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• "Paul Laufer Illuminates" interview about the alternate grading
• "Art Is Where You Find It" visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• "The Costuming Auteur" visual essay by film critic Abbey Bender
• "Style as Substance: Reflections on Tarsem" 2000 featurette
• 8 Deleted/Extended Scenes (with optional audio commentary by director Tarsem Singh 
• "Special Effects" 6 multi-angle vignettes 
• U.S. Theatrical Trailer 
• International Trailer 
• Image Gallery

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88 Films and Jackie Chan launch PROJECT A: PART II in 4K (review)

In the even bigger sequel to his successful PROJECT A, Jackie Chan leads an elite unit against pirates and smugglers in this big budget Lunar New Year hit.

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

THE PROJECT A COLLECTION 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray Combo specs:

• Disc One (4K UltraHD): 
• Hong Kong Cut: 
•  2160p24 HEVC 2.35:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10) 
• Cantonese Dolby Atmos
• Original Hong Kong Mix and newly-remixed Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Cantonese (Japanese Theatrical Mix) DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Newly-remixed Mandarin DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by film historian Frank Djeng and filmmaker FJ DeSanto 
• Export Cut: 
•  2160p24 HEVC 2.35:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10) 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer 
• English Export Trailer 
• Tai Seng Video Trailer 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray): 
• Hong Kong Cut: 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen 
• Cantonese Dolby Atmos
• Original Hong Kong Mix and newly-remixed Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Cantonese (Japanese Theatrical Mix) DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Newly-remixed Mandarin DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by film historian Frank Djeng and filmmaker FJ DeSanto 
• Export Cut: 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Interview with filmmaker historian Anthony Carpio 
• "The Big Boss" interview with actor Chan Wai-Man 
• "Someone Will Know Me" 1988 stuntman documentary 
• Japanese Version Ending 
• Full-Screen Jackie Chan Recording Session 
• Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer 
• English Export Trailer 
• Tai Seng Video Trailer 
• Stills Gallery

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88 Films catapults Jackie Chan into PROJECT A in 4K (review)

Jackie Chan plays a member of the water police battling pirates.  When the unit is dissolved, he must join the land police only to discover a plot from within to leave ships and their cargo vulnerable to plundering in this big-budget extravaganza.

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

PROJECT A 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - Project A (4K UltraHD): 
• Hong Kong Cut: 
•  2160p24 HEVC 2.35:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10) 
• Cantonese Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Mandarin Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by film historians Frank Djeng and FJ DeSanto 
• Audio Commentary by film historian Frank Djeng 
• Extended Taiwanese Cut: 
• 2160p24 HEVC 2.35:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10) 
• Cantonese Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Mandarin Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Lunar New Year Introduction 
• Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer 
• English Export Trailer 
• Disc Two - Project A (Blu-ray): 
• Hong Kong Cut: 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen 
• Cantonese Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Mandarin Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Audio Commentary by film historians Frank Djeng and FJ DeSanto 
• Audio Commentary by film historian Frank Djeng 
• Extended Taiwanese Cut: 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen 
• Cantonese Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Mandarin Dolby Atmos and DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono 
• Optional English Subtitles 
• Interview with Jackie Chan's stunt double Mars Cheung 
• "Dancing with Danger" interview with stunt god Mars 
•  "Master Killer" interview with grandmaster Lee Hoi-san 
•  "The Elusive Dragon" interview with actor/stuntman Yuen Biao 
• "The Pirates Den" interview with actor Dick Wei 
• "Can't Stop the Music" interview with composer Michael Lai 
•  "Project Collector" interview with Paul Dre and Matt Routledge 
• "Plan B — Writer Edward Tang on PROJECT A" 
•  Outtakes 
• Japanese Version Ending 
• "The Making of PROJECT A" behind the scenes footage 
• Lunar New Year Introduction 
• Hong Kong Theatrical Trailer 
•  English Export Trailer 
• Stills Gallery

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Blue Underground clashes with FIRE AND ICE in 4K (review)

The kingdom of Firekeep is under threat by the deadly Nekron and his witch mother of Icepeak in this ice age clash of good and evil in this animated cult adventure film based on the paintings of iconic artist Frank Frazetta and directed by FRITZ THE CAT's Ralph Bakshi.

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

FIRE AND ICE 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC Dolby Vision and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen presentations on 4K UtlraHD and Blu-ray discs
• English Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director/co-producer/co-writer Ralph Bakshi, moderated by Lance Laspina
• "The Art of Fire and Ice: The Frank Frazetta Legacy" interview with Sara Frazetta, granddaughter of Frank Frazetta
• "Frank Frazetta's Fire and Ice" appreciation by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez
• "The Making of Fire and Ice" 1982 featurette by Mike Bakshi
• "Bakshi on Frazetta" interview with director/co-producer/co-writer Ralph Bakshi 
• "Sean Hannon's Diary Notes" interview with actor Sean Hannon
• Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery
• Image Galleries:
• Posters
• German Lobby Cards
• Color Stills
• Frank Frazetta Artwork Portfolio
• Ralph Bakshi Artwork Portfolio
• Sketches
• Animation Cells and Backgrounds
• Video, Comics, and More 
• Theatrical Trailer
• Complete CD Soundtrack by William Kraft
• Collector's steelbook packaging and transparent slipcover 

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Radiance Films gets radicalized by HI, MOM! (review)

Robert De Niro is back from Vietnam and tries his hand at pornographic filmmaking and experimental theater on his way to becoming a TAXI DRIVER in Brian De Palma's early comic satire of American television and race relations.  Jennifer Salt and Gerrit Graham also star.

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

HI, MOM! 4K UtlraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One (4K UtlraHD):
• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Dolby Vision Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by author Travis Woods 
• Disc Two (Blu-ray):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by author Travis Woods
• "Dionysus in 69" experimental theater production of Euripides' 'The Bacchae' filmed by Brian de Palma in 1970 (85 mins)
• "Son of GREETINGS" 1970 behind-the-scenes footage by filmmaker Peter Davis (76 mins)
• Producer Charles Hirsch on HI, MOM!
• Critic Ellen E. Jones on HI, MOM!
• Theatrical Trailer 
•  
• Limited edition of 5,000 copies presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings and comes with a reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters as well as a booklet featuring new writing by Matt Zoller Seitz.

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Deaf Crocodile faces nuclear annihilation in 4K with KRAKATIT (review)

A chemist invents an incredibly powerful and unpredictable explosive material and fears its abuse as he is pursued by corrupt and dangerous parties in the Czech surreal noir KRAKATIT from author Karel Capek who first coined the term "robot" in his turn-of-the-century science fiction.

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

KRAKATIT 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC Dolby Vision and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen Transfers on 4K UltraHD and Blu-ray discs
• Czech DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Peter Hames and Czech film expert Irena Kovarova
• "Krakatit: Moral Vertigo in the Nuclear Age" visual essay by film historian Clayton Dillard
• Interview with film archivist and head of restoration at the Národní Filmový Archiv Tereza Frodlova 

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Blue Underground takes THE LIFT to Hell (review)

THE LIFT gives you a good reason to take the stairs when a lightning strike causes a high-tech microchipped elevator system to go crazy and brutally murder passengers.  From the director of AMSTERDAMNED.

REVIEW LINK: Blue Underground (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE LIFT Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• Dutch DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Mono, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH, English (for Dutch track), and French Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Dick Maas and producer Hans van Dongen
• "Going Up"  interview with actor Huub Stapel
• "Long Distance" 2003 short film by Dick Maas (4:13)
• Dutch and American Theatrical Trailers
• Poster and Still Gallery

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Blue Underground swims with sharks and a ZOMBIE (review)

ZOMBIE is going to eat you in HD in Blue Underground's 4K restoration of Lucio Fulci's splatter classic.  A reporter and a young woman travel to a tropical island in search of answers and discover open graves and gushing throat wounds.  Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, and Richard Johnson star.

REVIEW LINK: Blue Underground (U.S.) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

ZOMBIE Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 and 1.0 Mono, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 and 1.0 Mono, and French Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH, English (for Italian track), Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, and Thai Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by author Troy Howarth
• Audio Commentary by actor Ian McCulloch, moderated by Diabolik Magazine editor Jason J. Slater (1998)
• Introduction by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
• "When the Earth Spits Out the Dead" interview with "Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci" author Stephen Thrower
• Theatrical Trailers
• TV Spots
• Radio Spots
• Poster & Still Gallery
• Disc Two:
• "Zombie Wasteland" interview with stuntman Ottaviano Dell'acqua and actors Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, and Al Cliver
• "Flesh Eaters on Film" interview with co-producer Fabrizio de Angelis
• "Deadtime Stories" interview with co-writers Elisa Briganti and (uncredited) Dardano Sacchetti
• "World of the Dead" interview with cinematographer Sergio Salvati and production designer Walter Patriarca
• "Zombi Italiano" interview with special make-up effects artists Giannetto de Rossi and Maurizio Trani 
• "Notes on a Headstone" interview with composer Fabio Frizzi
• "All in the Family" interview with Lucio Fulci's daughter Antonella Fulci
• "Zombie Lover" appreciation by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
• Easter Egg

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Eureka's Masters of Cinema answers when ADVENTURE CALLS! KARL MAY AT C.C.C. (review)

Although little known in English-speaking territories, Karl May was as famous in Germany for his westerns and other globe-hopping adventures as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie in the rest of the world, still selling millions of copies to this day.  In the sixties, competing studios Rialto Film and C.C.C. undertook a series of Karl May adventures including the characters of Old Shatterhand and his Native American blood brother Winnetou, Balkan explorer Kara Ben Nemsi, and Dr. Karl Sternau searching for Aztec treasure amidst the Mexican Civil War.  Lex Barker stars in seven films from the C.C.C. series with Rialto's famous Winnetou actor Pierre Brice in two films made at the start and end of the cycle.

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

ADVENTURE CALLS! KARL MAY AT C.C.C. Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One:
• Old Shatterhand:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English and German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian David Kalat
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Daliah Lavi Featurette
• U.S. Theatrical Trailer 
• Winnetou and Old Shatterhand in the Valley of Death:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English and German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Archival Making-of Documentary on "Old Shatterhand" and "Winnetou and Old Shatterhand in the Valley of Death" 
• Disc Two:
• The Shoot:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English and German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Archival Newsreel
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Through Wild Kurdistan:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Theatrical Trailer
• "Making Karl May's Orient Cycle" archival documentary 
• Disc Three:
• In the Kingdom of the Silver Lion:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Theatrical Trailer 
• "Heroes on Horseback: Karl May at CCC" interview with producer Alice Brauner, managing director of CCC Film and daughter of CCC founder Artur Brauner
• "Prodigal Son" interview with film historian Sheldon Hall on the late career of Robert Siodmak
• Restoration Featurette 
• Disc Four:
• The Treasure of the Aztecs:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian David Kalat
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Theatrical Trailer 
• The Pyramid of the Sun God:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• German LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Optional introduction by  Sir Christopher Frayling, author of "Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone"
• Theatrical Trailer 
• Archival interview with Bernhard Schmid, co-editor and contributor to Karl-May-Verlag 
• Limited hardcase edition of 2,000 copies including a 60-page collector's book featuring new writing on Karl May on page and screen by German popular cinema experts Tim Bergfelder and Holger Haase, a profile of Lex Barker by Boris Brosowski and an essay on Old Shatterhand and Winnetou by Lee Broughton, author of "The Euro-Western".

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Visual Vengeance investigates THE PARANORMAL (review)

A parapsychologist and a skeptical physicist investigate strange activity at an old movie theater and become trapped with the owner and the projectionist with a zombie film on the screen that is becoming increasingly interactive in this regional Missouri nineties shot-on-video horror flick.

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

THE PARANORMAL Blu-ray specs:

• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director/co-writer/editor Todd Norris
• Audio Commentary by dierctor/co-writer/editor Todd Norris and composer Paul Roberts
• Cast and Crew Interviews
• "The Two Todds" interview with filmmakers Todd Norris and Todd Sheets
• "The Paranormal" Channel 5 TV Ad Bumpers
• Bloopers
• Deleted Scenes
• Original Script Excerpts
• Storyboard Gallery
• Todd Norris Short Films:
• "The Closet"
• "L..."
• "Night of the Growling"
• "Parallax" 
• Visual Vengeance Trailer for "The Paranormal"
• Comes with a folded mini-poster with art by Giorgio Credaro, a reversible sleeve featuring original VHS art, and a "Stick Your Own" VHS sticker set.

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Second Sight suffers in 4K from INSOMNIA (review)

A detective's carefully-crafted self-image fractures in the Land of the Midnight Sun while on the trail of the murderer of a teenage girl in this early theatrical Nordic Noir starring Stellan Skarsgård.

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

INSOMNIA 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray combo specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Dolby Vision and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen Presentations on two discs
• Norwegian/Swedish DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Surround
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Erik Skjoldbjærg and co-writer Nikolaj Frobenius 
• "Running on Instinct" interview with director Erik Skjoldbjærg 
• "Falling Into It" interview with producer Petter J. Borgli 
• "Private Prisons: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on INSOMNIA" visual essay 
• Erik Skjoldbjærg's Short Films: 
• "Spor" 
• "Close to Home" 
• "Near Winter"
• Comes in a rigid slipcase with new artwork by Peter Strain, a 120-page book with new essays by Jenn Adams, Mitchell Beaupre, Barry Forshaw, Francesco Massaccesi, Priscilla Page and Travis Woods, and six collectors' art cards .

Eureka's Masters of Cinema discovers CECILE IS DEAD (review)

Georges Simenon's famous detective Maigret initially dismisses the uncertain fears of a spinster about nightly visitations to the apartment of her invalid aunt by someone who takes nothing but leaves signs of their presence until the young woman's name appears in conjunction with the discovery of a headless corpse in this thriller produced in France under German occupation starring Albert Prejean as Maigret and directed by Maurice Tourneur.

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

CECILE IS DEAD Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• French LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by crime cinema expert Sergio Angelini, host of the "Tipping My Fedora" podcast
• "Maigret and His Continental Films" 2015 introduction to the film by Christine Leteux, author of "Maurice Tourneur: réalisateur sans frontières"
• "My Friend Maigret" 2026 discussion of Inspector Maigret from page to screen with film historian Martin Hall
• The first 2,000 copies come with a limited edition O-card slipcase featuring new artwork by Sean Phillips and a booklet featuring new writing on Cécile is Dead and adaptations of French literature under German occupation by Andrew Watts. 

Second Sight samples THE DEVIL'S CANDY (review)

A metal head artist and his family move into a remote Texas farmhouse and into the path of a Satanic serial killer turning victims into THE DEVIL'S CANDY.  From the director of THE LOVED ONES and DANGEROUS ANIMALS.

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

THE DEVIL'S CANDY 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray Combo specs:

• 2160p24 HEVC 2.40:1 Dolby Vision 4K UltraHD and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 SDR Widescreen Blu-ray Discs
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Sean Byrne
• "Into the Fire" interview with director Sean Byrne 
• "Those Fragile Things" interview with actor Ethan Embry 
• "Devil in the Details" interview with director of photography Simon Chapman 
• "The Cutting Room" interview with editor Andy Canny 
• "A Big Step Forward" interview with production designer Tom Hammock 
• "Behind the Scenes: VFX" 
• Sean Byrne's Short films:
• "Advantage Satan"
• "Work?"
• Comes in a rigid slipcase with new artwork by Huan Do, a 120-page book with new essays by Anton Bitel, Reyna Cervantes, Becca Johnson, Joe Lipsett, Mary Beth McAndrews and Zoe Rose Smith, and six collectors' art cards.