Wild Eye Releasing and Visual Vengeance gaze into the eye of CYCLOPS (review)

A schoolgirl starts to question her brother's past involvement in secret experiments involving birth defects and her sister-in-law's very unusual pregnancy in this Japanese eighties gore horror direct-to-video flick CYCLOPS from the creator of NIGHT HEAD and the director of ANOTHER HEAVEN and RINGU: SPIRAL.

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

CYCLOPS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Justin Decloux of The important Cinema Club and Patrick Macias, author of Tokyoscope: the Japanese Cult Film Companion
• "No Compliance" interview with director Joji “George” Iida
• "Not In The Way Your Expect: The Films of Joji “George” Iida" video essay by Justin Decloux of The important Cinema Club
• "All the Monsters Are Here: The Japanese DTV Market of the Mid-80s" video essay by Justin Decloux of The important Cinema Club
• Image Gallery
• Koji Yamamura Sketch Gallery
• Visual Vengeance Trailer
• Start-up Trailers
• Comes with a folded mini-poster featuring original pressbook art and reversible sleeve featuring original Japanese VHS art. 
• The first pressing includes "The Creation of Cyclops" 16-page liner notes booklet, "A (Short) Horror Trip" 8-page liner notes booklet, and limited Edition slipcover art by The Dude.

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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 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.

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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 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).

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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 gives the chills with DAIEI GOTHIC VOLUME 2 (review)

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

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

DAIEI GOTHIC VOLUME 2 Blu-ray specs:

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

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